Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume I, Part 34

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 590


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(VIII) Edward, eldest son of David and Cornelia (Smith) Benjamin, was born Decem- ber 19, 1839, in Scotland, Windham county, Connecticut, and is now living in Newark, New Jersey. In September, 1845, when he was nearly six years old, his father moved from Scotland to Lincoln Park, New Jersey, where Edward was brought up, receiving his education in the district school. About 1865 he went into the business of manufacturing the bone wire used in the making of the hoop skirts that were at that time so fashionable, and a few years later he removed from Lin- coln Park and made his home in Newark, where his business was. Here he has re .. mained ever since, retiring from the active control and management of the business in 1903, and leaving it to the control of his brother and partner. Mr. Benjamin is a Re- publican but has held no office. He belongs to no clubs, and is a member of the Presby- terian church. April 27. 1865, Edward Ben- jamin married Hannah, youngest daughter of George and Hannah (Russia) Wade; chil- dren: Edward Wade, George Newton, and Frank: the first and last are referred to


below; George Newton was born May 10, I868.


(IX) Edward Wade, eldest child of Ed- ward and Hannah (Wade) Benjamin, was born January 13, 1867, in Brooklyn, New York, and died December 19, 1903, in Rose- ville, New Jersey. He began by clerking in the Chemical National Bank, and two years later entered the Columbia Law School, from which he graduated in 1888. Several years be- fore that date his parents had settled in Newark. and Edward Wade Benjamin became a law clerk for the firm of McCarter, Williamson & McCarter, being admitted to the bar in 1891. In 1895 he was elected as member of the board of aldermen of Newark for the eleventh dis- trict, and found himself the youngest man ever on the board. He was a Republican, and the vice-president of the State Republican league. At the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Benjamin & Ben- jamin. He died from pneumonia, after a week's illness, and was buried in Rosedale cemetery, Orange. October 10, 1894, he mar- ried Virginia Gregory ; children: Virginia H., born February 16, 1896; John Wade, October 12, 1897; Edward G., January 14, 1899; Har- old, July 27, 1900; Dorothy, October 26, 1903.


(IX) Frank, youngest son of Edward and Hannah (Wade) Benjamin, was born March 19, 1870, in Brooklyn, and is now living in East Orange, New Jersey. He received his education in the public schools and from pri- vate tutors, and graduated from the law de- partment of the University of New York in 1896. He took up general legal practice in Newark, being admitted to the bar of New York in 1897, and to that of New Jersey in June, 1898. He is a member of the Wednes -- day Club and of the Board of Trade. He is a member and an elder of the Roseville Pres- byterian church. He married, April 5. 1904, Matilda Heaton Jube (see sketch of William Uzal Jube).


(VIII) Alfred, second child and son of David and Cornelia (Smith) Benjamin, was born in Scotland, Connecticut, April 25, 1843. His father brought him to Lincoln Park, when he was about two years old, and he was edu- cated in the old Bloomfield Academy. He then became a clerk in New York, and after- wards went to Meriden, Connecticut, where he became interested in the manufacture of steel crinoline wire. In 1867 he came to New- ark, where he continued the same business until 1873. when he sold out, and for the next two years was superintendent for Benjamin


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Brothers. In 1879 he started in manufactur- ing braided and corded wire, in which busi- ness he remained until 1903, when he entered into partnership with Charles B. Johnes and his brother, Alfred Benjamin, in the manu- facture of corsets and ladies' supplies. Mr. Benjamin was a Republican, and had a dis- tinguished record in the United States navy during the civil war. August 18, 1862, he enlisted on the "North Carolina" receiving ship, in the Brooklyn navy yard, and was placed on the United States steamer "Het- zel," which had been detached from the coast survey and refitted at Baltimore in September and October, 1861. The "Hetzel" carried two guns, and registered three hundred and one tons. She served with the North Atlantic blockading squadron, the flag officer being L. M. Goldsborough, the acting rear admiral, S. P. Lee, and the commanding rear admiral being David D. Porter, and participated in all the operations about New Berne, and on the Roanoke river. Mr. Benjamin was dis- charged in 1863, and entered the quartermas- ter's department, Army of the Cumberland. He participated in the battle of Nashville, under General George H. Thomas, and one of Mr. Benjamin's most prized possessions was a Confederate officer's sword which he took as a trophy on that battlefield.


