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Ephraim Blaine, eldest child of James and Elizabeth Blaine, was born May 26, 1741, in the north of Ireland, of Scotch-Irish ancestry, and died on his farm in Middletown township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, February 16, 1804. He received a classical education at the school of Rev. Dr. Allison in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and was recommended for an ensign's commis- sion in the Provincial service as being "a young gentleman of good family". He received, however, the appointment of commissary sergeant and during the Bouquet expedition to the westward in 1763 was in the Second Provincial Regiment. From 1771 to 1773 he served as sheriff of Cumberland county. At the commencement of the struggle between the Colonies and the mother country, Ephraim Blaine heartily espoused the cause of his native land and state. He began recruiting and soon had raised a battalion of "Associators", of which he was made lieutenant-colonel. Previous to this, July 12, 1774, at a meeting of freeholders, from several townships of the county, held at Car- lisle, he had been placed upon the Committee of Correspondence (see Egles Penna. Genealogies). Colonel Blaine served with his battalion until April 5, 1777, when he was appointed by the Supreme Executive Council county lieuten- ant of Cumberland, a most responsible and important position. He continued in that office until February 19, 1778, when he was appointed commissary-gen- eral of purchases, which high office he held three years. Colonel Blaine was a wealthy man for his day, and he used his wealth and influence to the advantage of the patriot cause. Some idea of the extent of his purchase and the valuc of his standing as a responsible man may be inferred from the fact that in 1780 the Supreme Executive Council ordered a check for a million dollars drawn to reimburse Colonel Blaine for purchases already made and contracts pending. A considerable amount of this money had been advanced by him or guaranteed. At a later date seven hundred thousand dollars was ordered to be credited to him for money advanced or otherwise provided by him. He was with General
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Washington in some of the miost trying scenes of the Revolution, and enjoyed to the utmost the confidence of his chief. At Valley Forge, that awful win- ter, at one time the army was entirely dependent on Colonel Blaine's efforts, and General Washington spoke in the highest terms of his work at that dark period of the struggle At the close of the Revolution he retired to his estate at "Middlesex" which had become greatly impaired during the owner's long ab- sence. Here he resided for more than a quarter of a century after the war in true manorial dignity and hospitality, entertaining his numerous visitors in a style of liberality suited to his social rank and public position. It was at his house that President Washington and suite were entertained when they jour- neyed to the interior of the state during the "Whiskey Insurrection" of the western counties of Pennsylvania in 1794.
Colonel Blaine married (first) June 26, 1765, Rebecca, daughter of John and Jannett Galbraith, a well known Scotch family. She died shortly after the war closed. He married (second) after some years, Sarah E. Duncan, widow of Judge Duncan. She was a resident of Carlisle, near which town was his estate of "Middlesex". Judge Duncan was killed, September 20, 1797, in a duel with a lawyer named Lamberton, and one of the judge's seconds was James Blaine, son of Colonel Ephraim Blaine by his first wife. A few years after the duel Colonel Blaine married Mrs. Duncan, who long survived him, and af- for his death she resided on Walnut street, west of Twelfth street, Philadelphia, where she attained the great age of ninety, dying about the year 1850. By his first wife Colonel Blaine had six children, of whom we can name three: James, see forward; Robert, married Anna Susanna Metzger; David, married Isabella Hill. By his second marriage there was a son, Ephraim, who was drowned in the mill race at "Middlesex".
