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his personal property inventoried at £76-13, the inventory being made at the house of de- ceased. The date of his death, except the year ( 1724) is not know. His widow married John Wills, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, in 1726.
(II) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Sarah (Dale) (Griscom) Kaighn, was born in Newton township, Gloucester county, New Jersey, December 30, 1700. He inherited one- half of the real estate left by his father, and the next year after his father's death Joseph conveyed to him all his interest in the real estate devised to them and soon after John reconveyed the entire homestead property to Joseph, who afterward lived there. John mar- ried Abigail, daughter of John Henchman, in 1732, and followed the trade of blacksmith for several years, and late in life removed to a farm on Newton creek, where he died in 1749, and was buried in the old Newton graveyard. The children of John and Abigail ( Henchman) Kaighn were born in Haddonfield, New Jersey, as follows: I. Sarah, born 1733, who inherit- ed the Haddonfield estate. 2. Elizabeth, 1736. 3. Samuel, 1737, married 1768, Mary Gerrard. 4. John, 1740. 5. Ann, 1744. Abigail (Hench- man) Kaighn married as her second husband Samuel Harrison, of Gloucester, about 1750, and she survived her second husband and died in 1795 at the home of her son-in-law, Richard Edwards, at Taunton Iron Works, Burlington county, New Jersey.
(II) Joseph, second son of John (2) and Sarah (Dale) (Griscom) Kaighn, was born in Newton township in the house erected by his father on Kaighn's Point, December 4, 1702. His mother died soon after his birth, and he was, with his brother John, with a nurse until they were eight and ten years of age respec- tively, when his father married and their step- mother came into the family and assumed the duties of a mother to the boys, and they were brought up and given a good education. Joseph, in the division of the property between the two brothers, received from John the homestead, and he continued to live there on the home- stead, his brother removing to Haddonfield. He married, in 1727, Mary, daughter of James Estaugh, of Philadelphia, and niece of John Estaugh, of Haddonfield. Joseph Kaighn made his will May 7, 1749, by which his estate descended to his children, naming their divi- sion as follows: To James part of the estate south of the lane ( Kaighn Avenue) ; to Joseph part of the land south, and to John, Isaac and Elizabeth the land north of the lane. The testator died the same year in which the will
was made (1749), and his five children were all minors. The five children of Joseph and Mary (Estaugh) Kaighn were born in the homestead on Kaighn's Point as follows: I. Joseph (q. v.). 2. John, who studied medi- cine and practiced in Newton township; he died unmarried when about forty years of age. 3. Isaac, who died before maturity. 4. James, married Hannah Mason. 5. Elizabeth, mar- ried Arthur Donaldson. Mary, the widowed mother of these children, married (second) Robert Stevens, of Newton township.
(III) Joseph (2), eldest child of Joseph (I) and Mary (Estaugh) Kaighn, was born in the homestead on Kaighn's Point, Gloucester county, New Jersey, about 1750, and after receiving his portion of the estate of his father he built a house known as the Ferry House, in which he continued to reside, and which is still standing, but is used for other than resi- dential purposes. He married, 1767, Prudence (Rogers) Butcher, a widow, and they had four children born to them in the Ferry House : William, Mary, John and Joseph, the youngest, who alone of the four lived to a mature age. (IV) Joseph (3), youngest son of Joseph (2) and Prudence (Butcher) Kaighn, was born at Ferry House, Gloucester county, New Jersey, about 1768. He received a good edu- cation and became prominent in town, county and state affairs. He was a member of the state legislature, both in the house of assembly and in the council, being re-elected for several terms by the Whig party of which he was a leader in the state. He was an early advocate for granting a charter to build the Camden and Amboy railroad, and largely through his influ- ence the charter was obtained and the road built. He was a charter member of the board of directors and held a directorship during his entire life. He made up the gathering of inter- ested citizens who went over the proposed route before it was surveyed. In the legisla- ture he was also an advocate for building a state prison at Trenton, and a member of the committee in charge of building the same. He was the first to advocate a steam ferry be- tween Kaighn's Point and Philadelphia, and when the Federal Street Ferry Company was organized he was made a member of the board of directors. He died at his home at Kaighn's Point, New Jersey, February 23, 1841, and his widow Sarah, daughter of Joseph Mickle, to whom he was married in 1795, died the next year. The children of Joseph and Sarah (Mickle) Kaighn were born at Ferry House, Camden county, New Jersey, as follows : I.