Mr. Benjamin was a member of Northern Lodge, No. 25, F. and A. M., of Newark, and of the Royal Arch Chapter. He was also a vestryman of St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Newark.


May 29, 1867, Alfred Benjamin married Eleanor Savery, eldest daughter of Rev. John Holliway and Caroline Annie (Rich) Hanson, and granddaughter of John Savery Hanson and Catharine, daughter of Charles Goldsmith. brother to Oliver Goldsmith, and Sarah Gabau- don. By this marriage Alfred Benjamin had children : 1. Alfred Hanson Benjamin, born Au- gust 27, 1870; married October 26, 1897, Ina Louise Handy ; children: Louise and Louis Handy. 2. Annie Rich Benjamin, born July 19, 1872; married April 8, 1896, Edward Nicholls, of Newark; one child, Mary J. B. 3. Elinor Savery Benjamin, born June 15, 1874; married October 4, 1906, Daniel Dodd Crane, eighth in descent from Stephen Crane of Elizabethtown, as follows: Stephen (I) ; John (II) ; Matthias (III) ; Jacob (IV) ; Jacob (V) ; David Warner (VI) by his first marriage ; and Jacob Warner (VII). 4. Katharine Cor- nelia Benjamin, born February 16, 1876, died August 2, 1877. 5. Robinson Goldsmith Ben-


jamin, born March 18, 1882, died June 10, 1892. 6-7. Webster and Cornelia, twins, born February 12, 1885.


Eleanor Savery (Hanson) Benjamin died March II, 1885, and Alfred Benjamin married (second) January 29, 1891, Mary Anne, daughter of Frederick W. Ricord, judge and Mayor of Newark. By this marriage there has been no issue. Mr. Benjamin died July 9. 1909.


Three Tuttle families came TUTTLE over to this country in 1635, all of them being passengers in the ship "Planter," Nicholas Travice, master, bound for New England. They all brought with them certificates from the minister of St. Albans, Hertford, and everything points to the fact that they are descendants of the Toyls or Tothills, of Devon, who for many generations in England, possessed such an es- tablished character that an attempt has even been made to trace the name back through the old Egyptians to Thoth and Thothmes. Of the three families coming over in the "Planter," one became the ancestor of the Ipswich fam- ily of Massachusetts, another of the Boston family, and the third, William, founded the family at present under consideration. In ad- dition to these three, a fourth Tuttle brought his family over in the same year, 1635, in the ship "Angel Gabriel," and settled in Dover, New Hampshire.


(I) William Tuttle, founder of the family at present under consideration, arrived in America with his family about the first of June, 1635, and about a year later his wife united with the Church of Boston. In the passenger list of the "Planter" he is called "husbandman," and in other documents "mer- chant." On June 4, 1639, his name appears. on the list of those who signed the church covenant in Mr. Newman's barn at the time of the founding of Quinnipiac, now New Haven. In 1641 he became the owner of the home lot of Edward Hopkins, on the square now bounded by Grove, State, Elm and Church streets, the lot fronting on State street. For nearly thirty years this Tuttle homestead was the only land owned by Yale College, and was the first of a long succession of purchases. extending through a part of more than a cen- tury which finally brought the old College Square into its possession. In these transfers, descendants of William Tuttle, who at one time or another, owned the most considerable part of the square, were known as grantors,


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either directly to the College or to its immediate holders. On the sea-shore where William Tut- tle lived and died, his great-grandson, Jona- than Edwards, studied, taught and achieved his "Great and excellent tutorial renown." William Tuttle and Mr. Gregson were the first owners of the land in East Haven, and Mr. Tuttle surveyed the land out into lots from the Philadelphia ferry at Red Rock to Stony River. In 1659 he appears as the pro- prietor of the land in North Haven that had belonged to the estate of Governor Eaton, and he acquired lands in Bethany and elsewhere. In 1646, as commissioner, he decides on the equivalent due to those who had received no meadow lands in the first allottment, and in the same year, with Jeremy Watts, he was complained of and fined "for sleeping at watch houre." In 1646 and 1647, William Tuttle, Mr. Pell and "Brother Fowler" were voted into the first cross pew at the end of the meet- inghouse. This was near the pulpit and among the highest in dignity.


