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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 67
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 67
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" I find a survey made by John McCarty, Dec. S, 1757, for one hundred and ninety acres, and one made to Joseph Harrison, May 6, 1760, ealled twenty- four aeres ; these two traets are what Coles' saw-mill was established upon, but I have not been able to fix the time definitely when Coles' saw-mill was built. I find a survey located by Thomas Coles, March 16, . be divided among so many voters, so it was decided 1787, that adjoins the MeCarty tract. I also find that the description locating the beginning corner says, 'Standing twenty-eight links northerly of the road from Canada to Coles' mill.' This would show that there was a mill at this date.
to divide the township : accordingly application wa- made to the Legislature in 1859, when the township of Monroe was created, and Williamstown designated as the place for holding elections and town-meetings. Monroe town-hip remained in Camden County till 1871, when it was found that Gloucester County
" I find a deed recorded in which reference is made to a survey made to Joseph Harrison on the south . would lose one member of the Legislature, and Had-
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son County gain one. Upon investigating the sub- jeet it was found that to take the two townships of Washington and Monroe from Camden and annex them to Gloucester would save her the member and not injure Camden County. A bill was accordingly passed and approved making the necessary transfer, whereat the people of the townships of Washington aud Monroe rejoiced to find themselves again in old Gloucester County."
Settlement of Squankum (Williamstown) .- " 1 now come to the settlement of this place, which was first called Squankum, as will be recollected is men- tioned in the deed of Alford's heirs to Savil Wilson. The first evidence of settlement near Squankum was the Richard Cheesman location, made 1758, giving the beginning corner near the road leading to White Hall Mill. This, I think, clearly evidences a settlement. This corner is just out the settled part of the village. The second location, being the Broekden, made in 1737. as I said before, was the first one I find of what was properly Squankum, and appears to bear an important part, for it is upon this tract that I find the first settle- ment.
"As will be surmised by the name, Broekden must have been a German.
" I find, by referring to the first deeds upon record at Woodbury for any part of this land, the citation of title which used to be quite common in the body of deeds giving the previous transfers. I find as follows :
husband, Thomas Patterson, by two deed-, dated 24th and 25th of February, 1760. Said Mary and Thomas mortgaged the same to John Reynolds, March, 1771; this mortgage is recorded in our office at Woodbury, in Book A of mortgages. In the copy of the mort- gages, fourth course says, 'Then by lands of Johannes Hoffsey,' etc. I could not find the deed from Brock- den to Patterson, recorded in Trenton, but I find in Book A, G, page 57, a deed from Thomas and Mary Patterson to the said Johannes Hoff-ey, dated Dec. 14, 1773, for one hundred acres, more or less. I think there is no doubt of the said Hoffey being located there previous to 1771, for the mortgage gives the boundaries of the Brockden tract, independent of the piece afterwards sold to the said Hoffey (now called Huffsey) in 1774. Patterson mortgaged the -ame to one Ellis, and in the description in that mortgage it says that Thomas and Mary Patterson, of Hospital- ity, Gloucester Co., which would indicate that they
scoted inside with planed cedar boards, one edge beaded : in it was a wide, open entry, about eight feet wide, with an open stairway. This no doubt was the residence of the ' Patroon,' as the oll German land- owners were called, for by the old records I find that Charles Broekden, to whom it was located, was quoted as of the city of Philadelphia, and after he got too old to live out there, I think his daughter and her husband
and family occupied the house. I find the same house was occupied by an old German family named Craver, some of whose descendants live in our place, and form part of our best citizens. In fact, I find one of the sons of this original Craver that, I am told by one of the descendants, was born in that old house, and now lies buried in the village graveyard; from the tomb- stone I find he was born in 1777. Another evidence of the early settlement of this traet I think is that to this day, near where the old log house stood, there is a beaver dam, and it is well known that beavers will not stay where people live, and when settlers came the beavers left, and that the dams go down and the lands become more dry.
