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USA > New Jersey > Gloucester County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 1 > Part 66
USA > New Jersey > Cumberland County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 1 > Part 66
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The pioneer meetings were held first in private houses, barne, and groves. Amos Eastlaek's house was the " Methodist tavern," as it was sometimes valled on account of his house being headquarters for Methodist preachers and laymen. In 1804 the old school-house at Mantua was built, when that became the preaching-place. William C. Dilks was the local preacher, and well did he fill the office assigned him, ever alert, watching opportunities where he might sow the good seed, and filling the gaps between circuit preachers.
Meetings were continued in the school-house until the building of the first church edifice at Mantna, in 1815 or 1816, when the following-named persons were elected trustees: Amos Ea-tlack, John Ileritage, James Dilks, Abram Park, William Tatuin, Thomas Carpenter. What is now Mantua was at that time, and for many years prior and subsequent, known as Carpenter's Landing, named in honor of Mr. Car- penter, who owned the doek at that place. The first three named were the pioneer stewards of the Mantua Chnreh.
The present church was built in 1839 or 1840, and cost three thousand dollars. The lot was purchased from - Tonkin and John Room. The old house road and occupied for several years by Rev. Moses Crane, a local preacher, who for many years did efficient service for his Master, and finally received the reward of the faithful.
Among the preachers who have served these people the following are remembered by John C. Eastlack, of Mantha, from whom we obtained the notes for this brief sketch, he having been connected with this society for over sixty years, and one of the official . with sixty pupils. board for three-quarters of that time :
Revs. John Walker, Thomas Fidler, Peter Van Nest, David Bartine, Sr., William Loomis, and, in 1829. Jacob Gruber, and Joseph Hiff, Thomas G. Steward, William Williams, Richard Petherbridge, George F. Brown, Edward Stout, Benjamin Reed, George Jennings, John Fort, Walter Burroughs, James Long (two terms), James Tucker, Daniel Adams, Hamilton Norris, - Herr, Dickinson Moore, William W. Christine, and Lewis M. Atkin- son, the present pastor.
The present membership is one hundred and sey- emy, and value of church property, four thousand Rachel Eastlack, Keziah Ashcroft. Richard Richards, : dollars. The trustees for 15$3 were Eustice Eggie, A. G. Holderaft, Thomas C. Dilks, Jr., D. Cooper Cattell, Charles Ferris, -- Pigeon, and William C. Long; Stewards, D. C. Cattell, T. C. Dilks, Jr., John Shute, A. G. Holderaft, Henry Leppee, Charles Mof- fitt, and Pancoast Roberts. Barnsboro is connected with the Mantua charge.
The present Sunday-school superintendent is T. C. Dilks, Jr., with eighty-five pupils.
Barnsboro Methodist Episcopal Church .- Barns- boro was one of the appointments of the pioneer itinerants. They held their meetings in the school- house on the Elmer road, and from there transferred their appointment to the school-house in the village, when that institution was erected. The pioneer class- leader at this place was Samuel P. Tice, who was appointed in 1851. Among the members at that time are remembered by John Crane, from whom data for this sketch was obtained : Isaac Moffit, Mary A. Moffit, Matilda Foreer, William Motlit, Nathan W. Chew, Louisa Motlitt, Lizzie Moffitt, John D. Price, George C. Clark, Hope Price, Elijah Chew and wife, Charles Shreve, Sarah Ann Shreve, Isaac Bowers and wife, Ilenry Savage and wife, John Crane, and Elizabeth A. T. Crane. The preacher at that time was Rev. John Loudenslager.
The present church edifice was built in 1869, and dedicated September 6th of that year by Rev. Charles Whitecar, and cost two thousand five hundred dollars.
Among the preachers who have served this society since the building of the church, the following are remembered : Revs. Durell, Hitchins, Tucker. Wil- liams, Adams, Snyder, Durell, Herr, Norris, Hudson, Christian, Moore, and L. M. Atkinson, the present pastor. .
