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Children of Jacob and Anne Doughty, ac- cording to the records of the Friends' Meet- ing in Flushing, and the family Bible of Dan- iel Doughty, second son of Jacob and Anne, and now in the possession of Joseph J. White, of New Lisbon, Burlington county, New Jer- sey : I. Jacob, 27th of 10th month, 1696. 2. Abigail, 5th of 2d month, 1697, died 27th of 12th month, 1713. 3. Mary, 17th of 2d month, 1699 : married John James, 12th of 9th month, 1717. 4. Sarah, 19th of 1Ith month, 1701. 5. Anne, 30th of 4th month, 1702 ; married Sam- uel Stockton, of Stony Brook, 18th of 4th month, 1719. 6. Daniel, 17th of 10th month, 1703. 7. Deborah, 23rd of 6th month, 1705, died young. 8. Elizabeth, Ist of Ist month, 1707. 9. Easter, 17th of 8th month, 1708. IO. Ann, Ioth of 8th month, 1710, died 13th of 2d month, 1713. II. Hannah, 2d of 2d month, 1712. 12. Abigail, 3rd of 8th month, 1716. 13. Ann, 28th of 8th month, 1717. 14. Deb- orah, 12th of 3rd month, 1720. The Bible gives the children of Daniel and Anne, his wife, who died 24th of 7th month, 1742, as follows: I. Mary, 27th of Ist month, 1731 ; married William Levett Smith, 15th of 9th month, 1749. 2. Anne, Ist of 2d month, 1734, died 12th of 7th month, 1742. 3. Jacob, 4th of IIth month, 1736-37, died 9th of 7th month, 1742. 4. Mercy, 16th of 4th month, 1741,
died 14th of 7th month, 1742. In this record we see the mother and three of her four chil- dren carried away apparently by some epidemic in November, 1742, between the ninth and twenty-fourth of the month.
(III) Jacob (2), eldest son of Jacob (I) and Anne Doughten, was born in Flushing, Long Island, 27th of 10th month, 1696. He removed with his parents to Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey, became prominent in the affairs of that county and was a large land- owner in Chesterfield township in the vicinity of Moorestown, located in that part of the county adjoining Camden, formerly Glouches- ter county. He was overseer of highways in 1718. His marriage and the names of his chil- dren cannot be determined by any data that has been available, the current published archives and local histories of the township of Burlington county not having any data. His children appear to have changed the spell- ing of the name to Doughten, possibly with a view of avoiding confusion with the descend- ants of Edward Doughty, the immigrant an- cestor of the Doughtys of Absecom, Great Egg Harbor, who were in no way related.
( IV) There is no record of this generation. (V) William Doughten, born 1753, died 1824. He married and among his children was a son William, see forward.
(VI) William (2), son of William (I) Doughten, was born at Moorestown, New Jer- sey, 1783, died in 1844. He married Unity Folwell, born 1787, died in 1831. They were the parents of eleven children, of whom two are living at the present time ( 1909), namely : William, of Philadelphia, and his sister, who resides in Moorestown, New Jersey.
