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" My desire is, that in all actions of Meum and Tuum, you deal not deceitfully, but plain hearted with all men, and remem- ber that your dying Father left it with you for your instruction, that when trust is with your honor to preserve it. And in all contracts and bargains that you make violate not your promise, and you will have praise. Let your Mother be your counsellor in all matters of difference, and go not to lawyers, but ask her counsel first. If at any time, any of you have an advantage of a poor man at law, O pursue it not, but rather forgive him if he hath done you wrong, and if you do so, you will have help of the law of God and of his people. Give not away to youthful jollities and sports, but improve your leisure time in the service of God. Let no good man be dealt churlishly by you but enter- tain when they come to your house. But if a vicious, wicked man come, give him meat and drink to refresh him and let him pass by your doors. It has been many times in my thoughts, that for a man to marry a wife and have children, and never take care to instruct them, but leave them worse than the beasts of the field, so that if a man ask concerning the things of God, they know not what it means, O this is a very sad thing. But if we can season our hearts so as to desire the Lord to assist us he will help us and not fly from us."
Capt. Bowne continued as Speaker of the House of Deputies until December, 1683, and it is probable he was taken ill before the close of the month. He must have died shortly after giving the above "words of advice," as May 27th of the same year (1684) there was executed an article of agreement signed by Lydia Bowne, as his widow and executrix, by which the estate was divided between the widow, his sons John and Obadiah Bowne, Gershom Mott, and daughters Deborah, Sarah, and Catharine.
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PLACES WITH NEW JERSEY NAMES.
The following are names of places in other States which may have been given by persons of New Jersey origin :
Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co., Pa.
Jersey Mills, Lycoming Co., Pa.
Jerseytown, Columbia Co., Pa.
Jerseyville, Jersey Co., Ill. Jersey, Marion Co., Ind.
Jersey, Oakland Co., Mich.
Jersey, Licking Co., Ohio.
There are postoffices named Monmouth in Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine and Oregon.
Postoffices named Trenton are in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michi- gan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Caro- lina, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
In thirteen States are postoffices named Newark. In about twenty States are Burlingtons, but some of these may be in com- pliment to the Vermont town of the same name.
FIRST SETTLERS OF MONMOUTH COUNTY.
The Monmouth Patent was granted April 8th, 1665. Between that date and 1670, the persons named below had settled in the county, or aided in its settlement by paying for shares of land bought of the Indians. The place from whence each is known or supposed to have come is given as far as ascertained. Many of those from Rhode Island and Long Island can be traced back to Massachusetts.
George Allen, Mass. John Allen, R. I.
George Chutte, R. I. *Walter Clarke, R. I.
Christopher Allmey, R. I.
Thomas Clifton, R. I.
Job Allmey, R. I.
*Wm. Coddington, R. I.
*Joshua Coggeshall, R. I.
Stephen Arnold, R. I. James Ashton, R. I. John Bird. Joseph Boyer. Benjamin Borden, R. I.
*John Coggeshall, R. I. Edward Cole, R. I. Jacob Cole. Joseph Coleman. John Cook, R. I.
Richard Borden, R. I.
William Compton, L. I.
Gerrard Bowne, L. I.
*Francis Brindley, R. I.
Thomas Cox, L. I.
Nicholas Brown, R. I. Abraham Brown, R. I.
Jolın Cox; L. I. Edward Crome.
*Nicholas Davis, R. I.
*Henry Bull, R. I.
*Robert Carr, R. I. Wm. Cheeseman.
Richard Davis, R. I.
William Deuell, R. I.
John Bowne, L. I.
John Conklin, L. I.
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Benjamin Deuell, R. I.
Thomas Dungan, R. I.
Roger Ellis and Son, R. I. :
Richard Moor.
Peter Easson (Easton), R. I.
Thomas Moor, L. I.
Daniel Estell.
George Mount. William Newman.
Annias Gauntt, R. I.
Anthony Page.
*Zachary Gauntt, R. I.
Joseph Parker.
Israel Gauntt, R. I.
Peter Parker.
Richard Gibbons, L. I.
Henry Percy.
William Gifford, Mass.
Edward Pattison, R. I.
