Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Part 70

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 698

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Guisbert (Gilbert) baptized May 24, 1741, died single, March 25, 1785, aged 44 years, I month, 2 days, according to his headstone in Brick church cemetery at Marlboro.

Mary, baptized April. 7, 1744, married Thomas Hendricks, who, it is thought, resided somewhere near Hopewell, New Jersey. She died Novem- ber 5. 1768, aged 24 years, according to her headstone in Brick church cemetery. Her hus- band is not buried in this yard, and we do not

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know what became of him or whether she left any children.

Sarah, baptized June 28, 1747, died single February 28, 1772.

Abraham, born ; married, according to license dated December 17, 1754, Mary, daugh- ter of William Wyckoff and Agnes Van Doren, his wife. She was born October 1, 1733, and died February 12, 1796, and is buried in Brick church cemetery. Abraham Hendricks may have been the oldest of the eight children of John Hendricks, but there is no record of his birth or baptism unless the "Old Dutch Bible," which his father mentions in his will, be found. Neither do we know where Abraham died or where he was buried. He seems to have resided in Upper Freehold, and run a grist mill at or near Imlaystown or Allentown. During the Revolution he was an earnest and energetic pat- riot and a soldier. We have no information or knowledge of his children, if any. His father's selection of him as executor and gift of family Bible to him leads us to think he was the old- est son. Jannetje, the fourth child of William Hendricks and Williampe Laen, his wife, mar- ried Christopher Warmsley, and moved to some other part of New Jersey or some other colony. She had, however, three of her children bap- tized in our Dutch church while visiting her par- ents, viz. : William, baptized May 3, 1719, and two others unnamed, one October 25, 1724, and the other April 16, 1732.

Hendrick, the fifth child of William Hen- dricks, was born November II, 1706, married about 1728, Altje, daughter of Albert Couwen- hoven and Neiltje Schanck, his wife, and died July 28, 1783, aged 76 years, 8 months, 6 days .. His wife was born January 20, 1709. Her father and mother are both buried in Schanck-Couwen- hoven yard, and dates of their deaths from head- stone inscriptions show that the printed state- ments heretofore given are incorrect. Albert Couwenhoven died September 13, 1748, aged 72 years, 9 months, and 6 days. Neiltje Schanck, his wife, died July 27, 1751, aged 70 years, 6 months and 4 days. Hendrick Hendrickson and Aeltje Couwenhoven his wife, had two sons bap- tized in the Dutch church. viz: Hendrick, June 20, 1730, and Albert, July 16. 1732. There may have been other children born and not baptized. Hendrick, according to license granted April, 1751, married Sarah Tomson, or Thompson. Both are put down as residents of Middletown

township. They had the following children bap- tized : Hendrick, May 2, 1752; William, Feb- ruary 26, 1757; Albert, July 8, 1759; Arriuthia, September 6, 1761. Albert, the second son of Hendrick, married, according to license dated January 3, 1755, Johanna Mills. Both are named as residents of Monmouth.

I do not know of any of the male descend- ants of Hendrick Hendrickson and Altje Cou- wenhoven, his wife, now residing in Monmouth county. I think some of them settled in Glouces- ter and Salem counties and others removed to New York and Pennsylvania. Daniel, the young- est son of William Hendrickson and Williampe Laen, his wife, is so named in the will of his uncle, Daniel Hendricks, published heretofore in full. He removed from this county.

We find Daniel Hendrickson running a grist mill on the Millstone river, in Somerset county, New Jersey, in the year 1741. This may be the same person. His grandfather, Hendrick Hen- drickson, with Peter Cortelyou, Stoffel Probas- co, Theodore Polhemus, Hendrick Lott, Jacques Cortelyou, Dionje Denyse, and Cornelius Wyck- off, purchased in 1701, of John Harrison ten thousand acres of land in Franklin township, Somerset county, New Jersey. This land ex- tended from Millstone river over to the old In- dian path which ran from the falls of the Dela- ware river across New Jersey to a point about three miles from the mouth of the Raritan river. Here the river was crossed and the path ran over to Mount Pleasant and from there to Craw- ford's Corner, and from there over the hills by the residence of Daniel Hendricks, the pioneer settler, to Ruckman's Hills at Middletown vil- lage, and here intersected the old Indian path from Freehold to the bay shore and to Sandy Iłook.

