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He married Margery Clowes in the spring sueeeed- ing his arrival, this being the first marriage in Bueks County.
On the traet of land south of Yardleyville he built a house near a spring of water. In this house the first meetings of "Friends" were held, and here were born six generations of his lineal deseendants, in- cluding the subject of this sketeh.
Almost immediately after his arrival he was elected a member of the " Provincial Assembly" as one of the two members from Bueks County, and he continued . to be a member of the Supreme Executive Couneil · of William Penn or a member of the Assembly unti! his death in 1705, having been. drowned in the Del- aware River while on his way to meet the members of the Assembly at New Castle.
He was a man of a high order of intelligence and integrity, as is abundantly attested by his associates, among whom William Penn. in a letter to a friend at the time of his death, says, "The loss of our dear friend, lionest Riehard Hough, is well-nigh irrepar- able."
He left by will the largest share of his property, including the homestead, to his eldest son Richard, and certain other shares to his other sons and daugh- ters. The homestead was sueeessively owned and occupied by Richard, the progenitor, by his son Richard, by his son Henry, by his sou John, and by his son Phineas, father of our subjeet.
Phineas Hough, born in 1790, married, first, Eliz- abeth Carlisle, who died without issue. His second wife, Deborah Aspy, bore him seven ehildren,-Wil- liam Aspy, John. Mary S., wife of Jacob Hendriek- son, of Ewing, Samuel Y., Phineas, Benjamin F., and Edwin W. Hough. Of these Jolin became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and WILLIAM A. HOUGH. died in Delaware a few years ago, while filling the office of presiding elder. Samuel Y. died in Kansas. Phineas and Benjamin F. were merchants in Phila- delphia, and are both dead. Edwin W. died in Philadelphia of disease contracted while serving in the army during the late Rebellion. Phineas Hough, Hooghe, and until the year 1500 manuseript genealo- Sr., died May 9, 1876, in his eighty-sixth year, and
his wife in 1854, aged fifty-eight.
William A. Hough was born at Yardleyville, Pa., on Dee. 4, 1819. He was early apprentieed to the trade of a earpenter. For ten years after attaining his majority he followed this business at Yardleyville. and in 1850, having by elose and laborious effort ac- eumulated sufficient eapital, he purchased of Murray Mellvaine the old Dr. Olden farm, in Ewing town- ship, Mereer County, N. J., where he has sinee en- gaged in agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Hough is recognized as one of the most public- spirited and successful farmers in Ewing, and by his artistic taste and meehanieal skill has been enabled to remodel and beautify his home, and render his sur- roundings attraetive and pleasant. He served as freeholder of his township for one term, and has held other township offices. He is one of the viee-presi- dents of the West Ewing Improvement Association. and is overseer in Ewing Grange, No. 73. He is also an attendant and regular supporter of the First Pres- byterian Church of Ewing, of which he is one of the trustees, and served on the ehureh building eommit- tee in 1867, and on the parsonage committee in 1880- 81. He married on Feb. 5, 1845, Ellen, daughter of Jolin Stoekton, a descendant of the old New Jersey family of that name, and has two children now living, viz., John S., a graduate of the Philadelphia Poly- technie School and of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, now traveling in Europe in the interests of his profession : and Horace G., a graduate of Trenton Academy, who i is working the home-farm in connection with his
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fatlier. William Henry Hough, the second son. died Oet. 12, 1881, while pursuing his studies at Rutgers College, New Jersey, with a view of preparation for the gospel ministry.
CHAPTER LXVII.
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP.1
Situation and Boundaries .- Hamilton, the most southerly township of Mercer County, is bounded on the north by Trenton, Millliam, and Lawrence; on the east by West Windsor and Washington and Upper Freehold (Monmouth County) ; south by Clies- terfield and Bordentown (Burlington County) and Falls (Bucks County, Pa.); and west by Trenton and Chambersburg.
