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Following is a list of the ehosen freeholders of Freehold township from 1791 to the present time, viz .:
1791. William Lloyd.
1798-1802. William Lloyd.
1871-10. John P. Conover.
1805. George Cook.
1876-07. William Lloyd.
1819-44. John J. Conover.
1822-29. John J. Ely.
1835-39. John M. Perrine.
1849-41. Barzilla IIendrickson.
1842. Daniel Emkin.
1843-44. Barzilla Hendrickson.
1844-45. William Vandorn.
1845-48. Richard Hartshorne.
1 Manalapan, Millstone and Marlboro' were taken from Freehold several years after the time here referred to.
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1846-47. John M. Perrine. 1848-50. William Snyder. 1849. John Newell. 1850. Richard Hartshorne. 1851-52. Job Emmons. 1853. John Cox. 1854-55. William Snyder. 1856-59. John L. Doty.
1860-62. George W. Patterson. 1863-65. James S. Yard.
1866-74. Samnel Conover. 1875. Barclay Snyder. 1876-78. Alfred Walters. 1879-84. John H. Buck.
East Freehold village is located upon land which was owned before the Revolution by William Lane. The first attempt at business at this place was made in 1839, when Peter Antonides built a blacksmith-shop, in which he still continues the business. 1 school-house was erected in 1842, and in 1846 a dwelling- house was built. The place remained in this condition until 1870, when James S. Walling erected a blacksmith-shop and dwelling. In 1873, T. B. Halloway opened a grocery, which was continned for a short time only. The place is a station on the Freehold and New York Railway, north of Freehold town.
West Frechold, which was first known as " Mount's Corners," received that name from the tavern which was kept there by Moses Mount, who was there as early as 1800. He kept it till about 1836, when his grandson, John Mount, beeame the landlord and continued till 1855. Samnel V. Hankinson, the present landlord, eame into possession in 1862.
About 1812, Job Throckmorton kept a store where the wheelwright shop now is, a short distance from the Corners. Thomas E. Combs opened a store about 1828 at the corner, and kept it until he removed to Red Bank, about 1835. In 1820 the real estate at and near the Corners was owned by Elisha Combs and Levi Solomon. About 1834, Edmund Connolly opened a blacksmith-shop, and was succeeded by William Forman. A post-office was estab- lished a few years sinee.
Smithburg village, or settlement, is on the Mount Holly road, in the southwestern part of the township, at the intersection of the lines of Millstone, Manalapan and Freehold townships.
A tavern is said to have been kept there before the Revolution. The property came into the possession of Charles Parker before 1800, and Joel Parker (sinee Governor of New Jersey), was born in the old house. His father, Charles Parker, kept it as a tavern several years, and sold to Asher Smith, who kept it until 1856, when he was sneceeded by his son, William M. Smith, who soll it in 1863 to Lewis Chamberlain. The present owner is Morris Robbins. A store was built here in 1860 by William Smith, which was occupied for six years by William Segoine and four years by William M. Smith. It is now kept by R. Strieklan.
At Siloam, otherwise known as McIntyre's Corners, in Freehokl township, a school-house was built on a lot, sold to the trustees by John L. Hendrickson, November 6, 1860. In 1860 a church was organized at the place and called Siloam. A Sunday-school was established in the old school-house by the Rev. John H. Bos- well. On July 26, 1870, the corner-stone was laid for a church lmilding, fifty-two by thirty feet, which was completed and dedicated July 28, 1871. The pastor for a time was Rev. A. J. Gregory. The society has been without a pastor for several years.
Clayton's Corners was so called from the store established there in 1858 by Clark Clayton, who continued until 1866, when Gilbert H. Irons succeeded him. In 1873, Horatio Clayton, the present owner and occupant, began business there.
