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Joseph Stretch, 3d, born 3d of 9th month, 1732, married Sarah, daughter of Joseph Ware, 3d. She was born 2d of 8th month, 1737. They had issue-Jael, born in 1762, and Martha in 1763. Samnel, the son of Joseph and Sarah Stretch, born 8th of 7th month, 1736, had two wives; their maiden names do not appear in the family records. The issue by his first wife was Joseph Stretch, who subsequently married and left one son -Jonathan Stretch. Samnel by his second wife had two sons -Samnel and Luke Stretch. Samuel died a young man un- married, and devised all the estate he inherited from his parents to his brother Luke. The latter subsequently married Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Mary Street Fogg. Luke and his wife had three children, two of them died young during the lifetime of their parents. The other son, Aaron, became possessed of a considerable estate, which had belonged to his parents. He died young, and leaving no near relations of the Stretch family, excepting the issue of Joseph Stretch, half brother to his father, there originated a long contested law controversy for the pos- session of the property. The real estate was taken possession of by Jonathan Stretch, a son of the half blood of Luke Stretch. The personal property was decided by the legal adviser to belong to Joseph Fogg, he being an own brother of Sarah F. Stretch, the decedent's mother. The real estate, I believe, was finally decided to belong to David Stretch, he being a descend- ant of the oldest male line of Samuel Stretch, and from him to his son Nathaniel.
Sarah Stretch married Samnel Test in 1768. They lived on a small property she inherited from her parents, about a mile below Hancock's Bridge, containing about 50 acres. They had issne, two sons. Samuel, the eldest, was born in 1768, and learned the hat business. His brother Mark, I think, married Dorcas Keasbey. The property after their parent's death was divided equally between the two brothers. Samuel's share was where his parents lived ; Joseph Brown is at the present time the owner. It appears that Samuel Test, soon after the death of his parents, sold his estate to Barzilla Jeffers, and removed to Indiana, and settled in Richmond, which at that time was a small village, and there he followed his trade the greater part of the remainder of his life, and acquired a competency. IIe was a leading member in his middle and old age of the largest Society of Friends on the Continent of North America-the Indiana Yearly Meeting. After he reached nearly four-score years he made a pilgrimage to his native State and county, and in company with his friend, the late Josiah M. Reeve, visited
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the house in which he was born, located in Alloways Creek township. We can well imagine his emotions as he went from room to room of the home of his youth. It doubtless brought back pleasing remembrances of his affectionate parents as he again stood in that ancient building where he first uttered that endearing name, mother, which the good and wise in all ages have delighted to venerate. When he looked around his native home, and the generation of men he was familiar with in the days of his youth, he realized that the friends and neighbors of his parents had gone to their final home, and had been succeeded by another generation whom he knew not. Such a visit and his own reflections were amply sufficient to repay him for the long and toilsome journey to his native home. I have been informed he lived but a short time after he returned. Of his immediate family I have no means of knowing. His brother Mark and his wife Dorcas Test had one son-Mark. He sold the estate he inherited from his parents more than forty years ago to Morris Hancock, and settled near his uncle Samuel in the vicinity of Richmond, Indiana.
Jonathan, the son of Joseph and Deborah Stretch, born 8th of 8th month, 1737, married Hannah, the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Ware, born 4th of 7th month, 1739. They had issue, seven children The eldest was Sarah, who was born in 1759, David, Deborah, Mark, Elizabeth, Rebecca and Jonathan. Hannah W. Stretch, their mother, departed this life 18th of 12th month, 1775. Jonathan Stretch's second wife was Eliza- beth Fogg. They had issue-Hannah Stretch. David, the son of Jonathan and Hannah Stretch, born 25th of 5th month, 1762, married Mary, the widow of Joseph Fogg. Her maiden name was Mary Street, and she held a large tract of land in her own right located near the village of Canton. David and his wife had six children-Hannah, Jonathan, Nathaniel, David, Mark, and Jael. David's second wife was Rachel Baker, of Manning- ton. She was a widow, the daughter of Jedediah Allen. David and his second wife had no issue.
