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belfry, and rang the old bell in such a tumul- tuous manner as to electrify the whole com- munity. He was one of the largest property owners in Orange, being the possessor of real estate in all parts of the city, which he held in his own name individually, besides owning a large amount in partnership with Mr. Bailey and Mr. John L. Blake. In addition, he also owned a large farm in Belleville.
He died in the prime of life, and his loss was deeply felt throughout the whole commu- nity. During his last illness, Hon. Cortlandt Parker, of Newark, writing to a friend in Orange, said: "I trust he will pull through, as the country can spare no such man." At a special meeting held for the purpose of tak- ing action on his death, the common council of Orange said in its resolutions: "For the last thirty years he has been a resident of Orange, and identified with its growth and prosperity. During nearly the whole of that period he has occupied a .prominent place in public affairs. He never refused the primary obligation of citizenship, that every man shall do in his own place and in his own way the utmost in his power for the general good. Of the city as of the former town and township he has ever been one of the chief supports. He was of the few who are absolutely without ambition for office. Many of our local improvements are due to his wise forecast and the same dili- gence tempered by the same prudence which he exhibited in the details of his private busi- ness were conspicuous in the performance of all his public trusts. His sagacity was unusual, his energy untiring. Whatever he had to do was done with all his might, and it was always well done. With pleasing manners and a strange power of personal magnetism, it is not to be wondered at that he compelled success." Mr. Everitt's baptismal name was Isaac, but there being several other Isaac Everitts in Sus- sex county, where he was born, he adopted the initial "J" for purposes of differentiation. Mr. Dayalways insisted upon calling him "John," and by that name he came to be generally known in Orange, and although he always signed him- self "Isaac J. Everitt," he never took any pains to deny that the "J" stood for "John."
He married Martha Britton, daughter of James Britton and Mary Dayton ( Foster ) Arm- strong ( see Armstrong ), who was born in Mon- tague, Sussex county, New Jersey. June II, 1825 : died in Orange, August 2. 1878. Chil- dren: I. Edward Allen, referred to below. 2. Mary Louisa, married J. Roland Mix; chil- dren : Louise, Julia Roland, Dorothy. 3. John
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Davis, referred to below. 4. Robert Armstrong, of Basking Ridge, New Jersey ; married Mary Freeman ; children : Britton and James Foster. 5. Fannie Armstrong, married Percy Hayward Hall, of 288 Central avenue, Orange; three children. 6. Willis Britton, referred to below.
(V) Edward Allen, son of Isaac J. and Martha Britton ( Armstrong) Everitt, was born on Day street, near William street, Orange, New Jersey, April 19, 1854. He attended the best private schools and then entered Belle- fonte (Pennsylvania) Academy, from which he graduated in the class of 1872. As clerk he then entered the firm of Bailey & Everitt (his father's grocery and dry-goods store), con- tinuing in that capacity there until his father's death. A new copartnership was then formed and a former clerk, George W. Kynor, being a member, the name was changed to Bailey, Everitt & Company, and notwithstanding the changes since made by death, the business was carried on in Orange under that name until 1908.
Mr. Everitt is an active, energetic business man, and in this respect is a fit representative of his worthy father. He became his father's successor as manager of the Orange Savings Bank, and in April, 1899, was chosen treasurer. He was one of the founders and the first vice- president of the Second National Bank of Orange. He is thoroughly interested in every- thing which pertains to the improvement and advancement of the interests of Orange, but he does not care for political life. He is a staunch Republican, and his opinions are highly valued by his party. He is a member of the Newark Board of Trade, and through his great- grandfather, Lieutenant Thomas Armstrong, a member of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
He married, October 10, 1889, in Jersey City, Ellen G. Fields, born in Jersey City, Sep- tember 26, 1857, daughter of James B. and Rachel W. (Walmsley) Fields. Her father was born June 23, 1834, and her mother, Au- gust 16, 1832. Her grandfather was Peter Fields, son of James Fields, of Rockland coun- ty, New York. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Everitt : Edward Allen Jr., born August 23, 1891 ; Ellen M., September 2, 1893.
