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Keziah, daughter of Job and Catharine Sheppard, married Wil- liam Kelsay. Robert Kelsay, their oldest son, followed the sea. Daniel, their second son, married Grace Bacon, and had one daughter, Tabitha Kelsay, who married a man by the name of Jerrell. They settled in one of the Western States. Daniel Kelsay's second wife was Lovisa Mulford. They had two chil- dren-Daniel Kelsay, Jr., who was a Baptist minister, and a pastor of Pittsgrove Church, and Maria Kelsay, who married Noah Flanagin, and removed West. Daniel Kelsay's third wife was Hannah, daughter of James and Keziah Sheppard. They had three children. Martha Kelsay, daughter of William and Keziah, married Jacob Richman, and lived in Greenwich, and had four children-Joseph, Jonathan, Lydia and Mary. Ruth, youngest child of Job and Catharine Sheppard, never married, but died about the age of twenty-two years.
Moses, son of Thomas Sheppard, the emigrant, was born in Fairfield township in 1698, and married in 1722, Mary, sister of Philip Dennis, of Bacon's Neck. Mary was born in 1701. They had six children-Rachel, born 1723; Nathan, born 1726 ; John, born 1730; Sarah, born 1732; Moses, Jr., born 1737, and Mary D., born 1741. Moses was a prominent member of the Baptist Church, but it is probable his wife inclined towards the Friends, as her brother, Philip Dennis, was an influential member of the Society, and a member of Cohansey meeting, as it was then called. John Sheppard, their son, born 1730, sub- sequently became a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and married in 1756, Priscilla Wood, the youngest daughter of Richard and Priscilla Wood, of Stoe Creek, Cumberland county. Priscilla was born 4th of 3d month, 1734. Mark Reeve, in 1689, sold his lot of sixteen acres, it being on the east side of the main street of Cohansey, adjoining the river, that he pur. chased of the executors of John Fenwick in 1684, reserving his family burying ground, where his wife, Ann Hunt Reeve, was buried. Joseph Browne, a merchant in Philadelphia, purhcased the property for £80, a considerable sum for such a small lot of land at that period. The said Joseph Browne died in Philadel- phia about the year 1711, leaving two sons-Joseph and Isaac. The eldest afterward lived on his father's property, in Cohan- sey, and a number of his descendants are at this time residents of Cumberland and Salem counties. Joseph's widow was Mar- tha Spicer, sister of Jacob Spicer, and was born in the state of New York on the 27th of 11th month, 1676. In the year 1714 she married Thomas Chalkley, an eminent minister of the Society of Friends, being his second wife. His first wife was
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Martha Betterson, of London, in which city they were married in 1699. She died in Philadelphia in 1711. Joseph's youngest son, Isaac, I believe, lived and died in London, England. Joseph Brown, Jr., conveyed the lot in Cohansey to his father- in-law, Thomas Chalkley, in 1738, and he to John Butler, who sold it to Thomas Mulford. In a short time Mulford sold it to William Conover, and in the year 1760 Conover sold it to John Sheppard, son of Moses and Mary Dennis Sheppard, and the property is still owned by the Sheppard family. John and Priscilla Wood Sheppard had six children, born as follows : Rachel, 2d of 7th month, 1762; Mary, 4th of 11th month, 1764 ; John, 29th of 1st month, 1767 ; Priscilla, 25th of 11th month, 1769; Richard in 1771; Sarah, 22d of 8th month, 1775, and Moses 3d of 2d month, 1777. John, son of John and Priscilla W. Sheppard, married Mary, daughter of Mark, son of Ebenezer Miller, deputy-surveyor