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"But in another point of View, he shone still with a brighter Lustre. -Religion ever influenced his Mind; his Morals were unblamable; and Christ, his Doctrines, and Institutions, he was never ashamed to Confess before Men, such was his Life .- His Death no doubt was Similar, and Crowned with the just Consequence. His worthy and much afflicted Relict, his Friends, and New-Jersey, indeed, feel the loss, but he the Gain .-
"Weep, mortals weep, the worthy Aynesley's gone! If human woes. and cares, affect alone. But if thoughts, superior far, take place, Let joy and gladness smile in ev'ry face."
JONATHAN BALDWIN.
Jonathan Baldwin was a son of Nathaniel Baldwin, who d. at New- ark, Aug. 10, 1750, aged 50 years. He was b. at Newark in 1731, and graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1755. He m. Sarah Ser- geant, and removed to Princeton, where he served the College as Stew- ard for a number of years, beginning as early as 1762. In 1764 he had tickets for sale at Princeton in the College lottery. He engaged in an animated controversy with a butcher who sold mutton to the College, in 1768. He d. Nov. 28, 1816, aged 85 years. Issue: 1. Charles, a law- yer; 2. William; 3. Susan; 4. Elizabeth Davidson; and four other sons, unm. at his decease.
COLONEL FRANCIS BARBER.
Francis Barber was born in Frinceton in 1751, a son of Patrick Bar- ber, an Irishman, who came to America and settled in New York a year or two before his son was born, and after a short stay in that city took up his residence in Princeton, where he remained fifteen or sixteen years, when he removed to Orange county, New York .- Hayc- man's Hist. of Princeton, 1: 90. Francis graduated from the College at Princeton in 1767, and then engaged in teaching at Hackensack. After a brief experience there, he took charge, Nov. 1, 1771, of an Academy at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. The school soon became distinguished. Alexander Hamilton was prepared for college under Mr. Barber. At the commencement of the Revolution he offered his services to the country, and on the 9th of February, 1776, he was appointed, by the Legislature, Major of the Third Battalion, New Jersey troops, and on November 8th was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Third Regiment, and on January 1st, 1777, he received his cominis-
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sion from Congress. Soon after this he was appointed Assistant In- spector-General under Baron Steuben. Colonel Barber was in constant service during the whole war. Although a strict and rigid disciplin- arian, always scrupulously performing his own duty, and requiring it from all under his command, yet so bland were his manners, and his whole conduct so tempered with justice and strict propriety, that he was the favorite of all the officers and men, and highly valued by Washington. He served in the Northern army under General Schuy- ler; was at the battles of Trenton, Princeton, Brandywine, German- town and Monmouth, and in the latter was severely wounded. In 1779 he served as Adjutant-General with General Sullivan in his memorable expedition against the Indians, where he distinguished himself and was again wounded. In 1780 he was conspicuously en- gaged with the army in New Jersey, and was at the battle of Spring- field. In 1781 he accompanied the Jersey Line to Virginia, and was at the investment and capture of the British at Yorktown. The day on which the Commander-in-Chief intended to communicate the intelli- gence of peace to the army, a number of the officers, with their fami- lies, were invited to dine with him, and among others Colonel Barber and his wife. He was acting at the time as officer of the day in place of a friend. While on duty, and passing by the edge of a wood where some soldiers were cutting down a tree, it fell on him, and both rider and horse were instantly crushed to death. Thus was ended, January 11, 1783. the career of this brilliant and gallant young soldier, who was but thirty-two years old when he met with this cruel and un- timely death. He was buried at Neelytown, N. Y., beside his father's vault. Col. Barber m. 1st, Mary Ogden (b. Sept. 18, 1752, dau. of Robert Ogden 2d, and Phebe (Hatfield) Ogden); she d. Oct. 7, 1773. s. p .; he m. 2d, March 24, 1778, Anne ("Nancy," he always called her, affectionately, in his letters) Ogden-"a Lady of beauty and merit," said a newspaper of the day, in announcing the marriage-a cousin of his first wife; she was b. April 18, 1758, dau. of Moses Ogden and Mary (Cozzens) Ogden; d. July 17. 1825. In the summer of 1910 some per- son in Elizabeth proposed to have the remains of Major Barber re- moved to and reinterred in that city on October 19, the anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, but the authorities of Good- vill Cemetery, at Montgomery, N. Y., where the body lies, refused to consent to the removal. Francis Barber had issue:
i. George Clinton, b. Dec. 27, 1778; m. Mary Chetwood Ogden, dau. of Gov. Aaron Ogden; d. Oct. 29, 1826. Mary, b. Nov. 1, 1780; m. William Chetwood; d. April 18, 1873.
