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In March, 1860, a law was enacted by the Legisla- ture, and approved on the 17th of that month, ap- pointing W. P. Robeson, of Warren; Charles Stokes, of Burlington; Joseph Porter, of Camden; Joseph Tatem, of Gloucester; and Josiah MI. Reeves, of Salem Counties, commissioners for the sale of the
On the Sth of June, 1860, a committee, consisting of John R. Siekler, C. P. Stokes, John Pierson, W. Warrick, and Amos J. Peasle, that had been ap- pointed to attend to the interest of the county in the sale of the joint property, reported that they had at- tended the sale that was held as advertised by the commissioners, and that the result was as follows :
Parcel No. 1. containing 144 acres, was sold to Camden $18,000.00
County at $125 per acre ..
No. 2, 50 acres, to Randall E. Morgan, $74 per acre. 5,920 00
No. 3, 79 acres, to Randall E. Morgan, Si per acre. 4,45.00
No. 4, 19 acres, lo David C. Wood, 556 per acre ... 1,064 00
No. 5, 120,44, acres, to Camden County, >15 per acre .. 1,202.10
No. 6, 10475 acres, to Camden County. $11 per acre. 1,190,53
No. 7, 9/58 acres, to W. Warrick, $16.50 per acre ..
162.52
Total
$12,484.15
Purchase of the County Farm and Erection of the Present Almshouse .- On the 17th of March, 1860, a committee, consisting of John R. Siekler, William C. Sparks, Amos J. Peasle, Samuel Fisler, and John Pierson, was appointed to receive proposals for the sale of a site for an alinshouse, and to report plans for the building. On the 9th of May this com- mittee reported that they had advertised for such proposals, and that they had received about thirty from different parts of the county.
On the 22d of the same month this committee re- ported that they had purchased from Re-tore Lippin- cott, in Greenwich township, a farm of about one hundred aeres, at sixty dollars per aere. The ex- istence on this farm of an excellent spring of water, which could be utilized for the supply of the build- ings, influeneed the committee and the board largely in their selection of this farm.
At the same meeting a general plan for an alins- hon-e was presented by Mr. Button, of Camden, who estimated the cost of the building at fifteen thousand dollars. This plan was adopted, and specifications were ordered. Proposals were advertised for, and on the 8th of August, 1860, the contract for building this house was awarded to William Beckett and Aaron M. Wilkins at eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, and Amos J. Peasle, John R. Sick- ler, and Samnel Fisler were appointed a committee
Since the erection of this house it has undergone no material change. In 1867 a separate building for insane paupers was erected. This, which is of stone, stands about one hundred feet from the main building, and has a capacity for six patients.
The almshouse is a brick structure, consisting of a central, forty by forty feet, and two wings, each joint property of the two counties, and the division ; thirty by thirty, the whole having a height of three of the proceeds.
stories above the basement, which is used for dining, cooking, storage, and heating. The ventilation of the house is excellent, and it is warmed by heaters placed in the basement at each end.
From a spring on the farm issues such a quantity of water that it turns a wheel which forces water at the rate of sixty gallons per hour into a reservoir that is on a height overlooking the house. From this reservoir the house and all the outbuildings are amply supplied with pure water. Each story is sup- plied with both hot and cold water, and in each are several baths.
The house has accommodations for eighty inmates, but there have been times when it has had more than one hundred. Hiram Jones has been the steward from the time when the house was ereeted.
CHAPTER XXVIIL.
POLITICIANS AND SOLDIERS, AND CIVIL LIST OF OLD GLOUCESTER.1
WE have had occasion to mention, in the preceding pages, several ineidents which illustrate the sturdy attachment of the first English settlers in West Jer- sey to those just and liberal principles which caused their exile from the mother-country. The political hi-tory of those settlers and their immediate deseend- ants is a subject of which the ablest pen might not be ashamed. The material is abundant and rich, and forms a mine which should long ago have been ap- propriated by a Griffith or an Ewing. When this neglected field is explored, if impartiality be the lamp- bearer, we are sure that Old Gloucester will be found to have given to the councils of our State, and the armies and navies of our nation, men than whom none better understood the true principles of liberty, or knowing, more bravely defended them. For a long time Gloucester was peopled almost exclusively
