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323 George Taylor married Margaret, daughter of Dr. Frost, of Staten Island, a widow, and sister of Elizabeth Frost, wife of Paul Micheau. They resided, at Garret's Hill, in 1877. No issue. He was heir to his uncle, Presgrove Taylor.
324 Joseph Taylor died, May 22, 1858, aged 49 years, 8 months and 14 days, and is buried at Garret's Hill. He was to be sustained by his brothers, as per his father's will.
325 William Taylor
326 Thomas Taylor
327 Rebecca Taylor
328 Sarah Taylor
329 Mary Taylor
330 Elizabeth Taylor
331 Emmeline Taylor
202 JAMES GROVER TAYLOR, son of Grover Taylor, 93, married Sarah, daughter of William Morford.
Issue
332 William Taylor
333 Capt. James Grover Taylor
334 Sarah Taylor
335 Sutphen C. Taylor
336 Mary S. Taylor
337 Anna Taylor
338 Henry Clay Taylor died 1873
216 EDWARD TAYLOR, son of Dr. Edward Taylor, 106, was born in 1791; married, in 1815, Esther E. Wright.
Issue
339 Edward Taylor born 1816; died 1854; married and had children, in Ohio. Issue Edward Taylor And others
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340 Caleb Taylor died, in 1850, without issue.
341 John S. Taylor
342 Henry W. Taylor born 1828; of Louisville, Ky.
343 Sarah Taylor born 1817; married Edward Dugdale.
344 Emma Taylor no issue
345 Joseph E. Taylor born 1831 [ ?]
346 Samuel W. Taylor
217 JACOB M. TAYLOR, of Trenton, N. J., son of Dr. Edward Taylor, 106, was born Sept. 3, 1795; married Anne . .
Issue
347 David H. Taylor 348 Hannah Taylor married Dr. H. H. Longstreet
220 NATHAN H. TAYLOR, son of Dr. Edward Taylor, 106, was born in 1805; married Dinah H., daughter of William Kinsey.
Issue 349 George Taylor born 1834 350 William Taylor born 1837
351 Anna Taylor born 1839
352 Sarah Taylor died young
353 Sarah Taylor born 1841
229 JAMES MANNING TAYLOR, of New York, son of Charles Taylor, 115, was born Mch. 4, 1810; married, first, Hannah Rosamond, daughter of Caleb Howell,* of Orange, N. J .; second, in 1869, Lizzie Jones, daughter of Rev. Benjamin R. Loxley, son of George W. Loxley, who was born in the house of General Washington, in Phila- delphia, and named by him.
Issue 354 Rev. William H. Taylor 355 Charles E. Taylor died without issue
231 JOHN COX TAYLOR, son of Joseph Taylor, 120, graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y .; studied law, at Washington, D. C., and settled in Alabama, with high patronage and flattering prospects, but was drowned soon afterward, in Cataeo Creek, in that state, in 1836, in the twenty-first year of his age.
236 COL. JOHN WILLIAM TAYLOR, son of John W. Taylor, 124, was born Feb. 22, 1817; married Jane Wadleigh. He served on the staff of General Rosencranz, as Chief Quartermaster, of the Army of the Cumberland, in 1862 and 1863. He re- signed, in 1863, on account of ill-health.
Issue 356 John Wadleigh Taylor
*Caleb Howell a descendant of the Howell family of Southampton, L. I.
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357 Sarah Jane Taylor
358 Ella Malvina Taylor
359 James Hodge Taylor
360 Charles Edward Taylor no issue
361 Ann Stewart Taylor
245 DR. EDWARD TAYLOR, of Ohio, son of Joseph Taylor, 129, married, first, Penelope Virginia, daughter of John Gordon; second, Malvina, daughter of Hon. John W. Taylor, 124. His last residence was at Cleveland, Ohio. He died in 1868.
Issue 362 Archibald Alexander Edward Taylor
278 GEORGE TAYLOR, son of Capt. Edward Taylor, 150, was born, at Middle- town, N. J., about 1800; married Emma F., daughter of Major John S. Holmes. He settled at Cream Ridge, Upper Freehold, N. J., and later removed to Freehold village.
Issue 363 Sarah Holmes Taylor married James Lippincott 364 Emma Taylor married Henrick, son of James Conover.