(V) John Davis, son of Isaac J. and Martha Britton ( Armstrong ) Everitt, was born on Day street, near William street, Orange, New Jer- sey, November 6, 1858. For his early educa- tion he was sent to the public schools of Orange, and afterward to the Orange high school. He entered the office of William T. Meredith,
banker and broker, and member of the New York Stock Exchange, and was admitted to partnership August 1, 1891. By his industry and ability he gradually rose step by step until May 1, 1893, he went into partnership with George A. Benwell, the name of the firm being Benwell & Everitt. On May 15, 1899, the firm became John D. Everitt & Company by the retirement of Mr. Benwell and the admission to the firm of Willis B. Everitt. Mr. Everitt is a Republican, and he is regarded as one of the strongest men of his party in the Oranges, a fact which has been emphasized over and over again by the people of the community, who have kept him continually in places of the greatest responsibility and trust. Besides hav- ing been a member of the Essex county Repub- lican committee, Mr. Everitt has for fifteen years been treasurer of the board of commis- sioners of the sinking fund of the city of Orange. He is president and one of the di- rectors of the Orange National Bank, presi- dent of the Consolidated Fire Alarm Company of New York, and a director of the Automatic Fire Alarm Company. He is a member of the Essex County Country Club, and of the New England Society of Orange. He is a com- municant of St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, West Orange.
He married, in Albany, New York, Decem ber 26, 1888, Marguerite, daughter of Sylves- ter D., M. D. (after whom the Willard Insane Asylum in New York state was named), and Susan E. (Spence) Willard (whose brother, Sylvester D. Willard Jr., M. D., is the famous cancer specialist of London, England). Chil- dren : I. Eleanor Willard, born August 2, 1891. 2. John Willard, July 4, 1895. 3. Theodore Trail, December 30, 1899. 4. Sylvester Dud- ley, August 2, 1901 ; died December, 1906.
(V) Willis Britton, son of Isaac J. and Martha Britton ( Armstrong) Everitt, was born on Lincoln avenue, Orange, New Jersey, Octo- ber 7, 1869. He was educated in the public schools of Orange and at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken. He found a position in the Midvale Steel Works, where he remain- ed until September, 1894. when he took a posi- tion with his brother, John Davis Everitt, with whom he entered into partnership in 1899. He married, at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 14, 1897, Helen, daughter of Henry Re- vere, and a great-great-great-granddaughter of the celebrated Paul Revere. Children: Paul Revere, born January 10, 1899; Serenne, May 2, 1902.
(III) Allen, son of Isaac and Mary (Davis)
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Everitt, was born in Montague township, Sus- sex county, New Jersey, July 24, 1814. His earlier years were passed upon his father's farm, and until he was fourteen he attended the district school. He then for two years served as clerk in the store of his brother, John Davis Everitt, at Hainesville, and when his father died in 1833, he worked the home farm on shares with his mother until her death two years later. He then rented the home- stead for a time, and gradually buying out the other heirs, he became its sole owner. In 1857 he sold the property to his cousin, Daniel D. Everitt, and two years later purchased a farm of two hundred and thirty acres near Brick House. Mr. Everitt was one of the hard- working, industrious and successful farmers of the township, and his reputation in the community in which he dwelt was regarded as remarkable for honor and uprightness. At first Mr. Everitt was a Whig, and afterwards a Republican, his first vote being cast in 1836 for General William H. Harrison. He was never a seeker after political positions, and he filled only the ordinary offices of his township. He was a supporter of the Reformed Church of Montague, was well known and highly in- fluential in financial circles, and was a director of the First National Bank, of Port Jervis, New York, and of the Merchants' National Bank of Newton.
He married (first), March 2, 1847, Ellen, daughter of Jesse and Margaret P. Hunt, of Frankford township, who died February 27, 1857. Married (second), April 5, 1859, Sarah Jane, widow of John Finch, of Orange county, New York, and daughter of James Britton and Mary Dayton (Foster) Armstrong ( see Armstrong), who was sister to Martha Britton Armstrong, wife of his nephew, Isaac J. Everitt, referred to above. Children, four by first mar- riage : I. Hannah Jane, born January 5, 1848; married Wilhelmus Westfall. 2. George, Oc- tober 6, 1850; died March 4, 1854. 3. Martin, March 26, 1853 ; died June 22, 1878. 4. Infant, died unnamed. 5. George Lindley, born April 21, 1860; died September 17, 1860. 6. Frank Allen, March 14, 1862; died March 18, 1864. 7. Sarah Allen, April 6, 1865.
