History of Sussex and Warren counties, New Jersey, with Illustration and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 95

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

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Peter Wintermute, already alluded to as one of Mr. Bernhardt's sons-in-law, built, about half a mile below Stillwater, what is supposed to have been the first fulling-mill in Sussex County, the date of its erection being generally fixed at 1770 or before. Mr. Winter- mute's fulling-mill was an appreciated convenience, and not only made him well known, but drew patrons in abundance from many miles distant. For more than forty years it was carried on by a Wintermute. Peter's children were seven, of whom five were sons: Peter removed to Illinois in 1836; George, Joseph, William, and Charles lived and died in Stillwater.

Peter Wintermute the elder had a brother named John, who lived near the Blue Mountains, in Still- water, whose sons, Bernhard and Jacob, became set- tlers in the township.

Thomas Wintermute, son to Peter, was chief in the management of his father's fulling-mill, but after the old gentleman's deatlı gave up the business. He lived in the old stone house still standing near the old

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graveyard. In a part of his residenee Mr. Winter- mute kept a little store to accommodate his mill-cus- tomers.

As already indicated, the early settlers of Stillwater were almost exclusively Germans, and included the Swartswalters, Swartwouts, Snoovers, Staleys, Mer- kles, Schmucks, Snooks, and others, to whom refer- ence will be made farther along.

Benjamin Beach, a tanner, lived at Stillwater long before the outbreak of the Revolution, and Michael Ayres moved in 1757 to Stillwater from Dover; but nothing much can be said of either beyond the state- ment uttered.

During the Revolution the population of Stillwater received a formidable accession in the persons of a dozen or more Hlessians, who, along with other pris- oners taken by the Americans from Burgoyne, being marched through Sussex County to a place set apart for them in Virginia, escaped while en route, and, hiding in Stillwater, concluded to abide there perma- nently.

THE SETTLERS OF TA.

A glance at the church-book of the Stillwater Re- formed Church discloses a good many names of parents whose children were baptized by the min- isters officiating at that church between 1773 and 1800. The inference is admissible that a majority of the names thus recorded represent inhabitants of Stillwater between the periods mentioned, and they are therefore presented here, as follows:

Poter Dumond, Petor Cousa, Jacob Seun, Abraham Hodder, Jacob Dod- dor, John Keen, Michnot Seely, John Richbark, Michnel Shehrer, Joseph Rhodes, George Wilrich, Philip Wilrich, Casper Hemulershott, Richard Wheaton, William Savercool, Joseph Ganger, John Von Syrkle, Philip Rocker, Mathew Hunkle, David Smith, George An- derson, Frederick Kinney, William Snook, Henry Richback, Peter Lash, Adam Wass, William Frohlich, Frederick Werner, Peter Muin, Jurob Mayer, George Schnarer, John Clifford, Jacob Wass, Andrens Vogt, Urinh Lane, Almer Johnson, John Dichl, John Swarts- welder, John Wass, Michael Wilrich, Andrew Crossman, Nicholas Dennis, Abram Dodderer, Heury Dodderer, Philip Knukle, John Schuster, John Snover, William Schavy, John Wintermute, George Haack, Andreas Nowbecker, John Kirschbach, John J. Snover, Mover Snover, Nicholas Egbert, Counul Kinard, Phillip Ulrich, Fred- erlek Kinney, l'eter Dimond, Henry Kirschbach, John Jungfrau, George Schrauber, Philip Kreamer, John Honowell, Balthazar Deid- man, Henry Snvorcool, l'eter Deiter, J. G. Mann, Jacob Harris, J. B. Titman, Peter Gruber, John Fonger, Caspar Lose, Philip Sipperly, John Puder, David Hazen, Peter Teets, William Cnundn. George Nank, John Snider, John Blackford, Isaac Loder, Abraham West- brook, J. S. Tetzel, Georgo Mann, Philip Mann, William Shufer, William Kimple, John Hankinson, Jacob Young, Kaiah Qui k, Samuel Wells, Peter Gimbel, George Mertz, John Hanun, John Fatman, l'etor Detiz, Philip Simon, J. Il. Miller, Albert Ammerminn, Michnel Weidner, Philip Rich, Jacob Gruber, John Hettle, Jacob Buz, Henry Miller, John Gransch, John Gromman, John Merkel, Charles Grosmunn, Frederick Spangenberg, J. G. Kohn, Courad Erwin, Jacob Midler, Frederick Holmr. J. J. Ruff, Frederick Gimmel, Chris- tian Stable, George Kohn, Christian Nolton, George Matt, Daniel Straight, Zuccheus Stuenel, WHIHam Streit, Michael Fauser, Henry Schuelder, Martin Stohill, Andrew Scholler, Christopher Schulz, Cas- per Kaiser, Frederick Sehunnffer, Houry Schnauffer, Zacharias Stickle, Jacob Leple, Frederick Werner, Valentine Kreisman, An- druns Scheler, Phillp Preiss, John J. Lesh, Georgo Heck, Ludwig Matt.

