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i. John2, m. - -; d. May, 1743, leaving one child, John, 3d.
ii. Lewis2, m. 1st. June 27, 1743, Neeltje Van Cleve, both of New Brunswick; 2d, May 5, 1747, Jane Lawrence, both of Monmouth county.
iii. Henry2, m. Ruth Bong, Dec. 19, 1748, both being of Middlesex county. In a communication dated
"Brunswick, East-New-Jersey, Sep. 28, 1767," he strongly urged the advantages of leather for roofing purposes .- V. J. Archircs, 25: 467-8. In 1780 he adver- tised for "Two experienced Harponiers in
the Whaling business."
iv. Sarah2, m. William Nixon, of Middlesex, Jan. 27, 1746, she being of New Brunswick.
It is also probable that Henry Guest? was the father of Henry3, whose wife Anne died at New Brunswick January 4, 1772. She is understood to have been a member of the Forman family of Monmouth county.
There was a numerous Guest family of Gloucester county, where the name was known as early as 1735. William Guest, of Woodwich, in that county, schoolmaster, left a will, dated Sept. 4, 1777, proved at
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Woodbury, Oct. 28, 1783, in which he mentions wife Christian, and children:
i. Henry, to whom he devises two lots, one of them with a meadow lying in John Avises field binding on Old- mans creek, two acres; the other binding on the Great road to Swedesborough.
ii. Joseph, to whom he devises "the plantation where I dwell, 120 acres."
iii. Catharine Vanneman, to whom he leaves £10.
iv. Mary Avise, to whom he leaves £10.
He also leaves £15 to granddaughter Hannah Guest, probably dau. of Henry. Executors-wife and sons Henry Guest and Joseph Guest. Witnesses-James Lord, John Ware, Joshua Lord.
Joseph Guest, of Woolwich, Gloucester county, yeoman, made his will June 24, 1792, and it was proved August 29, 1793. His wife was probably dead, as she is not mentioned. He names children as fol- lows: Mary, William, Christenah, John, Elizabeth, Garrit, Rebecca, all unmarried, apparently, and probably under age, as he leaves his property to his sons "when twenty-one," and to his daughters "at their marriage." Executors brother, Henry Guest, and "Cuzen" Matthew Gill, Jun. Witnesses-Jacob Stille, George Katts, John Sharp.
It is possible that William Guest was a son of John1 Guest, of New Brunswick.
John Guest and Maria Boa his wife had a child Hindrick (Henry) baptized in the Hackensack Dutch church, June 25, 1727. This may have been the Henry2 John1, who m. Ruth Bong, Dec. 19, 1748, as above stated.
DR. ROBERT HALSTED.
Robert Halsted was descended from Timothy Halsted, the first of the name in America, who came from England as early as 1660, and settled at Hempstead, L. I. His son, Timothy Halsted, Jr., removed to Elizabethtown early in the eighteenth century, where he d. Feb. 27, 1734-5, in his 77th year. The latter's eldest son, Caleb, of Hemstead and later of Elizabethtown, d. at the latter place in 1721. He left a son, Caleb, b. July 8, 1721; m. Sept. 16, 1744, Rebecca, daughter of Robert Ogden, 1st, and Phebe (Baldwin) Roberts; he d. at his resi- dence, Halsted's Point, Elizabeth, June 4, 1784; she d. March 31, 1806. They had twelve children, the eldest being Robert, b. Sept. 13, 1746. After graduating from Princeton College at the age of nineteen he studied medicine, and practiced his profession in Elizabeth and vicinity for nearly sixty years. He was held in high esteem as a physician. It is said that he was demonstrative, bold, energetic and sometimes brusque in speech and manner. He was strict in his observance of the Sabbath, a regular church-goer, and always in his seat at the hour of worship. Being decided and outspoken in his patriotic sentiments at the beginning of the Revolution, he became obnoxious to the loyalists, and it is said that he was arrested and taken to New York and con- fined in the old Sugar House. He m., 1st, April 15, 1773, Mary Wiley; 2d, Oct. 1, 1787, Mary Mills, dau. of the Rev. William Mills, a grad. of Princeton, 1756; he d. Nov. 25, 1825; she d. May 20, 1841, aged 78. Dr. Halstead is probably buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, Elizabeth, but there is no tombstone to his memory in that burying ground. He had ten children: five by his first wife, and five by his second. Among his brothers were William, Sheriff of Essex County,
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1790; Caleb, licensed as a physician, 1774, and who practiced until his death in 1827; Matthias, a Brigade Major in the Continental Army. See Descendants of Rebecca Ogden, 1729-1806, and Caleb Halsted, 1721- 1784, and Wickes's Medical Men of New Jersey.
