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previous wife, sons, Thomas and Joel Burrowes, who were, perhaps, by Mary Taylor, who was his wife in 1695, and who was a widow, evidently with a daughter, Abigail Taylor.
1705. Thomas Burrowes, of Jamaica, probably a son of Thomas, who died in 1703, sold land there in this year.
1706. Thomas Burrowes, of Jamaica, bought land in Jamaica, in this year.
1703. Joel Burrowes was doubtless the son of Thomas Burrowes, merchant, of New York, who died in this year.
1713, July 13. In the will of Stephen Burrowes, 3; proved Dec. S, 1714, Joel Burrowes
appeared as a witness. Lib. C., p. 62, Queens County, N. Y., Records.
1714, Apr. 20. Joel and Deborah Burrowes, of Jamaica or Hempstead, L. I., had a son, Thomas, who died at this date. Poyer Register, New York Genealogical Record.
1703-1705. Jonathan Burrow was a Vestryman of Trinity Church, New York City.
John Burrough, the First, was an eminent man in his town, and he, and his descendants, have been written up in Riker's Annals of Newtown, L. I. Members of this family settled in New Jersey.
1675, September. John Burrough was assessed, in Newtown, L. I., as the owner of forty acres of land, one house, four oxen, four cows and twenty-four sheep, and died in 1678. He had issue: John, Joseph and Jeremiah.
In 1683, John Burrough, son of John, was taxed on ten acres of land, two horses and one cow, in the same town, and was doubtless the son of John, who died in 1678.
In 1683, Joseph Burrough was assessed, in Newtown, L. I., for eighteen acres of land, one horse, one ox and three cows.
1698. Joseph Burroughs, brother of Jeremiah, deceased, appeared on the inventory of Jeremiah Burroughs. They were sons of John Burroughs, of Newton, L. I., who died in 1678. New York Wills.
1675, September. Jeremiah Burrough was assessed, in Newton, L. I., for six acres of land, two horses, two oxen, three cows and one pig.
In 1683. Jeremiah Burrough was again assessed on twenty acres of land, two oxen, four cows and two pigs.
In 1689, Jeremiah Burrows was a Lieutenant, in one of the military companies of New- town, L. I.
1735, Apr. 10. Samuel Burras married Mary Exceen.
Christ Church Record, Shrewsbury, N. J.
1773, August. John Burrowes and wife, Catharine, kept a store, at Matawan, then Middletown Point, N. J.
Edward Burrough was a man of "extraordinary parts, and acquired knowledge," con- verted by George Fox to Quakerism.
"He was born, in the barony of Kendal, in Westmoreland, [England], of parents, who, for their honest and virtuous life, were in good repute; he was well educated, and trained up in such learning as that country did afford. * * * Being thus convinced, he entered into the society of the despised Quakers, though he was now rejected by his relations, and, by a blind zeal, turned out of his father's house. This he bore patiently * * * and in process of time * * * 50-
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came a very eminent minister of the Gospel. * * Reviling, slandering, buffeting and caning were often his lot; watching and fasting were many times his portion; and imprisonment, great jeopardies, and danger of life, he was not unacquainted with."
Sewell's History of the Quakers.
He died, 13, 12mo., 1662, after an imprisonment of several months, in Newgate prison, London, where he had been committed for preaching his religious views, at the age of twenty- eight years and unmarried.
In 1660, John Burrough, also a Quaker, was committed to prison, in Buckinghamshire. In 1660, Joseph Burrough, another of this sect, was imprisoned in Essex.
Judge Clements, in his "Newtown Settlers," deals quite extensively with the Burrowes family. Besides allusions to John Burrough, a weaver, who settled in Gloucester, not far from 1688-90, and to Edward, No. 10, in this Memoir, he follows the history of Samuel Burroughs, who appeared in Gloucester County, about 1698. He was a man of large wealth; made his will in 1720; proved in 1732. His descendants are traced.
Further reference to the works of Judge Clements and the Rev. Dr. George Hale, is ad- vised for those seeking fuller information on the lines dealt with by these authorities. Also Savage's New England Dictionary, which contains many allusions to settlers in New England of this name.
