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(VI) Timothy, son of Daniel and Jemima (Johnson) Tuttle, was born in Hanover, Mor- ris county, New Jersey, September 18, 1748, and died there June 16, 1816. He served as a captain in the revolution, and July 4, 1790, made profession of religion at Whippany, Morris county. He married Mary, daughter of Timothy Cooper Ward (see Ward). Chil- dren: I. James, born January 23, 1782, died February 6, 1884; married, November 13, 1806, Elizabeth, daughter of Phinehas Far- rand, who was born May 13, 1787 ; eight chil- dren. 2. Ashbell, born October 1, 1783, died in New York City, January 21, 1829; married Harriet Halsey, who was born June 9, 1790, and died September 23, 1849; seven children. 3. Captain Timothy Jr., born September 17, 1785, died September 7, 1855; married Sus-
anna Washburn Lee, who was born October 4, 1793 ; eight children. 4. Ambrose. 5. Phebe, referred to below. 6. Elizabeth, died in Au- gust, 1852; married Harvey Davis, and re- moved to Schnectady, New York. 7. Lydia, died March 24, 1843, unmarried. 8. Mary Ward, referred to below. 9. Ambrose Johns- ton, died unmarried; lived Fentonville, Cha- tauqua county, New York.
(VII) Phebe, daughter of Captain Timothy and Mary (Ward) Tuttle, was born about 1789, and died December 22, 1843, aged fifty- four years. She married October 5, 1822, Jo- seph, son of William and Mary (Duckworth) Bleything, a native of Wrexham, England, who had emigrated to Whippany. (See above).
(VII) Mary Ward, daughter of Captain Timothy and Mary (Ward) Tuttle, was born in Whippany, Morris county, New Jersey, July 25, 1804, and died there, April 20, 1882. She married, January, 1836, Edmund Langstroth, son of Joseph and Mary ( Hughes) Bleything, a step-son of her sister, Phebe. (See above).
(The Ward Line).
(III) Caleb, son of John, the dish turner (q. v.), and Sarah Ward, died February 9, 1735, aged sixty-six years. In 1709 he was overseer of the poor in Newark, and from the inscription on his tombstone he is generally known as Caleb, "honest and pious." Chil- dren: Elizabeth, married Moses Ward ; Caleb, "of Canoe Brook," died 1746, married Han- nah -; Timothy; Theophilus, referred to below; Thomas; John; Stephen; Mary, married - Smith ; Sarah, married Sealy ; Hannah, married Woodruff.
(IV) Theophilus, son of Caleb Ward, died about 1783, leaving a will in which he names his son Joseph. Other children : Caleb ; Timothy Cooper, referred to below.
(V) Timothy Cooper, son of Theophilus Ward, lived in Hanover, Morris county, New Jersey, and died there March 13, 1816, in the eighty-first year of his age. He married Jerusha -- -, who died in Whippany, March 21, 18II, aged seventy-four years two months. Children: Mary, referred to below ; Elizabeth, married Joseph Brittin; Lydia, married Jona- than Bruin; Phebe, married Jacob Gray.
(VI) Mary, daughter of Timothy Cooper and Jerusha Ward, died in Whippany, New Jersey, June 5, 1851, in the ninety-first year of her age. She married Captain Timothy, son of Daniel and Jemima (Johnson) Tuttle (see Tuttle ).
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The Forman, Foreman, or Fur-
FORMAN man, and also as the name is sometimes spelt, Firman, fam- ily, is one of the oldest of the English families in this country, having been in New England before 1630, when John and Giles Firmin came over with the fleet bringing Governor Win- throp. The family had spread into New Jer- sey as early as 1681, when George Foreman bought in company with John Inians 640 acres near what is now New Brunswick, and the name has been one of the representative names of Monmouth county since 1688, when Sam- uel and Aaron Forman went there, and 1691, when Thomas Forman followed them. The original home of the Formans was Sudbury, county Suffolk, England.
