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The township is drained by Lawrence's Brook, which rises in the northern part, by Devil's Brook in the southwestern, and Heathcote's Brook in the west- ern part, the latter two emptying into the Millstone River, which flows for some distance along its south- ern and western boundary.
The soil is good tillable land, abounding in different places in gravel, and containing much sandy and clayey loam.
The New York Division of the Pennsylvania Rail- road traverses the township north and south, and at Monmouth Junction, a little west of the centre, con- nects with the Rocky Hill Railroad and the Western Extension of the Freehold and Jamesburg Railroad.
The Delaware and Raritan Canal has its course, in a north and south direction, across the extreme west- ern portion of the township, parallel with the Mill- stone, which it crosses by an aqueduct near Gray's Mills.
In 1880 the value of real estate in South Bruns- wick was $1,280,966. The personal property was valued at $257,958. The total taxable valuation was $1,366,000. The number of voters was 675.
In 1840 the population was 2795; in 1850, 3389; in 1880, 2803.
Settlement .- The location of South Brunswick near Trenton and other old towns west and sonth,
and the passage through it of the roads traversed from Amboy and New Brunswick sonth and south- west, and early and long the principal stage-routes of this section of the State, were conducive to its early settlement. Along the stage-routes taverns were at a remote date established at Rhode Hall, at Dayton, and at Kingston, and about these houses of public entertainment settlements gradually grew up, which in time extended in all directions, until the township became generally populated. After the tavern-keepers it is thought that blacksmiths and wheelwrights were the next to locate at the "stage-houses" they had established, the large number of stages and horses used in the passenger transportation, in constant need respectively of reshoeing and repairs, giving them them ample employment. At Rhode Hall2 the pioneer inn-keeper was David Williamson, from bonnie Scot- land, who bestowed upon the locality the appellation by which it has since been known, and gathered about him a little settlement of people, most of whom were Scotch by birth or descent.
Williamson came as early as 1730, and purchased a large tract of land. He had three daughters,- Mary, who married George Thompson and removed to New Brunswick, and after his death returned to Rhode Hall, and becoming the wife of Thomas Mc- Dowell lived and died there; Lydia, who married Stephen Jones and resided at Clarksville, N. J .; and Ann, who married James Schureman, of New Bruns- wick.
(I) Thomas McDowell located at Rhode Hall in 1774, and purchasing the estate of David Williamson engaged in farming and tavern-keeping. He was twice married, first to Mary Williamson, a daughter of David, and after her death to Catharine Lott, and had four sons,-Andrew, George T., John, and Thomas. (2) Andrew married Ann Wetherill and settled at Dayton. (3) George T. married Rachel Gulick, and bought and lived on the McDowell home- stead, and was a somewhat extensive farmer. His children were Emeline, James, Thomas, Catherine, Andrew, Elizabeth, Mary, Susan, and Agnes. Eme- line married Jacob Owens, from New York, and set- tled at Rhode Hall; James, Amelia Freeman, loca- ting and dying in New Brunswick ; Thomas, Jane L. Martin, of Washington, where he is now living; Catharine, Israel H. Voorlees, of New Brunswick ; Andrew, Mary Ann Conover, locating on a portion of the family homestead; Mary, Isaac S. Bennett, now a resident on part of the homestead; Susan, first, Reed Slover, and second, Daniel Griggs; and Agnes, Samuel Applegate, living in Ohio. Elizabeth re- cently died unmarried.
Simmons Smock, who married Lydia Scheuck, of New Brunswick, located early at Rhode Hall, and en- gaged in farming and later in tavern-keeping, opening
2 For an account of settlers at Rhode Hall not here mentioned, see the history of Monroe. The name Rhode Hall is applied to considerable territory surrounding the original settlement.
1 By M. O. Rolfe.
Peter Cortelyon
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the well-remembered "Stage Hall House," now kept by his son, John Smock. He had two sons, James and John, and three daughters. James married Rachel Gulick, and lives on the homestead. John, the hotel-keeper, married Emeline Gulick. One of the daughters, Catharine Ann, married and located in New Brunswick.
Jehu Pierson, a farmer, settled in the Rhode Hall neighborhood about 1760. He married Maria Van- derhoof, and had children named John Cornelius, Peter, Ellen, and William. John located at Wash- ington, in East Brunswick. Cornelius married and remained at Rhode Hall and reared a family. John, his son, resides on the homestead. Peter was a farmer at Rhode Hall, where he married and had several children. Ellen died unmarried. William was a farmer, and lived and died at Rhode Hall. Another settler in this vicinity was John Probasco, a carpen- ter, who came about 1775, married there, and had children named Letitia, Sarah, John, and Maria, and died there about 1835.
