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(I). SAMUEL GRANDIN, b. at New Germantown, N. J., 1775, Sept. 21, d. at his brother's house at Montville, N. J., 1834, Dec., m. Rebecca Hooper who d. 1897, July 13 ; in the U. S. Navy and took an active part in the seige of Tripoli ; at about 19 years of age went to Mer- cer Co., Pa., and undertook the management of a furnace owned. by his father ; made his home there ; had ch .: 1. ANNA, b. 1 '18, Sept. 3, d. 1875, Sept. 5, m. Benjamin King ; had ch .: Rebecca, Sarah and Mary E .; 2. GEORGE, b. Fayette Co., Pa., 1810, Mar. S, d. 1869, April 9, at Wurtland, Ky., m. Mary Ann Peters ; had ch .: Sarah, Rebecca, Alice, Ann, Samuel G., Mary, George, John ; 3. SAMUEL GRANDIN (Jr.), b. Laurel Furnace. Pa., 1812, Feb. 11, d. 1880, Jan. 9, at Wurtland, Ky .; m. Matilda Cartwright ; had ch .: Ann Eliza, George, William, Mary, Matilda, Isabell, Lucy ; 4. WILLIAM, b. Laurel Furnace, Pa., 1816, Nov. 16, d. Maysville, Ky., 1876, July 31, m. Lucy Mary Johnson ; had one child, Harriet ; 5. SARAH, b. 1818, July 5, d. 1869, Nov. 21, m. Samuel Rogers ; had no children ; 6. MAURICE, d. Pittsburgh, Pa., 1835, Nov. 1, unm .; 7. SUSAN, b. Laurel Furnace, Pa., 1820, Feb. 27, m. Samuel Swop and had one child, Martha ; 8. REUBEN, d. 1832, Oct. 10 ; 9. JOHN.
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(IT). GEORGE, b. at Lamington, N. J., 1777, June 29, d. N. Y. City, 1835, March 8, m. Abigail Pettit (dau. of Amos) ; studied medicine under Dr. Hunt, of Newton, N. J., and afterwards settled at Montville, N. J .; had a large and laborious practice, which extended into Essex and Bergen counties : was a man of remarkable physical strength : died after a long illness of an injury caused by his horse falling upon him ; had ch .: 1. JOHN JACOB, b. at Longwood, N. J., 1801, Feb. 2, d. at Wilkesbarre, Pa., 1836, Nov. 4, m. 1827, Sept. 10, Ann Barbara Norris ; had ch .: Henry, George, Harriet and Eliza Ann ; 2. ELIZA ANN, b. Flanders, N. J., 1802, April 25, d. Lucerne, N. Y., 1881, Aug. 12, m. Lorenzo A. Sykes ; had oue dau. who m. Rob. H. Atwater ; 3. GEORGE, b. Montville, N. J., 1803, Dec. 14, m. 1831, Sept. 15, Harriet Thorp ; physician at Freeport, Ill. ; had ch .: Martha A., Augustus Sykes, Harriet, Caroline L., George Alexander, Elisabeth Ann, Amy, Maurice, Matilda, Wal. ter, George Edward and Ida ; 4. WILLIAM 1st, b. Montville, N. J., 1806, Aug. 19, d. 1808, Oct. 16 ; 5. MAURICE, b. Montville, N. J., 1809, April 9, d. Washington, D. C., 1873, April 17, m. 1845, Aug. 28, Matilda widow of his brother Alexander ; had ch .: Alice A., Lucy S. and Robert Anderson ; 6. WILLIAM 2d, b. Montville, N. J., 1809, Nov. 25, d. Carbondale, Pa., 1858, July 15, m. Lucretia Jeannette Lathrop, 1836, March 17 ; had ch .: George L., Helen S., Harriet L., Theodore F., Eliza A., William A., Frederick H., and George A .; 7. ALFRED PETTIT, b. Montville, N. J., 1811, May 24, d. Beloit, Wis., 1879, Aug. 5, m. Sarah Elisabeth Smith ; had ch .: Francis N., Albert S. and Emma Paul ; 8. ALEXANDER, b.