CAMPBELL
OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
1 JOHN CAMPBELL married Bridget
Issue
2 John Campbell, born Nov. 6, 1719; died Mch. 31, 1804.
There was a John Campbell who was one of the Judges or Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, Monmouth County, from October, 1725 to 1744, and, perhaps, later, but the Court Records from that date to 1777, are missing. He was not John Campbell, 2, as he was only born in 1719.
2 JOHN CAMPBELL, son of John Campbell, I, was born Nov. 6, 1719; died Mch. 31, 1804. He was of Monmouth, N. J. He married, first, Jan. 22, 1746, Rachel Walker, of the same place. She died May 10, 1761. He married, second, Nov. 30, 1761, Hendrika, daughter of William and Elizabeth Covenhoven, born Apr. 12, 1726; died Dec. 7, 1805.
1777, Aug. 4. He was commissioned Quartermaster, in the First Regiment, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Militia, and resigned Oct. 9, 1777.
1777, Oct. 18. He was commissioned Assistant Commissary, in the Hospital, at Flying Camp, Continental Army, during the Revolutionary War, and was discharged Dec. 1, 1780.
Issue by first wife
3 George Walker Campbell, born Jan. 7, 1747; died, Sept. 22, 1798, unmarried. Commissioned Surgeon, in Hospital, at Flying Camp, Continental Army, Apr. II, 1777, and served until June 20, 1780; Commissioned Physician and Sur- geon, in General Hospital, Sept. 20, 1781, and served until the close of the Revolutionary War. He was an original member of the Society of the Cin- cinnati.
4 John Campbell, born Feb. 5, 1750; died Mich. 28, 1783. He served in Capt. Holmes' Company, 4th Battalion, 2nd Establishment, 2nd Regiment, and was transferred to the invalid corps, Continental Army, June 11, 1780, and dis- charged, June 11, 1783, for disability.
5 Duncan Campbell, born Apr. 16, 1753; died Jan. 12, 1813. Served as a private, in Capt. Wagluni's Company, Second Regiment, Middlesex County, New Jersey, Militia, Sept. 16, 1777, during the Revolutionary War.
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6 Elias Campbell, born Dec. 10, 1755; died June, 1774.
7 Elizabeth Campbell, born January, 1758; died September, 1760.
Issue by second wife
S Rachel Campbell, born Dec. 30, 1762.
9 William Campbell, born Jan. 20, 1765. He served as a Drummer and Drum Major, in the Monmouth County, New Jersey, Militia, during the Revolu- tionary War. He was wounded in the shoulder at the Battle of Monmouth.
IO Elizabeth Campbell, born Dec. 10, 1767; died Sept. 18, 1769.
II Benjamin C. Campbell, born Nov. 8, 1769; died Jan. 11, 1810.
9 WILLIAM CAMPBELL, son of John Campbell, 2, was born Jan. 20, 1765, and mar- ried, 1787, Margaret, daughter of George and Perthena (Walker) Cook, of Perrineville, N. J. She was born Nov. 1, 1771, and died May 15, 1838.
Issue
12 John Campbell, born June 1, 1788; died July 27, 1823.
13 George Campbell, born May 17, 1971.
14 Rachel Campbell, born Aug. 29, 1792; died Oct. 23, 1793.
15 Thomas Campbell, born Jan, 14, 1795; died Nov. 8, 1829.
16 Nancy Campbell, born Nov. 4, 1798.
17 William Campbell, born Aug. 3, 1800; died Feb. 1, 1870.
18 Maria Campbell, born Jan. 12, 1805.
19 Caroline Campbell, born Apr. 19, 1808.
20 Rue Campbell, born Apr. 24, 1813; died Feb. 25, 1882.
17 WILLIAM CAMPBELL, son of William Campbell, 9, born Aug. 3, ISoo; married, May 21, 1822, by the Rev. John Woodhull, Hannah, daughter of Peter Bowne by his first wife, Ann Thompson. She was born Apr. 3, 1805; died Mch. 13, 1886.