About 1774, Farrington Barkelew was a settler at Rhode Hall, where he became an extensive land- owner. His children were John, William, Sarah, Daniel, and Elizabeth. William married Rachel Mc- Dowell, and removed to Cranbury ; Sarah became the wife of Richard Slover, of Rhode Hall, and bore him children named Mary, Elizabeth, Farrington B., and William R. Slover; Daniel lived on the old place and never married; Elizabeth married Cornelius Slover. Their children were named Mary, Margaret, John P., and Woodhull.
In the same vicinity Reuben Van Pelt located as early as 1774. He was a farmer, and married a Miss Griggs, and had children named Gilbert, John, Isaac, Sarah, Letitia, and Mary. None of his descendants are living in the township.
About 1800, Benjamin Petty, from Long Island, N. Y., located at Rhode Hall, and was a farmer. His children were Isaac, Benjamin, Absalom, Charity, James, Jason, and John. The family became scat- tered, and none of them now live in the township. Benjamin Petty and his wife both died in South Brunswick within a week, at the age of ninety-two, there being only fifteen days' difference in their ages.
The Van Dyke family settled here before the Revo- lution and were numerous. One of them, John Van Dyke, a farmer, married Catharine Reed, of Mon- mouth County. He had children named Sarah, Cath- arine, Henry, and Richard Reid. The daughters married and removed from the township. The sons remained on tlie homestead and became well known.
William Rue was a farmer at Rhode Hall at a com- paratively early date, and died at the age of sixty- five.
John Rue lived in the township during the Revo- lution it is supposed.
The pioneer inn-keeper at Dayton was James Whit- lock, who was there as early as 1750, and later sold
out to John Barricklo. The Terhune family were early settlers in that locality, and are supposed to have, some of them, been there as early as 1700, if not earlier. However, there is no means of ascertaining the date of their arrival. The earliest record of the family to be found is in the family Bible, where Gar- ret Terhune is stated to have been born, as is thought, in South Brunswick, as now defined, in 1737. This relic of the past is one of the old-fashioned kind, bearing evidences of many years' use, and is now in the possession of Abraham Terhune, a grandson of Garret's, now advanced in life, and in whose family his sister, Mary Ann, is living, unmarried, aged about eighty. Garret Terhune was the owner of a large tract of land near Daytou, some of which was after his death owned by his descendants. He married Ellen Hoagland, who bore him children, as follows: John, Abraham, Cornelius, Garret, Isaac, Alchia, Helen, Mary, Elizabeth, and Catharine. Besides the facts above stated little can be learned of the Ter- hunes except that John died many years ago ; Abra- ham married Mary Van Pelt; Cornelius married and removed to Princeton; Garret died, unmarried, at Dayton; Isaac married Jane McDowell and lived near the old homestead; and that the children of Abraham were Mary Ann, Eliza Jane, Garret, and Abraham, of whom Eliza Jane married M. R. Ander- son, of Dayton, and after his death removed to and is living at Spottswood, while Garret died unmarried, and Abraham married Sarah McDowell, and is a hotel-keeper at Dayton.
At Kingston settlement began very early, and the names of few of the pioneers can be learned. With- ington and Vantilburgh were the early landlords there. Vantilburgh's house was often honored by visits from Washington and the early Governors of the province, and Withington's was a great stage depot, and was one of the most famous inns in East New Jersey. There was a church in this settlement as early as 1723, but it was not in the present county of Middlesex, and Vantilburgh's was also across the line in Somerset County.
As early as 1700 (1) Jediah Higgins located near Kingston, on the road from New Brunswick to Bor- dentown, purchasing one thousand acres of land of the Indians for the amazingly low price of a sow and a litter of pigs. It seems inconceivable that the noble red men should have parted with so much soil for such a compensation. It may be that pork was scarce with them that year, or they may have known where some one had some red cloth and brass gew- gaws to barter for a small herd of swine. If it could be ascertained that they had such a speculation as this in mind the wonder would not beso great. That an Indian should, in a country full of game, sell land enough to make four or five respectable farms for not enough pork to make a mouthful around at oue tribal pow-wow seems incredible. If a bottle of the good old-fashioned unadulterated whisky which is said
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to have been plentiful with the pioneers had been the price offered, any account of the transaction would be received as a matter of course by the average reader with even a traditional knowledge of the In- dian's love for "fire-water."