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iii. Frances Barber, b. Sept. 20, 1782; d. July 26, 1799. See Alexander's Princeton College in the 18th Century; Hatfield's Hist. Elizabeth; Eager's Hist. Orange County, 302; N. J. Archives, passim; The Ogden Family, 141. A very affectionate "Elogy" (Eulogy ) on Col. Barber's death was delivered by his companion in arms, Dr. Ebenezer Elmer, and was printed at Chatham. The only copy known is in the author's collection.
SAMUEL BARD.
Samuel Bard was a son of Peter Bard, 2d, who was the second son of Peter Bard, Ist, a Huguenot, who came from Montpellier, France, about 1700, and settled in Burlington, where he carried on business as a merchant until 1723, and then engaged in buying and selling land,
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building and operating mills, &c., until his death, in 1734 .- N. J. Ar- chives, XII., 667, note. Peter Bard, 2d, was a merchant in Philadelphia, until 1734; within a few years after that date he removed to Mount Holly, where he was living in 1750. He took up several hundred acres of land in Burlington county, but sold the same in 1764. He died at Mount Holly November 30, 1769. Samuel Bard, his son, was born in 1740, and was admitted to the New Jersey Bar November 3, 1761. In 1765 he removed to Bristol, Penn., where he continued practising, until his death, December 14, 1769. His will, dated Nov. 27, 1768, was proved Dec. 20, 1769, and is recorded in the Secretary of State's office, Trenton, Liber No. 14, p. 135. He appoints his father, Peter Bard, and Zach- ariah Rossell, executors, and directs them to sell all his land and property, consisting of a brick house at Mount Holly, and a tract of land adjoining the iron works he bought of his father; also all his real estate, and after payment of his debts the remainder to go to his wife Mary, in fee. He probably had no children, as none are men- tioned in his will. He was a cousin of Dr. Samuel Bard, one of the most eminent physicians in the eighteenth century, the first President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in New York.
THOMAS BARTOW, Ist and 2d.
Thomas Bartow was the eldest son of Rev. John Bartow, the first rector of St. Peter's church, Westchester, New York, his mother being a Miss Reid, probably a sister of John Reid, of Perth Amboy. His parents were married in 1705. His grandfather was Gen. Bertaut, a French Protestant, who fled from France to England in 1685. Thomas Bartow was a merchant at Perth Amboy, and dealt largely in real estate. He held various public, offices in the Province, being one of the recruiting officers in 1740; Clerk of the Assembly., 1745-1752; Clerk in Chancery, in 1746; Register of the East Jersey Proprietors, in 1747; and in 1756 was appointed Deputy Surveyor for East Jersey, by William Alexander. He was Register so late a 1765. He lived in a house standing on the southeast corner of Market street and the Square, In Perth Amboy, and was very fond of his books, they and a man- servant being his only companions.
His son, Thomas Bartow, jun., born at Perth Amboy, Jan. 27, 1737, was employed in a store in Bethlehem, Penn., in 1755; he joined the Moravians there, and married Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth (North) Benezet, June 23, 1768. He was a prominent merchant of Phil- adelphia many years, but at the beginning of the Revolution went to Bethlehem, where he arrived May 7, 1776, with his wife and five chil- dren, and remained there more than three years. During the troublous times of the Revolution his father took refuge with him, and died about 1780, at Bethlehem. Thomas Bartow, jun., d. Jan. 26, 1793 .- Whitehead's Perth Amboy, 138; N. J. Archives, passim; Pa. Mag., 12: 388.
REV. ABRAHAM BEACH.
