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(III) John C., son of Cornelis and Jannetje (Jurianse) Jerolamon, was born in Belleville, June 24, 1796. He married April 4, 1819, Margaret, daughter of Waling and Sarah (Garrabrantz) Van Winkle, q. v. in index. Chil- dren : Cornelis, born October 12, 1820; Sarah Ann, September 29, 1821 ; Jane, December 6, 1823; Elizabeth, twin with Jane; John, born August 16, 1826; Waling, referred to below; Margaret ; Abraham.
(IV) Waling, or Walter Joralemon, (note change in form of name), son of John C. and Margaret (Van Winkle) Joralamon, was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, January 26, 1829. He engaged in the building business in New York City, and during the civil war served in Company F, First Regiment New Jersey Volunteer Infantry. He was a com- municant of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and in politics a Republican. He married, February 22, 1852, Mary Jane, daughter of Jesse and Sarah (Canfield) Covert, of Ridge- field, Connecticut, who was born there August 15, 1831. Her father, Jesse Covert, was born January 10, 1798, and her mother, Sarah (Can- field) Covert, was born January 29, 1808. Children : Wallace, born May 19, 1853; Ben-
nie, July 5, 1855; Jesse Covert, referred to below.
(V) Rev. Jesse Covert, son of Walter and Mary Jane (Covert) Joralemon, was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 1, 1858, and is now living in Jersey City, New Jersey. He prepared for college at Trinity Church school, New York City, and graduated from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, in 1880, receiving his M. A. degree in 1883. He was made deacon of the Protestant Episcopal Church by Bishop Starkey, of the Diocese of Newark, in 1884, and was ordained priest by the samc bishop in 1885. He then took charge of Trinity Church, Paterson, New Jersey, and later became rector first of Somerset parish, Maryland, and sub sequently of St. John's parish, Boonton, New Jersey. In 1902 he became rector of Grace Church (Greenville) Jersey City, New Jersey . He is a member of Theta Delta Chi, college fraternity ; a past master of Bay View Lodge, No. 146, F. and A. M., of New Jersey ; and a member of Boonton Chapter, Royal Arch Masons. He married, in St. Paul's Church, Stapleton, Staten Island, New York, July 31, 1893, Saidee Esther, daughter of Daniel Grummon, and Mary Belinda (Pratt) Olm- stead. Child : Walter Covert, born November 14, 1898.
GORE Israel Gore, M. D., the founder of this family in America, was a phy- sician and surgeon. He was born in Margate, England, and his family in that country can be traced back for many centuries. He emigrated to Newark, New Jersey, with his wife and family in 1826. He married Mary Witherden, of Margate, England, the descend- ant of another old English family of county Sussex. Children : Thomas ; Frederick ; Eliz- abeth ; George Witherden, referred to below.
(II) George Witherden, son of Dr. Israel and Mary (Witherden) Gore, was born in Margate, England, in 1824, and died in New- ark, New Jersey, in 1891. He was a painting contractor early in life, but later on account of ill health gave up active business. He was a great student and well versed not only in higher mathematics but also in Latin and Greek. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Congregational church. He married, February 22, 1848, Mary Lewis, daughter of Joel and Nancy (De Camp) Kinsey, the descendant of one of the earliest families that settled in Burlington, New Jer- sey, who was born in 1829, and was one of a
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family of fourteen children. Her parents lived in Newark. Children: 1. Frederick, died in infancy. 2. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 3. George Wilmer, married Emma E. Merchant. 4. Isabelle Mary, married, 1903, as second wife, Grant Carpenter. 5. John Kinsey, re- ferred to below. 6. Margaret Mary, married, 1891, as first wife, Grant Carpenter; child Margaret, born in 1892, died in 1909.