The sons of Jediah Higgins were named Joshua, Jediah, and Joseph. Joseph and Jediah removed to Huntingdon and Monmouth Counties respectively. (1) Joshua married and remained on the homestead in South Brunswick, rearing a family of children named Samuel, Jediah, Mary, and Tunis. (2) Sam- uel married Rebecca Friese, and located near his father, having children named Samnel, Jr., James, Sarah, Stout, and Jediah. (3) Jediah married a Miss Putnam, and (4) Mary a member of the Gulick family, both living near Kingston. (5) Tunis was killed by accident at New Brunswick while in the line of march as a member of a military company during the last war with Great Britain. Accounts differ as to how the accident occurred. Samuel, Jr., son of Samuel, married Sarah Selover, and is living in South Brunswick; James, also a resident of the township, married Catherine Van Pelt, and after her death Margaret Smith. Sarah married Alexander Cook ; Stout, Catharine Brown ; and Jediah, Elmira Fisk, and all three removed to Somerset County.
Near Plainsboro, (1) Matthew Griggs was a resident in the latter part of the last century. His children were Matthew, Thomas, William, Sarah, Susan, Julia Ann, and David. (2) Matthew was a hatter by trade. After conducting a hat manufacturing business for a time at Princeton he removed to Ohio. (3) Thomas married Catharine Opdyke, and settled midway be- tween Dayton and Plainsboro'. (4) William married a Miss Stout, and removed from this section. (5) Sarah married and went away. (6) Susan died in Indiana. (7) Julia Ann removed to New York State and died there. (8) David married Ann McDonald, and lived near Dayton. The children of Thomas were E. M., William, Charles H., Matthew, Johnson, Thomas, Julia Ann, and David. E. M. Griggs mar- ried Ruth Dean, and removed to Mercer County. William married Isabel Dean, and emigrated to Illi- nois. Charles H. married Elizabeth Longstreet, and lives in Cranbury. Matthew married a Miss Misser- oll, and is a farmer in South Brunswick with a large family. Johnson, Julia, and David removed to Illi- nois. Thomas married into the Misseroll family, and resides near Dayton. James and Benjamin Griggs located in the township prior to or during the Revo- lution.
In 1780, John MeCabe located at Plainsboro', and established himself as a tiller of the soil. He married Lydia Woodward, who bore him two chil- dren, who were named Apollo and Sarah. Apollo married Sarah Bunting, and lived on a part of his father's farm. Lydia, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, George, William, and Zedekiah were his children. Lydia married Charles Blake, and removed to East
Brunswick. John married Deborah Clayton, and lives near the place of his birth. Mary married Edward Cromwell, and removed to Trenton, later returning to Plainsboro', where he died. Elizabeth and Sarah never married. The former is dead; the latter lives in Cranbury. George, unmarried, lives on the homestead. William married Margaret So- den, and lives at Dayton. Zedekiah lives at Plains- boro'. Sarah, daughter of John and sister of Apollo McCabe, died young.
A family of Claytons have been quite numerous in the township. It is thought the first of the name there was John Clayton, soon after the Revolution.
Robert Davison was an early comer about a mile and a half north of Plainsboro', where he purchased an extensive tract of land and reared a somewhat numerous family. Many of his descendants are resi- dents of South Brunswick and adjoining townships.
At Fresh Ponds Samnel Combs was a settler about 1780, buying much land and setting up what was doubtless the first distillery in the township. His sons, Jonathan, John, and James, became well known. John located at Washington, in East Brunswick, and became a merchant and leading business man there. Later he lived for a time in New York City, remov- ing thence to Old Bridge, in East Brunswick, where he was for some little time manufacturing lime. His wife was a Miss Jaques. Jonathan was a farmer near his father, and James resided upon the home- stead. It is more than probable that Samuel Combs was not the first of the name to locate in the county, and possible that John Combs, who was a chosen free- holder in North Brunswick in 1780 and a justice of the peace 1778-98, and Jonathan Combs, who was a justice of the peace 1785-98, were his brothers, if they were not of a generation earlier. At least the iden- tity of their Christian names with those of two of Samnel's sons and the unvarying orthography of the surname would justify such a supposition. Isaac and Daniel Slover were early in the township. They were Holland Dutchmen, and came about 1785, then young men. Isaac married Ann Grigg and had chil- dren named James, John, Abraham, Isaac, Peter, and Sarah. John died unmarried. Abraham was twice married, the last time to a Miss Abrahams. Peter married Miss Vanderveer, and Sarah, Alexander Sne- diker, and bothi lived in the township. Daniel Slover married Mary Vanderhoof, and had children named Peter, James, Daniel Crommelin, and Mary, none of whom live in the township.