279 DR. EDWARD TAYLOR, son of Capt. Edward Taylor, 150, was born, at Middletown, N. J., Mch. 9, 1805. He resided in the house built by George Taylor, 4, in 1729; married Catharine Louise, daughter of Teunis Forman. William Remsen, a merchant, of New York City, married Agnes, only daughter of Col. John Covenhoven. They were the grandparents of Dr. Taylor's wife.
Issue 365 Dr. Edward F. Taylor; Medical Director of the Army of the Potomac; practicing, in Middletown, 1907; unmarried.
366 Teunis Forman Taylor
367 Col. William Remsen Taylor; of the 29th New Jersey Volunteers.
368 Henry Clay Taylor; Justice of the Peace, Middletown, 1907; married.
369 Mary Taylor unmarried
370 Sarah Lloyd Taylor married James M. Hartshorne, of New York City.
280 DR. JOHN TAYLOR, son of Capt. Edward Taylor, 150, was born, at Middle- town, N. J., about 1812, and settled at Trenton, N. J. He married Lydia, daughter of John Barns.
Issue 371 Mary B. Taylor 372 George Taylor 373 John Taylor 374 Gilbert Taylor
284 JOHN I. TAYLOR, son of Joseph Taylor, 154, was born, at Middletown, N. J., Apr. II, 1799; died Aug. 4, 1871. He was a tanner and succeeded his father in
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the business, but was obliged, in his latter years, to relinquish it on account of ill-health. He also succeeded his father in the residence, built in 1814, at the upper end of the "street," in Middletown. He married, Jan. 30, 1838, Mary, daughter of Jacob H. Conover.
Issue 375 Joseph I. Taylor born Jan. 29, 1840; died Feb. 26, 1865. He served as a Lieutenant, in the Rebellion, with honor.
376 William Henry Taylor born December, 1841; died Mch. 7, 1854.
377 John Edward Taylor born Apr. 4, 1845; died Mch. 21, 1854.
378 Garret V. D. Taylor died Apr. 4, 1854
379 Martha D. Taylor born Apr. 11, 1850
380 Jacob C. Taylor born Sept. 2, 1852
381 John Taylor born about 1856
382 Edward Taylor born about 1862
285 ASHER TAYLOR, son of Joseph Taylor, 154, was born, Nov. 3, 1800, in the old house, at the foot of Ruckman's Hill, in Middletown, the site of the Osborne House.
This estimable man was the pioneer genealogist, I believe, of Monmouth County. His incursions into family history provoked amusement, wonderment and ridicule, but he was steadfast in his pursuit, with the result of accumulating much data. Nothing pleased him more than to meet a kindred spirit and discuss his hobby, especially in his declining years, saddened by the loss of members of his family. His life, though a happy one was a tempestuous one. He started, when less than thirteen years of age, in the store of his uncle, Edward Taylor, in New York City, with whom he became a partner, in 1830, and so continued until 1840. Henceforth he became prominent in fire insurance matters, becoming the president of several such organizations, which became insolvent, by disastrous fires. At the time of his death, Asher Taylor was Vice-President of the Exchange Fire Insurance Company, of New York City. He resided at various times in New York City, Niagara County, N. Y., Red Bank, N. J., and finally, in Jersey City.
He was a man of sterling honor, an ardent supporter of the Government, during the late Rebellion, and excessively severe in his arraignment of all members of the Con- federacy. This feeling of hostility also shows itself, in his writings, when reviewing the lives of members of his family, who, during the Revolutionary War, espoused the Royal cause. He was genial, upright and downright.
He married, in New York City, June 23, 1832, Sarah, daughter of Capt. Alexander Coffin, Jr., born Sept. 29, 1799, and died Mch. 31, 1869, at 12.30 A.M., and is interred in Fairview Cemetery, Middletown, N. J.
Issue 383 Lydia Martha Taylor born, in New York City, Nov. 23, 1833; died Feb. 13, 1849. 384 Gorham Coffin Taylor born, in New York City, Nov. 21, 1835.