REV. SAMUEL HARKER.
Samuel Harker was brought up to manual labor, and grew to be a man of remarkable size, vigor and strength. He is said to have grad- uated from the College of New Jersey, but this is probably an error. He may have matriculated there, however. On Dec. 6, 1749, he was taken under the charge of New Brunswick Presbytery, to pursue his studies for the ministry. He was licensed Nov. 6, 1751, and on Oct. 31, 1752, was ordained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Roxbury, on Black River, Morris County. He was aggressive in his beliefs. On one occasion he challenged the Rev. Abel Morgan, a Bap- tist preacher, to a public debate on the subject of infant baptism, and they enjoyed two days of discussion at Kingwood, Hunterdon County. A neighbor near Roxbury having offered $20 reward to any one who could produce a scripture text sustaining the doctrine of infant bap- tism, Mr. Harker rode over, produced a text to his own satisfaction, and when the other was not satisfied sued him for the $20. He finally got into trouble with his own denomination about some abstruse ques- tions of doctrine, and as he persisted in his views with greater perti- nacity, even publishing a statement of them without the assent of the Synod, after a controversy extending from 1757 the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, on May 27, 1763, voted, though apparently with great reluctance and by no means with unanimity, to declare him "disquali- fied for preaching or exercising his ministry in any congregation or vacancy" under their care. In 1758 he went as Captain of a company on the expedition against Canada. He is said to have been lost at sea, by the foundering of a vessel in which he was sailing to England with his son, who was on his way thither to receive Episcopal ordination. This would seem, improbable, however, in view of the fact that his will, dated March 22, 1764, was proved only six weeks later, or on May 2, 1764. If he had been lost at sea on the way to England, the fact would not have been determined within so short a period. It is more probable that he died at his home in Roxbury. It is quite character -. istic of his pugnacity that, notwithstanding the action of Synod, he describes himself in his will as "Minister of the Gospel." He speaks of his wife Deborah, his son Ahimaz, his daughters Rachel, Jemima and Massa, and his grandson Daniel, for whom he makes special pro- vision, "for that he is foolish" (feeble-minded). Traditions of the par- son's vigorous personality are still preserved in the Black River region. -Hist. of the Presbyterian Church in America, by Richard Webster, Phila- delphia, 1857, 622; Hist. Morris County, 213; Records of the Presbyterian Church Philadelphia, 1841, 329; Materials for a Hist. of the Baptists in New Jersey, Philadelphia, 1792, 17; N. J. Archives, IX., 184; E. J. Wills, H., 435. He published "An Appeal from the Synod of New York and Philadel- phia, to the Christian World by the Reverend Samuel Harker. Written by himself." Philadelphia: Printed by William Dunlap. M, DCC, LXIII. 8vo. Pp 40. Also: "Predestination Consistent with General Liberty: Or the Scheme of the Covenant of Grace. By Samuel Harker, Minister of the Gospel at Black River, in New-Jersey." Philadelphia: William Dunlap. 1763. A reply was printed with the title: "The Synod of New York and Philadelphia vindicated. In a Reply to Mr. Samuel Harker's Appeal to the Christian World. By a Member of the Synod." [Rev. John Blair.] Philadelphia: William Dunlap. 1764. 12mo. Pp. 50. His
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son. Ahimaaz, named in his father's will. in 1764, published in 176S "A Companion for the Young People of North America."-N. J. Archires, XXV., 506; XXVI., 127. He subscribed himself "a Candidate for the Ministry." He died in England. in 176S, of small-pox. In announcing the fact the Pennsylvania Chronicle, of October 24-26, 1768. said: "He was a Native of New-Jersey, and a young Man of a good natural Genius, and great Urbanity."
HARTSHORNE FAMILY.
