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p. 183. Lewis Cox, 101, married Elizabeth, only daughter of James and Mary (Rogers) Lawrence.
Issue
James Lawrence Cox, born May 21, 1808; died September, 1877.
George Willocks Cox, born Jan. 12, 1810; died Aug. 8, 1874.
Mary Lawrence Cox, born Dec. 3, 1811; died Feb. 9, 1852.
Ann Potts Cox, born Dec. 25, 1813; died Oct. 5, 1863.
Lewis Cox, born Sept. 10, 1816; died Jan. 12, 1875.
Benjamin Yard Cox, born Mch. 1, 1820; died Mch. 2, 1878.
William Cox, born Sept. 5, 1822; died Sept. 14, 1822.
Samuel J. Cox, born Aug. 3, 1823; died Nov. 18, 1841.
Lewis Cox, 101, had also a son, James Lawrence Cox, of Zanesville, Ohio. He married, first, Mary Hazelett, and second, Elizabeth Miles.
Issue by first wife
Elizabeth L. Cox; married Frank Ellis.
Hazelett Cox; has an old plate, brought, his mother said, when the Coxes came to Virginia from England. Issue by second wife Mary Cox; married Henry Brown. Lewis Cox; died aged 20. James Cox; died aged 18. Anna Cox; died aged 16. Benjamin Cox; died aged 14.
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Anna Cox; died aged 16. Benjamin Cox; died aged 14. Theodore Cox; died aged 22.
Helen M. Cox; married Walter Irving; had issue.
Lewis Cox, 101, had also a son, George Willocks Cox, who marrjed, first, Fransinka Hen- drickson; second, Mis. Rebecca (Mount) Ely.
Issue
William Henry Hendrickson Cox, born 1841; died Aug. 17, 1859.
Elizabeth Lawrence Cox, born 1843; died Aug. 5, 1863.
Eleanor Hendrickson Cox: married Joseph H. Lawrence. Fransinka Cox; died an infant.
Mary Lawrence Cox, daughter of Lewis Cox, 101, married John Stuart and had Charlotte B. Stuart, who married Isaac B. Edwards.
Ann Cox, daughter of Lewis Cox, 101, married Nathaniel S. Rue, Jr., who died, Sept. 4, 1902, aged 90. They had Elizabeth Lawrence Rue, died Nov. 16, 1899; Nathaniel Augustus Rue and James Lawrence Rue, who died May 12, 1887.
Lewis Cox, son of Lewis Cox, 101, married Eliza Hazelett and had Lewis H., born July19, 1841, died Apr. 30, 191 -; Edith, Ella and Mary Cox. This family was of Chicago, III.
Benjamin Yard Cox, son of Lewis Cox, 101, married Elizabeth S. Emley, who died Jan. 5, IgII. They had Emma B., and Samuel J., who died young, and William E. Cox, born Nov. 25, 1863, who married Elizabeth Ridway Meirs, who are the parents of Henry Richard Cox.
Ezekial Taylor Cox, 109, was a prominent citizen of Zanesville, Ohio, for many years. He inar- ried Maria Matilda, daughter of Judge Samuel Sullivan. Hc had ten children, among them being:
Col. Thomas J. Cox, father of W. V. Cox, of Washington, D. C. Angie Cox; died May 15, 1910; married T. H. Sites.
p. 184. Sarah Ann Higbee Cox, 148, married Charles Meirs.
p. 188. Third line, eleventh word, should read Middletown.
p. 196. Gideon Crawford. For a family of similar name, see Austin's Rhode Island Gene- alogical Dictionary.
p. 286. Robert Hartshorne, 41, has erroneously attached to his name a marriage to a Salter, which is correctly attached to Robert Hartshorne, 25.
Robert Hartshorne, 41, is undoubtedly he who was the attorney-at-law, residing in Bur- lington County, and who died, in Cumberland, N. J., 6, 4, 1752. He married Hannah --- , who died, 11, 13, 1780, leaving a will. They were members of the Society of Friends and the ac- companying data is taken from the Burlington Monthly Meetings.
