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He married, in 1865, Deborah Catharine Allen, daughter of Charles Gordon Allen, a prominent citizen of Monmouth county and a resident of Red Bank. His surviving chil- dren are Annie, a graduate of Vassar College in 1891, and the wife of Professor Charles H. A. Wager, head of the English department of Oberlin College; John Stilwell Applegate Jr., a graduate of Colgate University, and Harvard Law School, and the present prosecuting at- torney of Monmouth county ; and Katharine Trafford, a graduate of Vassar College, class of 1897, and the wife of Francis J. Donald, Esq., of Broughty Ferry, Scotland.
Opinions are divided as to SHEPPARD whether the Sheppards are of Scotch or English ances- try ; but they were among the earliest settlers of this country, not only in the New England
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states but also in the colony of New Jersey. Shourds, in his "History of Fenwick's Col- ony," says that they emigrated from England probably as early as 1683, and after remaining in Shrewsbury for a few years finally located in what is now Cumberland county, on Penn's Neck, a small peninsula bounded on the north by the Cohansey river and on the south by a small creek named Back creek. Here, on Sep- tember 29, 1690, the three brothers James, Thomas and John Sheppard bought of Jona- than Walling one hundred and fifty acres apiece, on which they settled and in the region of which their descendants have lived for cen- turies. Their brother David had previously bought another place near there, and the de- scendants of all four brothers are very numer- ous throughout all that part of New Jersey. James Sheppard died in 1690, leaving two daughters, and his brothers were his exec- utors ; David died in 1695, leaving a wife and seven or eight children; Thomas Sheppard ap- parently moved up into Monmouth county ; John Sheppard is treated below.
(I) Besides the one hundred and fifty acres he purchased at first, John Sheppard bought one hundred and fifty acres more adjoining, and then gave the whole of this property to his eldest son Dickason Sheppard, at the same time buying another three hundred and eighty- five acres for himself "near Cohansey and ad- joining Edmund Gibbons." He died intestate in 1710, leaving seven children : Dickason, David, John, Enoch, died 1717; Job, treated below; Margaret, married Thomas Abbott ; and Hannah, who married (first) Timothy Brook Jr., and (second) Obadiah Holmes.
(II) Job Sheppard, son of John, was born 1706, and died March 2, 1757, of smallpox and was buried in Salem, having been for many years the first pastor of the Baptist church at Mill Hollow. By his wife Catherine he had thirteen children: Elnathan, married and lived in Hopewell township, near the old Cohansey church; Job, treated below ; Belbe, 1737 to 1764, who lived and died at Alloways creek : Elizabeth, died young ; Jemima, mar- ried, but died without issue; Daniel, married and lived in Salem, and had one child, Daniel; Kerenhappuch, who lived in Lower Alloways Creek township ; Rebecca, who became the first wife of Jonathan Bowen, and had one child that died in infancy; Catherine, died about sixteen years of age; Cumberland, married Amy Matlack, of Gloucester county, and had several children ; Martha, married Isaac Mul- ford, of Hopewell township, and had one
child ; Keziah, married William Kelsay, and went west; Ruth, died unmarried, about twen- ty-two years old.
(III) Job (2), second son of Job (I) and Catherine Sheppard, was born July 6, 1735, lived at Hopewell, near Bowentown, Cumber- land county, and married Rachel, daughter of Thomas Mulford, of Cumberland, and had seven children, one of whom was Job, treated below.
(IV) Job (3), son of Job (2) and Rachel (Mulford) Sheppard, was born February 9, 1771, and died November 13, 1815. He was at the time of his death in the United States army. Both he and his wife were born in Cumberland county, New Jersey. He died at Billingsport, New Jersey. April 26, 1796, he married Sarah, daughter of William Kelsey, who was a paymaster in the revolutionary army. Children: William Kelsey, born about 1810; Horatio J., referred to below ; three other sons and four daughters.
