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(II) Peter, son of John and Margaret (Clayton) Casler, was born in Monmouth county, New Jersey, August 6, 1797, and died there in 1882. He married (first) Septem-
ber 29, 1817, Mary Paxton; (second) about 1843, Elizabeth Paxton, sister to his first wife. Children, fourteen by first and three by sec- ond marriage: 1. Joseph. born September 6, 1818. 2. John, February 21, 1820; married Elizabeth Rue; children : Mary Ellen, Aaron T., John N., Annie, Emily, and Harriet. 3. Theodocia, born September 20, 1823; married Edward Lufton; children: Mary and Ed- ward Lufton. 4. William C., born February II, 1824; married Laura Shackleton; child, Mary. 5. Margaret A., born December 6, 1826; married William Throckmorton; chil- dren: James, Mary, Theodore, Annie and Elizabeth Throckmorton. 6. Robert, born April 24, 1828. 7. James H., December 20, 1829. 8. Mary Elizabeth, November 16, 1831 ; mar- ried Dr. Cooke ; child, John Cooke. 9. Emily. born April 11, 1833 ; married Joseph Williams ; children : Emma and Edward Williams. 10. Edward, born September 24, 1834; married children : Edward and Edna. II. Peter, born March 15, 1836; married Julia -; children : Emma, Adele, Amelia and William. 12. Adelia, born January 16, 1838; married Albert Martin. 13. Aaron, born June 14, 1839; married Anna 14. Rufus Taylor, referred to below. 15 Sarah E., born July 16, 1844, married Ira Borden. 16. Har- riet A., born January 22, 1847; married Charles Wikoff ; child, Thaddeus Wikoff.
17 Theodore A., born December 31, 1849.
(III) Rufus Taylor, son of Peter and Mary (Paxton) Casler, was born in Eatontown township, Monmouth county, New Jersey, Sep- tember 17, 1841, and is now living in Eaton- town, New Jersey. After receiving his educa- tion in the district schools of Monroe township, Middlesex county, while living with his grand- mother, he returned to his father's home when about twenty-six years old, and went to work on his father's three hundred acre farm, which he and his brothers Joseph and Henry afterwards bought of the estate, and started out on his successful agricultural career, which he continued until 1889, when they sold the farm to the Monmouth Park Association, which turned it into the famous race course. Mr. Casler then retired from active business and has since been leading a life of well earned leisure. He is a Democrat in politics. He married, in Long Branch, July 12, 1892, Grace Ann, born in Long Branch, February 1, 1855, daughter of George H. and Mary Jane (Wil- cut) Green. Her father was born January 9, 183I, and her mother March 6, 1833. Chil- dren of George H. and Mary Jane (Wilcut)
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Manning Crest, Coat-of-Arms and Motto, Granted and Confirmed 1577, A. D.
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Green: 1. Grace Ann, referred to above. 2. Margaret, married Harry Wardell, of Asbury Park. 3. Estelle, married Joseph Robbins, of Long Branch; children: Harold, Forrest and Grace Robbins. 4. Isabelle, unmarried. 5. Charles, married Elizabeth Bayton; children : John and Charles Carroll. 6. Forrest, married Maud Cottrell; child, George.
BRAY Andrew Watson Bray, of Orange,
is descended from sturdy Revolu- tionary stock, three generations of his family having fought in the war for Inde- pendence. Andrew Bray, his great-grandfather, who married Cornelia Traphagen, was a pri- vate in the Hunterdon county, New Jersey, militia. John Bray, his great-great-grandfather, married Susan Bray, and served as a lieutenant of Hunterdon county militia. His great-great- great-grandfather, Andrew Bray, was a pri- vate in the New Jersey Line, Continental army. This Andrew Bray was the son of John and Susanna Bray, and married Margaret Wat- son. The official records of these revolution- ary patriots are in the adjutant-general's office in Trenton, and constitute one of the most re- markable exhibits in this connection in the his- tory of New Jersey.