(III) John Kinsey, son of George Wither- den and Mary Lewis (Kinsey) Gore, was born in Newark, New Jersey, February 3, 1864, and is now living in Orange, New Jersey. He received his early education in the public schools, and was one of the youngest pupils ever admitted to the Newark high school, from which he graduated in 1879. He then entered Columbia University, from which he received his B. A. degree in 1883, and his M. A. degree in 1886. During his college course he under- took work as a teacher in an evening school, and also found employment as a bookkeeper. After his graduation he became a school teacher in New York, becoming vice-principal of the Woodbridge School, a scientific prepar- atory school. In 1892 he entered the employ of the actuarial department of the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark as a clerk. Here he rose rapidly, being made mathematician in 1894, assistant actuary in 1895, and actuary in 1897. This position he has held ever since, and ten years after his appointment he was elected in 1907 a member of the board of directors. Mr. Gore is a Republican in poli- tics, and for two years from 1895 to 1897 he was one of the school commissioners for New- ark. He is the inventor of the system of machines for recording and tabulating insur- ance statistics which is now in use by the Pru- dential and other large companies. He is interested in everything that lends to the advancement of Newark and Essex county. He was one of the charter members and organ- izers of the Riverside Athletic Club, of which he was president from 1890 to 1895. He is a member and was formerly president of the Omega Association of Phi Gamma Delta, of New York City. He is also a member of various literary and other clubs, among them, the Omega Alumni Club, the American Math- ematical Society, and the New Jersey Automo- bile Club. He is a fellow and president of the Actuarial Society of America, and a member of Hope Lodge, No. 124, F. and A. M., of East Orange. He is president of the Home and School League of the Oranges, and a trustee of the Orange Public Library. He is author of
several articles on vital statistics and actuarial subjects, including "Should Life Insurance Companies Discriminate Against Women ?" "The Improvement in Longevity in the United States during the Nineteenth Century," and "Is Human Life Lengthening?" He married, in New York City, February 16, 1898, Jean- nette Amelia, only child of John Meeker and Amelia (Daly) Littell, who was born in New- ark, New Jersey, in 1865. No children.
ADAMS As is the case with a number of other families, the representatives of the present day who bear the name of Adams have sprung not from a com- mon ancestor on this side of the Atlantic, but from several different individuals who emi- grated to this country at different times and seem to have been in no way unless perhaps remotely related.
(I) Jeremy Adams, ancestor of the branch of the name which is at present under consid- eration, came from England with the company brought over to America by Rev. Mr. Hooker, and settled first at Braintree, Massachusetts, from whence he soon removed to Cambridge, then called Newtown, where Jeremy appears as early as 1632, and where he was made a freeman May 6, 1635, and was assigned a homestead lot in October of the same year. The following year, 1636, he removed with the company which became the original pro- prietors of the new settlement, to Hartford, Connecticut, and according to Himman was a juror and deputy to the general court of Connecticut in 1638. On April 5, 1638, he was sent with Captain Mason and five others to treat with the Indians and trade with them for corn ; and in the land division of 1639 he received thirty acres on the highway, now Elm street, and the same year was chosen constable. March 5, 1644, the general court ordered Jeremy Adams to appear before the next session of that body in order to receive censure for "adhering to Thomas Asmor, en- couraging him to resist an officer, and espe- cially for his passionate distempered speeches, lowd language and unmannerly caredge in the face of the court." March 13, 1660, the same court granted him three hundred acres of up- land and forty acres of meadow on the road going to Monhegin, and about the same time established him as keeper of the ordinary. This tavern was on the site of the present Univer- salist church. January 26, 1660, he bought the lot of John Morrice, and mortgaged it to the colony, and May 14, 1663, he was appoint-
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ed by the general court "custome master" for Hartford. March 2, 1664, being sixty years old, he was "freed from watching and ward- ing," and in 1671 he was chosen one of the townsmen. He died August II, 1683, leaving an estate valued at £243 5 shillings 6 pence, and gave his property to his grandson Zach- ariah Sanford, the children of his son John, and the children of his son-in-law, Nathaniel Willit, which last named was also his executor. The house of his executor burned down and with all of Jeremy's books and papers. About 1639, Jeremy Adams married (first) Rebecca, widow of Samuel Greenhill. She was possibly the second wife of Greenhill, who had come from Staplehurst, county Kent, England, in the same ship with Simon Willard. To this marriage there were six children: John, re- ferred to below; Ann, died in 1682, married Robert Sanford, of Hartford, and had eight children ; Hannah, became second wife of Na- thaniel Willit, and was the mother of at least two of his children ; Samuel, baptized Novem- ber 24, 1645, probably died young; Hester; Sarah. Rebecca, his first wife, died 1678, and Jeremy Adams married (second) Rebecca, daughter of John Fletcher, and widow of An- drew Warner, Jr., who although not mention- ed in his will survived him and died in Mid- dletown, January 25, 1715, at the age of sev- enty-seven years.
