Book of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, 1923, Part 14

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Sprague, Rufus William, Jr.


SEWITZ, ABRAHAM, -


- -1777.


Penn. Member of Capt. George Wolf's Colonial Co., Oct. 10, 1763.


SHAW, JOHN. Mass. In Lieut. Upham's Co., King Philip's War, 1675.


Baker, George F.


Freeman, Alden Maxwell, Robert Chester


SHARPE (E), LIEUT. JOHN, 1643- 1676, Brookline, Mass. In Capt. Wadsworth's Co. Killed at Sudbury Fight. Barry, Herbert


SHERMAN, PHILIP, 1610-1687. R. I. Portsmouth Compact, 1638. Commissioner, 1656. Deputy, 1665-'67. Member of the spe- cial Council, King Philip's War, 1676.


Greene,1 Charles A. Vail, Carl Montaigne


SHERWOOD, CAPTAIN MATTHEW, 1643-1715. French and In-


dian Wars. Ensign, Conn. Militia, 1685. Lieut., 1690. Capt., 1690.


McClintock, Emory


SHIPPEN, DEP .- Gov. EDWARD, 1639- 1712. A. & H. A. Co., 1669. Speaker of Assembly, 1695. Member Provincial Council Penn., 1696-1712. Dep .- Gov., 1703. Pres. Provincial Coun- cil,


Lynch, Jasper


SHIPPEN, PAYMASTER EDWARD, 1703-1781. British and Pro- vincial Forces, French and Indian War, under Gen. Forbes, Fort Stanwix. Mayor of Philadelphia, 1744. Lynch, Jasper


SHORT, HENRY, -1673, New- bury, Mass. Deputy to Mass. General Court, 1643-'44. Sprague, Rufus William, Jr.


SHUTE, WILLIAM, 1726-1784. N. J. Ensign N. J. Troops, French and Indian War, 1759. Lieut., 1761.


McCowan, Robert Joseph Fos- ter


SIMMONS,1 MOSES, - I689. Mass. Member of the Dux- bury Military Co., 1643. Freeman, Alden


SLOCUM, ANTHONY, ESQR., 1590- 1690. Member of the Taun- ton Military Co., 1643, under


1 Service not now accepted.


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Capt. Poole. One of the or- iginal purchasers of Taunton. Removed to N. C .; member of "Palatine Court." Lord Pro- prietor and member of Coun- cil, 1679.


Hudnut, Alexander Malieu Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop Williams, Thomas Wright Wright, Joseph Haddaway


SMITH, ENS. DAVID, 1747-1809, Woodbridge, Conn. Ens. of 8th Co., Ist Regt., 1775. Pack, Arthur Newton


SMITH, GEORGE, - 1662, New Haven, Conn. Member of the Night Watch, 1647. Pack, Arthur Newton


SMITH, JOHN, JR., 1618 - 1692. Soldier at Plymouth, Mass., 1653. Lieut. of Militia, at Dartmouth, N. H., 1674. Smith, Julian Pearce


SMITH, JOHN, 1623 - 1693, of Smithfield, Salem Co., N. J. Member Assembly, 1682, 1684. Reichner, Aiken


Reichner, Louis Irving


SMITH, CAPT. JOHN, 1701-'02, - Goshen, Conn. Capt. of the west company or train band in the town of Goshen, 1764. Pack, Arthur Newton


SMITH, JONATHAN, 1675-1726. Pri- vate on Muster Roll of Capt. Daniell Rumsey's Co., Salem County Militia, dated 1715. Reichner, Aiken


Reichner, Louis Irving


SMITH, OBADIAH, 1739 -. New Jersey. Private in French and Indian Wars. Richards, Geo. Herbert


SMITH,* RICHARD (BULL SMITH), 1692. This was Richard Smith of Smithtown, com- monly called "Bull" Smith. He was not a Major, and had no Colonial War service. "Bull" Smith lived at South- ampton, L. I., and afterwards at Smithtown, which he founded. He died in 1692. Parrot, George Townley


Major Richard Smith lived at Narragansett. A full ac- count of him will be found in Austin's R. I. Genealogical Dictionary, p. 185. He had in- terests in New Amsterdam and at Newton, L. I., and has been confused with "Bull" Smith. Major Richard also died in 1691 or 1692, leaving no issue.


SMITH, LIEUTENANT SAMUEL,


1602-1680. Hadley, Mass. "Antient Sergeant" at Weth- ersfield, Conn., and Deputy, 1640-'61. Lieut. of Hadley Troop, 1661-'78, and Deputy to General Court of Massa- chusetts Bay, 1661-'73. Com- missioner to the Mohawks, 1667.


McClintock, Emory


SMITH, LIEUT. TITUS, 1722-1799, Woodbridge, Conn. Ens. of 10th Co., 2d Regt., 1769. Lieut., 1774. Pack, Arthur Newton


* Service accepted by New York Society before organization of General Society. Service not now qualifying.