Physical Features .- The northern, southern, and a portion of the western boundaries of this township are natural, and such as would of themselves suggest a division of municipal interests. At the northi Assanpink Creek divides Hamilton from Millham and Lawrence; Crosswicks Creek cuts it off from its neighboring townships in Burlington County, and the Delaware River on the west separates it from adjacent portions of Pennsylvania. These streams and Miry Run and Pond Run, in the northern part, which flow into the Assanpink, and Baek Creek and Doctor's Creek, in the southern part, emptying their waters into Crosswicks Creek, furnish ample drainage.
The Pennsylvania Railroad crosses the northern border of the township from the northeast corner in a southwesterly direction to Trenton, and the Amboy Division of the great network of railways so known runs in a course nearly parallel with the main line across the southern part, with a station at Yard- ville.
Settlement .- The settlement of the territory now known as Hamilton began in the southern part of the present township, along the bluff southeast of Cham- bersburg and farther southeast on Crosswicks Creek. Religious and sectarian lines marked different periods of settlement to a degree. A few of the earliest in- habitants were Episcopalians, but the Quaker ele- ment predominated. Later came some Presbyterians, and still later Baptists, the latter from East Jersey, whence they had emigrated from Long Island and the New England States.
The Lees are descended from one David Lee, who owned a large traet along the south side of the Assan- pink Creek, near its junction with Miry Run and the Shabakonk. He had two sons, Joseph and William.
The Hill family are probably of Scotch descent, and they settled near Trenton. Smith Hill, who owned the tract east of Trenton on Assanpink, had several children, among whom were William, who
lived at Hamilton Square, and whose descendants are scattered over the country ; Samuel, who lived on the homestead and whose descendants are numerous; Nathan, who lived at Yardville, and Howell, of Hamilton Square. There were also daughters,-Jane, Hannalı and Christiana, who married into the fami- lies of Welling, Anderson, and Hutchinson.
The Hnglies family were among the settlers of Hamilton township in the last century. James Hughes, a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church at Hamilton Square in its early days, with his brothers, William, Richard, John, and Joseph, made a large family, and from them nearly all bear- ing the name in this locality are descended.
The family name of Butcher is almost lost in this locality, but the Butchers were formerly quite nu- inerous in Hamilton. They were early residents at Burlington, and some of them settled in Pennsyl- vania, whenee came Thomas Butcher, Sr., the old cabinet-maker and undertaker of Hamilton Square, whose descendants are scattered all over the country.
Old Nottingham .- The first name given to the seetion which was bounded on the north by the As- sanpink Creek, on the sonth by the Rancocas Creek, on the east by the province line, and on the west by the Delaware, was "Yorkshire Tenth." This name was given to it by the purchasers, they having divided their purchase into tenths. In 1692, perhaps earlier, the township of Nottingham was formed of part of Yorkshire Tenths. It then ineluded all of the present Hamilton township, and all of Trenton south of the Assanpink Creek. In 1694 the Provincial Legisla- ture enacted that all who resided above this creek in the province should belong to Burlington County, and it was known as Hopewell township as early as 1695. It is said the name of Nottingham was given to this township by Isaac Watson, who was from Nottingham, in Old England.
The first charter of the borough and town of Tren- ton, granted by King George II. in 1746, included nearly the whole of the present county. Many of the citizens of Nottingham were burgesses of the borough. This eharter was surrendered in 1750, the people not experiencing the benefits they had ex- pected. The boundaries of Trenton under the next charter ineluded nothing south of the creek. It was not until 1851 that Trenton proper included anything south of the Assanpink. The township bore the name of Nottingham from 1692 to 1842.
SOME OF THE EARLY SETTLERS .- In November, 1677, two ships, the " Willing Mind," from London, and the fly-boat " Martha," from Hull, arrived with one hundred and fourteen passengers, who settled in Yorkshire Tentlı.
