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(V) William (2), son of William (I) and Rachel (Denn) Griscom, was born in Man- nington township, Salem county, New Jersey, August 8, 1777. In his younger days he was a blacksmith, later he turned farmer. He mar- ried, February 2, 1800, Ann, daughter of Sam- uel and Sarah Stewart, of Salem, who was born December 22, 1777. Children: I. Sam- uel, born February 4, 1802: married Sidney Gillingham. 2. William, referred to below. 3. George, born January 1, 1806; married Mercy Brown. 4. John, born March 25, 1808; mar- ried Margaret Acton. 5. Mary Wood, born
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August 21, 1812; married Samuel Stewart. 6. David, born March 5, 1815; married (first) Ann Whitelock; (second) Jane Whitelock. 7. Charles William, born July 23, 1818; married Elizabeth (Denn) Powell.
(VI) William (3), son of William (2) and Ann (Stewart) Griscom, was born in Man- nington township, Salem county, New Jersey, April 30, 1804. He married (first) Mary, daughter of James and Ann Stewart, of Cum- berland county, New Jersey ; ( second) Sarah, daughter of Isaac Whitelock, of Frankford, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania. Children, three by each wife: Hannah, Wade, James Stewart, Isaac Cooper (referred to below), Ann, Sarah.
(VII) Isaac Cooper, son of William (3) and Sarah ( Whitelock) Griscom, was born in Mannington township, Salem county, New Jersey, about 1830. He settled in Penns Neck, Salem county. Among his children was Al- fred Cooper, referred to below.
(VIII) Alfred Cooper, son of Isaac Cooper Griscom, was born in Penns Neck, Salem coun- ty, New Jersey, about 1850 or 1860. He mar- ried Esther, daughter of John Eaton of Penns Neck. Children: Lee Eaton; Isaac N. (re- ferred to below) ; Ralph Cooper.
(IX) Isaac N., son of Alfred Cooper and Esther (Eaton) Griscom, was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, September 17, 1879, and is now living in Ocean City, New Jersey. For his early education he was sent to the public schools of Atlantic City, to which place his parents had brought him from Pennsylvania when he was only five years old. After leav- ing college in 1900 he entered the Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he graduated and received his M. D. degree in 1904, the same year entering upon the practice of his profession at Ocean City, where he has remained ever since, having worked up for himself a successful and most lucrative prac- tice. Dr. Griscom is a vestryman of Holy Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Ocean City, and a member of the Ocean City Lodge, No. 171, F. and A. M. He takes a great inter- est in and is very enthusiastic in all that per- tains to his profession, and is a member of al- most all the medical societies of this country, among them the New Jersey State Homece- pathic Medical Society, the Atlantic City Clin- ical Club, and the American Institute of Homeopathy. He is also one of the physicians of the Ocean City Board of Health, of the Ocean City public schools, and of the Shore Fast Line railroad, besides being the accredit-
ed medical examiner of the Equitable Life In- surance Company, the Masonic Protective Association, and the Philadelphia Economic Life Insurance Company. He is also a mem- ber of the Ocean City Board of Trade and treasurer of the Ocean City Yacht Club. He married Lillian Beatrice, born September 14, 1882, daughter of Thomas and Ann ( Risley) Scull (see Scull). Mrs. Griscom is a member of Lafayette Chapter, Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution, of Atlantic City. Child, Marie Roesch, born February 10, 1902.
(The Scull Line).
(IV) Abel, son of Joseph and Sarah Scull, was born June 3, 1760. He married Alice, daughter of Dr. Richard Collins, the first resi- dent physician in Gloucester county. Children : I. Joseph, born January 2, 1790; died May 16, 1853 ; married Susanna Blackman. 2. Richard, referred to below. 3. Andrew, married (first) Eunice Scull; (second) Mary Gifford. 4. Enoch, married Ann Hickman. 5. Mary, mar- ried (first ) Andrew Blackman ; ( second) Dan- iel English ; (third) Clayton Leeds. 6. Sarah, married (first) Captain Robinson; (second) David Smith. 7. Elizabeth, married John Brod- erick. 8. Nancy, married (first) George Hick- man ; (second) Elvy Scull; (third) Williams Smith.
