History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 87

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

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* On an old map of the province of New Jersey, published in 1777, by William Faden, Charing Cross, from a survey made in 1769, the orthug- raphy is AHnbhocking. This creok has almost as many various spell- Ings us it hos windings.

+ A brook emptying into the South Branch about two miles above Flemington, Init not now kuown by that namo.

* lev. Dr. Georgo S. Molt.

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Elizabeth, he emigrated to America and settled in Gloucester, N. J., previous to 1683, as he was a mem- ber of the council which met at Burlington in that year. He settled in old Amwell above Lambertville, in what is now Delaware township, not long after 1703, but in what precise year is not now known. (See sketches of the Reading family, in histories of Delaware and Raritan townships.)

One of the earliest settlers within the present limits of this township was Emanuel Coryell, for an account of whom see the history of Lambertville, preceding.

Jonathan Pidcock, a son of Jonathan, the Irish emigrant who early settled at Neeley's Mills, Bucks Co., Pa., after his father's death bought property at the foot of Goat Hill, just below where is now the rubber-mill, and erected a dwelling, a store, and a grist-mill. This was prior to 1776. He owned a number of Durham boats, on which his sons Emanuel and Charles ran down the river cargoes of flour and produce, and brought back store merchandise. When the war broke out his three eldest sons -- the two just named and Philip-went into the New Jersey militia, and served through the struggle. John Holcombe's first purchase was in 1705, of land just north of what later was the village of Lambertville. On it he built a stone house, which is still standing, and occupied by a tenant of one of his descendants. He died in 1743, and his will was proved in "the eighth month" of that year ; Emanuel Coryell and Benjamin Canby were witnesses to the document. In it he bequeathed to his son Richard, with other property, "a farm iu Amwell township,"-the one he "bought of John Ways." Richard lived and died in the stone house erected by his father. In that house Gen. Wash- ington and his staff found shelter, and Richard was their host. He died in the "12th month, 1783." He left £5 to the Buckingham Meeting, of which he was a member. His widow rode in his funeral procession to Buckingham, on horseback. Samuel Holcombe settled near Mount Airy, on which his son, recently deceased, lived and died at an advanced age (over eighty). The store and dwelling long occupied by him was an old tavern during the Revolution, and the Alexsauken mill, at Mount Airy, is of equal antiquity.

In the previously-given history of Lambertville will be found an extended account of the Coryell, Holcombe, and Lambert families, the original settlers of that part of this township, to which the reader is referred.

Onehundred and thirty years ago Joseplı Morehead, an Irish orphan boy, then scarcely eighteen, might have been scen moving with a musket on his shoulder, to Newark, to join the gallant Col. Peter Schuyler, with whom he subsequently marched to Crown Point and Ticonderoga, sharing all the hardships of Indian warfare. Joseph Morehead was born in 1730, and came from Ireland in 1747. He immediately enlisted in Schuyler's battalion of New Jersey Volunteers. Fighting Indians and hunting seems to have princi-

pally engaged his attention until 1770, when he mar- ried Jude Aten and purchased a house and lot in Amwell, where he commenced to work at his trade, that of a weaver. He remained in Amwell until 1778, and there four of his children were born,-John, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Molly. Joseph Morehead re- moved with his family, in 1778, to Readington town- ship, where he purchased what is still known as the "Morehead farm," near Readington village. (See the history of Readington township for a further account of this family.)

Thomas Wilson, a colored man, was an early resi- dent of Amwell, and became possessor of considerable real estate in the townships of Amwell and Hopewell, viz., a lot in Hopewell, conveyed to him by Joseph and Sarah Burroughs, Aug. 1, 1802 ;* Lot No. 2, in Amwell, "adjoining lands of William Atchley, and the road leading from Harbourtown to Amos Moore's on the Delaware River," by conveyance from Daniel Coxe Runyan and Elizabeth, his wife, May 13, 1805; Lot No. 3, in Hopewell, conveyed to him June 16, 1809, by Nathan Price, sheriff of Hunterdon County ; and lot 4, also in Hopewell, deed dated June 20, 1814. He paid for these lands in full, and occupied them during his life. Wilson, however, being a slave at the time the above deeds were executed and during his whole life, was unable, in law, to hold the lands or any interest in them. Therefore, in 1842 (after Wilson's decease, and subsequent death of Mary, his wife),-there being no children, no relations living, -the Legislature authorized John Dilts, of Hope- well, to sell the lands at public sale, and to execute and deliver deeds for the same to the purchasers, which was to be as valid title as if it had not been conveyed to Thomas Wilson.t

