Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume II, Part 4

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 618

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(V) William, second son and third child of Asa and Sarah (Gauntt) Shinn, was born Feb- ruary 6, 1774, and brought up in the faith of the Society of Friends, being a birthright mem- ber. He was a farmer near Jobstown, Burling- ton county, New Jersey. He died May I, 1832, and his widow, Ann, June 3, 1855. He was married in conformity of the rules of the Society of Friends, his certificate of marriage to Ann Forsyth, given by the Friend's Meet- ing at Mt. Holly, bearing the date February 16, 1815. His wife was born January 12, 1781, daughter of Joshua and Phoebe (Shreve) Forsyth, and granddaughter of Caleb Shreve, a private in the Burlington regiment of militia in the American revolution. The children of William and Ann ( Forsyth) Shinn were six in number and born as follows: I. Shreve, No- vember 23, 1815; married Emily, daughter of Samuel and Lydia Woolman, December 17, 1840. 2. Phoebe, February 15, 1817; died October 14, 1893. 3. Walter, April 1, 1818; died June 20, 1844. 4. Anne, April 5, 1820; married William Conrow, son of Joseph Han- cock, March 20, 1840, and had no children. 5. Elwood, May 27, 1822; married Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Aschah Hartshorn, March 14, 1861. 6. Willit (q. v.).

(VI) Willit, fourth son and youngest child of William and Ann (Forsyth) Shinn, was born on his father's farm near Jobstown, Bur- lington county, New Jersey, January 5, 1825. In 1841 he removed to Philadelphia, where he learned the trade of bricklayer and he was a master-bricklayer in Philadelphia up to the time of the death of his mother, which occurred June 3, 1855, when he returned to Burlington

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county, and with his brother, Elwood, pur- chased the homestead in partnership. They so carried it on up to 1871, when he sold out his interest to Elwood and made his home in Mt. Holly, New Jersey, where he was still a resident in 1909. Willit Shinn never married and when he left the homestead at Jobstown he provided a comfortable and attractive home in the village of Mt. Holly, where he sur- rounded himself with all the modern require- ments of home life and extended a generous hospitality to not only his large circle of kins- folk, but to his friends and neighbors generally. His board was always shared by some of his brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces and he kept in touch with his relatives in his work as a genealogist, which he took up in his later life and no one of the Shinns has a better knowledge of the genealogy of the Shinn family in all its extensive lines. This labor of love has brought him in epistolary touch with thous- ands of his kinsfolk, who have corresponded with him and given answers and furnished data to his inquiries as to the lives of their immediate family circles. He has thus become a philanthropist, as well as a teacher of the charm and fascination of the study of gene- alogy, when applied to one's own kindred. No one who has tasted at this spring of knowledge ever regretted the thirst thus created and their lives have been the happier and their wisdom has increased as they have gone deeper and deeper in this most fascinating of studies. Mr. Shinn's days have undoubtedly been lengthened by the exercise of this literary taste, which has by its welcome commands left on his hands and mind no idle moments in which to enter- tain idleness or the many other sappers of vitality in men well advanced in age. At eighty-four years, "young," he promises to continue to work and exercise all his faculties of mind and body alike, and who will say that he may not have another generation of Shinns to hunt up and give a place on the family tree, leaves of the eighth and ninth generations from seed planted by John Shinn, the immi- grant.

The family of Wash- WASHINGTON ington is not only char- acterized by a most hon- orable and distinguished record in England, and a glorious prestige in this country, but it can also boast of an unbroken lineage of twenty centuries, from the present day back to Odin, the founder of the kingdoms of Scan- dinavia in the year 70 before Christ. In the ii-2

reign of George the II of Great Britain, Leonard Washington, the great-great-grand- father of General George Washington, the first president of the United States, was obliged to leave the home of his ancestors at Howgie Mountain in Westmorland and to settle with his five sons at Bethnal Green, one of the metropolitan boroughs of greater London. From here two of his sons emigrated to Vir- ginia and became the ancestors of the cele- brated colonial family. The other three sons remained in England and continued the long line which even then enumerated twenty gen- erations on English soil and as many more in Denmark and Scandinavia. The English gen- erations reckoning backward are as follows: Leonard, Lawrence, Lawrence, Lawrence, Thomas, Robert, John, Robert, John, John, John, Robert, Robert, Robert, Walter, Bondo, Akaris, Bardolf, and Torfin the Dane, who as the old Scandinavian and Danish records show was the direct descendant of Odin the con- queror of the Noresland nearly an hundred years before Christ.

