For insertion in OUR FAI\!ILY TIES ( 1960), by M. S. Wright, following title-leaf

ERRATA Page 3 (contents list). Insert "Mudie, opp. p.26"; "Bergen Family, pp. 99-102"; "Gulick Family, p.103" Page 25, line 21. For "Pitlochie" read "Pitlurg" Addition to page 27 (an insert facing p.26), p.3, line 32. For "Col." read "Maj." Page 30. Death date of Robert Gordon is 1661 (not 1651) Page 34, line 38. For "1753" read "1757" Page 48, line 29. For "1776" read "1766" Page 51, line 13. For "1732" read "1737" Page 54. Dates (b. 10-13-1782, d. 11-18-1830) assigned to Margaret Everett, second wife of Isaac G. Snedeker, are those of the first ,vif e, Ann Sortor Page 55. Birth date of Milton Wright is 11-5-1901 (not 10-5-1901) Additions to page 68 (an insert facing p.68), p.2, line 8. Emma Doggett was daughter of Francis and Ann Dog­ gett Page 72, line 7. For "Carolina" read "Caroline" Page 97, line 1. For "Hagar" read "Hager"

Our Family Ties

SOME ANCESTRAL LINES

OF MARCUS S. WRIGHT, JR. AND ALICE OLDEN WRIGHT

Compiled by MARCUS S. WRIGHT, JR.

SOUTH RIVER, N. J.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION 1960 MacCrelliah & Quiiµey Co 'Printers Trentcn. N«: w Jeraey Contents

PAGE Foreword ...... 5 Introduction ...... 6

Biographies- Annie Snedeker Wright ...... 9 Marcus Stults Wright, Jr...... 10 Alice OIden Wright ...... 13 Marcus Stults Wright III ...... 16 Walter Olden Wright ...... 17 James Schureman Wright ...... 18

Ancestral Lines of Marcus S. Wright, Jr.- Chambers ...... 21 Gordon ...... 24 Letts ...... 32 Rose ...... 34 Snedeke: ...... 44 Sortor ...... 57 Van Deventer ...... 63 Wright . , ...... 68

Ancestral Lines of Alice Olden Wright- Olden ...... 73 Schureman ...... 90

Appendix A: Letters of Annie Snedeker Wright . . . . . 99 Appendix B: Gravestone Inscriptions, Cranbury, N. J. 105

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Foreword I wouLD like to acknowledge the kind assistance I have had in checking and compiling the data for this book. Miss Annie Wright was for many years a careful s_tudent of genealogy, particularly on the lines immediately connected with her family. Mrs. Dorothy Delaney has had wide and scientific experience in the field of genealogical research. Her constant assistance and critical advice have given me confidence to believe that this book is as accurate as is humanly possible. 1Iy thanks also to my good friend, Rev. James Flint Boughton, D.D., pastor of Conklin Iviethodist Church, South River, N. J., for his friendly inspiration and help in assembling the written matter. Mr. Donald .A. Sin­ clair, Curator of Special Collections, Rutgers University Library, has given valuable counsel, has edited the book and seen it through the press. I also acknowledge help from several others in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, whose aid has made this research as interesting and com­ plete as possible for the present. While this has been largely a "family" compilation, I realize that these families are among the most prominent and populous in our country. Each of them can be dia­ grammed in pyramidal form. At the top will be found the one progenitor and early ancestor who came to these shores and established his lineage. From generation to generation the families have increased in numbers, until after eight to ten generations there are many hundreds, and even thou­ sands, of persons who bear these good names. I have not attempted to trace back to the original ancestor each person living today who bears any one of these names. But we may be reasonably sure that all those who bear the names today will find that the original ancestors described in this book are the correct ones from whom they have descended. I do not consider it wrong to think of these good names as a source of pride. We are told by highest authority that '' A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold." 5 Introduction SoME years ago my Aunt Annie Snedeker Wright visited us from New York City. She was a graduate of Hunter College and a well-educated young school teacher. Having no family of her own, she had become much interested in her ancestry. One day she showed me some materials she had gathered on the Snedeker family. At that time I wasn't any more interested in genealogy than I was in flying a plane upside down. But she was intelligent and persuasive, so I agreed to look at the family pages she had collected. Some years later I was in the hospital for a major opera­ tion. While convalescing, I began thinking of the pages Aunt Annie had given me, and to take some interest in look­ ing them over. The last thing she had said to me was, "I hope you will bring these pages up to date.'' But this was a large order, and I was quite busy, so I did nothing about it at that time. However, as the years passed I became in­ creasingly interested; and soon I was collecting books and Bibles, wills, headstone data, and important newspaper clippings. I found friends and relatives who told me fascinating things about the members of my family who had come to this country in the very early years of its founding. These names I had heard all my life. But now they began to live in my mind, and to represent persons I was pleased to meet, and that I would like for my children and friends to know. About this time I went to a very old graveyard at the First Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, N.J. It was the famous Brainerd Cemetery, named for David Brainerd, an early missionary to the Indians. There I found ancient headstones where lay several of my own kith and kin. This brought me nearer, and increased my interest and curiosity. Somehow it seems that in these more mature years of my life, the departed persons of my family have taken on a reality that I never knew in my younger and more casual years. I appreciate them more, and I would like to know them better.

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The chief reason for this genealogy is that my children and their descendants may know something of the good heritage that is theirs. For, after all, this may be one of our richest sources of health and well-being; and may de­ termine, much more than we know, our chances for happi­ ness, success, and good life. In this record we are not following the life-histories of all the brothers and sisters of each generation, but rather the direct ancestors and descendants of the Marcus S. Wright, Jr., family. In most instances, ho,vever, the brothers and sisters may be found in the family chart that accompanies each chapter. We are not making this a single branch of genealogy. Rather are we following a few outstanding persons in the ancestry of both ~Iarcus Stults Wright, Jr., and his wife, Alice Olden Wright. Our ancestries have much in common, in that they are both outstanding families that landed upon these American shores, and have had much to do with the development and progress of this great American Democ­ racy. Perhaps the person who has helped me most in this en­ deavor is Mrs. Dorothy Delaney, of Cranbury, N.J., who is a specialist in genealogy. With it all she has such a genius of understanding, and sharpness of mind in following the devious course of lineage, and such a contagious way of getting one interested in his fore bears, that I have become almost as interested as she is, in trying to recreate some of the strong and noble persons in my lines of descent. Despite much research, certain details relating to my direct line still remain undiscovered or-as in the case of one generation in the Snedeker family-problematical. It is hoped that readers who may have further information bearing on such matters will communicate with me. .Abbreviations. Excepting a few special cases to the contrary, certain frequently-recurring words on the following pages have been abbreviated regularly: born (b.), baptized (hp.), married (m.), died (d.), buried (bur.). The usual abbreviations for names of months have been used, except on the several family charts where space is particularly at a premium. In the latter case, the months have been indicated by number­ e.g., Jan. 23, 1790, has been written 1-23-1790. (For the sake of con­ venience, present-day numbers have been used for the months, despite the contemporary difference in practice under the Old Style calendar which prevailed in the Colonies until the early l 750's.)

8 Biographies

ANNIE SNEDEKER WRIGHT To whose memory this book is dedicated

To 11:rss ANNIE SNEDEKER V\TRIGHT, this book, containing background of the Snedeker and allied families, is hereby dedicated. The author, her nephew, 11:arcus S. Wright, Jr., hopes that in a small way it will serve as a monument to her memory. It was her love for history, research work, and the in­ formation she collected on the Snedeker and related f am­ ilies, that was the guiding spirit to the author. It gave him the inspiration to finish the job that Aunt Annie Wright was working on previous to her death. The facts she as­ sembled and transmitted in several letters to Marcus S. Wright, Jr., who thirty years later took up where his aunt left off, in tracing the history of the Garret Snedeker family to the present 1.farcus S. Wright, Jr., generation of 1960. 'I'he leads and information contained in the letters of Aunt Annie vV right to her nephew were checked through books and records at Rutgers University Library at New Bruns­ ,vick, Firestone Library at Princeton, Secretary of State's office and State Library at Trenton, N.J., family Bibles and other valuable archives materials, including genealogical records fron1 Long Island, N.Y. Bet,veen the years 1920 and 1935, having visited numer­ ous ce1neteries, public libraries, surrogates' offices, and historical societies, she did research on her family of which she was very proud. In all these visitations she had to re­ sort to trolley cars and busses, not possessing an automo­ bile. She purposely visited London during two summer vacations, searching for history of her father, William ""\Vright. However, there were so manv William Wrights w L that she was unable to get the correct data on her father. She did find her father's parents, his brothers and sisters, however.

9 10 Our Family Ties Aunt Annie Wright, daughter of William Wright and Gitty Ann Snedeker, was born at her parents' home, 262 W. 22nd Street, New York City, Dec. 12, 1869. After grad­ uating in 1890 from Hunter College (then Normal College), New York City, she continued to live there where she taught in the public school system until her retirement Sept. 1, 1923. She traveled extensively during the summer months, and visited every state in the Union, as well as many foreign countries. Her life was well spent; she enjoyed a success­ ful career in the teaching profession and was most generous to her family. It was while she was in Washington, D.C., to check further genealogical information, that she was stricken with pneumonia and died there on Jan. 25, 1935. She is buried in the Snedeker plot, 1\1:onumental Cemetery, South River, N. J. She ,vas a member of the Baptist Church. Aunt Annie "\Vright was of rnedium height and weight, f air-co1nplexioned, with wonderfully kind grey-blue eyes. Her hair was her crowning glory, lustrous and of beautiful texture. She used excellent taste in general and was a fas­ tidious person, loving the finer things in all phases of life­ truly a genteel lady. For her portrait, see illus. 1. It is with a deep sense of gratitude that Marcus S. Wright, Jr., who continued the work of his aunt in compiling the genealogy of the Snedeker family, o:ff ers this token of respect and love. May others honor her by continuing the search, gather­ ing more information for the records she helped to preserve. For copies of letters by Annie Snedeker Wright concern­ ing genealogy, see Appendix A.

