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1674, June 7. He was imprisoned, but released at this date for having taken from the Indians lands by deed of gift in violation of the law of Massachusetts, he having surrendered the same.
*The case of Peter Tallman was tried upon petition by the Assembly. Peter Tallman applied for a divorce from his wife on the ground of adultery. The woman brought before the Assembly admitted the charge. The petition was granted at once and then the criminal, upon her own confession, was arraigned for sentence. The penalty was a fine and whipping, and she was accordingly sentenced by the terms of the law, to pay the fine of ten pounds and to receive fifteen stripes, at Portsmouth, on the ensuing Mon- day, and on the following Wednesday another fifteen stripes, at Newport, and to be imprisoned till the sentence was fulfilled.
Upon her petition for mercy, the Court again examined her as to whether she intended to return to her husband. This she refused to do upon any terms. Her petition was denied and she was remanded for punishment .**
** She escaped from prison and was gone two years. Upon her return to the Colony, in May, 1667, she was arrested and petitioned the Court for mitigation of sentence. The fine and one-half of the corporal punishment were remitted, and the remainder, fifteen stripes to be inflicted at Newport, was executed. Arnold's Hist. of Rhode Island, Vol. I, p. 276.
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1675, Oct. 20. He sued Rebecca, wife of Thomas Sadler, for breach of the peace and threatening his family.
1680. He was taxed 8 shillings, 6 pence.
1708. The inventory of his estate was presented by his son James Tallman.
1709, May 3. Administration having been given to Jonathan Tallman, he took acquittances, at this date, from his brothers and sisters, William Wilbur, Israel Shaw, Jonathan Tallman, James Tallman, Benjamin Tallman, Mary Pearce, Susanna Beckett, Peter Tallman, Isaac Lawton, William Potter, John Tallman, Joseph Tallman and Samuel Tallman.
Peter Tallman, Sr., married, first, Ann ..... ; second, 1665, Joan Briggs, who died about 1685; third, about 1686, Esther .. .. who died before 1708.
Issue
2 Mary Tallman married John Pearce
3 Elizabeth Tallman married Isaac Lawton
4 Peter Tallman born Mch. 22, 1658, (son by first wife), a physician, married Anne Walstone.
5 Anne Tallman married Stephen Brayton
6 Joseph Tallman
7 Susanna Tallman married Mr. Beckett
8 Daughter married William Wilbur
9 Jonathan Tallman married Sarah .
IO James Tallman, ancestor of the Shrewsbury, New Jersey, family.
II Daughter married William Potter
12 John Tallman married Mary .
; settled at Flushing, Long Island; ancestor of the Burlington County, New Jersey, family.
13 Daughter married Israel Shaw
14 Benjamin Tallman (son by second wife).
15 Samuel Tallman (son by third wife).
Concerning these children Austin contributes considerable information and men- tions ninety-two of their children. But we are only interested in following James Tall- man, Io, and John Tallman, 12, and their progeny.
10 JAMES TALLMAN, son of Peter Tallman, I, died 1724; married, first, Mch. 18, 1689/90, Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Brayton) Davol, "of the Niantic Country;" second, Sept. 14, 1701, Hannah, daughter of John and Mary (Wyer) Swaine, of Nantucket, born about 1679, died 1765.
James Tallman was a physician and a resident of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
1698, June 3. He deeded to Mary, wife of Joseph Timberlake, of Tiverton, for many kindnesses formerly to me shown and given by her, certain land and buildings, in Portsmouth, for life, with remainder to her daughters, Joan Cory and Sarah Timberlake. 1705, May 14. He deeded to his brothers Benjamin, Samuel and Joseph Tallman, for love, etc., twelve acres of land.
1706, Sept. 24. He was alluded to in the will of Thomas Barnes, of Providence, "as my careful and kind doctor, Mr. James Tallman," etc.
1723/4, II, II mo. His will was signed; proved February, 1724, in which he ap- pointed his wife Hannah, executrix, and John Earle, his overseer, and bequeathed to his
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son John one hundred acres, in Tiverton, he paying to his brother Jeremiah, £500; to his son Peter fifty acres in Tiverton; to his son Silas land in Tiverton; to his son Joseph land in Portsmouth; to his son Stephen the rest of his homestead, he paying his sister Jemima, £200, and his sister Hannah, £100; to his wife Hannah the use of land given to Joseph, until he is of age, and the use of half of the land given to Stephen, with privilege of half the housing to live in; also to his wife the rest of his estate, she paying daughter Mary £200; if Silas should die before twenty-one, his share to go to Peter, and if Joseph should die, his share to go to Stephen. His inventory amounted to £1373-16-6, viz .: neat cattle £138; 100 sheep £40; little boat £5; horse kind £35; 4 swine, poultry, bills due, £287; 2 guns, sword, cider mill, 2 cheese presses, negro woman £40; bell metal mortar, two other mortars, still, physick and syrup, £25.