Hannah, the daughter of David and Mary Stretch, was born in 1778. Her first husband was Joseph Keasbey ; there was no issue. Her second husband was Andrew Smith. They had four children-Mary, Hannah, Catharine and David. The latter married Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of Thomas and Rachel Hancock. They had issue-Morris and Sarah Smith. Mary, the daughter of Andrew and Hannah Smith, married Charles, son of Thomas Reeves. Charles B. and his wife had issue-A. Smith, Elizabeth and Thomas. A. Smith Reeves married Mary,
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the daughter of Richard and Lucetta Mulford ; they have issue. Hannah, the daughter of Andrew and Hannah Smith, married Hiram Harris. They have two children-David and Catharine. Catharine, the youngest daughter of Andrew and Hannah Smith, married Amos, the son of Stretch and Rebecca Harris. They have two children-Rebecca and Stretch Harris.
Jonathan, the eldest son of David and Mary Stretch, born in 1790, married Elizabeth, the daughter of Jesse and Mary Carll; they had no issue. His second wife was Hannah Shep- pard. He died not long after marriage, leaving no offspring. His widow subsequently married Dr. David Jayne. Nathaniel the son of David and Mary Stretch, was born in 1792. His first wife was Susan, the daughter of Solomon Dubois. By that connection there were three children-Mary Ann, Sarah F. and Susan. (The last mentioned child died young). Mary Ann Stretch, born in 1815, married Abner, the son of Washington and Mary Smith. Abner and his wife had one daughter-Su- san, who married Charles Hires ; they have three sons. Nathan- iel's second wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of John Harris. The said John Harris served as a soldier during the whole of the Revolutionary war, and was in the regular army the winter that Washington and his army lay at Valley Forge. He mar- ried after he returned home, and he and his wife had four chil- dren-Benjamin, Lydia, Elizabeth and Clara. Nathaniel Stretch has been deceased for several years, leaving a widow, but no issue by his last wife.
David, the son of David and Mary Stretch, was born in 1795. His wife was Sarah, the daughter of Moses Hadley ; by that connection there were five children-George, Aaron, Jonathan, Lydia Ann and Mary. The wife of George Stretch was Mary, the daughter of David S. English. Aaron and Jonathan Stretch removed in early life to Nashville, Tennessee. Lydia Ann Stretch married William H. Nelson ; he died several years ago leaving a widow but no issue. Mary, the youngest of David and Mary Stretch's children, married Richard Sailor. She is a widow at this time, her husband having been deceased for a number of years. Mark, the youngest son of David and Mary Stretch, was born in 1797. He, in after life, married Elizabeth, the daughter of Jonathan and Joanna Hildreth. Mark and his wife had four children-Joseph, Mary, Elizabeth and Joanna. His second wife was Tamson Finley ; they had one daughter- Deborah. Mark is deceased, and his son, Joseph H. Stretch, lived beyond middle age. He died recently, leaving a large landed estate; he never married. Mary, the daughter of Mark
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and Elizabeth Stretch, married John H., the son of William Morris, of Pilesgrove. John and his wife have one son-Wil- liam. The husband of Elizabeth, the daughter of Mark and Elizabeth Stretch, is William A., the son of Joseph Casper. They have issne-Hildreth, William J., Annie, Elizabeth and John. Joanna, the daughter of Mark and Elizabeth Stretch, married Charles B. Reeves. She was his second wife, and by that connection there were two sons. Joanna is deceased at this time. Jael, the youngest daughter of David and Mary Stretch, born in 1799, married David, the son of George Grier, Sr. She was his second wife, (his first wife was Lydia, the daughter of Jonathan and Joanna Hildreth, who left no issue.) David left two sons by his last wife,-George and Richard Grier. George, the eldest, died a minor. Richard subsequently married Amanda, the daughter of David and Mary Davis, of Pilesgrove. Jael's second husband was William II., the son of Davis and Francis Nelson. She was a dutiful wife, and an affectionate and loving mother. She died many years before her husband, leaving no issue by the last marriage.