Another early settler was Peter Fisher, who emi- grated from Germany, and about 1729 settled on the land now occupied by Caleb Fisher, west of Ringos. In the year named he purchased, for £54, 200 acres, in what is now West Amwell, of Thomas Eman. This was a part of the Benjamin Field tract, located at and near Ringos, which passed through the hands succes- sively of Field, Marmaduke Horsman, John Arney, his son Joseph, and Eman, to Fisher.# Upon that plantation Peter Fisher lived and died, and there his descendants, down to Caleb F., have resided. On this farm, not far from the present dwelling, and on the site of the old one, formerly stood an Indian wig- wam. At the foot of the hill, near the present dwell- ing of Charles Wilson, was an old Indian burial- place, visible to this day.

Peter Fisher was married in Germany ; his wife's name is not known. His sons, as named in his will, were Anthony, William, Christopher, and Jacob. In a sketch of the family by the late James J. Fisher

* Recorded in Book G, fol. 403, Hinnterdon County, clerk's office.

+ Acts of Assenibly, 1842, pp. 64, 65.

# The release for the surplus, after surveying, twenty-eight acres, Was dated 1730.

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occur the additional names of Peter and John. They must have deceased before their father, which would explain the omission of their names in the will, which bears date " Amwell, June 19, 1775." An- thony (Tunis) and William were his executors. All the sons, except William, settled in West Amwell ; he located in East Amwell. Jacob, the youngest, re- mained on the old homestead. One of the daughters married a Bellis ; another, a Kuhl.

Jacob Fisher married Sarah Hoppock, of Amwell, and had children,-Anthony, Peter, Jacob, Annie, Mary, and Sarah. Peter married Annie Runk, and settled first in Delaware township, and later near Clinton ; of his descendants a granddaughter only is now living in this township. Anthony married, re- moved to Philadelphia, and died without issue. Jacob, another son of Jacob, married Anna Cham- berlain, and to them were born Sarah, Maria, John C., Caleb F., and Lucretia, the latter dying in infancy. Jacob died Sept. 24, 1813, aged nearly thirty-four years; Anna, his wife, died Feb. 6, 1855, aged nearly seventy-two years. Sarah married Gideon Quick (see sketch of Quick family) ; Maria became the wife of John HI. Larison, and had four children,-George, Jacob F., Lucretia Ann, and Abram W., all living ex- cept the last named ; John C. married, first, Cornelia Maria Skillman, and had Jacob, Thomas (deceased ), Mary, Martha, Cornelia, and, second, married Adaline Chamberlain, by whom he had three children,-Jean- nie, James O., and one deceased. A sketch of Caleb F. Fisher may be found in the biographical depart- ment at the close of this township history.

One of the oldest living residents of this township is Uriah Akers, born Nov. 30, 1803, in a house then standing about a mile east of the borough, but which was long since torn down. His father, who took the place as n renter of Esq. John Coryell, died in a house at the foot of Goat Hill which has since disappeared ; the house erected on its site is owned by the heirs of Samuel Ege, and occupied by John Lanyer. Ab- ner Akers died in February, 1844. His wife, Mary, was a daughter of Elijah Holcombe, of Holcombe's Island ; she died in Indiana, where one of her daugh- ters resided, and whither she went after her husband's death. Joseph Akers, in Lambertville, son of the above, is the only survivor living in this township of all Uriah's brothers or sisters. His sister Cordelia married successively Solomon Price and Christopher C'ase, in West Amwell, then moved to Indiana, where she married, for her third husband, a Mr. Ballard. Maria, who married Aaron Holcombe, resides in lowa. These are all that are living ; those deceased were named Daniel, Leah, and Ruth, the latter being the wife of Samuel Skillman.

