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As Davis's sloop was entering between the Capes of Vir- ginia, a Dutch fleet was seen coming out of James River, where, July 11th, they had captured, " near Point Comfort," several English vessels. The sloop was speedily overhauled and added to the list of prizes. . Capt. Carteret and his wife
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were set ashore in Virginia, to pursue their course further south, as best they could. Hopkins, because, probably, of his interest in the cargo, was retained ; possibly, by choice. How it fared with Carteret, afterwards, in Carolina, and at what time he returned, if at all, to the Isle of Jersey, history does not inform us .*
Anxious to get possession once more of their old American colony, New Netherland, the Dutch commanders eagerly sought, of Capt. Davis, information of the defences of New York. Davis " told them,"
That New Yorke was in a very good condicôn, & in all respects able to defend itselfe hauing received a good supply of armes & ammunicôn from his Royall Highness the Duke of Yorke wth aduice of their designe on that place wch made them resolue to steere another course, & not goo to New Yorke, when one Samuell Hopkins a passenger in ye said sloope, & Inhabitant at Arthur Call in New England, & a professor there did vol- untarily declare to ye Dutch that what the said Dauis had informed was
* N. Y. Col. Docmts., III. 200. The last that is known of him is very deplorable. Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter, the Labadist travelers, being at Harlem, N. Y., Oct. 6, 1679, were under the necessity of spending the night, at a house "constantly filled with people, all the time drinking, for the most part, execrable rum." Dankers says,
" Among the crowd we found a person of quality, an Englishman, named Capt. Carteret, whose father is in great favor with the king [James II.], and he himself had assisted in sev- eral exploits in the king's service. The king has given to his father Sir (George) Carteret, the entire government of the lands west of the North River, in New Netherland, with power to appoint as governor whom he pleases; and at this present time there is a governor over it, by his appointment, another Carteret, his nephew, I believe, who resides at Elizabethtown, in New Jersey. This son is a very profligate person. He married a merchant's daughter here, and has so lived with his wife that her father has been compelled to take her home again. HIe runs about among the farmers, and stays where he can find most to drink, and sleeps in barns on the straw. If he conducted himself properly, he could be not only governor here, but hold higher positions, for he has studied the moralities, and seems to have been of a good understanding; but that is all now drowned. Ilis father, who will not acknowledge him as his son, as before, allows him yearly as much only as is necessary for him to live."
From the fact that his father disowned him on account of his profligacy in his later years, grew, most probably, the report of his having been an illegitimate son-utterly inconsistent, as it is, with the above statement, and other well- ascertained fiets previously adduced in these pages. James Carteret, it is probable, did not long survive his father, who died Jan 14, 1679-SO. Ilis daughter, Elizabeth, was married, in Jersey, (1.) to - Carteret; and, (2.) Nov. 11, 1699, to Philip Pipon, Esq., of Jersey. She was buried. on the anniversary of her marriage-day, in 1720. Their children were, 1. James, baptized, Oct. 1, 1700 ; 2. Elias, bap., Nov. 22, 1702; 3. Delavall, (a daughter), bap., May 14, 1704; 4. Lonise, bap., Mar. 26, 1707; 5 Jeano, bap., Mar. 10, 1709 ; 6. Philip, bap , July 22, 1711 ; and. 7. John, bap., Aug 5, 1716. Ran dell's Island, adjacent to New York, purchased by her father, (with Great Barn Island), for $200 came, on the division of the estate, to Mrs. James Carteret ; and after the death of herself and husband, to this daughter, Elizabeth. Her son, Elias, relinquishing the estate in Jersey to his brother James, came to this country In 1732, and took possession of the Island, calling it Belle- Isle. In 1739, it was sold for the benefit of his creditors, after which, he is thought to have returned to England. Historical Magazine, I. 207-9 X. 157-S. Valentine's Manual for 1535 pp. 493-1.