" The afore-mentioned Hoffsey appears to have been a man of some note and perseverance, as I find he made two surveys in 1789, one for eighty-six acres, and the other for thirty and three-quarter acres. The eighty-six-acre traet was a narrow strip between the Brockden survey and the eleven hundred and thirty- six acres Penn survey, and was nearly two miles long
Charles Broekden conveyed the twelve hundred acres ! aud quite narrow. The thirty and three-quarter acres as located to his daughter, Mary Patterson, and her . traet was a triangular piece that lay between the
Broekden, Penn's one thousand acres, and the Taber survey, one line being a trifle over a mile long. It happened that I bought a portion of this tract, and mapped the whole tract, as it was divided mutually between John and Samuel Hotsey, sons of the said old Johannes Hoffsey. It made the most singular- looking map I ever saw. and until I got thesc surveys and placed them to the map of the original deed to Hoffsey, I had often wondered how he ever got such a shaped piece of land.
" I find in connection with the subdivision of the tract into plantations or smaller lots the names of Hazlett, Hart, Vandegrift, Van Seiver, Butler, and Young, one of the settlers on the Penn location of eleven hundred and thirty-six aeres that nearly joined this tract, and the name of George Sennor, which by the names would indicate a German settlement. This location lies to the south and west of what is called the Penn's or Williams' Settlement. This lived on this tract at that date. In fact, when the ; Hoffsey place was where the first Methodist preach- ing was held in this vicinity. (See history of Metho- dist Episcopal Church of Williamstown.)
writer first came to Squankum, thirty-nine years ago, there was an old cedar-log house standing upon what is known as the Sykes place, from being owned for ; " This Brockden tract seems to have been divided as follows: First, Patterson to Hoffey; then Mary Howell, who was a Patterson, deeded the land to John Hart in 1766, for eleven hundred aeres, and nearly as many years as I have lived here by a father and son named Sykes. This house in its earlier days must have been quite a palatial residence; it was built of cedar logs, hewn square, and dovetailed together : Hart to Timothy Young, by the sheriff, two hundred at the corners, and was two stories high ; it was wain- . and eighty-three and three-quarter acres, now known
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as the Whitehead, Levering, Taggart, and the place where C. Pfuhl lives; then Hart deeded the balance of the eleven hundred seres to Samuel Hazlett. who sold one hundred and twenty-three and one-quarter aeres to Vandergrift (this is now in the Babcock place), fifty acres to Butler (this is also part of Mr. Babrock's), four hundred and forty-seven and one-half acres' to Jesse Van Seiver (this covers the Sykes, Imhoff. part of William Steelman, and others). He also sold lots to parties named Sharp. At this point it is proper to name a very prominent man, William Nicholson, who bought the Vandergrift and Butler traets in September, 1793. He bought these two traets and settled here, and for upwards of forty years was a prominent man here, and became an extensive land- owner. His numerous family of sons and daughters settled in the surrounding country, where there are at present several generations descended from the pio- ' neer Nicholson. He was also connected with the pioneer glassworks of this section.
then Joshua, the father of the present Joshua and brothers, was ten years old. Obadiah the elder bought eighty and three-quarter acres of Solomon llaines, June 6, 1792, and he sold the same to his son Joshua the next year. Josiah Albertson, the grand- father of Thomas C., Ann, Gideon, and David Ml- bertson, who are now living, middle-aged men, lived just beyond the Four-Mile Branch, at what is known as the Bobby lot, now lying on the railroad. While living there, in April, 1779, Thomas, the father of the above-mentioned men, was born ; how long before that the father had lived there is not known. This gives us settlements to the north and east as well as the south and west of Williamstown for ever one hun- dred years.
