History of Sussex and Warren counties, New Jersey, with Illustration and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 80

Author: Snell, James P; Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1881
Publisher: Philadelphia : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1140


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lived on a farm in Sandyston. Two of his sons were Daniel and John. Daniel lived and died near Flat- brookville; John lived near Peters' Valley, in Sandy- ston, on the farm now occupied by Jacob J., a son of Daniel Smith, but removed to Ohio many years ago. Ludwick Smith, another son of the original John, died at Stroudsburg, Pa., some years ago. Ile was the maternal grandfather of Ed. H. Mott, the well- known journalist, formerly of Milford, Pa.


The daughters of the original John Smith were Elizabeth, wife of John Miller, of Pennsylvania ; Christeen, wife of Jacob Walter, of the same State; and one other, who married Leonard Karess (Gariss). of Walpack. Leonard Gariss was a German, and came to Walpack from Bucks Co., Pa. His sons were Jonas, Isaac, Philip, Abraham, and John, who have many descendants in the Delaware valley.


Jacob Myers, a native of Montague, settled in Wal- pack, about 1800, upon the place at Walpack L'entre where Jacob Roe now lives; he died in 1850, aged eighty-six. He had sons,-Josias, Abijah, William, and Jacob. Abijah moved to Frankford township and settled on the present Howell place; the others moved away from the county. Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of Jacob Myers, is now the widow of the late John Losey, and resides at Walpack Centre.


Jonathan Jones, a native of Wales, came from Bucks Co., Pa., near the close of the last century. He worked a farm on the river road, belonging to Mrs. Sabilla Mushback, widow of John Mushback (drowned in the Delaware River), to whom he was married by Rev. Elias Van Benschooten, Sept. 20, 1795 .* Mr. Jones soon became a landed proprietor of some consequence, and a man of influence in the township. He owned a farm on Flatbrook, about a mile above its mouth, where he had a distillery. He represented the township of Walpack in the board of hosen freeholders in 1799, 1802-4, and 1808-11. He lied on his farmi, on Flatbrook, where his son Moses ifterwards lived. Of his cleven children, four were sons,-viz., Moses, Aaron, Jonathan, Jr., and Edward. All except Moses removed from the township. Moses was.killed by his team running away and dashing his head against a saw-log near the mill. lle was fre- quently chosen moderator of the town-meetings. Two of his sons are Cyrus and Andrew J. Jones; the former resides near Flatbrookville, and the latter at Milburn, Essex Co., N. J. He owned the old home- stead till a few years ago. The eldest daughter mar- ried David Morrow, of Wantage, another is the widow of the late Cyrus Crissman, of Milford, Pa., and Emily, the youngest daughter, is the wife of Moses C. West- brook, of Blooming Grove, Pike Co., Pa.


Nathaniel Van Auken became a resident of Wal- pack in the spring of 1798. He was a son of Daniel Van Auken, and was born on his father's farm, a few miles above Carpenter's Point, on the Neversink.


March 18, 1789, he married Mary (Maria) Westbrook, daughter of Richard Westbrook, of Montague, and settled on a farm in Wantage, where he resided till he removed to Wałpack, as above stated. He purchased the old homestead of Samuel Westbrook, where he continued to reside until his death, Jan. 26, 1835, in the seventy-first year of his age; his wife died March 22, 1856, aged eighty-two. They had seven children : 1. John W., married Rachel Rosenkrans, and settled in Walpack, afterwards removed to Luzerne Co., P'a., where he died; 2. Sarah, married Henry B. Winter- mute, of Stillwater, and forty-eight years ago removed to Steuben Co., N. Y .; 3. Bowdewine, married Lydia Dodderer, of Stillwater, and resided in Wałpack, where he died in the eighty-second year of his age; 4. Hannah, married Jonathan Dimon, of Walpack, and resided in Walpack, on the Dimon homestead, till her death, in the eighty-seventh year of her age; 5. Abraham, married Catharine Bevans, of Sandyston, resided in Walpack till his removal to Pike Co., Pa., where he died in the seventy-fourth year of his age; 6. Mahala M., married Daniel Depue, of Pahaquarry, and lived in Wałpack till the death of her husband, since which she has resided in Warren County, and with her daughter in Pennsylvania; 7. Leah Naomi Jane, married William Clark, of Montague, settled in Walpack, and after several removals died in the State of Delaware.