1 Mickle's Reminiscences, chapter xxiv. (1844 ).
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by Friends; by men who had themselves felt the But it was not only in questions of conscience that the ancient men of our shire carried a stiff neck. They were imbued with a county pride which brooked no insult and forgave no wrong. In 1742 one John Jones, a deputy of Joseph Warrell, Esq., the attorney- general, prosecuted some criminal to conviction in the Gloucester court, whereupon he demanded his fees of the board of justices and frecholders, who referred him to his employer, telling him the county had not asked for his services. Jones threatened to political thraldom of the mother-country, or by those who remembered well their fathers' recitals of the wrongs which drove them into the wilderness. They guarded, therefore, with a jealous eye those admirable concessions upon which the government of West Jer- sey was based, and after the union of the two prov- inces, in 1702, watched with unceasing vigilance every attempt made by the East Jersey Calvinists to despoil the laws of the colony of that peaceful and lenient spirit which had pre-eminently distinguished the i take out a mandamus to compel them to pay, at western code. A consistent hatred of militia bills, . which the worthy freeholders took fire, and immedi- and
" All quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war,"
formed a prominent trait in the character of the early men-and we may add of the early women too-of Gloucester. In 1695 the recorder, John Reading, afterwards president of the Council, having so far , as he had criminated the king's attorney as the in-ti- forgotten his original Quakerism as to accept a mili- tary commission of some kind from the Governor. . employed a drummer, who on one occasion had the audacity to visit the tavern kept by Matthew Med- calfe, at Gloucester town. This worthy host, not seeing the use of music, and not feeling disposed to tolerate such vanities about his premises, called his wife Dorothy to his assistance, and incontinently broke the heads both of drum and drummer, for which, being indieted, he made no defense, but promptly paid his penalty, content with having borne some testimony against the practice of war. The defendant in this indictment was for many years one of the most prominent men in the county.1
The representatives of Gloucester County in the General Assembly always firmly re-isted the attempts of the East Jersey colonels and majors to fasten upon : liberty, 1743." The first was probably written by the colony a militia system in time of peace. Prior to the French war this subject became, in New Jer- sey, one of such warm interest that both parties be- took themselves to pamphleteering. In one of the works elicited in this wordy contest it is urged as a potent reason against the establishment of a militia . system that "six shillings of every honest man's property in the province, except those above sixty, is snbjeet yearly to the humors or prejudices of any low-lived pragmatical fellow that can get dubbed a sergeant." All the abuse of the East Jersey cham- pions failed to drive the Friends from Gloucester into a support of this step, until the necessities of the war absolutely required the organization of a military force.
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1 On the 2d of September, 1605. the following minute is made by the clerk of the County Court : " The Grand Jury return and find a bill against Matthew Miedcalfe and Dorothy, his wife, for a breach of the King's peace, and contemptuously assaulting of a drummer under ye command of John Reading, and breaking of yo drum. The said Matthew conferseth ye matter of fact, both as to himself and in behalf of his wife, and leaves ye same to ye consideration and mercy of ye Bench. The Bench, after consideration, award the rand Matthew to pay AB a fine ye sum of twenty shillings, with costs of suite."
ately charged the deputy, before the Assembly, with trying to extort money from them against law. They pressed their plaint with such vigor that Jones was forthwith arrested by the Speaker's warrant, and brought before the House. Here he humbly prom- ised not to do the like again, and was dismissed, but gator of his offense, Mr. Warrell was also arrested. His story was that what he had done was by the im- portunity of Jones, but "since he was informed that it was the opinion of the House that such demands were not allowable," he asked pardon of the county and colony, and was dismissed from custody. This case, which was really Gloucester versus the Crown of England, for the attorney-general was a crown otheer, also caused a pamphlet war, which was con- dueted with considerable ability on both sides. The Assembly was assailed for its action in the premise- in a pamphlet entitled " Extracts from the Minutes, ete., to which are added some Notes and Observa- tions." A reply whereto speedily followed, under the caption of " The Note-Maker Noted, and the Ob- server Observed Upon, by a true lover of English Jones himself, and the other by some of Old Glouces- ter's indignant freeholders. In this little affair we see a strong tinge of the spirit which, thirty years afterwards, led to the Revolution, and we hazard but little in saying that the same jealousy of the royal power, in all its modifications, always distinguished the people of Gloucester County.
