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USA > New Jersey > Cumberland County > History of the counties of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland New Jersey, with biographical sketches of their prominent citizens, vol. 2 > Part 82
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Heislerville Methodist Episcopal Church. - Methodism was introduced at Hvislerville about . Hess, and John Lee were appointed a building com-
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mittee. The house was completed and dedicated Dec. 27, 1803, at a cost of fifteen hundred dollars. It was remodeled in 1882; a recess was added at each end, and a spire put up at a eust of two thousand seven hundred dollars. This church, called "Hick- man Church," belongs to the Port Elizabeth Circuit, and has the same ministers.
Dorchester Methodist Episcopal Church is a branch from Leesburg. Classes were formed a year or so previous to 1856, when an organization was effected, and a house was built at a cost of about fif- teen hundred dollars. During the fall and winter of 1873 it was rebuilt. Twelve feet were added to its length, a spire was put up and a recess made back of the pulpit, at a cost of two thousand three hun- dred dollars. It is a handsome church, and will seat about three hundred people. This church has the same pastors as Leesburg.
Ewing's Neck Methodist Episcopal Church wor- shiped in an old school-house before the church was built, in 1872. There were then twenty members. thousand dollars. This church has the same pastors as Heislerville. At Belle Plain a class worships in a school-house, supplied with preaching by the pastor of this circuit, about every two weeks, on Wednesday evening.
Cumberland Methodist Episcopal Church. - Early in this century a Methodist Episcopal Church was built by Wesley Budd, near the iron-works at Cumberland Furnace, now Manamuskin Mauor. A society was formed, and for some years it was quite prosperous. MIr. Budd made shipwreck of his worldly prosperity and of his character, failing in business in 1$18. At one time he was quite a distinguished preacher, and in 1799 rode the Salem Circuit. After the manufacture of iron from bog ore ceased to be profitable the works were abandoned, and the society almost ceased to exist. In 1862 a new edifice was erected, and now the congregation is steadily in- creasing. The pastors of this church previous to 1872 were the same as Port Elizabeth. From and including that date the following have served the church: 1872-73, S. F. Wheeler; 1874-76, John H. Hutchinson.
Up to 1877 this church was attached to the Foun- dry Church at Millville, of which church the above were pastors; in the latter year Cumberland Cireuit was formed, including Cumberland Furnace, and the following have since been the preachers : 1877-78, Thomas C. Parker; 1879, J. L. Clark; 1880-81, H. B. Raybold ; 1882, Charles S. Müller ; 1883, Frank A. Ilowell.
West Creek Baptist Church .-- A Baptist Church was organized in the lower part of Maurice River township, in 1792, which was called the West Creek Baptist Church. It was a member of the Philadel- phia Association until 1811, then of West New Jersey until 1856, when it was disbanded. The old church
building is yet standing in a very dilapidated eondi- tion, the winds howling through the chinks and the rains beating through the roof. It is in a wild, weird spot, surrounded by woods, and in almost a deserted neighborhood. Whether any of the original mem- bers reside in the locality we are not at present ad- vised. The following were pastors after its organiza- tion, all of whom are deceased : Peter Groom, 1795- 1807 ; Thomas Brooks, 1800-15; Ebenezer Jayne, 1819 -26; I. M. Church, 1840-1. Mr. Church, the last pastor, died in 1874, aged sixty-one years. During the intervals between the pastors, the church was served by occasional supplies.
JOSHUA BRICK was born at Bricksboro, in the township of Maurice River, in the year 1779. His father, Joshua Brick, Sr., was the son of John Brick (3d), who inherited from his father, John Brick (2d), a large real estate, including the mills and property at the place now called Jericho, situated on Stow Creek.
Joshua Brick appears to have lived during his
The church was completed in 1873, at a cost of two | youth in Haddonfield, where he received a good
English education, and was apprenticed to a tanner named James Hartly. Ile inherited or acquired property there, married a daughter of Jeremiah El- freth, then sold his Haddonfield property, and took uy his residence at the house built by his father at Bricksboro. Ilis relation, John Clement the elder, who, like his son, the present Judge John Clement, was a surveyor, laid out for him the projected town i of Bricksboro. He sold some of the lots, but the town refused to grow, and after a few years he re- moved to Port Elizabeth.