(The Rosencrans Line).
The name Rosenkrans signifies in Dutch a garland of roses. In the old records the spell- ing varies from Rozenkrantz to Rosenkrans, to Rosecrans and Rosencrans. The early home of the family is said to have been in Bergen, a province of Norway, and the founder of the
family in this country, Harmen Hendrickszen van Bergen in Noordwegen, emigrated to New Amsterdam about 1650, where he married and whence later, about 1660, he settled in Ulster county, where in 1661 his wife united with the Dutch church there, and he himself became a liberal contributor toward the building of the parsonage for the first dominie at Kingston, Hermanus Blom. Some time before 1697 he removed to Mombacus, now Rochester, Ulster county, New York, where he died about 1708. He married, March 3, 1657, Magdaleen Dirks, the widow of Cornelius Caper. Children: I. Alexander, born Kingston, baptized there, April 12, 1661 ; married, December II, 1713, Mar- retjen de Pue. He owned considerable land at Rochester, including a mill site in company with his brother-in-law, Gysbert Aelbertz van Gorden; and about 1730 he removed to Wal- pack, New Jersey. His son, Johannes, born May 18, 1724; married, August 9, 1751, Mar- garet de Wit, a cousin of De Witt Clinton, and was a colonel in the revolutionary war and an elder in the Shepenack Church, to which he gave the ground on which the church stood. Ilis great-grandson is Martin Rosenkrans Esq .. of Newton, New Jersey. 2. Annatje, baptized August 20, 1662 ; died young. 3. Rachel, bap- tized October 21, 1663; married Gysbert A. van Gorden. 4. Harmanus, baptized May 2, 1666. 5. Anna, married Humphrey Davenport. 6. Henxdrick, of Rochester; married (first), January 3, 1697, Annetje Vredenberg ; (sec- ond ), October 26, 1721, Annetje Delva, widow of Luycas de Witt and of Gerrit van Bun- schoten. 7. Christina, married, December 26, 1700, Cornelis Hendricksen Kortregt. 8. Der- rick, referred to below.
( II) Derrick or Dirck, son of Harman Hend- ricksen Rosenkrans and Magdaleen Dirks, mar- ried, September 6, 1702, Wentje Roelofse Kier- stede, widow of Jan de Wit, a great-grand- daughter of Anneke Jans, the widow of Dominie Bogardus, and one of the original owners of most of the real estate now owned by the corporation of Trinity Church, New York. Children : 1. Herman, referred to below. 2. Jacobus, baptized March 17, 1705; married (first ) Sarah Decker ; (second ) Catharine Cole ; removed to Shippekonk before 1729, and later to Machackemach ; children, two by second wife : Helena, Daniel, Geertje. Solomon, Johannes ; Blandina, married Abraham Westbrook, of Minnesink, New Jersey ; Aloda, Solomon (2). 3. Helena, baptized June 20, 1708; married, February 26, 1725, Albert Costerhout. 4. Sara, baptized February, 1711; married Arie van
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Vredenburg, and settled in Minnisink. 5. Lydia, baptized May 3, 1713 ; married, May II, 1730, Jochem Schoonmaker. 6. Antjen, bap- tized April 29, 1716; married Alexander van Winkle.
(III) Herman or Harmon, son of Dirk and Whntje Roelfse (Kierstede) Rosenkrans, was baptized at Rochester, March 28, 1703. He removed to Westfall, Pike county, Pennsyl- vania. He married, April 29, 1725, Aryaantie, daughter of Jan Janszen van Oosterhout, from Brabant, and Anna Hendricks, and daughter of Teunis and Ariaantje (Roose) van Ooster- hout, who was baptized September 29, 1706. Children : 1. Dirk, baptized January 16, 1726. 2. Katrina, baptized June 16, 1728. 3. Petrus, baptized December 25, 1732. 4. Ariaantje, baptized at the Minnisink, May 18, 1736. 5. Jacobus, referred to below. 6. Benjamin, bap- tized July 17, 1748.