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John M., married Rebecca, daughter of Ben- jamin Cooper. 2. Charles, born February 30, 1806; married Mary Cooper, of Woodbury ; he was the sixth mayor of Camden, removed to Philadelphia, and died there February 19, 1868. 3. William R., married Rachel Cole, widow of Burroughs. 4. Mary, mar- ried John Cooper, of Woodbury.
(III) James, second son of Joseph ( I) and Mary (Estaugh) Kaighn, was born at the homestead on Kaighn's Point, Gloucester county, New Jersey, about 1752. His share of his father's estate was north of the lane, and he continued to live on the homestead. He laid out his property in lots in 1812, and that was the first plot so laid out, and now the entire Kaighn estate is divided up and built upon. The children of James Kaighn were born at the homestead on Kaighn's Point as follows: I. Isaac. 2. Mary, who died young. 3. John (q. v.). 4. Elizabeth, married Jona- than Knight, in 1797. 5. James. 6. Hannah, married Benjamin Dugdale. 8. Sarah. 9. Mary. 10. Ann, 1795; died in 1880. II. and 12. Charity and Grace (twins), both deceased.
(IV) John, second son and third child of James Kaighn, was born in the homestead on Kaighn's Point, Camden county, New Jersey, about 1785, where he followed the occupation of farming, as had his ancestors from the time of the settlement of the Point and the building of the homestead by his great-grand- father, John Kaighn. He married Elizabeth Bartram, great-grandfather of John Bartram (see Bartram family following this sketch). John and Elizabeth ( Bartram) Kaighn had eight children born at Kaighn's Point, Camden county, New Jersey, as follows : James, Joseph (q. v.), John Elizabeth, Rebecca, Ann Mary, Hannah.
(V) Joseph (4), second son of John and Elizabeth (Bartram) Kaighn, was born at Kaighn's Point, Camden county, New Jersey, 1810. He was brought up on the homestead farm and later in life worked a second farm at Chew's Landing, where he was living during his declining years and where he died. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and he was married by Friends cere- mony to Susannah, daughter of Jacob and Rachel (Troth) Evans, and granddaughter of Nathan and Sybella Evans, and of William and Esther ( Borton) Troth. Susannah Evans was born twelfth month sixth day, 1813. The children of Joseph and Susannah ( Evans) Kaighn: I. Amos Evans (q. v.). 2. John, born near Marlton ; died young. 3. Elizabeth,
born near Marlton; died young. 4. Rebecca, born at Chew's Landing; married Hamilton Haines, of Burlington, New Jersey, and lived near Haddonfield, where three children, Joseph, Wilber and Bertha Haines, were born.
(VI) Amos Evans, eldest child of Joseph (4) and Susannah ( Evans) Kaighn, was born at Kaighn's Point, Camden county, New Jersey, July 15, 1838. About 1840 the family removed to Chew's Landing. He attended the district school and Westtown Friends Boarding School, and worked with his father on his farm at Chew's Landing until 1868, when he carried on the Hunt farm, adjoining Chew's Landing, 1868-76. He then purchased a farm near Ellisburg, and in 1890 removed to Moorestown, built a house and retired from farm life. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, and a member and elder in Friends Meeting at Moorestown, New Jersey. He mar- ried, in 1867, Lucy, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Troth) Engle, of Medford, New Jersey. Samuel Engle was born 11th mo. 12th 1803, and his wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Samuel and Edith (Lippincott ) Nott. The children of Amos Evans and Lucy (Engle) Kaighan were born at Chew's Landing, New Jersey, as follows: I. Elizabeth Engle, born March 7, 1870, married, October 10, 1901, Dr. William Martin, of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and their daughter, Edith Kaighn Martin, was born July 3, 1905. 2. Joseph, September 30, 1872, attended the district school and Westtown Friends Boarding School, was a student at law in the office of Thomas E. French, of Camden, was admitted to the bar as an attorney and as a councillor-at-law ; he is (1909) living with his parents at Moorestown, and practicing law in Camden, unmarried.
