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[Martha Whitehead ; B. 5 Dec., 1823] ; dg. d. 27 Jan., 1833, aet. 11.
Helen Maria, b. 9 Nov., 1828 ; B. 27 Feb. 1829.
ELIZABETH R., [b. 1800 ; B. 1803] ; C. 28 May, 1829 ; dis. 8 June 1841, to 2d Ch .; d. 5 Nov., 1861, act. 61.
Allwood, Mary Ann; d. 30 Jan., 1835, aet. 35. [dg. Jonas and Nancy ?]
Alwood, Ruth ; w. Samuel [R ?] ; d. 1 June 1818. aet. 79.
Alwood, Samuel R. ; d. 24 June, 1818, aet. 86.
ALWOOD, SUSANNA ; w. Henry [s. Samuel & Elizabeth ?] ; L. 22 May 1817, fr. Rockaway. Ames, Levi; m. 19 Sept, 1833, to Ruth Goble.
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, MORRISTOWN, N J " THIS SHALL BE WRITTEN FOR THE GENERATION TO COME."-Psalms 102 : 18.
VOLUME IV
SEPTEMBER, 1884. NUMBER 21
[Printed with the Approval of the Session.]
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& published monthly ; terms #1.oo a year, in advance. I will probably be completed with Dec. 1885; the Minutes Wing brought down to 1882, and the Registers to 1842.
Cash subscribers in advance for 1885 will receive all issues mit after Dec. 1885, if it should be necessary to continue the Nication beyond that date in order to make it complete. Single numbers for any month, 10 cents each.
Subscriptions should be made to Mr. James R. Voorhees. Matters pertaining to the publication should be addressed w the
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Entered at the Post Office at Morristown, N. J., as second class matter.
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.
Communications are earnestly solicited for this column. Address, Lock Box 90, Morris- town, N. J.
Page 120.
Silas Mills was s. of John and Cleo(Wines,) not Cloe ; he was married to Eunice (not Emma) Johnson, a dg. of Rich- ard. This correction and addition should also be made on page 118, opposite " Emma Johnson."
Page 118.
James D. Johnson was a s. of Richard. Page 115.
Huldah Freeman was married to Samuel Kirk (not Kork.)
George W. Dixon (not George Dixon) was b. 2 June, 1784.
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Jane DeCamp, w. of Timothy, was a Humes (not Hughes.)
Supplement, page 65, Trustees and Parish, 2d column, 9th line from bottom ; read " meek ness" (not " week ness.")
Page 211 of Sup., May, 1883 : June 20, 1807; Aaron Boylan was married to Phebe Breese (not Breeze.)
(Continued from page 126.) REVIVALS IN THE CHURCH : BY THE REV. DAVID IRVING, D. D.,
or on, the spot of land now occupied by the graveyard. This Church was attended by the scattered settlers of the township of Whippany, embracing the territory now in- cluded in the townships of Morris, Chatham and Hanover, until the year 1733, when the people of West Hanover formed a separate congregation, though not organized into a Church till 1738 or 9 on account of strenuous opposition on the part of the eastern por- tion of the congregation.
Religion, during this period, was at a low ebb throughout the whole country. In New England, one of the Mathers writes, "The glorious and precious religion of our heavenly Christ generally appears with quite another face, in the lives of Christians of this day, than what it had in the lives of the saints, into whose hands it was first deliver- ed. The modern Christian is but too gener- ally a very shadow of the ancient." Said one of our own ministers, of the state of things in Pennsylvania in 1734 : "True religion lay as it were a dying and ready to expire its last breath of life. The common notion seemed to be that if people were aiming to be in the way of duty as well as they could, they imagined there was no rea- son to be much afraid." In our own state we have this mournful picture : "The love of many had waxen cold. The savor of re- ligion was lost ; family prayer was scarcely known; ignorance of divine truth over- shadowed their minds, while the practices of many were loose and profane." In view of such declension, the Synod of Philadel- phia, which then comprised the whole of our Church, found it necessary to issue a series of most solemn admonitions to the Presbyteries.
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But soon after the organization of this Church better days dawned upon Zion. The great awakening, as it has been styled, com- menced. The earliest manifestation of this extraordinary presence of the divine Spirit in this country was in our own state, under the preaching of the Tennents, soon follow- ed by that of Whitefield who traversed our land with a heart glowing with seraphic fire for the salvation of the perishing. Whether our Church, then in its intancy, received any of the great tidal flow of special spiritual influences that were per- meating so many places, we have no means of knowing, though we find White- field and others preaching all around us. Still I can find no trace that he ever preach- ed in this Church.
