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After this he resumed his trade with Allen & Billings, on Day street. Work becoming scarce, he found employment in Newark, building the Episcopal church during 1860. During these hard times he removed his family to Saunders- ville, Georgia, where he settled and followed his trade with a contractor by name of Smith. After the civil war began he endeavored to remove north but was conscripted in the rebel army and sent to camp of instruction at Cal- houn, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he was obliged to volunteer, joining the Chatham Artillery at Savannah,, Georgia, in order to be near his family. He served as bugler dur- ing the war until captured by Sherman's army and sent as a prisoner of war to Newberne, North Carolina, transported to New York harbor, and paroled at Hart Island, where he remained from April to June, 1865. In De- comber he returned to his southern home and found work at his trade in reconstruction of the bridges and other public buildings destroyed by Sherman's army. In April, 1867, he returned to Orange, New Jersey, and worked for James. Lenox for a time, later entered into partner- ship with Alpheus A. Williams under the firm name of Williams & Williams, contractors. The firm dissolved in a year. Mr. Williams became foreman for Willard Howe, a con- tractor, up to 1873 when he worked as journey- man for him. He later worked for Matthias Soverel at his ice houses, then entered into building moving business, remaining for two ycars, since which time lie has followed his trade. He is a member of the Presbyterian church, a Republican in politics, and a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 12, I. O. O. F., and of Union Lodge, No. II, A. F. and A. M., both of Orange. He married, March II, 1857. Mary A. Simmons, born May 22, 1835, died July 2, 1900, daughter of Oliver and Maria ( Vantine ) Simmons, of Schoharie, New York, the former of whom was a carpenter. Chil- dren: I. Harriet Crane, born February 23, 1858; married, January 21, 1885, George Sykes Carson, born September 30, 1861, son of Charles and Mary Ann ( Edwards ) Carson, of Toms River, New Jersey. 2. Oliver Sim- mons, born April 12, 1859; married, Novem- ber 19, 1884. Jennie L. Sprague ; child, Lcland Sprague, born August 7, 1893. 3. Anna Abby, born May 30, 1861. 4. Caroline Ray, born July 15. 1866. 5. William Brown, born October 6, 1868: marricd, June 8, 1899, Anna C. Brę- mer; children: i. Oliver Bremer, born No- vember 5, 1900; ii. Catherine Mary, November 8, 1902; iii. Grace Elsa, May 8, 1905.
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(The Wright Line).
John Wright, progenitor of all by the name of Soverel in the Oranges, was a weaver by trade. He was born in Scotland in 1746, emi- grated to America in 1769, and settled at Orange, Essex county, New Jersey. In 1769 he purchased the Eleazer Lampson farm of twenty-two acres, then situated in Newark, which was later Orange and now East Orange, on the old road to Cranetown. The place in- cluded the land and homestead. John Wright, with the characteristic thrift of his race, set about at once to get his new possessions into condition for profitable farming and cider making. One of the first things he did was to plant an apple orchard which in a few years yieldcd such generous quantities of the fruit as to make it possible to send large consign- ments to other settlements and to use in the manufacture of cider, a then noted beverage of the times, being distilled in famous apple- jack, sometimes mentioned as "New Jersey distilled liquor." As the years went by he added largely to his savings and soon became one of the well-to-do men of the community. The correspondence which took place between John Wright and his younger brother in Scot- land is still preserved in the Soverel family. One letter especially was very interesting, being sent by the Scotch brother acknowledging the receipt of a barrel of apples sent him by his elder brother John, by the packet "Fanny." The fruit, grown on John Wright's farm, ar- rived in excellent condition, and was distrib- uted among the Scotch neighbors. The old homestead of John Wright, which at the pres- 'ent time has been altered and added to several times, was built in the early years of the eight- eenth century by the Lampson family many years before John Wright arrived in America. Many scenes of the Revolution were enacted in and around the ancient structure.
