History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 116

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1170

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He is a member of the State Medical Society and of the District Medical Society of Hunter- don County.

He married, April 5, 1878, Celia, daughter of William H. Creveling, of Hunterdon County, and has one son, William D. Little,

Moses Robins

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MOSES' great-grandfather, Jonathan Robins, settled in Alexandria township, adjoining the "Old Hickory Tavern," in 1751, and bought land of " one Widow Merrill." The original es- tate contained two hundred and eighty-five acres of land. He had two sons, Jonathan and Isaac, and four daughters, the former being the grand- father of Moses Robins. He lived and reared a large family on the old estate. One of his sons, Jonathan, the third of that name, was the father of our subject. This Jonathan married Widow Charity Lawshe, and had by her nine children. George, James, and Ephraim, of the sons, are deceased, and one of the daughters, Mary, is deceased; those living are Moses, Jonas, Sylvester, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Jonas married Sarah Jane Case, and lives on the old homestead in Alexandria; Sylvester married Isa- bella Bird, and lives in Branchburg township, Somerset Co .; Sarah married James Sidders, and lives near Urbana, Ohio; Elizabeth mar- ried, first, Reuben R. Wright, deceased, and second, Jonas Tharp; they live in Union town- ship adjoining the original homestead.

Moses Robins was born in Bethlehem (now Union) township, Hunterdon Co., N. J., Sept. 3, 1826. He was brought up on the place, and lived there till twenty-three years of age. Oct. 25, 1849, he married Susan M. Kels, daughter of Henry Kels, of Alexandria, and has had children as follows: buey E., born Sept. 2, 1850, married James A. Creveling, Feb. 13, 1875; Sarah E., born May 21, 1853, died July 14, 1857; George, born Aug. 12, 1854, died Nov. 7, 1855; Sylvester, born April 19, 1856, lives at home; Mary A., born Nov. 22, 1857 ; Charity E., born July 30, 1859; Henry K., born July 1, 1861; John L., born Oct. 22, 1862, died June 23, 1863; Anna, born Nov. 11, 1864, (lied Jan. 11, 1873; Jonathan E., born Oct. 13, 1866; Isabella, born Aug. 2, 1870.

Mr. Robins moved to the farm he now ocen- pies in 1853. It was purchased by his father of Adam D. Runkle. He has made great im- provements on the place, both in buildings and culture, and it is one of the finest farms in this section of New Jersey.

He is a Republican, and has served his town in several responsible offices. Was nominated and ran as a candidate for the Legislature in 1877, but was defeated, although running ahead of his ticket. He has been commissioner of deeds several years, school trustee, and district

Jonathan Robins, the father, bought ont the heirs and owned most of the old homestead traet; and after his marriage to Widow Lawshe purchased the other homestead in Union town- ship, where he died Dec. 12, 1872, and was buried on the original place. His wife died : elerk. He and his wife are members of the March 25, 1859, aged sixty-two years, ten Presbyterian Church of Bloomsbury, and he is nn elder in that body. months, and twenty-four days.

TEWKSBURY.

This township is situated in the northeast corner of the county, and is bounded north by Morris County ; cast by Somerset County and Readington township; south by Readington and Clinton town- ships ; west by High Bridge and Lebanon. It com- prises 35.82 square miles, or 22,925 acres. By the census of 1880, it has 189 farms and a population of 2108.

NATURAL FEATURES.

The township is traversed by a range of high and rolling land ealled Fox Hill, after one of the early proprietors. It constitutes a considerable portion of its area, and ranges generally northeast and south- west, reaching from Pottersville to Cokesburg, and from the Merris county line to within a mile of New Germantown. A rich limestone valley south of this covers most of the remaining portion of the township.

A little over half of the eastern side of the township is washed by the Lamington River, and the northern half of its west side by the South Branch of the Rari- tan, both of which furnish splendid water-powers at Pottersville and Califon. A small branch of the Jatter cuts across the northwest corner of the township and empties at Califon.

The north branch of the Rockaway Creek rises in the northwestern part of the township in three branches, which meet at Mountainville, and runs thence south- eastwardly across the southern part of the township, and for a distance of three miles from its southern boundary. It furnishes water-powers at Fairmount, Mountainville, and to a mill below Mountainville. Cold Brook furnishes water-power for the mill at New Germantown.