A record of marriages performed by Jacob Senn, one of the ministers of the Stillwater Reformed

Church, dates from Nov. 8, 1795, to Oct. 3, 1799. The marriages thus recorded were as follows :

1795,-November Sth, Conrad Meter RIl Elizabeth Deitz; December 10th, David Hazen und Eliza Wintermute.

1706 .- February 21st, George Wilrich and Catharine Erwine; March 17th, David Kimple and Martha Rose; May Ist, Philip Homer and Clara Quick ; August 5th, Bernhard Olp nud Elsie Donfield ; October 20, A. Dodderer and Margaret Wintermute; October 9th, Rov. Jacob Wack and Helena Belles; November 13th, John Leide and Catharine Haver.

1797 .- Jmimary 7th, Henry Couss and Margaret Oldlike; January 9th, George Anderson and Mary Simmon; February 22d, William Frius and Catharine Winterstein; March 20, James Cook and l'olly Snover; April 13th, John Hankinson and Ellza Winter- mute ; April 30th, Israel Doddy nud Anna Snelder; May 30th, Samuel Crammer and Christina Belles; June 6th, Levi Rosen- crans und Polly Hankinson; Joly ath, John Blackford and Hannah Sneider; Angust 29th, Nicholas Dennis and Susan Keen ; September Hth, John Courtright aml Polly Clark ; Sep- tember 17th, George Roe nud Margaret Strubel; October 1st, Peter Rutan aml Charity Corelus, John Maring and Mary Copy; October 221, Martin Sipperly and Sophin Kern ; Novem- For 2d, Robert Dugan and Barlaura Fisher ; December 21th, Jacob Kunkel nud Margaret Wass ; December 31st, John Suook And Mania Mayne.

1708,-February 25th, Philip Co's and Catharine Flack ; April sth, Peter Mayne nul Christina Campbell; May 24th, David Smith and Elizabeth Simmons; May 30th, William Wigton and Elizabeth Mushback ; May 31st, Ezekiel Hasen atul Nelly Coursen; June 3d, John Fries and Mary Kuhl; Jnly 1-t, Samuel Thompson and Eve Hammond ; July 30, Jacob Applegate nud Mary Fries ; October 16th, Frederlek Sackmun and Mary Maring; October 21st, Robert Goldle and Lorena Allen.

1799 .- January 6th, Aaron Southard and Nancy Hankinson; January 10th, John Rykend and Anna Winterstein; February 12th, Isaac Coursen andl Polly Kerr; March 14th, Aaron Hazen and Elizabeth Vogt; May 29th, John Fleming and Anna Turnbla- zer; September 11th, Abner Johnson and Catlinrine Vogt ; Sep- tember 12th, Henry Dives and Polly Main; September 16th, Samuel Hull and Elizabeth Nowling ; October 3. Conrad Erwin and Cathrine Hlengely.

Among the early settlers in Stillwater, the Harkers were men of consequence. Daniel, who was a eulonel in the Revolutionary war, kept a small store at Still- water upon the close of the war, and used to relate with a show of some pride that one of his regular customers was Tom Quick, the famous Indian-fighter, who many a time traded at Harker's for bullets and eaps. James Harker was one of the participants at the battle of Minisink ; Samuel Harker was a pastor in Chester, afterwards a chaplain in the French and Indian war, and lost his life at sea.

Charles Rhodes, who built a grist-mill in Stillwater at a pretty early date, was impressed, in England, into the British navy, and was brought to Americn. Once there, he managed to escape, and after engaging hy turns in the business of school-teaching and tavern- keeping, ultimately located in Stillwater as a miller. In Stillwater his children lived and died. One of his granddaughters is the widow of Frederick Arvis, is aged ninety-three, and is mother to Frederick Arvis, of Newton.