The Hartshorne Mill, situated about one and a half miles north of Freehold town, on Spottswood North Brook, is now owned by General Charles Haight. Richard S. Harts- horne built a mill on the site of the present one in 1816, and owned and occupied it until 1835, when William Hartshorne became the owner and ran it until 1856, when he sold to John V. Hartshorne, his son, who, in 1874, sold to Haight & Ellis. The latter soll to General Haight, the present owner.
The poet, Philip Freneau, was a resident of Freehold township for a few of the later years of his life. In 1832 he lived in a house (now or recently owned by John Buck) about two miles below Freehold town, He died while on
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his return from Freehold to his home, having beeome bewildered and benumbed by cold
A historie point in the township is the farm which, in Revolutionary times, was owned by the Rhea family, - often called the "Carr Farm," -and now owned by D. Demarest Denise, situ- ated a short distance southwest of Freehold town, on the road to Hightstown. The "middle ravine," which is frequently mentioned in ac- counts of the battle of Monmouth, was on this farm. It was then swampy, but now, in eon- sequence of underdraining, not much evidence of swamp remains, except depression in the ground. This farm belonged to the Rhea family, who resided in Freehold,1 and the tenant on the farm was named Carr, and hence the house thereon was called in the aecounts of the battle the "Carr House." This farm extended nearly up to the village, and between it and the par- sonage farm was the Wikoff farm, so there were only two farms between the village and the parsonage farm, where the main battle occurred. The old house on the Rhea-Denise farm was demolished within the past two or three years, and in pulling down the chimney a cannon-ball was found imbedded in it, about twelve feet from the ground.
On the Rhea farm, in the line of the retreat, is an old family burying-ground of the Rhea family. The oldest tombstone therein marks the grave of Janet Rhea, who died in 1715, aged ninety. Of course she was a Scotch em- igrant. Another stone in the old burial- ground was erected to the memory of an owner of the farm, Robert Rhea, who died January 18, 1729. Another is that of Vaner Rhea, who died January 15, 1761, aged ninety-three years. Others are to the memory of David Rhea, who died in May, 1761, aged sixty-four years, and to Jonathan Rhea, who died May 23, 1770, aged sixty-three years, this last-named being the latest date found. Several children of Robert Rhea were also buried here.
Among the other burial-grounds in the town- ship is that now used by the Baptist Society of Freehold. This, which is situated a short dis-
tanee southwest of the town of Freehold, was established when the old Baptist Church was erected there, between the years 1762 and 1773. In 1822 the Rev. J. M. Challis, pastor of the Upper Freehold Baptist Church, speaking of a visit to the people in this vicinity, says: "The old church is almost in ruins." It was soon after repaired and used until 1847, when the society built a church in Freehold. Since that time the grounds have been used for burial purposes only.
The cemetery of the Reformed Church of Freehold, though located in the township out- side the corporation limits, is the principal ceme- tery of Freehold, and is more fully noticed in the preceding history of the town.
About one mile from Freehold town, on the east side of the Englishtown road, in Freehold township, is the cemetery of the Roman Catholic "Church of St. Rose of Lima," of Freehold. This ground was purchased by the church in 1857, and was laid out and formally consecrated in the following year.
Near the Catholic cemetery is a small plat of ground which has been in use for many years as a burial-place for colored people.
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The earliest mention of a school-house in this section is found in a record of 1705, of the lay- ing out of the road leading from John Leonard's, near Cherry-Tree Landing, in Mid- dletown, by way of Tinton Falls, south- westerly to a post-road. The exact locality is not determined, but, as near as ean be ascer- tained, it was without the old township of Freehold, which then embraced several town- ships, Upper Freehold then being within its limits. The description in which the school- house is mentioned is as follows : " Thence by Job Throckmorton's ; thence, as the road lyes, to Combes' Brook, thenee as the road lyes to the gulley between Thomas Forman and the Scoole House; thenee, as the old road was laid out, to David Clayton's gully by his fence."
In March, 1778, Joseph Rue advertised in the New Jersey Gazette that he "will open a Latin School in the house of Henry Perrine, Freehold, April 13, 1778." No particulars of this school have been found.