The pre-ent membership is forty-five. Value of
that stood on the church lot was moved across the ; church property, two thousand five hundred dollars.
The trustees in 1883 were John Crane, George K. Chew, P. Roberts, Benjamin Allen, and Paschal M. Hewlings; Stewards, Charles F. Moffitt and P. M. Hewlings; Local Preachers, Arthur Downer and John Hand. .
The Sunday-school connected-with this church was organized in 1851, with John Crane as superintendent. The present superintendent is William C. Stewart,
In the Driver burying-ground, near the village of
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Barnsboro, may be found the following inscrip- tions:
John Priver, died May 25. 1-51, azed 73 years.
Sarah Driver, died Sept. 3 1-24, aged 43 years. Samuel Driver, died Mar h 1. leon, aged f9 years. Keziah Driver, died Jan. 11, 1825, aged 65 years. Thomas English, died in 1826, aged is years.
Jolin Driver, died March 14, 1798, aged 75 year -.
Moses Wells, died June 16, 1840, aged 6; years.
Methodist Protestant Church at Barnsboro .- The Methodist Protestant society at Barnsboro and vicinity was organized in 1829, with the following- named members : Rebecca Danford, David B. Schoch, Ann Schoch, Hannah Ackley, Rachel HIntchinson, James H. Hutchinson. Sr., Samuel F. Madara, Abi- gail Chew, Rachel Kates, Mary Brown. Sarah Schoch, Thomas D. Clark, Harriet Shreeve, Elias Brown, Ellen Brown, Jesse S. Chew, William S. Danford, Sarah J. Sharp, Elisha Pancoast, Mary Hurff, Daniel Ackley, and Patience Madara.
From 1829 to 1852 meeting- were held in private houses, school-hou-es, and barns. In the latter year the society built a house of worship on the Elmer road, nearly half a mile south from the village of Barnsboro, and in 1877 the church was rebuilt. In 1863, Westville, in the northwest corner of Dept- ford township, where a small frame church had been built by the Presbyterians, and subsequently pur- chased by Mr. Thackara for the Methodist Protestant society, was added to the Barnsboro charge. The Methodist Protestant society also own a parsonage on the lot west of and adjoining the toll-house at Barns- boro. The whole property, two churches and par- sonage, is valned at four thousand dollars. The present membership (September, 1883) is seventy.
The Sunday-school connected with this society is under the supervision of George W. Morey, and has enrolled sixty-five pupils.
The preachers that have served this society are Revs. - Stevens, James Connelly, James Brindel. McDonald F. Peirson, T. Chea-man, II. R. Harrold. - Higgins, W. Wallace, HI. Bruce, A. McCall, Ed. Schoch, J. Timberman, J. A. Nichols, N. Stokely, T. T. Heiss (three terms), S. Budd, J. J. Gray, T. H. Colhoner, John Clark, J. R. Beck, William Sharp, E. D. Stultz William Van Lear, John M. Watson, J. Shepherd, George S. Robinson, and R. M. Waples, the present pastor.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
SAMUEL T. SOOY.
The Sooy family trace their descent from English ancestry, though the traditions of the family have not been preserved. John, the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Tuckerton, Barlington Co., N. J., where during his early life he resided. Ile
then removed to Pedricktown, Salem Co., N. J., where he was a sailor and, at a later period, a farmer. Hle married Miss Ann Tomlin, of Harrison township. Gloucester Co., to whom were born children. James and Samuel T., the first having died in infancy. Samuel T. was born Dec. 11, 1819, in Pedricktown, Upper Penn's Neck township, Salem Co., where the years of his childhood were passed. At the age of ten years he removed to Harrison township, and be came a member of the family of his maternal grand- father. The labors of the farm engaged his early attention, and later his trade of carpenter and builder was followed both at Mullica Hill and at Mantua. Ile married in 1870, Miss Harriet Hall, of Mantua, who is the mother of two children, Hattie (deceased) and Florence P. Mr. Sooy has retired from the active pursuit of his trade, and now resides at Mantua. He adheres in politie- to the principles of the De- mocracy, and ha- filled the offices of collector and township committeeman in his township. He is in religion a supporter of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mantua.
