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"They were of Buskirk's corps, some of our Closter and Tappan old neighbours, joined by a party of negroes. I should have mentioned the negroes first in order to grace the British arms."
STATE OF NEW JERSEY.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, April 23, 1779.
Two petitions, one from sundry owners of a certain tract of meadows lying in the township of Newark and county of Essex, and the other from sundry other free- holders and inhabitants of the said township of Newark, were presented to the House and read, praying for the reasons therein set forth, that a law may be passed enabling the owners of said meadows to erect and maintain a dam and works sufficient to prevent the tide from overflowing the same.
Ordered, That the owners, petitioners, have leave to bring in a bill agreeable to the prayer of the petition, upon advertising such their intentions two weeks suc- cessively in each of the publick newspapers of this state; and provided they serve such proprietors of said meadows not signing the petition, if any be, who may be interested in, or affected by the works proposed to be erected, with a copy of this order, at least two weeks previous to offering the said bill.
A true copy from the minutes.
WILLIAM C. HOUSTON, Clk. P. Tem.
N. B. The petitioners pray for a law to erect and build a dam, bank and sluice over Maple Island Creek in any place the most convenient, upon the meadows of Doctor William Burnet, James Johnston or Nathaniel Camp, sen. upon making a reasonable compensation for any damage done by such dam or works.
TO BE SOLD by the Printer hereof, A LAW LIBRARY ; Containing sixty-one Volumes.
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To be sold at publick vendue, on the 22d day of this inst. May, at the house of Mr. John Cook, at Tom's river, the Sloop LIVELY, together with her Load of Lumber: She is a good strong vessel, almost new. An inventory of her sails and rigging will be shown, and attendance given at the day of sale by
JOSEPH SALTAR.
Monmouth, New-Jersey, May 5, 1779.
To the Proprietors of the Western Division of New Jersey.
WHEREAS it has been represented to the Council of Proprietors chosen to transact the Proprietors affairs, that it would be necessary to have a meeting of the Proprie- tors in general of said division, to consult and agree upon some matters relative to the interest of the General Proprietors :- These are therefore to request the Proprie- tors of the said division to meet at the house of James Esdall, in Burlington, on Tuesday the first of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purposes aforesaid. .
By order of the Council.
DANIEL ELLIS,1 Clerk.
Burlington, May 5, 1779.
1 Rowland Ellis was a schoolmaster at Burlington, by appointment of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, from September 29, 1711, to March 17, 1738. His tombstone in St. Mary's churchyard, Burlington, so states, and adds this scriptural quotation : "They that be teachers shall shine as the brightness of the firmament." It fails to state the date of his death. He married Sarah Allison April 17, 1715, in, St. Mary's Church. She was buried in that churchyard July 18, 1769. Issue :
i. Margaret, b. Sept. 17, 1716 : bap. Nov. 1, 1716.
ii. Richard, bap. Aug. 26, 1718.
iii. Johaines, b. June 1, 1720; bap. June 19, 1720.
iv. William, b. Sept. 25, 1722; bap. October, 1722. v. Joseph, b. Sept. 23. 1724; bap. Dec. 21, 1724.
2. vi. Daniel, b. Feb. 5, 1727 ; bap. March, 1727. vii. Rowland, b. Aug. 16, 1734; bap. May, 1735.
viii. John, b. Sept. 18. 1736 ; bap. Dec. 26, 1736. ..
ix. Thomas, b. January 13, 1738-9; bap. March 4, 1738-9.
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CAME to the plantation of Andrew Mershon, on what is called the River Road, nine miles from Trenton, on Friday
2. Daniel2 Rowland1 Ellis, b. February 5, 1727 ; m. Bathsheba ; d. September 1, 1794; she d. June 8, 1795 ; he was appointed Deputy Surveyor of the Western Division of New Jersey in 1753, and qualified as follows :
"Daniel Ellis-Being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, Declared that he would well and truly Execute the Office of Deputy Surveyor of the Western Division of New Jersey & would observe and keep such Reasonable Instructions as should be by the Surveyor Generall under his hand Given him to the best of his knowledge.
Daniel Ellis.
"Sworn before me this Twenty
sixth day of february 1753.
Nathl. Thomas."