The Hartshorne family of Monmouth County trace their ancestry to Richard Hartshorne, the son of William Hartshorne, of Leicester- shire, England. Richard was a brother of Hugh Hartshorne, who was a citizen of London, and was admitted to the freedom of the Skinners' Company, Aug. 1, 1654. He was an "upholsterer" of Houndsditch, and is referred to sometimes as a "skinner," an "upholsterer," and as a "merchant." He was one of the Twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey, named in the confirmatory grant of March 14, 1682-3, from the Duke of York. He died April 25. 1684, aged 55 years. There is no rea- son to suppose that he ever visited America .- N. J. Archives, I., 366, 374, 383, 412, 528; Whitchead's East Jersey, 2d ed., 118, 178; N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, XIV., 95; Old Times in Old Monmouth, 12.
Richard Hartshorne was born Oct. 24. 1641, at Hathearne. Leicester- shire, England; he married Margaret Carr, Nov. 27, 1670. Coming from London to America, in September, 1669, he located in East Jersey, and took up an extensive tract of land at Middletown and the Highlands of the Navesink (acquiring Sandy Hook in 1677), where he lavished a generous hospitality, as attested by George Fox and others, he being a Friend, and naturally partial to the traveling ministers of that per- suasion. - Smith's Hist. N. J., 63. note; N. J. Archives, II., 329, note; Old Times in Old Monmouth, 12. He was Town Clerk of Middletown in 1675 .- List. Monmouth County. 519. In 1683 he was appointed Sheriff of Mon- mouth County, an honor he sought to decline .- N. J. Archives, XIII., 77. 'The precedent has not been followed to any extent. In 1683 he also became a member of Gov. Gawen Laurie's Council. In the same year he was elected to the Assembly, and in 1656 was Speaker of that body, holding that position until October, 1693, and again, from February, 1696, to March, 169S, when he became a member of Gov. Jeremiah Basse's Council. He continued in the Assembly also, and held both offices until the surrender of the Province to the Crown, in 1702 .- N. J. Archives, I., 220, note. He was again elected to the Assembly from the Eastern Division in 1703 and 1704. He died in 1722 .- Old Tum.s in Old Monmouth, 291: Hist. Monmouth County, 534.
His children were: 1. Robert, born 5th 12th mo. 1671; probably died young; 2. Hugh, born 15th 5th mo. 1673; died in infancy; 3. Thomas, born 14th 9th mo. 1674; 4. Mary, born 14th Sth mo. 1676; married Clayton; 5. William, born 22d 1st mo. 1678-9; lived at Portland, on the Highlands; died 1748: had issue: Richard. William, Margaret (wife of Gershom) Mott, Thomas. Mary (wife of John) Lawrence. Hugh, Rob ert (died in 1891), John Esek (died in 1796 or 1797), Rachel Robinson; 6. Richard, born 17th 2d mo. 16$1; died in infancy; 7. Katharine, born 2d 3d mo. 1682; married Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, of Woodbridge; S. Hugh, born 21st 6th mo. 1685; m. Catharine Tilton (b. 14th 7th mo. 1684), and had ch. Margaret. who m. Robert White, saddler; she d. 10th of 5th mo. 1747; 9. Sarah, born 3d 7th mo. 1687; married Taylor; 10, Richard, born 15th 12th mo. 1689; 11. Mercy, born 12th 5th mo. 1693; married William Lawrence .- N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record.
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XIV., 95. Robert and Esek appear to have carried on business together, in Monmouth county, in 1767 .- N. J. Archives, XXV., 292.
Hugh, son of Richard, born 1685, as above, was foreman of the Mon- mouth County Grand Jury in 1711, and lived at Middletown .- Old Times in Old Monmouth, 269, 291-2. His plantation of 600 acres at Middletown was advertised for sale in 1744 by his executors-Catharine Hartshorne (presumably his widow), Robert Hartshorne, Joseph Field and William Hartshorne, jun .- N. J. Archires, XII., 242. His children were: Mar- garet White, Rebecca Wright, Catherine Bowne, Richard, Sarah Van Brakle, Robert, Mary Garrison, Eliza, Mercy .- N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record. It was probably the Robert Hartshorne just mentoined who was admitted to the bar in 1739, and who in 1744 was at Burlington, where he died early in 1761.
