Historical sketches of Greenwich in old Cohansey, Part 3

Author: Andrews, Rebecca Graham (Ayars), Mrs., 1849- [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Vineland, N.J., Printed for the author, Vineland printing house
Number of Pages: 86


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been permitted to change the natural color of the wood, and plainness was a marked feature of the entire building. There was a partition through the center of the church which separ- ated the male from the female members. It was arranged so it could be entirely closed at their monthly business meeting.


"It may be explained that the meetings of Friends are classified as for worship and disci- pline. The meetings for discipline are divided into preparative, monthly, quarterly and yearly meetings. One or more meetings for worship may form a preparative meeting; one or more preparative meetings may formu a monthly meeting; two or more monthly meet- ings may form a Quarterly meeting; and scv- eral quarterly nicetings may form a yearly meeting. Some monthly mectings call every third meeting a quarterly meeting. The monthly meetings are the principal executive branch of the society, and keep the most volu- minous records."


At the appointed hour the congregation assembled. They were very prompt in at- tendance. Then the stillness began, with not a sound anywhere to break the silence. The elderly members sat upon ele- vated seats, facing the younger part of the audience. We used to gaze in those elderly ladies' faces-their peculiar mode of dressing was very becoming-long gray or brown satin bonnets with the border of the white cap visi-


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ble at the outline of the face and the white kerchief was the neck finishing of their plain costumes.


The attitude they assumed seemed to be a listening one, with an expression of sweetness and serenity that was a mystery to our young minds. Our eyes would wander beyond the partition to see how the quiet that pervaded the meeting was affecting the male members but the broad brimmed hats that encircled their brows hindered us from secing their faces, but we knew by the holy calm every- where they must be partaking of the same power.


At half past eleven the eldest inale member arose and shook hands with his neighbor, which broke the silence and ended the First day meeting. Then kindly greetings with one another introduced by "How does thee do?" or "Is thee well?", after which they dispersed to their homes. Some of those Quaker ladies that occupied the elevated seats were our neighbors, and whenever we saw them at home or elsewhere they ever manifested the same sweet, lovely, serene spirit. Our special favorites were those we knew the best. Mrs. Lydia Hilliard, a most beautiful woman, who presided with such gentle dignity in her honie usually clad in gowns of silk. It was a joy to us maidens to simply behold her. Mrs. Martha Tyler, a lady whose generosity and hospitality and loveliness seemed to make her


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daily life a prayer. Mrs. John Tyler and Mrs. Sallie Stewart were women of remark- able sweetness of character.


In after years when we were grown into young womanhood and learned that their law was love, and the purpose of the silent ineet- ing was to banish the babble of earth's voices, and listen to the inner voice that speaks to the heart alone, or in other words the soul's com- munion with the Eternal Mind-we could readily see why the true Quaker's walk in life was upright and beautiful.


"All mighty works of power


Are wrought in silence deep.


The earth-sown seed in stillness grows, Ere harvest we can reap."


CHAPTER X.


The Orthodox meeting we never attended but knew and saw some of its eminent mem- bers. Dr. George B. Wood frequently passed our homes in his carriage with footman and driver. He at that time was much interested in fruit and cranberry culture. He was born in Greenwich, March 13, 1797, and spent his summers there as long as he lived. His brick residence still stands in the old village, with its well kept lawns, and is very attractive. The interior contains many old lieir-looms- beautiful china, mahogany furniture and old time treasures.


He received his early education in New York City; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1815; and in medicine in 1818. He was not only eminent as a physi- cian, but as an author and lecturer. He pub- lished many works, some of them having a world-wide reputation. With Franklin Bache, M. D., he published the Dispensatory of the United States. [Philadelphia, 1833.] Of this work 150.000 copies were sold during Dr. Wood's life time, the royalty to the authors being about $155,000. He filled many high positions and was for many years


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president of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He died in that city March 30, 1879.