In 1763, Joseph Hull sold to John Coursen 800 acres of land near the present village of Fredon. Upon his death John Coursen willed the property to his son Benjamin, who sold it to his brother, Col. John Coursen, in 1778. The latter, who lived at first

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in a log house located wbere the Coursen mansion now stands, had seven children,-Abram, Enos, Ger- shom, Isaac, Anna, Sarah, and Eliza,-of whom none are now living. Isaac and Enos were the only ones who died in Stillwater. Of Enos' children, the only one living is Hampton Coursen, of New York. Of Isaac's, eleven are living, and of these, five reside in Stillwater,-to wit, Joseph H. Coursen, Louisa E. Moore, William P. Coursen, Amanda S. Manning, and Nancy A. Coursen. Isaac, who was born in 1794 in the old log house, married, in 1818, a daughter of Dan Hurd, of Sparta. She still resides in the house built in 1805 by her husband's father. Isaac Coursen died in 1855.

Mrs. Coursen remembers that when she came to Stillwater, in 1818, there were, in the vicinity of Fre- don, David Gustin, David Johnson, Abraham Smith, Isaac Smith, Mr. McCullom, and Mr. Mattison. David Gustin was living in a framed house built years before by John C. Roy. It was the first of the kind in those parts, and people came from a good way off to have a look at the curiosity. The framed barn, built not long after the house, is still standing. Both structures stood upon property now owned by William P. Coursen.

Col. John Coursen married a daughter of Simeon Goble, who came from Somerset County to Stillwater, and located on the James I. Shotwell place. Of his children, Robert, Simeon, and Enos became settlers in Stillwater. John removed to the West.

Robert Goble in 1799 bought a farm of Joseph Kerr, who, in 1793, purchased it of Samuel J. and Richard Smith. Robert Goble occupied it at once, and there lived until his death. Upon that farm his son Elias now lives.

Stephen Roy came to the neighborhood about the time of the Revolution, and carried on a farm of about 800 acres, of which the farms of Bowdoin and Insley Roy form a portion.

The first of the Mains family to come to Stillwater was Jacob, grandfather to A. T. Mains, now of Still- water. Jacob made his advent in Stillwater in 1794, coming from Warren County (or what is now Warren County), and purchased of John Puder (grandfather to Albert Puder, of Andover) a considerable tract of land that included the present farms of A. T. and H. S. Mains, and upon which John Puder had been living. Jacob Mains' children numbered eight, and were named Peter, Frederick, Mary, Catharine, Abram, Christianne, Sophia, and Elizabeth. Of these, the only one living is Elizabeth Wintermute, of Newton, aged eighty-three. Peter, Frederick, and Abram became farmers in Stillwater. Abram and John F. Mains, of Stillwater, are sons of Peter Mains. Abram T., of Stillwater, is the only one living of Abram Mains' eight children. Frederick's living children are Henry S., Jesse T., Mrs. Alpheus Ilibler, Mrs. Phineas Drake, Mrs. Electa La Barre, Mrs. Do- rinda Cook, Mrs. Jane Hull.

When Jacob Mains made his settlement in Still- water his neighbors were John Swartswelder, John Crouse, Henry Divers, Conrad Hammond, Andrew Robbins, Abram Dildine, Richard Allen, John Kim- ball, Peter Wintermute, Abram Shafer, Samuel Harker, John Hough.

In 1816, Tunis Tunison, a blacksmith, came to the neighborhood. His only son, Tunis, now lives on the farm owned a hundred years or more ago by Daniel Harker.

Living uear the village of Swartswood is old Mary Pittinger, now in her ninety-fourth year. She was born in Hunterdon County, whence, in 1789, her father, William Snyder, came to Stillwater; he set- tled at the foot of the Blue Mountains, and made a bargain to clear for William Van Doren some land the latter had bought of a Mr. Opdyke. In that vicinity the residents were William Shotwell, Daniel South, Mark Hoey, Pipe Miller, a fiddler (upon the present Alanson Kay place), George Wintermute, and Jacob Snyder.