" Next in order is the Thomas Taber survey, that lies southeast, which was deeded to Jacob Brick, May 10, 1784. Briek, no doubt, lived upon the land, and the settlement was near where Levi Priekitt now lives. Brick having died about 1800, the traet was " The eleven and thirty-six acres Penn tract ap- pears to be next in order, as from this traet are found divided into four shares and allotted to his daughters. The farm owned by Thomas Crover was one -hare ; some of the earliest sales or subdivisions. One fea- , one share is still woodland; William il. Bodine and ture in this location is the seventh course, which says, ! Savil Poreh own some of the tract, and a family by the name of Sharp owned and lived upon one of the shares, and was quite prominent in the neighborhood. ' To a black oak standing by the old Cape road.' This would show there was a main road leading through the neighborhood at that time (1743), and "We now come to the Alford tract, covering the farms where Gottlieb Pheiffer and William B. Ireland now live, and where Edward Wilson, grandfather of Jacob Wilson and Savil Wilson, lived, the tract having been bought by Samuel Wilson, Sr., in 1774, and his sons, as mentioned, settling thereon, had much to do with the settlement in its early history. Jonathan Collins lived near the Wilsons. He made two locations early in this eentury, and in March, 1820, sold out and went west. In the same neighbor- hood lived Joel Westcott and Job Eldridge, that formed a settlement of five families within half a mile of each other. It is believed that none of the immediate descendants of these families are living here at present." the mention of a road leading to White Hall Mill ha> led some of the older inhabitants to recollect the old road leading by the old cedar-log house and by the old Hoffsey place and the Sennor place to the old Cape road. The first sale of this tract was from Penn to Richard Cheesman the elder, June, 1772. Chees- man deeded a piece to George Sennor in 1777; then, April 25, 1782, Cheesman deeded to his daughter, Maria Jackson, four hundred acres, and she. in 1804, deeded one hundred and four acres to Timothy Young; April, 1808, she deeded three hundred and twenty-eight aeres-the balance of the four hun- dred aeres-to Jacob Jennings. It afterwards passed through the hands of several owners, until now it is owned and occupied by James Robb. The piece of Civil Organization .- Under the date of " Wil- liamstown, Monroe township, Camden Co., March 9, 1859," we find the following minutes of the first Young's, in connection with George Sennor, was deeded to the county of Gloucester, June 6, 1812, and . it is now partly owned by the county of Camden, for | town-meeting :
the use of wood for her county honse. A large part of the farms of Carvin, David C. Tweed, Samuel Bate- man, and Robert Miller are a part of this tract.
" In pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, passed the - day of ----. 1859, to make a new township, to be called the town- ship of Monroe, from a part of the township of Wash- ington, in the county of Camden, and State of New Jersey, the taxable inhabitants of said township of Monroe convened at the house of Charles W. Ilusted,
" The next in order is the Solomon Haines, Joseph Harrison, and Bispham surveys; they lay to the north and east of Williamstown. Andrew Pearce bought fifty-one and three-quarter acres of the Har- rison location, June 7, 1790, and three and one-half . in Williamstown, for the purpose of electing officers acres of Solomon Haines, and eighty-one and one- for the said township of Monroe, and other business for said township. fourth acres of John Marshall. These pieces make up what is known as the Ayres place. Obadiah El- "The reading of said aet was performed by John I. Bodine, when Abijah Hewitt was chosen moder- ganized by appointing George W. Allen secretary ; dridge, the grandfather of our respected citizens, Joshua, Job, and Obadiah Eldridge, moved upon the ; ator of said meeting, and the meeting was duly or- place where Washington A. Sickler now lives in 1776;
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and each one being sworn into office, the preliminary business of the township was performed, such as re- ports of former officers of the township of Washing- ton, when the meeting proceeded to the election of officers for the ensning year, which resulted as follows :
"Town Clerk, Josiah Ireland ; Assessor, Joshua Eldridge; Collector, Samuel Remmiel; Chosen Freeholders, Clayton D. Tice, Edward S. Ireland ; Commissioners of Appeal, Obadiah Eldridge, Abijah S. Hewitt, Hosea Hosted; Constable, Joshua Eldridge; Overseers of the Pour, Thomas D. Sparks, Thomas W. Stanger; Judge of Elec- tion, Joshua Nichols m ; Surveyor of Highways, Andrew W. Ire- land; Township Committee. Abijah S. Hewitt, Thomas W. Stanger, Elias Campbell, Richard Stevenson, Peter Scott; Town Superin- tendent, George W. Allen."