In 1742 Timothy Johnes visited the place, preached several Sabbaths, was invited to the pastorate, and a few months afterwards was ordained by New York Presbytery and duly installed over this people, among whom he died after a long settlement of nearly fifty- two years. His ministry was a happy one, and was abundantly blessed to many souls. Entering upon his charge in a reviving time, he ever took the deepest interest in the pros- perity of Zion, and was often accustomed to rehearse to his people what was occuring in other portions of the Church. Still no in- stance of more than ordinary success is re- corded of the first twenty years of his labors. After this his longings were met, and his heart gladdened, by an unusual turn- ing of his people to divine realities. For more than a year there had been no ad- ditions to the Church. This filled his soul with sadness; and, as he dwelt upon the un- mistakable evidences of declension and the necessity of a closer walk with God, as he ad- ministered the elements at the sacramental feast, tears began to flow over many a cheek, and prayers to arise for an outpouring of the Spirit. This was graciously answered, and at the next communion forty-four were ad- ded to the membership on profession of their faith ; and, during the year, ninety-four in all. Opposite to their names in the Session book I find the following entry : "These the sweet fruits of the wonderful effusion of God's adorable grace, began on our sacra- ment day, July 1, 1764." And in a letter af- terwards published he says : "The Lord
Jehovah has rent the heavens and come down and the mountains are fleeing at his presence. There is something of this bless- ed work all around me." Again, in 1774, we find the Church enjoying a special mani- festation of divine favor, and another re- cord : "These are the ingathering of the di- vine harvest ; sweet drops of the morning dew ;" and, as the result of this awakening, fifty united themselves with the people of " God.
Influences were at this time working which, in their developments, were unfav- orable to the progress of true piety. In- stead of rejoicing over the spoils of spiritual conquests, nothing was heard but the con- fused noise of battle. The struggle of the colonies for independence, and the forma- tion of the general government, occupied the thoughts and efforts of the masses ; and as a consequence Zion languished. Then followed the French revolution, preceded and accompanied by much that was demor- alizing and atheistic, and whose influence was greatly felt throughout this country.
But soon rays of light penetrated the deepening gloom ; here and there a Church arose from the dust and put on her beauti- ful garments. Among these was our own, which in 1790 enjoyed a fresh and cheering baptism of the Spirit, bringing into her fold some forty members. This was the last re- freshing period that the aged pastor was permitted to see. Whilst Europe was be- ing deluged with blood, whilst Christendom was rejoicing in the uprising of a missionary spirit and in its manifested power among the heathen, and whilst the first signs of a moral change appeared, that afterwards swept from a large portion of the Church its laxity of doctrine and discipline, the spirit of the devoted pastor took its flight, leaving behind him, for that day, a strong. Church which was destined under his suc- cessors to experience fuller displays of the , riches of sovereign and saving grace.
During the closing years of his life, the congregation had become so large and the . old Church so crowded, that a new build- ing was deemed expedient and necessary ; and, as the result of much prayer, deliber- ation and effort, the present structure in which we now worship was reared, which, says one, "for strength, solidity and sym. .
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COMBINED REGISTERS, from Jan. 1815 to Dec. 1840, through the Pastorates of Wm. A. McDowell, Albert Barnes, Charles Hoover, and Orlando L. Kirtland. For meaning of abbreviations see second page of THE RECORD for April, 1884.
It will be esteemed a great favor if the readers of THE RECORD will send CORRECTIONS, or additional INFORMATION, to Lock Box 90, Morristown, N. J.
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Anderson, Eliakim ; m. 26 April, 1838, to Effy Dickerson, wid.
Anderson, William ; m. 24 July, 1828, to Sarah B. Douglas, eldest dg. James K., both of Camden, So. Carolina.
ANDRESS, JAMES ; m. 23 Sept. 1819, to Jane Bonnell, dg. Luther, of Springfield ; L. 2; May, 1821, fr. Springfield ; susp. I Jan. 1830.
ARMSTRONG, ANN ELIZA, [dg. Rhoda (Norris?)] ; step-dg. Tim. Pierson ; C. 22 Aug. 1833 ; dis. 26 Jan., 1841, to 2d. Ch.
