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1. Gerald, of whom further.
(G. E. Cokayne: "Complete Peerage" (1919), Vol. IV, p. 237.)
(IX) GERALD FITZ MAURICE, third Earl of Desmond, son of Maurice Fitz Thomas and Aveline Fitz Maurice, was given custody of the family lands in 1358. He was a commissioner to make inquiries regarding the oppressions caused by the King's ministers in 1363, and in 1366 was appointed Justiciar of Ireland besides holding many other offices of trust. He was a poet, a chronicler and a mathema- tician. Like many others interested in science at that time he was accused of being a magician. His renown was so great that, although he died in 1398, three hun- dred years later, when the Irish were besieged at Limerick in 1691, they expected he would come to their assistance. In 1359 Gerald Fitz Maurice married Alianore, daughter of James, Earl of Ormond by Elizabeth, daughter of John Darcy, of Knaith, County Lincoln. They had a son :
1. James, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 243, 244, 245.)
(X) JAMES FITZGERALD, sixth Earl of Desmond, son of Gerald Fitz Maurice and Alianore, was appointed justice and guardian of the peace in the counties of Waterford, Cork and Limerick. In 1462 he died at Mocollop and was buried at Youghal. James Fitzgerald married Mary Burk, daughter of Ulick Mac Rickard Burk. They were the parents of :
I. Joan, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 246-47.)
(XI) JOAN FITZGERALD, daughter of James, sixth Earl of Desmond, and Mary (Burk) Fitzgerald, married Thomas Fitzgerald, seventh Earl of Kildare. (Fitz- gerald of Kildare XII.)
(G. E. Cokayne: "Complete Peerage" (1919), Vol. VIII, p. 229.) (The Whitall Line).
Whitall, which is of English derivation, has three probable sources of origin, the English forms being Whittall, interchangeable with Whittle, and designating
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"Dweller at the White Hall," or the Old English derivative which is "hwt and h(e)all." Another interesting phase of this surname comes from the English Whittle, signifying "belonging to Whittle," "the White Hill" and "the White Nook" or "Corner." The third corruption of Whitall is found in Worcester County during the thirteenth century in the surname Whithale or "Wita's Hall."
(H. Harrison: "Surnames of the United Kingdom.")
(I) JAMES WHITALL, who came to this country from a section near Litch- field, Staffordshire, England, about 1688, and located at Timber Creek, Glouces- ter, New Jersey, died between July 22, 1714 (date of his will), and August 7, 1714 (date of inventory of his estate). The hundred-acre tract, called "Upton," on which he made his first home, he sold in 1700, and purchased four hundred and eleven acres of land on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River. Fort Mercer, later constructed on the edge of this property, was the scene of a hard fought battle during the Revolution. The Whitall farm is now the property of the Federal Government, with the exception of twenty acres, which have been transferred to the County of Gloucester, New Jersey. James Whitall married Hannah Ogden. They had a son :
I. Job, of whom further.
("Descendants of Thomas French," Vol. II, p. 312. Stockton Manuscripts in the New Jersey Historical Society. J. Clement : "Sketches of Newtown, New Jersey," p. 65. "Archives of the State of New Jersey," Ist Series, Vol. XXIII, p. 507.
(II) JOB WHITALL, son of James and Hannah (Ogden) Whitall, resided at Red Bank, New Jersey, where he died between May 15, 1722 (the date of his will), and October 15, 1722 (the date of its probation). He married, October 4, 1716, Jane Siddon, and they were the parents of :
I. James, of whom further.
(H. Stanley Craig: "Gloucester County, New Jersey, Marriage Records," p. 241. "Archives of the State of New Jersey," Ist Series, Vol. XXIII, p. 507.)