When war was declared between America and Great Britain, John Wright espoused the cause of the patriots and took up arms in their behalf, and enlisted in Captain Craig's com- pany, Philip Van Cortland's Second Essex county regiment, attached to Hurd's upper brigade. He was a minute-man, and whenever there was an alarm of the approach of the British he among others was ready with mus- kets to protect the village folk. During the winter of 1776-77, when the British and Hes- sians were encamped in Newark, the homes of the rebels were pillaged time and again until spring arrived, when there was little left for the farmers to begin their work with.
Shortly after he purchased the Lampson home- stead, John Wright married Elizabeth or Eliza Peck, called Bestey, daughter of Judge John Peck, who lived at "Peck Hill," near Maple avenue and Main street of the present day in East Orange. During the winter of 1776-77 Judge Peck's well filled barns and storehouses were especial objects of the visitation of the British and Hessians, and he suffered severely by their depredations. To John Wright, then about thirty-one years of age, fell the honor of taking part in the only skirmish known in the Oranges during the revolution while protecting the homes of the patriots. In company with John Tichenor and Josiah Shaw, while return- ing from a response to an alarm, they were attacked by a party of Highlanders near Judge Peck's home. The latter were equipped with swords, while the minute-men had their flint locks. The adherents of the Crown were ordered to lay down their swords on the ground and surrender. They obeyed promptly, but just as Wright and his party approached them, quickly picked them up, and one of the High- landers struck Wright a vicious blow on the head, nearly fracturing his skull, also wound- ing the others. The same afternoon a com- pany of the British returned to capture Wright and his companions, but Moses Jones, a nephew of Cornelius Jones, whose home these soldiers later plundered, had in the meantime taken the three wounded soldiers upon a sled. (it being then in November, 1776) and re- moved them to their homes in the vicinity of Doddtown.
Some of the prominent features of the old Wright homestead before it was overhauled by Matthias Soverel in 1840 were the rough timbers in the cellar, hewn upon one side only, supported by posts untouched by any tool ex- cept where they were sawed the required length, and the immense open fireplace, eleven feet wide, capable of taking a most generous log which was put in the open fire the last thing before the family retired for the night. Along the chimney crest there was a log fitted in flush with the plastering, which measured ten by sixteen inches. When the British visit- ed the Wright homestead upon one of their expeditions, they took advantage of the ab- sence of the family, who had fled to the moun- tain, and made thmeselves comfortable for sev- cral hours. They discovered a flock of nine- teen geese which had been driven into the thick woods near the farm, and killed all but one of them, an old gander. The fowls were pre- pared for broiling, and hung upon large spikes
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which had been driven into the log in the chim- ney crest. The family tradition is that it was the bayonets of the marauders instead of spikes that the fowls were hung on. The feast was no doubt keenly enjoyed, for upon leaving they tied a tobacco pouch about the neck of the old gander and placed eighteen pennies therein, all of English currency, with the lettering "Georgius Rex" on them. Eleven of these are in possession of a great-grandson, Herbert F. Soverel, of South Orange. Before finally de- parting from the place of pillage, the com- mandant of the detachment showed his literary skill in the following effusion: "Mr. Wright, we bid you good night. It is time for us to wander. We've bought your geese for a penny apiece, and left the pay with the gander."
After the war Mr. Wright continued his farming, but it took him a few years to recover from the devastating effect of the raid of the Hessians. In the autumn of 1784, just as he was once more getting his farm into a profit- able condition, he was taken ill, followed by his good wife Betsey and six children. They were affected with a disease similar to dysen- tery that was epidemic that fall all through the northern part of New Jersey, and there were many victims. Mr. Wright, his wife and two children, recovered. The other four children succumbed to the disease and were laid away in the old burying-ground at the corner of Main and Scotland streets, Orange. The min- ister of the Old Meeting House Society, Rev. Jedediah Chapman, who had been a frequent visitor to the stricken household during the iliness, with a company of friends, gathered in the sacred old hill of the cemetery and there consigned the little bodies to mother earth. The remaining children lived to maturity, but the family of Wright has long been extinct. In the old burying-ground are the gravestones of John and Betsey Wright, inscribed as fol- lows :
"In memory of John Wright, who departed this life May 20, 1824, in the seventy-ninth year of his age."
