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ence within the next ten years to serve at Par- sippany, Hackettstown, Stillwater, Plainfield, Bloomfield, Elizabeth and Mount Holly, all in New Jersey. He was ordained a deacon in the spring of 1842, at Camden, by Bishop Waugh, and an elder or Presbyter in the spring of 1844, at Trenton, by Bishop Morris, after passing the usual four year course of study, credentials of which he still holds clean and un- impaired.
On January 27, 1852, he withdrew from the Methodist Church in consequence of a change in his views on certain theological dogmas and questions of church polity and usage. The fol- lowing, so highly creditable to two great de- nominations, will not be out of place here :
" TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
" Whereas, the Rev. Richard B. Westbrook has signified to me his intention to withdraw from the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the purpose of con- necting himself with the Presbyterian Church. This is to certify that the said Rev. Richard B. Westbrook is an ordained Minister in good and regular standing in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also a mem- ber of the New Jersey Annual Conference of said Church, and as such we recommend him to all where his lot may be cast by the Providence of God.
" RICHARD W. PETHERBRIDGE, " Presiding Elder, Burlington Dist. " January 27, 1852."
In addition to regular credentials, the above certificate and several letters of recommendation, voluntarily furnished by ministers of the Con- ference were presented to Presbytery ; and after due examination, the following minute was adopted.
" The Rev. R. B. Westbrook having made appli- cation to be received as a member of this body, ex- hibiting his credentials as a minister in good standing in the New Jersey Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the validity of whose ordination we most cheerfully acknowledge; and having satisfied the Presbytery as to his piety, his literary and the- ological attainments, and his accordance with the principles and polity of the Presbyterian Church ; and having also answered affirmatively the questions propounded to candidates in our Confession of Faith, it was unanimously voted that he be received and enrolled as a member of this body.
"The Presbytery also resolved, that it highly appre- ciates the courtesy and fraternal spirit manifested by our brethren of the Methodist Church, in their dis- mission and full recommendation of the Rev.
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R.B.Merthook
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Mr. Westbrook, which courtesy we hold ourselves ready when occasion offers, to reciprocate."
This is probably the first case in which a Methodist minister was in such an orderly manner, transferred to the Presbyterian ranks.
Mr. Westbrook's first and only pastorate among the Presbyterians was in Burlington, N. J., thie very city in which he had been re- ceived into the Methodist Conference twelve years before. While pastor of this church in 1853 he received the honorary degree of A. M. from Princeton College.
In 1854 he received an appointment to a secretaryship from the American Sunday-school Union, and removed to Philadelphia where he remained until the spring of 1861. In 1860 he received the honorary degree of D.D from Washington College upon the nomination of Rev. William S. Plumer, D.D., then professor in the Western Theological Seminary at Alle- gheny City. The following notice from the pen of Editor John S. Hart, LL.D., afterward professor in Princeton College, appeared in the Sunday-School Times,-
" THE RESIGNATION OF DR. WESTBROOK.
"The friends of the Sunday-school missionary work throughout the United States, we are certain will sympathize with us in the feeling of profound regret and sorrow with which we announce that the Rev. R. B. Westbrook, D.D., has resigned his office as secretary of missions of the American Sunday-school Union.
" The missionary work of this beloved and honored institution has never in its whole history been ad- ministered with more marked ability, or with more decided and signal success, than during the period that Dr. Westbrook has been entrusted with its ex- cutive control.
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"His pulpit services are much in request, his preach- ing being of that earnest, practical and instructive character, combined with a rich gift of popular elo- quence, which, together, soon build up a congre- gation. The Board of Managers in accepting Dr. Westbrook's resignation, 'bear their unanimous testi- mony to the ability, energy and large measure of success which has marked his labors in the service of the Society."'
In retiring from this secretaryship Dr. West- brook decided that whatever others might be able to do, he could not be a successful investi- gator and advocate of truth, while dependent
upon those to whom he might minister for daily bread. Before leaving Philadelphia he received a unanimous call from the Fourth Presbyterian Church of that city, and also from the State Street Church of Albany, N. Y., and overtures from several churches in other cities.
