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(I) Nicholas Carter, eldest son of Roger, of Helperby, was born in that place, June 4, 1629, and died at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in October or November, 1681. He emigrated to New England and settled in Stamford, Con-
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necticut, sometime prior to 1652, in which year he is recorded as having come to New- town, Long Island, from Stamford. April 12. 1656, he was one of the purchasers of the Stamford lands from the Indians and was given twenty acres as his allotment. From this time until 1665 he is repeatedly spoken of in the Newtown records as being one of the lead- ing men of the place. In this latter year he became one of the Elizabethtown Associates, having February 10, 1664, received for him- self, his wife, son and maidservant, 360 acres as his right of land according to the con- cessions, and being given a third lot right in the town. His house lot contained five acres, ten by five chains, bounded on the east by highways, on the north by the creek, and on the south and west by William Hill. He had also twenty acres of upland on Luke Watson's Point adjoining Edward Case and Jacob Melyn, as well as forty acres of upland "in a swamp lying at the east side of the blind ridge," and bounded partly by Aaron Thompson and Jacob Melyn. This property Nicholas Carter sold, March 16, 1676, to Benjamin Wade, for £30, payable in pipe staves, having the week before, March 9, 1676, bought of Jacob Melyn, then of New York, IOI acres of land in the South Neck. Besides this land Nicholas Car- ter owned seventy acres of upland bounded by Roger Lambert, George Pack and the swamp ; also 193 acres on the mill creek, bound- ed by Barnabas Wines, the plain, a small brook, and the creek, and another twenty-two acres in the Great Meadow and eighteen acres on Thompson's creek. The lands he bought of Jacob Melyn, he sold again, shortly before his death, on May 18, 1681, to Samuel Wilson.
February 19, 1665, Nicholas Carter signed the oath of allegiance as one of the eighty Elizabethtown associates ; and six years later, February 28, 1671, formed a part of the special court of oyer and terminer, impanneled and organized by Governor Carteret to try Joseph Meeker and Hurr Tomson for the pulling down of Richard Michel's fence, and on May 16 following was a member of the first jury that ever sat in Elizabethtown and which after being sent out three times "declared to the Court that the matter Committed to them (Captain Hackett's guilt in not paying customs dues in Elizabethtown instead of New York) is of too great waight for them and desires the Court to make Choice of other Jurymen." Sep- tember II, 1673, he took the oath of allegiance to the Dutch during their brief reconquest of New Netherland; and October 22, 1765, he
received the warrant of the survey of his 360 acres; and November 8, 1681, Robert Moss and William Brodwell filed the inventory of his estate, valuing it at £64, 19 shillings, 8 pence. On the following November 14 letters of administration were granted to Nicholas's son John.
It is not known whom Nicholas Carter mar- ried, but authorities are almost unanimous in saying that she was a relative of Robert Wat- son, of Windsor, Connecticut. By her Nicho- las had four children of record, there may have been more. These children were: I. Nicholas, referred to below. 2. John, undoubtedly his eldest son, and as he took the oath of allegiance to the Dutch with his father in 1673, must have then been over twenty-one. March 28, 1676, he received warrant for survey of his sixty acres; November 14, 1681, he was appointed administrator of his father's estate; August 18, 1682, he gave his fellow-bondsmen, Samuel March and James Hinde, a mortgage on his house and 190 acres of upland "to hold them harmless for being his bondsmen." In this last record he is styled "carpenter of Elizabeth- town." 3. Samuel Carter, remaining son of Nicholas, was quite a celebrated character in the disputes which arose between the pro- prietors and the associates, especially in 1699- 1700, in the first of which years he was ad- mitted to the second generation of Associates, with first lot rights and chosen one of the assistant surveyors under John Harriman, junior. 4. Elizabeth, only recorded daughter of Nicholas Carter, married John Radley, or Ratcliffe, August 6, 1681, shortly before her father's death.