The first Legislature of independent New Jersey. during its se-sion at Haddonfield, in the month of September, 1777, found itself surrounded by true friends of liberty, who gave all its aets a prompt and hearty support. It was here, during the darkest hour of the Revolution, that the two House-, by unani- mously expanging the word "colony" and substi- ! tuting " state" in public writs and commissions, wiped out the last vestige of our servitude. It was here, too. that that Committee of Safety was established which afterwards proved of such signal service. The mem- ber of Council for Gloucester during this season was John Cooper, who attended regularly at Haddonfield. but did not follow to Princeton, whither the Legisla- ture adjourned on the 24th of September. His Ex- celleney Wilham Livingston, and Messrs. Sinnickson,
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Cox, Condiet, Symmes, Hand, Scudder, and Paterson Monmouth, but Col. Hillman sent them to the rear to guard the baggage. Stokes was often heard to say afterwards that he " never saw so mad a set of young- were regular in their attendance. The joint meetings were held, while the two Houses continued at Had- dontiell, at Thomas Smith's, and joint committees . sters" as these were on being assigned to so safe a generally met at Hugh Creighton's or Samuel Kin- i post. They cried with rage at being stationed there, nard's.
after having marched so far to sce what fighting was.
The most prominent military characters of the In our war with Tripoli, and in the late war with navy were sons of Gloucester County. Who, that is not culpably ignorant of the history of his country, : has not heard of the name of Capt. Richard Somers? This chivalrie sailor was the son of Co !. Richard Somers, an officer of the Revolution. Ile was born at Somers' Point, about the year 1778, was educated at Burlington, but took to the sea when very young. He joined the American navy in its infancy, where he soon became distinguished by his courage and his seamanship. In 1804 he was in the Mediterranean, captain of the " Nautilus," nuder Commodore Preble. The operations of the fleet before Tripoli having been prolonged a great while to little purpose, a master- stroke was devised to eripple the enemy's galleys and hasten the bashaw's will to capitulate. With this view the ketch "Intrepid" was prepared as an in- fernal, to be sent into the harbor among the Tripoli- tan vessels and there exploded. To navigate a ma- chine, to the crew of which an accidental spark or a shot from the enemy was certain destruction, required no ordinary degree of courage. But thongh others shrank back Somers volunteered for the adventure, and with a picked crew, on a proper night, embarked in the infernal for the harbor. For a few minutes the breathless Americans peered with intense unsat- isfied curiosity into the deep darkness which had swallowed the adventurous vessel. Then shells and shot started from the alarmed battery of the town, and swept in every direction. A fierce light rested for a moment on the wave, and with the tenfold dark- ness that returned came a terrific concussion that made the ships in the offing quake from their truck, to their keels. It was evident that the ketch had prematurely exploded, and that Somers and his crew had been blown into a thousand atoms. It was understood, upon the departure of the infernal from the fleet, that in no event was her cargo of powder to fall into the county of Gloucester at the commencement of the | England, some of the best and bravest sailors in onr war of the Revolution were Cols. Joseph Ellis, Jo-iah ITillman, Joseph Ingg, and Robert Brown, Maj. William Ellis, Capts, Samuel Hngg. John Stokes, and John Davis. Col. Ellis had commanded a com- pany in Canada, in the French war, but on the open- ing of the issue between the mother-country and her colonies he resigned the commission he held of the king, and was made a colonel in the Gloneester mili- tia. He was in the battle of Monmouth and several other engagements, in all of which he fought bravely. Col. Hillman was esteemed a good officer, and saw much hard service. Col. Ilugg was appointed com- missary of purchase for West Jersey at an early stage of the war, and in that capacity did much for the cause. He was in the battles of Germantown, Shorthills, and Monmouth, and when the British crossed from Philadelphia to New York he was de- tailed to drive away