MARClJS STULTS ,vRIGHT, JR. The Compiler

MARCUS S. WRIGHT, JR., the compiler of this book, is the son of Caroline R-ose and the late ~Iarcus S. Wright. He was born in South River, N. J., l\iiddlesex County, on December 9, 1896. He received his education in the local schools, which he finished in 1913. As a young man he became associated f'! #' ,. J ~¥ ✓ /

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Ancestral Lines 11 with his father in the Marcus S. Wright Sand Company, which also included building construction. While with this co·mpany he learned the brick-laying trade. He was con­ nected with this business for several years, assisting in its operation. In 1924, aided by his father, he organized the South River Sand Company, located in Old Bridge, N.J. This concern has continued to expand through the years, until today it is shipping its products of washed and pulverized sand to many parts of the United States and Canada. He is the chairman of the Board of this company, which is principally owned by the Wright family. He and his wife and three sons all play important parts in the n1anagement and opera­ tion of this modern plant. Marcus S. Wright, Jr., married Alice Olden of Princeton, N.J., on June 16, 19·26. They have three sons: Marcus S., III; Walter Olden; and James Schureman Wright. He is a consistent booster of his native town, and from 1926- until 1947 he served as a member of the Port Raritan District Commission, and was influential in the deepening and wid­ ening of navigable waters in the Raritan and South Rivers. In 1947 he was elected a member of the Borough Council of South River, N.J., for three years, and served in that capacity with honor and distinction. During his term in office he was the police commissioner, and through his efforts new systems were installed, and the Department brought to a higher level of efficiency. Marcus S. Wright, Jr., has played an important part in the community life of South River. He has been active in church work. Both he and his wife Alice are members of the Official Board of the Conklin Methodist Church. He is also a member of Philo Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of South River, and both the Shriners of Crescent Temple and the Scottish Rite of Trenton, N.J. In his youth he played in the local brass bands. The euphonium was his specialty. He was a member of both the Imperial and Columbia bands; and traveled with them over many parts of N·ew Jersey. Later he played with the Ma­ sonic band. He and his wife both share the love of music, and when they look back they recall with pleasure the fun and enjoyment Marcus had playing in the bands. 12 Our Family Ties

Marcus Wright, Jr., is of a generous and kindly nature, and very considerate of family and friends. He is very determined and successful in his business dealings. It be­ comes second nature with him to meet people in an easy and friendly manner. This was due no doubt to his earlier career as salesman. During this time he traveled exten­ sively, making many friends, and continuing to enjoy a wide circle of business associates. Travel has added much to his life. He has visited Cuba three times and flown across this country twice. He 1nade two trips to Bermuda; and went many times to Canada. During the summer of 1958 he and his ,vife enjoyed a lengthy trip to Europe, made pleasant by the company of good friends, and many interest­ ing things were seen in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Belgium, and Holland. They were able at that time to visit Brussels and see the World's Fair. This past March, Nas­ sau in the Bahama Islands was added to t:!J.eir list of places visited. Marcus Wright, Jr., is of average height, being five feet eight and one-half inches high, and weighs about one hun­ dred seventy pounds. In his younger years his hair was blond, and his eyes are blue and green. He has a good figure, giving credit to many years of golf, which he enjoyed. He is careful in his dress; being always neat in his appearance. His forebears were traders and builders. Some of them carried on extensive trade with New York, and along the Jersey coast. The R-ose, Letts, VanDeventer, and Snedeker families owned and operated schooners, ships, and sloops during the early days of America. This love of the water has been passed on to at least two of the sons of Marcus Wright, Jr., for l\1arcus III owns a dandy 46-f oot cruiser ( cabin type) and Walter has an 18-foot Sea Bright dory. The youngest son, James Schureman Wright, is friendly, and enjoys knowing and dealing with people, as his father does. It can be said that l\1arcus S. Wright, Jr., has reared a family that is well rooted in the community of South River. They have enjoyed being good citizens of a to,vn of which they are proud. Marcus Wright, Jr., like his father, has as his hobby his interesting home and family. In this brief biography Marcus S. Wright, Jr., would like to pay a friendly tribute to Clinton Gilbert, born November Ancestral Lines 13

20, 1874, and died October 20, 1949, who resided at Eliza­ beth, N.J. Marcus has a picture of this gentleman in his office, which has written upon it this information: "This man staked me, :financed, and was one of the founders of the South River Company. Were it not for him I could not enjoy many of the comforts I do today. After his death I asked permission of his only brother to erect a Headstone to his memory. He was a friend I held in ,great love and respect.'' Clinton Gilbert is buried beside his brother Wil­ liam in Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, N.J. He also wishes to pay special tribute to his father's cousin, George Davison Martin, a Snedeker descendant, who was a successful business man and a gentleman, son of Mary Davison Snedeker and Julius Christian Martin, born July 6, 1862. His wife Hattie B. Schofield passed away in 1943, aged eighty years, and is buried in the Snedeker plot, Monu­ mental Cemetery, South River, N.J. One of the most out­ standing gifts to his family and community was a bequest to Monumental Cemetery. From a perpetual trust he pro­ vided that one-third of the income be applied to its need. He was comptroller of William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Co., Philadelphia, for many years. He died March 8, 1960, at New Brunswick and is buried beside his wife. For some years prior to his death, he lived at Haddonfield, N.J., with his only child, Julius. It was George Martin who presented to the author the old Garret Snedeker Bible of 1809. ALICE OLDEN WRIGHT

ALICE OLDEN, only daughter of Walter Hart and Caroline Schureman Olden, was born in Franklin Park, Middlesex County, New Jersey, Aug. 29, 1903. She attended school in Princeton, and graduated 1922 from the J.\ifiss Fine's Private School of Princeton. She graduated 1925 as an R.N. from the Middlesex General Hospital School of Nursing. During this time she spent six months in the famous old Bellevue Hospital in New York City, in both the medical and pedi­ atrics departments. Her career as a nurse, however, was cut short by her marriage to Marcus Stults Wright, Jr. The marriage took place at Olden Manor in Princeton, N.J., on June 16, 1926. This lovely old mansion property 14 Our Family Ties has been in the Olden family for nine successive genera­ tions; and today this famous old landmark is used for '' The Institute for Advanced Study.'' Many who lived there were outstanding men, thirsty for knowledge, and noted for their contributions to community and country. Nearby lived the beloved Civil War-time Governor Charles Smith Olden, who was the brother of Alice Olden's great-grandfather Job Gardner Olden. The Olden family dates back to the 1600's, when William Olden, along with the Clarks, Worths, and other early f am­ ilies, helped to settle the part of Princeton that extends from Stony Brook to the west side of the village. Among them were many Quakers; and the quaint little cemetery adjoining the old Quaker meeting house at Stony Brook is the resting place of the Olden family, and those related to them by marriage. This historic place was restored and n1ade to live again for this generation by the efforts of Walter Hart Olden. Alice Olden is a direct descendant on her mother's side of Jacobus Schuurman, who came from Holland with Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frielinghuysen. He was the school­ master and voorleser, as it was the custom of the Dutch Church to send a schoolmaster with the minister to serve in the colonial communities. Schuurman and Frielinghuy­ sen married sisters, daughters of Albert Terheun. From these families have come some of the greatest of our Ameri­ can citizens. Revolutionary War patriots, two mayors, mer­ chants, inventors, and doctors are among the members of these illustrious families. This spirit of service is shown in Alice Olden, in many ways. Her first and most important role is that of wife and mother. She has reared three fine sons to manhood; the oldest of them is now married, and recently made his par­ ents very happy by presenting them their first little grand­ daughter. Marcus the 3rd married Beatrice Nancy Fuller, in Trenton, on the 18th of October 1958. 11arcus is presi­ dent and co-owner of the family corporation. Walter Olden Wright, the second son, has served as plant manager of the family business, South River Sand Com­ pany, located in Old Bridge, N.J. The youngest son, James Schureman Wright, was graduated from the Proctor Acad- Ancestral Lines 15 emy, Andover, N.H., and Rider Business College, Trenton, N.J. He majored in business administration. It will be hard to enumerate all the activities to which ....t\.lice Olden Wright gives herself with such energy and skill. After her marriage she left her career as a profes­ sional nurse; but this did not keep her from using her wis­ dom and valuable knowledge, for she has held chairmanships on several hospital boards and committees. As chairman of the School of Nursing Committee of the Middlesex Gen­ eral Hospital, her special duty and pleasure was to present the school pin to the nurses, as they graduated from their three-year School of Nursing. She has also served on the Hospital Board of Trustees for several terms. In 1955 a substantial gift was made by Alice, Marcus, and their three sons to the Joint N e,v Brunswick Hospital Fund in memory of her mother, Caroline Schureman Olden. She is on the Board of Directors of the Visiting Nurses Association in Middlesex County, and was president of the Board for two terms, and chairman of personnel and nursing. Alice serves the Conklin 1\fethodist Church, So. River, of ,vhich she is a member, faithfully and skillfully. She has been a loyal member for more than thirty years. She and her husband are important members of the Official Board. She is the past president, and is now chairman of several important committees, of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church. She is chairman of the Home for the Aged Committee of Conklin Church; and also the Missionary Commission. She never seems to tire in helping the minister and the church in their many services. She is a charming and friendly person, five feet three inches tall, and very neat in figure. Her hair is dark brown, and is worn short and wavy. Her eyes are more gray than green, and have little golden brown flecks of light dancing in them. Her complexion is fair, and her expression is sweet and friendly. Alice Olden is gracious, takes an interest in her friends, and is a good listener. She is able to give con­ structive advice on many subjects. In dress she uses ex­ cellent taste in color and fabric, choosing quality and sim­ plicity. Tailored clothes are her preference. We must not for get her love of music, and her enjoyment of opera and drama, which she shares with her husband. 16 Our Family Ties

They have enjoyed many cultural activities together. In 1958 they traveled together through many of the European countries, and visited the World's Fair in Brussels, Bel- g1um.• Alice drives a small Mercedes Benz car, deep blue in color. It is lined in snappy red leather, trimmed, tailored, and ready to go. She has the happy faculty of keeping her en­ vironment in the best of taste. She is dearly loved by her husband, family, and friends; and her person adds greatly to the line of distinguished ancestry, which is such a valu­ able heritage to the members of her family.

MARCUS STULTS WRIGHT III

MARCUS S. WRIGHT III was born Dec. 14, 1927, in Middlesex General Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J., and grew up in South R.iver, living with his parents at 41 Wilcox Avenue. He attended Sunday School at the Conklin Methodist Church. He graduated from Rutgers Elementary School and the Rutgers Preparatory School in New Brunswick. During the summer months he worked as an automobile mechanic at Seaside Park, N.J. Later he attended Lehigh University. In 1946-47 he served in the U. S. Army with ski and mountain troops in Colorado. He received two months of specialized training at Fort McClellen, Ala. (1946), spent the remainder of his time as a motor sergeant and mountain-climbing instructor at the Mountain and Winter Warfare School, Camp Carson, Colo., where he was discharged Nov. 7, 1947. He then became associated with his father in the South River Sand Company until 1957 when he took a position as superintendent of the A. T. Harris Sand Company in Honey Brook, Pa. In the spring of 1959 he was transferred by the parent company of the above firm, George F. Pettinos, Inc., to a larger plant near Port Elizabeth, N.J., as superintendent. In 1960 he returned to the South River Sand Company as its president. On Oct. 18, 1958, he married Beatrice Nancy Fuller, born Dec. 10, 1937, dau. of Richard Yates Fuller and Marye­ Stuart Gress Fuller of Yardley, Pa. Nancy attended Deni­ son University, Granville, Ohio. The ceremony was per­ formed in the All Saints Chapel of the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Trenton. Ancestral Lines 17

''Mark,'' as he is known, has quite a mechanical bent and is a real genius with all types of machines, especially with gasoline and diesel engines. His hobby is boating, which he began as a small boy when the family spent their summers at Seaside Park, N.J. He rebuilt and reconditioned an old boat, and has made a modern 46-foot diesel yacht out of it. Fortunately his wife shares his enthusiasm for boating. In connection with his hobby of boating, a small mail-order business has developed which manufactures and distributes unusual and practical navigation and engineering devices for yachts. Shipments are made to all corners of the world. (For a portrait, see illus. 2.) Mark, we might say, has inherited his mechanical and engineering ability from his great-grandfather, Howard B. Schureman, who was an inventor; and his love for boats from his Snedeker and R-ose ancestry. Their first child, a daughter, Alexandra Stuart, was born Aug. 26, 1959, making this the beginning of the eleventh generation.