With Jasper Crane and others he was one of the New Haven and Totoket petitioners to the Dutch, September 14, 1651, regarding the making of a settlement in the Dutch territory of New Jersey. In 1644 he and Jasper Crane were fence viewer for Mr. Davenport's quarter. In 1646 he was road commissioner. In 1664 he spoke before the court in behalf of a young girl who had been found guilty of theft, saying that though her sin was great, "yet he did much pity her, and hoped the court would deal leniently with her and put her in some pious family where she could enjoy the means of grace for her soul's good." In 1672 he was one of the committee to settle boundary dispute between Branford and New Haven. In March, 1666, he took the constable's oath. The exact date of his death is unknown, but it was early in June, 1673. He lies buried under the "Old Green," but exactly where is unknown. The last remainder of his estate was distrib- uted in 1709 to his children or to their heirs. He was, as may be inferred from foregoing, the equal socially of any of the colonists, and brought up his children in a manner befitting their condition, carefully providing for them a means of starting in life. He was a man of courage, enterprise, intelligence, probity and piety ; a just man whose counsels and judg- ments were sought to calm the contentions and adjust the differences of jarring neigh- bors, and withal he possessed a tenderness of heart unusual in men whose lives were passed in strife and conflict with desperation, bar-


barism, and the savage forces of nature. To the last he possessed the respect and confidence of men whose souls were tried like his own.


His wife, Elizabeth Tuttle, died December 30, 1684, aged seventy-two years, having been living since her husband's death with her youngest son Nathaniel. That she was a faith- ful and good wife and mother we have every reason to believe. All of her twelve children were reared to maturity among dangers, priva- tions and trials of which the mother of the present day can hardly form a conception, and which very few indeed would have had courage to face or the strength to endure. In her widow- hood, heavy afflictions were added to the weight of her years, but the religious faith and hope which she publicly professed in her youth no doubt supported her as nothing else could do through all the dark and troubled way unto the end. In 1821 her gravestone was removed from the "Old Green" to the Grove street cemetery, and now stands in the row along the north wall of that enclosure. Children of William and Elizabeth Tuttle: 1. John, born in England, 1631; died November 12, 1683; married Kattareen Lane. 2. Hannah, born in England, 1632; died August 9, 1683 ; married (first ), 1649, John Pantry; (second) Thomas Wells, Jr. 3. Thomas, born 1634; died Octo- ber 9, 1710; married, 1661, Hannah Powell. 4. Jonathan, baptized Charlestown, Massachu- setts, July 8, 1637 ; died 1705 ; married Rebecca Bell. 5. David, April 7, 1639, to 1693 ; unmar- ried. 6. Joseph, referred to below. 7. Sarah, baptized New Haven, 1642; died November 17, 1676 ; married John Slauson. 8. Elizabeth, baptized New Haven, 1645; married, Novem- ber 19. 1667, Richard, son of Rev. Richard Edwards, and grandfather through his son Timothy of the famous Jonathan Edwards. 9. Simon, 1647, to April 16, 1718; married Abigail, possibly daughter of Richard Beach 10. Benjamin, baptized October 29, 1648; died, unmarried, June 13, 1677. II. Mercy, born April 27, 1650; living 1695; married Samuel Brown same day her brother Joseph married Hannah Munson. 12. Nathaniel, 1652, to Au- gust 20, 1721 ; married Sarah Howe.