(IV) Jacobus, son of Herman and Aryaantie (van Oosterhout) Rosenkrans, was born at Westfall, Pike county, Pennsylvania, and Mach- ackemech, April 21, 1745. His farm, called "Theesacht," now Rosetown, Pike county, Penn- sylvania, was the place made famous by the death of Tom Quick, "the Indian slayer." He married Maria, daughter of Evert and Eleanor (Cuddeback ) Hoornbeeck. Children : I. Betsy, married Manuel Brink. 2. Lena, or Catharine, referred to below.
(V) Lena (or Catharine ), daughter of Jaco- bus and Maria (Hoornbeeck) Rosencrans, mar- ried (first) Daniel Decker; (second) Crissie Bull. Children by first husband : Lena Decker ; Roanna Decker, referred to below. Children of second husband : Rosencranse C. Bull, of Milford; Hannah, married Henry Mott, of Milford; Maria, wife of Eli Van Inwegen, of Port Jervis, New York.
(VI) Roanna, daughter of Daniel and Lena (or Catharine) (Rosencrans) Decker, married Judge John D. Everitt (see Everitt III).
(The Armstrong Line).
The family of Armstrong was in ancient times settled on the Scottish border, and spring- ing from the parent stock several branches at a very early era became located in the northern counties of England. Tradition states that the original name was Fairbairn and that it was changed to Armstrong on the following occasion : An ancient king of Scotland having his horse killed under him in battle, was im- mediately remounted by Fairbairn, his armor- bearer, on his own horse. For this timely assistance the king amply rewarded him with
lands on the borders, and to perpetuate the memory of so important a service as well as the manner in which it was performed ( for Fairbairn took the king by the thigh and set him on the saddle) his royal master gave him the appellation of Armstrong, and assigned him for crest: An armed hand and arm, in the hand a leg and foot in armour couped at the thigh, all ppr. The meaning is, strong of arm.
Andrew Armstrong (direct descendant of the first Armstrong), born in the castle of Maugerton in 1576, who having disposed of his patrimony in Scotland to one of his kins- men, immigrated in the commencement of the seventeenth century to the north of Ireland, and established himself near his uncle in the county Fermanah. At the breaking out of the rebellion in 1661, he embraced a military life and served as an officer of horse in the army of Charles I. for several years, with great reputation.
Hugh Armstrong, a descendant of Andrew Armstrong, emigrated to New Jersey from the north of Ireland, and settled in Deckertown, Sussex county.
- Thomas Armstrong, a descendant of Hugh Armstrong, was a lieutenant of militia and also wagon master during the revolution.
James Britton Armstrong, son of Thomas Armstrong, married Mary Dayton Foster and they were the parents of Martha Britton ( Arm- strong) Everitt, wife of Isaac J. Everitt ( see Everitt IV).
FRY George Fry, the earliest member of this family of whom we have defi- nite information, married Ann Ware. Children : Jacob, married Rebecca Wright ; Rob- ert Taylor, referred to below; Asa W .; John; George; Elizabeth, married William Wright ; William.
(II) Robert Taylor, son of George and Ann (Ware) Fry, was born in Philadelphia, Penn- sylvania, October 15, 1811, and died there, March 9, 1880. He married, October 10, 1842, Drusilla Coles, daughter of Stephen and Eliza- beth (Coles) Morris (see Morris, following this narrative). Children : I. Elizabeth Morris, born August 3, 1843; married, December 15, 1870, George, son of Asher and Phoebe Hartel. 2. Henry Jonathan Abbett, referred to below. 3. Georgianna, born May 14, 1849. 4. Alina Moretta, born December 5, 1852 ; married, No- vember 6, 1878; Cyrus D. Tatman. 5. Emily Coles, born January 25, 1855 ; died August 14, 1857.
