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Issue
18 John Curtis, eldest son; married, I mo., 7, 1733/4, Elizabeth Pancoast.
19 Elizabetlı Curtis: married, license dated May 13, 1735, Henry Cooper.
20 Jonathan Curtis
21 Joseph Curtis
22 Anne Curtis; died 1773; married, 9 mo., 5, 1730, Thomas Pancoast; died 1753. They had
Issue
Joseph Pancoast; probably died young.
Thomas Pancoast; married Hannah Ridgway.
Grace Pancoast, born May 7, 1734; married, Nov. 19, 1755, Caleb Shreve, born Aug. 25, 1734.
Tryphena Pancoast; married Samuel Smith.
Anne Pancoast; married Abraham Scott.
Thomasin Pancoast; married Philip Bowne.
13 DAVID CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 3, born 2 mo., 5, 1663; married in 1697, their intentions being published in Chesterfield Meeting, 7 mo., 2, 1697, Rachel Wright. After his death, she married, second, 10 mo., 18, 1712, Joseph Lawrence, as his second wife, his first one having been Sarah, daughter of William and Faith (Patterson) Worth, who was born 12 mo., 27, 167(1).
1707/8, Mch. 22. Will of David Curtis, of Mansfield, Burlington Co., proved Sep. 9, 1708, in which he mentions, wife Rachei, and children John, Thomas, Samuel, David and Anne. And appoints his wife as executrix and his brothers Thomas Curtis and Samuel Wright as supervisors.
Issue
23 John Curtis
24 David Curtis
25 Thomas Curtis
26 Samuel Curtis
27 Anne Curtis
15 ELIZABETH CURTIS, daughter of John Curtis, 3, born 12 mo., 12, 1666; married, 12 mo., 21, 1688, Thomas, son of Thomas Folkes. According to Chesterfield Meeting Records, they had
Issue
28 Mary Folkes, born I mo., 25, 1690.
29 Isaiah Folkes, born 12 mo., 25, 1691.
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30 Anne Folkes, born 12 mo., 12, 1693; married 9 mo., 29, 1716, Samuel, son of Samuel Taylor.
31 Thomas Folkes, born 8 mo., 16, 1697; intentions to marry Mary, daughter of Joseph Pancoast, published 12 mo., 7, 1722.
32 Elizabeth Folkes, born 11 mo., 31, 1700.
33 Sarah Folkes, born 2 mo., 25, 1702; intentions to marry Joseph, son of John Thorn, published 3 mo., 2, 1723.
34 Isaiah Folkes, born 5 mo., 23, 1704.
35 Rebecca Folkes, born 5 mo., 3, 1706.
23 JOHN CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 13, married about 1724, Rebecca, daughter of Walter Herbert by his second wife Sarah Tilton, of Shrewsbury, born in Middletown, I mo., 6, 1704/5.
In his will, dated Dec. IS, 1760, and proved Aug. 14, 1761, he calls himself "of Manasquan," speaks of his wife Mary, and of his brother David, and names as his children the following:
Issue
36 Herbert Curtis
37 David Curtis, "the eldest son," when will was made.
38 Sarah Curtis, perhaps married a Johnston.
39 John Curtis
40 Rebecca Curtis
41 Peter Curtis
42 Rachel Curtis
43 Jonathan Curtis
44 Merebah Curtis
45 Thomas Curtis
46 Anne Curtis
47 Herbert Curtis
24 DAVID CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 13, is spoken of as being of Shrewsbury when he married, 4 mo., 1734, Meribah, daughter of Walter and Sarah (Tilton) Herbert, born in Shrewsbury, 12 mo., 10, 1712. At this marriage his mother, who had not yet been two months married to her second husband, Joseph Lawrence, signed her name as Rachel Lawrence.
In his will, dated Feb. 12, 1774, proved MIch. 7, 1774, he calls his wife Sarah, and ap- points as his executor, David Curtis, the son of John. .
Issue
48 David Curtis, called "eldest son" in the will of his father.
49 Thomas Curtis
50 Walter Curtis
51 Mereby Curtis
52 Anne Curtis
53 Rachel Curtis. When Samuel Tallman got his license June 26, 1765, to marry Rachel Curtis, Christopher Tallman being the surety on the bond, it states that Rachel was then "past twenty one years of age, and has the consent of her father, David Cortis."