WALTER OLDEN WRIGHT

WALTER OLDEN WRIGHT was born in Middlesex General Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J., July 17, 1930. He grew up with his two brothers in the family home at 41 Wilcox Ave., South River, N.J. He attended Sunday School at the Conk­ lin Methodist Church and became a member of the Church in .April, 1943. His summers were spent at Seaside Park, N.J., where he learned to swim, :fish, and much about boats. There he learned to love the ocean and all seashore activi­ ties. Walter attended Rutgers Elementary School in New Brunswick, and graduated from Proctor Academy in An­ dover, N.H., in 19·49. While at Proctor, he was very active in school a:ff airs and school government. He played football, skiied and became the school leader-the equivalent of the president of the Student Council. He also became interested in antique autos and rebuilt a Model-T Ford automobile while a student. He learned to love the mountains and for­ ests of New Hampshire. He enlisted in the U. S. Air Force in 1951, serving four years, mostly at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois where he was instructing in electricity. 18 Our Family Ties vVhen he returned home from the Service he joined the South River Sand Company in Old Bridge, N.J., where he served as plant manager. On Oct. 8, 1960, he married Barbara Louise, daughter of William· and Mary Wincklhofer of Cranbury, N. J. She was born Aug. 3, 1933, graduated (B.S.) from Boston College School of Nursing, and has been on the staff of the Visiting Nurse Service, New York City. Walter has inherited the physical build and looks of his grandfather Walter Hart Olden. He also has his great love of nature and animals. His hobbies are in the out-of-doors skiing, hunting, :fishing, and boating. He also has some skill in mechanics, carpentry and electricity, all of which are helpful to him in his work. (For his portrait, see illus. 2.)

JAMES SCHUREMAN WRIGHT JAMES ScHUREMAN WRIGHT was born Dec. 16, 1932 in Mid­ dlesex General Hospital, New Brunswick, N.J. He lived with his parents and two brothers at 41 Wilcox Ave., South River, N.J. He attended Sunday School at the Conklin 11ethodist Church and became a church member in April, 1944. He spent his summers at Seaside Park, N.J., where he learned to swim, fish, and about various types of boats. Jim attended Rutgers Elementary School, South River High School for one year, and in 1951 ·graduated from Proc­ tor Academy in Andover, New Hampshire. At Proctor Jim did some sailing and served with the Proctor School Volun­ teer Fire Department as chief engineer, helping to put out forest fires. He was also active in the school government and the Proctor Players. Jim learned to love the quiet cul­ ture of New Eng~land and the quaint towns in the vicinity of his school. He attended Rider College in Trenton, N.J., for two years and then went into the U. S. Army, and served twenty-one months in Japan, where he became quite in­ terested in the Japanese people and their customs. Upon his discharge from the U. S. Army he returned to Rider College, graduating in June, 1959, with a B.S. in commerce. After a two-months tour in Europe, he joined the South River Sand Company in a general business and sales ca­ pacity. :J...... -0 :J.

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Ancestral Lines 19 Jim has a love of fine things of .good quality. He is in­ terested in antiques, be it automobiles, trains, furniture, or silver. His hobbies are photography and a small steam narrow-guage railroad which he operates with a friend. Jim has quite a gift of insight and an understanding of other people. He makes friends easily with old and young and has a genuine liking for people. (For his. portrait, see illus. 2.)

Ancestors of Marcus S. Wright, Jr. THE CHAMBERS LINE John Chambers, b. Scotland, 1677, d. America, Sept. 19, 1747; wife's name unknown. Alexander Chambers, b. 1716, d. Sept. 16, 1798, m. Rose Craig, b. 1720, d. Nov. 23, 1780. Margaret Chambers, 1746-1791, m. Garret Snedeker, 1742-1825. Isaac G. Snedeker, 1782-1862, m. Ann Sortor, 1782-1830. Garret I. Snedeker, 1807-1883, m. Catherine Hoagland, 1810-1876. Gitty Ann Snedeker, 1837-1904, m. William Wright, 1810-1889. lfarcus Stults Wright, 1865-1927, m. Caroline Wood Rose, b. 1865. Marcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. 1903.

Their Children 1. Marcus Stults Wright III, b. Dec. 14, 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice N aney Fuller, b. Dec. 10, 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. July 17, 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. Aug. 3, 1933. 3. James Schureman Wright, b. Dec. 16, 1932.

John Chambers~ First Generation OuR earliest known ancestor on this line to come to America is John Chambers. He left Scotland, where he was born, with his father and other Presbyterians who fled to the county of Antrim in the North of Ireland. In 1729, at the age of fifty-two years, he emigrated to America, bringing with him his family consisting of two sons, David and Alexander, and five daughters. He built the house on the northeast corner of Second and Quarry streets (now State and Willow), Trenton, N. J. John Chambers d. in 1747, aged seventy, and is bur. in the First Presbyterian church­ yard, Trenton. His children: David, resided Philadelphia; Alexander (see below); and five daughters. 21 22 Our Family Ties An earlier family of Chambers arrived at Philadelphia about 1726. They were brothers by the names of James, Robert, Joseph, and Benjamin, who also came from County Antrim, Ireland, and no doubt are related to the above group. (See Early Germans of N.J., by Chambers.) The earliest record of persons named Chambers who were settlers of New Jersey, tells of a family from Edinburgh, Scotland, passengers on the ship '' Henry and Francis,'' which sailed from Scotland Aug. 1, 1685, and arrived New Perth, now Perth Amboy, in Nov., 1685. John and Robert Chambers settled in Piscataway and other parts of Middle­ sex County, N. J.; Marion went west, and was the founder of Chambersburg, Pa. (Woodward and Hageman, Hist. of Burlington and Mercer Co.'s, N.J.) The author, when motoring through Chambersburg, Pa., recently, noticed on the outskirts of this city a sign which read '' Antrim To-wnship. '' No doubt the above Marion and John Chambers are of the same family of Antrim, Ireland.

Alexander Chambers., Second Generation

ALEXANDER CHAMBERS, son of John Chambers, was b. in 1716, in the county of Antrim in the North of Ireland. At the age of thirteen he came to Trenton, New Jersey, with his father. When of age, he married Rose Craig, who was also born in Ireland in 1720. Alexander and his wife Rose resided on the property of his father at Trenton. They had four sons: John (1741-1813), c·oI. David (1748-1842), James, and Alexander, Jr., three of whom were in the Rev­ olutionary War. Alexander and Rose also had four daugh­ ters. Their daughter Rose married a Mr. Wright; Margaret Chambers, who married Garret Snedeker,. through whom this lineage continues; Elizabeth d. Oct. 18, 1770, aged twen­ ty-seven; and Mary, who d. April 13, 1757, in infancy. Rose Craig was the daughter of John Craig, who settled in Bed­ minster Township, Somerset County, N.J., one of the or­ ganizers of the Lamington church in 1740. His tombstone is in the churchyard, bearing the date of his death, May 23, 1753. There· is in the possession of Mrs. John Story Cham­ bers a book inscribed: '' Rose Craig, Belentopin, in the Parish of Clownish, within a mile of Monaghan, Ireland. Ancestral Lines 23

Presented by her pastor upon her thirteenth birthday.'' (See Mercer Co. History, Vol. I, page 96; also John Cham­ bers family, in Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing, N.J., by Cooley, and Stryker's Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War.) Alexander was a commissary officer in the Revolution. He was one of the township committee appointed to pur­ chase and receive lead for the American Army. The Com­ missioners were ordered to collect leaden weights of win­ dows, clocks, lead in shops, stores, mills, that were a pound or more in weight. Alexander continued at the corner of State and Willow streets in Trenton, carrying on the trade of turning, spinning-wheel and chair making. His shop was on Second Street and River Road, his residence on Second Street, next door to nifajor Peter Gordon, of the Quarter­ master-General's Department. Alexander was one of the first trustees named in the charter of the Presbyterian Church of Trenton, given by the King through Governor Belcher, and held the office from Sept. 8, 1756, until his death, Sept. 16, 1798, a period of forty-two years, during which time, as is shown by the Trustees' minutes, he is recorded as present at every meet­ ing of the Board. He was elected treasurer of the Board on 1fay 6, 1766, and performed the duties of that office until Aug. 1, 1796, a period of thirty years, when he resigned on account of advancing years. He was also chosen president of the Board on May 5, 1783, which office he filled until his death, a period of fifteen years. Alexander d. Sept. 16, 1798, at the age of eighty-two, and lies buried near his father and wife in the churchyard. The nrst bequest in his will was in these words : '' Item. I give unto the Presbyterian Church of Trenton, Thirty Pounds, to be put at interest, and the interest to go toward the sup­ port of the minister; said thirty pounds to be paid to the Trustees one year after my decease. '' There is this further record of his children in the History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, by John Hall, page 96 : Two of his children, John and Alexander, remained in Trenton. John carried on the trade of his father at his own shop at the head of town in Warren Street. Alexander con­ verted the brick house built by his father on the corner of 24 Our Family Ties State and Willow streets into a store and carried on an extensive business for many years. He was the first to es­ tablish Bloomsbury as a port for sloops, and built a wharf and storehouse there about the year 1803; the transporta­ tion business having been previously conducted at Lamber­ ton, about a mile below. On the 7th of Aug., 1799, about a year after the death of his father, he was chosen a trustee, and so continued until his death in 1824, a period of twenty­ five years. For a continuation of this line, see the Snedeker Family.

THE GORDON LINE Robert Gordon, 1580-1651, b. Scotland, m. Catherine Irvine ( dau. of Alexander Irvine) . Robert Gordon, Jr., b. 1609 in Scotland, m. 1638, Catherine Burnett ( dau. of Sir Thomas Burnett). Thomas Gordon, 1653-1722, m. 1st, Helen --, 1660-1687, m. 2nd, Janet lVIudie, b. --, d. about 1744 (dau. of David Mudie). Thomas Gordon, Jr., b. about 1696, d. about 1784, m. about 1731, J\fargaret Oliphant. Epenetus Gordon, 1732-1821, m. John Sortor, 1735-1769. Thomas Sortor, 1758-1833, m. Jane Sutphen, bp. 1763. Anne Sortor, 1782-1830, m. Isaac G. Snedeker, 1782-1862. Garret I. Snedeker, 1807-1883, m. Catherine Hoagland, 1810-1876. Gitty Ann Snedeker, 1837-1904, m. William Wright, 1810-1889. IVIarcus Stults Wright, 1865-1927, m. Caroline Wood Rose, b. 1865. Marcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. 1903.

Their Children 1. Marcus Stults Wright III, b. 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. 1933. 3. J mnes Schureman Wright, b. 1932. For insertion in Our Family Ties (1960), by M. S. Wright.

Additions to page 25: Thomas Gordon was Chief Justice, New Jersey Supreme Court, 1709 ( see Fitzgerald's Legislative Manual, State of New Jersey, 1959, p. 217). He was one of five officials of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Perth Amboy, named in its charter of July 30, 1718, and was also one of the same group of men named in Perth Amboy's city charter, August 24, 1718; the other grantees in both cases were George Willocks, William Eiler, John Barclay, and John Stevens. (See McGinnis, History of St. Peter's Church, p. 61.)

