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(V) Clayton, son of Benjamin and Sarah (Butcher) Haines, was born in Evesham town- ship, Burlington county, May 20, 1780, and died on the same farm on which he was born. He married Rebecca, daughter of Zebedee and
Priscilla (Moore) Wills ; children : I. Zebedee, born November 20, 1807 (see post). 2. Sarah B., October 30, 1814; married William E. Haines. 3. Clayton, November 5, 1816, died April 18, 1817.
(VI) Zebedee, eldest child of Clayton and Rebecca (Wills) Haines, was born in Med- ford, Evesham township, New Jersey, Novem- ber 20, 1807, and died about 1858. He was given a good education in the Samuel Gum- mere grammar school at Burlington and after- ward became a farmer, which was his principal occupation in life, and in which he was very successful, at the time of his death being owner of two good farms. He took an earnest in- terest in public affairs, although not for his personal advancement, and was looked upon as one of the influential men of the township. Originally he was a Whig and later became a Republican, although he died soon after the organization of the Republican party.
Mr. Haines married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Hendrickson, of Cross- wicks, and by her had twelve children: I. Re- becca, born February II, 1831. 2. Margaret, born March 10, 1832, died young. 3. Jane, born April 7, 1833; married Samuel J. Eves. 4. Priscilla N., born January 18, 1835; married (first) Joseph B. Evans; (second). Ezra Bell. 5. Amy, born March 27, 1836; married Joseph Nicholson. 6. Clayton, born May 7, 1837; married Lydia McGrew. 7. Joseph H., born December 7, 1840 (see post). 8. Elizabeth F., born August 5, 1842; married Howard Darnell. 9. Zebedee, born August 20, 1843 ; married Anna P. Harvey. 10. John G., born October 20, 1848; married Rebecca Patterson. II. Ellis, born July 22, 1852 ; mar- ried Catherine P. Howard. 12. Lydia, born July 19, 1853.
(VII) Joseph Hendrickson, son and sev- enth child of Zebedee and Elizabeth (Hend- rickson) Haines, was born in Medford, Burl- ington county, New Jersey, December 7, 1840, and was educated in the public schools of his native township and also at the Friends' school in Weston, Pennsylvania, where he was a stu- dent during two winter terms. As a boy and young man he worked at home on his father's farm, where he was born and which he now owns, for he eventually succeeded to owner- ship of the old home place. But he has other farming lands besides the homestead, and is known among the practical and successful business men of the county. Mr. Haines also is interested in mercantile business, being senior partner of the firm of Joseph H. Haines
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& Sons, general dealers in coal, lumber and agricultural implements, and also proprietors of a large pressing business. In this firm, however, Mr. Haines is hardly an active part- ner, the business management being entirely in the hands of his two sons, Morris W. and Everett H., both young men of excellent busi- ness qualifications, energetic, straightforward and perfectly reliable. The father is head of the house and. the conduct of the business is in safe hands. Besides these interests Mr. Haines has for many years been closely iden- tified with the business and civil life of the town, being a director of the water company of Medford and chairman of the board. In politics he is a firm Republican and has given efficient service as member of the school board and also of the township committee. His family and himself are members of the So- ciety of Friends.
In 1877 Mr. Haines married Anna Wills, born January 21, 1850, daughter of Henry W. and Lydia (Stokes) Wills, of Rancocas, granddaughter of Joseph and Virgin (Powell) Wills, great-granddaughter of Aaron and Rachel (Warrington) Wills, great-great- granddaughter of Daniel and Elizabeth ( Wool- ston) Wills, great-great-great-grandaughter of John and Hope ( Delefaste) Wills, and great- great-great-great-granddaughter of Dr. Dan- iel Wills and Elizabeth, his first wife (see Wills). Joseph H. and Anna ( Wills) Haines have three children: 1. Julia F., born Decem- ber 13, 1880; married Henry Moon, of the William H. Moon Nursery Company of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and has one son, Harris Moon, born May 26, 1906. 2. Morris W., twin with Everett H., born August 24, 1883 ; member of the firm of Joseph H. Haines & Sons. 3. Everett H., twin with Morris W., born August 24, 1883 ; member of the firm of Joseph H. Haines & Sons.