the stock along their line of march, in performing which duty he had many nar- row escapes from the enemy's light horse, Col. Brown lived at Swedesboro, and his regiment was chiefly employed in preventing the enemy from landing from their ships and restraining the exeur- sions of the refugees from Billingsport. Maj. Ellis was taken prisoner early in the war, and kept for a long time upon Long Island. Capts. Samuel Hugg and Frederick Frelinghuysen were appointed by an act of the Legislature to command the two first com- panies of artillery raised in New Jersey. Hugg in the western and Frelinghuysen in the eastern division. The former soon raised his company, and in it were a number of young men of fortones and the first fain- ilies in the State, the Westcoats, Elmers, Seeleys, and others, men who afterwards occupied distinguished posts in the local and national governments. This company was at the battles of Trenton and Prince- ton. When the " Roebuck" was engaged in pro- tecting the operations against the cherauc-de-frise ' hands of the Tripolitans. Somers was known to be a at Billingsport, Hugg's artillerists threw up a small man capable of any sacrifice for the glory of the ser- vice and the welfare of his country, and it was, there- fore, believed by Preble (and it is still believed upon every foretop and quarter-deck of our navy ) that, being discovered and in danger of being taken, he ordered the match to be applied to the magazine, and died with his comrades, to keep from the enemy the means of prolonging the war. breastwork upon the Jersey shore, and fought her during a whole day; but, unfortunately, their first sergeant, William Ellis, was killed by a cannon-ball, which took off both his legs above his knees. This Ellis was an Englishman, and had been for several years a recruiting officer for the British service in Philadelphia. He joined the American cause early. Like his namesake, he was a very brave man, and died much regretted by his companions in arms. Capt. Stokes commanded a company of mere boys, made up from some of the best families in Glouces-
Were we to dwell upon the biographies of all the distinguished sous of Old Gloucester, where would we tind-what we fear the reader already anticipates with pleasure-the end of our book ? One has risen from ter County. These fellows were at the battle of . a poor Egg Harbor fisher-boy to be the second only
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among the millionaires of America. Another, left at an early age an orphan and friendless, became cele- brated as the most eloquent man at the most powerful bar of the Union. A third receives, for the first time directly at the hands of the people, the office of Gov- ernor of New Jersey, and many in distant State-, by the manner in which they discharge high and respon- sible posts, reflect honor upon the shire that gave them birth.
1777. John Wilkins.
1863_James V. Caldwell.
1782. John Wilkins. 1811, Charles F. Clark.
1791 Joel Westcott. 1449, James W. Caldwell.
1847. Willat Brick. 1854. John M. Sanniders.
1:09. Ephraim Miller.
1861. Jolio L. C. Tatem.
1,14. John S. Whitall
1866. Henry C. Clark.
1522. Subtel Webster. 1.28 Ephraim Miller.
1871. Joseph l'aul.
Civil List. SHERIFFS.
1686. Daniel Reading. 1801. Edward Vaughn.
1691. John Angg, Jr. (deputy 1.
1:03. Jacob Glover.
1692. Thomas Sharp.
1806. Joseph V. Clark.
1694 John Wood.
1809. Isaac Pine.
1695. Jos. Tomlinson
1812. Joseph V. Clark.
Nehemiah Black mer. Elias Smith.
1696. Joshua Lord.
1815. John Baxter.
1697. William Warner.
1818. Benjamin Wilkins.
169S. Benjamin Bramen.
1821. John Baxter.
1699. William Warner.
Is24 Enoch Doughty,
1700. Matthew Medcalfe.
1826. I-aac llinchman.
1711. Josiah Kay.
1829. Jesse Smith,
1805. Samuel W. Harrison.
1713. Samuel Coles, Samuel Harrison.
1835 Joshua P. Brewing.
1715. William Harrison.
1838. Josiah S. Franklin.
Charles French.
1832. Samuel B. Lippincott.
1719. Josiah Kay.
1841. Mark Ware.
Isaac l'ine.
1726. Joseph Hugg.
1847. Joseph Jessup.
1728. Samuel Harrisou.
1850. John Eyles.
1733. Jacob Medcalf.
1853. Joseph T. Paulin.
1742. Samuel Harrison.
1856. John L. C. Tatem.
1769. Thomas Inge.1
1959. Joseph Carter.
1781. Thomas Denny.
1862. David B. Gill.
1784. Joseph Black wood.
1865. Charles S. Knisell.
Edmund Brewer. Samuel Clement.
1787. John Black wood.
1Stis. Thomas P. Mathers.
1790. Benjamin Wbitall.
1871. Henry C. Garrison.
John Tatum, Jr. Charles French.