Issue
Elizabeth Hartshorne, born 7, 16, 1743; died 5, 20, 1744. Catherine Hartshorne, born 7, 18, 1744; married Benj. Fordham.
Thomas Hartshorne, born 1, 18, 1745; died 6, 29, 1749. Sarah Hartshorne, born 11, 23, 1747; died 9, 10, 1749. Margaret Hartshorne, born 1, 10, 1749-50. Hannah Hartshorne, born 10, 5, 1751; married Joseph Ellison.
p. 287. I am told there are two old ladies, the kisses Pennington, residing in Philadelphia. who claim descent from Helena Lawrence, 63.
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p. 289. No. 94 "Married on Thursday evening last by the Rev. Mr. Moore, Mr. William Ustick, Jun., merchant of this City, to Miss Sally Hartshorne, of Shrewsbury." The Indepen- dent. Journal, N. Y., Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1787.
p. 293. Lawrence Hartshorne, 96. In St. Paul's Burying Ground, Halifax, N. S., I found this summer (1912) a tombstone marked "Law Hartshorne, Esq.," died, March 10, 1822, aged 05. And on the sarne stone Abigail, his wife, daughter of Jonathan Tremaine, died, Mch. 7, 1837, in 59th ycar.
Adjacent was presumably a large Hartshorne tombstone with an indecipherable inscrip- tion, perhaps crected to his wife, E. Ustick.
Also a stone to Mary, wife of Lawrence Hartshorne, died, Sept. 13, 1825, aged 29 years. Also a stone to Mary Ice Hartshorne, born Dec. 2, 1So ?; died May 19, 1838; wife of Hugh Hartshorne.
Also to Jonathan Tremaine, born, at Portsea, England, Apr. 24, 1742; died May 6, 1S23. Sabine says of Jonathan Tremain that he "was a merchant in New York until the evacu- ation by the British Army at the peace. Went to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and resumed business. Died, in 1822, aged eighty, leaving a large family, of whom several are now (1861) living. His son, James, is a gentleman of wealth."
p. 310. Ann Holmes, 26, probably married, May 22, 1691, Gideon Jacobus Kierstede. This Ann Holmes is reputed to have married, Oct. 16, 1704, Peter, son of Daniel Perrine, born 1667. This may be so, but it is vital to eliminate Ann, the widow of Joseph Holmes, 27, which I do not think has been sufficiently done by the descendants of Peter Perrine. See also note on Joseph Holmes, 27, among the corrections and additions to the Holmes family.
HOLMES FAMILY
D. 310. Obadiah Holmes, 6, was a leading man in his community, being one of the Judges of the Salem County Court (of which Cumberland County was then a part), a Justice of the Peace, and the adviser of many in the vicinity, whose deeds and wills he drew. He died, in 1723; for, July 10, of that year, Job Sheppard was appointed administrator of his estate, the widow, Hannah, refusing to act. This establishes the fact that Obadiah was twice married. his last wife being Hannah -- , who survived him. In addition to his other children, he had a daugh- ter, Catharine Holmes, who married, first, Nathaniel Bacon, by whom she had three children: second, Richard Robins, by whom she had five children, and third, Cornelius Cole.
P. 312. First word, first line, may read horse instead of house.
p. 316. Joseph Holmes, 27. Joseph Holmes, of Gravesend, on MIch. 19, 1695, exchanged lands in Gravesend. He made his will Dec. 31, 1702; proved May 12, 1704, wherein he styled him- self as of Staten Island; very sick, etc., and mentioned his wife, Anne, whom he made sole execu. trix and manager of his estate, till his eldest son, Samuel, became of age, when he was to possess the same and pay to his brothers, Obadiah and Joseph, each, £200.
To his daughters, Mary and Anne, each, £50.
Appointed his cousins, John Stillwell and Nathaniel Britting, trustees. He married Anne Golding, and it was probably she who married, Oct. 16, 1704, Peter Perrine.