"Now come, ye object of my earthly care,
Direct your steps to the celestial shore.
Seek for those things at God's right hand above, And then we'll meet again to part no more."
"In memory of Elizabeth, wife of John Wright, who departed this life October 4, 1819, in the seventy-first year of her age, having been born in 1748.
"She's gone, she's gone, her spirit fled,
Her body numbered with the dead.
Our friend is gone beloved and dear And nature weeps the tender tear.
Tho dead she speaks and seems to say
Weep for yourselves, not for me.
She's only dropped her dying flesh,
Her soul, we trust, with Christ doth rest."
The family record of John Wright was writ- ten by him in a book of sermons which he brought from Scotland and is now in possesion of Mrs. Emma ( Peck) Magee, of Peters- borough, Ontario.
John Wright married, May 21, 1772, Eliza- beth, born 1748, died October 4, 1819, daugh- ter of Joseph and Jemima (Lindsley) Peck. Children : I. Jane, baptized August 28, 1774; married Enos Baldwin; children: i. Matilda, married Caleb Hedden ; ii. Maria, married Eli- jah Hedden ; iii. Lucinda, married - - Win- ans; iv. John. 2. Jesse, born July 27, 1774, died October, 1784. 3. Sarah, born July 6, 1776, died October 1, 1784. 4. Joseph, born January 17, 1779, died October 6, 1784. 5. John, born December 10, 1780, died October 4, 1784. 6. Moses, born April 30, 1784, died October 4, 1784. 7. Sarah, born February 2, 1786, died October 8, 1810; married Jaines Cochran ; children: i. Mary Ann, married Saul S. Hedden ; ii. Elizabeth, married
Shawcross. 8. John, born October 21, 1788, died December 20, 1806. 9. Betsey, born No- vember 16, 1790, died March 19, 1864; mar- ried, June 24, 1810, William Parret Soverel ( see Soverel).
DIXON Jonathan Dixon, who in the course of thirty-one years serv- ice as a justice of the supreme court of New Jersey attained wide and enviable distinction as a jurist of exceptional capacity and high honor, was a native of Liverpool. England, in which city he was born July 6, 1839. He was the son of Jonathan and Ann (Morrison) Dixon. The father came to this country in 1848 and was followed by his family two years later, settling in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The family was of ancient Eng- lish lineage and honorable traditions, its de- scendants figuring conspicuously in various walks of life, both in this country and abroad.
Jonathan Dixon received his education in Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jer- sey, entering that institution as a student in 1855, and graduating in 1859. The honorary degree of doctor of laws was conferred on him in 1878 by Rutgers College, and he was made trustee of that college in 1886, serving as such for many years. During his collegiate
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career he was an inmate of the home of Cor- nelius L. Hardenburg, a well-known lawyer, who, having been afflicted by blindness, as- sumed the education of the lad, who in the meantime acted as his benefactor's amanuensis and personal attendant. On the completion of his collegiate course the young man took up the study of law, for which he had a natural taste and marked aptitude, serving as a student- at-law in various offices, and at the same time finding means of livelihood as a school teacher. Admitted as an attorney in 1862, he became a counsellor-at-law three years later. Imme- diately after his admission as an attorney he removed to Jersey City, New Jersey, where he entered the law office of E. E. Wakeman, forming a copartnership with that gentleman in the spring of 1864. This professional rela- tionship continued for a year, at the end of which time Mr. Dixon established a practice of his own. For five years he followed his pro- fession alone, acquiring a high and enviable reputation as a learned and careful practitioner in whose hands the interests of clients were well guarded and intelligently represented. He then formed a partnership with Gilbert Collins, who afterward became a justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, an honor that fell to Mr. Dixon in 1875, when he was appointed to that judicial position by Governor Beadle. He ac- quitted himself of his new responsibilities with a dignity and strength that left nothing to be ciesired, and in 1882, when his term expired, he was reappointed by Governor Ludlow. Again, in 1889, he was named by Governor Green for the place that he so well and honor- ably filled, and he was subsequently reappoint- ed by Governor Griggs and Murphy in 1896 and 1903 respectively, being still on the bench when he died, his term not expiring until 1910. At the time of his death he filled the circuit comprising Hudson county. As a jurist he possessed those qualities of mind and that keen intelligence which are essential to the duties of the position; fair and impartial in his deci- sions, learned in his legal interpretations, and upright as a man, he reflected honor upon the bench that he adorned. He was a Republican in his political convictions, and in 1883 was his party's nominee for governor of the State, being defeated by Leon Abbet.
