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Thomas Williams 300
Umphrey Wall
100
William Andrews 200
William Montgomery 250
William Hughs 250
William Norton
200
William Saxton
200
William Colwell 200
William Woodward 130
William Imlay . 50
William Cannon 106
Charles Macklain
David Johnston 200
William Wilkins, Jr. 100
David Parker 125
David Harker
William Limming
130
Daniel Estell
William Evillman
150
Elisha Lawrence 360
Edward Hurley 100
Widow Cox
Widow Woodward 15
Widow Lawrence 300
Widow Borden . 118
Gavin Watson
3)0
Zebulon Clayton 250
George Molat 250
Henry Clother
1
Isaac Van Cleef
225
Henry Everingham
80
Jacob Morris
Joseph Cannon
190
John Lawrence, Sen.
300
.John Imlay
. 200
John Stillwell
145
Joseph Aplin 120
John Fowler 124
John Cox 180
John Limming 270
John Vanghn
260
John Guibertson
150
Joseph Holmes 150
James Silver 400
John Nation . 20
Joseph Sergant 100
John Ashton, Esq. 760
Joseph Ashton 400
Jacob Lair . 120
360
James Lowry 318
Moses Robins, Jr.
200
John Coward 430
Marmaduke Horsman 150
Nicholas Stevens . 700
Nathaniel Robins 120
Nathan Allen, Esq. 150
Nicholas Hill 100
Neal Currey
150
Nehemiah Cogall
200
Obadiah Jeroton
Obadiah Wilkins
225
1 Isaac Stelle, Esq.
150
Joseph Cox
380
Joseph Holman 200
Jacob Miller . 160
John Williams 100
Joseph Cheeseman 150
Jonathan Robins 100
John Cox 157
James Cox . 275
James Cox, Jr 300
John Cox, Jr. 100
John Lawrence
John King . 450
Joseph Woodward 250
Joseph Keney
250
1 John Lawrence, who was the township assessor of Up- per Freehold for many years, was the surveyor-general who, in 1743, ran the line, since known as the " Lawrence Line," between the provinces of East and West Jersey.
NAME. ACRES.
Aaron Robins 180
[ Benjamin Lawrence 950
Benjamin Borden . 275
Cornelius Vanhorn 130
William Wilkins . 300
William B 150
William Devoll
Elias Holman 100
Ebenezer Saltar 320
Elias Stillwell 25
Guisbert Gnisebertson 100
Zachariah Robins 100
James Tapscott 100
Joseph Kelley 200
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NAME. ACRES.
Peter Van Tilbert 12
Philip Truax 25
Peter Brower
Richard Salter
Richard Mount 400
Robert Curvat
18
Robert Holmes
125
Robert Montgomery
500
Robert Imlay
200
Robert English
46
Robert Lawrence .
375
Richard Horsfield 250
Richard Compton, Jr. 50
Samuel Rogers
50
Safety Borden 170
Samuel Robins
Samuel Horseman
Samuel Wellgoose
Thomas Cox, Jr. . 175
Thomas Kimsey
Thomas Parker
125
Thomas Richards
200
Thomas Cox, son of James
120
Thomas Jones
340
Thomas Woodwar
400
Thomas Doughty 170
Thomas Everingham
100
Thomas Duglas .
100
Thomas Hawkins
50
Thomas Smyth
240
" Following is a List of all the Taxables in the Township of Upper Freehold, in the County of Monmouth, in the province of New Jersey, with the number of acres assessed to each, made in the month of October, 1758 :"
NAMES. ACRES.
Austey, William 50
Allen, Anua (widow) 10
Anderson, John . 2
Andrews, John
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Anderson, Abram
17
Anderson, Matthias
10
Ashton, John 200
Allen, Samuel 160
Arney, Joseph
Anderson, Elias
Atler, Adam
Blakely, John
Beaks, William .
190
Beaks, David .
Barcaloo, William
245
Battinghouse, John
Beers, Benjamin .
Britton, Abram .
200
Britton, Richard 150
NAME.
ACRES.
Balling, Joseph . 150
Bruce, John S
Brewer, Peter 80
Baird, David 130
Bacon, Jeremiah
Bacon, Nathaniel
Bowman, Nathaniel .
Beakes, Edmund
Burtree, Richard
290
Bradshaw, John
Brown, Clayton
Bower, William 200
Copothite, Hannah 200
Coward, Joseph
315
Cook, George .