P. 317. Samuel Holmes, 32, lived at Greenwich, Salem County, where he was assessor of taxes, Justice of the Peace, and a leading man, He died in March. 1750, leaving a will in which he gave property to his nephews, jonathan Holmes and Obadiah Robins.
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P. 317. Jonathan Holmes, 33, married Susannah, daughter of John and Mary Miller. She died in 1749. HIc had
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Issue. Jonathan Holmes, born 1704; died Feb. 4, 1778; married, in 1729, Ann Dominick, of Long Island, N. Y. Susannah Holmes Obadialı Holmes Samuel Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes
P. 317. Mary Holmes, 76, probably married a Guyon, for Joseph Guyon, in his will, 1757, mentioned his mother Mary, and appointed his uncle, Samuel Holmes, an executor.
P. 318. Wykoff should read Wikoff; Miers should read Meirs; Burgis should read Burtis.
p. 318. Joseph Holmes, 54. "Gov. Livingston, John Cooper, Andrew Sinickson, Joseph Holmes, Robert Morris, Peter Tallman, Abraham Van Nest, Silas Condit and William Churchill Houston, during recess of Legislature, on the 15th of January, requested the Treasurer to pay into the hands of Enos Kelsey, Commissioner for the purchase of clothing, the sum of Croco, engaging to replace the same in the Treasury in case the Legislature at its next sitting should not direct. it to be credited in the account of the Treasurer." It was Joseph Holmes, 54, and not his son, Joseph, 95, "who loaned money to the State and was not paid back, " as appears in the inventory of his estate.
P. 319. Obadiah Holmes, 92, born 1728; dicd Apr. 2, 1794. "He married Mary Clunn, of Lamberton, N. J., during the holidays of 1755; settled on Staten Island. In 1766, Obadiah Holmes, with his wife, four sons and infant daughter, started frein (Trenton), Lamberton for Philadelphia, travelling through Southeastern Pennsylvania and Northwestern Maryland to the mouth of the Shenandoah: up it one hundred miles, making his first stop and settlement in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia. There was a son, Joseph, named after his grand- father, and a daughter, Elizabeth, named after her grandmother."
Issue
John Holmes William Holmes Obadiah Holmes Abraham Holmes Isaac Holmes Elizabeth Holmes Jacob Holmes Joseph Holmes Margaret IIolmes twins. Samuel Holmes
"Of these children John Holmes, the eldest son, in August or September, 1776, marched away, Fast to New Jersey, in a Pennsylvania Regiment, was captured at Brandywine, trans- ported in a prison ship, and died on board, of a fever, in an English harbor."
Isaac, Samuel and Joseph married sisters, the last being the grandfather of Col. J. L. ITolmes, of Columbus, Ohio, who wrote the preceding information concerning this line.
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P. 333. Samuel Holmes, ro, has been confused with Samuel Holmes, S9, on page 318. In ali probability the data, appearing under the latter, belongs to the former.
P. 334. Samuel Holmes, 73. was alluded to in the will of Joseph Guyon, of Staten Island, 1757, as my "unkle" Samuel Holmes, and was appointed one of his executors. He was also appointed an executor in the will of Col. Nicholas Britton, 1739, and executor in the will of James Guyon, 1759.
P. 334. Jonathan Holmes, 78, born 1704; died Feb. 4, 1778; married, July 7, 1729, Ann Dominick, of long Island, born 1709; died, January, 1777; aged 68 years.
Issue Mary Holmes, born 1731; died 1739.
Susanna Holmes, born 1733; died 1735.
Eunice Holmes, born 1736; married Daniel Brewster, and had issue.
Phebe Holmes, born 1738: died 1820; married, first, Dr. Samuel Ward; second, Dr. Moses Bloomfield, father of Gov. Bloomfield.
Anna Holmes, born 1739: died 1772; married, in 1761, Daniel Clarke, and had issue. Col. Abijalı Holmes, born April, 1741; died Mch. 6, 1785; married Rachel Seeley, born 1749; died Jan. 8, 1781.