This oath of office is recorded in Book S of Surveys, page 97, in the Surveyor General's Office at Burlington. In 1762 he was elected a mem- ber of the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey, according to the fol- lowing entry in Book A of Minutes of the Council of Proprietors, page 264, in the Surveyor General's Office, at Burlington :
"May ye 5th, 1762.
"The Council of Proprietors met according to their usual custom & it appearing by the return from the County of Burlington that George Reading Esqr, Abraham Heulings, Jos. Hollinshead, Daniel Ellis and William Heulings was chosen for said County & that John Ladd, John Hinchman, Daniel Cox Esqr & Samuel Clements Junr. for the County of Gloucester
"And the Persons appearing was
John Ladd Esqr
George Reading Esqr.
Abraham Heulings
Daniel Ellis
John Hinchman
Saml. Clements Junr &
Daniel Coxe Esqr.
William Heulings
"Who proceeded to the Choise of their Officers and chose
John Ladd President Abraham Heulilngs Vice Prest and
William Heulings Clk."
He began to buy land at a very early date. John Childs and the rest of the West Jersey Society, by Lewis Johnson, their attorney, conveyed to Charles Read, Esquire, of the city of Burlington, for £48, eight hun- dred acres of unappropriated land to be taken up and surveyed in West Jersey, said conveyance being dated January 25, 1755. On February 3, 1755, Read, for the consideration of £40, assigned this deed to Joseph Hollingshead and Daniel Ellis, both of the city of Burlington .- Liber M, pp. 440-442. By deed dated August 9, 1755, Thomas Gardiner, chair- maker, of the city of Burlington, conveyed to Daniel Ellis, of the same place, for £30, 1,128 acres of land in Gloucester county, "beginning at a twin cedar standing by a creek called Attsionk, being the bounds between Burlington and Gloucester counties, and marked T. G .; thence south 41 degrees, W 85 chains to a cedar marked T. G. E. standing by a branch of the Mullekeys river called Mechescatuckzing thence down sd branch to a Creek called Sleepy Creek," etc .- Liber M, p. 430. On September 10 fol-
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the 7th instant, a certain brown HORSE, about 14 hands high, a natural pacer, no brand or ear mark, part of his
lowing, Thomas Gardiner and Daniel Ellis reconveyed said premises to Charles Read, for the nominal consideration of 5s., and a yearly rent of £4 10s .- Liber Y, p. 113. By deed dated September 6, 1755, Daniel Ellis bought from Filo Leeds, of Burlington county, for the consideration of £2 16s., 56 acres to be surveyed in any part of West Jersey, below the falls of the Delaware .- Liber P, p. 336. On June 9, 1760, William Coxe, of the city of Philadelphia, Gent., conveyed to Daniel Ellis, John Munroe and Joseph Hollinshead, all of Burlington county, 1,700 acres of unappropriated land to be taken up and surveyed in West Jersey ; con- sideration £95 .- Liber Q, p. 318. Thomas Shaw appointed Daniel Ellis, of the city of Burlington, New Jersey, his attorney, the instrument being dated May 16, 1757 .- Liber N, p. 397. By deed dated May 18, 1767, Joseph Hollinshead and Susannah, his wife ; Abraham Heulings and Rachel, his wife; John Lawrence and Martha, his wife, and Thomas Rodman, all of the city of Burlington, conveyed to Daniel Ellis and others, Esquires, Justices of the Peace of Burlington county, and Timothy Abbott and others, chosen freeholders of said county, for the consideration of £106 12s., "all that lot of land in the City of Burlington situate on Broad Street beginning at a corner to a street 25 ft wide, then runs along Broad Street N. 83 deg. E. 186 ft to land late of John Craige's, then S. 15 deg. E. 77 ft to the lot of land where the Secretary's Office stands," etc., for a goal. -Liber Z, p. 178. John Hoskins and Daniel Ellis were, on July 13, 1767, appointed trustees for the insolvent estate of Levi Murrell, saddler, of the city of Burlington .- Liber X, p. 395. To complete this transaction, Sarah Murrell, wife of Levi Murrell, resigned her claim, for 5s., on the same day .- Liber X, p. 397. Joseph Perkins, of Willingborough, Bur- lington county, assigned all his real and personal estate, by deed dated July 14, 1767, to Daniel Ellis, William Smith and Joseph Fennimore, as trustees for his creditors .- Liber X, p. 328. John Shaw, an insolvent debtor, made an assignment of his estate on June 8, 1767, to Abraham Hewlings and Daniel Ellis, both of the city of Burlington, for the benefit of his creditors, his wife, Elizabeth Shaw, releasing her claim to her husband's estate the same day .