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alltogether false, that New Yorke was in no condicion to defend itselfe agt the Dutch, &c. ; all wch encouraged the Dutch to visitt that place; all theyr cry was for New Yorke, to which place they came; wch was pres- ently taken by them [July 30]: Where the said Hopkins encouraged the Dutch to proceede to the takeing of Arthur Cull haueing discovered to them allso the weakenes of that place : The said Hopkins had formerly made his aboade wth Capt James Carterett .*
Such was the testimony given, by eye-witnesses, on the oc- casion of investigating the circumstances of the surrender of New York to the Dutch. Hopkins had been identified with the popular party in the town, and, doubtless, welcomed the advent of the Dutch forces, and the change of government, as likely to put an end to the vexatious exactions, to which he and his neighbors had so long been subjected. It seemed, moreover, like a special providence for their relief-an answer to their fervent prayers. The term set by Berry and his Council for their submission, was just then expiring, and they were preparing for another contest, in which the domi- nant party would be supported by Gov. Lovelace of New York, and thus enabled to enforce the Proprietary exactions to the utmost. Berry and Lovelace are now, by a remarka- ble interposition, summarily deposed, and deprived of all power to harm them.
It is not strange, therefore, that the sturdy pioneers of the town, wearied out with the vexations of the previous five years, should readily give in their adhesion to the new gov- ernment. Nine days after the surrender of New York, Nathan Gould of Stamford writes to Gov. Winthrop,-" Its informed that Authur Cull Mr Cartwright's party hath all ready com- plyed & the other party is sumoned to appeare next Tues- day," the 12th of September. It must have been with pe- culiar satisfaction, "that when Capt Berry came to the ffort uppon the Account of surrender Mr Hopkins tould him that his business was done "-his occupation gone.t
Three days after the surrender, Saturday, Sept. 22, the following record is entered on the Minutes of the Council of War, at "New Orange," as New York was now called :
* N. Y. Col. Docmts, JII. 200, 1, 18, 14.
t N. Y. Col. Docmts., III. 201.
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John Baker, Jacob Melyn, John Ogden, cum sociis, Deputies from the village of Elizabethtown, Now-worke, Woodbridge and Piscatteuay, situate in the Province heretofore called New Yarsey, praying by peti- tion, that they may be allowed to send some Delegates from their said villages to treat with the Admirals and associate Council of war respect- ing the surrender of their towns under the obedience of their High Mightinesses, the Lords States of the United Netherlands, and his Serene Highness, the Prince of Orange, and that no audience be granted to their late Governor, Capt. John Berry, before and until the same be granted to the said Delegates, &c.
Ordered-The Petitioners, namely the inhabitants of the villages of Elizabets Towne, Nieworke, Woodbridge and Piscattaway, are hereby allowed to send their Delegates hither on next Tuesday morning, to treat with us.
The three remaining villages were ordered to send their Deputies at the same time, or be subdued "by force of arms." *
On the following Friday, 18gth, it was ordered, " that all the inhabitants of those towns shall be granted the same Privileges and Freedoms as will be accorded to native born subjects and Dutch towns; also the Petitioners and their heirs shall unmolested enjoy and possess their lawfully pur- chased and paid for lands, which shall afterwards be con- firmed to them by the Governor in due form ; " and " the Petitioners are granted and accorded Freedom of conscience as the same is permitted in the Netherlands."+
Again, it is recorded, Saturday, Aug. 13 th, that
The Deputies from the Towns of Elizabets Towne, Neu uorke, Wood- bridge, Piscattaway, Middeltowne and Schrousbury appearing, are or- dered to call together the inhabitants of their respective Towns, and to · have them nominate by plurality of votes, a double number for Schepens or Magistrates of said Towns ; also from each Town to elect two Depu- ties, who shall meet together as one Board, and then nominate, by the greater number of votes, three persons for Schout and three for Secretary, over the said six Towns.
Bergen had been already provided for.#
Four days afterwards the nominations for Schepens were presented to the Council, and on the following day, $1, " John Ogden, Senior, Samuel Hopkins, and Jacob Melyn,"
* N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 571, 3. t N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 576.
* Ib., II. 579.
