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When we sent for our half we found that he had carted it all to our store and we had been buying our own boards. We also bought of Job Morris a plantation near the sawmill a man and his wife was on the place we were to have one half of the butter and cheese it served for country seat at Squancom-in a short time all seemed to be going to decay and we sold both the plantation and the saw mill and took horses and so on for pay and bid farewell to Squancom. We next set up a blacksmith and cooper shop furnished each with tools. The blacksmith turned horseeler and the cooper lazy and the shop and tools all fell on our hands. We next set up John Winans in a hat factory-found him fur. He spoiled all the hats and came out of the little end of the horn. After that old Molly DeCamp started a store in Turkey- town. We supplied her with goods. At first it looked like doing well. She got in debt and moved off to Brunswick we lost all the debt with costs. Then Thomas Tilton proposed for us to supply him with goods at Squan and give us half the profits-he might have done very well had he not trusted so much, also his son William lived in New York whom he supplied with lumber paid for out of the store which caused its ruin. I believe Thomas Tilton to be an honest upright man-omitted many things not having learning. We had all matters settled by Arbitration after his death. Now all the above I mention to show my children that all our schemes failed where we had to trust to other persons to do our business and found but little dependence to be placed in any one when it was not under my eye and examine the accounts myself and not trust it to others. I then drew all my business into a small compass and found it not so much perplexity. The corner house we rented for a tavern to a man named Joseph Vimk. It was attended with so much trouble to collect the rent and keep the house in repair which all fell on me. The house was on fire several times and would have burned down if I had not obtained help speedily. He was a bad man and I had many long law suits to get him out so I had it fixed in my mind to sell when a chance offered and I sold it to Corlies and Allen they have paid me in full, and to return my daughter Caroline who had all the charge of the store when I was away from [home] was taken from me by death. She was much esteemed by all who knew her and was company for both young and old. She departed with praise to her Maker, and I beleive she is now in the realms of Bliss. My dear wife began to complain. She was a very stiring woman and would never give up unless very Bad. I have ob- served her cheerfulness when in her bodily weekness, yet with a composed mind. She would entertain company as though nothing ailed her. She had a sweet temper-good disposition and kind to the poor and her steps will long be remembered. I beleive she is now with the dear children in the blessed abode singing her Maker's praise, the loss I felt more than this pen can mention, but I said the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be forever the name of the Lord. I hope I may so live and end my days that we may both again meet never to part. When we were first married we had to use great economy. I began life with very little property. I had a small store had been plundered by the Refugees, I was called a Rebel having always taken an active part in the American cause and had been a wagon-master under General Putnam, but had an acquital from him-honorably and had retired to the land of my nativity in order to settle in life more agreeable to my mind-and this the Refugees and Tories knew as I had informed them that I half left the army. I would also say just before we were married, the tories robbed my wife of her last bed. She sat on it until they dragged both her and the bed into the street, it is our duty to firgive but we cannot forget them. And it was my opinion-is now-that none but true Americans should be at the head of Government affairs and it is duty to keep all Foreigners from Public office, but use them well while they behave well keep them from office as much as possible. We have obtained our Independence and we ought to be very thankful to Him for the same and the way for us to keep it is to live in love for all but trust none to conduct the affairs of the Nation but true Ameri- cans. This much I thought might not be amiss to pen at this time. There is one thing I omitted on the first part of this paper When making arrangements to pay my Master who lay sick at Cooperstown I took what money I earned at Bordentown, and borrowed the balance of Jonathan Chesar. I had seen him at my fathers and also at my uncles Thomas White while I lived with him and had the care of his horse. I was a poor lad and he was the only one I could think of who would trust me for the money and he did. I was very bare for shirts at the time my master paid me back two bills for that purpose, but I kept the very bills untill I earned money enough to pay off my note-but I sold a pair of new boots to help raise the money. I paid him so soon he threw off the interest, for which I thanked him. I was advised not to pay for my time-I was only bound to him he could not sell it but this came to my mind- he will soon leave this world, and if I don't pay him his full demand when I meet him in the World of Spirits he would look angry at me-so I made up my mind to pay him in full of all demands and I am very glad I did and it may be one cause and a great cause why I have been so blest in basket and in store when I paid him, he bid me farewell and requested me to be nice and keep good company, not any low company but such as might improve me. I thanked him for his good advise he died soon after. I mention this to show my children how good it is to attend to inward Monitor at all times in youth as well