Joshua, the son of Joseph and Deborah Stretch, born 28th of 12th month, 1740, married Lydia, the widow of Paul Denn, and daughter of John and Mary Stewart. They were married at Alloways Creek in 1762, and had three children-Job, Mili- cent and Elisha Stretch. Job, the eldest son, was born 6th of 12th month, 1763. I think he died a young man unmarried. Milicent was born 10th of 11th month, 1766, and married James Hance ; she died not many years after that event, and left no issue. Elisha, the son of Joshua and Lydia Stretch, was born 17th of 12th month, 1768. His wife was Sarah, the daughter of William and Mary Ware Bradway. They had eight children, three of whom died young ; Mary, Joshua, Wil- liam, Ann and Job Stretch all lived to mature age. Mary, the eldest, married Mark, the son of Mark and Martha Bradway. She lived but a short time after marriage, leaving no issue. Joshua married Elizabeth, the daughter of Waddington Brad- way, Sr. There was one son by that connection, Joshua Stretch, who studied medicine, and practiced his profession in Salem for a time. He married Lydia, the daughter of Mark Bainer, of Philadelphia. He left Salem and removed to Phila- delphia, where he died soon after of that insidious disease so destructive to the human family, pulmonary consumption. He left a widow and two or three children. His father, Joshua Stretch, was remarkable for his high moral character. For a number of years he taught school in Salem with great credit to
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himself, and with the approval of those who patronized him. William, the second son of Elisha and Sarah Stretch, learned the tailoring business, and followed it after he became of age in Salem. He was very proficient in his calling, and his cus- tomers were the best in the town and connty. Toward the close of his life he left Salem with his family and removed to Jersey City. He married several years before he left Salem, but the name of his wife I have never learned. He died not long after, leaving several children.
Ann, the youngest daughter of Elisha and Sarah W. Stretch, married John D., the son of Mark and Elizabeth Stewart. They had seven children-Elizabeth, Charles, Elisha, Sarah, James, John and Ann. Elizabeth, the eldest, died before her mother, who died in 1857, aged over fifty-two years. Charles, Elisha, Sarah, James and John died soon after they had arrived to the age of maturity-a time when life is full of hope and pleasure-leaving behind an aged and kind father and a beloved sister to mourn their untimely end. Job, the youngest son of Elisha and Sarah Stretch, was apprenticed to his brother Wil- liam to learn the tailoring business, and he followed that occu- pation in Salem during the remainder of his life. His wife was Catharine, the daughter of Jolin Nicholson, a lineal descendant of the fifth generation of that eminent Friend, Samuel Nichol- son, who in 1675 emigrated to this country in company with John Fenwick and his family from the connty of Northampton- shire, England. Job and his wife Catharine had three children -Eliza, Charles and Mary. Eliza, I have been informed, mar- ried Joseph Panl ; they reside in Philadelphia. Mary Stretch's husband is John P. Moore, who keeps a hardware store on Market street, in the city of Salem. He was a partner several years in that business with the late Thomas W. Cattell, the father of Alexander G. Cattell. Job Stretch, the father of the above mentioned children, died a number of years ago of con- snmption, which is hereditary in his mother's family. Elisha Stretch's second wife was Mary, the widow of Ezra Bradway, the daughter of James Denn. They had three daughters- Beulah, Mary and Sarah. Benlah, the eldest, married Nathan Kiger; by that connection there were four children-Alfred, Mary, Anna and Nathan. Her second husband is Simon Wal- len. Mary, the second daughter of Elisha and Mary Stretch, died a young woman, unmarried. Sarah, their youngest daugh- ter, married Joseph Mitten. I think they are at this time resi- dents of California.
