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miller, and lives at Dickinson's Mills, near Woodstown. His son Charles is associated with him. Charles has been Collector of Pilesgrove township for some years. Asa married Patience Hurff, of Hurffville, Gloucester county. He is a farmer, and lives near Harrisonville; has six children-Anna, George, Charles, Mary, Rebecca, and Asa. Martha married Josiah Duffield, and lives near Sharpstown, Salem county; has three children-James, Benjamin, and Caroline.
Samuel M., the eldest son of William and Rebecca Coles, never married, but lives with his mother at Harrisonville .- Thomas R. Coles, first married Charlotte Watson, who had four children-Charles, Samnel, Henry and Marianna ; his second wife is Lydia, daughter of John Duell and widow of Stacy Coles; he is a farmer and lives near Paulding's Station, West Jersey Railroad. Rebecca, married Isaac C. Stevenson, they live at Wenonah, Gloucester county, and have two children -Charles and Sarah. William M. Coles, married Lydia, daughter of Samuel Duell ; he is a farmer living in Pilesgrove, and has five children-Ida, Cooper, Ella, Emma and Clarkson Coles, Martha married William Moore, they have four children. Richman married Lydia, daughter of Mark Horner ; he is also a farmer living on the homestead farm, and has two children- Ellen and Susanna ; Richman is now a member of the Legisla- ture of New Jersey. B. F. Coles, the youngest child of William and Rebecca Coles, married Katurah, daughter of S. II. Weatherby ; he is a merchant and lives at Englishtown, Monmonth county.
Harris, oldest son of Bartholomew Coles, married Mary Hurff. He is deceased, leaving several children. Thomas, the second son, died a young man. Us, the third son, first married Hannah Ballenger, and afterwards married Mary Ballenger. He is a farmer, living near Daretown, Salem county, and has five children-Jane, Isaac, Anna, Mary, and Sarah Coles. William, the fourth son, married Louisa Whitaker. He was a farmer, and died recently, leaving two children-William and Nancy Coles. Bartholomew, the fourth son of Bartholomew and Anna Coles, married Rebecca, the daughter of Malachi Horner, of Gloucester county. Hle is also a farmer, living near Whig Lane, in Upper Pittsgrove, and has six children-Anna, Edward, Eleanor, Martha Amy, George, and Stacy Coles. Chalkley Coles, first married Martha Ann, daughter of Joseph and Mar- garet Coles; his present wife is Elizabeth, daughter of James and Marianna Horner ; they have but one child living-Maggie. Joseph Coles first married Elizabeth, daughter of Asa Moore;
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afterwards married Postrema Groff; they have three children by his first wife ; he is a farmer and lives in Gloucester county. Stacy Coles married Lydia, daughter of Jolin Duell; he died and left one son-John D. Coles. Ira, ninth and youngest son of Bartholomew and Anna Coles, married Martha Ann Adcock; they have no children ; he is a farmer and lives where his father has lived for nearly sixty years.
Joseph, the oldest son of Samuel and Mariam Coles, married Harriet Bateman, of Blackwoodtown ; he is a farmer and has no children. Thomas Coles first married Sarah -.
She (lied and left two children ; he then married Eliza Kirkbride; she also died and left one child. Thomas lives at Blackwood- town. Lydia, the oldest child of Ephraim and Rebecca Coles, married George Carter ; she died and left several children. Hannah Coles married Richard Springer, of Bridgeport ; she is living a widow with several children. Eliza Coles married John Bishop ; they have a farm near Elmer, on which they live with three children. Lippincott Coles married Mary Duell and have two children. Charles Coles is married and lives in Indiana. Aaron Coles married Ella, daughter of Barclay Edwards ; has no children. Ephraim Coles married Mary Ann Kirby ; he was killed by the explosion of a steam engine ; left no children. Joseph Coles married a daughter of Joseph and Rachel Coles. Rebecca married Henry Coles and have chil- dren. Francis Coles married William, son of George Avis; he is a miller and lives at Daretown.