Among the early settlers COMPTON from England who have made homes for themselves and families who braved with them the long and dangerous voyage across the Atlantic were the Comptons, who settled in Monmouth county, New Jersey, in 1667. The leader of this family, William Compton, was induced to become a permanent settler and proprietor of the proposed township of Middletown, which was sheltered from the bleak east winds of the Atlantic Ocean by the Navesink highlands and the long, sandy beach terminating in Sandy Hook, the guide for mariners entering the
lower bay en route for the safer harbors of New York bay and the Raritan bay. He was appointed one of the proprietors of the town and had two hundred and eighty acres of farming lands apportioned to him, on the di- vision of the township lands in 1679. Among the descendants of this pioneer settler was a namesake, William (q. v.). Assuming him to be the grandson of the immigrant, we place him in the third generation.
(III) William, probable grandson of Will- iam Compton, the immigrant, 1667, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, about 1730. He married a daughter of David Baird and they resided in Clarksburg, in the southern part of Monmouth county, near the border of Ocean county. William and (Baird) Compton had a large family of sons, who ar- rived at manhood about the time of the Ameri- can revolution and we find on the rolls of the First or "Old Monmouth" Regiment, in the battle of Monmouth, Sunday, June 28, 1778, the names of eight privates, bearing the name of Compton, as follows, a majority of whom, if not all, were sons of William, as follows : Job Compton, who was promoted from the ranks to lieutenant; John Compton, who also served in the Continental army subsequent to this battle ; Joseph Compton ; Lewis Compton, who served in Captain Elisha Waltrous' com- pany ; George Compton, who also served with the state troops and in the Continental army ; Jacob Compton (q. v.) ; James Compton, who was in Captain Brueries' company, also in the state troops and in the Continental army; and John Compton. He also had sons, David and Ichabod, who settled at Morristown, Cumber- land county.
(IV) Jacob, one of the eight sons of Will- iam and (Baird) Compton, was born on his father's farm near Clarksburg in Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, in 1761, died there in 1808. He was a soldier in the First or "Old Monmouth" Regiment that took an im- portant part in the battle of Monmouth. He was also in the Continental army as were some of his brothers. He purchased a farm in Plum's tract township, Ocean county, where he married Rachel Robbins and they had three sons and two daughters born on the farm as follows : John, David (q. v.), James, Ellen, Mary.
(V) David, second son of Jacob and Rachel (Robbins) Compton, was born in Plums tract township, Ocean county, New Jersey, 1798, died 1852. He married Sarah, daughter of Kenneth and Elizabeth (Vandervere) Han-
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kinson, and granddaughter of William Han- kinson. Captain Kenneth Hankinson was an officer in the American army in the revolution- ary war and was one of the patriots who fought at the battle of Trenton. David Comp- ton carried the United States mail in Trenton, New Jersey, up to 1829. David and Sarah (Hankinson) Compton had eleven children, two born in Trenton, New Jersey, and the others in New Egypt, Ocean county, New Jer- sey, to which place they removed from Tren- ton in 1829. These children named probably in the order of their birth were: Jacob Han- kinson (q. v.), William, Elizabeth, John, Ellen, George, Kenneth, Adeline, Rachel, Emma, David.
