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Elizabeth had four children, three sons and one daughter- John, Charles, Andrew and Margaret Sinnickson. John, the oldest son, is a physician, unmarried. Charles, the second son, married Caroline Perry, the grand-daughter of Jacob Hufty, of Salem. Jacob Hufty was a self-made man ; raised himself to distinction by his own exertions, and was Sheriff of the county of Salem at one time. I think that at the time of his death he was a member of Congress. Charles Sinnickson and his wife have two sons-Charles and Thomas Sinnickson. Andrew is Counseller-at-Law, he married Louisa Booth, of Reading, Penn- sylvania. They have two daughters. Margaret J., the daugh- ter of Thomas Sinnickson, married Thomas Jones Yorke, and has by him five children-Mary, Lizzie, Thomas J., Margaret and Caroline Yorke. Judge Sinniekson had the misfortune to lose his amiable wife when she was little more than middle age, some twenty years before his death. He was Judge of the court for many years ; was at one time a member of Congress ; and sustained an excellent character in the community in which he dwelt. He was a native of the township of Lower Penn's Neck, but resided in Salem for nearly eighty years.
John Sinnickson, the youngest son of Andrew and Margaret J. Sinnickson, was active both in body and mind. He, like his brother Thomas, was above common men in muscular strength. His first wife was Mary Howell, the daughter of Dr. Ebenezer C. Howell. She was considered an accomplished lady, and was unusually comely in appearance. John and his wife had four children-Harriet, Robert, Thomas and William H. Sinnickson. Harriet H. Sinnickson married in 1838, Jonathan Ingham, son of Samuel D. Ingham, of Pennsylvania, a man that stood high in his native state, and the possessor of superior abilities. At one time he was a member of Andrew Jackson's Cabinet. Jonathan and his wife have four children-George Trenchard, Sarah A., William Henry and Mary Rebecca Ingham. Thomas Sinnickson married Adeline Wood, daughter of John S. and Sarah Ann Wood, of Cumberland county ; they have two chil- dren-John and Mary Sinnickson. Robert and William Henry Sinnickson died unmarried. John Sinnickson's second wife was Rebecca K., the daughter of Clement and Rebecca Hall, by whom he had three children-John Howard, Mary E. and Clement Hall Sinnickson. J. Howard married S. E. Foreman, of Freehold, Monmouth county, by whom he had three children -Fanny, Harriet J. and John Foreman Sinnickson. Mary E. Sinniekson married Dallas Sinnickson before mentioned. Clem- ent HI. married Sarah M. Smith, daughter of Lewis P. and
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· Henrietta Hancock Smith. He is at the present time (1876) a member of Congress. Colonel John Sinnickson died in 1862, of a lingering disease, after an active and useful life. He was a farmer by occupation and resided the greater part of his life in the township of Lower Penn's Neck, on the property he inherited from his father. Some years before his death he removed to Salem, and at that place ended his days. He repre- sented his county in the State Legislature, and at one period of his life occupied a seat on the bench as Judge and Justice. Andrew Sinnickson's third wife was Sarah Sinnickson, widow of Andrew Sinniekson, the grandson of John Sinnick, the brother of Sinnick Sinnick. She was the daughter of Joseph Copner, and had one son by her first husband, named Sinnick Sinniek- son, who inherited a large real estate from his father, adjoining Fenwick Point, in Lower Penn's Neck. He married a young woman in Burlington county by the name of Bruer, sister of Richard Bruer. Sinnick Sinniekson and his wife had four children, named James, Joseph, Richard and Mary Sinnickson. Mary is deceased at this time, and was never married .- Richard removed to Cincinnati, and went into business with the Longworth family, in the manufacture of wine, and it is said became a millionare. James, I think, resides in Penn's Neek at this time. Andrew, 4th, and his wife, Sarah Copner Sinnickson, had one daughter, whose name was Ann Sinnickson. She subsequently married Sheppard Blackwood. They had four children-Joseph, Eliza, Jane and Margaret Blackwood. Eliza married Thomas D. Bradway, son of Thomas and Isabella Bradway, and had three children- Thomas, Charles and Isabella Bradway. Joseph Blackwood married a young woman by the name of Sheppard, a native of Cumberland county, and had several children. Jane Blackwood married Benjamin Acton, Jr., of Salem. From this union there were six children-Thomas W., Annie, Lizzie, Frank M., Louisa and Charles H. Acton. Thomas and Annie died single. Lizzie married Dr. B. A. Waddington, son of James Waddington; she is now deceased, leaving no offspring. Margaret Black- wood, the youngest daughter of Sheppard and Ann Blackwood, married Charles Cass Clark, the son of the late Dr. Clark, of Cumberland county ; they have two children-Charles C., Jr., and Emma Clark. Ann's second husband was John Simpson, of Salem, the son of James Simpson. John died recently at an advanced age, and was remarkable through a long life for his honesty of dealing with his fellow men and was greatly respected by his fellow citizens. His wife died a few
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years ago of a long and tedious disease. They had no issue.