(II) John, son of Jeremy and Rebecca (Greenhill) Adams, has left little record behind him except his children, the date of his death, and the inventory of his estate, which was made November 9, 1670, and amounted to £74 15 shillings 6 pence. His widow Abigail married John Betts, of Wethersfield, who was probably a son of John, son of Mary Betts, the school dame of Hartford. January 26, 1680, John Betts, of Wethersfield, bought of Jacob Walker, of Stratford, a farm at Huntington, Long Island, and about this time removed with his wife and the children of John Adams to that place. They were there at least in 1684, when John Betts and his wife Abigail conveyed to Edward Higbee, "for and in consideration of a marriage between the said Higbee and Abi- gail Adams his stepdaughter," a part of the farm bought from Jacob Walker. Children of John and Abigail Adams: I. Rebecca, born August, 1658. 2. Abigail, born February, 1660; married Edward Higbee; one son, John Hig- bee, married Alice, daughter of Edward An- drews, and left two children-Abigail, married Robert Leeds, of Burlington county, New Jer- sey, and Edward, who settled in what is now
Atlantic county, New Jersey, and became an- cestor of the Higbee family in that region. 3. Sarah, born March, 1662. 4. Jeremiah, born August, 1664; married and removed to Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where letters of ad- ministration were granted to his son Jeremiah, December 16, 1735. 5. John Jr., born Septem- ber, 1666; removed to New Jersey; by wife Esther had seven children. 6. Jonathan, re- ferred to below. 7. An unnamed child.
(III) Jonathan, next to the youngest child of John and Abigail Adams, was born in Hart- ford, Connecticut, November 6, 1668, and died in 1727. He went to Huntington, Long Island, with his mother and stepfather, and November 10, 1689, Jeremiah Adams sold to "his well beloved brother" Jonathan, one-half of the plot of land he had bought of his stepfather. In 1695 Jonathan Adams, "of Long Island, yeoman," purchased of Thomas Budd about two hundred and fifty acres of land at Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester county, New Jersey, and subsequently made further purchases until his estate consisted of over twelve hundred acres. About the time of his coming to New Jersey he became a member of the Society of Friends, and his descendants for several gen- erations clung to the same faith. In 1726 he was chosen as one of the overseers of the Friends' meeting at Great Egg Harbor. He was a man not only of much property but of considerable influence and was very highly respected. For a number of years he was one of the justices of the county court, and in 1701 was appointed special tax collector. His will, dated May 27, 1719, proved June 17, 1727, mentions his wife Barbara, and children: Jon- athan Jr .; John, referred to below ; Abigail ; Margaret ; Rebecca; Sarah, married John Steelman ; Mary; Nina ; Phoebe.
(IV) John, son of Jonathan and Barbara Adams, inherited most of his estate from his father, and in 1767 had it resurveyed to his three sons in equal parts. Besides the fact that he was a large landholder and an earnest Quaker, very little record of him has come down to us. The three sons mentioned in the resurvey spoken of above were: John, re- ferred to below; Jonathan, who lived in Egg Harbor township, Atlantic county, was a pri- vate during the revolution, and by his wife Mary had five children ; Elijah who served in the Gloucester county militia during the revo- lution, and died intestate in 1801, leaving an only son Jeremiah.
(V) John Jr., son of John Adams, lived on the one-third of his father's estate which
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he had inherited. He served as an ensign in the New Jersey militia during the war of the revolution. His will, dated August 25, 1797, proved April 17, 1798, does not mention his wife, but she survived him many years, living with her son-in-law, John Lake, and dying April 29, 1825. John Adams Jr., married Mary Garwood, the descendant of a long line of prominent Quaker ancestors. Children: I. Mary, born March 14, 1764. 2. Hannah, Sep- tember 23, 1765; married Solomon Mannery. 3. Daniel, August 23, 1767. 4. John, May 25, 1769. 5. Joshua, April 22, 1771. 6. Daniel, born April 1, 1773, died February 17, 1863; married (first) Sarah Chamberlain; (second) Elizabeth Bartlett. 7. Abigail, born January II, 1775; married John Lake. 8. Jesse, re- ferred to below. 9. Thomas, born April 17, 1780. 10. Margaret, January 7, 1783 ; married Amariah Lake. II. William, November 24, 1787. 12. Bevina, May 18, 1789.
(VI) Jesse, son of John and Mary (Gar- wood) Adams, was born April 26, 1777. He lived and died in Bakersville, Atlantic county, New Jersey, of which place he was one of the earliest settlers. Hs children were: I. Clem- ent, married Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Baker. 2. Enoch, married Naomi Townsend. 3. Constant, married Sophia Morris. 4. Israel Scull, referred to below. 5. Abigail, married Charles Lake. 6. Elizabeth, married Pardon Ryon Sr. 7. Margaret, married (first) John Baker ; (second) Andrew Frambes. He died in 1870.