Andrew Watson Bray has inherited and de- veloped all the sterling qualities of his race-a race that has been resident in the colony and the state for many generations, and one which has always been active in patriotic and com- mercial capacities. He is the son of Andrew Watson Bray Sr. and Sarah Thompson; a grandson of John Traphagen Bray and Eu- phemia Armstrong ; and, as previously stated, a great-grandson of Andrew Bray, one of the trio of revolutionary patriots.
Mr. Bray was born in Rockaway, Morris county, New Jersey, July 24, 1855. He re- ceived his education in the public schools of Belvidere, Warren county, and subsequently held the position of ticket agent at the Broad Street Station, Newark, from 1875 to 1887. Since that date he has been the New Jersey state manager for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company of Springfield, Mass- achusetts. In this latter position he has dis- played great executive ability and built up a large and successful business. He is one of the best known life insurance managers in the state. In public life Mr. Bray has also been prominent. He has served three terms as pres- ident of the Republican Club of Newark, and was a member of the Newark Board of Edu-
cation from 1887 to 1891, removing subse- quently to Orange, where he now lives. He is a member, and for eight years was vice-presi- dent, of the Sons of the American Revolution of New Jersey, and is now a trustee of the National Society. From 1906 to 1907 he was vice-president general of the National Society. He is also a member of the New Jersey His- torical Society, the East Orange Republican Club, the Union League Club of Orange, and the South Orange Field Club, also the New England Society of Orange.
He married, December 12, 1883, Philletta Crane Dalton, and has a daughter, Gertrude Bray, wife of Walter R. Okeson, of Phoenix- ville, Pennsylvania.
MANNING The Mannings had their early origin in Germany, and went over in the fourth and fifth
centuries from Saxony to England. The first of the name mentioned in the county of Kent was Ranulph de Manning, or Manheim, Lord of Manheim, who married the aunt of King Harold. Simon de Manning, son of Ranulph, possessed lands at Downes, in Kent, and was knighted in the Second Crusade. He was Lord of Betiad (now Downe), and the first of the English barons to take up the Cross and go with King Richard (Coeur de Lion) to the Holy Wars, 1190 A. D. He was the ancestor of the line of Mannings of Downe and Coot- ham who were knights-marshal of the house- holds of England's sovereigns for nearly four hundred years. The old manor house of this progenitor was an entailed estate, and is still in the Manning family. Sir Henry Manning, knight-marshal to Henry VII., about A. D. 1500, married Elenor Brandon, aunt of the Duke of Suffolk, who was the husband of Mary, Queen Dowager of France, sister of Henry VIII., and grandmother of Lady Jane Grey. Sir Henry's grandson, John Manning. son of Hugh, had a grant of a large part of the possessions of the Earl of Desmond, in Ireland, and joined the Earl of Essex about 1600, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in an expedition to Ireland. (From "History of the Mannings"). This John Manning was the English ancestor of the family hereinafter mentioned.
According to Burke's Peerage a coat-of- arms was granted in 1577 to Manning, of Downe, county Kent. It appears the same in various branches of the family-a cross, with four trefoils ; but the crests slightly varying-
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an eagle head on a crown with two feathers. Motto: "Malo mori quam foedari"-"I would die rather than be disgraced."
(I) The earliest of the name on record as coming to America was John Manning, then twenty years of age, who sailed from London, England, for New England, in the ship "Globe," in August, 1635. In 1640 he was on record in Boston with his wife Abigail, and laid the foundations for a large line of descent. Many of the name took part in the colonial wars, the revolution, the war of 1812, the war of the rebellion, and the late war with Spain, and bore themselves most creditably. The different branches of the family also embrace among their number some of the most distinguished names on the pages of New Jersey history, in- cluding many scholars.
