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(II) John, who was probably a son of George and Mercy Brown, resided in Bucks county, not far from Yardville, where the family has continued for two centuries. It is difficult to discover further particulars con- cerning him.
(III) John (2), son of John (I) Brown. was born August 23, 1732, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, died May 20, 1815. His wife, Elizabeth (surname unknown ), born 1722, died September 23, 1787.
(IV) Jonathan, son of John (2) and Eliza- beth Brown, was born August 8, 1764, near Yardville, died January 19, 1842. He was a successful farmer. He married Apama Kier, a native of Bucks county, born November 14. 1769. died April 29, 1831. She was a daughter of John and Hannah Kier, probably of Scotch- Irish ancestry. Children: Jesse, born De- cember 2, 1787, died May 23, 1861 ; Naomi, July 7, 1789, died May 10, 1865 ; Nathan, June 24, 1791, died January 27, 1851 ; John, July 22, 1793, died June 23, 1854; Elizabeth, Feb- ruary 7, 1796, died January 24, 1861 ; Phoebe, December 4, 1797, died November 15, 1871, Han-
nah, March 31, 1800, died July 22, 1834 ; Sarah, June 3, 1802, died October 7, 1863; Jonathan. August 2, 1804, died November 17, same year ; Joseph, November 4, 1806; George W., men- tioned below ; William, April 10, 1811, died August 15, 1813.
(V) George Washington, sixth son of Jon- athan and Apama (Kier) Brown, was born January 7. 1809, near Tullytown, in Falls township. Bucks county, died at Bristol, March 28. 1883. He was a farmer, a man of good understanding, and served in various public capacities, such as township collector and coun- ty commissioner. He lived during the greater part of his life on the farm where he was born, but when advanced in years he sold the old homestead and went to Bristol to live with his daughters. His parents were Friends and Mr. Brown himself was brought up in that faith. He was a Mason, member of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, Free and Accepted Masons. Mr. Brown married Ann A. Lovett, who was born November 29, 1811, near Bristol, Penn- sylvania, died in March, 1885, a daughter of Jonathan and Mary Lovett, of that town. Chil- dren : Jonathan, died young ; William W., died young; Mary, lives in Bristol ;- Amanda, now dead: Victoria, now dead; George W,. mentioned below ; Anna, married Joseph Van Zant : Gulaelma, now dead ; Frank, now dead ; Ada L., of Bristol, Pennsylvania.
(VI) George Washington (2), son of George Washington ( I) and Ann A. (Lovett) Brown, was born near Tullytown, Bucks coun- ty, Pennsylvania, July 8, 1843. He attended public schools in his native place and for two terms was a student at the state normal school at Millersville, Pennsylvania. He had learned telegraphy in a railroad office at Tullytown before going away to school, and in 1862 he took a position as night telegraph operator at Tullytown, continuing there about three years, and1 in 1865 was given charge of a contruction train at Frankfort Junction, a branch of the Philadelphia and Trenton railroad, also run- ning a freight train into Jersey City. In 1869 he was made conductor of a mail train, in full charge, and ran on the Amboy division until 1872. when he was appointed extra conductor on that division. He next went with the Penn- sylvania railroad and was in Trenton and Cam- den. New Jersey, as extra passenger conductor for two years. On March II, 1874. he was appointed station agent at New Egypt, New Jersey, and served there until April. 1888, when the Pennsylvania railroad abandoned that part of the road. He then turned his at-
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tention to the organization of the Union Trans- portation Company, and the first train ran over that road on August 7, 1888, Mr. Brown being superintendent and auditor of the new com- pany. This position he resigned in 1889 and in March of that year went on drill engines from Long Branch to Point Pleasant, moving freight and passenger cars. In 1890 he was made station master at Asbury Park, New Jersey, but in October, 1890, returned to New Egypt. Upon first coming to New Egypt, in 1876, Mr. Brown had started a coal business in company with his brother-in-law, Winfield Scott Chafey, under the firm name of Chafey & Brown, and had continued in it during all the time of his railroad service. Since retiring from railroading he has taken up the coal busi- ness, enlarging his trade by dealing in agricul- tural implements, farm wagons, fertilizers, etc., and devotes his entire attention to the busi- ness. Mr. Brown is a Democrat and for sev- eral years served as township clerk. He is a member of Pyramid Lodge, No. 92, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Egypt, of which lodge he is a past master, and its present secre- tary. He is also a Red Man, past sachem and trustee of Oneto Tribe, No. 81, of New Egypt, and of the auxiliary, Daughters of Pocahontas, Wenonah Council, No. 22. Mr. Brown is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church in New Egypt, treasurer of the board of trustees, and a Bible class teacher in the Sunday school.
