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SAMUEL WATSON.
The name of Samuel has been perpetuated in the Watson family for generations, and was borne by the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch. who : probably resided upon the farm in the township of Greenwich now occupied by Jonathan Leaming. Among his children was Samuel, who married Miss Hannah Skellinger, of Cape May, N. J., and had two sons, Samuel and David. The death of Mr. Watson occurred in 1815. His son Samuel was born in 1790, and having inherited the taste for agricultural em- this time and energies until sixteen years of age, ployments peculiar to his ancestors, became a farmer on the paternal lands, which were equally divided between his brother David and himself.
Samuel married Ruth, daughter of Job Sheppard, of Hopewell township, and had children,-David, Samuel (deceased), Samuel (2d), Job S., and Hannah ' he purchased the remaining shares, and began vigor- S. (Mrs. Job English, of Greenwich). Mr. Watson died Oct. 27, 1831, in his forty-first year. His wife, who subsequently became Mrs. Bacon, died April 2, | Proba-co, of Greenwich. Their children are Fran- 1883, in her eighty-seventh year, having been for forty years an active member of the Baptist Church of Greenwich. Their son Sammel was born May 6, 1824, in Greenwich township; and having been left father- less at an early age, he was required in a measure to de- pend upon his own resources for success in life. He , excitement, though he casts his vote on successive acquired a knowledge of farming, and having already formed habit, of self-reliance and industry, began bravely the battle of life. At the age of twenty- : Baptist Church of Roadstown, of which Mrs. Watson
seven he rented a farm, and was, in December, 1852, married to Phobe, daughter of William and Mary Bacon, to whom was born a daughter, Mary B. MIr. GABRIEL D. HALL. Watson then removed to the Bacon homestead, which The Hall family are of English extraction, though no record of the arrival and settlement of its progen- itors in America has been preserved. Ebenezer Hall was a resident of Greenwich township, and died at Bacon's Neck in 1805. He married Mary, daughter was for fourteen years his residence. In IS65 he ! purchased the farm where he at present resides, and where he is still actively engaged in farming pur- xuits. He was in his political principles formerly a Whig, and at a later date a Republican, but has | of Joseph Thompson, of Salem County, and had
never been a strict partisan, nor ambitious for official preferment. Ile is a Baptist in his religious faith, and a member of the church of that denomination at
HOWELL P. WATSON.
The great-grandfather of Mr. Watson was Isaac, whose son, Howell P., resided in Greenwich town- ship, where he followed agricultural employments. By his marriage to Sarah Ludden he had children,- IInwell P., George, William, Lydia (Mrs. Fithian ), Elizabeth (Mrs. Miller, and Ann (Mrs. Probasco). Mr. Watson passed his life in Greenwich township, where his death occurred at his home. His son, Howell P., was born Nov. 8, 1793, and continued the occupation of his father on the land now the prop- erty of his son, Howell P. Ile was married on the 11th of March, 1828, to Tabitha B. Mulford, whose birth occurred Nov. 23, 1798. Their children were Sarah (Mrs. Alpheus Brooks), born in 1817; Eliza- beth (Mrs. William Nice, wife of a Baptist clergy- man), born in 1821 : Howell P. ; and one who died in childhood. The death of Mr. Watson occurred Feb. 11, 1826, in his thirty-third year, while his wife still survive-, and enjoys in her advanced age robust health. Their son, Howell P., whose life is here briefly sketched, was born Dec. 25, 1824, on the homestead farm, his youth having been spent at Roadstown, with his grandfather, Isaac Mulford. Both the neighboring school and the farm absorbed when the home of his step-father, Henry L. Smalley, of Bowentown, became his residence, and the employ- ments of the farm still engaged his attention, with intervals devoted to study. At the age of twenty- one, having inherited his portion of his father's farm, ously an independent career of farming. He was married, April 9, 1851, to Lydia A., daughter of John cis II., horn April 6, 1858; Louisa B., whose birth occurred Oct. 21, 1866; and two who died in youth. Mr. Watson has, since his accession to the paternal farm, been wholly occupied in its management, and had neither time nor inclination for a life of political elections, and is in sympathy with Republican meas- ure». Ile supports with his means and influence the is a member.
