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74. John Henry Collins, b. February 20, 1858; m. Arabella Kings, April 7, 1877. They had: 111. Charles Lester. b. September 7, 1878: d. June 9. 1879: 112. Annie Bell, b. Sep- tember 7, 1878 (twins): m. Harry Campbell, September 26, 1898. 113. Charles Lester, b. October 1, 1880. 114. Archie Mark, b. January 1, 1882. 115. Ethel May, b. December 29. 1884. 116. Bella, b. April 27. 1887. 117. Emily Jester, b. April 9, 1890. 118. Mark Roger. b. September 10, 1892; d. June 18, 1893. 119. Irene, b. May 14, 1894. 120. Millie Leeds. b. September 26, 1896.
76. Mary Eliza Collins, b. Jan. 13, 1862; m. Frank Blackman, December 9, 1886. They had: Florence, b. February 4. 1889. Myrtle Somers, b. May 31, 1891.
32. Asenath Collins. b. December 25, 1810; m. Jonathan Albertson, July 17, 1841. They had. Levi Collins, b. December 6. 1844: m. Elizabeth Leeds, October 1. 1868. Elizabeth Mathis, b. July 2, 1846; m. May Humphreys, November 14. 1878. John Collins, b. Sep- tember 15, 1848; m. Julia T. Young. November 27, 1871. Daniel Lake, b. July 1, 1851; m. Eliza V. Endicott. November 22. 1871. Nicholas Sooy, b. August 5, 1856; m. Sophie E. Godfrey. June 20. 1880.
DOUGHTY FAMILY.
The Doughty family has lived at Absecon for two hundred years. (1) Edward Doughty, Sr .. is the oldest of whom there is any tradition. His son (2), Edward, Jr., was the father of (3) Jonathan, and the grandfather of (4) Abner Doughty, who was the father of Gen. Enoch Doughty. Abner Doughty was born in 1755, and died in 1820. He married Leah Holmes, nee Risley, widow of Capt. James Holmes of the Regular Army of the Revolution, who was mortally wounded at the battle of Princeton. It is a tradition that Gen. Washington dismounted that the wounded man might be carried from the field on his horse, led by Sam Day, his servant.
Leah Holmes brought her wounded husband home to Absecon and cared for him till he died, a short time afterwards. Later she married Abner Doughty and had five children. The two first (5), James Holmes and (6) Joseph Rainard, died young.
(7) Daniel Doughty, who lost his life in the explosion of the steamboat Mosell, the first boat built to ply between Cincinnati and New Orleans. He married Emma Hilman and had seven children, who have always lived west. These are Samuel. Elizabeth, Harriet, Mary, Emma, Abner and Edward.
(8) Nathaniel, son of Abner. b. November 25, 1794. lived with his brother, Gen. Enoch Doughty, and died childless on his birthday, in 1852.
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(9) Gen. Enoch Doughty, b. March 4, 1792; d. April 17, 1871; m. Charlotte Clark. He was a man of powerful build and of great physical strength. He could lift one thousand pounds with case and had great powers of endurance in supervising the interests of his large estate and in traveling usually twice each week over primitive roads to Philadelphia on business. He sent many cargoes of lumber, charcoal and tar to New York on vessels built from his own estate.
Tar in those days was made from pine knots split and piled up on dish-like founda- tions, made of smooth clay, so that from the centre a pipe underground would carry the melting pitch to a nearby barrel. Even as charcoal is burned was the pitch driven out by fire from the pile of pine knots and a superior quality of charcoal left behind. When the. war of the rebellion broke out and the southern supply of tar was cut off, fancy prices were paid for the tar from the Doughty estate.
Probably seventy-five or one hundred men at times found employment on the forests, farm, coalings, mills and tar kilns of the estate for many years, and the business is con- tinued by his daughter, the only survivor of the family, at the present time.
When Gen. Lafayette visited this country in 1825 Gen. Doughty was in command of the militia that escorted him from New York to Philadelphia.
Gen. Doughty was a life long disciple of Democracy, and died in his 86th year, loved and esteemed by all who knew him. He was long a leading man in this locality and held many positions of honor and trust. During the war of 1812 he was a member of the Coast Guards and ranked as Captain. He was High Sheriff of Old Gloucester before Atlantic was cut off, in 1837. He was fearless in the discharge of his duty, and at one time refused a challenge to fight a duel by a printer of Woodbury, who had some grievance against him. He was made Major of the First Division of the New Jersey Militia, and later promoted to Brigadier General, a position which he held for many years. He was one of the original promotors of the C. & A. Railroad, and a large stockholder in the enterprise, and a director so long as he lived. He lost fifty thousand dollars in the enterprise, besides the heavy losses from forest fires which devastated his estate. He was a member of the M. E. Church from early youth, and largely interested in the welfare of the church and county. He passed to his grave full of years and honors.