(III) JAMES WHITALL, son of Job and Jane (Siddon) Whitall, was born Sep- tember 4, 1717, and died September 29, 1808. He resided at Red Bank, New Jer- sey. In 1748, he built a house of imported brick, which is still standing, and is the property of the county. James Whitall married, at Haddonfield (Friends) Meet- ing, November 23, 1739, Ann Cooper, the daughter of John and Ann (Clarke) Cooper, who was born June 23, 1716, and died at Philadelphia, September 22, 1797. She was also a granddaughter of William and Mary (Bradway) Cooper and great-granddaughter of William and Margaret Cooper, who came to Burling- ton, New Jersey, in 1678, from Coleshill, Warwickshire, England. Her mother, Ann Clarke, was a daughter of Benjamin, Jr., and Ann (Giles) Clarke. James Whitall was the father of :
I. Benjamin, of whom further.
("Descendants of Thomas French," Vol. II, pp. 310-13. F. H. Stewart: "Notes on Old Gloucester County," p. 315. Gloucester County Historical Society : "Ann C. Whitall, Heroine of Red Bank," pp. I-IO.)
(IV) LIEUTENANT BENJAMIN WHITALL, son of James and Ann (Cooper) Whitall, was born October 3, 1747, and died from yellow fever on September 14, 1797. In spite of his training as a Friend, he served during the Revolutionary War. On January 10, 1776, he applied to the Committee of Safety for a command
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in Colonel Maxwell's regiment and was made a second lieutenant in the artillery company, March 2 of that year. He was later promoted to first lieutenant and captain lieutenant. Benjamin Whitall married Elizabeth Hopper, who died Decem- ber II, 1808. They had :
I. Samuel, of whom further.
(Stockton Manuscripts in the New Jersey Historical Society. F. H. Stewart: "Notes on Old Gloucester County," p. 256.)
(V) SAMUEL WHITALL, son of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Hopper) Whitall, was born at Red Bank, New Jersey, March 15, 1775, and died at Georgetown, District of Columbia, May 14, 1856. He married (first) Sarah Ellis. (Ellis V.) He married (second), October 15, 1807, Lydia Newbold. He had a daughter :
1. Abigail, of whom further.
(Stockton Manuscripts in the New Jersey Historical Society.)
(VI) ABIGAIL ELLIS WHITALL, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Ellis) Whit- all, died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 9, 1865. She married Elias de Cou Woodruff. (Woodruff VII.)
(Stockton Manuscripts on the New Jersey Historical Society).
(The Ellis Line).
In the whole range of family nomenclature, there is perhaps no name which admits of more variety of origin or a greater number of differing forms than Ellis. "Elles or Ellis in British," says Hals, in D. Gilbert's "Cornwall" (iii, 429), "is a son-in-law by the wife, and Els or Ells, a son-in-law by the husband." Ella, or Aella, is a well-known regal name of Anglo-Saxon times, and its genitive form would in later days become Ellis. From these two sources some of our very numerous families of Ellis may have sprung, but there is little doubt that the surname Ellis has, for the most part been formed from the Scripture name, Elias, which does not occur as an Anglo-Saxon name, but which was in use in France as early as the days of Charlemagne as a baptismal designation, and afterwards gave name to several families of Elis.
(Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) THOMAS ELLIS was probably a resident "of Wooddale," inasmuch as it is stated by an historian of the descendants of his son, Simeon, that "Simeon Ellis, son of Thomas of Wooddale, presented certificate dated Ist 4 mo., 1683," at New- ton, New Jersey, Friends' Meeting. Evidently Wooddale, New Castle County, Delaware, was meant. Although presumably of Welsh ancestry, the identity of this Thomas Ellis has not been established.
Thomas Ellis, "of Wooddale," had a son :
1. Simeon, of whom further.
(Frank H. Stewart: "Stewart's Genealogical and Historical Miscellany," No. I, p. 17. Thomas Allen Glenn : "Welsh Founders of Pennsylvania," Vol. I, pp. 163, 164. "The Jersey- man" (1901), Vol. VII, p. 14.)
(II) SIMEON ELLIS, son of Thomas Ellis, "of Wooddale," died in 1715. He presented certificate to Newton Friends' Meeting, Gloucester County, New Jersey, "4 mo. 1, 1683." In 1691, he bought two hundred acres from Francis Collins on the north side of the north branch of Cooper's Creek, in old Gloucester County,
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New Jersey. His place was called "Springwell." He bought other considerable tracts of land in the vicinity. Simeon Ellis was of Springwell, Gloucester County, when he married at the old Newton, New Jersey, Friends' Meeting House, "4 mo. (June) 16, 1692," Sarah Bates, daughter of William Bates, of Newton. They had a son :
I. Jonathan, of whom further.
(Frank H. Stewart: "Stewart's Genealogical and Historical Miscellany," No. I ( 1918), p. 17. "New Jersey Archives," First Series, Vol. XII, p. 672. "Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey," Vol. III, p. 64; Vol. IV, p. 128.)
