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The business now owned by L. P. Thompson, and known as the Bordentown Foundry and Machine- Works, was founded about 1808, when a company of capitalists through Benjamin and Caleb Field, who did an extensive mercantile and freighting business at White Hill, undertook to start steamboat-building, and erected iron-works first, an air-furnace, with no cupola for melting. After getting the furnace in op- eration, they laid the keel for a steamboat, to be called the "New Jersey." They built the hull, launched her, and put in the machinery from the iron-works. Having engaged an engineer from Hoboken, her trial- trip proved her unable to stem the strong currents. The stockholders of this old boat were Michael Tay- Jor, Samuel Bunting, Caleb Newbold, Uzz Gauntt, Isaac Irwin, Barclay Irwin, and Dr. John Brognard. Col. John Stevens, who was building a steamboat at Hoboken, afterwards bought the "New Jersey," re- built her, and she was called the " Phoenix," and was run on the Hudson to Albany for one year. This discouraged the company, and the old iron-works lay idle many years. In 1832, when the Camden and Amboy Railroad commenced building their repair- shops, the father of Isaac Field bought out the stock- holders of the old iron-works, put up a cupola, and carried them on, using horse-power for a time, but afterwards steam-power, until 1853, when the works were sold to Edward Bowne, who rented them to Alfred Thompson.
In December of that year Alfred associated with him- self his brother, L. P., under the firm-name of A. & L. P. Thompson. This firm brought to the enterprise wide ergy and tact. They rented the property for two years, but in 1855 bought it, and erected a brick foundry, one hundred and thirty by sixty-six feet, and built a machine-shop a little below on the Delaware, where they continued to carry on a large and successful en- terprise until the death of Alfred, which occurred in 1868. Alfred was for many years prior to 1853 in the engineering department of the Camden and Amboy Railroad. He was an active party man, and served for a period during the war of the Rebellion as major of the Twenty-third Regiment of New Jersey Volun- teers. After his death the business was carried on under the firm-name of N. D. Thompson & Co., the partners being N. Douglass and Lewis P. Thompson.
They erected in 1870 a two-story brick machine-shop contiguous to the foundry, thirty by one hundred and thirty feet, where they manufactured engines and machinery of all kinds. This firm, and also the old partnership of A. & L. P. Thompson, did all the work for the Camden and Amboy Railroad, manufacturing all the castings for their steamboats, locomotives, and cars, and employing about seveuty-five hands. N. Douglass Thompson began life as a clerk in the office of Loper & Baird's propeller line, subsequently filled the same position on the different steamboats of the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company, rose to the po- sition of captain of different vessels, and for a number of years was captain of the " Richard Stockton." He subsequently founded the Union steam-forge of Mac- pherson, Willard & Co., of White Hill, and ran it for . a number of years during the late war. Later, as above stated, he was in partnership with his brother in the foundry business, and in 1870 died suddenly of congestion of the brain. The firm-name was then changed to L. P. Thompson & Co., William C. Gatz- mer becoming a partner in 1871. This firm continued about one year, when Gen. Gershom Mott became a partner, the firm-name being Thompson & Mott. The latter firin continued in business about three years, when the panic and dull times caused the foundry to remain idle for the following three years, since which time it has been conducted by Mr. Lewis P. Thompson alone.
Lewis P. Thompson received only a common- school education. In 1843 he entered the office of Loper & Baird as shipping clerk, where he remained for ten years. Since 1853 he has devoted a large pro- portion of his time to the development and care of the Bordentown Foundry and Machine-Works. His specialty is the manufacture of tug-boats, stationary engines, yacht engines, and general repairing. IIe is . also extensively engaged in farming operations, and conducts a farm of his own of one hundred and twenty acres in the suburbs of Bordentown, besides superintending the farm of the late William Hance, adjoining him, both being devoted largely to dairy- ing purposes. He has never sought political place or preferment, is a vestryman in Christ Episcopal Church
business experience, and a proportionate amount of cn- , of Bordentown, a member of Mount Moriah Lodge.
No. 15, A. F. & A. M., and has always taken an active interest in all movements to develop and sustain the various institutions and enterprises of worth in Bor- dentown. He is an energetic, useful, and public- spirited citizen. He married, April 1, 1857, Anna H., daughter of the late William and Margaret Hance, and has two surviving children, Margaret H. and Mary L. Thompson.