385 Joseph Dorset Taylor born, in New York City, Dec. 22, 1837.
386 Edward Holmes Taylor born, in New York City, Dec. 30, 1839; died July 13, 1841.
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286 JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, son of Joseph Taylor, 154, was born, at Middle- town, N. J., May 27, 1802; married, May 20, 1846, his cousin, Mary H., daughter of Edward Taylor, 158. He resided in New York and was engaged in the China trade until 1851, when he retired to the old grandfather homestead, in Middletown, and built a commodious mansion on that estate. He died Sept. 26, 1864, and was interred in Fairview Cemetery, Middletown, N. J.
Issue 387 Edward Taylor born Sept. 26, 1846; married Miss Dominick; no issue. 388 Mary Holmes Taylor born Dec. 6, 1850
295 EDWARD TAYLOR, son of Joseph Taylor, 154, was born, at Middletown, N. J., Jan. 26, 1819. He resided, in New York, until 1840, and then went to the East Indies. He traveled extensively; resided in China, and, in 1849, settled in San Francisco, Cal. He married Fanny, daughter of Samuel and Fanny Easton, of New York State, Aug. 9, 1855.
Issue
389 Edward Ives Taylor born Nov. 2, 1856
390 Walter Comstock Taylor born May 6, 1858
391 Henry Huntly Taylor born Dec. 1, 1859
392 Frances Easton Taylor born June 23, 1866
393 Adaline Mills Taylor born Mch. 26, 1871
341 JOHN G. TAYLOR, son of Edward Taylor, 216, was born Jan. 20, 1824.
Issue 394 Howard Taylor
395 Anna Taylor born 1852 396 Edward B. Taylor born Feb. 6, 1850
347 DAVID H. TAYLOR, son of Jacob M. Taylor, 217.
Issue
397 Ella Taylor 398 Frank Taylor, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
399 Henry Taylor
400 Foster Taylor
348 HANNAH TAYLOR, daughter of Jacob M. Taylor, 217, married Dr. H. H. Longstreet.
Issue 401 Joseph Longstreet no issue 402 Edward Longstreet no issue
403 Hendrick Longstreet born 1854
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354 REV. WILLIAM HOWELL TAYLOR, of Titusville, Pa., son of James Manning Taylor, 229, was born Feb. 11, 1834; married, first, Jane Arms; second, Sarah Elizabeth, a daughter of Ebenezer Monroe. He was a Chaplain, during a long period, in the Army of the Rebellion.
Issue by first wife 404 Jennie Louise married Alanson Trask Enos and has issue Issue by second wife
404a Elizabeth Monroe Taylor married Pollock A. D. P. Gilmour and has issue
356 JOHN WADLEIGH TAYLOR, son of Col. John William Taylor, 236, was born Nov. 14, 1840; married, Aug. 29, 1864, Sarah W., daughter of John W. Ware. He served with credit in the Rebellion.
Issue 405 John William Taylor born Dec. 29, 1867 406 Carl Taylor born Apr. 22, 1871
362 REV. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER EDWARD TAYLOR, D.D., of George- town, D. C., son of Edward Taylor, 245, married, first, Aug. 8, 1858, Annie, daughter of Thomas Vandevere, of Freehold, N. J. She died Feb. 5, 1867. He married, second, Lucy E., daughter of Timothy B. Munson.
Issue by first wife 407 Vandevere Taylor born Jan. 31, 1866 Three other children who died in infancy Issue by second wife 408 Edward Munson Taylor born Aug. 8, 1870 409 Archibald Gordon Taylor born July 2, 1872
384 GORHAM COFFIN TAYLOR, son of Asher Taylor, 285, was born, in New York, Nov. 25, 1835. In early life, he followed the sea. He served, with distinction, in the U. S. Navy, as Volunteer Master's mate, Captain, etc. He married, Jan. 17, 1865, at New Haven, Conn., Minerva C., daughter of Elisha Larkins, and died July 21, 1868.
Issue 410 Jane Larkins Taylor born Dec. 7, 1865 4II Asher Gorham Taylor born Dec. 6, 1867; died Aug. 18, 1869.
385 JOSEPH DORSET TAYLOR, son of Asher Taylor, 285, was born Dec. 22, 1837. He participated in all the active service of the New York 7th Regiment, during the War of the Rebellion. He married, Oct. 5, 1865, Maria, daughter of John A. Lef- ferts, brother of Col. Marshall Lefferts.