Rachel, the daughter of James and Elizabeth Stretch, married
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Jonathan Butcher. She died in early life, leaving one daugh- ter, Ruth Butcher, who subsequently married George Grier, Jr., the son of George and Rebecca Ware Grier. I shall digress somewhat to mention the families that organized the first Presbyterian Church in Lower Alloways Creek. Richard Moore came from Pittsgrove and purchased land near what was called Logtown about 1840. He had five children-Robert, Joanna, Rebecca, Mary and Hannah. Robert, Jr., married and died young, leaving two children-Richard and Rebecca. Jo- anna Moore married Jonathan, the son of Joseph Hildreth. They had five children-Lydia, Hannah, Elizabeth, one who married Joseph Corliss, (being his first wife,) and Jonathan Hildreth, Jr. Rebecca married George Grier, and had three sons-Richard, George and David. Mary Moore married Solo- mon Dubois; they had three or four children. Hannah Moore married Daniel, the son of Peter Stretch ; they had several children which I shall mention hereafter. These families, to- gether with the Sayres, Woodruffs and Padgetts, were the principal families which constituted the Presbyterian congrega- tion. The church stood on the old road leading from Han- cock's Bridge to the village of Canton, a short distance below Harmersville. They also purchased a lot of ground for a grave- yard adjoining the Baptist graveyard at the present time. I have been informed that both yards are enclosed with one fence. The Presbyterian church was reduced to one or two families at the beginning of this century, and they finally abandoned it, and the house was removed after standing little over half a century.
George and Ruth B. Grier had five children-Richard, the eldest, died a young man unmarried ; Jonathan B., Rachel, Rob- ert and Charles. Jonathan B. Grier married Lydia, the dangh- ter of David and Hannah Fogg. I think they have five children- David, George, Rebecca, Anna and Jonathan B. Grier. David Grier married Gulielma, the daughter of Josiah and Sarah Engle, of Pilesgrove ; they have issue. George Grier married the daughter of Allen Wallace. Rebecca Grier, married James, the son of John and Hannah Lindsey, of Lower Penn's Neck ; they have issue. Anna Grier married Richard, the son of Ben- jamin and Mary Bassett ; they have issue. Jonathan, the young- est son, married Anna, the daughter of Samuel P. and Hannah Allen, of Mannington. Robert, the son of George and Ruth Grier, married Sarah, the daughter of William and Elizabeth Thompson, of Elsinborough. They have five children-Ruth, Georgiana, Abigail, Richard and William T. Ruth, their eld-
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est daughter, married Robert, the son of George and Hannah C. Boon. Georgianna married Joseph, the son of Aaron Lip- pincott, of Mannington. Rachel, daughter of George and Ruth B. Grier, married John, the son of Jesse and Ann Patrick. They had four children-Richard, George, Charles and Morris. Charles, the youngest son of George and Ruth Grier, died a young man unmarried. At the death of James, the son of Bradway Stretch, he devised his landed estate which he had inherited from his father (being one-half of Stoe Neck farm), to his daughter, Dor- cas Pancoast, and his granddaughter, Ruth Butcher, afterwards Grier. Samuel Pancoast and George Grier sold the said prop- erty to John Finley, who some years before had purchased one- half of the Bradway Stretch farm of John Stretch.