(VI) Jacob Hankinson, eldest child of David and Sarah (Hankinson) Compton, was born in Trenton, Mercer county, New Jersey, November 30, 1826, and he was taken by his parents to their new home in New Egypt, Ocean county, New Jersey, in 1829. Here he attended school, learned the trade of cigar maker, and continued to work at that trade during his entire business life, first in com- pany with his father and after the death of his father in 1852 continued the business alone, or in company with his son James up to 1883, when he retired. His son continued the business, in which his father assisted from time to time, as he found the work more enjoyable than to remain idle. Jacob Hankinson Comp- ton was a pronounced Democrat in political opinion, and he served as a member of the board of commissioners of appeal and judge of elections. He married, February 28, 1859, Sarah Ann, daughter of Clayton Coward, of New Egypt, New Jersey, who was a son of Jonathan Coward, grandson of Jonathan and great-grandson of John Coward, the immi- grant, who came from England in 1736 and was a preacher in Emilytown, New Jersey. The children of Jacob Hankinson and Sarah Ann (Coward) Compton were born in New Egypt as follows: I. George F., 1860, who be- came cashier in the First National Bank of New Egypt, he married Mary, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Dunphy) Applegate, and had children: Laura, Eugene, Kenneth and Elizabeth. 2. James Robbins (q. v.). 3. Sarah, who married Thomas Hartshorn, a prosperous farmer in New Egypt, and has children : Rebecca, Walter and Henry Hart- shorn. 4. Joseph, who married Laura Church- ill, who died soon after marriage and left no children, Joseph Compton is connected with the Green Copper Mining Company and in
1909 was in Mexico in charge of the mines.
(VII) James Robbins, second child of Jacob Hankinson and Sarah Ann (Coward) Compton, was born in New Egypt, Ocean county, New Jersey, May 18, 1862. He was a pupil in the public schools of New Egypt, learned the business of cigar-making in his father's manufactory, and in 1883 took entire charge of the business and conducted it in his own name, his father, James H. Compton, withdrawing from all business connection with the former firm of J. H. Compton & Son. He carried on a branch of the manufactory at Asbury Park, Monmouth county, New Jersey, 1858-91. He is not married and has no con- nection with any fraternal or religious asso- ciations. He is a member of the Democratic party and has served as a member of the county committee.
The family name Stack- STACKHOUSE house is somewhat un- common and wherever it appears as the name of a white person there is good reason to believe that if there were records extant we could in all instances trace it back to the family who in remote times gave the name to or received it from the little hamlet of Stackhouse in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. Because the name is un- common it attracts the attention of the family genealogist whenever he sees it in print. It is generally supposed that the Quaker con- tingent of the family who settled in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in the eighth decade of the seventeenth century were the pioneers of the name in America. Some years ago, how- ever, while rummaging among the dusty annals of the past, Dr. Asa Matlack Stackhouse was surprised to learn that one Richard Stackhouse was among the Puritan colonists of Massa- chusetts almost fifty years before Thomas and John Stackhouse came to Pennsylvania. In Felt's "Annals of Salem" we find that land was granted to Richard Stackhouse in 1635. None of the genealogists of the Stackhouse family have been able to trace a descendant of this Richard and it is supposed the male line died out. It is probable that he was in somewhat reduced circumstances, for in 1653, "for the relief of his family" the profits of the ferry "towards Ip-switch" were granted to him pro- vided he could procure boats and men. This ferry was at Beverly and it appears he held the ferry privilege until 1686, and lived at that place. His wife's name was Susanna and she. "joined the church" in 1648. His children.
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Jonathan, Abigail and Hannah, were baptized in May, 1648; Ruth, July 8, 1649; Samuel, February 13, 1653; Mary, June, 25, 1654.
So far as is known the first member of the Stackhouse family who attempted to collect genealogical data of their history was Amos Stackhouse, 1757-1825, a great-grandson of Thomas, the immigrant. He was a man of some literary attainments and for some years was engaged in teaching school at Mt. Holly, New Jersey. His life was passed mainly in that place and in Philadelphia. The results of his labors were somewhat meagre and mostly confined to tradition, however, a nucleus was established. His son, Powell Stackhouse Sr., 1785-1863, took up the work where the father laid it down and pushed his inquiries still further. His interest in the work led him to look up everyone bearing the name, if accessible. He lived in Philadelphia and in those days there were many of the name there. The story is told that on one occasion he learned that a family of the name of Stackhouse resided in the lower part of the city and one morning he sallied forth to in- terview them and find out "where the relation- ship came in." To his intense disgust the family turned out to be negroes. It is need- less to say that he abandoned summarily-abo- litionist as he was-all desire of establishing relationship. In explanation of this it may be said that in colonial days when slavery existed in the north, many of the slaves assumed the names of their masters and this was the case no doubt in this instance.