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(III) Henry Jonathan Abbett, son of Rob- ert Taylor and Drusilla Coles (Morris) Fry, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, No- vember 28, 1845, and is now living in that city. He attended the public schools of his native city, and on leaving school became a clerk in the wholesale dry-goods house of R. Wood, Marsh & Haywood, of Philadelphia. Later he became assistant librarian of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. After this he became bookkeeper for Ivins & Allen, of 321 North Front street, with whom he remained for three years, leaving them to enter the employ of Samuel S. Thompson & Company, wholesale grocers. He became a member of this firm in 1869, and the name was then changed to Thompson, Fry & Company. In 1890 Mr. Fry bought out the interest of Mr. Thompson and changed the firm name once more to Henry A. Fry & Company, dealers and importers, their specialty being tea and coffee and their trade entirely wholesale. The storehouse and mill is at Gloucester, New Jersey, and the offices are now at 151 South Front street, Philadelphia. Mr. Fry is a member of Williamson Lodge, No. 369, F. and A. M., Philadelphia; of the Philadelphia Chapter, R. A. M .; and of St. Albans Commandery, No. 47, K. T., of Phila- delphia. In politics he is a Republican, and he is a life member of the Union League Club of Philadelphia, a member of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, of the New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania, and a member of the executive committee of the Board of Trade of Philadel- phia for the past twenty years. Mr. Fry mar- ried (first), February 1, 1876, Rebecca Joseph- ine, daughter of Charles and Esther ( Strick- ler) Delany, of Philadelphia, who died May 28, 1879. He married (second) in St. Mark's Church, the ceremony being performed by Dr. (afterwards Right Rev.) Isaac Lea Nicholson, Bishop of Milwaukee, June 4, 1884, Etalena, daughter of Dr. William Monroe and Hannah Dean (Collom) Gore. Child, by first marriage : Anna Delany, born May 6, 1877, educated at Friends' Central School in Philadelphia, and at Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated with the degree of B. A. in 1898.
Anthony Morris, the first mem- MORRIS ber of this branch of the family of whom we have definite infor- mation, was the son of Anthony Morris, born about 1600, at Reading, England, and of Bar- badoes, West Indies. He was lost at sea or died in Barbadoes in 1655-6. In the baptismal
register of Stepney, London, England, where his son was baptized, he is styled "mariner," and he spent his life voyaging between Lon- don and Barbadoes. He married, about 1653, Elizabeth Senior. One child, Anthony, re- ferred to below.
(II) Anthony (2), son of Anthony (I) and Elizabeth (Senior) Morris, was born in Old Gravel Lane, Stepney, London, August 23, 1654, and was baptized two days later at St. Dunstan's Stepney. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1721. Emigrating to America, he settled first in New Jersey, but in 1683 removed to Philadelphia. In the char- ter of that city, dated March 20, 1691, he is mentioned as alderman. In 1692 he was ap- pointed judge of the court of common pleas and quarter sessions and of the orphans' court, of which in the following year he became presi- dent judge. In 1694 he was made a judge of the supreme court, and he retained his several judicial offices until 1698. He was one of the judges that in 1693 sat in the noted trial of George Heith, John Budd and others. Of his judicial career, William Penn wrote to the Lords of Trade in London: "Morris is one of the most sufficient as well as diligent magis- trates there." In 1695 to 1697 he was a mem- ber of the provincial council, and served for several years as a member of the assembly. In 1704 he served as mayor of the city of Phila- delphia. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and began to preach in 1701, and thereafter devoted nearly all his time to minis- terial labor, travelling through most of the North American provinces and visiting Great Britain in 1715. He married (first) at the Savoy monthly meeting, in the Strand, Lon- don, I mo. 30, 1676, Mary Jones, who died in Philadelphia, 3 mo. 6, 1688 He married (sec- ond) in the Philadelphia monthly meeting, 8 mo. 28, 1689, Agnes, widow of Cornelius Bom, who died 5 mo. 26, 1692. He married (third) January 18, 1693-4, at Newport, Rhode Island, Mary, widow of Thomas Coddington, and daughter of John Howard, of Yorkshire, Eng- land, who died 7 mo. 25, 1699. He married (fourth) at the Philadelphia monthly meeting, 8 mo. 30, 1700, Elizabeth, daughter of Luke and Sarah Watson, who died February 2. 1767. in her ninety-fourth year. Children, seven by first and three by second marriage, others by fourth wife : I. Susanna, born March 7, 1676-7 : "dyed about 6 years old." 2. Mary, born Sep- tember 18, 1678 ; died aged one year. 3. An- thony, born April 24, 1680; died aged one year. 4. Anthony, born March 15, 1681-2 ; died Sep-
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tember 23, 1763; married Phoebe Guest. 5. John, born April 17, 1685 ; died June 12, 1690. 6. Samuel, born February 28, 1686-7 ; died No- vember 2, 1689. 7. James, born July 8, 1688; died December 31, 1747; married, I mo. 8, 1709, Margaret Cook. 8. William, referred to below. 9. Elizabeth, born June 28, 1697 ; mar- ried (first) December 13, 1716, Samuel Lewis ; (second) William Dury. 10. Joseph, born May 12, 1699 ; died July 26, 1699. II. Isaac, born De- cember 24, 1701; died October 24, 1755. 12. Sarah, born January 16, 1703-4; died unmar- ried, October 24, 1775. 13. Israel, born De- cember 25, 1705 ; died in 1729. 16. Luke, born August 25, 1707; died November 17, 1793; married, in April, 1749, Mary Richard. 15. Hannah, born July 4, 1717; died unmarried, August 25, 1741.