(II) Nicholas (2), son of Nicholas (I) Carter, the emigrant, is said to have been born in Newtown, Long Island, in 1658, the date being calculated from March 25, 1669, when his father apprenticed him to Richard Paynter, a tailor who had come to Elizabethtown from New York. As Paynter removed again to New York in 1670 and later to Southampton, where he was as late as 1679, Nicholas, Jr., either had a very short apprenticeship or did more travelling than usually fell to the lot of boys in those days. One clause of his in- dentures is well worth quoting as showing the careful bringing up of children and young men in a different age: "Unlawfull Sports and Games he shall not use. Taverns or Tipling houses hee shall not haunt or frequent, his Master's Goods he shall not Imbezle purloin or by any unlawfull means diminish or Impair, his Masters Secrets he shall not disclose." De-
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cember 10, 1687, Nicholas and his brother Samuel, both styled of Elizabethtown, mort- gage to Thomas Osborn, a tanner of the same place, seven acres of meadow; January 28, 1688, David Smith, another tanner, of Eliza- bethtown, deeds back to Samuel Carter the thirty-two acres he had previously bought of both Samuel and Nicholas, in which deed it is stated that both of the Carter brothers were at that time in England. When Nicholas re- turned, if he ever did so, is unknown, as is also the location of his final settling place, for the deed above referred to is the last record found of him up to now. He apparently left no will, and the names of his wife and chil- dren are also unknown, except for the fact that family tradition is responsible for the statement that Barnabas, who is referred to below is his son. Henry Whittemore's con- jecture is that "either Nicholas or Samuel are supposed to have removed to Morris county, as the Carters are mentioned among the early settlers of the township of Whippanong, con- stituted in 1700" * and that Barna- * bas was probably a son of Benjamin, the first of the name mentioned in connection with Morris county. Charles Carroll Gardner's supposition is that Barnabas "may have been a son of Samuel." The family tradition that Barnabas was son of Nicholas appears to fit in best with the evidence from later genera- tions given below, and is therefore adopted here.
(III) Barnabas, traditional son of Nicholas (2) Carter, of Elizabethtown, was born about 1680, and died in Hanover, Morris county, in October, 1748. An old road record of 1728 shows that at that time he owned and lived on a farm near Salem, Union township, which was then in the borough of Elizabethtown. Shortly after this he moved to Morris county and built himself a grist mill on the Passaic river, near the present town of Chatham. He is also said to have been the "first settler in those parts, and to have owned the first land there and also the first grist mill." In his will, dated October I, 2Ist George II. (1748), proved October 19, 1748, he leaves to "Barnabas Carter, my loving son, one fourth of my natural meadow on the Passaic river," and also appoints him one of his executors. "To my loving son Benjamin Carter," the other executor, he leaves "a sar- tain Peace or parcell of Land and swampy ground at the South West corner of my land by Passaic river running easterly along my land so far as it is swampy thence bearing northwesterly so as to contain all that is now
within ffence as the ffence Now Runs, also all my land that lyeth on the West side of the Road, also my grist mill with the privileges of the stream and pond so long as the said mill shall stand without rebuilding and also one fourth of my meadow. To my loving son Luke Carter I bequeath one fourth of my meadow and also all remainder of my land by Passaic except one fourth part of the said river meadow. To my loving son Nathaniel Carter I bequeath one fourth part of my Natural River Meadow with all the Remainder of my Lands and my House. To my grandson Simon Hall, I give one yoke of oxen and three cows and hoops and boxes . for a cart one graught chain and my horse gears plows and harrow and one narrow ax also one feather bed rug and furniture. To my loving children and grandchildren I bequeath all the remainder of my personal estate, one sixth to Barnabas, one sixth to Benjamin, to Luke one sixth, to Nathaniel one sixth, to my daughter Mary Wines one sixth and to my loving grand- children Susanna and Sarah Hall one sixth at eighteen years of age." The will is wit- nessed by Jeremiah Genung and Stephen Ward. Besides these six children mentioned above (Barnabas, Benjamin, Luke, Nathaniel and two daughters) the family tradition is that he had another son Nehemiah, and that all of the sons except Nathaniel (referred to below) migrated to New Orleans. It is much more probable however that the Nehemiah Carter who went south was a cousin, and not a brother to Barnabas's children, as the records give the date of his migration as between 1770 and 1775. He is probably the son of Nicholas Carter, who died in October or November, 1770, leaving children: Abraham, Nehemiah, Moses, Nicholas, David, Reuben, Comfort and Kezia, and a widow Susanna. Barnabas, son of Barnabas Carter, died in 1822, leaving a daughter Betsey, and two grandsons, Barnabas Robert Carter and Azel Clisbey Carter, sons of a deceased son William. The Mr. Wines who married Mary, daughter of Barnabas Carter, was a great-grandson of Barnabas Wines, the Elizabethtown Associate, and a descendant of Goodman Barnabas Wines, of Watertown, Massachusetts, who married the sister of John Benjamin of Watertown (see Benjamin family).