William Goulding, L. I.
Thomas Potter, R. I.
*Daniel Gould, R. I.
William Reape, R. I.
Richard Richardson, R. I.
James Grover, Sr., L. I.
John Ruckman, L. I.
James Grover, Jr .. L. I.
Richard Sadler.
John Hall.
Barth. Shamgungue.
John Hance, Wales (?)
William Shaberly, Barbadoes (?)
John Haundell.
Thomas Shaddock, R. I.
Samuel Shaddock, R. I.
John Hawes.
William Shattock, R. I.
John Havens, R I.
William Shearman, R. I.
Robert Hazard, R. I.
James Heard.
Richard Hartshorne, England.
Tobias Haudson.
Samuel Holliman(Holman), R.I. John Smith, R. I.
Obadiah Holmes, R. I.
Samuel Spicer, L. I.
Jonathan Holmes, R. I.
Robert Story.
John Horabin.
Richard Stout, L. I.
Joseph Huit.
John Stout, L. I.
Randall Huet, Sr.
Edward Tartt.
Randall Huet, Jr.
-Robert Taylor, R. I.
George Hulett, R. I.
-John Tomson. John Throckmorton, R. I. Job Throckmorton, R. I.
William James, R. I.
*Jolın Jenkins, Mass. *Edward Thurston, R. I.
Robert Jones, N. Y.
John Tilton, L. I
John Jobs.
Peter Tilton, L. I.
Gabriel Kirk.
Nathaniel Tomkins.
Edmund Lafetra.
John Townsend, L. I.
William Lawrence, L. I.
William Layton, R. I.
Walter Wall, L. I.
Thomas Wansick.
Marmaduke Ward.
Eliakim Wardel., R. I.
George Webb.
*Edward Wharton, Mass.
Bartholomew Lippencott. L. I. Mark Lucar (Luker), R. I.
John Wall, L. I.
James Leonard, R. I. . Henry Lippett, R. I.
Richard Lippencott, L. I.
Francis Masters.' Lewis Mattux, R. I.
Gideon Freeborn, R. I.
Ralph Gouldsmith.
Thomas Hart.
John Slocum, R. I. *Nathaniel Sylvester, L. I. Richard Sissell. Edward Smith, R. I.
Richard James, R. I.
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Robert West, Sr., R. I.
Robert West, Jr., R. I.
Bartholomew West. R. I. Thomas Whitlock, L. I.
Thomas Winterton. John Wood. ~
Emanuel Woolley, R. I.
Thomas Wright.
John Wilson.
Notices of Members of the General Assembly, 1683.
THOMAS RUDYARD, DEPUTY GOVERNOR .- The twenty-four pro- prietors selected Robert Barclay, the celebrated Quaker writer, as Governor of the Province of East Jersey, with permission to remain in England. Governor Barclay appointed as his Deputy Thomas Rudyard, September 16th, 1682. His commission as Secretary and Register is given in New Jersey Archives vol. 1, p. 376. References to his commission as Deputy are made in Leaming and Spicer, p. 166, and in New Jersey Analytical Index, p. 9. Rudyard arrived here from England, November 13th, 1682. He took his oaths as Secretary and Register Decem- ber 1st, 1682, and on the 10th of the same month he appointed his Council, as named in the Minutes of the Governor and Council 1682, before whom he was sworn into office as Deputy Governor December 20th.
Thomas Rudyard was originally from the town of Rudyard, in Staffordshire, but at the time of his appointment was a resi- dent of London. His legal attainments were thought to be of a high order, and it was probably from his connection with the trial of William Penn and William Mead, in 1670, for acting contrary to the provisions of the Conventicle Act, that made him acquainted with the East Jersey project. He took an active interest in promoting the views of the twenty-four proprietors, and his house in George Yard, Lombard street, became the depository of their papers, maps, &c., for the information of inquirers.
*The persons thus marked did not settle in the county, but paid for shares of land which they may have transferred to others. Henry Bull, William Coddington, Walter Clarke and John Coggeshall were governors of Rhode Island ; Francis Brindley was a governor's assistant, judge, &c .; Joshua Coggeshall was governor's assistant, &c. ; Edward Thurston, a deputy-all of Rhode Island. Nicholas Davis, the patentee, was drowned about 1672. Robert Carr sold his share to Giles Slocum, of Newport, for his son John Slocum, who settled on it. Zachary Gauntt, of New- port, sold his share to his brother Annias.