(V) Richard, son of Abel and Alice (Col- lins) Scull, married Elizabeth Hickman. Chil- dren: I. Philip, married Lydia Hickman. 2. Ann, married Biddle Edwards. 3. Mary, mar- ried William Joline. 4. Elizabeth, married Cornelius Vanderwater. 5. George, married Cinderella Snow. 6. Hannah, married Henry Smith. 7. Margaret, married Thomas Winner. 8. Alice, married Brazier Westcott. 9. Rich- ard, referred to below. 10. Caroline, married Alpheus Barrett. II. Thomas Edward. 12. Abel J., twin with Thomas Edward; married Hannah Ann Steelman.
(VI) Richard (2), son of Richard (I) and Elizabeth (Hickman) Scull, married Eunice English. Children: Thomas, married Anna M. Risley ; Christopher English, married Anna Cordery; Joanna, married William L. Lore ; Richard; Lillian Beatrice, married Isaac N. Griscom, M. D., referred to above.
HOAGLAND
At the period of emigration to this country, Hoogelandt was an established family
name of considerable antiquity in the Nether- lands, and can be traced back a century in Zee- land and Utrecht and quite as far back in a
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collateral line of viscounts and governors of Dormael in Brabant, who claimed descent from the ancient bards of Hoogelant. The name Hoogland signifies "Highland." There is a village of Hoagland in the province of Utrecht and near the city of Utrecht, the only town by that name in all Holland. The coat-of-arms of the Hoagland family is as follows: "Hoog- lande-d'argent a la grappe de raisin de pour- pre pendants-d'une branche femillie de deux pieces an natural et poree en farce. An chef de senople charg's de trois courronnes d'or."
(I) Dirck Jansen Hoogland, emigrant an- cestor of Samuel Collyer Hoagland, of East Orange, New Jersey, came to New Netherland in 1657, from Maer Severn, in the province of Utrecht, Holland, being then twenty-two years of age. Maer Severn was a district consisting largely of meadow or turf lands called veens ( fens), and took its name from this fact and from it lying adjacent to Maer Sen, a village on the Vecht, three miles northeast of the city of Utrecht. Opposite Maersen the ancient lordship of Maer Severn stretched along the north side of the Vecht for a mile and a half, whence it extended its limits northerly four or five miles; within it lay the villages of Oud Maer Severn and Neenwe Maer Severn. About as far as Utrecht, but in the opposite direction, southeast, was the little village of Hoogland or Highland. The first mention of Dirck Hansen Hoogland after his arrival in America is the notice of his marriage, October 8, 1662, to Annetje Hansen Bergen, twenty-two years old, daughter of Hans Hansen Bergen and Sarah Rapelje, who was, previous to her last mar- riage, widow of Jan De Clerk. As Hoogland brought a certificate of the bans of the church in Flatbush for three successive Sabbaths, ac- cording to the custom, it followed that he was then living at that place.
Jan Rapelje, Michael or Jan Hansen Bergen, and other residents of Wallabout, had on March 18, 1662, applied for and received the grant of certain lands "situated back of the Wallabout for farming purposes." Dirck Jansen Hoog- land, not one of the original settlers, seems to have become interested in the new enterprise through his marriage with the sister of Michael or Jan Hansen Bergen, for on May 26, 1663, he with others who had lately obtained the aforesaid grant also got permission from Gov- ernor Stuyvesant to found a new village there, afterward known as Bedford. On May 15. 1664, patents were issued to Hoogland and his associates for those lands, giving twenty mor- gen to each. On January 20, 1663, he was de-
livered one pound of powder from the public store for defense against the Indians. He soon returned to Flatbush, where he acquired prop- erty, being assessed in 1675 on twenty morgen of land and meadow, and where he became to be familiarly known among his Dutch neigh- bors as Kleyn Dirck or Little Dirck, on account of his small stature. He conveyed his house and land at Bedford to Dirck Cornelissen Hoogland, April 29, 1689. There is preserved a testimonial of the court and overseers of Brooklyn and Flatbush, dated November 19 and 26, 1678, as to the uniform good character of Dirck Jansen Hoogland while a resident of those towns. It appears that having lost his wife, he about this time was married to Anne- tee Tedden, a member of the Flatbush church.