George Wrightmire had located here before the Revolution. Many of the same family name are to be found in this and adjoining townships at this time.
Such particulars have been given as are obtainable at this date regarding the early settlers of South Brunswick and their families. Below appear the names of persons who were residents of the township during the Revolution, and who claimed to have sus- tained loss or damage to property in consequence of
e tenth
RESIDENCE OF I. CHANDLER WITHINGTON, KINGSTON, SOUTH BRUNSWICK TOWNSHIP, N. J.
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the war, for which they sought reimbursement from government at a subsequent date, each one swearing to a hill in detail which footed up to the amount set opposite his or her name. Some of the persons named were members of families already mentioned, and of many of them no inhabitant of the township at this time has any knowledge. The property dam- aged and destroyed was mostly outbuildings and fences, and that carried away consisted of cattle, swine, sheep, and household stores, including cooked food and such movable property as soldiers marching or foraging through the country would be likely to confiscate for their immediate personal convenience and benefit ; for it is related that many a red Brit- isher and many a hungry patriot sat down to dinners to which they had never been invited in South Bruns- wick, and ate many a roasted fowl aud many an ear of roasted corn stolen from the scattered settlers along the roads through the township, which delicacies were prepared for consumption over fires made of the settlers' fences or sticks abstracted without undue ceremony from their wood-piles.
The following are the names of the claimants, with the amount claimed by each, expressed in pounds, shillings, and pence :
£. s. d.
£. s. d.
James Abrahams .. 23 17 4
John Morton ...
9 0
Robert Armstrong.
4 12 =
Robert Nixon ..
81 14 0
John Bayles, Sr ... 13 13 0
James Patten ... 0
20
John Bayles, Jr ...
15 15 0
George Wrightmire
6
0 0
John Bickner.
4 0
0 John Rue
76 0
Nicholas Britton .
30 0
0
Margaret Simpson ..
40 17 6
Capt. David Chambers ...
70
8 13
Abraham Cruser ..
57 10 0
John Snediker
2 15 0
William Davison.
45 0
C
Isaac Snediker
10 0
0
Cornelins De Hart.
24 0
0
Thomas Stillwell.
44 2
3
James DeBow.
54 12 6
John Story, Jr
3 0 0
Peter De Witt ..
6 19
0
Peter Stothoff
68 15 0
William Dunn 1
38 11 12
2
0
21
G
6
John Sunderland
25 12
6
Benjamin Grigg.
0
0
Isaac Van Arsdalen
24 0 4
John Groendike
11
4
0
John Van Dyke.
201 19 6
John Gulick.
4
7
0
Jacob Van Dyke.
131 12 0
Formant Gulick.
36
9
6
Isaac Van Dyke 9 10
0
Joachin Gulick
1
1
6
Matthew Van Dyke
15 8
6
24
0
0
Matthias Van Dyke
115 13
6
30
1
0
John Van Dyke1
2
7
7
Joshua Higgins.
36 19
0
John Van Tine
62 15 0
Jediah Higgins ..
17 16
0
Sophia Van Tine ...
14
8
0
William Hiller
7
5
Ephraim Van Tine
39
1
4
Jeel Jobs
75 11
4
Henry Wagner
3
13 1
Aaron Longstreet, Jr.
34 10 9
John Wetherell ..
11
8
9
Benjamin Luker
7 12 6
Themas Wetherell
70 9
0
Mary Mccullough
6 15 6
Organization .- Erected as an independent town- ship at a period nearly contemporary with the organi- zation of its sister townships, North Brunswick and South Amboy, South Brunswick formerly ranked in size with the largest townships in this section. Its area was reduced in 1872 by the formation from its territory of a portion of Cranbury. From its extreme eastern point to its extreme western point it measures about eleven miles. Its greatest length north and south is a little more than eight miles.