(VII) George F., son of William (2) and Unity (Folwell) Doughten, was born in Moorestown, Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, November 29, 1809, died there May 28, 1891. He opened a general store in Moorestown on the corner of Main and Chester streets in 1841, and he conducted the business for fifty years, selling the stock and good will to William Matlock in 1891. He had as a partner John Cordland, 1836-39. He was one of the founders and incorporators of the Medford National Bank, and his brother Frank became its president. He worshiped in St. Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church, Colestown, Delaware township, Camden coun- -ty, New Jersey, up to 1837, when he joined other churchmen in Moorestown in founding Trinity Church in that place, and he became one of the senior wardens on its organization,
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and his son Henry W. was made a vestryman. He was a large landholder in Moorestown, originally owning a large part of the township. He married Susan Assheton, who was a de- scendant of Dr. Ralph Assheton, son of Ralph and Susan (Rodman) Assheton, of Philadel- phia. Dr. Assheton jointed the District Medi- cal Society of the County of Burlington, New Jersey, in 1765. Susan Rodman was a descend- ant of Dr. John Rodman, who came from Bar- badoes, where he was born May 14, 1679, and married (first) Margaret Ray, and (second) Mary, daughter of William Willett, of Flush- ing, Long Island. He lived in Philadelphia, then in Boston, and about 1724 settled in Bur- lington, New Jersey, and practiced there thirty- two years. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and was a member of His Maj- esty's Council for the Province of New Jer- sey up to the time of his death, July 13, 1756. Dr. Ralph Assheton was born about 1736. The family were members of the Colonial aristoc- racy of Philadelphia and related to William Penn, who refers to "Cousin Assheton" in his letters. Dr. Assheton died January 4, 1774, and was probably buried in the family vault in Christ Church burial-ground in Philadel- phia. He removed from Burlington to Phila- delphia in 1765. Children of George F. and Susan ( Assheton) Doughten, born in Moores- town, New Jersey : I. Henry W., see forward. 2. Emma S., born in 1842, died in 1906.
(VIII) Henry W., only son of George F. and Susan (Assheton) Doughten, was born in Moorestown, Chester township, Burlington county, New Jersey, November 28, 1840, died there December 10, 1907. He was educated at the Friends School in Moorestown and at Dr. Lyons School, Haverford, Pennsylvania. He learned the business of merchandising in the store of his father and remained with him in the capacity of clerk for ten years, 1860-70. He then went into business on his own account, buying and selling seed, coal, wood and agri- cultural implements. He took out several patents, and later in life his business was wholesale entirely, in which he was actively engaged up to the time of his death. He was one of the founders of the Moorestown Na- tional Bank and of the Burlington County Safe Deposit and Trust Company ; and served as director in each. He was also a large owner and dealer in real estate. He conducted a farm of one hundred and ninety acres at Glou- cester. He was a vestryman in Trinity Church, Moorestown, of which his father was senior warden, and his uncle, Henry Doughten, one
of the first vestrymen. Mr. Doughten married (first) October, 1884, Anne Doughten, of Camden, New Jersey. Children : I. Henry W., see forward. 2. Helen S., born October 4, 1894. The mother of these children died January 2, 1896. Mr. Doughten married (sec- ond) Louise, daughter of Theodore and Louisa T. Chamberlain, of Moorestown, New Jersey. Children: 3. Marie Louise Chamberlain. 4. Susan Assheton.
(IX) Henry W. Jr., son of Henry W. (I) and Anna (Doughten) Doughten, was born in Moorestown, Burlington county, New Jersey, October 16, 1885. He was educated at Friends Academy at Moorestown and at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. He en- gaged in merchandising with his father in Moorestown, and at the death of his father purchased the business from the estate and carried it on alone as his father had done be- fore him. He affiliated with the Republican party, the college societies of Haverford, and the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he was baptized and confirmed.
Ozias N. Miller, the earliest MILLER member of this family of whom we have any information as being connected with New Jersey and its his- tory, was born in North Salem, Westchester county, New York, in 1818, and died in As- bury Park, Monmouth county, New Jersey, October 31, 1883. Until 1854 he was engaged in the produce business in New York City, but that year leasing the Peter Drummond farm of two hundred and ninety-six acres in Deal, Monmouth county, New Jersey, he settled there. In 1880 he went to reside in Asbury Park and retired from active life. For many years he was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at that place, and at one time a member of the First Church at Long Branch. He married Hannah, daughter of Aaron and Francythye (Conover) Conover (see Conover). Children : I. Albert Orrin, married Estelle Blauvelt ; children: Frederick Blauvelt and Albert Conover. 2. Frank Morti- mer, referred to below. 3. Carrie Wild, mar- lied Professor Nelson Haas. 4. Taulman Al- laire, referred to below. 5. Esther Conover.
