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pastor, Rev. Mr. Van Doren, the middle wall of par- tition has been taken down. The pews on the ground floor will seat five hundred, so that the whole build- ing can accommodate eight hundred worshipers. Instead of being plastered, the interior is cciled with boards, which, together with the pews, remained in their primitive unpainted condition until about twenty years ago, when the pews were painted a dingy red and the sides and ceiling white.
" The remains of the sainted Tennent lie buried under the floor of the central aisle. In the year 1818 a marble słab was placed in the wall at the right of the pulpit, with the following inscription in gilt lettering :
'Sacred to the Memory of the REV. WILLIAM TENNENT, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Freehold, Who departed this life the 8th of March, 1777, Aged 71 years and 6 months. He was Pastor of said church 43 years and 9 months. Faithful and beloved. 1818.'"
OLD TENNENT CHURCH.
About 1855 the east end of the old edifice was reshingled and painted white. The in- terior of the church has also been repainted, stoves introduced, the pews upholstered and the aisles carpeted ; but with the exception of these, and some other minor changes, the old edifice is the same as when first occupied in 1753. The old communion-table, at which the Lord's Supper has been administered to succes- sive generations for one hundred and thirty years, is still in use.
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Immediately after the ordination of William Tennent as pastor (1733) the congregation ap- pointed a eominittee to purchase a parsonage, with farm land attached. In 1735 the com- mittee made the purchase from Mr. Covenho- ven, at a eost of five hundred pounds. The parsonage (sitnated more than half a mile from the church) was a low building, large on the ground, with four lower rooms,-two on each side of the hall,-with kitchen attached in the rear. Above was the attie room, sloping on one side with the rafters, and with a window facing the north, which, as is said, was used as a study by both Mr. Tennent and Mr. Wood- hull. During the battle of June 28, 1778, a round shot came through the roof into this room while the conflict raged furi- ously around the house and in the adjoining orchard.
In order to keep the parsonage and farm always in possession of the church, they put every legal safegnard around the property which they eould devise. Every year the trustees were obliged to swear that they would be faithful to this trust and would keep the parsonage from being sold. A little over one hundred years after its pur- chase the Tennent Church suffered this property to pass out of its hands. The farm (one hundred and eighty aeres) was sold, February 6, 1860, to Charles A. Webster, for thirteen thousand two hundred dollars. The venerable parsonage house has since been demolished.
The aneient burial-ground which surrounds the old Tennent Church is no less historie than the edifice itself. In front of the church is a monument to the memory of Rev. John Wood- hull, D.D., who exercised pastoral charge here for forty-five years. A little further on, a dark stone slab eovers a grave, on which are these words: " Here lies the mortal part of Gilbert Tennent. In the practice of physie he was successful and beloved. Young, gay, and in the highest bloom of life, death found him hopefully in the Lord; but O, reader, had yon heard his last testimony, . you would have been convinced of the extreme madness of delaying repentance. Natus April,
1742. Obiit March 6, 1770." This young physician, who had not completed his twenty- eighth year when he was summoned away from earth, was the son of William Tennent.
At one end of the church is the grave of Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton, a gallant officer in the British army, who was killed in the bloody engagement of the 28th of June, 1778. There was nothing to mark the spot but his name rudely carved on the building, until about 1850, when a Scotch school-teacher in the neighborhood put np a red board, with the sim- ple inscription, in black letters, " Hic jacet Col- onel Monekton," and the date of his death. Afterwards this school-teacher died ; and, ae-
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cording to his particular request, was buried by the side of the remains of him to whose memory he paid sneh respeet. When the battle of Mon- mouth was fought, a man was sitting on a gravestone in the yard; a stray cannon-ball broke off one corner of the stone and mortally wounded the man. He was taken into the church, and laid out on a seat, where he died, and where the dark stain of his blood is said to be still visible. The broken grave-stone has since been carried away in small pieces by vis- itors as mementos of the confliet.