WILLIAM SHUTE.
The grandfather of Mr. Shute was Henry Shute, who lived in Gloucester County, where he was an industrious and successful farmer. The land he cul- tivated has been owned for successive generations, and is still in the family. Among his children were sons, Isaac, Samuel, Heury, Nathan, and also daugh- ters. His son Isaac was born July 23, 1773, and re- sided below Mullica Hill. He was married to Miss Rnhamah Atkinson, whose birth occurred Nov. 6, 1778, and had children,-Henry, born in 1799; James, in 1801 ; Isaac, in 1803; William ; David B., 'in 1808; Clarison, in IS10; Atlee, in 1812; Joseph A., in 1815; and Samuel C., in 1823. Their son Wil- liam was born Oet. 11, 1805, upon the homestead, and enjoyed in youth -uch advantages of education as the neighboring schools afforded, after which the labors of the farm interested him until his thirty-first year, when he sought and purchased a tract of land, and continued farming employments, He later became owner of two farms, of which he made his sons owners. Mr. Shute was married, Feb. 11, 1835, to Sibillah, daughter of John and Grace Daniels, born Nov. 23, 1805. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Shute were,-Hiram, born 1837; John D., in 1839; Mary Ann (Mrs. John Shoemaker), in 1840; and William Cooper, in 1844. The death of Mrs. Shute occurred in September, 1881, in her seventy-sixth year. MIr. Shute, having Jed a life of activity and hard labor, re- tired some year- since to Mantua, and there enjoys the rest and quiet which are the grateful reward of an industrions and useful career. In politics he was formerly a Whig, but entered the Republican party on its formation, and still subscribes to the article-
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of its platform. He cares little for office, but has filled minor positions in the township. Mr. Shute is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Mantua, as was also his wife.
SAMUEL A. EASTLACK.
Mr. Eastlack is the great-grandson of Samuel East- lack, of Mantua township, and a grand-on of Amos Eastlack, who had children ten in number, among whom was James S., born Dee. 21, 1794, in Mantua township. He devoted his early years to the trans- ' portation of wood and lumber to Philadelphia, but, JOHN C. EASTLACK. becoming weary of this business, he retired to a farm, The family of Eastlack are probably of English descent. The grandfather of John C., Samuel by name, was a resident of Mantua, formerly Greenwich township, of Gloucester County, and cultivated a farm within its limits. He married a Miss Turner, ' which was subsequently purchased and is now the property of his son, the subject of this sketch. He married Sarah Ashcraft, daughter of Sammuel and Keziah Ashcraft. Their children are Keziah (Mrs. Asa Gardner), Mary R. (Mrs. Jacob G. Tomblin). and had children,-Amos, Samuel, Martha, Mary, | Elijah S., and Samuel A. The death of Mr. East- and Elizabeth. Amos was born Sept. 1, 1768, and laek occurred June 24, 1873, in his seventy-ninth year. His son, Samuel A., was born Feb. 21, 1833, in Mantua township, and removed when ten years of age to the farm now owned by him. Such advan- tages as the district school offered were enjoyed, after which he rendered his father valuable assistance in the cultivation of the farm. This was continued during the lifetime of the latter, after which Sam- nel A. became owner of the property, the share he inherited having been supplemented by subsequent purchase of the remainder. lle married, Dec. 9, 1861, Miss Hannah R., daughter of Francis A. Camp- bell, of Harrison township, whose children were Viola A., Abigail R., and four who died in infancy. Mrs. Eastlack having died, he was married again to ! Miss Sarah Jane, daughter of John D. and Keziah died Dec. 23, 1833, in his sixty-fifth year, having been during his whole lifetime a successful farmer in Mantna township. He was united in