The whole township is a fine farming region, and most of it is in a high state of cultivation. Numerous lime-kilns indicate the source of fertility of the land.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

The earliest settlement in Tewksbury was made about 1700,* where New Germantown now is. It was originally composed of English people, Ralph Smith being the leader and becoming the most in- portant landowner. The town was first called, after him, "Smithfield." He resided in a house-stand- ing probably where Peter W. Melick now lives- rebuilt and known after his time as Barnet Hall. He may have been an ancestor of the numerous Smith family hereabouts. He appears to have had a church

building erected, which he sold to the Lutheran so- ciety in 1749. He also sold the lots opposite the church, on the south side of Church Street, from Main Street east. llis name appears in the managing com- mittee of the Lamington Church in 1749.+ Other English names appear in that carly time,-Johnson, Thompson, Cole, Plat, Ireland, Carlisle,-but they disappear again. James Cole appears as the purchaser of a lot corner of Main and Church Streets in 1761, though he came from Boston in 1734 with a family, having left one child " buried at the east end of the old English church in Boston in 1728." He had thir- teen children.

Mrs. Ireland lived on the lot next north of that now occupied by Mr. J. Bosenbury, but which was probably owned by John Carlisle.# Thomas Holme appears as the owner of the next lot north, and he and John Fleet as the owners of the corner of Main and Church Streets, where the tavern now stands. These names all disappear, and their places are taken by those of German settlers who came in soon after.

" It was in 1705 that a number of German Reformed people residing between two cities in Germany, called Wolfenbeutel and Halberstadt, driven by persecution, fled first to Neuwird, in Rhenish Prussia, and then to Holland, where, two years later, in 1707, they em- barked for New York, but by adverse winds their frail ship was carried into Delaware Bay. Deter- mined, however, still to reach the place for which they were destined, to have a home among the Dutch, they set otl' from Philadelphia by the overland route to New York."¿

Following the Old York Road, they were led to Hunterdon County, and a portion of them ultimately to Tewksbury township, where they settled, and where the present inhabitants are largely their de- scendants. The old family names of Pickel, Welsh, Apgar, Farley, Alpaugh, Philhower, Melick, Hoff- man, Rinehart, etc., come down from these.

Mindurt Farley was in all probability one of these first immigrants. He was the first settler in Cokesburg in the early part of the last century, and bought about 200 acres of land where Oliver W. Farley now lives. Ile had five sons-Caleb, Isaac, John, Mindurt, and Joshua-and two daughters,-Margaret and Mary. Margaret married Abraham Pickel; Mary, Conrad

* Col. R. R. Honeyman In "Our House," p. 117.

+ Dr. W. W. Mauvelt's sermon ou history of LamIngton Church, motod In "Our Home," p. 16 ?.

: Col. Honeyman In " Our Home," p. 119.

¿ Sormon of Rev. Mr. Wack, In "Our Home," p. 389.

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Apgar. Mindurt had three children,-Dr. Francis Asbury Farley, who was a man of some peculiarities, and lived where William Farley now lives; Anthony, who married a Miss McCullongh ; and Barbara, who married a Mr. Kennedy. Anthony had two sons- William and Mindnrt, the latter a lawyer of some distinction-and three daughters. Barbara Kennedy's danghter Catharine married Rev. Mr. Brown, a Meth- odist minister, and her son Archibald is a lawyer of Jersey City.

Joshna Farley, born in 1769, married Miss Sutton, daughter of Aaron Sutton, another of the first settlers, and had ten children,-Aaron, Mindurt (3), Oliver W., Mercy, Elizabeth, Hannalı, Huldah, Mary, Charlotte, and Barbara. Mercy married Charles Wolverton ; Elizabeth, William Wolverton ; Hannah, David Ulp; Hnldah, Samuel I. Houseworth ; Mary, John Wol- verton; Charlotte, Jesse Reed ; Barbara, Richard Wolverton. The six last named removed to Penn- sylvania. Oliver W. lives on the old homestead, and his children, and those of Mercy and his brother's, were brought up at Cokesburg. His wife was Anna Apgar.

Jacob Apgar (1) came from Germany, and had nine sons, -Peter, Herbert, Adam, Frederick, Caspar, John, Jacob, Matthias, and Conrad. Jacob came to Cokesburg, and bought land half a mile northwest of the town. He married Charity Pickel, and had twelve children,-Anna, Sophia, Effie, Sallie, Catharine, Frederick, Conrad, Nicholas, Adam, Jacob, Caspar, and Matthias. Most of them lived around Cokes- burg. Sallie and Jacob went West; Anna married Herman Henry ; Sophia, Charles McKagin ; Effie, John Melick; Sallie, McCloskey Skureman; Cath- arine, George Cramer; Frederick, Eve Hoffman, in 1790 or 1791. Nicholas had eight children,-Jacob, Peter, Abraham, Elizabeth, Charity, Catharine, Anna, and Martha. Jacob lived on Fox Hill, the rest about Cokesburg.