While not intending to entirely abandon the office of a public moral teacher he entered the law department of the New York City Uni- versity, and received in due course the degree of LL.B. He pressed ahead of his class, and before graduation was, in 1863, admitted to the New York bar after a rigid examination of several hours, under the judges of the Supreme Court. In 1869 he was admitted as attorney and counsellor in the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, D. C. His practice was mainly in the New York Supreme Court. Through the persuasion of Judge George R. Barrett and the late Colonel Henry S. Mott, he was induced to make an invest- ment in Pennsylvania coal lands in the Clearfield region, and he afterward purchased five thousand acres of coal land in Cambria county, Pa., and to develop and improve these lands, it became necessary to abandon his law practice, as the work was done under his per- sonal supervision. Here his Pike county ex- perience in boyhood came to his assistance. The " natives" were astonished to find that a city lawyer and clergyman understood all about lumber and saw-mills, and knew how to drive oxen, mules and horses. In 1882 he sold these lands, fully developed, and retired to his Phila- delphia residence, " free from worldly care and avocations." It is a fact worthy of note that while actively engaged in secular business he diligently pursued his studies in ecclesiastical history and polemic theology. In 1864 he was arraigned by his Presbytery on the charge of "abandoning the ministry and engaging in a secular profession," and was suspended " until he should give evidence of repentance." The sus- pension was removed in a few days, as Dr. Westbrook significd his purpose to preach as opportunity might offer. After this hc supplied a Presbyterian pulpit for a year, and at the same time pursued his law practice in New York City, refusing to accept any pecuniary compen-
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sation from the church, whereupon he was re- quested by the Presbytery to which the church belonged to receive some pecuniary compen- sation or surrender the charge, and he accepted the latter alternative, and in a short time (1866) voluntarily withdrew from the "ministry and communion of the Presbyterian Church," re- ceiving a certificate of his good and regular standing, since which time he has maintained a position of ecclesiastical independence.
In 1870 Dr. Westbrook published a work on Marriage and Divorce ; in 1882 he pub- lished a work entitled The Bible, Whence and What ? and in 1884, a work entitled Man, Whence and Whither ? He is now engaged upon a work of profound research relating to the origin of Christianity and Comparative Re- ligions. In the preface of his work on the Bible he says " The writer is a firm believer in the ex- istence and moral government of God, in the con- tinuance of human life beyond the grave and in present and future rewards and punish- ments." His books, published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, have been very favorably noticed by the newspaper press generally, and exten- sively circulated, and are well known as able defenses of the essential principles of trne re- ligion and morality, while dissenting from some of the dogmas of the prevalent theology. The honorary degree of LL.D., was received by Dr. Westbrook from the Wagner Free Institute of Science January 1, 1885, of which institution he is trustec and treasurer.
He has recently established a Free Religious Lectureship, in Philadelphia-receiving no pe- cuniary compensation for his lectures and paying all incidental expenses out of his own pocket.
Dr. Westbrook was married when twenty-one years of age to Sarah H., third daughter of Judge John H. Hall, of New Jersey. Four children were born to them, -- Nathan Bangs, John Hall, Charles Kingsbury and Caroline Armstrong, all of whom survive. The mother departed this life November 16, 1882. The present wife of Dr. Westbrook was Henrietta Payne, M.D., eldest daughter of Rev. Ara Payne, of Rhode Island. She is a graduate of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia.