Justice Dixon married Elizabeth M. Price, daughter of Henry M. Price, by whom he had cne son, Warren Dixon, who inherited his father's legal talents to a marked degree and has attained prominence in the same profes- sion, winning recognition and prestige as one
of the leading members of the Hudson county bar. He was survived also by his widow and eight daughters-Mary M., wife of Millard F. Ross; Jessie L., wife of Francis J. McCoy; Elsie, wife of Lewis E. Carr, Jr .; Bertha, wife of James Crowell; Laura, Helen, and Velma Dixon, and Elizabeth, wife of Robert C. Post, at whose home in Englewood, New Jersey, he died, May 21, 1906.
FREEMAN
The name Freeman dates back to the twelfth century, and was undoubtedly derived
from a freeman, one who takes the oath of allegiance, according to the best authority. Nearly all the English families of this name had the same coat-of-arms and a similarity in their crests. In the south of England the arms were: Azure, three lozenges in fesse, or. Crest : A demi-wolf argent, holding between his paws a lozenge. We find the name of Free- man in America among many notable men, men of eminence, and many are engaged in commercial pursuits.
(I) The progenitor of the Freemans of New Jersey was Stephen Freeman, who was one of the pioneer settlers of Milford, Connecticut, 1646. He owned land and homestead there but did not become a proprietor until 1658. He removed to Fairfield, Connecticut, 1664. He was one of the signers of Milford of the Fundamental Agreement, October 30, 1666, and previously, May 21, he, with Captain Rob- ert Treat (later the governor of Connecticut) and others were appointed a committee in be- half of the people of Milford, Guilford and Branford to investigate and report in regard to the "Towne Plotts on the Pesayick River" with a view to settlement. His home lot comprised six and a half acres bounded with John Carley land south, the swamp east, and highway north and west. This is shown on the old maps as on the south side of Market street, below Mul- berry, and nearly opposite Obadiah Bruens, known as lot No. 8. In December, 1669, lib -* erty is granted to Stephen Freeman to remove his lot nearer homeward out of Gregory's, so much of it as is left, provided he lays down of his own to the town lands so much as he takes up. At a town meeting August 4, 1673, he was nominated for magistrate, and on October 13 was chosen with others "to take the Pattent in their names in the Town Behalf and to give security to the Payment of the Purchase." On March 19, 1673-74, he was chosen selectman. September 3, 1680, he gave bond of £40 to the town in protection to Peter Jacobs. He died
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about 1681. He emigrated to Newark, New Jersey, about 1662-63, and the Newark rec- ords show later that Widow Hannah Freeman hath for her division of upland lying near the Mountain containing forty acres bounded with Sergeant Richard Harrison north, by the common south and east, and with the top of the Mountain west. This division was intended for her husband and she succeeded to his rights. He married, about 1653-54, Hannah Atwood, daughter of Captain Samuel Atwood. Children : 1. Hannah, born 1655. 2. Mary, 1658. 3. Elizabeth, about 1660; married
Brown. 4. Samuel, mentioned below. 5. Mar- tha, born about 1666; married Thomas Judd. 6. Sarah, born about 1668; married Samuel Dodd. His widow is said to have married Robert Porter, of Farrington.
(II) Samuel, son of Stephen and Hannah (Atwood) Freeman, was born at Milford, Connecticut, May 26, 1662. When an infant he was removed by his parents to Newark, New Jersey, and settled "near the Mountain." The land which by grant came to his father and later to his mother he inherited, and with what he acquired in after years amounted to some one hundred acres. He was a yeoman and miller by trade. He married Elizabeth Brown, born at Newark, New Jersey, 1662, died November 13, 1732. Among his children were: Stephen, born 1687; Samuel, mention- ed below ; 3. Martha, probably married David Smith.