Whatever may have been the carly training of | Joshua Brick, it soon appeared that he was a man of superior intellect and well informed, especially in matters of politics and history. He made himself thoroughly acquainted with the titles and situation of the land in his vicinity, and was thus enabled to purchase advantageously. For many years he carried on a large business, and added considerably to his inherited property ; but he was not careful to retain what he acquired. One of his marked characteristics was that he confined himself almost exclusively to his own neighborhood, seldom traveled, and was never at New York or Washington. He was a judge and justice of the peace, but seldom acted in either ca- pacity, and could not be prevailed on to attend the courts at Bridgeton. He was elected a member of the Legislative Council of the State in 1836, and of the Convention that fornied the new Constitution in 1814; was a few years one of the judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals, a place which he soon re- signed, having no taste for judicial duties. He was also proposed by his friends as a representative in Congress, and a senator of the United States, but. failed to obtain the public confidence so as to be con- sidered by his party n safe candidate for these places.
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tive and influential in the political management, al- though most of the time the party to which he be- longed was in the minority. Toward the close of his life he united with the Methodist Church. He died in 1S60.
CAPT. ANDREW HEISLER died at Bricksboro on the 19th November, 1875, in the eighty-first year of his age. Hle was born March 21, 1795, about two miles from Bricksboro, at a place known as the Heisler farm, and lived there until 1812 or 1814, after which he moved to Heislerville. and on May 20, 1820, mar- ried Mary Tomlin. Shortly after his marriage he re- turned to the old homestead, and began housekeeping in a single room. He only remained here a year, and subsequently bought a small house in Bricksboro. He then began to follow the water, trading between Maurice River and Philadelphia. His principal busi- ness was carrying wood from the former to the latter. Capt. Ileisler was an industrious man, and believed in economizing time, and therefore when he laid up his vessel in the fall, he usually bought large traets of timber and employed men in reducing it to cord-wood. In the spring he would run his wood into the market. Thus he continued to operate during a period of forty years, after which he settled down as a farmer, and continued farming to the time of his death.
THOMAS LEE was born in Chester County, Pa., in the year 1780. Ilis father, Francis Lee, came from Beifast, Ireland, about the year 1770. Ile had sev- eral children. Three sons came to l'ort Elizabeth. The oldest, James, born in 1771, came there about the year 1795, and in_1801 he established works for the manufacture of window-glass. He disposed of his interest in the glass-works and joined others in the purchase of the Union Mill property and in erecting a blast-furnace for iron at Millville, which was soon disposed of to Smith & Wood, of Philadel- phia, and which David C. Wood carried on many years. In 1814 he removed to Bridgeton, and in company with Ebenezer Seeley purchased the prop- erty adjoining the east side of the stream of the Co- hansey, from North Street to Cornwell's Branch, and they, with Smith Bowen, who owned the property on the west side, made the dam, and thus created the water-power with the object of establishing a paper- mill. Not having sufficient capital to do this, Seeley and Lee reconveyed their side to Abrabanı Sayre, of whom they originally purchased it, and Smith Bowen sold his side and haif the water-power to Benjamin and David Reeves, who commenced the manufacture of nails. In 1817 Mr. Lee removed with his family to Cincinnati, and from thence in a short time to Maysville, Ky., and in 1824 he died in New Orleans.
Thomas Lee came to Port Elizabeth about the year 1799, and was employed for a time by his brother. He married Rhoda Murphy, of Salem County, and in 1805 went to Leesburg, where he was in business a few years; then returning to Port Elizabeth, he en-
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tered into partnership with Joshua Brick, carrying on business under the firm of Brick & Lce until about the year 1815, and then continuing a store until about the year 1854, when his health declined, and he gave up business, dying in 1856. He was an industrious, careful man, and succeeded in accumu- lating very considerable property.