The eight purchasers divided this tract into eight parts. Now Daniel Hendrickson, the youngest son of William, had an opportunity to learn the miller's business in his father's mill on Mahoras brook heretofore mentioned. His uncle Daniel left him by will a small lot of land at Perth Amboy. This would indicate that Dan- iel had removed to this town or vicinity at the mouth of the Raritan river. His grandfather, Hendrick, owned lands on the Millstone river which afforded a good site for grist mills, a business which he understood. Neither is Daniel Hendricks, the youngest son of William, named in any of our county records after the probate

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of his uncle Daniel's will. There is a probabil- ity from these considerations that the miller of this name on the Millstone river in 1741 may have been this man.

This concludes the family records of some of the Dutch settlers of Monmouth county. I have not written these articles to gratify any foolish family pride or vanity, or to instill notions of superiority ; for "birth is an accident," and trans- mits neither brains nor virtues of parents to chil- dren. The plodding, industrious, and economical habits of our low Dutch ancestors are worthy of remembrance and imitation. Their ardent love of liberty, independence, and truth, was a mighty factor in the establishment of this great republic. Their descendants are bound by every principle of right and duty to carry forward their benefi- cent work, until mankind is freed from caste, kings, priests and all other forms of hereditary bondage or oppression. The following lines by Lowell express the truth :

"Let those who will. claim gentle birth. And take their pride in Norman blood.

The purest ancestry on earth, Must find its spring in Adam's mud. And all, though noble now or base, From the same level took their rise, And side by side with loving grace, Leaped crystal clear from Paradise.

"Among our sires no high born chief, Freckled his hands with peasants' gore; No spurred or coronetted thief Set his mailed heel upon the poor. No! We are come of a purer line, With nobler hearts within the breast ; Large hearts, by suffering made divine. We draw our lineage from the oppressed.

"There's not a great soul gone before That is not mentioned in our clan- Who, when the world took side with power, Stood boldly on the side of man. All hero spirits plain and grand, Who for ages ope the door,

All labor's dusky monarchs stand, Among the children of the poor.

"Let others boast of ancestors Who handed down some legal right,

To stand behind their tyrant's horse, Or buckle his spurs before the fight. We. too, have our ancestral claims Of marching in the van;

Of giving ourselves to steel and flame, When aught is to be achieved for man.

"And is not this a family tree, Worth keeping up from age to age ; Was ever such ancestry Gold-blazoned on the herald's page ?

In old Monmouth let us still,

Maintain our race and title pure,

The men and women of heart and will, The people who endure."

CHARLES TAYLOR HENDRICKSON was born at Blueball, now called Adelpha, Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, March 30, 1846. He is a son of William J. and Mary (Coward) Hen- drickson, and grandson of Peter G. and Cath- erine (Cox) Hendrickson, who were the parents of seven children, as follows: William J., Reu- ben, Keziah, Clayton, Israel, Gilbert and Lydia. Peter G. Hendrickson (grandfather) was born in Monr 'th county, New Jersey, followed the trade o1 cooper, and died in his native county.

William J. Hendrickson ( father ) was born in Monmouth county, 1823, followed the occupation of farming, and died in Hamilton township, Mer- cer county, February 15, 1893. His wife, Mary (Coward) Hendrickson, who is now ( 1907) liv- ing at the age of ninety-three, bore him four children, as follows: I. Charles T., see forward. 2. William H., married Maria Pomeroy Ahl, one child, Emma, married Frank Smedley, one child, Harold Smedley. 3. Kathryn L., married Frank Tantum, six children: William, married Annie Matthews, one child; Augusta, married a Mr. Livingston ; Emma, principal of a school ; Elizabeth, employed in a bank; John, a resident of New York City; Horace, engaged in the Adams Express Company. 4. James, married Ella Marvin ; married (second) -

Charles T. Hendrickson was only two years of age when his parents moved to a farm at Up- per Freehold township, adjoining the Yellow Church, and there he was reared and obtained his education, entering the Pennington Seminary, where he completed his studies at the age of nine- teen. His first employment was as clerk in his father's general store at Allentown. He then clerked in the general store of Clark Perrin at Freehold, and from there went to Philadelphia and clerked for a period of seven years in a grocery store. He then returned to Upper Free- hold and resided on the Asher Borden farm of one hundred and thirty acres for one year, and the following year resided on the Henry Wall farm. He once more took up his residence in Philadelphia and accepted a position as foreman for the Butcher Ice Company, serving in that capacity one year. He then located on the James Ward farm in Washington township, consisting

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of one hundred and sixteen acres, where he re- mained six years. He then removed to Hunter- don county and located at Ringoes, on the D. C. Young farm, consisting of one hundred acres, where he remained two years. He then returned to the Asher Borden farm, remaining for two years. In March, 1893, he took up his residence on his present farm near Yardville; he conducts general farming, and being practical and pro- gressive in his ideas, has made a success of his undertaking. He also conducts a wholesale dairy, from which he derives a goodly income. In 1893 he was appointed superintendent of the almshouse, a township poor farm, but only has an average of three paupers per year. Mr. Hen- drickson is a Baptist in religion, a Republican in politics, and a member of Lodge No. 248, I. O. O. F., at Yardville, also secretary of same.