Rachel Holmes, born 1750; died 1779; married, 1771, Joel, son of Jonah Fithian.
P. 335. Daniel Holmes, 79, married, Feb. 11, 1752, Leah Bowne.
Philip Holmes, 147, died Oct. 26, 1810.
Joseph Holmes, 81, married, June, 1752, Sarah Mott.
P. 336. Jonathan Holmes, 82, was born July 19, 1722; married, 1758, Sarah Potter. He had Issue Jonathan Holmes; married Grace Jarvis Smith, a widow and had Issue Jonathan P. Holmes; married Louise Van Mater. Joseph S. Holmes; married Minerva Carlisle. Jonathan P. Holmes and Louise VanMater had Issue Nathaniel W. Holmes Jonathan J. Holmes
Joseph S. Holmes and Minerva Carlisle had Issue Phebe S. Holmes; married Gabriel M. Lea. Mary Holmes; married Egbert Ingersoll.
Grace Holmes; married Dr. Green. Hannah Holmes; married J. Loomis. Minnie Holmes; married Benjamin J. Estler.
Jonathan S. Holmes; married Mary Davis, and had Herbert and Clifford Holmes. Joseph C. Holmes; married Carrie Campbell and bad Esbert Habnes.
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Rachel Holmes: married William D. Wade.
Nathaniel Holmes; married, for second wife, Mary Whitlock. Estella Holmes Ellen Holmes Harvey Holmes Louise Holmes
Phebe S., Mary, Hannah and Minnie Holmes, by their respective husbands, had issue. Their brother, Nathaniel Holmes, lives in the West and has the day account book of Jonathon and John Holmes, used in New York, in 1752. This information concerning this line was sup- plied by Edwin H. Lea, son of Phebe S. Holmes and Gabriel Lea, who married Sadis Chandler, of Elizabeth, N. J., and who now (1912), resides in Virginia.
P. 337. John Holmes, 83, settled, about 1763, at Forked River, N. J. His daughter, Catharine, 160, inarried John Martine, who became wealthy in New York City. His daughter, Mary, 161, married a Green, and he likewise had a daughter, Sarah, 161a.
P. 338. Rowland Ellis, 168, merchant, of Philadelphia, says his tombstone.
P. 349. Sarah Holmes, 207, died Sept. 9, 1848.
Mary Holmes, 208, died 1809; married Senator Enoch H. More, his second wife.
Jonathan Holmes, 209, married, first, Lydia Watson, born II mo., 1776; died 19, 9 mo., 1799, and was buried in Baptist Graveyard near Sheppard's Mill. Elsewhere I have seen her called Lydia Ludlow. They had one son, Abijah Holmes, who was living, in 1876, in advanced years, in Caniden, N. J. Jonathan Holmes, 209, married, second, Amelia Elmer, and, third, Clarissa Mulford, who was living, in 1876, aged 89 years, in Bridgeton, N. J. By his last wife he had Mulford, Jane, Lydia, William and Charles Holmes.
John Holmes, 210, died May 26, 1855; married, first, Sarah Sheppard, born May 24, 1783; died Sept. 15: 1814; second, Phebe Bowen, born Dec., 1779; died Sept. 18, 1838. By first wife he bad
Issue
Lydia Holmes, born 1801; died 1802.
Rachel S. Holmes, born Nov. 30, 1802; died June 30, 1873; married Jonathan G. Smith and had issue.
Moses Bloomfield Holmes, born Apr. 15, 1So5; died Mch. 29, 1837; married, Jan. 27, 183-, Rachel Dayton, born Jan. 16, 1807. Issue: Mary. John, born 1822, died 1844, and Margaret.
Edward Holmes, born 1807; died 1810.
Hannah M. Holmes born Feb. 8, 1810; died Oct. 12, 1895; married, Mch. 23, IS31, Thomas Brown and had issue.
John and Sarah Holmes, born Mch. 11, 1812. John died Apr. 24, 1812; Sarah died June II, 1891; married, Oct. 27, 1831, Alphonzo Woodruff and had issue.