Civil List .- An act was passed by the Senate and General Assembly of New Jersey in 1841 authorizing the inhabitants of South Brunswick to vote by ballot at township-meetings. Previous to that date the voters met and appointed a moderator, who conducted
the election by standing a candidate in a conspicuous place and demanding that such voters as were in favor of his electiou to a specified office should station themselves on a given side of the road, and those op- posed to his being so elected upon the opposite side. The fate of the candidate was decided by au enumer- ation by the moderator of his adherents and oppo- nents, and his choice or defeat was duly declared. This method of voting was locally known as "run- ning off."
The following list of the freeholders representing South Brunswick from 1778 to 1881, inclusive, was extracted with much labor from the records of the Middlesex County board of chosen freeholders at New Brunswick :
David Williamson, 1778-85, 1788- Dean Britton, 1841-46, 1850-54, 91,1793-97. 1859. 1863.
Joachim Gulick, 1780-82.
William Williamson, 1778.
James Abraliams, 1782.
Jehn Wetherly, 1784, 1785, 1788.
John Wetherell, 1783, 1786-92.
Andrew McDowell, 1793, 1794, 1798, 1799, 1800-10, 1812-24, 1827-35. John Bailey, 1796, 1797.
Christopher Longstreet, 1798, 1800, 1801.
Aaron Longstreet, 1801-10, 1812.
Jehn Smock, 1871, 1872.
Gabriel M. Tenbroeck, 1873.
Thomas W. Schenck, 1873, 1874,
1880, 1881. Isaac S Snediker, 1874, 1875.
C. M. Slack, 1875, 1876.
Frederick Farr, 1876.
Isaac Storey, 1831-36.
John L. Suydam, 1877, 1878.
John T. McDowell, 1836-42.
David D. Applegate, 1878, 1879.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
James Abrahams, of South Brunswick, is mentioned in the records of the board of chosen freeholders of Middlesex County as having been a justice of the peace in 1780. The old records of South Brunswick were burned with the house of Richard McDowell, then township clerk, in 1844, and the records covering the period 1844-54 have never been in the possession of the present clerk and their whereabouts is un- known. Therefore this civil list is as nearly complete as it can be made. The election of the following- named justices of the peace are duly recorded in such records as remain :
William A. Wakely, 1861-65.
Charles Shann, 1861-66. William H. Bergen, 1870.
James Higgins, 1861, 1871-81.
James H. Wheeler, 1871.
James L. Ferris, 1873, 1878.
William Schenck, 1859.
Richard McDowell, 1874.
Samuel Higgins, 1866.
C. H. Stout, 1876.
William Hutchinson, 1866.
George I. McDowell, 1876.
William C. Clark, 1867-71.
C. L. Stout, 1881.
TOWNSHIP CLERKS.
Robert D. Montgomery, 1854, 1855. William N. Stulls, 1855-60, 1863.
John J. Davidson, Jr., 1861, 1862, 1865, 1866.
William A. Wakely, 1864.
George Logan, 1867, 1869-74, 1876, 1877.
William Dean, 1868. William V. Wilson, 1874.
George D. Vanderveer, 1878-81.
1 Resident in what is now Cranbury township.
Thomas S. Snediker, 1843, 1844, 1851-54.
Jolın I. Davison, 1844-50, 1855, 1856, 1860-62, 1864, 1865.
Elias W. Conover, 1847-49.
Andrew McDowell, 1855-62, 1866.
William G. Bayles, 1857, 1858.
Elias Dey, 1863-68.
James Scudder, 1867-70.
Aaron Dean, 1869-72.
Andrew Rowan, 1811. 0
Ellison Ely, 1811.
John Kev-, 1813-18.
Abraham Gulick, 1819-24.
Samuel Gulick, 1825-30.
Joseph McChesney, 1825, 1826.
Abraham Cruser, 1837-40.
Peter Stults
James Griggs.
15
Barnet Hagerman.
James Higgins.
26
1
James Van Nostrand, 1860.
Henry 11. Stults, 1867.
00
14 16 7 Jacob Skillman
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ASSESSORS.
William Hutchinson, 1854.
1
J. G. Van Dyke, 1865-69.
Richard Perrin, 1855, 1856.
John H. Stalts, 1870.
William M. Cox, 1857-63.
Henry M. Grigge, 1871-74, 1876-81.
Ralph C. Stults, 1864.
John Smock, 1874.
COLLECTORS.
Ezekiel Silvere, 1854-56, 1858, 1859. | Charles Shann, 1866.
Vincent W. Mount, 1857.