(V) Horatio J. (who always went by the name of Horace), son of Job and Sarah (Kel- sey) Sheppard, was born in Camden, New Jer- sey, January 14, 1801. He was a carpenter by trade and a contractor. He moved to Fairton, New Jersey, lived there a great many years, and died there. He married, September 27, 1830, in Philadelphia, Sophia Bamford; chil- dren: Joseph B., who was a Union volunteer in the civil war, and died in Washington, D. C., July 20, 1861 ; William M., referred to below ; Alfred S., a farmer, living at Fairton.
(VI) William M., second child and son of Horatio J. (or Horace) and Sophia (Bam- ford) Sheppard, was born in Camden, New Jersey, December 19, 1838, and died in Cedar- ville, New Jersey, October 24, 1904. He was educated in the common schools, and followed farming for the greater part of his life in Fairton. Late in life he moved to Cedarville, where he owned a small farm and spent the remainder of his life there. Originally he was a Republican, and later became a Prohibition- ist. He was a member of the township com- mittee, a surveyor, and a member of the school board. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Felows, of Cedarville, and of the Encampment. He was a member and a deacon in the Baptist church. In February, 1861, William M. Sheppard married Sarah J., born in 1842, in Fairton, daughter of Oliver ('ampbell. Children: 1. Joseph, born in Fair- ton. now a Baptist minister in Utica, New York; married Harriet, daughter of William Scull. of Fairton, and has Ethel, Alma, Myrtle
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and William. 2. Emma, married George B. Williams, of Greenwich, now a farmer in Fair- ton ; children : Prescott, Camilla, Sarah, Lida, Ernest and Swing. 3. Leula, married Enos W. Laning, farmer of Fairton ; children : Mildred, Pearl, Roland, Minnie and Nelson. 4. Mary, now living in Renova, Pennsylvania. 5. James F., now a grocer at Roadstown ; married Min- nie Gandy, and has Fowler and Minnie. 6. William M. Jr., now a machinist in Bridgeton ; married Bertie Husted, and has Arthur, Mil- ton and Horace. 7. Horace J., now secretary of the railroad division of the Young Men's Christian Association at Renova, Pennsylvania. 8. Alfred G., referred to below.
(VII) Alfred G., the youngest child of William M. and Sarah J. (Campbell) Shep- pard, was born as were all of his brothers and sisters, in Fairton, Cumberland county, New Jersey, on June 26, 1881. He was educated in the public schools of Fairton, at the South Jersey Institute at Bridgeton, and at the Mary- land Medical College at Baltimore, graduating from the last in 1907. For a year before grad- uating he had charge of the hospital in the college. In 1907 he began practicing his pro- fession in Florence, New Jersey, and has been in that town ever since. He is a member of the Burlington County Medical Society, of the State Medical Society, and of the American Medical Association. He is a member of the Baptist church, and a Democrat. In 1903 Al- fred G. Sheppard married Lucy B., daughter of Philip F. and Deborah (Lathborn) Shep- pard of Cedarville. Children, born in Balti- more Maryland: 1. Child, died in infancy. 2. Garfield, born May 16, 1905. 3-4. Branhan Ford and Muse Alfred, twins, born February 15, 1907. 5. Enos Lanning Sheppard, born July 21, 1909.
SANDFORD In tracing the various lines of the families of the name of Sandford in New Jersey. one of the great difficulties is to keep clear and distinct the' descendants of Captain William Sandford, the founder of the family at present under consideration, and those of Rev. Cor- 1.elis Van Santvoordt, one of the earliest of the Dutch Reformed ministers to New Nether- land. The descendants of both men spread over much the same territory, and the Eng- lish Sandfords living among their Dutch neigh- bors gradually adopted their method of call- ing a man by his own name and by the initial of his father's name; in consequence, great care and extreme caution is needed in the de-
cipherment and interpretation of the records and documents.