The Deckers were an early family in Dela- ware township. They were located along the river road both above and below Dingman's Ferry, but the largest settlement of Deckers was at a place called Deckertown, on Decker (now Hornbeck) Creek, where they had a fort during the wars. August 8, 1768, Broer Decker sold forty-three acres of land in Delaware township to Hendrikus Decker, being part of one hundred aeres which Broer Decker had purchased of William . Allen, June 16, 1768. The deed to Hendrikus Decker was acknowl- edged before John Van Campen, justice of the peace for Northampton County, in 1773. In 1763, Henry Decker was appointed constable of Upper Smithfield township. Hendrikus Decker lived just below the creek, and lost two sons in the Indian troubles, as has been else- where shown. The Deckers of Delaware town- ship appear to have been squatters generally, and laboring men. They are among the pioneer settlers of Pike County. It is impossible to tell when they first crossed the Delaware, but it is probable that they were there as early, if not earlier, than Andrew Dingman. In the 1781 assessment of Delaware township Elias Decker, Cornelius Decker, Ezekiel Decker, John Decker, Henry Decker and Jacob Decker are assessed, and among the single freemen Ezekiel Decker, Abraham Decker and Isaac Decker are mentioned. In 1800 the names of Elisha, Benjamin, Samuel, Levi, Emanuel and Daniel Decker also appear. Notwithstanding there were so many of the name in Delaware township in its early history, they all disap- peared years ago with the exception of Affe, daughter of Hendrikus, who married Garret Brodhead, a Revolutionary soldier. After the war he purchased one hundred and seventy- eight acres of land on the hills west of Ding- man's Ferry, of David Litch, who had built a log cabin and made a small clearing. Mr. Brodhead added to this purchase and increased the clearing until in 1801 he is assessed with thirty acres of improved land and two hundred and seventy acres of unimproved land. Affe Decker, his wife, made her escape from her father's house, when her two brothers were killed, by jumping from the window and fleeing
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to Fort Decker. Garret Brodhead and his wife are buried in Delaware Cemetery. He died in 1835, aged seventy-nine, and Affe, his wife, in 1840, aged eighty. Nicliolas Brod- head, his son, lived on the homestead, which is now in the possession of his son, David O. Brodhead, who cultivates the old farm. Gar- ret Brodhead had two daughters-Hannah (wife of John Brown) and Cornelia (wife of Nathan Emery), who lived at Dingman's Ferry. The Deckers were large, tall men, who preferred bor- der life to the comforts of civilization, and most of them went West. John Hecker contracted for a place of sixty-seven acres above Dingman's Ferry. Hemadea clearing and built a cabin, but being unable or disinclined to make payment, he traded his improvement to his brother-in-law for a barrel of whiskey, which shows the value some of the early settlers placed upon their possessions. The old grist-mill on Decker Creek was probably built by William Austin, a bachelor miller, as early as 1775. It was the oldest grist-mill in the vicinity and is assessed to John Frazier in 1800 at a valuation of three hundred dollars. It has long since fallen into decay and the site of the old mill is known only to a few persons. There was also an old saw-mill at the same place. John Frazier's children were John, Benjamin, Peter, Jane (wife of Isaac Van Gordon), Phoebe (wife of William C. Jagger), Betsey (wife of David Sayre) and William. Benjamin was county commissioner in 1844 and justice of the peace in Delaware township for twenty-two years. His son, John W. Frazier, owns the homestead and is justice of the peace in Delaware township now. Cor- nelius Angle came to Delaware township in 1823 and bought eight hundred acres of land of Nicholas Livengood. He was an enterpris- ing man and the first of the Delaware farmers who raised his bread on the mountains. His sons Charles, Jacob, John and William all remained in the township. George W. Don- aldson, a Seotchman, came from New York recently and purchased the old Angle home- stead. He has expended a large sum in the erection of buildings, fences and in otherwise improving the property.
Jacob Angle recollects that Philip Reser had
a large family of boys, none of whom remain. The same may be said of Henry Steele, with slight exception.
Cooper Jagger was an old settler on the hills, but his descendants are nearly all gone. The Deckers owned all the lands adjacent at one time, but never improved it. Elias Decker was an old Revolutionary soldier, and about ninety years of age when he died. One of his sons, Elisha, lived and died here ; another son, John, did business in New York and lived to a great age. Abraham Courtright resided here years ago and some of his children are still in the township. Adam Bensley used to live in the neighborhood, his father having died here, and some of his descendants are still in the township. Gabriel Layton, who died recently, was justice of the peace, his brother, John Lay- ton, having been superintendent of the schools of Pike County for nine years.