James (2) Blaine, son of Colonel Ephraim and Rebecca (Galbraith) Blaine, was born in
Middleton township, Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, died in 1832 in Washington county, Pennsylvania. In 1791 he was an attaché to one of the American embassies abroad, and was the bearer to this country of the celebrated "Jay Treaty" that so incensed the enemies of Alexander Hamilton. In 1780 he went to Western Pennsylvania, and in 1804 to Brownsville, on the Monongahela river, where he began merchandising. He was commissioned a justice of the peace, a position he held many years. He aferward removed to Sewickley, Allegheny county, where he owned a farm that he sold to the "Economists". He then removed to a small farm near Washington, Pennsylvania, where he died. Mr. Blaine married (first) Jane -, born 1769, died in April, 1793. Married (second) January 16, 1795, Margaret, daughter of Samuel Lyon, of Cumberland county, Penn- sylvania. His children, all by second wife, were: I. Ephraim Lyon, born Feb- ruary 28, 1796, married Maria, daughter of Neal Gillespie Jr., and great-grand- daughter of Neal Gillespie; they were the parents of Hon. James G. Blaine, the great statesman and Republican presidential candidate in 1884 against Grov- er Cleveland, and of the mother of the wife of General William T. Sherman. 2. Margaret Jane, married William Sample, founder of the Washington ( Penn- sylvania ) Reporter, prothonatary of Washington county, and died in the west. 3. Ellen, see forward. 4. William. 5. Robert, of Washington, D. C. 6. Sam- uel, of Louisville, Kentucky. 7. Ann, married Jacob Mason and removed to Iowa.
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Ellen Blaine, third child of James (2) and Margaret (Lyon) Blaine, married John H. Ewing, born October 5, 1796, son of William and Mary (Conwell) Ewing. Children: I. Rev. William E., of Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. 2. George. 3. John, see forward. 4. Samuel Blaine. 5. Margaret, married Dr. Halleck, of Pittsburgh. 6. Elizabeth, married Rev. William Speer, of Washing- ton, Pennsylvania. 7. Mary, wife of Professor Woods, of Washington, Penn- sylvania.
Colonel John Ewing, son of John H. and Ellen (Blaine) Ewing, married Eliz- abeth Marshall, of Kentucky.
Martha Porter, daughter of Colonel John and Elizabeth (Marshall) Ewing, was born in Allegheny (Pittsburgh, North Side), Pennsylvania. She married Robert Carson Jr.
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AGNES TAYLOR DAVIS
AGNES TAYLOR (MRS. HARRY P. DAVIS), of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is of Massachusetts birth and lineage. Her Revolutionary ancestor is Corporal Nehe- miah Chase, of Massachusetts. Her Colonial ancestry extends back to almost or quite the beginning of Massachusetts settlement by the Pilgrims. Nehemialı Chase was of the fifth generation in America. He was born in Sutton, Massachu- setts, February 8, 1751, died October 5, 1808. He enlisted May 20, 1775, in Colonel Ebenezer Learned's regiment, and served two months. His second enlist- ment was in Captain Bartholomew Woodbury's company of Colonel Job Cush- ing's regiment, August 13, 1777. On August 16 they marched from Worcester, Massachusetts, to reinforce the northern army. He was discharged November 29, 1777, making his term of service three months and twenty-seven days. On July 30, 1778, he again enlisted in Captain Caleb Whiting's company, Colonel Benjamin Hawes' regiment, and served until September 3, 1778, in the Rhode Island expedition (see Mass. Soldiers and Sailors, vol. III, p. 363).
The Chase family (Mrs. Davis' maternal line) is said to be of Norman descent. There have been families of the name in England for several centuries. As early as 1326 families of Chase lived in Suffolk. It has been stated by genealog- ists that Aquila Chase, of Hampton and Newbury, was a mariner from Corn- wall, England, but the records show that he was the son of Aquila, son of Richard, of Chesham. The Chase family in America descended from either William, Thomas or Aquila Chase, supposed to have been brothers, but William is not established, Thomas and Aquila are. William Chase was the first of the name in America. He came with the fleet that brought Governor Winthrop and his col- ony in 1630. In the records of the church at Roxbury is the following in the handwriting of Rev. John Eliot, "The Apostle to the Indians": "William Chase-He came with the first company (1630)-bringing his wife Mary and his eldest son William". Richard Chase, the grandfather of Aquila Chase, mar- ried Joan Bishop, at Chesham, England, April 16, 1564. They had ten children, among them Aquila (1), baptized August 14, 1580; he married and had sons Thomas and Aquila. It is with them that the American history of the family, to which Mrs. Davis belongs, begins.