Issue
21 Margaret Ann Campbell, born Sept. 15, IS23; married Edward M. Conover.
22 Jane Thompson Campbell, born Nov. 15, 1826; died Dec. 7, 1907; married William T. Denise.
23 Henry Campbell, born Nov. 9, 1828.
24 Peter Bowne Campbell, born Jan. 20, 1830.
25 Amelia Augusta Campbell, born May 3, 1833; married Jacob W. Buck.
26 John Throckmorton Campbell, born Oct. 23, 1835.
27 William Campbell, born June 13, 1838.
28 Maria Campbell, born Nov. 13, 1840; married John H. Buck.
29 Caroline Campbell, born Apr. 22, 1844; married James Ruck.
20 RUE CAMPBELL, son of William Campbell, 9, was born Apl. 24, 1813; died Feb. 25, 1882. He married Deborah
Issue
30 Thomas Campbell
31 Hannah Campbell
32 Tunis Campbell
. 33 Margaret Campbell
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34 John Campbell
35 Peter Campbell
36 Rue Campbell
37 William Campbell
38 James Campbell
24 PETER BOWNE CAMPBELL, son of William Campbell, 17, was born Jan. 20, 1830; married June 15, 1853, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of James* and Susan (Wall) Schure- man, born Nov. 12, 1823.
Issue
39 James Wall Schureman Campbell, born Apr. 23, 1854. Represents Surgeon George W. Campbell, in the Society of the Cincinnati; Cashier of First National Bank, Freehold, N. J.
40 Hannah Matilda Campbell, born Mch. 13, 1857; died Mch. 26, 1862.
41 William Denise Campbell, born Oct. 17, 1859; died April, 1891; married Harriet R. Cooper, of Long Branch, N. J. He is a lawyer and was a member of the New Jersey Assembly for 1890 and 1891.
42 Henry Campbell born June 13, 1865; married Maud Barcly Stevens, of Eatontown, N. J. He is a cashier of the First National twins - Bank, Red Bank, N. J., and a member of the Aztec Club, representing Lieut. James W. Schureman, Mexican War.
43 George Campbell
born June 13, 1865; died June 16, 1865.
38 JAMES CAMPBELL, son of Rue Campbell, 20, was born Sep. 14, 1843. He mar- ried, Dec. 30, 1868, Eliza Ann King.
Issue
44 Ezekiel Campbell
45 Ann Campbell
46 James Campbell
47 Ada Campbell
48 William Campbell
49 James Campbell
39 JAMES WALL SCHUREMAN CAMPBELL, son of Peter Bowne Campbell, 24, was born Apr. 23, 1854; married, Nov. 27, 1878, by the Rev. Thadeus Wilson, Mary, daughter of Dennis and Ellen (Bell) Valentine, born Sept. 19, 1856.
Issue
50 Harry Valentine Campbell, born Oct. 6, 1882.
51 Edmund Schureman Campbell, born Oct. 28, 1884.
52 Marion Campbell, born Dec. 24, 1886.
53 Ellen Campbell, born Nov. 7, 1894.
*James Schureman. horn Mch. 10, 1700; died May 12, 1877: married Susan Wall, born Jan. 21, 1785; died Apr. 13, 1885; was a soldier in the War of 1812, and a son of James Schureman, of New Brunswick, N. J., born Feb. 12, 1750; dicd Jan. 22, 1824, a member of the Continental Congress, :786-17SS; Federal Congress, 1789-1791, 1791-1793. 1797-1799. 1813-1515; U. S. Senator, Feb. 14, 1700 to Feb. 26, 1º01; Vice-President of the Council of New Jersey. 1612.
CHAMBERLAIN*
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, of Hingham, England, sailing from Ipswich, in the ship Diligent, arrived at Charlestown, Mass., Aug. 10, 1638. The company on the ship with him was largely composed of people who, under the leadership of the Reverend Robert Peck, came from the county of Norfolk, in which Hingham is situated. And there, in the parish of St. Andrew, according to the register thereof, we learn that:
1632, May 15. Daniel and Mary, children of Henry Chamberline. were baptized.
1632, May 19. Daniel, son of Henry Chamberline, was buried.
1632, May 25. Mary, daughter of Henry Chamberline, was buried.
1633, Nov. 15. John, son of Henry Chamberline, was baptized.
Several years after the arrival of the Diligent, Daniel Cushing, one of his fellow passengers, wrote out a "list of such persons as came out of the town of Hingham and towns adjacent, in the County of Norfolk, in the Kingdom of England, and settled in New Hingham." And in such list he gives:
1638. Henry Chamberlin, shoemaker, his wife and his mother and two children came from Old Hingham and settled at New Hinghan-5.