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36 HERBERT CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 23, died May 1760, his will being signed May 13, and proved June 19, of that year. He married, Apl. 22, 1756, Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Faith (Lawrence) Tilton, born I mo., 5, 1738. She married, second, by license dated Jan. 28, 1766, William Pierce.
. Issue
54 William Curtis 55 Thomas Curtis
37 DAVID CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 23, and called by him, in his will, his "eldest son," because his brother Herbert Curtis, 36, had died shortly prior to the making of said will; married Elizabeth, and died about 1790; his own will having been signed Aug. 22, 1783, and proved Apl. 20, 1790.
Issue
56 Elisha Curtis, his eldest son, who had married Deborah
57 John Curtis
58 Benjamin Curtis
59 Lydia Curtis, who had married (Lewis?) Ellison.
60 Elizabeth Curtis, who had married Mr. Stout.
39 JOHN CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 23, married, Nov. 18, 1756, Patience, daughter of Thomas and Faith (Lawrence) Tilton, born 1I mo. 3, 1735/6. He died prior to 1763. And, I am told, they had a grandson named Ebenezer Curtis.
Issue
61 John Curtis
62 Rachel Curtis
63 Faith Curtis, supposed to have been his daughter, a witness at the marriage of Elizabeth Curtis to James Morris, Oct. 10, 1798. Perhaps this Faith Curtis was a daughter of Herbert and Lydia (Tilton) Curtis.
63a Walter Curtis, supposed, on good authority, to have been a son; married Mary
45 THOMAS CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 23, married May 21, 1767, Margaret, daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Woodmansee) Corlies, born Feb. 5, 1746; died Nov. 10, I779.
Issue
64 Joseph Curtis, born Feb. 5, 1769.
65 Meribah Curtis, born Feb. 25, 1770.
66 Elihu Curtis, born July 18, 1772; married and had five sons, no daughters. 67 John Curtis, born July 17, 1775.
48 DAVID CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 24, died Feb. 27, 1815; married May 19, 1756, Lydia, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Borden) White, born June 6, 1739; died Apr. 16, 1826.
Issue
74 Walter Curtis, born Sep. 3, 1757; died Nov. 10, 1772.
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75 Elizabeth Curtis, born July 31, 1759; married, Oct. 10, 1798, James, son of Job and Mary Morris .*
76 Asher Curtis, born Dec. 26, 1761; died Jan. 21, 1826.
77 Meribah Curtis, born Jan. 14, 1764; died Aug. 5, 1837, unmarried.
78 David Curtis, born Jan. 16, 1768; died Feb. 10, 1843.
79 Thomas Curtis. born Feb. 25, 1771.
So Lydia Curtis, born July 3, 1773; died Sep. 16, 1774.
SI Samuel Curtis, born Aug. 20, 1775; died Nov. 1855.
82 Zilpah Curtis, born Sep. 3, 1779; died Apl. 20, 1846; married Stephen Newbury.
51 MERIBAH CURTIS, daughter of David Curtis, 24, and "step daughter of Sarah ('urtis," as I was told by one who had seen and talked with her, died Aug. 1831; married June 12, 1777, Humphrey, son of Elihu and Ann (Wady) Williams, born Apl. 29, 1756.
Issue
83 Curtis Williams; married Nancy, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Williams) White.
52 ANN CURTIS, daughter of David Curtis, 24, married, first, Nov. 26, 1755, Samuel, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Borden) White, born Feb. 6, 1727/8; died Sep. 27, 1759; and second, Oct. 10, 1765, Britton, son of Jacob and Sarah (White) Corlies, as his first wife, born Oct. 27, 1738; died, Oct. 31, 1816, aged 77 years, 10 months and 23 days. She died, presumably, prior to June S, 1780, when Britton married for his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Benjamin and Catherine (Husbands) Woolley.
Issue by her first husband
84 Thomas White, born Nov. 26, 1756; married Dec. 4, 1777, Meribah Parker, and died without issue.
S5 Curtis White, born June 8, 1758; died Nov. 18, 1758.
86 Meribah White, born June S, 1758; married Charles Little.
Issue by her second husband
S7 David Corlies, born Sep. 9, 1765: died Mch. 26, 1837; married Elizabeth 88 Lydia Corlies, born Sep. 9, 1765; married Joseph, son of Timothy Corlies, who died prior to Mch. 11, 1803. 89 Sarah Corlies, born Aug. 26, 1767; married Mr. Hulet.
