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ances in the old Town Book of Elizabethtown .- Hatfield's Ilist. of Elisabeth, 312. On June 18, 1739, he was named first on a committee of five to collect money from the inhabitants to defray the expense of running out the lines of the Elizabethtown purchase; and the same day was appointed on a committee to agree with the Newark people upon the division line between the two towns .- Ib., 318, 319. He was one of the petitioners, about the same time, for the incorporation of the Borough of Elizabethtown, and in the charter granted by Gov- ernor Lewis Morris, Feb. S, 1733-40, Mr. Blanchard was appointed Recorder of the Borough .- [b., 320-321. He was usually called John Blanchard, junior. He appears to have carried on his father's mer- cantile business most of his life. By deed dated March 27, 1746, John Schuyler, Peter Schuyler and Adoniah Schuyler conveyed to William Chetwood, John Halsted and John Blanchard "One certain Parcell or Tract of Land Situate lying and being within the Bounds of Eliza- beth Town by Raway Brook on the East side thereof containing Nine hundred Acres be the same more or less;" by an indenture dated June 19, 1747, the grantees declared and agreed that "no right or benefit of Survivorship shall be had or claimed by the survivor of them," but that their heirs should take the shares to which their respective ancestors would be entitled if living .- Original Unrecorded Decd, Nelson MISS. On June 20, 1747, "being sick in body but of a perfect memory," he made his will. He directs all his estate to be sold and converted into ready money, and his debts paid, and gives the rest and residue to his wife Mary in fee simple. He appoints his wife and his brother-in-law John Halsted, junior, executors. The will was proved May 1, 1749. The executors renounced, and Jonathan Hampton, of Elizabeth Town, principal creditor, was appointed administrator with wili annexed .- Liber E of Wills, f. 188.
3. Isaac2 John1 Blanchard was one of the witnesses to the will of John Frazee, of Elizabethtown, Jan 26, 1723-4 .- N. J. Archives, 23:172. The will of Isaac Blanchard, of Elizabethtown, yeoman, dated April 4, 1727, was proved May 16, 1727. He names wife Jane, daughter Jane (under 1S), and expected child .- Ib., 42. Executors-wife Jane and brother John Blanchard.
4. Of Peter? John' Blanchard, we have no data.
One Peter Blanchard, of the city of New York, "sea faring man," made his will January 24. 1757, in which he directs that after the payment of his debts all his personal estate shall go to his "loving mother Mrs. Mary Giffard." of the city of New York; also "all the landed and real estate which I have or by right ought to have or might claim in the province of New Jersey or elsewhere," to have and to hold the same during her natural life, with remainder to his half- sister, Mary Giffard, in fee simple. His mother is appointed execu- trix. The will was proved in New Jersey, June 22, 1759, and his mother qualified as executrix -Liber G of Wills, f. 84. It has been conjectured that this Peter was a son of John2 John1 Blanchard and Mary -, his wife; that John's widow married a Giffard after his death, and had a child Mary by her second husband. This child, of course, would not be the "half-sister" of Peter.
BLOOMFIELD FAMILY.
In a copy of the English Bible, brought from Amsterdam, in 1715, . there is a family record of the Bloomfields, copied from an older record. by Dr. Moses Bloomfield, father of Gov. Joseph Bloomfield, of
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New Jersey. The history is given in the language of the original for several generations. Additions are here given from other sources.
1. "Thomas Bloomfield .- A major in Cromwell's army. Upon ye restoration of Charles ye If emigrated from Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, with his five children, Ezekiel, John, Thomas, Nathaniel and Mary. He first took up lands where ye town of Newbury now stands in Massachusetts and on ye 21st May 1666 with his associates pur- chased of ye proprietors of East Jersey ye township of Woodbridge- so named for their home in England-It includes Perth Amboy and Piscataiway-And were among ye first settlers of ye town." (Wood- bridge never included the other two towns named.)
2. "Ezekiel Bloomfield .- Eldest son of Thomas Bloomfield. Married Hope Fitzrandolph, whose father came in ye same vessel from Eng- land. Their children were Joseph, Timothy, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Ben- jamin and Mary.