(I) One of the sons of Leonard Washing- ton of Howgie Mountain and Bethnal Green, who remained in England was Robert, whose son returned to Westmorland and settled on a farm at Kendal, from which, about 1830, his son emigrated to Canada, and founded another line of the Washington name and blood in the new world. The name of his wife is un- known, but he left six sons to perpetuate his name, Stephen, Anthony, . George, John, Robert and Joseph.

(II) John, the son of Stephen Washington, of Westmoreland and Ontario, Canada, mar- ried Janet Scott, and left seven children : Walter Scott, referred to below; Eleanor, Henry J., Charles, Stephen Frederick, Joseph and Agnes Edith.

(III) Walter Scott, son of John and Janet (Scott) Washington, was born in Bowmans- ville, county Durham, Ontario, Canada, and with his family is now living at 12 Washing- ton place, Newark, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of county Durham and to the Bowmansville Col- legiate Institute, from which he graduated in 1869, after which he received a first and second class certificate from the British mili- tary school at Toronto, having served in the infantry and artillery divisions of the militia. In 1870 he emigrated to the United States and settled for a short time in Roscommon, Michi- gan, returning however to Coburg, Ontario, in order to attend the Collegiate Institute there,

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and Trinity Medical College, Toronto, from which he was graduated in 1876, being awarded the highest honors of his class and receiving a special diploma. In the same year, 1876, he was appointed coroner of Roscom- mon, Michigan, and also Roscommon county physician. He was also one of the organizers and the chairman of the board of supervisors of the poor, and at various times held several of the local offices, such as village treasurer, school inspector and health officer. He was also one of the surgeons of the Michigan Cen- tral railroad, a position he held for ten years and resigned in 1887, when he settled in New- ark. In that year he formed a partnership with Dr. J. D. Bromley, which continued for some time. In 1894 he was appointed county physician of Essex county, which office he held for eight years. Dr. Washington is a mem- ber of the Essex County Medical Society, of which he is ex-president, and the president and one of the charter members of the Essex County Anatomical and Pathological Society, as well as a member and president of the Prac- titioners' Club. He is a Mason, member of St. John's Lodge of Newark, and attends Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church, New- ark. September 3, 1879, Walter Scott Wash- ington, M. D., married Catharine, daughter of Richard Williams and Louisa (Jerolamon) Conkling, and they have one daughter, Louise Janet Washington, born April 12, 1885.

FRYLING The Frylings belong to the later comers to the new world and to New Jersey, there being only two generations in this country, the earlier of which is that of the emigrant founder of the family.

(I) William Fryling was born in Holland, from which country he emigrated to America in 1871 as a young man. He resided in New- ark and died August 3, 1894. He married in Holland, Elizabeth G. Habbema, who has borne him nine children: 1. William now a Presbyterian minister at Easton Center, Mass- achusetts, who married Mabel Owen and has one child, Owen Fryling. 2. John, died in infancy. 3. Elizabeth G., died in infancy. 4. John, who lives at 132 First street, Newark, New Jersey ; married Matilda Giesele but has no children. 5. Gerhard, who lives at 127 North Second street, Newark, New Jersey ; married Alice Smalls and has three children : Charles, Lillian and Edna Fryling. 6. Annie, married William H. Hall, of 255 Bleecker street, Brooklyn, Long Island, and has two

children, John Henry and Gertrude Hall. 7. Henry H., referred to below. 8. Elizabeth, married Peter Guthrie, of 424 Fourth avenue, Newark, New Jersey. 9. George, single.

(II) Henry H., seventh child and fifth son of William and Elizabeth G. (Habbema) Fry- ling, was born in Newark, New Jersey, Feb- ruary 14, 1876, about five years after his father had emigrated to this country, and is now living at 424 Fourth avenue, Newark, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the Newark public schools, after leaving which he entered the Newark technical school, and then later on studied law, being admitted to the New Jersey bar as an attorney-at-law in February, 1897, and as a counsellor in 1900. Shortly after being admitted as attorney he began to specialize in the department of cor- poration law and he is now one of the recog- nized authorities on that subject. Mr. Fry- ling is a Republican, but has held no office and does not seek one ; nor has he seen any military service. He is a past master of Triluminar Lodge, No. 112, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of the Scottish Rite and one of the officers of Salaam Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Essex County Country Club, a trustee of the Roseville Athletic Asso- ciation, treasurer of the Lawyers Club of Essex county, as well as a member of the Republican Indian League, Lincoln Republican Club of Roseville and of the Newark Board of Trade. He is a Presbyterian. On June 30, 1909, he married Florence Ohl, eldest daughter of Adam George and Caroline ( Buehler ) Ohl.