Nathaniel Van Auken belonged to a family of fif- teen children, -eight sons and seven daughters. Fourteen of them-seven sons and seven daughters -married and reared families of their own. The oldest son, Jeremiah, was the school-teacher mur- dered by the Indians in his school-house at the time of Brant's raid upon the Neversink, in the fall of 1779. Nathaniel Van Auken entered the Revolu- tionary army at the age of sixteen, and was in the receipt of a pension at the time of his death. Na- thaniel and Bowdewine Van Anken, sons of Bowde- wine Van Auken, now occupy the estate of their grandfather, in Walpack.


Daniel Crissman came from Reading, Berks Co., Pa., soon after the Revolution, with his wife and four children,-John, George, Daniel, and Peggy,-and settled in Walpack, on what is known as the Criss- man property, three miles above Flatbrookville. He had been a hatter at Reading, where he accumulated some property, which at the close of the Revolution- ary war was all in Continental money, and, that he- coming worthless, it almost ruined him. He then came to Walpack, hoping to retrieve his lost fortune at farming. He purchased a farm from his brother Charles, who had preceded him to New Jersey, and on it he lived and died. He and his wife were buried in the old Walpack burying-ground. George succeeded his father in the ownership of the farm, and lived there until his death, about thirty years ago. Peggy married Andreas Cole, who owned and occupied a farm on the Flatbrook, near where Walpack Centre


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now is. George married Sarah, daughter of John Dimon, of Walpack, by whom he raised a family of sons and daughters. Of his children, Ira, a bachelor, resides at Milford, Pike Co., Pa., where he is a justice of the peace; Cyrus married a daughter of Moses Jones, of Walpack, and died at Milford, Pa., where his widow and family still reside; Allen was a school- teacher, and died single; Clarissa married Israel C. Conkle, of Warren County, where she died, leaving a family ; Lucinda married Oakley Stoll, and resides near Walpack Centre.


Peter Knight and Abraham Schnavle were early settlers in the vicinity of Walpack Centre. Peter Knight came from Bucks Co., Pa .; he married a Saylor. His son Daniel married Margaret Rosen- krans; his daughter Auna was the wife of Peter P. Petty. Schnavle's two sons, Peter and George, were soldiers in the war of 1812.


,Benjamin Hull was among the early settlers in the Shapanack neighborhood.


Henry Bunnell, son of Isaac Bunnell, removed from Middle Smithfield, Monroe Co., Pa., in the spring of 1809, and purchased part of the original tract of land deeded to John Emans in 1729. He added to this additional purchases from the original Crooks' grant, and became one of the wealthy land- owners of the township. Henry Bunnell was a black- smith, and upon his settlement in Walpack set up a shop near his house."


Just above Henry Bunnell's, on the river road, George Fisher kept a tavern about 1830. Stoffle Sig- afus had previously lived there in a log house, which Fisher bought and converted into a tavern for the ac- commodation of raftmen on the Delaware. The place is known as Rosenkrans' Eddy. A ferry was formerly kept across the river at this point, and, from its cen- tral location, it was for many years the chosen place for holding town-meetings and general trainings. The ferry was established by Sigafus, and was subse- quently carried on by Fishler aud others. Henry Sig- afus, Joseph Haney, and Isaac Gariss were landlords successively of the old tavern. The landing of the raftmen, the goers and comers over the ferry, the town-meetings and general trainings, made it a place of considerable life and stir. There was always plenty of fun, and never a lack of poor whisky.


Early in the nineteenth century there was a consid- erable immigration from Bucks Co., Pa., into Wal- pack. Among the families thus migrating were the Haneys, Knights, Sheets, Shafers, Sigafuses, Seamans, Shupes, and Traugers. There were also Yost Yetter, John Gariss, and others. The Kishpaughs came from Stillwater or Hardwick.