They had nine children: (10) John Holmes, who d. August 18, 1898, aged 80 years; (II) Rebecca Wilson, d. October 2, 1889; (12) Abigail Hugg, d. March 18, 1851; (13) Martha, d. young, March 11, 1829; (14) Leah, d. young, November 2, 1856; (15) Enoch Alpheus. d. July 22, 1896, aged 60 years; (16) Sarah Natalie, only survivor; (17) Jane C., d. young, June 14. 1852.
(10) John H. Doughty, for many years was one of the Lay Judges of Atlantic County, and was highly respected by all who knew him. For fifty years he lived in a fine house on the shore road in Absecon village, opposite the store which he kept, spending the last seven years of his life at the old homestead, four miles westerly of the station and half a mile from the railroad which his father helped to build. His only surviving child is Mrs. Charles T. McMullin, of Philadelphia. He married Arabella Somers.
(15) Enoch Alpheus never married. For many years he was the manager of the estate, succeeding his father as one of the directors of the Camden & Atlantic Railroad. He had a wonderful memory and exceptional talents as a wit and a mimic, and was a social favorite among his associates.
(12) Abigail Hugg m. David S. Blackman, of Port Republic, who d. October 13, 1884. aged 69 years. They had five children:
Charlotte Amanda, who m. Dr. Jonathan Kay Pitney.
Sarah Francis, who m. Rev. James M. Nourse, D. D., President of New Windsor Col- lege at New Windsor, Md., May 18, 1865.
Edwin H., d. April 30, 1873, aged 27 years.
Evaline Constantia m. William Glenn, a mining engineer of Richmond, Va., but who now lives in Baltimore.
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Winfield Scott, who d. young.
The children of Sarah Francis are Hattie, Alpheus, Homer, Clarence Doughty, James Francis and Mary Nourse.
The children of Evaline Constantia are Eva Constantia, William Edwards, Charlotte Sewell ard Robert Sterling Glenn.
Endiroff,
SKETCH OF ENDICOTT FAMILY IN ATLANTIC COUNTY, N. J.
The Endicott family became settled in what is now Atlantic County probably in the early or middle part of the seventeenth century; the exact date is not now known. Ben- jamin Endicott is the first of the name who is known to have resided within its limits. He was a resident of Port Republic prior to the Revolutionary war. He served in that war and was a prisoner in the hands of the British for a considerable time, confined in the prison ships in New York harbor. He suffered with his companions in this confinement. all the inconveniences and bodily discomforts which gave to these prison-ships their hor- rible reputation, the tradition of the family tells us. He suffered in other ways, for, whilst he was in arms in the defence of his country, his property at home was greatly injured when it was on the line of the enemy's march. Hardships like this called forth the following action of the Continental Congress, December 19, 1777:
"Resolved, That General Washington be informed that, in the opinion of Congress, the State of New Jersey demands, in a peculiar degree, the protection of the armies of the United States so far as the same can possibly be extended consistent with the safety of the army and the general welfare, as that State lies open to attacks from so many quarters, and the struggles which have been made by the brave and virtuous inhabitants of that State, in defence of the common cause cannot fail to expose them to the particular resentment of a merciless enemy."
Jacob Endicott was a brother of Benjamin. He was an officer in the Revolutionary army, being second lieutenant of Captain Snell's Company, 3d Battalion, Gloucester County troops, commissioned September 18, 1777.
The tradition in the family is that there were three brothers who first came to this county, and that their settlement in Port Republic was directly the result of their being shipwrecked upon the coast. It is probable that their ship was lost upon the Absecon or Brigantine beach, and, if unmarried men, they may have found it agreeable to make their future home in a place where, in unfortunate and distressful plight. they were welcomed and relieved by a kindly people. Certainly they could not have found here a people such as some writers have denominated "Jersey Pirates," who are said to have lured unfortunate mariners to their destruction by false lights on the shore in order that they might be plundered in their helpless condition. The third brother was probably Samuel, and as he is said to have been lost at sea and his body washed ashore at Cape May, may it not have been in the original shipwreck named, and Cape May have referred to the South Jersey coast generally? All these were sons of John Endicott. of Northampton. Burlington County, New Jersey.