Alfred Holmes, born Sept. 4, 1814; died Nov. 28, 1893; of Lower Hopewell Township, Cumberland Co .; married, Nov. 34, 1836, Elizabeth Lupton, and bad Moses B., Rebecca A., Henry H., Emma S., Cornelia, Sarah B., Caroline, Elizabeth and Rhoda Ilolmes.
Issue by second wife
John Holmes, born Feb. 9, 1819.
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John Holmes, born Aug. 18, 1820; died Aug. 27, 1902: married, Mch. 7, 1844. Amy Fithian Shults, born Aug. 31, 1820; died Dec. 18, 1874, and had William S., Ed- ward S., and Charles F. Holmes.
David P. Holmes, born June 22, 1823; died 182 ;.
Ephraim Holmes, 211, born 17So; died 25, 8 mo., 1848; married, 13, 7 mo., 1813, Harriet Potter, daughter of David and Jane Potter Bowen. She died 2, 4 mo., 1868. Both buried in Presbyterian Graveyard, Greenwich.
Issue
Edward B. Holmes, born 29, 7 mo., 1815; married Julia Dillingham, and died, in New York, 17, 2 mo., 1858, leaving one son.
Dr. Ephraim Holmes, born 11, 7 mo., 1817; practicing medicine, in 1878, in Green- wich, N. J.
Mary P. Holmes, born 20, 9 mo., 1819; married Dr. Charles M. Lawrence, of Port Jervis, N. Y., and died 26, 10 mo., 1865, leaving issue.
David B. Holmes, born 5, S mo., 1833; married Caroline E., daughter of Charles Gibbon. They resided, in 1878, at Schuylkill Haven, Pa., and had issue. Harriet B. Holmes, born 6, 7 mo., 1825; died, unmarried, in 1850.
P. 350. John Holmes, 157, was born 1772; died at Forked River. His wife, Catharine, was the daughter of Jacob and Alice (Chamberlain) Lane, who died near Columbus, Ohio ( Hills- ville?), having gone West with her sons, Stephen, William, Gilbert, and Jacob, Joseph and Alice, of her children, alone remaining in New Jersey. Their daughter, Nancy, 221, married, second, Thomas Hendrickson. The wives of Joseph, 222, and William, 226, were sisters by the name of Stout; the wives of Steven, 223, and Jacob, 225, were sisters by the name of Worden, Their daughter, Alice, 224, married, second, Daniel Pierson. Their daughter, Marcia, 227, married Benjamin Franklin Raleigh and moved to Ohio. Their daughter, Catharine, 229, married Andrew Browse.
P. 355. Joseph Holmes, 222, married Anna Stout, born 1805: died ISS9. Their daughter, Angeline, 316, died single; Benjamin Franklin, 318, married Martha E. Cranmer, the widow Predmore, who had, by her first husband, two children, and by her second husband five Holmes children; the second wife of Benjamin T. Holmes was Charity Inman, living, in 1012, at Forked River, with thirteen of Benjamin F. Holmes' children. Cornelia, 319, married James Bodine. Joseph, 321, married Caroline Jeffrey. Emelia (Amelia), 324, married Jacob Birdsall, and was living, at an advanced age, in 1912, at Forked River, the only surviving member of Joseph Holmes' family. She has, I am told, an old -Holmes Bible. Daniel, 323, was lost, on the beach opposite his home, by the foundering of a ship, and was unmarried. Catharine, another daugh ter of Joseph Holmes, 222, died unmarried. The farm of Joseph Holmes, 222, at Forked River, was, at his death, valued at $12,000, but was held too long and neglected, and was finally sold to the New Jersey State Government for $4,000, for a game preserve.
P. 356. The descendants of Steven Holmes, 223, of Jacob, 225, of William, 226, and Gilbert, 228, moved to Ohio.
William Holmes, 226, married, first, Catharine Stout, by whom he had 340 to 344 inclusive; married, second, Elizabeth Cowgill, by whom he had 345 to 347 inclusive; married, third, Sarah T. Wright, by whom no issue.