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John Bartram, the "father of American botany," was born in Marple, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, March 23, 1699. He began his studies with the purpose in view of taking up the practice of medicine, but changed the course to the science of botany as applied to American plants. He began his work in classi- fication early in life, and his botanical garden was the first of the kind in America. He was commended by Linnaeus as the most accom- plished botanist of the world. His research was made through long excursions in different zones, and his collection was most rare. His reputation in England was such as to com- mand him to the Royal family and George III. made him his American botanist. The title of
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the great work illustrates his versatile labors and journeyings. It was published in 175I and entitled "Observations on Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals and Other Matters Worthy of Notice, Made by Mr. John Bartram in his travels from Pennsylvania to Onondaga, Oswego and the Lake Ontario in Canada." He married, and at least one of his sons left descendants but not the one who evidently inherited his genius as well as became the possessor of his collec- tion and added to his accumulation of speci- mens and followed out his projects of investi- gation mapped out before he died, which event occurred September 22, 1777. This son, Will- iam Bartram, was born in Kingsessing, Penn- sylvania, February 9, 1729, and was bred in the botanical atmosphere in which the father had accomplished so great work and left so valuable and tangible records of his accomplish- ments. William published in 1792 "Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee County, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogules or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chocktaws." He aided Alexander Wilson in his scientific work, his ornithological studies being very extended. He published a memoir of his father and made a list of American birds. He lived alone with his specimens of living plants that made up the greatest botani- cal garden in America at the time, and was visited only by learned men anxious to con- verse with him and to study from his collec- tions. He never married, carried his eccentric- ities to his dress which was primitive to an extraordinary degree, his outside clothing being made entirely of leather. He con- versed with the ease and politeness of nature's noblemen, in spite of his hermit life and avoidance of the society around him. He died July 22, 1833, only six years from the century mark. The catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania gives two of the name among its graduates : Moses Bartram, A. B., 1782; A. M., 1785; B. M., 1786; M. D. 1790, which would give his birth about 1762. He is put down as a physician and druggist. In the class of 1783 we find George Bartram, born 1767, died in Philadelphia, May 8, 1840, A. B. 1783; A. M., 1786; alderman of the city of Phila- delphia, and president of the select council, 1809-II. He was a brother of Moses, and they were both grandsons of John, the botanist, and nephews of William, the botanist, who had a brother Moses, born 1737 or 1741.
MOUNTAIN
Although the Mountain family are among the later emigrants to this country,
they belong to the same stalwart stock from which is derived so much of the best among the families of the early and original settlers of the old colonies, their name being for cen- turies traceable among the old records of Yorkshire.
(I) The first of the family of whom we have any definite knowledge as the progenitor of the American branch is Joseph William Mountain, born in Yorkshire in 1764, died there in 1834. Shortly after his marriage he removed with his bride to London, and there spent the remainder of his life, all his children being born in that city. He married, in York- shire, Catharine Ann Slater, born in 1769, died in 1854. Their children were: I. Catharine Ann, born in 1789 ; died in 1870 ; married Rob- ert Edward Holme and had five children : Elizabeth, Catharine, Robert, Edward, Robert Mountain, born January 17, 1836, married Helen James and had five children, of whom only one, Frank James Holme, born 1884, reached maturity. 2. Joseph William, born 1804, died 1855; married Miriam Welsh, but had no children. 3. John, referred to below. 4. William, born about 1808, died 1856; mar- ried Hannah Pearsall, and had several chil- dren. 5. Hannah, born in 1812, died in 1892; married, in 1837, Albert Paine, removed to Dusche, Germany, and had two children: Catharine, born 1839; died 1865; and Albert, born 1841, who married. They had eight other children who died in infancy.
(II) John, son of Joseph William and Cath- arine Ann (Slater) Mountain, was born in London, January 31, 1807, died there in 1893. He married, February 6, 1837, Mary Ann Furmage, born in Wandsworth, Surrey, Eng- land, November 14, 1806, daughter of William and Ann Furmage, and granddaughter of James and Mary Ann (Wadbrook) Furmage. William Furmage, her father, was born about 1782, and died 1854; and his wife, Ann (Hall) Furmage, was born about 1780, died about 1850. Her grandfather, James Furmage, was born about 1752, died in 1827 ; and her grand- mother, Mary Ann (Wadbrook) Furmage, was born about 1751, died in 1825. The chil- dren of John and Mary Ann (Furmage) Mountain were: 1. John Joseph, born Decem- ber 17, 1837, died in 1900. 2. Cleeves, Janu- ary 16, 1839, still living. 3. Joseph William, April 19, 1843, died in the civil war, in 1863.
