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follow) Signed by James Edwards James Hedges
Samuel Bancraft Jonathan Fourman Recompence Hand William Matthews. Thomas Leaming
Jacob Spicer Ebenezer Swain
Nathaniel Foster
Richard Stillwell
Ephraim Edwards Isaac Whildin Jacob Hughes + John Hase Daniel Cresse
Joseph Hewit
William Reisen?
Joseph Hewit
Benjamin Laughton
John Eldredge
James Whildin
Robert Parsons
Thomas Bancraft
William Simkins
Jacob Hand Jere Leaming Jacob Richardson
Timothy Hand
Joshua Shaw Samuel Crowell
Daniel Hand
Cornelius Schelinks
Silas Hand
Isaiah Hand
James Isard
Richard Stites
Caleb Newton
and Caleb Newton on behalf of Thomas Page
Richard Shaw Downes Edmonds
Christopher Lupton
Ebenezer Newton
Henry Hand
John Bancraft Ebenezer Johnson Uriah Smith Aaron Leaming Thomas Hand
William Flower
Eleazar Hand
Samuel Eldredge
Nezer Swain
George Taylor
Dated this 20th day of Novem' Anno Domini 1752 AARON LLAMLING
IL.caming's Book of Surveys, Car May, p. 165.]
Jonadab Jenkins Carman Smith Daniel Swain - Jeremiah Hand John Chester John Smith Miha Smith Maicy Koss
Reuben Hewit
Amos Johnson -
Ezekial Iland
Barnabas Crowell Eleazer Crawford Isaac Newton George Stites Willlam Stites
Elisha Crowell
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LEAMING OF CAPE MAY COUNTY
1 CHRISTOPHER LEAMING, born 1649; died 1697; married Esther Burnet.
Issue
2 Thomas Leaming
3 Jane Leaming; married Abraham Bradly.
4 Hannah Leaming; married James White.
5 Christopher Leaming; drowned.
6 Aaron Leaming; married Lydia Persons.
7 Jeremiah Leaming, of Guilford, Conn.
8 Elizabeth Leaming, born probably 1690-91; died 1767-8; married Stephen Stone.
2 THOMAS LEAMING, son of Christopher Leaming, I, died Dec. 31, 1723; married Hannah Whildin; she married, second, Philip Syng, and died 1728. Thomas Leaming left a will dated Feb. 7, 1721-2; proved July 23, 1724, which mentioned Christopher, his oldest son, under 14 yrs., and other children as given below.
Issue.
9 Esther Leaming; married William Eldredge.
Io Mercy Leaming; married Samuel Eldredge.
II Jane Leaming; married William Doubleday.
12 Phebe Leaming; married John Garlick.
13 Priscilla Leaming: married John Stites; second, Jacob Hughes.
14 Christopher Leaming; married Deborah Hand.
15 Thomas Leaming, born Mch. 31, 1718, O. S .; died Dec. 19, 1795: married, by license dated Apr. 25, 1740, Elizabeth Leaming, 32; died Jan. 26, 1769.
3 JANE LEAMING, daughter of Christopher Leaming, 1, married Abm Bradley.
Issue
16 Jane Bradley, born 1698.
17 Hannah Bradley, born 1700.
18 Abram Bradley, born 1702.
19 Obedience Bradley, born 170-2 [sic].
20 Lucy Bradley, born 1707.
21 Daniel Bradley, born 1709.
22 Joseph Bradley, born 1714.
23 Sarah Bradley, born 1711 [sic].
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AARON LEAMING, son of Christopher Leaming, I, married Lydia, only daughter
of John and Elizabeth Parsons, who succeeded to her father's farm upon which she lived 67 years and died.
By first husband, Capt. Shaw, she had the following
Issue
24 Richard Shaw
25 Lydia Shaw 26 John Shaw
27 Joshua Shaw
28 Nathan Shaw
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Aaron Leaming is buried in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Leaming says that his tombstone reads "died 1748."
Memorial Stone at Cape May. Aaron Leaming died, June 20, 1746, aged 58 years.
Lydia, the wife of the first Aaron Leaming, was the daughter of a celebrated woman. Her maiden name was Elizabeth Hatdie. She married, first. ..... Garlick; second, John Persons, with whom she came to Cape May; and third, John Fish.
