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ffifthly I give & bequeath all the rest of my moveable goods & Chattells unto my loveing wife & for to be at her disposeing as shee shall think meet or necessary & convenient.
Lastly I doe hereby make my loveing wife Hannah & her brother, William Lawrence, Junior, my whole sole, absolute & lawfull executors, to pay all my Just debts & for to receive all that is Justly due unto me & for the acknowledgment of every of the above written articles to be my will & mynd I doe hereunto sett my hand & fix my scale being the seaventh day of december, one Thousand six hundred Eighty & Eight.
JOSEPH GROVER.
Signed, Sealed & delivered in presence of
peter Tilton
william Laurence, [Sr.]*
daniell Aplegate
william Leeds, Senior.
East Jersey Deeds, Lib. D., p. 88.
The will was officially proved Mch. 26, 1689.
An Inventary of The Estate of Joseph Grover, taken March the Twenty-fifth, 1689.
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Brass pewter potts & other houshould goods
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plough Irons Chaines hows ax and other Tooles
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This Inventary taken by us
Peter Tilton William ---- [?]
Samuell ffonnan
Freehold Deeds, Lib. A. B. C., P. 70.
"William Laurence appears as William Laurence. Sr., In the probate of the wall.
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A RECORD OF NATHANIELL LEONARD=S MARRIAGE FROM PETER TILTON -ESQ.
In Middletown in the province of East Jersey the o day of January in y" Yeare 1604 5 Nathaniell Leonard of Middletown & Hannah Grover of the same Town after Lawiull Publica- tion Did before me & severall Witnesses; take each other in Marriage till Death part them PETER TILTON.
Att a Courtt of Sessions held for ye County of Monmouth March ye 26-Anno 1605.
It is the order of the Court that upon application made by James Grover Senir Cap Safety Grover William Lawrence Sen' and William Lawrence Junr; The nearest relations to Joseph Grover & Hanah Leonard late Wife of the said Joseph Grover Deceased; that William Lawrence Senr Grandfather of ye Children of the afforesaid Joseph grover & Hanah his late Wife shall Have the oversight of the said Children-
James [Joseph?] Grover son of the afforesaid Joseph Grover Late Deceased Came into Court and did Make Choice of his Grandfather William Lawrence Senir and his Unckle William Lawrence Junir to be his Guardians-
Mary Grover Daughter of the afforesaid Joseph Grover & hanah his late wife; Lately Deceased Did make Choice of William Lawrence Senir her grandfather to be her Guardian.
All which was Allowed by the Court and ordered to be Recorded By order of the Court THO WEBLEY Clerk. Freehold Deeds, Lib. A. B. C., p. 103.
1689, Mch. 26. Letters of administration were granted to Hannah Grover, widow of Joseph Grover, and William Lawrence, Jr., on the estate of Joseph Grover.
Trenton Records, Lib. D., p. 91.
1690, Oct. 16. James Johnston, of Monmouth County, for £14, New York money, sold to Hannah Grover, of Middletown, "all that tract of land, situate, lying and being in the County of Monmouth aforesaid, beginning at Peter Sonman's northeast corner, at Croswicks, thence running South south east along his line twenty chains to Joseph Grover, his line, thence along Joseph Grover's line east north east twenty-five chains, thence north and by east to Doctor's Creek," etc.
Trenton Records, Lib. D., p. 276.
Issue
7 James Grover, Jr.
S Mary Grover
9 Elizabeth Grover, born 1685.
Io Rebecca Grover
II Hannah Grover
12 Deborah Grover
13 Susannah Grover
Hannah Lawrence, widow of Joseph Grover, by her second marriage, with Nathaniel Leonard, had
Issue Thomas Leonard, born 1708. Nathaniel Leonard, born 1712; married Deliverance Lippit.
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Issue Thomas Leonard, born 1753; married Alice Lawrence. John Leonard
3 JAMES GROVER, son of James Grover, I, resided in Middletown, where he was a · wheelwright. He married Alice ..... , who evidently remained his widow, for, in 1739, she was a witness to the will of William Leeds, of Monmouth County. Her name was spelled Els Grover and she made her mark.
1760, May 14. James Grover was one of the appraisers of the personal estate of John Johnson, of Middletown.