Jacob Hornbeck, a son of Joseph Hornbeck, lived on the river road in Delaware township, near the mouth of the Decker or Hornbeek Creek, where he had a tavern. He was a major in the militia and apparently a man of some in- fluence in his day, being both a merchant and hotel-keeper. His daughter Maria was the wife of Oliver S. Dimmick, who kept a hotel a short time, then moved to Milford and from thence to Matamoras. Belinda Hornbeck was the wife of Martin W. Dingman and lived near Dingman's Ferry. Robert Hatton, an English- man, came to Pike about 1810 and settled on the hills of Delaware township. He was noted for his wonderful stories, which were told with the utmost gravity and apparent candor. His wife lived to be one hundred and one years of age. He had two sons, James and Charles, county surveyor for twenty years, and knows more about Pike County land than any one else in it.
The following list of persons taxed in Dela- ware in 1801 shows the scope of the township and the residents at that time :
Garret Brodhead.
John Craig.
Richard Brodhead.
Henry Cronkright.
Jas. Bertron.
Henry Curtright.
John Brink.
Isaac Curtright.
Emanuel Brink.
Wm. Custard.
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Wm. Custard, Jr. Jacob Cline.
James Randolph. Isaac Reemer.
William Howe.
Gilbert Steel.
Conrad Cline.
Bernard Swartwood.
Nathan Emery.
Isaac Steel.
Jacob Decker.
Samuel Seely.
Benjamin Impson.
Frederick Shaff.
Elisha Decker.
Elias Decker.
John Smith. Maj. Wm. Smith. Wm. Smith.
Henry Jackson. Henry Jay.
Moses Van Gordon.
Benj. Decker. Samuel Decker, Jr.
Jonas Smith.
Robert Latimore.
John Litch.
Johannes Van Etten. Elijah Van Gordon.
Levi Decker.
Ezekiel Schoonover.
Johannes Litch.
Isaac Van Gordon.
Isaac Decker,
Henry Steel.
Peter Labar.
Gilbert Van Gordon. John Van Gordon. James Van Gordon. John Van Sickle.
Daniel Decker.
Simcon Van Etten.
Peter Man.
Anthony Van Etten. Catherine Van Etten.
Danicl W. Dingman.
Alex. Van Gordon.
George Nyce.
Cornelia Van Etten.
Jcrimah Fleming.
Alex. Van Gordon, Jr.
Philip Reser, Sr.
Cornelius Van Etten.
John Frazier.
Moses Van Gordon.
Peter Reser.
Solomon Van Etten.
Ledowicke Hover. Solomon Hover.
Isaac Van Gordon.
Jacob Reser.
John Van Etten.
Boudwine Howey.
Eliphaz Van Auken. Wm. Wigton.
Joseph Hornbeck.
Jonathan Wright.
Solomon Redfield.
John Westbrook.
John Hover.
Richard Wills, black.
Evert Hornbeck.
Solomon Westbrook.
Lodwick Smith.
Sol. Westbrook, Jr. Jacob Walter. William Fennal.
John Jinnings.
Jeremiah Wetsill, Jr.
Isaac Schoonover.
Adams & Austin.
Robert Lattimore.
Solomon Rosegrant.
Ezekiel Schoonover.
Philip Trach.
John Litch, Jr.
Joseph Curtright.
Ezek. Schoonover, Jr.
Moses Van Auken.
John Litch.
Daniel Curtright.
Bernardus Swartwood.
Henry Zebes.
David Litch.
Sarah Curtright.
Henry Steel.
M. Van Gordon.
Wm. Mapes, Esq. Wm. Nyce.
Thos. Patterson.
Wm. Latimore.
Lodwick Labor.
Geo. Nyce.
Richard Miller.
George Latimore.
Samuel Runelfield.
John Nyce.
