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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 80
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 80
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Jail .- The original log jail stood till about 1709, when it was replaced by a stone building, and this, in 1775, by another, also of stone, on the corner of Fen- wick and Market Streets. This was, in 1795, damaged but not utterly destroyed by fire, which was set by a prisoner named Melntyre. It was a plain but sub- stantial building, encroaching slightly, as did its pre- Office of the Clerk and Surrogate .- At the first meeting of the board of chosen freeholders, in May. 1798, William Smith, Clement Hall, Richard Smith. and Samuel Smith were appointed a committee to decessor, on the street. It was two stories in height, and contained not only cells for the prisoners, but the jailer's residence. A high stone wall surrounded a spacious jail- yard. To this building an addition was , settle with Anthony Kea-by, one of the commission- made in 1841-42.
In 1851 action was taken for the erection of a new jail, and a committee, consisting of Joseph Kille, Samuel P. Carpenter, and William H. Nelson, was appointed to report estimates as to the probable cost of the building, and proposals for the erection of it. They reported to the board of freeholders in 1852, but no action was taken in the matter.
At the annual meeting in 1854, Richard Ballenger, Richard Wistar, William Carpenter, and Maskell Ware were appointed a committee to procure plans
and estimates of the cost of a new jail anl wil. house. In August of that year this committee r. ported by presenting drafts and estimates, whi.' were ordered to be placed in the hand- of the cleri of the county, and again the project slept.
At a special meeting in January, 1866, called for the purpose of considering the matter, it was fr. solved, by a vote of seventeen to three, that the old jail should be torn down and a new one erected, and a committee, consisting of Henry Sinnickson, Carpet W. Acton, John S. Newell, William House, and John H. Lippincott, was appointed to procure plans and specifications, select a site on some part of the county ground, advertise for and receive proposals for the
County, and prepared a plan for a county prison similar to that, which they presented to the board At a meeting in February, 1866, this plan was ap- proved. David R. Hires and William A. Casper were added to the committee, which was ordered to imme- diately " build a new county jail, by contract or other- wise. with a house on the front of brick or stone, and to dispose of the old jail and materials thereof to the best interests of the county." It was directed that the building should front on Market Street, east of the clerk and surrogate's office. At the annual meet- ing in May, 1866, this committee reported that they
curity for the performance of the work. The jail wa- completed early in 1867, and the materials of the old jail were sold. The ground where the old jail stood. at the corner of Fenwick and Market Streets, wa- cleared and inclosed in 1869, and it will probably in the near future be the site of a new court-house.
The jail is a stone building, with thirty-two brick i cells opening into spacious corridors, each cell having a capacity for one prisoner. The sheriff's house stand- in front of the jail, on Market Street. It is a brick structure, tastefully finished, two stories in height, and it has the necessary sheriff's and jailer's office ?. as well as the office of the mayor of Salem. The cost of these buildings was forty thousand dollars.
ers for building the clerk's office of the county, and at a subsequent meeting in the same year this com- mittee reported that such settlement was made, and that the sum of fifteen pounds one shilling and one penny was due to Mr. Kea-by. This was a small brick building on the line of the street, immediately in front of the present clerk and surrogate's office.
At a meeting in June, 1804, the board of free- holders ordered "that a room fourteen feet in the clear, the width of the present clerk's office. be bnil: of brick at the north end of the said office, for the
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use of the surrogate." During half a century, and till the business of the county came to require larger accommodations, these buildings were the offices of the county clerk and surrogate.
At a meeting of the freeholders, in August, 1850. Samuel P. Carpeuter, Joseph Kille, Smith Bilder- back, Benjamin S. Holmes, and William H. Nelson were appointed a committee to visit other offices, draft a plan, and make an estimate of the probable cost of a building for a surrogate and clerk's office. In October of the same year the committee reported : "The plan of the building, specifications of materials, and workman- ship were exhiluted and submitted to the consideration of the board. The committee was directed to a Ivertise for proposals for the worl; and material of said ofice, jointly or separately, generally, according to the design and specifientions of G. P. Cummings, which have been approved by this board, ani that they proceed with the erection of the said office by contract with all convenient dispatch."