Uriah Akers married, in 1830, Elizabeth Clauson, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth |Nailor) Plauson, who at the time of their death were living at the foot of Bell-mont. The children born to them were: 1, Thomas, 1831 ; died in 1832. 2, Mary Elizabeth, 1832;

living in Lambertville, the wife of Edward Leonard. 3, Camille, 1834; married George, son of Daniel and Mary ( Ronsafer) Moore, and lives at Trenton. 4, Ab- ner, 1836; now in Maryland. 5, Joanna, 1837 ; died in 1838; 6, Ruth, 1839; died in 1855. 7, Sarah Cath- arine, 1840; married John Coffee; is a widow, resid- ing in Lambertville. 8, Lavinia, 1842; living in Lambertville, unmarried. 9, Charlotte, 1844; mar- ried Elwood Kitchen, and resides in Trenton. 10. Enuna MI., 1847; wife of Ely Green, of Trenton. 11, Louisa, 1849; died in infancy. 12, Uriah, 1851 ; died at Fort Preble, Portland, in 1873. 13, Samuel 11., 1853; died in 1866. Uriah Akers, Sr., and his wife are now living on Goat Hill.

Among other prominent early families may be men- tioned the Phillips, the Wyckoff's, and the Abbotts. The first named was quite numerous in this section in the early days. Capt. John Phillips was a soldier in the Revolution, in which struggle his company did good service. He lived on the Rocktown road, about a mile from that village, on the place now owned by Robert Fisher. Hannah Phillips is a granddaughter of Capt. John.

The Wyckoff's lived near Rocktown, and John kept the hotel then, as did also Daniel, his son. The family burial-ground is on the Robert Fisher farmn. John Wyckoff died Sept. 30, 1831.

Benjamin and Nelson Abbott, in the south part of the township, are the only ones now owning land in this section out of a once numerous family. John Abbott, father of the above, was twice married,-first to Ann Schenck, and subsequently to Margaret Boor- eam. At the time of his death he lived on a lot now owned by Baxter Agin. For a time he resided on the Wesley Drake farm. His children were John S., Nelson, and Joseph by his first marriage, and Ann S., William, Benjamin, and Isaac W. by his second.

Another old residenter was John James, who died at an advanced age at Pennington in 1880. He owned a large tract of land east of Jonathan L. Phillips'. None of his children are living.

George Peterman commenced the tanning and eur- rying business at the " Prime Hope tannery" in the spring of 1828. This tannery had previously been occupied by Cornelius Coryell.

In 1826-fifty-four years ago-the following mer- chants were trading at Lambertville : S. D. & J. D. Stryker, Knowles & Co .; James B. Bowen, boots and shoes; John Seudder & Co., proprietors of the Eagle Distillery. It may be interesting to note the market- prices of that date. They are given by the Hunter- don County Gazette as follows :

" Lambertrille Price Current. SEPT. 13, 1x26.

Whrat, uew.

.80 -. 85

.63

('orn ...

.39 -. 40

Flour, super.

9,7-3.00)

Rye,

2.00-2.25

Dried applica

Flaxseed

1.10-1.15

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Mustard seed.

Flax. Hams.

4.00 .08-09 .09-10 .16

Butter. Lard

.09

Eggs

.1216

John Lambert was postmaster of Lambertville in 1827. He died Feb. 6, 1828, and was succeeded by William Garrison. We give the following letter-list of Jan. 7, 1828: "Miss Rachel Phillips, Philip Young, William Rittenhouse, Mrs. Ann Bacon, Cath- arine Smith, William Case, Samuel Hensel, Philip Purson, John K. Large, Tunis Quick, Jared S. Stout, Christopher Cool, Joseph Palmer."

· The first storehouse was built by Emanuel Coryell, near the residence of Griffith Williams. There was a bridge over the river in 1812 or 1814, and a few years later (1817) the first church edifice was erected,-that of the Presbyterians. At the foot of Goat Hill, near the rubber-mill, stood an old stone tavern, one of the first, if not the very first, erected in the town. Its roof sloped on one side so as to reach the ground, and the massive chimney was at one corner of the build- ing. Among other old buildings that survived those early days until recently is the "Old Red Tavern," near Smith's mills, and recently occupied as a dwell- ing, and the old Krewson house, in the rear of Cor- win's shops ; both are torn down.