HARGROVE This name is of seldom oc- currence in United States history or biography. The

most notable is Rev. Robert Kennon Har- grove ( 1829-1905), son of Daniel J. and Lao- dicia H. Hargrove, grandson of Richard (2) and great-grandson of Richard, who with his brother, Reuben Hargrove, came from Eng- land before the American revolution. Rich- ard Hargrove had two sons, John and Richard (2), and this Richard settled in North Caro- lina, while John settled in New Jersey, thus forming two branches of Hargroves, the sons of Richard producing the southern branch and those of John the northern branch. We see by this that the southern branch gave to the Methodist church south its noted educator, preacher and bishop, Robert Kennon Har- grove, who was born in Pickens county, Ala- bama, and whose father, Daniel J., was prob-

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ably born in North Carolina about 1800, and migrated upon arriving at his majority, about 1821, to the new opening fields of Alabama, rich in agricultural promise, and where he married Laodicia. Daniel J.'s father, Richard Hargrove Jr., probably was born in North Carolina about 1775, and Richard's father, Richard Sr., was the immigrant, born in Eng- land probably in the middle of the eighteenth century and arrived in America during the early manhood with his brother Reuben, who was a soldier in the American revolutionary army. Andrew Coleman Hargrove was grad- uated at the University of Alabama, A. B., 1856, and at Harvard College Law School, LL. B., 1859; was professor of equity and juris- prudence in University of Alabama, and died in 1895. He was probably a brother of Robert Kennon, the bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Taking the south- ern branch as our guide, we should begin the generations of the New Jersey branch with Richard (q. v.), one of the immigrant Har- groves, and follow with John (q. v.), who is said to have settled in New Jersey.

(I) Richard Hargrove, the immigrant, came from England to America previous to the be- ginning of the American revolution and was accompanied by his elder brother, Reuben, who joined the revolutionary army and probably never married. Richard Hargrove did marry and he had two sons: (1) John, who settled in West Jersey, probably in Burlington county. 2. Richard (2), who went south and located in North Carolina and his descendants in Ala- bama.

(II) John, son of Richard Hargrove, was of the second generation. He married and had a son William (q. v.).

(III) William, son of John Hargrove, of West New Jersey, was born in Buddtown, Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1794. He was a farmer in Wrightstown in the same county. He married Ann E., daughter of John and Mary Curtis. She was born in 1791 and by this marriage ten children were born. The date of her death is 1877 and that of her husband, William Hargrove, October 31, 1854. These children all born in Buddtown, Burl- ington county, New Jersey, were in the order of their birth: I. Goldin, 1816. 2. Joseph, 1817. 3. Jonathan, 1819. 4. Mary, 1820. 5. Maria, 1822. 6. Hannah, 1825. 7. Margaret, 1828. 8. James M., 1830. 9. Sarah, 1832. IO. Martin Van Buren (q. v.).

(IV) Martin Van Buren, youngest child and fifth son of William and Ann E. (Curtis)

Hargrove, was born in Buddtown, Burlington county, New Jersey, December 2, 1837. He was a pupil in the public school of his native town, and while quite young went to Philadel- phia as clerk in a grocery store for a time, but returned to his father's farm. On the out- break of the civil war, he was much interested in the political condition of affairs and in 1862 was constrained to give his service to the country at a time it was most in need of men. He enlisted in the Twenty-third New Jersey Volunteers and was assigned to Company E, commanded by Edward Burd Grubb, who was promoted to major and lieutenant-colonel in the Twenty-third Regiment and became its colonel in 1863, and in 1864 he recruited and served as colonel of the Thirty-seventh Regiment and was brevetted brigadier-general, March 13, 1865. Private Hargrove was mustered into the service of his country, September 13, 1862, and became orderly sergeant of Company E. He was a participant in the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, and in the retreat he was wounded and sent to the regimental hospital. He was mustered out of the volunteer service, June 27, 1863, the term of enlistment having expired, but he served as volunteer wagon master and cattleman in the army for six months, after which he re- turned home. After the close of the war he went to Iowa, where he spent one year in a timber camp and on a farm. He returned home and taught school in Pemberton, New Jersey, for a year, and in 1867 he took charge of the store of Earley & Reeves at Brown's Mills, New Jersey, and he remained in charge of the store 1867-70. In 1870 he bought out the business and continued it in his own name up to 1879, when he sold it to Vaughn & Kinsley, having been appointed postmaster of Brown's Mills during the administration of President Hayes, and he continued to hold that office under the administrations of Presi- dents Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison and Cleveland up to the time of his death in 1892. He also held the office of notary public, commissioner of deeds, pension attorney, tax assessor, member of the township committees, etc. He affiliated with the Democratic party and with the Masonic fraternity, being a member of the New Egypt Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows of Pemberton. His religious affiliation was with the Metho- dist Episcopal church, in which organization he was chairman of the board of stewards at the time of his death, which occurred at

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Brown's Mills, Burlington county, New Jersey, August 5, 1892. He married, in 1870,

Hannah Brown Scattergood, daughter of . Thomas and Elizabeth Brown Scattergood, and they had one daughter who died in infancy and one son Miles Warner (q. v.).