Pending the erection of this building the public records were deposited in the court-house.
1805 this committee was directed "to build a poor- house on the most eligible plan," the dimensions not to exceed forty-tive by fifty-five feet, and three stories in height, including the basement. At the annu il meeting in 1900 they were directed to "go on with the building agreeably to the draft proposed, keeping in view strength and plainness in finishing the house." At the next annual meeting the committee was di- rected to hire laborers by the day, and complete the building.
Agreeably to the order previously made at the an- nual meeting in 1808, Gervas Hall, John Thomp- son, Thomas Thompson, Jeremiah Powell, Jeremiah Wood, Benjamin Tindal, and Joseph Borden were appointed a committee to view the poor-house when completed. At the meeting in August, the same year, this committee reported that they had examined the building, and that it was " in striet conformity with the instructions of the board to the commissioners,- plain, strong, and good in every point of view, aud conveniently placed for it- intended purpose." On settlement with the commissioners it was found that the total cost of the building was six thousand four
Messrs. Wilson & Dowe were the contraetors for the erection of this building, but they abandoned their contract, and the building committee was au- thorized and instructed to complete the work, accord- ing to the original designs, in such a way as in their | hundred and five dollars and fifty and one-half cents. judgment would be conducive to the interests of the .
At the annual meeting in 1822 the board ordered county. At the annual meeting in 1852 William H. the erection, under the direction of the trustees of Nelson, Jolin H. Lambert, aud Joshua J. Thompson : the poor-house, of a new buiding for the accommoda- tion of the insane. In 1823 the erection of sheds at the poor-house by the trustees was authorized, and in 1824 of a wash- or cook-house.
were appointed a committee to attend to the comple- tion and furnishing of the county offices. Early in 1853 the building was reported complete, and ac- cepted. It is a brick structure, thirty-six by forty- and the surrogate's in the north part. The records are kept in the rear of each of these offices, which is completely proof against fire from the outside, having thick double walls and an arched roof.
On the 1st of January, 1815, the poor-house tock eight feet in size, having the elerk's office in the south . fire in the roof by the cinders from the chimney, which had accidentally become ignited, and the building was destroyed. At a meeting of the board of frecholders, on the 18th of the same month, Almshouse .- The nucleus of the present alms- house farm was acquired in 1796. In that year Sam- uel Bassett and wife, for a consideration of five shil- lings, deeded to the trustees of the poor seventy-six acres of land in the township of Pilesgrove. In 1823 a lot of woodland was purchased for the poor-house at a cost of nine hundred dollars, and from time to time other land has been acquired by purchase and exchange, till now the almshouse farm ineludes about two hundred acres. In 1836-39 the county was in- volved in a litigation and controversy concerning the title to a portion of the poor-house farin. The matter was not finally settled till 1840. measures were taken for the erection of another poor- honse, and John M. Maskell, William A. Dick, and Dr. William C. Mulford were appointed a committee to visit and examine other poor-houses, and advertise for and receive plans and estimates. A resolution 1 was adopted that " the dimensions of said poor-house be one hundred feet by forty-five feet, and three stories high, independent of the basement. the roof of said building to be of tin." Joshua J. Thomp- sou, of Salem, James Robinson, of Mannington, Ben- jamin Holmes, of Elsinboro. Thomas Flanagan, of Upper Penn's Neck, Alpheus Bilderback, of Lower Penn's Neck, George Remster, of Upper Alloways Creek, George Githens, of Lower Alloways Creek, In July, 1802, the board of freeholders ordered the trustees of the poor to expend a sum " not exceeding three hundred dollars for building a barn on the premises occupied for the use of the poor of the county." This was the first recorded appropriation for any building on the-e premises. William Loper, of Pilesgrove, and John Madara, of Pittsgrove, were appointed a committee to determine upon a site, on the poor-house farin, for the new build- ing, to remove the debris of the old building, and to "inake all necessary arrangements for the paupers. This committee selected the site of the "old house," In 1801. John Wistar and Isaiah Shinn were ap- pointed commissioners " to provide materials for the purpose of building a poor-house," and the sum of one thousand dollars was appropriated for that objeet. In employed laborers to raze the walls, clean the brick -; cte., and made temporary arrangements for the pan- pers. A committee, consisting of Smith Hewitt and Joshua Madara, was appointed to act in conjunction
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with the trustees of the poor-hour in making pro- vision for the pauper, during the creation of the new poor-hou-e. They rested, for that purpose, of Dr. Griffith, a farm-house and wagon-house in Pilesgrove township.