1677, June 12. Governor Carteret granted to James Grover, Jr., of Middletown, in and about said town, six parcels of land, containing one hundred and ninety acres.
1686, July 22. The Proprietors, of East Jersey, sold to James Grover, Jr., of Middle- town, one hundred acres, in Middletown.
16SS, July 27. James Grover bought of Richard Sadler, a ten acre house-lot, on the highway, in Middletown, granted to the latter by Governor Carteret and Council, and twelve acres of land, at Cocowders, by patent dated June 20, 1677.
1701. James Grover signed the petition for a Governor.
1708. Nov. 13. James Grover, of Middletown, wheelwright, son and heir to James Grover, sold to William Winter, cordwainer, for £38, land, in Middletown, on the Southwest side of the Mill Brook . . , bounded on the Southeast, "by the old tract belonging to the mill," containing, in all, one hundred and eighty acres; also one-half of the woodland by the meadows, both of which parcels were surveyed, by George Keith, the 10th day of Dec., 1685; and also one-half of the meadow, at Shoal Harbor, given to Richard Gardiner, in the will of James Grover, dated Dec. 1, 1685.
1711, June 11. James Grover, Sr., of Middletown, wheelwright, sold to James Patterson, yeoman, of the same place, for £150, land, bounded by Neversinks River, Mill Creek, and the lands of William Winter and Richard Hartshorne; also land and meadow, lying at Shole Har- bor, in Middletown. This property was conveyed to James Grover, by the will of his father, James Grover, and by deed of William and Hannah Winter, bearing date Nov. 13, 1708.
1714, Aug. 26. James Grover, of Middletown, wheelwright, sold to William Winter, cordwainer, of the same place, all his interest in a tract of land, lying on the North West side of Middle run, and on the North East side of the Mill Creek, devised by his father, James Grover, to his son, James Grover, and his son-in-law, Benjamin Borden, for the sake of his daughter, Abigail Borden, and son-in-law, Richard Gardiner. for the sake of his daughter, Hannah; also land, at Shoal Harbor; also "the Housings, Mill stones and all the Iron work, with all the utensils belonging to the old mill, with all the Premises, Liberties, Priviledges, and Appurtenances, belonging to the said Land, on the north west side of the middle run," etc.
1714, Mch. 3. James Grover, Jr., and Safety Grover were Freeholders. Freehold Records.
1715, May II. James Patterson recorded the "Ear-mark that was formerly his Grand- father James Grover."
To All people whom this writing may Aney Wayes conserne Know yee That I James Grover of Midell- towne in the county of Monmouth In the Provence of New Jersey being Sick and Weake of body but of A sound mind and disposeing memorey doe make this to be my last Will and Teastement My will is my bodey be decently buryed by my Executors here After named-my will is all my debts be paid And what ! here in this my will and Teastement give my loving wife Alce Grover is in lew and Instead of her Dowry -- i give to
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my wife deuering her widdowhood one traet or pece of land about righty acers lyin and being in Middeltown on the west side of the road or highway over Aganst my house where I now dwell --- Whereas I have Twenty acers of land my house and orchard standing on part of it, my will is that my orchard be equaly devided for quantity and quality into two parts begining on the western side on the road and so running esterly to lambath Johnson land. I giue to my Daughter Rebecka Gibons deuering my wife widdowhood one part or halfe of my orchard being at the north end all the remander of the Aforesaid twenty acer with the half of my orchard and all my housing and fencing I give to my wife deuering her widdow hood I give to my wife Deuering her widow one halfe of A pece or tract of Salt Meddow the whole being about eightenn acer And Joynes to Danie! Henderickson medow-I give and bequeath to my wife foure cowes and three two yeare ould hefers one three yeare ould steare one yeareling neat beast fouretenn sheep six lames all my Swine all my poultery one chest with a lock to it Spining wheel gridiron Iron tramel frinepan fire shufell and tounges one leather chare one looking glass all my wooll cards two plowes tow shares one halfe of all the blankitts and coverlides