Daniel and John Shoemaker, sons of Henry Shoe- maker, a Revolutionary soldier of Pahaquarry, set- tled in Walpack early in the present century. Daniel Shoemaker bought of Peyton Short and sons 1343


acres of the old Symmes estate, Nov. 22, 1815. On this property he lived and died, and was succeeded by his son, Benjamin T. Shoemaker. Henry Shoemaker, a. lawyer, who lived and died at Branchville, was a son of Daniel. His other children were John T., a farmer, living in Warren County ; Moses, who married Pa- tience, eldest daughter of Jesse Bell, and lives in Pike Co., Pa .; and Daniel and Thomas T., deceased. There were two daughters, Sarah and Margaret; the former married George Labar, of Monroe Co., Pa.


John Shoemaker, brother of Daniel, resided for many years on the farm now owned and occupied by Cornelius D. Guun. He was one of the freeholders for Walpack from 1827 to 1831, and again in 1834. He removed with his family soon after to the Susque- hanna valley, in Pennsylvania.


Robert Bell removed from old Newton township to Walpack. He purchased, April 30, 1808, 1972 acres of land on Flatbrook, near Walpack Centre. This land formerly belonged to the estate of Judge Symmes, and was conveyed by his daughter, Anna Harrison. June 26, 1811, he purchased of William Henry Harrison and wife 1973 acres of land formerly bought by Judge Symmes of Isaac Van Nest. Robert Bell mar- ried Mary, daughter of the elder Leonard Struble, of Myrtle Grove, now Hampton township. His sons were Jacob, a blacksmith at Walpack Centre, who married a Bale and afterwards removed to Wilsonville, Pa. ; Jesse, who married a Miss Young and reared a large family. He lived on the John Shoemaker place, in Walpack, till about twenty years ago, when he re- moved to Sandyston, where he died ; he was a mem- ber of the Legislature in 1843 and 1844. John Bell lived near Swartwood, aud had one son and one daughter. The son, Leonard, Jr., removed to the West; the daughter is Mrs. Jacob N. V. Dimon, of Frankford.


Leonard Bell, the brother of Jesse, married Lucin- da, daughter of Maj. Benjamin Roseukrans, and lived and died near Walpack Centre. Nancy Bell married Abrahamı Cole, of Walpack ; she is now a widow, and resides with her son, Dayton Cole, on the old Symmes homestead. Susan Bell married Helam Van Auken, of Walpack; Elizabeth married John A. Struble, of Hampton ; Margaret married John Bevans, of San- dyston, and resides there ; Robert married a daughter of Henry Burk, of Walpack, and lived and died on his father's homestead, leaving one son, Emmet.


About 1825, James Vardakin kept a small store on the east side of Flatbrook, at Walpack Centre, in a building erected by his father-in-law, Ira Fuller. He was succeeded in 1828 by George W. Lane and Wil- liam Stoll, who had previously been merchants at La- fayette. They continued in business abont a year and a half, during which time ex-Surrogate Charles Roe, then a boy, was their clerk.


James Vardakin, about 1829 or 1830, shot Christo- pher Divers at a general training. It was on the. place where John Layton, Jr., now lives, just over


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the Sandyston line. Vardakin, who was standing guard, was somewhat intoxicated, and when Mr. Divers, who was also in a state of intoxication, at- tempted to pass, Vardakin halted him and leveled his gun. Divers, thinking it was all in fun, laughed and attempted to pass on, when he was shot. The gun was loaded with gravel and inflicted a terrible wound, of which Divers afterwards died a miserable death. Vardakin was a character universally detested by the community. He subsequently removed to Pennsyl- vania, where he died.


III .- AGED PERSONS IN WALPACK.


In June, 1880, Walpack contained eighteen persons aged between sixty and sixty-five years. Those aged sixty-five and upwards are named in the following list :


David Buss, 69; David Bounell, 74; Catharine Bunuell, 67; Nancy Cole, 73; Daniel D. Decker, 74; Mary Decker, 72; Calvin Decker, 70; Margaret Decker, 70; Lucy Guriss,* 67; Catharine W. Guriss, 74; John Hetzel, 65; Sarah 11111, 79; C'yrus Jones, 67; Rachel Jones, 66; Charles Kishpaugh, 70; Daniel Kulght, 66; Elizabeth Losry, 69; David Losey, 66; Triphena Lausey, 66; Amelia Ribble, 73: Elizabeth Smith, 73: Lucida Stoll. 66 ; Jacob Smith, Jr., 65; William Sigufus, 67; Anna Sigufus, 66; Jonas Smith, 70; Sarah A Smith, 67; Nancy Stoll, 79; James W. Fuller .*


IV .- MORAVIAN MISSION IN WALPACK.