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The trial of William Penn and William Mead, with which Rudyard was connected, took place at Old Bailey, September 1st, 1670. They and others, to the number of 300, on the 14th of August preceding, " unlawfully and tumultuously did assemble and congregate themselves together to the disturbance of the peace." The Quakers being kept out of their meeting houses, went in the streets before them, and William Penn and others "did take upon themselves to speak " to them. Rudyard him- self, in the June preceding, had been subjected to several indict- ments in the same Court, prompted by his skilful defence of clients suffering from arbitrary proceedings of the authorities, and on one occasion his house was broken open in the dead of night and he apprehended "as a person suspected and dis- affected to the peace of the kingdom." (Whitehead's East Jer- sey, pp. 164-5; New Jersey Archives, vol. 1, p. 376.)
Rudyard did not long retain his position as Deputy Governor. Gawen Lawrie, was appointed his successor by commission dated London, July, 1683, but he did not arrive in the province until the beginning of the following year, his commission being read in Council February 28th, 1684, as stated in the Minutes of the Council (page 100.) Rudyard retained the office of Secre. tary and Register until the close of 1685, when he left the province and went to Barbadoes.
In Rudyard's letter of May 3rd, 1683, he describes the people of New Jersey thus: "They are generally a sober, professing people, wise in their generation, courteous in their behaviour, and respectful to us in office among them."
WILLIAM PENN was one of the twelve purchasers of East Jer- sey at the sale in 1682, the particulars of which were given in the able address of Hon A. Q. Keasbey, entitled " The Bi-Cen- tennial of the Purchase of East Jersey by the Proprietors," de- livered before the New Jersey Historical Society, January 19th, 1882. Mr. Keasbey said :
"On the first of February, 1682, the deed was made and de- livered, and twelve land speculators, headed by William Penn, became the sole owners in fee of all this fair domain, and from them must be traced the title to every lot and parcel of land which changes owners in East Jersey. And the direct successors of Penn and his eleven associates-still an organized body, with active managing officers-own every acre of land which they have not sold, and every purchaser who wants to buy can now make his bargain with them, as purchasers did two hundred years ago."
During the course of the year (1682) the twelve owners of the tract forming East Jersey conveyed one-half their interest to twelve others, to hold with them as tenants in common, and thus was formed the body of Twenty-Four Proprietors. William Penn came to America the same year, and landed at New Castle, Del-
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aware, October 27th. In November he went to New York, “ to pay his duty to the Duke of York by visiting his province." He returned from this duty toward the end of the same month. Deputy Governor Rudyard, in a letter dated May 3d, 1683, says : " William Penn took a view of the land this last month when here, and said he had never seen such before in his life." In the Minutes of the Governor and Council, March, 1683, he is named as being present in the Council from the first to the sixth of the month, inclusive.
SAMUEL GROOME came to East Jersey in November, 1682, ac- companying Deputy Governor Rudyard, as Surveyor and Re- ceiver General. He is styled "mariner of Stepney," and is first mentioned, in connection with America, as being in command of a vessel of his own, that was in some port in Maryland, 1676. His touching at West Jersey on his way back to England, was probably the cause of his becoming connected with the East Jersey Proprietors. His letters preserved in " Scots Model," in- dicate that he was much pleased with the province. He died in 1683, leaving in the stocks at Perth Amboy, unfinished, the first vessel known to have been built in East Jersey. His proprietary right was transferred to William Dockwra in July of the same year. (N. J. Archieves, Vol. 1, p. 527.)
