History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 189

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

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Under the Dutch sway there was no land formally taken up within this township, with perhaps a single exception. The late Rockhill Robeson, of Weston, in 1866 assured the writer that family papers showed his ancestors settled on the Millstone River (on which side was not stated) as early as 1642, and that they removed to Philadelphia in 1666.

It was under the twenty-four proprietors that the valleys of the Millstone and the Raritan began to be permanently settled. Their government lasted for twenty years from 1682. Of these proprietors, Son- mans, Hart, Plumstead, Cooper, Lawrie, and Barker had land set off to them in what afterwards became the township of Hillsborough. Lawrie sold 250 acres of the meadows on the south side of the Raritan, in 1682, to James Graham, John White, Samuel Winder, and Cornelius Courzer .; The proprietors in posses- sion, in the same year, sold 3000 acres in the angle of the Raritan and Millstone Rivers (exclusive of the above meadows) to Capt. Anthony Brockholls, William Rinborne, John Robinson, Capt. Mathias Nicholls, and Samuel Edsall. In 1683, John Ben- nett purchased an irregular plot at the northwest of the township, embracing Neshanic and Clover Hill. In 1685, John Royce bought the tract at the angle of the Raritan and Millstone of Brockholls & Co.,¿ and required a title from the proprietors, | as well as from the above company. This plot extended up the Mill- stone to "Indian Wigwam" (now the place of Isaac Brower, Esq.), and up the Raritan 3} miles (opposite

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1. Dr. Moroer (in Middlesex).

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19. Jacob Wikoff.

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42. John Gullok.

43. Tunis Quick.

44. Jacob Van Dyke.

45. William Donaldson.

46. William Williamson (Tavern).

47. Corpolius De Hart.

48. Benjamin Comlin.

49. Jedediah Higgine.

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56. Samuel Brinson.

57. John Opdike.

58. Richard Stockton, Esq.

59. Ezekiel Forman.

60. Joseph Olden.

61. Robert Stockton.

62. Joseph Stockton.

63. Sylvanus Hunt.

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72. Garret Voorhocs.

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the present village of Raritan), its southwestern cor- ner being near the present Roycefield school. It was stipulated that this plot should be called Royecfield. Royce was obliged to confirm Graham & Co. in the possession of their meadow-land,* and he soon after sold 1100 acres of this plot to John Robinson.t

Glowing appeals were now made and cager pur- chasers soon arrived. June 10, 1688, William Dock- wra, having induced large emigration from England and Scotland to New Jersey, received patents for 2000 acres in the valleys of the Millstone and Rari- tan, and for 3815 acres on the tributaries of the Mill- stone, to be subsequently located. Oldmixon, in his "History of the British Empire," says:

" The western part of Middlesex County is watered by Millstone River, which runs through a pleasant valley belonging to Mir. William Dockwra, of London."

These lands were on both sides of the Millstone. In Hillsborough land was allotted to him southwest of Royce's great tract, corresponding roughly with the present Bloomingdale school district.

About 1690, Capt. Clement Plumstead obtained a large grant on the west side of Millstone River, ex- tending from Peace Brook to Blackwell's Mills, and west a little beyond the road passing by the residence of Joseph Van Cleef. Thomas Barker had the next plantation on the Millstone, extending from Black- well's Mills to the present southerly bound of the township, and west as far as Plumstead's land. In the same year Thomas Cooper purchased the large plot on the south side of the Raritan, containing 2000 acres; what is now called Beekman's Lane is the westerly bound of this plot. In 1692 the proprietors sold 640 acres to Daniel Hooper, extending down the Raritan half a mile and up the South Branch a mile, embracing the present village of Branchville.

Arent Sonmans became possessed of five full shares of East Jersey, but these were not located in his life- time. His son Peter inherited his rights. In 1693 he became possessed of all the remainder of our present Hillsborough township not previously taken up, and the greater part of Montgomery. His line began near Clover Hill, and ran southeasterly along the county line 6| miles to a point about 2 miles south- west of Blawenburg; thence east, and southeast to the Millstone River, near Rocky Hill, and thenee down the river a mile and a half to the plantation of Benthall. Following near the western lines of Ben- thall, HIart, Barker, Plumstead, and Royce (leaving a considerable gore, however), it struck the Raritan, and, with the said river, wound around the planta- tions of Cooper, Ilooper, and Bennett; it returned to the western county line near Clover Hill, the place of beginning.