1 David Rhea, sheriff (1785), and Jonathan Rhea, clerk (1789); were of this family.
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Across the road from the old Baptist Ceme- and stood on land now owned by Holmes V. tery there was built, about 1824, a school-house, which remained in use until 1850, when it was abandoned, most of its pupils afterwards attending school in Freehold village.
M. Dennis. About 1834, William Lane do- nated to Trustees John W. Griggs, John S. Denise and William Campbell about three- quarters of an acre of land at the Corners (now In 1839, when Freehold embraced the town- East Freehokl). No school-house was erected ships of Marlboro', Manalapan and Millstone, upon the site until 1842, when the present edi- it contained twenty-six full districts and four fice was erected and the old house was aban- parts of districts. The names and numbers doned. The district contains ninety-one pupils.
are here given, and their localities are easily determined,-
No. 1 .- Near Garret D. Hendrickson's.
No. 2 .- Jonathan Morgan.
No. 3 .- Union Missionary.
No. 4 .- Union Hill.
No. 5 .- Near Abraham's Mill.
No. 6 .- Session House.
No. 7 .- Englishtown.
No. 8 .- Near Englishtown.
No. 9 .- Manalapan.
No. 10 .- West Manalapan.
No. 11 .- Sweetman's Lane.
No. 12 .- Burnt Tavern.
No. 13 .- Black's Mills.
No. 14 .- Near Thomas Thompson's, dec.
No. 15 .- Freehold Corner.
No. 16 .- Corner Meeting-House.
No. 17 .- Freehold Academy.
No. 18 .- Near William Van Dorn's.
No. 19 .- Brick Church.
No. 20 .- Dutch Lane.
No. 21 .- Near Caleb Lockerson's.
No. 22 .- Georgia.
No. 23 .- New Prospect.
No. 24 .- Bowman's Bridge.
No. 25 .- Near Samnel Garrison.
No. 26 .- Near Jackson's Mills. Parts of Districts.
No. 27 .- Near Bergen's Mill.
No. 28 .- Near Bebow's. No. 29 .- llolmdel.
No. 30 .- Near Garrett Razo Conover.
EAST FREEHOLD, No. 6 .- About a mile north- east of Freehold an old school-house formerly stood which was known as " Dutch Lane School- House." It is thought to have been built soon after the Revolution. It was used many years,
LOKERSON DISTRICT, No. 8 .- The lot was originally donated for the use of a school, over seventy-five years ago, by Jonathan Strickland, the elder. In 1852 the land was leased for thirty years, the house torn down and the present one erected. The lease expired in 1882, and it was again leased for thirty years. The district now contains sixty-three children of school age.
GEORGIA DISTRICT, No. 9 .- The first school taught in this locality was in about 1796, in a small frame house not far from the present site. It was continued until 1808, when a house was erected on the site of the present building. It was used until about 1842, when another was built which served its purpose, and in 1862 was replaced by the present building. It is known also as Pleasant Grove School-House. The district contains sixty pupils.
SILOAM DISTRICT, No. 10 .- The present school-house was erected in 1870, and first oc- cupied in November of that year. A school- house had been standing at the place since 1850, the lot having been purchased from John C. Hendrickson in November of that year, and the house erected on it. It stood till 1870, when, (as above mentioned) it was replaced by the present school-house. The district contains ninety-three pupils.
WEST FREEHOLD DISTRICT, NO. 11 .-
The present township contains eight districts, The school-house at West Freehold is situated including Freehold town, and has twelve on a lot that was donated to trustees about 1818 hundred and sixty-one children of school age. The value of school property is estimated at twenty-seven thousand five hundred dol- lars. The districts are as follows :
by Ruloff Schenck. It served its purpose un- til the present building was built on the same site. West Freehold District, contains eighty- eight pupils.