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Montville, 1813, April 6, d. Shawneetown, Ill., 1840, Sept. 28, m. Matilda Sykes, 1839, Nov. 6 ; had no children ; 9. ESTHER MARIA, b. Montville, N. J., 1815, May 18, d. 1821, Oct. 15 : 10. CAROLINE Ist, b. 1817, Sept. 17, d. 1819, July 27 ; 11. CHARLES, b. 1819, June d. 1819, Aug. 9 ; 12. CAROLINE 2d, b. Montville, d. New Haven, Conn., 1887, Sept. 21 ; 13. CHARLES PEMBERTON, b. Montville, 1824, Jan. 4, m. Laura, dau. of John Clarkson Jay, M. D., of Rye, N. Y. 1854, Feb. 8 ; has children, John, Rudolf, Charles P., Alexander, Martha H., Pierre J.
(III). DANIEL, b. Flanders, N. J., 1779, Aug. 9, d. 1841, May, m. 1806, July 5. Phebe Wade (dau. Jonas and Rhoda), b. Connect. Farms, Essex Co., N. J .; entered the navy in his youth and afterwards engaged in mercantile business in New York city ; in 1818 rem. to Louis- ville, Kentucky ; about 1838 rem. to the vicinity of Philadelphia ; had ch .: Maria W., William A., Edward, Charles, Sarah, Har- riette and Maurice A.
(IV). JOHN 1st, b. Flanders, N. J., 1781, May 3, d. 1792, Sept. 15.
WERTS OF PHILADELPHIA.
(V). MAURICE, b. Flanders, N. J., 1783, June 16, d. unm. 1855, Dec. 29 ; left his brother's house at Montville at 18 years of age to walk to Phila. : obtained an humble position in a dry goods store, in which he soon rose to become a partner in the business ; took his brother William into the business ; about 1812 went to Europe for his health ; contracted to deliver goods to the government for which he received in part payment about 70,000 acres of land in Penn .; with his brothers William and John procured a charter from the Legislature of New York for the Delaware and Hudson Canal ; spent 18 months near Carbondale, Pa., where he looked after the opening of mines and experimented upon the use of coal as a fuel ; rode 150 miles to Albany to procure a grate and succceding in making a coal fire he had 50 tons of coal hauled over the moun- tains to the Delaware river and transported it upon a raft down the river to Philadelphia. This was in the year 1824 ; lived at Rondout as agent of Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.
(VI). ANNA, b. at Flanders, N. J., 1785, July 22, m. Thos. Young ; no ch. (VII). WILLIAM, b. Flanders, N. J., 1788, May 6, d. 1858, Dec. 25, m. first, Anna Lentz (dau. of Thomas of Phila.); second, Elisabeth Tate ; partner of his brother Maurice at Phila. until 1832, when he rem. to N. Y. city as agent of the firm ; in a few years retired with large wealth to Trenton, where he died ; took great interest in the history of his family and was the instigation of the thorough research which resulted in the valuable and interesting genealogy of the Wurts family ; had ch .: 1. HENRY ; 2. AUGUSTUS ; 3. CAR- OLINE, b. 1815, Aug., d. 1850, Feb. 13, m. John R. White of Phila .; 4. ANNA, b. 1817, d. 1874, Nov. 30, m. Charles Wurts (s. of Daniel) ; 5. CORNELIA ; 6. MARY, b. 1824, m. Firmin Consinery, 1847 ; 7. ELISABETH GRANDIN (first child by 2d wife), b. 1832, May 23, m. Dr. Read, of Mt. Holly, N. J .; 8. MARTHA HASKINS, b. 1833, June 18, d. 1859, Sept. 15, m. Charles Stewart Wurts (s. of Charles
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Stewart), 1858, April 22 ; 9. WILLIAM, b. 1835, Nov. 4, d. 1836, May; 10. JOHN FRANCIS, b. 1837, April 22, d. 1837, Aug .; 11. JOHN HOWARD, b. 1838, May 22 ; 12. ISABELLA GRAHAM, b. 1840, March 16, d. 1867, March 31, m. Samuel Davis Page ; 13. WILLIAM WIL- BERFORCE, b. 1841, March, m. Anna Lippincott ; changed his name to Wurts-Dundas ; has Ralph and William ; 14. GEORGE WASH- INGTON, b. 1843, March 26, m. Emma Hyde; Secretary Legation, Florence and Rome, Italy, 1869-82 and at St. Petersburg, Russia, from 1883-89.