Issue
412 Catharine Louise Taylor born Aug. 5, 1866
413 Lydia Martha Taylor born Dec. 13, 1868
414 Joseph Dorset Taylor born Jan. 15, 1873
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
1678, Sept. 6 and 7. George Hutcheson, of Sheffield, in ye County of Yorke, in England, Distiller, sold to Edward Taylor, of Brigg house, in ye County aforesaid, Gentleman, for £18-15-0, one-eighth of the Three nyntieth pts of the land called West New Jersey.
1680, Sept. 6. Edward Taylor, of Burlington, Merchant, sold land to William Cooper.
1687/8, Feb. 20. Will of Matthew Taylor, of the City of New York; proved Tues- day, Mch. 20, 1687/8, mentioned:
Capt. John Manning, of Manning's Id., near New York, 20 shillings to buy a ring, etc .; to "my loving brother, Samuel Taylor, now of London," the remainder of his estate, and to his son, George, after him, except £22; to Thomas Phillips and Richard Jones, of New York, merchants, each, £io, and 20 shillings to buy them gold rings.
Executors: Thomas Phillips and Richard Jones. The testator made his mark to the will.
New York Wills, Lib. III, p. 132.
1829, Aug. 15. Will of James G. Taylor, of Freehold; proved Aug. 18, 1836, men- tioned:
wife, Sophia; brother, John Taylor's children: John, James, William, George, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lydia; all Taylors; sister, Eleanor Imlay's son, Joseph Imley; sister, Hannah Smith's children: Sidney, Hannah, Julian, Holmes, Sophia and George; sister, Elizabeth Taylor; brother, George Taylor's son, James; brother, Edward Taylor.
James G. Taylor was the reputed son of George Taylor, Sr., of Freehold, N. J. See also 202, of this genealogy.
1829, Aug. 18. Will of Martha Taylor, of Middletown; proved July 13, 1831, men- tioned:
son, Joseph; son, John; daughter, Catharine; daughter, Eleanor.
1835, Jan. 8. Will of George Taylor, Sr., of Freehold; proved Feb. 19, 1835, men- tioned:
son, Edward; daughter, Elizabeth Taylor; daughter, Rachel Andrews; son, James Taylor; son, John Taylor; had issue; daughter, Hannah Smith, son, George Taylor, whose children receive his share; daughter, Eleanor Embly, whose children receive her share.
MARRIAGES LICENSES
1741, Dec. 8. Taylor, Annie, of Monmouth County [?], and Thos. Tunison.
1750, Jan. 23. Taylor, Mary, of Monmouth County, and John Niles.
1750, Mch. 2. Taylor, Rebecca, of Monmouth County, and John Forman.
1750, Apr. 3. Taylor, John, of Monmouth County, and Mary Hankinson, of Mon- mouth County.
1754, Sept. 13. Taylor, Elliner, of Freehold, and Thos. Vandycke.
1754, Dec. 15. Taylor, Helena, of Middletown, and Gideon Crawford, of Freehold.
1757, Aug. 15. Taylor, Helena, of Monmouth County, and Daniel Covenhoven.
1760, May 17. Taylor, Mary, of Freehold, and John Vanderveer.
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1765, July 3. Taylor, Margaret, of Freehold, and Cornelius Schenck.
1766, Mch. 4. Taylor, Elizabeth, of Monmouth County, and Samuel Curtis.
1768, Mch. 23. Taylor, Phoebe, of Monmouth County, and John Henry, of Middlesex County.
In the old John Taylor house, in Middletown, are pencil portraits of "Aunt Annie Van Dorn," mother of Garret; John I. Taylor and his wife, and Mary, daughter of Jacob and Eleanor (Smock) Conover.
THROCKMORTON
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MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY
The Throckmortons trace their ancestry into hazy periods of English history where they very appropriately start with one of the name of Adam Throckmorton mentioned in the Worcestershire Pipe Roll, A.D. 1176. The name itself is a compilation of At Rock Moor Town, a town on a rock, which existed in the vale of Evesham, Fladbury, Wor- cestershire, England, and which apparently was the home and main seat of the family for some generations. From this common ancestor probably descended a numerous pro- gency divided into many family groups, including the important branch seated at Coughton, in Warwickshire, all of which bore arms blazoned alike or very slightly differenced:
Arms: Gules, on a chevron argent, three bars gemels sable.