Mr. Hendrickson married, in Philadelphia, March 31, 1879, Jennie Fenton, daughter of Jo- seph and Elizabeth (Cummings) Fenton, and granddaughter of William and Jane (Hackett) Fenton, and Elizabeth (Carr) Cummings. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Hendrickson are : Anna T., married Charles W. Davis, one child, Edward; and James, unmarried.

MARGERUM FAMILY. Daniel Webster, in a speech upon an important occasion, said : "Men who are regardless of their ancestors and of their posterity, are very apt to be regardless of themselves." The name Margerum variously spelled, has been a common one for many years in Bucks and Montgomery counties, Pennsyl- vania, and in Trenton, New Jersey, and vicinity. The name has been with recent years so very local that many persons on hearing it for the first time are apt to remark upon its oddity, while it is the experience of those possessing it that to ensure its proper writing it must invariably be spelled.

The name is possibly Anglo-American, and is undoubtedly of Anglo-Saxon origin. It is probably an outgrowth of the German Majoran, and Origandum Mayorana, or sweet marjoram. In Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," written in 1776, (page 71), the vicar's son Bill has just finished a song entitled "An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog," and is heartily applauded bv both his father and mother, when the latter took occasion to say: "The most of his family, by the mother's side, could sing a good song; it was a

common saying in our country that there were none of the Grogans but could sing a song, or of Marjorams but could tell a story."

It may be said of this estimable lady: "The vicar chose his wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear well. To do her justice, she was a good natured, notable woman, and as for breeding, there were few country ladies who could show more. She could read any English book without much spelling, but for pickling, preserving and cookery, none could excel her. She prided herself upon being an excellent con- triver in housekeeping, though I could never find that we grew richer with all her contrivances."

The object of this work is to record con- veniently the descendants of Henry Margerum so far as possible-no genealogy of the Margerum family is designed-this effort being nothing more than a contribution to such a. work should one ever be attempted. After the lapse of so many years, and in the absence of any immediate family record, the work is necessarily fragmentary and incomplete. The compiler has made use of all the material that has come in his way. tak- ing from the text of General W. H. D. Davis' History of Bucks County, the Pennsylvania Ar- chives, and the Colonial Records, and desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to these sources. Public records have served to supply very much of the earlier history, and the kindness of friends has made possible the latter portions. To all of these the compiler tenders his acknowledge- ments.

(I) Henry Margerum was one of the earliest settlers of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Phineas Pemberton prepared a list of the first arrivals in Bucks county who came in the "Friends Ad- venturer" 28th 7th mo. 1682. The following is also recorded by him: "Henry Margerum. Eliz- abeth his wife of Cheverell in the county of Wilts. England, Husbandman, arrived in the Bristol Merchant, the Mr. name Willm Smith, arrived in the Delaware River 2 mo. 1682."

Will'm Beakes, County of Somerset, husband- man, came in same vessel, also one child Abraham Beakes. William Beakes was one of the original members of Falls Meeting at its organization 2d 3rd mo. 1682. Second on the list of "A Registry of all the births and deaths of all within the County of Bucks in the Province of Pennsyl- vania" is the birth of Henry, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Marjerum, born 12th 7th mo. 1683.

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Volume II .. page 195. of Records of Falls Monthly Meeting records the birth of Sarah Marjerum, born 7, 17, 1685. parents Henry and Elizabeth. Sarah Marjerum died young. It must be borne in mind that all of these dates are old style; the year commencing the first of March. Henry and his wife Elizabeth were members of the Society of Friends and attended the Falls Meeting. Here they were accustomed to worship and here they witnessed the marriage of Samuel Dark of London, Calenderer, who ar- rived in the ship "Content" in 1680, and Martha Worrall, both of Bucks county, 6mo. 12. 1685, also the marriage of Joseph Charley and Mary Akerman, 6th 2mo. 1686. Henry's wife Eliza- beth died in 1687, and the first marriage in Bur- lington, New Jersey, outside of Friends Meet- ing was, "Henry Marjeram to Jane Rigg. Octo- ber 3. 1693." Jane Riggs was the widow of Robert Riggs. Henry died in 1727, outside of the Friends Meeting, as his will is recorded in this year in Book 1, page 102. His wife Jane died in 1740.