The researches of Powell Stackhouse Sr. materially enriched the collection of his father Amos. His mantle in turn fell upon his son, Powell Stackhouse Jr., 1827-1900, par excel- lence the historiographer of the Stackhouse family. Soon after 1890 William R. Stack- house, a great-grandson of Amos, became in- terested in the family history and began the work of tracing the descent of certain branches of John, the immigrant, that had not previ- ously engaged the attention of Powell Jr. This was successfully carried on and other branches were then traced in collaboration with Powell Jr. His attention then was drawn more particularly to the earlier English his- tory of the family and the book entitled "Stackhouse, An Old English Family Some- time of Yorkshire," recently published by The Settle Press of Moorestown, New Jersey, is largely the result of his researches. Our pres- ent narrative has to deal particularly with
Thomas Stackhouse and some of his numerous descendants.
The ancestry of the Stackhouse family is traced in England to the year 1086 and in America traces back to the year 1682, when Thomas Stackhouse, of the village of Stack- house, in the deanery of Craven, West Riding of Yorkshire, came to America, arriving at New Castle Iomo. 27, 1682, accompanied by his wife Margery and two nephews, Thomas and John Stackhouse. They all settled in Middletown township and took up large tracts of land. Thomas Stackhouse, the elder, lost his wife Margery, who died IImo. 15, 1682, and he married in Imo., 1702, Margaret Atkin- son, daughter of Christopher Fell, of New- town, Lancashire, and widow of Christopher Atkinson, who had died on board the "Britan- ica" in 1699 on his way to Pennsylvania. Thomas Stackhouse died in 1706 without issue. Thomas and John Stackhouse both reared large families in Middletown, and have both left numerous descendants. The latter died in Middletown in 1757.
(I) Thomas Stackhouse was a very prom- inent man in the community, representing his county in the colonial assembly of Pennsyl- vania for the years 1711 to 1715 inclusive, and then declining a re-election. He also was col- lector of proprietary quit-rents for Bucks county ; served as one of the commissioners to lay out roads and in many other capacities of trust. He was one of the active members of Middletown Monthly Meeting of Friends and built their meeting house in 1690. He took up five hundred and seven acres of land in Middletown on the Neshaminy and in 1707 bought twelve hundred acres of Francis Rich- ardson. He died 4mo. 26, 1744. Thomas Stackhouse married (first) at Middleton Meeting, 7th mo. 27, 1688, Grace Heaton, born Yorkshire Ist mo. 14, 1667, died 8th mo. 8, 1708, daughter of Robert and Alice Heaton, who came to Philadelphia in the "Welcome" with William Penn in 1682. He married (second) Ist mo. I, 17II, at Falls Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Ann Mayos, died 5th mo. 6, 1724, widow of Edward Mayos. He married (third) 8th mo. 1725, Dorothy, widow of Zebulon Heston. Thomas Stack- house had in all fourteen children, nine by his first and five by his second wife : 1. Samuel, born 8th mo. 17, 1689, married Eleanor Clark. 2. John, born 3d mo. 27, 1691. 3. Robert, see post. 4. Henry, born 10th mo. 7, 1694, married Jane -. 5. Grace, born IIth mo.