DAVIS FAMILY.
John Davis emigrated from Wales and settled in Long Island. He married Dorothea Hogbin, an English woman of large wealth. He belonged to the sect called Singing Quakers, worshiped daily on a stump, and was very pious and consistent. HIe lived to the extreme old age of one hundred years. A number of years before his death, he moved with his family to Pilesgrove township, Salem county, near where Woodstown is now located, about 1705. His eldest son, Isaac, came to New Jer- sey first; John soon after, with his family, also came. The latter and all his family subsequently became members of Friends' Meeting. Isaac, his eldest son, married and had one son, who was shot by accident or otherwise, not mentioned in the record; he also had two or three daughters. The names of John Davis' other children were John, David, Malachi, Abigail, Hannah, and Elizabeth; all born on Long Island. David Davis, the third son, became the most prominent of any of his sons, and his descendants are the most numerous. He was appointed, by the Legislature, a Justice of the Peace; an office at that time conferred only on those who had qualifications for the position, intellectually and morally. David was subsequently appointed Judge of Salem county Courts, and was one of the four Friends who assisted in organizing Pilesgrove Meeting, about 1724 or 5, previous to which time Friends in Pilesgrove were members of Salem Meeting. He certainly was a man who left his foot- prints on the sands of time. His wife was Dorothea Cousins, born in England, 19th of 11th month, 1693, and lived to the age of ninety-six years. David Davis, at the time of his death, was sixty years of age. David owned a large tract of land near the Presbyterian church of Pittsgrove. He built himself a large brick house on his property, which is still standing, and he resided there until his death. Thomas Chalkley writes that in 1740 he had a religious meeting at the house of David Davis, and benches were brought from a neighboring meeting honse. I presume it was the Presbyterian church, which was near by, and at that time was built of logs. He further states that the
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meeting was large, and the people were orderly. David and Dorothea Davis had seven children-Sarah, Mercy, Amy, Hannah, David, born 31st of 10th month, 1730; Abigail, born 20th of 9th month, 1732; and Jacob, born 22d of 4th month, 1734. Sarah, the eldest daughter, married William, the son of Andrew Griscom; they had two daughters-Hannah and Deborah. Hannah Griscom married a Clement; they had two daughters -Elizabeth and Sarah. Elizabeth Clement married James B. Cooper; they had one daughter-Hannah Cooper. Deborah Griscom married John Stewart, of Cumberland county, the son of John and Mary Wade Stewart, of Alloways Creek. She was his second wife, and survived her husband many years. Mercy, the daughter of David and Dorothea Davis, married Thomas Redman, of Haddonfield, being his second wife.
Amy, the danghter of David and Dorothea Davis, married John Gill, of Haddonfield ; they had six children. Mary, their eldest daughter, married a Roberts; Elizabeth Gill married a Burroughs ; they had issue. Amy Gill married a Willis; they had one daughter-Elizabeth Willis, who married Benja- min Cooper. Mercy Gill, the fourth daughter, married Samuel Abbott, of Elsinboro, Salem county, the son of William Abbott ; they had three children-William, Rebecca and Han- nah. Saralı Gill married a Whital, at Red Bank. John Gill, the son of John and Amy Gill, married Ann Smith; they had one son-John Gill, Jr., his wife is Sarah Hopkins; John is President of the National State Bank, Camden. Hannalı Davis, the daughter of David and Dorothea Davis, married Richard Wood 2d; he was the son of Richard and Priscilla Wood, was born 18th of 1st month, 1728, in Salem, now Cum- berland county. When he was married, some say, he resided in Philadelphia, at which place he learned the coopering busi- ness, but he lived the greater part of his life in the town of Greenwich, where he followed his trade, and at that place their two children were born. Richard, the son of Richard and Hannah D. Wood, was born 2d of 7th month, 1755, and James, the son of the same parents, was born 30th of 8th month, 1765. Richard Wood, son of Richard and Hannah Davis Wood, mar- ried and had one son-David Wood, who died single. Richard's second wife was Elizabeth Bacon, the danghter of Job and Mary Stewart Bacon, the latter was the second wife of Richard Wood 2d. George Bacon Wood, M. D., was the eldest son of Richard and Elizabeth B. Wood; he married Caroline Hahn, who died, leaving no issue. Richard Davis Wood, the second son of Richard and Elizabeth B. Wood, married Julianna
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Randolph, of Philadelphia ; he is deceased, leaving seven chil- dren-Richard, Edward, Randolph, Julia, Mary, George B., Stewart and Walter Wood. Charles, the third son of Richard and Elizabeth B. Wood, married a Randolph, and at his death left five children-Elizabeth, George B., Naomi, Minnie and Francis Wood. Horatio C., the son of Richard and Elizabeth B. Wood, married Elizabeth Bacon ; their children were Rich- ard, Horatio, M. D., John, George G., James, Mary Ann and Elizabeth Wood. Horatio's second wife was Abigail Evans, danghter of William Evans, they have one son-William Evans Wood.