(I) Robert Forman, founder of the branch of the family at present under consideration, is first heard of as one of the original patentees of the town of Flushing, Long Island, in 1645. He was later chosen by Governor Stuyvesant in 1658 to be one of the two magistrates of Hempstead, and in 1664 he was appointed as one of the two magistrates of Oyster Bay, then under the English colony of Connecticut. His will is dated February 7, 1671, and mentions sons : Moses, married Hannah Crooker ; Aaron, referred to below ; Samuel, married Mary Ann (or Miriam), daughter of Simon Hoyt. His wife's name was Joanna.
(II) Aaron, son of Robert and Joanna For- man, of Flushing, was born about 1637, and removed to Monmouth county, New Jersey, about 1688. By his wife Dorothy he had chil- dren: Aaron Jr., married Susannah Town- send ; Alexander, married Rachel -; Sam- uel, referred to below ; Thomas, married Mary Allen.
(III) Samuel, son of Aaron and Dorothy Forman, born 1662, died 1740, also as well as his father and brother Thomas, removed to Monmouth county, where he was commis- sioned high sheriff in 1695 by Goveronr An- drew Hamilton. He is mentioned in the archives of New Jersey as among those who siezed and kept under guard the governor, the justices, the attorney-general, and other officials, from a Tuesday to the following Saturday, in March, 1701, in order to prevent the authorities from trying for piracy one of their own people. Samuel Forman married Mary Wilbur, of Providence, Rhode Island. Children: I. Sam- uel, born 1686, died 1746 ; married ( first) Mar- tha Brownell; (second) Mary Reed. 2. Jon- athan, referred to below. 3. Hannah, born December 24, 1689, died January II, 1755;
married William Maddock. 4. Rebecca, born 1696, died September 14, 1748; married a Van Cleef. 5. Mary, born 1697, married a Romine. 6. Aaron, born May 22, 1699, died January 13, 1741 ; married Ursula, daughter of Archibald Craig. 7. John, born September 23, 1701, died November 25, 1748; married Jane Wyckoff. 8. Joseph, born December, 1703, died July 14, 1775 ; married Elizabeth Lee ; had among other children General David Forman, the hero of Monmouth, whose daughter Rivine became first wife of James Neilson Esq., of New Brunswick. 9. Ezekiel, born November I, 1706, died October 3, 1746, married Elizabeth Seabrokke.
(IV) Jonathan, second child and son of Samuel and Mary (Wilbur) Forman, was born in 1688, and died in 1762. He married Margaret Wyckoff, born 1693, died December 21, 1765. Children: 1. Elinor, born 1713 ;died 1733 ; married Abraham Van Dorn. 2. Samuel, born November 13, 1714, died January 18, 1792 ; married, May 26, 1752, Helena Demise. 3. John, born September 14, 1716, died 1799; married Rebecca Taylor. 4. Peter, born May, 1719, died September 8, 1785; married Elinor Williamson. 5. Jonathan Jr., born 1722, died May 20, 1758; married Sarah Throckmorton. 6. Mary, married Robert Rhea. 7. William, born 1729, died 1735. David, referred to below.
(V) David, youngest child of Jonathan and Margaret (Wyckoff) Forman, was born Octo- ber 1, 1733, and died March 30, 1812. He was the sheriff of Monmouth county during the revolutionary war, and his commission is in the possession of the New Jersey Historical soci- ety. June 16, 1757, he married (first) Anna Denise, half sister to his sister-in-law, Helena (Denise) Forman, his brother Samuel's wife. born June 16, 1736, died September 9, 1798. December 4, 1799, he married (second) widow Elinor Van Brunt. Children of David and Anna (Denise) Forman were: I. Jonathan, born April 16, 1758, died January, 1803; mar- ried Hope, sister to Major John Burrowes. 2. Tunis, born 1761, died 1835; married Eleanor Remsen. 3. Samuel, referred to below. 4. Anna, married Corlies Lloyd.