Mr. Brown married, November 19, 1873, Sarah E., daughter of Charles P. and Martha P. Chafey, and of this marriage four children have been born: 1. Frank, born New Egypt, July 3, 1874, died in infancy. 2. Victoria, born 1888; married Edgar O. Murphy, of New Egypt, a travelling salesman. One child, Edgar Lomer, born New Egypt, November 17, 1903. 3. Helen C., born New Egypt, died at the age of four years. 4. George, died in infancy.
COPPUCK The Coppuck family of New Jersey has for generations been identified with Mount Holly, and Burlington county, and by its inter- marriages with the other historic families of that region has placed itself among the repre- sentative families of the state and nation. There were two Bartholemew Coppucks who were on the same ship which landed at Phila- delphia with one of Penn's colonies. One, it is said, settled at Dunk's Ferry (now Beverly, New Jersey), and the other settled at Chester, Pennsylvania. The former, it is said, was the progenitor of the New Jersey Coppucks.
(I) James Coppuck, of Mount Holly, who witnessed the will of John Reeves, in 1800, and who was born between 1760 and 1770, is the first member of the family of whom we have authentic records. He married Elizabeth Knight, the descendant of one of New Jersey's famous families, which includes the celebrated painter, Daniel Ridgway Knight, of Philadel- phia. They had a large family, among whom were: I. William, whose daughter, Amelia, married a Welby, and was the celebrated poetess, Amelia Welby. 2. Joseph Cooper, re- ferred to below. 3. Peter Van Pelt. 4. George Washington. 5. Elizabeth, married Joseph C. Clark. 6. Sarah J., married Brainard Clark.
(II) Joseph Cooper, son of James and Eliz- abeth (Knight) Coppuck, was born at Mount Holly, New Jersey, June 21, 1800. He mar- ried Mary, daughter of Captain John and Ann Graves. Her father was a sea captain and commanded a privateer in the war of 1812. The children of Joseph Cooper and Mary , (Graves) Coppuck were: I. Anna Graves, married Noah Zelley. 2. Elizabeth Cooper, married John H. Curtis, Jr. 3. Malcolm Mac- Neran, referred to below. 4. Mary Letitia.
(III) Malcolm MacNeran, third child and only son of Joseph Cooper and Mary (Graves) Coppuck, was born in Mount Holly, New Jer- sey, June 7, 1833, and is now living in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. When he was two years old, his parents moved from Mount Holly to Philadelphia, where he attended the public schools and graduated from the high school. After leaving school Mr. Coppuck went into the silk importing business, and after work- ing for some time in one of the largest houses in the city, he went into a wholesale dry goods house, in which he remained until October I, 1872, when he was made chief clerk in the bureau of highways in the city of Philadelphia. This position he has held up to the present time, a remarkable tribute to his worth and ability. During the civil war Mr. Coppuck enlisted from Philadelphia in the Seventh Pennsylvania State Troops in order to repel the invasion of Pennsylvania. He was also for a time one of. the public school directors of Philadelphia. In politics Mr. Coppuck is a Republican, and he is a communicant of the Protestant Episcopal church. For many years he was the rector's warden, in Advent Church, Philadelphia. He is now connected with St. Stephen's Church. He is a member of the Church Club, of Philadelphia ; Veteran Corps. First Regiment of the National Guard, of Pennsylvania ; Baker Post. No. 8, Grand Army
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of the Republic, of Philadelphia ; Philo Lodge, No. 444, Free and Accepted Masons, of Phil- adelphia. Mr. Coppuck during his earlier life devoted considerable time to designing and also has some fine specimens in water color which he executed both in landscape and portraiture.
October 15, 1857, Malcolm MacNeran Cop- puck married (first) Elizabeth E., daughter of Robert Lindsay, of Philadelphia. Their chil- dren are: I. Virginia Lindsay, born August 25, 1859; died August 17, 1874. 2. Marian Graves, June 8, 1865; married Charles Wells Walker, of Chester county, Pennsylvania, whose family settled in New Jersey in 1685. They have two children, Eleanor Wells, born September 16, 1897, and Edith Lindsay, June, 1899. 3. Edith Hoffman, August 17, 1875; died in 1876. Mrs. Coppuck died January 28, 1893. He married (second) June 6, 1895, Sarah Louise (Lodor) Cresson ; she died June 4, 1903.