A great number of soldiers of the Revolu- tion-many of whom were killed in the service, and others who survived the war-were buried in this elmrchyard, as also numbers of soldiers
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of the wars of 1812-15 and 1861-65. A list of these interments, as nearly complete as is possible, has been made (at the request of Major James S. Yard) by Mr. R. P. Craig, sexton and superintendent of the Tennent Church burial- ground, and is here given, viz. :
SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION.
Anderson, James, lieutenant, Hazen's regiment (Sec- ond Canadian), Continental army.
Anderson, Jolm, first licutenant, Captain Reading's company, Third battalion, first establishment. Continental army; captain, Fourth battalion second establishment.
Anderson, John, private, Captain Waddell's com- . pany, First regiment, Monmouth.
Anderson, Kenneth, adjutant First regiment, Mon- mouth.
Baird, David, captain, First regiment, Monmouth. Baird, John.
Bowne, Joseph, corporal, Captain Waddell's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Bowman, John, Captain Dunn's company, First regi- ment, Monmouth.
Brewer, Joseph, captain, Monmouth.
Craig, David, private, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Momnouth.
Craig, James, ensign, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Craig, John, Captain Waddell's company, First regi- ment, Monmouth.
Craig, John, first lieutenant, Captain Elisha Walton's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Craig, Samuel, troop light horse, Monmouth.
Craig, William, teamster.
Campbell, William, Continental army.
Campbell, John, Captain Waddell's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Clayton, Jonathan, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Cale, Jacob, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Conover, David, Monmouth.
Conover (Covenhoven), Theodorous, sergeant, Cap- tain Hankinson's company, First regiment, Mon- mouth. 7
Conover, John M., troop light dragoons.
Covenhoven, Cornelius, Captain Hankinson's com- pany, First regiment, Monmouth.
Covenhoven, Lewis, sergeant, infantry; sergeant, troop light horse, Monmouth.
Covenhoven, John, Captain Hunn's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Covenhoven, John, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Covenhoven, William, Captain Hankinson's com- pany, First regiment, Monmouth.
Combs, Joseph, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons.
Combs, Thomas, captain rangers, Middlesex.
Combs, John, Captain Waddell's company, First reg- iment, Monmouth.
Chambers, John, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Cheeseman, William, private, sergeant. .
Davis, William, captain.
Dey, John, Monmouth.
Edwards, Thomas, second lieutenant, Monmouth. Emmons, Abraham, Monmouth.
English, David, Middlesex.
English, James, surgcon, State troops.
English, James, Monmouth.
Errickson, Michael, Monmouth.
Forman, David, paymaster, Monmouth.
Forman, Jonathan, cornet, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Forman, Jonathan, Captain Waddell's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Forman, Tunis, sergeant.
Forman, William, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Freeman, Henry, fifer, Continental army.
Gordon, David, Captain Elisha Walton's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Gordon, Ezekiel, Middlesex.
Gordon, James, Middlesex.
Gordon, Jonathan.
Hays, John, Captain Bond's company, Fourth bat- talion, second establishment.
Hankinson, James, Captain Walton's light dragoons, Monmouth.
Hankinson, Kenneth, captain, Colonel Forman's bat- talion.
Herbert, Daniel, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Herbert, James, troop light horse, Monmouth.
Henderson, John, captain, Monmouth.
Henderson, Thomas, lieutenant-colonel, Colonel For- man's battalion.
Johnson, Peter, sergeant, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Johnson, William, Third battalion, Continental army Low, Alexander, sergeant, Monmouth.
Laird, Moses.
Laird, William, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Laird, William, Captain Nixon's troop horse, Middle- sex.
Laird, Richard, sergeant, Pulaski Legion, Continental army.
Leonard, Samuel, sergeant, Captain Waddell's com- pany, First regiment, Monmouth.
Lloyd, John, Captain Waddell's company, First regi- ment, Monmonth.