(VI) Samuel, third child and youngest son of Sheriff David and Anna (Denise) Forman, was born in 1764, and died December 11, 1845. He studied medicine with Dr. Henderson, and it is said in Philadelphia also, although he did not graduate from the university there. He received his medical license in May, 1788, and at that time was received as a member of the
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New Jersey medical society. He commenced practice in his native town of Freehold in 1790, and continued in it until near the close of his life. He was highly esteemed as a citizen, and possessed a decidedly religious character. He was chosen one of the first elders of the Pres- byterian church in Freehold, of which he was one of the founders. He was buried in the Ten- nant churchyard near Freehold. Dr. Samuel Forman married (first) in 1790, Ann Rogers, of Bordentown, who bore him no children and died before 1795, when he married (second) Sarah Throckmorton, by whom he had three sons and one daughter: I. David, born Sep- tember 23, 1796, died in Freehold, 1826, stud- ied medicine and received his license in 1820. 2. Richard, was in early life a merchant, and later retired to his farm in Monmouth, where he died. 3. John Fisher T., referred to below. 4. A daughter.
(VII) John Fisher T. (Throckmorton (2) ), youngest son of Doctor Samuel and Sarah (Throckmorton ) Forman, was born in Free- hold, Monmouth county, in 1798, and died in 1877. He was a farmer in his native county all his life, and owned several farms between Freehold and the shore. He married Fran- sanshy Smock, of Marlborough, New Jersey. Children : 1. Sarah E., married Howard Sin- nickson, of Salem, New Jersey. 2. David. 3. John Fisher T. Jr., married Catharine Holmes. 4. Samuel Randolph, M. D., of Jersey City ; married Mary Wilder Alling. 5. Annie, mar- ried Uriel Titus, of Trenton. 6. Charles D. B., married Sarah E. Conover. 7. Margaretta. 8. Daniel McLean, referred to below. 9. Child, died in infancy.
(VIII) Daniel McLean, child of John Fisher T. and Fransanshy (Smock) Forman, was born in Freehold, in 1845, and died there March 29, 1909. He was educated at the Freehold Institute and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City. He then spent some time as surgeon in Bellevue Hos- pital, New York, and at St. Luke's Hospital, New York. During the latter years of the civil war he was a surgeon in the navy. After the war he settled in Freehold in the practice of his profession in 1869, and continued there in active practice until his death. He was one of the surgeons at the Monmouth Hospital at Long Branch, and was on the board of man- agers of the State Insane Asylum at Trenton many years. He was a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association and State Medical Society, and secretary of the Monmouth Coun- ty Medical Society thirty years. He was a
Democrat. He was a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Royal Arcanum, United Work- men, and Royal Benevolent Association. For many years he was an elder in the Presbyterian church.
In 1874, Doctor Daniel McLean Forman married Elizabeth, the daughter of Dr. Jacob Vanderveer of Long Branch, New Jersey. Their children are: I. Eliza R., married Fred- erick N. Whitcomb, of Freehold, who is with the A. P. Smith Manufacturing Company of Newark, New Jersey ; one child : McLean Forman. 2. Edward Gale, referred to below.
(IX) Edward Gale, only son of Daniel Mc- Lean, M. D., and Elizabeth ( Vanderveer ) For- man, was born in Freehold, Monmouth coun- ty, in 1877, and is now living in that town. He was educated in the town schools, graduating from the Freehold Institute in 1895, and from the New York Law School in 1902, having previously studied law with Judge William H. Vredenburg, of Freehold. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attorney in 1902 and as counsellor in 1908. Since 1902 he has been practicing in Freehold. He is a vestryman of St. Peter's Protestant Episcopal Church in Freehold. He is a member of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16, F. and A. M., of Freehold. He is unmarried.
