History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 4

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830

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692

HISTORY OF ESSEX COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.

we now jueves, we hereby declare w . have not given him any ; and as for any writings for lands in Morris County, we a, hereby declare we huve not given him or his children any manner of deed, gift er grant for any lands there sithe I ha la deed from him for the land which I have mure sold, and there is no writings to hurt the people that Iought the land. And we deatre all Judges and Jurors to take notice of this our declaration, if the suud Daniel Roberto or his children should over offer to produce aoy surh writings, as they will be fraudulent. As witness our hand this s Ath day of October, 1766.

" signed,

. Ifton ROBERTS. ". ABIGAIL. X ROBERTS.

"Be it remembered, that on the sixth day of Detober, 1766, Hugh Roberta and Abigail his wife made oath . to the above before me.

" Jospin Rious, Jr."

Hugh Roberts made two wills ; one, in 1769, names wife Abigail, son Moses and his mother to have the use of my "negro Tobe." After her death "Tobe to be at liberty to live with Moses or my grand-on Daniel. Grand-daughters, Abigail, Hannah and Phebe Rob- erts. Grandsons, David, Moses and Aaron, sons of my son Daniel."

A subsequent will bears date Oet 9, 1776, in which a similar provision is made for "Tobe," also names grand-daughters, Mary, Sarah and Eunice.

This will was admitted to probate on Nov. 22, 1776.

Other conveyances are made in the name of Roberts, in the years 1750, 1761, 1773, and 8th No- vember, 1785, Jesse Roberts and wife Eunice, conveyed to David C'amp one-half of an undivided traet near the great swamp mill, on Elizabeth River described, the west chimney of Stephen Baker's house being one of the land marks.

William Camp, one of the original settlers of New- ark. He was prominent in the public duties of a · itizen.

Mr. L'ongar gives names of his sons,-John. born 1662, and at Newark, Samuel, 1669.

"Samuel d. 24th September, 1744, de. 75. Johanna, his wife, stb August, 1763, ae. 85. Had Nathaniel, saunel and Joseph."

The date above given does not correspond with the date of deed for land given to his son Joseph, which bears date Dec. 8, 1744. The deed is in the library of the New Jersey Historical Society (Camp books and papers). We quote :

" To all Christian People to whom They Prevents Shall Come Greeting. Know ye That 1. Sumael Camp, of Newark, in the County of Essex, and Eastern Divi ion of the Province of New Jersey, Yoonan, as well for the lasse, good will and affection which I have and Bear Unto my Loving son Joseph Camp, of the said Newark County and Province af resuld Youman. . . . . and other cool and lawful causes and Consideration . unito hun, the said Joseph Camp, my son and med ine, forever The full Quantity of Thirty Seres of Land, to Int taken off the South East side of my I anestool Plantation, where I now Live, in the Tenure and I'mweion of which h antuate, Lying and being within the Hounde aund Limits of the Township of Newark, afuremid, Bounded Easterly by the Lats of Hezekiah JJ. hnson, Nathaniel Lyon, Northward by the Laust of Amitve Robards, . further, Know yr that I, the Said Samuel Camp, have Given and put my said son, Joseph Camp, inte full Quiet and prarealde jumpwton of all and Singular the hereby Given and Granted premios with the appartenance by the Delivery unto him (at the En-Souling and Delivery heroof )

"This written instrument, together with a chod on Turf of add Land. In the name of Solzin and prevention thereef, . .. . In Withone

whereof. .... Set my Hand and Scal the eighth Many of December, In the Seventeenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, George the Second . .. . . . and in the year of our Lord Christ, One Thousand Seven Humbed fourty-four.

". SAMLEL CAMP. SF.AL.

" In the presence of

JOHN HOWERS. JOHN BALL ..

"January 15, 1744-5. 1, Joanna Camp, of Newark, widow of Samuel Camp, of Newark, Inte deceased, have of my own voluntary and freo accord yield up my right, interest, power and demand of thirds to the above written instrument as signifieth by my sealing in the presence of "STEPHEN BROWN.

" JOHN BOWERS.

her ** JOANNA . C'AMP. mark

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On April 22, 1745, Samuel Camp (cooper) conveyed to Joseph C'amp (cooper) "one hundred eight acres a.id an half of that plantation late belonging to Samuel Camp, the father of said Samuel, and Joseph, de- ceased"; also other tracts described.

Joseph Camp purchased other tracts in 1746, 1747, and 1748 two tracts.