(IV) Nathaniel, fourth son of Barnabas Carter, was born about 1715, and spent most of his life at Hanover. He married Hannah Price, of Elizabethtown ; children: I. Phebe, married, July 13, 1758, Michael Vanwinkle. 2.
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Anna, married (first) Peter Beach, (second ) in 1778, Daniel Ball, of Hanover. 3. Aaron Carter, referred to below. 4. Eunice, born about 1745 ; married (first ) July 31, 1774, David Lee, who died in 1780; married (second) Job Coleman. 5. Rhoda, baptized in Presbyterian church at Hanover, November 19, 1749; mar- ried Joseph King. 6. Lois, baptized January 12, 1752; married, May 19, 1782, Nathaniel Willis, a widower with several children, and had by him herself two children: Hannah, baptized April 27, 1783; and Harvey, baptized June 5, 1785. 7. Sarah Carter, born April 18, 1756; married Thomas Brown, of Newark. 8. Hannah, died unmarried.
(V) Aaron, son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Price) Carter, was born April 30, 1744, and died between July 27 and September 27, 1804, the dates of the execution and proving of his will. He lived at Union Hill, Morris county, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Davis, and Ruth, daughter of Joseph Bruen. Caleb was the son of Caleb, grandson of Jona- than, great-grandson of Thomas, and great- great-grandson of Thomas Davis, of Hartford, 1646, Connecticut colony, 1648, Newark, 1666, who died about 1691 and had for his second wife the widow of John Ward the Dish-turner (see Ward family). Aaron and Elizabeth (Davis) Carter had children: 1. Hannah. 2. Lewis, born 1778; sergeant in Captain Brit- tin's company, of the regiment stationed at Sandy Hook, under Colonel John Frelinghuy- sen, during the war of 1812. 3. Mary, or Polly, married Samuel Condit, innkeeper at Chatham. 4. Caleb, referred to below. 5. Aaron. 6. Sarah.
(VI) Caleb, son of Aaron and Elizabeth (Davis) Carter, was born at Union Hill, Morris county, February 28, 1782, and died at Newark, August 1, 1847. About 1800 he went to Newark and learned the business of carriage painting, and was one of the pioneers in the carriage manufacturing business, doing an extensive trade with the south. His name appears on the muster roll of Captain Bald- win's company in 1802, and he was also active in politics, being identified with the Whig party, and being appointed by Governor Will- iam S. Pennington a magistrate of Newark. January 12, 1805, Caleb Carter married Phebe, daughter of Jotham, son of David Johnson and Eunice, daughter of Robert, granddaugh- ter of Deacon Azariah, and great-granddaugh- ter of Jasper Crane of Newark (see Crane family). David Johnson was son of Nathaniel Johnson and Sarah Ogden, grandson of Eli-
phalet, and great-grandson of Thomas John- son, who was one of the committee of eleven who represented the towns of Milford, Guil- ford and Branford in arranging for the settle- ment of Newark. Thomas Johnson was son of Robert, who came to New Haven from Hull, England. Caleb and Phebe (Johnson) Carter had children: I. Elizabeth, born April 12, 1806, died unmarried, January 8, 1887. 2. Harriet, March 2, 1808, died unmarried, De- cember 12, 1891. 3. Mary, born May 4, 1810; married Horace H. Nichols ; left no children. 4. James Johnson, August 9, 1812, died No- vember, 1875. 5. Horace, October 17, 1814, died December 10, 1894. 6. Aaron, referred to below. 7. Catharine Parkhurst, born Sep- tember 7, 1819; married Jeremiah D. Poinier. 8. Almira, November 13, 1822, died December 14, 1888. 9. Anne Beach, October 3, 1825, died June 8, 1906, being the last surviving child. 10. Phebe, born February 20, 1828, died in June, 1901.