P. 357. Joseph Holmes, 237, died Aug. 1, 1897; married Marthe Ann Meirs.
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P. 382. In sixteenth line erase whose relationship I do not know.
P. 391. Ravaud Kearny, 18, of Perth Amboy, made his will Aug. 11, 1So2; proved Sept. 20, 1806. In this instrument his daughter, Susan, 31, is called Susanne. The testator also men- tions grandsons, John Kearny Rodgers and John Warren.
p. 396. William Lawrence is reputed to have married, first, Hannah Townsend, but I have never seen an atom of proof to substantiate it.
P. 399. William Lawrence, 3. His wife died Oct. 7, 1736, according to the Middletown Bap- tist Church Record. 4
p. 400. Benjamin Lawrence, 4. Feb. 5, 1706, Thomas Cooper, of London, merchant, for £265, conveyed his 12 proprietary interest, or 1-48th part of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, to Obadiah Holmes, Garrat Wall, Gershom Mott, James Hubbard, James Grover, James Cox, Joseph Cox, Richard Stout, Daniel Hendrickson, Obadiah Holmes, William Lawrence, James Lawrence and Benjamin Lawrence.
P. 402. Under Elisha Lawrence, 5, add the following: 1717, Mch. 11. Capt. Richard Stout, of Middletown, gent., son and heir to John Stout, of the same place, conveyed 50 acres of land to Elisha Lawrence, yeoman, of Freehold.
P. 403. Line 2. Following "His children " should appear the names as given under his issue.
Concerning William Clark, the son-in-law of John Lawrence, it is known that an inventory was made of his personal estate, Nov. 25, 1728, by Thomas King et al .; that it amounted to £347, 12, 11.2, and that he resided at Freehold.
Under Joseph Lawrence, 7, there should be added that his first wife, Sarah, was the daughter of William Worth and Faith Patterson.
P. 404. Joseph Lawrence, 46. 1741, 8 mo., 5. Joseph Lawrence, Jr., and Esther Parlee, de- clared Ist intention (to marry); 1741, 9 mo .-- , their 2nd intention; 1741, 10 mo., 7. "reported they had been married in orderly way." Shrewsbury Men's Monthly Meetings.
Joseph Lawrence and Deborah Harber, 2nd intentions, 2, 3, 1727. Ideni.
P. 404. Benjamin Laurence, 48, is given as a child by the second wife, Rachel. 8 mo., 7, 1745. Benjamin Lawrence and wife sought certificate of removal, and 2 mo., 7, 1746, he again made application. Shrewsbury Men's Monthly Meetings.
P. 406. James Lawrence, 15, resided at Allentown.
P. 410. Thomas Lawrence, 24. The William Lawrence called his grandnephew and heir-at-law, may have been the son of William Lawrence, 87, had he have had issue.
P. 414. William Lawrence, 45.
1748, 3 mo., 2. William Lawrence desires to move to Philadelphia. Shrewsbury Men's Monthly Meetings.
In the N. Y. Mail and Express, Jan. 11, 1902, C. M. G. communicated: "One of my maternal grandparents was Faith Lawrence, whose father was Willun, and whose home was
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on the Manasquan River, near what is now known as Point Pleasant, N. J. All that portion of land, lying between the Manasquan River and Barnegat Bay, was taken up by a company of men from Middletown, including one Lawrence, (probably the father of William), Ellison, Tilton et al., early in the seventies."
D. 416. Richard Lawrence, 146, married, 5 mo., 13, 1789, Hannah, daughter of Henry and Hannah Haydock.
Flushing Records.
P. 417. William Lawrence, 93. Three days before his marriage to Margaret Tilton he made application to the Men's Monthly Meeting, Shrewsbury, for a certificate of removal to Phila- delphia.
Apr. 9, 1787, he affirmed that Elizabeth M. Hartshorne and Hannah Herbert were daugh- ters of William Lawrence, his grandfather, and that Hugh Hartshorne was the eldest son of Elizabeth Hartshorne, and Obediah Herbert was the eldest son of Hannah Herbert, by her hus- band Obediah Herbert.