In 1814, DIr. Lee was elected a member of the Legislature of the State, and from 1831 to 1835 he was a member of Congress, elected on a general ticket of the whole State, nominated by the Democrats. He was from the beginning an earnest supporter of the Democratic party.
Francis Lee, the brother of James and Thomas, died of yellow fever in 1803.
Thomas Lee had seven children, -Francis, Eliza- beth, Clement J., Benjamin F., Dr. Thomas (de- ceased), Lorenzo, and Ellen.
CHAPTER CI.
TOWNSHIP OF STOW CREEK.
Boundaries .- This township is also one of the orig- inal six townships into which the county was divided when it was set off from Salem, and is the smallest township in the county. It is bounded on the north- west by Lower Alloways Creek and Quinton town- ships. Salen Co., from which it is separated by Stow Creek ; Hopewell township lies to the east of it, and Greenwich on the south, from which it is separated by Newport Creek. Its surface is more generally hilly than any other township in the county.
Soil and Productions .- Its soil is a sandy loam, producing large crops of fruits and vegetables. The township is nearly all under cultivation, only a small portion of it being still covered with timber. Along Stow Creek and its branebes are numerous marl-pits, from which has been dug the fertilizing material which has changed the entire agricultural condition of this and the adjoining townships during the last , ! fifty years. The population of the township is almost entirely engaged in agricultural pursuits.
General Features .- The villages of Shiloh and Roadstown lie partly in this township and partly in Hopewell, and have been referred to under that town- ship. Jericho, a small village, at the mills of that name on Stow Creek, the boundary line of the county, is the only village within its boundaries. There is only one church within its limits, but three others are in Hopewell, within a few hundred yards of the line of this townsbip, and are attended by many of its in- habitants. There is no post-office in the township, but two lie on the east side of the road which forms the boundary line with Hopewell. There are three grist- and two saw-mills in the township, the streams
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flowing through it giving good water-power. Its popu- lation, owing to the small size of the township, and the absence of towns and villages, is less than any otber township in the county, being by the census of 1880 only eleven hundred and seven.
Jericho .- The village of Jericho is situated on the southeasterly side of Stow Creek, the dividing line between this and Salem Counties, on what was for many years the main stage-road from Bridgeton through Roadstown to Salem. It is situated on the tract of one thousand acres which was laid off' for Jolın Brick, and resurveyed in 1729 by Benjamin Acton. In former years, before the road through Shiloh and Marlboro to Salem was turnpiked, which turned the course of travel that way, Jericho was of much more importance than at the present day. A hotel was kept there for many years, but owing to the lack of public travel demanding such accommoda- tions, the court, a few years ago, refused any further license.
The principal business of the place is in connection with the grist- and saw-mill. It also contains a blacksmith shop and store for the accommodation of the neighborhood. During the carlier part of this century John S. Wood, who owned the mills, and was , conveyed it two days later to Mark Noble. After the an enterprising, active business man, endeavored to build up the place. Among other projects he con- verted the distillery belonging to him into a woolen- factory in the spring of ISIS, associating with himself in the business John E. Jeffers, who had been in that business for a number of years in New York State. Machinery was put in for the manufacture of broad- clothis, cassimeres, satinets, etc., but Mr. Jeffers left iu a few mouths, and the business not proving re- munerative it was afterwards abandoned, and the machinery disposed of about 1830. Since that date it has not advanced either in population or business. The population of the village and neighboring com- munity is not over one hundred.
Jericho Mills .- The mills at Jericho were built probably as early as 1700 by John Brick, who located the land as above stated. This was probably the second mill erected in this county for grinding grain, the tide-mill at Greenwich being the first. The pond lies partly in Salem County, the stream being the ' mill was connected with it for many years, which was carried away by the breaking of the dam, and never rebuilt.
boundary line of the two counties. At his death the mills became the property of his son, John Briek, Jr., who left them at his death, in 1753, to his son, Joseph Brick. Previous to 1780 they became the property of John Wood, who was appointed a justice of the peace in 1801, and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1804, which offices he held until his death. He was a large land-owner in this neighborhood, and, in addition to the Jericho property, owned the mill property in Salem County, now known as Maskell's mill, which he devised by his will dated July 2, 1817, to his grandsons, John W. and Thomas A. Maskell. The Jericho mills and property he devised to his son, John S. Wood, who for many years was the leading
citizen in that vicinity. After his death a division of his lands was made, in March, 1871, between his four children. when the Jericho mills were set off' to his daughter, Lucy 1. Clark, wife of Dr. Henry C. Clark, of Woodbury, Gloucester Co.