Crest: On a wreath an elephant's head. Some of the later branches of family replace the old crest with "On a wreath, a falcon volante, proper, armed with Bells Jessant, Aurum." Motto: Virtus Sola Nobilitas; or, Moribus Antiquis.
Many of the Throckmortons rose to eminence and had their records preserved by contemporary British annalists, but it has been left to the profound American geneal- ogists, Col. C. Wickliffe Throckmorton, of New York City, and Mrs. George D. Sither- wood, of Bloomington, Ill., to assemble all known English and American data in book form, books recently and independently issued, which give the last word in a magnificent family history.
The founder of the American family was John Throckmorton, a cadet of one of the English branches of the family, but the specific claim that he was the son of Bassing- bourne Throckmorton, an alderman and grocer of Norwich, I feel is insufficiently sub- stantiated. The complete absence of the unique baptismal name of Bassingbourne, and the names of Bassingbourne Throckmorton's kindred, immediate, collateral and remote, among the children of John Throckmorton, of Rhode Island and New Jersey, is too powerful a rebuttal of this claim to be ignored if it be not absolutely eliminative. If I were to hazard an opinion I should incline to the belief that John Throckmorton sprang from the line of Job Throckmorton, of Haseley, Warwickshire, an outstanding Puritan of his time, who died 1628.
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His advent is chronicled by the mild and kindly Gov. Winthrop, as follows:
"Feb. 5, 1631. The Ship Lyon, Mr. William Peirce, Master, arrived at Nantasket. She brought Mr. Williams, a godly minister, with his wife, Mr. Throckmorton, Perkins, Ong, and others with their wives and children, about twenty passengers and about two hundred tons of goods. She set sail from Bristol, Dec. 1, 1630. She had a very tempestuous passage, yet through God's mercy all her people came safe, except Way his son, who fell from the spit sail yard in a tempest and could not be recovered, though he kept in sight for a quarter of an hour; her goods also came in good condition."
May 18, following his arrival, he was admitted a Freeman in the town of Salem, Mass., and, though he had moved, his hog house was mentioned as a landmark in the town records as late as April 15, 1639. Further his name was perpetuated here in an application to a cove on Salem Harbor about two miles west of Peaches Point.
He became a Baptist and followed the footsteps of Roger Williams, his fellow passenger in the Lyon, into Rhode Island, in the summer of 1635 or 1636.
1637, June. Later settlers, at Providence, R. I., had lands laid out for them "as fully as the former portions appropriated to our neighbor Throckmorton, neighbor Greene, neighbor Harris, Joshua Verin, neighbor Arnold and neighbor Williams," etc.
1638, Oct. 8. Roger Williams conveyed to John Throckmorton, as one of twelve individuals, an equal interest, with himself, in his Indian purchase, covering the site of Providence, and on April 22, 1639, sold him an interest in Chibachuwest, now called Prudence Island. The removal of John Throckmorton from Salem was not a compul- sory act, as was Mr. Williams', but his strong notion of personal rights and religious free- dom would soon have caused his expulsion. For his disaffection and estrangement from the Church, and his adoption of Baptist views, he was excommunicated by the Rev. Hugh Peters, who, writing July 1, 1639, to the Church, at Dorchester, said that John Throckmorton, his wife, and others have had "the greatest censure passed upon them in this our church," as they "wholly refused to hear the church, denying it and all the churches in the Bay to be the true churches."
1640, July 27 .. He, with thirty-eight others, signed an agreement for a form of government at Rhode Island.
1643. He made application to the Dutch to settle within their jurisdiction which was granted:
Whereas Mr. Throckmorton, with his associates, solicits to settle with thirty-five families within the limits of the jurisdiction of their High Mightinesses, to reside there in peace and enjoy the same privileges as our other subjects, and be favored with the free exercise of their religion; having seen the petition of the aforesaid Throckmorton, and consulted with the interests of the Company, as this request can by no means be injurious to the country, more so as the English are to settle at a distance of three miles from us, so it is granted. Mr. Throckmorton, with thirty-five English families, are permitted to settle within three miles of Amsterdam.
Albany Records from 1638 to 1642.