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7, 1696, died 6th mo. 5, 1777 ; married David Wilson. 6. Alice, born 2d mo. 1, 1699, mar- ried Euclydus Longshore. 7. Thomas, born 5th mo. 20, 1703, married Elizabeth . 8. Joseph, born 5th mo. 20, 1703, married Sarah Copeland. 9. Benjamin, born roth mo. 25, 1705, married Sarah Gilbert. 10. (by second wife) Isaac, born 3d mo. II, 1712, died 2d mo. 4, 1714. II. Jacob, born 8th mo. 25, 1713, married Hannah Watson. 12. Ann, born 5th mo. 15, 1715, married Charles Plumley. 13. Sarah, born 6th mo. 6, 1718, died 5th mo. 25, 1808; married Samuel Cary. 14. Isaac, born 7th mo. 5, 1720, died Ist mo. 17, 1791 ; married Mary Harding.
(II) Robert, third son of Thomas and Grace (Heaton) Stackhouse, was born 9th mo. 8, 1692. He married Margaret Stone and settled on a tract of land purchased by his father, "adjoining Pigeon Swamp" in Bris- tol township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, which later was devised to him by his father's will. He later removed to Berwick on the Susquehanna, where he lived until his death in 1788, at the advanced age of ninety-six years. Robert and Margaret were the par- ents of eight children : Thomas, Joseph, James, Grace, Benjamin, Alice, William and Robert.
(III) James, third son of Robert and Mar- garet (Stone) Stackhouse, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, II mo. (January) II, 1725-26, and married, 10 mo. 13, 1750, Martha Hastings, who was born 4 mo. 27, 1722, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Hill) Hast- ings, and granddaughter of Joshua Hastings, who represented Chester county in the colonial assembly, living then near Chester, but later removed to Philadelphia. His son John Hast- ings married Grace Stackhouse, sister of James. The children of James and Martha (Hastings) Stackhouse were : Margaret, Hast- ings, Mary, Amos, Martha, James and another Amos, who died in infancy. James, the father, died in Philadelphia 8 mo. 16, 1759, and his wife Martha died 6 mo. 23, 1806. He is buried in the Arch street Friends' burying ground.
(IV) Amos, second son of James and Mar- tha (Hastings) Stackhouse, was born 5 mo. 4, 1757, and was married at Mt. Holly, New Jersey, I mo. 14, 1779, to Mary Powell, born 7 mo. 9, 1763, daughter of John and Susanna (Bryan) Powell, granddaughter of Isaac and Elizabeth ( Perdue) Powell, who were married August 10, 1729, Isaac being a son of John and Elizabeth ( Parker) Powell, and a grand- son of Robert and Prudence Powell, the for-
mer of whom came to New Jersey in the ship "Kent," 6 mo. 16, 1667, and settled near Burl- ington, West Jersey. Amos Stackhouse died 4 mo. 5, 1825, and his widow Mary 7 mo. 15, 1841. They were the parents of thirteen children : Susanna, Hastings, Martha, Powell, Esther, Martha, second of the name; James, Samuel P., Amos, Robert, Mary P., John P., and another Robert who had died in infancy. (V) Robert (2), son of Amos and Mary (Powell) Stackhouse, was born in Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, December 1, 1801, died January 6, 1881. He attended school in Philadelphia and Westtown, then learned the trade of a tailor and afterward for several years kept a dry goods store in the former city. After that he engaged in various oc- cupations, and was in the merchant tailoring business in Alexandria, Virginia, for a few years, later was bookkeeper for Carey & Hart, publishers, and afterward made bookkeeping his chief occupation in life. At the end of a long period of business endeavor he came to New Jersey and spent the remaining years of his life in Chester township, where he died. Mr. Stackhouse married (first) 4th mo. 23, 1829, Elizabeth Davis Kimber, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Kimber, and by whom he had three children. He married (second) 9th mo. 21, 1841, Ann Roberts Matlack, daughter of Asa and Tamar (Roberts) Mat- lack (see Matlack), and by whom he had one child. Robert Stackhouse's children: I. Tacy J., born 3d mo. 13, 1830, died II mo. 2, 1837. 2. Edward Livingston, born 3d mo. 27, 1833. 3. Tacy Elizabeth, born II mo. 25, 1838. 4. Asa Matlack, see post.