my wife haith spun one puter dish being the bigest I have except two Ironpots I onely except my bigest Iron pot I give my wife the use of my two working horses deuering her widdowe hood and at the expiration of her widdow hood I give the said two horses to my granson James Pattisson. I give my wife the use of my two young oxen for three yeares if shee remanes A widdow soe long otherwise so long as shee remanes a widow less then three years. I give my wife A pare of horse harnes. If my Daughter Hester Giberson and my Daughter Mathew vane shall and doe pay all my debts And pay my Daughter Rebeckah Gibions twenty pounds which I now give her Then I give and Devise to my two Daughters Hester and Mathew afore saide and theire heires equly or part and part like one pece or tract of land about ninty acers and Joynes to the land of John Wilson and Peter Weycoff also another pece or tract of land about one hundred acers lying at the north end of A neck of land caled cockawders neck or thereabouts also all my salt medow excepting what I have here before given my wife and at the expiration of my wifes widdow hood I give and Devise to my Daughter Hester Giber- son and my Daughter Mathew Vane and theire heires equly or part and part like all my lands Medowes Houses orchards fences in Middeltown aforesaid for them to hould as Tenents in common. I give to My two Daughters Hester Giberson and my Daughter Mathew Vane all the Remander of my personall estate what- soever or wheresoever. And of this my last will and Teastemen I make and apoynt my two sonn in law's John Giberson and Jolm Vane my Executors in witness hereof I have hereunto put my hand and seale the eightene day of March in the yeare one Thousand Seven hundred and fouretene.
JAMES GROVER
Signed Sealed and published in the presence of us
Beniaman Colman Hugh Hartshorne his marke Barnes B Lambsons Hannah Willett
1715, Apr. 16. John Giberson and John Vane qualified, as executors.
The inventory of his estate was taken by Richard Stout, Moses Lippet and Andrew Wilson and the deceased testator was mentioned, as James Grover, Jr.
Issue
14 Rebecca Grover; married Mr. Gibbons
15 Hester Grover; married John Giberson.
16 Martha Grover; married John Vane [Vaughn?].
17 Daughter; married James Patterson; had son James Patterson.
4 SAFETY GROVER, son of James Grover, I, was a resident of Middletown, N. J.
By an affidavit, taken Apr. 26, 1707, it appeared that he was forty-nine years of age, hence New Jersey Archives, Vol. II, p. 211.
born 1658.
1683. He was appointed Ensign in the local militia.
1686, July 21. The Proprietors, of East Jersey, granted to Safety Grover, of Middletown. sixty-eight acres, in said town, South of his father's land; thirty-two acres of land, S. W. of his father's land, on the Navesink River, and another piece, of twenty acres, on the East side of Shoal Harbor, West of his father's land.
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1687/S, January. Safety Grover was one of the bondsmen of Hanna Gardiner, of Middle- town, administratrix of her late husband, Richard Gardiner.
16SS. In deeds of this date, he is called Capt. Safety Grover.
1691, Mch. 8 or 28. Safety Grover bought of Richard Hartshorne, twenty acres, which, with two hundred acres of upland adjoining, was patented, Nov. 23, 1676, to Charles Haynes.
1692, MIch. 5. He was commissioned Lieutenant, of a Foot Company, in Middletown. Book C., Commissions, p. 180, Trenton, N. J.
1701. He was mentioned as Capt. Safety Grover, in the uprising against the Court, sitting at Middletown.
17II. Elisha Lawrence, of Freehold, late of Middletown, yeoman. sold to Safety Grover, of Middletown, yeoman, for £3, three acres, lying at the East side of Shoal Harbor.
1711, Feb. 19. Edward Taylor, of Freehold, yeoman, son and heir to Edward Taylor, fate of Middletown, deceased, sold to Safety Grover, of Middletown, gentleman, for £3, one acre, of meadow, at Shoal Harbor, adjacent to the above mentioned land.
1720, Dec. 5. Gawin Drummond, of Lochaber, in Shrewsbury, Gent., sold. for £5, to Safety Grover, Gent., and William Winter, yeoman, both of Middletown, ten acres of his seven hundred and five acres, to be taken up in right of his Propriety, formerly Thomas Cooper's and which, he, Drummond, bought from Obadiah Bowne, Aug. 21, 1714.
1721, Feb. 27. He was a Juryman.