(VIII). CHARLES STEWART, b. Flanders, N. J., 1790, Aug. 8, d. 1859, June 26, at -, m. 1826, Aug. 16, Mary Vanuxem (dau. of James of Phila., native of Dunkirk, France) ; engaged in the dry goods bus- iness with his brother William on Market St. below Fifth in Phila .; visited Europe to purchase goods; retired from business in 1845 ; had ch .: Louisa V., Charles S., Henry Martyn, John H., Mary V., Henrietta M.
(IX). JOHN, b. Flanders, N. J., 1792, Aug. 13, d. Rome, Italy, 1861, April 23, m. Martha Potts, nee Haskins, who died Nice, France, 1871, Jan. 8. He graduated at Princeton College and studied law with Horace Binney in Phila. In 1817 he was elected to the Legislature of Pennsylvania ; elected to State Senate in 1820 ; to Congress the XIXth, 1824-5 ; U. S. District Attorney for Penn .; in 1831 Presi- dent of Delaware and Hudson Canal Co .; went abroad for his health in 1859.
(X). ALEXANDER, b. Flanders, N. J., 1799, graduated from Princetou College, N. J., 1815 ; began the study of law at Phila .; located at Flemington, 1819-20 ; attorney 1820 ; counsellor-at-law 1823 ; mem- ber of assembly, 1824, and also 1828-32 ; speaker of the house, 1829-32 ; 1944, member and also president of constitutional conven- tion : same year State Senator from Hunterdon county : 1853, elected to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey but declined : was Common Pleas Judge of Hunterdon Co. and Presi- dent of the Board of Managers of the State Asylum of New Jersey ; m. 1831, May 26, Mary Bonnell (dau, of Alexander and Catherine), d. 1881, Feb. 16. Alexander is also said to have been the son of Samuel Grandin Wurts the first ; had ch .: 1. LOUISA VANUXEM, b. 1828, Aug. 19, at Phila., d. at Charleston, S. C., 1877, April 26, m. Robert Lenox Kennedy, 1852, Oct. 19 ; 2. CHARLES STEWART, b. Phila., 1830, April 18, m. first, Martha H. Wurts (dau. of Wil- liam), 1858, April 22; second, Mary Stewart Wood, 1865, Oct. 10 ; she d. 1883, Aug. 17 ; physician not in practice, Phila., Pa .; has ch .: Mary V., Charles S., Robert K., Anna R., Louisa V. and Doro- thea ; 3. HENRY MARTYN, b. 1832, Nov., d. 1839, August ; 4. JOHN HAMILTON, b. 1836, d. same year : 5. MARY VANUXEM, b. 1838, May 22, d. 1875, May 15, unm .; 6. HENRIETTA MARTYN, b. 1842, Sept. 23, d. 1874, Dec. 23, unm.
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II. GEORGE, b. 1746, June 5, d. New Paltz, N. Y., 1802, April 20, m. Esther Hasbrouck (dau. of Maj. Jacob, of New Paltz) ; probably went to New
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York with his uncle Rev. Henricus Goetschius, D. D., who was called to preach at New Paltz ; studied medicine and was probably one of the first regular physicians in that vicinity ; had ch .:
1. JACOB, b. 1776, Sept. 29, d. 1846, April 18, m. first, Catherine Dubois; second, Maria Hoornbeck ; had George, Mathusalem, Gertrude J., David and Maurice ; and by his second wife, Cornelius, Catherine and Ann.
2. JANE, b. 1779, July 25, d. 1845, Sept. 20, m. John Elting ; had ch .: Blandina, Esther, Catharine, George and Anna Maria.
3. MAURITIUS, b. 1785, Dec. 29, d. 1826, Mar. 11, m. Maria Jansen ; had ch .: Esther, Catherine, Elisabeth, Jansen, John H., M. G. and Anna Maria.