By great industry and economy, Hoogland had acquired two or three original farm lots in Flatbush, lying in the west side of the highway, near Flatbush line, and as a freeholder drew a wood lot at Oostwout or New Lots, April 2, 1680. Hoogland had a long and vexatious controversy with his neighbor, Peter Lot, re- specting the boundary line between their farms, which after some litigation and much bitterness of feeling was finally settled by arbitration. The suit was brought by Hoogland in the court of sessions at Gravesend, December 19, 1677. It may be interesting to gather up what little is known of his characteristics and domestic life. Coming from a rural district in Holland and unschooled, he was in this respect behind many of his neighbors, while in natural ability he seems to have equalled the best of them. The pertinacity with which he maintained his rights evinces a clear head and indomitable will, and bis sharp issues with his neighbors and the re- buffs he met with must have chafed him sorely, and it is surprising that only once did his pas- sion get the better of him in any overt act. This was in 1687, when in an altercation with Denys Teunissen, son-in-law of Dominie Pol- hemus, each drew a knife for which an indict- ment was found against both. In his exhibitions of parental love and his assiduous efforts to provide for his children, he was all that a fond parent could be. There is no record that he was a church member, but on several occasions he, with his pious wife, presented their infant children for baptism. His household in 1698 contained six children, two of eight that were born to him, the others having gone forth to make homes for themselves.
Meanwhile Hoogland, now advancing in years, found it expedient to reduce his acres, which had greatly increased by purchase. On Janu-
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ary 14, 1694, he sold a parcel of salt meadow in the New Lot, at the "third creek," to Daniel Phillips; on March 9, 1694, a tract of land to George Wood; on August 9, 1701, he sold to Jacobus Van Cortlandt, the alderman and later mayor of New York, certain land in Flatbush, which he had bought of Belthazar De Hart ; on April 18, 1706, he petitioned for payment of his horses lost in Colonel Dougan's expedition to Albany in 1688, in which expedition his cousin, Johannes Hoogland, of New York, served as trooper. It is said he doubtless lived to the age of ninety-eight years. He married, October 8, 1662, Annetje Hansen Bergen, afore- mentioned. Children: 1. Annetje, born in Bedford, Long Island, 1663; married, 1684, Hendrick Van Wagenen. 2. Jan Dircksen, born 1766. 3. William, 1669. 4. Cornelius, 1677. 5. Hendrick, mentioned below. 6. Sarah, bap- tized at Flatbush, August 7, 1681. 7. Lysbeth, baptized at Flatlands, March 21, 1684. 8. Neltje, baptized at Flatlands, June 11, 1686.
(II) Hendrick, son of Dirck Jansen Hoog- land, was born at Flatbush, Long Island, about 1679 ; died prior to April 21, 1746. He bought a tract of land of three hundred and fifty-four acres of Richard Leane, April 9, 1737, lying partly in Somerset county and partly in Middle- sex county. He married Sarah, daughter of Adrian and Annetje (Schenck) Ryerse, and sister of the wives of Jan and William Hoog- land. She was born in 1680. They removed to New Jersey probably at the same time as Jans removed there. On April 5, 1719, he and his wife Sarah were witnesses to the baptism of Johannes, son of Dirck and Maira Hoog- land, at New Brunswick. Children of Hend- rick and Sarah ( Ryerse) Hoogland: Derrick ; Adrian ; Annetie, married a Mr. Quirk, and they had a son Abraham, named in the will of Abraham Hoogland ; the Quirks were early set- tlers on the Raritan ; Abraham; Johannes, re- ferred to below.