1724. He was appointed, by the Court, an Overseer of the Highways, for Middletown.
1726. He was a bondsman for James Grover, apparently his son.
1727. He appeared, as Capt. Grover, in an old account book.
There was a Merey [Mercy?] Grover, one of the witnesses to the will of Thomas Applegate, Sr., of Middletown, Feb. 1, 1698-9. Was she the wife of Safety Grover?
Issue
18 Hannah Grover; married William, son of Edward Taylor, the First, born 1688.
19 James Grover
20 Daughter
21 Daugliter
22 Mordecai Grover [?]
23 And perhaps other children; among them, supposed, Elizabeth, wife of John Bowne, cordwainer.
5 ABIGAIL GROVER, daughter of James Grover, I, died Jan. 8, 1720, aged 66 years; married, Sept. 22, 1670, Benjamin, son of Richard and Joan (Fowler) Borden, born May 16, 1649; died after 1718.
In 1670, he was of Shrewsbury; was a Justice and a Commissioner, in Monmouth County. 1690, May 3. Benjamin Borden, of Middletown, yeoman, and Abigail, his wife, sold to William Winter, of the same place, cordwainer, lands, left to the said Abigail, by her father, James Grover, in his will dated Dec. 1, 1685.
In 1716, he was of Eversham, Burlington County, when he deeded land to his son, Joseph, of Freehold.
1718. He was of Auchweas, Burlington County, when he deceded his son, Jaines, land.
Issue
Richard Borden, born Jan. 9, 1672; died July 9, 1744; is said to have married, Apa. 7, 1605. Mary Worthley, but ! am extremely doubtful of it.
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Benjamin Borden, born Apr. 6, 1675; died 1728; married Susannah . . .; lived in Middletown, N. J.
James Borden, born Sept. 6, 1677; died December, 1727; married Mary ...; lived in Freehold, N. J. Rebecca Borden, born June S, 1680.
Safety Borden, born Sept. 6, 1682; died, November, 1757, in Bordentown, N. J .; married Martha . ... . He is supposed to have married his first cousin, a daughter of Capt. Safety Grover, whose name is unknown. She may have been this Martha, or perhaps be married twice.
Issue
Amey Borden; married, as set forth further on, consecutively, William Maghee, Daniel Herbert and James Mott.
Amey Borden, born Mch. 4, 1684.
Joseph Borden, born May 12, 1687; died Sept. 22, 1765; married, Susannah, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Lawrence) Grover; he was the founder of Bordentown, N. J. Jonathan Borden, born Apr. 14, 1690.
David Borden, born Mch. 8, 1692.
Samuel Borden, born Apr. 8, 1696.
6 HANNAH GROVER, daughter of James Grover, I, married first, Richard Gardiner; second William Winter.
1708, Nov. 13. William Winter, of Middletown, cordwainer, and Hannah, his wife, quit-claimed to James Grover, wheelwright, their interest in land, "on the east most side of the middle run, on the north east side of the Mill creek," which James Grover, deceased, willed to his son, James Grover, and his son-in-law, Benjamin Borden, for the sake of his daughter, Abigail Borden, and son-in-law, Richard Gardiner, for the sake of his daughter, Hannah; also land, at Shole Harbor.
Hannah Grover, married, first, prior to 1685, as per her father's will, Richard Gardiner, and had issue, as per will of her second husband, William Winter, Richard and Joseph Gardiner. Her husband, Richard Gardiner, died Dec. 3, 1687, leaving an estate inventoried at £45.
Hannah Grover married, second, in 1688, William Winter, who. dying, left a will dated, July 3, 1722; proved June 13, 1733, which mentioned his wife, and her two children by her first husband, and my eldest son, John Winter, (then married and had a second son, Benjamin Winter), my son, Andrew Winter, my youngest son, James Winter, (single), my daughter, Zerniah Borden, and my daughter, Rebecca Applegate.
7 JAMES GROVER, JR., son of Joseph Grover, 2, was a resident of Middletown, N. J. He married Mary, daughter of John and Rebecca (Terry) Tilton, born 8 mo., 21, 1686.
James Grover, yeoman, took an affidavit, in 1709, that he was thirty years of age or there- abouts, hence born 1679.