30
Cowenhoven, Peter, Jr . 200
Cox, John, Sr . 200
Cowenhoven, Benjamin
300
Cox, John (Lands End)
500
Coward, John .
1200
Coward, John, Jr
415
Clap, John .
Cunningham, Thomas
Cox, Thomas . 600
Cox, Thomas, Jr
Cox, John (son of John) 222
Cook, Abiall, Jr
58
Cook, Nathaniel
130
Cox, Thomas Cooper
4
Combs, John .
60
Cox, Mary (widow)
170
Cole, George (schoolmaster)
Clap, George
Cox, Joseph 150
Cox, Nathaniel .
29
Cheeseman, Joseph
170
Caller, Jacob
01
Cook, Abiall
97
Clark, Daniel
300
Churney, John
Conover, Peter
192
Clayland, James
Campbell, Nathaniel
Camott, Robert 4
Dewitt, Luke .
172
Dewitt, Peter .
60
Dunn, Nicholas .
1
Devonport, Samuel
1
Donford, Samuel
250
Dole, Daniel .
Dehaws, Lawrence
131
Delay, Daniel .
Dunderfield, William
Eastman, William .
150
Eastman, John .
330
Emlay, William
117
English, Robert .
English, Robert. Jr .
110
Richard Compton 100
300
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UPPER FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP.
NAME.
AIRES.
English, David . 110
Everingham, William .
100
Ebylon, Peter
Eley, John
500
Everingham, Joseph.
15
Eastwood, Abraham
150
Forman, Samuel
200
Fisher, Ilenry
Fowler, Benjamin
189
Forman, Sarah iwidow James Throck-
morton)
195
Forman, Elizabeth (widow).
200
Finnes, John .
Fox, Thomas
8
Fenton, John
6
Far, Thomas
25
Flint, Samuel (Indian)
Gibbons, Jonathan
Gregory, Benjamin
Gregory, Benoni
Groom, Thomas .
200
Gaston, John (grist-mill and fulling- mill) . 645
Gibberson, Guisbert
300
Grover, Joseph
420
Gibberson, John
10
Gordon, James
Grady, Daniel
Gordon, David
15
Herbert, John
330
Herbert, Thomas, Jr
Herbert, Obadiah .
Herbert, Richard .
Henderson, William
180
Henderson, Gnisbert
60
Hurley, Edward
33
Horner, Benjamin, Sr
Horner, Content
Hopkins, Joseph
150
Humphrey, Joseph
16
Hull, Rague
Holmes, Joseph
9445
Holmes, James, Esq
700
Harrison, John & Thomas
309
Horner, Joshua (grist-mill and saw- mill) . 150
Hutchinson, Robert
500
Holman, Robert
250
Holman, Aaron
80
Huggins, John
7
Horsfield, John .
680
Horn, Frederick
Horn, Nathaniel
Hartner, John
Hews, William
Horner, Benjamin, Jr . 15
Harmion, Christian .
Hutchinson, William
150
NAME.
ACRES.
Hillson, John
Imlay, Alice (widow)
Johnston, David
James, Richard
200
Imlay, Peter
380
Imley, Peter (grist-mill)
175
Jackson, Amor
250
Imley, William
150
Jackson, James 217
Jackson, Mary (widow) Jarvis, Francis. 40
Jolinston, Amos
103
Johnston, John
Jobs, John .
10
Kelly, Joseph .
200
Kernan, William
Kelly, Michael
Lawrence, John (chair) 360
Lippincott, David .
200
Lippincott, David, Jr .
Lawrence, James
460
Lawrence, Elisha (chaise)
365
Lawrence, Robert, Esq
796
Leonard, John
330
Lawrence, Joseph
360
Lawrie, William
490
Lawrie, Thomas (merchant and chair) . 300
Longstreet, Stoffel (two grist-mills) . 238
Limming, John, Jr
115
Limming, Thomas
100
Limming, Daniel
100
Limming, Dinah
115
Limming, William
Lawrence, William
100
Limming, Diwilde .
75
Lawrence, Mary
300
Lippincott, Obadiah
Luke, William
Limming, John (son of William) 60
Lloyd, Richard .
125
Langley, David
50
Lawrence, Benjamin
Merry, John
MeGallard, Andrew
10
MeDonald, Michael
More, Peter .
Mingan, Joseph
Montgomery, Robert, Jr
Mairs, Christopher
2
More, John .
30
Mount, Michael .