In the "Memorials of the Moravian Church" we find the following :


" The Brethren preached and kept n school in the upper valley of the Delaware, on the Jersey shore, In 1746 and 1747. In the former yenr Joseph Shaw was settled at Walpack ; here his wife decensed. He also preached at the Minlink Church, and on one occasion, in April of 1747, had n promiscuous audience of Sweden, English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh, Germans, Walloon, Shawanese, Mohawks, Delawares, and Catabas."


This cannot refer to the Moravian mission at Hope, in what is now Hope township, in Warren County ; the date is too early, the church at Hope not being built till 1780. The record expressly states that the church and school were "on the Jersey shore," in Walpack, and that Joseph Shaw, the Moravian min- ister, was settled and lost his wife there. Could it be that he preached part of the time in the Dutch church at Walpack ? This is probable, as Fryenmoet occupied the church only one-fourth of the time. The "Minisink church," in which it is recorded that he preached in April, 1747, was evidently the Dutch church of that name, which gives color to the con- jecture that he probably occupied the Dutch church in Walpack. No mention of a separate Moravian church is found in any record known to us, but it is simply said "the Brethren preached and kept a school" there. Had any church or school-house been built by the United Brethren, their records, which wero kept with so much detail, would not have failed to mention the fact.


We find further reference to Joseph Shaw on page 187 of the " Memorials of the Moravian Church." HIe camo over in the ship "Catharine," among the first


colonists who arrived at Bethlehem, June 21, 1742. Again, on page 75, speaking of John Michael Huber, who also came out with the first colony, it says, " Lost at sea in a hurricane on the passage to St. Thomas, in October, 1747, along with the missionaries Joseph and Mary Shaw." " Mary Shaw" must have been a sister or some other relative, as he lost his wife in Walpack quite too recently to be again married. This worthy missionary no doubt perished at sea, with others, sonn after his labors in Sussex County. He was undoubt- edly the pioneer of the Moravian Church east of the Delaware, and paved the way for the more permanent etfort subsequently made by the Brethren at Hope.


V .- SCHOOLS. .


The first teacher in Walpack of whom history makes any mention was Rev. Joseph Shaw, the Mo- ravian missionary referred to in the preceding seetion of this chapter. He preached and taught school on the banks of the Delaware, probably near the old Walpack church, in 1746 and 1747. From that time for more than half a century little is known of the schools of the township, and the best that the histo- rian can do is to follow the most reliable traditions respecting some of the carly schools and teachers, without attempting much in the form of statistics.


The first school of which there is any recollection was kept in a log cabin on the river road. The teacher in 1813 was Charles Rhodes, of Stillwater. The old building became unfit for use, and school was kept in a structure belonging to Henry Bunnell; Charles Rhodes, Elizabeth Stinson, and Lydia Thrall taught there. Subsequently a school was taught by Capt. William Clark where Bowdewine Van Anken now lives. Log school-houses were built near Flatbrook- ville, in the Myers neighborhood, and in the old Pom- pey District, not long after 1800. Among the first teachers in the old Watpack school was "Master Berket," still remembered by the oldest residents of the town. Some of his successors were Abraham Has- broeck, Mason Dimmock, and Levitt B. Bristol. Mr. Bristol died in Port Jervis in 1880, aged eighty. After Mr. Bristol, Jonas Roe, Capt. William Clark, Dr. William I. Roe, and others taught the school. A frame building was erected about 1830 on the site of the old log school-house.