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were elected " Schepens of Elizabets Towne," and ordered to "come hither on the first opportunity to be sworn in." *
The several towns chose their Deputies, and these met to- gether and made their nominations for Schout and Secretary ; from which nominations, the Generals and Council of War made choice, Sept. 1, 1673, of "Mr. John Ogden to be Schout and Mr. Samuell Hopkins to be Secretary " of the six towns,
Giveing & by these presents granting unto the sª John Ogden & Sam- uel Hopkins & each of them, full pouwer strenght & authority in their said offices. The said Schout together wth ye Schepens or magistrates of ye respective Townes to Rule & governe as well their Inhabitants as Stran- gers and ye sd Samuel Hopkins to administer the office of Secretarij in ye sª Townes.t
The Schout and Secretary were, also, directed "to take an Inventory of the Estate of the late Governor .Carteret." Captain Knyf and Captain Snell, with Abram Varlet as Clerk, were appointed, Sept. 6, to repair to the several towns "at Achter Coll, and to administer the oath of allegiance to all the inhabitants." #
Sept. 7th, 1673,
Schout John Ogden and Secretary Samuel Hopkins appearing, com- plain that Robert Lapriere hath removed divers goods from the house of Philip Carteret which he refuses to restore; also that one John Single- tary refuses to obey their commands; whereupon 'tis ordered to arrest said persons and bring them hither, to which end some soldiers are fur- nished. They are furthermore ordered to summon James Bollen, late Secretary of the Province of New Yersey, to deliver up, agreeably to former order the Governor's papers within the space of 10 days after this date, or in default thereof, his property shall be at the disposal of the Honble Council of War. §
This order sheds light upon some of the troubles of the town. "Lapriere," or Laprairie, was the familiar name by which the Surveyor General, Vauquellin, was known. Both he and Singletary (of whom no other record is known), were arrested by Schout Ogden, sent to New York, and, on
* N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 582. t Ib., II. 595. # Ib., II. 595, 8.
§ Ib., II. 600. Singletary is afterwards called "Jonathan; " the same, probably, with him who was at Haverhill, Mass., in 1663. Savage, IV. 102.
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the 9th, examined by the Council, the charges against them being denied. Four days after, Mr. Ogden being present, the charges were sustained ; Singletary was fined £5, and put on his good behavior : Vauquellin, was found guilty, not only of contumacy, but of sedition, and was condemned " to be banished as an example to others." *
The same day, the commission returned to the city, and reported that, on the 11th of September, they had adminis- tered the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the several towns. They rated "Elizabethtown " at " SO men, 76 of whom have taken the oath; the remainder absent." The names are recorded as follows :
John Ogdon senior
Joseph Ozburn
Thomas Tomson henry Thomson
Samuell Hopkins
Thos Willson
Jacob Moleyn
Truax (Dutch)
Nathaniell Tutle
John Baacker
Tompson
John Pope
Mathyas hettffield
Henry Moris
Robbert Moss
Jonathan Ogdon
William Meecker
Pieter Moss
John Woodrooff
Joseph Meecker
William Hall
Lennard hendly
Benjamin Meecker
Samuel Trotter
Benjamin Price senior Benjamin Price junior Thomas price Nathaniel buniell
John .. ttle
Francis barber
Hendr Jans (Dutch)
Henry Lyon
Isacq Whithead sent
Simpkins
Direk Teunisen (Dutch)
Johnson
Jacob Cornelis (Item)
Humphry Spinidge
Tyss Servaes (Item)
William oliver
William Pills Jonas Wood
Benjamin Ogdon
Charles Tucker
Simon Rows
Benjamin Parkis
George Ross
Thomas Jonge
Richard skinner
Nickles Carter
Jeffrey Jones out of
George Moris
John Carter
the government
Steven Ozburn
Samuell Mash senior
Roger Lambath
Benjamin homes
uell Mash jun™
Stevens Salsberry
Joseph Seers
Joseph ffrasey
Luke Wattson
Joseph bond
George Packer
Ephraim Price +
Moses Tomson
Henry homes
Stephen Crane
Garret Egberts (Dutch) William Cramer
Simonson (Item) Thomas Lyon
Isacq Whithead jun™ James Bullin John Ogdon junt Joseph Ogdon David Ogdon
David Oliver
* N. Y. Col. Docmts., II. 603, 6, T.
t Alb. Records, XXIII. 277.
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The manuscript being torn and defaced, some of the names are not fully recorded. Others are manifestly incorrect : " Hendly " should be Headley ; "Buniell," Bunnell ; "Bul- lin," Bollen; "Henry Moris," Henry Norris ; " Packer," Pack ; "Jonge," Young; "Lambath," Lambert; "Stevens Salsberry," Evans Salsbury ; "Thomas Willson," John Wil- son ; "John . . ttle," is John Little ; " Benjamin Homes" is probably Benjamin Homan ; "Hall " should be Hill, and "Henry Tomson," Hurr Tomson.