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Thomas Gordon, First Generation FROM a tablet erected by Perth Amboy Caledonian Club, seen by Marcus S. Wright, Jr., January 27, 1958, on the altar side of St. Pete:r's Episcopal Church at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, we may read, '' Thomas Gordon of Straloch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was born at Pitlurg April 17, 1653. This Thomas Gordon settled in the New World near Cedar Brook (Plainfield), New Jersey, in 1684. He moved to Perth Amboy in 1685; and died April 28, 1722. He was Customs Officer; Assemblyman for Perth Amboy; Sheriff of Middle­ sex County; Surrogate of East Jersey; Speaker of the House of Assen1bly; Attorney General of New Jersey; Sec­ retary Board of Proprietors of East Jersey; Vestryman, and Contributor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.'' The writing on the original head­ stone is now all but worn away. This Thomas Gordon was the youngest of the six children of Robert Gordon, the Sixth Laird of Pitlurg, Scotland. Robert's wife was Catherine Burnett, and his mother's maiden name ,vas Catherine Irvine. Thomas Gordon of Pitlochie, Scotland, came to this New Land in 1684, with his wife Helen, four children, and seven servants. He had six children, but two of them had died in Scotland. The voyage to .America was terrifying. The ship lost all three of its masts, and was left to the mercy of the elements and high waves. They finally reached the c·apes of Virginia nine weeks after leaving Aberdeen. The Gordon family did not remain in Virginia, but came that same year to New Jersey, and chose a site for a planta­ tion on Cedar Brook, about ten miles from Amboy (North­ west), the present Scotch Plains, near Plainfield, N.J. It was called Scotch Plains because so many of Thomas Gor­ don's countrymen came with him and settled in that area. To a relative in Edinburgh he wrote a letter, dated Feb. 16, 1685: ''Upon the 18th of November I and my servants came here to the woods, and eight days thereafter my wife and children came also. I put up a Wigwam in 24 hours which served us till we put up a better house; which I made 24 feet long, and 15 feet wide, containing a Hall and Kitchen both in one, and a Chamber and Study which we put up 26 Our Family Ties pretty well, with Pallissadoes on the sides, and Shingles on the roof, against Yuill (Christmas) on which day we enter it; and have been ever since, and still are, clearing ground, and making fencing ...... Robert Fullerton and I are to joyn for a Plough this Spring, consisting of 4 Oxen and two Horses, or 4 Oxen will serve if the ground were once broken up ... I am settled here in a very pleasant place, upon the side of a brave plain, almost free of woods, and near the water side. We have great abundance of Deer, Turkies, etc., here about us; and as for the wild Beasts and Natives, whereof I was greatly affrayed before I came here, I find no danger, trouble, or inconveniency thereby at all ... There are eight of us settled here within half a mile or a mile of another; and about ten miles from Town or New Perth, or Amboy Point, so that we can go and come in a day, either on foot or horseback ... Blessed be God, myself and wife, and children, and servants have been, and are still in good health, which G-od continue.'' This letter is signed, "Your most humble and oblidged Servant, Thomas Gordon." But his prayer was not answered. In less than two years his wife Helen and all his children were dead, and he was alone in the land of his adoption. A beautiful elegy has been found, written about this time, upon the death of the truly virtuous Mrs. Helen Gordon, spouse to Thomas Gor­ don, who was from one of the prominent families of Stra­ loch, Scotland. She d. Dec. 12, 1687, at the age of 27. This was a land of hazards and dangers, as well as pleas­ ures and opportunities. And Thomas Gordon was a man of rugged strength and great faith, and he turned with courage and determination to the challenge of the New World. There was living near him a fell ow Scotsman named David lvludie from Montrose, Scotland, who had a daughter Janet. This attractive and well-bred young woman became his second wife, and gave to him a new family of six more chil­ dren : Andrew, Thomas, Jr., John, Margrett, Mary, and Euphaine. The Mudie family was of a great and worthy lineage. They came to this country from Scotland about the same time that the Gordon family arrived. There could not be a more noble commingling of blood than of the Gor­ dons and the Mudies. For insertion in OUR FAMILY TIES (1960), by M. S. Wright.

ADDITIONS TO PAGE 27 October 1964 I had the pleasure of seeing on several occasions young Sam Mudie of Eddington, Pa., the 1959-1961 star quarterback, help Rutgers to an undefeated record in 1961. While he was playing several of his many games, Alice and I were in the Princeton or Rutgers grandstands seeing him perform. (His brother Bob, also a halfback, played the last two years and now, 1964, his brother Charles, a sophomore halfback, is a hard-driving runner and playing a superb game; both also with Rutgers.) I often wondered as I watched him play if his Mudie name could have a tie with that of David Mudie, my seventh great-grandfather, the "Mer­ chant of Perth" who came from Scotland and settled in Perth Amboy in 1684. Finally, I wrote Sam Mudie, Jr. Ultimately Alice and I met his complete family, from his grandparents (the Robert Petrie Mudies, of Andalusia, Pa.) down to their great-grandchildren. (R.P.M., b. 2-7-1883, m. 4-9-1908, Elizabeth lvI. Kester.) Through the Pennsylvania Mudies, I corresponded in 1962 with Sir Francis Mudie, K.C.S.I., K.C.I.E., O.B.E., co-author of "The Mudies of Angus," and we exchanged copies of our respective books. Sir Francis spent most of his life in the British diplomatic service, with broad assignments where he distinguished hi1n­ self. He is now in retirement, doing much historic research and writing, and recently was elected presi­ dent of Abertay Historical Society, Dundee, Scotland. Following is a sketch of Thomas Gordon and David Mudie which Sir Francis Mudie kindly prepared for this publication in July 1964.

THOMAS GORDON AND DAVID MUDIE Thomas Gordon was descended, on his father's side, from the Gordons of Pitlurg, one of the oldest and most distinguished families in Aber­ deenshire and, on his mother's side, from the Burnetts of Leys, a family of almost equal antiquity and distinction. His grandfather, Robert Gor­ don of Straloch and, on the death of his brother, 5th of Pitlur~, was the first graduate of Marischal College,lfounded in 1593, and, la er he .J....J studied in Paris. The rest of his life h.. e devoted to geographical and historical studies. At the request of King Charles I, he compiled a com­ plete descriptive Atlas of Scotland, under the name "Theatrum Scotiae", which was published in 1648. He also wrote a history of the family of Gordon. He had a family of eleven sons and six daughters. His eldest son, Robert, 6th of Pitlurg, was Thomas Gordon's father. His fifth, James, minister of Rothiemay, Aberdeenshire, assisted his father in his geo- graphical and historical work and also wrote a book on "practical divin­ ity", and his ninth, Arthur, an advocate, was the father of Robert Gor­ don, merchant in Danzig, who founded Robert Gordon's College in Aber­ deen, one of the famous schools in Scotland. David Mudie, a merchant burgess of Montrose, was the son of David Mudie of Courthill, who came of a family of merchants and small land­ owners, which had long been established in Montrose, Arbroath and Dundee. One of its members was Sir Thomas Mudie, who was Provost of Dundee when the Town Council decided to defy Cromwell's General, Monk, when he demanded the surrender of the town in August 1651. In 1684, Robert Barclay of Urie, near Montrose, the elected, but absentee, Governor of East New Jersey, organised an expedition to that Colony from Montrose. Among the other promoters were his brother, John Barclay, and "in l\Iontrose John Gordon, doctor of medicine, John Fullerton of Kinnaber and Robert and Thomas Fullerton, his brothers." John Gordon was an elder brother of Thomas Gordon. He practised in l\'.lontrose and was married to John Fullerton's daughter, Katherine. Kinnaber, the Fullertons' property is a few miles from Montrose. The Fullertons, like Robert Barclay, were Quakers. The expedition sailed from Montrose in July 1684, with Thomas and Robert Fullerton and David Mudie on board. David Mudie was a friend of Dr. John Gordon, who had been a witness to the baptism of his daughter, Katherine, on 25th May 1675. About the same time, Thomas Gordon and his two younger brothers, Charles and George Gordon, sailed from Aberdeen. The Aberdeen party arrived in October 1684 and the Montrose party slightly later. From the start David Mudie took a prominent part in the affairs of the Colony. He took up six acres of land in "New Perth", where he built a "horse mill" and a stone house of two storeys and a "seller". He also took land on the South Rivei·, two and a half hours' sail from Perth, "let the wind blow as it will." In May 1685, he was made a Justice of the Court of Common Right and next year, when Lord Neil Campbell became Deputy Governor, he was appointed a mem­ ber of the Council. In November of that year, he went back to Scotland to fetch his wife and younger children and does not appear to have held any official post in the Colony till 1692, when he was again made a member of the Council by Andrew Hamilton on his second appointment as Deputy Governor. He was also appointed one of a Commission to try small causes. He last sat in Council on August 1695 and died six months later on 20th February 1696. Thomas Gordon also played a considerable part in the administration of the Colony, but rather later than David Mudie, than whom he was considerably younger. In 1692, Andrew Hamilton appointed him Deputy Secretary of the Colony and Clerk to the Council. He was also appointed to the Commission to try small causes. About this time, he married Janet, one of David Mudie's children, whom he had brought with him from Scotland after his visit there in 1686. In 1695 he was sent to England to represent the state of the Colony to the proprietors. He stayed there for about three years and on his return, he was again, in 1698, appointed Deputy Secretary and Registrar. Next year he became Attorney General. From 1693 to 1709 he was a men1ber of the Pro­ vincial Assembly, finally filling the post of Speaker. On Robert Hunter becoming Captain General and Governor of the Colony in 1710, he appointed Thomas Gordon a member of Council. From 1710 to 1719, he was Treasurer. He died on 28th April 1722, aged 69. In addition to the above, it may be noted that David Mudie was a member of the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. Robert P. Mudie emigrated to Philadelphia in 1907 from Lochee, Scotland, and Sir Francis Mudie lives in Broughty Ferry, a suburb of Dundee. David Mudie, my seventh great-grandfather, who settled in Perth Amboy, came from the coastal town of Montrose about 20 miles north of Dundee. Lochee, Broughty Ferry, and Dundee are ,vithin a 25-mile radius, "'rhich suggests that an early relationship among these families might have existed. It is also interesting to note that the genealogy researches developed for "Our Family Ties" ( 1960) on David Mudie were just about the same as contained in "The Mudies of Angus" (pub­ lished 1959 in Scotland) about the same David Mudie, yet the authors were unacquainted at the time of publication of both books. In June 1963, Alice and I had a wonderful tour of Scandinavia and the British Isles, whence many of our ancestors came. While in Scotland, we had the pleas­ ure of meeting Sir Francis and Lady Mudie and daugh­ ter Mary, and were entertained at their home. Sir Francis provided us with information for tours of the many castles and historic points in Scotland, and he drove us to some of these in Dundee, Montrose, and Broughty Ferry. My thanks go to Professor John Mudie of Aberdeen, who took Alice and me to the t,vo early Gordon castles of Straloch and Pitlurg in Aberdeenshire. These are about 15 miles apart and 20 miles north of Aberdeen, and tie in with my early Scottish ancestry. Prof. Mudie knew the location of these castles since he had been headmaster for 22 years in the town of Oldmeldrum, which is 5 miles N.W. of Straloch. The latter place with its chapel consists of 2,500 acres, presently in splendid repair and occupied by its owner, Col. Francis Irvine of Barra and Straloch. The Pitlurg Castle, chapel, and buildings are in ruins. The George Jamie­ sons of Leask, who live on the adjoining farm, in­ formed us that, according to his late father, "Pitlurg originally consisted of a vast acreage." Its present owners are unknown to us. Another of our Scotti.sh family castles of interest is that of Drum, located 9 miles S.W. of Aberdeen. Catherine Irvine (see first woman in our Gordon family chart in this book) came from there. For these villages, see the 1960 (revised) Esso road map of Northern Scotland. (See opposite pages for photos of Straloch, Pitlurg, and Drum.) Addendum: In 1963, the Thomas and Helen Gordon tombstones were recut-their inscriptions consisting of some 650 letters. Also, funds have been provided by us for a bronze tablet in memory of David Mudie, to be erected in St. Peter's (Episcopal) churchyard at Perth Amboy, the same cemetery where the above Gordon monu­ ments are located. Added dates for brothers of Thomas Gordon: Charles of Woodbridge, N. J., d. 1698 in England; Dr. John, living Oct., 1691; George, d. 1686 in Amer­ ica. Also: lVIargaret Oliphant, b. April, 1709. See Chart I, "Gordon Family."