The committee on plans, etc., reported at a meet- ing held on the 12th of March, 1845, and the follow- ing resolutions were adopted by the board :
" That the sail poor-house to by erected be heste ! by fines.
" That the dimensions of a'd building be flo by &l fret.
"That the said building be three stories high, besides the basement. aud the roof to he of tin.
" That the height of the basement story of sudid building be eicht feet in the clear, the height of the first story be ten feet in the clear, the height of the second story le also ten feet in the clear, and the height of the third story be eighit feet in the clear.
"That the building above the ground be built of bricks.
" That the outside door-sills and window sills be built of stone.
"That the county furu'sh the materiais for the building of said poor- house.
"That a building committee of five persons be elected, ~Joshua Ma- dara, Benjamin Acton, Jr., Dr. Willitun C. Muiford, Smith Hewit, and George R. mster.
"That the plain submitted by William Jeffers for the building of said poor-house be adopted, sulitet, however, to whatever alterations the builling roundittee think proper.
"That the building contraittee commence operations in building said house, that they furnish the materials, contract for the building, etc., ; and complete it with all necessary expedition."
The building committee was subsequently reduced to three, as follows : Benjamin Acton, Jr., Dr. Wil- liam C. Malford, and Joshua Madara.
. substantially completed the building, at a cost of . Ehvumier, Jewph Sevires, Samuell Hedges, Es js .; Wm. Griffin, Shetiff;
At the anunal meeting of the board of freeholders in May, 1846, this committee reported that they had $11,100,50. Thomas J. Ca-per, Benjamin Acton, Jr., and John 1I. Lambert were appointed to fully com- : plete it. On the 12th of August, 1846, this committee reported the building completed, except the plaster- ing, and it was soon afterwards occupied. In 1817 a part of what was known as the Idlett property, adja- cent to the poor-house, was purchased, and the sale of a portion of the timber on the farm was directed.
In 1870 a contract for the erection of a building on the almshouse ground- for the use of the insane was awarded to Dunn Wistar & Co. at $4794. The build- ing was completed in 1871 at a cost of $5180.14.
CHAPTER LV.
EXTRACTS FROM COURT RECORDS.
THERE are, in the clerk's office at Salem, no record- of the proceedings of the County Court prior to 1700.
The following is copied from the first minutes of its proceeding, that are found :
" Province Nova Cevarit, County of Salem, as., 1716.
" At the Court of Session-, leguin this sevententh Day of Sept.L:", Annoqr D :1., IDO. The Court ep-wel. Present, Thenis Killingsworth, Obadiah Moline, Jeadres : J'y Sapore, Sul Helge, Jantes Elix- ander, Walter Hueti-, Sour-8 ERintanier, Jitio: Wma. Gridin, , Term." Sheriff; Miche Hackett, nou Sachff; Imac shany, Deputy Clark.
" The Grint Jary Weil : Then Called over, ware as followsh, v.z
" Joseph Fastand. Freuen A ; Jon Fave. La Palma, 4%- Ith Shor; ora, Istar Bopper, John Will uns, Fiwant Mecome, 7% . . Lilaton, Na Midler, Joka Swing, Sami Ffage. James Barritt, Hon. . Fisher, J cha Lackery, I. Pris Cricheou.
" The Fort A Junges for Two Owers.