Jonathan Thompson was one of the first teachers in the Myers school, near Walpack Centre. He was quite a noted pedagogue, and was remarkable for giving his pupils illustrations in the science of optics by wearing two, and sometimes three, pair of spec- tacles at the same time, claiming that his sight was increased in the ratio of the number of glasses he wore. He is said to have been a lawyer as well as a teacher, but no record of him in the latter capacity appears to be left. Ile taught in other districts also. Among his successors were Zebulon Losey, Abraham Hasbroeck, Hon. Daniel M. Van Auken (now of Mil- ford, Pa.), John I. B. Bunnell, and Isaac M. Losey.


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Mrs. Elizabeth Losey, a daughter of Jacob Myers, now living in Walpack, remembers attending school in the Myers school-house in 1813. Levi Rosenkrans was then the teacher, and was a man quite advanced in years. His son William, who succeeded him, is now eighty years of age, and resides in Western New York. The original school-house was removed from its site and converted into a blacksmith-shop. It was succeeded by the present structure, erected by Benja- min T. Shoemaker about 1856.


The following were teachers in the old Pompey District: Jonathan Thompson, Zebulon Losey, Henry Albert, Seth Hulse, Morris Crisman, Sumner C. La- zelle, Rolah S. Marsh, Herman W. Shove, William Evans, Jacob S. Decker, Isaac S. Rundle, Harrison Coykendall, Simeon Swartwout, Hezekiah Smith, Oliver Cass, Henry J. Bunnell, Solomon Carpenter, John I. B. Bunnell, Reuben Wells, Isaac M. Losey, Thomas G. Bunnell. The first trustees in this district were Everett Rosenkrans, John Haney, and David Bunnell, who served in that capacity many years. The old log school-house in this district was snc- ceeded by a frame building erected by Elijah Rosen- krans, which was used for school purposes many years, but which now does duty as a stable.


A stone school-house known by the sobriquet of "the Jug" was built about 1846 at Crisman's Corners. The first teachers were Allen Crisman, Anson Dunn, and Roswell C. Smith ; subsequently the school was taught by Herman W. Shove, Theodore Yeisley, Henry J. Bunnell, John S. Smith, Philip S. Van Horn, Thomas G. Bunnell, and others. The old "Jug" was succeeded, about 1862, by a neat frame school-house. Later a school-house was erected upon the mountain, north of Flatbrookville, called the Mount Auburn school-house, and another was built by Bartley D. Fuller, near Haney's Mills, called the Oak Grove school-house.


These old school-houses, except the one at Walpack Centre, were all abandoned when the township was redistricted by County Superintendent Edward A. Stiles, about seven years ago. New school-houses were built at Flatbrookville, and in the Central Dis- trict, below Haney's Mills.


Walpack, as at present organized, contains three school districts,-viz., Flatbrookville, Central, and Walpack Centre. The number of children of school age in the township is 171, the number enrolled 152, and the average attendance about 85. The value of the school property is about $3000, and the amount received annually for school purposes $900.


VI .- TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.


The following, taken from the court records, defines the original boundaries of the township of Walpack as a civil division of Sussex County :


" At a court of General Sessions of the l'eace held at Hardwick, in the county of Sussex, on the 30th of May, 1754, Benjamin Smyth, William Schooley, Johnones Depue, Johannes Cornelius Westbrook, Joseph Hull, Richard Gardner, and Richard Lundy being elected according to an act


of Assembly in that case made and provided for to divide the county ioto precincts; Whereupon wo have agreed that the precinct of Walpack to begin at the gap of Packhoquary Mountain commonly called the Water Gap, and so along the foot of the said mouotain until it comes to York line, and then along the same unto the river Delaware, and down thie river until the said place of beginning. Witness our hands thie 17th day of April, 1754.


" BENJAMIN SMYTH, JOSEPH HULL,


" WILLIAM SCHOOLEY, RICHARD GARDNER,


" JOHN DEPUE, RICHARD LUNDY, JR.,


" JOHANNES COR. WESTIROOK.


" Memorandum : The line is to run along the foot of the said mountain on the northwest side of the mountain."