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Benjamin appears to be the only one who left issue. He died in 1792. All the Endi- cotts in Atlantic County are descended from him. His children were John, William, Jacob, Nicholas, Joseph, Sylvia, and Mary. All these children married and had families, and up to the year 1847 all the sons named were living.
Of the daughters, Sylvia married Matthew Collins, and Mary married Eli Iligbee. Both of these left children, who reside in the vicinity of Port Republic.
The descendants of Benjamin were quite numerous. They inherited a love for the sea, and many of the males gained a livelihood upon its waters, braving its dangers. Not a few have found their final resting place in its deeps. This love of the sea goes back further than those of the family who were the first to settle in this county. The same spirit existed in the Massachusetts family, from which our branch is descended, and many of those were daring and successful sailors in foreign seas, engaging in the trade with the West Indies and China. All seem to have shared in those qualities and habits of life which are so much influenced by the dangers, grandeurs and mysteries of the sea. They have lived quiet, peaceful, useful lives, with little taste for public place or those activities which are associated with public affairs.
John, the eldest son of Benjamin, was born in 1772. He resided in Port Republic. He was a man of considerable property and influence in the community, and was for a time one of the County Judges. He lived to an advanced age, dying in 1857.
William, the second son, born in 1789, married Hannah Smith, and was the father of a large family. He died in 1856. Of his eleven children, all four of the sons, Thomas, Wesley, Samuel and William, followed in the footsteps of their father and became wedded to the sea. Wesley and William went down with their vessel in a terrific southwest snow storm, in 1857, and no vestige of any kind was left to tell the story.
Jacob, the third son, left children, whose descendants are living. Nicholas, the fourth son, was born in 1791, and died in 1867. He married Rebecca Higbee, who survived him until 1883, when she died at the advanced age of 88 years. Their son, Captain Richard Endicott, died in 1883, at the age of 62 years, without issue.
Other grandsons of Benjamin who have passed away in recent years are Jeremiah Endicott and James L. Endicott, well known in the present generation. Their children are living in Port Republic and Atlantic City, and a daughter, Mrs. Walters, in Absecon.
Of the grandsons of Benjamin, Thomas Doughty Endicott, son of William, was born in Port Republic, January 14. 1815. Adopting the calling of his ancestors, he became the master of a vessel at a very early age, and marrying Ann Pennington, a daughter of John Pennington, of Mays Landing, in 1837, he took up his residence in that village. He im- mediately built the Endicott homestead, which stands to-day the home of one of his daugh- ters, maintained by his estate. All of the Mays Landing Endicotts are his children, and all except the eldest were born in this home. Thomas was a man of rare qualities of mind and heart. His life was exemplary in every respect. Upright, honest, just, kind hearted. of superior judgment, he was successful in business and was held in the highest personal esteem by the community. His wife was a woman no less noted for her own superior judgment and loving heart, and her unselfish devotion to her family and community, their position was one of great usefulness. Thomas was a staunch friend of the church and school, in which his ten children was brought up, and his thought, counsel and means were given without stint to both. He never sought any public place of any kind, and in his whole life never held but one office, that of a Pilot Commissioner of the State of New Jersey, and this was tendered to him because of his eminent fitness for the post, and withont any application or request of his own. Having acquired a competence and being in rather delicate health he retired from the sea comparatively early in life to enjoy his home and the companionship of his family and friends. He died May 28. 1884, surrounded by his wife and the nine children who survived him.
Thomas had ten children, Charles G., Lucy, Catharine B .. Mordecai T .. Isabella R.,
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CHARLES G. ENDICOTT.
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Mary D .. Elizabeth P .. George W .. Hannah, and Allen B. Lucy died in 1865. All the other children are living. Charles is a very successful ship-owner and merchant in New York City, but residing in Westfield, N. J. He is widely known in this State, and in ship- ping circles, as a man of high character and of exceptional business probity and ability.
Mordecai is a civil engineer, graduating from the Polytechnic, Troy, N. Y., in the class of 1868. After practicing his profession upon several works in private life, he was com- missioned an officer of the corps of civil engineers in the U. S. Navy, in 1874. After a long service upon many public works of the Navy, he was selected by President Cleveland, in 1895, as one of the commission of three expert engineers to visit Nicaragua and make an exam- ination, survey and report upon the possibility, permanence and cost of the construction and completion of the Nicaragua Ship Canal. This commission was constituted by special authority of Congress. In 1897 Congress directed the organization of the Armor Factory Board to prepare plans, specifications and estimates of the cost of a plant for the manu- facture of armor for war ships by the Government, in consideration of the high prices for the same demanded by private establishments, and Mordecai was selected as a member of the Board. In 1898 President McKinley appointed him Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks of the Navy Department, with the rank of Commodore. In 1899, by authority of an Act of Congress, he was raised to the rank of Rear-Admiral, U. S. Navy. He resides in Washington, D. C.