As the good wife Garlick, she was tried, in 1657, at East Hampton, L. I., for witchcraft, but was fortunate enough to escape with her life.
Tombstone: Lydia Leaming, daughter of John and Elizabeth Person, was born, at East Hampton, April 10, 1680. They moved to Cape May in July, 1691, [and in September, 1601. settled on this plantation], and in January, 1693-4, he died. April 8, 1695, Lydia married William Shaw, by whom she had Richard, Lydia, John, Joshua and Nathan who survived her. May 17, 1712, William Shaw died and October 12, 1714, she married Aaron Leaming. [6], who died June 20, 1746. They had Aaron, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, and, on October 2, 1762, she finished this life.
By Aaron Leaming, 6, her second husband, Lydia Parsons had
Issue 29 Aaron Leaming, born July 6, 1715.
30 Jeremiah Leaming, born Feb. 23, 1716-17. Tombstone: Jeremiah Leaming, bom Feb. 23, 1716, O. S .; died Jan. 18, 1774, N. S.
31 Mathias Leaming, born MIch. 24, 1718-19; died Mch. -- , 1732-3.
32 Elizabeth Leaming, born Sept. 14, 1721. Tombstone: Elizabeth Leaming, only daughter of Aaron and Lydia Leaming, born Sept. 18, 1721; married April 29. 1740, Thomas Leaming, by whom she left issue: Thomas and Lydia; and died Jan. 26, 1769.
7 JEREMIAH LEAMING, son of Christopher Leaming, I, died, 1759, aet. 70; his widow died 1764.
Issue
33 Esther Leaming; died 1759.
34 Rev. Jeremiah Leaming
35 Matthias Leaming
36 Aaron Leaming
37 Lucy Leaming
15 THOMAS LEAMING, son of Thomas Leaming, 2, married, Ap. 29, 1740, Elizabeth Leaming, 32. They resided between Goshon and Sluice Creek, on a farm on Sca Side Road, three miles above Cape May Court House.
His tombstone reads: Thomas Leaming, Sen'., Esq., born 31 March, O. S., 1718; died 19 Dec., 1795.
Issue
38 Thomas Leaming, born Aug. 20, 1748, O. S.
39 Lydia Leaming, born Jan. 26, 1769. Rev. Mr. Hughs says she was born Aug. 22. 1757. and died July 5, 1798.
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29 AARON LEAMING, son of Aaron Leaming, 6, married, by license dated Feb. 13, 1738, Mary Foreman, born Mch. 12, 1720.
Aaron Leaming was an exceedingly accomplished draughtsman. He was one of the compilers of Leaming and Spicers Laws, surveyor, lawyer and a strong-minded man of natural abilities, matured by much study and experience. The inventory of his estate is reputed to have amounted to £181,000. Also a Member of the Assembly for thirty years.
Tombstone: Aaron Leaming, Esq., who represented this County in Assembly for thirty years. Died, Aug. 28, 1780, aged 65, 1, Il.
Bencath this stone there lies a name
That once had Title, Honours, Wealth & Fame
How lov'd how honour'd once, avails thee not;
To whom related or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art and all the proud shall be. [Pope ?]
Tombstone: Mrs. Mary Leaming, daughter of Jonathan & Sarah Foreman & wife of Aaron Leaming, Esq., died, Jan. 6, 1780, aged 59, 9, 14.
The verses on the stones of her children Aaron, 41, and Matthias, 45, were selected by her, and are Methodistic in character.
Aaron Leaming spent many continuous weeks every winter at the Assembly, in Trenton. It was a long and tiresome journey made on horse. His return was a cause of great rejoicing, participated in, alike, by family and slaves. The latter, to the number of thirty or forty, would ride out in a cavalcade over the "Long Bridge," a causeway seen from the car windows of the West Jersey R.R. as it cuts across it obliquely, now in disuse save occasionally, for drawing lumber. Beyond this they would encamp, and frequently wait days for his arrival when they would accompany him home.
The following paper in the possession of Miss Leaming (daughter of Dr. Coleman Leaming) shows how clever and diplomatic a man Aaron Leaming was. Make treason of it you cannot, yet it is not difficult to read between the lines that he will strongly advise against the King's demands. Tension was increasing be- tween the colonies and mother country and it is thought that . this demand for the young men of the coun- try and their deportation would make the country less likely to resist home measures ever if objectionable in character.