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ARMSTRONG, HARRIET, [dg. Rhoda (Norris?)] ; step-dg. Tim. Pierson ; C. 22 Aug., 1833, dis. 26 Jan, 1841, to 2d Ch .; mar. I May, 1853, to Wm. S. Townley.
Armstrong, Lewis [s. wid. Mary, who m. Matthias Williams?]
JULIA BEADLE, [dg. William.]
Hariet Mills, b. 10 Jan. 1827 ; B. 14 July, 1829.
Armstrong, Nathaniel ; d. 23 Oct., 1822, aet. 80.
RACHEL LYON [dg. Samuel] : d. 14 Jan., 1817, aet. 73.
ARMSTRONG, POLLY, wid. [of William ?] ; m. 19 Dec., 1827, to David Lindsley.
Armstrong,-Mr .; [Samuel, s. Nath'] ; b. Aug. 1779?] ; d. 17 Sept. 1832, aet. 52.
Arnold, Abraham ; m. 7 Nov., 1832, to Louise Goble.
Arnold, Betsey ; [dg. Robert & Mary (Pierson), b. May, 1782 ?]; d. 23 Sept., 1834, aet. 52.
Arnold, Deborah M. ; m. 17 Sept., 1834, to John S. Johnson.
Arnold, Col. Jacob ; b. 14 Dec., 1749 ; d. I Mar., 1827.
ARNOLD, JOHN ; d. 14 Dec., 1830, aet. 87.
Arnold. Mary Ann ; m. 13 Nov., 1833, to Samuel A. Loree.
ARNOLD, [MARY (PIERSON)], wid. Robert ; d. 16 Mar., 1823, aet. 75.
ARNOLD, PHEBE PHILIPS, dg. wid. Sarah ; B. & C. 7 June 1829 ; m. 24 Feb., 1830, to Barnabas B. Thompson ; dis. "probably."
Arnold, Samuel ; d. ("lately," 13 Feb.,) 1817.
ARNOLD, SAMUEL, [s. John] ; d. 18 Jan., 1832, aet. 50.
ARNOLD, SARAH ; L. 28 April, 1815, fr. Newark ; dis. 26 Jan., 1841, to 2d. Ch.
Arnold Sarah, [2d w. &] wid. John ; d. 1 Sept., 1838, aet. 90.
ARNOLD, SILAS HOWELL ; s. Sarah ; B. & C. 7 June, 1829 ; m. 9 Oct., 1837, to Martha L. Pierson.
Ashback, George; m. 22 Mar., 1832, to Susan Gillem.
Axtell, Amzi; m. 3 April, 1830, to Mary Nixon.
AXTELL, HENRY ; L. 9 Nov., 1836 fr. Mendham ; dis. 26 Jan., 1841, to 2d Ch.
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ELIZABETH L .; C. 24 Nov., 1836 ; dis. 26 Jan., 1841, to 2d Ch.
PHEBE ANN C .; C. 27 Feb., 1837 ; m. 16 Oct., 1839, to Ziba S. Smith ; dis. 8 June, 1841, to 2d Ch.
Axtell, Henry, "Major;" d. 6 April, 1818, aet. 80.
Axtell, Phebe ; d. July, 1829, aet. 89.
§ Axtell, Jacob T. [s. of Henry & Abigail ? or s. of Timothy ?]
RACHEL ENSLEE ; m. 22 Dec,; 1827 ; C. 5 Feb., 1829; dis. 8 June, 1841 to 2d Ch, Phebe Elizabeth ; B. 4 Sept., 1829, Alfred Reeves, b. 10 April, 1830 ; B. 4 Aug. 1830 ?
Mary Louisa ; B. I June, 1832.
Caroline Louisa ; b. 16 Dec., 1833 ; B. 30 May, 1834.
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Joanna Gardner ; B. 3 Dec., 1837. William Enslee ; B. 29 Nov., 1839.
Axtell, Joanna, w. Jacob ; 18 Oct., 1826, act. 18.
AXTELL. JONATHAN R .; C. 21 May, 1829 ; dis. 29 Sept. 1831, to Mendham.
Axtell, Melinda ; m. 18 Oct., 1817, to Ellis C. Morris, late of Morristown.
Axtell, Phebe ; m. 18 Oct., 1817, to Charles Roff.
AXTELL, RACHEL ; w. Timothy ; L. 26 Aug., 1830, fr. Orchard st. R. D. Ch., N. Y.
Axtell, Sarah Ann R .; m. 8 June, 1839, to James Henry Snook.