marriage to Sarah Scott, to whom were born children, -James, Samuel, Amos, George, Rebecca (Mrs. Joseph Paul), and Maria (Mrs. Thomas West). Mrs. Eastlack hay- ing died, he married again Rachel Cawman, whose children were John C., Richard W., William P., and Andrew W. John C. was born Aug. 5, 1808, at the paternal home in Mantua township, where his youth was spent. At the age of twenty-one years. after ac- quiring a thorough knowledge of the farm, and also enjoying such advantages as the district school offered, he made an engagement of two years with a ship car- penter. For twenty years after he constructed ves-
sels by contract, and, finding a still wider field in the , Turner, of Mantua. Mr. Eastlack's daily duties have manufacture of pumps, became one of the most pop- :left no leisure for participation in the excitements attending political life, though a Republican in his political creed, and interested in the success of his party. He is a contributor to the support of the Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church, where the family worship. ular pump makers in the State, and conducted a large and lucrative business. He has now retired fromi active labor, and in his comfortable home in Mantua enjoys the results of his years of application to business. He married, Jan. 1, 1829, Miss Sarah D., daughter of Nathaniel and Keziah Chew, whose children are Nathaniel, born in 1829; Calvin, in 1830; Amos, in 1832; and John, in 1834. Mrs. Eastlack having died in May, 1834, he married again, July 23, : JOHN D. TURNER. 1835, Miss Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah Fletcher, of Woodbury. Their children are Sarah Elizabeth, born in 1836; Ilannah Rebecca, in 1838; Rachel Ann, in 1840; John F., in 1842; Mary Emma, in 1844; Charles F., in 1846; Francis A., in 1819; Rob. ert Emery, in 1851; William Ashbrook, in 1853; and James R., in 1855. Calvin C. was a useful minister of the New Jersey Conference; John F., Charles F., and James R. are grocers in Camden, and AAmos is a wheelwright and pump-manufacturer in Gloucester County.
Mr. Eastlack's polities are Republican. Though for seven years justice of the peace, he does not seek office, and values but little distinctions of this char- acter. He has been for more than half a century a member of the Methodist Epi-copal Church of Man- [ of the early death of his father. He was married tua, and at various times one of its officers. His wife is also a member of the same church.
John Turner, the grandfather of John D., resided near Bethel, in Gloucester County, where he engaged both in farming and lumbering. He was united in marriage to a Miss Leonard, and had children,- Jane, Abby, Mary, John, and Edward. The last named married Sarah Daniels, and had children,- John, Edward, Ilarvey, Jane, Mary, Rebecca ( Mrs. Dilks), Sarah ( MIrs, Pierce), and three who died in childhood. Mr. Turner was actively interested in business as farmer, lumberman, and coal dealer. His son, John D., was born Nov. 20, 1802, near Bethel. The first twenty-six years of his life were >pent at home, where the routine of duties incident to a farmer's life engaged his attention, large responsibili- ties having been incurred by him as a consequence Dec. 11, 1828, to Miss Keziah S. Chew, daughter of Jesse and Keziah Chew, of Gloucester County, whose
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birth occurred Nov. 22, 1808. Their children are was made in the vicinity of Williamstown, or, as it Amanda E., born Oct. 80, 1829 (Mrs. William , was first called, Squankum, is one made by Hlenry Roe, Oct. 13, 1726, recorded in the surveyor-general's office at Burlington, in Book M, page 76, for 121 acres. This was upon Cedar Swamp, and covered what used to be considered the most valuable to farmers living in the neighborhood of water-courses. I suppose. by information gathered, that this man Roe lived near or at Woodbury.