(II) Joseph, sixth child and fifth son of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, was baptized in New Haven, November 22, 1640, and died August 7, 1690. In 1666 a complaint was made against him and John Hold "for tumultuous carriage and speaking against the inflictions of punishment against two delinquents," and they were fined twenty shillings. In 1685 he was excused from watching, "being an impotent


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man having lost the use of one of his feet and now having two sons in the public service." The same year he was appointed constable but declined on account of lameness. May 2, 1667, he married Hannah, born June 11, 1648; died November 30, 1695, daughter of Captain Thomas Munson, who came in the "Elizabeth" to Boston, in 1634; removed to Hartford, and was one of Hartford's contingent under Cap- tain Munson at the destruction of the Pequot fort. He removed 1642 to New Haven where he became one of the town's greatest military men. In 1675 he commanded the New Haven troops who at Norrituck defended that planta- tion against the Indians. From 1666 to 1683 he was New Haven's representative in the gen- eral assembly. Hannah ( Munson ) Tuttle mar- ried (second), August 21, 1694, Nathan Brad- ley, of Guilford. Children of Joseph and Han- nah ( Munson) Tuttle : I : Joseph, born March 18, 1668; married Elizabeth Sanford. 2. Sam- uel, born July 15, 1670 ; died 1709 ; married De- cember II, 1695, Sarah Hart. 3. Stephen, referred to below. 4. Johannah, born Decem- ber 30, 1675; married Stephen Pangborn; re- moved to Woodbridge, New Jersey. 5. Timo- thy. born "February 30," 1678; died November 21, 1678; named in Stiles' "History of the Judges" with Samuel Miles as the only deaths in New Haven that year. 6. Susanna, Febru- ary 20, 1679, to October 10, 1737; married Samuel Todd. 7. Elizabeth, born June 12, 1683. 8. Hannah, born May 14, 1685; died soon afterwards. 9. Hannah, baptized Febru- ary 26, 1689.


(III) Stephen, third child and son of Jo- seph and Hannah (Munson) Tuttle, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, May 20, 1673, and died in Woodbridge, New Jersey, late in 1709. He removed to Woodbridge, where his name first appears April 11, 1693, as the grantee of six acres of high land laid out to him ; same year he bought six acres adjoining from John Robinson; November 13, 1701, at town meeting, he was chosen constable for year ensuing. His name stands fourth in the list of church members. His will, dated Octo- ber 20, 1709, is recorded at Trenton later same year. He married, in Woodbridge, New Jer- sey, by Justice Samuel Hale, September 12, 1695, to Ruth Fitz Randolph, of Woodbridge, of the same family from which Governor Fitz Randolph is descended. Children : I : Timothy, born October 16, 1696; died 1755 ; settled with brother Joseph in Newark; married Cecilia Moore, whose burial July 3, 1768, is first rec- ord in the Morristown bill of mortality. 2.


Joseph, referred to below. 3. Stephen, re- turned to Connecticut ; married Sarah Stanley ; was killed by lightning, June 23, 1735- 4. Samuel, probably died young.


(IV) Joseph, son of Stephen and Ruth ( Fitz Randolph) Tuttle, was born at Newark, New Jersey, September 2, 1698, and died No- vember 3, 1789. His monument, an altar stone in the Whippany graveyard, has an inscription composed by Rev. Dr. Green :


"The tender names of father, husband, friend, And neighbor kind did through his life extend, In church & state he virtuous honour gain'd, And all his offices with truth sustained,


As deacon, elder, colonel, judge, he shone,


While heaven was his hope, his rest his home, Laden'd with honours, usefulness & years,


He drop'd this clay & with ye saints appears."