Seventh-Day Mill .- The grist-mill now owned by Zenos Davis, situated on a branch of Stow Creek which drains the northern part of the township of that name and empties into the head of Jericho mill- pond, is of ancient date. The earliest record found concerning it is a conveyance of the land covered by the mill-pond Jan. 18, 1759, by Zebulou Hart to Samuel Elwell, of Pilesgrove. The dam and mill had probably been erectedl previous to that date. In October, 1764, a two-rod toad was laid out from near Roadstown to Samuel Elwell's mill. In June, 1786, it was owned by William Mulford, who sold the same, Feb. 17, 1796, to John and Abijah Ayars. Abi- jah Ayars conveyed the undivided one-third of the mill property to James Harris, of Fairfield, Sept. 5, 1796, who conveyed it to Mark Noble May IS, 1801. The other two-thirds were sold by Sheriff George Burgin April 16, 1800, and again bought by William Mulford, who then resided at Greenwich ; and he death of Noble, in 1809, his widow married Samuel Davis, who occupied and carried on the mill until after the two children of Noble were of age. March 18, 1930, they all joined in conveying the property to John W. Davis, who, the same day, conveyed it to Samuel Davis, the husband of Mark Noble's widow. Samuel Davis deeded it to his two sons, John W. Davis and George B. Davis, in 1839, and they to Jacob A. Young and Maxcerman P. Young in 1857, who conveyed it to John D. Franklin in 1859, who carried on the business until 1865, when he soll it to Thomas J. Ware. Mr. Ware made extensive repairs to the property and machinery, and conveyed it to Zenos Davis in 1870, by whom it is now owned.
Its situation in that part of the county inhabited I mostly by adherents of the Sabbatarian faith, as well as its ownership for so long by persons of that faith, gave it the name of the Seventh-Day Mill, by which it is well known in that part of the county. A saw-
Secley's Mill, as it was known for many years, is situated on the Stow Creek side of Newport Creek, the boundary between that township and Greenwich. It is situated on the Gibbon survey of four thousand five hundred acres, on which Leonard and Nicholas Gibhon settled about 1728, that tract having been de- vised to them on condition they settle on the same. The grist-mill built here, on the division of their tract, in 1730, passed into the possession of Nicho- las, whose granddaughter, Rebecca, married Josialı Seeley, and they conveyed it to their son, Richard Seeley, from whom it descended to his daughter
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Mary, who married Rev. Benjamin Tyler, a l'resby- terian minister. The mill remained in her possession until November, 1880, when lsaac M. Smalley bought it and now owns it.
Smalley's Saw-Mill .- The pond from which the water-power is derived for this mill is situated on Bishop's Run, a branch of Stow Creek. It was for- merly owned by David Elwell, and afterwards by his brother, Isaac W. Elwell, from whom it was long known as Elwell's saw-mill. After the death of the latter it was bought by Isaac M. Smalley, who re- mains the proprietor. A large business is doue at this mill, mostly in custom work.
LIST OF FREEHOLDERS.
1748. Richard Holcher.
1,92-04. Jobn Peck, Esq.
Elijah Bowen.
1795-99. Joel Fithfan. John Peck, Esq.
1749. Elijah Bowen.
Peter Long.
1800. John Wood.
1750. Elijah Bowen,
Eldad Cook.
Ingh Puna.
1801-S. Joel FithiaD.
1751-32. Elijah Bowen. Blebard Butcher.
Eldad Cook.
1809. Joul Fithlan.
1753-54. - Richard Smith. Seeley Fithian.