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THE DAVID lIUDIE FAMILY THIS noble Scotch family line comes into the ancestry of the Marcus Wrights through Janet Mudie, daughter of David Mudie, who became the second wife of Thomas Gordon, and through her the line of descendency continues. David Mudie was a fellow-countryman of Thomas Gordon; and was honored in many ways by the English Governors, and by his colonial neighbors. From Whitehead's Contributions to East Jersey History, page 47, we find: This gentleman, one of the most valued residents of Amboy for some years, was from the town of Montrose, Scotland, and arrived in East Jersey with four children and thirteen servants in November, 1684. This was only a portion of his family, several children and his wife being left behind in Scotland. One of his letters in Scot's Model, addressed to his wife, com­ mences with the appellation, ''My Heart"-prepossessing us favorably at the outset. How could he be other than an affectionate husband a, During the year following his arrival, he is styled "Merchant of Perth," and the same year ( 1685) was appointed a judge of the Court of Common Right, and was one of the governor's council during the administration of Lord Neil Campbell and Andrew Hamilton. In November, 1686, he re­ visited the place of his birth, but returned soon after to the province and continued a resident until his death, which occurred in March, 1696. We learn nothing mo:r.e of his wife. It is probable that, on his second arrival he was accompanied by two more children, as the whole of his family did not emigrate to America. Two sons, David and James, came with their father in 1684, but the first died before him and, by his will, James shared equally with Isabel, Christian, Elizabeth, and John, in all his estate "any­ where in Europe." His property in New Jersey he left to Thomas Gordon, for the benefit of his five daughters, Margaret, Ann, Janet, Katherine, and J\fary. Another daughter, Jean Strachen, is said to have already been pro­ vided for on her marriage. Janet became the wife of Thomas Gordon but nothing further is known of the descendants of Mr. Mudie. From his letters we learn that soon after his arrival, he commenced building at New Perth "a good handsome house, six rooms off a. floor, with a Study, two stories high above the sellers, and the garret above." This was of stone, and at that time was an undertaking considered worthy of special mention by all the scribes among the settlers; as was also his erection of a "horse­ mill," which it was expected would be worth one hundred pounds per year. He says himself, "I an1 sure she will be better than fifty of clear money, for every Scotch boll of wheat or Indian corn pays here for grinding of it two shillings sterling." This mill he describes a.s thirty-two feet wide, forty feet long, and "the great wheel" thirty feet in diameter. It is a cir­ cumstance somewhat remarkable, that while the old and populous settlement at N ewa.rk did not secure a mill for the use of the inhabitants until four or five yea.rs after its settlement, and then by general action in the matter, Amboy so soon after it was founded should have had one erected by indi­ vidual enterprise. l\fr. l\,I udie selected his plantation on South River at a distance which took two hours to sail, and says of it in one of his letters, "I mind to settle 28 Our Family Ties some of my servants there against the middle of this month ( March 1685). I am provided with six coarse horses; oxen and swine sufficiently in number for any plantation for the first year: the land I have settled on in my judgment is extraordinarily good." All this indicates the possession of pecuniary resources such as the majority of the settlers did not enjoy. Scot gives also a letter from Mr. Mudie's son James (apparently dic­ tated by him to an amanuensis), to a cousin of the same name in Montrose, who seems to be the owner of the "Lairdship of Arbikie." The writer says, "there is an abundance of much better land here than ever A.rbikie was, and an Earldom to be bought far below the price of what such petty Laird­ ships as Arbikie are sold for in Scotland, without purging of the lands of any incumbrances." Several of his letters are printed by Whitehead in his East Jersey Under the Proprietors. In one of these letters to his wife, who was the mother of Janet l\iiudie he writes, "I am resolved to go out where I have taken up my land, which is upon a River called the South River, which is an ex­ ceedingly pleasant River and place. There goes only with me Mr. David Violent." And in a letter written to his cousin James l\{udie, merchant in Montrose, Scotland, he says, "Wild Geese, Turkeys, Ducks and Drakes, Partridges, Conies, Doves, and innumerable more kinds of Fowls, which I know not their names, are here to be seen every hour of the day, in flocks above thousands in number; and for your Skieft, which you used to fish with, bring here with you, or one like her, for I assure you of good em­ ployment; and yet ye may catch more fish in one hour here, than any fisher in Montrose in two." David Mudie and his descendants continued to live in these parts of New Jersey.

Thomas Gordon was a gifted and honorable man, loved by his family, and highly respected and honored by his f el­ low countrymen. The records show that his wife Janet placed a monument to his memory, praising him for his good character and deeds, and religious fervor, and indicating her desire to be buried beside him. In a 19-59 newspaper clipping it is noted that Secretary Patten of the State of New Jersey disclosed that a recent search of state records, in the archives at Trenton, by Thomas Atkins, a veteran employee of his office, reveals that the first Middlesex County man to serve as speaker of the House, was Thomas Gordon in 1708. Thomas Gordon was clerk of the Propri­ etors' Council, and became attorney-general of New Jersey in 1714. He was sent as a representative of the Proprietors to England in 1699. On April 17, 1702, he was one of the Proprietors who signed over the sovereignty of East Jersey to her majesty Queen Anne. He held many of the highest honors that could have been bestowed upon him by his Ancestral Lines 29 colonial contemporaries, and d. April 28, 1722. He was buried in the churchyard of the St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Perth Amboy, where he had been vestryman from 1718 until his death. The land on which St. Peter's Church stands and other parcels of land were given to the church by Thomas Gordon, George Willocks, John Barclay, and John Harrison. We feel the following is most appropriate to add as it is still on the inside wall of the Church.

THIS TABLET is designed to express the gratitude of the Congregation of St. Peter's Church in this city to the benefactors of the said church, whose names follow : GEORGE WILLOCKS who died in 1729; MARGARET WILLOCKS his wife who died in 1722; THOMAS GORDON who died April 28, 1722 and JOHN HARRISON --O'--- They loved the habitation of God's house and the place where his honour dwelleth. --o\-.- Erected A.D. 1825.

Thomas Gordon, Jr., Second Generation THOMAS GoRDoN, JR., was b. about 1696 in or near Perth Amboy, N.J., probably at the home of his father, Thomas Gordon, Sr. He d. June 5, 1784, at Amwell, Hunterdon County, N.J., and was bur. in the Episcopal cemetery there. He m. Margaret Oliphant about 1731, and lived at Perth CHART I GORDON FAMILY ROBERT GORDON (Scotland) b. 9-14-1580 d. 8-18-1651 m. CATHERINE IRVINE clan. of ALEXANDER I ROBERT GORDON (Scotland) b. 1609 in Pitlurg Ill, 1038 CATHERINE BURNET <11111. of SIR THOMAS I I I I I I CHARLES DR. JOHN THOMAS GORDON GEORGE ROBERT CATHERINE of Woodbridge, N. J, b. 4-17-1653 cl. 4-28-1722 m. 1st, HELEN -­ b. 1060 d. 12-12-1687 m. 2nd, JANET MUDIE clau. of DAVID d. abt. 1i44 I I l i I I MARY EUPHEMIA JOHN THOMAS GORDON, Jr, MARGARET CAPT, ANDREW b. abt. 1696 cl, 1777 d. 1784 m. nht. 1731 MARGARET OLIPHANT I I I AGISYLES EPENETUS GORDON FRANKLIN hnpt. .5-28-1747 b. 1732 d, 7-6-1793 cl. 1815 d. 9-!l-1821 Ill, 1:.!-24-1753 JOHN SORTOR h. 17B5 ,1. n-11-1760 I I I I I I I I JACOB JOHN MARGARET THOMAS SORTOR ANNE CATHERINE EPENETUS GEORGE b. 8-!!3-1756 b. 2-0-1765 b. 11-7-1754 b. 12-7-1758, b. 3-7-1762 b. 1-12-1767? b. 2-21-1769 b. 1-25-1761 m. ll-8-1788 Somerset County, N. J. ANN DURYEE d. 3-26-1833, Ohio Ill, U!Jt, 1778 JANE SUTPHEN bapt. 3-6-1763, Hurlingen, N. J. d. 7-4-1833 I I I I I I I I CHARITY EPENETUS JANE CATHERINE ANNE SORTOR ARTHUR HEJEKIAH* JOHN ELIZABETH Did not go to Ohio b. 10-13-1782 d. 1869, Ohio d. 1839, Ohio d. 1855, Ohio d. Ohio m. PETER STITES cl. 11-18-1830 Ill. 12-1-1804 ISAAC G, SNEDEKER b. 10-2-1782

MAJcus STULTS WRIGHT h. 180:5 d. 1927 rn. CAROLINE WOOD ROSE b. 1865 I MARCUS STULTS WRIGHT, Jr, b. 1896 m. ALICE OLDEN b. 1803 I I I MARCUS STULTS WRIGHT, III WALTER OLDEN WRIGHT JAMES SOHUREMAN WRIGHT b. 1927 b. 1930 b. 1932 Ill, 10-18-1058 lll. 10-8-1960 BEATRICE NANCY FULLER BARBARA LOUISE WINOKLHOFER h. 1937 h. 8-3-1933 I ALEXANDRA STUART h. 8-20-1959 * Hezekiah Sortor m. 1811, Sarah Peterson. Their son Petereson Sortor had dau. Melissn Hll(} son Albert Pe·terson Sortor (

Amboy, N.J. Thomas, Jr., and Margaret had three children: Agisyles, Epenetus (m. 1st, John Sortor; 2nd, Hezekiah Stout), and Franklin. (There is reason to believe he had more than three children.) Margaret was the daughter of Duncan Oliphant and Mary Garrison, who lived in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, N.J. They had seven chil­ dren: David, John, Ephraim, James, Margaret, Mary, and Ann. It is through Epenetus, daughter of Thomas Gordon, Jr., and Margaret Oliphant that Marcus S. Wright, Jr., descends. For a continuation of this line, see the Sortor Family.