(II) Frank Mortimer, son of Ozias N. and Hannah (Conover) Miller, was born in Deal, New Jersey, July 17, 1859, and is now living in Asbury Park, New Jersey. After receiving a public school education he became a clerk in a hardware and grocery store in Long Branch, and then obtained a position in the New York
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postoffice, which he retained for two years. He then returned to Asbury Park and became a bookkeeper in the Asbury Park and Ocean Grove Bank in 1900; was placed in charge of the branch of the same institution in Ocean Grove; was made assistant cashier in 1906. In politics Mr. Miller is a Republican, and for sixteen years he has been steward and treas- urer of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Asbury Park. He is unmarried.
(II) Taulman Allaire, son of Ozias and Hannah (Conover) Miller, was born in Deal, New Jersey, March 19, 1869. After receiving a good public school education he secured a position in 1886 in the First National Bank of Asbury Park, and in 1900 became the cashier of the Ocean Grove National Bank. He is a Republican, and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Asbury Park. He married, October 5, 1898, Edith May, daughter of Cornelius and Mary A. (Cooley) Finch, who was born at Jamesburg, New Jer- sey, June 26, 1876. No children. Children of Cornelius and Mary A. (Cooley) Finch: I. Edith, May, referred to above. 2. Cora, mar- ried Kenneth W. Towner; child, Reginald F. Towner. 3. Julia E., married Daniel C. Cor- nell; child, Edith M. Cornell.
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(V) Peter, son of Peter (q. v.) and Pa- tience (Daws) Covenhoven, was born January II, 1712. He married, December 17, 1735. Leah, born December 24, 1714, daughter of Jan Roelofse and Sarah (Covenhoven) Schenck. Children: I. John P., born Janu- ary 6, 1740, died December 24, 1811 ; married Jane McGalliard. 2. Patience, born March 29, 1742, died March 8, 1826; married, December I, 1765, Albert Covenhoven. 3. Sarah, born December 22, 1744, died May 13, 1826; mar- ried, February 19, 1867, Joseph Thompson. 4. Eleanor, born December 25, 1746; married Johannes Schenck. 5. Peter, born March 3, 1749. 6. Elias, born May 14, 1751 ; married, October 2, 1774, Catharine Forman. 7. Will- iam, referred to below. 8. Leah, born March 25, 1756; married, August, 1780, William Combs. 9. Rulif, born February 3, 1758; mar- ried Rachael Carr.
(VI) William P., son of Peter and Sarah (Schenck) Covenhoven, was born January 4, 1753, and died February 13, 1823. He bought from Gib Hendrickson a farm for his sons Richard and William; the latter died soon after, and the whole property was given to the former. He owned nearly the whole of Eng-
lishtown, including the mill, which he left to his son Samuel. He married Altia Jewell, who died March 4, 1813, aged sixty-nine years. Children : Samuel ; Richard, referred to below ; Jane, born October 21, 1771 ; Alice, February 4, 1774; William, August 6, 1777; Joseph, Au- gust 3, 1786, died May 2, 1849, married Alice Laird.
(VII) Richard Conover (note change in form of name), son of William P. and Altia (Jewell) Covenhoven, was born April 8, 1770, and died September 20, 1851. He married Hannah, daughter of James Reid. Children : I. James, married Shepherd. 2. Alchey, or Alice, died October 27, 1880, aged 78 years four months 28 days; married, December 26, 1821, Gilbert Hendrickson. 3. Eliza, married Joseph Horner. 4. Samuel, married (first) Mary Platt, (second) Matilda Reid. 5. Will- iam R., married (first) Eliza McKnight, (sec- ond) Deborah Tilton. 6. Richard, married Susan Vannote. 7. Aaron, referred to below.
(VIII) Aaron, son of Richard and Hannah (Reid) Conover, married Francythye Conover. Children : I. Esther, married William Miller ; Hannah, referred to below; Sophia, married George Van Artsdale; Ida; Mary P., married James B. Rogers.
(IX) Hannah, daughter of Aaron and Francythye (Conover) Conover, married Ozias N. Miller (q. v.)