61 JOHN CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 39, was alive as late as Oct. 3, 1796; married, Mch. 10, 1785, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah Taylor.
1807, Apl. 6. There is on record at Freehold a deed of this date, which recites that Tilton Curtis is then conveying to Garret Irons, land which was bought by John Curtis, Sr., Mch. 5, 1779: that the said john Curtis Sr. died leaving two children surviving him, viz. John and Rachel, then Curtis, afterwards Vanderbeck, now Brannin, and that John Curtis Jr. died since Oct. 3, 1796, leaving two children, Tilton and Achsah.
Issue 90 Tilton Curtis 91 Achsah Curtis
*Although efforts have been made to verify the statement that it was this Elizabeth Curtis who married James Morris at quan in 1798, they have met with no success.
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62 RACHEL CURTIS, daughter of John Curtis, 39, born Apl. 13. 1763; died prior to Feb. 1, 1826; married, first, Nov. S, 1786, Benjamin Vanderbeck, and, second, Oct. 5, 1791, John Brannin Jr.
Issue by her first husband 92 Benjamin Vanderbeck, born Aug. 15, 1787.
Issue by her second husband ..
93 John Curtis Brannin, born Jan. 1, 1794.
94 Elihu C. Brannin, born .Aug. 12, 1798.
95 William Cook Brannin, born Apl. 26, 1804; died June 13, 1869.
63a WALTER CURTIS, said to have been a son of John Curtis, 39, married Mary · Issue 95a Ebenezer Curtis, of Squan, died Nov. 1830; married Elizabeth . * died Mch. 22, 1837.
95b Cook Curtis, of Philadelphia, Pa.
95c Lydia Curtis; married James Lawrence.
95d Meribah Curtis, born Feb. 17, 1792; died unmarried, July 12, 1868.
95e Sarah Curtis, born Apr. 15, 1796; died July 17, 1865.
61 JOSEPH CURTIS, son of Thomas Curtis, 45, born Feb. 5, 1769; died in 1820; mar- ried Elizabeth Corlies, and was of Upper Freehold when he made his will, Nov. 19, 1819, in which he says that his children Margaret, Lydia and Joseph were not then of age.
Issue
96 Hannah Curtis
97 Thomas Curtis
98 David Curtis
99 Margaret Curtis
100 Lydia Curtis
JOI Joseph Curtis
'67 JOHN CURTIS, son of Thomas Curtis, 45, born July 17, 1775; died June 22, 1825; married Ann, daughter of John and Rachel (White) Corlies, born June 8, 1783; died Feb. 16, 1866.
Issue
102 Timothy Curtis, born Mch. 28, 1809.
103 Elizabeth Curtis, born May 5, 1812; died Dec. 10, 1870; married Ansel Spinning, born July 10, ISI0; died Sep. 22, 1898. .
104 Susan Curtis, born Sep. 4, 1818; died Dec. 18, 1891; married John Hart, born Feb. 25, 1815; died Aug. 20, 1895.
105 Thomas Curtis, born in 1822.
106 Ann Curtis; died when about twenty two years of age.
107 Margaret Curtis; married Thomas Sherman.
108 John Curtis; married Jane Kitchens.
*Elizabeth Curtis, of Howel township, made her will in 1833, which was proved Mch. 7, 1837. In it she refers to Elizabeth. daughter of Ezekiel and Mary Johnson; to Meribah Curtis, and her illegitimate son William, who was not yet of age: to Ebenezer. son of Conk Curtis, and to Ebenezer, son of John M Reynolds. She also appointed her friend Samuel F. Allen as her executar.
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76 ASHER CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 48, born Dec. 26, 176t; died Jan. 21, 1826; married Sarah, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Cook) Osborn.
1825, Dec. 7. Will of Asher Curtis, of Howell township, proved Mch. 10, 1826, mentioned: Wife Sarah Daughter Sarah
Daughter Elizabeth
Daughter Nancy
Daughter Caroline Daughter Charlotte Curtis
Grand-daughter Sarah Moore
Son Stephen Curtis
Issue
109 Elizabeth Curtis, born Mch. 31, 1787; married first William Dickson, second, Mr. Hammer.
TIO Lydia Curtis, born Feb. 26, 1789; died unmarried.