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SMITH, COL. WALTER, -17II. Burgess for Calvert Co., Md., 1696-1704, 1708-II. Capt. of Foot, Calvert County Militia, 1689. Major, 1695, and later Col., Militia of Calvert Co. Wight, Goulding Kumler Wight, John Brewer


SMITH, WILLIAM, 1670, Wethersfield and Farmington, Conn. Clerk Train Band and Inspector of Arms, 1645. Deputy, 1652-'53.


Pack, Arthur Newton


SOUTHWORTH, GENERAL CONSTANT, 1615 - 1679. Duxbury. In Pequot War, 1637. Ens., Duxbury Co., 1646. Deputy, 1646-'47. Lieut., 1653. Dep- uty Treas. of Plymouth Col- ony. Member Council War,


1658. Commissioner for United Colonies, 1668. Com- missary-Gen., King Philip's War.


Baker, George F.


SPRAGUE, LIEUT. DANIEL, 1713- 1788. Ensign R. I. Militia, 1750. Lieutenant, 175I. Sprague, Rufus William, Jr.


SPRAGUE, EBENEZER, I682-1732, Providence, R. I. Deputy to General Court for Providence, 1721.


SPRAGUE, KNIGHT, 1711-1804. Pri- vate Mass. Militia, French and Indian War, 1759. Sprague, John Hobart


STACY, MAHLON, -1704. Mem- ber of Council, Prov, of New Jersey, 1682. Member of As- sembly, 1682, 1684, 1685. Walker, Edwin Robert


STANDISH, CAPTAIN MYLES, 1584- 1656. Plymouth. Military Commander (Capt.) at Plym- outh (the first Military com- mission given in New Eng- land), Feb. 27, 1621, and un- til his death. Assistant,


"General-in-Chief" of all the Plymouth Colony Companies, 1649. Signer of Mayflower Compact, 1620. Baker, George F.


STANLEY, CAPT. CALEB. Conn. Lieut., 1683. Capt. 2d Co. of Hartford, 1698. Governor's Assistant, 1691-1700. Member of the Council, King Wil- liam's War.


Schauffler, William G.


STAATS, MAJOR ABRAHAM, M. D., 1694. Capt., 1669, and Major of Foot at Albany. Surgeon at Rensselaerwyck. Member of Council, Bever- wyck, and its President, 1644. Barry, Herbert Rutherfurd, John Rutherfurd, Morris


STAATS, SAMUEL, M. D., 1657-1715. Member of Gov. Leisler's Council, 1690, and later. Barry, Herbert Rutherfurd, John


STANTON, THOS., 1616-1677. In- dian Interpreter to John Win- throp the younger, in Conn., before Pequot War. In Pe- quot War, and rendered valu- able services at Saybrook Fort. Indian Interpreter to the Gen- eral Court of Conn. in all con- troversies between the whites and Indians. Deputy, 1666.


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STARR, DR. THOMAS, 1616-1658, Mass. Surgeon of Forces against Pequots. Loomis, Archie Harwood


STETSON, CORNET ROBERT, 1613-


I703. Scituate, Plymouth Colony. Deputy, 1655. Coun- cil of War, 1661, '71, '81. Cornet, First Body of Plym- outh Horse, 1659. Press Mas- ter, 1675. Baker, George F.


STIRLING, LORD, see Alexander.


STOCKTON, LIEUT. RICHARD. Flush- ing, N. Y., and Princeton, N. J. 1606-1707. First Lieut., 1665. Flushing, L. I. Troop, 1669. Green, Robert S. Stockton, Richard, Jr.


STOCKTON, RICHARD, 1730 - 1781. N. J. Member of the King's Council (N. J.), 1768. Judge of the Supreme Court. Sign- er of the Declaration of In- dependence.


Stockton, Bayard


STOUT, RICHARD, 1620-1705. New Amsterdam. Assembly of New Jersey, 1671. Moses, Walter


STOWE (STOW), JOHN, 1595-1643. Roxbury, Mass. A. & H. A. Co., 1638. Deputy, 1639. Stowe, Benjamin Levi


STRONG, LIEUT. RETURN, 1640- 1726, Windsor, Conn. Cornet of Troop, 1689. Deputy, 1689- '90. Lieut., 1692. Loomis, Archie Harwood


STRYCKER, CAPT. JAN, 1615-1697. 1664, Member of General As- sembly. 1673, elected Capt. of Military Company and Member of Council of War, Fort William Hendrick. Stryker, Wm. S.


STUYVESANT, PETRUS, 1602-1682. The last Dutch Director-Gen- eral of the New Netherland, 1647-1664. Barry, Herbert


SWAINE, CAPT. SAMUEL, 1610- I682. N. J. Representative to General Court, Conn., 1663. Lieut. Conn. Colonial Forces, 1663, and New Jersey Colon- ial Forces, 1667-1673. Capt. of New Worke (Newark) Co. of Militia, 1673. Deputy to Provincial Assembly for Eliz- abethtown and Newark, 1667- 1676


Boyd, Robert Munro, Jr. Chandler, Walter Murphy, Franklin Murphy, Franklin, Jr.