4. CATHERINE, m. John J. Deyo, New Paltz, d. 1896, Nov. 16, had daughters, Esther, m. Lyman Bates and Catherine Jane, m. Wade Wallace.
WERTS OF HUNTERDON CO., N. J.
III. PETER, m. 1774, Feb. 3, Eleanor (" Nelly") Roelofsen (dau. of Hermanes) ; had children (according to records Reformed church, Lebanon, N. J.).
(I). ANNA MARIA, b. 1775, Feb. 23.
(II). HERMANES, b. 1776, Oct. 5, m. Jemima Wilmot ; had ch .:
1. PETER, b. Somerville, N. J., 1804, d. Bordentown, N. J., Sept., 1882, m. Mary Vanatta (dau, of Stephen, brother to Joshua and father to the Hon. Jacob Vanatta of Morristown) ; had ch .:
(1). Jane, died at 16.
(2). Mehetabel, unmarried.
(3). Rachel, m. Henry Brown, res. on Nantucket Island.
(4). George Theodore, b. at Hackettstown, N. J., 24 March, 1846; admitted to the bar, 1867 ; Mayor of Morristown, 1886-90 ; Senator of New Jersey, 1886-1892 ; Judge of Court of Appeals; Governor of New Jersey, 1893.
(5). Rose.
2. THEODORE.
3. AULEY ANN, m. Samuel Harris.
(III) MARGARET, b. 1778, Oct. 8.
(IV). CATHERINE, b. 1781, Aug. 22, m. Joshua Vanatta (s. of Stephen ?).
(V). JOHN, b. 1783, d. 29 July, 1850, m. first, 1807, Betsey Moore ; second Lucy Bedell ; had ch : (1). Stephen M., b. 13 Oct., 1807, d. 1 Nov., 1871, m. first, Mary Cost ; second, Kate M. Coe, and had 5 children; (2). Peter R., b. 14 June, 1809, d. Sept., 1868, m. Lydia Wood, and had two ch .; (3). Mary H., b. 13 Aug., 1811, d. 20 Jan., 1812 ; (4) Susan Ann, b. 2 Dec., 1812, m. Elisha M. Holmes, d. April, 1887 ; (5). Caleb H., b. 18 Dec., 1815, m. first, Martha Waterbury; second Juliette Thompson ; third, Eveline Ferguson, d. 1 Oct., 1871, and had six children ; (6). Charles J., b. 6 March, 1818, m. Sarah Shekel, d. 1 July, 1885, and had two ch .; (7). Sarah, b. 23 March, 1821, m. John Hendrick and had twelve ch .; (8). Rosetta, b. 17 Feb., 1823, m. Dr. J. Q. Howe, d. 27 Jan., 1845 ; (9). Helen, dau. John Wurts and Lucy Bedell, b. 7 April, 1843, m. Everett Eugene Breed : no children.
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(VI). SALLY, m. William Wise, of German Valley.
IV. MAURICE, b. 1749, July 22, d. 1797, Aug. 25, m. Sarah Williamson ; sup- posed to have lived in Amwell, N. J., as his children were all born in that locality ; had ch .:
(I). MARGARET WILLIAMSON, b. 1780, June 15, d. 1865, July 3, m. 1799, June 6, Thomas Austie.
(ID). ANNA, b. 1783, Jan. 25, d, 1861, July 27, m. Samuel Bowen, 1807, Aug. 16.
(III). CORSEON, b. 1785, Sept. 5, d. unm. at Cheraw, S. C., 1824.
(IV). GARRET WILLIAMSON, b. 1790, April 23, d. 1790, July 25.
(V). MARY CAMPBELL, b. 1791, Oct. 19, d. 1879, Oct. 4, m. Robert Barns.
(VI). CATHERINE STEVENSON, b. 1793, Sept. 7, d. 1875, Feb. 10.
(VII). RACHEL, b. 1795, May 27, d. 1795, July 19.
(VIII). JOHN, b. 1796, Oct. 15, d. Phila., 1824.