(I) Captain (or Major) William Sandford came to this country from the island of Barba- does, West Indies, in the year 1668, on July 4 of which year he obtained a grant of all the meadows and upland lying south of a line drawn from the Hackensack to the Passaic rivers, seven miles north of their intersection, comprising five thousand three hundred and eight acres of upland and ten thousand acres of meadow. For this grant, which was the famous "Neck" of the early town records of Newark, he agreed to pay £20 sterling per arnum "in lieu of the half-penny per annum for ever." July 20 following he purchased of the Indians all their right and title in the same tract. Nathaniel Kingsland, sergeant-major of the island of Barbadoes, became interested in this purchase; and from the fact that in the- Newark town records, under date of Septem- ber 29, 1671, the freeholders of Newark were empowered to "Buy the Neck of Capt. Wm. Sandford or his Uncle or Both if they Could Agree for it and pay what they shall engage," it has been conjectured that Major Kingsland was William Sandford's uncle. Of the Cap- tain's other relations all that is known with certainty is that October 9, 1676, the author- ities at New York granted Captain William Sandford letters of administration on the estate of Robert Sandford, of Barbadoes, "his nephew," who "by an unhappy accident came to be drowned in the harbour near this city and died intestate." August 18, 1673, William Sandford received the confirmation of his grant from the Dutch. In 1669 he was offered a place on the council of Governor Philip Car- teret, which he declined; but when after the final relinquishing of the province by the Dutch, Governor Carteret returned, he ac- cepted, November 6, 1674, a similar position which he seems to have retained for a number of years, as we find him continued by royal proclamation as a councillor in the instructions produced by Governor Thomas Rudyard, De- cember 10, 1682, and again in those presented by Rudyard's successor, Gawen Lawrie, Feb- ruary 28, 1684. In this last appointment Will- iam Sandford is spoken of as "Major" Will- iam Sandford. His title of Captain was con- ferred upon him, July 15, 1675, while he was residing at Newark, as a captain of the militia.
April 24, 1677, Sandford transferred to Mrs. Sarah Whartman in trust for the use of his "eldest daughter Nedemiah and the children naturally born of the said Sarah Whartman,
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viz : Katharine, Peregrine, William and Grace" -one equal third part of all his property be- tween the rivers Passaic and Hackensack, with one-third of the stock, household stuffs, etc., provided it were improved for her mainte- nance and the education of the said children and the principal not disposed of in any way without his consent. August 10, 1678, Mrs. Whartman relinquished all she had received, retransferring it to Sandford, having of her "own head and obstinate will" violated the con- dition of the conveyance by removing the stock. September I, 1692, letters of adminis- tration were granted upon his estate, and Sep- tember 12, 1694, his will, written January 2, 1690, was proved. In his will Sandford ac- knowledges Sarah Whartman as his lawful wife, "some considerable reasons having en- gaged them to conceal their marriage," and he attaches to the will a certificate of the marriage signed by Richard Vernon, as having been per- formed "on board the Pink Susannah in the river of Surinam, the 27th March, 1667." He desires his body "to be buried if it may be in his own plantation without mourning pomp or expensive ceremonies," and implores the aid of "his honored friends" Colonel Andrew Hamilton, Mr. James Emott, Mr. Gabriel Min- vielle, and Mr. William Nicholls of New York, "to assist and favor the concerns of a poor ignorant widow and five innocent children (another daughter having been born) with their best advice help and council to preserve them from those vultures and harpies which prey on the carcasses of widows and fatten with the blood of orphans."
Children of Captain William and Sarah (Whartman) Sandford : I. Nedemiah, mar- ried (first) Richard Berry, and after his death, leaving her with several children, married (second) Thomas Davies. 2. Katharine, mar- ried Dr. Johannes Van Imburgh. 3. Peregrine, died young, before 1708. 4. William, referred to below. 5. Grace, married Barne Cosans, of New York. 6. Elizabeth, married James Davis or Davies.
(II) William, only surviving son of Captain William and Sarah ( Whartman) Sandford, is mentioned in the will of his mother, June 8, 1708, as her executor, and as having three chil- dren-William, Michael and Peregrine. From a news item in the New York Weekly Journal, November 5, 1739, we learn that William's son Peregrine had but one son, who was crippled for life as a young man in an accident in a cider mill at Newark.