Henry Marjorum early acquired land in his adopted country, the first being a tract of three hundred and fifty acres lying in Makefield town- ship beginning at the Delaware river and run- ning baek in a southwesterly and westerly direc- tion. The adjoining lands being owned by John Snowden and Peter Worrall on the south and Richard Hough on the west, and William and Andrew Elliott on the north. This piece of land was ordered to be resurveyed on the 25th 8th mio. 1701. and was returned as having been resurveyed by John Cutler on the 14th day of 2nd month. 1702. and is undoubtedly where Henry built his first home in his adopted coun- trv.

Pensilvania : Seal.

William Penn. Proprietary and Governor of the Province of Pensilvania and counties an- nexed-

At the request of Henry Margerom, that I would grant him a resurvey on a certain traet of land in the county of Bucks where he is seated laid out for 350 acres but judged deficient of the said quantity. These are to require thee forthwith to re-survey or cause to be resurveyed to the sd Henry Margerom, the said tract of land and make good the deficiency of the sd quantity of 350 aeres out of the land adjoining now in the possession of Peter Worral and John Snowden, and make return thereof into the Sec-

retaries office. Given under my hand and seal at Philada the 25th of ye 8. 1701.

To Edward Penington, Surveyor Genl .- W'm. Penn.

Upon the Decease of the Surveyor Genl. thou are required to execute this warrt by a copy thereof to be transmitted to thee by ye Secrety and make return to him.

Edwd Shippen Tho Story James Logan.

To Phineas Pemberton, Surveyor of Bulds.

Within a few years after the settlement of the province, great trouble and inconvenience was found in the transfers of real estate, by reason of the discrepancy between the quantity called for in the warrant, and that returned in the survey. To remedy the difficulty, the commissioners of property ordered a resurvey of all the lands taken up, and a warrant was issued to John Cut- ler, surveyor of Bucks county, August 11, 1702. The surveyor was ordered to make his survey according to the lines by which the lands were granted by the Proprietary. By a resurvey of 15th IIth mo. 1702, we find that Henry Mar- geron also possessed of 281 acres of land in Makefield township formerly laid out to John Luff. This piece of land had a frontage on the Delaware River of 95 perches running south west by west from Potato Creek at its junction with the River. Prior to this 14th Ioth mo. 1702 he also obtained title to a tract of land in Falls Township formerly laid out to John Luff, con- taining 106 acres, which is described by John Cutler, surveyor. as follows: "Beginning at a Black oak by the River Delaware at Joseph Chor- ley's Corner, thence by the sd Chorley's land W. S. W. 150 p. to a small white oak, then W. N. W. 206 p. to a black, then by the Mannor Lands N. 30 deges E. 56 p. to a black oak at Jonathan Taylor's corner, then by the sd Tay- lor's line E. S. E. 184 p. to a white oak, then E. N. E. 114 p. to the sd River, then down the several courses of the same to place of beginning.

Among the names of owners of cattle in Bucks county in 1684, according to the entry in the original record is that of Henry Margorum. Marking cattle was a subject that early engaged the attention of the new law-makers west of the Delaware. As there were but few enclosures, and the cattle were turned loose to grass in the woods, it was necessary that each owner should have a mark to distinguish his own from his

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neighbors. The law obliged every owner to have a distinctive mark, and the alteration by another was a punishable offense. These marks were en- tered in a book kept for this purpose in the regis- ter's office. In Bucks county, Phineas Pember- ton was the register, and he prepared a book and entered therein the ear and brand marks of the early settlers. This curious old record has been deposited in the Historical Society of Pennsyl- vania for safe keeping, and may be seen at any time by application to the librarian. The mark of Henry Margorum was as follows:

His Earmarke

Henry Margerum

The ear and brand mark of William Penn, recorded in the same book are as follows :

"His Earmarke Cropped on both Eares"

W P

"His Brandmark

on the nearest sholder"

In the struggle for Independence we find some of the family Margerum arrayed on the side of liberty and some on the side of Toryism; the great majority, however, actively supporting the gevernment. Among the non-associators of Falls township under the age of fifty years, as given by Thomas Harvey, captain of the company of the Falls township, we find the name of John Margerum, while among the non-associators of Lower Makefield township-married men-we have Edward Margerum and Benjamin Mar- gerum.

