FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY

FOUNDERS OF

NEW JERSEY

First Settlements, Colonists and Biographies by Descendants

Evelyn H. Ogden, Ed. D. and

The Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

Third Edition 2016

Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Diana Robinson for editing the manuscript; Jennifer Carter for design, technical assistance and layout throughout the writing process; Roseann Jessel for cover design; Kurt Jessel Jennifer Johnson for technical support.

Descendants of Founders of New Jersey .

FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY: First Settlements, Colonists and Biographies by Descendants

First Edition 2006 (incorporating earlier published Books I, II, and II of biographies) Second Edition 2011 Third Edition 2016 (incorporating all previous editions)

Founders of New Jersey: First Settlements, Colonists and Biographies by Descendants

Member Authors

Paul Woolman Adams, Jr. Mary Ellen Ezzell Ahlstrom Annie Looper Alien Reba Baglio Lucy Hazen Barnes Michael T. Bates Kathryn Marie Marten Beck Taylor Marie Beck Patricia W. Blakely Matthew Bowdish Margaret A. Brann Clifton Rowland Brooks, M.D. Richard Charles Budd Daniel Byram Bush James Reed Campbell Jr Esther Burdge Capestro Michael Charles Warren R. Clayton Eva Lomerson Collins Mirabah L. LeJambre Combs Lynda and James Condon Lynn D. Constan David Hand Coward Susan Bakley Coxe James L. Dennis Ronald DePue Margaret Dill Theodore Matthew Duay III Julia VanRiper Dumdey Lester Robert Dunham Laura Carolina Jennings Fafeita David Richard Finch Timothy Christopher Finton Harol Douglas Ford Michael Garey Sally Graham David Lawrence Grinnell

Steven Guy Craig Hamilton William Hampton Robert J. Hardie, Sr. James Paul Hess Steve Hollands Mary Jamia Case Jacobsen Edsall Riley Johnston, Jr. Elaine E. Johnston John Edward Lary Jr Guy Franklin Leighton Marian L. LoPresti Constan Trimmer Lucy Michael Sayre Maiden, Jr. Donna Lee Wilkenson Malek Douglas W. McFarlane Marshall Alan Russell Matlack Amy Adele Matlack Nancy Elise Matlack Dorothy J. Maxon Robert D. McPherson Teresa Carroll Medlinsky Jeffrey A. Meyer Mary McCall Middleton Don Charles Nearpass Beverly Nelson Evelyn Hunt Ogden Sharon Patton Ross Gamble Perry Evelyn Ogden from Petrov Clarence Mott Pickard William Young Pryor Arthur D. Quackenbush, Jr. David R. Reading George L. Reeves Dallas John Riedesel Byron David Rolfe

Brandon Rowley Helen L. Schanck Deanna May Scherrer Marjorie Barber Schuster Judy Scovronsky Sara Frasier Sellgren James A Shepherd Barbara Carver Smith Marian L. Smith Martha Sullivan Smith Myron Crenshaw Smith George E. Spaulding, Jr. Heather Elizabeth Welty Speas Charlotte Van Horn Squarcy Earl Gorden Stannard III Jacqueline Frank Strickland David Strungfellow Harriet Stryker-Rodda Kenn Stryker-Rodda Frank S.Sutherland-Hall Margaret Drody Thompson James L. Tichenor, Esq. James Tunison L. George Van Syckle Robert Vivian Kathleen Bastedo Walter Robertson D. Ward Craig Hamilton Weaver Jay Pernell Wells Janice Crowell Wheeler William Gammons White Florence S. Whitehead Kenneth Winans Karen Hand Wolzanski Helen Grey Henning Wright

Introduction

The Descendants of Founders of New Jersey is pleased to make available the 2016 edition of FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY: First Settlements, Colonists and Biograhies by Descendants. This volume includes a timeline of early New Jersey history, sketches of the five earliest English settlements and their colonists, 138 biographies of founders of New Jersey researched and written by their descendants. The Genealogical Index of Names includes, not only those of founders documented by society members, but also over 2000 genealogical references in the biographies such as spouses, subsequent generations, siblings of founders; individuals associated with significant events, grantors, grantees, deed holders, ship passengers and Native American sellers of land. We hope that this volume will make interesting reading, bringing new insights into otherwise hidden relationships for current Descendants of Founders of New Jersey members, prospective members, family historians, genealogists and historical researchers interested in the early history of New Jersey. While this volume contains a list of over 300 previously "Qualified Founders" that have been documented by the members as a basis for membership as of 2016; there are many many other individuals and families who settled, encouraged and financed New Jersey prior to 1702. We hope their descendants will be inspired to document and memorialized their New Jersey roots and join with us as members of Descendants of Founders of New Jersey.