THE UNION STEAM-FORGE at White Hill was es- tablished in 1857 by N. D. Thompson. It was bought by A. N. Macpherson and D. D. Willard, and estab- lished under the name of Macpherson, Willard & Co., in 1865. A. N. Macpherson had been practically en- gaged in the trade during a period of forty-two years.
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having begun his apprenticeship to it in Scotland in , was established by Clinton & Wilson, in 1856, where 1823. Mr. Willard was a well-known professional ' for several years they constructed small vessels and engaged in general repairing. Clinton & Son sue- eeeded to the business, which has been earried on until the present time, more particularly engaging in general repairing of all kinds of vessels plying on the Delaware. About 1874, Joshua Lamson established a ship-yard at Bordentown, where he has built a large number of sehooners, sloops, steam-tugs, and from which he has launched some sixty-five or seventy ves- sels. Both these works are located at the mouth of Crosswicks Creek on the Delaware. Here during the war were built two gunboats for the United States government.
authority, who gave his experience to the mercantile and financial department of the concern, while Mr. Maepherson attended to the management of the me- ehanical part of the same. Soon after Macpherson, Willard & Co. purchased these works their eapacity was mueh enlarged. In August, 1876, owing to the death of Mr. Maepherson, Mr. Willard became the proprietor of the works, but one year after, in August, 1877, he lost his life in the Delaware while saving the life of one of his children. The executor of his estate, Dr. De Forrest Willard, of Philadelphia, has continued the business since that time under the management of Messrs. C. L. Willard, for some years engaged in the iron business in New England, and Clinton Mendenhall, who had been with the Baldwin Locomotive-Works for a number of years, and with the firm of Macpherson, Willard & Co. since 1872. In the spring of 1880 the works were again enlarged and improved, the main building, the forge, being over three hundred feet long by sixty feet wide, pro- vided with five steam-hammers, ranging from one to four tons in weight, and having a capacity of fifteen to eighteen tons of forgings per day, and have been run to their full extent both day and night for the last two or three years on all kinds of wrought iron and steel forgings, such as steamboat-shafts, eranks, beam-straps, stern-posts, and rudder-frames, land and mining engine-shafts and cross-heads, sugar-mill shafts, forgings, etc., with a production of car-axles of about twenty-five thousand per year. A large amount of work for Edison and other electrie light companies has been turned out here. The shipping facilities of this place are unsurpassed, located as it is at White Hill Station, on the line of the Amboy Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and on the Delaware River, with a siding for the haudling of freight on the former and a wharf five hundred feet long on the latter.
The extensive repair-shops at Bordentown were commenced by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company in 1832, who ran them until about 1870, when they were leased to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and operated by them until the removal by that company of their shops to South Amboy and the Meadows.
THE BURLINGTON COUNTY BOILER-WORKS, lo- cated on railroad wharf at White Hill, near Borden- town, were established by J. V. Carter, in 1876, for the manufacture of plate iron-work, viz., boilers, bridges, and tanks. Mr. Carter conducted the busi- ness until 1879, when he took in his son, Theodore F., under the name of J. V. Carter & Son. In 1882, E. L. Stewart beeame a partner in the eoncern, under the name of J. V. Carter & Co. Some thirty hands are employed in these works, which produce two hundred boilers annually.
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MISCELLANEOUS .- Carslake's saw-mill, on the Bur- lington road, was built about 1860 by Carslake Brothers, who owned and rau it for a number of years, and then sold it to M. F. Shreve, who operated it for some five years, and disposed of it to its present owners, Kirk & Higby, of Trenton. This mill is used for the manufacture of all kinds of lumber, sash and blinds, and flooring.
Lawrence Jaeques and William F. Stout, carriage manufacturers, have both been established in Borden- town for many years, and have successfully carried on business in the mauufacture of light earriages. Also a eigar manufactory of considerable extent is conducted by Reeder, Gabel & Co.
The sash and blind factory of J. P. & D. R. Burton, builders and contractors, is a frame building of two stories, and was erected by Henry Brown about 1872, who operated it for several years and sold it to its present owners.
Nathan Folwell, who for fifteen years prior to 1880 was largely engaged in the shipping and forwarding interests of Bordentown, established in that year a pork-paeking house and sausage manufactory near the Pennsylvania freight railroad station. His pork- packing amounts to half a million pounds annually.