JOHN C. WERT (perhaps of another family) of Hunterdon Co., b. 27 May, 1783, d. 23 July, 1841, m. Catharine Runkle, b. 1 Jan., 1799, d. 22 Oct., 1874 ; had ch .: CHRISTIAN, b. 1826 ; EUPHEMIAH, b. 1828 ; JACOB R., b. 1830 ; ELIZA, b. 1835 ; ANANDA, b 1839, d. young ; JOHN C., b. 1842, m. Ann Dufford (dau. of George) ; res. in Hackettstown.
WILHELMUS WIRTZ was a witness to Anthony Dierdorff's will in Amwell, Hunterdon Co., in 1745.
WILDRICK.
JOHN WILDRICK (probably Willerick in the original German), b. 1707, d. 27 May, 1793, at 86 ; buried at Stillwater, Warren Co., N. J .; came from Bavaria; said to have died at Perth Amboy; had ch .:
I. MICHEL, d. 1 April, 1840, m. three wives, the second of whom was a Hawk, and the third a Vance ; had ch .: 1. SAMUEL, m. Magdalena, and had Michel, b. 20 Feb., 1804 : 2. JOHN ; 3. DAVID ; 4. JACOB ; 5. MARY, 6. RACHEL ; 7. CATHERINE ; 8. ELLEN ; 3. MICHEL, m. Polly, and had Mahala, b. 18 March, 1814; Charlotte Matilda, b. 8 July, 1815, and George Washington, b. 5 April, 1817 ; 10. MAHALA ; 11. MARGARET ; 12. GEORGE.
II. GEORGE, b. 1768, d. 1 April, 1850, at 82, m. Catherine Ewey ; had ch .: 1. JULIA ; 2. CHARLES ; 3. ABSALOM ; 4. ELIZA ; 5. ABRAM ; 6. ISAAC, b. 3 March, 1803 ; 7. SARAH, b. 19 Feb., 1805 : 8. MARIA ; 9. JOHN MARVIN, b. 10 March, 1811; 10. WILLIAM ; 11. JACOB, b. 29 March, 1809.
III. PHILIP, m. Elisabeth Hoker; had ch .: 1. JOSEPH : 2. ISAAC ; 3. CATHERINE, b. 17 Nov., 1803 ; 4. ELISBETH MARIA, b. 7 April, 1807.
IV. CATHERINE, m. Lawrence Larrison ; had ch .: JOANNA, BETSEY, JOHN and HENRY LARRISON.
V. CHARITY, m. a Hawk : had ch .: KATE, GEORGE, BETSEY and PETER HAWK.
WILEY.
JOHN WILEY, a blacksmith of Irish descent, m. Dorothy Schuyler, from New York State ; had ch .: I. HENRY, unm .; 1I. WILLIAM, m. Sarah Bird (dau. of Jacob) ; III. JOHN, m. Euphemia Crate ; IV. JACOB, m. Mary Batson (dau. of Lewis); V. NELSON, m. Eureny Gibbs ; VI. SARAH, m. Robert Demun ; VII.
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ELISABETH, unm .; VIII. DOROTHY, unm .; IX. MARTHA, m. Edward O'Donnell. JOHN WILEY, a distiller of New York, bought land in 1746 in New Brunswick. This may have been the ancestor of John above.
WILLETT.
THOMAS WILLETT, who became the first Mayor of New York after the capture of the city by the English, arrived while yet a young man, in 1629, at Ply- mouth, Mass., from Leyden, in Holland, where he had been sojourning with other Puritans. He was sent the following year to Penobscou, to superintend a trading house, but returned soon after and engaged in the carrying trade be- tween the New England colonies and New Amsterdam, where he is found poe- sessing some landed interests in 1645. He was in subsequent years an active friend to the Dutch, whom he more than once seasonably notified of the de- signs of the English. He was a magistrate of Plymouth from 1651 to 1664, when, at the request of Col. Nichols, he accompanied the expedition of the English against the Dutch colony. On the change of the charter of the city of New York to an English form in 1665, Capt. Willett was appointed its first Mayor, and held that office again in 1667, in the course of which year, it is presumed, he returned to New England and settled at Rehoboth, or Swansea (now the town of Seconek), Mass, where he died the 3d of August, 1674. [See Boyle's Hist. Memorial of Plymouth II. 235, 236; New England General Register IX, 318 ; Valentine's Manual of the City of New York]. A certain TOBBIE WILLETT and ANN WILLETT leave London for America on the 22d of . June, 1632. The Memorial History of New York says : "Capt. Thomas Willett, d. 1674, Aug. 4, at 64 years of age. His property in New York was confiscated 1673 by the Dutch ; he is buried in Little Neck Burying Ground, within the limits of East Providence, Rhode Island." Capt. Thomas Willett m. Mary Brown (dau of John, of Plymouth), 6 July, 1636. He had ch .:
I. COL. THOMAS, res. in New York in 1667 ; had at least two sons, WILLIAM and THOMAS.
II. JAMES, who lived at Narragansett.
III. ANDREW.
IV. SAMUEL.
V. HEZEKIAH, killed by the Indians 26 June, 1676.
VI. HESTER, m. John Suffin.
VII. REBECCA, m. Samuel Hooker.
SAMUEL WILLET (probably the grandson of Capt. Thomas), appears in New Jersey in 1700, and he is the Samuel of Monmouth Co., whose son WILLIAM re- ceives letters of administration upon his father's property 1762, Oct. 4. This Samuel may have been the father of WILLIAM, who owned the fording place on the Black (or Lamington) River.
WILLIAM WILLETT, owned the mill at Pottersville. In Tewksbury Town- ship Book, 1757, William Willett's fording place is mentioned. He carted grain for the Continental army, and received his pay in Continental money, the depreciation of which ruined him ; removed to New York State with all his family but one son and two daughters. There were other Willets in the northern part of Somerset Co., who may have been related to William. These were : JONATHAN ; THOMAS, of Warren twp., whose will prob. 3 Jan., 1832,
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leaves a sawmill to his son David, and a gristmill to his son John. A PETER WILLETT is in Tewksbury twp. as early as 1757. There was also a SAMUEL, of Readington, who m. 28 Nov., 1752, Sarah Tilton, of Freehold, N. J. WILLIAM left behind him in New Jersey one son,
WILLIAM WILLET, 2d, b. 1761, d. 1827, at Bedminster, N. J .; his will was prob. 3 Jan., 1827 ; he married 16 Feb., 1786, Penelope Wyckoff (dau. of Simon) ; had ch. (in the order of the will) :
I. SAMUEL, M. D., of German Valley, m. Sarah Carlisle (dau. of John) ; had ELIPHALET C., M. D., m. (1) a Kerns ; (2) Emana Malvina Trimmer (dau. of William Y.).
II. CORNELIUS, m. (1) Mary Mckinstry ; (2) Margaret Castner ; lived at Pottersville.
III. ISAAC, 27 Feb. 1817, m. Margaret Derenberger.
IV. SARAH, unm.
V. WILLIAM M., b. 10 Sept., 1786, m. 28 Nov., 1814, Mary Carlisle (dau. of Robert, 2d, and cousin to Sarah), b. 10 Feb., 1796.
VI. HANNAH, m. Jacob Trimmer (s. of John).
VII. JOHN, not named in his father's will ; moved to Albany, N. Y.
JOSEPH WILLETTS, lived on West Jersey Society lands in 1735, but nothing more is known of him.
WILLS.
DANIEL WILLS, of Burlington Co., mentioned in will of his son John. The first of the name is said to be David who came over in the Mayflower in 1620 : left one son, Joseph, in England, and had a son, Dr. John, who came about 1660 to Burlington and laid out Philadelphia for Wm. Penn in 1683. With this tradi- tion compare the following :
JOHN, son of Daniel, b. 1659, dates his will, Northampton, Burlington Co., N. J., 17 Sept., 1745, "at 86 years of age"; prob. 26 Feb., 1746 [Trenton, Lib. 5 fol. 308]; names six children :
I. DANIEL, m. Elisabeth ; his will Northampton, Burlington, Co., N. J., 11 Oct., 1759, prob. 3 Dec., 1760 ; names ch .:
(I). DANIEL.