Mrs. Pittinger says she was one of nine children, and, like the rest, at an early age she took hold of her share of what labors were demanded; for they were poor, and work they all had to. Mary was a weaver at the age of thirteen, and, more than that, she used to carry her carpet to market afoot and bring back in the same way whatever she obtained in ex- change. In 1807 she married Henry Pittinger, of Oxford, but after that a dweller in Stillwater ; he died in 1863. Mrs. Pittinger boasts that she never had either clock or stove in her house. She cooked in a fireplace and guessed at the passage of time. In 1794 she went to school in what is now the Mount Benevo- lence District. The teacher that year was Thomas Clark; the next year one Dickerson was the peda- gogue.

In 1776 five brothers named Huff emigrated from Holland to America, and not long afterwards two of the brothers-Joseph and Jacobus-settled in Still- water, near Middleville. Joseph, who lived on the present George Puder place, said he thought nobody would ever make a location nearer to the Blue Moun- tains than he had, but he had not long to wait before seeing the smoke of the settler's cabin rise from a mountain's very base. Joseph had twelve children, of whom seven were sons; they were named John, David, Samuel, Henry, William, Joseph, and Isaae. Samuel, Henry, and Isaac moved to Pennsylvania, but the others found permanent homes in Stillwater. The Huffs are at this day quite numerous in the town- ship, and rank, moreover, among its most influential citizens.

Near Middleville, Theophilus Hunt built a grist- mill after 1800 and made it famous. On the same spot the mill-wheel still faithfully turns, to the great convenience of an extensive district.

About 1800, George Wintermute, a carpenter and wood-turner, located where his grandson, Jepthah,

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lives. George Wintermute owned a large tract of 700 acres, which he bought of Jepthah Arrison, a sur- veyor.

INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE.

A descendant of one of Stillwater's earliest settlers has preserved in written form interesting reminis- rences* of life among the pioneers of that township, and in this place a general reference thereto will be not only appropriate, but of some interest. The chronieler says,-

" Intemperance obounded much in our country from my earliest recol- lection. Weet Tudin rum was the article most in use ot the first. Apple whisky was just coming into notice, and, being cheaper and muro plenti- ful, it soon crowded West India rum anide as the favorite tipple. As if it were not enough to convert the precious fruit Into liquid polson, the staff of life was slinllarly prostituted, und to thnt end rye and corn wore brought liberally luto requisition. The consumption of strong drink wont on increasing until, like the gront delnge, it seemed to flood the entire land, every neighborhood having its distillery.

" It was the universal custom in our country In the time of my youth and prior thereto to travel on horseback. Even the ladies, both young and old, were very expert nt this exercise. The young ladies had thon no need to go to riding-schio.dl. From their childhood they were taught to mount the alde-saddle oud manage their horses. Pleasure-carringee were things hardly known in those days.

" ] will not onit to notice, In passing, a barbarous and brutal custom that prevailed in our country at an early period, and which was not wholly Inid usido in my younger days,-viz, ot huaking-bees, store- frolice, military 'trainings, and other public gatherings, it was not un- usual, uftar the business of the day was concluded, for some of the hardier fellows, who by this time were pretty well charged with whisky, to embrace the opportunity, while The steam was up, to settle some of their old grudges and pay off old scores by having pugilistic encounters. The manner of proceeding was HA follows : The combatants would strip to the waist, choose their seconds, and pitch into each other pell-mell, gonging, biting, and beating until one or the other cried ' Wind !' where- upon the fighters were par ted for a time, and then turned loose eguin. Upon one man crying 'Enough " the fight ended, and he declared de- fonted. The loss of either an oyo, enr, finger, or nose in one of these en- counters was looked upon as one of the necessary consequences thereof.

" There was also a vory laudablo practice, such as generally prevails in nowly-settled countries. When quy henvy operation way to bo per- formed, such as raising a new lmilding, husking a field of corn, clonring Inud, etc., neighbors came in force, and, making bees or frolica, gave hearty helping hands to the new-comer, und when the work was over joined In a gonoral merry-making ut n substantial supper.

"One of the good things derived from our forefathers was the cultiva- tion of church musle. To this end elnging schoole were Introduced and meinlously mafotained by the younger portion of society, The winter evonings were appropriated to this exercise. Nothing was thought of wiolgh-rating four or five miles to singingschool ond returning home- ward along towards midnight. The character of the mmusic taught way of a kind wherein harmony ruther thun melody was the essential fenture. Our teachers were Upson, Linn, Bolcher, Morgan, and 3h Cracken. Al- though the gunut or grammar was not entirely overlooked, yet the fun- damental principles of the science were not very thoroughly inculcated.