III Abraham Curtis, born MIch. 26, 1791; died unmarried.
112 Sarah Curtis, born July 18, 1794; died Jan. 4, 1855; married Peter Bailey.
113 Ann Curtis, born Nov. 4, 1796; died Nov. 8, 1881.
114 Caroline Curtis, born June 5, 1800; died Oct. 25, 1874.
115 Stephen Curtis, born Dec. 4, 1803; died Mch. 31, 1847.
116 Charlotte Curtis, born Apr. 1, 1806; died June 12, 1848; married Samuel Gunyon.
78 DAVID CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 48, born Jan. 16, 1768; died Feb. 10, 1843; married, first, Rebecca . . . . , born 1770; died about Nov. 1, 1810; and second, Mrs. Catharine (Osborn), the widow of John Longstreet, and sister of Col. Abraham Osborn.
Issue by his first wife
117 Lydia Curtis, born Sep. 18, 1795; died May 6, 1864.
118 Pitney Curtis; died "about July 15, 1813," aged 5 years.
119 David Curtis; died single.
120 Walter Herbert Curtis; married Lydia Tway.
121 Garret Curtis; married Elizabeth Newberry.
122 John C. Curtis.
123 Lydia Curtis, born Sep. IS, 1795; died May 6, 1864; married Robert Combs.
124 Hannah Curtis; married Mr. Clayton.
125 Jacob Curtis, born May 19, 1803; died Oct. 10, 1837; married Prudence Long- street.
Issue by his second wife
126 Osborn Curtis, born Jan. 22, 18IS; died Sep. 25, 1886.
127 Thomas Curtis; married Elizabeth Longstreet.
81 SAMUEL CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 48, born Aug. 20, 1775; died Nov. 1855; married Clarissa Chadwick, born 1790; died May 17, 1860.
Issue 128 Lydia Curtis, born 1816; died Mch. 9, 1877; married Apl. 20, 1833, William Martin.
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129 Alfred Curtis
130 John Curtis. And others
95b COOK CURTIS, of Philadelphia, Pa., son of Walter Curtis, 63a. Issuc 130a Ebenezer Curtis
95e SARAH CURTIS, daughter of Walter Curtis, 63a, born Apr. 15, 1796; died July 17, 1865; married John M. Reynolds, born Nov. 9, 1798; died Apr. 5, 1865.
Issuc
Cook C. Reynolds, born Dec. 28, 1827; died Sep. 14, 1838.
Amos T. Reynolds, born Apr. 17, 1833; died May 1, 1833.
Joseph L. Reynolds, born May 12, 1834; died May 22, 1835.
John Reynolds
Walter Reynolds
Mary Reynolds; married John Van Note.
Elias Hicks Reynolds
Lydia Reynolds; married, first, ..... ; second, Nelson Taylor.
Ebenezer Reynolds, legatee in the will of his aunt, Elizabeth Curtis, Sep. 16, 1833.
102 TIMOTHY CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 67, born Mch. 28, 1809; died Nov. 23, 1879; married Alice Rebecca Conrow, born May 8, 1813; died July 20, 1886.
Issue
131 Alice Curtis; married Thomas Adams.
132 Charles Curtis, of Red Bank, N. J .; married Emeline, daughter of Abraham and Lydia (Tilton) Antonides.
133 Henry Harrington Curtis, born Sep. 1843; died June 11, 1902; married, first, Margaret S., daughter Joseph Borden, born Dec. 10, 1843; died June 17, 1878; married, second, Jan. 28, 1880, Ada Louise Rockwell.
134 George Curtis; married Josephine Longstreet.
135 Margaret Curtis; married Japhia Van Dyke.
136 Ilorace Curtis, of Long Branch, N. J., married Isabel Newings.
137 William Curtis: died in the Civil War; single.
138 John Curtis, born Sep. 26, 1836; died, Mch. 18, 1887, single. 139 Elsie Curtis
105 THOMAS CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 67, born in 1822; married, first, Rebecca M. Perrine, born Oct. 28, 1826; died Feb. 23, 1851, and second Mrs. Jane (Dangler) Jenks.