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children,-Ann (Mrs. John Bacon, deceased) and , 1846. His son Charles was born Nov. 26, 1827, in Gabriel D .; though by a previous marriage he had one daughter.
Gabriel D. was born March 27, 1802. at Bacon's Neck. After a period spent at the Friends' school, and later at popular places of instruction at Haddon- field, N. J., and in Philadelphia, he returned to his home, and engaged in the cultivation of the farm in connection with his step-father. On attaining his . in the coasting trade.
majority his patrimony embraced the farm which is Capt. Miller was thus employed for several year -. after which he returned to Greenwich and became in- terested in the grain trade. Three years later he re- sumed his craft as a boatman, and until his retirement was master of a vessel trading along the coast. Ile was, Jan. 10, 1854, married to Miss Harriet N., daugh- ter of Samnel C. Fithian, of Greenwich. Their chil- dren are Anna P., Rebecca, Addie M., Samuel F., and Edwin F., of whom Samuel F. is the only sur- vivor. his present home, where he has since resided. Having followed the routine line of farm labor nntil 1819, he removed to Greenwich village, and was for fourteen, years one of its residents. In 1803 he returned again to the farm, which has since been his home. He was married on the 19th of March, 1823, to Miss Hannah, daughter of Isaac and Lucy Wheaton, and had chil- dren,-Ebenezer, born in 1825; Mary W., born in 1826; Isaac W., whose birth occurred in 1828; Ann B., born in 1829; Gabriel D., in 1832; George, in Capt. Miller in politics incline- to the principles of IS35; Gabriel D. (2d), in 1838, of whom Ann B. I the Democracy, though neither his tastes nor habits (Mrs. Charles L. Watson) is now living. Mrs. Hall , of life have encouraged an active political life. He has abandoned business pursuits other than those in- cidental to the management of his private interests, and leads a life of retirement. Both he and Mrs. Miller are members of the Presbyterian Church of Greenwich, the captain being one of its board of trustees.
died Ang. 31, 1849, in her forty-fifth year. Mr. Ilall was again, in 1850, married to Mary Ann, daughter of Samuel Harris, of Roadstown, whose birth occurred Sept. 10, 1818. Their children are Elward F., born Nov. 9, 1850; John M., born March 23, 1852; and Charles B., whose birth occurred Nov. 21, 1857. Of this number .John M. survives and cultivates the farm. Hle was married, in 1877, to Jeuny O., daughter of | John C. Fenderson, of Cape May. N. J., born March 29, 1857, and has three children, -Anna MI., May F., . and Charles F. Mr. Hall was a stanch Ohl-Line Whig in polities until the formation of the Republican party, when he indorsed the articles of its platform, and emphasized his belief in it, principles with his vote. Both Mr. and Mrs. Hall are members of the Baptist Church of Greenwich, of which he is a deacon.
CAPT. CHARLES MILLER.
John Miller, grandfather of Capt. Charles Miller, emigrated from Germany, and located in Cumberland County, N. J., probably in Greenwich township. Ile married, and had children,-Martin, George, John, Anu (who became Mrs. Riley), Samuel, Lott, Mary Ann, and Philip (who died in youth). The death of Mr. Miller occurred in Greenwich township, where his son John was born, and where his life was spent, either as a farmer or as the popular landlord of the village hotel of Greenwich. He also for a period fol- lowed the fortunes of the water, and was owner and master of a packet running from his home to Phila- . delphia. Ile married Rebecca Van Winkle, of Green- wich, and had children,-Edwin F., Charles, John (who died in youth), Samuel (deceased), and Rebecca W. Mr. Miller was a man of much activity and energy, ; captain in the Cumberland militia, and subsequently and led a busy life until his death, which occurred in , major in the Cumberland Battalion. His children by
Greenwich township, where, with the exception of a very brief interval, his life has been spent. The pub- lic school and later the Friends' school in Greenwich afforded him a limited education, and at nineteen the farm offered a field of labor, which soon engaged all his energies. At twenty he determined upon the life of a waterman, and embarked on a schooner engaged
DANIEL M. SHEPPARD.