On the 10th of December, 1678, the ship "Shield" arrived from Hull. This ship anchored where Bur- lington was afterwards built, and the morning after their arrival the passengers went ashore on the ice. I On this ship came most of the first inhabitants of the
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section soon afterwards known as Nottingham town- ship. Among them were Mahlon Stacy, who built the first mill at Trenton on the Assanpink ; Thomas Lambert, from whom Lamberton was named ; Thomas Potts, Thomas Newell, Thomas Wood, with their families ; also Godfrey Newbold, John Newbold, Richard Green, John Hyers, and a merchant from Hull named Barnes. About this time came also Isaac Watson, Robert Pearson, and others.
SOME OF THE PIONEER FAMILIES. - Tradition says that three families of the name of Cubberley The old minute-book of the proceedings of Not- tingham township from 1692 to 1710 discloses many interesting things relating to this locality. The min- utes of 1695 contain all the names of the taxable per- sons in the township at that date as follows: came from France to America. They were probably Huguenots. Two of them settled on Long Island, and the third came to these parts. They must have settled in this township since 1720, as the record-book to that date does not contain the name. James Cub- Mahlon Stacy, Thomas Lambert, William Embly, Ann Pharo, John Lambert, Jr., Robert Pearson, Sam- uel Overton, Thomas Gillenthorp, William Quicksall, William Watson, Sarah Sehioley, William Biddle, Matthew Clayton, Nathaniel Petit, Moses Petit, Jon- athan Davis, Ralph Hunt, Theophilus Phillips, John Lambert, Sr., Joshua Wright, Martin Scott, John Rodgers, John Abbot, Ann Warson, William Hixson, Anthony Woodward, Thomas Tindall, Isaac Watson, Benjamin Maxle, Joshua Ely, John Lees. John Brear- ley, Richard Ridgway, Thomas Green, Samuel Hunt, Charles Biles, Thomas Smith, Thomas Coleman, and John Richardson. berley, who died in 1754, aud his wife Mary, who died in 1772 aged eighty-two, are buried in the Pearson burying-ground, and headstones mark their graves. They were probably the first of the family to settle in the township. The headstone at James Cubberley's grave is marked J. Cubberley. By the will of James Cubberley, made in 1753, we find that he had six children,-Thomas, William, James, John, Isaac, and Mary. His residence was on the place now owned by Joel Taylor, near Hamilton Square, and his large estate extended into what is now Washington town- : ship. He gave to his grandson William, son of his son Thomas, tract No. 3, uow in Washington. Part The minutes for 1703 contain the names of the tax- able persons and the number of acres each possessed. In addition to the above-named persons there appear the names of Caleb Wheatley, John Tautum, Wil- liam Warson, Matthew Grange, William Stevens, Gervas Hall, Thomas Silverthorp, Sylvanus King, of the Cubberleys of Washington township are de- "scended from this line. William, the second son, was born in 1720, died 1774. He married Lydia Rulon, who was of French descent. His descendants are very numerous. He had three children,-William W., Hannah, and Achsah. Hannah married John Henry Scott, Abraham Marshall, Francis Davenport, Hammell; Achsah married Richard Appleton; and William W. married Ann Hammell. His childreu were Elisha. Eli, Isaac, Ann, Theodosia, and others, and their children and grandchildren bring us down to date.
and Matthew Watson. These persons owned from thirty to thirteen hundred and fifty acres each, but most of theni had from two hundred and fifty to six hundred acres. The two largest land-owners were Robert Pearson and William Stevens, each having thirteen hundred and fifty acres. The whole number of acres these men possessed in 1703 amounted to eleven thousand and ten, which shows that most of the land was taken up at that date, except, perhaps, some not worth owning. After 1703 there came many to Nottingham and Hopewell townships from Long Island and East Jersey. Among these may be men- tioned the Stouts, Cubberleys, Howells, Mounts, Bur- roughs, Clarks, Scudders, Lannings, Reeds, and Ap- pletons. Later there came the Wests, Hammells, and many others. The Hammnells came from Holland originally to Ulster County, N. Y., then settled in the lower part of this State; thence to Mansfield, where John Hammell came from to Washington township in the middle of the last century.