1834. Elijah Bower. Joseph Porter.
1793. Samuel Flanigan.
1874. Edmund Jones.
1795. Edward Vaughn.
INGS. Amos Gaunt.
1798. Joseph Hugg.
ISS1. John W. Downs.
COUNTY CLERKS.
1688. John Reading.
, 1781. Elijah Clark.
1704. Richard Bull.
. 1785. Elisha Clark.
1705. Edward KPump.
1805. Charles Ogden.
1706. John Spey.
1515. Thomas Henry.
1714. Thomas Sharp.
I820. Jeremiah J. Foster.
1723. Gervas Hall.
1-25. John C. Smallwood.
1727. John Ladd .?
1835. Joseph Sailer.
1818. Joseph Kaigln.
1762. John Ladd.
1837. Henry Brad-haw.
1770. Samuel Mickle.
1847. William D. Scott.
1771. James Bow man.
1857. Josiah S. Franklin.
1774. Josiah F. Davenport.
1872. 8. Paul Laudenslager.
1776. Joseph Hugg.
: 1883. Ilenry C. Landenslager.
SURROGATES.
1>23. Jacob Glover.
1953. Alexander Wentz.
1844 Jesse Smith.
· 1804. Sammel 1, Groff.
1-39. Jolin C. Smallwood,
1874. J. Ilarrison Livermore.
1844. Bowman Sailer.
PROSECUTORS OF THE JURY.
1824. Thomas Chapman.
1849. Joshua S. Thompson.
I823. Robert L. Arm-trong.
1853. John D. Harrison.
1838. Thomas P. Carpenter.
: 1865. Joshua S. Thompson.
1843. William N. Jeffers. . 1850. Belmont Perry.
COUNTY COLLECTORS.
1715. Jacob Clementy.
1724. Joseph Cooper.
Peter Long.
1750. Ebenezer Hopkins.
1717. John Kay.
1757. David Cooper.
1721. Thomas Sharp.
1764. Samuel Clements, Jr.
1845. Samuel Sailer. Joseph Jessup. Lawrence l'ake.
1-40. Samuel Sadler. Joseph: Jessup. Lawrence Cake.
1 From 1760 to 1781 the record is interrupted.
2 A break in the recordfrom 1727 to 1762.
TRUSTEES OF THE POOR
1803. Charles French. 1828. Christopher Sickler.
Marmaduke Burr. Samnel B. Lippincott. Samuel W. Harrison. James Jessup.
John Hider. Antes Cooper.
1829. Benjamin B. Cooper. Elijah Bower. Samuel B. Lippincott. Joseph Porter. David B. Morgan.
1- 1804. Samuel W. Harrison.
John Hider.
Antos Cooper.
John Hains. Charles French.
1831. Joseph Kay. Elijah Bower. Samnel B. Lippincott.
1832. James W. Caldwell.
John Ilider.
Thomas Redman. Charles French.
1724. Samuel Coles.
1844. Joseph C. Gill.
1806. Amos Cooper.
. Samuel W. Harrison. Isaac Pine.
Charles Frenchi. Jacob Stokes.
1833. Elijah Bower. Arthur Brown. Joshua P. Browning. Joseph Kay. Sammel Sailer.
1808. Samuel W. Harrison.
Edmund Brewer. Samuel Clement
John Tatumı, Jr Charles French.
1814. Michael C. Fi-her.
Joseph Kaighn. John Sickler.
Job Brown. Job Eldridge.
1837. Josepb Porter. Elijah Bowers. John M. Kaighn. William Porch. Gerrard Wood.
1839. Joseph Porter.
. John MI. Kaighn. Gerrard Wood. William Purch. Stacy Hazleton.
1819. Joseph Kaighn. John Sickler. Biddle Reeves.
Isaac Kay. Joseph C. Swett.
1840. Joseph Porter. John M. Kaigho. Gerrard Wood. Williaut Porch. Stacy Hazleton.
1820. Biddle Reeves. John Sickler. Joseph Kaighn.
Charles French. Julin Roberts.
1&26. Benjamin B. Cooper.
1841. Joseph Porter. John D. Glover. William Brown. Isaac Wilkins. Stacy Hazleton.
Elijah Bower. Christopher Sickier. Isaac Reeves. Samuel B. Lippincott.