The canning establishment and mince-meat manu- factory of Asher Brakeley was built by him in 1872. It is a frame building, two and one-half stories in height, situated on Second Street above Park Street, where he employs one hundred and thirty hands during the eanning season, canning vegetables, prineipally to- matoes, to the number of five hundred thousand cans annually. He operates twenty-five hands in his mince-meat business, and ships it in car-loads to West- ern markets.
J. C. Yost & Co.'s eanuing establishment on Park road, a two and one-half story frame building, was built by its present owners in 1881. The firm employs about one hundred hands during the eanning season, and puts up five hundred thousand cans annually of vegetables, pickles, and chow-chow.
The Downs & Finch shirt manufactory is a brick structure, two stories in height, the main building of which is two hundred by fifty feet, with laundry at-
SHIP-YARDS .- The first ship-yard at Bordentowu . tached of same height, sixty by thirty feet. This
UNION STEAM FORGE, WHITE HILL STATION, P. R. R. MACPHERSON, WILLARD & CO., BORDENTOWN, N. J.
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building is located on Park Road, within the city limits. It was built by the citizens of Bordentown in 1874 for the Blees Sewing-Machine Manufacturing Company of New York, who put in some eighty thousand dollars' worth of machinery, but never op- erated it. The property was sold to its present own- ers in 1878, who have since used it as a shirt-factory, employing some five hundred hands.
The Eagle shirt manufactory was built by William R. Flynn in the summer of 1882. It is a brick build- ing, fifty by thirty feet, and four stories in height, located on the corner of Spring Street and Railroad Avenne. It is occupied by Jacob Miller & Son, who employ one hundred hands.
Fire Department, 1882 .- Chief Engineer, Henry Belleniere.
Hope Hose, No. 1, Burlington, near Prince Street. President, A. E. Preston ; Treasurer, Joseph Vande- grift; Secretary, George Wood; Foreman, Joshna Jones.
Citizens' Hook-and-Ladder Company, No. 1, Wal- nut Street, below Farnsworth Avenne. President, George W. Carman ; Treasurer, William A. Thomp- son ; Secretary, William H. Torr; Foreman, L. C. Carman.
Hnmane Fire Engine Company, Burlington, near Prince Street. President, James Stratton; Secretary and Treasurer, Joseph Higgins; Foreman, J. P. Middleton.
Delaware Fire Company, No. 2, Crosswicks Street, near Farnsworth Avenue. President, John J. Rogers ; Treasurer, William R. Flynn ; Secretary, F. G. Wiese; Foreman, John Carlton.
Weccacoe Hose Company, Second, near Park Street. President, Thomas F. Delancy ; Treasurer, John H. Hemphill; Secretary, John P. Hutchinson. ยท Societies .- THE BORDENTOWN CEMETERY ASSO- CIATION was organized Nov. 1, 1870. The first pur- chase, the Methodist Episcopal Church, consisted of some three acres of land, to which additions have been made, making the extent of the cemetery abont six acres. Although it is all inclosed in one plot, the Catholics, Odd-Fellows, African Church, and the other churches have each their separate burial- places. The first trustees were Uriah Bennett, P. F. Hyett, John J. Rogers, H. H. Vannatta, F. G. Wiese, Joseph Wilson, Alex. D. Carman, David M. Carslake, and Harry Wilgns. Three trustees are elected annually in October by the lot-owners to serve for three years. Present trustees are F. G. Wiese, president ; Hugh Newell, treasurer ; E. Hass, secretary ; George M. Wright, Lewis Jameson, M.D., Alex. D. Carman, John J. Rogers, Milton Maitland, and Thomas H. Lee.
MASONIC SOCIETIES .- Monnt Moriah Lodge, No. 28, A. F. and A. M., of Free and Accepted Masons, was chartered in 1854.