On Sept. 7, 1748, David Ball (blacksmith, of Spring- field) conveyed to Joseph Camp one-fourth part of a mill, built in conjunction between Ezekiel ('rane, Israel Crane and Samuel Congar, on Elizabeth river. On April 30, 1752, Nathaniel Camp, quit-claimed to Joseph Camp, for forty pounds, a tract in Newark -"bounded northerly by the highway which leads from Newark to the southward end of the mountain by Thomas Baley's; easterly the home lot of Amos Robarts; westerly and southerly by Joseph Camp."

Elizabeth Camp, wife of Nathaniel, for ten pounds, relinquished her right of dower and thirds.

Prices of articles, labor, etc., as charged in Joseph Camp's book, A. D. 1752:

17.

Indian Corn, bushel

Candles, pounds

Spirits, quart. .

Wheat, hushel

Barrels, euch

Ryb, bushel

Making five barrels ryder

One day 'N work

Buckwheat, bushel

In 3762, l'ork, pound Veal, Io pounds Pig .

In 1763, Beef, prand

11 1774, Gammon, pond

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In 1965, Turn ps, four bubbels Fightren brinks Butter, three pounds

In 1767, Winter apples, barrel

In 1952, Salt, Inishel

Cotton, pound

In 1780, thir-fourth arre flav

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Flax, pomid-

Ju 1752 Joseph Day is debited with sundry charges. The account is continued in the years 1753, 1754, 1755 and 1756. On Dec. 7, 1757, the following entry np- pours :

"When we Remed their were Due to me over and above the one pound fifteen shillings & three pence, Eight barrels of ( yder, for which I was to have Sixteen Gallons of Spirits, they was put into a barret & when I

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brought them from the Still their was but Suven tinlions and a half & a plat, for Inwesment at by the Quart.

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" June 2x, 175%.

" Your Humble servant

In 1753.

Making vyder, barr .1

1 m4. if th . eyder mull, twelve barrels

Plums, hundred .

Flax, one and a half pounds

Day's work of simon Waruer

They's work of C'aleb

Data, bushel

" The sawmill account " runs through the books of Joseph Camp, commencing in 1753, and is rontinned in the books of Caleb Camp, Joseph W. Camp and David Camp until 1826.

In 1753, Joseph Wheeler is debited, among other charges,-

Une bushel of Indian corn for James t'aimel

L'ish pmtil JJohn Smith, School-master

Cash paid In't. WitHam Turner . . . 1

Cash paid to Jeminh Brach

On Jan. 1, 1760-1, Humphrey Nichols is credited " by one Rattlesnake 38."

Det. 17, 1753, James Taylor began his year's work. The rate of his wages, is not given. He is debited at various times,-

£.

To making two shirts

To footing storkings

To two varde and three-fourth of cloth for a

To one pair of mittenx

To one handkerchief . 10

To fourteen Philadelphia Buttons at Is tid per dozen .

To five surde trowner cloth :

To sute of clonthe, viz. comt, vent & breaches . . 5

On Jan. 20, 1754, is an entry, Joseph Willson, " By The minutes of the Council of Safety show that he cash paid, for your children to John Smith not rec- | met with the committee in 1777, at Haddonfield, Bor- oned in the old account. 68. 10d."

In 1754 an account is opened with Andrew Hays. The credit side of the account shows that he was a tanner and currier. Some of the prices paid were as follows :

€

. d.

One skin tanning and curying

Droming one piece of leather

Lining five sheep skinm

Tanoing two call skins and rurying

April 12, 1756, an account was opened with Na- thaniel leasen. Various entries are made, and on November 13th appears the following entry :

"Then Reconed with Nathaniel Havens, School Master and Ballance all the above Accompta "

Joseph Camp. Esq., died 20th October, 1780, aged 70; by wife Patience had Caleb and Ephraim ; by second wife Joanna, widow of Samuel Conger, had Joanna, wife of Elias Beach.

April 17, 1753, Joanna Conger, executrix, and Joseph Camp, exrentor of the estate of Samuel Con- ger, conveyed a tract of land to Caleb Camp-Inte the . Wench, forty pounds." property of Samuel Conger.

Nov. 24, 1769, Joseph Camp conveyed to son Caleb Camp, " for 5x, and otherwise gift, and for the better maintainence and livelihood of him the said Caleb . . . twenty-five acres where said C'aleb Camp's house now stands . . . running from the line of samuel Camp to the line of AAmos Roberts, and so from the main country road that leads by Caleb Camp's house, for enough in length of claim, from said road, along the line of Samuel Camp and Amos Roberts, to contain twenty-five acres, strict measure ; also one hundred acres at Cheapside . . . and two tracts of salt meadow."