Frederick, who married Eve Hoffman, had eight children,-Jacob (3), Conrad, Anna, Nicholas, Freder- ick, Charity, Sallie, and Mary. Conrad, born 1800, married Mary Apgar ; Anna, 1794, George Hoffman ; Nicholas, 1803, Delilah Apgar; Frederick married- the Widow Apgar, once Katy Trimmer; Sallie, Aaron Alpaugh ; Mary, born 1818 or 1819, Elijah Apgar.

Jacob married Margaret Trimmer, and had ten children,-David, who married Charity Alpaugh, and lives at Mountainville; Elizabeth and Daniel, who died young ; Sarah Ann married John Alpaugh, also of Mountainville; Catharine, Henry Roberts, tanner, Fox Hill; Mary, Arthur Seals, and afterwards Alfred Chamberlain, Flemington ; Martha married and went to Illinois; Edward S., Effie Swick, removed to Philadelphia; Wesley went to Iowa; Margaret died early.

Peter N. Apgar married Isabel Hoffman, and has nine children ; Abraham married Mary Ann Apgar, and had eight children ; Elizabeth, Peter Philhower, and had fourteen children,-viz., Mary, married John

L. Hoffman; Abraham, Thisbe Starker, then a second wife, and went to Illinois; Susan, George Sutton; Nicholas, went to Illinois; Jessie, married Jacob Hoffman, and removed to High Bridge; Martha Ann, Joseph Apgar, and went to Dunellen; Charity, Morris Eick, and located in Mountainville; Katy, Silas, Hannah, and Harmon.

Charity Apgar married Andrew Stont, and had eleven children,-Margaret, Mary Jane, John, George, Charles, William, Frances, Charity Ann, Martha Elizabeth, Hetty, and Amelia. Catharine Apgar married Morris Teats, and had seven children,-Asa, Lucy, Emma, William, Mary Ann, Sarah Elizabeth, and Jacob. Anna Apgar married Oliver W. Farley ; their children are at Cokesburg. Martha Apgar mar- ried William Alpaugh ; children also at Cokesburg. David Apgar's children are about Cokesburg and Mountainville.

This was a very numerous family, and the different members of the same name were distinguished by varions nicknames,-"Fiddler Bill," "Pony Bill," "Tinker Jake," "Straw Creek Crackle," "Old Cross Butler," etc.

Harmon Hoffman came from Germany, and settled where James Stevenson now lives, between Cokes- burg and Mountainville. His children were John, Frederick, Harmon, Dolly, and Mary. John Hoff- man bought 120 acres next to and after Farley's por- chase at Cokesburg. He married Miss Young, of Fox Hill; their children were Henry I, Peter I, William I, Frederick I, John, Philip C., Ann, Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Elsie. The middle letter, "I," is not an initial but a distinctive letter, another family being Henry H, Peter H, Frederick H, etc., another being "M," and another still "P," to distin- guish the Henrys, Fredericks, etc.

Henry I Hoffinan married Margaret Fritz. Their children are John, Jacob, Philip, Henry, Mancius, Frederick, Rachel, Eliza, Margaret, Mary Ann, and Jemima. They are scattered in other parts of the State and the West.

Peter I married Ellen Bauman. Their children are Peter W., Thomas B., Noah, Philip, Jane, Eliza- beth A., Lydia, Ellen, and Mary, of whom Peter W. married Emily Cox; Noah, Elizabeth Teats; Jane, Abraham N. Ilunt; Lydia, John Felmley ; Ellen, George Teats; Mary, Andrew Johnson,-all in the vicinity. Peter I is still living, at the age of ninety- eight, between Cokesburg and Califon.

William I married Ellen Hays. His children are Peter, married Anna Eick; Frederick, married Ann Teeter; John, married Sedosa Brown, and lives in Newark ; Rebecca, married Peter Post, and after- wards D. L. Evert; Lydia, married John Voorhees, of Elizabeth, N. J .; Frederick I married Betsy Lowe. His family live in High Bridge township.