COL. LEWIS MORRIS was originally from Monmouthshire, Eng- land, and there inherited the paternal estate of Tintern. He raised a troop of horse for parliament, for which Charles the First confiscated his estate. In return for his losses Cromwell subsequently indemnified him. He early embraced Cromwell's cause, and having signalized himself on several occasions so as to win Cromwell's regard, he was selected in 1654 to proceed to the West Indies with an expedition intended to secure the mastery of these seas. While there he received a Colonel's com- mission, and was second in command upon the attack on Ja- maica. Having a nephew settled at Barbadoes, he was induced to purchase an estate on that island. And not deeming it ad- visable to return to England after the restoration, he subse- quently became part owner of the Island of St. Lucia, and took up his abode permanently in the West Indies, remaining there until the death of his brother Richard in New York, when he came on about 1673. (Boltons History West Chester Co. N. Y.)
Mr. Whitehead in his history of East Jersey says that Col. Morris had granted to him Oct. 25th, 1676, 3,540 acres of land in old Shrewsbury township, to which he gave the name of Tintern, afterwards corrupted to Tinton, after his paternal estate in Mon- mouthshire, England. In 1680 it is said he had here "iron mills, his manor, and divers other buildings for his servants and dependants. "
Col. Morris is named as being present in the council until Aug. 16, 1683. In February of the following year the minutes
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state that Col. Lewis Morris "being mostly absent and living in New York," and Capt. Palmer and Laurens Andriessen not able to attend, others were selected in their places.
Monmouth county owes its name to Col. Lewis Morris. It
was given in an act passed March 13th, 1683, at which time three other counties, Essex, Bergen and Middlesex, were established. CAPT. JOHN PALMER lived on Staten Island. When Governor Andros left New York, in 1680, to meet the Assembly of New Jersey, his wife, Lady Andros, with nine or ten gentlewomen, accompanied him, and at Capt. Palmer's they stayed all night ; from this it would seem that his dwelling must have been of con- siderable pretensions for that day. He was appointed by Deputy Governor Rudyard as a member of his Council in December, 1682. When Deputy Governor Gawen Lawrie arrived to suc- ceed Rudyard, he presented his commission before the Council February 28th, 1684; there were then only three members pre- sent, viz., Majors Sandford, and Berry and Benjamin Price. The new Deputy Governor stated that "Captain Palmer of the late Council, by reason of his public employ in the Province of New York, desired a discharge from the service of the Board." And as Col. Morris and Laurens Andriessen also did not attend, he named others in their place. (Minutes Council, pages 100-1.)
CAPTAIN WILLIAM SANDFORD came from the West Indies, July 4th, 1668; he was granted all the meadows and upland lying south of a line drawn from the Hackensack to the Passaic, seven miles north of their intersection, comprising 5,308 acres of up- land, and 10,000 acres of meadow, for £20 per annum; and on the twentieth of the same month he purchased the Indian title for the same. He was appointed by Governor Philip Carteret as one of his Council, 1675; also by Deputy Governor Rudyard to the same position, 1682, and by Deputy Governor Lawrie in 1683, and until 1686. He was commissioned as Major of the militia for Essex County, December, 1683. His plantation was considered within the jurisdiction of Newark. He died 1692.
CAPTAIN JOHN BERRY in June 1669, with associates, received a grant of land adjoining Captain Sandford's extending north " six miles into the country ;" he had also a grant for land on the Hudson, north of Hoboken. When Carteret left for England in 1672, Capt. Berry, was appointed by him as Deputy Governor in his absence and continued as such during the brief rule of the Dutch, and the following year. He was commissioned as Major of the militia, December 1683, for the county of Bergen. He con- tinued to be one of the Cou cil under different administrations until 1692, when it is presumed he died. He is supposed to have come originally from Connecticut.
LOURENS ANDRIESSEN, whose name in the minutes of the Council is given as Lawrence Anderson, and in New Jersey Archives as Andries, Anders, Andrus, &c., was a native of Hol-
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stein in Denmark, and came to this country in the summer of 1655. His name first appears in the records of New Amsterdam, (New York,) June 29th, 1656, in a deed for a lot on Broad street. Shortly after the settlement of Bergen he purchased a tract of land in what is now Greenville. He was a man of more than ordinary ability for his times, and soon acquired great influence with his neighbors. He was a member of the Council for several years, being first appointed March 1672; in that year he signed his name as one of the Council, and it will be seen by the fac simile in Whitehead's East Jersey, page 299, 2d edition, that he gave it as Andress. He sometimes added after his name "Van Boskerck," and his descendants assumed the name of Van Bus- kirk, and are now numerous in Hudson county. He held various public positions and died in 1694. A sketch of this family is given in Winfield's History of Hudson county.