- Liber X, p. 384-386. Joseph Hollins- head, of the city of Burlington, being about to "reside out of the Province for some time," appointed Thomas Rodman and Daniel Ellis his attorneys to sell lands, etc., said instrument being dated September 24, 1767 .- Liber W, p. 496. On August 10, 1772, Daniel Ellis and his wife, Bath- sheba, of the city of Burlington, for the consideration of £110, conveyed 100 acres of land in Chester township, in said county, to Joseph Worring- ton, of Chester township, Burlington county, and Daniel Walton and Thomas Walton, of Philadelphia county, Pa., said tract bounding on lands of Darling Conaroe, Hudson Middleton, William Fennimore and William Ivins .- Liber Y, p. 535. He was one of the managers of St. Mary's Church lottery, in 1762 .- N. J. Archives, XXIV., 42. Complaint was made against him, Sept. 22, 1762, by Anthony Woodward, to the Governor and Council, probably for some act as justice or as sheriff, but that body, after hearing all the evidence produced, two days later unanimously de- cided that the charge, whatever it was, was not supported .- Ib., XVII., 319-320. In 1764 he was sheriff of Burlington county .- Ib., 379, 412. He was appointed in 1765 to be one of the managers and commissioners for a proposed road leading from Perth Amboy to Burlington .- Ib., 590.
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mane cut off, his tail long, a star on his forehead and a small snip on his nose, with a white speck in his near eye,
In 1767 (August 21) Gov. Franklin appointed him one of the justices of the quorum of Burlington county .- 1b., XVII., 455. At the beginning of the Revolution, Mr. Ellis' sympathies with the American cause were a matter of question by his neighbors, and accordingly, at a meeting of the Council of Safety, on Tuesday, April 8, 1777, he "was summoned to appear before the Board & to take the oaths to Government, did accord- ingly appear, and refusing to take the Oaths, was indulged at his request, until Friday next, in order to provide Sureties for his appearance at the next Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the County of Burlington." On Friday, April 11, he "entered into recognizance with Abraham Hewlings his surety, in £300 each &c., as above."-Minutes, pp. 16, 20. He held the office of township clerk from 1763 to 1779, and from 1782 to 1791 .- Hist. of Burlington and Mercer Counties, p. 126. His tombstone in St. Mary's churchyard, Burlington, has this elaborate tribute to his memory :
Sacred To the Memory of Daniel Ellis Esq. Who departed this Life in full Assurance of Faith in the great Atonement of Jesus Christ the 1st Day of September 1794 in the 67th year of his Age Universally esteemed and as Universally lamented.
Faithful to his God without ostentation Upright and just in all his dealings Benevolent and Compassionate his Liberality and Charity was Extended to all. We therefore piously hope he is now Enjoying the Happiness reserved for the pure in Heart with his Saviour In the Realms of unfading Bliss.
His wife's tombstone is more simply inscribed :
To the Memory of Bathsheba Ellis Widow of Dan'l Ellis dec'd Who departed this life June 8th, 1795. in the 64th year of her age.
Beneath this stone the dust is plac'd of her who living was possess'd of Cheerful sympathizing mind of love to God, and all mankind
The will of Daniel Ellis, dated January 8, 1793, proved September 10, 1794, gives to his wife Bathsheba, £100 at her own disposal, and the use of the house where he then lived, with its furniture, and a meadow by London Bridge (Burlington), during her natural life. To his children,
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no shoes on, and about 12 or 13 years old. The owner, proving his property and paying charges, shall have him again by applying at the same place to
DANIEL SLACK.
May 10, 1779.
STOLEN from a waggon at Trenton, on the night of the 15th April, a black HORSE about 10 years old, has a large star in his forehead, is remarkably thick and stocky, about 14 hands high, has large scar in his right side, a small white spot just forward of his wethers, trots somewhat heavy, canters very well, and paces a small travel. Who- ever takes up said horse and secures him for the subscriber, living at Westfield, in the borough of Elizabeth, shall have a reward of Fifty Dollars, and the same for apprehending the thief, on his being convicted.
May 8, 1779.
JOHN ROSS, jun.