SWAINE, WILLIAM, 1585-1664. Conn. Representative to Gen- eral Court, Mass., 1636. As- sistant and Member of the Governor's Council, Ist Gen- eral Court of Conn., 1637. Commissioned to establish and govern new Colony of Conn., 1636. Deputy to Gen- eral Court, New Haven, 1653- 1657. One of the Founders of Conn. and of Branford, Conn. Deputy to General Court of Conn., 1636. Repre- sentative from Weathersfield, 1641-1643. Assistant, 1643- I644.


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Chandler, Walter Murphy, Franklin Murphy, Franklin, Jr.


SYLVESTER, CAPT. JOSEPH, 1638- 1690. Mass. Capt. in Col. Church's Regiment. Maine Expedition, 1689. Received a grant of land from the Gen- eral Court for services in the Indian Wars. Capt. in the disastrous campaign of Sir William Phipps, and died at Quebec, 1690.


Schauffler, William G.


SYMONDS, DEPUTY-GOVERNOR SAM- UEL, 1595 - 1678. Ipswich, Mass. Deputy, 1638-'43. As- sistant, 1643-'73. Deputy Gov- ernor, 1673-'78. Merrill, John Lenord


Merrill, John Lenord, Jr.


TALCOTT, LIEUT .- COL. JOHN (JR.), 1620-1688. Ens., 1650. Capt., 1660. Sergt. Maj. Conn. Col. Troops, 1672. Maj., 1673. Commander-in-Chief, Colony of Conn., 1673. Lieut-Col. Dutch Restoration. King Phil- ip's War, 1675. Gov.'s Asst. and Treasurer, 1662-'76. Asst., 1678-'87. Council, 1663, et seq. Commissioner for United Colonies, 1663, et seq.


TAPP, EDMUND. Conn. Magis- trate at meeting of the Gen- eral Court of New Haven, Oct., 1643. Richards, George H.


TAYLOR, JOHN, JR., 1641-1704. Captain of the Hampshire Troop of Horse. Killed by the French and Indians, May 13, 1704.


Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop


TELLER, WILLIAM, 1620-1701. Al- bany, N. Y. Corporal at Fort Orange, 1639. Lieutenant of Foot Company, 1669. Brett, Cornelius


TERRILL, CAPT. EPHRAIM, 1713- I786. N. J. Capt., Troop of Horse, Elizabethtown, N. J., 1760. Deputy-Mayor of Eliz- abethtown, 1774. Squier, Charles B.


TERRY, CAPT. SAMUEL, 1661-1730. Conn. 26 years Ens. and Capt. of Enfield Military Co., 1716. Settled in Enfield, 1681- I682.


Freeman, Alden


TERRY, STEPHEN, 1590-1668. In Windsor Troop, 1658. Pack, Arthur Newton


TERRY, CAPT. THOMAS, 1724-1750. In Col. Amherst's Army, French and Indian War, 1759. Pearsall, Leigh Morgan


THING, CAPT. JONATHAN, 1694. N. H. Ens., Exeter Co., N. H. Militia, 1690. Capt., 1692. Koues, George E.


THOMAS, CAPT. NATHANIEL, 1606- 1674. Mass. Lieut. of Mass. Troops, 1640. Capt., Pequot War. Lieut. at Mt. Hope. Defeated King Philip's men near site of Burrillville, R. I. In Myles Standish's Co. Rep- resentative, 1672. Member of Governor's Council. Downing, Augustus C.


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THOMAS, WILLIAM, 1573 - 1656. Governor's Assistant, Plym- outh Colony, 1642-'43. Coun- cil of War. Deputy, 1640-'44. Greene, Charles Arthur


THOMPSON, ANTHONY, -1648- 1649. Conn. Signer of the compact with Governor Eaton and the Reverend John Dav- enport, at New Haven, 1639. Soldier in the Indian troubles, 1642.


THOMPSON, CAPT. SAMUEL, 1669- 1749. Conn. Lieut., 1710. Queen Anne's War and Capt., 1713, Ist Co. N. H. Train Band, Deputy to General Court, 1716.


TILLEY, JOHN, -1621. Under Myles Standish in first en- counter with the Indians at Great Meadow Creek, Dec. 8th, 1620, three days before the landing of the Pilgrims.


TITCOMB, WILLIAM, 1617-1676, Newbury, Mass. Deputy to Mass. General Court, 1655. Sprague, Rufus William, Jr.