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nest, Dey, Flock, and others came in from Middlesex County. Probably niue-tenths of the first inhabit- ants of this section were English, but there were some Scotch and some Hollanders. There were probably a few Swedes from the settlements in Dela- ware, and some of other nationalities not mentioned above.
John Cubberley, the fourth child of James the first, also married a Rulon, and his descendants are numer- ous. His son David was one of the founders of the Hamilton Square Presbyterian Church, and his chil- dren were John C., Athaliah, David, and others. The late James Cubberley, of Newtown, and his offspring, and Francis, John H., and others of that line, and George W. and that line, are descended from one of the other sons of the first James; and in fact all the ancestry of the name of Cubberley in this part of New Jersey can be traced back to James and Mary Cuboerley.
The Watsons are of English origin. They came to this section from Nottingham, in England, and when the township of Nottingham was formed it was named "Nottingham" by Isaac Watson, in honor of his na- tive place. In the old minute-book of Nottingham township, under date of 1695, appear the names of Isaac Watson, as the possessor of four hundred and forty acres; William Watson, of one hundred and
The Hutchinsons came, some of them at least, from Ewing township (then Hopewell), where they had first settled. There came also to this township from Burlington and other places the families of Eldridge, Nelson, Butcher, and Hughes. The families of Van- . fifty acres; and, at a later date, Matthew Watson, of
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thirty acres. From these persons have descended most of the Watsons of this locality. They are not very numerous at present in this section, but are scattered in various directions.
In 1708, Isaac Watson built the house, which is . her father, and Robert How was her brother.
still standing, on the bluff between White Horse and Trenton, and lately occupied by Andrew K. Rowan. The old house on the bank of the creek below White Horse, now occupied by Norman Stevens, was built two years earlier by the second Robert Pearson. The house on the B. F. Stewart estate. near Yardville, was built in 1754, and the house of John A. Beck, in that vicinity, in 1759. These are the oldest dwellings in the township.
In the old Nottingham minute-book it is recorded that Thomas Tindall owned four hundred and sixty acres of land in 1695. His farm was where part of Trenton has since been built. The Tindalls are quite numerous, and it is supposed are descendants front
The Quigleys were among those who settled here Thomas Tindall, who was English by birth or de- ' in the early part of the eighteenth century. Some seent.
Among thie early settlers of "Yorkshire Tenth" were some of the Butchers, whose descendants were years ago quite numerous in this township and vi- cinity. They were of English origin. The family is now much scattered.
Robert Pearson settled in what is now Hamilton township, and was one of the two largest land- owners in old Nottingham. In 1695, according to the minutes of Nottingham, he possessed thirteen hundred and fifty acres. This tract lay on the north bank of Crosswicks Creek, to the north and west of Back Creek. A few years later, one William Stevens owned the same number of acres. The old grave- yard at White Horse was laid out by the Pearsons as early as 1722, and perhaps many years before. The locality was ealled by them "South Hill."
They are believed to have been Episcopalians, and it has been said that the Pearsons and Hutchinsons came to America together. The name of Pearson is almost lost in this locality at present, though the Pearsons have many descendants in the prominent families of the township. Most of the Pearsons favored the king during the Revolution, though few of them took any active part in the struggle; but the third Robert Pearson befriended Samuel Tucker, the treasurer of the State, when he was captured by the Tories, and gave his parole that Tucker should stay with him until called for, thus saving bim much rough treatment. Isaac Pearson, an active Tory, was shot at Hightstown by a party who were pursuing him. A stone marks his grave in the old Pearson burying-ground.