Samuel, Micajah, Charles and Rowland, each £1,200, which they had respectively already received ; to his son Daniel, the interest of £1,200 for his lifetime, and then to the testator's surviving children; to his son Richard, £1,200, on arriving at the age of twenty-one. He provides that his negro woman called Pender shall be set free and receive £15 and articles in her room ; also that his negro woman called Tenah shall be set free when twenty-three; he gives £15 to St. Mary's Church as a fund to pay an Orthodox minister. He provides that Maria Howe, wife of John Howe, shall have a deed made to her for household goods, lands, etc., to fulfil a trust. His executors were also directed to make deeds for lands surveyed by him in Gloucester county ; they were also authorized to sell and convey all his lands, proprieties and unlocated lands to any persons. He gave to the Council of Proprietors, for their own use, his book that had the account of the General Proprietors stated. Executors-Sons Micajah Ellis and Charles Ellis. Witnesses-Edward Collins, Israel Tom- kin and George Sweetman .- N. J. Wills, Liber 33, p. 450. Daniel Ellis and Bathsheba his wife had issue :
i. Samuel.
ii. Micajah, d. March 20, 1813, in his 49th year.
iii. Charles.
iv. Joseph, bap. May, 1755.
v. Martha, b. May 27, 1769 ; bap. July 2, 1769 ; buried Nov. 13, 1772.
vi. Rowland, buried Aug. 15, 1770.
vii. Rowland, b. July 8, 1771; bap. at Burlington Aug. 21, 1771; d. Feb. 6, 1845.
viii. Richard, bap. Aug. 22, 1773.
ix. Sarah, bap. Aug. 22, 1773; buried Aug. 25, 1773
x. Joseph, died Oct. 7, 1785, in the 31st year of his age.
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JAMES THROCKMORTON.
HAS hired the Fulling-Mill on Laurence-Brook, belong- ing to the Widow Schuerman, about three miles from Brunswick, where he intends to carry on the business of fulling in the best manner, and to the satisfaction of his employers, at as reasonable rates as the times will admit of, and hopes for the encouragement of the publick.
AT an Inferior Court of Common-Pleas
NewJersey, Middlesex Co. held for the said county the 6th of April last, were returned inquisitions for joining the army of the King of Great-Britain, and other treasonable prac- tices found against Miles Sherbrook, John Demun, Thomas Russel and Peter Lemmon, of which proclamation was made in open court, that if they or any on their behalf, or any person interested, would appear and traverse, a trial should be awarded, but no traverses were offered : therefore notice is hereby given that if neither they nor any on their behalf, nor any one interested shall appear and traverse at the next court to be held for the said county, the inquisi- tions will be taken to be true, and final judgment entered thereon in favour of the state.
John Lloyd Wm. Scudder Comrs.
Princeton, May 5, 1779.
STRAYED from Middle-Brook camp about the 15th last month, two HORSES; one a roan, about five feet high, with some white spots on one of his buttocks, his left fore hoof split a little; the other a dark bay, about four feet four inches high, shod behind. Only Twenty-five Dollars will be given to any person who will deliver the said horses to
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JOHN GILLISON,1 Captain 6th Virginia Regt, Gen Seat's2 brigade.
May 9, 1779. 1
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
ABsented himself the 2d inst. from the subscriber, liv- ing in Hanover township, Burlington county, New-Jersey, an English indented servant lad, named John Bird, about five feet high, aged about 19 years, marked with the small pox, very much knock knee'd; it is very likely he may have changed his name, as he has done under the same circumstances : Had on when he went away, a felt hat, oznabrigs shirt, homespun orange colored under jacket without sleeves, an outside blue and white striped ditto, buckskin breeches, brown stockings, calf-skin shoes. Who- soever takes up said servant so that his master may have him again, shall receive the above reward, from me.
SAMUEL JAMES.
Newmills, May 3, 1779.
To be sold at Trenton Landing by publick vendue, on Saturday next, some condemned FLOUR, PORK and FISH.
Monmouth PUBLICK notice is hereby given to all persons
County, ss. having any claims, interest or demand in or upon the estates of the following fugitives and offenders, (against whom inquisitions have been found and final judgment entered in favour of the state) viz. Samuel Osburn, Thomas Leonard, Hendrick Vanmarter, John Throckmorton, Daniel Vanmarter, John Longstreet, jun, Alexander Clark, Joseph Clayton, Israel Britain, John Okeson, Thomas Bills, Benzeor Hinkson, and William
1 John Gillison, Captain 10th Va. Nov. 18, 1776 ; transferred to 6th Va. Sept. 14, 1778 ; taken prisoner at Charleston May 12, 1780; retired Jan. 1, 1783 .- Heitman's Register, 191.