The formation of a Masonie lodge in Bordentown, N. J., may be traced to a consultation on that subject | Treas. ; Jolin O'Conner, Tyler.
which took place about the month of July, 1843, be- tween the following brethren, who were the only Master Masons known as residing in this neighbor- hood at that time, namely : William MeKnight, Rev. J. W. Lathrop, Capt. McCall, Robert C. Buzby, Commodore Charles Stewart, and Isaac Field, Sr. But owing to the sudden death of the Rev. Brother J. W. Lathrop, which occurred Dec. 20, 1843, and a loss of interest on the part of several of the above- mentioned brethren, the subject was abandoned until the month of April, 1853, when it was again revived by the following brethren, namely : Robert C. Buzby, James W. Allen, William Porter, William Nutt, John Holland, Robert Fenton, and John O'Conner, who called a meeting to be held at the house of Brother James W. Allen, No. 104 Prince Street. After an interchange of sentiments it was agreed to hold another mecting at the hotel of Edward Bartlett, corner of Main and Crosswicks Streets, the following bretliren being present : Robert C. Buzby, James W. Allen, William Porter, John Holland, Robert Fen- ton, William Nutt, John O'Conner, and Capt. Charles Hinkle.
At this meeting it was resolved that application be made to the Grand Master for a dispensation to open and hold a lodge in Bordentown.
It was also resolved that the following brethren be the officers named in the application, namely : Robert C. Buzby, W. M .; James W. Allen, S. W .; William Porter, J. W.
Pursnant to a notice given by the Grand Master, a number of brethren assembled in the borough of Bordentown for the purpose of organizing a Masonic lodge in said borough July 8, 1853, there being present Edward Stewart, G. M .; Samnel Reed, Dep. G. M .; George H. Curtis, Sen. G. W. pro tem. ; Samuel B. Scattergood, Jun. G. W. pro tem .; Joseph HI. Hough, G. Sec .; James M. Cassedy. G. Treas. pro tem. ; Samuel II. Carey, G. Jun. Deacon pro tem .; John G. Vanderbelt, Grand Tyler pro tem .: Joseph H. Hough representing Trenton Lodge, No. 5; George W. Curtis, Mount Holly Lodge, No. 14; James M. Cassedy, Camden Lodge, No. 15; William Kerwood : and William Brown, of Trenton Lodge, No. 5; the following petitioners: Robert C. Buzby, James W. Allen, William Porter .. William Nutt, Robert Fen- ton, John O'Conner, and John Holland.
The throne of grace was addressed by P. M. Scott, and a special Grand Lodge opened. A dispensation was read, authorizing and empowering the brothers therein named to confer the degrees of Entered Ap- prentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason, and work after Ancient York Masons.
The following officers were duly installed and set to work : Robert C. Buzby. W. M .; James W. Allen, Sen. W. ; William Porter, Jun. W.
The following remaining officers were afterwards appointed: Robert Fenton, Sec .; William Nutt,
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After which the special Grand Lodge was called from labor to refreshment, and Mount Moriah Lodge, No. 28, of Bordentown, N. J., was duly opened.
Past Officers .- Past Deputy Grand Master, Robert C. Buzby.
Past Masters .- Robert C. Buzby, 1853-58; James W. Allen, 1859; John Shaw, 1860 ; Charles C. Buzby, 1861; William E. Frazer, 1862; James Stratton, . 1863-64; Israel Frazer, 1865; John B. Hulse, 1866- 67 ; Joseph Wilson, 1868-69; Frederiek G. Wiese, 1870-71.
Officers for 1882 .- Alpheus MeCraeken, P. M., W. M .; Edwin S. Buzby, S. W .; William K. Roberson, ! J. W .; Reynold D. Keen, Treas. ; Frederiek G. Wiese, P. M., See .; Rev. Nathaniel Pettit, P. G. C., Chap .; William B. Bunting, Jr., S. D .; Allen D. Wood, J. D. ; William H. Wilson, P. M., George W. Lippineott, MI. of C .; John O. Hudson, P. M., Wil- liam C. Wilson, P. M., Stewards; Edward Clift, Or- ganist ; Jolm Reeves, Tyler ; James W. Allen, P. M., Robert C. Buzby, P. D. G. M., Lewis Jemison, Trus- tees ; John O. Hudson, P. M., William H. Wilson, P. M., William C. Wilson, P. M., Fin. Com.