Andrew Sinnickson's fourth wife was Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Thomas Norris, of Salem; they had two daughters- Rebecca and Sarah Sinnickson. Rebecca married Edward, the son of Judge John Smith and Temperance Keasbey Smith, They had three children-two sons and one daughter. Edward and family subsequently removed from Salem, to the western part of Pennsylvania, or to one of the Western States, I am not certain which. Joel Fithian, of Cumberland married Sarah ; they had two sons and three daughters. They removed to one of the Western States. Andrew Sinnickson was an ardent Whig. During the American Revolution he raised a company of men, commanded them at the battles of Trenton and Prince- ton. After the war was over he held a commission as Judge and Justice, and lived to an old age, and was greatly respected. His death occurred in 1819, much regretted by his large family. John Sinnickson, his brother and the youngest son of Andrew and Sarah Sinnickson, married Susan, daughter of Daniel Bil- derback. They had one son, Frank, who died a young man unmarried, and a daughter, Esther Sinnickson, who subsequently married Dr. Thomas Rowan, of Salem. They never had any children. John's second wife was a widow named Delfant, daughter of Dr. Jonathan McWright, of East Jersey. They had no issue. He died a widower at Biddle's hotel in Penn's Neck after a short illness, leaving to his heirs one of the largest landed estates in the county. Eleanor, the second daughter of Andrew and Sarah Sinnickson, married William Mecum. They had seven children-George, Andrew, Sarah. Margaret, Rebecca and Ellen Mecum. William, George and Ellen died unmarried; Andrew Mecum married Ann, daughter of James Wright. They had one son, James Wright Mecum, who subsequently married Lydia Ann Harrison. They have several children. Sarah Mecum had three husbands-Robert Clark, Captain Wil- liam Medham, of New Castle county, Delaware, and a third. She had no children. Margaret Mecum, daughter of William and Eleanor Sinnickson Mecum, married Antrim Connarroe, a descendant of Roger Connarroe, who emigrated from the county of Devonshire, England, and landed at Elsinborough Point in 1681, with his wife Elizabeth Stevenson, Connarroe and several other emigrants .* Roger and his wife settled at Salem, and at
* Roger spelled his name Conars. Isaac Conars, one of his descend- ants, removed to Burlington county in 1740. Thomas Connaroe, great- grandfather of the present George M., Esq., of Philadelphia, was the first, who changed the spelling to the present style.
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that town they ended their days. Some of their descendants afterward removed to Burlington county. Antrim and his wife Margaret Connarroe had one son and four daughters-George, Sarah, Mary, Margaret and Rebecca Connarroe. George, early in life, removed to the city of Philadelphia. His wife is Char- lotte West; they have three children-George, Maria an Ellen. When quite young he displayed a natural genius for the fine arts, and has succeeded admirably in landscape and por- trait painting ; so much so that he is a credit to the county which gave him birth. Sarah Connarroe married Archibald Little, and had seven children. Mary Connarroe's husband was Abra- ham Johnson, the second son of James Johnson, of Lower Penn's Neck. They have three children. They removed to Erie county, Pennsylvania. Margaret's husband was George Rumsey, who, I think, was a native of Wilmington, Delaware. He came to Salem a young man, and after a few years became a successful merchant. He appeared to prosper in all his under- takings, and the public had great confidence in his judgment. He was elected Cashier of Salem Bank, which office he filled to the credit of the institution until the close of his useful life. George Rumsey and his wife Margaret had one son, Henry M. Rumsey, who married Maria, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bassett. Rebecca Connarroe married a young man by the name of Lawrence ; they had no issue.