Thus, within eleven years after the proprietors came into power, all the land of Hillsborough was taken up. It began to be permanently settled about 1690.

· Trenton, Lib. 4, 251.

+ 1blil., 213, 21-1.

This territory was not to be exempt from confusion of titles. The sales of Jolin Royce are involved in considerable perplexity on account of conflicting grants and of Royce's dishonesty. Mr. Royce ob- tained a second patent, extending his plantation westward so as to encroach on Cooper and southward on Plumstead. He must also have encroached on Doekwra on the southwest. While he originally re- ceived about 5 square miles, in 1685, he now claimed about 8. In 1693 he mortgaged this large plot for one thousand years to Charles Winder for £206, with the privilege of redeeming it in three years .; This he never did, but still continued to dispose of the lands, and the executors of both parties claimed the same territory. If Royce should redeem the land of Winder by Oct. 25, 1696, then Winder's estate should cease in said tract, and the premises were to go to Peter Van Nest and Michael Dimockson. July 15, 1698, Dimockson granted Roycefield-embracing about 8 square miles at the angle of the Raritan and Millstone-to Barnett R. Q. Miller for £300. It is described as beginning on the north side of a meadow heretofore belonging to John Robinson, and thence running south on the east side of Cooper's land 3 miles, and thence in a straight line to the head of Peace Brook, and down Peace Brook to Millstone River, and down the Millstone and up the Raritan to the place of beginning. Graham's meadows are again excepted .?

But, notwithstanding the above, we find Royce and Dockwra selling 2300 aeres of land on Millstone River and Royce's Brook to John Covers, June 1, 1702. March 6, 1711, Covers sold the same tract, styled meadow-land, to William Post for £300.| June 10, '1702, Thomas Cooper, of London, by his attorneys, Richard Hartshorne and Richard Salter, sold to Peter Demunt, for £380, his tract of land on the Raritan, containing 2000 acres.T

On June 3, 1703, Royce sold to Andrew Coejeman, of Albany, for £80, a traet of land on the south side of the Raritan, to be specifically known as Royce- field :

" Beginning at a small niaple-tree at the mouth of a small stream of Water, in a gully by Edward Drinkwater's land ; thenco running south 91 chains; thenco west 48 chains; thence north 123 chains; thence northi 30 west 23 chains to the sall river; thenco by the sald river west 6 chains and 25 links ; thonco south 3º cast 23 chinina; thouco east 6 chains and 25 links to a wuluut-tree; thence enst by a meadow formerly sold by Royce to Graham, end so to the first-mentioned maplo-treo, containing 500 acres .**

April 13, 1705, Royce sold a tract of land on the Millstone River to Derick Volkerse.

In 1708, Royce died, and Nov. 22, 1709, his execu- tors, John Barron, John Harrison, and Mary Craw- ley, sold to Philip Hedman, according to Royce's will, n tract of land on the Raritan. It is described as

* Ibid., Lib. E., 827-29.

¿ Ibid., Lib. F, 603. Early records at New Brunswick, 160.

" Ildd., p. 171.

** Parchment deed at Amboy.

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lying between Raritan River, John Van Dine's land, Ananias Allen's land, Royce's Brook, and Millstone River. Its value was £1350 .* In 1712, Hedman sold the same tract to Michael Van Vechte and his asso- ciates,-viz., Dirck Volkerse, William Post, Ananias Allen, John Wortman, John Tunison, Cornelius Tu- nison, Uria Andriese, and Peter Van Nest. But this land, as well as the adjoining tract on the south of Royce Brook, was also claimed by the executors of Winder. This Dutch company, however, having come in some way into possession of £500 of Royce's estate, from which they had honestly purchased the tract, with this money leased the two tracts of Win- der's executors for the yet unexpired term of Win- der's lease,-viz., 979 years,-mutually binding one another to make up the £500 if Royce's heirs should ever recover it .; Thus were the titles of Van Vechte & Co. made perfect. In 1703, therefore, the Dutch came into Roycefield, and in 1712 into Royston,-a name now forgotten by the inhabitants of Harmony Plains .¿