Issue
140 Frances Curtis, born Oct. 15, 1848; married George T. B. Howland, of Eaton- town, N. J.
141 Rebecca Curtis; married Albert French, of Asbury Park, N. J.
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10S JOHN CURTIS, son of John Curtis, 67, married Jane Kitchens. Issue
142 Anna Curtis; married Sidney Forman.
143 Jacob Curtis; married Henrietta Allen.
. 113 ANN CURTIS, daughter of Asher Curtis, 76, was born Nov. 4, 1796 according to the epitaph on her tombstone, but Nov. 7, 1797 if the Bible is taken; and died Nov. S, 1881. She married, first, Jan. 29, 1818, Britton, son of Nesbit and Nancy (Webb) Mount, born Aug. 14, 1796; died Apl. 10, 1831. She married, second, Aug. 2, 1833, Zacharias, son of Nesbit and Nancy (Webb) Mount, born July 13. 1So6; died Feb. 9, 1836. And she married, third, Tabor Chadwick, died, Oct. 7, 1843, aged 70 years and 7 months. She is buried with her first two husbands in the Quaker burying ground at Manasquan, N. J., and Tabor Chadwick is buried at Tower Hill, Red Bank, N. J.
Issue by her first husband
Isabella Mount, born Dec. 12, 1819: died Jan. 30, 1906; married, Feb. 9, 1839, Thomas L., son of Amos and Deborah (Lewis) Tilton, born Sep. 21, 1816; died July 28, ISSO.
Samuel M. Mount, born Mch. 27, 1822; died Dec. 28, 1903; married, May 24, 1846, Rebecca Ann, daughter of Joshua and Leah (Jackson) Gifford, born Oct. 17, 1826. Nesbit Mount, born Dec. 1, 1824; died Jan. 28, 1904; married, Apr. 16, 1848, Sarah Jane, daughter of David and Sarah (Newman) Justice, born Jan. 1, 1827; died Nov. 21, 1891.
Caroline Mount, born Aug. 2, 1828; married Newbury Havens.
Elizabeth Mount, (posthumous), born June 20, 1831; died May 24, 1848.
Issue by second husband
Sarah Ann Mount, born Mch. 2, 1834: died Sep. 18, 1872: married, Dec. 18, 1853, Hance, son of John and Catherine (Johnson) Pettit, as his first wife.
114 CAROLINE CURTIS, daughter of Asher Curtis, 76, born June 5, 1800; died Oct. 25, 1874; married first, Samuel Moore of New York City; and second, July 20, 1833, Ben- jamin D., son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Newbury) Pearce.
Issue by her first husband Sarah Moore; married William Clark.
Issue by her second husband
Elizabeth Louise Pearce, born MIch. 17, 1836; died Sep. 16, 1899; married, as his second wife, Mch. 15, 1854, Jacob Wolcott, son of Jacob and Anne (Wolcott) Morris, born Jan. 29, 1810; died Oct. 10, 1879.
Edwin Lewis Pearce, born May 22, 1839; died Jan. 1899; married May 9, 1866, Emily Wheeler.
Samuel Pearce, born Jan. 21, 1842; died Sep. 23, 1847.
115 STEPHEN CURTIS, son of Asher Curtis, 76, born Dec. 4, 1803; died Mch. 31, 1847; married Mary Rebecca, daughter of Asher and Mary (Ellison) Pearce, born 1807; died Nov. 1887.
Issue
144 Lydia Curtis; married William E. Jackson.
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145 Lewis Curtis; married Rachel Longstreet.
146 Effie Cook Curtis; married James Thompson.
147 Elizabeth Curtis; married Samuel K. Jackson.
148 Caroline Curtis; married William Hawes.
149 Adelia Curtis; Mch. 19, 1857, married William H. Hardy.
150 Mary Curtis; married John E. Blue.
151 Asher Curtis; married Mary Deaken.
120 WALTER HERBERT CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 78, married Lydia Tway. Issue
152 Thomas Curtis; married
153 George Curtis
154 Elizabeth Curtis; married, first, Jackson Tway; second, Jan. 12, 1875, Richard A., son of Joseph and Charlotte (Curtis) Mount, born Mch. 17, 1848.