March 8, 1725, he was appointed supervisor of highways ; March 9, 1730, clerk for entering strays ; 1724-25 was one of overseers of poor, and fence viewer; same year bought land in Hanover township and removed there some years later. In 1734 he bought 1250 acres at Hanover Neck, on Whippany and Passaic rivers. He was a justice of the peace, a colonel of militia, and a deacon of the church. For some years before his death he was a widower. He married (first) Abigail, daughter of Cap- tain David Ogden, who was born February II, 170I, and died March 4, 1739; (second), June 18, 1739, Abigail, sister of Rev. John Nutman, second minister of Whippany church, who died April 26, 1781; (third), June 18, 1756, Mary Wilkinson, who died April 9, 1760; (fourth), August, 1760, Mary Merry, who died January 18, 1776, in her fifty-eighth year : (fifth) Isabella Drake, who died March 15. 1777, in her sixty-ninth year. Children, eight by first, and four by second marriage : I. Ruth, born April 8, 1722 ; died April 4, 1780 : married (first ) Silas Haines ; ( second ) Deacon David Kitchel. 2. Samuel, April 2, 1724, to January 3, 1762 ; married Rachel, daughter of Colonel Jacob Ford, Sr. 3. John, born March 19, 1726; married Joanna (Johnson) Camp- field. 4. Joseph, referred to below. 5. David, born October 4, 1730; married Sarah, daugh- ter of Benjamin Coe, of New York ; possibly (second) Sarah Ogden. 6. Moses, November 19, 1732, to July 11, 1819; married, December 15, 1756, Jane, daughter of Colonel Jacob Ford. 7. Abigail, October 13, 1734, to Febru- ary 7, 1751. 8. Comfort, March 10, 1736, to November 6, 1738. 9. Elizabeth, February 27, 1739, to March 10, 1769; unmarried. IO. Phebe, March 19, 1740, to November 1, 1743.


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II. James, May 7, 1742, to December 25, 1776; pastor of Rockaway and Parsippany churches ; married Anna, daughter of Rev. Jacob Green. 12. Phebe, born October 23, 1743.


(V) Joseph (2), third son of Joseph (I) and Abigail (Ogden) Tuttle, was born in Newark, March 10, 1728, and died September 16, 1800. He married (first) Joanna who died without issue, March 23, 1753, in her thirtieth year; (second), July 21, 1754, Jemima, daughter of Silas Haines, who was born February 26, 1729, and died September 26, 1811. Children : I. Joanna, born April 29, 1758; died April, 1800; married Elijah Leonard. 2. Silas, September 16, 1760, to Au- gust 25, 1764. 3. Samuel, referred to below. (VI) Samuel, son of Joseph and Jemima (Haines) Tuttle, was born in Whippany, Feb- ruary 27, 1766, and died October, 1800, of fever contracted in New York City. He mar- ried, May 15, 1791, Abigail, daughter of Uzal and Anna ( Tuttle) Kitchel, who was born October 27, 1772. Children: I. Silas, born April 5, 1792; married Lorania Baker. 2. Julia Ann, March 13, 1794, to November 4. 1868; married, as his second wife, William Tuttle, of Newark. 3. David Kitchel, June 26, 1796, to February 3, 1833 ; unmarried. 4. Ste- phen, October 10, 1798, to January 21, 1835 ; graduated at head of class in 1820, from West Point Military Academy, and had a most dis- tinguished military record; married Emily W. Malone. 5. Samuel, referred to below.


(VII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Abigail (Kitchel) Tuttle, was born in Whip- pany, Morris county, New Jersey, January 31, 1801, and died February 2, 1879. He lived in Littleton, Morris county ; married, Novem- ber 6, 1822, Dorcas Stiles, born 1800; died September 26, 1853. Children: George Fran- cis, referred to below; Mary Anna, born De- cember 22, 1834; Stephen, October 22, 1837. to 1869.


(VIII) George Francis, eldest child of Sam- uel (2) and Dorcas (Stiles) Tuttle, was born in what was then called West Bloomfield, De- cember II, 1823, and is now living in Newark, New Jersey. For his early education he at- tended the public schools of Newark, and afterwards went to the Newark Academy. from which he graduated in 1840. He then entered the office of Hon. John Peter Jackson, Esq., with whom he read law, and was ad- mitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in April. 1849, and as counsellor in November, 1852. Since this time he has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in New-