, George graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, and is a very suc- cessful physician in Plainfield, N. J. He enjoys an exceptional reputation as a skillful surgeon.
Allen graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, in the law department, and was also a pupil in the office of the late Peter L. Voorhees. He is one of the first citizens of our county. He is prominent in the practice of his profession and a most public spirited man. He has served as County Collector, Solicitor of Atlantic City, and now fills the post of Law Judge of the County. He resides in Atlantic City.
Of the daughters who survive, Catharine is the only one unmarried. She occupies the old homestead in Mays Landing, which, by a provision of the father's will, is maintained by his estate as a home for the unmarried daughters as long as any remain single. Of the others, Isabella married Mr. Lucien B. Corson; Mary D. married Mr. Daniel E. Iszard; Elizabeth married the Rev. H. Rundell, and Hannah married Mr. Lewis Howell. Elizabeth resides in Atlantic City, where her husband is a Presbyterian minister, and all the rest live in Mays Landing. All these daughters are gentle, earnest, devoted women, who are living useful lives. particularly earnest in their religious duties, and making the world better for their presence.
The Endicotts of Atlantic County come of a distinguished ancestry. the very bluest blood of New England. They are direct descendants of John Endicott, the first Governor of Massachusetts.
John Endicott was born in Dorsetshire, England, in the year 1588. Very little is known of his early life prior to the time he became known as a Puritan and a member of a little colony organized in England, which came to the shores of New England in 1628. The family to which he belonged was of respectable standing and moderate fortunes. He be- longed to that class in England called "esquires," or "gentlemen," composed mainly at that time of the independent landholders of the realm.
The Puritans sought refuge from persecution for religious opinions. A small settle- ment was effected at Plymouth, in 1624, and this was so far successful that some men of substance and means resolved to purchase a grant from the crown, which they effected "by a considerable sum of money." and the project of establishing a colony in New England was launched. One of this company, and the principal one to carry out its objects, was John Endicott. He arrived at Cape Ann with his followers in the "Abagail." in 1628, when 40 years of age. The life of Mr. Endicott from this time to his death, in 1665. is a part of
HON. A. B. ENDICOTT.
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the history of New England, and the establishment of free institutions in this country .* He was Governor of the Massachusetts Colony 16 years, and served longer continuously than any other. Dr. Bentley, the historian, says: "Above all others, he deserved the name of the father of New England." Mr. Felt calls him "The father of New England." Mr. Upham says of him. "Mr. Endicott was the most representative man of all the New England colonists."
He passed through all the military grades to that of Sergeant Major-General of Massa- chusetts, He was an intrepid and successful leader, a man of superior intellectual endow- ments and mental culture, vigorous mind and a fearless and independent spirit. With great energy and firmness of character, aided by religions enthusiasm, his faith and confidence never forsook him, and the whole colony looked up to him in all their hardships, privations and struggles for livelihood and religious and political freedom. He was a man of very tender conscience. Longfellow says, "He is a man both loving and austere; and tender heart; a will inflexible."
Such was the first Endicott to come to this country, and from whom those of the family in this county trace their descent.
Governor Endicott had two sons, John and Zerubbabel. John died without issue. Zerubbabel had seven children, five sons and two daughters. One of the sons, Joseph,
THE ENCICOTT HOMESTEAD AT MAY'S LANDING.
was born at Salem, Mass .. in 1669. He was christened at the First Church, in Salem, July 17. 1672. He moved from Massachusetts to Northampton, in the county of Burlington, New Jersey, in 1698. As he was the first to enter this State, this year is the 202d anniver-
*A few years prior to the death of Gov. Endicott the English slatesmen had seen that the spirit of liberty was prevalent in the colonies, and the Earl of Clarendon, in framing a plan for their government by commissioners, remarked that "they were all hardened into republics."
MORDECAI T. ENDICOTT.