(III) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (I) and Elizabeth (Brown) Freeman, was born at Orange, New Jersey, 1690. He was a yeoman. 111 1728 he purchased from Josiah Odgen forty acres described as "beginning at John Free- man's south corner tree standing by Rahway river, from thence to Liddington's brook and up the said brook to the head thereof and thence to the Mountain, thence along the Mountain to the line marked out between Jo- seph Hedden and the said land, thence south- east to Rahway river and back to river where it began." The sum paid was £69. It is said that all the land lying between South Orange avenue on the south and the present cable road on the north was purchased by his sons Sam- uel, Timothy, Abel and Thomas. In the pur- chase made in 1719 by the Mountain Society of twenty acres of land for a glebe, the grant was made to Samuel Freeman and others, it being within the bounds of Newark, on the side of Parows brook. He married Mary Lindley, born June 1, 1701, daughter of John Lindley. Children : I. Samuel, known as
Deacon Samuel, born 1716, died October 21, 1782. 2. Abel, mentioned below. 3. Jedediah, born January 25, 1726, died October 15, 1811. 4. Timothy, born 1728. 5. Thomas, born 1730. 6. John, named after his maternal grandfather.
(IV) Abel, son of Samuel (2) and Mary (Lindley) Freeman, was born at Orange, New Jersey, January 14, 1725, died there April 30, 1803. He and his wife are buried side by side in the First Church burial-ground on Scotland street. He and his wife were members of the First Church. He was a yeoman and owned large tracts of land. He was prominent in the affairs of his town. His wife was endowed with a strong constitution and physique, and it is said could do a man's work; she looked after her husband's interests on the farm. He married, about 1750, Abigail Smith, born No- vember 14, 1728, died July 1, 1794, daughter of Joseph Smith. Children: I. Rhoda, born 1751 ; married Joseph Harrison. 2. Lydia, born 1753 ; married David Freeman. 3. Eunice, born July 30, 1754; married Erastus Pierson. 4. Zenas, born 1760, died September 3, 1800. 5. Cyrus, mentioned below. 6. Linus, born February 24, 1763, died October 13, 1830.
(V) Cyrus, son of Abel and Abigail (Smith) Freeman, was born on the old grant of the Freemans, March 28, 1761, died at West Orange, New Jersey, November 22, 1839. He occupied about one hundred acres where the present Freeman homestead now stands, which is the third house built on the Freeman grant, on the same spot, and built by him. He also owned a farm in what is now South Orange, near the Orange Mountain, from Scotland street to the top of the mountain. This prop- erty came to his son Rufus and daughter Rhoda after his death. He conducted general farming, was industrious, honest and frugal, and possessed considerable property at his death. He was found dead in his bed. He served in the revolution at the battle of Mon- mouth, from Essex county. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, and promi- nent like all his ancestors; noted for his strong principles. He was a strong Whig in politics. He married, 1780, Eunice Williams, born July 12, 1760, died January 24, 1838, daughter of Gershom and Martha ( Condit) Williams. Chil- dren: I. Rufus, born July 1, 1781, died De- cember 7, 1854. 2. Jotham, born November 15, 1782, died December 5, 1839; married (first) Lydia Jones ; (second) Betty Crane. 3. Abigail, born December 7, 1784. died De- cember 6, 1830, unmarried. 4. Rhoda, born March 19, 1788; married Bethual Ward. 5.
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Lydia, born August 5, 1790, died August 21, 1867, unmarried. 6. Gershom Williams, men- tioned below. 7. Martha F., born August 13, 1794, died November 29, 1867 ; married Ethan N. Baldwin, born August 26, 1798, died May 1, 1869.