To the Freeholders of the County of Cape May Gentlemen:
Whereas there is great Probability of a War, and the King having ordered an augmentation of his Forces; and Inlisting Officers are Soon expected to Raise recruits in this Province as appears by the Governors Prockun- ation I have lately received and the Ships of war having received orders to Rendevouse at Jamaica and the Militia of this Province are to be properly Regimented; And the Assembly being to meet the 17'" Instant: From all these Indications I expect that an Expedition is to be carried on against Some of the Spanish Settle- ments in the West Indies; and that the Governor will demand men and money from this Colony. As in Such a case I shall be greatly at a Loss to know what part to act; I desire my constituents, or so many of them as can spare the time to meet at the Courthouse the 13th instant at 12 of the clock prepared to give me their advice wither I am to vote for the raising either men or money.
As from the present circumstances, between Britain and America, this is a matter of very great importance (which I shall endeavour to explain at the time) I hope the Gentlemen of this County will not think the meeting improper. Their Compliance will greatly Oblige themselves and also their Most Obedient Faithful Servant
AARON LEAMING
April 4, 1771. Endorsed "Dec. 6, 1771-Assembly papers."
Issue 40 Jonathan Leaming, born 1738. 43 Aaron Leaming, born 1740.
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42 Sarah Leaming, born 1743; married, by license dated Jan. 26, 1763, Jesse Hand.
43 Matthias Leaming, born 1749.
44 Mary Leaming, born 1753.
45 Persons Leaming, born 1756.
30 JEREMIAH LEAMING, son of Aaron Leaming, 6, was a bachelor. He left by will nearly all of his large estate to the children of his sister, Elizabeth, viz .: Thomas and Lydia Leaming. Still another portion of his estate went to a son by the name of James Raney, who died without issue.
Bachelor Jeremiah ought to have been married. He lived with his housekeeper to the scandal of the community and his relatives, and this son was the result. Gossip has it that his sister, Elizabeth, who, ambitious for her children, had moved to Philadelphia, intrigued to secure the state of her bachelor brother and closed her eyes to his moral deficiency. Her children were sent to visit their uncle, Jeremiah, and were taught to call the housekeeper Aunty, and to load her with presents. Reciprocity was soon established. On the other hand, Jeremiah's brother, Aaron, with his wife, made the unlucky housekeeper a subject of prayer and remonstrance, which failing to improve her, they passed her by.
In due time, the will was read, when Aaron and his family were left a few paltry shillings, while to Elizabeth, and her children was given all the estate, save the portion set aside for his son, James Raney. Later on, this part of Jeremiah's property was willed by its owner, to a grandson of Aaron, brother of Jeremiah, whose father, evidently learning diplomacy, had named a son, James Raney Leaming.
The bequest to Elizabeth Leaming, however, was not permitted to go uncontested aron Leaming claimed some portion of the property, as having been bought in common with hi, brother, Jeremiah. A protracted family fight ensued. The first generation died; then the second, Thomas Leaming, who left instructions to his executors to resist the claims of Aaron Leaming and family with the last dollar of his estate if need be, and called his Cape May relations some very disagreeable and impolite names. A great many years after, an agreement was reached between the descendants of the conflicting claimants, and a division was peaceably effected.
34 REV. JEREMIAH LEAMING, son of Jeremiah Leaming, 7.
Poulsons Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1804.
"On Saturday last the Reverend Jeremiah Leaming, D. D., departed this life in the 87th year of his age. This respected clergyman was educated at Yale College, and while an undergraduate became i conformist to the Church of England. After some time spent in the necessary theological studies he crossed the Atlantic and received Iloly orders from Dr. Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, England. * *
Upon his return to America, In * was for a time assistant minister to the Reverend Dr. Rollin, Rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. Thence he removed to Norwalk, Connecticut, and afterwards to New York in consequence of the persecution to which he was subjected, not coinciding with popular opinion of those times in relation to the contest between Great Britain and her colonies. After the war was over, the church at Stratford. Connecticut, recalled him as its clergyman " & so forth for a column.
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E. E. Beardsley, in his History of the Episcopal Church, has copious notices of the Rev. Jeremiah Leaming, and the same author has published Dr. Leaming's biography, in two num- bers of the N. Y. Churchman, Feb. 21 and 28, 1885.