Among the representative citi- BATEMAN zens of Somerville, who have aided materially in its devel- opment, upbuilding and substantial progress, may be mentioned Charles Heisler Bateman, a native of Pennington, New Jersey, born July 2, 1861, son of Charles Wesley and Mary (Bunn) Bateman, and grandson of Israel and Susan ( Bray) Bateman.
(I) Israel Bateman married, May 20, 1820, Susan, daughter of General Daniel Bray. Chil- dren: Charles Wesley, see forward; Whit- field Israel, Rhoda, Amy. Daniel Bray was commissioned to collect a fleet of boats at Lambertville with which General Washington crossed the Delaware at Trenton before the battle of Trenton.
(II) Charles Wesley, eldest son of Isreal and Susan (Bray) Bateman, was a farmer by occupation, an active member of the Methodist church, serving as superintendent of Sunday school at Pennington, New Jersey, for twelve years. He was a lifelong Republican in poli- tics, but never sought or held public office. He was highly respected and esteemed in the com-
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munity in which he resided, and he exerted an influence for good upon those with whom he was brought in contact. He married at Pen- nington, in 1850, Mary, daughter of Joshua and Fanny (Hoff) Bunn. Joshua Bunn was prominent in the vicinity of Trenton as a local preacher and justice of the peace; his ances- tors came from Holland, settling first on Long Island, from whence one of three brothers came to Pennington, New Jersey, in 1738, and purchased the farm which has since been in the possession of the family. Children of Joshua and Fanny (Hoff) Bunn : John Wesley Bunn, Sarah (Bunn) Vancleve, Mary (Bunn) Bateman. Children of Charles Wesley and Mary (Bunn) Bateman: Fannie A., born 1851; Annie M., born 1855; Charles Heisler, see forward.
(III) Charles Heisler, only son of Charles Wesley and Mary (Bunn) Bateman, attended the public schools of Pennington, and the knowledge thus acquired was supplemented by attendance at Pennington Seminary, from which he graduated in 1880, and then entered Princeton University, class of 1885. He began his active career as reporter for the State Ga- zette and Times of Trenton ; was city editor of the True American of Trenton for a period of four years ; legislative correspondent and polit- ical writer from 1887 to 1908; represented the New York Evening Post, Philadelphia Even- ing Telegraph, Paterson Press, Trenton True American, and the Associated Press during that time; became editor and part owner of the Unionist-Gazette at Somerville, New Jer- sey, 1891, in connection with legislative work. The Unionist-Gazette Association, of which Mr. Bateman is the sole manager, conducts an extensive printing and publishing business, being one of the leading industries of Somer- ville and a prominent factor in the growth and welfare of that place. Mr. Bateman has been a member of the Somerville Board of Educa- tion for ten years, and is a member of the board of directors of the Somerville Dime Sav- ings Bank. He is a member of the Second Re- formed Church of Somerville. He is a Re- publican in politics ; he served twice as private secretary to the president of the senate of New Jersey when office was held by Charles A. Reed and by Lewis A. Thompson; was appointed a member of state civil service commission in 1908, and reappointed by Governor Fort in 1910. He holds membership in the New Jer- sey Legislative Correspondents' Club, serving as president in 1909.
Mr. Bateman married, at Newark, New Jer-
sey, June 25, 1896, Louise Palmer, born at Alamuchy, New Jersey, October 16, 1869, daughter of Abraham M. and Sarah ( Knowles) Palmer. Abraham M. Palmer was a Meth- odist minister, pastor of many leading churches of Northern New Jersey ; for fifty-seven years a member of the Newark Conference, and for forty years treasurer of the same. Children of Abraham M. and Sarah (Knowles) Pal- mer: Abraham J. Palmer, Mary (Palmer) Dickinson: Edmund Janes Palmer, Louise ( Palmer ) Bateman. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Bateman : Charles Palmer, born July 27, 1898. Ruth, November 10, 1900.
