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Rev. Caleb Smith. I25
Thane. 1 The other sermon, of which more is known, was written on the death of President Burr. It was composed at a time when he was much affected by his infirmity. In his diary he records his effort to over- come "the unconquerable dullness and inaptitude for study" which he experienced, and says: "I drag on very heavily with my sermon : my faculties are at present exceeding dull ; this has been a humbling busi- ness to me : 'tis inconceivable what difficulties I have met in the composition of this discourse, *
time has been when I could have wrote out, I suppose, ten discourses at large while I have had this in hand."
This sermon on the death of Burr was delivered in Nassau Hall, at a meeting of the trustees of the col- lege, December 15, 1757, and was published at their desire. 2 Its title was : "Diligence in the work of God and Activity during Life. Eccls. ix : 10; Matt.
I. Mr. Thane was one of the pupils of the class in the college at Eliz- abethtown under the tutorship of Mr. Smith. We do not know of the ex- istence of any copy of this sermon. Hatfield, in his History of Elizabeth- town, says that it was a charge to the people, and, together with the sermon of the occasion by Rev. Thomas Arthur, of New Brunswick, was "issued from the press."
2. In the account-book of Mr. Smith, p. 104, is the statement of this ac- count which he kept with the College of New Jersey :
Debt'r To Cash I paid Gaine the Printer, 6 10 0 yk 1759, Sept. 13. s. d.
To a farther Payment to him of Money sent with some for Lieut. Williams, O
4 0 yk 1759, June 27. Cont. Credit.
Upon looking over the amount of Tickets in the Connecti- cut Lottery, I find I am in Debt in York currency, 3 10 0
To Cash Received for Sermons sold while I was in Prince-
8 0 ton in Proc, 3
To Cash received for Sermons sold at home in York currency, 2 IO 0 To an Allowance made by Tho's Brown for Sermons he had Yk money, . .
I 12 0 To what Mr. Green is to pay for Eleven Sermons.
To what Captn Lemul Bowers is to pay for Six Sermons.
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XXV : 21. New York, printed by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible & Crown, MDCCLVIII."
Mr. Smith was at this time a trustee of the college, having been elected seven years before. The manu- script was committed to his hands for publication.
Watson's Annals notices a lottery in Philadelphia in 1720. They were soon introduced into New Jersey, and in 1748, "there was hardly a town that had not some scheme on foot." (Whitehead's Contributions.) Citizens of the most respectable standing gave them sanction by becoming managers. The causes to be pro- moted were laudable, and the mode of raising money was recognized as right and proper.
Elizabethtown had a lottery for building a parson- age, £1,050. New Providence wanted a parsonage also ; sum required £152, 53s. Amwell, likewise, requiring £650, for finishing the Presbyterian meeting-house, tried a scheme. One was also tried at Newark for complet- ing the church there, and others, not named, were all advertised in the New York papers within one year.
Toward the close of 1748, an act was passed prohibit- ing any lottery within the Province under heavy pen- alties. The act was evaded by having the lotteries drawn out of the Province. The first infringement appears to have been in the next year for the benefit of Princeton College ; one for £1,500, having been set up in Philadelphia, and another for the college in Con- necticut. Still another for finishing a church in Tren- ton was drawn in the same year, on the other side of the river. St. John's Church, Elizabethtown, (tickets to be had of the rector); Trinity Church, Newark ; The Church of England, in New Brunswick, and many more at various places and for various purposes, which were commendable, per se, received means to promote
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them. They continued to exist, more or less, till the Revolution.
A scholar himself, Mr. Smith was prompted to give much of his time and his personal efforts to the promo- tion of learning. In the board of trustees of the college, he was one to whom were committed important respon- sibilities. Upon the death of President Burr, he visited in behalf of the trustees the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, then at Stockbridge, Mass., to persuade him to assume the presidency of the institution. His efforts were suc- cessful, and Mr. Edwards was inducted into office. His decease within a few weeks after his accession, being stricken down by small pox, caused again a vacancy which was filled by Mr. Smith, as president ad interim, until the election and accession of Presi. dent Davies, in 1759. In the case of Mr. Davies also, our Mountain pastor was deputed to visit Virginia, and to use his personal influence in behalf of the col- lege. Though his Presbytery opposed his removal, and advised him to decline the appointment, Mr. Davies finally "felt himself constrained to yield to the representations" of Mr. Smith. In his own Pres- bytery and in the Synod, he was a valuable associate, and was much relied on in draughting difficult papers, acting as stated clerk and register, and for some years correspondent over the seas and to distant parts.