" Formerly the snows fell much deeper and the wintere were more se- vore In this county than of Inte years. I have heard my father say that in the winter of 1780-81 the depth of snow was such that in traveling they did not confine themselves to nuls, but druve over fences and neress felds, the snow boing sufficiently hard to beor them.

" Slavery formerly existed here to a limited extent. The Van Cam- penn, of Walpack, my father and his brothers, and my uncle Armstrong all held alaves af the African ruce more or lem; my father hell at one time eight or ton of them. The system exlated here, however, in its milder form. The slaves and white laborers associated and worked to- gether, and fared in all respecta alike, only that in messing and lodging they were separate. This was the only distinction ns regards their do- mentic treatment, the blacka feeling as much Interest in the prosperity of the farm and stock as the others. Indeed. they felt a greater legree of home Interest, for they were more closely identified therewith and a

very portion thereof, whereas the whites, free to act according to their own aweet wills, were at best but transient dwellers.

" In my boyhood days, when the ull German congregation was four- Ishing, tho Rev. Jacob Senn being pastor, obl Mr. Kingsbury was the chorister. He would start aud carry on the fune in a peculiarly soft end effeminate voice, which, although not unmusical, had something of the whistling sound of the whip-poor-will that rendered it pecullarly at- tractive nul interesting. Now, along with this, we had the clear, full. and musical notes of old Mirs. Swartswelder, who, throwing her whole soul into the sacred song, would extend her sbrill voice so as to fill the whole house, drowning the clerk's clear notes and olecuring those of the whole congregation. This last was singing in the true German style. The contrast between the two wus great, and when combinei In one har- monlons concert constituted a very unique performance.

" Kingsbury, the chorister, was in every -day life a tanner, and, belng possessed of a marvelous veneration of the divine injunction, ' Spore not the rod,' It was his custom to thrash his apprentice-boye whenever he felt there was even the slightest indication of a warrant for it. The boy's suffered daily martyrdom until mother-wit suggested the protection of leather armor under the more susceptible jacket ; and thereafter, al- though old Kingsbury pliod the rod just as vigorously as ever, the youths enjoyed themselves hugely at the way in which the old fellow fooled hinwelf into believing he was punishing them."

III .- TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION

The act creating the township of Stillwater, passed Dee. 27, 1824, reads as follows :

" Be it enacted, That all that part of the township of Hardwick lying northeastorly of the division line between the counties of Sussex ond Warren, and Included within the following boundaries,-that is to say, beginning in the line of division between the said counties of Sussex and Warren at the northwesterly corner of the township of Green ; thence running northeasterly along the line of said township to the aforesaid line, called the East and West Jersey line ; thence running up the sald line in n atright direction to the summit of the Palaqualong or Hlue Mountain ; thence southwesterly along the summit of said mountain to where the aforesaid line of division between the sald counties of Sussex and Warren crossee the same ; thence down the said division line south- enstorly to the place of beginning,-be, and the same is hereby, erected into a new township, to be called ' the township of Stillwater.'"

At the first township meeting, held at the house of N. A. Shafer, April 11, 1825, town officials were chosen as follows : Moderator, Henry Divers ; Clerk, Isaac V. Coursen ; Judge of Election, Peter Merkel ; Overseers of Poor, John Rhodes, William Dildine; Chosen Freeholders, Daniel Hunt, Peter B. Shafer ; Assessor, Aaron Hazen; Collector, George Allen : Constable, Thomas A. Dildine; Surveyors of High- ways, James Primrose, Joseph Huff, Jr .; Committee on Appeal, Jacob Hunt, Andrew Vought, Jr., Insley Roy; Town Committee, Nathan A. Shafer. Andrew Shaw, Samuel C. Hunt, Henry B. Wintermute, Peter Wintermute (2d); Overseers of Highways, John Swartswelder, Philip Van Horn, Henry Kishbaugh, John Keen, Jacob Gruver, Robert C. Shaw, Enos Goble, John Snook, James Brown. For the support of the highways $600 were voted, and $300 for the support of the poor.

The names of persons chosen annually from 1826 to 1880 to serve as judges of election, clerks, assessor-, and enlleetors, with a list of chosen frechoklers from IS25 to 1880, are given below :

JUDGES OF ELECTION.