BENJAMIN PRICE was one of the first associates of Elizabeth- town, to which place he came from East Hampton, Long Island. He was much respected and held various public positions, such as justice, deputy, member of Council, &c. He lived to an ad- vanced age, dying between 1705 and 1712. His name is fre- quently mentioned in ancient records of Elizabethtown, as may be seen by reference to Hatfield's history of that place.
CAPTAIN JOHN BOWNE came to Middletown, N. J., from Graves- end, L. I. He was one of the twelve men named in the noted Monmouth Patent of 1665. He was one of the original settlers of Middletown, and one of the founders of the Baptist church there-the oldest of that society in the State. Until his death in the early part of 1684, he seems to have been the most prom- inent citizen of the county, esteemed for his integrity and ability. He appeared as a deputy to the first assembly in Carteret's time, which met May 26th, 1668, the members of the lower house then being called "burgesses." He was deputy again 1675, after Phillip Carteret's return from England ; and in the first legisla- ture under the Twenty-four Proprietors, 1683, he was a member and Speaker, and acted until the December following. He held other positions of trust. March 12, 1677, a commission was is- sued to him as President of the Court to hold a court at Middle- town. In December, 1683, shortly before his last illness, he was appointed Major of the militia of Monmouth county. He died in the early part of 1684.
RICHARD HARTSHORNE was a Quaker of good reputation and benevolent disposition, who was said to be "brother to Hugh Hartshorne, the upholsterer in London," by George Fox, in his journal, 1672. He came to this country in September, 1669, and located at the Highlands, where descendants have since lived. In an affidavit made by him in 1716 he says he was 75 years of age, by which it would appear he was born about 1641, and about 28 years old when he came here. He was named for High 4
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Sheriff of Monmouth county in 1683, but declined the office. He held various positions of trust in the county ; was deputy sev- eral years, and Speaker 1686, a member of the Council 1684- 98-9, etc. In the Minutes of the General Assembly, pages 122- 3, it is stated that Gov. Dongan, of New York, issued a writ ad- dressed to the authorities of New Jersey ordering the arrest of Richard Hartshorne, then Speaker, and that he be taken to New York for trial, which the Council refused to execute. What was the offence charged against Hartshorne is not stated.
JOSEPH PARKER was an original settler and associate patentee of Monmouth. He filled various positions of trust ; was Justice or Judge of the Court 1676-9, commissioner to lay out high- ways, deputy, etc., and died about 1685. In the Minutes of 1683, pages 62-4, is a statement of matters of difference between the proprietors and council on one hand, and Joseph Parker, John Bowne and Richard Hartshorne on the other, relating to the disputes between the first settlers of Monmouth, who claimed their titles under the Patent granted by Col. Nichols, 1665, and also by purchase of the Indians. The settlers had held their land by what they considered valid titles, had built houses, mills, established farms, etc. and they made determined resist- ance to what they considered the unreasonable demands and aggressions of the proprietors and their agents, and their opposi- tion continued until it occasionally broke out in forcible resist- ance to the proprietors' government.
In 1701 the people of Monmouth seized the Governor and Justices, Attorney General and Clerk of the Court, and kept them prisoners from March 25th to March 29th. The people concerned in this affair were of the most honest, respected class in the county ; they considered their rights trampled upon by the proprietors and would not yield them without an earnest contest. These disputes between the first settlers and the pro- prietors, was one cause of so many persons leaving New Jersey and settling in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. In fact the ques- tion of the legal rights and claims of the proprietors, after a lapse of two hundred years, yet remains unsettled in some par- ticulars, as suits are now in courts in this State contesting some of their claims.
JOHN HANCE was one of the original settlers of Shrewsbury. He is named as a deputy and overseer at a court held at Port- land Point, December 28, 1669. He held various positions in the county, among which was justice and that of " schepen," to which he was appointed by the Dutch, during their brief rule, in 1673. It is said that he came from Wales. He was a deputy to the Assembly in 1668, but refused to take or subscribe the oath of allegiance, but with provisoes, and would not yield the claims of his people, under the Monmouth Patent, and submit to the laws and government of the Proprietors, when directed
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against those claims; in consequence of which he was rejected as a member, as were also Jonathan Holmes, Edward Tart and Thomas Winterton, at the same session, for the same reasons. Hance was re-elected a deputy 1680, and at other times.