(III) JONATHAN ELLIS, "yeoman," son of Simeon and Sarah ( Bates) Ellis, was born at Springwell, Gloucester County, New Jersey, and died a resident of Waterford, Gloucester County, in 1754. In his will, Jonathan Ellis disposed of real estate consisting of his home farm and of another farm bought of Richard Hains and also of personal property. Jonathan Ellis married, at Haddonfield, New Jersey, at the Friends' Meeting, "I mo., 1737," Mary Hollingshead, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth ( Adams) Hollingshead. Their son was :
I. Joseph, of whom further.
("New Jersey Archives," First Series, Vol. XXVIII, p. 207; Vol. XXXII, p. 104; Sec- ond Series, Vol. II, p. 151. "The Jerseyman" (1901), pp: 14, 15. "Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey," Vol. III, p. 68.)
(IV) JOSEPH ELLIS, son of Jonathan and Mary (Hollingshead) Ellis, was doubtless born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, between 1733 and 1740, as he was a minor in 1754 and was married by 1760. On November 1, 1768, he was appointed administrator of the estate of Jacob Hinchman, yeoman, of the same county, who had died intestate. His fellow-bondsman was William Hugg, of Gloucester. Joseph Ellis was a prominent citizen of Gloucester County, New Jer- sey, and served as a colonel in the second battalion of the county militia. From 1781 to 1785 he was a member of the House of Assembly, and from 1787 to 1794 he was a member of the Legislative Council. Joseph Ellis married (first) by license dated January 1, 1760, Mary Hinchman, of Gloucester, daughter of Jacob and Abigail (Harrison) Hinchman. He married (second) Abigail (Clement) Black- wood, widow of Samuel Blackwood. He had a daughter :
I. Sarah, of whom further.
("New Jersey Archives," First Series, Vol. XXII, p. 124; Vol. XXXII, p. 104; Vol. XXXIII, p. 193; Second Series, Vol. I, p. 557; Vol. III. Stockton Manuscript in the New Jersey Historical Society. "The Jerseyman," Vol. VII, p. 14 (1901.)
(V) SARAH ELLIS, daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Clement-Blackwood) Ellis, was born December 20, 1778, and died December 6, 1804. She married Samuel Whitall. (Whitall V.)
(Stockton Manuscript in the New Jersey Historical Society. Family records.)
(The Borden Line).
Kent seems to have been the earliest home of the Borden family in England, the family taking its name from the parish of Borden in Kent, known as the gar- den county of England. The family of Borden was possessed of good estates in this part of Kent and were distinguished persons among the landed gentry.
(H. B. Weld: "Historical and Genealogical Record of the Descendants as Far as Known of Richard and Joan Borden," pp. 24-25.)
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(I) HENRY BORDEN was born about 1370-80 in Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, England, and is mentioned as dead in 1469. He appears to have held land both in the parish of Hedcorn and at Borden, and was doubtless a descendant of the Bordens of Borden. His grandson, John, left a request that a priest sing in the Church of Hedcorn for the soul of Henry and his wife, Robergia, for two years. Henry Borden married, in Hedcorn, Robergia. They had :
I. Thomas, of whom further.
('T. A. Glenn: "Pedigree of Richard Borden," pp. 3-4.)