PILGRIM The Pilgrim family has been connected with the history of Salem and Cumberland coun- ties, New Jersey, since the middle of the eight- eenth century. The first record of any of the names, being the letters of administration on the estate of Frederick Pilgrim, who died there intestate in 1768. From that time to the pres- ent the name occurs with more or less fre- quency in the records, but the information afforded by these references is not sufficient to enable us to trace out the pedigree with ac- curacy until we reach the name of Maurice or Morris, the ancestor of the branch at present under consideration.
(I) Maurice Pilgrim, who was widely known and one of the most influential men in the counties of Cape May and Cumberland, had. among other children a son, Simon Snider, re- ferred to below.
(II) Simon Snider, son of Maurice Pilgrim, and possibly grandson of Frederick Pilgrim, was born in May, 1818, at the little village of Tuckehoe, Cape May county, died in Bridge- ton, New Jersey, about 1898. In early life he was a waterman, but later on, about 1830 or 1831, he removed to Friesburg, Salem coun- ty, and engaged in farming. So strong, how- ever, was his love for his old home and old calling that even when well settled in life as a prosperous farmer he would often declare his purpose to return sometime to his ocean bound home in Cape May county. He remained, how- ever, at Friesburg, and in the fall and winter
of 1858, when the great revival occurred at the Alloway Methodist Episcopal church, then under the charge of the Rev. John McDougall, Mr. Pilgrim, though living at the time some six miles distant, became interested and at- tended the services every night, driving the twelve miles and often taking his wagon loaded with his neighbors. The result was his con- version, and the dating of a new life of chris- tian experience, which lasted until the close of his days. Immediately following this re- vival steps were taken for the organization of a society of Methodists and the building of a new church in the neighborhood of Harmony, a struggling settlement near Cohansey, Cum- berland county, and to the furtherance of this object no one contributed more than Mr. Pil- grim. For the whole time that he was con- nected with the church there, he was in some official relation such as steward, trustee, class leader, Sunday school superintendent and teacher, and the place where the pastor oftenest enjoyed the hospitality of his flock was the home of Mr. Pilgrim. Late in March, 1888, Mr. Pilgrim moved to Bridgeton, and made his home in the third ward, 114 Hampton street, where he continued to reside up to the time of his death. He was buried in the Broad street cemetery. In politics Mr. Pilgrim was a Republican, but he was sufficiently independent to vote his convictions, irrespective of party lines, as the changing trend of public affairs from time to time might determine.
Simon Snider Pilgrim married (first) the daughter of Henry Johnson, a member of one of the old families of Salem and Cumberland counties, by whom he had three children : Henry, Mary (or May), Cutoso. After his first wife's death he married (second) Abigail Fisher, of Tuckahoe, Cape May county, who bore him three more children: Maurice, M. D., of Portland, Maine, now deceased ; Heber. a graduate of Lafayette College, of Pennsyl- vania ; John, a pharmacist of Philadelphia, who died in April, 1907 ; Sara, of Philadelphia.
(III) Henry Johnson, eldest child of Simon Snider and (Johnson) Pilgrim, was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, about 1850, died in 1899. He was a manufacturer all of his life, and a member of the Central Meth- odist Episcopal Church, of Bridgeton. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Hiram and Mary Clark, a descendant of one of the old families of Salem and Gloucester counties. Her brothers and sisters were: Charles M., Anna Harker, Katharine Heintz, Ella Irelan and Harriet Hogate. The children of Henry
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Johnson and Elizabeth (Clark) Pilgrim, the latter of whom died in 1883, are: I. Charles Clark, referred to below. 2. George Douglass, married Viola Palmer, of Philadelphia, and has one child, Palmer. 3. Edwin H., died as a baby.
(IV) Charles Clark, son of Henry Johnson and Elizabeth (Clark) Pilgrim, was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey, September 6, 1874, and is now living in Newark, New Jersey. For his early education he attended the public schools at Bridgeton, after leaving which he went to the Pennington Seminary. In April, 1895, he started to read law in the office of Joseph Coult and James E. Howell, in Newark, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in November, 1898, and as counsellor in 1901. Since this time Mr. Pilgrim has been engaged in the general practice of his profes- sion in Newark, where he has met with more than ordinary success and is regarded as one of the most prominent of the rising generation of lawyers. In politics Mr. Pilgrini is a Re- publican and has been extremely active. He is a member of Radiant Star Lodge, No. 190, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; of the Indian League of New Jersey, and also of General Henry W. Lawton Council, No. 284, Junior Order of United American Mechanics. He is a member of the Calvary Presbyterian Church.