200
Mount, Thomas
198
Mount, Ezekiel
Montgomery, James
270
Morris, Jacob
3
Montgomerie, William
250
Montgomerie, Robert, Esq.
850
McNight. Charles, Rev.
200
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NAME.
ACRES.
Mull, Michael
Middleton, Amos . 183
McConnelly, Neal
Morris, Christopher 50
Mount, Richard
690
Mannering, Patrick
11
Meghee, James
9
McColm, Hugh
270
Montgomerie, James, Jr.
Mitchell, Alexander
Miller, Thomas .
115
Newell, James D. (chair)
3
Parent, John .
Parker, William
Polhemius, John (grist-mill)
9
Polhemius, Tobias
200
1 Peirce, Andrew
Price, Isaac (fulling-mill)
2
Page, Joseph .
Parent, Thomas
Parent, William
Patrie, Hendrick
Phelps, Ezekiel
Patrick, Negro
Robins, Richard
330
Radford, William
Rogers, William
Robins, Elizabeth (widow)
50
Robins, Moses
53
Robins, Samuel
180
Robins, Ephraim
11
Robins, Daniel A. (town)
34
Robins, Daniel .
300
Roe, Jolin
Rogers, Isaac (merchant and chair)
60
Robins, John
19
Robins, Joseph (small still)
400
Robins, Thomas
Robins, Moses, Jr.
100
Robins, Jacob
100
Robins, Joseph, Jr. .
Read, John and Richard
275
Randall, Daniel
Randall, James
Read, John
107
Robbs, Thomas
Shattig, Christopher
Smith, Thomas
250
Smith, John
Saxton, James
200
Saxton, Peter
104
Saxton, Daniel
203
Starkey, David
50
Stewart, Robert
120
Smith, Jacob .
Still, Jacob
Stillwell, William
9
Stinyond, Joseph .
340
NAME. ACRES,
Stevens, John 700
Stewart, Alexander
Stillwell, Richard
Stell, Benjamin
100
Swen, John
Smith, Joseph
3
Samson, John
Story, Thomas
Sullivan, Dennis Smith, Corbert . 30
Saxton, Charles
236
Sepp, a negro
Tive, Thomas
Tilton, Abraham
50
Thomas, Jonathan (two grist-mills and a fulling-mill) 173
Tule, David
Tapscott, William
410
Taylor, Joseph .
170
Taylor, Hannah (widow)
200
Taylor, Thomas
330
Trout, John
130
Tiffert, Robert
150
Vance, Patrick
Vorhes, John . 144
- Vaughn, David
Vaughn, Rachel (widow)
200
Vaughn, Joseph
30
Vaughn, William
365
Vanhorn, Matthias (grist-mill)
160
Williams, Daniel .
White, Samuel .
384
Wortman, John
Warrick, John
66
Wright, Joseph
1 }
Woodward, Thomas, Esq.
500
Woodward, William
470
Woodward, Joseph
200
Woodward, John
Woodward, Jesse
Wetheral, John
250
Wild, Robert
40
West, John
Wilgus, John
Wilgus, Samuel
Watson, Gawn
300
Watson, Peter
. 550
Woodward, Joseph, Jr.
300
Wall, Humphrey
105
Welsh, William (schoolmaster)
Wilkey, William .
Yard, William H.
"For the year of our Lord 1758. The Assessment as made by John Lawrence, Assessor.
"N. B .- We have no Water Craft, nor furnaces, nor forges, nor Bloomeries, nor glass-houses, nor Stills that still Molasses, nor ferries, nor Brew-houses, nor
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Coaches, Chariots, nor Chaises & 4-wheels in upper ffreehold."
The number of acres assessed iu the township in 1758 was 38,9542, of which the assessed valuation was £11,501 10s. Tax raised, £391 14s.
Much of the territory of Upper Freehold was taken up and patented in large traets. One of these tracts (four thousand acres) was held by Robert Burnet, one of the proprietors. In 1706 he sold to Nathan Allen, his son-in-law, five hundred and twenty aeres, starting where the Cafferty Mill now stands, at Allentown, and running down the stream to the land then held by John Chambers. In the same year he sold to William Montgomery, another son-in-law, five hundred aeres, beginning on Doctor's Creek, near the post road, and thence to the line of Negro Run. This tract was soon after enlarged and named Eglinton. It has remained in the family for six generations. Mrs. Bennington Gill, of the fifth generation, now resides on the old homestead.