BLANCHARD Squire Blanchard, the first member of the family of whom we have definite in-
formation, was a highly respected farmer of Nashua, New Hampshire. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He married Rachel Searles, who was of English extraction, and they were the parents of nine children; a daughter died in infancy; the others are: Rachel Elvira, Noah Farwell (referred to below), David O., Ann Eliza, Samuel F., Harriet, Martha, Charles C.
(II) Noah Farwell, son of Squire and Rachel (Searles) Blanchard, was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, January 27, 1822, and died in Newark, New Jersey, May II, 1881. Until he was fifteen years old he assist- ed his father on the farm and attended the district school. He served an apprenticeship at the leather trade in Nashua, acquiring a thorough knowledge of the same, and in 1844 located in Wilmington, Massachusetts. He had many difficulties to encounter from busi- ness depressions and the dishonesty of those in whom he trusted, but never lost his de- termination to succeed, and in 1847 came to Newark, New Jersey, in order to accept em- ployment in the leather manufacturies of T. P. Howell & Company. He shortly afterward be- came general superintendent of the company, and later was admitted as a member of the firm. In 1860 he dissolved his partnership and estab- lished a leather business on his own account, which he conducted alone for two years, when he was joined by his brother, David O. Blanch- ard, and the firm become known under the name of N. F. Blanchard & Brother. At the outbreak of the civil war the United States government awarded to Mr. Blanchard a con- tract for knapsacks, haversacks, etc., for the Federal troops, and this resulted in the firm being obliged to work day and night, with a
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force of four hundred hands, in order to ful- fill the contract. In 1869 Mr. P. Van Zant Lane became a member of the firm, and the establishment was known as Blanchard, Brother & Lane became one of the best known of the larger manufacturers of patent and enamel leather in the United States. Mr. Blanchard advanced rapidly in popular esteem as a thorough business man.
In social and religious matters he took an active part. He was a member of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, and for twenty- five years president of its board of trustees; was president of the Law and Order Associa- tion of Newark in 1879 when that body made its famous campaign against Sabbath desecra- tion, and was nominated as its candidate for mayor, but refused to accept. In politics he was a staunch Republican. He was a member of the Newark Board of Trade, and of the board of directors of the Merchants' Fire In- surance Company. He was one of the promi- nent Newark citizens who organized the Pru- dential Life Insurance Company, and from 1879 until his death served as its president. He maintained confidence in the future of the company as a means of protection to the fam- ilies of the great industrial classes. In all busi- ness dealings he observed to the fullest extent fairness, and always insisted on the rights and interests of others being considered. He was genial in personal traits, approachable at all times, a true friend, large-hearted as well as broad-minded, popular with all, and inspired confidence in all who had dealings with him. He was a selfmade man in the fullest sense of that often misused term. He carved out his own way, unaided, and it has been well said of him that his career illustrated most forcibly what can be accomplished by steady applica- tion, industry, integrity and sobriety. Mr. Blanchard was an ardent Mason, a member of Newark Lodge No. 7, Union Chapter No. 7, and Damascus Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar. In 1873 he was instrumental in organizing the Newark Industrial Institute, for the purpose of placing on exhibition the varied industries of the city, which resulted largely in promoting those industries.