THE LETTS LINE Francis Letts, b. about 1758, m. Mary Van Deventer, b. about 1760. Isaac Letts, b. 1780, d. Feb. 7, 1860, m. Anna Hoffman, 1786-1864. William Letts, b. Aug. 9, 1804, d. Nov. 2, 1878, m. Mary Ann Van Deven- ter, b. Nov. 7, 1808, d. Nov. 11: 1875. Mary Jane Letts, b. May 14, 1835, d. March 1, 1906, m. George Washington Rose, b. Oct. 28, 1832, d. May 31, 1895. Caroline Wood Rose, b. Dec. 19, 1865, m. Marcus Stults Wright, b. June 15, 1865, d. June 11, 1927. Marcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. Dec. 9, 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. Aug. 29, 1903. Their Children 1. Marcus Stults Wright III, b. Dec. 14, 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. Dec. 10, 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. July 17, 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. Aug. 3, 1933. 3. James Schureman Wright, b. Dec. 16, 1932.

Francis Letts, First Generation FRANCIS LETTS, b. 1758, a soldier of the Revolution, m. about 1778 Mary Van Deventer, eighth child of Isaac Van Deven­ ter and Anne Willett. Children: 1. Nancy, b. about 1779, N.J., m. Xerxes Price, who was engaged in the pottery business in Sayreville Township, N.J. Children: George W.; John; Mary Ann, wife of Capt. Isaac Fauratt; Caroline Anderson; Jane Disborough; and Louise Dis borough. Ancestral Lines 33

2. Isaac, b. 1781, N.J.; d. South Amboy, Feb. 7, 1860; m. Anne Hoff­ man, b. June, 1784, N.J., d. Aug. 2, 1864, in N.J.; bur. Monu­ mental Cemetery, South River, N.J. This lineage continues through Isaac Letts. I think it is quite interesting that we discovered in the Trenton State Library Archives, Trenton, N.J., an old docu­ ment ,vherein a claim was made by Francis Letts of South Amboy, N.J., against the British, Oct. 2, 1782, for the loss of: 1 dwelling house and barn, 3 cattle, 1 cow and calf, 3 hogs, 1 good gun, 1 steel plate hand saw-good as new, 1 velvet jacket, 1 pair buckskin breetches, 1 silk and worsted jacket-half worn, 3 sheep, 1 new check shirt. Sworn before Joseph Olden, Benjamin Manning, and Nathaniel Hunt. My wife, Alice Olden Wright and the above Joseph Olden belong to the same family.

Isaac Letts., Second Generation

IsAAC LETTS~ son of Francis Letts and Mary Van Deventer, b. about 1781, d. Feb. 7, 1860, m. Anne Hoffman, b. June, 1784, d. Aug. 2, 1864; lived at Sayreville. Were farmers and large land owners, both bur. Monumental Cemetery, South River~ Children: 1. William, b ...... \.ug. 9, 1804, Sayreville, N.J., m. Mary Ann Van Deventer, dau. of Peter and Priscilla Van Deventer. This line continues through William Letts. 2. Rachel, m. :M:r. Townsend, lived Weston Mills, East Brunswick, N.J. 3. Eliza, m. Mr. Bloodgood, Sayreville. 4. Lottie Ann, m. Mr. Merrell. 5. Francis, Sayreville. 6. Isaac, Sayreville. 7. John (Capt.), b. 1823, South Amboy, N.J.; d. March 2, 1867. 8. l\ferindah C~:Iary Ann, death cert.), b. April 20, 1824, d. Aug. 10, 1871. m. Capt. Jonathan Bright, b. Aug. 10, 1824, d. Nov. 21, 1896. He m. 2nd, a niece of his wife, Sarah Ann ( dau. of William F. and Mary Ann Van Deventer Letts), b. about 1840, the widow of Adam C. Hohnes. Merindah and husband bur. beside each other, l\fonumental Cemetery, South River. Bright was a mer­ chant sailboat captain. 34 Our Family Ties

William Letts, Third Generation

WILLIAM LETTS, b. Aug. 9, 1804, on farm lower Sayreville, near Crab Island, d. Nov. 2, 1878; m. Mary Ann Van Deven­ ter, b. Nov. 7, 1808, d. Nov. 11, 1875, dau. of Peter and Pris­ cilla Van Deventer of Sayreville, N.J. William and wife Mary Ann, bur. Monumental Cemetery. Peter and Priscilla Van Deventer probably bur. old Van Deventer c·emetery, So.W. side of Sayreville near main line of Raritan River Railroad, Van Deventer's Station. William Letts was a farmer and large landowner whose heirs sold 200 acres land for a f a'3tory site about year 1900 for present E.I. du Pont de Nemours Co. Parlin, N.J., plant. Children: 1. John L., b. April 29, 1829, N.J., d. at Sayreville, N.J., Feb. 11, 1901. m. Jane Elizabeth Lester, b. Oct. 20, 1831, d. Dec. 2, 1904, N.J. Both bur. l\fon. Cem. John Letts was a boat captain. For his portrait, see illus. 4. 2. Mary Jane, b. May 15, 1835, d. lviarch 1, 1906; m. George W. Rose. (See G. W. Rose Family.) 3. William, b. July 1, 1837, N.J.; m. Mary L. Lester, b. July 4, 1825, d. Jan. 17, 1895. William was a sailor. Both bur. Mon. Cem. 4. Isaac W., b. Oct. 17, 1839, So. Amboy, N.J., d. Nov. 18, 1888; m. at Washington Twp. ( So. River), M. E. Church, Aug. 27, 1862, Hannah J. Meade ( dau. of Willia1n a:cd C. Meade), b. June 6, 1843, d. June 18, 1912. Both bur. Mon. Cem. 5. Sarah Ann, b. about 1840; m. 1st, Adam C. Holmes, b. Dec. 25, 1828, d. Feb. 26, 1871; m. 2nd, Jonathan Bright. All bur. Mon. Cem. 6. Louise, d. before 1895; m. John Xerxes Disbrow. Both bur. in Richmond, Va. 7. Othery, b. June 17, 1846, d. June 3, 1907; m. Mary H. Disbrow ( cousin of John X. Disbrow), b. Feb. 22, 1848, d. Aug. 17, 1906. One married child, Juliet Bennet, b. 1873. All bur. J\,Ion. Cem., So. River, lf.J. For a continuation of this line, see the Rose Family.

THE ROSE LINE

THE FIRST proved ancestor in this line is Israel Rose, of Cornwall, N. Y., who was born no later than the 1730's and died in 1790. His place of origin has not been discovered, but his son David (b. 1753) is said to have come from Long Island and circumstantial evidence seems to confirm this Ancestral Lines 35 connection. Although their relationship to the Orange County family of Roses is not known, it is of interest to note that persons of that name are mentioned in several Long Island wills : In 1735 Noah Hildreth ( Bridge­ hampton, L. I.) refers to his sister Deborah, wife of an Israel Rose. In the same year Israel Rose witnessed the will of Sarah Rose ( Southampton, L. I.), widow of Martin. Samuel Clarke of Southampton named a daugh­ ter Phoebe Rose in his will of 1753. These references do not form a complete picture, but they do suggest a likely connection with the Israel Rose family from which Marcus Wright descends. Israel Rose, d. 1790, m. Pheby ---, d. 1806. David Rose, 1757-1845, m. 1st, Acey or Acly --- ( Charlotte Farring- ton!), d. 1806, m. 2nd, Rebecca Carter, 1768-1854. David Carter Rose, 1806-1888, m. Mary Walsh, 1809-1886.

George Washington Rose, b. Oct. 20, 1832, d. May 31, 1895, m. Mary Jane Letts, b. May 14, 1835, d. March 1, 1906.

Caroline Wood Rose, b. Dec. 19, 1865, m. Marcus Stults Wright, b. June 15, 1865, d. June 11, 1927. Marcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. Dec. 9, 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. Aug. 29, 1903. Their Children 1. l\1arcus Stults Wright III, b. Dec. 14, 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. Dec. 10, 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. July 17, 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. Aug. 3, 1933. 3. James Schureman Wright, b. Dec. 16, 1932.

Israel Rose) First Generation IsRAEL RosE, who d. 1790, m. Pheby --, d. 1806, both without wills. This information obtained July 18, 1960, from the Surrogate's Office, Goshen, N. Y. They resided in the Cornwall-Fort l\fontgomery area, Orange County. Israel Rose was an office-holder in Cornwall, 1765-75 (Eager, Hist. of Orange Co., page 527). In the 1790 census he was listed among the residents of New Cornwall with a household including three females. The 1800 census for present Monroe, N. Y., lists Phoebe Rose in a household with one male aged 16 to 26 years, one aged 26-45, one 36 Our Family Ties female under 10, one aged 16-26, and one (herself, doubt­ less) of 45 or over. (N. Y. G. & B. Record, 64 :293.) Children: 1. Benjamin, b. July 5, 1753, d. 1815, Orange County, N.Y., without a will; m. Nov. 6, 1777, Mary Jaycocks. 2. David, b. July 2, 1757, d. May 15, 1845; of Cornwall, N.Y.; m. 1st, Acly or Acey ( a nickname possibly-real name thought to be Charlotte Farrington); m. 2nd, Rebecca Carter, dau. of Enoch Carter. This line continues through David Rose. 3. Mary, b. May 4, 1759, d. Sept. 23, 1782. 4. Pheby, b. Dec. 7, 1761. 5. Iv.Iargaret, b. June 13, 1763. 6. J eney, b. Dec. 25, 1766. 7. Nancy, b. Oct. 15, 1768. 8. Elizabeth, b. May 6, 1771. 9. Israel, b. Mar. 17, 1773. 10. Fany, b. Apr. 12, 1775, d. July 1776. 11. Fany, b. Feb. 3, 1777, d. l\fay 6, 1777. 12. Rebecca, b. July 2, 1779.

There are gravestones in Union Cemetery, Highland Falls, N.Y. for both daughters ''Fany. '' 1\Iost of the information on above generation was fur­ nished July, 1960, by Georgia Rose Sheldon (Mrs. Robert N.), assisted by Mrs. Rhoda Adelia Rose Cook (Mrs. John), both of Fort Montgomery, descendants of the above David Rose. The birth and death dates are largely from the 200- year-old Israel Rose Bible, owned by a descendant in Fort Montgomery, N.Y.