for Fenwick's Colony, after the death of Richard Tyndall. John and his wife had ten children. Thomas R., born 29th of 4th month, 1789, inarried Letitia, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Wistar Miller, of Mannington. Thomas and his wife are deceased, leaving one daughter-Sarah Sheppard, second wife of Samuel P. Carpenter. Mark Miller Sheppard, born 12th of 1st month, 1791, never married, and died 15th of 5th month, 1876, in his eighty-sixth year. Charles R. Sheppard, born 10th of 2d month, 1793, died young. Benjamin Sheppard, born 14th of 3d month, 1795, married Mary R. Saunders, daughter of James Saunders, of Woodbury. Benjamin and his wife had eight children-Letitia, Samuel, Sarah, James, Morris, Mary, John and Anna. Charles Sheppard, born 24th of 2d month, 1798, married Rachel Redman Carpenter, daughter of William and Mary R. Carpenter, of Mannington. They had two children- William and Mary. The latter died young, and William Sheppard married a young lady named Zerns, of Pennsylvania. They live in Mannington. Priscilla Wood Sheppard, born 15th of 5th month, 1800, married John M. Reeve, of Burlington county. IIe was the son of Josiah' Reeve, a native of Shrews- bury Neck, below Cohansey, and great grandson of Mark Reeve, the emigrant. John and his wife Priscilla had ten children. The first wife of John E., son of John and Mary Sheppard, born 25th of 11th month, 1802, was Ann Elizabeth Wood, the eldest daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Bacon Wood, of Greenwich. Their children are George and Elizabeth. Elizabeth died young. George Wood Sheppard married Ruth, daughter of Moses and Ann Sheppard. They have issue. John
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E. Sheppard's second wife is Margaret Garrett. The Garrett family is one of the oldest English families that first settled in Pennsylvania. Their forefather came in the same vessel with William Penn, and landed at Chester in 1682. John and Margaret have three children-Philip G., Ann E. and Margaret. Clarkson, the son of John and Mary Sheppard, born 14th of 4th month, 1813, married Ann Garrett, daughter of Philip Garrett ; Clarkson and Annie have three daughters living- Rebecca C., Mary M. and Martha G. Clarkson's second wife was Lydia Warrington, of Burlington county. He is a highly esteemed minister of the Society of Friends. Richard, the son of John and Priscilla W. Sheppard, born 1771, married Lydia Foster, daughter of Josiah Foster, of Burlington county ; they had seven children. Moses, the son of John and Priscilla Wood Sheppard, married Rachel, the daughter of Charles and Rebecca Miller Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Greenwich township. Rachel Bacon's ancestors were among the first families in that part of the colony. Her father, Charles Bacon, was the grandson of John and Elizabeth Smith Bacon, one of the judges of the Salem Courts for a number of years. His wife, Elizabeth, was the youngest daughter of John Smith, of Smithfield, and Rachel's mother was the youngest daughter of Ebenezer Miller, Sr .; she was born in the town of Greenwich, 17th of 3d month, 1747. Moses and his wife, Rachel B. Sheppard, had two children-Moses and Beulah ; the latter died young. Moses, the son of Moses and Rachel B. Sheppard, married Ann, the daughter of Job and Ruth Thompson Bacon ; they had three daughters, as follows-Ruth, who married Goorge B. Sheppard ; they reside in Stoe Creek township. Rachel, who married Job, the son of John and Ann Bacon, of Bacon's Neck; Rachel is deceased, and left children, and Ann, who is not married. Moses' second wife was from West Chester, Pennsylvania ; they had no issue.