Enoch Sheppard, who was born in 1710 and died July 21, 1769, in his fifty-ninth year, was probably the son of Enoch, who died in 1718, and the grand- son of Jobin, one of the four brothers who settled in Cumberland County. Enoch had two wives ; the first, named Rachel, born in 1713, and who died in 1756 in her forty-third year, was the mother of all his chil- dren. His second wife was Mrs. Martha, widow of John Swinney, Enoch Sheppard lived and died at Bowentown, Hopewell township, on the farm now belonging to the heirs of ex-Sheriff Jonathan Fithian, which land he willed to his son Furman: He had five daughters-Lucy (Mrs. Smith), Elizabeth (Mrs. John Dare, and by a second union Mrs. James Robinson), Dorothy (Mrs. Brooks), Rachel (Mrs. Bacon), and Dorcas-and one son, Furman. The lat- ter, who is the grandfather of Daniel MI., was born July 6, 1756. He was twice married,-first, on the 15th of September, to Mary -- , and again on the 20th of December, 1780, to Hannah Maskell, who was born Oct. 26, 1759, and died April, 1853. Fur- man died Dee. 21, 1832, in Bridgeton. He was chosen frecholder for Hopewell in 1805, and held other offices in the township. Ife was an ensign in the State troops, and served during the war of the Revo- lution. After its close le was for many years a
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the first marriage were Enoch and Mary, and by the second union Rachel, Sarah, Daniel M., Robert, Elmund, Thomas C., Samuel F., Eliza E., and Wil- liam. Edmund was a physician, who lived and practiced at Newport, Cumberland Co., for many years, was elected chosen freeholder, and a member of the Legislature in 1825. In 1837 he removed to Eufaula, Ala., where his death occurred in 1874. Thomas C., father of the subject of this sketch, was born Nov. 15, 1793, and married Sarah S., daughter of Isaac Mulford. Their four children were Edward, Isaac M., Daniel M., and Lewis Henry. Isaac M. and Lewis Henry died in infancy, and Sarah S., who was born April 8, 1797, died June 6, 1826. Edward Sheppard was born March 25, 1817, and resided for many years in Delaware, where he represented his district in the State Legislature. He removed in 1859 to the West, and died Sept. 9, 1$79. Thomas C. Sheppard married for his second wife Mrs. Mary M. Porter, to whom were born two children,-Thomas Henry and Mary Emma. Daniel M. was born Aug. 7, 1821, and spent his youth at Bacon's Neck, in Greenwich' township, where he enjoyed ordinary ad- vantages of education. Ile first became a farmer, and subsequently engaged in teaching, after which, in 1855, he engaged in a general grain and mercantile business, in which he was eminently successful. He was married Oct. 25, 18Co, to Fanny 1., daughter of David Cook. They have one child, Sallie Mulford. Mr. Sheppard now resides in Greenwich, where he leads a life of comparative retirement.
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BENJAMIN F. MAUL.
rented a farm for a period of three years. At the ex- piration of this time he removed to Greenwich and became interested in the grain business, which was continued with success for twenty-five years, after which he led a life of comparative retirement. Mr. Maul was married December, 1848, to Sarah, dangh- ter of William and Mary Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Greenwich township. Their children are Lizzie and Annie H. (Mrs. Bolton Lott, of Bridgeton). Mr. Maul was in politics formerly a Republican, but has not recently confined himself within party lines, choosing rather to be independent in the exereise of his franchise, and giving his support to men of char- acter for office, irrespective of party. Both he and his wife are supporters of the Baptist faith aud miem- bers of the Cohansey Baptist Church of Roadstown.
JAMES DARE.