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as in old age. William Penn's advice to his son William is good he says :- "No cross, no crown, let noth- ing in the world tempt you to wrong your conscience." I mention this to show how good it is and ever will be to attend to the blessed Monitor within us. I have great cause to be thankful that in some measure I have attended to it which has kept me in early life from many grave evils. After the departure of my loving wife in a reasonable time I was inclined to marry my second wife judging it far better than to hire a housekeeper for generally they have no interest in the family but their wages and there would be great waste of property in and about the house what come in at the door flew out at the window for they have friends and relations they wish to help. I have had a trial of both and would choose to support a good wife and many children than one housekeeper hired by the week. But this is a task for a widower to perform first the age-temper-religion-virtue-economy and agreeable to your family to study all this and consider it well and ask in secret that you may be blest in your undertaking with the Presence of Divine Providence, all this I think I tried to do in my second choice for a wife which as yet I have no cause to regret and I hope I never shall. I had known her from childhood and her father and mother had both been kind to me when a stranger in a strange land. It is not my intention to mention our marriage as my children by my first wife all remember her. We had three children viz .- Stacy-William and Sarah. We have great cause to be thankful for so many favors and blessings having health and the means to entertain both freinds and stranger at our house. We have had the company of many from different parts of the world. I will mention of a great deliverance and recovery from a bed of sick- ness. I had been in the sea and had taken cold and concluded to take a dose of Calomel which proved to be very severe. I was in great distress of body the Doctor had no hopes of my recovery. I was greatly reduced and was obliged to lie very low for nine or ten months. I was taken sick in the summer and remained so until late the next spring, when I gave over all hopes of ever recovering my health. My heart beat so that strong that you could see my waistcoat move at every motion. I had recourse to ever- ting I could think of but none seemed to help me. At last one Doctor Perkins came to get some Medicines and told me that it was a nerve that led to my heart which was out of order and said if I would [take] some conserve (or sweet meat) with port wine and solid food it would help me. I did so and had not used it more than two days before it began to amend and the blessing of health returned. I mention this as another great Mercy and favor to be remembered. This conserve is made of the real rose and leaf sugar or good broken lump sugar will answer 2 lbs. of sugar to one pound of buds and leaves pound the buds and leaves first then add the sugar and pound them all together-as I was in a very week state it seemed to brace me up and give me strength-I mention this that if any of my children or friends or any one else should ever be in the same way that they might [employ] the same remedy which through divine favor helped me, and be a benefit to some one else in a week state of health.
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Benjamin, son of George and Annie White, born Dec. 4, 1755; died, Dec. 7, 1841, aged 85, 11, 3.
Mary, daughter of Joseph and Joanna Morris, born Sep. 20, 1758; died July 19, 1807. Benjamin White and Mary Morris; married Apr. 25, 1781.
Elizabeth, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born Mch. 2, 1781.
Caroline, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born May 30, 1782; died, Mch. 31, 1798, aged 15 years II months.
John, son of Benjamin and Mary White, born Oct. II, 1783.
Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born Apr. I, 1785; died, Oct. 21, 1861, in 77th year of her age.
Agnes, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born Nov. 20, 1786; died Dec. 3, 1786.
Joanna, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born Jan. 20, 1788.
Anne, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born Feb. II, 1789; died, Sep. 22, 1860, aged 71, 7, II.
Susanna, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born June 3, 1791; died Oct. 3, 1796, aged 5 years, 4 months.
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Joanna, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born Apr. 13, 1793; died, Oct. 11, 1793, aged 4 months, 28 days.