(III) Which of the two remaining sons,
William or Michael, is the father of the Peter Sandford whose descendants are under consid- eration, is a matter of doubt ; but from the fact that Peter named his eldest son William, his fourth Michael, and his seventh after himself, it is probable that he followed the common cus- tom of naming his first born after his father, and that the line should run Captain William (I), William (II), and William (III), which is the hypothesis adopted here.
(IV) Peter, conjectured son of William Sandford, owned land which he inherited from his father on the west side of the Passaic river, and by his wife Eleanor had eleven chil- dren: William, born October 9, 1761, prob- ably husband of Maria Van Ness ; Catharine, born September 2, 1762 ; John, November 10, 1765 ; Joseph, September 17, 1767; Mary, Sep- tember 1, 1769; Michael, referred to below ; Thomas, September 29, 1773; Sarah, August 4, 1775; Abraham, April 14, 1778, whose wife's name was Sarah; Peter, February 28, 1781 : Jane, August 19, 1783. Joseph, Michael and Abraham removed to Belleville, Essex county, about the end of the eighteenth or the beginning of the nineteenth century.
(V) Michael, sixth child and fourth son of Peter and Eleanor Sandford, was born in Essex county, December 24, 1771, and moved with his brothers Joseph and Abraham to Belleville. He was a farmer. He married (first) Gitty Cadmus; (second) Hannah Les- lie. Children by first wife: I. Diana, mar- ried John Coeyman. 2. Peter M., referred to below. 3. William M., referred to below. 4. Ellen, married William Tise ; one child, Sarah, married Benjamin Baker. 5. Jefferson. 6. John. 7. Joseph.
(VI) Peter M., second child and eldest son of Michael and Gitty (Cadmus) Sandford, was born in Belleville, March 1, 1795, and died in Bloomfield, where he spent most of his life. By his wife Elizabeth, daughter of John and Margaret ( Jerolomon) Spier (see Spier) ; he had children: I. Amzi, died before 1884; married Anna Rolston; one child: Rosewell Graves Rolston, married Isabel Tichenor. 2. Margaret, referred to below. 3. Charles Peronet, referred to below. 4. Michael, married Cor- nelia Van Horn ; one child, Willard.
(VII) Margaret Ann, second child and eld- est daughter of Peter M. and Elizabeth ( Spier ) Sandford, was born in Bloomfield, September II, 1821, and died March 28, 1892; about 18.18 married Mark Washington Ball, born November 5, 1828, grandson of Joseph Ball, through his son Isaac, born November 25,
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1775, died December 25, 1824, leaving two children: Mark, referred to above, and Abi- gail L., married Nathaniel H. Baldwin, and had three children: Elizabeth, died at twenty- one years of age; Emma Augusta, married Herbert Biddulph, postmaster at Montclair, and has four children: Clarence, Howard, Herbert, and Edith; and Heber Baldwin, druggist, at Montclair. Isaac Ball's wife was Sarah Osmun, born May 6, 1787; died No- vember 24, 1874. The only child of Mark Washington and Margaret Ann (Sandford) Ball was Mary E., born in Bloomfield, April II, 1851, now living at 797 High street, New- ark, New Jersey, who married, in Newark, September 18, 1872, John William Omberson, born March 3, 1845, died May 28, 1906. He was the second child and only son of William John and Elizabeth Omberson, his two sisters being Jane E. Omberson, who married Richard E. Bennett, and had Elizabeth, who married Mr. Preston ; and Alma, who married Albert Cowles. His younger sister was Emma L. Omberson, who married Hiram Van Giesen, and has one child, Cornelius. John William Omberson was educated in the public schools of New York City, but being in poor health his attendance was irregular and a part of the time he went to the Bloomfield Academy. Finally he went to live with his uncle in New York, and then took a position in the First National Bank of Jersey City, where he re- mained for forty years, rising from the posi- tion of clerk to that of cashier, which latter he held at the time of his death. Mr. Omberson was a Republican, but held no office, nor did he belong to any secret societies. The only club he belonged to was the Carteret Club of Jersey City. For many years he was a deacon in the First Dutch Reformed Church of New- ark, and at the time of his death he was one of that church's elders.