The subject of this sketch is the great-grandson of Benoni Dare, the son of William Dare (1st), who was sheriff of Salem County from 1703 to 1705 (see bio- graphical sketch of William Dare). Benoni bought of the Gibbons, Sept. 10, 1730, a traet of land con- taining over three hundred acres, a part of their survey of five thousand five hundred acres. The land included in this purchase is in Stow Creek township, and lies on the northeasterly side of the road from Roadstown to Jericho, extending from Roadstown westward, taking in the farm now owned by Thomas Kernan. He was a farmer, and probably lived on this traet the most of his life. He also owned a large quantity of other lands, including a plantation in Greenwich township, to which he re- moved previous to 1760, and resided there until his death in 1770. He had two wives, the second of whom was Mrs. Clemmons Waithman, whom he mar- ried in May, 1760. His children were all by his first wife, and were as follows : Elkanah, who died in 1759, leaving a widow, two sons, Benoni and Elkanah, and six daughters; William, born May, 1735, married, and had two sons and eight daughters; Abiel, who and David; Reuben, to whom his father left his home-place in Greenwich, and who died in Septem- ber, 1777, leaving children,-Margaret, Milicent, Samuel, and perhaps others; James, Eleanor, Eliza- beth, and Rachel.
Tradition relates that two brothers of the Maul family came at an early date from England, one of ! whom settled in New Jersey. From him was de- scended Garrison Maul, who resided in Bridgeton, where he was extensively engaged in business opera- tions. Mr. Maul cultivated a farm, was a prosperous merchant, and also engaged in the cutting and ship- ping of wood to Philadelphia, one of the most active business industries of that period. He married l'hebe, , left five children, -- 1biel, Gabriel, Joseph, Gilman,
daughter of Mason Mulford, of Roadstown, and had children,-Margaret (Mrs. Thomas Garrison, now de- ceased), Mary (Mrs. Lewis MI. Goodwin), Lueius (de- ceased ), Elizabeth (deceasedl), Maria (MIrs. Charles Kain, deceased), Benjamin F., and William G. The survivors of this number are Mary, who resides in James, son of Benoni, was a farmer, and lived in Greenwich township. He died Nov. 30, 1791, leaving a widow, Mary Ano, and two children, Hugh Black- wood and Benoni, the latter of whom removed to Pittsgrove town-bip, Salem Co., and left descendants there. Village Green, Delaware Co., l'a., and has one daughter, Mrs. Hluldah Jones; William G., of Omaha, Neb., who married Miss Ella Dare, and has one daughter, Mary ; and Benjamin F., who is the subject of this sketch, and was born July 14, 1823, in Bridgeton. His carly life was spent in Salem and . Hugh Blackwood Dare was born in 1771. He was a farmer, and lived and died at Bacon's Neck, Green- wich township, Charles Bacon having afforded him a Roadstown, where such advantages of education as i the common schools afforded were enjoyed by him. In 1849 he engaged in farming occupations, having , home on the death of bis father, where he remained
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nine years. lle was married, in 1802, to Martha An- gevine, and had one son, James, the subject of this sketch, who was left motherless when eighteen months old.
Mr. Dare died in 1831, in his sixtieth year, while residing with his son James, who was born July 24, 1803, in Greenwich township. His youth was alto- gether devoid of romance, and, when but a lad, circum- stances made him the architect of his own fortunes. He began active life as a quill-boy in the shop of a country weaver, and having acquired the trade fol- lowed it until thirty-two years of age. He was mar- ried on the 9th of May, 1822, to Prudence Rulon, who
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died in 1828, leaving children .- Franklin, residing in Bridgeton, and married to Caroline Fogg, of Stow Creek, and Mark R., who is a farmer, and married to Mary Stewart. James Dare was married a second time, Oct. 6, 1831. to Sarah E., daughter of Andrew and Mary Smith. of Salem County. Their children are Prudence Ann ( Mrs. James Butler) ; Richard S .. married to Beulah Tyler, and a -econd time to Rachel Ann Marble ; and Sarah T. Gleceased), who was Mrs. Stephen Coleman. Mr. Dare, in 1835, gave his atten- tion to farming employment-, and in 1838 purchased the farm which is his present residence. His wife having died in 1849, he was again married, in 1853, to Hannah B. Harmer, of Salem County. His later life has been devoted to farming occupations, in which he has been successful, though now debarred by the ad- vance of years from active labor. Mr. Dare has never
been identified with the excitements of political He cast his first Presidential ballot for John Yam Adams, and has since the formation of the Hogy .. lican party been one of its firm adherents. ltry. . educated in the faith of the Quakers, and, in 1-1, having connected himself with the Friends' Mectin .. has since been identified with then.