In his early career, he was known as, James Grover, Jr., but some years after the death of his uncle, James Grover, who died in 1715, his suffix, Jr., was dropped, and he was occa- sionally called James Grover, Sr., to distinguish him from his own son, James, and from James Grover, the son of Capt. Safety Grover. The simultaneous occurrence of three James Grovers, makes it difficult, if not impossible, to assign correctly to each their special references.
1701. James Grover, Jr., was among those who assaulted the members of the Court, sitting at Middletown, at the time of the popular uprising.
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1708, Mch. 15. James Grover, son and heir to Joseph Grover, deceased, sold to Thos and Deborah Shepherd, all of Middletown, for Caso, Grover's Inheritance, given to the said James Grover, in the will of his father. Joseph Grover.
1711, Nov. 4. James Grover, Jr .. of Middletown, yeoman, sold to David Johnston, black- smith, of Freehold, for £60, his purchase of lands, from Tho' and Deborah Shepherd, made Sept. 15, 1708.
1714, June 12. James Grover, of Middletown, sold, for a competent sum of money, to Gawen Drummond, of Loch Harbour, in Shrewsbury, one-half of his 1: 12 of 1/48 part of the "undivided eastern division of said province, formerly called East New Jersey," (reserving the quit rents to 223 acres of land), and a right for 290 acres of land, to be taken up, in right of ye second and third dividend of ve said share of this Propriety, and also 46 acres, at Barnegat, all of which he acquired by purchase, with others, from Thos Cooper, Feb. 5, 1706, and since released to him by his fellow purchasers, by deed dated Oct. 2, 1708.
1720, Jan. 2. John Ashton, of Frechold, yeoman, quit-claimed to James Grover, yeoman, of Middletown, all his rights to land, lying between the said John Ashton and his brother, James Ashton, and bounded by Joseph Throckmorton, the Burlington Path, etc.
1727, 1727-8, 1730 and 1733. Mr. James Grover was a Member of Assembly from Mon- mouth County, N. J.
1728, he is spoken of as, James Grover, Sr., in an account book.
1733. James Grover mortgaged lands, on Swimming River, to the Loan Commissioners.
1749, July 19. Will of James Grover, of Middletown; proved Jan. 1, 1753, gave his estate to his son, Joseph, who was to pay the legacies, and mentioned :
Wife, but not named.
Daughter, Hannah, to receive £40.
Sons, James and Silvanus, to receive certain properties.
Daughter, Rebecca, to receive £40.
Son, James, likewise to receive a negro and farm implements.
Son, Silvanus, to receive farm implements and fulling utensils.
His plantation lay near "fulling brook," where. his father was buried, on land which he reserved in his will.
Executors: Sons, James and Silvanus.
He signed his name to the will.
His house and farm were well stocked.
1753, Jan. 5. The inventory of his personal estate was taken, and amounted to £1176- 16-07. It included: "five white servants' Time yet to come," valued at £58-0-9, and one negro.
Issue
24 Sylvanus Grover
25 Joseph Grover
26 Hannah Grover
27 James Grover
28 Rebecca Grover
8 MARY GROVER, daughter of Joseph Grover, 2, married Capt. David Johnston, blacksmith, of Freehold, N. J. She died about 1733.
1730, Aug. 8. Will of Mary (Grover) Johnson, of Freehold, very sick, etc. ; proved May ;. 1733, before Robert Lawrence, Surrogate, at Upper Frechold, mentioned:
Son, John Johnson, 20 shillings.
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Son, James Jolinson, received the lands bequeathed to her in the walls of her father and mother, Joseph and Hannah Grover.
Sole executor: Son, James Johnson.
The testatrix made her mark to the will.
1732-3, Mch. 15. David Johnson, husband of the above Mary Johnson, added a declara- tion of consent to the will.
1738, Oct. 7. An inventory of the estate of David Johnston, late of Upper Freehold, was taken by James Cox, John Ashton, Robert Imlay and William Duglass, appraisers, amounted to £242-13-0.
James Johnston was administrator.
Issue John Johnston James Johnston
9 ELIZABETH GROVER, daughter of Joseph Grover, 2, born June 7, 1685; died Jan. 18, 1763; married Gershom Stillwell, of Middletown, about 1715.