Sarah How (or "Sallie Howe," as her name has appeared in history ), a sister of the wife of William Pearson, who was a son of Isaac Pearson above men- tioned, was one of the six little girls who sang and strewed flowers before Washington as he passed through Trenton on his way to New York to be in-
augurated as President of the United States. She lived for a long time with her sister Susan (Mrs, Pearson), and died unmarried in 1841, and is buried in the Pearson family lot. Sheriff Micajah How was
Mary Pearson, daughter of William Pearson and niece of Sarah How, married Thomas Hopkinson, a grandson of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
. The most of the Reed family in Hamilton are de- scended from the Reeds of Ewing and Lawrence; others came from East Jersey, Jeremiah Reed, the ancestor of the Reeds of Hamilton Square, was one of the founders of the Methodist Church there.
The Fords were among the Scotch Covenanters, and settled carly in the township. Their descendants are plentiful, but not many bear the name which was formerly spelled " Foord."
of them were noted deer hunters, They kept many dogs for hunting purposes, and the cluster of houses on the road from White Horse to Sandtown, called "Dogtown," was so named on account of the large number of dogs kept by the Quigleys resident there.
Cornelius Appleton came from Germany. and set- tled near Hamilton Square before 1730. A part of the original Appleton tract is now in possession of the Pryors, and adjoins land of William H. West, W. H. Hughes, and Albert Hooper, and others in their neighborhood. The old Appleton house was built to front to the southi, as the old road ran on that side. The oldest part of this house, the east end, was originally only one story high, and was built, tradition says, about 1730. In 1772 the west end was built; in the early part of this century the east end was raised to the height of the rest of the house.
Cornelius Appleton married Mary Cox Nov. 10, 1726, and had children, as follows: Joseph, born Aug, 8, 1727; Richard, born Nov. 28, 1728; and Josialı, born in 1735. He died in 1779, aged seventy- eight; and his wife, five years earlier, aged eighty- eight.
George Appleton, who lives near Mercerville, is a descendant of Cornelius Appleton, as are many others of the name, and of other families with which the Appletons have intermarried in this section.
WEST FAMILY .- The first of the West family in what is now Hamilton was William West, who was born in 1750, and died about 1830. His residence was the dwelling now of Samuel Hughes, near Ham- ilton Square, which he built. His estate consisted of three hundred acres, perhaps more, adjacent to the dwelling, which is now ent up into numerous farms. Two of his grandchildren reside on parts of the ori; - inal tract.
The progenitor of the somewhat numerous West- of this section was Bartholomew West, whose home- stead was near the pre-ent village of Allentown
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(Monmouth County), on the farm now of William IFulse. He had five children,-John, Mahew. Jane, Mary, and the William above mentioned. John lost the bulk of his property during the Revolution. He was engaged in buying and shipping produce to the army, and at one time, having sent a large quantity, it was captured by the enemy, proving a total loss to him. He afterwards removed to Pennsylvania. Some of the Wests about Trenton are descended from him. Mahew was childless. His residence was near the present dwelling of S. P. Nicholson, in Hamilton township. Jane never married. Mary married a Stelle, and her descendants are numerous in this vi- einity. One John West lived in Shrewsbury as early as 1687.
William West was impressed into the British serviee during the Revolution, but escaped from his eaptors at New Brunswick. He caught the smallpox from some of them, which broke out upon him on his ar- rival at Trenton the morning after his eseape. He and died of it. William West married Anna Stout, who was born October, 1754, and died Jan. 25, 1814, and had issue as follows:
I. Susanna, born March 1, 1779, died May, 1851; married Joseph Watson, born 1773, died April 12, 1837, and had issue as follows : 1, Ruth, born Nov. 6, 1795; 2, John, born July 1, 1797; S, Anna, bom June 1, 1800; 4, Margaret, born July 24, 1802; 5, William, born Jan. 22, 1804; 6, Samuel, born Feb. 5, 1806; 7, Naomi, born April 23, 1808 ; 8, Mary, born May 17, 1810 ; 9, Susanna, born Aug. 10, 1812; 10, Joseph, born Jan. 30, 1815: 11, Elizabeth, born May 11, 1817 ; 12, Henry, born April 17, 1819; 13, Hope, born Nov. 6, 1821. After the death of Joseph Wat- son his widow married David Silver, whom she sur- vived.