Mount, Mathew.
- MeKnight, Joseph, Monmonth.
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McChesney, Robert.
McDermott, William.
Newell, Hugh (grandfather of Governor Newell), blacksmith, Captain Brewer's company, Mon- mouth.
Perrine, John, Middlesex.
Perrine, Lewis, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Perrinc, Mathew, Middlesex.
Reid, Aaron, Captain Walton's troop light horse, Monmouth.
Reed, John, sergeant, Captain Hankinson's company, First regiment, Monmoutlı.
Rogers, John.
Rogers, Samuel, lieutenant, Tice's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Rue, John, Captain Walton's troop light dragoons, Monmouth.
Seudder, Nathanial, coloncl, First regiment, Mon- mouth; killed in skirmish with Refugecs at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, N. J., October 15, 1781.
Sehenek, Ruliff, Captain Flanagan's company, Third battalion, second establishment, Continental army.
Seabrooks, Stephen, troop light horse, Monmouth.
Smith, Thomas, Continental army.
Sprowls, Moses, ensign, First regiment.
Sutphen, Derriek, sergeant, Captain Barnes Smock's company artillery.
Sutphin, Joseph, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Sutphin, John, Captain Hankinson's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Suydam, Jacob, Middlescx.
Thompson, Joseph, Captain Waddell's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Tone, William, Captain Nixon's troop light horse, Middlesex.
Van Cleve, Benjamin, captain, Captain Smoek's com- pany, First regiment, Monmouth.
Vanderveer, John, Monmouth.
Voorhees, John, First battalion, Second regiment; First regiment.
Walker, Aaron, fifer, Continental arıny.
Walker, George, served as captain in the Second bat- talion, second establishment, Continental army. Walton, Elisha, major, First regiment, Monmouth. Wilson, Joseph.
Woodhull, John, D.D., chaplain.
Wickoff, Jacob, Captain Hankinson's company, First regiment, Monmouth.
Wikoff, William, corporal, Captain Waddell's com- pany, First regiment, Monmouth.
Yetman, James, private, Continental army.
Yetman, John, Monmouth.
Perrine, Peter, captain, Third battalion, Middlesex.
Rhea, David, lieutenant, Captain Walton's company, State troops (horsemen).
Coward, Enoch (grandfather of Captain Enoch L., of Fourteenth Regiment).
Henderson, William, Captain Holmes' company, Fourth battalion, second establishment, Conti- nental army.
Clayton, John, Captain Walton's troop light dra- goons, Monmouth.
Soldiers of 1812-15.
Anderson, John L., cap- Kerr, Joseph,
tain,
Myres, Nathaniel,
Brewer, Daniel,
Malatt, Mathias,
Boyde, John,
Nesbit, John,
Bowne, Peter,
Perrinc, Robert, quarter-
Bruch, Cyrus,
master,
Coward, Enoeh,
Combs, William,
Robinson, James, cap- tain,
Clayton, John,
Robinson, John,
Conover, Robert, captain,
Rue, William,
Conover, John I.,
Conover, Benjamin,
Teneyck, William, eap tain,
Craig, John,
Thompson, Joseph,
Craig, Joseph,
Thompson, Pearson,
Craig, Robert E.,
Van Schoick, Samuel,
Emmons, Isaac,
Voorhees, Stephen,
Freeman, Simeon,
White, Williamn,
Gordon, Lewis,
Wilson, Robert,
Gordon, John E.,
Yetman, Escck,
Hampton, William,
Yetman, Walter,
Laird, David (navy),
Gordon, James.
Soldiers of the War of the Rebellion.
Abraham, James, Rue, John, A.,
Breece, William, Reid, Spafford W.,
Combs, William,
Smith, Josiah,
Duncan, William, Smith, Jacob,
Dey, Roland,
Van Aman, James N.,
Fisher, David R.,
Woodhull, Dr. Addison,
Fisher, David A.,
Weeden, Jolın E.,
Gordon, Conover,
Yetman, Tunis.