(V) Miles Warner, only son of Martin Van Buren and Hannah Brown (Scattergood) Hargrove, was born at Brown's Mills, Burl- ington county, New Jersey, July 8, 1873. He attended the public school of his native town- ship, and was also taught to a considerable extent by his father, who was a school teacher, as well as a soldier, merchant, and town and governmental official. When sixteen years of age, his father purchased the business of J. N. Smith & Brother of Brown's Mills, New Jersey, and put him in charge of the store, giving him the business when he attained his majority in 1894 and the profits he earned from the business the six years he had con- ducted it when under age. During President Cleveland's administration he was made post- master after the death of his father in 1892, and he has filled the position from that time under Republican administrations to the entire satisfaction of the citizens, irrespective of party politics. He is also notary public, pen- sion attorney, commissioner of deeds, and has filled various town offices, including township clerk from the date of his majority. He was one of the organizers of the Pemberton Na- tional Bank and has served as director since the organization. He was made secretary and general manager of the Farmers' Telephone Company, secretary of Brown's Mills Cran- berry Company and secretary and treasurer of the Forest Lake Poultry Company. His church affiliation is with the Methodist Epis- copal church, of which he is a steward. He is a member of New Egypt Lodge, F. and A. M .; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, hold- ing membership in the Pemberton Lodge ; Knights of Pythias, and Improved Order of Red Men.

He married (first) August 25, 1895, Addie H., daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Ecker- son) Haring, and by this marriage one son, Lynden Haring, was born July 4, 1896. Mrs. Hargrove died August 5, 1899. Mr. Har- grove married (second) March 8, 1903, Mary A., daughter of Benjamin and Sally (Beck) Harker, of Wrightstown, New Jersey.

(The Brown Line).

James Brown, of Cairns Kirn, North An- trim, Ireland, a descendant of Robert Brown,

sailed from England in 1677 and landed near the present site of the city of Philadelphia, set- tled and married. He had a son, John (q. v.).

(II) John, son of James Brown, the im- migrant, was born either in Ireland or on the banks of the Delaware river near the present site of the city of Philadelphia. When a young man he went to England, where he mar- ried and had two children : I. William, born in England 1715. 2. Alexander (q. v.).

(III) Alexander, son of John Brown, was born in England in 1720, came to America and settled in Burlington, New Jersey. He mar- ried and had a son, Abraham (q. v.).

(IV) Abraham, second son of Alexander Brown, was born in Burlington, New Jersey, and purchased the mills at Biddle's Mills, and after the purchase the place took the name of Brown's Mills, which it retains to the present day. He married Elizabeth and they had a son, Joseph R. (q. v.).

(V) Joseph R., son of Abraham and Eliza- beth Brown, was born at Brown's Mills, New Jersey, May 5, 1776, died there September II, 1850. He married and had a daugh- ter, Elizabeth, who became the wife of Thomas Scattergood, of Brown's Mills, and their daughter, Hannah Brown Scattergood, became the wife of Martin Van Buren Hargrove (see Hargrove).

Among the colonists who em- RUTGERS barked at Texel on the "Rens- selaerswyck," Jans Tiebkins, master, on October 1, 1636, was one Rutger Jacobsen Van Schoenderwoerdt. The ship was bound for Fort Orange in the service of the first patroon. Rutger, as his last name in- dicates, came from the pretty Dutch village of Schoenderwoerdt, distant two miles north of Leerdam and four miles from Viauen, where Van Rensselaer had a country seat. In the primitive settlement of Fort Orange (now Albany, New York) Rutger became a man of considerable repute and wealth. In 1649 he went into partnership with Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick and rented the patroon's brewery for four hundred and fifty guilders, and in the second year they used fifteen hundred schep- els of malt. In 1654 Rutger bought Jan Jans Van Noorstrant's brew-house, which stood opposite the Middle Dutch church, as situated in 1886. But he was not only a brewer, for he dealt in beaver skins, and owned a sloop on the river, which he sometimes commanded himself, but at other times he employed Abra- ham de Truwe as master. He also frequently