TOWNLEY, COL. RICHARD, 1654-5- IZII. Elizabethtown, N. J. Was in Lord Effingham's train when he went to meet Indians at a conference in Albany, Aug. 2, 1684. Justice of Court of Common Right (Supreme Court of Prov- ince), May, 1685. Member of Privy Council of Lord Neil Campbell, Oct., 1686. Commissioned Captain £ of Foot Co., Elizabethtown, Dec., 1686. Colonel of same Com- pany, 1691. Of Governor


Fletcher's Council, 1692. Of Governor Bellmont's Council, 1697. Represented Elizabeth- town, in Assembly, 1703. Member of Governor's Coun- cil, 1706. At time of his death, 17II, was Presiding Judge of Court of Sessions.


Parrot, George Townley Parrot, Raymond Townley Townley, Philip Beardsley Townley, Stephen Bertram Townley, Wm. Richard


TREAT, LIEUT. JOSEPH, 1693-1772, Milford, Conn. Ens., 1739. Lieut., 1741. Pack, Arthur Newton


TREAT, CAPT. JOSEPH, 1662-1721, Milford, Conn. Sergt., Ens., Lieut., Capt., 1708. Deputy, 1707-'08.


Pack, Arthur Newton


TREAT, RICHARD, 1584-1669-1670. Conn. Royal Charterer of Conn., 1662. 14 years Deputy to General Court, 1644-1658. Assistant, 1658-1665.


Boyd, Robt. Munro, Jr.


Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop Richards, George H.


TREAT, Gov. ROBERT, 1622-1710. Conn. Commander of Conn. Troops at Battle of Hadley and Springfield. Command- er-in-Chief, King Philip's War. Maj., 1673. Assistant, 1659-1664. Founder of New- ark and Member of Assem- bly, 1667-1672. Returned to Milford, Conn. Lieut. of Train Band, 1654. Capt., I66I. Dep .- Gov. of Conn., 1676-1683. Governor, 1683.


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Lieut .- Gov., 1698-1708. Mem- ber of Gov. Andros' Council, 1687. Colonel of Militia, New Haven.


Boyd, Robt. Munro, Jr.


Hayes, Charles H.


Pack, Arthur Newton


Pack, Randolph Green Richards, George H.


Richards, Herbert Le Van Smith, Stephen M.


TROWBRIDGE, ENS. WILLIAM, 1700- 1787, New Haven. Ens. of West Haven Co., 1751. Pack, Arthur Newton


TURNER, CAPT. NATHANIEL, 1647. Block Island Expedi- tion, Gen. John Endicott, 1636, and Pequot War. Deputy to assist Magistrate of New Ha- ven, 1639. Capt., Saugus, Mass., 1633-1634.


TURPIN, LIEUT .- COL. THOMAS, -- 1790. Va. Lieut .- Col. of Militia, Cumberland Co., ap- pointed by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieut .- Gov. of Virginia, Aug. 31, 1754. Deen, William M.


TURRELL, EPHRAIM, 1702-1784, Woodbridge. In the French and Indian War. Private in Capt. James Peck's Co., 7th Regt., 1755. Pack, Arthur Newton


TUTTLE, WILLIAM, 1609 - 1673. Served on the Night Watch at New Haven, 1646. Pack, Arthur Newton


UNDERHILL, CAPT. JOHN, 1596- 1672. Officer A. & H. A. Co. In Pequot War. Gov. of Ex- eter and Dover, N. H., 1641.


Led the Dutch Troops against the Simaroy Indians, 1644. Barry, Herbert Wood, Rushmore


UPHAM, LIEUT. PHINEAS, 1635- 1676. Malden, Mass. Lieut. in Capt. Wayte's Co., King Philip's War with Maj. Ap- pleton, Oct., 1675, and later with Capt. Jonathan Pode. Lieut. 4th Mass. Co. under Capt. Isaac Johnson in Great Swamp Fight. After Capt. Johnson was shot he took command until wounded; he died from the effects of his wounds in Oct., 1676. Hall, Henry H.


VAIL, JOHN, Ist., 1663-1737, Southold, L. I. In Southhold Military Co., No. I, Benjamin Youngs, Capt., 1715. Rutherfurd, John


Rutherfurd, Morris


VAN BAAL, JAN HENDRICKSE, 1636 Albany. Magistrate of Fort Orange and Indian Com- missioner, 1664, '66, '70, '72. Cornet in troop of Capt. Jere- mias Van Rensselaer in 1670. Judge of Court of Admiralty in 1664, '72.


Reichner, Aiken


VAN CORTLANDT, COL. OLOFF STEVENSEN, 1600 - 1683. New Amsterdam. Col., Burgher's Corps, 1649. Temporary Member of Governor's Coun- cil, 1645. Parker, Charles W.


VAN COURTLANDT, COLONEL STE- PHANUS, 1643-1710. King's


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Co. Regt., 1671-'93. Member King's Council, 1680-1700. Parker, Charles W.


VAN COWENHOVEN, JAN GERRETSE, 1639-, Flatlands, Manhat- tan. Member of Leister's Council; of New Amsterdam Court of Exchequer. Reichner, Aiken


VAN COWEN HOVEN,1 WOLFERT GERRETSE, 1630-1660. One of the Eight Men; also one of the Twelve Men under Gov. Kieft, 1643-'44. Reichner, Aiken


VAN DER BEEK, COENRADUS, 1647- 1709. Was one of the soldiers sent on an expedition to Al- bany, 1690.