John married Lydia Hays ; their children are John II., married Harriet Cox; Henry, Catharine Rine- hart ; Charles, Mary Flummerfelt; Thomas, Sarah

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Cole; Lettie, John Fleet; Elizabeth, Peter Eick ; Lydia Ellen, Isaiah Apgar ; Mary Jane, died young. These are in and near the township.

Philip C. died single.

Ann Hoffman married Henry Hoffman ; she was born 1772 and died 1868, aged ninety-six.

Mary married Jacob Urts. Her children are John Urts, who married Mary Schuyler, and Jane, single.

Margaret, still living, maried Benjamin Robinson. Their children are John, married Miss Johnson ; Jo- seph, Peninnah Jacques; Philip, Miss Longwood ; William, Sarah Emmons; Elizabeth, Peter (?) Hill ; Mary Ann, Peter Ely ; Sarah Ann, died early.

Elizabeth married Mr. Lomison, and, at his death, Garrett Conover. Her children were John ; Conrad married Miss Cramer and went West: Nancy, Adam Hope; Elizabeth, George Eick, and afterwards Jacob Reed ; Margaret, Harmon Hoffman ; Ellen, Crouch Read; Catharine, Harmon Hoffman ; Garrett Cono- ver ; and Sarah Conover, who married William Lance.

Elsie Hoffman married William Apgar (" Fiddler Bill") ; their children are John, married, first, Han- nah Potter, and, second, Nellie Van Houten ; Jacob, married Katy Apgar ; George, went to Ohio with Ja- cob ; Adam, married Mattie Fleming ; William, Miss Beam ; Peter, Miss Robinson, afterward a second wife; Elizabeth, William Beam ; Barbara, Peter Schuyler ; Margaret, John Jacques ; Anna, William Trimmer ; Mary, Philip Trimmer; Fannie, Benjamin Robinson ; Philip, died early. ~ Lera, dou. of Philip.

Frederick Hoffman, son of the immigrant, married, first, Miss Schuyler, second, Mamie Hotrum, and had nineteen children,-Mary, Peter, Philip, John, by his first wife ; George, Adam, Harmon H., Jacob, Conrad, Annie, Ellie, Elsie, Amy, Mary Ann, Charlotte, Hul- dah, and others who died young. Annie married John Bunn ; Effie, Jacob Reed; Elsie, first, William Reed, afterward Matthias Apgar; Charlotte, James Buchanan ; Iluldah, Peter Apgar. Adam and Har- mon are still living, Adam near Califon, Harmon near Cokesburg. tau . of Philip

Harmon Hoffman, son of the immigrant, married Anna Schuyler. He bought 160 acres where Enoch und Philip and George B. Sutton now live, three- quarters of a mile southwest of Farmersville. His children were Henry M., Peter M., Philip, Lizzie, Mary, and Ann. Henry M. married Anne Hoffinan; Peter M. married Charity Philhower ; their children were John, married Anna Robinson; Mary, George H. Lindabury ; Auna, Samuel G. Hoffman ; Frederick P., Mary Philhower, and afterward Mary A. Canada; Eflie, Thomas Apgar; Margaret ; Philip P., Sophia Apgar. Frederick P. is still living a mile northwest of Fairmount. Philip married Mary Philhower and went West. Lizzie married Michael Rhote. Mary married Coon Wean. Ann married Henry Teats.

Ann, and Mary. Their families settled in Tewks- bury.

Philip Philhower and his wife, Mary, came from Germany, with his brother George, who went to Vir- ginia. They settled where David Philhower now lives. It was about 200 acres then, and has been in the Philhower name ever since. His sons were Chris- topher, John, Peter, Jacob, and William ; daughters, Elizabeth, Charity, Mercy, Catharine Ann.

Christopher married Elizabeth Fox. Their children were Christopher, George W., Catharine, Charity, Mary, Elizabeth, and Sallie. Catharine married Asher Morgan; Charity, Adam Philhower; Mary, Adam Apgar; Elizabeth, a Mr. Young.

John married Rachel Sutton, of Fox Hill. His children were Jacob, Philip, John, Peter J., Wil- liam, Richard, Aaron; half-brothers, Frederick, Isaac; Elizabeth married Andrew Schuyler; Susan, Harmon Hoffman ; Mary, Adam Tiger; the half-sis- ter, Clarissa, Robert Cox.

Peter married Elizabeth Hotrum. Their children were George, married Sophia Ann Felmley ; David, Elijah, Mary, married Frederick P. Hoffman ; Catha- rine, John Hoffman; Amy, Peter F. Hoffman, brother of John; Charity, Henry M. Hoffman; Elizabeth, Conrad Lindabury ; Mahala, Jacob Apgar; Huldah, and others who died young. Elizabeth, Mahala, and David were triplets.