It is stated by a recent writer of local reminiscences that Lambertville was first known as " Bungtown." This is traditional, and has no verification in history.

Pidcock's (or Prime Hope) mills, down the river, and the Alexsockin mill at Mount Airy, were in ex- istence before the Revolution.

Prime Hope went down at the time the " feeder" was being built. Andrew Larison's mill, two and a half miles east, purchased prior to 1830; he ran it until his death, in 1861, and then it became the prop- erty of his sons, Benjamin and Andrew, who sold to Joseph Romine; it was burned down about 1870. Flaxseed oil was made there prior to 1843.

Capt. James Thackenthall's mill, at foot of Mount Airy hill, is an old grist-mill ; about twelve years ago he became its possessor, and has since operated it.

Isaac Matthews had a small oil-mill half a mile below Larison's mill, since burned down.

OLD AMWELL.

As the history of neither of the civil divisions framed out of the territory of Amwell as it existed prior to 1838 can give a fair view of the township in the early days (and an attempt to so treat it would involve a repetition of the same facts and statements in each of them), it is here attempted to throw together some matters which the author desires to place on record in these pages.

From 1709-14, Amwell was one of the three towns which constituted the county of Burlington. The act of March 15, 1713-14, setting off Hunterdon County, made the Assunpink the southern boundary and left Amwell one of the four towns which lay to the north

of it. Its southern boundary has been but little, if any, altered since that date, but on the north almost every succeeding decade has witnessed a loss of terri- tory hy the formation of new towns. Thus, before 1753, Reading, Kingwood, Lehanon, and Bethlehem were erected. Thenceforward, until 1838, it existed as a tract of country about twelve miles square, bounded by the Delaware River on the west, by the "South Branch" on the east, by the Hopewell town- ship line on the south, and by the present southern line of Kingwood, Franklin, and Readington town- ships on the north.

In 1785, when Flemington became the county-seat, it was in Amwell township, and so remained until 1838, in which year it was divided into three parts (Raritan, Delaware, and Amwell) ; in 1846 the lower third part, then known as Amwell, was erected into two townships, each retaining the old name with the distinctive appellation of "East" and " West."

EARLY RECORDS OF OLD AMWELL.

The officers of Amwell township for 1723, as appears by the court records, etc., at Flemington, were George Green and Samuel Cook, Freeholders; Samuel Green, "'Sessor"; John Knowles, Collector; Daniel Howell and Thomas Windor, Commissioners of Highways.

In 1724, George Green and John Holeombe were the chosen freeholders; 1725, David Howell and Daniel Robins, Freeholders; John Manners, "'Ses- sor"; John Holcombe, Collector; Jacob Stull and Henry Ketcham, Commissioners of Highways; John Holcombe and Jerome Vanorst, Overseers of the Poor. March 14, 1726, John Holcombe and Duncan Oliphant, Frecholders; Daniel Sebring and David Stout, Commissioners of Highways; Samuel Green, Assessor; John Holcombe, Collector.

In July, 1727, it was "ordered by the court that the officers of Amwell stand as they were last year," and in March, 1728, the court made a similar order. It would appear from this that the court appointed the officers of Amwell township at that time,* and continued to do so until about 1734.

Officers appointed March 11, 1729, for Amwell : John Manners, Assessor; Samuel Green, Collector ; John Knowles, Overseer of the Poor ; Resolve Wal- dron and Henry Ketcham, Surveyors of the Roads ; William Miller, Constable.

In May, 1730, the Court of Hunterdon County ap- pointed the following officers for Amwell: Henry Ketcham and George Fox, Surveyors of the Roads; John Manners, Assessor; Peter Lomas, Collector ; David Stout, Sr., Overseer of the Poor ; Samuel Fur- man, Constable.

In March, 1734, occurs the first mention of a town- meeting being held in Amwell and officers chosen. The following-named were elected : Thomas Ketchanı,

# The reports of the election of officers for the townships of Trenton, Hopewell, and Hanover are given in the records of 1727, but no mention of an election in Amwell.