(II). JONATHAN.
(III). MARY BUZBY (w. of Will.)
(IV). JOHN.
(V). AARON.
(VI). MOSES.
(VII). HOPE, wife of Benjamin Lippincott.
(VIII). HANNAH, wife of Caleb Lippincott.
II. JOHN.
III. JAMES, m. Sarah ; perhaps had inn at Roxbury in 1746 ; " James Wolls" surveyor of roads, Roxbury twp., Morris Co., 1744; "James Walls" assessor, 1745, of Roxbury twp .; had ch. at least Jacob and Samuel.
SAMUEL, son of James ; his will 4 July, 1793, prob. 18 May, 1798, names wife Rebecca, "my father James," and ch. (order uncertain) :
I. JAMES.
II. THOMAS, b. 20 Nov., 1764, d. 8 April, 1814, m. Susan Sayre (dau. of Sam.) 5 March, 1790 ; had ch .:
(1). SAMUEL, b. 5 March, 1791, d. 17 Nov., 1837.
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(II). ELIZA, b. 7 May, 1794, m. Daniel Cary, of Roxbury.
(III). JOHN, b. 20 Nov., 1796, m. Martha J. Seward (dau. of Col. John) ; had a son J. Seward Wills, of Stanhope.
(IV). JAMES, b. 39 Nov., 1798.
(V). AARON, b. 4 Nov., 1800.
(VI). ROBERT, b. 18 March, 1804, unmarried. (VII). REBECCA, b. 27 Dec., 1807, m. Jacob Lawrence, of Stanhope.
III. SAMUEL, m. Sarah Hunt ; res. at Mt. Olive.
IV. EUNICE, m. Abraham Hunt of Sussex Co.
V. NANCY, m. Abraham Cooper, of Chester.
VI. JEMIMA, m. Dr. John W. Liddell, of Mendham.
VII. BEULAH, m. John C. Salter, of Fairmount.
VIII. MARY, b. 25 May, 1759, d. 30 July, 1850, m. Col. Ebenezer Drake, of Mendam.
IX. REBECCA.
X. ELISABETH, m. Nathan Cooper (s. of Nathan).
MISCELLANEOUS-JAMES, whose will prob. Burlington, 31 March, 1759, names wife Elisabeth and ch .: Lettie Dobbin and Michajah. THOMAS, whose will dated Burlington, 1759, names wife Mary and ch .: Keziah. Mary and William. DANIEL, whose will dated Northampton twp., Burlington Co., 29 Jan., 1742, prob. 5 Dec., 1747 [Trenton Lib. 5 fol. 378] names wife Margaret and ch .: Noah, Richard (not 21), David, Hannah, Daniel, John, George, Margaret, Hope. DANIEL, whose will dated Burlington Co., 8 April, prob. 23 Oct., 1764, names wife Meribah and ch .: Jacob, James, Samuel, Mary, Beulah.
WINTERMUTE.
JOHN GEORGE WINTERMUTE, b. May 11, 1711, in Punestadt, Germany ; came to America in 1736, m. 1739, Mary Elis. Bernhart, b. Aug. 5, 1721, at the Ker- zenheim, Grafscaft Bolanden, Europe, came to America with her father and two sisters 1731, d. Feb. 15, 1800, at 78 ; naturalized, 1764, George Wintermude ; d. Dec. 18, 1782, at 74 yrs., 3 mos. and 8 days ; and had three sons and three daughters. He is said to have lived on a farm on the Paulinskill, bought by his father-in-law (J. P. Bernhart) for his daughter ; J. P. Bernhart came from Philadelphia 1742. Peter W. Wintermute (prob. John George is meant) is said to have built the first fulling mill in Sussex about 1770. It was one-half mile below Stillwater, and was in the possession of the family for forty years. THOMAS (s. of Peter) was chief in the management of the mill and lived in an old stone house near the graveyard, and also kept a store in part of it. (Hist. of Sussex and Warren Counties, p. 380). The children of John George were :
I. M. C. E., b. Nov. 11, 1740, d. Jan. 29, 1748.
II. M. J., b May 27, 1744, d. Jan. 31, 1748.
III. JOHN, b. 1756, d. at 54, 1810, m. Margaretha Couse ; had ch .: (I) CATHERINE, b. Oct. 28, 1783.
(II). " BERNHARD."