Aquila (2) Chase, son of Aquila (1) Chase, was born in Chesham, England, 1618, died in Newbury, Massachusetts, December 27, 1670. He was a mariner and it is probable that both he and Thomas acquired a knowledge of navigation in the employ of Thomas Chase, who in 1626 was part owner of the "John and Frances" and is named in "letters of Marque" granted that vessel. Aquila and Thomas Chase appeared in Hampton, Massachusetts, in 1639. They were young unmarried men. Thomas married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Philbrook, and resided in Hampton until his death. Aquila was one of the first settlers of Hamp- ton, about 1646 removed to Newbury, where he received several grants of land. He made frequent voyages from Newbury as master. He is said to have been the first person to bring a large vessel over the Newbury bar. The only record
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to his discredit is that which states that "Aquila Chase and his wife were presented for gathering pease on ye Sabbath day". He married Anne, daughter of John Wheeler, and had children : Sarah, Anne, Priscilla, Mary, Aquila (3), Thomas, John, Elizabeth, Ruth, Daniel, Moses, see forward.
Ensign Moses Chase, youngest of the eleven children of Aquila (2) and Anne (Wheeler) Chase, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, December 24, 1663, and passed his entire life there. He was ensign in the Essex regiment. He mar- ried (first) Ann Follansbee, November 10, 1684; (second) Sarah Jacobs, Decem- ber 13, 1713. His children, all by first wife, were: Moses and Daniel, twins, Moses died young, Daniel, see forward ; Moses (2), Samuel, Elizabeth, Stephen, Hannah, Joseph and Benoni.
Daniel Chase, twin son of Ensign Moses and Ann ( Follansbee) Chase, was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, September 10, 1685. He resided there until 1725, when he removed to Littleton and from thence to Sutton, Massachusetts, where he died April 17, 1768. He was a miller and was known as "Miller Chase". He and his wife were admitted to the church in 1736 by letter from Littleton. He married, January 6, 1706. Sarah March. Children : Samuel, Daniel, Anne, Joshua, Judith, Nehemiah, Sarah, Caleb, see forward, Moody and Moses. Samuel, the son, was the progenitor of Hon. Salmon P. Chase, late chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, senator, governor of Ohio, again a senator, secretary of the treasury under President Lincoln, appointed chief justice in 1865.
Caleb Chase, son of Daniel and Sarah (March) Chase, was born November 20, 1722. He married Sarah Prince, who died February 15, 1803. Children : Phoebe, Mary, Nehemiah, see forward; David Prince, Caleb (2), Joseph, Sarah, John, Stephen, Moses, Daniel, Israel and Rachel.
Corporal Nehemiah Chase (the Revolutionary ancestor), son of Caleb and Sarah (Prince) Chase, was born in Sutton, Massachusetts, February 8, 1751, died October 5, 1808. He married Vashti Batchellor, December 17, 1778. Children : Abner, Caleb, Sarah, Lavinia, Abraham, see forward, Nehemiah, Vashti.
Abraham Chase, son of Corporal Nehemiah and Vashti (Batchellor) Chase, died October 29, 1857. He married Mary Dudley. Children : Abraham Dudley, Nehemiah Bradlee, Mary Louisa, see forward, Levi Lincoln, Lydia Sophia.
Mary Louisa Chase, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Dudley) Chase, mar- ried Ransom C. Taylor.
Agnes Taylor, daughter of Ransom C. and Mary Louisa (Chase) Taylor, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. She married Harry P. Davis.