Of those who took the oath in Feb. 1665, Andris, Dicken- son, Thomas Pope, Trotter, and " the greater John Wilson," had died : three were represented, each of them, by a son. Shotwell had been exiled by Carteret. Robert Bond may have been enrolled at Newark; Wolverson had returned to New Orange [York] ; Brackett had sold out to Samuel Hop- kins, and returned to New Haven; Richard Painter had sold out to Daniel De Hart, and left the town ; Carwithy had returned to Long Island; Christopher Young and Dennis White had sold out and removed ; John Haines may have been absent; and Jeremiah Osborn had either removed or had deceased; John Winans, Barnabas Wynes, Thomas Moore, John Gray, and John Parker were residents but not enumerated.
Two more sons of John Ogden, Joseph and Benjamin, had come to years; three sons, also, of Benjamin Price, viz., Ben- jamin, Thomas, and Ephraim; Isaac Whitehead's son, Isaac, also ; Goodman Thompson's two sons, Aaron and Hurr; Wil- liam Meeker's two boys, Joseph and Benjamin; William Oliver's son, David ; Nicholas Carter's son, John; and Samuel Marsh's son, Samuel; these all had grown to men's estate, since 1665. Stephen Osborn, too, has followed his brother, Joseph, to this new country.
Several new planters had come in, and some, who had come before, had become land-owners. They are worthy of being numbered with the Founders of the town, as they came when every thing was new, and were valuable accessions to the Colony.
WILLIAM HILL [not HALL] was a cordwainer, and had come
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over with Carteret. He obtained an allotment of 60 acres, of which the survey is not recorded. He sold, Jan. 1, 1678, his house and lot to Benjamin Wade. He, or his son, of the same name, was numbered among Mr. Harriman's parishion- ers from 1694 (perhaps carlier) to 1703. He was admitted among the later Associates, and drew No. 70 of the 100-acre lots, next to Robert Woolley .*
SAMUEL HOPKINS was at Milford, Ct., in 1658, and possibly much earlier. Thence he removed to New Haven, where, Dec. 5, 1667, he married Hannah, daughter of Capt. Nathan- iel Turner, of New Haven. Her father was lost, Jan. 1646, in the celebrated merchantman sent out by the people of that town. The daughter was baptized at New Haven, Nov. 17, 1639, and occupies the first place in the baptismal rec- ord. Her son, Samuel, was born at New Haven, Aug. 30, 1668, and her daughter, Hannah, May 2, 1670. In the latter part of the same year, Mr. Hopkins, with his wife and two babes, removed to this town, induced thereto, most probably, by John Brackett, Sent, whose third lot-right he had pur- chased. Mention has already been made of him in connec- tion with Capt. James Carteret, from which it appears that Hopkins was an active and influential member of the church, and a zealous advocate of the people's rights. Under the Dutch rule, he was chosen one of the Schepens of the town, and appointed Secretary of the Province. His house- lot contained four acres, bounded, N., by a highway ; W., by Samuel Sturrige; S., by Elizabeth Creek ; and, E., by John Ogden, Jr., a way passing between them to the landing-place. He had, also, 12 acres of upland, " within the Common Fence at the W. side of the plaine," bounded by Joseph Sayre, Isaac Whitehead, Sent, and two highways. His "great accommodation," as the larger division of land was called, is not on record. He had a warrant for 120 acres. IIe was, doubtless, a trader, and accustomed to travel into distant parts, as when he ac- companied Capt. James Carteret to Virginia in 1673. His
* E. T. Book, B. 23. E. J. Records, B. 50.
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death occurred not later than Oct. 1678. His wife survived him .*
ROGER LAMBERT was a blacksmith, from Wiltshire, Eng., and was descended from an ancient Norman family-Ro dolph de Lambert's, and from a collateral branch of the fam- ily of Oliver Lambert, Earl of Lavan, 1617. Jesse Lambert, of Milford, Ct., was his cousin. Roger, who had never seen him since coming over, wrote to him from this town, Sep. 25, 1684, a loving epistle of fraternal greeting :
After my loue to you with my wife's, these are to lett you understand that I have been informed by seuerall of your being att Milforde, in New Englande, the which caused me to write seuerall letters to you before this, but neuer could haue one line from you. I have written very often home to England-to my father, but neuer could heare from him, and soe ye last letter that I did send it was to your father ;
and much more of like import, written in a Christian spirit, signed-" Roger Lambard." He was, evidently, a man of substance and consideration.