Peter La Bar.
Nicholas Brodhead.
Henry Nagle.
Martin Ryerson.
Benj. Shik.
Dan Courtright.
Frederick Vadican.
Abraham Reesner.
Abram Curtright.
Wm. Rodman.
Wm. Gustin.
TAXABLES IN DELAWARE TOWNSHIP IN 1814.
Richard Brodhead.
Daniel Decker.
Garret Brodhead.
May Day.
Lenah Brink.
Abraham Decker.
Daniel Brink. Andrew Dingman.
Israel Bensley.
Henry Decker.
Peter Berk.
John Berk.
H. Berk.
Thomas Blake.
John Coolbaugh.
John Howe.
John Courtright.
Evert Hornbeck.
Jane Cronkrite.
John Henry, Jr. John Henry, Sr. Lodewick Hover.
Joseph Courtright.
William Custard.
Benjamin Custard.
Peter Hover.
Daniel W. Dingman.
John Decker.
Manuel Decker.
Jacob Hornbeck. Robert Howe.
Simon Heller.
Cooper Jagger.
Nicholas Tilman. Peter Trach.
Abraham Decker.
Nicholas Schoonover.
Samuel Decker, Sr.
Anthony Van Etten. Emanuel Van Etten.
Nicholas Livergood.
William Mapes.
Benj. Decker.
Johannes Van Etten.
Cuffey Magons.
Andrew Dingman.
John Van Etten.
John Nyce.
Philip Reser, Jr.
Dan Van Etten.
John Reser.
Elipaz Van Auken. Solomon Westbrook.
Jacob Horn beck.
Solomon Rosencrans.
John Snyder.
Benj. Imson.
Jeremiah Wetsill.
Isaac Smith.
Single Men.
John Man.
Mason Dimmick.
Philip Man.
John Van Gordon.
Wm. Nyce.
John Bodine.
Jacob Labor.
Benjamin Frazier.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Elisha Decker. Elias Decker. Ephraim Drake. John Frazier.
PHILIP F. FULMER, M.D.
PHILIP F. FULMER, M.D., physician at Dingman's Ferry, Pike County, Pa., was born at Stewartsville, Warren County, N. J., June 19, 1830. He obtained his early education at the academy of his native place, and at the age of fifteen years entered Lafayette College, from which he was graduated in the class of '48. He began reading medicine with his uncle, Dr.
Michael Heller.
Jacob Steel.
Emanuel Decker.
David Van Gordon.
Peter Frach.
Philip & Fuener
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William Wilson, of Bethlehem, Pa., after some preliminary study with Dr. James C. Kennedy, of Stewartsville; attended his first course of lectures at the New York Medical College, followed by two courses of lectures at the Penn- sylvania University, and was graduated from the latter institution in the spring of 1853. The same year of his graduation in medicine, on account of his father's large business interests at home and in Pike County, Pa., Dr. Fulmer came to Fulmerville, Pike County, and man- aged the tannery and store of his father at Fulmerville until 1866, the time of the sale of the property. He began the practice of his pro- fession upon his settlement at Fulmerville, which gradually extended until 1861, when he gave it his special attention. His field of practice rapidly increased ; his quick percep- tion, good judgment and correct diagnosis of disease made his name familiar throughout the country, and soon gave him reputable rank among the first in that part of the State. He has continued a successful practice since, adding annually to his already large field. In 1866 he bought the " Way-Side Inn " at Dingman's Ferry, then known as "Dingman's Choice Hotel," the only house for the accommodation of travelers in the place at that time. On May 25, 1865, Dr. Fuhner had married Miss Ella Bennitt, of Elmira, N. Y., a woman of culture and refinement. They took up their residence at Dingman's upon the purchase of the hotel, and built the present commodious and elegant " High Falls Hotel," which for many years has been a popular summer resort for people from New York, Philadelphia and other places, seeking rest, quiet and beautiful scenery on the Delaware. The " Way-Side Inn" was said to be one hundred and three years old when Dr. Fulmer made the purchase, and only capable of affording accommodations for a few people. He at once set about re- modeling the building and beautifying the prop- erty, whichi, by making its value known to people seeking a home away from the busy scenes of city life, has done more to give Dingman's a wide name than had been done during its entire existence before. His hotel will accommodate some two hundred guests,
and "stands in the centre of most of the wonder- ful and interesting natural features with which this region abounds. It may be safely stated that a radius of ten miles in any direction will em- brace a greater variety of sublime and lovely scenic attractions than can be found elsewhere in the country in the same space. All about it the mountains give birth to brooks and rills that in their descent leap down in falls almost without number, and in shapes weird and lovely."-Editorial Correspondence, Home Journal.