Hannah Davis Wood, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth B. Wood, married David Senll, she being his second wife. Ann Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of the above parents, married John E., the son of John and Mary M. Sheppard. She died young, leaving one son-George W. Sheppard. James, the son of Richard and Hannah Davis Wood, married Ruth Clement. Ile resided in Philadelphia, and was a merchant, and being sne- cessful in business, he acquired a competency and retired to Haddonfield. James and his wife had five children, of whom Richard C. Wood, their eldest son, Rebecca and Samuel are dead, the latter died young and single. Hannah Ann Wood married Isaac Tyson, of Baltimore. They had five children- Richard W., Jesse, Isaac, James and Hannah Ann Tyson. James, the youngest son of James and Ruth Wood, married Jane Hicks.
David, the son of David and Dorothea Davis, born 1730, like his father, was a large land-holder. His wife was Martha Cole, by whom he had several children. Joseph, their son married Mary Haines, and they had two daughters-Martha and Anna Davis. Martha's husband was William Folwell; they had one son -Joseph D. Folwell. Anna married David, the son of John and Sarah Pancoast. They are both living at this time in Woods- town, and have several children. David, the son of David and Martha Cole Davis, married a Haines ; they had issue. Martha, their danghter, married Andrew Griscom, the son of Benjamin Griseom, of Salem ; they had six children. Anna, the daughter of David and Mary Davis, married Allen Fenimore. Joseph Davis, the son of David, married a Collins. The second son of David and Mary H. Davis is named David Davis. Jacob, the son of David and Martha C. Davis, married Elizabeth Coulson; there were four children by that marriage. David C. Davis married Mary Engle, daughter of Asa Engle; they had several children. David is deceased. Mary C. Davis died single.
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Jacob, the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Davis, married a Lippin- cott. Hannah Davis married Jonathan D. Smith ; they have issue.