Mr Clarkson Sheppard was a very intelligent member of the Orthodox Society of Friends. He was sometimes called a Quaker preacher. He often spoke in meeting and earnestly de- nounced the sins, follies and fashions of this world and impressed his hearers with the im- portance of cultivating the Christian graces; always guided by the inner light or presence of Christ in the heart, and daily walk with man as with a brother and a friend. He taught a Quaker school in the village for a number of years. He was a close observer of the weather, and furnished Meteorological reports to the Smithsonian Institution for a number of years. As Quakerism began to decline in the village he removed his family to Media, Pennsylvania.


There were ladies with very sweet faces that adorned the seats of the Orthodox meet- ing, and occasionally a wedding ceremony within its walls.


It was the custom of the engaged couple to pass meeting three months before the mar- riage, which announced the event. Then it was awaited with much expectancy in the village. At the mecti: g house the Friends and many others gathered to witness the cere- mony. After the wedding party had entered and taken their seats the utmost quiet reigned


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until the groom arose and repeated the mar- riage service; the bride followed in the same inanner. After the congratulations the cer- tificate was signed in the presence of the assembled people.


CHAPTER XI.


At the age of seventeen we considered we had mastered the curriculum of our village school, and the winter term entered Union Academy at Shiloh.


The very name of Shiloh was of interest to us girls, as we had heard the story "o'er and o'er" that our ancestor was the first settler of Shiloh. He first located in Rhode Island. Between the years 1684 and 1687 he left that colony and came to New Jersey, where he first settled on the south side of Old Cohansey river, in what was then known as Shrewsbury Neck-now Upper Back Neck. He pur- chased 200 acres of John Gilman and 600 acres of Restore Lippincott, from a tract of 1000 acres purchased of John Fenwick. This section south of the Cohansey river was sur- veyed as early as 1678, by Fenwick's deputy surveyor Richard Hancock, who laid off 500 acres for William Worth-the first white per- son known to have settled south of this river. He was, however, soon followed by others. Worth's tract, included the present Lanning wharf property, alinost opposite Greenwich.


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Into this neighborhood came our ancestor and remained there until November 21, 1705, when he purchased 2200 acres of the rich agricultural land covering the present site of the village of Shiloh, of Dr. James Wass, a London physician who bought 5,000 acres July 12, 1675, of John Fenwick while he was still in England. This tract was located and re- surveyed October 15-18, 1705 by Joshua Bark- stead, and 2200 acres conveyed to our ancestor, who removed from the south side of the Coliansey to his new purchase. He was a Seventh Day Baptist and sold his tract to those of his own faith. His son deeded one acre of land in the village for a meeting house lot and burying ground on the 24th of March, 1738. The place was first called Cohansey Corners, but the second pastor of the church, Elder Davis, who was eminent for learning and piety, gave to the village the name of Shiloh, after the biblical Shiloh in the land of Canaan that was consecrated to the worship of God. The first settlers were an intelligent people and Shiloh has always been noted for its good schools, and is said to have sent out more teachers than any other town in Cum- berland county.


When we attended Union Academy it was a prosperous school. It was under the tutor- ship of Prof. O. V. Whitford and wife with an assistant, Miss Jennie Hoover. They were excellent teachers whose aim seemed to


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be to educate and improve the scholar. We were taught that we must not commit our lessons merely for the class recital, but must have an understanding knowledge of them to be of practical benefit.


One of our special studies was astronomy. Mrs. Whitford, the teacher of the class, made the study so interesting with her instructions that we took great delight in our lessons. In the cold winter evening when the skies were cloudless and the stars sparkled with brillian- cy, she would go out with the class and teacli 11s the motions of the heavenly bodies, show us the visible planets, and trace the winter constellations with such accuracy that they were indelibly fixed in our memories. Our school days passed very pleasantly in Shiloh. We roomed with relatives; made acquaintances and took delightful walks about the old town, and frequently passed the old cemetery where so many of our name were buried.


A short distance from Shiloh on the way to Roadstown we saw the old Howell homestead, built long before the Revolutionary war. It was the home of the father of Richard Howell who was governer of the state of New Jersey from 1793 to 1801.