June 10, 1710, Peter Sonmans sold out of his great tract what is called the Harlingen or 9000-acre tract. It was an irregularly-shaped plot, about two-thirds of it lying in Hillsborough and one-third of it in Mont- gomery township. The Dutch company who made this purchase consisted of Octavio Conraats, Abram Wendell, merchant, Adrian Hooglant, Isaac Gover- neur, all of the city of New York; Anna Volkerse, widow, of Kings Co., L. I .; Henry Hegeman, Francis Van Lewen, William Beekman, all of Queens Co., L. I; Joseph Hegeman, Hendrick Veghte, Cornelius Van Duyn, Wouten Van Pelt, Ort Van Pelt, all of Kings Co., L. I .; Direk Volkerse, of New Jersey ; Peter Cortelyou, Jacob Van Dyke, Claas Volkerse, all of Kings Co., L. I. It was bounded as follows :

" Beginning at the south (north ?) corner of land of William Plumstead, being 11/2 miles and 4 chains from Millstone River; thence south-south- west 234 miles and 8 chains; thence west-northwest 1 mile and 18 chains; thence south-southwest 234 miles and 7 chains; thence west 312 miles and 3 chains to the partition line between East and West Jersey; thence north 14° west 30 chains, along said division line ;2 thence north 53º east 7 miles and 20 chains; thence east, 1 mile and 17 chains to the place of beginning; having the lands of Plumstead, Barker, Hart, and Benthall on the east, the division line on the west, and lands of said Sonmans on the north and south."

Peter Sonmans sold another tract of 320 acres, for £30, March 13, 1711, to Isaac De-Riemer, of New York. This plot was at the northeast corner of the Harlingen tract, and the deed is now in possession of Rynier Staats, son of John R. Staats. It was be- tween the lands of Royce on the northeast, Thomas Cooper on the northwest, and on the southeast were the lands of Veghte, Lawrence, Volkerse, and Cortel- you, of the Ilarlingen tract. This plot was subse- quently purchased by Jolin Staats, previously of Mill- stone. He sold the property to his son John in 1770.

The latter was the grandfather of the late John R. Staats, who lived on the place; it is now owned by Garret Cortelyou. The west part of it is now in pos- session of the Strykers. ||

Feh. 28, 1742, Clement Plumstead gave his plot of 2000 acres to William Plumstead (a brother or son). At this time Plumstead's tract was still bounded by Barker's land on the south, and on the west by Cor- telyou's, Volkerse's, Lawrence's, and Veghte's (of the Harlingen tract), and on the north by Peace Brook, which separated Plumstead's land from that of Post and Powelson. About 1750, William Plumstead sold the land between the Amwell road and Peace Brook to Benjamin Thompson, and May 1, 1752, he sold 246 acres on the south side of the Amwell road, run- ning west 1 mile and 13 chains, and south about 25 chains, to Christian Van Doren for £740. Dec. 12, 1755, the latter sold the same to his son, John Van Doren, for £100. Lawrence Van Cleef had already bought to the sonth and west of the Van Doren tract, and Henry Van Derveer had purchased to the west of Thompson.

About 1720-30, Hendrick Wilson, of Long Island, bought the southern part of Volkerse's tract, which lay north of the new Amwell road, and between the Millstone River and Royce Brook. In 1755, Hen- drick Wilson, Sr., sold to Hendrick Wilson, Jr., a tract of land containing 882 acres, having about 150 feet on the Millstone River, and running back about a mile and a half in a west-southwest direction." This plot was bounded by Peter Stryker's land on the north (next to the river), by Wyndert Wilson's on the north (farther west), and by the land of Hendrick Wilson, Sr., on the west and south. The purchaser was to pay to the heirs of John Royce, yearly, upon the 25th of March, one halfpenny sterling for each acre, in- stead of all other rents, quit-rents, etc.