(II) THOMAS BORDEN, son of Henry and Robergia Borden, was born in Hed- corn Parish, County Kent, England, and died before April 26, 1469. Thomas Borden married Isabella. They had a son :
I. John, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 4-5.)
(III) JOHN BORDEN, son of Thomas and Isabella Borden, was born in Hed- corn Parish, County Kent, England, and died there. He made his will April 26, 1469, and left a sum of money to all of his grandchildren and also a sum of money for an "honest Priest" to sing for the souls of his parents and grandparents as well as for one Thomas Saunder, for two years. ("Archaeological Cantina," Vol. II, folio I, Latin.) John Borden married Benet Torner, daughter of Thomas Torner. They had :
I. William, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 5-7).
(IV) WILLIAM BORDEN, son of John and Benet (Torner) Borden, is recorded as under age April 26, 1496. He died in Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, England ; will dated February II, 1531, and proved September 25, 1531. He left quite a good sized estate to his wife and children, both in money and in land. In his will he mentions Sir Edward Wooten, Knight, as his overseer. ("Archeological Can- tina," Vol. XIX, Section 10.) William Borden married (first) Joan; (second) Thomasin; (third) Rose, who survived him. Among his children was Edmund, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 7-10.)
(V) EDMUND BORDEN, son of William Borden, was born in Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, England, and died there, in 1539, probably in or about the month of June. His will, dated April 13, 1539, and proved June 18, 1539, requested that he be buried in the churchyard at Hedcorn. ("Archaeological Cantina," Vol. XXI, Section 9.) Edmund Borden married Margaret. They had a son :
1. William, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(VI) WILLIAM BORDEN, son of Edmund and Margaret Borden, was born in Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, and died in or about the month of June, 1557. His will was proved June 8, 1857, and by it he left over £60 in money to his wife and children, as well as considerable real and personal property. ("Archæological Can- tina," Vol. III, Section 3.) William Borden married Joan, and they had :
1. Thomas, of whom further.
(T. A. Glenn: "Pedigree of Richard Borden," pp. 10-II.)
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(VII) THOMAS BORDEN, son of William and Joan Borden, was born in Hed- corn Parish, County Kent, England, and died there and was buried April 21, 1592. The will of Thomas Borden is dated April 13, 1592, and was proved April 26, 1592. ("Archaeological Cantina," Vol. XLVIII, folio 279.) Thomas Borden's first wife was buried May 20, 1581. He married (second) Margaret, who was buried September 25, 1589. He was the father of :
I. Matthew, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 11-12.)
(VIII) MATTHEW BORDEN, son of Thomas Borden, was born in Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, and died there October, 1620. He was churchwarden of Hedcorn in 1598. His will is dated September 26, 1620, and proved October 27, 1620. He was a well-to-do man, having several farms, a number of houses and leaving over £ 116 in money to three of his children. Matthew Borden married Joan. He had a son :
1. Richard, see further.
(The Family in America).
(I) RICHARD BORDEN, son of Matthew and Joan Borden, was baptized in Hedcorn Parish, County Kent, England, February 22, 1595-96, and died in Ports- mouth, Rhode Island, May 25, 1671. When the proposition of forming a settle- ment on Rhode Island was made to him he entered into it with all his heart and to it devoted all his energies. On June 10, 1638, Richard Borden was granted five acres at Bristol Ferry in which to place his cottage and his cabbage and turnip yard. In 1638 he was appointed to survey town lots and lay out farming lands in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. In 1653-54 he was assistant or senator; in 1654-55, he was general treasurer ; in 1654-56-57 he was commissioner, and in 1667-70 he was deputy. He bought sixty acres of land in Providence, near Newtonkonut Hill, and in 1667 was one of the original purchasers of land in New Jersey. He was a Quaker and as a devout Christian gained high esteem. Richard Borden married, September 28, 1625, Joan Fowle, born February 15, 1604, died July 16, 1688, "aged 84 years, 6 months," daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Fowle. They had a son :
I. Benjamin, of whom further.
(H. B. Weld: "Historical and Genealogical Record of Richard and Joan Borden," pp. 35-36, 37-40, 43-57. J. O. Austin : "Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island," p. 23. W. H. Jennings : "Genealogical History of the Jennings Families," pp. 545-47. T. A. Glenn : "Pedi- gree of Richard Borden," pp. 13-14.)
(II) BENJAMIN BORDEN, son of Richard and Joan (Fowle) Borden, was born in May, 1649, and died in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1718. In 1672 he removed to Middletown, New Jersey. As his legacy from his father's estate was only £40 he was dependent on his own efforts for a livelihood. Benjamin Bor- den married, September 22, 1670, Abigail Grover, daughter of James Grover, sur- veyor and secretary of the Gravesend Land Company. Among his children was Joseph, of whom further.