The following is a list of town clerks, assessors, collectors, cho-en freeholders, constables, and town- ship committee, from 1860 to 1883, inclusive:
TOWN CLERKS.
1860-61. Charles W. Sailer. 1872-77. Garrett Tilton, Jr.
1862-65. Thomas W. Stanger.
: 1878-79. Edgar C. Green.
1866. Joel A. Bodiue.
1880-81. Joseph N. Tombesoon.
1867-09. Imlay Gifford.
1882-83. William F. Tweed.
1870-71. Rem C. Tice.
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ASSESSORE.
1800-61. Joshua Eldridge. 1574-77. John R. Tice.
1862-63, 1-65. Thomas C. Willetts. . 1878-80. Imlay Gifford.
1864, 1866-67. M. S. Simmerman. 1881. Daniel Dawson.
1568-69. Alijah S. Hewitt.
1882-83. John W. McClure.
1870-73. Matthias M. Chew.
COLLECTORS.
1860-61. Simon Bommel.
1867. J. Alfred Bodine.
1862-63. Daniel SteelDian.
1868-83. Elmer HurD.
1864-66. Joshua Eldridge.
CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS.
1860-61, 1550. Clayton B. Tice. 1879. Panl L. Richmond.
1862-65. Charles Wilson. M. M. Chew.
1×66-09. Wilhain II. Bodine.
1880. Abijah S. Hewitt.
1871-72. C. B. Tice.
M. M. Chew.
Samnel Tumbleson. 1881. M. M. Chew.
William Trout.
1873-75. C. B. Tice. J. A. Bodine. 1882-83, M. M. Chew.
1876-78. Paul L. Richmond. Joseph C. Nicholson.
C. P. Tice.
CONSTABLES.
1860-01. Joshua Ehiridge.
1880. J. Bitile.
1862-63. T. C. Willetta. G. B. Gaunt.
1864-67. Matthias S. Simmertan.
1881. G. B. Gaunt.
1868-02, 1879, 1882-83. G. D. Gaunt. Thomas Stan rer.
1870-75. Jo>hin+ Bittle.
TOWNSHIP COMMITTEE.
1800-61 .- Abijah T. Hewitt, Thomas W. Stanger, Elias Campbell, Charles W. Husted, Peter Scott.
1402 .- Clayton B. Tice, Daniel Ireland, Samuel Tombleson, Jr., Samuel D. Sparks, Peter Scott. 1863 .- T. W. Stanger, C. W. Husted, P. Scott, S. Tumbleson, Jr., S. D. Sparks.
1804 .- Peter Scott, Thomis W. Stanger, Daniel Ireland, Charles W. Ilusted, S. Tumibleson, Jr.
1565 .- Dani.1 Ireland, Obadiah Eldridge, John W. Middleton, Jobu B. Tice, Charles Wilsch. 1866 -- 0. Eldridge, Clayton B. Tice, John R. Tice, J. W. Middleton, . Daniel Ireland.
JeCT .- Thomas E. Ciaver, John R. Tice, James Carvin, John W. Middle- ton, O. Eldridge.
1868 .- 0. Eldridge, William Corkney, Charles K. Lewis, James Carvin, Richard F. Tice.
1549 .- Benjamin Sinmerman, John R. Tice, Clas ton B. Tice, O. Eidridge, Thotons A. Chew.
18:0-71 .- Mary T. Morgan, Richard F. Tice, O. Eldritgy, GB - I'neder, B. Simumerman.
1-72 .- 1 :. F. Tice, O. Eldridge, G. Prefer, B. Simmeruiab, Ja Carvin.
1873 .- B. Sitamerman, James D. Souders, R. F. Tice, Jamies Curv . . Phafer. 1ST4-Tri .- It:harl P. Tice, B, Simmerman, James Carvin, Jump 1 Sundets, Samuel P. Dehart.
1877 .- S. P. Dehart, James Carviu, John McCiure, G. Pfeffer, J .41. D. Ayars.