Katzenbach, Frederick Freling- huyson


VAN DE WATER EVERT -1714. Quartermaster of a Troop of Horse of a regiment of mili- tia in New York City in 1700 and again in 1702 on the ar- rival of Lord Cornbury. Hance, Wm. White


VAN DYCK, HENDRICK, -1655. Ensign under Governor Kieft against the Indians of West- chester, 1639-1642. Under Captain Underhill against Stamford and Greenwich ; Member of Council, 1642, et seq. Schout-Fiscal, 1645-'52. Brett, Cornelius.


VAN DYCK, DR. JACOBUS. Sche- nectady. Surgeon of Fort. Brett, Cornelius


VAN IMBROCH, DR. GYSBERT G., -1665. New Amsterdam. Surgeon in Esopus War, 1665. Member of Court at Wild- wyck. Brett, Cornelius


VAN LEEUWEN, JOHANNES, 1681- 1767. Member of a Company of Horse, Queens Co., L. I., 1715.


Hudnut, Alexander Malieu


VAN NAERDEN, LIEUTENANT PIE- TER CASPARSE MABIE,


1663. Corp., Burgher's Corps, I653. Ens., 1658. Lieut., 1660. Died on Expedition to Esopus, 1663. Mabie, Hamilton W.


VANNEMAN, LIEUT. GARRETT, 1713- 1761. Commissioned Lieut. in Capt. Abraham Nelson's Co. of Piles Grove, Col. Nicholas Gibbon's Salem and Cumber- land County Regt. of Foot, 1748.


Reichner, Aiken


Reichner, Louis Irving


VAN SHAICK, CAPT. GOOSEN GER- RITSE, -1676. Lieut., 1670, at Albany, Rensselaerwyck, and Schenectady, 1672. Capt., 1673, Dutch reoccupation of New Netherland. Brown, Bache Hamilton


VAN SCHUYLER, FILYP PIETERSE, 1628 - 1683. N. Y. Capt. N. Y. Provincial Forces, 1667. Capt. of Foot at Schenectady, 1669. Booth, Edward H.


Parker, Charles W. Rutherfurd, John


1 Service not now accepted.


230


Rutherfurd, Morris Schuyler, Sydney S.


VAN SLICHTENHORST, BRANDT ARENTSE. N. Y. Command- er of Foot at Rensselaerwyck. First Resident Director of Rensselaerwyck, 1646-1648. Parker, Charles W. Rutherfurd, John


Rutherfurd, Morris


VAN WYCK, CORNELIUS, 1694- 1761. Adjutant in Col. Isaac Hick's Regiment, 1728. Pri- vate at Flushing, 1715. Brett, Cornelius


VASSALL, WILLIAM, 1593-1655. Mass. Member of the Scitu- ate Military Company, 1643. Member of the Council of War, 1642, Plymouth Colony. Governor's Assistant and Patentee of Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1629-1630. Freeman, Alden


VERMILYE, ISAAC, 1601-1676. N. Y. Commanded the Harlaem Volunteers in the Expedition to Esopus, 1663, Indian War. He and two others were the only ones to return out of a force of 14. Brett, Cornelius Rockwood, Charles G. Vermilye, Ashbel G.


VERMILYE, JOHANNES, 1632-1696. N. Y. Member of Gov. Leis- ler's £ Council, New York, 1689-1691. Delegate to Con- vention of Public Safety, 1690. Brett, Cornelius Rockwood, Charles G.


VOORHEES, CAPT. COERTE STEVENSE VAN, 1637, 1702. Capt. of N. Y. Militia, 1689. Member of Assembly, N. Y., 1664.


Voorhees, Capt. George Van Wickle.


VREELANDT, ENSIGN ENOCH MICH-


IELSEN, 1649-1714. Ensign, Militia, 1681- of Bergen Co. Member of Assembly, 1675-1709. Hance, William W.


VREELANDT, MICHAEL JANSEN,


-1663. Council of "Nine Men," 1647-'49-1650. Hance, William White


VROOM, PETER DUMONT, 1745-1831. Somerset Co., N. J. Lieut. of Militia, N. J. Vroom, Garret Dorset Wall


WADE, COLONEL THOMAS, 1651- 1696. Capt. Ipswich Troop, 1689. In King Philip's War. Justice, Court of General Sessions, 1691.


Merrill, John Lenord


WADSWORTH, CAPT. JOSEPH, 1649- 1731. Hartford, Conn. En- sign and Lieut., King Philip's War. Captain. Hider of the Charter, 1689.