Hendrick Wilson's will was written in 1750. In 1765 his estate was separated into nine lots, to be di- vided among his four sons-Myndert, John, Henry, and Peter-and his daughter Hannah. John Brokaw, Esq., made the map to show the division. Myndert received the place now owned by William French; Henry, part of that now owned by John Brokaw; John received land now owned by Albert Voorhees; while Peter received the farm now owned by Joseph V. S. Van Doren. The farm now owned by Isaac Brower passed, before 1771, into the hands of John Brokaw. He sold this place in 1771 to Abram Brokaw for £170. Henry Wilson sold his place in 1777 to Mrs. Sarah Yard, of Philadelphia. It consisted of 205 acres .** The following year Mrs. Yard deeded this place to her daughter Ann.tt She married Gen. Frederick Frelinghuysen (after the death of his first wife, in 1794), and this place ultimately passed into the pos-

* Early records at New Brunswick, 174.

+ Ibid., 192.

Ibid.

¿ This Is on the top of Neshauic Mountain,

| Lib. J (?), 398-400.

[ Burlington records, Lib. HI 3, 321.

** Ibid., 322.

tt Ibid., 330.

RES. OF CAPT. FREDERICK DAVEY, HILLSBOROUGH TP., SOMERSET CO., N. J.

Joseph Ht, Van Clubs

JOSEPH H. VAN CLEEF is a grandson of Cornelius Van Cleef, whose father, Isaac, was the first settler of the Van Cleefs in Somerset Co., N. J., selecting his farm about one-half of a mile south of Millstone, where he reared a family of ten children, the youngest of whom, Van Marter, is living at Millstone, in 1880, in the eighty- ninth year of his age.

Cornelius Van Cleef, born Jan. 21, 1777, on the old homestead, married, Feb. 17, 1799, Margaret Kershow, who bore him children as follows: Cornelius, born Sept. 16, 1799; Isaac, born Aug. 15, 1801 ; George, born July 2, 1804; Jane, wife of John D. Post, born Feb. 18, 1808; and Matilda, wife of Garret Hageman, born June 13, 1811. Cornelius Van Cleef purchased and settled on one hundred and fifty-six acres of land in 1812, in the town- ship of Hillsborough, the same being now owned and occupied by his grandson, the subject of this sketch. Here he lived the remainder of his days leading the quiet life of a farmer, although he was by trade a car- penter and joiner. He belonged to the old Federal party, and was a member of the Whig party during its existence. He died July 10, 1855. His wife died April 20, 1856.

George Van Cleef, father of our subject, succeeded to the old homestead. Married Achsah, daughter of Joseph and Fanny (Drake) Holcombe, of Lambertville, Sept. 24, 1834. She was born Oct. 26, 1807, and died Feb. 14, 1866 He died Dec. 4, 1865. He was a farmer through life, and a man of strict integrity in all his business relations. He took no active part in politics, yet was a firm supporter of the Whig and Republican

parties. He was known as an unobtrusive and upright Christian man, and was for some thirty years a mem- ber of the Dutch Reformed Church at Harlingen. Both he and his father before him represented their church in the Reformed Church Synod. His children are Cornelius G., born May 16, 1836; Joseph Holcombe, born Jan. 25, 1838; Sophia Somers, wife of John Vreeland, of Mill- stone, born April 24, 1841 ; and George Spencer, born Feb. 8, 1845.

Joseph H. received a good education during his minority, but choosing a business instead of a profes- sional life, he succeeded his father on the homestead purchased by his grandfather, and has since been en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. His commodious and elegantly constructed buildings, and all that pertains to the farm, show the hand of an intelligent, thrifty, and judicious farmer. Mr. Van Cleef is interested in all worthy local enterprises, and contributes liberally to their support. He is a member of the Dutch Reformed Church at Millstone, and has officiated as deacon. In this church he takes a leading part in the service of song, and has acted as leader of the choir for several years. In politics he is a Republican, and during the war was elected one of the township committee, which position he filled for seven consecutive years, doing efficient service. He has been chosen to fill other minor offices. He married, Sept. 18, 1861, Miss Mary Jane, daughter of Richard, and granddaughter of Jeremiah Field, of Pis- eataway, Middlesex Co., N. J. The children born of this union are Mamie Cropsey and Emma Dey Van Cleef.