THOMSON'S GROVE DISTRICT, NO. 12 .- The school-house situated near the Mount Holly road, in the southeast part of the township, is known as above. A school-house known as Thomson's was built on the hill between the
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present house and the Mount Holly road before 1820. In 1824 it was moved to the site of the present building, repaired and used until about 1845, when it was torn down and replaced by a larger building, which served its purpose until about 1870, when the present edifice was ereeted at a cost of one thousand dollars. The district contains seventy-three children. It lies nearly on the line between Manalapan and Freehold town- ships, and pupils from both townships attend.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
HENRY WILLIAM PARKER is the grandson of William Parker, who spent his life as a farmer in Freehold township. He married Sarah Shepherd, whose children were Jesse, Lewis, Hannah, Edmund, Thomas, Robert, Lydia, James, William and Jolin, all of whom, with the exception of Edmund and Jesse, emigrated with their mother to the West, and beeame prosperous citizens. Edmund was
26 every Ir. Parker
AUMACK DISTRICT, No. 13 .- The children born in 1806 in Freehold township, where he of Freehold village as early as 1815 attended continued the employment of his father, hav- ing married Sarah, daughter of John T. Smith, of Manalapan township. Their children are John S., Henry William, James S., Alfred M., John S., Rebecca Ann, Mary Elizabeth and Thomas, of whom James S. and Henry William are the only survivors. The latter was born on the 28th of August, 1836, in Freehold town- ship, where he has, during his lifetime, been associated with the employment of a farmer. school at a house that then stood near Cornelius Aumaek's, in the northwest part of the town- ship, and which was known as " Aumaek's." After a few years this school was discontinued. A lot was then purchased of Holmes Ellis and the present house built upon it. It still retains the name " Aumack's," and is designated as No. 13. The present number of pupils in the distriet is forty-eight.
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His youth was varicd by labor and attendance at the public schools of the township, after which his energies were devoted to the culti- vation of the homestead, which his brother eventually inherited, and the subject of this biography purchased a farm opposite and in
tional Bank. Mr. Parker was a trustee and is still a cheerful and liberal contributor to the support of the Presbyterian Church of Freehold, where his family worships.
HORATIO ELY .- The Elys first settled in New the same township. He was, on the 8th of England in the seventeenth century, a branch of October, 1867, married to Mary E., daughter which family emigrated to New Jersey and prob- ably located in Mercer County. John Ely, the great-grandfather, purchased in the above county of James A. Reid, of Manalapan township. Their children are Sarah S., Lydia R., James A., John R., Clarence H., Cornelius B. and i an extensive tract of land, upon which he placed
Horatio Ely
Nellie W. Mr. Parker, though interested, is | his sons, seven in number. Joshua, who resided not active in the field of politics. He has, on a farm now included in both Monmouth and Mercer Counties, married Ann Chamberlain, whose children were sons, John J. and Joseph, and daughters, Rebecca (Mrs. Matthew Rue) and Phebe (Mrs. John McKnight). John J. Ely was born April 7, 1778, and died January 11, 1852. He married Achsah, daughter of William Mount, whose birth occurred February 2, 1780, and her death October 13, 1846. Their child- however, held various township offices, includ- ing that of trustee of schools. His warm interest in the cause of education prompted him to great activity in the purchase and reor- ganization of the Young Ladies' Seminary of Freehold, of which institution he is one of the trustees and a liberal supporter. He was formerly connected with, but has now resigned the position of director of the Freehold Na- [ren are Ann, born in 1801; Joshua, in 1804;
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William M., in 1806; Rebecca M., in 1808 ; Society.
A strong Baptist in his religious William M., in 1810; Horatio, March 26, faith, he is a member of the Freehold Baptist 1812; Joseph, in 1814 ; John W., in 1818; Church, in which he fills the office of deacon.