Axtell, Col. Silas, ; b. 5 April, 1769 ; d. 29 Sept., 1823, at Zanesville O., & buried there ; headstone here.
Ayres, John ; d. at Baskingridge, 4 Sept., 1815.
Ayres, Abigail, w. John ; dg. Ebenezer Coe ; d. at Flanders, 27 Dec., 1827, aet. 44.
Ayres, John
HULDAH AYERS, [dg. Silas & Mary (Byram) ?] ; C. 22 May, 1823 ; m. 26 Feb., 1829 ; dis. 8 June, 1830.
AYRES, NANCY, dg. Samuel ; B. & C. 6 Sept., 1829 ; m. Oliver Hadden ; dis.
AYRES, SILAS ; d. 29 Dec., 1826, aet. 77.
( MARY BYRAM ; d. 30 Oct., 1819, aet. 64.
Ayers, Tillah P .; m. 29 Nov., 1826, to Sidney D. Pierson.
Ayres, William, of Brooklyn ; m. 15 Feb., 1827, to Phebe Bedell.
BABBITT, ELKANAH ; d. Aug., 1822, (1821 ?)
BABBITT, PHEBE ; L. 23 Nov., 1820, fr. Mendham ; m. 7 Oct., 1826, to Samuel Pierson ; d. 1862. =
Babcock, John ; m. 8 Mar., 1821, to Eliza Humes, both of Solitude.
Badgeley, Catherine M .; m. 16 June 1830, to Cephas Holloway.
Badgeley, Elizah D .; m. 28 Sept. 1840, to John Ransley.
BADGELEY, FANNY, w. Timothy ; C. 7 April, 1823 ; dis. 8 June, 1841, to 2d. Ch.
Badgeley, Sally Ann, dg. Timothy ; d. 28 Aug., 1839, aet. 31.
BAIRD, ELISHA ; m. 10 Oct., 1827, to Eliza A. Shelley, dg. William ; B. & C., 6 Sept., 1829. Bard [Baird?], Elizabeth M .; m. 20 Feb. 1826, to Eli Carter, of New York.
Baker, Charles, lately of N. Y. ; m. 9 Oct., 1819, to Elizabeth Casterline.
BAKER, CLARISSA, w. Albert A. ; B. & C. 7 June, 1829 ; dis. 21 Nov., 1836, to Orange or Newark.
BAKER CLARISSA ; B. & C. 7 Sept., 1828 ; dis. 21 Nov., 1836.
Baker, Capt. David ; d. Mar. 1833, aet. 83.
Baker, Esther; d. at Littleton, 24 May, 1828, aet. 67.
BAKER, SARAH, dg. Jonathan ; C. 8 Aug., 1822 ; m. 14 Jan. 1828, to Alfred Johnson.
Baker, Wickliffe G .; m. 1 Nov., 1826, to Louisa Smith.
BALL, MAGARET ; L. 27 Aug. 1828, fr. Indianapolis, Ind. : dis. 10 Dec. 1830.
BALL, MARY, wid. Jacob ; d. 14 May, 1833, aet. 81.
BALLARD, ELIZA, W .----; B. & C. 3 June, 1827 ; dis.
Bangheart, Eliza ; m. 15 Sept. 1822, to Edward C. May.
Banker, Christopher ; d. 10 Feb. 1817, aet. 45.
BARNES, ABBY ANN, w. Rev. Albert ; L. 17 Feb. 1825, fr. Fairfield, N. Y. ; dis. 21 July, 1831, to Ist. Ch., Philadelphia. Albert Henry, b. 11 Feb. 1826 ; B. 7 May, 1826.
James Nathan, b. I Sept. 1827 ; B. 29 Feb. 1828.
Charlotte Woodruff, b. 11 June, 1829 ; B. 2 Aug. 1829.
Barton, Hannah Mariah, w. Rev. Wm. H., & dg. Rev. Aaron Condict, of Hanover ; d. 20 Jan., 1827, aet. about 27.
BASTEDO, MARY JANE, W .- L. I Sept., 1839, fr. Rockaway ; dis. 27 May, 1841.
BATES, MARY, wid. John ; b. 6 Feb. 1771 ; C. 8 Aug., 1822 ; d. 14 Jan. 1823.
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OCTOBER, 1884. NUMBER 22.
[Printed with the Approval of the Session. ]
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Is published monthly ; terms $1.oo a year, in advance. It will probably be completed with Dec. 1885; the Minutes being brought down to 1882, and the Registers to IS84.