The members of his parish were rated according to a fixed schedule-by the head above sixteen years ; their acres, upland and meadow, proportionately ; their horses, oxen, cattle and other stock, according to age.
The people agreed upon a certain sum to be paid to the minister annually. The number of those rated in the parish, about 1759, was one hundred and nine. The highest rate, that of Samuel Harrison, was £2, 15s. ; one other, £2, 0, 0 ; twenty-one others, one pound and
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some shillings ; all others by shillings and pence, from two shillings and upwards to a pound. The aggregate amount was £66, 2s. Sd. ; equal to about $220 procla- mation money, and $175 York. The collection of the rates was committed to the minister himself. Three of the accounts, taken from his book, are sufficient to illustrate his methods of obtaining his revenues :
Debtr
JEDIDIAH CRANE,
£ s. d.
Rate, 1755,
0
3
6
Rate, 1756, O
3 6
Rate, 1757, O
5 O Rate, 1758, 0
5 O
June 11, 1759. We Reckoned and ballanced, O O
1757. Cont. Credit. 42
s. d.
To 2 | 2 you paid for Tobacco, O
2 2
Oct. 9, 1757. To cash paid me at Grays, O
I 4
To cash at 3 | 8, . 0
3
8
Aug. 2, 1758. To cash paid me in the Street, 0
5 3
Jan. 5, 1762. To one Dollar, O
8
8
Debtr SAMUEL HARRISON, SENR £ s. d.
1758, May 19. Then Reckoned and remains due to me, 0 9 7
To your Rate, 1758, . 2 12 O
To your Rate, 1759, 2 15 I
To your Rate, 1760, 8 . 7 To your Rate, 1761, 2 9 6
Cont. Credt £ s. d.
1758, June 12. To Gammons for Mr. Maltby,
29 lbs. at 6d., . 0 14 6
Oct. 1, 1759. To cash paid me at your house, 1 15 O
Aug. 5, 1761. To cash paid me at your house, 3 10 0
To 3 1b. Hog's Fat at 6d per lb., . I 6
Jan. 16, 1762. To 135 lb. of Pork at 4₫ per lb., 2 5
The Glebe. 129
1756. Debtr SAMUEL CUNDICT, JUNR £ s. d.
Feb. 6. To your Rate, 1753, 0 3 9
To your Rate, 1754, O
4 O
To your Rate, 1755, 0 7 0
May 6.
Then ballanced, O 0 O
Sept. 13, 1758. To your Rate, 1758, not crossed, whether by Mistake or not I cannot tell, 0 12 5
.
To your Rate, 1760, 0 12 10
To your Rate, 1761, 0 15 17 1756. Cont. Credt s. d.
Feb. 5. To one Bushel of Wheat, 0 5 6
May 6. To plowing a day, 0 6 6
To cash, 2 sg., o 2 9
. Feb. 16, 1759. Then Reckoned and settled our accounts, 0
o 0
Jan. 11, 1760. To 1 Bushel & half of Wheat we forgot s. d.
in our last Reckoning, 0 9 0
Dec. 29, 1761. To 1 Bushel of Indian Corn, 0 4 0
To 40 Posts at 5d per Post, 0 16 8
Jan. 28, 1762. Then Reckoned and is due to you, O 3
Other accounts show that payments to the minister were made in hay, carting, cider, weaving, shoes, pro- visions from the farm, carpenter and blacksmith work, store supplies, etc., etc.
THE GLEBE.