Elijah Bowen.
1810. --
1:55-5%. Ticland Butcher. Elljah Boweu.
181]. Joet Fithian. Secley Flthian.
Richard Butcher.
George Howell.
1.01. Richard Butcher.
1762. Richard Butcher. Ananias Sayre. 1703-61. Annnias Sayre.
1516-17. George Howell. Maskell Ware. 1818-19. George Hlowell. Enos F. Handoipb.
1763-66. Ananias Sayre. Richard Butcher.
1820-22. l'nos 1". Randolph. Maskell Ware.
ING. Ephmim Lloyd. Anavins Sayre, Jr.
1523-26. Dr. Charles Clark. Philip l'ithlau.
1708-C3. Ananlas Sayre, Jr. Hugh Dunn.
1770. Ananias Sayre, Jr. 1771. -
1772-73. Jonathan Ayres.
Jobn Wheatou.
1774. Juhu Whealou.
Michael Hoshel.
1775. Aaron Butcher.
1834-37. l'hillp FithiAn. J:nos F. Randolph.
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1839-40. John S. Wood. William P. Seeley.
1777. Aaron Butcher.
John Wheaton.
1778. Ephraim Lloyd.
1779. Jacob Brown.
William P. Seeley.
Michael Iloshel.
1750. Aaron Butcher.
1781. Micha-1 llosh-1.
JACHI, Bifowa.
1848-50. Reuben Fithian. John Bowen.
1782. J'enjatnin Holmes. Michacl Hoch‹ 1.
1763. Aaron Butcher.
1,84-55. Aaron Butcher. Michael lloche !. 1780. Michael Joshel. Jolin Wood.
1.57. Mahel Hoshel.
1758. Michael Hoshel. John Wood.
1876-75 Isaac 31. Smalley. Williata Totalin.
1879. I-ase M. Smalley. 1880. Ephraim Munford.
15-1-83. 1sc lfos 1 D. Elwell.
ECCLESIASTICAL.
Roadstown Methodist Episcopal Church .- The Rev. Thomas Stewart, on Salem Circuit, enme to Roadstowu about 1842 or '43 and explored the country. He preached at Jericho school-house, and came once in four weeks to hold services. Rev. John Lenhart, of Commerce Street Church, Bridgeton, (who, it will be remembered, lost his life aboard the ill-fated frigate "Cumberland," of which he was chap- lain), formed a class in Roadstown school-house, not exceeding at first ten members, and the only class in the neighborhood. Abraham Mayhew and George Horner, with their families, were the principal ad- herents of this faith in the neighborhood.
A meeting was held July 5, 1844, and a society was organized, and took the name of Emory Methodist Episcopal Church. A lot was bought of Andrew Horner, on the road to Jericho, a quarter of a mile west of Roadstown, for seventy-five dollars, and a church was built for one thousand and eighteen dollars. It was dedicated Sept. 24, 1846, Rev. J. W. Hickman officiating. The church held about four hundred people. The first preacher there, on a station, was Rev. Francis Wolf, about 1852. Rev. Socrates Town- send, who was on the Salem Circuit at the time, preached there when the church was built. Rev. Samuel Parker came next to Townsend.
The following preachers are remembered to have preached there : Messrs. Abraham Gearhart, Charles Kirkbride, Mr. Relyea, William Barnhart, Joseph Theker, Henry Belting, Caleb Fleming, John L. Souders.
The following preachers have officiated there since 1865: 1865-66, S. C. Chettin ; 1867, L. O. Manches- ter; 1868, J. T. Woolson ; 1869, C. W. Carson. Dur- ing this year a new and handsome church was built in the town on the road to Greenwich. The lot cost sixteen hundred dollars, and the church cost four thousand dollars. 1870, William Pittinger; 1571- 73, John S. Gaskill; J874-76, Nomer J. Wright; 1877-70, A. H. Eberhart; 1880, Levi Herr; 1881, C. W. Brittain, who was expelled in May, when William E. Blackiston took his place; 1882, Wil- liam E. Blackiston ; ISS3, John B. Whitton.