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John Seull emigrated from Long Island about 1690, in com- pany with others, who took up large tracts of land along the sea shore. He was called a whaleman; and a number of per- sons at that time followed the business of catching whales from Sandy Hook to the Capes of Delaware; whales, at the first set- tling of Jersey, being numerous enough to make the business profitable. At the present time they are rarely seen. John Scull was the owner of a large tract of land not far from Great Egg Harbor. John Fothergill, an eminent minister of the Society of Friends, visiting the provinces in 1722, writes that he had a religious meeting at the house of John and Mary Seull, at Great Egg Harbor, which was well attended. Thomas Chalkly also mentions having a meeting at Jolın Scull's house in 1725. John and his wife had thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters. John, their eldest son, was stolen while an infant, by the Indians, and was never recovered. They likewise had a son named John Recompence Scull, who lived to a great age. The tribe of Indians who lived around Great Egg Harbor, belonged to the Delawares, or Lenape or first people. In the year 1758 the celebrated Indian Chief, Isaac Still, claimed land from the mouth of Great Egg Harbor river to the head branches, except the Somers', Steelman's and Scull's tracts of land. John Scull owned 550 acres of land, purchased of Jacob Valentine ; it being on Patounk creek. He died 1745. His son, Gideon Scull, married Judith Bellanger. The Bellanger family, which name has been corrupted into Bellangee, came from the prov- ince of Poitou, in France, and emigrated first to England and from thence to America, between the years 1682 and 1690. In the early work of French Heraldy, the name is written de Bel- linger. The arm borne by them, are given with very emblazon- ment, and a shield, azure, with a chevan. This coat of arms has been in possession of the family in New Jersey, since their first arrival in America, and was given by Judith Bellangee to her niece, the late Hannah Smith, of Woodstown, whilst on a visit to Philadelphia, sixty years ago; and by her given to her
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grandson, Smith Bowen, of Philadelphia. Judith Bellange and her sister Christiana, who married Daniel Shourds, lived to be over ninety years of age. The father of Ives Bellange was shot during the dragonnades of Louis XIV., and his wife and five children fled for refuge to the caves and forests of their native province, where they were concealed for several months, until an opportunity presented for them, in company with others, of escaping to England, most likely to Dover, as in the year 1687 Theophilus Bellanger arrived there out of France, as the record states. By reason of the late trouble, yet continuing in the same year, the name of John Delaplaine, linen weaver, is also found among the records, as living as a refugee, at Dover, and it is likely he proceeded to America in company with the Bellange family. Ives Bellange, a weaver, and Christiana Delaplaine, a spinster, were married in 1697, at Friend's meeting, on Market street, Philadelphia. Among the witnesses of their marriage were James and Hannah Delaplaine, and thirty-nine others. There were others of the name of Bellange besides Ives in America at that time. James Bellange, in 1696, appears to have been a Friend residing in Burlington, New Jersey, where he held some town lots. There was a Henry Bellange, who, in 1684, located 262 acres of land in Evesham, Burlington county. The general opinion is, that Henry, James and Ives Bellange were brothers. This belief is founded on the tradition, that the Huguenot children emigrated to America. There is reason to believe that all the families in West Jersey, named Bellanger, are the descendants from those above named. The change in the orthography having taken place during the lapse of time. In the old records of London, it is stated that Adrian de Bel- lange, in the reign of James I., about 1622, was one of the house- holders, being strangers within the liberty of St. Marlins le Grand, London.
In the first report of the French Relief Committee in London, dated December, 1687, fourteen months after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, 15,400 refugees had been relieved during the year. Of these, says Weiss, the historian, of the Hugue- nots, 13,050 were settled in London, and 2000 in different sea- port towns, where they had disembarked 140 persons of quality, 143 ministers, 144 lawyers and physicians, traders and burghers, the rest artisans and workmen, for 600 of whom no work could be found, and they were sent to America. Ives Bellange and his wife, Christiana Bellange, soon after their marriage removed from Philadelphia to Egg Harbor. They had two children- James and Ives Bellange. James married 9th month, 1727, at.
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Great Egg Harbor, to Margery Smith, grand-daughter of Rich- ard Smith, the wealthy patentee of Smithtown, on Long Island. There is a tradition of the Smith family of Egg Harbor, that Richard Smith, the patentee, had nine sons, two of whom pur- chased lands at Great Egg Harbor and there resided. Three of their descendants about seventy years ago, David, Jonathan and Robert, died at Egg Harbor; but the latter's widow, Doro- thea, and her five children, removed to Salem county. James and his wife, Margery, had eight children-Phebe, Judith, Susannah, Christiana, Ruth, Margery, Thomas and James Bellange.