The Rev. Abraham Beach was b. in Cheshire, Conn., in 1740, and graduated at Yale in 1757. He went to England in 1767 for ordination, and was appointed missionary at New Brunswick and Piscataqua, N. J., arriving there the latter part of September in that year. In July, 1776, declining to omit the prayers for the King and the royal family, he was obliged to close the churches, but continued during the war to "dispense spiritual consolation alike to Whigs and Tories." In 1783 he was appointed temporary missionary at Perth Amboy. In 1784 he re- moved to New York, having been appointed assistant minister of Trin- ity church in that city. In 1813 he resigned, on a pension of $1,500 for
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life, voted him by the church. He retired to a farm on the Raritan, where he d. in 1828. His wife, Ann, was the daughter and sole heiress of Evart Van Winkle, one of the early Dutch settlers on the Raritan; she d. in 1808.
BEAKES FAMILY.
The will of William Beaks, of Nottingham, Burlington county, dated March 24, 1710-11, names sons William, Edmond, Stacey, Nathan, daugh - ter Sarah, and wife Ruth, who is called the mother-in-law of son Ed- mond .- W. J. Wills, Liber No. 1, f. 313. ("Mother-in-law" was formerly used In the sense of stepmother.) It was doubtless this William Beaks who is stated (in 1711) to have been received as a witness in a capital case In the court of oyer and terminer against one Thomas Bates, who was condemned on his testimony .- Smith's Hist. N. J., 392; N. J. Archives, IV., 42.
Edmund Beakes (son of William) and Ann, his wife, daughter of Thomas Gilberthorpe, of Burlington county, by deed dated Dec. 2, 1719, conveyed to Mahlon Stacy a plantation of 300 acres in Nottingham town- ship, on Crosweeks creek. On Dec. 4, 1719, Stacy reconveyed the same premises to Edmund Beaks and wife Ann .- W. J. Deeds, BB, ff. 226, 228. Edmund Beaks was a shopkeeper in Trenton in 1751; he sold a saw-mill to William Morris. He was still of Trenton in 1755 .- V. J. Archives, VII., 637; XIX., 439.
Nathan Beakes (son of William) was of Chester township, Burlington county, in 1734, but in 1749 seems to have been of Philadelphia .- N. J. Archives, XI., 401; XII., 525. He married Lydia, daughter of William (son of Griffith) and Hannah Morgan, and had one child, Morgan Beaks .- Clement's First Settlers of Newton, 212, 310, 311.
Thomas Potts, the ancestor of that family in New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania, married Sarah Beakes, about 1700 .- Cooley's Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, 192.
Stacy Beaks (probably a grandson of William Beaks) and Mary, his mother, sold a plot of land on Hanover street, Trenton, for a parsonage for the Presbyterian church, May 3, 1762 .- Hall's Hist. Pres. Church in Trenton, 176.
Abraham Beaks was of Crosswicks in 1764 .- N. J. Archives, XXIV., 335. Mary Trent, granddaughter of Chief Justice William Trent, of New Jersey, was born Dec. 3, 1762; she married Nathan Beakes (probably a son of Morgan Beakes), and had children: 1. Morgan, who m. Hannah, dau. of George Miller, of Trenton; 2. Lydia, m. Gen. Zachariah Rossell .- Cooley, ut supra, 290. Mrs. Mary Trent Beakes died Dec. 20, 1840, in Trenton, "the last person that had borne the name of Trent," sald a local newspaper of the day.
REV. CHARLES BEATTY.