Hugh Hartshorne, Clerk of the Assembly in 1757, was doubtless the son of William (b. 1678-9, son of Richard); the latter died in 1746, and in 1748 his executors advertised for sale "The High Lands of Nave- sinks and Sandy-Hook lying in Middletown. East Jersey, consisting of 2800 Acres." including "a good Dwelling-House, 40 Feet Long and 30 Feet broad, with Sash Windows. two good Stone Cellars under it, with three Kitchens adjoining, pleasantly situated upon Navesinks River." -N. J. Archives, XII., 325, 467, 523. Hugh Hartshorne married Hannah Pattison in Burlington Monthly Meeting in 1741 .- Friends in Burlington by Amelia Mott Gummere, Philadelphia, 1884, 93. He was living in Bur- lington early in 1743, and was still there in 1755 .- N. J. Archives, XII., 171, 467; XIX., 481. He was one of the signers of the N. J. currency in 1754-56 .- Ib., VIII., Part II., 39, 230, 232. On April 18, 1758, he was allowed £26, 15, 2, for "39 Days Attendance as Clerk of the House of Repre- sentatives at this and another Sitting of the Assembly and for Copying the Laws and Votes for the Printer During the Said Sessions."-Ib., XVII., 170. This appears to have been the extent of his service as Clerk of the Assembly. In 1766 he was at Bristol, Pa .- N. J. Archires, XXV., 21.
GENERAL NATHANIEL HEARD.
Nathaniel Heard was a member of a family long prominent in the annals of Woodbridge, N. J. He was greatly interested in good horses, and entries in races in the vicinity of Woodbridge were usually made with him, as in 1763, 1767. and later. His bay horse was a winner at the Elizabethtown races in 1767 .- N. J. Archives, XXIV., 128; XXV., 338, 461. On January 7th, 1775, he was chosen one of a "committee of observation" from Woodbridge .- Minutes of the Pro- rincial Congress and Council of Safety of New Jersey, Trenton, 1879, pp. 42, 45. He was one of the delegates elected by Middlesex county to the Provincial Congress which met at Trenton in May, June and Au- gust, 1775 .- Ib .. 163. He was appointed Colonel of the First Regiment. Middlesex; Colonel, Battalion "Minute Men," February 12th. 1776; Colonel, Battalion "Heard's Brigade." June 25th, 1776; Brigadier- General Commanding, ditto; Brigadier-General Militia, February 1st, 1777 .--- Official Register of Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Rerolution- ary War, by William S. Stryker. Trenton, 1872, p. 349. On January 3d, 1776, the Continental Congress ordered Col. Heard, with 500 or 600 Minute Men and three companies from Lord Stirling, to disarm all the Tories in Queens county, Long Island, which he did with great prompt- ress. An officer under him wrote: "He is indefatigable, treats the in- habitants with civility and the utmost humanity." He carried off nearly 1,000 muskets, four colors of Long Island militia, and nine- teen of the principal disaffected persons. and made 349 others swear that they had concealed no arms from him. He received the thanks
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of the local committee for his prudence in the execution of his duty, and the compliment of a bitter attack in doggerel verse by the Tories. of which this is a specimen:
"Col. Heard has come to town, In all his pride and glory; And when he dies he'll go to Hell, For robbing of the Tory."
-- Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County, by Henry Onderdonk, Jr., New York, 1846, pp. 41-8; Calendar of N. Y. Revolutionary Manuscripts, f., 218, 235, 334; Baneroft, VIII., 276; Alemoirs L. I. Hist. Soc., II., 34-40; III., Docs., 170. On Feb- rutry 12th, 1776, the Provincial Congress ordered him to take 700 troops to Staten Island, to hold it against the enemy .- Minutes, 363. When the Provincial Congress decided, June 16th, 1776. to arrest Gov. William Franklin, that delicate task was entrusted to Col. Heard, the Congress "reposing great confidence in (his) zeal and prudence," and he promptly placed the Governor under arrest the next (Sunday) morning .- Ib., 457-8-61; N. J. Archives, X., 719-20. The Continental Congress having ordered Franklin to be sent to Connecticut, Heard set out thither with his prisoner, but halted with him at Hackensack, for which he was sharply reproved by Washington .- Minutes Provincial Congress, 475; Sparks's Washington, III., 446-8. Two or three weeks later Heard was busy, under orders from Washington, picking up suspicious characters at Amboy and on Staten Island .- Sparks's Washington, III., 451-2. His brigade was engaged in the disastrous battle of Long Island, in the subsequent retreat to Fort Lee, and thence southerly through New Jersey .--- Force's Archives, 5th Series, II., assim; Memoirs N. J. Hist. Soc., Ill., passim; Sparks's Washington, IV., 432; N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collec- tions, 1878, p. 404. Letters written by him from headquarters, Raritan, March 16th and April 1st, 1777, show his vigilance in detecting and arresting a British spy, and in taking care of British deserters .