Roadstown, about two miles south west of Shiloh, was settled at an early date, and was a place next in importance to New England town and Greenwich. It is called Kingstown on an old mortgage on record. Before and


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after the Revolution it was called Sayres Cross Roads. Ananias Sayre, originally from Fair- field, who was a prominent citizen and at one time sheriff, settled there and built the house at the northwest corner of the cross roads. He was appointed sheriff by the governor 1747-8, and 1754.


CHAPTER XII.


As we developed into young womanhood, my cousin grew delicately fair-the fairness that is beautiful to the beholder, but often- times an indication of early decay. Her com- plexion was like the lily. Nature had painted her cheek with the hue of the rose. Her light brown hair fell in ringlets wavingly from her fair forehead. Slie was graceful in figure and had many admirers.


After we completed our school days differ- ent avennes in life opened up for us, and we could not travel side by side as in the past. She taught a district school for a few years, and feeling the need of a change of climate, visited a brother in the west. At the parting visit she laughingly remarked: "I fear I shall meet my fate." The separation was painful as I realized her frailty. I frequently heard from her through her pen, and learned in course of time that Cupid's arrow had found a lodging place in her heart, and a final separa- tion must take place, as she had decided to make the state of Wisconsin her future home. In 1876 when the Centennial Exposition was held in Philadelphia, she returned to the old town and home to prepare for her marriage. Together we selected the bridal outfit, and


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in the late summer her friends witnessed her marriage. She then left us for a permanent home in the west. A very few years passed and she informed me her health was failing. Her frailty was evident when she came to endure the rigors of a western climate. She returned again for the purpose of regaining her health, but it was of no avail. Consump- tion, that "fell destroyer," seemed to be seated 11pon her lungs, and all medical aid was un- availing. She reminded me of the beautiful flower that opens its petals in the night, and perfumes with its fragrance the morning air, then fades and withers ere the sun reaches the meridian.


So my cousin developed into sweet and beautiful young womanhood, faded, drooped and died ere she reached the meridian of life. Just four years after her marriage we laid her frail body in the tomb. A short time before her death, she said surprisingly to me one day: "Our old friend, the Doctor, is living yet." I attended the church near our homes inore regularly than in the past, and saw him often. He was then nearing ninety years of age, and was rarely absent from the church services. As a giant oak tree that has withstood cen- turies spreads its branches over the younger trees of the forest, so he stood in the old church -- a tree of righteousness, the eldest, the only one familiar with its early history, having lived through many of its vicissitudes.


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His contemporaries had all passed away and the younger people gathered about him. At the prayer meeting a regular attendant, often taking part. There was a sublimity about his utterance in prayer that was very marked- usually beginning his prayer with a biblical passage such as "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord, God, Almighty, Who art, and was, and art to come." The stillness of the meeting was impressive while he talked with the Invisible Presence whom he worshipped. At the social gatherings lie was the central figure. As his intellectual attainments, medical practice and long life gave him a large experience, he often related incidents of the past that afforded de- lightful entertainment. Had he not kept step and almost witnessed the growth of our great republic? He was born before George Wash- ington ended his second term as president and saw him when a small boy in Philadelphia. He then had lived under every administration.


In his home at the eventide of life, when the doors of sense were softly closing to the world-the eye growing dim and ear forget- ting to hear, he was still the courteous Chris- tian gentleman. Whatever passions or temp- tations assailed him in his earlier years, he had triumphed over them and was simply hold- ing fast to the good-an humble follower of the Nazarene. He lived much with nature; he loved the tree, the plant, and the flower was a special delight to him.


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The tender and loving ministrations of his neice and nephew, Miss Mary and Mr. Samuel Fithian, made his life a joy in his old age.


He was the "Grand Old Man" of "Old Co- hansey"-the only one who lived six months beyond the century mark.


Dr. Enoch Fithian was born May 10, 1792. He began the study of medicine in 1813 at Roadstown, where after he was licensed to practice, he began his professional career. The first of June 1817, he entered into partner- ship with Dr. Ewing of Greenwich, which was continned until May 1824, when the retirement of Dr. Ewing from practice caused a separation of their professional relations.