(VII) Israel Scull Adams, youngest son of Jesse Adams, was born in Bakersville, New Jersey, September 2, 1820, and died December 6, 1884, at his home in the place of his birth. In his early life he followed the sea, was mas- ter of a vessel at the age of eighteen. He was an old line Whig, became identified with the Republican party at its organization, and for many years was the Republican leader of At- lantic county. In 1861 he was appointed by President Lincoln collector of customs at Somers Point, was reappointed in 1865, and was successively reappointed to the position, which he held continuously until his death, by Presidents Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, his successor being appointed by President Cleveland. At the time of his death he was a member of the Republican state com- mittee, and was a candidate for the nomination for governor. He was also named by the Re- publicans as a presidential elector from New Jersey, but resigned shortly before the election,
owing to his failing health. . He was one of the wealthiest men in South Jersey, and a large vessel owner, but at the time of his ap- pointment as collector he disposed of his ma- rine interests. He was a stockholder and a di- rector in the West Jersey & Atlantic railroad, the Trade Insurance Company of Camden, the Atlantic City Water-works Company, the South Atlantic City Land and Improvement Company, the Atlantic Lumber Company, and was president of the Morris Fish, Oil and Guano Company of Great Egg Harbor.
Israel Scull Adams married Louise C., daughter of Dr. Guthrie, of Connecticut, who lived in the south and is buried in St. Augus- tine, Florida. She was born in the last-named place, and at the age of eight years removed to Wilmington, North Carolina. Children of Israel Scull and Louise C. (Guthrie) Adams : I. Israel Guthrie, referred to below. 2. John Baker, see sketch.
(VIII) Israel Guthrie, elder son of Captain Israel Scull and Louise C. (Guthrie) Adams, was born in Bakersville, New Jersey, August 29, 1843, and is now living in Linwood, New Jersey. After finishing his education at the Pennington Seminary he became, although not yet twenty-one years of age, the master of a vessel, and for a number of years followed the sea, engaged in trade chiefly with the West Indian and Mexican ports. In February, 1865, he was wrecked off Cape Lookout in a very severe storm, and nearly lost his life. His vessel, the schooner "Spray," struck on the shoals eleven miles from shore, where, in the high sea then running, no help could possibly reach them. From Monday morning until the following Thursday afternoon, Captain Adams and five of his men were in great peril, lashed to the rigging, nearly frozen and starved, and the waves continually breaking over them. Finally a boat's crew from the battleship of Admiral Porter, who was on his way to Wash- ington to witness and take part in the second inauguration of President Lincoln, rescued them and took them off of the wreck in safety. In 1867, while crossing the ocean in command of the "I. S. and L. C. Adams," Captain Adams encountered a hurricane which came very near causing the sinking and loss of his ship. In 1883 he gave up the sea and opened a real estate and insurance office in Atlantic City, on the corner of Arkansas and Atlantic ave- nues. Here by his usual enterprise he built up a profitable business which has ever since been advancing and growing larger. His cousin
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Clement J., son of his uncle Enoch, was for a number of years associated with him in this business. With great foresight his father, Captain Israel S. Adams, purchased large tracts of sandhills and meadow lands along Absecon beach, and these acquisitions have proved in- valuable assets to his sons. Mr. Adams has a beautiful home in Linwood, while his offices for business are in Atlantic City. In addition to his extensive real estate interests. Mr. Adams is a stockholder and director in several financial institutions. He was president of the Atlantic City Cooling Company. He succeeded his father as a director of the West Jersey & Sea Shore railroad, and is now one of the road committee. He is also a director in the Second National Bank of Atlantic City, Atlantic City Safe Deposit & Trust Company, West Jersey Mortgage Company of Atlantic City, South Jersey Title & Finance Company of Atlantic City, Atlantic City Sewerage Company since its organization, Atlantic City Cemetery Asso- ciation of Pleasureville, New Jersey, Chelsea Investment & Development Company, West Jersey Guarantee & Title Company of Cam- den, New Jersey. Among his important real estate deals there should be mentioned the selling of the West Jersey Excursion House at Chelsea to a syndicate of Philadelphia mil- lionaires for $360,000.00, a sale which was the beginning of one of the largest and most mag- nificent of the great hotels on the Atlantic coast. He was mayor of Linwood, New Jer- sey, in 1898-99.
Israel Guthrie Adams married (first ) Phoebe A., daughter of Samuel Sanders. Children : I. Florence. 2. Amelia Scull, married Walter A. Corson, M. D. 3. Charles R., graduated from Chester Military Academy ; is now a civil engineer ; engaged in the real estate business in Atlantic City. 4. Mabel E. 5. Israel Mor- ton, graduate of the University of Pennsyl- vania; now a practicing lawyer in Atlantic City. Israel Guthrie Adams married (second) in 1887, Anna M., youngest daughter of Peter Boice, of Absecon, New Jersey.