2 Probably Gen. Charles Scott is meant-Lieutenant Colonel 2d Va. Feb. 13, 1776; Colonel 5th Va. May 7, 1776; Brigadier General Continental Army April 1, 1777 ; taken prisoner at Charleston May 12, 1780, and was a prisoner on parole to, close of war; died Oct. 22, 1813 .- Heitman's Register, 358.
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Taylor, of Freehold, Thomas Crowel, George Taylor, Jonathan Stout, Peter Stout, Oliver Hicks, James Stilwil, John Mount, boatman, Samuel Smith, John Bowne, James Pew, Thomas Thorn, Ezekiel Tilton, John Tilton, late of Middletown, John Williams, Christopher Tallman, John Wardel, Michael Prue, James Mount, John Williams, jun, John Pintard, Clayton Tilton, Samuel Cook, James Boggs, Azail Chanler, John Morris, Robert Morris, Peter Vannote, James Price, John and Morford Taylor, Oliver Tallman, Benjamin Woolley, Ebenezer Wardel, Robert Stout, John Hampton, Briton White, Tobias Kiker, Daniel Leffeter, Gernardus G. Beekman, late of Shrews- bury, John Leonard, Gilbert Giberson, Samuel Stilwil, Barzilah Grover, John Horner, Fuller Horner, John Perine, jun. William Giberson, jun. Benjamin Giberson, late of Upper Freehold, and Isaac Allen, late of Trenton, William Smith of Woodbridge, John Taylor and William Walton of New-York, to exhibit their respective accounts fairly stated in writing to the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the county of Monmouth, who will give their attendance at the Courthouse in Freehold on the 20th day of May, who are empowered and directed by a late law of the state of New-Jersey, to receive and adjust the same within twelve months from the date hereof: And also all persons who have in their power and custody any goods or chattels, bonds, bills, deeds of conveyances, or any writings or effects whatsoever, or are in anywise indebted to the said offenders, and neglect to make dis- covery thereof immediately to the subscribers, or any or either of them, may depend upon being dealt with accord- ing to law.
SAMUEL FORMAN, JOS. LAURENCE, KENNETH HANKINSON, JACOB WICKOFF, Commissioners. Monmouth county, May 3, 1779.
PURSUANT to an Act of General Assembly of the state of New-Jersey, entitled, "An Act for forfeiting to, and
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vesting in, the state of New-Jersey, the real estates of certain fugitives and offenders, and for directing the mode of determining and satisfying the lawful debts and demands which may be due from or made against such fugitives and offenders, and for other purposes therein mentioned,"-NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who have any claim, interest, or demand to, in, or against the estates of Jacob Van meter, John Daniels, William Raw- son, John Morrow, Joseph Hewlins, Hugh Cowperthwait, Moses Atkinson, Robert Whittecar, Richard Mead, Wil- liam Pierce, Philip Adams, James Suttons, Israel Elwell, James Dean, Joseph Kindle, John Sutton, Thomas Sutton, Reuben Langley, Abdon Abbit, Christopher Randolear, Thomas Lamb and George Johnson, that they exhibit their demands in writing fairly stated, within one year after this date, to the Court of Common-Pleas for the county of Salem, or to any two or more of the Judges in the vacation, in order to be examined and settled by said Court or Judges; and after such demands are examined as afore- said, to transmit the same to the Treasurer of this state within one month thereafter, in order to receive their re- spective demands, agreeable to the directions of the above recited act.
THOMAS SAYRE and WILLIAM GARRISON Commissioners. Salem county, May 1, 1779. .
STRAYED or stolen from Piscataway, on Tuesday the fourth instant, two sorrel COLTs, with bald faces, lately nicked. Whoever takes up said colts and delivers them to the owner at Rocky-hill, shall receive Fifty Dollars.
NATHANIEL HEARD.1
Rocky-hill, May 18, 1779.
-The New-Jersey Gazette, Vol. II., No. 75, Wednesday, May 12, 1779.