Morris, son of Benjamin and Mary White, born May 3, 1794; died, Oct. 1, 1796, aged 2, 5, 4.
Benjamin Morris, son of Benjamin and Mary White, born July 20, 1797; died, June 8, 1817, aged 19, 10, 19.
Joseph Embree, son of Benjamin and Mary White, born Feb. 23, 1799; died, July 9, 1874, aged 75 years, 4 months.
Susan, daughter of Benjamin and Mary White, born July 11, 1801; died, July 12, 1865, aged 64 years, I day.
Benjamin White and Sarah Decon, married, Mch. 9, 1809, at Mansfield Meeting House.
Sarah Decon, daughter of John and Sarah Decon, born Jan. 25, 1776.
Stacy D., son of Benjamin and Sarah White, born Dec. 10, 1809; died, June 7, 1848, aged 39, 6, 17.
William D., son of Benjamin and Sarah White, born Aug. 25, 1811; died .
Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah White, born Mch. 9, 1814.
Sarah White, widow of Benjamin, died, Dec. 29, 1847, in 72nd year.
AGES OF WILLIAM AND SUSAN E. WHITE'S CHILDREN.
Sarah F. White, born Mch. 3, 1847
Mary Ann White, born July 10, 1849
Benjamin M. White, born June 9, 1850
Maria Wardell White, born Aug. 27, 1852
Georgette White, born Mch. 23, 1854
Josephine W. White, born May 31, 1856
Elizabeth W. White, born Oct. 15, 1858
Died, in Brooklyn, Jan. 31, 1862, Joseph White, son of Capt. Charles E., and Mary E. Baldwin, aged I year.
Died, in Eatontown, N. J., Jan. 20, 1862, Thomas T. Borden, in 62nd year.
Borden, son of George and Sarah Hance, died, Dec. 1, 1863, aged 13 years.
William White, died Oct. 23, 1801.
John White died June 8, 1815. N.B. This is brother to Robert, Benjamin and Joseph White, son of George White.
Robert White, Jr., died, Jan. 12, 1856, aged 64 years.
Black Mary, daughter of Rodah Cummins, born Nov. II, 1795.
Lettis was 31 years of age May 5, 1806.
Juliann, born Apr. 11, 1806
Charles, born Feb. 26, 1806
Eliza, born Dec. 5, 1809
Thomas Jeffery, a lad bound to Benjamin White, died Dec. 28, 1793.
William Finch, of Shrewsbury, died, Nov. 9, 1860, aged 18, 3, 17.
Mrs. Judge Barclay, died Jan. 1, 1861
Mrs. Jane Wardell, died Jan. 17, 1861, aged 52 years.
Dr. John A. Lewis, died Feb. 27, 1861, aged 73 years.
Rev. Mr. Wheeler, died Mch. 14, 1861
James Grier, died August, 1861
George Newman, died, Nov. 3, 1862, aged 21, 3, 28.
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Mary Newman, died Nov. 24, 1862
Robert Wardell, died, Oct. 11, 1863, aged 65, 4, 19. Capt. Samuel Sleeper was killed in battle, May, 1864. John L. Borden, died Dec. 4, 1864 Mrs. Eliza Clark, died, Jan. 22, 1865, aged 72 years. George Finch, died Nov. 30, 1863 Susan E. Hance, died Dec. 27, 1863 Mary Dennis, died, Jan. 20, 1864, aged 84 years.
Rev. Harry Finch, died, Feb. 14, 1864, aged 66 years.
Joseph W. Borden, Esq., died, Feb. 16, 1864, aged 46 years. Benjamin Woolley, of Deal, died, Feb. 19, 1865, aged 80 years. Edward Corlies; died, Feb. 24, 1865, aged 76 years. Samuel Trafford, died, Oct. 5, 1865, aged 76 years. Miss Wall, died May, 1866 Catharine Sickles, died, May 18, 1866, aged 74 years.