(H. B. Weld: "Historical and Genealogical Record of the Descendants as Far as Known of Richard and Joan Borden," pp. 57, 83-85.)
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(III) JOSEPH BORDEN, son of Benjamin and Abigail (Grover) Borden, was born May 12, 1687, and died in 1765. He is buried in the cemetery which he him- self selected at Bordentown, located on the banks of the Delaware River. He resided at Nottingham, Burlington, New Jersey, where he is frequently mentioned in land transactions being found in deeds as early as 1731. About 1750 he removed to what is now known as Bordentown, located on the Delaware River of New Jersey and is regarded as its founder. Joseph Borden married, in 1717, Ann Conover. They had a son :
I. Joseph, Jr., of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 85, 99, 103.)
(IV) JOSEPH BORDEN, JR., son of Joseph and Ann (Conover) Borden, was born August 1, 1719, and died April 8, 1791. He was thirty years of age at the time his father commenced the settlement of Bordentown and aided him in that work. Soon after locating there he established a new line of stage coaches to transport passengers, mail and merchandise between Philadelphia and New York. In 1765, he was elected with two others to represent New Jersey at the Congress of the colonies held at New York. Joseph Borden was a member of the New Jer- sey Committee of Correspondence in the period prior to the outbreak of Revolu- tionary hostilities and in 1775 was chosen to the Council of War of that Colony. He and his son were both attached to the New Jersey line and took part in most of the battles fought in the State. His commission was that of colonel. In retaliation for his leadership Lord Cornwallis used the home at Bordentown as headquarters and made life miserable for the wife and daughter of the colonel.
Joseph Borden, Jr., married Elizabeth Rogers. (Rogers II). They had a daughter :
I. Anne, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 99-103. G. Ward and L. Richards: "Sketch of Some of the Descendants of Samuel Rogers," pp. 5-7.)
(V) ANNE BORDEN, daughter of Colonel Joseph and Elizabeth (Rogers) Borden, was born at Bordentown, New Jersey. She married Judge Francis Hop- kinson. ( Hopkinson-American Line-II.)
(G. Ward and L. Richards: "A Sketch of Some of the Descendants of Samuel Rogers," p. 7. H. B. Weld: "Historical and Genealogical Record of the Descendants as Far as Known of Richard and Joan Borden," p. 131.)
(The Rogers Line).
Roger (or Rogers) was a personal name unknown here before the Conquest. Many persons called Roger and Rogers were mentioned as tenants in Domesday. The fact that Samuel Rogers was a Church of England man strongly points to the English origin of the family, rather than Scotch-Irish, which would naturally be Presbyterian.
(Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) SAMUEL ROGERS, American progenitor of this family, was born in 1692 and died September 17, 1756, aged sixty-four years. He is believed to have come to New Jersey from Ireland about 1731. He brought with him servants and house- hold effects and settled in Allentown, Upper Freehold Township. Being a staunch Church of England man, he gave a lot of land for the first Allentown Protestant
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Episcopal Church, together with a cemetery plot in Allentown in 1750. In 1734, he bought three hundred and twenty-three acres on Crosswicks Creek, about eight miles from Bordentown, New Jersey, for £500 sterling. In his will, dated August 6, 1756, and proved September 22, 1756, he named his children, excepting James, who was then deceased. He called himself "Shopkeeper." Conveyances show him to have been an extensive landowner. Samuel Rogers married Mary, who was born in 1690 and died April 14, 1738, aged forty-eight years. They had a daughter :
I. Elizabeth, of whom further.
(Ward and Richards: "A Sketch of Some of the Descendants of Samuel Rogers," pp. 5-12. "New Jersey Archives," Series I, Vol. XXXII, p. 273. F. Ellis: "History of Mon- mouth County, New Jersey," p. 621.)