Upon the 6th of July, 1643, the following "land brief" was granted to Jan Throckmorton:
We, William Kieft, director general, and the council, in behalf of their high mighty lords, the States General of the United Netherlands, his highness the Prince of Orange, and the noble lords, the managers of the General Incorporated West India Company in New Netherlands residing, by these presents, do publish and declare that we, on this day the date underwritten, have given and granted unto Jan Throck- morton a piece of land, (being a portion of Vredeland,) containing as follows, along the East river of New Netherlands, extending from the point half a mile, which piece of land aforesaid is surrounded on one side by a little river, and on the other side by a great kill, which river and kill on high water running, meet each other, surround the said land, as will more clearly appear by a map of the same which has been made and marked off by the surveyor, with the express conditions and terms that the said Jan Throckmorton, or they
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who by virtue of these presents shall succeed to his action, the noble lords, the managers aforesaid, shall acknowledge as their lords and patroons, under the sovereignty of the high and mighty lords, the States General, and unto their director and council here, shall in all things be confirmed as all good citizens are in duty bound; provided also that the said Jan Throckmorton and his company (associates) shall further- more be subject to all such burdens and imposts, as already have been enacted by the noble lords, and hereafter may yet be enacted. It is furthermore made an express condition that the aforesaid Jan Throck- morton, according to promise, shall settle on the aforesaid lands as many families as may offer in the same manner, constituting over the said Throckmorton and his company, in our stead, in the real and actual possession of the aforesaid piece of land, lying on the East river aforesaid, giving them by these presents the full and irrevocable might, authority, and special permission the aforesaid parcel of land to enter, cul- tivate, inhabit and occupy, in like manner as he may lawfully do with other his patrimonial lands and effects, without our, the grantors in quality aforesaid, thereunto any longer having, reserving or saving any part, action, or control whatever, but to the behoof as aforesaid, from all assisting from this time forth and forever, promising moreover this transport firmly, invariably, and irrevocably to maintain, fulfil, and exe- cute, and to do all that in equity we are bound to do. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherlands, this 6th day of July, 1643.
WILLIAM KIEFT
By order of the noble lords, the directors and council of the New Netherlands. Cornelis Tienhoven, Secretary. Albany Records, G.G., 98. Idem, 173-4.
This grant, subsequently called Throckmorton's Neck and Throg's Neck, embraced the eastern part of the present town. It was bounded on the north by Eastchester neck, on the east by Eastchester bay and Long Island sound, on the south by the East river, and on the west by the Westchester creek .*
Throckmorton's settlement had a short existence and was obliterated by the Indian uprising in the fall of 1643, when it was set upon by the savages and every vestige of it destroyed. Eighteen persons were killed and those who were so fortunate as to escape death, made their way to the Fort at New Amsterdam and "some that escaped from the Indian attack went back to Rhode Island," says Winthrop. Among those who returned was John Throckmorton.
In 1647, John Throckmorton was living in Providence, and was asked to pay fifteen pounds, in wampum, for a house.
1647, Feb. 27. He was granted the house and land of Edward Cope, provided he satisfied the Deputies of Providence, the amount of a certain lien against said property. 1650, Sept. 2. He was taxed £1-3-4, at Providence, R. I.
In 1652, he was Town Moderator, at Providence, R. I.
*Upon the extremity of the point is now, in course of erection (1848) by the United States government, a very strong fortifica- tion, called Fort Schuyler. It is calculated, when completed, to defend this entrance and protect the city of New York from foreign invasions, in connection with the formidable works of a similar character erected at the Narrows.
Disturnell's Gazetteer, of New York.
Upon the 29th of April, 1652, John Throckmorton petitioned the director general for leave to transport Throckmorton's neck. In October following permission was granted, whereupon he conveyed the same to Augustine Hermans.
Albany Records, Court of Assize, Vol. 2, p. 59.
On the 5th of December, 1656, Governor Stuyvesant ordered that Throckmorton's and Cornhill's neck (Classon's Point), might come into their jurisdiction if they please. Albany Records, Court of Assize, Vol. I, p. 60.
Augustine Hermans, soon after his purchase, conveyed fifty morgen of land situated on Throckmorton's neck, to Thomas Hunt. In 1665, the town of Westchester asserted "that she had always enjoyed Throckmorton's neck." Albany Records, Court of Assize, Vol. 2, p. 60.
On the 7th of January, 1667, Richard Nicholls granted to Roger Townsend "a certain parcel of land . .... being on ye back side of Throckmorton's neck . .
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