1826-28, P. Merkel; 1829-30, A. Mazen; 1871-32, J. Primrose; 1813, J. Arvin; 1834-68, J. C. Tunison : 1550, J. E. l'icreon; 1-60-61, J. W. (1Mlyke; 1x62-65, J. Hunt; 1>66, James Lewlm; 1867-72, J. Hunt ; 1×73, no record; 1874-35, J. I. Root: 1876, W. O. Hunt; 1-77.J. Rosencrans: 1878-79, W. O. Hunt; 1ss0, C. M. Rouf,

* Unpublished MAS, loft by Camjur Shafer.

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CLERKS.

1826, W. A. Shafer; 1827-28, J. Huff, Jr .; 1829-36, J. Rhodes; 1837-38, J. V. Hankinson ; 1839-40, G. Rosencrans; 1841-45, W. Slater; 1846 -47, J. V. Hankinson: 1848, G. W. Perry; 1849, J. V. Hankinson ; 1850-52, H. Eylenburg; 1853-55, J. E. Pierson ; 1856-57, G. Rosen- crans ; 1858, A. Hunt; 1859, George Smith; 1860, A. Hunt; 1861-62, G. Rosencrans; 1803-64, J. S. Huff; 1865-09, J. E. Pierson; 1870-72, C. H. M. Angle; 1873, no record ; 1874, C. H. M. Angle; 1875, Wil- liam P. Coursen ; 1876-77, O. Andress ; 1878, C. H. M. Angle; 1879, W. A. Maioe; 1880, C. II. M. Angle.

ASSESSORS.

1826-32, T. A. Dildine; 1833, D. Ilarker; 1834-39, T. A. Dildine; 1840- 44, P. Merkel; 1845-46, N. Hill ; 1847-48, P. Merkel; 1849-57, J. W. Obdyke; 1858-59, J. H. Coursen; 1800-62, H. L. Emmons; 1863-72, J. W. Obdyke; 1873, no record; 1874-78, J. W. Obdyke; 1879-80, J. Emmoas.

COLLECTORS.

1826-27, George Allen; 1828-29, J. K. ITazen; 1830, William Hunt; 1831-32, J. Inff, Jr .; 1833-34, N. IIill; 1835-38, HI. Andrews; 1839- 41, R. F. Randolph; 1842-44, G. Rosencrans; 1845-40, J. Sutton; 1847-49, W. R. Emmoos; 1850-51, H. Whittaker; 1852-53, J. H. Coursen ; 1854-55, J. C. Merkel; 1856, J. E. Pierson; 1857, F. S. Pettioger; 1858, J. E. Pierson; 1859-60, David Emmons; 186I-63, George Titman ; 1864-05, G. Rosencrans ; 186G-G9, J. W. Haff; 1870- 72, J. D. Bloom ; 1874-75, George Smith ; 1876, II. Cole ; 1877-78, J. S. Obdyke; 1879-80, George W. Roof.

CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS.

1825-26, Daniel Hunt, Peter B. Shafer; 1827-28, Daniel Hunt, James Primrose; 1829-31, Daniel Hunt, Peter Merkle; 1832, Peter B. Sha- fer, Peter Merkle; 1833-34, Jacob Savercool, Peter Merkle; 1835-36, Nehemiah Hill, Peter Merkle: 1837, Joseph Huff, Peter Merkle; 1838-43, Nehemiah IIill, Johu Ilunt; 1844-15, George Keen, John Hunt; 1846-51, George Keen, William Slater; 1852-56, W. R. Em- mons, William Slater; 1857, W. R. Emmons, John Hunt, Jr. ; 1858, Jacob G. Staley, Joba Hunt, Jr .; 1859, Jacob J. Roof, Elias R. Goble; 1860, Jacob J. Roof, John Hunt, Jr .; 1861, Jacob J. Roof, Edward Chandler ; 1862, Jacob G. Staley, John V. Ilazen ; 1863-64, Jacob G. Staley, John M. Keepers; 1865, Edward Chandler, John H. Loeey ; 1866-68, John M. Keepers, John H. Losey ; 1869, Garret Rosencrans, Jacob G. Staley; 1870-73, James Lewis, George M. Titman ; 1874- 76, George Cook, Joel W. Hubb; 1877, George Cook, Levi Hender- ehott ; 1878, Harrison Cole, Levi Hendershott; 1879, William Smith, Levi IIendershott; 1880, William Adams, Edward S. Decker.

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History of Sussex and Warren counties, New Jersey, with Illustration and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 95

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

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