(III). JACOB.
IV. PETER, m. Esther Rhodes ; had ch .:
(I). JOHN GEORGE, b. March 9, 1782, m. Magdalena Stahley: bad ch .: 1. Jacob Stahley, b. July 17, 1804 ; 2. Abram Shaffer, b. Feb. 20, 1807; 3. Isaac, b. Aug. 25, 1810 ; 4. Esther. b. Feb. 7, 1812 ; 5. Margaret
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Elis., b. April 30, 1817 ; 6. Elsy Ann, b. July 19, 1818 ; 7. Fred Chris. John, b. Dec. 28, 1819.
(II). PETER, rem. to Illinois, m. Rachel Shackelton ; had ch .: 1. Robert Shackelton, b. Aug. 4, 1813 ; 2. Joseph Rhodes, b. Feb. 16, 1816 ; 3. Benjamin Shackelton, b. March 17, 1820.
(III). JOSEPH.
(IV). WILLIAM.
(V). CHARLES, m. Susannah ; had ch .: 1. Will. Shotwell, b. Sept. 30, 1810 : 2. Joseph Rhodes, b. Oct. 25, 1811 ; 3. Rosetta Arrison, b. Sept. 19, 1813 ; 4. Hugh, b. April 18, 1816.
(VI). THOMAS.
V. JOHN GEORGE, a carpenter and wood-carver, located about 1800 where his grandson Jeptha lives (1881), on a large tract bought of Jeptha Arri- son, surveyor, said to have contained 700 acres in Stillwater township ; m. Anne, or Nancy, as name appears on records in 1788 ; had ch .:
(I). JOHANNES, b. Oct. 15, 1780, m. Sarah ; had ch .: 1. Mary Ann, b. Oct. 12, 1806 ; 2. Robert Shackelton, b. Nov. 2, 1808.
(II). PETER, b. August 17, 1782, m. Catherine [Snover /]; had ch .: 1. Mar- garetha Conck, b. July 14, 1806 ; 2. George Barnard, b. Nov. 20, 1807 ; 3. Fred. Snowver, b. Sept. 5, 1809 ; 4. Jeptha Arrison, b. May 17, 1811 ? 5. Nancy, b. April 15, 1813 ; 6. Isaac, b. Sept. 9, 1815 ; 7. Catherine, b. Nov. 24, 1817 ; 8. Mary Cook, b. March 13. 1820.
VI. MARGARET, m. Oct. 2, 1796, A. Dodderer.
VII. ELIZA, m. April 13, 1797, John Hankinson.
VIII. CATHERINE, unmarried in 1782.
LEONARD WINTERMOOT, of Sussex Co., perhaps a brother of George, m. Phebe Comstock ; his will, dated March 29, 1810, prob. March 14, 1811, at New- ton, N. J., names ch .:
I. MARY.
II. JOHN, m. Apelonia (" Ploney") Westfall ; bad ch .: 1. MARGARET, b. May 27, 1792 ; 2. LEONARD, b. June 18, 1794 ; 3. MERIAM, b. Aug. 12, 1796.
III. PHILLIP, m. Anna Middaugh, witness with his w. 1789; had child, MARY, b. Jan. 5, 1795.
IV. ELIS., m. John Appelman ; had ch .: MARGARET, b. Sept. 6, 1792 ; SUSSANNA, b. Sept. 2, 1794, and another bap. 1798
V. PETER, b. July 6, 1774, m. Sarah Kizer [Keiser].
VI. SUSANNAH, b. May 24, 1776 ; had ch .: 1. ELIAS : 2. BENJAMIN ; 3. JACOB.
VII. JULY, b. Oct. 15, 1780.
VIII. SARAH, b. Jan. 14, 1782.
IX. RODY, had ch .: 1. ELISABETH, b. Jan. 5, 1792 ; 2. ANOTHER, bap. 1797. X. MARGERY, b. April 20, 1784.
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