Loomis, Archie Harwood


WAITE, CAPT. JOHN, 1618-1693, Malden, Mass. Deputy, 1666- '84. £ Speaker, 1684. Ens., Malden Train Band, 1651. Lieut., 1654. Capt., 1662-'84. Led detachment of soldiers to Marlborough, 1675, and served subsequently in Maj. Pyn- chon's command, King Phil- ip's War. Mckeon, Newton Felch


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WAKEMAN, CAPT. JOSEPH, 1670- 1726. Conn. Escorted Com- missioners of Conn. to Al- bany, September, 1704, to treat with the Five Nations, ranking as Sergt. A Lieut., 1704, of a force of picked men, raised by Conn. "for the relief of the County of Hampshire, Mass.," and com- manded post at Northampton, 1704-1705. Capt., 1708. Fair- field Train Band. Member of Committee of War, 1709. Deputy, twenty-eight sessions. Governor's Assistant, three years, 1724, dying in office. Member of Council, 1724-1725. McClintock, Emory


WALDRON, RESOLVED, 1613-1690. Commissioner to Maryland to vindicate the Dutch title on the Delaware. One of the Night Watch, 1675. Brett, Cornelius


WALTON, LIEUT. JACOB, 1703-1747. Lieut., Capt. Cornelius Van Horne's Co., N. Y. Militia, I737. Rutherfurd, John Rutherfurd, Morris


WARD, JOHN, 1626-1708, Newton, Mass. Deputy from Cam- bridge (Newtown), 1689-98. Ward, Alfred Lewis


WARD, LIEUT. JOHN, 1650-1694. Lieut. of Newark Soldiers, 1673, of Essex Co. Militia, 1683. Schepen, 1673. Judge, 1683. Member of the Assem- bly, 1675.


WARD, Gov. RICHARD, 1689-1763.


R. I. Attorney-General Prov-


ince of Rhode Island, 1712- I713. Deputy and Clerk of the Assembly, 1714. Recorder, 1714-1730. Dep .- Gov., 1740. Governor, 1740-1743. Vernon, William B.


Vernon, William Ward


WARD, ENSIGN WILLIAM, about 1636-1675-6. Ensign, Conn. King Philip's War. McClintock, Emory


WARD, WILLIAM, 1639-1687. King Philip's War. In command of powder magazine. Dix, Wm. F.


WARNER, CAPTAIN BENJAMIN, 1709-1765. Lieutenant, 1754. Captain, 1755. McClintock, Emory


WARNER, BENJAMIN, 1739-1817. Soldier at relief of Fort Wil- liam Henry. Enlisted, 1758. Enlisted Lexington Alarm. McClintock, Emory


WARNER, CAPTAIN EBENEZER, - 1755. Lieutenant, 1722. Conn. Captain, 1738, Conn. £


In command of "Grand Scout" in 1724. McClintock, Emory


WARNER, JOHN, 1615-1679. Farm- ington, Conn. Served in Pe- quot War and received grant of land for his services. Granberry, Dennis Webb McClintock, Emory


WARNER, WILLIAM, 1627-1706. First Council Prov. of Pa., I68 I.


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WARREN,' JOSEPH, 1629-1689. Member of Council of War, 1675.


Baker, George F.


WARREN, RICHARD, -1628. R. I. 12th signer of the May- flower Compact. Served un- der Myles Standish in the first encounter at Great Meadow, 8th of December (O. S.), I620.


Greene, Charles A. Lovell, Leander N.


WATTS, SAMUEL, Speak- er of Great and General


Court of Massachusetts. Member of Council of the Colony, 1742-1763. One of the Peace Commissioners, who met representatives of Indian Tribes in 1752 and satisfied Falmouth treaty of I749. One of the Commis- sioners in charge of prison- ers transported to Massachu- setts from Nova Scotia (Arcadia).


Hutchison, Charles E.


WEBSTER, GOV. JOHN, 1599-1661. Conn. An original settler of Hartford and a founder of the Colony of Conn. Deputy, 1637. Assistant, 1639-1655. Dep .- Gov., 1655. Gov., 1656. Ist Magistrate, 1657-1659. Judge, Hadley, Mass., 1660. Holden, Edward P.


Holden, Edward Packard, Jr. Holdene, Horace


Schauffler, William G.


WEBSTER, LIEUT. ROBERT, -1677,


Middletown, Conn. Lieut., 1654. King Philip's War,


1675.


WELCH, LIEUT. PAUL, 1696-1778,


New Milford, Conn. Lieut., 1743. Deputy, 1740-'49. Rutherfurd, John Rutherfurd, Morris


WELLES, Gov. THOMAS, 1598-1660. Conn. Wethersfield, Conn., Magistrate, 1637-1660. Sec-


ond


Treasurer,


1639-1651.


Gov.


Secretary, 1640-1648.


pro tem, 1651. Dep .- Gov. 1654, et seq. Gov., 1655-1658. Commissioner for the United Colonies, 1649. Neff, Rollin Gray


Pack, Arthur Newton


Parker, Charles Wolcott


Schauffler, William G.


Williams, John C.