ark, where he has been most successful, and easily foremost among the many shining legal lights of that city. In politics Mr. Tuttle is a Republican, and while not seeking office he . has always done his utmost for the best inter- ests of his party, both in state and nation. When the district courts were established Mr. Tuttle was appointed to the position of judge, and served upon the bench of said court for the term for which he was appointed. Vice-Chan- cellor Stevens was appointed at the same time. Judge Tuttle is a member of the Lawyers' Club, of Newark, and president of the board of trustees of the First Congregational Church in that city. He married, May 29, 1855, Eliza- beth, daughter of George S. and Elizabeth ( Ryerson) Mills, who was born in New York City, November 29, 1826, and died October 16, 1907. Children : I. Rosa E., born May 14, 1858. 2. Joseph N., born May 10, 1862 ; graduated from Newark Academy, 1882; read law in his father's office; admitted to New Jersey bar as attorney in 1886, and as coun- sellor in 1889; now practicing in Newark. 3. George S., born November 18, 1864 ; graduated from Newark Academy; now residing in the city of Newark.


The noble family of Car- CARPENTER penter from which the Irish Earls of Tyrconnel have descended, is of great antiquity in county Hereford and other parts of England. John Carpenter, the earliest known member of the family, appears there as early as 1303. In 1323 he was a member of parliament for the borough of Leskard, in Cornwall, as two years afterwards was Stephen Carpenter for Credi- ton, county Devon. John Carpenter's son Richard, born about 1335, had a son John who became town clerk of London, and in turn had a son John, born about 1410, whose son Will- iam is the founder of the branch of the family at present under consideration.


This William Carpenter, son of John, Jr., commonly known as William Carpenter, of Homme, lived in the parish of Dilwyne, county Hereford, England, was born about 1440, and died in 1520. Among his children was a son James, who died in 1537, leaving a son John, who died three years later, in 1540, whose son William, named for his great-grandfather, was the most prominent ancestor of the Tyrconnel Carpenters, and the founder of the Rehoboth branch of the Carpenter family at present under consideration.


(I) William Carpenter, founder of the


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American branch of the Tyrconnel Carpen- ters, was born about 1540, and had several children: I. James, who inherited the estate of his father. 2. Alexander, born about 1560, a dissenter, who removed to Leyden, Holland. and whose youngest son, William Carpenter, of Codham, was the one to whom was granted the "Greyhound" arms. 3. William, referred to below. 4. Richard, removed to Amesburg ; his son William came to America in 1736, set- tled in Providence with Roger Williams, and became the progenitor of the Providence branch of the Carpenter family.


(II) William (2), son of William (1) Car- penter, born in 1576, was a carpenter by trade, and lived in the city of London. He rented a tenement in Houndsditch in 1625 on a lease for forty-one years. In 1638, however, with his son William and his daughter-in-law he came to America in the ship "Bevis." He was registered in Southampton, Long Island, but returned home in the same vessel in which he came over leaving a son William in this coun- try to become the founder of this branch of the family.


(III) William (3). son of William (2) Carpenter, was born in England, 1605, and died February 7, 1659, in Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts. He was admitted freeman of Wey- mouth, May 13, 1640, and was representative of that town in 1641 and 1643. In 1641 he was constable, and was admitted an inhabitant of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, March 18, 1645, and was representative for Rehoboth in the same year. Governor Bradford, who married his cousin Alice, manifested for him great friendship, favoring him in all his measures in the criminal court, in fact, from all their dealings and transactions, public and private, which have been recorded and come down to us, it is evident that these two men were the closest of friends. The legal business of the town or colony seems to have been principally in the hands of William Carpenter. He was one of the committee who laid out the first lot from Rehoboth, Dedham, and with others was chosen to look after the interest of the town, to hear and decide on the grievances with re- gard to the division of land by lots, and to represent the town in the criminal court at Cambridge. In 1647 and again in 1655 he was one of the selectmen of the town. His will was dated April 21. 1659, and proved February 7, 1669. By his wife Abigail, who died Feb- ruary 22, 1687, he had seven children : I. John, is referred to below. 2. William, born about 1631, died January 26, 1703; married




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