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Table of Contents

Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 4 DESCENDANTS OF FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY................................................................................... 13

1676 DIVISION OF NEW JERSEY ? THE EAST WEST BOUNDARY ........................................................................... 14 Qualifying New Jersey Ancestors ? As of June 2016............................................................................ 15 HISTORY AND FOUNDING OF NEW JERSEY ......................................................................................... 19

HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF EARLY NEW JERSEY ................................................................................................... 20 THE NATIVE NEW JERSEYANS ......................................................................................................................... 22 EARLY EXPLORATION OF NEW JERSEY .............................................................................................................. 22 PRE-1664 -THE DUTCH PERIOD IN ALBANIA .................................................................................................... 23 ENGLISH COLONIES OF CONNECTICUT AND LONG ISLAND ? 1636 ........................................................................ 24 1664 ?NEW NETHERLANDS FALLS TO THE ENGLISH AND THE FOUNDING OF NEW JERSEY ........................................ 25 LORD JOHN BERKELEY, SIR GEORGE CARTERET AND THE CONCESSIONS AND AGREEMENTS ...................................... 25 THE FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS IN NEW JERSEY ............................................................................ 27 1664 ? The Founding of Elizabethtown............................................................................................... 28 THE FIRST ENGLISH PURCHASE OF LAND IN NEW JERSEY..................................................................................... 28 ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST ENGLISH SETTLERS - NOVEMBER 1664............................................................................. 30 THE ELIZABETHTOWN ASSOCIATES .................................................................................................................. 31 ELIZABETHTOWN - THE FIRST CAPITAL OF NEW JERSEY....................................................................................... 32 ELIZABETHTOWN ? THE FIRST ENGLISH CHURCH ............................................................................................... 33 ELIZABETHTOWN ? FIRST IN EDUCATION.......................................................................................................... 34 ELIZABETHTOWN ? THE FIRST ELECTED ASSEMBLY AND CODE OF LAWS ................................................................ 34 1665 - The Founding of Shrewsbury and Middletown......................................................................... 36 THE MONMOUTH PATENT AND PATENTEES...................................................................................................... 37 THE GROWTH OF THE SETTLEMENT................................................................................................................. 38

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1666 - The Founding of Woodbridge .................................................................................................. 44 THE GROWTH OF THE SETTLEMENT................................................................................................................. 44 EARLY SETTLERS OF WOODBRIDGE ........................................................................................................ 45 FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WOODBRIDGE AND CEMETERY OF WOODBRIDGE................................ 47

1666 ? Founding of Piscataway .......................................................................................................... 48 THE GROWTH OF THE SETTLEMENT................................................................................................................. 48 EARLY SETTLERS OF PISCATAWAY.................................................................................................................... 49

1666 ? The Founding of Newark ......................................................................................................... 51 THE GROWTH OF THE SETTLEMENT................................................................................................................. 53 EARLY SETTLERS OF NEWARK ......................................................................................................................... 54 THE FORTY-ONE GUILFORD, MILFORD AND NEW HAVEN MEN WHO SIGNED THE FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENTS: ......................................................................................................................................... 54

1665 ? The Founding of Salem ? The Fenwick Colony ......................................................................... 57 EARLY SETTLERS OF FENWICK'S COLONY .......................................................................................................... 58 THE GROWTH OF THE SETTLEMENT................................................................................................................. 59

BIOGRAPHIES OF FOUNDERS OF NEW JERSEY.................................................................................... 61 ABRAHAM ACKERMAN (1656/59 - AFT. 1723).......................................................................................... 62 DAVID ACKERMAN (1653 ? 1710/24) ...................................................................................................... 63 THOMAS ALGER (AB.1638 - 1687) ............................................................................................................ 64 JOHN ALLEN (C.1625 ? 1702/3) ................................................................................................................ 65 BARTHOLOMEW APPLEGATE (C 1625 ? AFT 1674) ................................................................................... 66 ELIZABETH AUSTIN (1669-1753) .............................................................................................................. 67 OBADIAH AYERS (1636 - 1694)................................................................................................................. 68 GUILIAM BERTHOLF (1656 - ABT. 1726).................................................................................................... 69 WIILLIAM (1630-1712) AND SARAH BIDDLE (1634-1709)........................................................................ 70 JOHN BISHOP SR. (1621-1684) ................................................................................................................ 71 THOMAS BLOOMFIELD SR. (16XX - 1685) ................................................................................................ 72