Mount Moriah Chapter, No. 20, of the Royal Arch Masons, was granted a dispensation by the M. E. Grand High Priest, John V. Mattison, dated Dec. 18, 1867, A.D. 5867, A.I. 2897, upon which the work . Samuel A. Rixson, James R. Ennis. The first offi- was commenced on the 18th day of January, in the year following, with the following as the council offi- cers and members thereof: Fred. G. Wiese, M. E. H. P .; John J. Maxwell, E. K. ; David L. Hall, E. S. ; Lambert Hughes, Armitage D. Hughes, W. E. Fra- zer, George L. Suydam, Robert T. Laey, Henry .1. Perrine.
Chosen Friends' Encampment of Patriarchs, No. 6, I. O. of O. F., of the State of New Jersey, was insti- the encampment were revised and adopted Jan. 15, 1872. Its meetings are the second and third Wednes- days of each month at Odd-Fellows' Hall, Church Street. Offieers for 1882: William K. Roberson, M. E. H. P .; Edwin S. Buzby, E. K .; Armitage D. Hughes, ; E. S .; James W. Allen, Treas. ; Rev. Robert Julien, ; tuted at Bordentown Feb. 22, 1843. The by-laws of Sec .; P. HI. P. Henry Wetteroth, C. of H .; P. H. P. ; Aaron Robbins, P. S .; P. G. H. P. Fred. G. Wiese, R. A. C .; Robert T. Bantle, G. M. 3d V .; Isaae T. Shadle, G. M. 2d V .; George W. Lippineott, G. M. 1st V .; Lewis Jemison, Chap. ; Franklin B. Keeler. Organist ; P. H. P. John Reeves, Tyler ; P. G. H. P. Fred. G. Wiese, P. H. P. Edward Clift, Lewis Jemi- son, Trustees ; P. H. P. John O. Hudson, P. H. P. H. Wetteroth, William H. Wilson, Fin. Com. The membership from its organization until May 1, 1875, was seventy.
Ivanhoe Commandery, No. 11, K. T. The charter was granted for this commandery by the Grand Com- mandery Knights Templar of the State of New Jersey at the Eleventh Annual Conelave, held at Trenton, N. J., Sept. 7, A.D. 1869, A.0. 751, to Fred. G. Wiese, Eminent Commander; Levi Davis, Generalissimo; David L. Hall, Captain-General ; and the following air knights: John B. Hulse, Lambert Hughes, John J. Maxwell, George W. Pittman, Edward Clift, Jantes W. Allen, George Peppler, Edwin S. Buzby, Robert T. Bantel.
Officers for 1882-83 .- William H. Wilson, E. C .; Reynold D. Keen, Gen .: Edwin S. Buzby, Capt .- Gen .; P. E. C. Henry Wetteroth. Prel .; William K. Roberson, S. W. ; Franklin B. Keeler, J. W .; James W. Allen, Treas. ; P. G. C. Fred. G. Wie-e, Ree. : Robert T. Ban- tle, Standard-Bearer; Joseph Wilson, Sword-Bearer; William H. Mudgett, Warder; Armitage D. Hughes, 3d Guard ; David F. Waker, 2d Guard ; George W. Lippineott, 1st Guard; P. E. C. Edward Clift. Or- ganist ; John Reeves, Sentinel; Edward Clift, John O. Hudson, John B. Hulse, Trustees ; Aaron Robbins, David F. Waker, Milton W. Maitland, Fin. Com.
Zenobia Conclave, No. 3, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine, was chartered Aug. 4, 1875. The charter and present (1882) officers are Edward Clift, MI. P. S .; John O. Hudson, V .; Levi Davis, S. G. ; Lambert Hughes, J. G. : Aaron Robbins, H. P .; James W. Allen, Treas. ; Fred. G. Wiese, Rec .; George W. Lippineott, Prefeet ; John J. Rogers, Stand .- Bearer; John S. Mallary, Herald ; John Reeves. Sentinel ; John Kale, Rev. Lansing Burrows. Fred. G. Wiese, Trustees ; John Reeves, George W. Lippincott, and Jolin O. Hudson, Fin. Com.
ODD-FELLOWS .- Bordentown Lodge, No. 16, I. O. O. F., was instituted Jan. 23, 1843. The charter members were G. S. Cannon, John T. Wakefield,
eers were G. S. Cannon, N. G .; John T. Wakefield, V. G .; Samuel A. Rixson, See .; James R. Ennis. Treas. The present officers are Edgar Eckman, / N. G .; George L. Robbins, V. G .; Theron Vanatta, Cor. See .; Joseph B. Taylor, Fin. Sec .; George MI. Carslake, Treas .; and number of members, two hun- dred and one.