Whether this statement is correct so far as the number of immigrants in the party is con- cerned it is now impossible to tell. Henry Chamberlain had other children who may or may not have been with him at the time of his arrival. His will shows us as much.
*Drake's Founders of New England. Page 80.
"1638. Henry Chamberlain, shoemaker. his wife, mother and two children came from Old Hingham, Co. Norfolk, England. and settled at New Hingham, New England, according to Daniel Cushing's record."
History of Hingham, Vol. II, page 121.
"Henry Chamberlain, wife, mother and two children. came 1638, land granted same year, but finally settled in Hull, where he died about 1674. Widow Christian Chamberlain, probably his mother, died in Hull April 19, 1659. Inventory of his estate April 27, 1675, by occupation a blacksmith."
Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts.
"Chamberlin. Henry, shcemaker, from Hingham, England, came in 1638 with his wife, his mother and two children to Hingham. Propr. 1638, from Mch. 13, 1638/0. Propr. at Hull in 1657. Mrs. Chamberlin joined the Church at Barnstable Oct. 6, 1644. Mrs. Chamberlin widow, sister of Mr. Israel Stoughton, received from General Court a portion of Mr. Andrews gift 14 May 1645. Widow Christian Chamberlin died 19 April, 1659. aet. 81 years.
Chamberiin. Henry, blacksmith, Hingham, sold. Feb. 4, 1660, land granted him by the town. Either he or his son Henry was town officer in 1069. Je died in 1674. Will dated Nov. 8, 1673, probated 29 July 1674. Bequeathes to wife Jane, sons Henry and William, daughters Susan Carter, Ursley Cole, and Faith Patterson; grandchild John Chamberlin."
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1638. Land was granted to him by the town of Hingham, and he was made a freeman Mich. 13, 1638/9.
From the diary of the Reverend Peter Hobart, of Hingham, we learn that the name of his mother was Christian Chamberlain, and that she died at Hingham, Apr. 19, 1650, aged eighty- one years, which would make her birth to have occurred about the year 1578.
Much of the foregoing information has been obtained by and for the Chamberlain Associa- tion of America, which claims that Mrs. Christian Chamberlain was apparently a sister to Israel Stoughton, of Dorchester, Mass., basing the assumption on an entry to be found in the Massachusetts Bay records under the date of May 14, 1645, which reads:
"Upon weighty reasons moving, it is ord'ed yt Mrs. Chamberlain, widowe, sister to Mr. Israell Stoughton (lately a worthy member of ys Commonweale) shalbe alowed out of Mr. Androws gift eith' a cowe or five pounds."
From this is drawn the conclusion that since the Governor and his Deputies were then con- sidering the interests of the people of Hingham, "there seems to be little doubt that the MIrs. Chamberlain, widow, was the widow Christian Chamberlain, then living in Hingham."
But this conclusion that a portion of Mr. Andrews' gift was used for the benefit of Chris- tian Chamberlain rests solely on the fact that she was the only known widow Chamberlain in Massachusetts in 1645. There were, however, two persons (possibly they may have been identical) living in New England in 1644, either of whom may have been a widow by May 1645, and one of them, at least, has a strong presumptive claim to be considered as a sister to Israel Stoughton. As nothing appears to be known about Mrs. Chamberlain of Concord, or Mrs. Chamberlain of Barnstable, or their husbands, it would seem as if in that fact alone there was sufficient to disprove the claim that Mrs. Christian Chamberlain was the only widow Chamber- lain in 1645.
Abigail Chamberlain was baptized, I mo., 31, 1644, at Dorchester, "her father," as we learn from Pope's Pioneers of Mass., "being a member of the Church at Concord, but at pres- ent sojourning in Dorchester." Now Dorchester was Israel Stoughton's home, and he had one or more sisters living there, all of them apparently of an age about the same as his own. and parents of young children, he himself being born in 1602, while Christian Chamberlain was born in 1578, and had grown grandchildren in 1644.
Again, "Mestress Chamberlin" joins the Church at Barnstable (Plymouth Colony), Oct. 6, 1644, that is to say, a few months after the birth of the before mentioned Abigail Cham- berlain. The carefully restricted title of respect given to this Barnstable woman. which was used likewise with regard to the recipient of the gift in 1645, would seem to favor the idea that they were one and the same individual. Although it is possible that to receive a portion of the Andrews' gift Mrs. Chamberlain would have had to be in the Massachusetts jurisdiction before May 1645.