Nancy White, died, Feb. 4, 1867, aged 82 years.
Edmond Throckmorton, died, Sep. 26, 1866, aged 74 years.
George A. Corlies, died, Dec. 2, 1866, aged 78 years.
Peter W. Wikoff, died, Jan. 11, 1867, aged 66 years.
Betsey Holmes, died, Jan. 25, 1867, aged 82 years.
James Patterson, Esq., died May 2, 1867
Dr. Edmond W. Allen, died, May 17, 1867, aged 68 years.
Henry E. Van Uxem, died Jan. 16, 1870
Dr. Cutter, died March, 1871 Mariam Borden, died May 26, 1871
Mr. Weaver Tailor, died Sep. 30, 1871
Jacob Woolley, (Oceanport), died Nov. 20, 1871
Joseph Woolley, died Jan. 29, 1872
Mrs. Austin Morford, died, Apr. 14, 1872, aged 62 years. Mrs. Joseph T. Allen, died Dec. 23, 1874
Morris Newman, died, Jan. 15, 1875, aged 75 years.
Mrs. Dr. E. W. Allen, died, Mch. 19, 1875, aged 76 years.
Mrs. E. Throckmorton, died, Sep. 2, 1875, aged 80 years.
Samuel Woolley, died, Sep. 16, 1875, aged 97 years.
The Christian names in italics are so spelled in the Rev. William White Hance's manuscript.
WHITLOCK
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
THOMAS WHITLOCK, an early settler in Gravesend and Westchester, New York, and later a resident of Middletown, New Jersey, was, I infer, the son of Thomas Whitlock, of Rappahannock County, Virginia, who made his will Oct. 9, 1659, mentioning his wife Mary and his son Thomas. Virginia Magazine of History, Vol. V ., p. 285.
There is no evidence to support this inference; it is simply based upon the general harmony of dates, similarity of family names and the absence in 1655, of Thomas Whit- lock from Gravesend during which time his wife acted as his attorney. It is undoubtedly this Thomas Whitlock who is mentioned in the following paragraph: 1638, March 2. Richard Bennett, of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, (page 626), had a grant of 300 acres of land, upon the bay behind Ambrose Meders point and near Thomas Davis, in right of 6 persons by John Myles: John Myles, Tho Whitlock, Silvester Focher (changed), Robert Willey, William Harrison, Andrew Blackwell.
Cavaliers & Pioneers, Calendar of Virginia Land Grants, page 148.
Thomas Whitlock while in old England, tradition says, married a young woman under the following romantic circumstances: A party of lads and maidens were strolling over the fields on a bright Sunday afternoon when, coming to a hedge, one of the girls, Susanna Stock, threw her glove across it, and jestingly said she would give her hand to the one who could vault it. Athletic young Whitlock accomplished it and claimed the reward, saying it was fit that the Stock should go with the Lock. Certain it is that Whitlock had a daughter Susanna.
Miss Harriet Bray, a student of Whitlock genealogy, wrote me: "I have heard many times the statement that Thomas Whitlock married, for a first wife, Susanna Stock, and though I have searched diligently I have never found any evidence that such a person as Susanna Stock ever existed. Of course I cant prove that she did not, but not a scrap of proof could I ever unearth."
During his residence in Gravesend, Long Island, he sold, Aug. [2] 25, 1655, through his wife, Mary,* acting as his attorney, a house and lot to John George Baldwin [ Balden], and we know that he married, after 1675, Mary, the widow of Thomas Seabrook, of Westchester town, Westchester Co., N. Y. So that it is fair to suppose that he had
*May not a careless clerk use the title wife instead of mother?
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three wives. His apparent absence in 1655, and the action of his wife in disposing of his property at the time, suggests that he was away, closing up his affairs in an earlier home.
Upon his advent in Gravesend he was allotted farm 38.
In 1654, he bought a farm of Nicholas Stillwell in Gravesend.
In 1657, he had five acres of his farm in the North West quarter under cultivation. In October, 1663, he was one of the men, "armed and well mounted," who joined the English troops at Jamaica.