(VI) Asa Matlack, son of Robert (2) and Ann Roberts (Matlack) Stackhouse, born 7th mo. 21, 1845, was educated in the public schools of Moorestown, New Jersey, and en- tered the junior class of the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from that institution in the class of 1865. He subsequently stud- ied medicine, graduating from Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1868, and practiced medicine in Attleborough (now Langhorne), Bucks county, and elsewhere for a number of years, but has now retired from practice and lives at Moorestown, New Jersey. He has always taken an interest in local his- tory and the genealogy of the old families of Buck's county and vicinity, and has contrib- uted a number of articles on these subjects to local papers.
Dr. Stackhouse married, at Allentown, Pennsylvania, 12 mo. 8, 1868, Ella Jane
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Romig, daughter of William J. and Mary Ann Catharine (Royer) Romig, and they are the parents of two children : I. William Romig, of Moorestown, New Jersey, who was born in Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, January 10, 1870, and married Re- becca Gibson. 2. Ernest Robert, born at Al- lentown, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1884. Another child, Ernest Raymond, born Janu- ary 17, 1874, died young. William Romig Stackhouse, mentioned above, for several years past has been engaged in connection with his cousin, the late Powell Stackhouse, in exten- sive genealogical researches.
MATLACK The narrative here written is to record something of the lives and achievements of the representatives of several generations of one of the notable old colonial families of New Jersey. The family has been made the sub- ject of narrative by various chroniclers, for its marriage connections have been as notable as is the history of the family itself, and in the main the accounts of these several writers are in accord.
(I) William Matlack, or as his family name appears in some old records, Macklack, was born in England about 1648 and was one of the colony of Friends who came from Crop- well Bishop, a small village in Nottingham- shire, in the year 1677, in the ship "Kent," which was sighted off Sandy Hook August 14 of that year. The vessel followed along the coast to Raccoon creek, where her passengers disembarked. The commissioners appointed by William Penn and the other proprietors, and William Matlack with them, took a small boat and went up the Delaware river to Chy- goes island, whereon Burlington now stands, almost surrounded by a creek named for an Indian sachem who lived there. Matlack was the first to leave the boat, just as in later years he was foremost in the work of development of the region in various other respects. He was a carpenter and built or helped to build the first two houses in Burlington and also helped to build the first corn mill in West Jersey. He came over to America as the servant of one Daniel Wills, commissioner and proprietor, and after serving him four years bought from his former master one hundred acres of good land between the north and south branches of Penisaukin creek, in Chester town- ship, Burlington county, as afterward created. It is understood that the purchase price of the land thus acquired was his four years'
service and "current country pay." The greater part of this tract is still owned and in possession of William Matlack's descendants.
At the time of his emigration to America William Matlack was a young man less than thirty years old. "He saw a town rise up in the midst of the forest, surrounded by a thriv- ing population, busy in clearing the land and enjoying the reward of their labors. His leis- ure hours were spent among the natives, watching their peculiarities and striving to win their good will. Following the advice and ex- ample of the commissioners, every promise made by him to the aboriginies was faithfully kept, and every contract strictly adhered to." He and Timothy Hancock, with whom he worked in common in many things, "soon found their neighborhood was a desirable one ; for new settlements were made there in a short time, and went on increasing until a meeting of Friends was established at the house of Timothy Hancock by consent of the Burling- ton Friends in 1685." In 1701 William Mat- lack purchased about one thousand acres of land in Waterford and Gloucester townships, in Camden county (then Gloucester ), lying on both sides of the south branch of Cooper's creek. In 1714 he gave to his son George five hundred acres of land in Waterford town- ship, being part of the one thousand acre tract purchased of Richard Heritage. In 1717 he bought two hundred acres of John Estaugh, attorney for John Haddon, and there his son Richard settled in 1721. In 1714 he gave his son Timothy the remaining part of the Heri- tage purchase, and on this tract Timothy set- tled and built his house. The tract of lands owned by William Matlack and his sons John, Timothy and Richard extended from the White Horse tavern on both sides of the high- way and contained about fifteen hundred acres.
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