McChesney, George S.,
Manalapan township is divided into six school distriets, which contain five hundred and ninety- eight children of school age. The school prop- erty is valued at eight thousand five hundred dollars.
In Lafayette School Distriet, No. 32, the first school-house was built over sixty years ago on the present site, and was rebuilt about 1860. The district at present contains sixty- nine children.
In the Session School District, No. 33, the first school was the Latin School, opened by the Rev. Dr. John Woodhull. Dr. J. T. Wood- hull, in an article on " Revolutionary Reminis-
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cences, written in 1862, speaking of his father, Rev. Dr. Woodhull, says,-
" And the same year of his settlement (1779) he built a house on an acre of ground leased of the congregation for the purpose of establishing a school.1 This being the only school of this kind in this part of the State, it became very popular and flourishing. Many eminent men were here trained for usefulness. Among them I must name S. Berrien, who was after- wards Attorney-General of the United States, the two Breeses-Sidney and Arthur-Rev. Dr. Clark, Rev. Iva Condict and George Ord, who wrote the life of Wilson, the ornitholo- gist. . .. "
A very bad boy, who had been punished for some delinquency, remained at home one Sun- day until the neighbors had all gone to church, when he, with a little fellow, his cousin, went to the school-house and set it on fire, which consumed it and all it contained. A short in- terruption ensued, but another house was speed- ily erected and the school continued to flour- ish. It was discontinued about 1794.
There is no account of any other school there until 1827, when Asa S. Colton, who later be- eame a clergyman, taught a classical school for a short time in the vicinity of Tennent Church, from which place he removed to Frechold, and there taught. Several years after, the district ereeted a school-house on the Tennent Church lot, which was used until about 1863, when the present building was erected. The old house was abandoned, moved back and made a part of the horse-sheds. The district contains at present one hundred and thirteen children.
About 1830, William Wilson, a Scotch- man, who had been a minister in his own country and had become dissipated, came to this part of New Jersey and taught school in several places in this county, and about 1835 became a teacher at Tennent sehool. To this place he became much attached. It was lie who erected the wooden slab over the grave
of Colonel Monckton in the old Tennent Churchyard. He several times expressed a wish to be buried by the side of Monckton. After teaching here several years he removed to Forked River, where he died. Mrs. Achsah Hendrickson and others of his former pupils at Tennent united in causing the removal of his remains to the Tennent burial-ground, and tliere erected the stone that now marks his grave.
In Englishtown School District, No. 34, the first school of which anything is known was kept in 1817 in the old tavern-house, now the residenee of John Laird. Josephi Lewis was a pupil there in that year. In 1835 the school- house that stood on the site of the present Mount Vernon school-house was removed to "No Chance," and was kept by - Lord, - Vorhis, and last, and for many years, by Miss Mary D. Hankinson, who, later, kept a school in her own house. Another house was built beyond the Presbyterian Church for both school and church purposes. This house was used until the present edifice was erected, in 1871. Among the teachers at this second house were Francis Frary, Horace Rood and David Stratton. The latter taught many years. The district now contains one hundred and sixty-one chiklren.
In Manalapan School District, No. 35, the first school of which any account has been ob- tained was kept in the carriage-house of Dr. John T. Woodhull for his own children, but a little later the other children of the neighbor- hood also attended. Dr. Kearney was a teacher there. The school was afterwards removed to a room in Dr. Woodhull's residence. Abont 1830 the people of the neighborhood united and built a school-house on Dr. Woodhull's farm, on the north side of the Manalapan road. At this place Condit Gulick (brother of Peter Gulick, the missionary), a Mrs. Emery, William Woodhull, James Crawford and Elizabeth How- ard were teachers. No deed was given of the lot on which this house was erected, and upon the sale of Dr. Woodhull's property the school- house was sold with it. Then the present seltool- lot was purchased of Major John Perrine, and the house erected on it in 1840. The first teacher
I T'his was not the first classical school of the vicinity. March 14, 1778, Joseph Rue advertises that he will open a Latin school at the house of Henry Perine, Freehold, April 13, where the scholars can be accommodated in the best manner at the lowest expense.