JOHN GILLMAN is named as an associate patentee at Piscata- qua, in 1668, when he took up 300 acres of land. He probably came from Piscataqua, New Hampshire. He was a deputy to the Assembly, in 1675, 1680 and in 1683; was appointed a com- missioner of highways by the legislature the last-named year, and also an assessor for Middlesex, and a justice or judge of the court for small causes.
EDWARD SLATER was an early settler at Piscataqua, being named in Whitehead's History of Amboy among those who took up land previous to 1690, he having taken up 464 acres The name is frequently given as Slaughter. In the returns of elec- tion of deputies for Piscataqua, 1680, given in New Jersey Ar- chives, vol. 1, page 307, he is called Edward Slaughter, and this name is given in Howe's Collections and other works. He was town clerk of Piscataqua 1684-7, 1692-7; was appointed a commissioner to lay out highways in 1683, and also an assessor and a justice of the peace and judge of the court of sessions the same year.
HENRY LYON is named among the first settlers of Newark, 1666-7 ; in 1668 he was appointed to keep an inn or tavern for the entertainment of strangers and travelers, and instructed " to prepare it as soon as possible." He seems to have soon moved to Elizabethtown and was a Deputy from there, 1675, 1680-83. He was appointed by Deputy Governor Gawen Lawrie, as a member of the Council, February, 1684, and continued in that position 1685-6. He was appointed "Treasurer of the coun- try " or province 1683.
BENJAMIN PARKHURST, was an early and influential citizen of Elizabethtown, frequently mentioned in the ancient records of that place as will be seen by reference to Hatfield's History of Elizabethtown. His name is frequently given as " Parkis." He was appointed a Surveyor of the Highways in 1683 by the Leg- islature of which he was a member, also as an Assessor for Essex and a Justice or Judge of the Court of Sessions.
SAMUEL MOORE came to Woodbridge probably from Massa- chusetts and received a patent for three hundred and fifty-six acres about 1670. For about twenty years-from 1668 to 1688, he held the position of Town Clerk ; was a member of the Town- ship Court, 1671; Lieutenant of the Militia, 1675; High Sheriff of Middlesex 1683, and Deputy to the Assembly, 1668-71, 83-8, and died about the last named year, 168S. "On the 9th of De- cember 1675, he was appointed the 'Country's Treasurer for the Province for the year ensuing,' and again appointed Treasurer of the Province of East Jersey in 1678."
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SAMUEL DENNIS came to Woodbridge, probably from Yar- mouth, Massachusetts, and received a patent for ninety-four acres, 1670, or previously. He was a member of the Township Court, 1674 and 1693; Town Clerk, 1692-3 and 1695 and 1707; was Deputy to Assembly 1675-9 and 83; was appointed by Deputy Governor Gawen Lawrie, as a member of the Council 1684, and continued in that position most of the time until 1703; was also an Assessor, Justice of the Court of Sessions, &c.
JOHN CURTIS is named among the original settlers of Newark in the records of that town; was treasurer of the town 1689 ; was member of the Assembly 1683-8, commissioner to lay out high- ways, and assessor for Essex county 1683-8; justice of the court, etc.
THOMAS JOHNSON came to Newark about 1666; it is supposed he came from Milford, Connecticut. He was a deputy 1675-80, in Carteret's time, and 1683; a commissioner to lay out high- ways, assessor, justice of the court, etc.
MATHEWIS OR MATHIAS CORNELIS, of Bergen, was a deputy 1683, and assessor the same year, He appears to have been less in public life than the other members of the Assembly. If he is the same Matheus Cornelison named in New Jersey Archives, Vol. 2, p. 327, it is probable that he is less frequently mentioned because of his not being acquainted with the English language. As a signer to a petition in 1700, his assent is thus given ; " dit ist mark van matheus Cornelison."