3. "Joseph Bloomfield .- Eldest son of Ezekiel. Was born March 3, 1695. September 5, 1721, he married his cousin Eunice, daughter of David Dunham and ye first above named Mary. Eunice died Novem- her 30, 1760, in her 59th year. Joseph her husband died May 23, 1782." Issue:
i. Hannah,4 b. Nov. 17, 1722; d. Feb. 12, 1724.
ii. Hannah. 2d, b. June 12, 1724; m. Jonathan Allston.
iii. Marcha, b. July 26, 1726; d. April 10, 1731.
1. iv. Moses, b. Dec. 4, 1729; d. Aug. 12, 1791.
V. Asa, b. Aug. 25, 1733; d. aged 2 yrs. 9 mos.
5. vi. Jonathan, b. Aug. 25. 1735.
vii. Esther, b. 1737; d. in inf.
viii. Esther, 2d, b. 1740; d. in inf.
Samuel, b. 1743· d in inf.
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ix. i. Joseph,5 b. October 18, 1753.
ii. Samuel, b. March 10, 1755; d. aged ten days.
7. iii. Samuel, 2d, b. Feb. 14, 1756.
iv. Isaac, b. May 20, 1759; d. in his fourth year.
v. Nancy, b. Dec. 3, 1761; d. Sept. 5, 1764.
vi. Hannah. b. January 13. 1763; m. May 23, 1784, James Giles; d. Dec. 20, 182 ?: he was b. March 8, 1760; d. Children :- 1. Mary McIlvain, b. Aug. 10, 1785; m. Abraham H. Inskeep, Oct. 1, 1803; (children -a. Sarah H., b. July 23, 1804; b. Phoebe Giles, b. Sept. 7, 1808; c. Mary Bloomfield, b. July 4, 1811; d. Nancy Hampton, b. Sept. 20, 1818); 2. Phoebe Holmes, b. Aug. 10, 1785: twin with Mary McIlvain; d. August 7, 1805; 3. Frances Giles, b. May, 1788; d. Oct. 20, 1793; 4. Nancy Bloomfield, b. April 26, 1795; d. Sept. 17, 1800; 5. James Bradford, b. July €, 1801; 6. Sarah Ogden, h. March 5, 1804; d. August 10, 1805. vii. Nancy, 2d, b. June 16, 1766; m. October 28, 1787, Dr. John Garet Wall; he was b. Dec. 15, 1759; d. Janu- ary 14, 1798. Issue: Moses Bloomfield, b. August 3, 1792; d. Sept. 5, 1823. It would appear from a legacy in the will of Joseph Bloomfield that his sister Ann (?Nancy) m. 2d, James Paton.
4. Moses+ Joseph3 Ezekiel? Thomas1 Bloomfield, b. at Woodbridge, Dec. 4, 1729; m. 1st, Nov. 27, 1752, Sarah, b. March 17, 1733-4, dau. of Robert and Phebe (Baldwin) Ogden; she d. Oct. 25, 1773; he m. 2d. the
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widow of Dr. Samuel Ward. "His first wife was a granddaughter of Jonathan Ogden, whose mother's maiden name was Harrison, (a daughter of) one of the original proprietors of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, her father, John likewise migrated with him and his two brothers, from England, after ve restoration in 1666." Moses was educated for a physician in the best manner, finishing his studies in Edinburgh. Upon his return to this country he soon achieved a repu- tation for skill in his profession. He was one of the original mem- bers of the New Jersey Medical Society, organized July 23, 1766, and his name as secretary is appended to notices of meetings of the Society, October 4, 1767, and March 23, 1768. He was prominent and influential in promoting the welfare of the Society. He was named as a trustee in the charter of the First Presbyterian Church in the Township of Woodbridge, granted by Governor Jonathan Belcher, September S, 1756. The "Meeting House Green" was surveyed, at his request, Aug. 8, 1784. In the charter of the Free Schools in the Town of Woodbridge, granted by Governor Franklin, June 24, 1769, Moses Bloomfield is named as one of the trustees. In the charter granted by Governor Franklin, December 22, 1773, for incorporating "The New Jersey Society for the better support of the widows and education of the children of deceased Presbyterian ministers in communion with the present Established Church of Scotland," Moses Bloomfield was named as one of the incorporators. His name is appended to a set of resolutions adopted by the "Freeholders and Freemen" of Woodbridge, July 23, 1770, affirming allegiance to King George, but declaring their adherence to the Non-Importation Agree- ment, until the British ministry should make "ample Confession of their Crime" in infringing upon the "natural Privileges of our happy Constitution," previously enjoyed by the Colonists. Nevertheless, when there appeared in the same paper that published these resolves, and immediately following them, an advertisement plainly threatening the merchants who violated the agreement with tar and feathers, he wrote to the paper disclaiming for the Sons of Liberty of Woodbridge all responsibility for said advertisement, and declared that the "re- spectable Freeholders and Freemen of Woodbridge (acting as a Body) lever did. nor ever will do, or cause to be done, any Thing inconsistent with Law or Liberty." He was appointed a Justice of the Peace and Judge of Middlesex County, September 19, 1776, and was again appointed Justice of the Peace of the County, June 5, 1787. He was clerk of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County, 