LOVENE CORDERY DICKEY
LOVENE CORDERY (Mrs. William Warren Dickey), descends from a most remarkable Revolutionary and Colonial ancestry. Three of her ancestors served in that war, all of different nationalities. Frederick Steelman, a minute-man at Atlantic county, New Jersey, was a grandson of James Steelman, born in Sweden, a settler of Delaware earlier than 1690. Nicholas Sooy was of New Jersey birth and served from Gloucester county, New Jersey, and Thomas Chamberlain, born in England, served the patriot cause from New Jersey. The genealogy is as follows:
The immigrant ancestor of the New Jersey Steelmans was James Steelman, a native of Sweden, who, prior to 1690 had identified himself with the Colony of Swedes in New Castle, Delaware. He located land in Atlantic county, New Jersey, in 1694, or 1696, and owned large tracts of land, also many head of cattle. He also owned a considerable portion of the South West and of Abse- quam (Atlantic City) beach, which he bought of Thomas Budd. He was a member of the Gloria Dei, Old Swedes Church of Philadelphia, and his chil- dren, Andrew and Susannah, are also mentioned in the records of that church. James Steelman married previous to his coming to New Jersey, Susannah, daughter of Christian Toy. He married a second wife, Katharine Ouster, June 3, 1730. James died in 1734. The children of James Steelman, the emigrant, were all born in America, by his first wife, Susannah (Toy) Steelman. I. An- drew, see forward. 2. Susannah, born in 1691, married John Kean in Novem- ber, 1713. 3. John, born January 7, 1692, will proved August II, 1775, mar- ried Sarah Adams. 4. Hance, will proved in 1760. 5. James, married Kath- erine, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Lock) Kean. 6. Elias. 7. Mary, married Blackman. 8. Peter, died 1762, married Gertrude -, rec- ord in Old Swedes Church, Philadelphia, vol. 2, p. 225.
Andrew Steelman, eldest son and child of James and Susannah (Toy) Steel- man, was born in 1690, died in 1736. He married Judith Their chil- dren were: I. Andrew (2), made deeds in 1746, had no children. 2. Peter, born May I, 1723, died November 9, 1762; he married, in September, 1750, Hannah, daughter of Japhet Leeds. 3. James, made deeds in 1743. 4. Fred- erick, see forward. 5. Mary, died May 21, 1797; married (first) Edmund Somers, January 2, 1734, (second) Joseph Mapes, May 6, 1746. 6. Judith, married Collins. 7. Susannah.
Frederick Steelman, fourth child of Andrew and Judith Steelman, died in 1778. His will was proved April 29, 1778. He served in the Revolution. He married Sarah - -; children : 1. James, married Susannah, daughter of Noah Smith. 2. Frederick, see forward. 3. Andrew, was shot on Long Isl- and, during the War of the Revolution, by John Bacon, a Tory. 4. Sarah, mar- ried Henry Smith. 5. Abigail, married and had a son Elias. 6. Judith, mar- ried, December 8, 1776, Jeremiah, son of John Leeds. 7. Mary, married, Jan-
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uary 3, 1775, Daniel, son of John Leeds. 8. Hannah. 9. Rachel, married Pe- ter, son of Isaac and Mary (Andrews) Steelman.
Frederick (2) Steelman, son of Frederick (I) and Sarah Steelman, died in 1782. He is on the rolls of Atlantic county, New Jersey, "minute-men", during the Revolution. His father, and several of his brothers also served in that war, one of them Andrew (3), losing his life. Frederick Steelman married Sophia Risley and they reared a family. The descent to Mrs. Dickey now flows through maternal lines for two generations.
Sarah Steelman, daughter of Frederick (2) and Sophia (Risley) Steelman, married William Chamberlain (see Chamberlain).
Elizabeth Chamberlain, daughter of William and Sarah (Steelman) Cham- berlain, married Absalom Cordery, who was a blacksmith, wheelwright, and a man of acknowledged, unusual ability. He represented Atlantic county in the State Senate of New Jersey two terms in the early forties, and when he left home he left his.son Enoch in charge of his business. Absalom and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Cordery were the parents of Enoch, see forward; William C., Daniel Edwards, Sarah, married Thomas Clark, Annie E., married Job G. Babcock; Caroline, wife of James Ryon; Maria, wife of James R. Steelman.