WELLES, THOMAS, -1668-1669. Conn. Representative Colony of Connecticut, 1662. Assist- ant, 1668. Name appears on the Royal Charter, 1662. Parker, Charles W. . Schauffler, William G.


WELLS (WELLES), ENS. THOMAS, 1605-1666, Ipswich, Mass. Ens. "Military Co. of the Massachusetts," 1644. Libbey, William


WESCOAT, RICHARD, -1649. Wethersfield, Conn. Soldier in Pequot War, 1637. Clevenger, William M.


WESTCOTT, STUKELY, 1592 - 1677. Providence, R. I. One of the Founders of the Providence Plantation. Deputy, 1650. Commissioner, 1651-1653. Gov.'s Asst., 1656 --.


1 Service not now accepted.


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WETHERILL, COL. JOHN, -1784. Middlesex Co., N. J. Member Assembly, 1749-1775. Com- missary of Provincial Troops, 1756. Dean, Aaron Wicoff, John Van Buren


WHEELWRIGHT, COL. JOHN, 1664- 1745. Garrison House, Wells, Me., under Maj. James Con- verse. Stationed at Fort Mary on the Saco. Deputy, Mass., 1692-1742. Member of Council, 1708-33. Indian Commissioner, 1714-'41 Clark, Alex. Bayard


WHIPPLE, JOHN, 1605-1669. Ips- wich, Mass. Deputy to Mass. General Court, 1640, '41, '42, '48, '50, '51, '52, '53. Sprague, Rufus William, Jr.


WHITE, LIEUT. DANIEL, 1639-1713. Conn. Lieut., Hatfield, Mass. Co., 1692. Schauffler, William G.


WHITE, CAPT. DANIEL, 1671-1726. Conn. Ens., 1711, in Queen Anne's War. Capt. of Troop, 1716, Colony of Conn. Schauffler, William G.


WHITE, NATHANIEL, 1629-17II. Conn. Deputy, General Court, Conn., 1678-1682. Lieut. of Militia at Middletown, Conn., 1679. Served in King Phil- ip's War.


WHITEMARSH, JOHN, -1708. Mass. Served under Capt. Johnson in the Narragansett Campaign, 1675, and under Capt. Jacob in 1676. Freeman, Alden


WHITING, REV. JOHN, 1635-1689.


Chaplain. Hartford Forces, King Philip's War. Rutherfurd, John Rutherfurd, Morris


WHITING, MAJOR WILLIAM, - 1647. Asst. and second Colo- nial Treasurer, Conn., 1641- 47. Major in Colonial Forces. Deputy, 1637. Rutherfurd, John Rutherfurd, Morris


WHITING, LIEUT. COL. WILLIAM, 1704- At the siege of Louisburg, 1745, and for gal- lant conduct there, was ap- pointed a Capt. in the regular British Service, September 8, 1755, served under Sir Wil- liam Johnson, French and Indian War, and at the death of Col. Williams at Lake George, he took command. Tyler, Mason W.


WHITNEY, JONATHAN, 1658-1735, Concord, Mass. Served in King Philip's War, in Capt. Joseph Syll's Co., 1676.


WHITNEY, THOMAS, 1629-1719. Bolton, Mass. In King Phil- ip's War, 1675. Synnott, Thomas Whitney


WILBORE, SAMUEL, SR., -1656. Clerk of Train Band, 1639; Sergt., 1645. Member of Newport, R. I., Assembly. Moses, Walter.


WILBORE (WILBUR), CAPT. SAM- UEL, 1614-1679. Commissioner for Portsmouth to Court of Commissioners, 1648-'63. Dep- uty, 1664-'70. Governor's


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Asst., 1665-'78. Captain, 1669- '78. Montgomery, James Stephens. Moses, Walter.


WILLIAMS, ROBERT, 1608 - 1693. Mass. A. & H. A. Co., 1644. Schauffler, William G.


WILLIAMS, ROGER, 1599 - 1683.


Rhode Island. Assistant, 1647, '48, '64, '65, '70, '71, '72. President, 1654-'57. Commis- sioner, 1658, '59, '61. Deputy, 1667. Captain, King Philip's War.


Adams, W. I. Lincoln.


WILLIAMS, THE REV. STEPHEN, D. D., 1693-1782. Mass. Chap- lain in Cape Breton Cam- paign, 1745, and Lake George Campaign, 1755-1756.


Schauffler, William G.


Schauffler, William Gray, Jr.


WILLIS, JOHN, -1692. Mass. Member of Capt. Myles Stan- dish's Duxbury Military Com- pany, 1643. First Represen- tative of Bridgewater. Orig- inal Proprietor and one of its earliest settlers. First Dea- con of Bridgewater Church. Deputy to General Court of Plymouth for twenty-five years.


Freeman, Alden


WILLOUGHBY, DEP .- Gov. FRANCIS, 1613-1671. Gov.'s-Asst., 1640. Member of Parliament, 1658. Dep .- Gov. Mass. Bay Colony, 1665-'71.


Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop


WINTHROP, GOV. JOHN, 1587-1649. Mass. First Gov. of Mass.


Bay Colony, 1630, and with five exceptions re-elected un- til his death in 1649. Col. Ist Reg. Mass. Militia. Signed charter of A. & H. A. Co., 1638. Elected with the Dep .- Gov. and ten others, member of a commission for military affairs "with power of life and limb," 1634-1635. Koues, George E.


WISNER, CAPT. JOHN, 1722-1778. Capt. Orange Co., N. Y., Mi- litia, 1755. Fight with Indians on the Delaware, 1757. Sent to reinforce Fort William Henry.


WODELL, WILLIAM, -1693. Portsmouth, R. I. Special Councillor, R. I., King Phil- ip's War, Member of Assem- bly, R. I., Assistant, 1684. Boyd, Robert Munro, Jr.


WOODBRIDGE, THE REV. JOHN, 1613-1695. Mass. A. & H. A. Co., 1644. Assistant, 1683- I684.


Beach, Sylvester Woodbridge. Schauffler, William G.


WOODHULL, RICHARD, 1620-1670. A Magistrate of Seatalcott, and in 1663 represented that place in the Hartford General Court. In 1666, Justice in the Court of Assizes. Was Dep. Commander from L. I.


Barry, Herbert


WOODRUFF, JOHN, -1670. Sol- dier in Indian Alarm at South- ampton, 1657. Libbey, William


WOODRUFF, JOHN, -1691. N. J. Ens. of Co. of Foot, Eliz-


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abethtown, 1668. Ens., Eliza- bethtown Infantry, commis- sioned by the Council of War of New Netherland, 1673- 1674. Recommissioned by


Gov. Carteret, 1675-1683. Shields, Charles W.


WOOLFORD, COL. ROGER, 1670-1730, Md. Military officer of Dor- chester Co., Md. Colonel. Thompson, William Joseph


WOODWARD, HENRY, -- 1685.


Quartermaster Hampshire


Troop of Horse, Mass., 1663. Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop


WRIGHT, BENJAMIN, 1660-1743. Northfield, Mass. Corporal, 1698. Captain, 1708-1725. Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop


WRIGHT, JONATHAN, -1742.


Member of New Jersey As- sembly, 1721. Hudnut, Alexander Malieu


Williams, Thomas Wright Wright, Joseph Haddaway


WRIGHT, JOSHUA, 1645 - 1695. Member of Assembly, N. J., 1682-'83-'85.


Hudnut, Alexander Malieu Neff, John Thornley


Williams, Thomas Wright Wright, Joseph Haddaway


WRIGHT, REMEMBRANCE, 1685- 1765. Northfield, Mass. Served with Capt. Dwight at Fort Dummer, 1725; on a scouting expedition, 1724; served in Capt. Joseph Kellogg's Co., 1725-'26. Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop


WRIGHT, SAMUEL, JR., -1675. Sergeant in King Philip's War, Sept., 1675. Pack, Arthur Newton Pack, Charles Lathrop


WRIGHT, THOMAS, -1705. Signer of the Concessions. Member of Assembly of N. J., 1682.


Hudnut, Alexander Malieu


Keim, George deB.


Williams, Thomas Wright


Wright, Joseph Haddaway


WYLLYS, Gov. GEORGE, 1602-1645. Hartford, Conn. Trooper in Pequot War. Gov.'s Asst., 1639. Gov., 1641-'42. Green, Robert S.


YORKE, THOMAS, 1708-1764. Berks Co., Pa. Lieutenant Colonel in French and Indian War, 1747. Member of Assembly, Pa., 1757.


Buckley, James Monroe


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GENERAL INDEX


Ancestors, Index of . 184


Barracks, The old.


10


Civil Officers in N. J., List of.


96


Committee, Historical


26


House


26


Library


Nominations


26


Constitution


Amendments


Business, Order of.


50 47 42


Chaplain


Committees


Council


Meetings


Courts


Declaration


Delegates


Deputy-Governor


Disqualifications


Dues


Eligibility


Flag


Gentlemen of Council, Election of


Governor


40


Historian


Initiation Fee


Insignia


Lieutenant-Governor


Members, eligibility of


election of.


expulsion of


49


hereditary


37


suspension of


49


Officers, election of


Papers, original


44


supplemental


44


Preamble


35


Purposes


45


Registrar


35


Chancellor


42 38 38


45 46 44 47 37 49 37 36 46 39


42 37 46 37 36 42


237


Resignation


48


Seal


45


Secretary 40


Surgeon


42 41


Treasurer


Council, Gentlemen of the.


24


Historical Documents, Three Unpublished.


82


Honor Roll.


58


Insignia, Rules of General Society relating to


51


Members, List of Deceased


154


Necrology


158


Officers, General


16


State


23


Prize Essay Competition


I3


Tablets


14


238


965


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