Peter Stretch was advanced in years when he married, and there is no definite record of the maiden name of his wife, but tradition says it was Temperance Howell, which I think quite probable. (She named a son by her second husband, Howell Hall.) Peter was a large landholder, and the greater part of his real estate was located near Hancock's Bridge, and was orig- inally the Christopher White estate. Peter, the son of Peter and Temperance Stretch, born 16th of 2d month, 1767, married, but died a young man, leaving issue-Elizabeth Stretch, who died a minor. Anthony, the son of Peter and Temperance Stretch, born 11th of 1st month, 1769, died at the early age of three years. Daniel, the son of Peter and Temperance Stretch, was born 7th of 9th month, 1770. Peter Stretch died about the year 1774, leaving a widow and two minor children-Peter and Daniel. Temperance, his widow, subsequently married Colonel Edward Hall, of Mannington, and they had two children-Sarah, born 9th month, 1779, and Howell, born 18th of 1st month, 1785. Temperance, their mother, died about 1787. Daniel, the son of Peter and Temperance Stretch, subsequently married Mary Stretch, a distant relative ; they had two sons-Peter and Robert. Peter Stretch died withont issue in 1797, and the large estate, both personal and real, descended to his brother Daniel. Daniel's second wife was Hannah, the daughter of Richard and Mary Moore, who was born 15th of 4th month, 1776. They had six children-Daniel, Clarissa, Edward, Ann, Richard and Temperance. Daniel and his wife Hannah died in 1813 at the village of Canton, while their children were all minors. His estate at the time of his death was larger than that of any other person living in the township. Peter, his eldest son, married Phehe, the daughter of Moses Hadley. They had six children- Emily, Elizabeth, Richard, Josiah, Wesley and Phebe. Peter
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and his wife are both deceased at this time, and most of their children died young. One of his sons, Wesley Stretch, I have been informed, resides in Philadelphia, and is concerned in the celebrated drug store of the late Dr. David Jayne, on Chestnut street.
Daniel, the son of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born 3d of 11th month, 1799, married Eliza Hadly, sister of his brother Peter's wife. They had two sons-Edwin and Richard. I think Edwin married the daughter of Joseph Boon; they have issue. Richard Stretch married Lydia, the daughter of Edward and Eliza Smith; they have several children.
Clarissa, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born 26th of 1st month, 1802, married Thomas Sinnickson, of Salem. They had issue, all of whom were noticed in the gene- alogy of the Sinniekson family.
Edward, the son of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born 3d of 7th month, 1804, married the daughter of William Nixon. There were three sons and one daughter by this union-William, Edward, Peter and Hannah. William married Mary Ann, widow of Robert Hancock, and the daughter of James Fisher. William and his wife have several children.
Ann, the daughter of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, born 11th of 9th month, 1806, married Josiah Paullin; they have issue-Anne, Josiah B., George M. and William Henry. Ann subsequently married William Hunter. George M. was a sur- geon in the army during the late rebellion, and is now a prac- tieing physician in Canton. He married Annie, the daughter of John H. and Elizabeth Lambert; they have issue. Richard M., the son of Daniel and Hannah M. Stretch, was born in 1809. He has for many years been in the mercantile business at Allo- waystown. He married Rebecca, the daughter of Robert and Anna Coe. They have four children-Charles, Anna, Robert and Mary. Charles married Hannah Gray, of Philadelphia ; they have issue. Anna married Benjamin I. Diament. Robert is connected with the West Jersey Express Company, in Phila- delphia.
Aaron, the son of Joseph and Deborah Stretch, born 14th of 10th month, 1746, married Elizabeth Reeves ; they had one son, Reeves, and two or three daughters. Aaron died a compara- tively young man. His widow afterwards married a man by the name of Mills, by whom she had two children-Joel and Keziah. Elizabeth's third husband was William Bradway, of Stoe Neck; they had no issue. Reeves, the son of Aaron and Elizabeth Stretch, married a Glaspey. They had five
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children-Job, Rachel, Sarah, Rosanna and Reeves. Job, the eldest son, married Rebecca, the daughter of Joseph Deal; they had issue. Elizabeth married Enoch, son of Richard Garrison, of Cumberland ; they have three or four children. Job Stretch, Jr.'s wife is Sarah, the daughter of Isaac and Martha Harris ; they have five children. Richard, the youngest son of Job and Rebecca Stretch, married Sarah, the daughter of Job Thorp. Job Stretch, Sr.'s second wife was Charlotte, widow of Jacob Dubois, and daughter of John Finley.