In December, 1663, he was a member of the Gravesend scouting expedition to Navesing region, later Monmouth Co., N. J., who, in defiance of the Dutch, intended to buy and settle thereon.
Judged by these last two actions he belonged to the discontented English con- tingent who had sought a home among the Dutch, but who desired to renounce their allegiance with the Connecticut settlements.
1666, Oct. 7. Thomas Whitlock and John Griggs were fined fifteen shillings each, for bargaining on the sabbath.
1666, Oct. 24, he bought from Christianson Jacobson [Wolf], lot 34 in Gravesend. 1670. He had Guisbert Island rights assigned to him.
1670, Apr. 11. Nicholas Stillwell sold him lot 29 in Gravesend.
1671, Nov. 6. Whereas the quorum wase pleased to order Will Wilkinse to pay tenn pounds towards the relefe of Hanna Aplegate and her childe this sheweth that Thomas Whitlock received of Mr. Delavall five pounds of the above said soume of the which the said Thomas delivered five pounds to the Constable and overseers of Gravesend in red cloth which by them wase delivered to Bartholomew Applegate the husband of the said Hanna for the use above said and the other twenty shilings, the remainder of the five pounds wase deducted off to defray other charges and labor that Thomas Whitlock has been at for the use of Hanna Applegate. [Not strictly verbatim et literatim.]
1671, Nov. 6. Received of the Constable of Gravesend five pounds in red cloth upon the amount of ten pounds received of William Wilkins according to the Governor's order towards the release of Hanna Applegate and her child, by me Bartholomew Apple- gate. Attest: Will Goulding, Clarke.
Gravesend Records.
1672, Apr. 10. Thomas Whitlock, of Gravesend, sold lots 29 and 34, to Barent Johnson, of Amersford, which were to be delivered May 1, 1673. On the same paper is endorsed:
1679/80, Feb. 28. "This witnesseth that Thomas Whitlock, living att Westchester doth owne to be paid and ffully satisfied by Barent Juriansen of Gravesend," etc.
During his residence in Gravesend, 1664, New Netherlands was surrendered to the English, and immediately Thomas Whitlock with his own and four other families, settled upon the unbroken soil of Middletown, in Monmouth Co., N. J.
In 1667, the settlement of this village was effected by a patent, granted in April, 1665, by Governor Nicholls to the Monmouth Patentees and their Associates, and Thomas Whitlock received lots 4 and 34.
In 1670, he was among the purchasers of land called Newasink, Narumsunk and Pootapeck.
In 1673, Thomas Whitlock and his three sons, took the Oath of Allegiance to the Dutch, who had recently and temporarily re-entered New York, and at the same time the Dutch Governor, Calve, appointed him, (Thomas Whitlock, Sr.), ensign of the Middletown militia company.
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In 1675, under his claim for the "Rights of Land due according to the Concessions" six hundred acres :
Thomas Whitlock, of Midleton, brings for his Rights from the Yeare 1664 for himselfe his Wife & 3 sonns Thomas William & John In all fiue persons at 120 acres a head Is . . . . . 600 acres. East Jersey Grantees, Vol. 3, B side, page I.
1676, Jan. 10. He patented two hundred and seventeen acres of land at Middletown from the Proprietors.
In 1675, Thomas Seabrook died leaving his widow, Mary, residing in Westchester, whither Thomas Whitlock soon betook himself, and where he must soon have married her, for he was sued under the following circumstances:
Roger Townsend, in October, 1672, had sold land in Westchester to Morgan Bedient, singleman, who, the following year, 1673, sold it to Thomas Seabrook. Both Bedient and Seabrook shortly died and the latter was succeeded in his property by his brother, Thomas Bedient, who threatened an action against Thomas Whitlock, who had ap- parently married Mary, the widow of Seabrook, and who, in 1688, sedured a release from all claims owned by the said Bedient.