The Willguss family, of WILLGUSS which Delancy Walter Will- guss, of Red Bank, New Jersey, is a representative, is undoubtedly de- scended from English stock. In books on heraldry the following descriptions of the coat- of-arms belonging to the family appears : "Wildgoose (Kent), vert. on a chev. ar. be- tween three lions heads erased or, as many quatrefoils sa.," which means that the shield was green, with a chevron, i. e., an inverted V of silver on the face of the shield, between three lions' heads of gold, with the neck edged or serrated as if the head had been torn off, and with three black four-leafed clovers on the chevron. Another is "Wildgoose, or Wil- gos," gold field, and on a black shevron be- tween three black lions' heads with broken necks, three golden four-leafed clovers ("or. on a chev. betw. three lions heads erased sa. as many quatrefoils of the field"). Still an- other is "Wildgoose or Wilgos (judge of court in Essex and Sussex)" a silver field with black band across the middle, with three gold rings around the center of the shield. ("Ar. on fesse sa. three annulets or."). This was accompanied by a crest consisting of a wild man clothed only
lancy Whilgnas.
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with a green wreath around both his head and loins, and bearing a great club. The meaning of these various devices on the shield is as follows: The chevron meant that the bearer had accomplished some memorable work, com- pleted some important business, or been the founder of his family. The fesse or bar across the middle of the shield "is supposed to repre- sent the waist belt or girdle of honor which was one of the insignia of knighthood." The lion represents kinship with royalty, and the crest representing the wild man, naked, wreathed about the temples and waist with leaves and holding a club, was precisely the same as each of the two figures that constitute the supporters of the arms of the kings of Denmark (Cussan's Hand-book of Heraldry ). The family name seems to have taken various forms as the years passed. In court records we find it in the form of Wilgris, Wildigos, Wilgrice and Wilgress, and other forms, but it is found in the form of Wilgus as early as 1586.
There seem to have been two by the name of William Wilgus and one by the name of James Wilgus in the revolutionary war from New Jersey. From the best information at hand at present, there seems to have been in New Jersey about the middle of the last cen- tury, five brothers at least (possibly descended from the William and James above named, or perhaps William was one of them ) from whom five different lines of the Wilgus family are descended. Members of the family have gen- erally been farmers, merchants, traders or stock dealers, or store-keepers, plain, all-around business men, although there have been many school teachers, several lawyers and some min- isters. Although the name does not seem to be very numerously inscribed high on the rolls of fame, the family in all its branches has been characterized by being made up of active, vigorous, sturdy men and women, many of them of more than ordinary intellectual capacity and acquirement ; strong-willed, yet withal, under nearly all circumstances, open to conviction by fair reasoning, and as a rule of most excellent business judgment and broad public spirit. In fact, the family has made up a liberal-minded, law-abiding, progressive, public-spirited citizenship such as in the mass of our people makes up the strength, the sta- bility, the dignity and a large part of the honor of the Republic.
(I) John Willguss, the first member of the line here under consideration of whom there is definite information, was a farmer in Sussex
county, New Jersey. His wife Mary bore him two children: John, referred to below, and Samuel.
(II) John (2), son of John ( I) and Mary Willguss, was born in Sussex county, New Jersey, December 25, 1797, died there Decem- ber 24, 1868. He was a farmer. During the Mexican war he drilled for a soldier and was captain of a company, but was not called upon to serve actively. He was a Whig in politics. His chief recreation was hunting, and he was one of the noted sportsmen of the country in his day. He also for a time taught singing school. He married Eliza Ann, daughter of Walter and Ann McCann, of Sussex county ; she was born in 1806, died in 1869. Children : I. Minerva E., born 1839; married Henry Kishpaugh ; children : Charles, Clarence, Lillie, Annie and Hampton Kishbaugh. 2. Mercy Jane, born 1843, died 1861. 3. George Win- sor, born October 6, 1846; married Ida Ander- son ; children: Alva, Glenn, Leon A. and Cecil D .; they reside in Baldwin, Kansas. 4. Delancy Walter, referred to below.