He had a house-lot containing 16 acres, 16 by 10 chains, bounded, N., by the highway ; E., by Robert White ; S., by Daniel Ogden "in ye Swamp;" and, W., by his own land. He had, also, six acres of upland, adjoining Capt. John Baker, and the Common Swamp; also 8 acres of the swamp ; also, 30 acres of upland, on the N. W. side of the Swamp, adjoining Richard Beach, William Cramer, and Nicholas Carter ; and 83 acres of meadow, on "the Great River Called the Sound, between two Small Creeks." He had, also, 60 acres "in a Swamp at the Mile brook," adjoining Nicholas Carter, John Little, and George Pack; and six acres of meadow "in the Rawack Meadows : " in all 131} acres. His son John, also, had an allotment, consisting of 100 acres on " the Bay," adjoining Gov. Carteret, and William Letts.t For some reason, the father had made himself obnoxious to the ruling powers, possibly during the land controversies of the day ; and, in consequence, execution was issued, by Jus-
* Savage, II. 462. N. Y. Col. Doc., II., 582, 595, 600, 2, 5, 6, 633; III. 200-1 213-4. E. J. Records, II. 97, 105; o. e. 25. E. T. Bill, p. 102.
+ Lambert's New Ilaven, pp. 205-9. E. J. Records, I. 154; II. 19, 29, 89; o, e, 7. E. T. Bill, pp. 107, 118.
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tice Sandford of Bergen, to Samuel Moore, Provost Marshal, against the goods and chattels of Roger Lambert, of Eliza- bethtown, N. J.
JOIN LITTLE was from Newbury, Mass. He was near of kin, probably a brother, to George Little, who, in March, 1669-70, became a planter at Woodbridge, but afterwards returned to Newbury. The family were from London. John Little was a carpenter.' He came here, not later than 1670. He purchased, Dec. 16, 1670, for £65, of Evan Salisbury, William Cramer's landed estate. He had two house-lots ; one, containing 10 acres, bounded, S., by George Pack; N., by William Cramer; E., by a highway ; and W., by " the highway that goeth to Woodbridge ;" the other, containing 9 acres, bounded, S. W., by Robert White; N. E., by Rich- ard Mitchell; S. E., by William Letts ; and N. W., by the Woodbridge road. He had, also, 30 acres of upland, adjoin- ing Capt. John Baker and Roger Lambert ; also, 20 acres of upland, adjoining Peter Morse and Stephen Crane ; also, 30 acres of upland, "in the plain," adjoining George Pack and George Ross ; also, 6 acres of swamp, N. W. of the Wood- bridge Road, adjoining Robert White and Richard Mitchell ; also, 6 acres more of the same swamp, adjoining William Cramer and George Pack ; also, 7 acres of meadow, a triangle, " between the great River and Tomson's Creek; " also, 16 acres of meadow "in Rahauack meadows being between two Creeks "-in all, 134 acres. He married, April 26, 1680, Mary, a daughter of his neighbor, Robert White, who, at his death in April, 1713, survived him. He left, also, four sons - John, Jonathan, Robert, and Anthony, and three daughters, Martha, Comfort, Constance. His widow died in 1715 .*
HENRY LYON was one of the founders of Milford, Ct., in 1639. He married, in 1652, Elizabeth, the only daughter of William Bateman, of Fairfield, Ct., whither he removed in 1664. In 1667, he joined the Milford people, and came to Newark, of which he was one of the founders. He was ap-
* Coffin's Newbury, p. 30S. Littell's Passaic Valley, p. 213. E. J. Records, I. 154; o. c. 59; II. 19, 42. E. T. Bill, p. 107.
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pointed, Jan. 166g, to keep the ordinary at Newark. For several years, he was Treasurer of the town. He had an al- lotment of 1302 acres within the bounds of Newark. Shortly before the Dutch conquest, he became one of the Associates of this town, where he ranked among the leading men of the place. His was the largest annual subscription to the sup- port of the Rev. John Harriman, of whose church he was a member. He was appointed Justice of the Peace, Aug. 1681; also, Feb. 28, one of the Council; also, Feb. 4, one of the Judges of Small Causes, the commission being renewed, May 1, 1686. He was a merchant, and of quite extensive business.