(VII) Charles Peronet, third child and sec- ond son of Peter Michael and Elizabeth (Spier) Sandford, was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, and spent most of his life in Mont- clair, where he was for many years postmaster. He married Phebe C., second child of Calvin Munn and Mary E., daughter of Nathaniel Squier, who was born November 9, 1826. Cal- vin Munn, her father, born in Bloomfield, Oc- tober 21, 1799, died August 26, 1871, was son of Captain Joseph and Martha F. (Tompkins) Munn, grandson of Isaac Munn and Mary W., daughter of Ezekiel Baldwin, great-grandson of Joseph Munn, who settled in Orange, New Jersey, from Connecticut, and his wife Sarah,
daughter of Matthew Williams. Joseph Munn is supposed to have been the son of John, grandson of John, and great-grandson of Ben- jamin Munn, of Hartford, Connecticut. Charles Peter and Phebe C. (Munn) Sandford had nine children: 1. Theron H., married Esther Mills. 2. Charles Wilbur, referred to below. 3. Ella M., referred to below. 4. George An- derson, died in childhood. 5. Ida A., referred to below. 6. Amzi A., died November 19, 1896; married Adeline King ; children : Harold E., born February 28, 1878, married Clara A. Buttes ; and Edwin, died August 8, 1898, at the age of fifteen years. 7. Edward B., died single. 8. Joseph Albert, referred to below. 9. Mary A., married Albert Hall, of New York.
(VIII) Charles Wilbur, second child and son of Charles Peronet and Phebe C. (Munn) Sandford, was born in Montclair, New Jersey, February 9, 1849, and is now living at 188 Claremont avenue, in that town. His early education was obtained at the public schools of Montclair, and he graduated from the high school of that place in 1866. For a short time after leaving school he worked in the office of the treasurer of the Morris & Essex Railroad Company; but February 1, 1869, he entered the employ of the Mutual Benefit Life Insur- ance Company, where he continued for three years, in 1872 leaving that corporation in order to take a position with the Newark Savings Institution, where he remained six years longer. August 1, 1878, he once more entered the employ of the Mutual Benefit Life Insur- ance Company, this time as bookkeeper, and with them he has remained ever since, being chosen comptroller of the company, December 14, 1906. Mr. Sandford is a Republican, and from 1894 to 1903 he was one of the council- men of the town, and April 1, 1908, was ap- pointed a member of the Board of Education of the State of New Jersey. He is a member of Montclair Lodge, No. 144, F. and A. M., of which he is a past master. He is also a member of the Montclair Club, and since 1883 he has been an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Montclair. April 30, 1872, Mr. Sandford married, in Montclair, Sarah L., born October 10, 1850, only daughter of Will- iam B. Bogle and Margaret W. Tapp. They have one child: Gertrude, born July 29, 1873, married Joseph Torrens, superintendent of the Butterick Company, lives at Montclair, and has one daughter, Margaret, born Febru- ary 6, 1905.
(VIII) Ella M., third child and eldest
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daughter of Charles Peter and Phebe C. (Munn) Sandford, was born in Montclair, New Jersey ; she is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, through John Spear. She married, June 20, 1876, in Me- tuchen, New Jersey, James Coffin Stevens, of New York City. Her husband was grandson of Isaac Stevens, a coppersmith, of New York City, and his wife Rachel Stevenson, and the son of William Henry Stevens, born in New York, in 1816, and died in 1871. William Henry Stevens was an engineer by trade, building and operating engines in connection with John B. Roach, of New York City, who built the steamers "Providence" and "Bristol." By his wife, Cornelia J. Casilear, he had four children : Rachel, born 1842, died August 27, 1858; Cornelia J., born 1845, died October 15, 1865; Elizabeth, born 1847, married William F. Reeves ; and James Coffin Stevens.