- N. J. Revolutionary Correspondence, 45; Penna. Archircs, V., 262. On June 17th, 1777, he reports from Pompton the arrest of several persons "charged with taking away in an unlawful manner some tea stored at Paramus. - -supposed to be near four hundred weight."-N. J. Rer. Cor., 69. On October 2d, 1778, his command marched from Woodbridge for Hacken- sack .- Sparks's Washington, VI., 75; Gaines's N. Y. Mercury, passim. Heard's rigorous punishment of the enemies of American liberty made the British very bitter against him, and during 1776-7 they burned down two dwelling-houses, a bolting-house, a hatter's shop, a weaver's shop, wagon-house and a stable. besides carrying off his cattle, horses and crops, to his damage £2,189, 17, 6, as appears by his affidavit, re- corded in a MS. volume in the State Library. His dwelling-houses were two and a half stories high, with four rooms on a floor, well fur- nished, fifty feet in length. It is needless to say he was never reim- bursed for his great sacrifices for his country. Capt. Montresor, of the British army, says sneeringly that he was a tavern-keeper, and un- wittingly pays a high compliment to his usefulness to the American cause by saying that it was one of the great blunders of the British that they did not buy him over to their side .- N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1881, p. 136. Gen. Heard lived in Woodbridge on the southeast corner of the old post-road and the road from Amboy. He had three sons-John, James and William-and four daughters .- Whitehead's Perth Amboy, 193, note. John and James also served in the army with distinction. It may be added that Gen. Heard was appointed one of the trustees of the free school of Woodbridge, in the. charter given in 1769. In 1776 he was elected town collector, and the people also voted to continue him as school trustee. He died at Woodbridge, October 28th, 1792,
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aged 62 years .- Dally's Woodbridge, passim; 2 N. J. Archives, I., 9-11. His will, dated July 6, 1776, describes him as "planter." He mentions wife Mary; devises all lands to sons John, James and William, to be divided among them equally, ("requesting them not to have any dis- pute in the division thereof in case of my decease before William will be of age and he to be maintained out of the estate"); daughters P'hebe, Elizabeth, Mary and Sarah to have £400 each (to be paid out of the estate by the three sons), as they come of age. Executors- sons John, James and William Heard. Witnesses-George Herriot, Samuel Heard, Samuel F. Parker. The will was not changed during the sixteen years the testator lived thereafter. It was proved Decem- ber 6, 1792 .- V. J. Wills, Liber 31, f. 247.
REV. SAMUEL HEATON.
The Rev. Samuel Heaton was b. at Wrentham, Conn., in 1712, and was brought up a Presbyterian. He removed to New Jersey, with three brothers, about the year 1734, and settled near Black River, in the county of Morris, and there set up iron works. Becoming a Bap- tist, he began to preach in the vicinity of Schooly's Mountain, the result being a Baptist church there. In 1751 Mr. Heaton was ordained as a preacher, and the next year went to Mill Creek, in Virginia, and from thence to Konoloway, where he founded another church. Being driven from thence by the Indians, he settled, next year, at Cape May. Thence he removed to Dividing Creek to settle a third church, in the care of which he died, in the 66th year of his age, Sept. 26, 1777. His wife was Abby Tuttle, by whom he had children: Samuel (m. Rhoda Terry, May 12, 1783), Abia, Abigail, Eliona, and Sarah. This family he brought up in a decent way notwithstanding his poverty. His children married into families of the Colesons, Reeves, Lores, Garrisons, Clarks, Cooks, Johnsons, Terrys, and Kelsays .- Hist. of the Baptists in N. J., by Morgan Edwards.
DR. THOMAS HENDERSON.
Thomas Henderson was born at Freehold, Monmouth county, in 1743, where his father was a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church, an office he himself afterwards held for forty years. Having gradu- ated at Princeton, he studied medicine with Dr. Nathaniel Scudder, and began practicing in 1765. He took an active part in the Revolu- tion, attaining to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in Heard's Brigade. In 1779 he was in the Continental Congress, and in 1795-1797 in the Federal Congress. Various local offices were also held by him. In 1793 he was a member of the State Council from Monmouth county, and was Vice President of that body. We owe to him many of the data in the very remarkable Life of the Rev. W.lam Tennent, his manuscript being in the library of the New Jersey Historical Society. He died December 15, 1824.