1 For sketch of Gen. Nathaniel Heard, see New Jersey Archives, 2d Series, 1 :9.
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On Sunday morning last, a party of refugees went from New-York, in boats to Closter, a settlement abounding with many violent rebels, and persecutors of loyal subjects, and who are almost daily affording some fresh instance of barbarity. The party, on their approach to their settle- ment, being fired upon by the militia from houses, were obliged to lay them in ashes, and after pursuing the run- aways, killing five or six wounding many, and bringing in four prisoners, returned to this city, having one man slightly wounded from a random shot on reembarking. On the party's first arrival at Closter they found affixed on several houses, printed papers, with the following;
"No Quarters shall be given to Refugees, etc."
Some time since Mr. Myers, an Ensign in a company of refugees, was killed in a skirmish with a party of rebels near Closter, the inhabitants of that place after his death, stripp'd his corps naked, hung him up by the neck, where he was exhibited as a public spectacle for many hours.
The inhabitants of Closter have been remarkable for their persecution of, and cruelty to all the friends of gov- ernment, and had fixed up in many of their houses ad- vertisements, in which they expressed their determination of giving no quarter to refugees, and requested all Con- tinental soldiers and militia to refuse them quarters.
When the refugees in their late excursion entered the village of Closter they were fired at out of the houses and barns, &c.
Last Friday night departed this life in the 58th year of his age, Mr. William Ha[ ]den,1 a native of the town of Holt, in the county of Norfolk, in Old England, but has resided in this country many years, and for a consider- able time before the rebellion had the charge of the Academy at Newark, in New-Jersey, but about two years ago was obliged to fly from thence on account of his un-
1 One letter is missing. The name was Haddon.
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shaken loyalty to his King, and left behind him a family with a considerable property. His remains were interred on Sunday evening in St. Paul's Church yard, attended by a very respectable body of the inhabitants of this place. -The Royal Gazette, No. 273, May 12, 1779.
Married at Princeton, Col. WILLIAM SCUDDER1 to Miss SKELTON .- The Pennsylvania Packet, May 13, 1779.
To be LET, and may be entered upon immediately, TWO BRICK HOUSES adjoining each other, few doors above the courthouse, in the High street at Burlington; they have each a large commodious room fit for a store, and in very good situation, each a good garden, and one of them a stable and hayhouse. For terms apply to John Law- rence, esq., in Burlington, May 15, 1779.
1 William Scudder was a descendant of Thomas Scudder, who left London or its vicinity, and was at Salem, Mass., as early as 1635, remain- ing there until his death, in 1658. His son John removed to Southold, L. I., in 1651, and thence to Huntingdon, L. I., in 1657, and within a year or two thereafter to Newtown, L. I. John's son Richard Betts removed to the vicinity of Trenton about or before 1709. Thomas, another son of Thomas 1st, removed, with his brother John, to Long Island, becoming the proprietor of 1,000 acres of land at Huntingdon. His son Benjamin died on the estate in 1735, leaving, among other children, Jacob, b. Nov. 29, 1707, in Huntingdon, where he remained until 1749, when he sold his mills and other real estate there and removed to New Jersey, buying, on November 25, that year, from Josiah Davinson, for £1,400, a tract of 100 acres on Millstone river, not far from Princeton, with saw-, grist- and fulling-mills. He m. Abia Rowe Aug. 5, 1731; d. May 31, 1772; she d. May 5, 1791. Their fourth child was William Scudder, b. at Huntingdon April 6, 1739 ; d. Oct. 31, 1793, of apoplexy. He owned a large landed estate and mills near Princeton. During the Revolution he was Lieu- tenant Colonel of the Third Regiment of Middlesex County Militia, and fought at the battle of Monmouth. He was one of the founders and prin- cipal supporters of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, serving on the board of trustees, 1786-1793. He m. 1st, in 1779, Mary Skelton, who d. a year later ; he m. 2d, Sarah, dau. of Matthias Van Dyke, of Mapleton, who survived him. William's brother Nathaniel, b. May 10, 1733, was the ancestor of the very numerous Scudder family of mission- aries. His sister Lucretia was the grandmother of Thomas J. Stryker, for forty years cashier of the Trenton Banking Company, and who was the father of Gen. William Scudder Stryker, Adjutant General of New Jersey from 1866 until his death in 1900 .- Cooley's Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, Trenton, 1883, p. 217.
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