In 1771 and 1772. Caleb Camp purchased five sep- arate interests in the " Great Swamp Mill."

Nov. 27, 1780, Ephraim Comp conveyed (qui- claim) to Caleb Camp a tract at Cheapside ; als "the whole of the plantation whercon Caleb Camp Inte ly lived, adjoining the twenty-five acres my father gave by deed of gift to said Caleb. To quit to said Caleb all the remainder of his home lot, adjoining the twenty-five acres ; also eleven acres ; father bought of Stephen Wheeler."

In 1796, Caleb L'amp entered into an ante-nuptial contract with Abigail Moor-" my intended wife or her heirs;" on the back of this agreement is endorse las follows: " May 15, 1817, received the within arti- eles, such as could be found of them. Rebecca Johan- son."

On the 13th of September, 1813, Caleb Camp made an ante-nuptial contract with Lydia Cooper a widow from Morris County. They were married by Rev. Thomas Morrell, Det. 28, 1813.

The first record of the public services rendered by Caleb Camp appears in the town records in 1767 ; they continue with rare intervals to 1814. Mr. Conger styles him " an active Whig in the Revolution."

dentown. Morristown, and Princeton ; in 1775at Mor- ristown, Princeton, Trenton, and Hillsborough. He was also a member of the Assembly of New Jersey. Caleb Camp, d., April 9, 1817, a. eighty-five. He had sons,-Joseph W. and David.

Joseph Wheeler Camp, married Sept. 22. 1204, by Rev. S. Thompson, to Julia, daughter of Timothy (?) Ball.

David Camp, son of Caleb, married Hetty Cooper. David Camp died by being accidentally impaled. about 1802-3. He had children (unmed in petitions to Orphans Court, in 1815), viz. : David C'any , John Webster Camp, Sally, wife of Ira Baldwin, Caleb Camp, Jr., and Fanny, wife of Henry Baker

The widow, Hetty Camp, on April 9, 1814, was married to Moses Baker, by Rey. Stephen Thompson.

The Camp families had the usund proportions of slaves. Thus, Caleb appears to have had " Jep " in 1762 to 1773, " Ned" in 1765, "Cato " in 1762.

In 1771, William Barnet is charged "to one Indian

Job Camp, a son of Samnel, died about 1796-97.

November 21, paid to tirant for hend sturen 1 .1

To three yards and one-half of cloth for a great coat ut lus, yor yard

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The following item indicates that he owned one slave at least :

" In supporting the Black Woman, agreed that the Widow Camp pay 1 8. 5d, to 4 8.

The heirs of Job Camp, deceased, to pay as follows. James C'amp's children to pay } of 4 8.

Daniel Camp to pay 4 of 4 8.

Moses Roberts to pay 51, 3 Comfort (('lark) to pay 5} 3 Sally (Blake) to pay 5}

(On the back is indorsed.)

The Widow Camp to pay 59 cents.

The account allowed $17.96."

An inventory of Yonica's goods July the 6th, 1812:

Art le, 1 lwdstead & 1 feather bed & nuder beds & 6 sheats and 2 cov- .reads & plars pillows & three table cloths, 2 towle, 2 Blankats & # chaken& & lining peti . to & 3 woling pitiat, 3 shifts and Calive long gown and " peace of stockings & 3 short gowns & & lining peticoats, I low chest aud Basket, I pear of socs-left at David Johnsons, 2 small kittles, I pale, 1 candle mold, 1 Che fing Kmfe, I long wheel. I Beni, 1 talde, 1 low cheat, 3 chears, I shovel & tong, I shalisom, 1 pear of band irons, I Brass Ketel, I travel, 1 andle stick

"Inventory taken by nie, . JOHN N. BALDWIN '

An account of articles Taken from David Johnson by Yonica .- " 1 pail, I Brass Kettle, I Reel, 1 Candle Mould, I Choping Knife."

An Inventory of the Property of Yonica. "Yonica came to Jane Riggs 13 October, 1812. Kopt her 1 dollar per week till 23 April, 1813, from 23 April till 23 June (a 10g., from 23 till do 13 August (@ 12%. Extra for sickness. Expense of Grave, 123. for invit- ing the neighbors to the funeral 5s., Liquors in sick- ness 158."

An account of sundry articles furnished for the support of Yonica, the Black woman, by the widow Elizabeth ('amp.

Int loads wind at per load .

To 5 vards Muslin ( 1. 6d.