(III) Johannes, son of Hendrick and Sarah (Ryerse) Hoogland, was born at Flatbush, Long Island, about 1712. At that period many Dutch settlers were leaving Long Island and settling in New Jersey. Thither Hendrick, father of Johannes, went with his family in 1719. Between the years 1745 and 1754 Jo- hannes purchased one hundred and seventy- six acres on the east of Millstone river, in Somerset county, and in the latter named year bought of John Lott, of Long Island, another plot on the southeast corner of the first plot, containing forty acres, for which he paid two hundred pounds. He was one of the first
deacons in the Millstone Reformed Church in 1776, his wife also being a member. His will was dated March 7, 1777, proved December 16, 1777. He married Matje, daughter of Tunis Woertman, of Flatbush, Long Island ; she must have lived to a ripe old age; the inventory of her estate was taken January 4, 1809. Chil- dren: Hendrick, baptized at Raritan, May 5, 1747, died young ; William, born 1748; John, referred to below ; Tunis, baptized at Six Mile River, February 25, 1753; Abraham, baptized at New Brunswick, April 22, 1756; Myndert.
(IV) John, son of Johannes Hoogland, was baptized at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Feb- ruary 10, 1750-51. On the south side of his land in 1791 were lands of John and Cornelius Wyckoff ; on the north was land of John Van Liew, and next to the river land of John Ben- nett. In 1791 the executors of John Hoagland, William and John Hoagland, of Somerset, and Garret Terhune, of Middlesex, sold both plots to Tunis Hoogland. He married (first) Phebe Hatfield ; (second) Sarah Van Tine. Children : I Cornelius Hatfield, referred to below. 2. Elizabeth Miller, baptized at Millstone, May 3, 1784. 3. Mary, baptized at Millstone, May 29, 1785. 4. Charles Van Tine, baptized at Mill- stone, December 24, 1786. 5. Johannes, bap- tized at Millstone, October 10, 1791. 6. Nellie, baptized at New Brunswick, January 6, 1798. 7. George, baptized at New Brunswick, May 25, 1800.
(V) Cornelius Hatfield, son of John and Phebe (Hatfield) Hoagland, was born March II, 1781 ; baptized at Millstone, New Jersey, March 18, following, and died at Elizabeth, New Jersey, February 19, 1832. He married (first) ; (second) Catherine, daughter of James Brown, of Woodbridge. New Jersey ; she died in Brooklyn, New York, March 30, 1888. Children of first wife: Har- riet ; Eliza ; Lucinda. Children of second wife : Cornelius Van Cleave, born March 4, 1812; George Tunis, February 7, 1814 : Susan Sprague, November 17, 1815; Simeon Dunn, September 13, 1817; John Elmon, born May 14, 1819, married Frances Lucas; James Brown, born January 19, 1823; William, referred to below ; Mary Jane, born August 8, 1829.
(VI) William, son of Cornelius Hatfield and Catherine (Brown) Hoagland, was born at Millstone, New Jersey, March II, 1825. He married Matilda, born October 9, 1822, daugh- ter of Samuel C. and Ruth Collyer. Children : Samuel Collyer, referred to below; Amanda M., born August 16, 1851 ; Cornelius H., July 16, 1856; Georgianna, August 30, 1858; Will-
Harry Wootton
Honey Moothie
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iam W., August 12, 1859 : John, born February II, 1862, died April 15, 1888; Mary E. C., born September 30, 1865.
(VII) Samuel Collyer, son of William and Matilda (Collyer ) Hoagland, was born at New- ark, New Jersey, September 8, 1849. In 1891 he was made president of the New Jersey Plate Glass Company of Newark. He married, Octo- ber II, 1876, Julia Baldwin, born March 24, 1855, daughter of Edwin and Mary Frances (Stackhouse) Hedden, of Newark, New Jer- sey. Children: 1. Victor Edwin, born August 23, 1877. 2. Irvin Pier, December 26, 1879; married, March 6, 1907, Caroline Eldert, born October 28, 1880, daughter of Nicholas Wyckoff and Frankie Elizabeth (Hoagland) Lenington ; child-Samuel Collyer (2), born March 5, 1908. 3. Chester Frank, born November 5, 1881 ; married, October 12, 1905, Nellie May, born February 6, 1883, daughter of Ethelbert A. and Eva Elizabeth (De Land) Stanley ; chil- dren: Grace Hedden, born October 4, 1906; Julia De Land, May 27, 1909.