Mystie Lodge, No. 46, I. O. of O. F., located at Bordentown, N. J., was instituted Nov. 11, 1846; its constitution and by-laws revised and adopted Oet. 20, 1863, approved by the Grand Lodge of New Jersey Nov. 12, 1863; its meetings Tuesday nights at hall, Prince Street, near Walnut. Among its founders were Commodore A. A. Harwood, Col. Joseph W. Allen, Whitall Stokes, John S. Edwards, and Joseph Miller.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS .- Olympie Lodge, No. 33; number of members, ninety-four. Present offieers, William Lawrence, C. C .; David Bevans, V. C .; Wil- liam E. Preston, K. of R. and S. ; J. B. Taylor, M. F .; S. E. Burr, M. E .; William Warwick, A. W. Burr, J. N. Watkins, Trustees.
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC .- Washington Post, No. 45, was mustered in June, 1880. Its first officers were Samuel N. Roekbill, Commander ; II. J.
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Fillman, Senior Vice-Commander ; J. E. Smith, Junior Vice-Commander ; William H. Torr, Adju- tant ; P. F. Hyatt, Surgeon ; J. B. Scott, Chaplain. The present officers of the post are J. E. Smith, Com- mander ; William Bunting, Senior Vice-Commander ; Theodore Bunting, Junior Vice-Commander; William HI. Stout, Adjutant; Samuel N. Rockhill, Quarter- master ; B. F. Hyatt, Surgeon ; J. B. Scott, Chaplain. Its membership is fifty two, and its meetings are held every Friday night at Odd-Fellows' Hall, Prince Street. :
THE HIBERNIA TOTAL ABSTINENCE BENEFICIAL SOCIETY was organized in December, 1869. The government is vested in a president, vice-president, secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer, and chaplain. Its first officers were James Powell, president ; Thomas Carr, vice-president ; William Birmingham, secretary; Thomas Mullane, assistant secretary ; Patrick Rati- gan, Sr., treasurer; Rev. P. Leonard, chaplain. The membership at the time of its organization was sev- enty. Its present membership is thirty. Present officers are Peter Burns, president ; William O'Grady, vice-president ; James Powell, secretary ; James Noone, assistant secretary ; Michael Barry, treasurer ; Rev. P. F. Connolly, chaplain.
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ST. MARY'S BENEFICIAL SOCIETY, John W. Flynn, president, meets first and third Tuesdays of each month in Elizabeth Street.
BORDENTOWN BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION meets third Monday evening of each month at Cars- lake's Hall. President, Edward Dullea ; Treasurer, Mahlon Hutchinson ; Secretary, F. B. Keeler.
Homoeopathic Physicians of Burlington County. -The following is a list of the physicians of this school who now reside in this county, with some who formerly did: H. B. Hall, Walter Ward, J. G. L. Whitehead, David E. Gardiner, James V. Roberts, , Joseph Shreve, J. Martin Moke, George B. L. Clay, George W. Van Derveer, Harrison Hall, Eugene F. i Rink, Joseph J. Cume, Augustus E. Zeitler, Pusey Wilson, Ephraim W. Bancroft, Frank Haines, Willet W. Whitehead, Edgar Sharp.
styled tenant in capite,-the most honorable tenure by which lands could be holden, being immediately from the king. The clerical standing of the founder of the family gave the design for its arms,-an arni grasping a sheaf of wheat, symbolical of the servant of the church distributing its alms to the poor.
George, son of George Deacon, of London, born in 1642-43, became a Friend. He arrived in West Jer- sey in the ship "Willing Mind," John Newcomb, master, Nov. 3, 1677, accompanied by his father, his wife, Frances, of Dedford, in Kent, and servant, I
Thomas Edwards. "We all arrived safe ; praised be God for it!'' says his own statement. He settled at New Salem, in Fenwick's colony, but soon removed to Alloway's Creek, near Hancock's bridge, Salem County. He soon became a man of consequence in his society, and the transaction of many important matters of business was intrusted to his hands. He was a trustee for purchasing lands for a meeting-house and burial-ground, and the then big oak-tree of Salem still stands to mark the second plot in that vicinity, selected by him and others for God's aere.
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