(VI) Gershom Williams, son of Cyrus and Eunice (Williams) Freeman, was born at Orange, New Jersey, July 22, 1792, died at West Orange, March 22, 1872. He was brought up on his father's farm, acquiring the usual common school education of a farmer's son at that period. He remained on the homestead farm until his father's death, after which he had the use of his father's estate as long as he lived. His father left his property to his grandsons, George C. and Edward Freeman. Gershom W. Freeman was a successful farmer, upright and honorable in his dealings and well respected. He was the type of the steady- going strong-principled man, possessing a kind and lovable nature, and a member of the Pres- byterian church. He brought his family up in the fear of God and gave them a good educa- tion. He raised large quantities of wheat and fruit, made cider and vinegar, and had sheep and cattle, selling butter, also wood. He was a Whig in politics. He served in the capacity of school trustee, and served in the early mili- tary company. He married (first) February 14, 1822, Eliza Nutman Gildersleeve, born No- vember 23, 1800, died November 21, 1826, daughter of Ezra and Betsey (Nutman) Gild- ersleeve, the former of whom was a farmer. Children : 1. Edward, born January 4, 1823, died December 17, 1861. 2. George Camp, mentioned below. He married (second) Eliza B. Crane, born May 4, 1800, died July 25, 1858, daughter of Nathaniel Crane. Children : 3. Cyrus Gibson, born December 29, 1832, died July 7, 1842. 4. Eliza G., born January 23, 1835 ; married Richard Cleveland Campbell, of Caldwell. New Jersey; child, George Whit- field. 5. Annie, born June 29, 1846; married, May 3, 1866, Thomas Wesley Taylor (see Taylor ) ; children: i. Oscar Wilcox, born November 1, 1867, married, June 5, 1895, Ber- tha Van Duyne, child, George Wesley, born November 22, 1897; ii. Charles Hays, born February 1, 1871, married, August 15, 1893, Sarahı Elizabeth Reeves, children : Frances Elizabeth, born September 1I, 1894; Russell Earl, born August, 1903.
(VII) George Camp, son of Gershom Will- iams and Eliza N. (Gildersleeve) Freeman, was born in Orange, New Jersey, August 15, 1825, in the old homestead built by his grand-
father, Cyrus Freeman, in 1815, now situated on the present South Valley road in West Orange, one of the most conspicuous land- marks in the locality and noted for its unique style of architecture, and now owned by George Camp Freeman, having descended to him through his grandfather's will. Here Mr. Freeman was reared and attended the district school. From his boyhood he has been stu- dious, acquiring much from the experiences of life. The early years spent on his father's farm fitted him for his chosen occupation, that of his ancestors. Mr. Freeman has continu- ously followed the life of an agriculturist. and with the aid of his five sons during their minor- ity his farm was made to yield a handsome income. He is a very industrious man, a prac- tical farmer, progressive in his methods, be- lieving in the improved ideas of agriculture. He has reared his family of sons in the true Puritan style, each having profited by their father's influence and high morality, which has fitted them for their chosen occupations. Like his father, he had no desire to hold any public office in the gift of his townspeople, yet he has served his town as school trustee. He is a strong adherent of Republican principles in politics. He has kept in touch by constant reading with the affairs of the nation and the world at large, and has always felt, like many other citizens, that to attend to the affairs of his own family and farm was the first and highest duty of a citizen. In all the duties of life he has not neglected the spiritual side of life; he and his faithful wife are consistent members of the Montville Dutch Reformed Church, where Mr. Freeman is now one of its beloved elders, hav- ing severed from the staid principles of Pres- byterianism of his ancestors. Mr. Freeman is a man of strong personality, of open heart and mature judgment, and is looked upon as a public-spirited and loyal citizen, maintaining the rights of his fellowmen, and his social and genial disposition and innumerable acts of kind- ness and courtesy have caused him to be held in the highest esteem by the people at large, regardless of party and condition. He takes the highest pride in the old farm and home- stead, and feels that the real pleasure of his declining years is in the continuance of those duties that has made his life a success and worth the living. He married, November 30, 1861, Sarah Frances Van Duyne, born June 26, 1836, died October 31, 1905, daughter of Martin and Julia Ann (Crane) Van Duyne, and a descendant of an old and respected Hol- land family who were among the first settlers.
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