Elisha, John, James and Benjamin-and several daughters. The property on Wakake Creek and vicinity was sold or given to Elisha who in Novem- ber, 1717, sold two hundred and eighty aeres to Thomas Kearney and moved to Upper Freehold, where he purchased the property mentioned. A part of this tract he named Chestnut Grove, now owned by Harrison Hendrickson. He died in 1724, aged fifty-eight years. He rep- resented the county in the Provincial Assem- bly in 1708-9. He married Luey Stout, of Shrewsbury, and had several children, of whom John Lawrence, who ran the East and West Jersey line in 1743, was one. He resided on part of the tract of his father, which was called Mulberry Hill, now owned by George J. Hen- drickson. His son John was a physician ; the same Dr. John Lawrence whose house was pro- teeted in the Revolution by the British, at the request of Richard Waln, at whose house the officers were stopping. He was born in 1747, graduated at Princeton College and studied medieine at Philadelphia Medical College, and beeame eminent as a physician in Upper Free- hold. He was a Tory and joined the British. His property was confiscated, but he lived and practiced in the county unmolested after the war, and died at Trenton April 29, 1830. His brother, Elisha Lawrence, was sheriff of Mon- mouth County during the Revolution. His son, John Brown Lawrence, was the father of Commodore Lawrence, of the United States navy, and grandfather of Commodore Boggs, who, in the "Varuna," passed the forts below New Orleans during the late Rebellion. Of the brothers of Elisha, William settled in Mid- dletown; John, James and Joseph bought the "Squan Lots," on Manasquan River, and settled there. Of Benjamin no account is obtained. The tract of land of two thousand five hundred acres, bounded by the Keith line on the west, and on all other sides by Crosswicks Creek, was patented by William Dockwra, February 2, 1698, and was, later, sold to Anthony Wood- ward for three hundred and eighty pounds.
On the 24th of May, 1690, John Baker pat- ented two thousand one hundred aeres of land intended to be called the " Manor of Buckhole." This traet was bonnded on the west by the four thousand aere tract of Robert Burnett (near the line of the Pemberton and Hightstown Rail- road), north by Cat Tail Brook, south of Doe- tor's Creek ." to the Middletown Men's Lots." John Baker died some time before 1700, and the tract passed to George Willocks and soon after to Richard Salter, who built the mills at Imlaystown before 1700. A portion of this traet was sold, in 1727, by Richard Salter, Jr., to Peter Salter, Jr., it being the " mill traet." Another portion was sold about 1717, to Elisha Lawrence, who settled there. The family of Lawrenee figured largely in this county for many years. Elisha Lawrence was the son of William Lawrence, who, in 1668 was one of the proprietors of the Middletown lots. He was town clerk of Middletown. His name occurs frequently in the records of that township. He was one of the Manasquan company who located lots on the coast from Wreck Pond to Barnegat Robert West, of London, patented fifteen hundred acres south of Burlington Path and east of Crosswieks Creek, January 22, 1689. Bay, in 1685. He also owned land at Wakake, adjoining Richard Hartshorne. He died in 1702 and left sons-William, Joseph, John Smith, of Middletown, patented a tract
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HISTORY OF MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
between Robert West and John Throckmorton. Peter Sonmans patented fifteen hundred acres lying east of Crosswieks Creek and north of Burlington Path.
Between the years 1688 and 1695 a strip of land reaching nearly across the connty was taken by men from Middletown, and is known as " Middletown Men's Lots." It reaches from the fifteen hundred acre tract of Peter Sonmans, along the northwest side of Burlington Path, to the Pines, and was divided as follows: Joseph Throckmorton, four hundred and eighty acres ; James Bowne, four hundred and eighty acres ; James Ashton, four hundred and eighty acres ; Philip Smith, four hundred and eighty aeres ; John Stout, three hundred aeres ; Benjamin Bor- den, two hundred and forty acres ; Job Throck- morton, two hundred and seventy-four acres. The tract below the path contained four hun- dred and eighty acres, and belonged to John Throckmorton. It extended southerly to Lah- away Creek.