Charles Beatty was born in the County Antrim, Ireland, about 1712- 1715, and was brought to this country by his uncle, Charles Clinton, in 1729, arriving in October at Cape Cod, Mass., where they remained until 1731, when they removed to Ulster county, N. Y. Young Beatty en- gaged in trade, traveling about the country with a pack. He had stud- led Latin, and the story goes that once, stopping at Log College. he offered his wares to the Rev. William Tennent, the master of that famous school, in Latin, with the result that Tennent was greatly drawn to him and persuaded him to prepare for the ministry. He was licensed by the New Brunswick Presbytery, Oct. 13, 1742, and was sent to Not- tingham. He was called to the Forks of Neshaminy, May 26, 1743, and
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was ordained Dec. 14 of that year. He was sent to Virginia and North Carolina in 1754, and he served as chaplain in the forces sent out to defend the frontiers during the next two or three years. In 1766 he was sent by the Synod on a missionary tour among the Indians, as far as one hundred and thirty miles beyond Fort Pitt. His account of this trip, published in 1768, is valuable and interesting. He was a warm friend of David Brainerd, the missionary to the New Jersey Indians. In 1760 and 1761 he was very successful in raising funds in Great Brit- ain for the Presbyterian Widows' Fund. Being greatly interested in the College of New Jersey, he sailed for the West Indies to solicit funds in its behalf, but d. Aug. 13, 1772, soon after reaching Bridgetown, in Barbadoes. He m., June 24, 1746 (mar. lic. Jan. 13, 1746), Ann, dau. of John Reading, sometime President of the Council of New Jersey; she was bap. July 21, 1723, in Old Amwell township, Hunterdon county; d. 1768, at Greenock. Scotland, whither he had taken her to secure the aid of eminent surgeons .- Webster's Hist. Pres. Ch., 478.
JOHN BEATTY.
John Beatty, a son of the Rev. Charles Beatty, the noted missionary, after studying medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush, entered the American army as a private soldier, reaching, by degrees, the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel. In 1776 he was captured at Fort Washington, and suffered a long and rigorous imprisonment. In 1779 he succeeded Elias Boudinot as Commissary-General of prisoners. After the war he settled at Princeton, where he practiced medicine. He was in 1789 a member of the Legislature from Middlesex. and the Speaker of the Assembly. He represented Burlington county in the Council, 1810-13. From 1795 to 1805 he was Secretary of State of New Jersey. In 1783 and 1784 he was a member of Congress. From May, 1815, until his death, April 30, 1826, he was President of the Trenton Banking Company. He was also an elder in the Trenton Presbyterian church.
BERRIEN FAMILY.
The Berriens are believed to have been of French origin. The pro- genitor of the American family bore the very Dutch name of Cornelis Jansen Berrien. He was in Flatbush, L. I., as early as 1669, and there m. Jannetie, dau. of Jan Stryker. Among her children was Peter, b. 1672, m. (1706) Elizabeth, dau. of Samuel Edsall, a member of the Coun- cil of East Jersey. Peter had several children, one of whom was John Berrien, b. Nov. 19, 1711; removed to Rocky Hill, Somerset county, N. J., and there m. Margaret, dau. of Thomas Eaton, of Eatontown. He was a merchant, highly esteemed; Trustee of Princeton College, 1763 until his death; Justice of the Supreme Court, 1764 until his death; member of the Assembly, 1768-1772. In 1766 he wrote to the Society for Promoting Arts, etc., in New York, enclosing samples of home man- ufactured stuffs, which were received with much interest. In the same year he was one of the managers of the lottery to raise money for run- ning straight roads between New York and Philadelphia. He d. April 22, 1772, and is buried at Princeton.
His son, John Berrien, jun., was one of the commissioners appointed by act of the Legislature in 1764 to partition the Bergen common lands. He removed to Georgia in 1775, and took an active part in the Revolu- tion. At the close of the war he m. Margaret, dau. of Capt. John Mac- pherson, of Philadelphia; he d. at Savannah, Ga., in 1815. His son. John Macpherson Berrien, b. at Rocky Hill, Aug. 23, 1781, was a Judge of the Georgia State Courts ten years; U. S. Senator, 1825-1829; U. S.
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Attorney General, 1829-31, and again U. S. Senator, 1840-1852. Wash- ington wrote his farewell address to his army at the Berrien homestead at Rocky Hill.
ROBERT BLACKWELL.
Robert Blackwell, son of Jacob Francis Blackwell, of Long Island, New York, was born May 6, 1748, and entered Princeton College, from which he graduated in 1770. After his graduation he studied for the ministry, and on June 11, 1772, he was ordained a Deacon in the chapel of Fulham Palace, near London, by Bishop Richard Terrick, and subsequently to the order of the priesthood. Returning to Amer- ica. he was stationed in the southern part of New Jersey as a mission- ary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, officiating at Gloucester and Waterford, and at Greenwich. In the war of the Revolution he served as Chaplain to the First Pennsylvania Brigade, and Surgeon to one of the regiments in the year 1778. In 1781 he was called to be one of the assistant ministers of Christ church and St. Peter's, Philadelphia, where he served until 1811. He died Feb. 12, 1831.