Mary Sinnickson, the eldest daughter of Andrew and Sarah Sinnickson, and sister of Eleanor Mecum, married George Trenchard, Jr. I think they had two daughters-Jane, who died unmarried, and Rebecca, who subsequently married James Kinsey. They had no children, and ended their days in Salem at the residence where Jonathan Ingham lives at this time. Sarah, the youngest daughter of Andrew and Sarah J. Sinnick- son, married Dr. Samuel Dick, of Salem, New Jersey.
Among the patriotie men of the last century, who took an active part in troublous times of our country, was Dr. Samuel Diek, of Salem, New Jersey. Dr. Samuel Dick was of Scotch- Irish descent ; his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian min- ister, and resided in the north of Ireland. His father, John Dick, married Isabella Stewart, a Scotch lady of superior mind and enltivation. It is supposed that John Dick and his wife came to America between the years of 1730 and 1740. Samuel Dick, their third child, the subject of this memoir, was born the 14th day of 11th month, 1740, at Nottingham, Prince George's county, Maryland. His father, John Dick, in 1746 was settled in New Castle, Delaware, as minister of the Presby-
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terian Church in that place, and the churches in the vicinity, until his death in 1748. His son, Samuel Dick, was educated by President Samuel Finly, Governor Thomas M. Kean and Dr. McWhorten, and under their pupilage, laid the foundation of a classical knowledge, which few in our country have sur- passed. He spoke and wrote five different languages besides his own with ease and correctness-Hebrew, Greek, French, Spanish and Latin. His medical education, according to the State medical report, was received at one of the medical schools of Scotland. He served in Canada, in the Colonial army as Assistant Surgeon, in the French war, which was terminated in 1760, by the conquest of that province by the English, and was present at the surrender of Quebec. In 1770 he came with his mother to Salem, New Jersey, and settled there as a Physician, and purchased property on Fenwick street, corner of Walnut street, and there he ended his days; his descendants occupy it at the present time. It is an ancient and substantial brick build- ing built in 1730. In 1773 Dr. Dick married Sarah Sinnickson, the youngest daughter of Judge Andrew Sinnickson, of Penn's Neck. In 1776 he was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey, and was one of the committee of five appointed to prepare a draught of the Constitution of the State, and by that Congress was also given a commission as Colonel of the militia, in which character he was an active and zealous officer in the Revolutionary War. In 1780 Dr. Dick was appointed Surrogate of Salem county, by Governor Livingston, who highly esteemed him both as an officer and a man. This office he held for twenty-two years. In 1783 Dr. Dick was elected by the State of New Jersey to represent them in the Congress of the United States of America, and was a member of Congress when the treaty was ratified the 14th of 1st month, 1784, by which Great Britain acknowledged our independance. [See Journal of Congress, Vol. IX, page, 21, 22-30.] In the years 1783, 1784, 1785 was a member of Congress held at Annapolis, New York, and Philadelphia, and was selected by Congress with others, to transact important business. He was made one of the committee in 1784, consisting of Jefferson, Blanchard, Gerry, Howell, Sherman, De Witt, Dick, Hand, Stone, William- son and Read, to revise the institution of the Treasury Depart- ment, and report such alteration as they might think proper. He was also a member of the Committee of the States, to sit during the recess of Congress, consisting of some of the first men of the country as to talents and influence. He was also appointed by Congress on other committees, which showed
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the estimation in which he was held as to ability and integrity.