Walpack was a township in Hunterdon County, and also in Morris, many years before Sussex County was organized. We have not found the date of its erection or the extent of its boundaries, but it must have covered a large amount of territory, as Greenwich and Walpack embraced nearly all of Northwestern New Jersey. We find an old document entitled as follows : "The Pole of the Freeholders of the County of Hunterdon for Representatives to serve in the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, for the county of Hunterdon, taken per Christopher Search, one of the clerks, Oct. 9, 1738, before David Martin, Esq., High Sheriff."


The following townships were represented in the election : Amwell, Bethlehem, Greenwich, Hanover, Hopewell, Maidenhead, Readington, Walpack. The representatives for Walpack were Tunis Quick, Thomas Quick, Cornelius Aducher, and Abraham Van Auken; for Greenwich, Samuel Green, Henry Stewart, John Anderson, and Thomas Anderson.


The territory thus set off as Walpack included the present townships of Walpack, Sandyston, and Montague, and the township of Pahaquarry, in War- ren County. Montagne was set off by royal patent in 1759, Sandyston was erected into a separate town- ship in 1762, and Pahaqnarry was set off with War- ren County in 1824, reducing Walpack to its present dimensions. The township first received a municipal organization in 1754. The following list of officers for the first few years has been gathered from the court records, those of the township previous to 1830 having been lost or destroyed. For this reason, al- though careful and diligent research has been made, it has been impossible to supply the township officers or the list of justices and freeholders completely for all the years.


TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.


1754 .- Constables, Nicholas Emans, Isaac Van Aukon, Cornelius Weet- brook; Surveyors of Highways, Adam Dingman, Hendricos Schoonhoven ; Overseers of the Poor, Dirck Van Fleet, Abraham Carmer.


1755 .- Constable, Andrew Cole; Surveyors of Ilighways, Benjamin Do- pue, Abraham Westbrook ; Overseers of the Poor, Abraham Carmer, Dirck Van Fleet; Overseers of Roads, Lambert Brink, Cornelius Westbrook.


1757 .- Assessor, Benjamin Depue; Constable, Abrahami Westbrook ; Col- lector, Isaac Vun Campen ; Commissioners of Highways, Nicho- las Emans, Joseph Westbrook ; Overseers of the Poor, Hoodricus Schoonhovon, Nicholas Emans.


1758 .- Town Clerk, John Van Cumpen ; Constable, Isaac Van Campen; Assessor, Benjamin Depue; Collector, Dirck Van Fleet; Sur-


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veyors of Highways, Benjamin Westbrook, Cornelius West- brook.


1759 .- Constable, Johannes Cortrecht ; Surveyors of Highways, Abraham Carmer, William Ennis.


1760 .- Constable, Peter Van Do Mark, Surveyors of Highways, Jacobus Schoonover, Hendricus Schoonover.


JUSTICES AND FREEHOLDERS.


Justicca.


1754 .- Abraham Van Campen.


1755-58 .- Abraham Van Campen.


No record. Johannes Depue, Johannes Westbrook.


l'eter Kuykendall.


1759,-Anthony Van Etten, Abru- ham Vam Campen. 1760 .- Abraham Van Campen.


1761 .- Abraham Van Campen.


1762 .- Abraham Van Campen.


1763 .- Abraham Van Campen.


1761 .- Abraham Van Campon, Peter Decker.


1765 .- Abraham Van Campen, Peter Deckor, John Ro- senkrans. 1766 .- No record. 1767 .- No record.


John Depue, Isane Van Nest.


John Depue, Daniel Decker. Benjamin Depue, Abraham Van Campen. Nicholas Eninns,


1768 .- No recoril, 1769 .- No justices or freeholders attended the meeting of the board from Walpack. 1770 .- No record. Abrahamı Van Campen. 1771 .-. None present for this year. 1772 .- Isaac Van Campen.


Abraham Van Campon, Isaac Van Nest.


Daniel Depue, I-ane Van Nest ..


1774 .- Nono present from Walpack for this year.


1775 .- Isanc Yan Campen.


John Cleves Symmes, Moses Van Campen.


John Cloves Symmes."


1776 .- Abraham Van Compen. 1777 .- Proceedings, but no names recorded,


1778,-Timothy Symmes.


Henry Hovor (Timothy Symmes, clerk).




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