The deed for the glebe is the earliest among the parish archives, and was never recorded in the public records of the county. It describes Thomas Gardner, the grantor, as a "yeoman," and was made for "divers good causes
Thomas. Garnir and considerations him thereunto mov- ing, but more especially for and in consideration of the sum of twenty-five pounds, currant money of New- York ;" and it conveyed unto Samuel Freeman, Sam-
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uel Pierson, Matthew Williams and Samuel Wheeler, "yeomen," a certain tract of land "Scittuate, Lyingand Being In the Bounds and Limmits of Newark aforesd, on the East Side of a Brook Commonly Called and Known by the Name of Parows Brook Begining at said Brook Near a bridge by Road that Leads to the Mountain, thence runing Easterly as the Road Runs so far as that a South Westerly Line Cross the said Lott (it being Twelve Chaines In breadth) Shall In- clude Twenty Acres of land English Measure, Bound- ed Southerly with Joseph Harrison Westerly with said Parows Brook Northerly with said Mountain Road and Easterly with my own land." This grant is to per- sons above named, and "the Society at the Mountain Associates with them, and to their heirs & assignes for Ever to the proper use, Benifitt and behooffe of them and their Associates for Ever to be and remain for the use and Benifitt of a Disenting Ministry such as shall be called to that work by the Grantees before named and their Associates from time to time and at all times for Ever hereafter." The deed was witnessed by Samuel Harrison, and was acknowledged before Joseph Harrison, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, on the 3d day of April, 1729.
This conveyance provided the minister with a farm of twenty acres ;1 the necessary labor on which was chiefly secured by payments of rates. A day's work was credited at 2s. 3d., and 3s .; carting, with team, all day, 8s. ; carting a load to Newark, 2s. 6d. The supply of wood was at the expense of the parish. These arrangements for the comfort of the pastor,- twenty acres of land for cultivation, with ample pro- vision of fuel and ready money,-were, in that era of
I. See page 102.
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frugal habits and a moderate standard of living, quite equal to, and perhaps more than, the average revenues of ministers of the Gospel in the country parishes of the present day.
That the Mountain pastor carefully husbanded his resources appears from a memorandum in his account- book, on the last page or cover, as follows :
Memorandum, Newark Mountains, March, 1759.
"Then I put out, to Josiah Baldwin, of Persippenny, Six grown Sheep and three Lambs, which he has taken for two years, and then, if he chuses it, or if I demand them, he is to return the like Number of grown Sheep and Lambs, or keep them longer, as we shall agree, and during the Time he has the Sheep he is to pay me Six Pounds of Wool per Year, which he is to take care to send me yearly, soon after the Time of Shearing. When the Sheep are returned it is to be about the same Time of the Year he took them away.
Memodm The Wool sent for the year 1759.
Memodm The Wool was sent for the year 1760.
Memodm The Wool was sent for the year 1761."
MR. SMITH'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
In the year when Mr. Smith came to the Newark Mountains, the College at Princeton bestowed its honors upon its first class of graduates. Yale College had been established forty-seven years, and Harvard one hundred and six years. The early clergy of New England were scholarly men, educated at the English Universities. As occasion required, they gave private instruction in the classics, in divinity, and in medicine. The youth who aspired to college honors were pre- pared by private tutors. A call for a course of sys- tematic preliminary study gave rise to Latin schools, or "grammar schools." These institutions became quite general, many of them being of a high order. After the Revolution they gave place to incor-
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porated academies, many of which became distin- guished seats of learning. These, in their turn, have, in our day, been superseded by the high schools under the present system of public instruction. Mr. Smith having been trained, by education and practice, to tutorship, established a grammar school which he con- ducted during the last four years of his pastorate. It does not appear from his account-book that he had many pupils. Those who came to him for instruction were almost wholly from abroad. Some entries in his book admit the inference that they did not become in- mates of his household, as he refers to his "steward" in matters relating to the accommodations of the boys. These school accounts have their historical value. The first one which we shall quote is against a young man who afterwards became prominent in the affairs of the neighborhood.
1759. Debtr MATTHIAS PIERSON.
Jan. 29. You came to School. £ s. d.
17 10
May 9. To a Lattin Dictionary, To I Quire of Paper, 0 I 2
Jan. I. To the use of Justin, o o 6
1760. To I Greek Lexicon, 0 15 2
To I Greek Testament, 0 5 5 To I Greek Grammar, 0 2 84
Feb. 4. To what is due towards your Schooling last
1760. year, viz., unto Jan. 29, 1760, 4 0 0
To I Virgil in Usum Delphine, 15 2
Jan. 28. To Lucian's Dialogues, 0 IO IO 1761. To your Schooling untill Jan. 29, 1761, . 4 0 0
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1759. Cont. Credt £ s. d. 0 8 9
June 12. To Cash 8 | 9,
Oct. 30. To Cash had of you in our voyage, . O II 7
Feb. 4. To Cash toward your Schooling, 2 12 6
July 11, 1760. To Cash paid, £2, 5, 6, 2 5 6
Dec. 30, 1760. To Cash paid, £1, 8, 2, I 8 2
To Cash, £4, 2, 3, 4 2 3
Apl. 26, 1761. Then Reckoned and ballanced until Jan. 29, 1761,
O 0 Oct. 26, 1761. Then Received of you £2, o, o. It being in full for your Schooling until you entered the college.