A Bible in the possession of W. A. H. G., (Boston Transcript, Aug. 22, 1906). contains a record of the children of William Lawrence, 93, alike in all dates to the one here printed, except that Daniel, 151, is given as born Aug. 20, 1752; Richard, 154, took up land in Little York, now Toronto; Elisha, 156, was born Apr. 10, 1764; Jacob, 157, was born MIch. 18, 1767; William Lawrence, 158, was born Mch. 24, 1752, and was shot in the Revolution.
p. 417. John Lawrence, 152, born Apr. 10, 1754, had issue: William, Peter, Elisha, James, Charles, Margaret, Sarah and Catharine. See Lawrence Family, by Thomas Lawrence, 1856.
p. 417. Richard Lawrence, 154. His prayer book, containing his birth date, is now owned by his great grandson, W. A. Hamilton, of 55 Ethel Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.
D. 421. Elisha Lawrence, 133, was a church warden, in Parrsborough, Nova Scotia, at which place he had received his grant of land.
P. 422. Jacob Lawrence, 157. In the Lawrence Family, by Thomas Lawrence, of Providence, R. I., 1856, and elsewhere, it is set forth that Jacob Lawrence had children: Jacob, Richard and John Garrison Lawrence, by his first wife, and Stephen J., Daniel, William Garrison, Harts- horne, Elizabeth and Mildred Lawrence; that William Garrison Lawrence married Prudence Wyckoff; that Margaret Lawrence married William C. Smith; that Elizabeth Lawrence married Mr. Leech, and that Hartshorne Lawrence, born Sept. S, 1798, died 1827, married, in 1819, Ursulla Ellison, and had Catharine Ellison Lawrence, born IS20, died 1856, married, February, 1844, Robert Everett and had Henry Lawrence Everett, born 1844, married, Apr. 22, 1886, Ione B. Highley.
P. 447. William Leeds, Jr., 14.
The removal of the remains of William Leeds from the church farm at Lincroft, by the vestry of Christ church, Shrewsbury, on Saturday, November 24th, calls attention again to this remarkable man. Although brought up in the Quaker meeting, he was one of the earliest churchmen in Monmouth county, and possibly was brought into the church through the labors of Rev. Alexander Innes, who after his retirement from the post of chaplain in the Fort at New York, bought a farm near William Leeds's farm and wrought in the gospel in this vicinity.
The gift of the Leeds "church farm" to the two churches of Shrewsbury and Middletown (then one cor- poration) did much to insure their perpetuity and to increase their usofainess. The first of the Leeds family
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in Monmouth county was Thomas Leeds, born in England in 1620, who with his wife Margaret. settled at Little Silver Point in 1670, where he died in rose-7. His widow, Margaret, and two sons, Daniel and William, sur- vived him. The son, Daniel Leeds, went to West Jersey and was the ancestor of the Leeds of that part of the state and also of Philadelphia. The other son, William Leeds, remained in Monmouth county and on February 7th, 16;9-So, bought from Richard Stout what is known so familiarly as the "church farm."
This William Leeds, the father of the donor of the church farm, was a cooper. About togo, for some domestic reason, perhaps related to the imbecile son Daniel, he left his farm and his family and went to West Jersey to live with his brother Daniel.
The care of the farm and of his mother and helpless brother and possibly of his sister Mary devolved upon William Leeds, the second, the grandson of Thomas, the emigrant. His mother was named Dorothea. It was not until after the death of his mother and of his imbecile brother, that William Leeds, the second, late in life, married Rebecca, the daughter of Peter and Rebecca Tilton, and the widow of his one-time neighbor, Danici Applegate. It was his father who had built upon his purchase in 1687. what in the record of the road returns at Freehold is styled "William Leeds's new house." Indian deeds of quit claim, dated March 20th, 16So, and July 16tb, 1684, were also to his father, William Leeds and are the deeds which in a very fair state of preserva- tion are still in the possession of the vestry of Christ church.
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