1844. Charles French. Samuel Sailer. John B Jessup.
1827. Benjamin B. Cooper. Elijah Bower. Christopher Sickler. Samuel D. Lippincott. Isaac Reeves. Ja29. Benjamin B. Cooper. Elijah Bower.
. 1835. Charles C. Stratton. 1 William Haines. Joseph Porter. Thomas Redman. Arthur Brown.
John Sickler. Biddle Reeves. Faac Kay. Joseph C. Swett.
Artlınr Brown. Thomas Redman. William Haines.
1×07. Samuel W. Harrison.
Elijah Bower. Charles French, Jr. Robert W. Ogden. Arthur Brown.
Amos Cooper.
1830. Benjamin B. Cooper. Saintel B. Lippincott. Elijah Bower. Charles French. Christopher Sickler.
Jalın Haines. Thomas Clark.
Schobey Stewart.
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1×4 :. Charles Elkinton. B. C Tatenı. samuel Sadler.
1867. Jacob J. Hendrickson. Erebirl C. Mount. Ezekirl C. Mount. Lewis V. Atkinsn. ISAAC II. Lippincott David S. Adams. Isaac N Hughes.
The Presiding Officers of the Board of Justices and Freeholders, and afterwards of the board of freeliolders, were first called moderators, or chairmen, and afterwards directors. They have been as follows since 1791, when the first is recorded :
1791. Elijah Clark. : 1823. Jacob Glover.
1794. Jolm Griffith. 1831. Samuel B. Lippincott.
1795. Jolin sparks. 1832. Jacob Glover.
1:04. John Wilkins. 1838. James Matlack.
1-00. Sontej Harrison. 1840, Michael C. Fisher.
Ist.l. William Haines. Matthias K. Crane. William R. Fatum.
IS52. W. R. Tatumi.
Matthias R. Crane. Martin W. Rulon.
1871. William Knight. John R. Sickler.
1812. James Sanuders.
1862. John M. Moore.
1:33. Woodward Warrick. David B. Gill. Peter F. Locke.
Caleb C. Panconst.
1813. Michael Fisher. 1863. Woodward Warrick.
1815. James Matlack. 1870. John L. C. Tatem.
1521. Michael C. Fisher. : 1871. John M. Saunders.
1:22. Ephraun Miller. | 1881. Charles S. Knizeli.
CLERKS OF THE BOARD OF FREEHOLDERS.
1715. Thomas Sharp.
1787. William White.
1723. William Harrison.
1591. John Gruffyth.
1725. John Kay.
1702. John Blackwood.
Matthias K. Crane. John II. Bradway.
Elmund Jones. George C. Allen.
1740. Samuel Spicer.
1796. Thomas Wilkins.
1855. Joseph Tatom.
George H. Gaunt.
1:48. Josupu Kaighn.
1797. James Stratton.
John Pierson. Woodward Warrick.
1874. Caleb C. Pancoast.
1751. David Cooper.
1754. William Wood.
1807. Thomas Wilkins.
1858. Woodward Warrick. John Pierson.
George C. Allen.
1736. Joseph Harrison.
Ist8. Richard Snowden.
William C. Sparks.
Charles B. Leonard.
1763. James Whitall.
1800. Benjamin Rulon.
1859. Woodward Warrick.
John Pierson. Amos J. Peasle.
1875. Alfred B. Richman.
1765. Joseph Hugg.
1812. Samuel Webster, Jr.
1818. Jacob Glover.
1860. Woodward Warrick. John Pierson. Amos J. Peasle.
J. Alfred Bodine.
1773. Samuel Spicer.
1844. George M. Paul.
1861. Amos J. Peasle.
John R Su kler.
Joseph T. Paulin.
1781. John Griffith.
1857. Josiah S. Franklio.
1752. Jacob Jennings
1873. James Moore.
1763. Sammel Harrison.
1880. John S. Jessup.
1784. Elijah Cozens.
UNITED STATES SENATOR.
1798-99. Franklin Davenport.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS.
1776. John Cooper. . 18:7-39, 1º41-43. C. C. Stratton.
Joseph T. Panlin.
1799-1801. Franklin Davenport. 1830-41. William R. Cooper.
1803-9. James Sloan. 1-51-55. Nathan T stratton.
1821-25. James Matlack. 18:1-73. John W. Hazelton.
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