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was Miss Ellen Shaw, who was succeeded by Miss Gertrude Conover (afterwards Mrs. Nelson Conover). During her term of . teaching, the trees that now surround the school-house were set out. The district now contains seventy-six children of school age.
In Black's Mills School District, No. 36, a school was taught in 1826, at which James A. Perrine and Thomas Smith were pupils, under a Mr. Emery. The school-house was situated southwest from Black's Mills. It was then an old house, but was used for school and church purposes. It is now used as a tenant-house. After 1855 a lot was purchased of James Showles, on the Manalapan road, and the present school-house was built. In 1864 it was moved to the adjoining lot, where it now stands. The distriet now contains sixty-seven children.
In Mount Vernon School District, No. 37, a small school-house was built, about the year 1820, on the site of the present house. Major John Anderson was the first teacher in this house, and about 1823 Miss Mary D. Hankin- son began teaching, and continued till 1835, when she removed. The house was soon after moved to "No Chance," near Englishtown. No other school-house was built in this locality until 1860, when the present one was erected on Mount Vernon, and in 1882 it was removed to the present site, which was the site of the old school-house of 1820. The district now contains one hundred and three school children.
ENGLISHTOWN is the principal village (as, in fact, the only one to which that name can prop- erly be given) in Manalapan. It is situated in the northern part of the township, a little north of the Jamesburg and Freehold Agricultural Railroad, on which it is a station. This village existed, under the same name, in the time of the Revolution, and was a halting-place of the American army on its way both to and from the battle-field of Monmouth in June, 1778. On the night of the 20th (the day following that of the battle), General Washington had his headquarters in an old tavern that stood on the site now occupied by the house of John Laird. The village received its name from James Eng- lish, the original proprietor of the land on
which it was built. Two of his sons, John English and Dr. James English, Jr., were both born before 1800. The latter practiced med- icine in this vieinity until his death, in 1834. A more extended account of him, as also of Dr. David C. English (who died in 1860), will be found in the history of the Monmouth Medical Society, in a preceding chapter.1 Dr. Daniel Polhemus and Dr. William Debow were prac- titioners in Englishtown and vicinity in the year 1836, and for some years previously. Dr. Polhemus' residence was where Craig Bowne now lives, and Dr. Debow lived in the Disbrow house.
In 1820 there were two taverns in English- town, one kept by Mrs. Henry Perrine, where Daniel Stevens now lives, and the other by Mrs. William Gaston, on the corner where Fleming's Hotel now stands. A store was kept by Isaiah Disbrough, where the store of Peter Stevens now is. David and Daniel H. Laird also kept a store where David's grandson (Augustus Dye) now lives. In 1837, Nathaniel S. Ruc, Jr., and George W. Sutphin announced a " New Concern," mider the firm of Rue & Sutphin, " at the stand lately occupied by John M. Per- rine, at Englishtown, where they intend to keep constantly on hand a general assortment of dry- goods, groceries, queensware, hardware, etc." The grist-mill of the place was owned and run for many years by Jacob Keeler, afterwards by Charles Van Cleef, and later passed to the possession of William Parker, the present owner. A school-house stood in that part of the town called " No Chance," and in it Miss Mary Hankinson taught for several years. After- wards a school-house was built beyond where the Presbyterian Church now stands. It was
1 One of the early physicians who practiced in the township was Dr. Gilbert Tennent, a son of the Rev. Wil- liamTennent. He died in early manhood in 1780.