He entered into partnership with others- Dr. Edward Porter in 1849 and Dr. Nathaniel Newkirk in 1851. They continued in active practice until 1856, when Dr. Fithian retired after a successful career of 41 years. In his declining years Rev. Henry E. Thomas was pastor of the church. He was installed June 8, 1870 and served the church successfully for 18 years. History informs us the congre- gations were larger during his pastorate than at any time since so many members with- drew to forin the church at Bridgeton. The congregation consisted of ninety families. He was an ardent friend of the Old Doctor's, and he said when speaking of him, he "ad- mired his intellect, honored his virtues and loved him asa friend."


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At the close of the Civil war Dr. Thomas E. Stathems, who served as a surgeon through the war, came back to his native town and settled in the "Old Doctor's" practice. He was a very successful physician; a very genial, sympathetic and generous man-so genial that when he visited his patients, his presence was like a sunbeam, radiating brightness and cheerfulness by his jokes and sunny spirit; so sympathetic that the sufferings of humanity made the tears flow from his eyes, and if his remedies proved ineffectual. he was greatly distressed and troubled and sleepless nights followed; so generous and kind hearted that he gave his skill and strength to those in need where he knew there could be no remuneration. He reminded one of William McClure in Drumtochty, described by Ian Maclaren in "Bonnie Brier Bush,"-no matter how dark and stormy the night, he would travel muy miles to relieve the sufferer. He was the true physician, wedded to his pro- fessiou, living a life of self denial for service to his fellow man. He died July 16, 1891, aged 59 years.


William Bedford Ewing, another emi- nent physician of "Old Coliansey;" was born at Greenwich December 12, 1776. In the year 1797 he went to the Virgin Islands, and 011 St. Croix and St. Thomas engaged in professional practice, and was later a surgeon on a British vessel of war. He after-


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ward returned to his native town and practiced medicine until the spring of 1824, when he retired from the practice of his profession. He assisted in the formation of the Medical Society of Cumberland County. 3 He was elected President of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1824. He died April 23, 1866, in the nintieth year of his age. Dr. Ephriam Holmes, a descendant of the ancient family of that name, was born July 11, 1817. He was a man of unusual intelli- gence, and was long a successful practicing physician in Greenwich.


"Old Cohansey" has ever been noted for the longevity of its inhabitants. In the past forty years two have passed the century mark, a score have become nonagenarians, and an octogenarian is very common upon the streets.


CHAPTER XIII.


John Fenwick, who planted the first English Colony east of the Delaware river, was born A. D. 1618 at Stanton Hall. He was the second son of Sir William Fenwick, Baronet, who represented the County of Northumber- land in the last Parliament under the Common- wealth (1659.)


In 1636 he was styled Knight and Baronet, and five years after that time he married Eliza- beth, daughter of Sir Walter Covert. This lady was mother of his children and from her came the direct and collateral branches in New Jersey. The family was of Saxon origin and formed a powerful clan in Northumberland.


"He afterwards married Mary Burdett a blood relation of his own, as they were cous- ins to Edward and Sir Frances Burdett. By this marriage there was no issue. She did not come to America and in his will, he makes 110 mention of his wife, who was living in Lon- don at the time it was executed.


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"The Tower of Fenwick at Widdington in Northumberland, shows its antiquity in its rude strength and scanty limits, similar to those built by the Saxon invaders during the fifth and sixth centuries. This was probably the first seat of the family, after their coming over, and whence it may be traced through many of the shires in England.


"John Fenwick having passed through his law studies at Grays Inn, London 1640, aban- doned his profession for a season and accepted an appointment in the Parliamentary Army. His first commission read as follows:


"You are hereby ordered ani required as Major under Colonel Thomas Barwis, in his regiment of cavalry which was raised in the county of Westmorland to assist the gar- rison of Carlisle, and to exercise the officers and soldiers under his command according to the discipline of war. And they are hereby required to yield obedience unto you as Major of said regiment, and all this you are author- ized unto, until the pleasure of the Parliament or the Lord General be known. Given under my hand and seal at Bernard Castle, 27th of October 1648. O. CROMWELL.