Jacob married Miss Cramer or Hart. Their chil- dren were Mary, Philip, Treenie, Elizabeth, Marga- ret, William, and Peter. In 1817, Jacob and his family went to Ohio. Mary was married to Philip Hoffman, and Treenie to Peter Schuyler; the rest married in Ohio.

William married Catharine Apgar. Their children were Adam, married Charity Philhower, old Christo- pher's daughter; Peter, Catharine Trellsie; Ann, Samuel Heldebrant; Philip, first, Miss Merrill, second, Mary Everett ; Edward ; William, Miss Hen- dershott; Mary, Frederick Sargeant ; Barbara, a Mr. Sickel; Elizabeth married Frederick Apgar ; Charity, Peter M. Hoffman ; Mary, Peter Sutton; Ann, Wil- liam Fleming ; Catharine, died young. The brother, George, who went to Virginia, left only two daugh- ters, so that the name died out in his family.

Jacob Tiger came from Germany in the immigra- tion, and bought a large farm a little south of Cokes- burg. His children were George, Nicholas, Jacob, Abraham, Elizabeth and other sisters. George mar- ried Ann Feats; Nicholas moved to Ohio. Jacob went to Peapaek. Elizabeth married Peter Sutton.

Abraham's children were Jacob, married Ann Jobs and died aged seventy-two; Adam, Mary Philhower, and moved to Pennsylvania; George, Maria Lutz; Peter, Ann Johnson; Elizabeth ; Etlie, Peter P. Shurtz; Ann, Peter Teats. The last moved to Illi- nois.

John Alpaugh came from Germany and bought 300 or 400 acres, a mile southward from Cokesburg. His William Welsh came from Germany and settled in children were John, Peter, George, Eve, Elizabeth, Round Valley, Lebanon township. His sons were 31

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Morris, Jacob, John, and William ; his daughters, married, three.

Jacob was the first of the name in Tewksbury. He came in 1797, and settled where David Welsh now lives, a mile northwest of New Germantown. His father gave him the land, willing it to his wife, to revert to his children at his death. He married Cath- arine Crater. His children were William, married Margaret Drake, born 1798; Morris, Susanna Felm- ley ; David, Polly Dean; Jacob, Amanda Gulick ; Isaac, Margaret ; David Terriberry ; Dorothy, John Craig; Esther, William Sutton ; Julia Ann, William G. Eiek.

William Welsh, Jacob's brother, married Margaret Drake. His children were John Vandervoort, who married Keziah L. Fisher, and Mary Ann, who mar- ried Jeremiah H. Field.

Tunis Meliek came from Germany before or about 1735. He married Miss Van Horn, of Whitehouse, and settled where Peter W. Meliek now lives, buying about 200 acres from Ralph Smith and afterwards 400 aeres two miles west of New Germantown, still in the Melick name, owned by Peter W., and known as the Tunis Melick property. He had only one son, Peter (married Susan Egbert, of Readington), and several daughters. Ellen married Abraham Vliet; Anna, Isaac Farley; another daughter, John Vliet; Treenie, Mindurt Farley ; Margaret, Dennis Wyckoff; and another, Martin Mail.

Peter's children were Tunis, Mary, Nicholas Egbert, James, Peter, Abraham, John V., Ellen, Susan, Eliz- abeth. Tunis married Sarah Van Sickle. Their chil- dren were Susan, married Jacob D. Trimmer; Andrew V. S., Rachel Mckinstry ; Peter W., Caroline Apgar, and Emma Ray. Mary married Moses Felmley. Nicholas Egbert married Elizabeth Backer. Their children were Peter, married Jane Miller; Christo- pher, Maria Cortelyou; John W., Elizabeth Apgar ; Susan Ann, William Krager; James, Emeline Ken- nedy ; Edwin, Miss Dunham; Catharine, Stephen Wortman; William, Elizabeth Fisher; Elizabeth, Samuel Sutton.

Of the rest of the emigrant's sons, James married Lydia Van Sickle; Peter, Ruth Leek; Abraham, Maria Kline; John V., Maria Able. Their children were Peter, married Margaret Latourette ; William T., Rachel Philhower ; Ernest, Fanny Hoffman ; Susan, John Lane; Jane, Smith Cole; Lavinia, Austin Clark; John V., Margaretta Craig; Emeline, Jacob Speelt.