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Henry Ketcham, Frecholders; Samuel Green, Asses- sor; Philip Ringo, Collector ; Rudolph Harley, Con- stable; Samuel Barns, Deputy Constable; John Hol- combe and Joseph Hixon, Surveyors of the Roads; Samuel Green, Township Clerk.

March, 1735, the assessor and collector were re- elected, but there was a change in the other offices,- viz., John Reading and Joseph Hixon, Commissioners of Highways; Samuel Stout and Samuel Hall, Free- holders ; Johannis Moor, Constable.

In 1737 the list of officers elected was handed in, and from that date the names were not entered in the records of the court, but placed on file. In the May term of 1738 the township of Hunterdon appears be- fore the court by its clerk, who returned a list of officers elected, which was read, approved, and or- dered placed on file. It is evidently a clerical error, as in no other place, in court or freeholders' records, is there mention of a township by that name.

At the May term of court, 1738, among the peti- tions for keeping public-houses which were then granted were the following for Amwell : Joseph Inslee, Philip Ringo, and John Taylor. Each was required to enter into a recognizance of £20, with a surety bound in €10 more.

In 1746 the licensed innkeepers of Amwell were Philip Ringo, Nathaniel Parker, George Van Bus- kirk, Andrew l'etit, l'eter Kesler, and Samuel Flem- ing. Philip Ringo and Samuel Fleming appear to have presided over their hostelries for a long time. The name of the latter appears as a licensed inn- keeper in the court minutes of the May term, 1756 (with Christian and John Smith as sureties in £20 cach), and again in 1763. In the last-named year William Fleming was also licensed.

From an old town-book of the township of Amwell the following extracts are taken. They will give an idea of the manner of conducting and recording the business of the township at that time.

The first entry is as follows:

" At n town-meeting of the Inhabitants of the township of Amwell, miot nt the house of Derrick Hoagland on the 11th day of March Anno Dom, 1745. The Inhabitants then and there met and assembled, pro- ceoded tu elect the officers ffollowing to serve ffor the onsning year as the Art of Assembly directs :

" Peter I'rall, Town Clerk ; Robert Meldrum, Constable ; Denjamin Stout (sun uf David), William Montgomery, Overseers of the Poor ; John Read- ing, Esq., Benjamin Stout (cuptnin), Godfrey l'oters, Jacob l'attison, Sur- veyors for the Bonds; Jacob Muttison, Assessor; Andrew l'ettit, Col- lector ; Daniel Grogg, Joseph Higgins, Frecholders; Paul Flagg, Peter Bellisfelt, Overseors ffor Raritan Road; William Hixson, Johannes Wil- limuson, Overseers ffor York Road and Rock Road ; John Jewell, Over- soor for Swamp Road; Adam Aller, Samuel Holcombe, Overseers for Itiver Rond; l'eter P'rall, Clerk ffor the Strays."

March 11, 1745,-" The overseers of the poor for this town have agreed with Walter Cane to keep John Iluddy In ment, drink, washing, and lodging, and clothing sntliclont ffor him, and to keep the town Indemni- fed from the Bold John Huddy for the ensuing year, ffor which the maid Walter Cauo is to have eight pounds seven shillings, to be paid by the overseers of said town."

Ajnil 8th, 1746 .- " Then ballanced accounts with William Montgomery und Benjamin Stout, overseers of the gor, and there is due to the town from Benjamin Stout the sum of flour pounds five shillings and eleven

pence. And be it remembered that there is in the hands of Freegift Stont, of last year's account, the sum of one pound flive shillings, and five pence, which is not discounted in this year's account, and Is yet due the toton."

The succeeding entry is a record of the next town- meeting to elect officers, at which the same officers generally were re-elected, except some changes in overseers of roads.

Peter Prall continued to be yearly elected clerk until 1761, during which year he died, as we find by at meeting held on Nov. 2, 1761, by the inhabitants of the township of Amwell at the house of John Ringo, for the purpose of electing a town clerk and clerk for the strays in the place of Peter Prall, deceased; at which meeting Richard Reading was elected town clerk, and Joseph Reed clerk for the strays.