Phebe Bellange married John Ridgway, and had five sons and two daughters. Susan Bellange married John Ridgway, Jr .; they had five children. Christiana Bellange married Daniel Shourds ; she died in 1822, aged ninety years, leaving six child- ren. Ruth Bellange married Job Ridgway; they had five children. Thomas Bellange married Mary Barton ; there were six children. James Bellange married Grace Ingle. Gideon Senll, son of John and Mary Scull, born in 1722, married Judith, the second daughter of James Bellange ; they had four sons and six daughters. They died in 1776, of the small-pox, which disease they contracted while attending Salem Quarterly Meet- ing. William Lawrence, the second of the brothers, born in Hertfordshire, England, in 1623, emigrated under the charge of Governor Winthrop, Jr., to New England, with his elder brother, John Lawrence, in the ship Planter, in 1635. The younger brother Thomas Lawrence came to America. William Lawrence removed to Long Island, and became one of the patentees of Flush- ing, in which town he resided during the remainder of his life, dying in 1680, leaving a large estate-his own plate and personal property alone being valued at £4,430. His second wife was Eliz- abeth Smith, a daughter of Richard Smith, before mentioned. His son William, by his first wife, married in 1680, Deborah Smith, the youngest sister of his father's second wife, Elizabeth. By this marriage they had, among other children, Samuel, who married Mary Hicks, living at Black Stump, Long Island. They had nine children, the youngest of whom was Abigail, born 14th of 3d month, 1737. She married at Newtown, Long Island, in 5th month, 1758, to James James, of Philadelphia. She died at Woodstown, 6th of 5th month, 1770, and was interred in the Friends' burying ground at that place. James James died at Sculltown, 16th of 5th month, 1807, aged seven- eight years. James and Abigail L. James had five children. James James married Kerranhappuck Powell, who lived in Sunbury,
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Georgia ; they had three children. William died single in one of the Southern States. Abigail James married Judge Francis Child, of Morristown, New Jersey, where their descendants reside. Hannah married William Wayman, of Long Island, and subsequently moved to Woodstown ; they had five children. Sarah married Abram Canfield. Mary James married Daniel Harker, of Philadelphia ; they had one child-Abigail. Sam- nel Lawrence James, the youngest child of James and Abigail L. James, married Mary Hall, the daughter of Colonel Edward Hall, of Mannington, grandson of William Hall, the emigrant, who was a Justice and the second Judge of the Courts of Salem county. Edward Hall's mother was Elizabeth Smith, grand- daughter of John Smith, of Almsbury, who died at his grand- daughter's in his one hundred and seventh year. He landed at Salem in company with John Fenwick, in 1675. Samuel and Mary James had eight children; the eldest was Clara, who married David Reeve, of Bridgeton, and subsequently removed to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania ; they had one son-Samuel, and three daughters-Mary, Rebecca and Emily Reeve. Hetty James, the second daughter of Samuel L. and Mary H. James, married Josiah, the son of Richard and Elizabeth W. Miller ; they had three sons-Richard, Samuel L. J. and Wyatt W. Miller. Hetty was the second wife of David Reeve. James James, the eldest son of Samuel, married Beulah Arney, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, daughter of Daniel Arney. They went to Tennessee. They had children, one of whom, Samuel James, married a daughter of a large cotton dealer, in Louis- iana. The fourth child of Samuel and Mary James was Samuel, who lives in Missouri, unmarried. The fifth child, Sarah, married Joseph Pierson, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana ; they had children. After the death of Pierson, she married David Reeve, being his third wife. Caroline James, the sixth child, married Robert Buck, of Bridgeton. He is one of the proprietors of the nail and iron works of that city. They have several children. Edward, the seventh child, married and lived in Missouri ; they had several children. Mary Hall James, the eighth child, I believe, remained single.