Mary Davis married William Rogers, and their children were Rachel, Joseph, and Grace Rogers. David Rogers married Lydia Evans; Grace Rogers married Thomas Ballinger; Rachel Rogers married Zebedee Willis. Jacob, the son of Jacob and Dorothea Davis, born in 1734, married Esther Wilkins, of Evesham, who was born 1736. Jacob and Esther were married at Woodstown, 21st of 5th month, 1761, and had seven children -Hannah, the eldest, born 30th of 4th month, 1762, died in 1765; David Davis, their son, born 19th of 8th month, 1763; Jacob Davis, Jr., born 5th of 6th month, 1765, died 1767; Thomas Davis was born 13th of 3d month, 1768; Josiah Davis, born 24th of 10th month, 1770, died 1776; James Davis, born 21st of 2d month, 1773, died 1776; Esther Davis was born 18tli of 5th month, 1778. Esther Davis, their mother, died Sth of 3d month, 1785, aged about fifty-nine years. Jacob Davis remarried Mary Stratton 10th of 8th month, 1792, and she died 3d of 2d month, 1809. Jacob died in 11th month, 1820, aged eighty-six years and four months. Few men have left behind them as pure and unblemished a character as he. Esther, the daughter of Jacob and Esther Davis, born 1778, married Joshua Lippincott, in 1800. I think he was the son of Joshua Lippin- cott and grandson of Freedom Lippincott. They had two daughters-Benlah and Lydia Lippincott ; the latter subsequently married David Scull. David, the son of Jacob and Esther Davis, born 1763, married Hannah Scull, sister of Gideon Scull. David and his wife Hannah had two sons and one daughter; both of the sons died young, and their daughter, Hannah Scull, married George Hollingshead, and had one son and three daughters, as follows: David S. Hollingshead, who is in the mercantile business at Woodstown; Mary, who died a few years ago; Martha and Margaret Hollingshead, who are also both deceased. David Davis' second wife was Abigail Howey. They had one son, Dr. David M. Davis, who married Sallie Ann Smith, daughter of James and Hannah A. Smith, formerly of Manning- ton. James, her father, is now living in Salem, at a very advanced age. Dr. David M. and Sallie Ann Davis have eight children. Thomas, the son of Jacob and Esther W. Davis, born 1768, married Esther Ogden, in 1796, and by her had ten children-Samuel, the eldest, died young; Martha died single ; Mary Ann Davis married William Johns, of Woodbury, who died, leaving no issue by her; Jacob married Sarah Ann, dangh-
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ter of Samuel Nicholson, of Mannington. They had three children-William, Martha, and Hannah Davis. Josiah, the son of Thomas and Esther Davis, married Mary Mulford; they had four children-James, William M., Joseph, and Thomas Davis; the latter is deceased. Thomas W., the son of Thomas and Esther Davis, married Phebe Townsend, of Philadelphia. They had five children -- Joseph T., Esther, Thomas, Robert, and Henry Davis. Esther, the daughter of Thomas and Esther Davis, died single. There were Richard W. and Sarah Davis; the latter married William Walcott, and they had one daughter -- Francis] D. Walcott.
DUBOIS FAMILY.
Lewis Dubois, who emigrated to America, was born about the year 1630, and settled up the North river, in Ulster county, N. Y., where a number of his countrymen had also come to escape religious persecution. They were called Huguenots, being followers of Calvin. The great persecution, amounting almost to extermination of the Protestants, is generally referred to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, which took place in 1685, in the reign of Louis XIV. Lewis Dubois married Catharine Blancon; she was born at Manheim, in Germany, where he had gone to escape persecution. It appears, by the record of him after their marriage, they returned to France again, and in that country their son, Abraham Dubois, was born in 1638; soon after that event they left Strasburg for this country, and settled in Ulster county. Their son, Jacob
Dubois, was born in 1662. About the year 1714 Jacob had heard there was a large quantity of good land for sale in the southern part of New Jersey. He left his native county in New York and moved to this State to view the lands he heard so much of. Daniel Cox, of Burlington, after he married Rebecca Hedge, the widow of Samuel Hedge, Jr., came in possession of a large quantity of good land in Fenwick's tenth. He owned large tracts of land in what is now Pittsgrove town- ship. Jacob and his sister, John and Isaac Vanmeter, pur- chased 3,000 acres of the said Daniel Cox, of this tract. The three last persons in the year 1716 conveyed 1,200 acres to Jacob Dubois as his portion. There is no account of Jacob Dubois ever living in New Jersey, but he divided the property he bought of Daniel Cox among four of his sons. Barrett Dubois, one of hissons, settled at Pittsgrove soon after his father had purchased the land in said township. It appears he was married in the State of New York previous to his coming to Salem county ; he had eight children. Catharine, their daughter, was born in 1716; Jacob in 1719; the latter married Janite Newkirk in 1747 ; he was a prominent church member of the Presbyterian society, and was a deacon and one of the trustees