1734, Dec. 9. His widow was allowed 20 shillings "for keeping Job Bennett and doctoring his foot."
1764, July 18. Hannah, the widow of Dr. James Tallman, made her will; proved Sept. 9, 1765, in which she mentioned her executors: sons-in-law David Fish and Mat- thew Slocum; her sons Stephen, Peter and Silas, who received 5 shillings, each; her daughter Mary Freeborn, who received £700; her daughter Jemima Fish, and son-in-law David Fish, who received £600; her daughter Hannah Slocum, who received household goods; son-in-law Matthew Slocum, who received £500, and her three daughters, who received land in Tiverton. The inventory of her estate amounted to £3868-18-0.
Issue by first wife 16 John Tallman born Sept. 19, 1692
17 Joseph Tallman born July 13, 1694
18 Elizabeth Tallman born June 13, 1699
Issue by second wife
19 Stephen Tallman born June 30, 1702; settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
20 Mary Tallman born June 26, 1704
21 Peter Tallman born June 17 (Dec. 27) 1706
22 Jemima Tallman born Sept. 11, 1708
23 James Tallman born Apr. 10, 1710
24 Jeremiah Tallman born Sept. 25, 1712; settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
25 Silas Tallman born Sept. 10, 1717
26 Joseph Tallman born June 1, 1720
27 Hannah Tallman born Sept. 14, 1723
12 JOHN TALLMAN, son of Peter Tallman, I, died 1709; married Mary . who died after 1707. He resided at Flushing, Long Island. He made his will, at Jamaica, Long Island, Sept. 3, 1707; proved Mch. 15, 1709, wherein he mentioned: executors, his son John, and friend Samuel Haight. To his wife Mary he gave his house for life; to his son John certain lands, a bed and cattle; to his son Benjamin land and £70, at age; to his son James land and cattle; to his son Joseph land and £95; to his son Peter, a minor, the house at the death of his wife; to his daughters Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah Tallman, and the child "that his wife goes with," certain effects.
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Issue
28 John Tallman married rober, 11, 1712, Jane Hedger.
29 Benjamin Tallman
30 James Tallman married 8ber, 27, 1712, Abigail Hicks.
31 Joseph Tallman; executor in the will of his nephew James Tallman, of Phila- delphia, in 1758.
32 Peter Tallman
33 Mary Tallman married Nov. 18, 1714, Daniel Waters.
34 Elizabeth Tallman
35 Sarah Tallman married Iober, 31, 1725, Thomas Willett.
36 Child "that his wife goes with" mentioned in will, [Job?].
19 DOCTOR STEPHEN TALLMAN, son of Dr. James Tallman, Io, was born at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, June 30, 1702, (Town Record), and died at his residence, Pumpkin Point, Shrewsbury, N. J., Aug. 24, 1774, aged 74 (tombstone). These dates are contradictory but are correctly quoted. He married Nov. 11, 1724, Mary, daughter of John and Sarah (Wilson) Potter, born Mch. 2, 1707. See also Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Dr. Stephen Tallman was the founder of a large family located in Shrewsbury, N. J. The Tallman blood ran riotously. Through what ante- cedent strains it was derived, I can only conjecture, but there is ample proof that its fiery character appeared in six generations, commencing with Dr. Stephen Tallman, 19. They were unmoral and irreligious; ugly tempered and defiant of law and social restraint. In these respects they came close to primitive man. They lived the life of landed squires, owning many slaves and much land, and possessed much ready wealth. They were well educated and contributed many members to the medical profession, and a goodly number of natural children to the world at large. During the Revolutionary War the family was split with many more of its members adhering to the Whig than to the Tory cause. In some instances it was brother against brother.
In 1728, Dr. Stephen Tallman was residing in Portsmouth.
In 1731, he was called Esquire, in the same place.
In 1733 and 1738, he was called yeoman, of Portsmouth.