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bought and sold building lots in the village and farming lands in the vicinity. In 1661 he owned a share in Mohicander's island. While Rutger thus was becoming rich he was held in honor by his fellow townsmen and was magis- trate in 1665 and probably held that office until his death. He took part in the proceedings of a peace commission appointed to treat with the Indians. In the records he is mentioned as Hon. Rutger Jacobsen, and his name is found frequently so written. In 1652, when the new church was built, "he was selected to lay the corner stone. He died in 1665, and at a sale his personal effects brought nine hundred and eighty-three guilders, ten stivers, and his silver and jewelry sold for five hundred and twelve guilders, fourteen stivers. In June, 1646, he married Tryntje (Catherine) Jansse Van Breesteede, in New Amsterdam (New York). After his death she married, in 1695, Hen- drick Janse Roseboom, and is supposed to have died in 1711. Margaret, one of the daughters of her first marriage, became wife of Jan Jansen Bleecker, who was mayor of Albany in 1700. Engeltje, another daughter of Rut- ger, is believed to have married Melgert Abra- hamse Van Deusen. Rutger's only son was Harman Rutgers.

The Rutgers family of New York and the particular branch thereof under consideration here is descended from Harman Rutgers, whom Pearson in his "Albany First Settlers" says was a son of Rutger Jacobsen who is mentioned in the preceding paragraph; "but this is improbable," says a more recent ac- count in the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" (1899). "Harman mar- ried a daughter of Anthony de Hooges, secre- tary of the 'colonie' of Rensselaerswyck, after whom the mountain 'Anthony's Nose' in the Hudson Highlands was named."

(I) Harman Rutgers is first mentioned in the records as private in the Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam in 1653. He was a brewer and inherited from his father the Van Noorstrant brew-house, but in March, 1675, he bought a brewery on the eastern half of the present ( 1886) Exchange block in Albany, and sold it after two months. The Dutch church, of which he and his wife were mem- bers, called on him to supply brew for funer- als. About 1693 the Indians caused him so much trouble, destroying his barley crops, that he removed to New York with his two sons, Anthony and Harman Jr., both of whom were brewers. His daughter Elsie remained in

Albany, having married David Schuyler, once mayor of the city.

(II) Harman (2), younger son of Harman (1) Rutgers, married Catharina Meyer and had several children. On Christmas day, 1706, he wrote in his family Bible: "I, Harman Rutgers, was married to Catharine Meyer, by Domonie De Booys. May the Lord grant us a long and happy life together, Amen." And again: "1711, December 4th : Were moved from mother's house to our own place in the Vly, and have made the first beer there on the 29th of December. May the Lord bless the work of our hands."

(II) Anthony, son of Harman (1) Rut- gers, was a baker and was admitted freeman in New York in 1699. In 1705 he bought a dwelling house and lot in Smith (now Will- iam) street and a lot beyond the land gate on New street. In 1710 he had become a resi- dent of the north ward, above Wall street, and in that year and the two years following he was assistant alderman from that ward. He represented the ward as alderman from 1727 to 1734, and was member of the colonial as- sembly from 1726 to 1737. In 1717 he bought land on Maiden lane and had a brew-house and residence on the north side of that street be- tween William and Nassau streets. He also purchased a tract of farm land lying north- west of the intersection of Broadway and Chambers street and extending to the North river. In 1723 he bought ten acres of land here and in 1725 purchased thirty-six acres more. Anthony Rutgers, then known as Cap- tain Rutgers, was still living near William street in 1731, but about that time built him- self a house on his new farm. He was a member of the grand jury which in 1741 investigated the "Negro plot" to burn the city and the fort. He married (first) December 30, 1694, Hen- drickje Van de Water, of New York, and after her death he married (second) August 25, 1716, Widow Cornelia Benson, daughter of Johannes Roos. Captain Anthony Rut- gers died in 1746 and his widow survived him until 1760. He had eight children, all born of his first marriage and all baptized in New York: I. Harmanus, November 5, 1699. 2. Petrus, May 4, 1701. 3. Catryna, December 20, 1702. 4. Anneke, March 31, 1704. 5. Catharina, November 21, 1705, died young. 6. Anthony, February 9, 1707, died young. 7. Catharina, October 27, 1708. 8. Anthony, April 29, 1711.

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Genealogical and memorial history of the state of New Jersey, Volume II, Part 4

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 618

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869- ed
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Lewis Historical Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 618