To John Fenwick, Major, These."


"In the same year he was ordered by the Parliament, with horse and dragon to relieve Holy Island Castle in Durham.


It was besieged by the Royal troops and well nigh captured, when he appeared and de-


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feated the enemy. He was an active and efficient officer, having the confidence of the Parliament and the Protector.


After the trial and sentence of the King, he was detailed as commander of cavalry, in con- junction with the foot troops under Colonel Hacker, Colonel Hanks, and Lieut. Colonel Phayor to attend the execution of Charies I.


The order ran in this wise:


"These are therefore to will and require you to see the said sentence executed in the open streets before Whitehall, upon the mor- row, being the thirtieth of this instant, month of January, between the hours of ten in the morning, and five in the afternoon of the same day, with full effect. And these are to require all officers and soldiers and others of the good people of this nation of England to be assisting unto you in this service."


"Given under our hands and seals, &c."


"The warrant was signed by all the mem- bers wlio sat as judges upon his trial, and the most of whom witnessed the carrying out of the sentence. In the discharge of this impor- tant and delicate duty, the most reliable offi- cers and the best disciplined troops were se- lected which placed John Fenwick among the first of these in the army about London at that time."


While he was with the army he became a convert to the opinions of George Fox. He adopted the principles and practices of Friends


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and adhered to them until his death. At the time of the restoration John Fenwick suffered much for fully adopting the opinions and prac- tices of George Fox. In 1666 he was taken from a meeting of Friends in Buckingham- shire and confined in the common jail.


"Like many others of his religious belief he published in pamphlet form several an- swers to others against their doctrines and manner of worship, none of which, however, have been preserved to the present. No de- nomination of Christians, perhaps at that day, put so much printed matter before the public in defence and vindication of their peculiar views as the Friends."


"March 18th 1673 John Lord Berkley con- veyed to John Fenwick his undivided moiety of New Cæsarea, or New Jersey, for the sum of one thousand pounds sterling and a royalty of forty beaver skins annually. This grant had upon its surface the appearance of good faith, and that of a bona fide transaction, yet it was scarcely executed, before its intention was suspected and its validity endangered. Edward Byllynge, a friend and associate of the grantee, at once became an important and conspicuous personage in these transactions, to the exposure and defeat of plans well ina- tured, and doubtless to his chagrin and dis- confiture. He was born in 1628, a resident of Westminster, London, where he carried on the business of brewer. He served as an offi-


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cer in the army of the Commonwealth, and while at Leith, in Scotland, was convinced of the correctness of the doctrines of George Fox, by his preaching. He published sev- eral pamphlets in behalf of Friends, between 1659 and 1665, all of which were printed in London. In 1684 with others, he was tried at Guildhall. London, for attending a meeting at White Hart Court and creating a riot. He was found guilty and fined four nobles, which he refused to pay, and in that default was sent to Newgate Prison for three weeks. He became involved in his financial affairs and to avoid the payment of his debts procured the above named conveyance to be made to John Fenwick, the funds being furnished by himself. The number of his creditors, and the amount of his debts lead to close inquiry in regard to his estate, and it was discovered, that he was interested in this transaction, de- signed to defraud them in their just demands The position in which Fenwick and Byllinge found themselves was not an enviable one, and soon brought about a bitter controversy. These criminations were not only made be- tween Byllinge and his creditors, but Fenwick and he quarreled as to the interest of each in the estate conveyed. Much notoriety was given to it, but all parties being Friends the contest was kept within control of the society and settled according to the rites of the same; John Fenwick was then a resident of Bynfeld,


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in Berkshire; a small town near Windsor Castle and about thirty miles from the city of London. It is possible he had returned to his profession and was the legal adviser of Byllinge in the disposition of his estate to avoid the payment of his debts. In this orig- inated with John Fenwick the idea of planting a colony in America; of becoming the head of a great enterprise, and gratifying his ambition."*


*Sketch of John Fenwick, by John Clement.


CHAPTER XIV.