REV. SAMUEL BLAIR.
Samuel Blair was a son of the Rev. Samuel Blair, of Faggs' Manor, Penn. He graduated from Princeton College, 1760, and was a tutor in the College, 1761-1764. In 1764 he received the degree of Master of Arts from Princeton. He was pastor of Old South, Boston, 1766-67, when his health gave way. He then retired to Germantown, Penn., where he died in 1818.
BLANCHARD FAMILY.
The progenitor of this family was Jean or John Blanchard, who is first mentioned in our records under date of October 2, 1687, when he was a witness to the baptism at Kingston, N. Y., of Anna, child of Jan David and Esther Vincent. The other witness was Anne Valleau. Appended to the record is the note: "They are French people." The next mention of him is on the occasion of the baptism of his own child, Anna, at the same place, April 7, 1689, the witnesses being the parents, Anna Mahoult being the mother, and Marie Mahoult one of the witnesses. "French Reformed" notes the record. Upon the ac- cession of William and Mary to the throne of England, the residents of Ulster county, N. Y., were called upon, in common with the other settlers in the English colonies, to take the oath of allegiance, which they did under date of September 1, 1689. John Blanchard's name is enrolled among them. He m. 1st, Anna Mahoult, probably in 1688 or earlier; 2d, with license, in the N Y. Dutch church, June 30, 1695, Jeanne Gaulthier. He is described as the widower of Anna Mahoult, and his residence as New Castle (on the Delaware). His wife, Jeanne Gaulthier, was a spinster, living at New York. They had one child, Jeanne, b. January 20. 1696-7, and baptized March 21 following, in the French Church at New York. On the ensuing October 27, 1697, Jean Blanssard, living at "newcastel en painsiluanie," married Susanne Rezean, in the French Church at New York. She was a dau. of Rene Rezeau, of Staten Island, and Anne Coursier, his wife. Jean Blanch- ard evidently d. before April, 1730. His wife d. before 1720. as she is not mentioned in the will of her father, dated Feb 18. 1719-20, proved October 3, 1720, that instrument naming only her children. Blanch-
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ard must have settled soon after his third marriage, at Eliza- bethtown, New Jersey, and perhaps before, as he was carrying on a country store at that place as early as 1700, which was carried on by him, and afterwards by his son, John, for many years. The following debit appears against him in the ledger of the Rev. John Harriman: "1703, May 17th, a house &c sold you this day at 80 1b is £80,00,00." (This house was sold by John Mills.) He took a mort- gage, Oct. 27, 1701, on two tracts in Elizabethtown, from Willianı Darby and wife; in this instrument Blanchard is described as "trader."-N. J. Archires, 21: 151 In 1711 he was one of the justices of the peace, and in 1720 a member of the town committee .- Hatfield's Hist. of Elizabeth, 251, 265, 306. At a meeting of the inhabitants and freeholders of Elizabethtown, August 2, 1720, Blanchard was chosen one of a committee of seven to defend the rights of the purchasers under the Nicolls grant, against the East Jersey Proprietors .- Ib., 310. Administration was granted in his estate, April 6, 1730, to John Blanchard, doubtless his son, of Elizabethtown. As his wife is not mentioned in the will of her father, Feb. 18, 1719-20, she had probably d. before that date Jear. Blanchard had issue:
By his first wife. Anna Mahoult:
i. Anna, bap. April 7, 1689, at Kingston, N. Y. She doubt- less m. William Dixon, of Elizabethtown, but was left a widow when only twenty-six years of age. Her Husband's will, dated Sept. 16, 1715, was proved October 10, 1715, indicating that it was a death bed will. He mentions only one child, Anne.