There was also seemingly some confusion about other lands owned by Thomas Sea- brook, for the town of Westchester decreed, April 22, 1692, that:
Whereas there is a Twenty ffifve pound priviledge of Comonage belonging to the Orphant of Thomas Seabrook late freeholder of this Town Deceased the said Priviledge being in Possession of Thomas Whit- lock wee the Trustees do declare that the said twenty five pound privilege do belong to the orphant of Thomas Seabrook & no more intended for the said Thomas Whitlock.
The relations between Thomas Whitlock and Daniel Seabrook, who was the "orphant" referred to, continued amicable, for Nov. 9, 1688, the latter was a witness in Middletown, N. J., whither he had removed, to a deed of Whitlock to John Ruckman, and, June 10, 1696, Thomas Whitlock, of Middletown, carpenter, for £80, sold to "Daniel Seabrook, my son in law," of Middletown, planter, two hundred and two acres of land, in Middletown, at Shoal Harbor, which included his proprietary grant of Jan. 10, 1676; land from John Bowne, Mch. 26, 1689; land from John Pierce, Sep. 4, 1693, and more, by deed Feb. 12, 1691, for which Seabrook paid £80.
1676, Jan. 10. Thomas Whitlock received a Carteret grant of eight parcels of land, containing two hundred and seventeen acres of upland and meadow.
Att a Towne meeting held in the month of Aprile 1678 The Towne of Westchester did give and grant unto John Palmer and and Thomas Whitlock that they might take and fence in ye highway ad- joyning to theire Lottes in ye Reare by the meddow sides downe to the Creeke and Ditch Alwaies Provided yt they said John Palmer and Thomas Whitlock leave as much Ground in the front of these Lottes as ye take in att the Reare of them this Record entred in Presence of Richard Ponton and Thomas Baxter this 13th of March 1678.
per me JOHN PELL.
1678/9, March. Thomas Vaile, of Westchester, conveyed a piece of meadow in that town to Thomas Whitlock, of the same place.
1679, May 3. John Jennings, of Westchester, conveyed "two hummakes" of meadow in that town to Thomas Whitlock, of the same place.
1679, Nov. 11. Thomas Whitlock was Constable.
May the 20th 1680. Rec then of M' Thomas witclock the publicke Rates of the
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towne of west chester for the yeare of his being Counstable 1679 it being in full payment for the Publick Rates.
pr me JOSEPH LEETSHEW[ ?]
1682, July 20. Thomas Whitlock, of Westchester, conveyed the preceding two hummocks of meadow to William Thorne, of Madmansneck.
1682, July 21. Thomas Whitlock, of Westchester, conveyed to William Thorne, of Madmans Neck, on Long Island, the land he had purchased of Thomas Vaile in 1678/9.
1683, Nov. 30. Thomas Whitlock agreed with his son, William, that his former cattle mark should be the latter's, "hee haveing a new marke yt is one his catel which hee bro ..... from westchester with him" etc. On this same date he also recorded his "new marke." Middletown, N. J., Town Book.
1686, Mch. 10. He was among the forty-five freeholders of Westchester who received the undivided lands by vote of the town meeting.
1686, June 8. Thomas Whitlock and Mary, his wife, living at Middletown, N. J., for £5, conveyed to Samuel Vail, of Westchester Town and County, three shares of meadow in Westchester, formerly belonging to Timothy Winter, Joseph Hunt and Mordicah Bedient.
1686, June 9. Thomas Whitlock and Mary, his wife, "Liveing at Middle Towne in the Province of New East Jarzey," for £4, conveyed an acre of meadow, more or less, in Westchester, formerly belonging to John Woolley, to Henry Gardner.
1687, May 3. There was a further division of the undivided lands and Thomas Whitlock received two allotments.
1688. He was one of the founders of the Baptist Church, at Middletown, N. J.
1688, Apr. 23. Thomas Whitlock, of Middletown, planter, received a proprietary grant of one hundred acres, in Middletown, at Shoal Harbor bounded by his "sones meadow."
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