The grammar school was commenced in 1757. Two of its earliest pupils were John and William, sons of John Woodhull, of St. George's Manor, L. I., who was of good estate. He married Elizabeth, a sister of Rev. Caleb Smith. The account against him reads as follows :
1757. Debtr JOHN WOODHULL, York Money. £ s. d. Oct. 26. To I Quire of Writing Paper for your son, 0 I 6
To the Newark Grammar, 1 O 2 6 To Clark's Introduction for making Lattin, 0 3 0
Jan. To Soaling one Pair of Shoes by Jacob, 0 1 9
Feb. 15. To I Corderius & I Erasmus, O 4 3 To half Quire of Paper for your Son, 0 0 10
April 17. To Cash to your Son when going home, 0 10 0
May 6. To Cash paid to defray your Son's expences, 0 6 4
1758. To an old Hat of mine, 5
To Dressing the Hat by Nehemiah Baldwin, o 2 2
Sept. 28. Paid the Steward for Billey's Board, 5 8 3 Paid Sayre for mending his Shoes, 0 3 O To a Taylor for making a Banyan, .
0 5 3 To Jos. Yard for cloath trimmings for Ban-
17 8₺ yan,
I. A Latin Grammar prepared, it is supposed, by Mr. Aaron Burr, and was used in the College at Princeton. Maclean's History of Princeton College, I., p. 165.
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£ s. d.
To Mrs. Field for Washing for Billey, 0 13 O
To the Odds of the Money betwixt proc. & Y. m., in the five last Articles, 0 19 5
To I Quire of Paper of Gray, 0 I
9
May, 1759. To a Lattin Dictionary, 0 17 O
To a Eutropius, 0
5 5
Sept. 13. To a Sallust, O 9 0
Dec. 8. To I Quire of Paper, 0 I I
Jan. I. To I Greek Lexicon, 0 14 0
1760. To I Greek Testament, 0 5 0
To I Greek Grammar, O 2 6
To Ovid's Metamorphoses, with English, .
0 12 O3
To Soaling I Pair of Shoes, o I 9
To Wood & Candles in the Winter, 0 10 O
To your Expences in going Home, o 7 3
To Billey's Schooling, I
O O
June 12. To I Virgil at 14 | for Billey,
14
1760. To I Tully's Orations for Billey, . 13 0
Nov. 26. Then your Son John came to School at the 1760. Rate of £15, 0, o, York money.
To I Grammar for John, 2 | 6, . O 2 6
To I Pair of Shoes for Billey, 8 0
Jan. 28. To Lucian's Dialogues for Billey, 0 10 0
1761. To an old Cordery for John, 0 O
To one Quire of Paper, O
I 2
9
Feb. 18. To one Erasmus, 1 | 8, . O I 8 To Billey's Wood & Candles for 1761, o 16 0 To Lindley's Horse to Billey, 14s. p dy, 0 12 II May 3. To I Latin Dictionary, 14 | 14 0
1761. To I Eutropius, . O 4
To what Mr. Woodhull allows to be charged, 25 8 9
The three pupils, whose schooling is noticed in the above accounts, lived to old age, and achieved success in their lives. William Woodhull, after his collegiate course, finished 1764, became a Presbyterian clergy-
THE OLD PARSONAGE; 1748.
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man and settled in Morris County, where he died 1824. John became the Rev. Dr. Woodhull, of Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J., and died in the same year with his brother William.
Matthias Pierson, who was a native of the Newark Mountains, studied medicine, and was a useful and public spirited citizen during a life of seventy-five years.
THE PARSONAGE.