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ROBERT BOND (1596 ? 1677) .................................................................................................................. 73 NATHANIEL BONNELL (1636-1711) ......................................................................................................... 74 RICHARD BORDEN (1595/6 ? 1671) ......................................................................................................... 76 JAMES BOWNE (1636 - 1695) .................................................................................................................. 77 ALEXANDER/SANDER BOYER (1618-1661) .............................................................................................. 78 JOHN BROCKETT (BEF. 1620 ? 1689/90) ................................................................................................... 79 TIMOTHY BROOKS SR. (1634-1712) ......................................................................................................... 80 GEORGE BROWN (16XX -1717/8) ............................................................................................................ 81 JAMES BROWN (1656-1715/6) ................................................................................................................ 82 OBADIAH BRUEN (1606 ? BEF. 1690) ........................................................................................................ 83 JAN CORNELIS BUYS (1629 -1689/90) ...................................................................................................... 85 MATTHEW CAMFIELD (1604 - 1673)........................................................................................................ 86 CALEB CARMAN (1644/5 ? 1693)............................................................................................................. 87 ROBERT CARR (1614 - 1681) .................................................................................................................... 88 JOHN CHAMBERLIN (1687-1739)............................................................................................................. 89 RICHARD CLARK (C. 1613 - 1697).............................................................................................................. 90 WILLIAM CLAYTON (1632 - 1689) ............................................................................................................ 91 ROBERT CLEMENTS, JR (C 1634-C 1714) ................................................................................................... 92 SAMUEL CLIFT (ABT. 1610-1683) .............................................................................................................. 93 THOMAS CLIFTON (ABT. 1606-1681) ........................................................................................................ 94 FRANCIS COLLINS (1635 ? 1720) .............................................................................................................. 95 JOHN CONGER (C 1645-1712)................................................................................................................. 96 HENRY COOK (C. 1671-1723) ................................................................................................................... 97 CORNELIS WILLEMSE COUWENHOVEN (1672- ).................................................................................... 98 THOMAS COX (1620 - 1681)..................................................................................................................... 99

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DR. DANIEL COXE (1640-1730) ......................................................................................................... 100 JASPER CRANE (1605 - 1681) ................................................................................................................. 101 JAMES DAVIS (1675 ? 1769)................................................................................................................. 102 DAVID DEMAREST (1620 ? 1693) ...................................................................................................... 103 ROBERT DENNIS (C. 1619 - 1683+) .................................................................................................... 104 DANIEL DOD (1649-1701/1714)......................................................................................................... 105 CORNELIS DOREMUS C 1655-1715 ................................................................................................... 106 GAVINE DRUMMOND (1659-1724)................................................................................................... 108 SARAH DUBOIS (1664-1726) ............................................................................................................... 109 JONATHAN DUNHAM (1639/40 ? 1702) ........................................................................................... 110 NICHOLAS DUPUI (1634-1691) .......................................................................................................... 111 JACOB DU TRIEUX (ABT. 1645-1709) ................................................................................................. 112 THE NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, VOL LVII, 1926. (INTERNET ARCHIVE) ............................................................................................................................................... 112 JOHN ELLISON (ABT. 1695?ABT. 1775) ............................................................................................... 113 JOSHUA ELY (16XX? 1702) .................................................................................................................. 114 JOSEPH ENGLISH II (16XX -1725)...................................................................................................... 115 DAVID FALCONER (1630-1713)......................................................................................................... 116 EDWARD FITZ-RANDOLPH (C.1607 - 1675/6)................................................................................. 117 JOSEPH FRAZEE (1635?1713) ................................................................................................................ 118 THOMAS FRENCH (1639 ? 1699)........................................................................................................ 119 HANNAH FULLER (1636 - AFT.1686).................................................................................................. 120 HANANIAH GAUNTT (1647 ? 1721) ................................................................................................ 121 WILLIAM GIFFORD (1615-1687) ........................................................................................................ 122 MATTHEW GRACEY (GRACIE) (16XX-1715).................................................................................... 124 JOHN GREGORY (1612/15 ? 1689)..................................................................................................... 125

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