(III) William, son of Anthony (2) and Mary (Howard-Coddington ) Morris, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 5 mo. 23, 1695, and died there, November 6, 1776. He is buried at Trenton, New Jersey. He removed to Bar- badoes, where he married his first wife, but returned to Philadelphia in 1798 for the settle- ment of his father's estate. In 1729 he return- ed to Barbadoes to wind up his affairs there, and the following year settled in Trenton, where he soon became a prominent member of the Chesterfield monthly meeting, and it was largely through his efforts that the Trenton monthly meeting was established. In 1739 he was appointed judge of Hunterdon county, and in 1750 Governor Jonathan Belcher nomi- nated him to the Lords of Trade to succeed John Coxe Esq. in the provincial council. He married (first), 4 mo. 14, 1718, Sarah, daugh- ter of William and Sarah Dury, of Speights Town, Barbadoes, who was born 12 mo. 26, 1694, and died 6 mo. 26, 1750. He married (second), at the Philadelphia monthly meeting, II mo. 6, 1752, Rebecca, daughter of John and Rebecca Cadwalader, who died October 9, and was buried October II, 1764, in the Friends' burying-ground at Trenton. Children, all by first wife: I. William, born 8 mo. 18, 1719; married Rebecca Peters. 2. Mary, born 3 mo. 30, 1721 ; died 4 mo. 5, 1721. 3. Sarah, born 7 mo. 9, 1722 ; died in 1746; married, in Octo- ber, 1745, Joseph Richardson. 4. Mary, born IC mo. 15, 1724; died in August, 1726. 5. Anthony, referred to below. 6. Mercy, born 4 mo. 9, 1731 ; died February 15, 1775; mar- ried Dr. Horton. 7. Joseph, born 9 mo. 25, 1733 ; died II mo. 15, 1733. 8. Israel, born 2 mo. 13, 1738; died 4 mo. 3, 1818; married (first). 2 mo. 19, 1761, Phoebe Brown, (sec-
ond) Sarah Bond. 9. Joseph, born 5 mo. 19, died 6 mo. 14, 1739.
(IV) Anthony, son of William and Sarah (Dury) Morris, was born in Barbadoes, West Indies, 8 mo. 31, 1727, and died 3 mo. 10, 1804, at Slabtown, now Jacksonville, near Copenny meeting, now Old Springfield, Burlington coun- ty, New Jersey. Removing to Little Egg Har- bor township, he remained there for some years after his marriage, but later returned to and settled in Burlington county. Of his large family of fourteen children some remained in New Jersey, but the greater part of them emi- grated to Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa. He married, at Little Egg Harbor monthly meetinghouse, 10 mo. 1746, Sarah, daughter of Stephen Cranmer, who was born 9 mo. 20, 172-, and died 5 mo. 26, 1805. Chil- dren : I. Stephen, referred to below. 2. Mary, born 10 mo. 24, 1748; died 9 mo. 4, 1819; married Abraham Rakestraw. 3. Hannah, born 3 mo. 3, 1750; died young. 4. Sarah, born 3 m10. 24, 1751. 5. John, born February 5, 1753- 6. Hannah, born February 9, 1755; married, July 25, 1774, Sarah Rockhill. 7. Esther, born November 29, 1757; died unmarried, 1826. 8. Alice, born July 4, 1758; died in infancy. 9. George, born August 20, 1760. 10. Alice, April 14, 1762. II. Anthony, April 15, 1764. 12. Joseph, February 5, 1767; died March 17, 1825; married Rachel Zelley. 13. Elizabeth, born November 23, 1770; married Levi Pit- man. 14. Anthony, born April 18, 1773; died May 19, 1826; married, in May, 1797, Hannah French.
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