To 21. .. G

To pork, løitter, and mural. To 4 yards of home-made druggut or woolen-cloth (m 1

To l pair of china.

To paid Samuel T'oster

To parl on promise to pay David Johnson

July 2 T , 3 works board

To paid Zilphan for attituling on Youik

The following apprentice indenture is of interest :

Wool orka Apprentived to Johnson. - This Indenture withseth, that Jonathan Woolcock som ef Johu Woolcocks, late of Newark, in the county of Frees, and province of New Jersey, huth, and by theme pro ent loth voluntarily un1 of his own accord and free-will, put himself an apprentice unto Kliphalet Johnson and his amigne, br comment of Daniel Ile par, Emq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace in and for the wild county and Jane Lyon and James Nicholson, both over- reese of the gover for the mid town for the year of our lord 17le-a, which textifish to then signing and reading theme promener to learn the art, trade, and imystery of a shoemaker and tanner, to serve from the day of the late herees, during the full and complete term of three years and funr month, next ensuing. During all which time the wdd apjaen- tice lais mid master and his wenigna, shall faithfully werve their secrets, keep their lawful commands, gladly everywhere whey ; be shall de no damage to his mid annter and amigos, nor me it to to done In others without giving notice to his mail muster or assigns he shall not wante his mid meter'e gade, for lend thein unlawfully to ane ; shall nel commit formification, nur contract matrimony within mall term, at cards, dice, or any other unlawful game he shall not play, whereby hin

suid master or assigns may have dumugge with their own goods or the goods of others ; he shall not absent himself day or knight from his said master or asigns service without their leave, nor haunt Ale-houses, tav- erns, or play-houses, hut in all things shall behave himself as a faith- ful apprenti e ought to do during said term of time; aud the said master or his assigns shall teach, or rause to be taught, to the said apprentice the art and trade of a shoemaker and tanner, and to teach, or cause him to be taught, to read and write English, and at the end and expiration of said term shall give unto mid apprentice one snit of clothes and tools sufficient to make a shoe, and to find said apprentice good und sufficient meat, drink, washing and lodging and apparel during said term , and for the true performance of every of the said covenants and agreements either of the parties do hind themselves one to the other by these presents. Ju witness whereof they have berrunto in- terchang -ably set their hands and scals this nineteenth day Decem- ber, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-

" JONATHAN WOOLCOCKS. " ELIPHALET JOHNSON. "

" Scaled and delivered in the presence of " JOHN OGDEN, " ISAAC GOWERN.

The name of Jonathan Woolcocks is written in a full, round and clear handwriting, and indicates that his master would have no difficulty on that point.

Thomas Wilcox died about A. D.1785, Letters of administration on his estate were issued on the fourth day of March, 1785, to Mary Wilcox and Daniel Roberts.

Amos Roberts appears to have rented the property and boarded.

The Wilcox children consisted of daughters and son,-Mary, who became the wife of Uzal Wilson, Phobe became the wife of Benjamin Blake, and Joseph apparently between thirteen and fourteen years of age.

Amos Roberts appeared to have been in possession of the property about ten years, and in his settlement he charges the estate "to boarding aud elothing Sarah Wilcox one year and four months

do do Abigail Wilcox 20

do do Joseph Wilcox seven years and six months, at £16 per year . 120

£160

By an award made by David Tichenor and Caleb Camp, Esq., this amount was reduced eight pounds. A map presented herewith is labeled "The Servey and true map of Thomas Wileoks' Estate and the division of the Children."

In one of the field-books of Major Samuel Hayes, is an entry,-" Estate of Thomas Wilcox, beginning at Elizabeth River."-N. J. Hist. MSS.

The map shows six divisions.

Joseph Wilcox married Hannah, daughter of John Clark (4th) and Comfort (Camp) Clark, his wife, and had children, --- Laura D. died, unmarried, and James ('lark. m.

Thomas Hayes, Samuel Hayes and David Hayes were severally and jointly interested as owners of land in Clinton township, on the westerly side of Elizabeth River.