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5. Mary Ann Slater, April 3, 1844, married, June 3, 1867, Albert Farnam Tucker, and had one child, Albert Mountain Tucker, born April 20, 1868, died December 12, 1899; married, October 31, 1895, 6. Frederick, re- ferred to below. 7. Robert Edward, January 28, 1848, died in 1849. All these children were born in London.
(III) Frederick, sixth child and fifth son of John and Mary Ann ( Furmage) Mountain, was born in London, England, January 27, 1846, died in East Orange, New Jersey, April 16, 1907. Emigrating to this country he lived for awhile in Brooklyn, Long Island, and finally settled in East Orange. He married Irene Adelia Tallman, born November 1, 1848, and had two children : I. Worrall Frederick, re- ferred to below. 2. Milton Tallman, born Jan- uary 23, 1893.
(IV) Judge Worrall Frederick, eldest child of Frederick and Irene Adelia (Tallman) Mountain, was born in Brooklyn, Long Island, March 10, 1877, and is now living at 113 North Walnut street, East Orange, New Jersey. His father removing to East Orange shortly after his birth, he was sent for his early education to the public schools of that place, from which he entered the Newark Academy, and after leaving that institution went to Princeton Uni- versity, where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1900, and three years later his degree of Master of Science. He then took a course in the New York Law School, from which he obtained his LL. B. degree, and after this entered the office of Halsey M. Barrett, Esquire, and later of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons, where he read law, receiving his admission to the New Jersey bar as an attorney in Novem- ber, 1904, and as a counsellor in 1907. Sep- tember I, 1908, he entered into partnership with Judge Thomas L. Raymond, Andrew Van Blarcom and Theodore McC. Marsh. He is a Republican in politics, was appointed judge of the district court of the city of East Orange on June 1, 1909, by Governor Fort. He was formerly a member of the Essex Troop, and now the Lawyers Club of Newark, the Prince- ton Club of New York, and the Republican Club of East Orange. He is a member of the North Orange Baptist Church. He married, June 3, 1908, in East Orange, Ethel Marion, daughter of John and Jean ( Paulson) Spohr, of 121 North Grove street, East Orange. Of this marriage a son, Worrall Frederick, Jr., born June 28, 1909.
The Boggs family of New Jersey BOGGS belong to that group of Irish patriots who came over to this country in the early part of the eighteenth century, making homes for themselves at first in Delaware and Pennsylvania and thence spreading out into New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia and giving to the new nation some of the best blood and brawn that have gone towards making up its special characteristics and genius.
(I) Ezekiel Boggs, founder of the family under consideration, came from Ireland and settled in Delaware, where he left behind him one son James, who is referred to below, and one daughter, Rebecca, who married a Mr. Rish, of Philadelphia.
(11) James, son of Ezekiel Boggs, was born January 22, 1740, but whether in this country or in Ireland is uncertain. Coming from Dela- ware to Philadelphia, he studied medicine, and then settled in Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, New Jersey, where he remained until the break- ing out of the revolution when he joined the British army as a surgeon, and continued with it until the close of the war, when he went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he lived until his death at a very advanced age. He was highly esteemed as a physician, and manifested great interest in the promotion of the science of medicine. He became a member of the Medi- cal Society of New Jersey the year after its organization and was an influential member until the breaking out of the war. His man- ners were pleasant and gentlemanly and he took great delight in his old age in relating incidents and adventures which occurred in his personal history, more particularly when the British were in possession of New York and his family living for the time near Perth Amboy, whom he could only visit by stealth. Dr. James Boggs married Mary, daughter of Robert Hunter Morris, of New Jersey, and left a large family behind him, many of his descendants being now found in Halifax, Prince Edward Island, and the provinces of Lower Canada. He left, however, five chil- dren, three sons and two daughters in this country, from whom have come the New Jersey branch of the family. Among their children were: I. Robert, referred to below. 2. James, who went into business in New York City, where he became the senior member of the old firm of Boggs, Thompson & Company ; his children were: Mary, married a Mr. Ray;
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Julia, married Lewis Livingston. 3. A son who died young in Wilmington, Delaware.