(II) Jeffrey, son of John Manning, is said to have emigrated from New England to New Jersey about 1671, and was living in Piscat- away township in 1676, and died in 1693. In 1682 he was one of three commissioners who laid out extensive land grants in Piscataway, Middlesex county, and the following year was marshal of the first county court of Middlesex county, which was held at Piscataway. In landed estate, Jeffrey Manning and his chil- dren were among the largest and most success- ful citizens of the county. He married Hep- zibah, daughter of Joseph Andrews, of Hing- ham, Massachusetts, granddaughter of Sir Thomas Andrews, Lord Mayor of London. Chil- dren of Jeffrey and Hepzibah ( Andrews) Man- ning : John, born about 1670, married Elizabeth Dennis; Benjamin, born about 1674, married Ann Blackford; James, born about 1676, mar- ried Christiana Laing; Elizabeth, married Thomas Fitz Randolph; and Joseph. The Thomas family, of which Mrs. Manning was a member, were formerly natives of Devon- shire, England, which was also the ancestral home of some of the Mannings. Among the descendants of Jeffrey Manning was Dr. James Manning, founder and first president of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
(II) Joseph, fourth son of Jeffrey and Hep- zibah (Andrews) Manning, was born about 1678, at Piscataway, New Jersey, and died in 1728. He and his brothers were among the early settlers who successfully petitioned the royal powers for relief from the oppressive jurisdiction of the proprietors. He married, in 1802, Temperance, daughter of John and Sarah (Bonham) Fitz-Randolph, and their children were: Joanna, born about 1705, mar- ried Mr. Campbell; Trustrum; Mary, born
1712; Elizabeth, 1713; Eunice, 1715; Rachel, 1717; Jeffrey, 1719; Grace, 1721, married Dan- iel Cooper ; and Ruth, born 1726.
(III) Trustrum, eldest son of Joseph and Temperance (Fitz-Randolph) Manning, was born in 1710, in Piscataway, New Jersey, and died in 1771. He married Johanna Drake, and had a son Andrew, named below; also four other children: Joseph, Sarah, Trustrum, and David, born 1734. David, son of Trustrum and Johanna, married and had Jeremiah, who married Beersheba Laberteau, and had Rachel, who was born in 1809, and married Andrew Manning, son of Benjamin Manning and Phebe Drake ; see Andrew (VI).
(IV) Andrew, son of Trustrum and Jo- hanna (Drake) Manning, was born about 1740, and was a soldier in the revolutionary war. He married Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah Stelle, and had a son Benjamin.
(V) Benjamin, son of Andrew and Mary (Stelle) Manning, was born in 1764, on the family homestead at Piscataway, and inherited a farm of five hundred acres of land from his father. Like his father he also was a soldier in the revolutionary war. He married Phebe Drake; their children were: Andrew, Isaac, Sarah, Mary Eliza, Elizabeth, Osy and Phebe.
(VI) Andrew (2), eldest son of Benjamin and Phebe (Drake) Manning, was born in 1801, died in July 30, 1881, in Piscataway, New Jersey. He was a highly respected citi- zen, and a member of the Baptist church. He married Rachel, daughter of Jeremiah and Beersheba (Laberteau) Manning ; children : I. Joel D., born 1824. 2. Abel, born 1826; died February 5, 1879; married (first) Mary J. Shotwell; (second) Sarah Compton ; children by second wife: Mary, Frederick, Lizzie, Adeline and Howard. 3. Catherine, born in 1829, died January 13, 1910; married Isaac Randolph; children: Albert, deceased; and Howard. 4. Jeremiah, born in 1831 ; died No- vember 19, 1904; married Catherine Comp- ton ; children : James, married Jennie Leland, and had Jeremiah, Leland and James; Clara ; Margaret and Catherine. 5. Isaac, born in 1832, died young. 6. Adeline, born in 1836; married David Townsend; one daughter, Rachel, married W .. B. R. Mason, and has three sons: David Townsend, Frederick and H. Randolph. 7. Lebbeus, see forward. 8. Daniel, born March 29, 1840, married (first) Amelia Tappen, (second) Mrs. Palmer; by his first wife he had a son Clifford, born Sep- tember 18, 1876, married Luthera Randolph. Daniel had also a daughter Edith, who mar-
Joel D. Manning
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ried Clarence Bruard, and has a daughter Ele- nor.