Dr. Stephen Tallman became involved in one of the largest real estate speculations ever initiated in the State of Rhode Island. This ambitious venture failed, and brought ruin to him and his associates. June 18, 1747, Joseph Scott, of Newport, merchant, deposed: that Dec. 7, 1743 there was a vendue of the lands of Stephen Tallman, of Portsmouth, by the Sheriff for a judgment of court, obtained by John Potter, of South Kingstown, in the County of King's, yeoman. Part of the estate was bought by Joseph Scott, aforesaid, for £4,990. This property had furthermore been, in part, mortgaged by Stephen Tallman and others, for large sums of money, at divers times, to the Colony of Rhode Island. The date and the cause of Dr. Stephen Tallman's departure from Rhode Island may largely be determined by this mishap, and it was doubtless at this unfortunate turn in his affairs that he sought a new home in Monmouth County, New Jersey, whither many of his kindred, and many Rhode Islanders, had long been settled. Even here trouble followed him, for Mch. 24, 1747, he was haled before the Court, sitting at Burlington, N. J., by John Potter, of South Kingston, King's County, R. I., as execu- tor of Sarah Potter, widow, late of the same place, to recover £351, £412 and £5381, evidently monies used in his recent Rhode Island land transactions. Supreme Court Files, Trenton, N. J. The widow, Sarah Potter, was doubtless his mother-in-law, and
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John Potter his brother-in-law. From the size of the loans, Sarah Potter was, evidently a woman of wealth. It is regrettable that so little is known of the origin, growth and collapse of this business venture, which so strongly appealed to these thrifty people and which resulted so calamitously.
With the remnants of his fortune Dr. Tallman acquired Mch. 23, 1741, from James and Kezia Tallman, one of the largest and most fertile estates in Monmouth County. It lay in Shrewsbury township, on an arm of the Shrewsbury River, and ultimately amounted to seven hundred acres and its devious and indented shores presented about three miles of water front. Here, upon a knoll whose shores sloped to the water, and which was commonly called Pumpkin Point, he settled in Sally Reap's primitive house,* which he shortly, (in 1741), converted into a kitchen, and attached it to the fine and commodious residence he erected on this site. The estate passed from his descendants, in 1837, to the Newbolds, then to the Shermans, and finally, to a land syndicate, for $100,000., it is stated, consisting of William Conover (Black Bill), Stacy Conover and others, who plotted the land, and who still own the property and run the old house as the Potapeck (Port-au-Peck) Hotel.
Upon this estate Dr. Stephen Tallman lived in prodigal fashion until his death. His plantation was worked by his negroes under his supervision and he practiced medicine. He established his sons upon large farms, and they seemingly, had the funds in their possession to pay him for the same, especially so in the instance of his son James, to whom he conveyed the Potapeck property, Apr. 2, 1774, only a few months preceding his death, for the large sum of £3700. It is because of this disposition of his estate during his lifetime that he probably found it unnecessary to make a will. His daughters, it is traditional, received large amounts in cash. Some of his family silver marked s.T.M. (Stephen and Mary Tallman), is now in my (John E. Stillwell, 1915), possession. His professional mantle fell upon his two sons, Joseph and Christopher Tallman, who, with four descendants, through his daughter, Martha Tallman, wife of Col. Thomas Sea- brook, and a father, Dr. James Tallman, and an uncle Dr. Peter Tallman, make a total contribution to the healing profession of no less than nine of Tallman blood in six generations.
*William Reap, of Rhode Island, became one of the Monmouth Patentees in 1665. He died not long after this date, and his widow, Sarah, succeeded to his proprietary rights, and soon became an active land investor:
1679, Oct. 2. She, late widow and resident of Newport, R. I., bought from Thomas Potter, of Deal, near Shrewsbury, for £40, the neck of land in the township of Shrewsbury, called Naromson.
1685, Sept. 22. Sarah Reap, of Shrewsbury, N. J., widow, bought from Jonathan Marsh, of Newport, R. I., merchant, lands in Shrewsbury. 1693, Nov. 20. Sarah, widow of William Reap, and her son William Reap, Jr., sold to Anthony Pintard, merchant, the proprietary lands of her deceased husband, situated in Shrewsbury, N. J.
1703, Feb. 4. Sarah Reap, of Shrewsbury, N. J., conveyed to her grandson William Brinley, of the same place, land lying on Naromson Neck.
1715, Apr. 12. Sarah Reap, by will of this date, gave to her grandsons William Marsh, Gent., of Flushing, L.I., and William Brinley, of Shrewsbury, N. J., her lands.