(II) ELIZABETH ROGERS, daughter of Samuel and Mary Rogers, was born July 10, 1725, and died November 2, 1807. She "was a woman of great ability and fine Christian character." She made her will September 15, 1798, and it was proved, November 5, 1807. Among her legatees mentioned in her will were her daughter, Ann Hopkinson, and the latter's three daughters; Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Isaac Rogers, "my brother lately deceased"; also her grandson, Joseph Hopkinson, who had the use and occupancy of the old brick family mansion, still retained by his descendants in Bordentown, New Jersey. A Mary Rogers is buried in the plot near the Bordens, and Hopkinson in what is called the Hopkinson Cemetery, in Bordentown, New Jersey. Elizabeth Rogers married Joseph Bor- den, Jr. (Borden IV.)
("New Jersey Archives," Series I, Vol. XXXII, p. 273. H. B. Weld: "Historical and Genealogical Record of the Borden Family," pp. 99-100.)
(The Colegate Line).
(I) JOHN COLGATE, who died in 1639, resided at East Greenwich, Kent County, England. He married Christian Cripps, and they had one child :
I. Michael, of whom further.
(W. Dickinson: "Ancestors of Richard Colgate Dale.")
(II) MICHAEL COLGATE, son of John and Christian (Cripps) Colgate, died in September, 1638. He resided at Uckfield, County Sussex, England, and had one son :
I. Henry, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) HENRY COLGATE, son of Michael Colgate, was born in 1599. He resided at Cranbrook, County Kent, and married, September 16, 1625, Mary Taylor. They had one son :
1. John, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(IV) JOHN COLGATE, son of Henry and Mary (Taylor) Colgate, was born in 1626 and resided at Cranbrook. He married, May 5, 1651, Bridget Nipson, and they had one son :
1. Robert, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
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(V) ROBERT COLGATE, son of John and Bridget (Nipson) Colgate, was born in 1652 and resided at St. Peter's, Canterbury. He married, November II, 1674, Rebecca Wymarke, and they had a son :
1. Richard, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(The Family in America).
(I) RICHARD COLEGATE, as he spelled the name, son of Robert and Rebecca (Wymarke) Colgate, was baptized September II, 1675. He came to the New World and located in Maryland, where he died on January 18, 1722. Richard Colegate married, in 1700, Rebecca Harcourt, whose name appears in some rec- ords of the family as Herbert. They had a son :
I. Richard, Jr., of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(II) RICHARD COLEGATE, JR., son of Richard and Rebecca ( Harcourt, or Her- bert) Colegate, was born in Maryland, March 10, 1710, and died in June, 1759. He married, in 1735, Bridget Garretson, daughter of Hendrick and Elizabeth (Cantwell) Garretson. They had a daughter :
1. Mary, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(III) MARY COLEGATE, daughter of Richard, Jr., and Bridget (Garretson) Colegate, was born in 1744, and died at Middletown, Delaware, June 8, 1790. She married Dr. John Dale, Jr. (Dale II.)
(Ibid.)
(The Lowrey Line).
Lowrey and its variations, Lowry, Laurie, Laury, Lawrey, Lory and Lorey were derived from the personal name Lawrence. In the lowlands and on the borders it was popularly called Lowrie or Laurie, whence the many North English and Scottish variations of this name.
(Bardsley : "Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames." John Lodge: "The Peerage of Ireland," by Rev. M. Archdall, Vol. VII, p. 193.)
(I) COLONEL THOMAS LOWREY was born in Ireland, September 3, 1737. When he was ten years years old he came to America, accompanied by his widowed mother and her brother, Thomas Patterson, who later became the father of Gov- ernor William Patterson. Thomas Lowrey was brought up and educated under the kindly direction of his uncle, Thomas Patterson. In 1750, Thomas Lowrey purchased from his father-in-law, Samuel Fleming, six hundred fifty square feet of land on which he built the first store in what was then a hamlet known as Flem- ing's. The enterprise seems to have been successful. On June 12, 1762, Mr. Lowrey purchased of Henry Grave and Adam Dietz, executors of David Eve- land, one hundred forty-seven acres of land in and around the present Flemington, New Jersey, and associated himself with Christopher Marshall, apothecary; James Eddy, merchant; William Morris, Jr., merchant, all of Philadelphia, and Gher- shom Lee, carpenter, of Amwells. The company formed by this group surveyed and laid out the part of their land adjoining the Trenton Road and sold a number of lots. William Morris, Jr., soon after died and on June 2, 1767, the rest of the
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