1773-1784, and frequently served as moderator of the town meetings. His name is signed as secretary, to a letter sent by the Woodbridge committee, May 1, 1775, to the several patriotic committees of Massachusetts, thanking them for the "noble stand" they had made. Among the deputies elected by Middlesex county to the Convention of New Jersey. which met at Burlington, June 10, 1776, and which adopted the first constitution of the State, July 2, 1776, was Moses Bloomfield, but his name seldom appears in the minutes, indicating that for some reason he was not regular in attendance-probably because of service in the field, for on August 21, 1776, he was appointed one of a committee of four members to audit bills approved by the Convention, and on the same day that body ordered paid "to Dr. Moses Bloomfield five Pounds cleven Shillings and five Pence, in full of his account of medicines and attendance on Capt. Neal's Artillery Company," which was encamped at Perth Amboy during the summer. On May 14, 1777, he was com- missioned Hospital Surgeon of the Continental Army, and Hospital
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Physician and Surgeon, October 6. 1780. He was at the hospital in Princeton, in October, 1778. He resigned December 13, 1780. The New Jersey Journal, published at Chatham, in its issue for August 9, 1780, states that he was carried off by a party from Staten Island, the week previous. His capture is also reported in the New Jersey Gazette, Trenton, of August 16, 1780. He was exchanged within a month, for Dr. de Bass, a Hessian Surgeon. He was elected a member of the Assembly from Middlesex county in 1784. He died at Woodbridge, August 14, 1791, and his tombstone stands in the Presbyterian church- yard in that town. In an obituary notice of his death, in the New Jersey Journal, August 31, 1791, a correspondent writes: "He main- tained an eminent character as a scholar, a physician, a gentleman and a Christian. In the early part of his life, he became acquainted with men as well as books. When his assistance as a physician was called for by the public, he cheerfully stepped forward and served with faith- fulness and reputation as senior physician ana surgeon until near the close of the war, when he retired to private life of his own accord. As a physician he was skilful, attentive and successful; easy and familiar in his manners and address; he was benevolent and liberal to the poor without ostentation, religious without bigotry, never ashamed to own in any company that he was a Christian; nor would he neglect his duty to God or to his fellow-men on any account whatever. His last illness, which lasted more than two years, he bore with an uncommon Chris- tian patience and fortitude. In his death the State has lost a worthy citizen, and the Fresbyterian Church an important member." Dr. Wickes says "he was a man of fine appearance and of more than or- dinary culture and ability, and was considered one of the best phy- sicians of his day." His residence is thought to have been the old Bloomfield homestead, which in 1873 was occupied by George C. Hance. The will of Moses Bloomfield, "late practitioner of Physic and Surgery," dated Dec. 20, 1790, devises to daughter Hannah, now wife of James Giles, Esq., and her heirs, "a lot of land beginning at the Southeast corner of a certain lot of land, heretofore conveyed by me to my son-in-law Dr. John G. Wall"; to grandson Moses Bloomfield, son of Dr. Samuel Bloomfield, and his heirs, land between the said daughter Hannah and the parsonage belonging to the eldest Fresby- terian Society in Woodbridge; in case of his death before coming of age, then to his father; to sons Joseph and Samuel all the residue of real estate equally, as tenants in common, and to be estimated in the division at £2,000 specie; to wife Phebe £40 specie, "together with the labor and service of my negro Festus until the first of October, 1798, on which day the said negro shall be manumitted"; has advanced £444 to son Samuel, and £170 to daughter Hannah, and £170 to daughter Nancy, etc. Executors-sons Joseph and Samuel. Witnesses- Jarvis Bloomfield, Samuel Herriott, John Mersereau, of the town of Woodbridge, merchant. Proved Aug. 20, 1791. Dr. Samuel Bloomfield renounced and Joseph Bloomfield qualified as executor .- N. J. Wills, Liber 31, f. 53. In the Newark (N. J.) Eagle, sometime in 1840, there was published an account of a meeting held at Woodbridge, July 4, 1783, whereat Dr Bloomfield ascended the platform with fourteen slaves, and after a patriotic speech setting forth his belief in the principles of the Declaration of Independence, formally declared all his slaves free. Moses Bloomfield had issue (all by his first wife) .