1716, Apr. 14. William Brinley, of Shrewsbury, N. J., conveyed his interest in the plantation whereon his grandmother, Sarah Reap, deceased, dwelt, to Sarah Reap's other grandson William Marsh, which estate she had willed them jointly.
1720, May. 10. William Marsh, of Flushing, Long Island, Gent., now the sole owner of this estate, conveyed it for £700, to James Tallman, Gent., 30, also of Flushing, Queens County, Long Island, N. Y., and the property was described as: patented lands lying in Shrewsbury, N. J., called Potapeck, whereon Sarah Reap dwelt. That portion lying to the North and East was the part which had fallen in the division of Sarah Reap's estate to William Brinley, and which he conveyed to William Marsh, Apr. 14, 1716. The upland and meadow amounted to three hundred and fifty acres. For some reason there was a confirmation of this title in the following deed:
1731, Mch. 31. William Marsh, Gent., of Shrewsbury, N. J., for seven hundred pounds, conveyed to James Tallman, Gent., of the same place, the neck of land called Potapeck, lying in Shrewsbury, being the same whereon Sarah Reap dwelt, and some other small parcels of meadow which did not belong to the said Sarah Reap, part or parcel of the said neck containing three hundred and fifty acres more or less, of upland and meadow.
1741, Mch. 23. By a conveyance of this date James Tallman, 47, (and Kezia his wife), son of James Tallman, 30, sold this property to Dr. Stephen Tallman.
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The following is one of Dr. Stephen Tallman's medical bills:
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An estate supposedly belonging to the Tallmans, was vigorously sought, for a time, by Samuel Tallman, assisted by his granddaughter's husband Harry C. Newel, of Long Branch, N. J. They interviewed John R. Livingston, a former slave, of whom more anon, copied many records, employed lawyers, addressed the Bank of England, the British Consul, in New York, and the British Minister in Washington, but without avail. They were inspired to this activity by a chain of circumstances which I briefly enumerate.
Samuel Tallman remembered that his uncle Humphrey Williams told him that some day he would inherit great wealth through the wife of Dr. Stephen Tallman, and retained a vague recollection that her name was Mary Morgan, though he may have received the impression of her name from other sources: further, that at various times men came to Monmouth County in search of information concerning the Tallman family, perhaps concerning Mary, the wife of Dr. Stephen Tallman. This first visit was about 1866. About 1870, one, David McAlpine, came to Monmouth County and stated that he was
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Aug. 8 To pills purgis 10/ volitiles 2/ To pills 6/10 to Draps
23 To a visit 10/ Cortix 8/ powders 4/
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employed by Peter Tallman,* formerly of Canada, to hunt for an English estate and which his researches led him to believe belonged to the heirs of Dr. Stephen Tallman and not to the heirs of Peter Tallman.
It was an easy thing to inflame the minds of many members of the Tallman family, and he entertained them with stories of a very wealthy ancestor, a herdsman, in England, by the name of Morgan, or by another statement that this ancestor was an owner of immense coal mines in Wales, and dying a bachelor, had left his vast property to two sisters, one Elizabeth, who married and settled in the State of Pennsylvania, for whose heirs he had already secured an immense sum, and the other, Mary Morgan, the wife of Dr. Stephen Tallman, whose descendants he had now joyfully located. The English or Welsh properties had been sold and the money placed in chancery, where it was drawing interest to the amount of one million dollars a year. I have little doubt that David McAlpine was a shark working both ends of the line, the descendants of Peter Tallman, in Canada, and the descendants of Dr. Stephen Tallman in Monmouth County.
There was much uncertainty left in the minds of all, when David McAlpine left for his home at Fonthill, Pelham Township, Canada, West, for they took no memoranda of the names and places he supplied them. One person claimed that Mary Morgan's sister settled in Connecticut, and that one Morgan, an assistant at the tollgate, called Lame Morgan, came from that state to Eatontown, N. J., but left and returned to the home of his Connecticut relatives. Another account states that Ethan Allen and his brother Charles Allen, descendants of Stephen Tallman, received private information from Mr. McAlpine, bought him off and obtained the money in chancery. Occasionally letters came from McAlpine or his wife, and then ceased. Members of the family became sus- picious of each other, employed various lawyers and finally the whole effort fizzled out for want of exact data and connecting links.