(VII) Aaron, sixth child and third son of Caleb and Phebe ( Johnson) Carter, was born in Newark, January 17, 1817, and died at his home on Tremont avenue, Orange, January 31, 1902, after an illness of a week, from pneu- monia. He is said to have been "a remark- ably fine man, of delightful personality, warm- hearted, kind, strict and careful in his busi- ness, of exact and careful methods, and judg- ment keen and accurate. His thorough prac- ticality did not make him hard and cold, and in him were happily blended the keen and practical man of business, the genial gentle- man, and the warm hearted Christian." After receiving his education at Fairchild's boarding school at Mendham, then one of the best schools in the state, he returned home and was regularly indentured to the firm of Taylor & Baldwin, manufacturing jewelers, who it is said are "entitled to the credit of first winning extended fame for Newark handiwork in the jewelry business." November 18, 1841, with two young associates, Aaron Carter founded the business with which he has been so promi- nently identified ever since, and which for more than a generation has been in the fore- front of the jewelry manufacturing trade in this country. This first firm was known as Pennington, Carter &. Doremus, the senior member being a nephew of Governor William S. Pennington. Later Mr. Pennington with- drew, and for some time the firm ran as Carter & Doremus, and after the withdrawal of Mr. Doremus as the firm of Aaron Carter, Jr. . Other changes in the personnel of the firm were
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made from time to time, but Mr. Carter was always the leading spirit and senior member, whether it was Carter, Beamans & Pierson ; Carter & Pierson; Carter, Pierson & Hale; Carter, Hale & Company ; Carter, Howkins & Dodd; Carter, Howkins & Sloan; Carter, Sloan & Company ; Carter, Hastings & Howe, or as it became January 1, 1902, about a month before Mr. Carter's death, Carter, Howe & Company. When he died Mr. Carter was the oldest representative of the jewelry industry in Newark, which was then a century old, his own employer, Taylor being second in the line of succession from Epaphras Hinsdale, who founded the business in 1801. Through the various financial reverses of half a century, Mr. Carter maintained the credit of his firm and never failed to meet on time any of his business obligations. No one of all the old- time manufacturers preserved a "cleaner rec- ord for honor, uprightness and business prob- ity," and he has left a "name unsullied by a single act which could ever reflect adversely on him or his associates," and he has educated others up to the same high standards that regu- lated his own life.
Mr. Carter was also a director in the New- ark City Bank from its organization in 1851, a manager of the Howard Savings Institution since 1866, a member of the original board of directors of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, and at the time of his death a mem- ber of the loss committee and chairman of the auditing committee, and also a director in the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of New York. He was a large stockholder in the Bombay (India) Tramway Company, of which for many years he was chairman of the board of trustees. Besides these interests Mr. Carter was connected with the Jewelers' Circular, a periodical devoted to the interests of the jewelry trade, and was a trustee and much interested in the New Jersey Industrial School for Girls at Trenton. Mr. Carter was origin- ally a Whig, but after the disruption of that party and the organization of the Republican party he joined the latter, took great interest in its success, and was for many years one of its most zealous supporters. At one time he received the Republican nomination for the assembly but the district at that time being overwhelmingly Democratic, he was defeated. At first Mr. Carter was a member of the old First Presbyterian Church of Newark, and helped to organize the South Park Church, of which he was one of the first elders, remaining such until 1856, when he removed to New
York, after his second marriage, when he united with the Madison Square Presbyterian Church, of which under Dr. Adams he was an elder until 1864. In that year he removed to Orange and purchased the eight acres and homestead which formed his home for the remainder of his life. Subsequently he en- larged and remodeled the house and made many improvements, especially enclosing the whole property with an evergreen hedge. Mr. Carter now united with the Valley Congrega- tional Church, owing to its convenient near- ness to his residence, and here he became trus- tee and deacon, and labored for the advance- ment of the church until 1887, when he with- drew to assist in the organization of the Hill- side Presbyterian Church, of which he became and remained until his death an elder.
Aaron Carter married (first) August 30, 1843, Elizabeth Camp Tuttle, daughter of William Tuttle and Hannah Camp, and grand- daughter of Nathaniel Camp. By this mar- riage he had two children: William Tuttle Carter, referred to below; and Elizabeth Jo- sephine Carter, born December, 1851, died April, 1852. Mr. Carter married (second) Oc- tober 1, 1856, Sarah Swift Trow, daughter of John Franklin Trow, founder of the Trow's Directory of New York, and of Catharine Swift, his wife. By this marriage Aaron Car- ter had three more children: John Franklin Carter, born October 21, 1864; married, June 7, 1893, Alice Schermerhorn Henry ; children : i. Henry, born May 8, 1894; ii. Sarah Swift, August 20, 1895; iii. John Franklin, April 27, 1897; iv. Percival, March 8, 1900; v. Paul Schermerhorn, September 14, 1903. John Franklin Carter, graduated from Yale in 1888, and from the Cambridge Divinity School (Episcopal) in 1891 ; in 1892 was made deacon by Bishop Worthington, and in 1893 priest by Bishop Potter, of New York ; 1891 to 1893 he was assistant at St. George's Church, New York City ; 1893 to 1900 rector of St. Mark's, Fall River, Massachusetts, and since 1900 rector of St. John's, Williamstown, Massachu- setts. Henry Ernest Trow Carter was the second son of Aaron Carter and his second wife, and Herbert Swift Carter, the remaining son, is referred to below.