Becket) ; Sarah Jane, whose birth occurred April 3. 1832 (Mrs. Samuel Eslick) ; Elizabeth, born July 28. 1834 (Mrs. Harrison Heritage) ; Edward Rufus and Albert, deceased. Mir. Turner subsequent to his mar- riage purchased a farm near Barnsboro, in Gloucester County, where he resided during the remainder of his life and followed successfully the occupation of a farmer. Ile affiliated at an early day with the Whig
" The next location was made by Charles Brock- party in politics, but later became a Democrat. and . den, May 10, 1737, recorded at Burlington, in Book held the offices of freeholder and commissioner of ap- peals. Both he and Mrs. Turner were active mem- bers of the Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church. of which Mr. Turner was steward. His death occurred July 8, 1877, in his seventy-fifth year. Ilis widow still survives and resides with her daughter, Mrs. Heritage, in Mantua. MI, Part II., page 207, for 1200 acres. The descrip- tion of the location thereof will give the residents of Williamstown a name I suppose they are not familiar with. It commences as follows : ' Situate in the county of Gloucester, at a place called " Hospitality Ponds."' This tract is the location of what is known as Egypt place, the Levering and Whitehead, Babcock, both the Sykes places, the place that Jacob Ivohoff lives on, and a part of the William Stellman place. I will give more details of this location further on.
CHAPTER XLVI.
"The next location I find was made by John Al- ford, May 13, 1737, recorded in Book M, page 339, in TOWNSHIP OF MONROE.1 surveyor-general's office at Burlington, for 1442 acres, and covered the land of Peter Scott, Graham Hankin. Geographical and Descriptive .- This is the the old Steelman place, Gottlieb Pheiffer, William B. northeast corner town-hip of Gloucester County, and | Ireland, and several other settlements. When John was formed in 1859, when it was a part of Camden County, and was annexed to Gloucester County in
Alford made this location he no doubt lived in Gloucester County, near the river, for I find his 1871 with Washington township, which see. This . father's name connected with lands lying in the river was, and is yet, known as one of the pine townships. However, a large share of the pine timber has disap- peared, and in its place are the cleared fields of the husbandman, whose thorough cultivation of the light sandy soil brings forth adequate returns for his labor. The township is drained on the east by Great Egg Harbor River and Squankum Branch, south by White Oak Branch, centrally by White Hall and Hospitality Branches, and northward by Scotland Run.
Monroe is bounded northeast and east by Camden County, southeast by Atlantic County, on the south- west by Franklin and Clayton townships, and on the north and northwest by Washington township.
Early Settlers and Pioneer Incidents .- The pi- oneers of what is now Monroe township settled in and around what is now the village of Williams- town, then known by the name of Squankum. Ilon. John F. Bodine wrote for and had published in the minutes of the "Surveyors' Association of West Jer- sey." also in The Constitution of Woodbury of July 24, 1878, a full and complete pioneer " History of Squankum," which we are permitted to reproduce in this work, feeling satisfied that no one but Mir. Bodine could do balf as well, as he is a practical sur- veyor, and knows whereof he speaks :
" The first location or survey I find on record that
townships; but after locating this tract Alford re- moved to Boston, and there became a merchant, and there died. I have one of the best-preserved parch- ment deeds for this land that was made by his heirs to Savil Wilson, a prominent citizen of Deptford township, near Woodbury, dated Aug. 30, 1774. in the fourteenth year of his Majesty's reign. The deed has the large seal of the province of Massachusetts Bay, and on it the name of Thomas Gage, Governor. The second course of said deed reads as follows: ' Thence north thirty-two degrees, westerly one hundred and sixty-five chains by Squankum settlement.' This is evidence of there being somebody living in this county at that time, which I hope to show by evidence further on.
"The next location I find is one maile by John, Thomas, and Richard Penn, June 1 and 2, 1742, re- corded in Book A, at Burlington, page 230, for one thousand acres, and took in the head of Squankum Branch, and is popularly known as the Williams survey, because Williams bonght it, and sold it out in subdivisions.
" The next location is by the same parties, recorded in the same book, A, page 234, dated April 8, 1743, tor eleven hundred and thirty six acres. Rabb's place, the 'County Timber,' Samuel Bateman's place, R. Miller, and considerable of woodland west of the - Į Tuckahoe road was in this survey.
" The next location I find is one made by Samuel
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MeColliek, March, 1749, recorded in Book E. Bur- side of Four-Mile Branch; also one made by John lington, page 221. This survey is known as the Baynes, or Church property.