John W. Dey, 1867-77.
John J. Davideon, 1860.
Abraham Britton, 1878.
Ralph C. Stults, 1861, 1862.
Henry M. Griggs, 1863-65.
John G. Stults, 1866-70. George T. McDowell, 1866. William Hutchinson, 1866-67.
John Smock, 1867-68.
S. H. Gulick, 1869-70, 1872-74.
John C. Morris, 1854-55.
William A. Pierce, 1855-56.
George T. McDowell, 1855. Jacob B. Wrightmire, 1855-57, 1860-62, 1867-68, 1874.
Vincent W. Mount, 1850.
Dean Britton, 1856.
John H. Slulte, 1857-60, 1862, 1864, 1868, 1878-79.
Aaron Lane, 1857-58, 1863. Thomas Applegate, 1859.
Robert Stock ton, 1858-59.
Martin Crueer, 1858, 1863, 1875-78. Isaac See, 1859-60, 1862, 1865.
John R. Holmes, 1859.
John G. Van Dyke, 1860.
Jamee Scudder, 1861-62.
George C. Van Dyke, 1861. Aaron Dean, 1864.
John B. Thompson, 1864.
Abraham B. Wyckoff, 1864-65.
J. C. Dean, 1881.
John S. Voorhees, 1881.
COMMISSIONERS OF APPEAL.
Elijah Brown, 1854.
Andrew McDowell, 1854-55, 1865. Jacob B. Wrightmire, 1854. William A. Peirce, 1855.
Jeremiah J. Buckley, 1855. William G. Baylee, 1856-57, 1860- 66.
William Dean, 1856-57. Horatio S. Dishrow, 1858.
John J. Lake, 1858, 1860-62, 1867, 1870.
Henry M. Grigge, 1858-59. John G. Van Dyke, 1859, 1864. Joseph W. Reed, 1859.
James Scudder, 1860.
Benjamin Budd, 1861-62. A. W. Baldwin, 1863.
John J. Conover, 1863. John Applegate, 1864. Samuel Grovendyke, 1865, 1868-69. Jonathan Emmons, 1866.
William Hutchinson, 1866.
Thomas W. Schenck, 1867-69, 1871-
George I. McDowell, 1868.
John Smock, 1869-70.
Charles R. Everetts, 1870.
Charles Groves, 1871-74.
Jacob W. llagermann, 1871, 1874, 1877.
Jamee P. De Hart, 1871. Peter Cortelyou, 1873.
Samuel Pullen, 1873-74. John Riverson, 1875. George W. Schenck, 1875.
J. II. Bergen, 1875. J. H. Stulte, 1876.
Alexander Baylee, 1876, 1881. Gilbert Il. Perrine, 1876, 1878. James N. Shann, 1877, 1879-80. Richard McDowell, 1877-78. Samuel W. Shann, 1878. Jacob Wrightmire, Jr., 1879. W. A. Robinson, 1879. R. C. StnIts, 1880-81. J. S. Bennett, 1880-81.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEEMEN.
Jeremiah J. Buckley, 1854-55, 1857. ; William A. Peirce, 1855-56. Isaac See, 1854. Thomas Potte, 1854.
Jamee D. Hubbard, 1856-57. William A. Stults, 1856.
William P. Letts, 1855.
Benjamin Budd, 1857.
SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.
C. R. Holmes, 1858.
H. S. Clow, 1863.
Jeremiah Buckley, 1859-63, 1865-
69.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Richard McDowell, 1854. James Higgins, 1859-74, 1876-81. Aaron Dean, 1869. J. R. Hunt, 1875.
Educational .- Undoubtedly the first school in this township or south of New Brunswick, in the western part of Middlesex County, was that at Kingston. The early school history of that time-honored village is very imperfect. It is known that a church existed there in 1723, and it is fairly presumable that then or a little later there was a school connected with it. The first school-house of which any information can be obtained was built in the northern part of the present site of the village (in Somerset County) in 1776. Twenty years later it was torn down, and another was built in the southern part, in Middlesex County, which in 1831 was converted into a dwell- ing, and another erected about fifty yards from the site of the present school-house. The latter is a very neat structure, erected at a cost of five thousand dol- lars. There were early schools at Cross-Roads (now Dayton) and in the Rhode Hall neighborhood. At Dayton a new shool-house was built by the railroad company to replace one which it was necessary to re- move in constructing the present New York Division of the Pennsylvania Road through that hamlet.
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