5. Jonathan* Joseph3 Ezekiel Thomas1 Bloomfield, b. Aug. 25, 1735; mn. January 12, 1758, Elizabeth, dau. of John Wood, of Huntington, Long Island; she d. Aug. 22, 1776. His farm lying on the direct road
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between New York and the South, he was greatly harassed by the movements of the troops back and forth. On one occasion he, and Dr. Moses Bloomfield, and others were captured by the British and carried off to New York, where they were lodged in the sugar house, but they were exchanged within a few weeks. Issue:
i. Jarvis,5 m. - -. Child: Anna, b. about 1792; m. Bernard of Constantia, N. Y. He was a lieu- tenant in the Revolution, but on account of strait- ened circumstances withdrew from the army in 1781, and engaged on board a privateer, commanded by Captain Truxton. The vessel on her first expe- dition was captured, and Jarvis thrown into the prison ship at New York. In the summer of 1782 he was exchanged, and returned home, much weakened by sickness caused by his long confinement. As soon as he recovered he formed a company of volun- teers and fitted out several large boats with which he made trips from the mouth of Woodbridge creek around Staten Island, and cut several merchant ships. After the war he engaged in the lumber trade between New York and Virginia. In returning to New York in the sloop which he commanded, in 1794, he was thrown overboard by a sudden turn of the boom as he came on deck. He was ill at the time, and closely bound up in his overcoat, and be- fore assistance could reach him he was drowned.
8. ii. John Wood.
iii. Eunice, m. Jonathan Bloomfield.
iv. Betsey, m. Nathan Bloomfield; d. s. p.
V. Martha, m. Richard Marsh.
vi. Phebe, m. Timothy Jervis.
vii. Mary, d. 1773.
viii. Sarah, d. 1780.
ix. Mary, 2d, m. Richard Carman.
JOSEPH BLOOMFIELD.
6. Joseph Moses+ Joseph3 Ezekiel? Thomas1 Bloomfield, born at Woodbridge, October 18th, 1753; m. 1st, December 17, 1778, Mary, dau. of Dr. William McIlvaine. of Philadelphia; she d. in 1818; he m. 2d, Isabella - -, who survived him. He d. October 3, 1823. There is an unsupported tradition that in the second year of his marriage to Miss McIlvaine, they had a child, who lived only ten days. Joseph studied law with Cortlandt Skinner, at Perth Amboy, and was licensed as an attorney and counsellor November 12th, 1774; in No- vember, 1792, he was called up to he serveant-at-law. On the break- ing out of the war he volunteered, and was commissioned a Captain in 1775. He served in the unfortunate expedition against Quebec. On his return to New Jersey he was obliged to arrest his old precep- tor. In 1777 he was a Major. After the war he was appointed Register of Admiralty, 1783. and Attorney-General of New Jersey, 1783-1792; was Brigadier-General in the brief expedition to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion, in 1794; Mayor of Burlington (where he had taken up his residence soon after the war), 1795-1800; and mem- ber of the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Burlington county. The New Jersey Legislature elected him Governor of the State, annually,
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1801-1312, except in 1802, when there was a tie vote and the State went without a Governor for a year. In 1811 he published a com- pilation of the Laws from 1799. He was a Brigadier-General in the War of 1812. In 1817 he was elected to Congress, and again in 1819, serving four years. He died October 3d, 1823, and was buried two days later in St. Mary's churchyar:1, Burlington. He was a man of decidedly literary tastes, accumulating a fine library. In poli- tics he was an ardent Republican, and a friend of Thomas Jefferson. He was also a warm friend of Aaron Burr, and while Governor urged the Prosecutor of the Pleas of Bergen county to enter a nolle prosequi in the case of the indictment of the Vice-President for shooting Alex- ander Hamilton, in the duel in July, 1804, at Weehawken, in that county. The indictment was accordingly nolled. He was a man of excellent qualities, kindly in his intercourse with his fellows, a little whimsical or even eccentric at times, but always highly respected by those who knew him. See 2 Proceedings New Jersey Historical Society, IX., 12; 2 