By his second wife, Jeanne Gaulthier:
ii. Jeanne, b. January 20, 1696-7; bap. at the French Church, N. Y., March 21, 1697. According to her family Bible, in her own handwriting, she was b. January 7, 1696-7, a difference of thirteen days from the church record. She m. Dec. 16, 1725, Dirck 01 Derrick Dey, bap. at New York March 27, 1687; she d. in New York, and was buried there August 14, 1756; he d. there also, and was buried May 11, 1764. His will, dated August 4, 1761, was proved May 29, 1764. He settled early in life at Lower Preakness, near Paterson, N J., and there erected, about 1740, the handsome stone mansion, still standing, which was occupied by Washington as his headquarters during October and November, 1780. Children (according to the family Bible): 1. Theunis, b. . October 18, 1726. m (marriage license dated Dec. 12, 1749), Hester Schuyler; she d. Sept. 30, 1784; he was a Colonel in the Revolution: d. June 10, 1787; 2. Jane, b. January 18, 1728; m. John Varick, June 15, 1749; both are buried in the Hackensack Dutch church yard; 3. John. b. Nov. 27, 1729; d. about 1753, unm .; 4. Der- rick, b. May 4, 1732; d. young; 5. Anna, b. Aug. 12, 1735; m. William McAdam, Dec. 12, 1764; he d. about 1779; 6. Sarah, b. April 1, 173-(the record is torn here); d. young; 7. Mary, b. Aug. 18, 1741; m. David Shaw, Nov. 24, 1761; he is buried in the Hackensack Dutch church yard.
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By his third wife, Suzanne Rezeau:
2. iv. Jean, b. Oct. 3, 1699; bap. Nov. 5, 1699, in the French Church in New York.
3. v. Isaac, b. Sept. 14, 1701; bap. October 12, 1701, in the French Church in New York.
4. vi. Peter, prob. bap. in one of the French churches then in existence on Staten Island.
vii. Susannah, prob. bap. in one of the French churches then in existence on Staten Island; she was still liv- ing Feb. 18, 1719, as she is mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Rene Rezeau, of that date. She m. John Halstead, of Elizabeth. He left a will, dated A:1g. 28, 1785, in and by which he appointed his wife Susanna sole executrix, and gave her all his estate, real and personal. Witnesses-Daniel Marsh, Abra- ham Terrill, Amos Morss, junior .- N. J. Wills, Liber No. 28, f. 378. This will was proved July 19, 1786. But his wife had died before that date, without executing the will. probably dying immediately after her husband, and accordingly, on the same date that his will was proved John Halstead, of Perth Amboy, was appointed administrator, Mathias Halstead, of the same place, going on his bond. N. J. Archives, 23:42; and will of John Blanchard, Jun., Liber E of Wills, f. 188.
viii. Elizabeth, prob. bap. on Staten Island, in one of the French churches there. She is mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Feb. 18, 1719.
ix. Marian, Maritie, Marie, Maria, Mary; although she is named in the above order in her grandfather's will, she was prob. the third child of Jean Blanchard by his third wife, as she was m. and had at least one cliild as early as 1724. She m. John Mead, son of John Pieterse Meet and Margrietje Mandeville, bap. at New York March 25, 1691; will dated Aug. 12, 1762; proved June 15, 1769, names wife Mary and the following children: 1. Peter, m. Nov. 18, 1753, Jan- neke Van Winkle; 2. Johannes, b. January 31, 1724, bap. at Hackensack; m. January 15, 1753, Maria Cadmus; 3. Jacob, b. May 11, 1728; bap. at Ac- quackanonk June 10, 1728; m. March 14, 1756, at Acquackanonk, Maria Derjee; 4. Isaac, b. Sept. 13, 1730; bap. at Acquackanónk, Oct. 11, 1730; 5. Jillis. There was another child bap. at Acquackanonk, January 11, 1730-31, which prob. d. in inf.
2. Jean2 Jean1 Blanchard, b. Oct. 3, 1699; m. Mary -; will proved 1749. He is named as one of the executors of the will of Cor- nelis Bryant, of Elizabethtown, Oct. 2, 1720 .- N. J. Archives, 23: 69. He was granted administration, as principal creditor, on the estate of Thomas Garring, of Whippany, Feb. 12, 1724-5 .- Ib., 181. The same day and for the same reason. he was appointed administrator of John' Johnston, of Whippany .- Ib., 266. He wittnessed the will, May 5, 1721, of William Stiles, of Elizabethtown .- Ib., 442. His brother Isaac named him as executor of his will, April 4, 1727 .- Ib., 42. He signed an agreement, Nov. 18, 1729, in reference to the records and convey-
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