Henry D., in 1820; Thomas C., in 1822 ; and Adaline, in 1825. Mr. Ely was an active and representative Whig in politics, having been twice elected sheriff of his county, and filled a term as member from his district to the State Legislature. Ile first located as a farmer in Freehold township, and later removed to Hohn- del, where his death occurred. He enjoyed a distinguished reputation for integrity and elevated moral character. In his religious con- victions he was a Baptist, and worshiped with
that denomination during his lifetime. His son Horatio was born on the farm he now occu- pies, in the vicinity of which his carliest in- struction was received, after which he became a pupil of the Lennox Academy, at Lennox, Mass. Choosing the life of an agriculturalist, he returned to the homestead, and for a series of years managed the farm for his father. On the 3d of December, 1834, he was married to Helena, daughter of William I. Conover, of Manalapan. Their children are Jane C., born in 1835 (Mrs. John H. Denise) ; Achsah, in 1837, deceased ; John J., in 1839 ; Helen, in 1841 (Mrs. Luther R. Smith) ; Adaline, in 1843 (Mrs. Luther Smith), deceased ; Anna R., in 1845 (Mrs. L. Abrahams) ; Horatio, Jr., de- ceased ; Horatio, Jr., in 1849, deceased ; Wil- liam I., in 1851 ; Mary H., in 1853, deccased ; Emma C., in 1855, deceased ; Catherine E., in 1857, deceased ; and Charles H., in 1859. Some years after his marriage Mr. Ely purchased the homestead farm, which he has since occupied and cultivated. His political sentiments have been always either strongly Whig or Republi- can. He was elected by his party sheriff of the county in 1837, and has occasionally filled offices in the township. He was formerly a director of the Freehold Banking Company, and now fills the same office in connection with the Monmouth County Fire Insurance Company. He for some years acted as trustee of the Peddie Institute, located at Hightstown, N. J., and was formerly president of the Frechold and Smithburg Turnpike Company. He is also a member of the Monmouth County Agricultural
WILLIAM E. CONOVER .- Peter Conover was born February 16, 1726, and his wife, Anne, on the 30th of December, 1727. Their son, Lewis Conover, the grandfather of the sub- jeet of this biographical sketch, who was a resident of Shrewsbury, and later of Free- hold township, was active during the Revolt- tionary War as bearer of dispatches to General Washington at the battle of Monmouth. He married a Miss Scott, whose children were Ebenezer, Joseph, Hannah (Mrs. Joseph Rue), Ellen (Mrs. David C. Perrine), Deborah (Mrs. James Patterson), Helena (Mrs. Jacob Pitten- ger) and Ann (Mrs. William Jackson). Eben- ezer Conover, a native of Monmouth County, resided during his lifetime upon property now owned by his sons in Freehold township. He married Mary, daughter of Ockey Lefferson, whose children were four sons-William E., James S., Arthur L. and John B .- and four daughters-Sarah (Mrs. Nathan H. Jackson), Rachel (Mrs. A. Conrow), Jane (Mrs. Levi S. Sutphen) and Mary A. (Mrs. Aaron Sut- phen). William E. Conover was born on the 14th of October, 1815, in the township of Freehold, and has been during his lifetime associated with the employment of a farmer. He received in youth a substantial education, and rendered invaluable assistance to his father in his routine of farming. In February, 1838, he was married to Charlotte C., daughter of Jacob Baker, of the present township of Mana- lapan. Their children are Charles H., of Flint, Mich .; Ebenezer, whose death was the result of an accident ; Jacob B., of Manalapan town- ship; James M., of Freehold township; Na- than J., a civil engineer ; Mary J .; Elizabeth V., wife of John L. Maney, of Brooklyn ; Anne ; and Frances, wife of William Segoine. Mr. Conover having determined to follow the pursuit of agriculture, on his marriage pur- chased a portion of the homestead farm, made it his residence and still cultivates its productive acres. He has been, as a business man, enter- prising and sagacious ; as a citizen, public-
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spirited and liberal. His politics have been and are in harmony with the principles of the Demo- cracy, though aside from his connection with the township committee he has held no office. He is the leading spirit of the Frechold and How- ell Turnpike Company, of which he is secretary, treasurer, and superintendent. Mr. Conover is in religion identified with the Reformed (Dutch) Church of Frechold, in which he has served both as elder and deacon.