Christian Chamberlain may have lived some time at Barnstable, but to say that she did is pure speculation. We have no knowledge whatever concerning the husband of Mrs. Chamber- lain of Barnstable, and none after r mo., 1644 concerning the father of Abigail. One John Chamberlain died at Woburn, Mass., 1652; some may think him the Concord man, the father of Abigail, but there is not the slightest evidence to show that he was. Hence it follows that either of these women may have been a widow, or, for that matter, both of them. And as the claims of Concord, Dorchester, Hingham, and nearly every town in the Massachusetts Colony were being considered at that time, it is absolutely futile to regard Mrs. Christian Chamber- lain as the only one entitled to be aided from the gift.
About 1665 Henry Chamberlain removed to the town of Hull, where he lived with his son
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William during the last years of his life, and died there July 15, 1674, leaving a widow Jane and several children.
1673, Dec. 8. In his will of this date proved July 29, 1674, he calls himself "Henry Cham- berlin sometime of Hingham but now of Hull in the County of Suffolk in New England, black- smith," and mentions:
Loveing wife Jane Chamberlin
Eldest son Henry Chamberlin
Two sons Henry Chamberlin and William Chamberlin
Daughter Susan Carter Daughter Ursley Cole
Daughter Faith Patterson
Grandchild John Chamberlin
Executors his sons Henry and William.
1674/5, Mch. 3. Jane Chamberlain widow and her sons Henry and William gave a deed for land and houses in Hingham to Thomas Sawyer.
Issue
2 Susan Chamberlain, born about 1616, according to a deposition she herself made; married, first, Joseph Carter; born 1604/5; died Jan. 31, 1676/7; married, sec- ond, June 4, 1677, Richard Eccles.
3 Henry Chamberlain, eldest son, of Hull, Mass., where he died Dec. 3, 1678; married Sarah Jones, born about 1635; died Dec. 16, 1710.
4 William Chamberlain, of Hull, Mass., where he died Oct. 22, 1678; married, twice, but the names of his wives are not known.
5 Daniel Chamberlain; baptized at Hingham, England, May 15, 1632; buried May 19, 1632.
6 Mary Chamberlain; baptized May 15, 1632; buried May 25, 1632.
7 John Chamberlain; baptized Nov. 15, 1633; of Boston and Newport; died about 1667.
8 Ursulla Chamberlain; married John Cole.
9 Faith Chamberlain; died Jan. 30, 1710/11; married, first, Edward Patterson; second, Thomas, son of Randal Huet.
7 JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, son of Henry Chamberlain, I, was baptized at St. Andrew's Church, Hingham, England, Nov. 15, 1633; and was admitted an inhabitant of Boston, Mass., July 28, 1651. He married. first, May 19, 1653, Ann, daughter of William Brown; and second, about 1663, Catharine Chatham; she afterwards married Valentine Huddlestone.
He was a currier; and as a Quaker was publicly whipped a number of times, and later on suffered imprisonment and banishment from the Colony under pain of death if he returned. But this last punishment was remitted after the petition of his father and brother Henry was granted, to be found in Mass. Archives, Vol. 10, page 272:
"To the Honorable General Court now assembled at Boston, the humble petition of Henery Chamber- layne senior and Henry Chamberlayne junior, humbly sheweth
That forasmuch one John Chamberlayne a very neere & deare Naturall relation of ors a child a brother doth now ly shutt up unto death" etc., "we thought his condition somewhat more capable of mercy then the condition of other Quakers, he being an Inhabitant a child to a father a father to children, & so bound by many obligations of naturall relation unto this place, * * * "
Dated 7-4-1661.
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About 1663 John Chamberlain moved to Newport, R. I., where the children by his second wife were born, and where he himself died about 1667.
Issue by first wife
IO Ann Chamberlain, born Feb. 6. 1653/4.
II John Chamberlain, born May 1, 1655; named in the will of his grandfather, Dec. 8, 1673.