N. J. Archives, I., 341. His will, dated Dec. 30, 1823, proved Nov. 10, 1823, names as executors wife Isabella, sister Hannah, wife of James Giles, James Giles and Samuel Wetherill Price, of the city of Philadelphia, they to sell and convey real and personal estate, and to pay sister Ann Paton $300 semi-annually during life; the income from remainder of estate to wife Isabella, and so much of the prin- cipal as she may need for her support, with power to bequeath one- half of residue of estate remaining at her decease; the other half to sister Hannah Giles, or in case of her prior death, to her children. Witnesses-A. Griffith, Mary B. Griffith, Wm. S. Coxe. The inventory of the estate was made Dec. 31, 1823. Furniture, $888.52. Notes from David E. Paten and Joseph B. Wiggins ("desperate"); bonds of Isaac Humphreys, Moses Bloomfield, Patrick Ford; shares in the Burlington Aqueduct Co .; bond of Joseph Ellis Bloomfield, dated Oct. 26, 1822, payable Aug. 9, 1827, doubtful. Total of notes, etc., $6,322.46. Sworn to May 31, 1825 .- Original Wills, etc. It might be added that Joseph Bloomfield was chosen by the Legislature of New Jersey to be Presi- dential elector in 1792; he was vice-president of the Society of the Cincinnati of New Jersey, July, 1794, until his election as president of the Society, July, 1808 When the village of Bloomfield assumed that name the Governor wrote a graceful letter of acknowledgment, and sent a check for a substantial amount to the Presbyterian congrega- tion of the place.
7. Samuel, 2d,5 Moses4 Joseph3 Ezekiel? Thomas1 Bloomfield, b. Feb. 14, 1756; m. Abigail Ellis, dau. of Joseph Ellis, of Gloucester, N. J .; d. November 25, 1806; she was b. January 7, 1761; she survived her hus- band. He studied medicine with his father, and was otherwise well educated. He settled and practised for many years at Colestown, Gloucester county. He served in the Revolutionary army as surgeon. His will, dated April 24, 1801, proved April 20, 1807, gives to wife Abigail all his estate for his maintenance and the maintenance and support of her children, with remainder equally to sons-Joseph Ellis, Moses and Samuel. Executors-wife Abigail, and brother Joseph Bloomfield. Witnesses-Mary Ann Mcilvaine, Rachel McIlvaine, Sally Reading .- Gloucester Wills, 1807. Issue:
i. Sarah Ogden,6 b. Sept. 23, 1781; d. Aug. 28, 1794.
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ii. Joseph Ellis, D. Dec. 16, 1787.
iii. Moses Ogden, b. Aug. 23, 1790. He was a lieutenant in the U. S. army which invaded Canada in the War of 1812-15, and served with that portion of the army which was at Sackett's Harbor. He was with Gen.
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Zebulon Montgomery Pike, at the storming of York (now Toronto). His division carried the heights and captured the colors. He was the first to seize the flag, and was shot dead in the act. His recovered body was wrapped in the flag he had so gallantly captured until buried. after which the ensign long remained in the family of his oldest brother, Joseph Ellis Bloomfield.
iv. Samuel-Giles, b. April 14, 1796; d. Sept. 17, 1814. He entered the army during the War of 1812-15, and was commissioned a lieutenant of artillery, U. S. A. He was killed in a duel with a superior officer at Fort Stanwix, Oneida county, N. Y. (Another account gives the locality as Greenbush, opposite Albany.) His brother, Joseph-Ellis Bloomfield, was wont to say that "at the time it was termed an almost de- liberate murder. Giles Bloomfield, a mere inex- perienced youth of eighteen, was upon more than one occasion twitted in some way by an officer more than twice his age. It is said he had a sort of grudge against Giles, who was a favorite with every- body else. When again receiving some taunt, the mere boy, with all the proud spirit of the Bloom- fields in him, and brave courage, too, challenged the officer, who was an experienced duellist, it was afterwards learned. At the very first fire he killed Giles. It was pronounced at once by all who wit- nessed the occurrence, a cruel and almost deliberate murder. The officer had to resign, or leave the com- pany. His name was never mentioned, but with scorn." It is not given in any account of the duel that has come to the writer's notice.