(III) Robert, eldest child of Dr. James and Mary (Morris) Boggs, was brought up to- gether with his other brothers and sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied and prac- ticed law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the United States district court. He died in New Brunswick, in 1831. He married (first) his cousin, Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, and had three chil- dren. He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him three children: I. Brenton, of the United States navy. 2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick. 3. Charles Stuart, re- ferred to below. He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1866. They had one child: Edward Bren- ton, referred to below.
(IV) Charles Stuart, youngest child and second son of Robert and Mary (Lawrence) Boggs, was born in New Brunswick in 1811, died in 1888. Entering the United States navy as a midshipman in 1826, he became lieu- tenant in 1837, served in Commodore Connor's squadron in the Mexican war, in April, 1862, distinguished himself under Farragut at New Orleans, and was the same year raised to the rank of captain. In 1870 he became a rear admiral, and three years later was retired.
(IV) Edward Brenton, the only child of Robert and Maria ( Brenton) Boggs, was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 7, 1821, died May 9, 1904. He was educated at the public schools, and then graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and was then ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1842 and later re- ceived the degree of D. D. He married Eliza- beth Dunham, daughter of George Deshler, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and his wife, Cathar- ine (Dunham) Deshler, of New Brunswick. Elizabeth Dunham (Deshler) Boggs was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, December 26, 1822, died in 1903. She bore her husband four children: I. George Brenton, married Hannah Thompson, of Bloomsburg, Pennsyl- vania, and has three children : Edward Thomp- son, Frank Thompson, who married, and is
now a captain of engineers in the United States army, and Jeannette Thompson. 2. Charles Deshler, married Caroline Coles, and has four children: Clara, married William Lull, a professor at Yale University, and has one child, Dorothy, Elizabeth Deshler, Edward Brenton, married a Miss Chamberlain and now lives at Cleveland, Ohio, and William Coles. 3. Francis Cranston, who is also married. 4. Herbert, referred to below.
(V) Herbert, youngest child of the Rev. Edward Brenton and Elizabeth Dunham (Deshler ) Boggs, was born in Swedesborough, New Jersey, June 3, 1853, and is now living in Newark, New Jersey. For his early edu- cation he was sent to the public schools of New Brunswick, and then he entered Rutgers Col- lege, graduating therefrom in 1873. After his graduation he went into the office of Parker & Keasby, where he read law, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in November, 1876, and as counsellor in No- vember, 1879. He then started in for him- self, specializing in municipal law, and becom- ing the city attorney for Newark, during the years 1890 to 1893 and again appointed in 1909 to the same office. Mr. Boggs is a Dem- ocrat, but other than the attorneyship men- tioned above he has held no political office. He belongs to the Lawyers' Club of Newark. He is a communicant of the Protestant Epis- copal church. He married, May 9, 1893, in Newark, Frances May, daughter of Henry and Fanny (Van Buren) Le Viness, of New York City, whose two brothers are Edward and Henry, and her sister Charlotte, who married Henry Van Bronson. The child of Herbert and Fanny May (Le Viness) Boggs is Helen Cranston, born in Newark, September 21, 1894.
HINE Unlike so many of the families of New Jersey that have come into the state from Europe by way of the New England colonies, the Hine family of Orange travelled from Connecticut to the Ohio valley and then returned and found a permanent home in Essex county, thus revers- ing the usual current of emigration which passed through New Jersey on its way to the west. But little is known about the family on the other side of the Atlantic. The earliest record is in 1548 when a certain John Hinde was appointed J. C. P. of England, that is practitioner of the common law (juris com- munis) or in other words as we should say today, was admitted to the English bar as at-
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torney. Family tradition has it that the fam- ily is of Scotch-Irish descent and emigrated to this country during the Commonwealth, and this is supported by the earliest records we have of the family in this country.
(I) Thomas Hine, founder of the family, settled in Milford, Connecticut, and had there a home lot and a two acre meadow adjoining, January 28, 1646. In 1655 he bought land at Derby, although he does not seem to have removed thither, except possibly for a time, as January 22, 1676, he drew lot number 8 in Milford, and on the tax list of 1688 he is assessed £96. 5s, while his sons John and Stephen were assessed respectively £38 and £18. His will, proved at New Haven, was written May 9, 1694. He had at least four sons and probably other children. The sons were : I. John. 2. George. 3. Stephen. 4. Samuel, who is referred to below. The last two mentioned are the only children that re- mained in Milford. .
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