WOOTTON The Wootton family have long been well known in Eng- land, where they were peo- ple of respectability. Those who have lived in the state of New Jersey have so conducted themselves as to bring credit to themselves and their adopted state. They have been keen and active business men and not amiss in their interest in the public welfare.
(I) Samuel Wootton, of Staffordshire, Eng- land, became the parents of twenty-one chil- dren, one of them named Jonah.
(II) Jonah, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Wootton, was born February 24, 1814, in Blox- wick, Staffordshire, England, and became a painter and builder. In 1844 he emigrated to America, landing at Baltimore, Maryland, where he spent four years, and then removed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1858, having built Light House Cottage, on New Hampshire avenue, near the ocean, he settled in Atlantic City, New Jersey ; this building was afterward moved on account of the encroachment of the sea, and became known as the St. Charles, standing near Delaware and Pacific avenues. Mr. Wootton purchased the whole square from Pacific avenue to the ocean for the considera- tion of $7,500 from his brother-in-law, William Whitehouse, and built on Massachusetts ave- nue what was known for years as the "White House." Mr. Wootton was known as one of the most enterprising citizens of Atlantic City, and helped much in the prosperity of that city.
He married ( first ) Elizabeth, daughter of Will- iam and Mary Whitehouse, who died in 1877 ; she was the mother of his children. He mar- ried (second) Mary Coulter. Mr. Wootton died January 24, 1890. His children were: I. Mary Ann, born February 12, 1836, died young. 2. Jonah, June 5, 1837; died December 28, 1892. 3. Mary A., October 21, 1838; married Henry Hayes. 4. Paul, December 12, 1839. 5. Henry, 1841. 6. Silas, July 20, 1842; was quartermaster-sergeant of One Hundred and Fifty-sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volun- teers, and was killed on the skirmish line at the battle of Weldon Railroad, August 18, 1864. 7. Philip, September 12, 1844; died December 21, 1844. 8. William, May 15, 1846; died June 16, 1846. 9. Elizabeth, February 2, 1850; died September 13, 1851. 10. Lucy, February 2, 1852 ; died March 2, 1852. II. Eliza, February 2, 1855 ; died March 2, 1855.
(III) Henry, third son of Jonah and Eliz- abeth (Whitehouse) Wootton, was born in January, 1841, at Birmingham, England, was brought by his parents to America when an infant, and received his education in the public schools of the United States. He was for many years connected with the government of At- lantic City, serving several terms as council- man and assessor. He married Ann Jane, daughter of Lemuel Eldridge. born in Chester county, Pennsylvania. He had a son, Harry.
(IV) Harry, son of Henry and Ann Jane (Eldridge) Wootton, was born October 30, 1869, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools of his native town. Later he attended Colum- bia University, entering in 1888, but left before his graduation and continued his studies in the New York Law School, from which he gradu- ated in 1890 with degree LL. B. The same year he was admitted as attorney to the New Jersey bar, and since that time has been in successful practice of his profession at At- lantic City. He spent some time in the office of Hon. Joseph Thompson, and in November. 1901, was elected an alderman of the city. He resigned from this office, however, to accept the post of city solicitor in June, 1902, and still fills that position, having been elected three times, the last time being in 1909 for a term of three years. In connection with his duties he has had occasion to take part in some import- ant litigation regarding municipal law, among the cases being those regarding deeds to prop- erty along the ocean front, the smoke nuisance, and other municipal regulations, most of them having been decided in his favor in the higher
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state courts. Mr. Wootton has attained an enviable reputation for ability and keen judg- ment, and is thoroughly engrossed in his chosen profession.