(VIII) William Tuttle, eldest son of Aaron and Elizabeth Camp (Tuttle) Carter, was born in Newark, September 28, 1849, and is now living in that city. From 1862 to 1864 he attended the Newark Academy, and then went to Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1867, and the following
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fall entered Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1871. He then went into his father's firm, at that time known as Carter, Howkins & Dodd, and in 1876 became a mem- ber of the firm, when the name was changed to Carter, Howkins & Sloan. Here he remain- ed until 1880, when he set up in business for himself. In 1886 he returned to his father's firm, then Carter, Sloan & Company, and has remained there ever since, through its changes in 1896 to Carter, Hastings & Howe, and in 1902, to Carter, Howe & Company, its present name. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. II, F. and A. M., Orange; of the New Jersey Historical Society, the Washington Head- quarters Association, the Essex Club; and the Lawyers' and Railroad clubs of New York. He is also serving as trustee of the Newark Academy ; manager of the Howard Savings Institution ; director of the Prudential Insur- ance Company ; director of the American In- surance Company, of Newark ; and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church in Newark.
June 2, 1875, William Tuttle Carter married Sophia Abigail, third child and eldest daughter of Stephen Hayes and Sophia LaRue (King) Condict. Children: 1. William Tuttle Carter, Jr., born in Newark, July 10, 1876; graduated from Newark Academy, 1894, and from Princeton University, 1898; read law with Hon. John R. Hardin, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1901. 2. Elizabeth Con- dict Carter, born December 22, 1880. 3. Jo- seph Nelson Carter, born September 25, 1882 ; graduated from Newark Academy 1900, and from Princeton University, 1904; now in busi- ness in firm of Carter, Howe & Company. 4. Kenneth King Carter, born October 15, 1895.
(VIII) Herbert Swift, youngest child of Aaron and Sarah Swift (Trow) Carter, was born in Orange, September 19, 1869, and is now a practicing physician in New York City. His mother's mother was the daughter of Dr. Nathaniel Swift, a practicing physician of Andover, Massachusetts. Herbert Swift Car- ter attended private schools and was then put under private tutors until he was ready for St. Paul's School, Garden City, New York; after leaving which he went to the Lawrenceville Academy, to the Dearborn Morgan School, and graduated from Princeton University in 1892. He then entered the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, New York City, and re- ceived his M. D. degree from there in 1895. For the next two years he was one of the internes at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York, and after that for three months at the
Sloane Hospital. Immediately after his mar- riage, in 1898, he went to Europe and attended the lectures at the University of Berlin. Com- ing back to New York City, he set up in gen- eral practice and has specialized on general internal medicine. He is attending physician to the Lincoln Hospital, and chief of the medical clinic, Presbyterian Hospital, New York City ; a member of the New York Acad- emny of Medicine, the Society of Internal Medi- cine, the Society of the Alumni of the Presby- terian Hospital, the Quiz Medical Society. He is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
January 12, 1898, Herbert Swift Carter married, in South Orange, Mabel Stewart Pettit, second child and eldest daughter of John and Alida R. (Stewart) Pettit, who was born January 25, 1875. They have three chil- dren: Alida Stewart Carter, born October 26, 1898; Herbert Swift Carter, Jr., September 30, 1900 ; and Alan Carter, born July 29, 1904.
The des Marets, des Marest
DEMAREST* or Demarest family have their origin in Beauchcamp, a little village of Picardy in France, about twenty-two miles west of the city of Amiens, where for centuries the family has been very numerous and highly respectable. David des Marest, Sieur le Feret, of Oisemont, held many high offices in the state and was an influential elder in the French Protestant church. His son Samuel, theologically known as Maresius, was professor of theology at Groningen and a voluminous controversial writer. His sons Daniel and Henri were preachers, and with the aid of their father prepared the finest edi- tion of the French Bible that has ever been published. The exact relationship of these des Marests to the emigrant to the new world has not been ascertained, but there can be little doubt that they all belong to the same family. Jean des Marets was a Huguenot, who with his family had sought a refuge in Hol- land, settling at Middleburg, on the island of Walcheren, Zeeland. His son David is referred to below.
(I) David, son of Jean des Marets, was married in Middleburg, where he resided for some time afterwards, having two children born to him there. In 1651 he removed with his family to Mannheim-on-the-Rhine, the chief city of the Lower Palatinate, whither the Huguenots were at this time going from vari-
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