ADAMS (VIII) Captain John Baker Adams, son of Israel Scull and Louise C. (Guthrie) Adams, was born at Bakersville, New Jersey, August 7, 1846. His education was acquired in schools in the vicinity of his home, West Jersey Academy at Bridgeton, 1863-64; and Pennington Seminary, Pennington, 1865-66. Upon the completion of his studies he went to sea and soon became master of a vessel; in
fact, he shortened his period of study in order to follow this pursuit. During the years that followed he was master of various ships, schooners, brigs, barques and barkentines, and was considered an expert in seafaring craft. He engaged in the West Indies, European, South American and coastwise trade, dealing in lumber, coal, oil, and all the native products of these countries, exchanging the same for products of our own land. He followed the sea up to 1898, in which year he retired, tak- ing up his residence in Camden, New Jersey. In company with his brother, Israel G. Adams, he purchased considerable land at Atlantic City and of the Absecon tract, and was one of the principal factors in the largest sale of land at Atlantic City (the Chelsea Heights addition to Atlantic City). He took a leading part in having the railroad run from Atlantic City to Pleasantville, which aided so materially in the development and building up of the former city. He is a member of the Camden Board of Trade, and his efforts in behalf of the city have been effective and beneficial. He was a liberal contributor toward the erection of the Young Men's Christian Association building in Camden, costing $250,000. He is a Repub- lican in politics, taking a deep interest in the success of his party and doing all in his power to promote its growth.
Captain Adams' palatial residence, No. 214 Cooper street, Camden, cost upwards of $50,- 000, and is one of the finest in that city. His home bears all the evidence of a highly culti- vated taste and an artistic turn of mind. Dur- ing his service as master of vessels he visited all parts of the world, gleaning what was best in art, statuary and paintings, all of which have contributed toward making his home most beautiful and attractive. He possesses the rarest collection of Oriental workmanship. vases of the rarest ware from Italy, now a lost art, which cannot be duplicated anywhere in the world, tables and cabinets of the rarest woods, inlaid with pearls and metals and pic- tures by old masters, some of which were first prizes at the various expositions. His collec- tion of art treasures and curios are so price- less and unique as to make it conspicuous, and words are inadequate to describe them accu- rately. They must be seen to be appreciated.
Captain Adams married, in 1870, Phoebe D., daughter of Captain Joseph Baker, of Bakers- ville, New Jersey, a sea captain, and at one time owner of the Baker Mills at Bakersville, the village and mills being named in honor of this family, who were among the first settlers
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in that section of Atlantic county. Children of Captain and Mrs. Adams: Clarence F. and Carrie J.
CARSON The Carson family is of ancient Scotch origin, being found be- fore the year 1300 in Dum- friesshire. The name is also spelled Corson. A branch of the family went to Ulster prov- ince, Ireland, and was settled there as early as 1653. From this family most of the American Corsons are descended. Nearly all of the name at present in Ireland are living in the Scotch counties of Antrim, Down and Tyrone. The coat-of-arms of one branch of the family in Ireland-perhaps belonging to all-is de- scribed: Or a chevron gules between three crescents proper two and one. Crest: An elephant proper. Motto: Fortitudine et Pru- dentia.
William Carson, a Scotch-Irish pioneer, came to Pennsylvania with the influx of Scotch- Irish about 1740, and married there, August 7, 1742, Mary, born 1718, daughter of Andrew Moore. He was a Quaker, and had a certifi- cate from the Warrington monthly meeting, York county, Pennsylvania. He died in 1750, and his widow married James Hamel, in 1753. His son William is mentioned in his will.
(I) Eli Carson, doubtless of the Pennsyl- vania family, originally from the north of Ireland, lived at Heightstown, Mercer county, New Jersey, and died there in 1851. He mar- ried (first) -; (second) Hannah Stout, born at Spottswood, New Jersey, died at Toms River, in that state. Children : David ; Charles; Alcha, married Elias Herbert; An- drew.
(II) Charles, son of Eli Carson, was born February 22, 1822, at Heightstown, New Jer- sey, and died at Toms River, Ocean county, New Jersey, December 11, 1885. He received his education in the district schools and work- ed on his father's farm in his boyhood. He was apprenticed to William Goldie to learn the trade of harness maker, and continued after he had served his time to work as a jour- neyman. He finally engaged in business as a harness maker on his own account, with a shop at Heightstown, nearly opposite the Baptist church, Main street, and was there until 1859. In 1860 he moved with his family to Toms River, where he opened a harness shop on Main street and did a thriving business until 1869, when he moved to Metedeconk and sold his house at Toms River. Here he engaged in the retail grocery business for two years,
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