SAMUEL HENRY.
Samuel Henry was evidently a native of Ireland. He was the owner of large tracts of land in Trenton and elsewhere, including "the old iron works" at that place, at least as early as 1763, when he advertised a runaway servant. In 1765 he was one of the assignees of Jacob Roeters Hooper, of Trenton, who had made an assignment for the ben- efit of his creditors .- N. J. Archives, XXIV., 235, 631. He was one of
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the subscribers toward the salary of the Rev. Elihu Spencer, of the Presbyterian church in Trenton and vicinity, but was probably an Episcopalian, as in his will he left a contingent legacy to the English Church of Trenton, and was buried in the yard of that church. He died May 10, 1784, aged 67 years .- Hall's Hist. Pres. Church in Trenton, 257. Henry's iron foundry and steel works were on the Assunpink creek, where it is crossed by State street .-- Trenton One Hundred Years Ago, by William S. Stryker, 4. Samuel Henry bought from the trus- tees for the creditors of Robert Smith, of New Hanover, Burlington county. April 22, 1738, a tract of land in Trenton. He and his wife Mary conveyed to Neal Leviston, of Trenton, May 29. 1759, a part of this tract: beginning at a stone corner of Neal Leviston and Daniel Belerjeau's, thence by the land of Samuel Henry 89 degs. east 90 ft. to Queen's street; along the same one deg. south. Witnesses-James Cummins, Joseph De Cou .- V. J. Deeds, Liber AH, f. 336. In the deed he is described as of Trenton, merchant. From the recitals in this deed we learn that he began buying land in Trenton as early as 1738. The deed was acknowledged by Samuel Henry, March 23, 1774. Samuel Henry, who died in 1784, aged 67 years, was evidently his son, or Samuel Henry, 2d. Other purchases by Samuel Henry, 1st or 2d, were as follows: From John Allen, Sheriff, for £21, 10., May 9, 1753, Lot 24, five acres, of the estate of David Martin, in the township of Trenton, in the hands of Theophilus Severns and Joseph Clayton .- N. J Deeds, Liber AF, f. 174. Enoch Andrus, of Trenton, late deceased, by his last will did give unto his son Joshua 200 acres in the township of Nottingham, situate on Assunpink Creek, being part of a tract bought of Thomas Cadwalader and Hannah his wife; said Joshua con- veyed the same to John Ely, June 11, 1741; Ely, for £600, conveyed to Samuel Henry, May 10, 1760 .- N. J. Deeds, Liber AT, f. 150. Henry recovered a judgment, in November, 1760, against Nathan Wright, for a debt of £300, in pursuance of which John Barnes, sheriff of Hunter- don county, levied on a house and lot in Trenton, containing one quar- ter of an acre, bounded north by lands of Joseph Philips, west by Queen street, east by the Presbyterian church, south by Second street, and sold the same for £82 to Samuel Henry .- N. J. Deeds, Liber AW, f. 13. He advertised for sale, in 1768, a tract of land, on which he then lived: "There is on the said premises a good new farm house, also new barn, corn cribs and other useful houses to accommodate the plantation. There is also a good grist mill, well built of good stone and lime, etc. The whole premises being about 11/2 miles from Tren- ton, 30 from Philadelphia and 30 from New Brunswick, and thence by water to New York."-N. J. Archives, 25: 14. In his will, dated May 8, 1784, two days before his death, he is described as of Trenton, "Gentle- man." He sets forth with some particularity his extensive holdings of land. He disposes of his estate as follows: To Arthur, eldest son of my brother Alexander Henry of the Kingdom of Ireland, five shillings. To my son Samuel Henry, son of Mary Oglebee, all the land on the North side of my plantation: Beginning at James Chapman's to the line of Sarah Penyea and Barnt De Cline to land lately purchased from Isaiah Yard, and also a lot of woodland in Nottingham adjoining the plantation of Eliakim Anderson. To my son George Henry, son of the said Mary Oglebee, all of the residue of the plantation whereon I now live, which I purchased from Thomas Cadwalader, Samuel Burge and Peter Hankinson; also 50 acres of land in Nottingham, being land pur- chased from John Ely; also land on the North side of Maidenhead Road at Shabacunk, purchased from John Barns, late High Sheriff; also 26 acres purchased from George Davis, together with the new house now
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