(III) Delancy Walter, son of John (2) and Eliza Ann (McCann) Willguss, was born near Andover, Sussex county, New Jersey, Decem- ber 7, 1850, and is now living at Red Bank, Monmouth county, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public schools, after leaving which he spent three years in the State Normal School at Trenton, from which he graduated in 1873. In 1876 he began studying law in the same offices which he now occupies, with the firm of Applegate & Nevius, who occupied those offices at that time, and was admitted to the New Jersey bar as attor- ney in 1880 and as counsellor in 1900. While pursuing his legal studies he taught school, first in New Brunswick and afterwards in sev- eral places in Monmouth county. Since his admission to the bar he has been engaged in the general practice of his profession in Red Bank. Mr. Willguss has served as trustee of the Methodist Episcopal church in Red Bank, and is now serving as treasurer of the same. He is a Republican in politics. He is record- ing secretary of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, of Red Bank, and a member of the Royal Arcanum and the Inde- pendent Order of Foresters. He married, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2, 1875, Emma L., born August 17, 1856, died March IO, 1910, daughter of Joel T. and Margaret (Reid) Clayton. Children: Flora E., born April 27, 1876; Ralph O., April 7, 1886.
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EVERITT Jacob Everitt, founder of the New Jersey family of his name. and the earliest member of whom we have definite information, was born in Germany, about 1735. He emigrated with his brother to America when about twenty years old and settled first in Hunterdon coun- ty, New Jersey, where he married. He was a physician, and author of a medical work which was long a standard authority in Germany. He is said to have performed active service during the French and Indian war, and to have been present at the battle of Ticonderoga. About 1770 he removed to Montague township, Sus- sex county, New Jersey, where he remained until his death, about 1800 or 1802. He mar- ried Hannah Langafelt, daughter of a Presby- terian clergyman. Children: I. John, private in Captain Harker's company, Second Regi- ment Sussex county militia, during the revolu- tion. 2. Christian. 3. Jacob, shot during the Whiskey war in Pennsylvania, 1794; private in Captain Ribble's company, First Regiment Sussex county militia, during the revolution. 4 Godfrey, private, Morris county militia, dur- ing the revolution. 5. Abraham, one of the first settlers in Oswego county, New York. 6. Isaac, referred to below. 7. Marshall, removed to Michigan, in 1835. 8. George, removed also to Michigan.
(II) Isaac, son of Dr. Jacob and Hannah (Langafelt) Everitt, was born in Montague township, Sussex county, New Jersey, March 13, 1771, died there March 7, 1833. He learn- ed the trade of blacksmith, which he followed for some time, but later gave up in order to turn farmer. He was a man of standing and influence in the community, possessed of a strong will and self-reliant nature, and was a Whig in politics. He filled various township offices, and in 1817 was appointed a justice of the peace. He married, in 1797, Mary, born 1777, died June 23, 1835, daughter of Daniel Davis. Children : I. John Davis, referred to below. 2. Betsy, born February 10, 1800, died August 19, 1828; married Abraham Shimer. 3. George B., born June 14, 1802, died May 22, 1874. 4. Jane Westbrook, born August 24, 1804, died September 18, 1835. 5. Mary Ann, born February 26, 1807; married Isaac J. Labar, of Wyoming county, Pennsylvania. 6. Hannah, born October 10, 1809, died January I, 1840; married Elisha Depue. 7. Allen, re- ferred to below. 8. Catharine, born January 9, 1817, died January 16, 1856; married John M. Barlow, of Michigan. 9. Isaac Jr., born
December 31, 1818. 10. Matthew L., born No- vember 10, 1822, died April 28, 1872.