155 Catharine Curtis; married William Moore.
121 GARRET CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 78, married Elizabeth Newberry. Issue
156 Samuel Curtis
157 William Henry Curtis, born Feb. 1825; died Oct. 7, 1862.
158 David Curtis
159 Martha Elizabeth Curtis; married, June IS, 1854, Charles White.
160 Rebecca Curtis; married Isaac Goble.
161 Mary Curtis; married Thomas Morton.
162 Eleanor Curtis; married Mr. Brown.
163 Charlotte Curtis, born Mch. 15, 1812; died Sep. 29, 1877-
125 JACOB CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 78, born May 19, 1803; died Oct. 10, 1837; married Prudence Longstreet, widow of Lewis Pearce, born Sep. 5, 1799; died Apr. 14, 1884.
Issue
164 Hiram Curtis; married Lydia Ann, daughter of Ansel and Mariam T. (Woolley) Spinning, born Mch. 7, 1833.
165 Pitney Curtis; married Julia Green.
166 Charlotte Curtis; married Tabor Chadwick.
167 Eliza Jane Curtis; married Bartleson Clayton.
168 Christina Curtis
126 OSBORN CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 78, born Jan. 22, 1818; died Sep. 25, 1886; married, first. Dec. 25, 1836, Ann, daughter of William Van Schoick, born Jan. 9, 1813; died Dec. 20, 1860; second, Sep. 15, 1863, Mrs. Catharine Dearborn, born 1819; died Oct. 22, 1863; and third, Aug. 21, 1870, Mrs. Sarah E. Moss, born Mch. 1830; died Oct. 4, 1906.
Issue
169 William V. Curtis, born July 20, 1837; died Aug. 27, 1860.
170 Matilda Curtis, born Mch. 23, 1840; died Mch. 19, 1859.
171 Laura Curtis, born Dec. 24, 1854; died Dec. 13, 1877; married William R. Van Schoick.
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172 Hannah Curtis
173 Lucinda Curtis
174 Aser Curtis
175 Abraham Curtis
127 THOMAS CURTIS, son of David Curtis, 78, married Elizabeth Longstreet.
Issue
176 Arelia Curtis
177 Carrie Curtis
178 Levi Curtis
179 Calvin Curtis
180 Josephus Curtis
157 WILLIAM HENRY CURTIS, son of Garret Curtis, 121, born Feb. 1825; died Oct. 7, 1862; married Henrietta, daughter of Hendrick and Hannah (De Voe) White, born Oct. 13, 1825; died Feb. 16, 1894. After his death she married Hollaway Newman. They are buried in Atlantic View Cemetery, Manasquan, N. J.
Issue
181 Hannah Elizabeth Curtis; married Mr. Reynolds.
182 Catharine M. Curtis, born Aug. 8, 1859; died May 28, 1868.
183 Garret A. Curtis, born June, 1846; died Sep. 4, 1855.
159 MARTHA ELIZABETH CURTIS, daughter of Garret Curtis, 121, born 1832; died July 20, 1906; married June 18, 1854, Charles David Sayre, son of Hendrick and Hannah (De Voe) White, born Mch. 2, 1831; died 1904 or 1905.
Issue
Charles Edward White, born 1855; married Addie Mount.
· Sarah E. White, born 1858; married George Stillwell.
Aarinda White, born 1860; married Thomas Devlin; died Apr. 1893.
Hannah Matilda White, born 1862; married Peter James Meredith.
Charlotte Adelaide White, born 1867; married George Height.
Ann Eliza White, born 1864; married, Dec. 20, 1899, Henry Landhal. Martha Elizabeth White, born 1870; married George Gregory.
Alice Evelyna White, born 1872.
Georgia Etta White, born 1874.
Anna White, born 1876; died young.
163 CHARLOTTE CURTIS, daughter of Garret Curtis, 121, born Mch. 15, 1812; died Sep. 29, 1877; married, first, Richard L. Allen, second, MIch. 26, 1845, Joseph, son of Nesbit and Nancy (Webb) Mount, born Sep. 10, 1801; died Aug. 26, 1874.
Issue by her first husband 1
Joseph F. Allen
Sarah Ann Allen; married, as his second wife, William Rice.
Issue by her second husband
Catharine Mount, born May 2. 1846; died June 23, 1897; married Isaac, son of William Riley and Mary (Gifford) Allen, born Sep. 22, 1847.