12 Elizabeth Chamberlain, born Oct. 25, 1656.
13 Henry Chamberlain, born Feb. 3, 1659; married Ann West.
14 William Chamberlain; died prior to July S, 1717; married
Issue by second wife
15 Susanna Chamberlain, born Aug. 1664.
16 Peleg Chamberlain, born Aug. 1666.
17 Jane Chamberlain, born Dec. 1667.
FAITH CHAMBERLAIN, daughter of Henry Chamberlain, I, married, first, Ed- 9 ward Patterson; second, Thomas, son of Randal Huet. She died, according to the Quaker records of Shrewsbury, N. J., Jan. 30, 1710/11.
1673, Nov. S. Called "daughter, Faith Patterson," in the will of her father, Henry Chamberlain, who left her a legacy of twenty shillings.
Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, says of her husband that "Edward Patterson was of Rehobath in 1643; and of Hingham in 1652, where he had Faith born Jan. 20, 1656; and that he was of Dover in 1657; calling himself carpenter at Hingham."
Savage also gives the account of an Edward Patterson, of New Hampshire in 1639, who was probably the man named by Captain Mason as a soldier under him in the Pequot War. 1637, and was perhaps the passenger in the ship "Christian" from London 1635, aged 33, who had a wife in 1647, but the only children mentioned were Elizabeth, baptized July 1644, who married Thomas Smith, also of New Hampshire, and a son John, baptized in Jan. 1645, who obtained a grant of land in 1670, of sixty acres "where he can find it."
See 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VI, page 164.
In 1667 Edward Patterson is found among the original settlers in Monmouth Co., con- tributing £4 for the purchasing of land from the Indians.
1667, Dec. 12. Edward Patterson was a deputy and overseer at the first General As- sembly, held at Portland Point.
1672, Oct. 8. Thomas and Ann Potter give a deed to Edward Patterson for "my whole share of land except the mill lot & the breackers lott & the great lott." This is recorded in the earliest book of deeds at Freehold, N. J., while on the very next page after it appears another deed from the same parties, but under the date of Oct. 5, 1672, to "Faith Patterson widdow relict & Executor of above mentioned Edward Patterson."
N. E. Gen. Register, Vol. 7, page 260. Edward Patterson had land grant near Oyster River (near Dover, N. H.) Dec. 31, 1660. Taxed there 1657-1665.
There are those who claim that Edward Patterson the immigrant of 1635 was the same man who came to Shrewsbury and died there prior to Oct. 5. 1672. But they seemingly fail to take into consideration what a great disparity in ages there must then have been between him and his wife, Faith Chamberlain. According to his age as given by the shipping list, lie was born about 1601, and the daughter, Faith, named after her mother, was born Jan. 20, 1656. But his widow Faith marries a second husband, Thomas Huet, and has by him at least, two children who were born about 1670 to 1675. In other words, if these children had been
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the son and daughter of Edward Patterson, born 1601, their father would have been in the neighborhood of seventy years of age when they were born. Or to look at it from another viewpoint, Faith's brother John Chamberlain was born in 1626, married in 1653, and had a child born to him a little less than a year earlier than the birth of her daughter Faith. Now if she were twin with John she would have been twenty four or five years younger than the Edward Patterson referred to as her husband. If, however, she were of the same age as Ed- ward Patterson, she would have lived to the ripe old age of one hundred and ten years, for she did not die until 1710/11. The conclusion seems obvious, therefore, that there was more than one Edward Patterson, and that Faith Chamberlain did not marry the one who came to this country in 1635.
1685. An entry in the lists of Quit Rents for Shrewsbury, shows that Thomas Huet. having married the widow of Edward Patterson, was charged on one hundred and fifty eight acres of land that belonged to the children of Edward Patterson. It seems probable that this land was what was referred to in the following deed:
1695, Apr. 26. In Freehold records, Book C, page 124ª there is a deed given by Ebonezar Cooke. of Shrewsbury, and Mary his wife, to Thomas Huett, of the same place, indicating certainly that Edward Patterson left no male issue, that reads:
"Whereas Edward Patterson, father of above Mary Cooke did purchase right, title &c., in Narrum- son Neck & in the town bounds of said Shrewsbury, which money deposited by ye said Edward Patterson as by ye county records may apeare, & that the said purchase of the said Edward Patterson did amount to one equal share of land within ye said town, now know ye that aforesaid Ebenezer Cooke & Mary his wife, daughter & one of the co heiresses of the aforesaid Edward Patterson deceased." &c., &c.
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