ELIAS MICKELLSON OR MICHIELSEN, was probably a son of Michiel Jansen, the common ancestor of the Vreeland family in this country. Jansen came from Broeckhuysen, and left Holland October 1, 1636, with his wife and two children. He first settled at Greenbush opposite Albany ; became a resident of New Am. sterdam 1644; in 1646 they removed to Communipaw, N. J. His sons Elias and Enoch became prominent in public affairs ; Elias was deputy to the Assembly 1675-83-88-95, and at subsequent sessions. In accordance with the Dutch custom at that time, their last name was derived from their fathers first name- Michielsen, meaning Michiels son. To this was added as a sur- name Vreeland by which descendants are now known. An ac- count of this family is given 'in Winfield's History of Hudson county, and notices of descendants in N. Y., Genealogical and Biographical Record, January, 1878.
(NOTE. In the foregoing notices of members of the General Assembly of 1683, the authorities from which items are derived are not given in all cases, as it would have necessitated frequent repetition. They are chiefly from Wm. A. Whitehead's Histories of East Jersey and Perth Amboy, Leaming and Spicer's Grants and Con- cessions, Minutes of Governor and Council, 1682-1703, New Jersey Archives, vols. 1 and 2, Janney's Life of William Penn, Hatfield's History of Elizabethtown, Win- field's History of Hudson County, and Newark Records.)
MEMBERS OF THE
One Hundred and Seventh Legislature
OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
1883.
SENATORS.
County. Name.
Atlantic.
John J. Gardner.
Bergen
Isaac Wortendyke.
Burlington
Hezekiah B. Smith.
Camden
Albert Merritt.
Cape May
Waters B. Miller.
Cumberland
Isaac T. Nichols.
Essex
William Stainsby.
Gloucester
Thomas M. Ferrell.
Hudson
Elijah T. Paxton.
Hunterdon
John Carpenter, Jr.
Mercer
John Taylor
Middlesex.
Abraham V. Schenck.
Monmouth
John S. Applegate.
Morris
.James C. Youngblood.
Ocean
Abraham C. B. Havens.
Passaic
John W. Griggs.
Salem
George Hires.
Somerset
Eugene S Doughty.
Sussex
Lewis Cochran.
Union
Benjamin A. Vail.
Warren George H. Beatty.
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ASSEMBLYMEN.
County.
Name.
Atlantic John L. Bryant.
Bergen Peter R. Wortendyke.
John Van Bussum.
Burlington Theodore Budd.
Stacy H. Scott.
Horace Cronk.
Camden
George W. Borton.
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John Bamford.
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Clayton Stafford.
Cape May. Jesse D. Ludlam.
Cumberland Isaac M. Smalley.
John B. Campbell.
Essex John H. Parsons.
John Gill.
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Lucius B. Hutchinson.
David Young.
James N. Arbuckle.
John H. Murphy.
Thomas O'Connor.
William Hill.
John L. Armitage.
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William Harrigan.
Gloucester
Job S. Haines.
Hudson
Peter F. Wanser.
Joseph T. Kelly.
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Thomas V. Cator.
66
Edwin O. Chapman.
66
Frank O Cole.
66
James C. Clarke.
66
Dennis Mclaughlin.
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John M. Shannon.
Martin Steljes. Augustus A. Rich.
Hunterdon John V. Robbins.
W. Howard Lake.
Mercer
Nelson M. Lewis.
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Joseph H. Applegate.
William J. Convery.
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APPENDIX.
County.
Name.
Middlesex
Manning Freeman.
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William R. Jernee.
James H. Goodwin.
Monmouth Peter Forman.
Thomas G. Chattle.
Alfred B. Stoney.
Morris
George W. Jenkins.
Amzi F. Weaver.
James H. Neighbour.
Ocean
George T. Cranmer.
Passaic
Clark W. Mills.
Patrick Henry Shields.
William F. Gaston.
Thomas Flynn.
Salem Henry Coombs.
Somerset
Cornelius S. Hoffman.
Sussex William E. Ross.
Union
Edward J. Byrnes.
Asa T. Woodruff.
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Frank L. Sheldon.
Warren Stephen C. Larison.
Isaac Wildrick.
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