PHILIP G. SHEPPARD.
The subject of this sketch traces his ancestry to Thomas Sheppard, one of the four brothers who >. ;- tled at Back Neck, Fairfield township, in 1683. 11. was a large land-owner, and inchrb .. in his possessions two hundred and fifty acres of land in Shrewsbury Neck (now Upper Back Neck), pur- chased in 1698. Ile was a member of the Fifth Assembly after the union of East and West Jersey, which met Nov. 21, 1709, and was dissolved Jan. 31, 1710, an office then requiring the holder to own one thousand acres of land. Ilis death occurred in 1721. his wife, Ann, having survived hier. He had children,-Moses, David. James, and Anu. James died leav- ing a son James (2d). Moses, son of Thomas, was born about the year 1700, and married Dec. 6, 1722, Mary Dennis, Hle resided upon two hundred and forty acres of land which was his patrimony. He was a member of the Old Cohansey Bap- tist Church, as was also his brother. though his wife was a member of the Society of Friends. He was a men- ber of the Fourteenth Assembly. which sat from Aug. 18 until Dec. 8, 1744. Mr. Sheppard died in Jau- uary, 1753. His children were Ria- chel, born Sept. 29, 1723 ; Nathan, born Nov. 13, 1726 ; John, born Dec. 28, 1730; Sarah. whose birth occurred Feb. 13, 1732; Moses, born July 29, 1737 ; and Mary, born Dec. 1, 1741. The as changed their religious faith and united with the so- ciety of Friends. John, son of Moses, married, in 1756, Priscilla, daughter of Richard Wood. He re- moved to Greenwich, and in 1760 purchased the brick house and property at the Landing, which ha- remained in the family until the present time, and a view of which is given on an adjacent page. Il- was a prosperous merchant, and in 1772 was elected a member of the last Assen bly that met prior to the Revolution. He was also a member of the issenr. blies of 1785, '86, '87, '88. His death occurred Jan. 12, 1805. His children were Rachel, born July 2. 1762; Mary, born Nov. 4, 1764; John (20), born Jan 29, 1767; Priscilla, born Nov. 25, 1769; Richa? !
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W., whose birth occurred in 1771 ; Sarah, born Ang. :2, 1775; and Moses, born Feb. 3, 1777. John 124), grandfather of Philip G., married Mary, daughter of Mark Miller. He succeeded his father in the busi- ness at the Landing, which he greatly increased. lle was also member of Assembly in 170g. Their chil- dren were Thomas R., born April 29, 1789; Mark MI., born Jan. 12, 1791 ; Charles R., whose birth occurred Feb. 10, 1793; Benjamin, born March 14, 1795; Charles, born Feb. 24, 1798; Priseilla W., born May 15, 1800; John E .. boro Nov. 28, 1802; Mary Ann, born about 1807 ; Clarkson, born April 11. 1$13.