II. Margaret West, born Feb. 25, 1781, died in 1849; married April 15, 1804, David Gordon, who was born Mareh 3, 1780, and had issue as follows: 1, William W., born Mareh 1, 1805; 2, Sarah A., born Dec. 7, 1806 ; 3, James, born Dee. 19, 1808; 4, Luey, born Sept. 10, 1810; 5, David, born Sept. 26, 1812; 6, Ben- jamin S., born Nov. 26, 1817.
III. John West, born March 21, 1783, died Aug. 13, 1856 ; married Feb. 4, 1808, Lydia Hammell, who was born April 4, 1788, died April 5, 1876, and had issue as follows: 1, Luey, born Jan. 9, 1809; 2, Han- nah H., born Oct. 3, 1810: 3, William H., born Dec. 16, 1819; 4, Anna, born June 3, 1815; 5, Louisa C., born March 26, 1818; 6, John S., born Dec. 22, 1820; 7, Lydia A., born Jan. 5, 1824; 8, Margaret G., born June 5, 1827 ; 9, Lizzie Y., born Oct. 29, 1829.
IV. Lucia West, born March 30, 1785, died in childhood, April 27, 1793.
V. Mary West, born Oct. 12, 1787, died April 2, 1810.
VI. Zimri West, born Feb. 22, 1790, died March 10, 1828; married Mary Hammell, who was born Aug.
24, 1791, and had issue as follows : 1, Henry Paxon. born Nov. 18. 1814: 2, Mary Ann. born March 13. 1816, died Oct. 29, 1852; 3, Elizabeth, born Septem- ber, 1817 ; 4, Mayhew, born Oet. 24, 1819, died June 22, 1848; 5, Zimri, born March 28, 1821; 6, Mercy, born March, 1823, died in childhood.
VII. Hope West, born Aug. 30, 1792, died Sept. 26, 1863, married William Hammell, which see.
VIII. William Stout West, born Feb. 5, 1795, mar- ried Mary Appleget, Mareh 27, 1817, who was born Oet. 4, 1799, and had issue as follows: 1, Hope, born Dee. 23. 1817 ; 2, George, born June 28, 1820; 3, Susanna, born Nov. 27, 1822; 4 and 5, Sarah Ann and Mary, twins, born March 1, 1826; 6, Wil- liam, born Aug. 7, 1828; 7, Charles, born Oct. 22, 1830; S, Phebe, born June 12, 1833; 9, Henry, born Oct. 17, 1836; 10, Edward, born Dee. 5, 1843.
IX. Joseph Lippet West, born Nov. 14, 1798, died Feb. 11, 1876; married, in 1823, Ann Pearson, who was born April 6. 1804, died 1835, and had issue as went home, and his father took the disease from him : follows : 1, John W. P., born Oet. 18, 1823; 2. James G., born Sept. 12, 1825; 3, Ann, born March 6, 1828; 4, Joseph P., born Feb. 7, 1830, died in childhood; 5, Samuel N., born March 21, 1834. After the death of his wife, in 1835, Joseph married Hannah Forman, widow of Randolph Forman, Nov. 10, 1839, and had issue as follows: 1, Randolph For- man, Dee. 20, 1840; 2, Joseph H., born Nov. 5, 1845. The Scotts were among the earliest settlers of the township.
Christopher Van Nest, son of John Van Nest, settled at Quaker Bridge, in Hamilton township. He mar- ried Catherine Voorhies, and had nine children. His brother John, a settler in West Windsor, had the same number, and from these two are deseended the Van Nests in Hamilton and elsewhere iu the county. The old Van Nest Bible, printed in Holland in 1640, is in the possession of William C. Van Nest, of Ham- ilton Square.
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