As an illustration of the depreciation of the Conti- nental currency towards the close of the Revolution, we find that in 1779-80 the amount levied on the tax- payers of the township of Amwell, as shown by a set- tlement with the township collector, was .£32,474 118. 7d., and on December 2d it was voted to raise £6000 for the support of the poor, whereas in 1777 only £100 was ordered to be raised for that purpose.

One of the earliest roads in this section was the fol- lowing, record of which is found on page 7, vol. i. of "Minutes of Court in Hunterdon County," in the elerk's office, Flemington :

" A draught of the Amwell Itond that leads from Malayobik into the Rond that cums from Greens planation to Cornelius Andersons.

" MUWNT AMWELL, Decomber ye 13th, 1721. " Then Inyed out A Rond fower Rods In Brendth According to An Art of Assembly Minde And provided for that purpose Beginning in ye said townshyp by ye Rendington paith that leads from Mir. Readings old plan- tution to wher John Reading now Lives Att two Black oaks trees marked by 84 paith thence nlong As Markt to A white oake treo Marked To the sutherd of Nathaniel petits plantation thence Along As Marked to A hickory tree Markt by nishuniog kricke thence over sd kricko As direct As may be to the school howse on the west sold of ye sd schoole howso, thence Along strnight As marked to A Binck oake treo on the west side ol tho prith that I.ends from James Stonts to Joseph Ilicksons then . nlong as marked Betwist the painting Land And John Warforts thenes Mong As Marked by the east side of the old Indian towne tu A red onko tree Marked in or near the Idue Betwixt Benjamin Ilicksons Land And Ituckmans Thenes Along ye el fine till it passeth the house of yo sd Ruck- man, thon through the corner of yegu Ruckman field to A white oake tree thenes Along As marked to A Blacke onke tree Marked on ye cast side of the okl Rond that Leads from George Greens old plantation to Cor- nelius Andersons plantation.

" Layed ont By us Commissioners the duy nud year Above written.

" Philip ItINGO, " Jons Buunovous, "CHARLES CLARK,

GEOROR GREEN,

CHAS. I. BURROUGHS,

" Commissioners,

" Entered the nhove Draught January 26th, 121.2.

"ALEXANDER LOCKHART, " Recorder."

Feb. 4, 1722, the Court ordered the commissioners of Hanover and Amwell townships to lay out a road leading from Amwell to Hanover, to meet at John Reading's the Ist of October next for that purpose.

The following copy of the original order of the jus- tices and surveyors of Amwell township is valuable as indicating some of the early settlers :

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"To Peter Territ, one of the overseers of the roads in the township of Amwell, io the County of Hunterdon, or whom it may concern.

" WHEREAS, Jasper Smith of Amwell hath complained to us Joseph Reading and Thomas Reading Esquires two justices of the peace for the County of Hunterdon, and Cornelius Hoppock and Derrick Hoagland the surveyors of roads for the township of Amwell aforesaid, that he con- ceives himself injured by the encroachments made on a road laid out, of 28th day of September 1734 Beginning at that time at a post in a road leading from the south branch of Raritan to Delaware being also a corner between David Eviland and Andrew Little from thence down their line sonth to a white oak tree which corner and tree beieg since down and removed we the subscribers being therefore called upon as aforesaid to ascertain the line as aforesaid on which the road was laid out equally on both sides for a four rod road and on viewing the ground and having the line run agree as follows, viz., That the said line and corner for a begin- ning be fixed four feet two inches east of and from the southeast corner of a store-house as called belonging to Robert Burgess Juor in a part of which house Cornelius Garey now lives and runs from thence south three degrees east as the compass will now stand within two rods of the front or westerly side of Lemuel Piersons dwelling house where he now lives and continuing the said corner to opposite the meeting house called the baptist meeting house, on which line you the said Peter Territ as over- seer of the road aforesaid are hereby requested to govern yourself and to open the said road clear of all obstructions two rods on each side of the said line-causing the said road to be fully opened to four rods wide es originally laid on the day & year aforesaid, pursuant to Act of Assembly ia such case made and provided, given under our hands the nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-six 1786.

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History of Hunterdon and Somerset counties, New Jersey : with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 87

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