Mr. Wootton is a believer in the Christian Science religion, and in politics is a Republican. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Atlantic County Bar Association, Republican Club of Atlantic City, and Young Republicans of Philadelphia. He belongs to Belcher Lodge, No. 180, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, of which he is past master ; Trinity Chapter, No. 38, Royal Arch Masons ; he has taken the Consistory degrees of Free- masonry and is a member of Lulu Temple, Mystic Shrine, of Philadelphia, and Atlantic City Forest of Tall Cedars of Lebanon. He is also affiliated with Pequod Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Atlantic City; Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Atlantic City Aerie of Eagles; Lodge No. 276, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; Lodge No. 10, Ancient Order United Workmen, and is an active member of the Morris Guards of At- lantic City.
Mr. Wootton married, in November, 1895, Mary Marshall, daughter of Lorenzo A. and Uphan (Henry) Down, and they have one son, Harry Jr., a pupil in the public schools of At- lantic City. 1
RUSHMORE The town of Hempstead, Long Island, was settled by a colony of English Pres- byterians, of whom Rev. Robert Fordham was a leader, and his name occurs first in the list of patentees in the patent granted by Governor Kieft. He afterwards removed to Southamp- ton, and was the second minister in that town, and died there in September, 1674.
(I) Among the early settlers was Thomas Rushmore, whose name first occurs March 12, 1656, though it is evident that he was there some time before. Upon that occasion he ar- ranged an agreement between Tackapusha, the Indian sachem, and the governor of New Neth- erland. On June 1I, 1657, he is mentioned as one who "had cattle on the neck." He appears April 10, 1658, as one of the "townsmen" who made an agreement with a man as "cowkeeper." This shows that he was a freeman and owner of real estate, and eligible to any town office. Again as "townsman" he makes an agreement with George Huylett as "calf keeper," whose duty it was "to go forth every morning by the time the Sun is 1/2 an Hour above the Horizon, and not to come in before Sun setting." His
rate for town charges was £27, which was more than the average. In 1658 he "takes up" ten acres of land. Savage, in his "Early Settlers of New England," mentioned Thomas Rush- more as being "of Hempstead, under juris- diction of Connecticut, in 1663, but would not serve as constable," then an important office. On March 15, 1664, he and Samuel Denton purchased from Jeremy Wood all his right to Martin Gerritsen's Neck, or Matinicock. On February 15, 1664, he with others was ap- pointed to help Captain John Scott in some dispute concerning the boundaries of the town. During the same year he sells to Captain Scott three lots on Madnans Neck (now Great Neck). Ir 1680 he sells to Moses Mudge one-eighth of a proprietor right on Hempstead Plains. Long before this, in 1665, he sells to John Smith "rock" land on Washburns Neck and Coes Neck. In 1680 the town granted him "all the common land lying on the south of his mill place, not exceeding one hundred acres." In 1672 the town granted him "eight acres upon the great neck lying on Jerusalem swamp, or brook." On September 29, 1679, he sells to John Mervin "my new dwelling house and home lot." He drew one hundred acres of land, with the other proprietors, in 1667, also fifty acres "at a brook called Johnson's Run." On December 2, 1668, his wife, Martha, had a suit against John Tredwell, and he himself had a suit against John Smith Sr. "for mowing his meadow without his leave or liberty." In 1682 he gives f1 5s. for the support of the minister, Rev. Jeremiah Hobart. The last act of his life of which we have any knowledge was that on February 14, 1683, the town appointed him as one of four men "to take an account of those that are proprietors, and how they make their proprietaries appear." He died previous to March 31, same year. His homestead and mill were on Madnans Neck (Great Neck), and these descended to his son, Thomas Rushmore. It seems that by some accident he built his house and mill on a lot that belonged to Rev. Jonah Fordham, who released the same to Thomas Rushmore, the son, in 1691.
The will of John Smith Sr., dated May 10, 1695, states that he leaves a legacy to Anne and Mary Rushmore and to William Stephen Chappelle, "the children of my daughter Mar- tha Chappelle deceased." We might conclude from this that the wife of Thomas Rushmore was Martha Smith, and that after his death she married Francis Chappelle. We may men- tion that on October 26, 1676, there was a "presentment for riot" against Thomas Rush-
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