He purchased, Nov. 1674, of John Martin, Senr, of Wood- bridge, Capt. Bollen's property, and sold it, the following year, to Carteret. He purchased, also, March 13, 1673, Vau- quellin's house and grounds, for £60. He received a war- rant for 36 acres, " due to him by Rights and purchase from others." His house-lot contained 7 acres, bounded E., by Henry Norris ; S., by Hurr Thompson; W., by a highway ; and N., by a by-way. He had, also, 16 acres of upland, ad- joining the N. side of the above, with Henry Norris on the E., and Benjamin Parkhurst on the N .; also, 24 acres " in the plaines," adjoining Joseph Bond ; also, 20 acres of upland on "the Long Neck," a triangle between Benjamin Price, Senr, and Isaac Whitehead, Sen'; also, 90 acres of upland, adjoining the plain, Benjamin Meeker, Joseph Meeker, Robert Bond, Henry Norris, and Isaac Whitehead, Senr ; also 100 acres of upland, "Lying by the Lyne of Elizabeth Towne and Newark," having " the boggy meadow " on the E., and unsurveyed land on the W., the highway to Newark to go through it, [since known as "Lyon's Farms "]; also, 4 acres of meadow on E. T. Creek, 7 acres of boggy meadow "at the Cove," 18 acres on the Bay, and 20 acres on the Creek, formerly old John Ogden's : in all 306 acres. He died in 1703, leaving a second wife, Mary." THOMAS LYON, who,
* Lambert's N. Haven, pp. 90, 1, 3. Barber's His: Coll. of Ct., p. 231. Newark Town Records. Index. Newark Bicentenary, p. 125. E. J. Records, I. o. e. 89; II. 17, 18, 93, 129, 141 ; o. e. 23; C. 13, 75, 106; E. 531. E. T. Bill, p. 107.
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also, took the oath in 1673, was his son, and, at that time, was about 20 years old.
GEORGE MORRIS was, doubtless, from New Haven, Ct., a near kinsman of Thomas Morris, one of the founders of Newark, in 1667. He came here, probably, a single man, as his allotment was only 90 acres. He is known on the records as a "Cordwainer." He had a house-lot, containing six acres, bounded, E., by Robert Vauquellin ; S. by a highway ; W., by unsurveyed land ; and, N., by Benjamin Meeker, and Vauquellin. He had, also, 6 acres of upland, bounded by Benjamin Parkhurst, Henry Norris, John Wilson, and Henry Lyon ; also, 20 acres of upland "on the Plaine," adjoining Leonard Headley ; also, 20 acres of upland on " the highway that goes to Woodroffes Farme," adjoining Henry Norris, Robert Vauquellin and John Wilson ; also, 40 acres of up- land on the E. side of the Plain, adjoining Henry Norris, John Woodruff, and Henry Lyon ; also 8 acres of meadow on " the bound Creek," and 4 acres on the W. side of "Wood- roffes Creek :" in all, 104 acres. He died, Jan. 1689-90 .*
HENRY NORRIS was, probably, from Salem, Mass. The Rev. Edward Norris [1589-1659] came from England to Salem, in 1639, and became the colleague of the celebrated Hugh Peters there. He left one son, Edward, born, 1614, who may have been the father of Henry. The latter came here before 1670, and proved to be a valuable settler. In October, 1672, he came into possession of the allotment of "Little John Wilson," first as Executor, and then, Dec. 11, 1675, as purchaser. Nov. 2, 1692, he was appointed one of the Town Deputies to the Legislature. He had two house- lots, containing 14 acres, bounded, S. W., by William Meeker ; S. E., by Robert Vauquellin ; N. E., and N. W., by highways. He had, also, 16 acres of upland, " on the E. side of the Plaine," adjoining Joseph Bond, Henry Lyon, and George Morris ; also, 24 acres of upland, bounded by George Morris, Benjamin Parkhurst, Hurr Thompson, Henry Lyon, and John Wilson ; also, 50 acres of upland, adjoining
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