June 27, 1900, Charles Clark Pilgrim mar- ried in Newark, New Jersey, Cora Belle, daughter of William Henry and Harriet Ade- laide ( Barringer) Elston. Children: I. Mar- guerite Adelaide, born February 25, 1902. 2. William Barringer, November 12, 1907. Will- iam Nelson Elston, brother of Cora Belle ( Elston) Pilgrim, married Florence E. Smith.
Dr. William Nelson Barringer, father of Harriet A. (Barringer) Elston, was one of the best known educators in the United States. He was born in Brunswick. Rensselaer county, New York, in 1826. His father, John Fred- erick Barringer, was a farmer. In early life the young man showed an aptitude for study, his early education being received at the Troy Academy, after graduating from which at the age of seventeen he began teaching. He soon showed his ability and was sought for and filled more responsible positions in the schools of Troy. In 1866 he was called to Newark as prin- cipal of Chestnut street school, which post he filled until 1877, when he became superintendent of the Newark schools, continuing as such until 1896, when he retired. Dr. Barringer was deeply learned in the science of education. The first summer school under municipal authority
was established by him in Newark in 1885. His lectures on education were delivered in all the principal cities of the country and in Europe. He received the degree of A. M. from Princeton University, and from the New York University that of Ph. D. He was one of the founders of the National Educational Association, and for many years was an attend- ant upon and participant in its deliberations. A monument to his memory is the Barringer high school of Newark. He died at Newark, New Jersey, February 4, 1907.
The Hilliards are of French HILLIARD extraction, descendants of French Huguenot ancestors who fled to England during the reign of Louis XIII., and gave origin to the Hillyard family of England. It is one of the oldest and proud- est of our American families and its arrival in this country antedates the settlement of Penn- sylvania under William Penn, or the settle- ment of New Jersey under the proprietors ; and it was one of the most prominent and in- fluential families in the county of Kent previ- ous to the time when Penn received his royal grant. The Hilliard family of New Jersey is the offspring of two of the most distinguished blue-blooded families of early colonial days, and they who bear the honored surname can speak with pride of their first ancestors; can point with distinction to the houses and public services of John Hilliard, of Delaware, and of Bernard Devonish, of Burlington, New Jersey. John Hilliard was the owner of large tracts of land in the county of Kent, and was him- self a man of ability and education, active in everything pertaining to civilization, develop- ment and progress. He was highly esteemed as a leading man of his time, and was honored with election to represent Kent county in the first provincial council, under Penn, which con- vened in Philadelphia on the 10th day of the 5th month, 1683.
Bernard Devonish occupied much the same position in Burlington county as John Hilliard did in Kent county. He came to America in company with a colony of the Society of Friends in the ship "Kent" and landed on the easterly shore of the Delaware, where the city of Burlington now stands, on June 20, 1677. He was one of the early proprietors, and his name is subscribed to the great code of laws known as the "Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, in Amer- ica," which were the incentive to the early
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immigration which procured the best human seed of all Europe with which to plant the states. Bernard Devonish was active in all of the measures relating to the proprietors, and was himself a large landowner. Between the years 1660 and 1680 he located four hundred and sixty acres of land fronting on the north side of Northampton or Rancocas river, in what now is Westhampton township in Bur- lington county ; and it was there that he built his mansion house and named the locality "Dewberry Hill," after the home he had left in England, and which was destined to become the homestead of the Hilliard family of New Jersey. He left one son, Joseph, who died without issue, and one daughter, Martha, the mother of the Hilliard family of New Jersey, through whose veins only the blood of that noble and distinguished ancestor continues to flow.
(II) John (2), only son of John (1) Hill- iard, married Martha, daughter of Bernard Devonish, about the year 1690, and from the date of that union through nine succeeding generations their descendants have largely been members of the Society of Friends. By inheritence from her parents, and by convey- ance, Martha Hilliard became possessed of large tracts of land, but the tradition is that she and her husband continued to live on the homestead at Dewberry Hill. The records show that John Hilliard was born in 1659 and that his wife, Martha, was born in 1668. He died intestate, but Martha made a will. They had seven children: John, Hester, Martha, Joseph, Elizabeth, Jane and Edward, the family name of each of whom is written in the record as Hylliar. In this connection it may be men- tioned that in 1683, when John Hilliard, the ancestor, was a member of the council his name in the records appears written Hillyard, but in 1695, when he was re-elected member of the assembly his name is written Hilliard.