The Lahaway Creek furnished several good mill-sites, at what is now Walnford and the Waln Mills. A tract of land, partly of the Dockwra tract and part of the Peter Sonmans, was purchased and a grist-mill erected. In 1760 it was in possession of Abram Brown, who, on the 5th of October, 1772, conveyed it to Rich- ard Waln, who had loaned money upon the property. He was a descendant of Nicholas Waln, who came over with William Penn, and a brother of Nicholas Walu, of Philadelphia. He moved to the place, and during the Revolu- tion built the present large and commodious mansion-house, which is still in as good condi- tion as when the British officers were entertained within its walls. Before 1800, Mr. Waln sent flour from this mill to Philadelphia, in seows, down Crosswicks Creek. A bridge now spans the stream within a stone's throw of the mill, the site of which is historic. It is near the " Province Line" and near the "Burlington Path." With reference to this bridge, there was published, some years since, an article from which the following is extracted :
" A body of the American forces, in retreat, probably from Bordentown, destroyed the old bridge. The English troops were in hot pur-
suit, and the object was to discommode and in- pede their advance. The enemy with great ce- lerity threw over a bridge a little distance up the stream, just above the head of the dam. Said an old lady of the Waln family, detailing to her household what her own eyes had seen : 'I never saw the like. The soldiers cut down big trees, trimmed them, and then brought each tree on porters (i.e., short sticks, passed under). There was a long row of soldiers on each side of a tree ; they carried it along as if the tree weighed nothing. And some went back for another. There were so many men, that as fast as one tree was brought another came close be- hind it, and so the bridge went up, and the troops crossed over.' The officer in command went to the house, where dinner was just ready. Its chief dish was souse. The officer sat down, his guards standing near, while the family re- frained from eating, but gave attention to the officer's wants. He ate heartily, and at the close of the meal a large pile of bones lay by his plate. Seeming ashamed, as if he had over- eaten, he swept them to the door, and withdrew. There was a sort of refinement in the officer's conduct, as though he would like to aeknowl- edge the attention he had received. The body marched on, and not the least annoyance was al- lowed." The officer referred to by the lady, is sup- posed to have been General Knyphausen, and the occasion, the advance of the British army to Monmouth Court-House, in June, 1778.
Richard Waln favored the British cause and his property was protected. One of the officers while here lost his spur, which was found a few years ago by a workman while digging near the stream. Nicholas Waln, one of the older sons, took charge of the mill about 1795, and con- tinned it till his death, in April, 1848. His father died in 1809. In the division of the property, the mill was apportioned to Sarah Waln (Mrs. Jacob Hendrickson), who now owns the mill and occupies the mansion. The mill was destroyed by fire in 1821 and rebuilt the same size as the present mill, which was built in 1872.
On Lahaway Creek, near its junetion with Crosswicks Creek, is the farm of John G. Meirs, which in the time of the Revolution, was occupied by the noted Tory. Thomas Leonard.
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who was denounced by the Freehold Commit- open. The demand was made, 'Where is your tee of Vigilance, and who subsequently escaped to New York. At the elose of the Revolution, when New York was evacuated by the British, Leonard went to St. John's, New Brunswick, where he settled.
In 1870 the frame of an old barn on the | woman to stir from her seat. The effect was Leonard (Meirs) farm was moved, to be rebuilt as a part of some of the out-houses. The re- moval, and some facts in reference to the old buildings at this place, was noticed in the Mon- mouth Democrat of that time as follows : "On ! tearing off the well-nigh worn-out siding the date of the building was found eut into the sill-beam-1777. It is surprising how those ancients built for time. The timbers are of had surrounded his house the day before, not white oak, and each one easily squares a foot. one of them for a moment suspecting that the old black fellow that was limping by was old Leonard, the Tory himself. He got away safe to Nova Scotia, and never came back again. After the Revolution his property was confis- cated and sold at a very low figure. It was afterwards bought by General Forman, and about 1833 it came into the possession of the The siding was of the best white cedar and an inch thick. The building never had a coat of paint or lime, and yet, until quite recently, its siding was proof against the weather, but it was worn very thin ; while the timbers were every one as sound as the day they were felled in those primitive woods. Last year the same gentleman [Mr. Meirs] moved and fixed up for , present family of Meirs.