David Rose., 8 econd Generation DAvrn RosE, b. July 2, 1757, d. 11:ay 15, 1845, a farmer of Cornwall, N.Y., m. 1st, Acey or Acly -- (this may be a nickname; one source identifies David's first wife as Char­ lotte Farrington), who d. July 3, 1787; m. 2nd, Rebecca, dau. of Enoch Carter, b. Sept. 5, 1768, d. Dec. 10, 1854. Ancestral Lines 37

Children: 1. Charlotte, b. June 23, 1787, d. May 29, 1874, m. Vincent Sheldon. 2. Enoch Carter, b. Oct. 20, 1788, d. Jviay 12, 1858; moved to Pater­ son, N.J. 3. Samuel 1st, b. Dec 26, 1789, d. Dec. 25, 1791. 4. Joseph L., b. Feb. 25, 1791, d. July 11, 1870; went to unknown place in Illinois. 5. Samuel 2nd, b. Nov. 25, 1792, d. May 2, 1860. 6. Anna, b. May 6, 1794, d. Aug. 13, 1849, m. John H. Lane, d. Oct. 7, 1862; both bur. in Friends' cem., Cornwall, N.Y. 7. Reuben Carter, a farmer, b. Sept. 30, 1795, d. Dec. 2, 1875, m. 1st, Charlotte Weyant, b. Apr. 11, 1799, d. May 10, 1853, both bur. on what was his farm, Fort Montgo1nery, N.Y., where their gravestones may be seen. Reuben m. 2nd, Clarissa Stevens, b. Jan., 1832, d. Nov. 2, 1922, bur. same cemetery with Reuben, no gravestone. He served during war of 1812. 8. Maria, b. June 26, 1801, d. Sept. 10, 1801. 9. Rebecca, b. Dec. 18, 1802, m. Benjamin R. Lane and moved to Olive, Meigs County, Ohio. 10. David Carter, b. Oct. 7, 1806, d. July 18, 1888, m. Mary Walsh of Haverstraw, N.Y., and East Brunswick Township, N.J. This line continues through David Carter Rose. 11. Adolph Carter, a farmer of Cornwall, N.Y., b. Dec. 15, 1812, d. Jan. 18, 1892, m. Bridget Dolan, d. March 1, 1913, aged about 90 years. He is bur. on what was his and his brother Reuben's farm, Fort Montgomery, she bur. Peacedale cemetery, same town, no gravestone.

This information is partly the result of a visit to the Orange County surrogate's office, Goshen, N.Y., June 10, 1960, by 11rs. Dorothy Delaney, my ,vife and me, where we saw and obtained a copy of David Rose's will, dated July 4, 1842, and proved July 14, 1845 ( see Book N of Wills, pages 280-83). The same day we also visited the Friends' cemetery at Corn"V\rall, and saw several headstones of the above John H. Lane family. The following day we visited the Newburgh Free Library, where we found cemetery burial records. Later the same day we visited and saw David Rose's headstone but found none for his two wives, although near his headstone was a small ashlar that might mark the grave of one of the latter. David Rose is bur. in Union Cemetery, east side of state road, between Fort Mont- 38 Our Family Ties gomery and Highland Falls, N.Y. (One mile south of the latter town.) During the Revolution, David Rose served as a private in Col. Josiah Smith's First Regiment of Suffolk County (N. Y.) militia. (See D. A. R. Lineage Book, Vol. 142, page 315.) From David Rose's will we learn that in 1824 he and his son Reuben purchased on equal shares a 131-acre farm from Cornelius and Leah Brown. Rebecca Carter Rose's place of burial is. not known. Mrs. Georgia Rose Sheldon of Fort Montgomery, N.Y., was in­ formed by her aunt before her death that Rebecca was buried in a cemetery on Washington Street, Newburgh, N.Y., presumably St. George's Episcopal cemetery. I have also thought it possible that her grave is in a small cemetery in East Brunswick Township on the farm of her son David Carter R,ose near Old Bridge, adjoining the easterly lines of the South River Sand Company. The dozen graves in the latter cemetery are all marked by ashlars bearing no inscriptions.

ENOCH CARTER FAMILY RuTTENBER, in a history of Orange County, N.Y., writes the following about Enoch Carter. He is said to have been of English ancestry, and of the Quaker faith, born in Philadelphia. He was living in New York and prior to the Revolutionary War he moved to Newburgh, N.Y. His sym­ pathies politically caused him to abandon his property in New York City and seek safety with the American lines, locating near Fort 1\'.Iontgomery. He carried on the business of currier and tanner in New York City prior to his removal to Orange County, N.Y. He constructed vats and manu­ factured leather. After the peace, he returned to New York City and died there in 1792. A brother, Joseph Carter, an officer in the English Navy, died unmarried. His sister, Mary Carter, became the second wife of Adolph De Grove, who was also Enoch's father-in-law; she d. April 20, 1824, aged 85 years. Her obituary is worth reading (see History of Orange County, N.Y., by Ruttenber, page 384)-"a lady of quality," etc. Enoch Carter married Sarah De Grove, the widow of Benjamin Rivers, and the daughter of Adolphus de Groof or De Grove, then had the follow­ ing children : Jonathan, Adolph, Margaret, Mary, Enoch, and Rebecca. Rebecca married David Rose of Fort Montgomery vicinity, Orange County. They were the great-great-grandparents of Marcus S. Wright, Jr. Ancestral Lines 39

DE GROVE FAMILY Adolph Pierterszen Van der Groeft, m. Aefje Dircx; said to have been French Huguenots. Pieter Adolfszen Van der Groeft, bp. 1657, m. Janneken Van Borsum. Peter De Groof or Grove, bp. Jan. 29, 1696, m. Rebecca Goederus. Adolph De Grove, b. 1720, m. Nov. 6, 1743, Sarah Lawrence and d. Nov. 29, 1796. Sarah De Grove, m. Enoch Carter, d. 1792. Rebecca Carter, b. Sept. 15, 1768, m. David Rose, b. 1757, d. 1848. Sarah De Grove, wife of Enoch Carter, was descended from an old New Netherlands family. The line was founded in America by Adolph Pieterszen van der Groeft ( occasionally "van der Groest") and his wife Aefje Dircx, stated by one writer to have been of Huguenot origin. Their son Pieter Adolfszen Van der Groeft was bp. in the Dutch Church, New York, July 8, 1657; he m. Jan. 1, 1679, J anneken Van Borsum, whose parents were b. in Holland. This Pieter de Groof or de Grove was a timber merchant and carpenter. In 1686 he and his wife J anneken lived on Pearl Street, New York City, and were members of the Dutch Church. He died 1704; his will, dated June 8, 1696 (New York Surrogate's office, Liber 7, page 153), names his children: Adolph, Egbert, Agie, and Peter De Groof; wife survived and was living in 1717-18. Of these children, Peter, bp. Jan. 29, 1696, in New York, m. there June 9, 1717, Rebecca Goederus, b. New York, dau. of Francis and Rebecca Ennis Goederus. Their son Adolph, b. in New York abt. 1720, m. Nov. 6, 1743, Sarah Law­ rence, and d. Nov. 29, 1796. He established a hotel in Newburgh, N.Y., 1777-78 on the S. W. corner of Water and 3rd streets and later owned a bakery across the street from his hotel. Adolph's children were: Adolph, Jr., William, John, Mary, and Sarah. The last child, Sarah, m. twice, first to Benjamin Rivers and second to the above Enoch Carter. Accord­ ing to Newburgh, Her Institutions, Industries, and Leading Citizens (page 117), on July 12, 1784, a Presbyterian Society was organized at First and 1'.fontgomery streets, at which time Adolph Degrove was elected one of the trustees.

David Carter Rose, Third Generation DAVID CARTER RosE, b. Oct. 7, 1806, d. July 14, 1888, a farmer; m. March 1, 1829, Mary Walsh, b. April 20, 1809, d. Sept. 8, 1886. They are buried in the Monumental Cemetery, South River, N.J. Their sons, Dewitt, DeGrasse and Enoch are also buried there. In the David Carter Rose plot on the west side, next to their graves, lies buried Katherine Johnston Eglington, their granddaughter, b. Feb. 14, 1858, 40 Oitr Family Ties d. Nov. 30, 1943; she was the daughter of Sarah 1\1:aria Rose and William ,Johnston. Although there is no marker, William Johnston is also buried in Monumental Cemetery. Immediately north of Katherine Eglingion's grave lie Enoch Rose, b. 1834; George W. Rose, b. 1832, and his wife l\fary Jane Letts, b. 1\1:ay 15, 1835. On the south side of David Carter Rose are the graves of his granddaughter Etta, and her husband William Griffin, dau. of George W. and 1\1:ary Jane Letts Rose. Infants Sarah, b. 1857, and David, b. 1867, buried on the north side of George W. R-ose, same plot. Josepha and husband bur. same cem. abt. north 300 feet. (For portrait of David C. Rose, see illus. 3.) Children: 1. Sarah Maria, b. April 4, 1830; m. William Johnston. 2. George W., b. Oct. 28, 1832, d. May 31, 1895; m. l\fary Jane Letts, b. l\fay 15, 1835, d. l\Iarch 1, 1906. 3. Enoch Carter, b. Oct. 7, 1834, d. Dec. 6, 1862; drowned from sloop off Kreischerville, S.I. 4. DeGrasse, b. l\Iay 7, 1836, d. Sept. 4, 1924; m. l\:fary H. Drury, b. May 9, 1847, d. April 29, 1882. 5. Dewitt Carter, b. Oct. 24, 1839, d. Jan. 28, 1916; m. Violet Letitia Peterson, b. Aug. 9, 1848, d. Feb. 27, 1934. 6. Josepha, b. Oct. 9, 1847, d. 1927; m. San1uel Yates, b. 1846, d. 1908.

David Carter Rose and his brother Reuben purchased land in l\Iiddle­ sex County, N.J., according to the county deed books. On J\tiay 1, 1844, David C. Rose of Cornwall, N.Y., purchased land in Woodbridge Township from Frederick Dan of Cornwall, N.Y., for $500. On Feb. 23, 1850, David C. Rose, boatman, and his wife Mary sold to Charles Schultz, brick mer­ chant, of New York (Book 51, p. 363), four lots on Charles and James streets, Woodbridge Township, which Schultz conveyed to Reuben Rose on Dec. 12, 1851. On l\rlay 18, 1857, Reuben Rose and his wife Clarissa, of l\Ionroe, Orange County, N.Y., sold these lots to l\'1athias Ludlow of Rahway, N.J. (Book 75, p. 428). In May, 1864, David C. Rose bought woodland in South Amboy Township, which he sold the following Sept. to his son DeGrasse Rose. In May, 1867, David C. Rose purchased from Isaac and I-Iannah Selover 20 acres in East Brunswick Township on the Washington-Spotswood road, and in the same month Vincent Barkelew and wife, et al., conveyed to D. C. Rose about eight acres of salt meadow on the long reach of South River. This may adjoin his farm, on which there is an old family burial ground ( near the present easternly line of the South River Sand Company) in which David C. Rose's mother, Rebecca, may possibly be buried. .I) ct \·id ( 1 a rte r 1-{ o :-,; (?, µ: 1· e:. l t-g 1·, l l 1< l f, l t 11 e 1·

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It is interesting to note that in 1835 Joseph Carter of New York bought land in Cheesequake, South Amboy Township, from George C. Thomas of New York. In 1845, Edward Carter, of South Amboy, an oysterman, bought land in the sa1ne area from James P. Thomas of New York. Joseph Rose of New York City bought land in South Amboy Township from Rulif R. Schenk in 1854. This conjunction of Carter and Rose surnames in South Amboy Township may suggest a relationship with the David Carter Rose family. Joseph Rose may be also David Rose's son of that name, who was living in Illinois at the time David's will was probated. From the above it appears that all of the children of David Carter Rose, with the possible exception of Josepha (b. 1847), were born at or near Cornwall, in New York State.