Upon the death of Mr. Taylor, it became necessary to provide a home for his successor. The first pastor purchased land and built a house for himself. It occupied the site now known as the south-east corner of Main Street and Oakwood Avenue. Two months before the installation of his successor, and, doubtless, in the prospect of that event, a purchase was made (September 14, 1748,) by the parish of four acres of land for the erection of a parsonage house. These acres were the property of Matthew Williams (2), on the north side of the highway to the Mountain, and opposite to the glebe of twenty acres purchased in 1719. They are described in the deed as "scittuate, Lying and Being in the Bounds and Limmitts of New- ark, on the north side of the highway that leads to the Mountain, near the House once the Rev'nd Mr. Daniel Taylor's Late of Newark, deceasd begining at a corner where another Highway sets out, Runing northerdly from the Highway afforesd and thence along the said new Highway four chains, thence south-east along my own Land to the Land of John Walls, and thence along the said John Wall's Land southardly and Bound upon sd John Wall four chains Esterly Runing Surtherly to the Highway and Bound Northerdly upon said High- way Runing to where it Begun Containg four acres Be
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it more or Less : To Have and to Hold unto them the said Samuel Harrison Amos Williams Joseph Pierson Daniel Dod Samuel Cundict Nathaniel Harrison
Samuel cungICA
Ebenezar Farrand & Timothy Freeman and the Society at the mountain Assotiates with them, and to their Heirs and Assigns to Be and Remain for the use and Benifit of a Dissenting ministry such as shall Be called to that work by the Grantees Before named and their Associates from time to time and at all times forever Hereafter." The deed contains the usual full covenants and warranty against all incum- brances, "Lords' Rents for the future only Excepted." The consideration was "four Pounds per acre currant money of New Jersey at eight shillings pr ounce." It will be noticed that the habendum and tenendum clause is the same as in the deed for the glebe.
This purchase on "the highways" extended from the north-east corner of Park Street, towards and near to Hillyer Street. The corporation of Grace (Episcopal) Church now owns part of this frontage. Its church building is only a
Timothy freemon! few feet east from
the site on which
the Parsonage was built. For its day, it was an elegant structure.
In its architecture and appointments, it was in advance of its time; two stories front and rear, four rooms on the first floor, with a hall in the centre, and open stairway to the second story, built of sand- stone, hammer-dressed and laid in regular courses. It was taken down in 1854, having stood for one hun- dred and six years. In the decay of even its last
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years, it gave testimony to the estimate set by its builders upon the worth and dignity of a Christian minister. ' The house was occupied by the new pastor in about a year after his installation, and continued to be his home for thirteen years, and until he was called to his home on high. It was the dwelling-place after- wards of Mr. Chapman during the thirty-four years of his ministry, and then the home of his successor, Dr. Hillyer, from his settlement (in 1801) to 1817. From this latter date to the time when it was demolished, it was rented to tenants,-sometimes to those of a very inferior class.
Samuel Harrison acted as the treasurer of the build- ing fund. The money was raised by subscription from the members of the congregation and apparently was not based upon any fixed rate; the contributions be- ing dependent on the interest taken in the work more than upon the means of the subscriber.
In the old account-book already referred to, we find a page devoted to the building fund, and as the items may be interesting we give the same in full.
"An a Compt of what money I have Received on account of the pasanage house and how I have Desposed of it."
Received of
David Ward, 3
6
Jonathan Shors,
I
9
David Williams, 3
6
Thomas Williams, 3
6
David Baldwin, 7
0
Nathaniel Crane, 14
0
May 2, 1749,
Noah Crane, 10
6 of Samll Cundict, I 8 0
Azariah Crane, 8
8 to Jonathen Sargent, I 8 0
Stephen Dod,
5
3 of Joseph Peck, 8 8
John Dod,
7
of John Dod by Dec'n
Elezer Lamson,
Freeman, 2 19
7 0
Johnathan Ward of
Decn Samll Freeman, 17 4
Received of Jonathan
Sargant the sum of 3 10 0
of John Dod, 19 17 7
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Garshom Williams, 4 4 Decon Sam1] Freman, 4 12 0 of Bethuel Pierson, 17 4
Received of
Ebenezer Farand, I 4 0 of John Dod, 7 9 0
Azariah Crain, 2 6
of Thomes Lamson, 17
4
Ebenezer Farand, 3 6 of Samll Wheler, 8 8
Peter Bostedo,
9 0 of Robert Baldwen, 2 4 6
William Crane,
0 8
of Joseph Jones, 1 12 0
On the opposite side of the account we can decipher the following items :
paid out to Caleb Baldwin for shingles, 03 19 6
for nails to George Harrison, 00 07 o
to Decon Samll freeman, OI 04 0
03 10 0 to Pine Bord and frate,
to George Harrison for nails,
OI 00 10
to Hinges,
. 00
16 6
Hinges,
00
06
0
to a Lock,
00
02 6
to nals,
00
08 4
paid to John Cokrem,
23 07 7
paid to Stephen Cortland, . 00 03 6
paid to John Daves for Shels, 01 00 6 May.