"The Court mette acording toa jurnement : present. Thoria, Kilit .. .. worth, ON dinh Holmes, Providents; Jomph Seats, Walter Hosti, James l'vander, Is.
" The Constilles of the County of Salem being Cauled by the" Nauns, and they all appered only those whose names are under written., viz. :
" Jaines Daniells, James Paget, Quiti Barber. The Court pruseler t, fine the sud Constal ills for their none nprroce 134. 12. apece.
" The Coast a Jurnes till te morrow morning att Nine of ye clock in y+ . morning.
" The Chart met & Conting to a jurnment. Y. Cort Sets ..
" William Followell Catey Into Cort and was Atested Conserting hi .. Returne that he could get no Frects of Such wch. was Returned in th- provinsiall Tax. Abrthium Van Histe, los .; John Juell, 9 -. ; HIviry Bulock, 6; ; Joseph Siunors, Az. : silem por Sinck.
" Joseph Hogboud and James Sherin Besing bound In ye Sum of Sixty , pounds, that Is, JJeoph In ye Sum of Forty pouuds, and James Shorts In The Sum of Twenty pounds, to her Maigesty, her heirs and Fire -- sors, that the Sail Joseph shall apeare at the Next Cort of Quarter S. s. sions held for the County of salem, and to be of Good behavior till t!> Sill Coart, and then to Answer to what thaer shall be alleged a Gain-t him. . .
" The Grand Jeury Caime in to Coart, and they all answered to their naimes.
"The Conit a Jurnee for half an Ower.
" The Coart Meetts Acording to A Jurnment.
"The Grand Jury was Conll in Court, and the Found Two Indict- ments a Gainst Wallter Hustis.
" That Prosses bee isced out a Gainst Mitbias Stark & Sarah Jones & Elizabeth Bargrave.
" The Cuart Ajurnes to y- fourth Tusday in Decenibt next.
"The Court of Pleass opened.
" Present, Thoma. Killingsworth, Obvlinh Holmes, Presidents, Jantes
Har Sharp, D. Clark.
" The said Chart Adjournes to Eught a clock to morrow morning.
" The Court meets a Cording to A Jurument."
The record of this court is made up of entries of which the following are-f .cimens : " Thomas Killingsworth, verses John Stevens ; Cont.nypd.
" George Gabifeld, vers Perter Blackfield : Discontinued.
" John Richmond vers , Elward Chapitres: Anun Ente.
" Elezar Darivy, ver-er Imisc Sharp, Ju lgm-nt for a Hundred Potthis wil two pence Daridge, and cost of sute; of wch se Plantif Remits Sixty-Nine pounds fower shill & 9 's.
" The Cort a Jurnes till the fowerth Teu-day In Decenil' next."
April 13, 1798, "The Grand Jury presents the Nesessite of the Court Home Roode to be New Coverd, and to have ye Dormon Windowes taken Out. Signed by the foreman, Joseph Ware.
" The Grand Jury finds Joseph Butler Guilty of Pette Lar-euy; Signed by ye foreman, Joseph Waer.
" The Court Orders The Sheriff To take Joseph Butler Into Custody." April 14, 155, " The Grand Jury Calme Into Court, and all Auswerd to Thaer Nimes.
" The Grand Jury Orders Hubard Wordn t & Hichard Dakins to por cure shingill- and Nailes for the Coverin the Court House, and Goe fer- ward with the Said Woorck as fare as ye Money that Is In Wo. looks hall will pay.
"The Grand Jury Under Stands That Thaer Is sum money In Jolt Hancock's Hand, and Desier itt ma bs Pati to Richard Woodnot.
" Jeremiah Nick-on and The mia: Killingsworth, by Theer Application To This Court, Obtained Order- Tuat The House of Jeremichi Nichons, In Denn's Neck, In the County of Salem, should be ye Place of Tlounas Killinswertes Ordinary Pon bin or Rellen . Worship.