A half century has passed since my cousin and I began to play in the Old Mill stream. Although living in a distant town, I fre- quently go back to the old village, and some- times stand on the bridge, and look at the stream. It is like the current of time with me, flowing on-singing the same melody it did in the long ago, and teaching the les- son of Tennyson's "Brook." "Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever." "I join the brimming river."


As I stand on the bridge, I go back in the fields of memory, and I am a child again with my cousin, sailing our imaginary boats on its surface, or walking its pebbly bottom; sitting on its grassy banks in the sunshine; listening to the birds, as they twittered and sang in the willow boughs. There are beautiful willows still by the water course; offsprings of those magnificent trees, that overshadowed the grist-mill in primitive days. I look up the stream, and my mind takes me back, beyond my recollections, when the early settlers util- ized the force of the waters to run the mills. I can see the bank where the fulling mill stood, and in imagination. I can hear the


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clatter of those pestles and stampers as they finished the cloth, woven in the homes for the inhabitants of Old Cohansey. Then the thought comes to ine how the flowing stream furnished food and clothing for the first settlers.


As I look in the same direction, I can see the bare hill top of Old Mount Gibbon. In the last decade the tall pines that crowned the summit, have fallen before the woodman's axe, and the hill is shorn of much of its natural beauty. I change my position, and I see the church building, whose society was formed about the year 1700. For 200 years, the congregations have gathered on the Sabbath day, for prayer and praise, in the three church buildings that have super- seded one another. Between the church and bridge stands the store and arcade, the store that has supplied the needs of the people for many years; the arcade, a building of four apartments, that in the past has sheltered many of the shifting population of the village. It was built by Noah Flannigan. Hence the name, sometimes shortened and called the "Ark."


Just across the street stands "God's Acre," where reposes the dust of many of the early settlers of South Jersey.


"Lying so silent by night and by day."


From the bridge the tablet of Maskell Ewing can be plainly seen through the pal-


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ings of the new iron fence, that the present inhabitants have recently placed around the old historic ground. It is one of the oldest cemeteries of South Jersey. If you enter the grounds you will find sixteen large tablets, most of them erected over one hundred years ago, some much longer. Near the entrance two low tablets mark the resting places of Leonard and Rebekah Gibbon. They were interred at the Episcopal Church ground in the lower part of the village, but afterward removed to the Presbyterian Cemetery. They are crumbling slowly as the years go by. A short distance farther south two standing stones mark the resting place of Joel Fithian and wife. He was a Captain in the Revolu- tionary War. He also was one of the dis- guised Indians who burned the tea near the village landing. His stone bears this inscrip- tion, "Sacred to the memory of Joel Fithian, who departed this life Nov. 9, 1821, in the 7Ist year of his age. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and served his country in many important offices, and the church of Green- wich as a ruling elder, with zeal and fidelity. Reader, imitate his virtues, that your end may like his be peaceful." I recently held in my hand the very hymn book that Captain Joel Fithian used when he was elder of the church. It is in good condition and upon the cover is printed his name in large letters.


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of Thomas Maskell and wife. Upon many of the blackened standing stones, you will find the names of the first settlers-such as Holmes, Bacon, Brown and Dennis. There are countless numbers of those old "heroes," where the grass blade creeps, and the wild floweret is the only decoration. Were they not lieroes ? Wlien the sword of persecution was unsheathed in the Mother Country for religious opinion, did they not brave the fierce Atlantic gales, come to these shores, cut down the forest in the very face of the Indians, and prepared for us the broad fertile fields of Old Coliansey. "The fruit of their labors is our inheritance," and should we not cherish and protect and beautify these old cemeteries ?


Two centuries have passed away, and 110 stone marks the place where John Fenwick was buried. It is said "no man knoweth the place of his sepulchre." He requested in his will that his remains be interred at Fenwick Grove. For some reason this was not com- plied with; as he was buried in Sharp's bury- ing ground-long since abandoned for that use, and now nearly lost sight of. It is lo- cated near the present Alms House property of Salem County. If the ground could be desig_ nated, it would be a grateful deed for his de- scendauts and citizens of Salem and Cumber- land Counties to erect a monument to his memory.


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