McConnell (?) in his History of the American Church, mentions him.
From these authorities we learn that though his property was destroyed and he imprisoned, and left to suffer in jail from cold and nakedness all one winter in the Stratford, (Conn.) jail, so that he contracted hip disease and became lame for life, yet, such was the general respect
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for his learning, piety and moderation of character, that his parishioners, who treated him so badly during the war on account of his Tory principles, after peace was established, not only recalled him to his Church, but so popular were his clerical qualities, that at a convention, called by the Episcopal clergy, to select one clergyman from their number to be sent to England, to be made a Bishop, he, Dr. Leaming, was chosen over Dr. Seabury. Leaming promptly and firmly declined and Scabury was chosen. Bishop Seabury, in 1787, called another con- vention to choose another clergyman to he sent to England to be made a Bishop. Again Leaming was the first choice and again he declined.
He was 70 years old in 1787, having been born in 1717. He was poor, lame, and so defective in his eyesight, that he became entirely blind in 1800, and remained so until his death in 1804. Before the war he was partly, if not altogether, supported by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, which no doubt accounts for his Tory principles.
[E. E. Beardsley, in his Biography of Dr. Leaming, in N. V. Churchman.]
Sabine, in his volume of American Loyalists, says: He was graduated from Yale, in 1745; ordained in 1748; officiated at Newport, R. I., Norwalk, Conn., and Stratford, Conn., where be died. In the Revolution a mob took his picture, defaced it and nailed it to a sign board face downward. He died, at New Haven, in 1804, aged eighty-six.
38 THOMAS LEAMING, son of Thomas Leaming, 15, born 1748, is buried in Christ Church, Philadelphia.
His tombstone says: born Sept. 11. 1748; died, Oct. 29, 1797, aged 50.
Rebecca Fisher Leaming, his wife, buried by his side, born Oct. 31, 1757; died, Sept. 9, 1833, aged 76.
He was educated and resided at Philadelphia; studied law with Gov. John Dickerson; was a Member of the Convention which formed the present Constitution and by which the Declara - tion of Independence was declared July 2, 1776. In 1777, being an ardent Whig, he went to Cape May and raised a battalion. He practiced law, in Philadelphia, until the Revolution broke up the Courts. He also joined the First City Troop, under Capt. Samuel Morris, (1772), and was with them in the Battles of Monmouth, Princeton, Trenton and Germantown. Some years after the War, Congress paid off this troop and the members presented the money to the Pennsylvania Ilospital.
Thomas Leaming put his money in the firm of Benner, Murray & Co., during the War, and subscribed £6000 as a loan to the Government.
Thomas Leaming, my father, (so wrote Jeremiah Fisher Leaming. in 1844, from MIS. written by his father), interviewed the Rev. Jeremiah Leaming, in 1783, in N. Y., who gave him an account of the Leamings coming to this country in 1660, and his own branch, and about another branch near Chicago [!], and about a Lord Mayor, of London. to whom the widow of the first Thomas Leaming wrote, whose name was John, and who was her husband's brother. He invited her over to London, but she did not go, and soon after died, and these letters and all her papers were lost.
Rundle Smith and Dr. C. F. Leaming do not credit the story above given, for when Rev. Jeremiah Leaming told Thomas Leaming this story, he was broken in mind, body and estate by the persecution he had received during the Revolutionary War for his Tory principles and that though the most honest of men, he was mixed in his statements.
Thomas Leaming married Rebecca Fisher, and by her had
Issue 46 Thomas F. Leaming
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HISTORICAL MISCELLANY
47 Jeremiah Fisher Leaming 48 Eliza Leaming; married Dr. Charles Caldwell.
49 Lydia Leaming; married James L. Smith and had Issue A. Rundle Smith; unmarried. Lydia Smith; unmarried.
39 LYDIA LEAMING, daughter of Thomas Leaming, 15, married, (by license dated Sep. 8, 1775), Sept. 9, 1775, Jeremiah Eldridge, and lived a short distance below Cold Spring Church. After Mr. Eldredge died, she married Anthony Monicreek, a Swede or Hollander, and died without issue, about July 5, 1798- 1800.
40 JONATHAN LEAMING, son of Aaron Leaming, 29, married, first, by license dated Jan. 25, 1763, Margaret Stites; and second, by licence dated Aug. 14, 1766, Judith Hand.