" The Court Allows Simeell He 'ye, Join , to be fear tion of Al-allant Hodges, Laite son of Barter1 Hodzea Dise-ed, and That Abraham . Holy s be Bound to Sata- II- Ige, Jun., till he shall arrive to Tw-uty. One years of age, & That se gud Helge Shall T. ich, or Cause to the tingkt, ye Said Hedies ye Trale of a cooper, and Aleve ta Road attl 15-ht English, and pay him Twenty pound- att the Expuation of yr
Oct. 13, 19 6. " The grand jury Gill a Bill of Inditmient against E .h it
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1: . p .- y, A itt was Red in Court, itt loin for Robert Rumses (lippin of of which money. It was found a true Bill, signed by je foreman, Jordan Walling."
Ata -pecial session in December, Isis, "The Sheriff Desired he ma Lave las protest Entend against The Prison, for itt not bein suffi-iant, wih was allowed of by order of Court."
". Nicholas Johnson Pain In To Court and Confort Thit he was One ! Those That Assiste i In Building of a pound upon the Societyes Land with Joseph James, James Intion, Wilham Hutson, Wm. Pope, and I hm Miller, To Fetch Thner One Jades, and he also Confost That he Had Taken upone Mare, wch he knew not whose itt ware." etc. Ile was fined by the court fifty shillings
In September, 1709, " The Contt Onlers That no Ordinary Ke:per in Thuis County Shall be allowed To Trust Any Transhent Persou, or Laborer, or Singill Person, above Tenn Shillings, upon Penalty of Lusing Thaer Debts So Trusting, after this Daite."
At the same court the following action was taken by the grand jury. It is here copied to show the manner of levying and collecting taxes then, as well ils some of the functions that it was the province of the grand jury to discharge :
" The Grand Jury Brought In a Bill for To Raise Seventy five Pounds for a County Tax, viz :
" The Grand Jury for The County of Salem, att a Court Held The 27th & 28th Days of December, In The Year of Our Lord 1700, Present That an A-sezment be L vid on Sait County for The Repairing of The Conit house and Prison, & finding of Constable's Stavre, and Paying for Woolves heads, & Panthers, Hawcks, Woodpeckers, Blackbirds, and Crowes. Ac- cording to the Late Act for ye above Said use and no Other, tu The Vallue of Seventy five Pounds Currant Money, to be paid in Money, Wheitt, Butter, Cheass, at Money price, and to be Assessed In Manner and forine as followeth: All Survived Tends To be Valued at Seven pounds per Hundred, and Sessel at pound Valne, and every Towen Lot of Sixteen Acres To be Vallned at Seven Pounds per Lott, and every Lott under Sixteen Acres To be Vallned proporshinable, and all Neat Cattell and horses att Two pounds pr head, at Three Years Oid and Upwards, all Sheep at one Year Old and Upward-, at fower shillings per hed ; Negio and Melatto Slaves, from 15 to 50 years of age, To be Vallu ' l at Fifteen Pounds pr head ; & all Boetts That is Eighteen foott by The Kerlls & upwards To be Vallned at six pounds, or not Exceeding Ten Pounds, according To The Judgement of The Sessors; All Laling me : Tuat Have Estates Doth 1: : amount to Two Shillings shall pas Two Shil- litiges, All Watter Mills, Grist Mills, and Saw Mills at Fifteen pounds pr Mill, and not Exceeding Thirty Pounds, According to The Judgment of The Sessore. All the particulars alude Mentioned are to be A-zes-ed at pound Vallue, and all The Seasons & Collector. That Was nominated at The last Corte are to Remain- In Thare offisses, and That the taxes on The Lands belonging to those That Reside or Inhabit Out of This county or province remain as & Debt on Thare respective Litals, und That the Owner or Owners There if Shall not be Discharged In This Court for Such Land or Lands till Snich times thay have Paid Their Taxes or as- Bussigents That Are or may be Laid by The Court and Grand Jury of This County. And That all The rate bee Entered in The Boock That Belongs to The County for The use af ire said, and Thit all Collectors make returne of all such Lands or Other Defiestause that They