a tool-house a singular little structure known as the ' hip-roof house.' It had a roof of that! quaint old style, thus named. This queer little house was inhabited before the Revolution. Still its timbers are all sound, a part of the floor- ing is there, and the old shingled roof is yet rain and storm-proof. In the Revolution it was owned by a Tory named Leonard, who lived in it with his wife. He must have been a trouble- some fellow, for the place is now pointed out where a party of Whigs, or Continentals, were concealed in watch for the traitor. They must have known that he was in the house; so a raid was made for his immediate capture. The wife saw them coming, and as there was no possibil- ity of escape from the dwelling, she made him flee to the cubby-hole at one end of the peak of the hip-roof. The entrance was so small that the man had to strip off his clothing before he could squeeze into the poke-hole. The pursu- ers were now at the door. Carrying her hus- band's clothes in her arms, the woman ran down- stairs, put them on the seat of the chair and sat on them. At this moment the door was forced
husband ?' But the woman gave no sign ; not moving from her seat and keeping her counte- nanee imperturbable. The men began at onee a search of the house, but all in vain. Puzzled and baffled, they left, without having caused the that Leonard received a thorough scare, and concluded it to be no longer safe for him to remain at home. But how to escape, when so determined a hunt was kept up for his life ? He was evidently a man of some shrewdness, and was equal to the emergency. Having blackened his face, he changed clothes with his old lame negro slave, and actually passed the party that
"There is now standing on the farm, at a con- siderable distance from the house, an old walnut- tree. A tradition has long existed to the effect that near this tree was the residence of the father of the Loyalist, and that this one, the elder Leonard, when walking in his garden, was shot by an Indian, concealed behind some gooseberry bushes. As no vestige of any resi- dence or garden had been seen for many years, unless the old walnut-tree may date back to that time, the present occupant, Mr. John G. Meirs, placed no confidence in the story. Still, the story was long told in all sincerity. About a year ago Mr. Meirs set a man to dig a trench not far from the tree, to drain the land. The digger turned up an old-fashioned silver spoon, on which was engraved the initial L. This, with good reason, Mr. Meirs believed to have be- longed to the father of the Loyalist, who was killed near that spot."
ALLENTOWN,1 situated in the northwest cor-
1 Many of the historical facts having reference to the township of Upper Freehold, and particularly to the vil-
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HISTORY OF MONMOUTH COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
ner of the township, on Doctor's Creek, is the principal village of Upper Freehold. The first settler at this place was Nathan Allen, a son of Jedediah Allen,1 of Shrewsbury, and one of a large family of children. In 1706 he pur- chased of Robert Burnet, one of the proprietors of New Jersey, five hundred and twenty-eight acres of land lying on the north side of Indian Run, in what is now Washington township, Mer- cer County ; and at the same time he purchased one hundred and ten acres on Doctor's Creek and on both sides of the York road. In the same year he settled and built a grist-mill at the same place which became the village of Allen- town. In the previous year he had married Margery, danghter of the proprietor, Robert Burnet, from whom he had made his purchase of land. She was living in 1716, but died pre- vious to 1721, and in that year he married Martha, widow of Francis Davenport (2), whose maiden-name was Martha Newbury. By her he had two sons, Nathan and Benjamin, and two daughters, Martha and Margery. He died in 1837 and his widow, Martha, afterwards married - De Bow.
Nathan, (2d), son of Nathan and Martha Allen, married Sarah Lawrence. He inherited from his father the grist-mill and plantation at Allentown, while his brother Benjamin inherited the fulling-mill with two and a half acres, part of the same property. He died in 1718, leav- ing one son, Nathan John Allen, and in 1750 his executors sold the mill property, two hun- dred and thirty-eight aeres, to Stoffel Long- street, " late of Shrewsbury," ete. His widow,
lage of Allentown, were furnished to the writer by Charles R. Hutchinson, of Allentown, Much valuable informa- tion concerning the history of Allentown has also been furnished by John C. Vanderbeek, and Mrs. Mary A Fiske.
1 Jedediah Allen emigrated from New England to Shrews- bury previous to 1692; was a justice of the court there in 1700 and 1701. Will dated September 15, 1711, proven February 6, 1711 ; wife Elizabeth ; sons,-Ephraim, who married a daughter of William West, of Shrewsburry ; Elisha ; Nathan, of whom hereafter : Judalı, who married Deborah Adams, and died in 1721 ; Ralph ; Henry ; Jona- than, David. Daughters,-Esther, who married James Adams ; Mary, who married - Wills; Patience, who married Samnel Tilton ; and Meribalı, who married Wil- liam Thorn.
Sarah, afterwards married Thomas Lawrie, an old-time merchant of Allentown.
Benjamin, son of Nathan (1st) and Martha, in 1748, sold the fulling-mill to Isaac Price, who owned it until his death, in 1768. In 1771 it again became a part of the grist-mill property. It long since ceased to be used for its original purpose, and when the present grist-mill was erected upon its site, was removed, and is now a double dwelling-house on the westerly side of the bridge.
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