(III) Edward, son of John (2) and Mar- tha (Devonish) Hilliard, was born on the family homestead in 1706, and spent his life there. He made his will the 17th day of the 6th month, 1766, and divided a large property among his children. He married Sarah, daugh- ter of Richard and Mary (Carlile) Haines. She was born 11th month, 1716, and died 11th month, 1796. Children : Abraham, died single ; Isaac, married Sarah Haines; Jacob, married Martha Robinson; Samuel, married Hannah Atkinson; Joseph, married Kesiah Mullen; Martha, married Job Ridgway; Mary; Eliza-
beth; John, married (first) Mary Heustis, (second) Frances Haines.
(IV) Jacob, son of Edward and Sarah (Haines) Hilliard, was born and spent his life on the family homestead at Dewberry Hill. At the time he assumed proprietorship of that property the friendly relations of the Ameri- can colonies with the mother country were fast growing cold, and during the contest which followed he was compelled to remain at home and do service in the broad fields of agricul- ture ; but no tory blood coursed through the veins of any of the Hilliards, for patriotism, loyalty and good citizenship has distinguished the family from the time of the revolution to the present generation of their representatives. He married Martha Robinson, and they had eight children: Edward, Samuel, Margaret, Abraham, Eben, Kesiah (died young), Will- iam and Kesiah.
(V) Edward (2), son of Jacob and Martha (Robinson) Hilliard, was born in 1769, and is presumed to have been the progenitor of the family of the particular line here treated. He was engaged in extensive farming enter- prises and owned several tracts of valuable farm lands. He married Nancy Stockton. Children : Mary, Ann, Nancy Stockton, Frank- lin. Edward and Jonathan.
(VI) Franklin, son of Edward (2) and Nancy (Stockton) Hilliard, was born at Vin- centown, New Jersey, March 14, 1817, died there February 28, 1889. The earlier years of his business life were spent on his father's farm, and as a boy he was sent to the township school. In 1854 he went to Salem, Columbia county, Ohio, purchased a farm and remained there about eight years. After his return home he lived in Vincentown and kept a livery stable and business until his retirement from active pursuits. In politics he was originally a Whig and afterward became a Republican, and at the time of his death he was a deacon in the Baptist church, where a memorial window in- dicates the esteem in which he was held in the community in which he lived. He married. December 31, 1840, Lydia Heuling, daughter of General William Irick. She was born Sep- tember 15, 1822, died in September, 1900. Children: William Henry Irick, a dentist, of Bordentown, New Jersey ; Mary Ann, married Lyman Sowers and died in Ohio; Franklin Stockton ; and Winfield Scott, a pharmacist, of Mt. Holly.
(VII) Franklin Stockton, son of Franklin and Lydia Heuling ( Irick) Hilliard, was born
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in Vincentown, New Jersey, December 28. 1847, and was a boy of seven years when his father removed to Ohio. He was brought up to farm work and during his boyhood days was sent to the district school of the town. On May 21, 1862, during the second year of the civil war, he enlisted for three months as pri- vate in Company G, of the Eighty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and during the term of enlistment his regiment was assigned to guard and provost duty along the line of the Balti- more and Ohio railroad in Maryland. He was mustered out of service at Delaware, Ohio, September 20, 1862, and on October 1, 1863, re-enlisted as private in Company B, of the Twelfth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, and served under Sherman during his famous "march to the sea." In his regiment Mr. Hilliard was chief bugler and during a part of his service was a member of the brigade band. He took part in a number of engagements and on one occasion was taken prisoner, but was recap- tured by the Union troops after about ten days in the hands of the enemy. He was mustered out with the regiment November 14, 1865, then returned to Salem, Ohio, and from thence came to Vincentown, New Jersey, where he found employment as clerk in Jacob Heisler's drug store. He remained there about two years, gaining a good understanding of the business during that time, and then became a student at the Philadelphia College of Phar- macy. While living in that city he was em- ployed by William R. Warren, a manufactur- ing chemist, and remained with him for a year and a half, then returned to New Jersey and began business on his own account, becoming proprietor of the first drug store in Tucker- town. In 1871 Mr. Hilliard removed from Tuckertown to Vincentown and became pro- prietor of the drug business formerly carried on by Alfred Dobbins. Since that time he has added materially to the original stock, and had not been long identified with business interests in Vincentown before he became recognized among the leading men of the town. He was .largely instrumental in organizing the local water works company and also in establishing and operating the water supply system; and
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