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Richard A. Mount, born Mch. 17, 1848; married, Jan. 12, 1875, Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Herbert and Lydia (Tway) Curtis, and widow of Jackson Tway.
James Henry Mount, born Sep. 19, 1850; died Sep. 29, 1852.
Mary Jane Mount, born Apr. 11, 1852; died Aug. 9. 1877; married Charles Havens. Franklin Mount, born Apr. 7, 1854; died Apr. 28, 1854.
Samuel Mount, born Nov. 29, 1855; died Aug. 29, 1856.
Eliza C. Mount, (commonly called Matilda), born Feb. 22, 1857; married Michael Wood.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
David N. Curtis, of Manasquan, born 1827, died Oct. 22, 1904; married Rebecca, daughter of Elisha and Lydia Jeffrey, who died in the early part of 1906, aged over So years. They left issue, Lydia Aten, Mable Nock, Sarah Curtis, Garrett Curtis, Jennie Layton, and Elisha J. Curtis.
The Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting Records show that the following three individuals, of Squan were buried at Squan: Ebenezer Curtis, who died Oct. IS30; Elizabeth Curtis, who died Mch. 22, 1837; and Mary Curtis, who died Aug. 1830.
The Quaker Records of the Springfield Meeting show that Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Curtis, was married Nov. 18, 1767, to Jonathan Kirkbride, Ann and Joseph Curtis being present as witnesses.
Deborah Curtis, of Howell township, made her will in 1730, which was proved. Feb. 21, 1833. In it she left legacies to Anzoletta Herbert and to Deborah Ware, the daughter of John Ware.
James P. Curtis, of Wall township, in 1901, had wife Eliza; grand-children Calvin and Edith M. Curtis, the children of his deceased son John Curtis; and children, Asher Curtis; Vaiden Curtis; Deborah A. Birdsall; Eliza Birdsall; Emma Jane Benedict; and Ann Lavinia Vunck. He made his sons, Asher and Vaiden Curtis, his executors.
John Curtis, of Locust Point, had a son Walter Edward Curtis, born in 1859; died May 17, 1904, who married Lizzie, daughter of Frederick Schneider, of Navesink.
1 BENJAMIN CURTIS married Mary
Issue
2 David Curtis who married Content . , born July 17, ISI1; died May 4, 1878.
Issue
3 George Curtis; married Mary Brown. Issue
4 John Curtis; married Susie Gleason, and had Issue Mary Curtis Della Curtis Minnie Curtis
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Virginia Curtis Clarence Curtis William Curtis John Curtis
5 Della Curtis
6 Elizabeth Curtis; married Robert Waters.
In Salem County, N. J., there were settled Samuel Curtis and his wife, Elizabeth, who were described as of Crewekern, Somerset County, clothier. They were deceased in 16SI.
The children of Samuel and Elizabeth Curtis, residing in Crewkerne Meeting were as follows:
Elizabeth Curtis, born 5 mo., 4, 1650. Samuel Curtis, born I mo., 13, 1651. Samuel Curtis,* born 2 mo., 22, 1652.
Joane Curtis, į born 3 mo., 8, 1655. Roger Curtis, born 3 mo., 13, 1657. John Curtis, born 12 mo., 7, 1659.
Taken from the Records of Middle Division Monthly Meeting, belonging to Bristol and Somerset Quarterly Meeting.
In the State of New Jersey, there were likewise to be found Curtis families settled in Newark and Woodbridge other than these mentioned.
*Samuel Curtis married Ann - and had a daughter Ann Curtis who married, first, John Hazlewood; second, Benjamin Gil !. tJoan Curtis was in 1684/5 the wife of William Warner.
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JAMES DORSET came from Bermuda to New Jersey. He located in the vicinity of Middletown, where he was granted by the Proprietors, June 20, 1677, two hundred and two acres of land [elsewhere, May, 1677].
1676, November. He received an additional two hundred and forty acres, and finally, Mch. 26, 1690, one hundred acres, both in Middletown. He may have been rich in lands, but in purse he was poor.
In 1687, when called upon for the Quit rent of his two hundred and two acres, amounting to £8-8-4, he paid nothing and the tax collector was constrained to enter "Received Nothing he is poor." His joint properties, amounting to five hundred acres, lay about four miles west of Middletown, and two miles south east of Keyport.
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