(VII) Lebbeus L. Manning, fifth son of Andrew (2) and Rachel (Manning) Man- ning, was born May 28, 1838, at the family homestead at Piscataway, New Jersey, and acquired his education in the local public schools, after which he entered the employ of Andrew Vanderbeck, of Plainfield, New Jer- sey, where he learned the art of marble and stone cutting. He removed to New York City and worked for some time, after which he re- turned to the farm at Piscataway, and opened a stone-cutting establishment for himself, commencing on a small scale and gradually enlarging his business until he was able to re- move the enterprise to Plainfield, and invest in a larger business, which has now grown to such magnitude that it is one of the leading marble and granite-cutting concerns in the state. Mr. Manning is one of the prominent business men of Plainfield, and is a member of the First Baptist Church. He married (first) Matilda Sebring, and (second) Elizabeth Hey- niger. By his first wife he had two children : I. Walter, married Catherine Ackerman, and has three chidren-Dorothy, Catherine and Eleanor. 2. Carrie, married Philip MacIntyre, and has one son, Russel. Lebbeus L. Man- ning died April 28, 1910.
(VII) Joel D., eldest son of Andrew (2) and Rachel (Manning) Manning, was born October 22, 1824, died June 10, 1909, at Plain- field, New Jersey. He received his education in the neighboring schools. He inherited from his father his farm which has been in the fam- ily about two hundred and fifty years or more, being a land grant from the English crown to his emigrant ancestor, Jeffrey Manning. By untiring industry and close study of the best methods of conducting a farm, Mr. Manning succeeded to so high a degree as to be con- sidered the most successful farmer in Middle- sex county, and it was his great distinction to receive an award for agricultural and cereal industry from the World's Columbian Exposi- tion in Chicago, in 1893. In 1902 he retired from active labor. He was an exemplary mem- ber of the First Baptist Church of Plainfield. In both person and intellect he greatly resem- bled Daniel Webster. He married Emeline, daughter of Richard and Harriet (Boice) Townsend. Children: I. Dr. Andrew Man- ning, of whom further; Sarah Townsend and Harriet Townsend Manning.
(VIII) Dr. Andrew Manning, only son of Joel D. and Emeline (Townsend) Manning,
was born January 6, 1861, and died May 19, 1898. After being a student of Rutgers Col- lege, he was a graduate of the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of New York City; was also house surgeon at Charity Hospital, and a successful physician. He married Aretta Het- field, June 27, 1894, and left one daughter, Emeline Townsend Manning.
(The Townsend Line).
The name Townsend was formerly spelled Atte Towns End, and went through the vari- ous changes of Towneyshend, Townesend, Townshend, and others, finally becoming short- ened to Townsend the form adopted by nearly all the American members of the family. The significance is doubtless "at the town's end," used first to describe the location of a dwell- ing. They were among the prominent families of Norfolk, England, and were living there in the thirteenth century. Richard III. ap- pointed a Townsend a Baron of the Court; later, one Roger Townsend, a sailor, assisted the cause of Queen Elizabeth by giving her the use of some ships, becoming a knight by way of reward. Richard Townsend, of a later day, was a colonel in Cromwell's army, and re- ceived an estate in Ireland. Several of the family in England became followers of George Fox and were led to seek a home in New Eng- land, but as the governments of most of the colonies were inimical to the Quakers, many of them removed to Long Island; the Dutch authorities also tried to keep out the Quakers, and most of them left Long Island for Rhode Island or the West Indies, most of them, how- ever, returning at a later date. The Friends grew to be very numerous in the vicinity of Flushing and Hempstead, Long Island, and their records of meetings have been helpful in tracing the different branches of the family here described. Thomas Townsend, according to a deposition made in New England, was born about 1600 and emigrated to New Eng- land about 1635, being located in Lynn, Massa- chusetts, in 1638 where he became freeman in 1639, and died December 22, 1677. He had sons Thomas, John and Andrew, from whom most of the Long Island family are descended.