JUDGE ENOCH CORDERY, one of the seven children of Absalom and Elizabeth (Chamberlain) Cordery, was born November II, 1816, at Absecon, Atlantic county, New Jersey, where he always lived and where he died April 10, 1891. For several generations the Corderys have held an honorable place in Atlantic county history. Judge Cordery was a man of strict integrity and more than ordinary intellectual attainments. He was all his life an industrious and exemp- lary citizen. He continued at the old homestead the business that his father had left him. He was an active consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church. He was a charter member and an active worker of Aurora Lodge, Junior Order of Odd Fellows, the first lodge of that order instituted in Atlantic county. Like his father, he represented his county in the State Senate, sitting from 1857 to 1859. He was elected by the Democrats to which party he gave his allegiance. These were years of legislative corruption at Trenton, but the member from Atlantic county preserved his reputation unsullied. In 1877 Governor Bedle appointed him lay judge for Atlantic county. He was twice reappointed, serving five years terms and having one year yet to serve at the time of his death. He was one of the directors of the Second National Bank and had accumulated an ample fortune. Judge Cordery's first wife was Sarah, daughter of Captain Edmund Somers, by whom he had a daughter Sarah B. His second wife was Lucy Ann Evans, daughter of Judge John Willits, to whom he was married November 5, 1846. Children of Judge Enoch and Lucy Ann Evans (Willits) Cordery were : E. Alonzo, of Fort Meade, Florida; Mrs. Reuben Babcock, of Absecon; Mrs. John R. Fleming, of Atlantic City ; Mrs. W. W. Dickey, of Pittsburgh, and John Willits, of Absecon.
Judge John Willits, grandfather of Mrs. Dickey, was a most remarkable man. He was a son of Stephen and Lydia Willits, of Little Egg Harbor town- ship, Burlington county, where John was born April 22, 1797. He was the oldest of seven children. His father was a carpenter. John was taught that trade and that of boat builder. In the year 1836 he removed from Little Egg Harbor to West Creek, Stafford township, Monmouth (now Ocean) county, New Jersey.
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Although in a new township and country, his new residence was not one hun- dred yards from where he was born. In Burlington county he had been a justice of the peace for ten years, and although he was later entitled to the title of judge, he never was known by other than the familiar title of "Squire" and "Squire Willits" was known far and wide. He was a terror to evil-doers. Before Monmouth county, New Jersey, was divided, John Willits was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for that county and served with honor for five years. In Stafford township he was elected justice of the peace after it became a part of Ocean county. He was re-elected, making ten years of service as jus- tice in the new county. For five years he was commissioner of wrecks. He owned a beautiful home in West Creek and abundant acres of farm, meadow and timber land. He was a man of substance and influence in town, business and church life. Squire John Willits married Hannah, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Sooy) Thompson. They were the parents of ten children, four sons and six daughters, one of the daughters, Lucy Ann Evans Willits ( Mrs. Enoch Cordery) becoming the mother of Lovene Cordery (Mrs. W. W. Dickey). An interesting letter written by Squire Willits, December 30, 1877, gives a better idea of his character than can be otherwise obtained.
"Dear Sir :- In addition to information already received, I would inform you that my grandfather, Timothy Willits, was killed in the Revolutionary war and I was a soldier in the war of 1812. I joined a uniform company in the year 1814, called the 'Tuckerton Vol- unteers and Home Guard'. I belonged to said Company eleven years and then got a clear- ance from military duty.
"My parents were poor but honest, industrious and respectable. I was born in the old log house, near the Province line between East and West Jersey. I went to school about one year in detached pieces of from four to five weeks each winter. My parents taught me morality, industry and frugality, which I have tried to follow, and that the Scriptures are the revealed will of God to fallen man. I am now nearly eighty-one years of age and I have never been drunk nor ever swore an oath.
"In addition to the county offices you know of, I have held most of the township offices and about all the offices of the Methodist Episcopal Church from Sexton to local preacher. I have labored at clamming, oystering, fishing, gunning, sailing small boats and large vessels, chopping wood, working off cedar swamp, clearing and fencing lands; at carpenter work, joiner, ship carpenter and small boat builder, farmer, oyster carter, wrecking, survey- ing and conveyancing lands, clearing and setting out cranberry bogs and any kind of business that offered that was decent and that would pay anything I generally took hold of. I have manufactured and carried to New York in a vessel a large quantity of pine market wood. I have also carried thousands of fine bushels of oysters in the same way to New York and Philadelphia, and by the blessing of Kind Providence I have accumulated all that I need of this world's goods and expect I enjoy as much comfort and happiness as any old man in these parts and possibly much more than many young men do. I have thus given you a very short and imperfect sketch of my business and life's experience but think it improper herein to give you a biography of my moral and religious life and experience except to say that I love everybody and hate nobody, and am trying by God's grace assisting me, to do Justly, love mercy, work humbly with God and live with a conscience void of offence toward God and Man.