Mr. Sheppard's death occurred June 1, 1855. Of these children, John E. inherited the homestead in Greenwich now occupied by his son, the subject of this sketch. His life was passed in mercantile and farming pursuits at the paternal home, where his death occurred Jan. 12, 1832. He was a member of the Orthodox branch of the Society of Friends, a gentleman of quiet tastes and of religious life, caring little for the excitements of a political or public ca- leer. Ile married for his first wife Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Wood, of Greenwich, and had children,-George Wood and Elizabeth Wood, who died in infancy. By a second union with Margaret, daughter of Philip Garrett, of Philadelphia, on the 2d of January, 1840, were born children,-Philip G., subject of this sketch ; Annie E., wife of James S. Lippincott, of Haddonfield ; and Margaret. His son, Philip Garrett, was boro April 12, 1842, in Greenwich. When sufficiently okl be repaired to a school at West- town, Che-ter Co., l'a., under the auspiees of the So- ciety of Friends, and on his return decided to pursue the healthful employments of a farmer. At a later period he embarked in the grain, coal, and fertilizing business on the wharf adjoining the homestead. This wharf is situated on the Cohansey River, fourteen miles below Bridgeton and six miles from the mouth of the river, which is at this point navigable for vessels of five hundred tons burden. Mr. Sheppard married in 1867, Wi-s Elizabeth W. Garrett, of Wilmington, Del., who died in 1872. Ile was again married in April. 18-2, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Thomas C. and Mary sheppard, of Greenwich. Mr. Sheppard is still engaged in active business pursuits, as also in the cultivation of a farm, and is a successful peach-grower.
Though inclining toward the principles of the Re- publican party, he is not an active participant in poli- tics. His brother, George W. Sheppard, was born in March, 1×26 and educated at Westtown, Chester Co., Pa., and elsewhere. On the completion of his studies he engaged in farming occupation- on the spot known as the Wood homestead, where for thirty years he was thus actively employed. In 1880 he removed to Greenwich, where he now resides.
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He married Mi-s Ruth B., daughter of Moses Shep- pard, of Greenwich, to whom were born five children. The only survivor of this number is John E., a prac- ticing physician in Atlantic City.
CHAPTER XCVIIL
TOWNSHIP OF HOPEWELL ..
Boundaries and Description .- Hopewell town- ship is one of the original townships created by the act setting off the county. It is bounded north by Upper Alloways Creek township, Salem County ; cast by the Cohansey River, separating it from Deerfield and Fairfield, and by the Third Ward of Bridgeton ; south by the Cohansey, separating it from Fairfield on this side also; and west by Greenwich and Stow Creek. Its original limits included the Third Ward of Bridgeton, which was set off from it in ISIS as the township of Cuhansey, and has been since incorpo- rated into the city of Bridgeton. Its surface is slightly rolling, and is a fine agricultural soil, covered with well-tilled farms and neat and commodious resi- dences. Nearly its entire surface is under cultiva- tion. Lying adjacent to the city of Bridgeton, a good market is offered for the sale of produce and grain. Corn, wheat, hay, and oats are extensively grown in the township, while tomatoes, market produce, and fruits constitute no small items in the yearly returns. Along the southern end of the township, bordering on the Cohansey, the meadows have been reclaimed by banking out the tide, and large erops of hay and grain are produced on some of them, while others of them are used for grazing purposes only. The vil- lages of Shiloh and Road-town lie partly in this township and partly in Stow Creek, and the neighbor- hood called Bowentown and the post-office of Co- hansey lie wholly within it. The population of the township in 1850 was seventeen hundred and sixty- four. .
VILLAGES.
Shiloh,-The village of Shiloh lies in both Hope- well and Stow Creek townships, the road from Green- wich through Roadstown to Philadelphia passing di- rectly through it. It is about four miles northwest of Bridgeton, in the centre of a rich agricultural com- munity, and in 1880 had a population of two hundred and sixty-five, one hundred and forty-three of whom resided on the Hopewell side and one hundred and twenty-two in Stow Creek. It is situated on that part of Dr. James Wass' survey which he soll to Robert Ayers, Nov. 21, 1705, containing two thon- sand two hundred acres. A company of Baptists came from Swansea, Mass., to this region with Rev. Timothy Brooks in 1687, and settled in the neighbor- hool of Bowentown, as is related in the sketch of the Cohansey Baptist Church. They were followed by the above Robert Ayers, who first settled in Back Neck, on six hundred acres of land which he bought of Restore Lippincott, of Burlington County, but soon rcmoved to the land he purchased of James Wass. He was probably a Seventh- Day Baptist when he came to this county in 1705, and sold off his tract to those of his own faith, who naturally settled in the
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