"The next location, as to date, is the Richard Allen survey, made Nov. 26, 1751, recorded in Book S. No. 6, page 12. at Burlington, for four hundred and twenty- six acres. This survey reads as follows: ' Beginning at a pine standing on the southwest side of White Hall Branch, near the swamp side,' This shows it was the tract White Hall Mill was built on.
"The next location I find near this place, according to date, is one made by Richard Cheesman, Nov. 11, 1758, recorded in Book L, page 59, which commences as follows: ' Beginning at a W. oak marked 4 blazes, also R. C., near the road that leads to White Hall Mill.' This shows that at this early date there was a mill at White Hall. This road runs on the northeast side of the Thomas Crover (formerly Daniel Crover) farm, and thenee out somewhere through by where Thomas S. Bateman's farm is, and so on out by what is called the Hoffsey place, or Hospitality Set- tlement, and so on out to the old Cape road, which was a beaten track from Cape May or the ocean to the Delaware River at Camden and Gloucester.
"The next survey for this neighborhood found upon record at Burlington is one made by Joseph Hollingshead, Feb. 9, 1759, recorded in Book H. page 429. This is only of special use to us in this paper, as we find one hundred acres thereof were sold July 9, 1783, to Thomas Stiles, and this was set- tled and known as Stiles' field down to Squankum Branch, on the north side thereof, about four miles below this place, in Squankum Neek. There is evi- dence of the old settlement thereupon, as au old road leading thereto. I find several surveys located aronnd about this place, as follows: S. Powell, 1739; Rod- man, 1740; John Owen, two surveys, in 1740 to 1742. These four surveys were afterwards resurveyed by Philip Freeze. In 1829 the Penns, in addition to the two foregoing mentioned surveys, located nine bun- dred and forty, two hundred, nineteen hundred, and one thousand aeres respectively, and one to Rich- ard Arrel, 1748, for three hundred and sixty aeres; two surveys to Isaae Kay, in 1755, for abont three hundred and thirty-three aeres.
Bispham, which I should think was located previous to 1775, although this I cannot say, as they have lately come to my knowledge by searching the deed- books. 1 do not find records of any locations from 1775 until the Solomon Haines location, made April 19, 1781, recorded in Book R, page 144, surveyor-gen- eral's office, Burlington. This began on the northeast side of Williamstown, and will be referred to here- after.
"The next is a resurvey, made by Thomas Tabor, May 27, 1782, recorded at Burlington, in Book R, page 225. This was made upon a David Roe survey, be- eause the Roe interferes with Broekden's survey.
" The next survey of importance was one made to Isaae Parker, April 15, 1786, recorded in Book U, page 40, at Burlington, and is at the upper end of Wil- liamstown. I find a survey made to William Smith, March 23, 1787, for one hundred and sixty-seven and one-quarter acres lying near this place; also one made to John Williams, June 2, 1787; one to Daniel Ellis, made July 7, 1792, for nine hundred aeres; this sur- vey lies near this place, to the east, and takes in where James Elison and Henry Smith live. There were some smaller surveys made after this date,-one to Jonathan Collins, one to John Tiee,-but the last century appears to have closed up the larger surveys about here. It shows that the active times of the Revolution were fully occupied without making sur- vey of lands, at least in this place."
In, Out, and In Gloucester County .- " When Squankum was first settled it was in Deptford town- ship, and remained so till 1836, when Washington township was formed, and up to the session of the State Legislature of 1844 remained in old Gloucester County. That winter, however, application was made by residents of Camden City to set off Camden, Wa- terford, Newton, Union, Delaware, and Gloucester townships into a new county to be ealled Camden. At that time one of the members of the Legislature lived in Williamstown, and strenuously opposed the movement until the bill ineluded Washington town- ship, when his vote was changed and the bill passed. In the struggle which en-ued for the location of the court-house and other county buildings Camden was again victorious. While the people of Williamstown and New Brooklyn remained in Washington town- ship, the voters were obliged to go to Cross-Keys to attend elections and town-meetings, and when the voting population had inereased to four hundred and fifty it was thought that there were too few offices to
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