1711, Aug. 22. Elizabeth Grover, of Middletown, singlewoman, sold to Capt. David Johnston, of Freehold, blacksmith, for £62, land, at Crosswicks, which she received, with her sisters, in the will of her father, Joseph Grover, deceased, bearing date Dec. 7, 1688; also one hundred and fifty acres, lying between the branches of Rack Pond, devised to her by her father; also land, at Crosswicks, received from her mother, Hannah Grover, by deed, Jan. 5, 1690.
1711, Sept. 14. John Bowne, merchant, of Middletown, gave his bond, for £134-12-4, to Elizabeth Grover, maiden, of the same place, for payment of £67-6-3.
1713, Apr. 27. Capt. David Johnston, of Freehold, blacksmith, and Mary, his wife, and Elizabeth Grover, of Middletown, singlewoman, for £6, sold to James Grover, jr., of Middle- town, yeoman, a one-third part of the Proprietary right, conveyed to Mary, wife of ye said David Johnston and Elizabeth Grover, together with their sisters, Hannah, Rebecca, Susannah and Deborah, by their father, Joseph Grover, deceased, by his last will, etc.
1715, Oct. 8. Capt. John Bowne, of Middletown, merchant, sold to Elizabeth Grover, for £279, two tracts of land, lying in Middletown, bounded by Porrisee Brook, and by land formerly Thos Harbert's and Samuel Spicer's, containing one hundred and ten acres, which he had, by deed, from John Bayley, Mch. 1, 1714; and a tract, in Freehold, in the possession of John Hamton, which was bought, by John Bowne, of Jolin Okeson, Jan. 10, 1714, bounded by Passequeneocqua Brook, the Burlington Road, John Okeson's land, late Noah Hamton's land, and from which purchase Bowne had sold, to Nicholas Hellen, one and three-fifths acres, adjoining Hellen's house.
Issue
John Stillwell, born Mch. 15, 1716. Mary Stillwell, born Apr. 2, 1718. Hannah Stillwell, born Nov. 11, 1720. William Stillwell, born Sept. 20, 1722.
10 REBECCA GROVER, daughter of Joseph Grover, 2, married William, son of James Bowne, the First, of Middletown. He died in 1706, and she probably married Joseph Borden, as deduced from the partition suit brought, in 1711, by Mary Jolinson against Hannah Sea- brook and offers.
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1720, Dec. 30. James Bowne, of Middletown, yeoman, sold to James Grover, of Middle- town, for valuable considerations, land, lying, at Crosswicks, which he heired from his brother, William Bowne, bounded by the Burlington Path, by land formerly John Throckmorton's, by land formerly Joseph Throckmorton's, by land of John and James Ashton, etc., containing four hundred and eighty acres, as appears by a patent, to James Bowre, in the year 1088. In the deed, it is set forth that William Bowne, and his wife Rebecca, both lately deceased, of Middletown, owned land, at Crosswicks, which the said William Bowne devised, by will dated Apr. 27, 1706. to his wife, Rebecca, and the child she then went with, and that both wife and child had since died, so that James Bowne became the heir-at-law, to the said William Bowne, and that James Grover became the heir-at-law, of the said Rebecca.
Issue
Hannah Bowne, born in 1706; living in 1711.
11 HANNAH GROVER, daughter of Joseph Grover, 2, married James Seabrook, of Middletown, N. J.
James Seabrook and Hannah, his wife; Rebecca Borden being under age, represented by Joseph Borden; and Hannah Bowne. summoned to answer David Johnson and Mary, his wife. The former held in common lands at Crosswicks from Joseph Grover and Hannah, his wife, both lately deceased, amounting to about Soo acres; a partition of the property is demanded. Hannah Bowne, being under age, was represented by her cousin James Grover.
Freehold Court Records, 1711.
Issue
Daniel Seabrook Ilannah Seabrook Thomas Seabrook Rebecca Seabrook Elizabeth Seabrook
Son . . Seabrook; married Eleanor McDowell.
12 DEBORAH GROVER, daughter of Joseph Grover, 2, married Thomas Shepherd, of Middletown, N. J., cooper. She died in 1768.
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