Of the daughters, Ellen married Andrew Van Sickle; Susan, Cornelius Defore ; Elizabeth, Charles Williams. Ellen and Susan went to New York State; Elizabeth to Ohio; Peter to Indiana; James to Pea- pack, and Abraham to Morris County. The rest set- tled about New Germantown.

David Felmley was first of the name in Tewksbury. He came near 100 years ago. Ile was born about 1756, and married Sophia Sidells. He owned 500

aeres, and had thereon still-works and tannery. His children were Moses, married Mary Melick ; John, Hannah Valley ; William, Ruth Apgar ; David, Miss Wyckoff, Miss Line, and Mrs. Ginthro, formerly Miss Stillwill; James Parker, removed West; Margaret, married John Alpaugh; Sarah, Jonathan Barkman ; Katy, William Apgar ("Pony Bill"); Sophia Ann, George Philhower. These all left Tewksbury except David, Sarah, and Katy.

David lived in the old parsonage. His children were Peter Wyckoff, married Margaret Condit ; Pohl- man, Kate Honeyman ; Emeline, Cornelius Voor- hees; Margaret, Edward Barry.

Moses' children were David, married Sarah Logan ; Susanna, Morris Welsh ; Peter M., Gertrude Smith ; John, Ann Stothoff and Ellen Voorhees ; Anthony, Catharine Van Dyke, Margaret Cortelyou, and Ade- line Park ; twins who died young.

Sarah Barkman's children were David, married Ann Crate; Pohlman, Melinda Rinehart; William ; Catharine, Andrew Van Fleet ; Elizabeth, William Shurtz.

Katy Apgar's family were David, married Katy Alpaugh ; William, Elizabeth Hotrum; Jacob New- ton, O. W. Farley's daughter ; Fanny, Cornelius Lance ; Katy, William McCatharine; Livia Sophia, Charles Fritts. Sophia Ann Philhower's sons live near Irvington, N. J.

John Van Fleet came from Holland and settled in Readington. John, his son, lived in Lebanon. John, son of this last, came to Tewksbury about 1800, and married Eleanor Van Syckle. In 1809 he bought the place where Andrew now lives. His children were John, Andrew, Maria, Isaae, Elizabeth, Aaron, Alfred, George, and Abraham. John married Miss Lanee; Andrew, Catharine Ann Barkman; Maria, Joseph Kennedy. Nearly all went to Illinois.

Andrew Van Syckel came from Readington and bought the place where his grandson, Andrew Van Syckle, now lives. Of his children, Capt. James Van Syckle married Catharine Backer, and went to Sussex County ; John M., Christina Cramer, and went to Illi- nois ; Andrew married Sarah Kennedy, Whitehouse ; Sarah, Tunis Melick; Eleanor, John Van Fleet ; Ann, Michael Shurtz, Illinois ; Rachel, Samuel Crater, Lebanon ; Lena, John Hunt, Readington.

Philip Hiler and Mary Rowe came from Baden in 1752 to New Brunswick. She was but three years old, and was bound out, till she was eighteen, in pay for her passage. After their marriage they came to Tewksbury and bought the farm John Bosenbury now owns. IIis children were William; Adam married Christina Auble ; Polly, Sylvester Davis ; Lena, John Henry ; Philip,* Margaret Young; Jacob, Ann Yaa- ger. His house was built 1792. Philip's children were Mary Ann S., married Dennis Potter, and then John Bosenbury; William Young, Sarah Rowe ;

* Member of the Assembly of New Jersey.

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Eliza Nevius, George Moore. Adam was captain of Dyke's mill, and a sister, who married Joshua Farley, the ship "Revenge." He was poisoned by a Tory of Cokesburg. woman. He was a brave and active officer and a pure patriot.

George (or John) Fisher came from Germany about 1790, and settled in Changewater. His son, Rev. George Fisher, came to Tewksbury in 1797 or 1798, and about 1815 bought 50 acres, a part of the Fox Tract, where Charles MeKagins now lives, from James Auble. He married Hannah Hiler. Their chil- dren were Mary, married Rev. Mr. Lee, of Denville; John, Miss Miller; Elizabeth, Ann Rose, of Newton ; George, Anna Sutton; Christopher, Margaret Groff; Henry, Anna Johnson ; Susan, Amos Iloagland ; Mar- garet, Rev. Samuel Hull, of Frenchtown.

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History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 116

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885 Publication date: 1881 Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1170

Author: Snell, James P; Ellis, Franklin, 1828-1885
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1170