Dr. John T. Woodhull and Dr. Gilbert S. Woodhull, natives of the township, were both practicing physicians. Dr. John T. retired from active practice while in middle life. Dr. Gilbert S. enjoyed an extensive practice. He lived where John Van Doren now resides, and died about 1832.
Dr. Charles G. Patterson, born 1796 and died 1835, who was a well-known and popular practitioner in Ma- nalapan township, is more fully mentioned in the history of the Monmouthi Medical Society.
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used until the ereetion of the present school- house, in 1871.
The post-office of Englishtown was estab- lished February 6, 1818. The first postmaster was John S. MeChesney, who was succeeded by Benjamin Dey. He remained in offiee until December, 1839, and was succeeded by Daniel H. Laird, who continued until 1856. The next was Joel T. Clayton, who held the office till March 31, 1859, and was succeeded by John M. Vorhis, who remained postmaster until 1861. His successor was Peter Clayton, who held the office ten years. His sueeessor is the present postmaster, Peter W. Stevens.
THE ENGLISHTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, a branch of the old Tennent Church organization, was formed in 1860, and the ehureh edifice was built in the same year in the village for the bet- ter accommodation of the members living in that vieinity. In 1874 the building was re- paired, and upon completion was reopened for serviee October 15th in that year. In De- cember, 1876, on petition of members residing in and near Englishtown, the Presbytery sev- ered the connection of this with the Tennent Church, and this was made a separate organiza- tion. The new society seeured the serviees of the Rev. Donald McLaren (previously pastor of
Tennent Church) as a stated supply. He was sueeeeded by Rev. J. Livingston Smith, who became the pastor and was installed June 24, 1879. He resigned January 24, 1881. The Rev. Charles Everett, the present pastor, a re- cent graduate, was installed as pastor June 14, 1881.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, at Englishtown, was organized in 1842, in the old sehool-house, and on the 23d of January, 1843, the following-named trustees were eleeted : J. O. Burtt, Sr., Elisha MeCabe, Simeon Pettit, Daniel Sanford and Gilbert Applegate. A lot ivas purchased of David and Daniel Laird ; an edifice, thirty by thirty-five feet, was ereeted in the following summer, and used notil 1878. In the summer of 1877 the present lot was seeured and foundations of a new building laid in De- cember of that year. It was finished the follow- ing year, and dedicated October 10, 1878.
The first pastor of this church was the Rev.
Robert J. Andrews. Among his sueeessors have been the following named : John Ford ; 1859, R. B. Sntcliff; 1860, Peter Y. Calder; 1862, Albert Atwood ; 1865, J. P. Connelly ; 1867, George B. White; 1870, J. D. McCurdy ; 1874, R. B. Stephenson ; 1875, W. A. Marsey ; 1876, H. J. Conover ; 1878-79, S. F. Gaskell ; 1880, W. F. Randolph ; 1881-82, J. W. Grant ; 1884, D. Clinton Cobb.
SAINT JOHN'S (EPISCOPAL) CHURCH was established in 1860 as a branch of Saint Peter's Church of Freehold. A church edifice was erceted, and opened for service April 9, 1861. The Rev. Thomas J. Taylor, a missionary, was in charge of the congregation. It was feebly sustained for several years, and in May, 1877, the building was sold to J. E. Keeler, who used it for a drug-store.
Columbia Lodge, No. 88, K. of P., was chartered July 7, 1873, and was instituted with seventeen charter members. The first meetings were held in the school-house. In 1880 a lodge- room was fitted up in the sceond story of Traut- man's barber-shop, and formally opened in September of that year. The lodge has a mem- bership of sixty-one. The present offieers are : Chancellor Commander, J. C. Rue ; Vice Chan- eellor Commander, J. W. Gaskell; Master of Finance, J. C. Sutphin ; Master of Exchequer, S. C. Bowne ; Keeper of Records and Seals, W. L. Conover. H. W. Long, of this lodge, is Supreme Representative of the Supreme Lodge.
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