Gideon Seull, the grandson of John Scull, was born at Great Egg Harbor, in 1756, married Sarah James, the eldest child of James James, 29th of 4th month, 1784. Gideon sold his share of the patrimonial estate to his brother, Mark Scull, and removed to Salem county to Lockheartstown, being the Swedish name of a place on Oldman's Creek; and at that place he followed the mercantile business. It was called Sculltown for upwards of
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sixty years, but has been changed to Auburn. Gideon and his wife had nine children, the eldest was Abigail, who died young. The second child was named Abigail, who died in Philadelphia, in 1867, at an advanced age; she never married. James Scull died at sea in 1820. Gideon Scull married Lydia Ann Rowen, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Rowen, Sr., by his last wife; they had five sons and five daughters. Gideon was an enterprising business man. He and Samuel Clement were in the mercantile business together on Market street, Salem, for a number of years, and their's was the leading store in the town at that time. He subsequently removed to Philadelphia and went into the wholesale grocery business ; the firm was known as Thompson & Scull. Paul, the third son of Gideon and Sarah J. Scull, mar- ried Hope Kay, whose parents resided near Woodbury. Paul and his wife lived on the Plainfield farm, as it was called, located about two miles from Woodstown. He was considered one of the greatest agriculturalists in the county, energetic and full up in all the modern improvements in the way of fertilizing the exhausted virgin soil. He died before he was far advanced in life, with pulmonary disease, and his death was a public loss. He had one son and three daughters. Offly, the fourth son, died young; Sarah, the third daughter, died single, in the city of Philadelphia. David, the fifth son, married Lydia, the daughter of Joshua and Esther Davis Lippincott, in 1823. She was born in 1801, and died in 1854. They had eight children; three sons and five daughters, who are all living except two, who died young. Their names are Caroline, Gideon Dela- plaine, Hannah, Jane Lippincott, Lydia L., David, Jr., Edward Lawrence, and Mary Scull. Hannah, the youngest child of Gideon aud Sarah J. Scull, married William Carpenter, Jr., the son of William and Mary P. Carpenter, of Mannington; she died the first year after her marriage, leaving no issue. David Scull's second wife is Hannah D., daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Bacon Wood, formerly of Greenwich, Cumberland county.
Gideon Scull, before mentioned, was born in 1756, and died in 1825, aged sixty nine years ; and his wife, Sarah J. Scull, born in 1759, died in 1836, aged about seventy-seven years. She was a recommended minister in the Society of Friends. The family belonged to Pilesgrove Monthly Meeting. David Scull, their youngest son, born in 1799, left his native place, Sculltown, many years ago, together with his family, and went to Philadelphia, where he kept a wholesale wool store on Market street. His business capacity, and close application to business, enabled him
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to acquire a competency, and he has retired from the business, two of his sons having taken his place. Caroline, the eldest daughter of David and Lydia Scull, died young. Gideon Dela- plaine, the eldest son, born in 1824, married in 1862, Anna Holder, of England. They have two children-Walter Dela- plaine Scull, born in Bath, England, and Edith Maria Lydia Scull, born at Great Malvern, England. At this time G. D. Scull and family reside at the Laurels, Hounslow Heath, near London. Hannah, the second daughter of David and Lydia Scull, remains single. Jane Lippineott, the third daughter, married William D. Bispham ; they have one son-David Seull Bispham. Lydia Seull, daughter of David and Lydia Seull, died young. David Seull, Jr., married Hannah Coale, of Baltimore, who is deceased ; she left one son-William Ellis Seull. Edward Lawrence Scull is single, and is in business with his brother David, on Market street, Philadelphia. Mary, the youngest daughter of David and Lydia Scull, married Paschal Harker; they have no issue.
SMITH AND DARKIN FAMILIES.