Thompson, daughter of William Campbell, of Freehold township, their children being Wil- liam Henry (born March 13, 1849, who died February 12, 1881, leaving two children,- Mabel W. and William Howell), John Schenck (now a farmer in Oregon, whose birth occurred January 19, 1851), Fred. W. (born August 10, 1859, a student in the Medical Department of Columbia College, New York, who died May 31, 1884) and Irwin Demarest (whose birth occurred August 2, 1867, and his death
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WILLIAM THOMPSON DENISE, the grandson [ March 26, 1870). Mr. Denise, in 1849, re- of Daniel Denise and the son of John S. Denise, moved to and for thirteen years cultivated a farm in Freehold township, owned by his father, after which he purchased the homestead and re- sided upon it during the remainder of his life. He confined his labors to the general routine of farmuing, engaged in no new departures in the science of agriculture, but keeping pace with new inventions and mechanical devices for lightening the labor of the husbandman. His excellent judgment and enterprise at once en- was born July 12, 1824, in Freehold township, and received such educational advantages as were obtainable at the school near his home and at the academy in Freehold, where he remained one year. Having determined to make agricul- ture the work of his life, he returned to the farm, and until twenty-four years of age assisted his father in its cultivation. He was, on the 27th of January, 1848, married to Miss Jane 83
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abled him to take rank among the most sue- cessful farmers of the county. He was a mem- ber of the Monmouth County Agricultural Society and of the Monmouth Grange, No. 92. Mr. Denise was a Republican in his political convictions, but gave little attention to the pub- lic issues of the day further than was indicated by the casting of his ballot. He was more largely identified with the moral and religious projects in the county, and was at various times
mouth County, was a soldier of the Revolution- ary War, on whose head a price of fifty guineas was fixed by the British. He married a Miss Denise, whose children were Garret, John, Wil- liam, La Fayette, Daniel, Tunis, Denise, Hen- drick, David, Jane (Mrs. Aaron Lane), Polly (Mrs. John Whitlock) and Katy (Mrs. Joseph Combs). Tunis, also a native of Monmouth County, resided in the present Manalapan town- ship, where he was a man of much enterprise,
M. J. Denise.
both elder and deacon in the Second Reformed Church of Freehold, of which he was an active and liberal member.
The death of Mr. Denise occurred on the 6th of June, 1862.
TUNIS V. SCHENCK .- The genealogy of the Schenck family, being elsewhere given in the sketch of Rev. Garret S. Schenck, need not be repeated here.
John Schenek, a farmer and native of Mon-
managing at one time a farm, running a saw- mill and being engaged in manufacturing. He married Ollie, daughter of David Van Derveer, whose children were Maria, (Mrs. Gilbert Lane), Katy (Mrs. Peter Smock), Sarah (Mrs. William Robinson), Jane (Mrs. Samuel Craig), David, Ruloff and Tunis V., of whom but two survive. Tunis V., the youngest of this number and the subject of this biographi- cal sketch, was born on the 20th of February, 1807, in Marlboro', then Freehold township,
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and spent his boyhood at the home of his ma- his party, nor sought the rewards of office, his own interests having engaged all his time and attention. His religious association has been with the Reformed (Dutch) Church of Freehold. The death of Mrs. Schenck occurred July 12, 1848. ternal grandfather, David Van Derveer, remov- ing with him, at the age of twelve years, to his residence, in the township of Frechold. His education was derived from schools near his home, one at Lawrenceville, N. J., after which he acquired a knowledge of farming. Being more fortunate than most lads, he, at the age of HENRY WIKOFF, now one of the oldest eiti- zens, and one of the most substantial farmers of seventeen, inherited the property now owned by him, and for many years cultivated the land; but . Freehold township, in which he has had his resi- as advancing years rendered hard labor irksome, "dence for three-quarters of a century, is a lineal
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