Tombstone: Judith Leaming, born Apr. 25, 1747, O. S .; died Nov. 2, 1779, N. S. Tombstone: Jonathan Leaming, [52], died, MIch. 9, 1809, in 39th year. [On the same stone]
Jonathan and Aaron, sons of Jonathan and Elizabeth Leaming. [No dates.] Tombstone: Aaron Leaming, [51], of Cape May, born July 9, 1776; died Feb. 9, 1778, or 1779. [This stone is broken and partly beneath the ground level.]
Issue
50 Priscilla Leaming, born October, 1764; married Humphrey Stites. 51 Aaron Leaming, born July 0, 1768; died young.
52 Jonathan Leaming, born July, 1770; died Mch. 9, 1809; married Elizabeth Yates, and had
Issue Jonathan Leaming; died young. Aaron Leaming; died young. William F. Leaming; married and had
Issue Dr. Jonathan F. Leaming, of Cape May Court House, N. J.
41 AARON LEAMING, son of Aaron Leaming, 29.
Tombstone: Aaron Leaming, born Aug. 28, 1740; died Aug. 31, 1764.
42 SARAH LEAMING, daughter of Aaron Leaming, 29, married Jesse Hand. She died, about So years of age, and was buried on the farm now owned by Geo. McClorg, [1896], who married her grand-daughter. The farm is situated five miles above the Court House on Sea Side road.
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43 MATTHIAS LEAMING, son of Aaron Leaming, 29.
Tombstone: Matthias Leaming, born Sept. 19, 1749; died Sept. 27, 1763.
44 MARY LEAMING, daughter of Aaron Leaming, 29, died about 75 years of age, and was buried in Christ Church Yard, Philadelphia. She was a member of this church, and an exemplary woman of many virtues.
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She married, by license dated Sept. 17, 1782, Joseph Coleman Fisher, of Philadelphia, brother of Rebecca, wife of Thomas Leaming, 38. He died, about 1798, of yellow fever. They had one son, Samuel J. Fisher.
45 PERSONS LEAMING, son of Aaron Leaming, 29, born 1756; died 1807; married, Charlotte E. Eldredge, Oct. 24, 1782. She was born Apr. 5, 1765, and was a daughter of Aaron, son of Samuel Eldredge, an Englishman, who came to Cape May from Long Island. Aaron Eldredge was a blacksmith at Cold Spring. His brother, Jeremiah, was a prominent man in his day being County Clerk, Judge, Member of Assembly, &c.
Upon the death of her husband, Mrs. Persons Leaming married, second, in 1809, Richard Thompson; she died Dec. 12, 1812.
Persons Leaming was a man above average size, but not robust. Amiable, but of high temper, if aroused. "He was no churchman."
Issue
53 Aaron Leaming, born May 15, 1784; died June 7, 1836. 54 Furman Leaming, born Oct. 3, 1786; died Mch. 18, 1832.
55 Mary Leaming, born . .. . . 1788; married, 1810, Robert M. Holmes; died Feb. 5, 1861.
56 Persons Leaming, born Sept. 3, 1790; died Nov. 20, 1820; unmarried.
57 Jeremiah Leaming, born May 25, 1792; died Apr. 26, 1839.
58 James Raney Leaming, born June 6, 1794; married, Sarah Irwin, about 1814; died May 20, 1821.
59 Charlotte Leaming, born August, 1800; died, aged 18 months.
46 THOMAS FISHER LEAMING, son of Thomas Leaming, 38, was a member of the City Troop, Philadelphia, 1812. He was born July 14, 1786; died June 23, 1839.
Tombstone: Christ Church, Philadelphia, says: aged 52, II, 21.
47 JEREMIAH FISHER LEAMING, son of Thomas Leaming, 38. Issue
60 Rebecca Leaming
61 Robert Waln Leaming, who married and had son Thomas.
54 FURMAN LEAMING, son of Persons Leaming, 45, married Hannah, daughter of Henry Luldlam, of near Dennisville. He resided in Philadelphia in 1815; a hardware mer- chant. He died, Mch. 18, 1832, and was buried in the Presbyterian Church Yard, 12th and Walnut Sts., Philadelphia.
Issue.