9. Joseph-Ellis® Samuel Moses Joseph3 Ezekiel? Thomas1 Bloomfield, b. at Woodbridge, Dec. 16, 1787; m. Mary Frances Barbarous, Sept. 24, 1819; d. at Oswego, N. J, June 29, 1872. She was b. at Burling- ton, May 30, 1801; d. at Oswego, Dec. 3, 1881. (Her father was Jean Andre Barbaroux, a native of Au Valour Marseilles, France. He be- came a coffee planter in the Isle of Martinique, according to one ac- count, but according to another, he settled in the island of San Do- mingo, where he owned several large coffee plantations. He m., in the West Indies, Jeanne Marie Amarinthe De Vaucelles. During the insurrection of 1791 he and his wife were obliged to flee for their lives, taking only their personal property with them. They came to Burlington, where they ended their days. He was buried in St. Mary's church yard, May 7, 1825; she was buried in the same church yard March 31, 1826. They had two children-Mary Frances, m. Joseph-Ellis Bloomfield, as mentioned above; and Jane Eliza, m. Dr. William S. Coxe, of Burlington.) Joseph-Ellis Bloomfield entered into mercantile life at an early age, and in the course of time represented a Philadelphia mercantile house at Cadiz, Spain. At one time he served under a U. S. consular appointment in the same city. While in Europe he traveled quite extensively. After his return to this country he resided in New Jersey and New York, and interested him- self in the canal improvements of the day, writing and corresponding much on the subject. Subsequently, he removed to Oneida county, N. Y., where he had large landed interests. Part of the time he made
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his home in Utica, where he carried on milling. He also resided for a time at Taberg, N. Y. He became deeply interested in the subject of railroads, which were just making their way into public notice, and wrote a great deal in relation thereto, corresponding extensively with the leading railroad builders and managers of the day, urging the im- portance of easy grades and direct routes, that would avoid crooked lines and local interests.
S. John-Wood,5 Jonathan+ Joseph3 Ezekiel? Thomas1 Bloomfield, b. -, 1765; m. in 1789, Ann Ellis. wid. of Joseph Ellis, and dau. of Samuel Bullus; d. -, 1849, at Rome, N. Y., and was buried there. . From an autobiographical memoir which he prepared in 1844, many of the incidents of the lives of his father, brothers and sisters have been extracted, as well as the particulars of his own life. (This memoir was published in the Rome Daily Sentinel, June 2, 1887.) At the close of the Revolutionary war he continued to assist his father in carrying on his farm at Woodbridge, until 1786. Then, through the influence of Joseph Bloomfield (afterwards Governor), he went to Burlington and became interested with him and one John Little, in the manufacture of iron. In 1788 this partnership was dissolved, and another formed with Joseph Bloomfield and William Coxe. In 1791 this partnership was dissolved, having lost much money, John's share being between $1,500 and $2,000, for which he was in debt to Joseph Bloomfield. He continued the manufacture of iron alone, until the fall of 1792. Mr. McIlvaine, of Burlington, had bought of Joseph Bloomfield a tract of 1,600 acres in the present town of Lee, New York. The terms of the grant to Bloomfield stipulated that a certain number of settlers should be located on the land within a given time. This period had nearly expired. In the spring of 1793 Bloomfield, as the agent of Mr. McIlvaine, went from Burlington on horseback to Oneida county, and caused the lands to be surveyed. In company with three others he bought from George Scriba 4,000 acres of land as a private speculation. He got back to Burlington about July 10. He returned to Oneida county the next year, and settled at Annsville, which was named for his wife. In 1804 he took up his residence at Rome, N. Y. At one time he had charge of the iron works at Con- stantia, and was also interested in the iron works at Taberg, N. Y.
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