(III) John Davis, son of Isaac and Mary (Davis) Everitt, was born in Montague town- ship, Sussex county, New Jersey, March 23, 1798, died there in 1877. In early life he fitted himself for the profession of a teacher, which he followed for some years, but afterwards gave up in order to become a merchant and farmer. In the community in which he lived he was a man of considerable prominence as an old Line Whig, and was active in the county politics of his day. At one time he was a jus- tice of the peace, and at another one of the asso- ciate judges of Sussex county. He married Ro- anna, daughter of Daniel and Lena or Catharine (Rosencrans) Decker (see Rosencrans). Chil- dren: I. Katy Jane, married John B. Layton. 2. Daniel Davis, of Montague, New Jersey. 3. Isaac J., referred to below. 4. Martin Cole, born February 4, 1828, died at Port Jervis, New York, December 23, 1899; married, Octo- ber 9, 1860, Louisa Armstrong ; three children. 5. Robert H., of Centreville, New Jersey. 6. Allen, died 1851, aged twenty-one years.
(IV) Isaac J., son of John Davis and Ro- anna (Decker ) Everitt, was born at Montague, Sussex county, New Jersey, December 5, 1825, and died in Orange, Essex county, New Jersey, November 1I, 1875. When he was seven years old his parents removed to Sandyston, Sussex county, where he began life as a clerk in his father's store. For one year he attended school at Dingman's Ferry, Pennsylvania, but his edu- cation was of a practical character and was received mostly behind his father's counter. He was industrious, faithful and capable, and in 1846 entered the employ of Day & Bailey, of Orange, being recommended to them in the highest terms by Mr. Joseph Fleming, of Mon- tague. Here he made himself so useful to his employers that they found him almost in- dispensible, and in 1849 he bought out 'Squire Day's interest in the business and became junior member of the new firm of Bailey & Everitt, which occupied the old corner of Day and Main streets until 1860, when they moved into their new building and the Music Hall building was erected on their old site. Mr. Everitt always took a great interest in local affairs, and worked untiringly for the success of every measure by which he thought the town would be benefited, and in such an unostenta- tious way that often the credit went to others. It was principally through his influence that the first telegraph line was brought to Orange,
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the office being originally in the old store of Bailey & Everitt, and later on in the Library building. He was one of the original Repub- licans in Orange, and an ardent supporter of the government during the civil war. He was also at the head of a movement to save Orange from the consequences of the draft by hiring substitutes for Orange men. He had great influence at Trenton, and in 1867 was very active in supporting the passage of an act by which Newark would have been set off from the rest of Essex county and Orange would have become the county seat, a result which lacked but little of success. When Orange was incorporated he was active in securing the passage of the charter. From its inception until the time of his death he was a manager of the Orange Savings Bank, and also of the Republic Trust Company of Newark. For many years he was a director of the Orange National Bank, but withdrew at the time of a change in its administration. Until his death he was treasurer of the Rosedale Cemetery Company, and for many years appraiser for all insurance companies who desired to effect loans on property in the vicinity of Orange, and his valuation was the generally accepted standard on Orange property. Mr. Everitt was one of the most active members of the joint water committee, and it was owing to his individual efforts that the experiments were mnade which resulted in a plentiful supply of water for Orange. He was also the most efficient street commissioner Orange ever had. His quickness of perception and earnestness in every cause which he espoused made him an invaluable ally and a most formidable op- ponent. As an organizer and worker in polit- ical affairs he was one of the most valuable members of his party in his day. During the contest which resulted in the election of Abra- ham Lincoln to the presidency, he was inde- fatigable and devoted in promoting the success of the Republican cause in Orange. During the war his warm support of the administra- tion left no one in doubt as to his attitude in the conflict. He was impetuous in disposition, and would become thoroughly aroused upon the receipt of favorable news from the battle field. When news was received in Orange of the capture of Fort Donelson, that memorable victory which came like a gleam of sunshine in a day of cloud and despondency, Mr. Everitt, who was one of the first to hear the announce- ment, rushed hastily forth, procured the key of the First Presbyterian Church, entered the building headlong and hatless, mounted the
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