Cash subscribers in advance for 1885 will receive all issues FREE after Dec. 1885, if it should be necessary to continue the publication beyond that date in order to make it complete. Single numbers for any month, 10 cents each.
· Subscriptions should be made to Mr. James R. Voorhees. Matters pertaining to the publication should be addressed to the
EDITOR OF THE RECORD.
Entered at the Post Office at Morristown, N. J., as second class matter.
COMBINED REGISTERS ; 1742 to 1884.
We begin this month the publication of the complete alphabetical list from all the Church Registers. It covers a period of 142 years, from 1742 to 1884, and exhibits all the facts of record in connection with each name, except as provided below. The correction of errors is earnestly solicited. All requests from those who prefer that the dates of their birth, baptism, &c., should not be published will be welcomed and com- · plied with. Address Lock Box 90, Morris- town, N. J.
CORRECTONS AND ADDITIONS.
Communications are earnestly solicited for this column. Address, Lock Box 90, Morris- town, N. J.
Sept. 11, 1806; Joseph Byly may possibly be Ryly, the writing is indistinct. Page 210 of Sup. for May, 1883:
June 14, 1806 : Stephen Prudden should be Stephen A. Prudden.
Munn, the writing is indistinct. Page 209 of Sup. for May 1883 :
Sept. 5, 1804 ; Robert McCleanen should be Robert McClennen.
(Continued from page 130.) REVIVALS IN THE CHURCH : BY THE
REV. DAVID IRVING, D. D.,
metry of proportion was not excelled by any wooden building of that day in New Jersey." Ere its completion, and without being permitted to preach in it, the good old man was gathered to his fathers, after having been privileged to receive into com- munion with the Church 424 persons, bap- tize 2,827, and marry 948 couples.
The first sermon ever preached in this Church was by Mr. Richards, the successor of Dr. Johnes, on the last Sabbath* of Nov., 1795, and in the following years his arduous labors were crowned with a rich and lasting blessing. This came unexpectedly. In his account of it he says : " None of the Church- members, that ever I could learn, were specially stirred up to desire or expect it. Even those who, from their exemplary character, might have been expected to be waiting for the consolation of Israel, were manifestly unprepared for this sovereign act of divine mercy. But, prepared or un- prepared, the windows of heaven were open- ed, and the spiritual rain descended ; and one hundred souls were hopefully brought into the kingdom, as the fruit and effect of this refreshing."
In 1803, in two of the neighborhoods be- longing to the congregation, there was more than the usual interest in the truths of religion, and which served to draw forth the prayers and exertions of the Church. Still conversions were limited almost whol- y to these two localities, but during the year the Church was increased by some
* The Parish minutes of 18 Feb., 1796, say that worship be- gan in the new building on the 20th Nov., 1795. In that year the 26th of Nov. fell on Thursday, so that if the note is correct the first service was probably the weekly lecture .-- [Editor.]
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forty members. From the narrative of the General Assembly, which referred to our Church along with some others, we learn that most interesting revivals had been en- joyed in very many portions of the Church. Through a great part of the South and West, North and North-west, the Spirit of God was remarkably poured out, and the whole Church greatly enlarged and en- couraged.
Again did the Most High come down as rain upon the mown grass ; again did the skies pour down righteousness, thereby communicating more lite to the Church, and a capacity to the world to receive that life. The first indications of God's special power were seen in Newark, in connection with the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, which had been preceded by a day of fast- ing and prayer. "The work," says Dr. Griffin, " exceeds all that I have every seen, in point of power and stillness and num- bers ; between two and three hundred con- verts." In describing the revived state of the Church in Newark, Judge Boudinot says, in a letter to a friend, " It has extend- ed to Elizabeth-town, Rahway, Springfield, North and South Hanover, Caldwell and Bloomfield. Yesterday I was informed that the same blessed work had begun in Mor- ristown, where about fifty are under con- viction." Of this movement Dr. Richards says, "It is deep and effective. To my latest breath I shall remember how some of the dear people of God appeared to feel and agonize in their supplications before the Lord, when imploring his gracious pre- sence in the midst of us. Between seventy and eighty were added to the Church in that This Church had by such means grown in strength and moral power, so that we hear the successor of Dr. Richards saying, " I have, indeed, a weighty charge ; nearly as large as that of any two ministers with- and the subsequent year, who dated their conversion from this interesting period." The Synod thus alludes to this gracious outpouring : " The revivals of religion have been most remarkable within the bounds of in the bounds of the county." It then cov- the Presbytery of New York. There the ered a region occupied by 520 families, and now supplied by eight evangelical Churches. Dr. Fisher, the third pastor, was installed in 1809, and during the first year of his min- istry more than twenty persons were ad- mitted to Church privileges. In 1813 forty were received, and about forty the succeed- ing year; the membership of the Church being at this time 360. kingdom of Satan appears to have been greatly shaken ; combinations against re- ligion have been destroyed ; prayer-meet- ings on the Sabbath, and religious societies on other days, have been established in many places and well attended. Many per- sons grossly immoral in their conduct, and some distinguished for their zeal in pro- moting deistical principles, have been ar-
rested by the influences of the Spirit, and hopefully converted. During the year past, within the bounds of the Presbytery, more than 1,100 have been added to the commu- nion of the Church ; the greater portion of . whom are young persons."