1875,-G. Pfeffer, J. J. Ayars, J. Mcclure, James Carvin, Cha !.. . Clark.
1>79 .- Charles S. Clark, J. W. McClure, Samuel Garwood. 18-0 .- C. S. Clark, S. Garwood, John M. Taggart.
1881-82 .- Samuel Garwood, John M. Tageart, James D. Souders. 1883, -- Samuel Garwood, C. B. Tice, J. B. S'ckler.
VILLAGES AND HAMLETS.
Williamstown .- "I have gone over what would properly be called the outside locations and settle. ments, and will now come to the Penn location of one thousand acres, or, as it is usually called, ' Wii- liams' Survey.' Thi- is the traet upon which the village of Squankum is bnilt. This tract was one hundred and twenty chains long from north to south! and ninety chains from east to west, and lies abon: equally on both sides of the Sqvankem Branch, the head of the Branch being on the northern end of the traet. The north end crosses the turnpike wher- the division line between Jacob, Joseph, and Jamt. Leigh's places run, and, crossing the pike, run- through the fields to the Huffsey line, and cross- the road on the southein end between Thoma- Hewitt and John Dehart's places, and follows the Huffsey and Tabor line on the west and the Ayre- line on the east, and follows to near the sand-hole.
" The Penns deeded the tract to Israel William -. but in what year is not definitely known, but supposed to be 1772, as other tracts were deeded by the Peans in that year, and Israel Williams deeded to his son John Williams, in 1753. After that date the tract was divided up into lots and farms; and through negleet to record deeds difficulty has been found in naming parties whom Williams sold to, yet the lot and parties to whom sold have been nseertained, ex- cept in one case. The first lot was five and a half aeres, sold to Jeremiah Dilks in July, 1789; the next was eleven acres, sold April 1, 1793, to William Strong. The original church lot was from this piece. The next was ninety-eight acres, sold to Joseph: Smallwood, Dec. 12, 1799. This takes the jut upon which John Hutchinson is, and where Henry Tice and wife lived for many years, and where they died. The next was seventy-one acres, sold to Isaac Hooper. April 9, 1796, and covers the Paul Sears farm, and where Joseph Leigh lives. The next was a deed to John Swope for one hundred and fifty acre-, made April 9, 1796. This covers part of what is known as the Swope faim, and part of it is now owned ly James D. Souders, with the old mansion of Mr. Swope. Mark Brown, B. Simmerman, the Eames honse, Mrs. S. Cordery's store. J. V. Sharp, and the Rickey place, and the Methodist Episcopal Church,
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with those houses up the Porch Mill road are upon . is tract. The next sale was to Thomas English. April 6, 1797, for one hundred and fifty-four acres .t the southeastern end, on the south side of the Bratich, and now occupied by Samuel P. Dehart, Thomas B. Hewitt, Simeon Rammel, Thomas Hays, ind part of Samuel C. Dehart's heirs. The next was a deed to John Spencer, made July 3, 1797, for fifty- Soir aeres, and known as the Thomas Bateman farm. The next was sixty acres, deeded to Timothy Young. June 20, 1798, and afterwards sold to Maj. John Tice. "Isaac Parker sold one hundred acres to David Evans, Dec. 24, 1791. This adjoined the Penns or Williams tract. Evans afterwards sold to William Pras in 1801, and Peas sold to Stephen Rhoads and Cornelius Tice, and in 1812 or 1815 this one hundred avres was sold to Jacob Swope, and it is now partly owned by Jacob, Joseph, and Levi Prickitt, James D. Sonders, Timothy Reed, and those tenant-houses of R. Wilson's. July 23, 1795, Parker deeded to George : stiles one hundred and twenty and a half acres.