(I) From the Friends' records it is shown that John Townsend, of Queens county, Long Island, had certificate of clearness from the Society of Flushing, and with the consent of his father married at Plainfield, New Jersey, March 17, 1768, Susannah, daughter of John and Grace (Webster) Shotwell, born Febru- ary I, 1744. John Townsend was born in
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1734, son of Jonadab, and died in Essex coun- ty, New Jersey, April 8, 1810, being buried at Plainfield. His children were: I. Martha, born April 26, 1769, married James Powell; she was his second wife. 2. Grace, born in 1770. 3. Sarah, 1771, died 1857. 4. Hugh. 5. Jotham, born December 19, 1774. 6. John, August 18, 1776.
(II) Hugh, eldest son of John and Susanna (Shotwell) Townsend, was born August 8, 1773; died April 25, 1849; married Mary Dell, born January 1, 1771, by whom he had chil- dren : Richard, Joseph, Elizabeth and Jotham. Jotham, born November 29, 1797, died Janu- ary 1, 1876, removed about 1853 from New Market or Plainfield, New Jersey ; he married, for his second wife, in 1820, Catherine Shot- well.
(III) Richard, son of Hugh and Mary (Dell) Townsend, was born at New Market, New Jersey, November 6, 1805; died June 3, 1872. He married Harriet Covert Boice, born December 4, 1804, daughter of David and Eliz- abeth (Covert) Boice. Their children were: John and David (twins), born November 27, 1825 ; Emeline; Sarah and Hugh.
(IV) Emeline, born October 19, 1827, daughter of Richard and Harriet (Boice) Townsend, married Joel D. Manning. She died October 7, 1903.
(For Townsend coat-of-arms see Burke's Peerage). The crest is a stag, passant, proper, and the motto, "Haec generi menta fides" (Faith gave these honors to our race).
POINIER David Poinier, the first mem- ber of the family of whom we have definite information, was a descendant of the old Huguenots who set- tled in and around New Rochelle between 1690 and 1700. He removed from New Rochelle to White Plains, and became there a highly prosperous farmer. Owing to the destruction of the land records by the burning of the White Plains courthouse during the revolu- tion, his descendants lost much of the prop- erty which they had inherited, and in conse- quence left the town and founded new homes for themselves elsewhere.
(II) John, son of David Poinier, of White Plains, was born there in 1769. He removed to Newark, New Jersey, in 1790. He mar- ried (first) Phebe, sister to John Woods, the first editor of the Newark Gazette, and (sec- ond) the widow of Jonathan Parkhurst. Chil- dren, two by first marriage: 1. Amelia, mar- ried Joseph C. Ashley, of Albany, New York.
2. John Woods, married Ella Morris, and had one child. 3. Horace J., referred to below. 4. Eliza, married Timothy Mann. 5. Charles, married Sarah Miller. 6. Elisha, married Frances Keen, of Newark. 7. Jeremiah, mar- ried Catharine Carter, who is still ( 1910) liv- ing in Newark, over ninety-seven years of age.