Yrs etc. John Willits".
LOVENE CORDERY, daughter of Judge Enoch and Lucy Ann Evans (Willits) Cordery, was born in Absecon, Atlantic county, New Jersey. She married William Warren Dickey, and resides in Pittsburgh.
(The Sooy Line)
Nicholas Sooy was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, May 4, 1747, died at Washington, New Jersey, in 1822. He served as a minute-man from Gloucester county during the Revolution. He married Sarah Sears and had issue.
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Elizabeth Sooy, daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Sears) Sooy, married Ar- thur Thompson and had issue.
Hannah Thompson, daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth (Sooy) Thompson, married John Willits (see Steelman line).
Lucy Ann Evans Willits, daughter of John and Hannah ( Thompson) Wil- lits, married Enoch Cordery (see Steelman line).
Lovene Cordery, daughter of Enoch and Lucy Ann Evans (Willits) Cordery, married William Warren Dickey (see Steelman line).
(The Chamberlain Line)
Mrs. Dickey's third line of Revolutionary descent is from Thomas Cham- berlain, who was born in England and died in New Jersey. He served in the Revolution as a minute-man. He married Mary
William Chamberlain, son of Thomas and Mary Chamberlain, married Sar- ah Steelman (see Steelman line), and they were great-grandparents of Lovene Cordery (Mrs. William W. Dickey).
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PAUL HENRY BARNES, JR.
PAUL HENRY BARNES, JR., of Philadelphia, is descended from paternal an- cestors who were identified with the business, social and religious institutions of his native city for several generations. His great-great-grandparents were Paul and Hetty (Barker) Barnes, and their son, James Barnes, was born in Philadelphia in 1765, died there April 20, 1828. He married, at Gloria Dei (Old Swedes) Church, July 24, 1790, Sarah Robinson, born 1769, died 1856, daughter of Samuel Robinson, and his wife, Miriam (Wade) Robinson, daugh- ter of Thomas Wade, and of a family prominently identified with the first Eng- lish settlements on both sides of the Delaware. James and Sarah (Robinson) Barnes are buried side by side in the old Pine street burying ground, Philadel- phia, where tombstones mark their last resting place.
PAUL BARNES, son of James and Sarah (Robinson) Barnes, was born in Philadelphia, June 9, 1805, died there February 5, 1860. He married, October I, 1835, Matilda Hughes, who was born at Cape May, New Jersey, February 6, 1817, died in Philadelphia, July II, 1855, daughter of Israel and Mary (Eld- ridge) Hughes, and granddaughter of Captain Memucan Hughes, of Cape May, and his wife, Martha Hughes.
Several representatives of the Hughes family were among the earliest set- tlers of New Jersey ; the first of whom we have record being William Hughes and Dorothy his wife of Shadwell, county Middlesex, England, who purchased land there in 1674. Whether they were the parents of the four brothers, Jede- diah, Humphrey, Constantine and John, who appear of record in Salem and Cape May counties about a decade later has not been ascertained. Of these four brothers John, of Salem county, married, May 25, 1690, Martha Buckley, and died in 1714, leaving sons, John and Jonathan, the former of whom is said to have been the father of Martha Hughes, who married her cousin, Me- mucan Hughes. A Matthew Hughes located in Bucks county about 1696, and married there, in 1700, Elizabeth (Biles) Beakes, and among their grandchil- dren were Humphrey and Constantine Hughes, the recurrence of these pe- culiar names indicating that Matthew was a fifth brother of the New Jersey family. Humphrey Hughes, grandfather of Memucan Hughes, was the grantee of land at Cape May in 1691, and his name appears frequently on the records of that and Salem county.
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