Mr. Blanchard married, July 25, 1844, Eme- line Cordelia, daughter of Jesse Powers, who died during her infancy. Her mother married (second) Moses Wood, and her daughter as- sumed the name of her stepfather and was most generally known as Emeline C. Wood. Children of Noah Farwell and Emeline C. (Powers-Wood) Blanchard: I. Emma Cath-
erine; married Isaac H. Searles; both de- ceased; children: i. Clifton Elmer Searles, of Chester, New Jersey, who has a wife and four children; ii. Cora May Searles, married Miles Macon. 2. Theodore Charles Edwin; served as vice-president of the Blanchard, Brother & Lane Company, and at the present time (1910) superintendent of real estate in the Prudential Life Insurance Company ; mar- ried Fannie E. Wilson; children: i. Flora, married Dillon Beebe ; two children : Theodore B. and a babe; ii. Mabel, widow of C. Edger- ton Allcot ; children: C. Edgerton Jr. and Dorothy ; iii. Leslie, unmarried; iv. Edith, mar- ried Albert McCluse ; child, Lester. 3. Leon Noah Farwell ; interested in a number of busi- ness concerns in Newark and elsewhere ; mar- ried (first) Lavin Roberts; (second) Annie Barry; children: i. Bertha, married a Mr. Clayton ; ii. Harry, unmarried ; iii. Edna, mar- ried Carl Sutphin, M. D .; one child, Kenneth ; iv. Wallace, married Charlotte Ward; v. Ly- nus, married. 4. Frederick Clinton, referred to below. 5. William Washington, twin with Lillie Letitia, married Harriet E. Dickinson ; children : i. Ralph, unmarried; ii. Lillie, mar- ried William Crabb, no children ; iii. Edith, un- married. 6. Lillie Letitia, married James H. Hart; children: i. Percy G., married Emily Adams; children : Percy G., Jr., and Mary Frances Hart; ii. Edith Lillie Cordelia, mar- ried Walter Martin Kremenz ; one child, James. H. ; iii. William H., died in infancy. 7. Milton Elvin, married Julia T. Mercer ; children : El- vin and Harold. 8. Effie May, married Julian H. Walter ; child, Effie May.
(III) Frederick Clinton, son of Noah Far- well and Emeline Cordelia (Powers-Wood) Blanchard, was born in Newark, New Jersey, September 13, 1856, and is now living in Con- vent, near Morristown, New Jersey. For his. early education he was sent to the Newark public schools and afterward to the Newark high school. He then engaged in business. with his father, working his way up gradually until he became superintendent of the factory. In 1889 he became one of the directors of the Prudential Life Insurance Company, and is. now also the supervisor of its loan depart- ment. He is the worthy son of a great father, inheriting many of his father's best traits and characteristics. Like his father he is a Re- publican, and has served four years on the Newark board of education.' He is also an ardent believer in and worker for secret and fraternal organizations, being a past master of St. John's Lodge, No. 1, Free and Accepted
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Masons; member of Kane Council, No. 2; Union Chapter, No. 7; Damascus Command- ery, No. 5, Knights Templar; Scottish Rite Consistory of Jersey City, and Salem Temple. He is a member of the New Jersey Historical Society, and of the Methodist Episcopal church in Morristown. Mr. Blanchard married, June 7, 1882, in Woodbridge, New Jersey, Mary Elizabeth Dickinson, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, September 21, 1859, daughter of the Rev. George F. and Julia Ann (Van Dorne) Dickinson, the former of whom was for many years pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church. Children of Rev. George F. and Julia Ann (Van Dorne) Dickinson: 1. Mary Eliz- abeth, referred to above. 2. Harriet E., mar- ried. William Washington Blanchard, brother of Frederick Clinton Blanchard; children : Ralph; Lillie, married William Crabb, and Edith. 3. Charles B., deceased ; married Marie Green ; child, Harriet. 4. George F., married Elizabeth Bourn; children: Marie and Vir- ginia. Children of Frederick Clinton and Mary Elizabeth (Dickinson) Blanchard: I. Maud Ella, married Harold H. Hurlburt. 2. Nellie May, married Augustus G. Belden ; children : Augustus G. Jr. and Mary Elizabeth. 3. Fred- erick Clinton Jr. 4. Ruth Elizabeth.
Of all the families bearing the SMITH patronymic of Smith, which have been connected with the history and progress of New Jersey, there is none that has ranked so high as and had so honorable a record as that commonly known as the Bur- lington Smiths, which had among its members such names as Dr. Jonathan Smith, William Morris Smith, James Logan Smith, and, in the present day, Francis Hopkinson Smith. An unfortunate paucity of record makes it im- possible at the present time to state definitely exactly where the branch at present under con- sideration is connected with the Burlington Smiths, but all of the indications point to the ancestry being in the line of George Smith, of Burlington.
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