(III) Horace J., son of John Poinier and his second wife the widow of Parkhurst, was born in Newark, New Jersey, October 12, 1809. He learned the lumber trade, and in that was engaged for the greater part of his , life. He was also president of the Newark City Insurance Company until the corporation became extinct, a director in the Newark City Bank, and mayor of Newark from 1851 to 1855. He was for many years an elder in the Presbyterian church, and with his father help- ed to build the First Presbyterian Church of Newark. He married, in Newark, in 1832, Sarah Pierson, daughter of William and Mar- garet Myers of Newark. Children: William K. and John Woods, both referred to below. (IV) William K., son of Horace J. and Sarah Pierson (Myers) Poinier, was born in Newark, New Jersey, June 4, 1833. After graduating from Dr. Hedges's school, he and his brother entered the lumber business of their father, which they carried on together for some years. William Poinier then sold out his interest to his brother and went into the harness business with his own son-in-law, Frances W. Bonneau, and continued in this until his death. He was one of the well known business men of New- ark, and was interested in all movements for the public good. He was a Republican, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married, in Newark, September 4, 1854, Eliz- abeth T., daughter of Aaron Condit and Mary Oliver (Munn) Ward (see Ward). She was born June 18, 1834, and is now living with her daughter, Mrs. Bonneau, at III South IIth street, Newark. Children: I. Mary Ward, born July 15, 1855; married Francis W. Bonneau ; child, Marian Evans, born June I, 1885, married John, son of Dr. Holden, of Newark. 2. Annie Seymour, born August 22, 1856; married J. F. Sweasy, of Newark. 3. Fanny Whitney, born August 18, 1858; died October 21, 1861. 4. Julia Isabell, born No- vember 30, 1860; died March 12, 1888. 5. Horace Johnson, born December 11, 1863 ; died January 19, 1875. 6. Joseph Ward, born Jan- uary 2, 1866; died June 9, 1905 ; married Mary J. McCarthy of Newark.
(IV) John Woods, son of Horace J. and Sarah Pierson (Myers) Poinier, was born in
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Newark, June 18, 1836. After being educated in the Newark schools he and his brother suc- ceeded their father in the lumber business, and later he bought out the interest of his brother and continued it alone, his yards being on South Market street and the river. In 1893 Mr. Poinier retired from active business, and now lives quietly at 41 South street, Newark. He is a Republican, and was a freeholder from 1876 to 1877. He is a member of the South Park Presbyterian Church. He married, Sep- tember 2, 1857, Abbey L., daughter of E. T. and Elizabeth (Winans) Tucker, who was born in Newark, October 19, 1836. Children: Alice B., born August 28, 1861, married John A. Sandford, professor of Greek in Adelphi College, Brooklyn, New York; Helen, born February 10, 1867.
JOHNSON The name of Johnson (son of John) was adopted about the time of surnames after the Norman Conquest (1066), the name being distinctly Saxon or English. The armorial bearings are of the seat of Goldington, coun- ty Bedford, England, and are as follows: Az., a chevron; or, in chief two eagles volant, in base a son of the second. Crest : Eagle, dis- played. The family of Johnson is noted among the early settlers of Connecticut for their strong intellectual ability and independence. The ancestry of Thomas Johnson, the New- ark ancestor, shows that three brothers-John, Robert and Thomas-were in the New Haven Colony, the record of John beginning in 1639, that of Robert in 1641, and of Thomas in 1647
(I) Evidence shows that the progenitor of the family was Robert Johnson, father of Thomas Johnson, the Newark ancestor. He was of the New Haven Colony. He came from the noted town of Hull (Kingston-upon- Hull), riding of York, in Yorkshire. He was one of the first founders of the New Haven Colony, and lived "in the northwest of the square of lots where Mr. Mix and the college are on, over against Darlings." Owing to the granting to King Charles II. the charter that included large domains of New England, in- cluding the New Haven tracts, the colony at that place were awakened by jealous fears of the loss of their liberties, and together with the Restoration aroused anxious fears in the minds of the New England settlers. At this time the Dutch were, in possession of New Amsterdam and of the beautiful fertile terri- tory between the Hudson river and Newark
Bay, and claimed jurisdiction as far south as Virginia. In 1661 they issued a proclamation inviting all christian God-fearing people who loved the liberty of worship after their own creed, wherever oppressed, to erect colonies with in the bounds of the jurisdiction of Pet- rus Stuyvesant. This was quickly and gener- ously accepted by the New Haven Colony. The Duke of York obtained the sovereign right from his royal brother to the vast domain of Connecticut and New Netherland, and sent Colonel Richard Nicholls, his deputy governor, to take possession and establish the laws. Among other acts, Nicholls extinguished the Indian title to the tract between the Raritan and Passaic rivers in 1664. Later the terri- tory west of the Hudson river was sold to John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, to be known as Nova Caesarea (New Jersey), and it was shortly after that that there began a large emigration from within the territory of the New Haven Colony.
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