As an offset to the above we find on the muster roll of Captain Richard Stillwell's Company, of the First Regiment of Foot, in the service of the United States, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Keller, of the First Class of Bucks Coun- ty Militia, Private Joseph Margerum, Septem- ber 24, 1781, William Margerum, September 24, 1781. The returns of the sub-lieutenants of Bucks county, showing the names of all of those

who served at one time or another in the militia, are not on file, but the returns of military fines for non-attendance on days of exercise and tours of duty are approximately complete, after 1779. It is to be presumed that all of those whose names were enrolled among the associators, and who by force of circumstances or stress of business were prevented from attendance on days of exercises and tours of duty, and who paid their fines as patriots should, were in actual service when the call to arms was urgent, notably in 1776 and 1777, and again in 1778. In many instances, the exercise days interfered with their business, farm- ing especially, and a fine paid was better than the neglecting of their several occupations. . These records give us the military services of many whose names do not elsewhere appear upon rec- ords. In most instances the names are spelled phonetically, and the correct orthography must be left to those searching the records. These associators and exercise men are to be distin- guished from the non-associators-men who never even shouldered a gun or countenanced the great struggle for liberty.

Military fines for non-attendance upon days of exercise as received by Joshua Anderson, Esq., Sub-Lieutenant of Bucks Co., Vol. VI., Penna. Archives, pages 103, 108, 113, 116, 120, 123, 126 and 129. Col. Melvain's Battalion (late 5th) 2nd Company.

non-attendance days of exercise in the year 1779. Continental money. £ 9. Joseph 15. O.

15. 0.

Benjamin

9. 15. O.

15.

William

15. O.

non-attendance on days of exercise Spring. 1780.

William

£ 72. 0. 0.

Joseph

72.

0. 0.

Benjamin 45.

O. o.

non-attendance upon days of exercise fall of 1780.

William

£ 13.

10. 0.

Joseph 72.

0. 0.

Benjamin 13.

IO. O.

Additional under heading Captain Richard Still- well's Company.

William

3. 7. 6.

Joseph

18. 0. 0.

Benjamin 3.

7. 6.

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non-performance of tour of duty when called out in August, 1780-Captain Stillwell's

Company.

Benjamin £550. 17. 0.

non-attendance upon days of exercise, in spring, 1781.

state money.

William £ O. 9. 0.

Jonathan

O. IO. 6.

Joseph I. 4. o. married 6th month, 7th, 1769, Elizabeth

non-attendance upon days of exercise fall, 1781.

Samuel £ O. 5. 5.

Specie.

Jonathan o. 15. 9.

No fines appear against any of the above for non-performance of tour of duty in September, 1781, which fines were paid in specie.

"You know the rest. In the books you have read How the British Regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball. From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane,

Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load." -Longfellow.

Henry Margerum and his wife Elizabeth had children as follows: 1. Henry, born 7th month, 12th, 1683. died young. 2. Sarah, born 7th month, 17th, 1685, died young. 3. Robert, lived to maturity, but died withont issue in 1720. Henry Margerum and his second wife, Jane Riggs, had children as follows: I. Richard, of whom later. 2. Abraham, married 8th month, 27th. 1731, Margaret Lucas, daughter of Edward and Bridget Lucas, and died without issue in 1732. 3. Eliz- abeth, married Matthias Harvey. 4. Jane, mar- ried John Scarborough, Junior, and died withont isstte.

(II) Richard Margerum, eldest child of Henry and Jane (Riggs) Margerum, was born in 1700, and died in 1786. He married, (first) 4th month, 7th, 1726, at Falls Meeting, Mary Lucas, daughter of Edward and Bridget Lucas, and they had children as follows: I. Robert, born 10th month. 3rd, 1727, died young. 2. Henry (born second month, 5th, 1730, married Jndith

died without issue, 1799. 3. Mary, born IIth month, Ist, 1732, married Clark. 4.

Edward, born 2nd month, 22nd, 1734, married 5th month, 6th, 1761, died 1798. 5. John, born 4th month, 5th, 1736, married November 8, 1769, Catharine Cornish, daughter of Catharine and Thomas Cornish, in Old Swedes Church, Phil- adelphia, Pa., and died in January, 1793. 6 Isabel, born IIth month, 2nd, 1739, married - Phillips. 7. Richard, born 2nd month, 25th, 1742, married 3rd month, 23rd, 1768, Rebecca White, and died 1773. 8. Benjamin, born

Richard Margerum married (second), 12th month, 1760, at Falls Meeting, Hannah White, daughter of John White, and had the following named children: 1. William, of whom later. 2. Robert, married January 5. 1791, Phebe Rickey, and died in 1816. 3. Abraham, married Mary -, and died in 1810. 4. Richard, born in 1773, married Sarah 5. Jonathan. 6. Samuel. 7. Joseplı.

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Genealogical and personal memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Part 70

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914 Publication date: 1907 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 698

Author: Lee, Francis Bazley, 1869-1914
Publication date: 1907
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 698