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to whom the deed was given for the ground to erect the church building upon. Lewis, the third son of Jacob Dubois, was born at Hurly, in Ulster county, N. Y., in 1695. His wife was Margaret Janson; they were married in 1720. He emigrated to West Jersey in company with his brother Barrett, and soon after became the possessor of real estate amounting to 1,091 acres; his first purchase was in 1726 of 350 acres in Alloways Creek township, having bought it of Joshua Wright. It was the land that William Hall bought of James Wasse, of London, in 1706, being part of the Wasse tract of 5,000 acres that lay on the borders of the head water of Alloways creek. Lewis and his wife were among the first members of the large and influential congregation of Pittsgrove in 1742, at the time of the first organization of the Presbyterian society at that place. At that time he sold to the trustees of the church two acres of land for forty shillings, to erect a church building upon for the use of said society, and in 1761 he sold fifty acres of land for a parsonage for seventy-five pounds proclamation money, in addition to the fifty acres the society purchased in 1744 of Abraham Newkirk. One of Jacob Dubois, Sr.'s sons emigrated about the time his brother came to this county to Lancaster county, Pa., and made it his permanent home and one of his grand-sons became an eminent Presbyterian minister. Jacob Dubois, son of Lewis, had eight children ; his oldest son, John, married Sarah Dubois, grand-daughter of Barrett Dubois ; Mary, their oldest daughter, married William Robinson, of Lower Penn's Neck; they had six children-Benjamin, William, Rebecca, Margaret, Noah and John. The two last mentioned died single. Benjamin married, I have been told, and left two children. William and his wife left six children- William, Noah, James, Mary, John and Benjamin. Rebecca, the oldest daughter, married a man by the name of Patterson. I have no knowledge whether she left any children. Margaret Robinson's husband was Samuel Copner, the son of Joseph Copner, of Penn's Neck. The Copner's were an ancient family of that township, together with the Dunn family and several others, were the prominent members of the Presbyterian church, located near Pennsville. For some cause I never have learned, he left the church of which he was a member the greater part of his life, and joined the Friends' Society, and near the close of his life made a will, and devised one-half of his homestead farm to the Society of Friends ; he left two child- ren-Samuel, and one daughter, who married a Sinnickson; she left two children-Cynice Sinnickson and the late Ann Simpson.
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Benjamin Dubois married Mary Robinson, sister of Wm. Robinson, Sr., and had six sons and two daughters. All of them, after their father's death, removed to one of the Western states. Solomon Dubois, the youngest son of Jacob Dubois, was a native of Pittsgrove; he purchased lands in Alloways Creek township, and married the daughter of Richard Moore; they had five children, four daughters and one son; their names were Martha, Mary, Susan, Rebecca, and Richard Dubois. Martha married Benjamin Ireland; she died young, leaving one daughter-Ann. She married a person by the name of Corlis; they had no children. Mary, second daughter of Solomon, died single. Susan Dubois, daughter of Solomon, married Nathaniel, the son of David Stretch. Susan died, leaving one daughter -- Mary Ann Stretch. Rebecca Dubois died single. Richard Dubois, son of Solomon, married Sarah, daughter of Ephraim Sayre; she died, leaving one daughter-Ann Dubois. She married Joseph Fogg; she is deceased, leaving issue. Richard's second wife was Hannah Ann, daughter of Thomas Sayre; they had four sons-Solomon, Thomas, Richard, and Josiah Dubois. Solomon, the eldest, married Kesiah Bowen; they had three children-William, Elizabeth, and Ruth Dubois. Solomon, the father of the above mentioned children, was killed by a mowing machine while he was mowing. Thomas, the son of Richard and Hannah Ann Dubois, married Elizabeth Stretch; they had one daughter-Hannah Ann Dubois. Thomas' second wife is Sarah Jane, daughter of John W. and Sarah Ann Maskell; they have no issue. Richard Dubois, Jr., married Elizabeth, the daughter of Thomas Mulford; they have four children-Luella, Hannah, Rachel, and Oakford Dubois. Josiah Dubois, youngest son of Richard, married Hannah, daughter of Lewis Fox; they have three children-Mary Jane, Anna S., and Thomas S. Dubois. Richard Dubois, Sr.'s, third wife is Mary Decroy; they have no issue. Solomon Dubois' second wife was widow Hedley; they had one son, Jacob Dubois, who subsequently married Ann Patterson; they had two children-John and Emeline. Jacob's second wife was Charlotte F. Miller; they had issue, two children-Mary and Charles Dubois. Mary is deceased.