Another newspaper, in speaking of the hotel and its proprietor, and of the attractions of the locality, says that " the High Falls Hotel, with a single exception, is the largest in the county ; that it will accommodate two hundred guests, is well supplied with clear spring water, has bathing-houses and boats in the river for the use of its guests";" and adds that "the village has two mails daily, one front New York and the other from Philadelphia," while " during the season a line of special stages runs between Dingman's and Milford."
The same writer says :
"Trout and black bass fishing is fine. Trout- fishing in six mountain streams. The hunting in the neighborhood of the village is excellent, and game-during the hunting season-is taken in abundance. The principal streams near the. town are Dingman's Creek, Adams' Brook, Conashaugh Brook, Tom's Creek, Bushkill Creek and the Raymondskill. The Dingman Creek is noted for its great natural beauty as well as its fine trout, which, though not so large as their Long Island kindred, are more in number, growing in weight as the fisherman wanders down the current, and leaping at liis fly with a lusty mountain vigor-'a spring like the quiver of a sword blade.' The Adams' Brook, near by, is one of the most beautiful streams in the Delaware Valley.
" It is here that the lover of nature meets with the perpetual and delicious laughter of the waters, the picturesque, gloaming recesses, the thousand leaps and eddies, the rock-hung pools, the shady glens, and 'the forest-laced sunlight and shadow, where the bobolinks make music, and the grass is still spangled with dew."
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The walks and drives within a radius of ten miles are delightful, the principal walks being to the 'High Falls,' 'Tower Falls,' 'Soap Trough,' Cave,' 'Lookout Rock,' ' Fossil Hill,' 'Echo Glen,' 'Fathom- less Cave,' 'Fairy Glen,' ' Emerald Cascade,' " The Vestibule,' 'Maple Grove' and the ' High Knob.'
" The drives comprise 'Conashaugh Val- ley,' 'Raymondskill Falls,' 'Bridal Veil Falls,' 'Sawkill Falls,' 'Utter's Peak,' ' In- dian Ladder,' 'Iris Grotto,' 'The Wild Gorge,' ' Silver Lake,' 'Fern Bank,' ' Hang- ing Rock ' and 'Laughing Waters.' Silver Lake is a fine sheet of water about a mile and a half in length and well stocked with pickerel, perch and other gamy fish.
Reverting to the proprietor of the house, it may be said that since his residence in Pike Co., Dr. Fulmer has taken an active interest in all matters of importance relating to his immediate locality or the county. He was superintendent of the common schools of the county from 1857 to 1866, and has been a school director since the latter date. He was postmaster at Fulmer- ville from 1854 to 1866, and has been, for the past two years, one of the directors of the Northampton County Bank, at Easton, Pa.
His father, Judge John Fulmer, born in Richmond, Northampton County, Pa., in 1793, settled at Stewartsville, N. J., his present residence, soon after his marriage, where he carried on a store and tannery until 1858, and a tannery and store at Fulmerville until 1866. He is a man of large business capacity, was one of the incorporators of the old Phillipsburg Bank, and one of its directors for fifteen years. He was postmaster at Stewartsville from 1822 to 1861, an associate judge of the Warren County, N. J., courts for twenty-five years, one of the founders of the Stewartsville Academy and one of the founders of the Lutheran Church.
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