John R. Livingston, the negro previously mentioned as interviewed, was the son of John Livingston, a slave of Barnes Smock, of Middletown, and had married Rosanna Williams, a wench of Dr. Stephen Tallman, of Pumpkin Point. They lived with their respective masters and had born to them (slaves of Dr. Tallman), a daughter Rosanna Livingston, and a son, the aforementioned John R. Livingston, who was reputed to have reached the age of one hundred and fifteen years, in 1878, when he was residing at Branchport, N. J. This would make his birth date, if his age is accurately given, the year 1763, and his age at the time of Dr. Stephen Tallman's death, eleven years. I am precise in giving these dates as I have seen them recorded by certain members of Mr. Samuel Tallman's family, for I doubt much whether a youth of eleven, a black and uneducated, could recite from recollection, accurately, many stories concerning Dr. Tall- man, his wife and children, without drawing upon a very lively imagination.
When Livingston was interviewed in 1878, it was stated that he was in the field ploughing, a remarkable fact when you consider his great age, which leads me to believe that his age was exaggerated, and if so, his years, at the time he lived with Dr. Tallman, were necessarily proportionately less. Further, it must be recalled that any testimony from the ignorant and prejudiced slave race, with its persistent animosity towards its severe masters, would hardly contribute truthful and unembellished statements against their former oppressors. However, from other sources in a general way, it has come down that the Tallmans were a fair complexioned and ugly-tempered race, and doubtless Livingston repeated that which he had heard, rather than that which he had seen. From *One of the sons of Oliver Tallman had a son Peter, who became a Royalist and moved to Canada. It was probably in the employ of some of his descendants that McAlpine came to Monmouth County to ascertain whether there was any possibility of recovering the family's forfeited estate by reason of their Toryism.
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his statements it would appear that Dr. Stephen Tallman handled his slaves severely and even cruelly. They were likely to be whipped if he were angered, and if this failed to curtail their petty rebellion, he would sit them with bare pelts on heated bricks, and when aged, sick and bedridden himself, he would command them to stand by his bed, and with his cane terminating in a spear point, would prick them. Little serious damage was likely to be done, as a slave was a too valuable commodity to hazard his well being or life.
Dr. Tallman practiced medicine and farming and his fame was a practitioner was extensive, and patients came from far and near.
He was confined to his bed about two months, was attended by his sons the two doctors, and finally succumbed to gout and the infirmities of age. He died in the same room, on the first floor, that his wife had occupied with him throughout their married life and in which she too had died.
After three days his remains were interred, without funeral services of any kind, on his own farm, in what was and still is called the Potapeck, Pumpkin Point and Tallman burying-ground. The attendance was very great as he was esteemed in the community.
It is said that he left a will which was read by its makers and holders, Dr. John Johnson, of Eatontown, and Dr. Samuel Tenbroeck, of Shrewsbury, on the return of the family to the homestead.
Further, upon the recollection of John R. Livingston, he gave to each of his sons, Stephen, Dr. Christopher, John, Samuel, James and Dr. Joseph, the farms they were residing upon, and to the latter likewise his medical belongings. To his daughter Martha, about fico, and to his daughter Sarah, between £1oo and £200, discriminating against the former daughter as she was the wife of a very rich man, Major Thomas Seabrook.
In appearance Dr. Stephen Tallman was of medium height and strongly built. He had a clean shaven face and wore his hair powdered white and drawn back into a queue. He was generally considered a fine looking man. His wife, Mary Tallman, was good- looking, though not a handsome woman. She was of medium size, large boned, heavily built and possessed a very fair complexion. She was always very tender and good to her family. She was an eccentric woman, with an easily provoked, high temper and was considered by her slaves, a witch. Rosanna Livingston, a household slave, seemed to have come in for a share of her ill will, for on one occasion when she was setting the dinner table, her mistress threw a handful of knives and forks at her head, with such precision that Rosanna looked as if she were a female St. Sebastian, and the irate old lady held her to her work notwithstanding her suffering. This scene had a tragic ending, for the family were hardly seated at the dinner table, when Mrs. Tallman was stricken with apoplexy. She was carried to her bedroom, remained speechless and paralyzed and was attended by her husband for nine days, when she died.
The remains lay at her residence for two days and the attendance at the funeral was large. The customary eight pallbearers, four bearing the remains one-half the way, and four the remaining portion of the way, carried the corpse, which was interred in the adjacent Tallman plot. Neither Dr. Tallman nor his wife Mary, were apparently members of any church, though they occasionally attended service at Shrewsbury.
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