In private life Dr. Dick was greatly respected in word and deed, and was never known to speak ill of any person ; the latter is inscribed on his tomb stone in the Episcopal Church yard, in Salem, New Jersey. His character is described by one that knew him, in these words: "He was a man of brilliant " talents and great requirements, refined taste, and polished " manners, a skillful surveyor and physician ; a profound " seholar, a discerning politician and zealous patriot." He departed this life in Salem, 16th of 11th month, 1812, leaving a widow and six children ; their names were Sarah, Isabella, Anna, Samuel Stewart and Maria Dick; all of whom are deceased. His only descendants now living are the children and grand-children of his daughter Isabella, who married in 1804, Josiah Harrisson, a lawyer, now deceased. Josiah and Isabella D. Harrisson had four children, all of them were daughters. Maria and Henrietta Harrisson are single woman. Lydia Ann Harrisson married James W. Mecum; they have four children-George, Ellen, Maria H. and Charles Meeum. Julia Harrisson married Robert Carney Johnson ; they have one son-Henry Harrisson Johnson.
Sarahı, the daughter of Sinnick Sinnickson, Sr., married a person by the name of Pichard. It does not appear that she left any issue. Anna Sinnickson, Sarah's youngest sister, married a person by the name of Peterson, who was also of Swedish origin. They left children, but their record has not been handed down to the present generation. John Sinaker and his wife Ann Gilliamson Sinnickson had three children- Sarah, Elizabeth and Sinniek Sinnickson. The latter had one son, Andrew Sinnickson, who subsequently married Sarah Copner, daughter of Joseph Copner, of Lower Penn's Neck. They had one son-Sinnick Sinniekson. Reference to his wife and children have been made previously. Sarah Sinnick- son, the eldest daughter of John and Ann G. Sinnickson, married William Philpot; they had issue. Their two grand-
sons, William and Francis Philpot came into possession of a large landed estate, located in the township of Penn's Neck, bordering on Salem creek. They parted with it more than fifty years ago and left their native county and located in one of the Southern States. Elizabeth Sinnickson, sister of Sarah Philpot, married Dennis Murphy ; they had three children- John, Sarah and Catharine. Her second husband was Robert MeCasson, and had three children-Joseph, Margaret and Mary McCasson. Elizabeth's third husband was Richard Fitz-
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gerald ; there was no issue. John Murphy, the son of Dennis and Elizabeth S. Murphy, died a young man unmarried. His sister Sarah married John Powers, and had five children- Catharine, Eleanor, Samuel, Judith and Mary Powers. Cath- arine died young, leaving no issue. Eleanor married Thomas Dunn; the Dunn's are an old family in Penn's Neck. Soon after the revocation of the edict of the Nantes by the order of Louis XIV. in 1684, many Huguenots emigrated to this country to avoid religious persecution. There were two brothers, Zacchens and Thomas Dunn, most probably natives of one of the Rhenish Provinces, either Alsace or Lorraine, emigrated to this country. Zaccheus settled in the upper part of Piles- grove. He had a son Zaccheus Dunn, born 2d of 12th month, 1698. Seven of his children lived to grow up and rear families. Thomas Dunn, his brother, located himself in Penn's Neck, and had numerous descendants. He purchased 100 acres of land of William Penn in 1689, which was surveyed to him by Richard Tindell ; the said lands joined Hans Corneleus and widow Hendricks near Finn's Point. Thomas was a Calvinist, and some of his descendants with the Copners and other fami- lies organized the Presbyterian Church near Pennsville. Ilis brother Zacchens became a member of the Society of Friends. Thomas and Eleanor Dunn had three children-Sarah, Eliza- beth and Mary Ellen Dunn.