James Coffin Stevens was born in New York City, July 4, 1852, and is now living at 42 Fullerton avenue, Montclair, New Jersey. He was educated in the public schools. In 1867 he entered the employ of the Guardian Insurance Company as office boy, from which position he rose steadily until in 1886 he was appointed secretary of the company, which post he held until 1890, when the fire insurance firm of Payne, Stevens & Newcombe, 95 William street, New York City, was founded, when he took his place in that as one of the partners in the enterprise. He is elegable to the Sons of the Revolution, through his great-grand- father Stevens A. Stevens, of Captain Gardner's company, at Haverstraw, New York. He is treasurer of the Firemen's Relief Association of Montclair, and a deacon and trustee of the First Presbyterian Church of the same town. By his marriage with Ella M., daughter of Charles Peter Sandford, he has had six chil- dren: Cornelia C. Stevens, born 1877, mar- ried Samuel Ketchum, a civil engineer; James Coffin Stevens Jr., born 1879, married Sadie Brundage, and has two children: James B. and Wilbur A .; Charles Sandford Stevens, born 1881, married Anna Segion; Elizabeth Reeves Stevens, born 1883, married Oliver Crane, son of Edward Canfield and Caroline H. (Crane) Lyon, assistant superintendent of the New York Telephone Company; Albert Edward Stevens, born 1886 ; and Wilbur Sand- ford Stevens, born 1890.
(VIII) Ida A., fifth child and second daugh- ter of Charles Peter and Phebe C. (Munn) Sandford, was born in Montclair, New Jersey,
and was married in that town, March 22, 1883, to David Duncan Murphey.
Mr. Murphey is grandson of John, and son of James Murphey and Elizabeth, daughter of James and Ellen Duncan, of Perth, Scotland. James Murphey was a contractor and builder and interior decorator in New York. By his wife, Elizabeth Duncan, he had children: I. Catharine A. Murphey, married James How- ard. 2. John Murphey, married Elizabeth Ralston ; one child: Henry Duncan Murphey, married May Peterson. 3. James Murphey, married Maria Elizabeth Beers ; children : Her- bert and Ethel Beers, both married, the latter to Dr. William Axtel. 4. Elizabeth, married Frederick Odell; children: Frederick Odell Jr., married Rayne Burmilla; Elizabeth Dun- can Odell, married Charles Hutton, and has one child, Charles Duncan Hutton ; and Sadie J. Odell. 5. William Murphey. 6. David Murphey. The two last named died as babes. 7. Jennie G. Murphey, married Robert Mitchell. 8. William Murphey, married Cora Hender- son ; children : Herbert, Edna, and Franklin Murphey, the first of whom is married. 9. David Duncan Murphey, referred to above. IO. Ellen Ferrier Murphey, married Alexander Milwain.
David Duncan Murphey, born in New York City, September 18, 1857, attended the public schools and the old Mount Washington Col- legiate Institute. He then accepted a clerical position which he held until 1894, when he be- came connected with the claim department of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, which position he now holds. Mr. Murphey is a Republican, but he has held no office. He is a past grand master of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Montclair, affiliated with Watchung Lodge, No. 134. He attends the Presbyterian church. By his wife, Ida Au- gusta, born January 9, 1858, daughter of Charles Peter and Phebe C. (Munn) Sandford, he has had six children: 1. Frederick Duncan Murphey, born January 31, 1884 ; married, De- cember 19, 1905, Josephine Sugden, of Passaic ; one son, Frederick Sugden Murphey, born Oc- tober 6, 1906. 2. David Duncan Murphey Jr., born September 5, 1885; married, June 12, 1909, Elizabeth Baisley Nichols. 3. Carolyn Sandford Murphey, born September 10, 1887. 4. Ida May Murphey, March 15, 1889. 5. Ed- ward Leslie Murphey, March 14, 1891. 6. Elizabeth Murphey, May 12, 1893.
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