& N. Batman

PETER N. BEEKMAN was born in Hillsborough town- ship, March 22, 1808. His great-grandfather, Gerardus, settled in Somerset County during its early history, and purchased a large tract of land where Griggstown is now located.

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Abraham, grandfather of our subject and son of Ge- rardus, was born at Griggstown about the year 1738. and there resided during his life, a farmer. His wife was Ann Voorhees, who died Mny 25, 1817, nged sixty- five years. llo died Sept. 3, 1818. His children were Gerardus, John A., Ralph V., Abraham A., Jacob, Isaac, Ellen, and Catherine.

Abraham A. Beekman, father of our subject, born Jan. 23, 178-1, died Aug. 20, 1862. His wife was Ma- tilda, daughter of Peter L. Nevins, of Hillsborough, whom he married Nov. 4, 1806. She was born Sept. 5, 1789, and died Jan. 8, 1873. Ile was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that business until 1815, when he purchased a farm of one hundred and thirty-two neres, about a mile south of Millstone, where his only son, Peter N. Beckman, now resides, the farm having been in pos- session of the family since its purchase. Here he resided the remainder of his life and carried on farming. He subsequently added fifty acres to his original purchase, making the number of acres one hundred and eighty- two. llo was the first man in his township to use a lime fertilizer on hls land, and was in every sense of the term n representative fariner.

In politics he was a Whig, and became a member of the Republican party upon its formation. For several years he was justice of the peace. He was a man of greut enorgy and strong resolution, and possessed those qualities of integrity in all his business relations that mako a good citizen. Peter N. Beckman received lim- ited opportunities for obtaining an education, but so im- proved them nt the common school and under private instruction as to obtain a good education for boys of

bis time. He has resided on the farm where he now is since its purchase by his father. For many years he followed surveying in his own and adjoining townships, beginning as early as 1822, and a noticeable fact in con- nection with this business is, that during his many years' experience he has settled and fixed the boundaries of many lines in dispute, and thus avoided litigation of the parties by his counsel and exact surveys and measure- ments.

For nine years beginning with 1844 he was secretary of the Hillsborough Fire Insurance Company, and for some time was assistant engineer of the Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad. lle is a member of the Re- publienn party, and was formerly a Whig. He has been interested in all local enterprises tending to the improve- ment of the township and tho prosperity of its people, and has always been especially interested in the educa- tion of the rising generation. Under the old law he was township superintendent of schools of Hillsborough for several years, and has acted on the township com- mittee. For very many years he has done conveyan- cing in the vicinity, and was commissioner of deeds for some ten years.

During the last six years prior to 1880 Mr. Beckman has been an invalid and unable to attend to the usual duties of life, but his life has been one of activity and devoted to business pursuits. He is known as a man of correct habits and sterling integrity. For his first wife he married, Jan. 28, 1835, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Col. Henry Duryce, of Blawenburg, N. J., who died Jan. 2, 1837, having been born Aug. 6, 1812. His second wife, Rachel Ann, daughter of William Beardslee, of Bound Brook, but formerly of Sussex County, he mar- ried Jan. 27, 1541. She died May 22, 1867, having been born March 26, 1820. Ilis children by this union are Matilda, widow of the late Ferdinand S. Wilson, a law- yer at Millstone, Fannio Marin, and Abram A. Beckman.

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session of Dr. James B. Elmendorf, who married their daughter Elizabeth.

The property on each side of Peace Brook had passed into the hands of Abram Duryea, of New York. In 1790 he sold it to Gen. Frederick Freling- huysen for £1500. It contained 29 aeres, extending about a mile and a quarter west from the church lot, being bounded on the west by lands of Ezekiel Elli- son and Adrian Merrill, on the north by those of Er- nestus Van Harlingen, and touched a lot of Merslion on the northeast, and the lot of Dr. Van Buren on the southeast ; it did not extend to the river. Hon. Theo- dore Frelinghuysen inherited the portion of this farm lying south of Peace Brook about 1809, and sold it to Daniel Disborough in 1811 for $6462; it contained 161 acres. Frederick Frelinghuysen, a brother of Theodore, retained that part of the farm north of Peace Brook until 1820, when he died. It subse- quently passed into the possession of William Beards- lee, and is now owned by Edward Baker, an English- man.

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History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 189

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