paid to John Cokrem, 02 03 4
for Glace Oyle Leed and Gug, 09 16 0
Paid to George Harrison for nals six pounds, 00
07 6
to one pound of nals, 00
00 10 Pad to frind Lukes for one bord, 02 0
07
09
I
Paid to Jeremiah Baldwin,
00 17 O
to Baldwin, 00
14 10
to Baldwin,
OI
12 6
to Jeremiah Baldwin,
00 II 3
to Baldwin,
. 00 8
3
to John Cokrem, . OI
I5 0
paid John Cokrem by Nathenel Harrison,
THE SECOND MEETING-HOUSE ; 1754.
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THE SECOND MEETING-HOUSE.
Four years after the completion of the parsonage, the meeting-house, which had been in use for more than thirty years, gave place to a new structure of enlarged dimensions, and of a more convenient and attractive construction. It occupied the site of the first building, in the centre of the highway, the west end being extended to about the easterly line of Day Street. From a book of accounts, kept mostly by Mr. Smith, it appears that it was built by subscription. The total number of subscribers to the fund was one hundred and seventy-one. Isaac Harrison was cred- ited with £7, 12s. 10d., "collected among the Dutch people." These were, probably, the Dutch in the north part of the township, settled at Stone House Plains. The aggregate amount of the subscriptions was £679, 19s. 10d., equal to about $2,275, proclama- tion money.
The book of accounts, of which we have spoken, was opened in the spring of 1753. The subscriptions were charged, and the credits for the sums pledged were given for cash and materials furnished, or labor be- stowed, from April to the close of that year. There were few credits given in 1754. Material, labor and supplies are expressed as days' work, split stone, rough stone, hair, wood, sleepers, dressing shingles, tending kiln, cartage of shells and lime, sugar, rum and other store stuffs. 1 Some of the credits are curious reading in these later days. We cite a few of them : Caleb Smith, "given by himself, 3 Days' whitewashing, 10s. 6d ;" John Dod, "a gallon of Rum, 4s ;" William Gray, "one pound of Sugar, 7d;" Eleazer Lamson,
I. Merchandise was kept by William Crane, William Gray, Ezekiel Ward and Joseph Riggs.
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"6 quarts of Rum, 6s ;" Stephen Morris, "Flower, 10s. 1d ; for Beaf, 2€, 19s. 3d ;" and Bethuel Pierson, "42 foot 2-inch Plank, very poor, 7s."
The subscribers had their homes in all the Oranges, at Bloomfield, at Cranetown (now Montclair,) and a few at Caldwell. A list of their names and the sums pledged is not without interest and historical im- portance, as perpetuating the memory of the then members of the parish, the relative numbers constitu- ting the tribes, and their comparative ability to meet an important draft upon their worldly resources.
SUBSCRIPTIONS - 1753.
£ s. d.
£ s. d.
Allen, Samuel,
0 12 II
Crane, Nath! Senr., II 0 0
Baldwin, Amos,
5
O
O Crane, Nath1 Jr., o
3 6
Baldwin, Aaron, 3
O
O Crane, Caleb, IO O 0
Baldwin, Robert, 8
O
Crane, William, 1 1 O
Baldwin, Joshua, 6 C
O
Crane, Job, 4
O
Baldwin, Capt Isral I O
O Crane, Garniel, I
O
Baldwin, David, 3 O O
Crane, Noah, 8
0
0
Baldwin, Jeremiah, I
I
O Crane, Stephn 2
0
Baldwin, Daniel, 9
O
O Crane, Lewis, 8
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