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Thomas resided on the northwestern corner of Irvington Avenue and Wall Street. Tradition hath it that during the Revolutionary war he was murdered in his barn-yard by a negro,-a camp follower. Mr. Hayes was backing away from the negro, and stumbling, fell to the ground, and was stabbed with a " pitch-fork." A sister of Mr. Hayes saw the trans- action, gave an alarm, when the negro was pursued, caught, identified and locked up in prison. While in prison his feet were frozen off. Afterwards men in disguise broke open the prison, took the murderer out

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Camptown at length rises in the woods, and takes its place among the old towns of the State, and was long famous for the generous worship of Bacchus, longer scandalized by strangers, but at last killed in a literary contest about a new name, and honorably buried on the cold night of Nov. 2, 1852, far down

yard was a reality, but it was not located by the bridge on Elizabeth River, but on Vinegar Hill, near the oll Osborne and Gale property, midway between Camptown and South Orange. There Perrianguers were moulded and built of oak, pine and chestnut, and launched on Bound t'reck, already described. They were built for the New York trade, carried freight and pusseugers, and made the round voyage usually in three days.

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Thomas resided on the northwestern corner of Irvington Avenue and Wall Street. Tradition bath it that during the Revolutionary war he was murdered in his barn-yard by a negro,-a camp follower. Mr. Hayes was backing away from the negro, and stumbling, fell to the ground, and was stal bed with a " pitch-fork." A sister of Mr. Hayes saw the trans- action, gave an aların, when the negro was pursued, caught, identified and locked up in prison. While in prison his feet were frozen off. Afterwards men in disguise broke open the prison, took the murderer out and burned him to death.

Subsequently Elias Osborn and Henry Osborn owned and occupied the place, one residing on the west of Wall Street, and the other between Wall Street and Elizabeth River, both houses being still standing.

VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.

Lyons Farms' comes into notice here. It is a thickly-settled agricultural district in the southern part of Clinton township. Here the late Profes- sor Mapes laid the foundation of true, scientific husbandry. Here Dr. J. M. Ward, his son, William Ward, Esq., and P. T. Quiun, Esq .. have brought much energy and intelligence to the cultivation of fruit. The grounds of the State Fair are at Waverly, on the borders of the farms.

The settlement of this section dates far back. The descendants of William and Henry Lyons and of Stephen Bond, settlers in the original township of Newark, 1666, early opened farms.

The exact date we cannot find. The oldest house now standing, and now occupied by Mr. William tirummond, was built in 1760. The stone school- house, to which attaches a story of varied interest, is one hundred years old. The Baptist Church, much renovated spiritually and materially, was constituted in 1769, and the first church built in 1783. Sabbath- schools have been sustained for sixty years.

Bound Creek, now by no means imposing, was for a long time the free port of entry for the interior. Here l'erriauguers entered laden with merchandise from New York, and landed it, at a primitive date, close by the present bridge crossing the creek on the lower road to Elizabethtown; from thence the goods were transported by wagons and ox-carts as far west as Morristown. In the same creek were launched the Perriauguers, skillfully built in the old Camptown navy yard, but the building and the builders re- main unsung for waat of a Longfellow.

beneath the snow, and Irvington, hailed with speech and incident and song, took its place.

But whence the name Camptown, so famous in old debate? William Campe, one of the original settlers of the township of Newark, fixed his residence at the south end of Broad Street, and there, until within a few years the old Camp house was standing. He had three sons,-William, Samuel and Joseph, and one or more of them or their children openel farm- on the then wooded site of our present village, ac- companied or soon followed by the Roberts, the Ball and the Baldwins, and by their prominence in the . settlement gave the name of Cumptown to the central part of our present village plot, which, whoa named. was no more than a tavern, a blacksmith-shop. a grocery and some outlying farms, -the nucleus of our present village.

An effort has been made to connect the place with Washington, and derive its name from his camping- ground by the brook on the east of the village (now known by the unpoctie name of the ditch). The nearest approach of Washington to this place was Washington rock and the ridge of the First Mountain, back of Jefferson village. There, while reconnoitering, he dropped his spy-glass, which his horse slightly injured, It was repaired by Mr. Samuel Durand, the skillful and modest watchmaker of the village.

In the course of time the name of Camptown passed into a byword and a reproach The wag joked with it and the stranger held it in derision. It was the Nazareth of the county. This was owing, not so much to anything in the place itself as to the surroundings and the incidents of the early roads, not much better than cowpaths, that led to it. Camptown was the rendezvous of the fast and wicked young men of Newark and Orange, the goal of straw-rides and the Gretna Green of dance, frolie and fun. The road to Newark was bad and dangerous. Robbers Irked in the thick woods. A foul murder capped the climax of evil doings, and the hotel was long regarded with horror by the traveler.

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History of Essex and Hudson counties, New Jersey, Vol. II, Part 4

Author: Shaw, William H Publication date: 1884 Publisher: [United States :] Number of Pages: 830

Author: Shaw, William H
Publication date: 1884
Publisher: [United States :]
Number of Pages: 830