Whilst thus alluding to these distinctive years of the right hand of the Most High, in which the stream of divine influences communicated greater fertilizing power to the moral waste through which it ran, I wish in no way to overlook the gentle flow- ing of the water of life, that noiselessly im- parted increased activities to the Church, that slaked the thirst of some wearied spirit, or removed here and there the fever- ish desire of the sin-burdened soul. In both ways has God wrought wonders in Zion ; in each is his creative agency felt, and in each has he acted like himself. Scarcely a year passed by without souls being renovated and transformed by his sovereign love and power ; and on several communions, besides the notable cases referred to, there were large and important accessions to the Church, revealing to us God's watchful care and loving remembrance of the vine under whose branches we have been privi- leged to sit, and thereby laying us under the deepest obligations to do everything for it that will increase its efficiency, beauty, growth and power. Oft did our fathers sing, "The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad ;" oft did they say of this sanctuary, "Peace be within thy walls and prosperity within thy palaces. Because of the house of the Lord our God we will seek thy good."
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[The significance of the abbreviations used is as follows :
aet .- aged. b .- born. B .- baptized. B. f. h .- Baptized on husband's account. B. f. w .- " wife's
C .- became Communicant. Ch .- Church, d .- died or buried. dg .- daughter, dis,-dismissed by letter. Exc,-excommunicated. fr .- from.
L. - received by letter. m .- married.
M. 1742 .- Communicant at settlement of Dr. Johnes. ord,- ordained q. v .- Consult under last name. R. C .- Renewed Covenant. R. L .- Reserved List, absent & unknown. s .- son. serv .- servant. susp .- suspended. w .- wife of. wid .- widow.
Names of Communicants are printed in small capitals ; those who Renewed Covenant, or became "Halfway Members," are in italics ; those of children are indented under the names of their parents. The brace { connects names of husband and wife.
Remarks or additions made by the Editor are inclosed in brackets, thus [ ]; and doubtful conjectures are followed by the sign of interrogation ?]
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Abeel, Joanna ; m. 12 Nov. 1783, to Major Leonard Bleeker. Aber, Aaron
MARTHA EASTON ; m. Nov. 1 793 : C. 18 Aug 1797 ; " moved away." Hannah, b. 27 July, 1794 ; B. f. w. 4 May, 1798.
Timothy Johnes, b. 14 April, 1797 ; B. f. w., 4 May, 1798.
Aber, Christian ; m. 26 Feb. 1759, to Anne Margaret Buttleren.
Aber, Elizabeth ; m. 9 June, 1790, to William Denman.
Aber, Israel ; m. 29 Feb. 1756, to Dorothea Leonard.
Aber, John ; m. 21 Jan., 1745, to Mary Hulbard.
Abers, Polly, wid. ; m. 4 Dec., 1813, to Samuel Nestor.
ABER, SUSAN LOUISA ; B. & C. 31 July, 1881.
Ackley. Erastus J., of Newark.
ELIZABETH D. MARVIN, dg. Dr. Jonathan ; m. 14 March, 1843; L. I Feb. 1862, fr. Ist Ref. D. Ch., Newark ; dis.5 ELIZABETH M .; L. 1 Feb. 1862, fr. Ist. Ref. D. Ch., Newark ; dis.5 HENRIETTA A .; L. " fr. « . 4 dis.5
Adams, Aaron, of N. Y. ; m. 10 Mar., 1880, to Mary Bell Hockenbery.
Adams, Joseph, (colored) ; d. 30 April, 1851, aet. 98.
Adams, William ; d. 6 May, 1826, aet. 47.
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