62 Mary Leaming, born 1810.
63 Sarah Leaming
64 Furman Leaming
65 Elizabeth Leaming
66 Hannah Leaming
67 Henry Leaming
68 Emma Leaming
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57 JEREMIAH LEAMING, son of Persons Leaming, 45.
Issue .
69 Dr. Coleman F. Leaming, born June 6, 1818.
58 JAMES RANEY LEAMING, son of Persons Leaming, 45, married Sarah Irwin, Issue
70 James Leaming; died 1838.
71 Jonathan Leaming
72 Somers Leaming; married and had a son Thomas.
NOTES
Humphrey Leaming died, Aug. 28, 1852, Aged 71, 8, 23; his wife, Mary, daughter of Philip and Rachel Stites, dicd, Dec. 6, 1859, Aged 54, 10, 26.
[Methodist Burying-ground, Cape May Court House, N. J.]
. One old citizen of the name of Leaming was fond of sprees, but his dignity forbade his in- dulgence at home, so when the desire was no longer to be resisted he would go on a regular old- fashioned one out of the county to Port Elizabeth. Here he would drink until ready to return and would brook no interference. On one occasion, (over a century ago), he was on one of his periodicals, when his house burned down, and his family despatched a slave to tell him of the event. He arrived, saw the master, told his tale, and was suddenly felled to the floor with a blow and soundly berated for his impudence for intruding when "1 am on my spree." These indulgences assumed the position to him of important functions.
Jonathan Leaming, of Cape May, and Sarah Ewing had marriage license, Nov. 6, 1780. Christopher Leamyng and Sarah Spicer; both of Cape May, had marriage license, Aug. S, 1761.
Elizabeth Leaming and John Newton; both of Cape May, had marriage license, June 25, 1761.
GRAVEYARDS OF THE LEAMINGS-On Sept- IS-IS91, Dr. C. F. Leaming removed the tombstones of the Leamings from their original sites, a burial plot upon the criginal plantation of Lydia Leaming situated on the Seaside Road four miles below the Court House and eight miles above Cape May City. There were in all 12 sets-head stones and foot stones. Four mounds were unmarked, viz: Jolin Persons, Elizabeth Persons, later the wife of John Fish and the mother of Lydia, who married Aaron Leaming, John Fish & William Shaw. It is not unlikely that these mounds were marked by perishable red cedar slabs, then the only material in use for such purposes. It was only as the widow of the richest man in the County that she was able, later, to erect the more enduring stone slabs. Her husband, Aaron Leaming ist, died, while on a visit to Philadelphia, and was interred in Christ Church in that city-a stone marks his resting place; another, a memorial stone, was erected by her in the family burying plot in Cape May. A falling tree of large size crushed two sides of the fence, enclosing the Leaming burial plot, and shortly thereafter, the original plantation passed by sale, from the family. It was then that Dr. Leaming determined to remove the stones. Perhaps it were better this than nothing, but how regrettable it is that some provision rather had not been made to secure them for all time on their original sites. As it is, the site of their hallowed dust is, or soon v. ill be, totally lost & the stones alone bear testimony to il:cir former existence. There is something sad in this bit of history. No effort was intde to discover any remains for it was not conceived likely that any, after so great a stretch of time, would be left. The stones now stand in a row in the Baptist Cemetery at Cape May Court House.
LEEDS
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
1 THOMAS LEEDS, an Englishman, settled, at Shrewsbury, N. J., probably in 1677. He was born about 1620, and died about the year 1686. He was twice married; the first time, in England, and afterward. at Burlington, N. J., 8 mo., 6, 1678, to Margaret Collier, of " Mark- ers hooke on River Dellaware," while he was a resident of Neversinks, East Jersey. His widow appears to have died, in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1705.
1686, Nov. 13. Thomas Leeds sold three acres, on Rumson Neck, to Jedediah Allen; both of Shrewsbury, which was released by Allen, in 1693, to Margaret, widow of Thomas Leeds.
1686, 9 mo. 13. Will of Thomas I.ceds; proved Nov. 28, 1687, in which he devised all his houses and lands, in Shrewsbury, to his loving wife, Margaret, during her life, and after her death, to his son, Daniel. He appointed his wife executrix, and mentioned his sons, Daniel and William.
1687, Dec. 13. Margaret Leeds, widow of Thomas Leeds, late of Shrewsbury, defendant, and William Leeds, plaintiff, in an action of trespass and debt for £16. .
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