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PIONEER TAVERN .- Maj. John Tice filled quite an important position in the early settlement of what is now Williamstown. He moved here from Tans- boro in 1798 or 1799, and built the pioneer two-story , frame house in Squankum. It stood just where the railroad crosses the main road or street. The old house, having served its time and purpose as the pioneer hostelry, has been removed to another loca- tion, and converted into a barn. In this building, when new, in 1800, Franklin Davenport was born. This house was kept as a tavern for many years, and was the place where the old pioneers did most congre- gate and relate their many hairbreadth escapes, and picture to others the many hunting scenes in which they had been engaged, the hundreds and thousands of bears and wolves they had killed, and occasionally how they had missed a nice buck ; and how much each had done, politically, either as Federal or Democrat, towards saving the country ; and how much more my land was worth than any other; and how much larger load one man's team could baul than another. Then sometimes followed the wrestling-match, the scrub-race between the best eults or old horses, then the quoit-pitching, and other innocent amusements. Truly, the old pioneer tavern did gain some notoriety before its conversion to more useful purposes.
PIONEER ROADS .- " The Tuckahoe road was laid out the 231 and 24th days of February, 1781; partly on the old beaten road.
" The road from May's Landing to Woodbury was laid April 20, 1793, and to and from this road many of the original pieces of land were described and bounded.
"Ju 1849 a charter was obtained for a turnpike road to Camden, but this was too long a road for one company, and was not built in 1852. A charter was obtained for a road from Williamstown to Good Intent, and the road was built and opened in 1853, that gave us connection with the Woodbury and Good Intent and Red Bank road, a good road to Philadel- phia. This road satisfied the people till railroads eame into South Jersey, when we again became rest- less, and obtained a charter in 1861 for the Williams- town Railroad Company, which road was not built till the fall of 1st2."
PIONEER POST-OFFICE AND NAMING THE TOWN. -"Previous to 1542, Squankum had no post-office. Stiles sold to Jacob Spencer, and he to Thomas , The mail matter of the citizens, small though it was, Whitacar; thence through several parties till it reached the Bodine family in 1845. Since then fifty Here's bas been sold to Job D. Eldridge, and twenty- came tri-weekly by way of Cross-Keys. In this year it was thought best by the people to make application for an office, but, as there was a place in Monmouth five acres to R. Wilson and Mr. Bugbee. The balance , County called Squankum, another name necessarily of the Parker tract is owned by Joshua and Job D. Eldridge, where they live, and the places where John (. Atkinson and John M. Lutze live. The residence
had to be adopted for this place. Accordingly a publie meeting of the citizens of Squankum was called, and organized by the appointment of Paul of Isaac Parker was up what is known as Eldridge's . Sears chairman. Mr. Sears proposed the name of Lane, nearly half-way between the turnpike and the Glassboro road. Ilere Mr. Parker died, and left six sons, among whom his property was divided in 1811." Williamstown, in honor of Mr. Williams, who owned the thousand acres upon which the town was situated, and who, it is believed by all or nearly all the inhab- itants, was the first settler. The name of Williams- town was adopted by a unanimous vote, and under that name the office was established."
WILLIAMSTOWN (SQUANKUM) IN 1883 .- Besides the large glass-manufactory. there were, in 1883, in the village of Williamstown, two canning-factories, two lime-kilns, two churches (Methodist Episcopal and Presbyterian1, the glassworks store, with George W. Ireland as superintendent, the stores of W. H. Bodine & Co., Josiah Ireland, and James S. Cordery, one drug-store, by Dr. Halsey, one school-house, with three schools, three physicians, A. J. MeKelway, L. MI. Halsey, and J. Gaunt Edwards, one hotel, Wash- ington House, by E. Elliott, library and free reading- room, built in 1878, and the new town hall, located on Main Street. This is an imposing frame struc- ture, built in 1832, at a cost of four thousand five hun- dred dollars. The building committee, appointed by town-meeting to confer and consult with the township committee in relation to the hall, were as follows: Brooklyn, Abijah S. Hewitt, Charles K. Lewis; Cole's Mill, Robert Chew ; Williamstown, William II. Bo- dine. The hall is one of the best in the county. and is well adapted for all purposes for which such build- ings are used. The lower story is well arranged for township business and election purposes.
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The present postmaster is Samuel Garwood, with George W. Ireland as deputy, and the office is kept in the glass-works' store.
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