Samuel Powers' wife was Rebecca Hancock; they had five children-Catharine, Margaret, Georgiana, Atwood and John Powers. Judith Powers married Ephraim Shaw. They had issue. Mary, the youngest daughter of John and Sarah Powers, married John G. Elwell, they had one daughter-Elizabeth Elwell. Catharine, the youngest daughter of Dennis Murphy, married John Patterson, and their children were-Martin, Mar- garet, Elizabeth, Ann, William and Jane Patterson. Martin Patterson's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of David Fogg, for- merly a resident of Upper Alloways Creek. They have four daughters-Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret and Martha Patterson. Margaret, the daughter of John and Catharine Patterson, mar- ried John Callahan. Their issue was John, William and Sam- uel Callahan. Catharine's second husband was Richard Sparks. She had two daughters by her last husband-Jane and Anna Sparks. The husband of Elizabeth, daughter of John and Catharine Patterson, was Samuel Garrison. Their issue was one daughter-Hannah Garrison. Ann Patterson married Ja- cob Dubois, and left two children-John and Caroline Dubois. William Patterson, their second son, married Lydia Ann Good-
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win. They had three children. William's second wife was Mary Finlaw, by whom he had two children-Horatio and Lucy Patterson. Jane Patterson married Joseph Shourds. Their children are William and Sarah Shourds. William Murphy, the son of Dennis and Elizabeth Sinnickson Murphy, married a young woman by the name of Berry. Their children were Sarah, Elizabeth, Thomas and John Murphy. The Sinnickson family, for three generations after their settlement in New Sweden, married with the Scandinavian race. It is evident by the family record that their first connection in marriage with the English emigrants was with Thomas Miles. The Gill John- sons, who early connected themselves with the Sinnicksons by marriage, were Swedes. Circumstances clearly indicated that they were of the first families that settled at the mouth of the Christine. In 1693 there were two of that family resident in Penn's Neck, Erick Gill Jonsson and William Gill Jonsson as they spelled the name of Johnson at that period. The Sinnick- sons, as a family, have maintained a respectable standing for more than seven generations in this county.
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The Sheppard family is the most numerous of any, excepting the Thompsons, in the ancient county of Salem. There were three brothers-David, Thomas and John Sheppard; they came from Tipperary, Ireland. On their arrival in America, they probably resided for a short time at Shrewsbury, East Jersey. In 1683 they settled in what is now Cumberland county, on the South side of the Cohansey, it being a neck of land bounded on the north by the Cohansey river, on the south by a small creek called Back creek. It is not improbable that they gave it the name of Shrewsbury Neck, after the township in East Jersey, where they first settled. The Sheppard family, I have no doubt, were English ; their name implies as much. The Sheppards were members of the Baptist Church of Cleagh Keating, in the county of Tipperary, Ireland. They were also among the few persons that organized the First Cohansey Baptist Church, in 1690, at Shrewsbury Neck. David Sheppard's first known purchase was fifty acres of land of Captain William Dare, he afterward purchased fifty acres, on which he lived and died. I have no doubt he became the owner of a large quantity of land in the Neck.
The Sheppard, Westcott and Reeves families, during the last century and the fore part of the present, were the principal owners of Back and Shrewsbury Necks. David Sheppard, Sr., agreeable to the most authentic account, had six children-David, born as early as 1690; John, Joseph, Enoch, Hannah and Eliza- beth Sheppard. Hannah married a young man named Gilman. She died 1722, leaving one son-David Gilman. John, the son of David Sheppard, Sr., died about the year 1716, without issue, leaving his property to his brothers and sisters. David, the son of David Sheppard, the emigrant, was born about the year 1690, and inherited the homestead property of his father, in Back Neck. He married about 1719. The children of David Sheppard, Jr., and his wife, Sarah Sheppard, were Philip, born 1720; Ephraim, born 1722; David, 1724; Joseph, 1727, and Phebe Sheppard. Philip, the eldest, inherited a large landed