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sary of the settlement of this family in New Jersey. Joseph was the only grandson of the Governor to come to this State, and all the New Jersey Endicotts are descended From him. He died in May, 1747, at Northampton, aged 75 years. He leit at his death, according to his will recorded in the office of the Secretary of State. at Trenton, two sons, John and Joseph, and two daughters, Anna Gillam and Elizabeth Deloraine. A grandson, Joseph Bishop, is also mentioned. In a deed executed by him and recorded in what is now Box- ford, Massachusetts, he styles himself "Joseph Endicott, of Northampton, County of Bur- lington, in West Jersey, in the Government of New York, yeoman."
Joseph had two sons, as stated above. Of the second, Joseph, there is no memorial, and he probably never married. The first son, John, is the only one who left issue, and all who came to Atlantic County are descended from him.
John Endicott had six children: Samuel, Zerubbabel, Benjamin, Jacob, Mary, who married a Mr. Matlock, and Sarah, who married a Mr. Hancock. He is said to have died at a very advanced age, but the year is not now known. Three of his sons came to Atlantic County, and the only one of these who left issue is Benjamin Endicott, the soldier of the Revolution, with whom our story began.
Portraits of Governor John Endicott show that his descendants in the seventh gen- eration, in New Jersey, bear much resemblance to him, as do the children in the eighth. Many of these possess the traits of character which history records as belonging to their distinguished ancestor. Few of this family in this country have held public office. Governor Endicott was a central figure in the early colonial history of New England for nearly 40 years, but all the great duties and honors came to him; it is said that they "fell upon him." Not one is known to have been a politician in the ordinary acceptation of that term. Mr. William Endicott, of Salem, Massachusetts, who was the Secretary of War in President Cleveland's Cabinet, is a fifth cousin of the present generation in this county. His daugh- ter, Miss Endicott, married the present Right-Honorable Joseph Chamberlain, of the British Cabinet, being Colonial Secretary. He is the central figure in the present war con- test between Great Britain and the Boers in Africa. It is believed that the very cordial relations which have existed in so marked a degree between Great Britain and this country since Mr. Chamberlain's advent to power as a leader. are largely the result of his marriage with this beautiful American girl.
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FRAMBES FAMILY.
1. Peter Frambes, b. September 15, 1723, in Holland, early emigrated to this country, being a small child. He settled in Pennsylvania, but was driven out by the Indians. On the same ship came Mary Margaretta Hoffman, also a small child. Peter Frambes married Mary M. Hoffman and they moved to Gloucester County, N. J., settling on a tract of land back of Zion Church, this county. Peter was a weaver by trade. He had the following children:
2. Nicholas, b. June 1, 1758; d. June 25, 1835; m., first, Sarah Rape; second, Naomi Scull; third, Elsie Collins Scull. 3. Andrew. b. October 7, 1759; m. Sarah English. 4. Peter, b. December 22, 1761: m. Alice Somers. 5. John, b. December 28, 1763; d. Sep- tember 2, 1861; m., first. Polly Chamberlain; second. Margaret Garwood; third, Elizabeth Garwood Risley. 6. Mary Ann, b. December 30, 1765: d. October 15, 1851; m. David Dernis. 7. Michael; m., first, Mary Dole: second, Sallie Brandriff. 8. Sarah: d. February 23. 1825; m. Thomas Garwood. 9. Margaretta, b. October 20, 1772; d. March 22, 1824; m. Christopher Vansant. 10. Rachel; m. Peter Boice.
2. Nicholas Frambes, b. June 1, 1758, was a tar-maker by trade, and lived at Catawba, then a flourishing village near Mays Landing. He served in the revolutionary war. June, 1785, he married Sarah Rape, daughter of Christopher Rape. Their children were:
II. Mary, b. April 6, 1;86; d. February 1, 1862; m. Daniel Edwards. 12. Job, b. June 9. 1788; d. April 11, 1884; m., first, Hannah Irelan; second, Alice Vansant. 13. David, b. September 15, 1790; d. April 28, 1867; m. Mary Ann Frambes; second, Louisa Clark. 14. Sarah, b. November 12, 1792; m. James Smith. 15. Andrew, b. February 12, 1796; d. June 25, 1875; m., first. Sarah Somers; second, Margaret Adams Baker.
2. Nicholas Frambes m .. second, Naomi Scull, daughter of Joseph Scull, and went to Bargaintown, living on what is now known as the Richard Scull farm. Nicholas' third wife was Elsie Collins Scull, daughter of Richard Collins and widow of Abel Scull.
3. Andrew Frambes, b. October 7. 1759, served in the war of the revolution. He m. Sarah English. They had: 16. Joseph. 17. Peter.
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