The original name of Elsinborough township was Elfsborg, called thus by the Swedes. The name was derived from a fort that was erected on the south side of Assomhocking creek, so called by the Indians. The Swedes named the stream Varick- enkill, but it was afterward called by Fenwick's colony Salem creek. The fort alluded to was built in 1643, by order of Gov- ernor Printz. Ferris, in his history, of the early settlement on the Delaware, which is the most reliable that I know of, says it was ereeted on the south side of the creek, at its junction with the Delaware river. If that is correct, which I have no reason to doubt, the month of the creek must have been a mile or more further down the river than it is at the present time. The Swedes made no permanent settlement there. After they abandoned their fort, which took place in 1651, their settlement was further np and on both sides of the Delaware river; on the Jersey side as far as the month of Raccoon creek, on the oppo- site shore from the mouth of Christiana creek to Weccacoe, where Philadelphia is now located. The first English settle- ment in the county of Salem was in Elsinborough, on a point of land which now belongs to Amos Harris, and to William, Joseph and Casper Thompson. The said point was called by the aboriginal inhabitants Assomhoeking point. An exploring company from New Haven, Connecticut, reached here in the year 1640. They were not over two years in this county, but whilst here they explored a stream about four miles below Salem creek, and named it Cotton river on account of the cotton wood that they found growing in the low ground along the shores of the stream. It is now known as Alloways creek. They were looked upon by the Swedes and Indians with con- siderable jealousy, and in the winter of 1642 an epidemic broke out among them, which they called the pleurisy, and more than half of their number died of the disease, and those that escaped returned in the summer to New Haven again. It does not appear that there was any other settlement in the township until John Fenwick arrived with his colony in the Spring of
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1675. Robert Windham, in the fall of the same year, purchased 1,000 arces of land of the proprietor, it being the same that the New Haven colony had partly eleared and left over thirty years before. The said land was bounded on the west by Salem creek, on the east by Alemsbury creek, south by John Smith's land, south-west by Middle Neck, as it was afterward named. Robert Windham and his wife lived there until their death, which took place about the year 1686, leaving one daughter. Her name was Ann Windham. She shortly afterward married Richard Darkin, who emigrated to this country from England in 1683. He seems to have been a man above medioerity, and rendered great assistance to the new colony in their civil affairs. He was likewise a consistent and useful member of the Society of Friends. Richard and his wife Ann Darkin had four chil- dren-Joseph Darkin, their eldest son, was born at Windham, near New Salem, Sth of 1st month, 1688; their daughter, Hannah Darkin, was born 3d of 9th month, 1691; their son, John Darkin, was born on the 9th of 6th month, 1694, and Ann Darkin was born 31st of 1st month, 1700. In 1717 John Darkin, son of Richard Darkin, married Sarah Thompson, daughter of Thomas Thompson. They had two children-Jale Darkin, born 11th of 10th month, 1718. She married John Nicholson, son of Abel Nicholson. John Darkin, son of John and Sarah Darkin, was born in 1720. The last mentioned John Darkin left no children, but left his Windham estate to his nephew, Darkin Nicholson. In the year 1719 Joseph Darkin, son of Richard Darkin, married Ann Smart, daughter of Isaac Smart. They had one daughter. Her name was Hannah, born 18th of 10th month, 1722.
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John Smith was the son of John Smith. He was born in the county of Norfolk, in England, 20th of 7th month, 1623. The said John Smith married Martha Craffs, daughter of Christo- pher Craffs, of Northamptonshire. They were married in 1658. The following are the names of their children born in Eng- land: Daniel Smith, born 10th of 12th month, 1660; Sam- nel Smith, born 8th of 3d month, 1664; David Smith, born 19th of 12th month, 1666, and Sarah Smith, born 4th of 12th month, 1671. John Smith, his wife and children, sailed for West New Jersey, in America, on board the ship Griffith, Rob- ert Griffith being master, and landed at a place they called New Salem, 23d of 6th month, 1675. The names of their children born in this country are as follows :- Jonathan Smith, born in New Salem, 27th of 10th month, 1675 ; Jeremiah Smith, born at Alemsbury, 14th of 9th month, 1678. John Smith
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