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estate in Back Neck, on which he resided. The property is now owned by one of the heirs of the late Ephraim Mulford. Philip was twice married, his first wife was Mary -, his second Sarah Bennett. He was considered one of the largest and most sue- cessful farmers in that neighborhood. Tradition has it that he was the first, in that section, that owned a covered wagon. I do not suppose that it was an elliptie spring carriage, but plain as it was I have no doubt it was considered by the inhabitants a great innovation. It was then the custom to travel on horse- back. Philip died 5th of 1st month, 1797, aged seventy-seven, leaving a large real and personal estate to his children. His widow, Sarah Sheppard, married John Remington, in 1801. Philip was buried in the Baptist cemetery, near Sheppard's mill; he was a deacon in the church, and was considered one of the most prominent citizens in that section of Cumberland county. The inventory of his personal property at the time of his death amounted to £580 and 6s. His children by his first wife, Mary, were Amos, Hannah, Mary and Naomi Sheppard. By his second wife Sarah B. Sheppard-Ichabod, Harvey, Phebe and William Sheppard. Ephraim, the son of David Sheppard, Jr., born 1722, was married three times. His first wife was Kesiah Kelsey; his second was Sarah Dennis; third, Rebecca Barrett. He lived in Hopewell township, on the road from Bowentown to Roadstown, and was owner of a large landed estate in that section; leaving at his death large farms to all four of his sons, all adjoining one another on the straight road from Bridgeton to Roadstown. He was a highly respected citizen, and like his brother Philip, was one of the deacons of Cohansey Church. Hedied 8th of 5th month, 1783, aged sixty years, and was buried in the Baptist yard adjoining the church, near Sheppard's mill, by the side of his wife Sarah Dennis, who died 21st of 1st month, 1777. She died in her fifty-first year. His third wife, Rebecca Barrett, survived him twenty years. She was buried at Shiloh, being a Seventh-day Baptist. Ephraim had ten chil- dren, all by his second wife, Sarah Dennis. The oldest was Joel, born 1748; Abner, born 28th of 5th month, 1750; James, born 25th of 12th month, 1752; Hannah and Rachel. Phebe married Wade Barker, who was the grandson of Samuel Wade, Jr., of Alloways Creek. She died young leaving no issue. Wade was buried in the old Baptist yard at Mill Hollow, near Salem. Sarah, Elizabeth and Hope Sheppard, who afterward married Reuel Sayre, were the other children. Sayre subsequently moved to the State of Ohio. Ephraim's youngest child was Ephraim Sheppard. David, the son of David Sheppard, Jr.,
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was born in the year 1724. He married Temperance Sheppard, daughter of Jonadab and Phebe Sheppard. They lived in the township of Downe, Cumberland county. He was a member of Cohansey church, as was also his wife, and both became constit- nent members of the Dividing Creek Baptist Church at its con- stitution, 30th of 5th month, 1761; at that time he became deacon of the church and afterwards a colleague of the pastor, Samuel Heaton. David Sheppard died 18th of 6th month, 1774, aged fifty years ; his widow subsequently married a man by the name of Lore. She was born in 1731 and died 28th of 7th month, 1796, aged sixty-five years; she and her first husband, David Sheppard, were buried at Dividing Creek Baptist grave- yard. The following are the names of David and Temperance Sheppard's children-Hosea, David, Owen, Jonadab, Tabitha, Temperance and Mary Sheppard. Joseph, the son of David Sheppard, Jr., was born in 1727; he married Mary Sayre. They lived in Back Neck, and owned a large quantity of good land, which he left to his children. I have been informed that most, if not all, of said land has now passed out of their possession. He also left a large personal estate for that time, amounting to £647 and 12s. He and his wife were members of the Cohansey Church. It seems he was a prominent man in that section. He was chosen 22d of 12th month, 1774, one of the Committee of Safety, for the county of Cumberland, to carry into effect the resolutions of the Continental Congress, and in whose hands rested the supreme authority after the war commenced, until the formation of the new State Government gave an organized power in New Jersey. He died 8th of 1st month, 1782, aged fifty-four years, and was buried on his own farm in an old family burying ground, now long disused. His wife, Mary Sayre Sheppard, died in 1790, aged fifty-eight years, and was buried in the same yard. Their daughter Lydia, also lies there; all three of them have tombstones at the head of their graves. This family graveyard is an exception to the general rule. It was the practice, in the early settlement of Fenwick's colony, to have family burying grounds, but the plow has passed over nearly all of them, so no man knoweth where many of our ances- tors lie. I have been informed that the ancient Swedish family, the Sinnieksons, cleared their old family graveyard a few years ago, in Obisquahasett, and their intentions are to keep it in good order-a noble deed. Dr. George B. Wood has likewise recently caused to be erected a monument to his great grand- father, Richard Wood, who died in 1759, in the family grave- yard in Stoe Creek township, county of Cumberland. Joseph
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