Have Not recovered The Taxes There of into The Hands Allixander Grant, Who Is Impowered to euter Them in The Sand Boock. The Grand Jury Present Bartholomew Wyatt & Richard Johnson To be Over sear- of The Said Wourek of The prison and Cont Honse, and further That The As- Sess ns and Collector- Neglecting to Offi-siate In Their offers shall be Gned according To the Art inade for Killing of wo dves, and allways Provided That The Collectors Shall by Accountable To the Court and Grand Jury, when there migo required, Under The Pennaite of Twenty Pouuds Dach So Nominated. Further, It any shall give In an imperfect or chart account, that Then he shall the Ass send at The Discussion of The Seasons, and That The Assessors Moott att The Town of Salem The fourth Tensdo in Jamary next, and Then and Thar To Leve and Asses, Justly and Equally, according To the afore s1 Opfer ; And That all Fer-ons so assessed shall be Obliged To laing Their tax to each rispective Collector In each respective District, to be paid at or before The Last Day of March In Sewing, and The Clark of The peace to Draw out as Many Copies of This Order of court and Grand Jury as Shall be Con- vaient. and for his Sa Ding he shall Have Tonn Shillings, and The Sescore to Deliver in, With In Two Weicke after The Serment, Their
Duplicate to Their Respective Collectors, and That The Collector- Give Notice to The Inhabitants of Their Respective Districts, with 1. Two Weiche after They Receive Their Dapheates to bring In Their T.n.
"Signed by ye Foreman, BENJAMIN KNAPIUS."
The proceedings, the verdicts, and the sentences recorded in these old minute- will sometimes pro- voke smiles, and often arouse sad reflections. In 1710, Ruth Carter was sentenced-for what crime does not appear -- to
" Pay ye fine of five Pounds & her fees, or That She be Whypt Thirty Strypes upon her bate back & jay her fees & Then be Cleared."
June 27, 1711, " Wee, the Grand Jury representing ye Bodde of ye County of Salein, having taken Into Our Serins Consideration ye Sev- etall Quarrells & Varings Actions of Isaack Sharp, Tending to ye Stur- ring up of Strife & variances, Where by Love & frind Ship bath been S night to be Destroyed by him, Wee There fore Present ye Said Isuck Sharp To be a Common Birroter. Signed by The Foreman in behalf of ye whole.
" JOSEPH SEELYE."
This presentment was afterward ordered "To be Squashd."
" The Grand Jury for the County of Salem presents the Prisson for That it Is Deficiatt for the Secureing of Prissoners, and also presents ye Court bonse That itt may be repayred, & presents ye Want of a payer of Stocks in ye Towne of Salem."
In September, 1813, the grand jury
" doe Present y' Flizth Windsor of salem, in ye County of Salem, sin- gle woman, ye thirteenth Day of August, in ye Twelfth yeare of ye Baigne of our Lady AnDe of Greit Brittain, &c., Queen, yt how is att salem in ye county aforesd, with force & armes upon ye Body of. Eliz Rumsey, wife of Isaac Rumscy, of Silem, aforest yeoman in ye Peace of God & our SI La ly ye Queeu, then & their being, an as ault did make and her with a Paddle over yo flead did strike, & also over ye Neck & her Coller bone did Brake, to ye Great daimage of ye Sd Elisth Rumsey, and against ye Peace, ke."
"One Mary Hawk of Cohanzvy, Spinster, was publickly whippt. in the Town of Salem, on the ITth of November, 1716, by order of the Jus- tices." .
Murder of Jeme: Siteon .- "At a Special Court held att Salem in the County of Salem the 18th Day of Aprill, 1717, for trying of Negra Slaves for th. MFurther of James Sherron, Esq., Present, Isaac Sharp, J In Ma- son, Alexander Grant, Justices ; Joseph Gregory, Daniel Rumsey, John Brick, Audrew Hopman, and John Lloyd ffrechobilers.
"The freehol lers sworn to try the prisoners, in conjunction with the Justices, according to Evidence &c.
" The Justices and Freeholders order a Mr. William Griffin to prosecute the prisoners in behalf of our Sovereign Loid the King, Ar.
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