JOHN GIBBON was born in what is now the town- I ship of Stow Creek, in the year 1737, before the county of Cumberland was set off from Salem. He was the son of Leonard Gibbon (1st), who emigrated from Gravesend, Kent Co., England, about the year 1728.
John Gibbon, the subject of this notice, inherited from his father a very handsome estate in land, in- eluding the dwelling-house in which he resided. He was taught the trade of a hatter, and in his will calls himself a hatter. In 1761 he married Esther Seeley. one of the daughters of Col. Ephraim Seeley, of Bridgeton. When the war of the Revolution broke "out he was in service, probably as a militiaman, and in 1777 was taken prisoner, and confined in a prison-
1700-91. Isaac Davis.
John Peck, F.941.
1792-91. Job Butcher.
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1831. Samuel Davia. IMAC Mulford.
1832-32. I-aue Mulford. Enlos F. Handolyb.
Joseph Sayre (part of year). Jonathan Ayres (remainder of year). 1776. Aaron Butcher. Abial Dare.
1841-43. D. Hord M. Bonham. Reuben Fithian.
1844. Belford M. Bonham.
1843-47. William P. Seeley. Reubeu Fithian.
1851. Isaac W. Elwell. Jamieg Woodnutt.
1852-59. lanec W. J .! well. Robert Fithian. 1860-72. Lewis llowell. Inanc W. Elwell.
18:3-75. Inanc W. Elwell. Isaac M. Smalley.
1827-29. J'filip Fithian. Maskell Ware. 1830. Isaac Elwell. Samuel Davis.
1750-60. Ananias Sayre.
1912-15. Jvel Fithian.
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ship at New York. With a large number of fellow- prisoners, by the neglect or contrivance of the sub- ordinates intrusted with the care of them, partly for profit and partly to induce the prisoners to enlist with the British, he suffered the most barbarous treatment, the food provided being, much of it, unfit for use, and even of this and of water to drink they were sometimes unsupplied for two or three days at a time, so that as many as fifteen hundred were believed to have died; as death released them from their sufferings they were dragged out and piled up until enough were collected to make a cart-load, when they were thrown into a ditch and slightly covered with earth. Mrs. Gibbon, aware of his capture, but un- able to hear from him, succeeded by great exertions and the aid of friends, after considerable delay, in obtaining permission to enter the enemy's lines. went alone to New York, and was there informed that three days before her arrival he had diel, and had been thrown with others into the trench; the body could not be obtained. A few years after this the widow married Col. Benjamin Holme, of Elsinboro.
John Gibbon left four sous and two daughters, among whom his real estate was divided by a will dated Dec. 10, 1776, giving to his sons two shares, and his daughters one cach, otherwise it would all have gone to the oldest son, as the law was until 1780. Nicholas, the oldest child, had the homestead. HIe died about 1809.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
JOEL FITHJAN.
The family are of English aneestry, though no facts regarding their emigration are accessible. Samuel, the grandfather of Joel, removed at an early day from Long Island to Salem, now Cumberland County. Ile married and had sons, Joel and Seeley, who lived to mature years, and several daughters. Ilis son Secley was born in Greenwich township, where he subse- quently became a farmer, and at a later date removed to Stow Creek township. Ile served as captain during the Whiskey Insurrection, and marched to Pennsyl- vania with his company. He was united in marriage to Mary Burgin, who died soon after, leaving one son, John B., now deceased, who was early a farmer in Greenwich township, and afterward removed to Phil- adelphia, where he engaged in the manufacture of glass, and also embarked in the drug business with Dr. Horace Burgin. He left children,-Charles S., secretary of the East Lake Woolen Mill, at Bridgeton, and a daughter, Eleanor MI. By a second marriage to Esther Hunt, of Stow Creek, Sceley Fithian had children,-Ruth, who was unmarried, Reuben, Joel, and Robert. M :. Fithian's death occurred on the 23d of March, 1219, in Stow Creek. llis son Joel was born Oct. 29, 1802, in the latter township. Ser-
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