Reeves, the youngest son of Reeves Stretch, Sr., married the daughter of Richard Garrison. He died a young man, leaving three minor sons-Richard, Charles and Reeves. Rachel, the daughter of Reeves Stretch, married Daniel Barnes. Sarah, the second daughter of Reeves Stretch, married Elisha Bonham, the son of Justice Bonham; they had two or three children. She is deceased at the present time. Rosanna Stretch's husband was George A. Githens of Greenwich. They had five children -Hannah, Louisa, Cecelia, George A. and William H. George and his wife Rosanna Githens are deceased at the present time. Georgh A. Githens' wife is Martha, daughter of Richard and Lucetta Mulford. For several years past he has resided in Salem, and is in the mercantile business. Louisa Githens became the wife of Charles, the youngest son of Judge Ephraim Carll. She lived but a short period after her marriage, dying of pulmonary consumption, leaving one child. Hannah, her sister, has paid the debt of nature since of a similar disease. I think Cecelia is still living.
TYLER FAMILY.
The Tylers in this country are descended from an ancient English family. Their ancestors came with William, the Con- queror, into England, and fought in the battle of Hastings in 1066. They were residents of England for five hundred years. About that period there were three brothers, branches of the old English family, who emigrated to America. One settled in New England, one in the state of Virginia, (the ancestors of the ex-President, John Tyler), and the other, William Tyler, came to West Jersey about 1688, and purchased a large tract of land on the north side of Monmouth river of John Champney, being part of the 2,000 acres that John Fenwick deeded in 1676 to James Champney, and his wife Priscilla Fenwick Champney. William Tyler, whilst he was in his native country, married as nearly as can be ascertained in 1676, Johanna Parson. They had four children born in England as follows-Mary Tyler, at Walton, in the county of Somerset, 11th month, 1677; William Tyler, 5th of 7th month, 1680 ; John Tyler, in the 5th month, 1682, and Johanna Tyler in 1684. The following certificate given him by his friends in England show conclusively where his residence was in his native land: "Whereas, William Tyler, "of Walton, in the county of Somerset, Yoeman, intends to " transport himself and family into the province of Pennsylva- " nia, in America, if the Lord will, and has desired a certificate " on his behalf. We therefore, whose names are subscribed, do " hereby certify that the said William Tyler hath professed the " truth for several years past, and that we do not know but that " his conversation hath been answerable to his profession, and " that we do know that he hath been ready and willing to con- "tribute to the service of truth, as opportunity hath offered and " occasion required, and that as to his dealings with the world, " he has been punctual and of good report as far as any of ns " know or have heard, and we know nothing of debts or other " entanglements on his part but that he may with clearness " prosecute his intended voyage. In testimony whereof we " have herennto subscribed our hands. Dated the eleventh day
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" of seventh month, called September, in the year 1685. Signed " by Edward Chanyles, William Lidden, Thomas Howell, John "W. Ridder, and ten others." It is evident that William Ty- ler's wife, Johanna, lived but a short time after their arrival in this country. His second wife's first name was Elizabeth ; her maiden name I never heard. He had three children by Eliza- beth. Their oldest was named Catharine, who was born 13th of 6th month, 1690; their son, Philip Tyler, was born in the 6th month, 1692, and Elizabeth Tyler, 1694. William Tyler, the father of the above mentioned children, was a farmer, and likewise carried on the tanning business. He made his will in the 2d month, 1700, in which he bequeathed a large landed estate to his sons. The Champney property, where he resided, he left to his oldest son, William, it being about 400 acres, and to his second son, John Tyler, 800 acres sitnated in the lower part of Alloways Creek township, together with some other lands in the same township. The witnesses to the will were William Hall and John Firth. There appears no reliable record of any time of his death, but it is thought by the family to have occurred in 1701. Mary Tyler, daughter of William Tyler, Sr., inarried Abel Nicholson, the son of Sammel Nicholson. They had eight children-Sarah, Rachel, Joseph, William T., Ann, John, Ruth and Samuel.
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