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ELWELL FAMILY.
The Elwell family of this county, particularly those who have resided in the township of Pittsgrove, have had a large influence both in religious and civil society. Jacob Elwell, the emigrant, was born in England, in the year 1700. He settled in Pilesgrove township soon after he arrived in this country ; he married Catharine Dubois, whose parents were French Hugeu- nots and had left France on account of religious persecution, and settled in Canada on Lake Ticonderago. She and her mother were captured by the Indians, and recaptured by her father, who followed the trial after three days of great anxiety and toil, which we can easily imagine, the party in pursuit succeeded in killing two of the Indians. Soon after that event, Jacob Elwell removed from Canada with his family to Salem county, and soon afterwards purchased land of Daniel Cox, of Burlington, in Pilesgrove township, and settled there. Catharine Dubois, his daughter was at that time about twelve years old. Jacob and his wife, Catharine Dubois Elwell, had five children- David, Samuel, Jonathan, Rhoda and Rachel Elwell. David, their eldest son, married, had five children, their names were Jacob, Cornelius, David, Yonmacea and Mary Elwell. Samuel, son of Jacob and Catharine D. Elwell, married Amelia Morgan ; they had five children-Samuel, Mary, Sarah, Amelia and Sarah Elwell. Jonathan, son of Jacob and Catharine Dubois, married Peggy Summerill, daughter of William Summerill, the emigrant ; they had six children-William, Jacob, Jona- than, Catharine, Rachel and Sarah Elwell. Rhoda Elwell, danghter of Jacob and Catharine D. Elwell, married Henry Richmond ; they had three children-Jacob, Henry and Isaac Richmond; they all died minors. After her first husband's death, Rhoda married William Ray ; they had two children- Bigee and Henrietta. Rhoda's third husband was Josiah Paullin ; there were two children-William and Mary Paullin. William, the son of Josiah and Rhoda Paullin, died recently aged about eighty-two years. I have no knowledge of his family. Mary married. Rachel, the daughter of Jacob and
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Catharine Dubois, married James Hutchinson ; they had no issue. James turned a tory in the war of the Revolution, and was compelled to leave the country, leaving his wife in charge of his mother. He lived but a short time afterwards; his widow subsequently married Jonathan Sneighin.
Samuel, son of Samuel and Amelia Elwell, married Mary Johnson, [See Johnson family.] Mary Elwell married Isaac Johnson, youngest son of John Johnson. [See Johnson fam- ily.] Sarah, the daughter of Samuel and Amelia M. Elwell, married Charles Chambers; they had issue-Charles, James and Richard Chambers. Amelia, the daughter of Samnel and Amelia Elwell, married Andrew Urion ; they had four children -Samuel, Elizabeth, Amelia and Sarah Urion. Samuel Urion, their son, is now a resident of Lower Penn's Neck, and a large land owner, and is considered one of the best agriculturists in that section of the country; he married Sarah, the daughter of the late Elisha Wheaton. Sarah, daughter of Andrew and Amelia Urion, married Asa Reeves; they have issue. Amelia, danghter of Andrew and Amelia Urion, married William Brown ; they have children. Elizabeth, daughter of Andrew and Amelia E. Urion, married Joseph Reeves ; they have issue. Catharine Elwell, daughter of Jonathan Elwell, married Gar- rett Newkirk ; there were three children-Margaret, Garrett and Matthew Newkirk; all three of those in after life became eminent citizens. Garrett and Matthew are successful mer- chants. Margaret equally as much so as her brothers, as a bonnet maker.
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