George Washington Rose., Fourth Generation GEORGE WASHINGTON RosE, son of David Carter Rose and Mary Walsh Rose, b. Oct. 20, 1832, d. May 31, 1895 ; m. in New Brunswick, N.J., Aug. 28, 1856, Mary Jane Letts, dau. of William and Mary Van Deventer Letts, b. Sayreville, N.J., May 15, 1835, d. March 1, 1906. George Rose was a cap­ tain of river sailing vessels between Sayreville, Newark and New York Harbor areas carrying merchandise, brick and sand; was born near Cornwall, N.Y., moved to Cheese­ quake, N.J., for two years, then to Sayreville, N.J., finally to South River, N.J. Is listed as a sailor in the 1880 census from Middlesex County, N.J. Mary Jane Letts left a will (IV[iddlesex County wills, V :235), in which she refers to vVilliam, a minor (perhaps her grandson William Griffin ,vho1n she raised); her daughter, Isadora Adameit, who lived in Keyport, N.J. All share alike. Marcus S. Wright, Sr., sole executor. (For portrait of George W. Rose, see illus. 4.) Children (born Sayreville) : 1. Sara Maria, b. Sept. 28, 1857, d. Dec. 21, 1860. 2. Isadora, 1859-1944; m. William Adameit, 1855-1946, Keyport, N.J., merchant sailboat captain. 3. Enochetta, b. July 31, 1862, d. May 3, 1892; m. William Griffin, b. 1857, d. Oct. 30, 1882, factory steam engineer, Sayreville. 4. Caroline Wood, b. Dec. 19, 1865; m. l\farcus S. Wright, 1865-1927. Genealogy continues through Caroline Wood Rose. 5. George W., b. March 6, 1864, d. Jan. 14, 1933; m. Aug. 19, 1895, Elvira Culver, 1869-1950. George also captain of river sailing vessels, So. River and New York Harbor. Resided South River, N.J. 42 Our Family Ties

6. David Carter, b. 1867, d. Aug. 18, 1870. 7. Jennie Virtue, b. May 12, 1873, d. Aug. 28, 1916; m. Nov. 17, 1895, Ormand D. Wailing, b. 1869, d. 1956. Lived Keyport, N.J., where he conducted a butchershop. 8. Dewitt Carter, b. 1876, disappeared about 1916; m. 1901, Hattie Crawford, b. 1881, d. July 19, 1914. He was a brick mason, South River. Most of the birth dates have been figured from the 1880 census. The above are buried in Monumental c·emetery, South River, N.J., except Hattie Crawford who is bur. Van Liew Cem. North Brunswick, N.J. Jennie Virtue Rose Wal­ ling and husband, Ormand, are buried in the Green Grove Cemetery, Keyport, N.J. Caroline R,ose Wright is still living in 1960. At her death it is planned she will be bur. in 1\1:onumental Cemetery, South River, N.J. For a continuation of this line, see the Wright Family.

DESCENDANTS OF GEORGE W. AND MARY JANE LETTS ROSE Children of Isadora Rose and William .Adameit 1. Grace, b. Sept. 12, 1877, d. Oct. 6, 1945; m. Benjamin Huylar, shipyard blacksmith, b. Dec. 18, 1867, d. Nov. 6, 1935. Res. Key­ port, N.J. Children: ( a) Mildred, b. April 30, 1899; m. Fred­ erick Frick, living Red Bank, N.J.; (b) Cora, b. Oct. 25, 1901, d. July 23, 1960, bur. Holy Cross Cem., Brooklyn, where she resided; m. Thomas McGovern; ( c) May, b. Jan. 27, 1903; m. Kenneth Boice; ( d) Leroy, b. Dec. 11, 1906; m. Dorothy Ap­ pleby, living Keyport; (e) Wilbur, b. July 10, 1908; m. Elsie --, living Keyport; ( f) Georgia, b. Sept. 1, 1912; m. Thomas Lester, living Red Bank; (g) Ralph, b. July 20, 1917; m. Mil­ dred Furch, living Old Bridge, N.J. 2. ~Iary, b. Aug. 16, 1879; m. 1897, Harry Truax, bay :fisherman, b. Aug. 28, 1872, d. Oct. 4, 1943; had children: (a) Harry, Jr., b. Feb. 26, 1898; (b) Wildora, b. July 3, 1901; m. Myron Clark, b. ~farch 26, 1900; ( c) Edgar, b. Oct. 4, 1910, d. Sept. 9, 1927. All lived in Keyport, N.J. 3. William, Jr., b. April 2, 1886; m. 1st, --, one child Eldon; m. 2nd, Mamie--. Died St. Petersburg, Fla., Oct. 7, 1960; bur. Monumental Cemetery, South River. 4. Esther, b. Feb. 28, 1890, d. 1927; m. Charles Paulson, a barber, b. 1883, d. 1943, bur. Monumental Cemetery, South River, N.J. Resided at R-ed Bank. They had children: (a) Leah, b. Aug. 22, 1913, d. infancy, bur. same cem.; (b) Virginia, b. Nov. 24, 1914; m. George Netterman, b. Nov. 27, 1916; live Red Bank, N.J. For insertion in Our Family Ties (1960), by M. S. Wright.

Additions to page 43 : Capt. William Griffin lives at Brooklyn, N. Y. Milton Rose operates a television and radio store in South River, where he lives.

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Child of Enochetta Rose and William Griffin 1. William Griffin, retired New York City Municipal Ferry Boat Captain, b. Oct. 6, 1882, Sayreville, N.J.; m. June 26, 1912, A.nn Wall, b. Jan. 28, 1889; one dau. Gertrude, b. March 26, 1914; m. Inge. Swenson, living Spotswood, N.J.

Children of Caroline Rose and Marcus S. Wright: see Wright Family

Children of George lV. Rose and Elvira Culver 1. Estelle, b. Aug. 29, 1886, d. April 14, 1911; m. Jan. 13, 1908, Terrence J. lviurphy, had dau. Marie, b. A.ug. 23, 1909; m. Paul Eory, reside New Brunswick, N.J. Estelle and brother Stanley bur. l\fonumental Cen1etery, South River, N.J. 2. Henry Culver, b. Jan. 23, 1889, South River, N.J. lvloved to Brook­ lyn, N.Y.; m. Nov. 29, 1913, Elizabeth Ferris, b. Jan. 16, 1892. Was supervisor with the Brooklyn Edison Co. until he retired; now lives Barryville, N.Y. Their son George H., b. Sept. 23, 1914, married and resides Tulsa, Okla. 3. Stanley, b. March 22, 1897, d. July 28, 1897.

Children of Jennie Virtue Rose and Ormand D. Walling 1. Ezrom Stoney Walling, b. Nov. 18, 1896. One son John Stoney, b. Nov. 5, 1930, by 2nd marriage; he m. 3rd, May 7, 1937, Georgia Bauer of Keyport, N.J., b. Dec. 9, 1898; he served as Lieut. Comm., U. S. Navy; also General Studies Engineer, Pa­ cific Telephone & Telegraph Co. Now retired, living Friday Harbor, Washington (state). 2. Ormand D., Jr., b. March 25, 1899. Single. 3. Alta May Walling, b. l\.farch 4, 1901; m. Sept. 2, 1923, William Preston, b. Sept. 18, 1899. Res. Keyport, N.J. 4. Florence Rose, b. July 25, 1903; m. Sept. 19, 1926, Milton Davis, b. Nov. 30, 1898. Res. Red Bank, N.J.

Children of DeWitt Carter Rose and Hattie Crawford 1. Milton Rose, b. March 31, 1908; m: Nov. 11, 1933, Grace Alexander, b. Dec. 23, 1914. j?e.s. Soj,R•ve,~, O\NNS r . ..J. stcRe. 2. Dora, b. 1902, d. 1906; bur. Monumental Cemetery, South River, N.J. 3. Evelyn, b. 1906, d. 1925; bur. Van Liew Cemetery, North Bruns­ wick, N.J. 4. Gladys, b. Jan. 12, 1911, d. June 10, 1957; m. l\{ay, 1937, Clifton Young, b. 1912. Gladys and mother, Hattie, bur. same cemetery with Evelyn. 5. Florence, b. Oct. 12, 1912; lives Vineland, N.J. 44 Our Family Ties

THE SNEDEKER LINE Jan Snedeker, b. Amersfoort, Netherlands, d. America ( Flatbush) ; will recorded 1677; m. 1st, Annetje Buys, m. 2nd, Egbertie Jansen, widow of Herman Hendrickse. Gerret Jansen Snedeker ( only son according to his father's will), m. 1st, Willentie V ooks, m. 2nd, Elsie N yssen. One or more generations missing. Garret Snedeker, 1742-1825, m. Margaret Chan1bers, 1746-1791. Isaac G. Snedeker, 1782-1862, m. Ann Sortor, 1782-1830. Garret I. Snedeker, 1807-1883, m. Catherine Hoagland, 1810-1876. Gitty Ann Snedeker, 1837-1904, m. William Wright, 1810-1889. l\farcus Stults Wright, 1865-1927, m. Caroline Wood Rose, b. 1865. l\iarcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. 1903.

Their Children 1. l\iarcus Stults Wright III, b. 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, h. 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. 1930, m. Oct 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. 1933. 3. J an1es Schureman Wright, b. 1932.

Jan Snedeker~ First Generation JAN SNEDEKER, according to the notes gathered by .Annie Snedeker Wright, was one of the '' Original Proprietors'' in what was then the New Netherlands; and which is now New York. He lived just outside the fort of N e,v- Amster­ dam, where the present Customs House now stands, and ,vas with others influenced by Governor Stuyvesant to found what is now Flatbush, then called ''Midwout.'' Jan was granted a patent for land fronting on Flatbush Avenue, and running east a half mile to the present Utica Avenue. The records in the old town of Flatbush have the entry ''Snedi­ cor-Patentee. '' This was in 1662. In 1656 Jan petitioned for compensation for the loss of certain lots, as a result of a new "layout" of the village of Flatbush. The records show that the request was granted. For insertion in OUR FAMILY TIES ( 19 6 0) , by M. S. Wright.

ADDITIONS TO PAGE 44 May 26, 1964 Since the publication of "Our Family Ties" in 1960, I have had the good fortune of contacting Harold R. Snedeker of Savannah, Georgia, a Snedeker family genealogist for over thirty years, whose research on all descendants of Jan Snedeker, first g·eneration, has clarified the correct descent from Jan for "Gentleman" Garret Snedeker, fourth generation, which actually places the latter as in the fifth generation, as follows: ISAAC SNEDEKER, THIRD GENERATION Isaac Snedeker, baptised Jan. 16, 1681, in the Re­ formed Dutch Church, Flatbush, N. Y., son of Gerret Snedeker and Elsie Teunis Nyssen, the sponsors (wit­ nesses) being Denys Teunis and Styntje Hendricks, was a farmer at Flatbush. From 1719 through 1720 he ,vas one of the constables of Flatbush, as per history of Flatbush, by Strong. In his will, dated 12-19-1750, proven 10-31-1758, he named his eight living children and a grandson, Isaac, son of his deceased son, Gerret, leaving the grandson one pound for his first birthright. The eight living children were Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, Antye, wife of Benjamin Emans; Elsie, wife of Roel of Van Brunt; Sarah, wife of Aert Van Pelt; Femmittie, wife of Johannes Eldert and Catryntie, wife of Dowe Ditmars. Bergen in his "Early Settlers of King's Coun­ ty" stated Isaac married Catryntie Janse, which fol­ lowed the Dutch custom of identifying a female by adding the given name of the father with a suffixed "se," meaning "daughter of," without using the sur­ name of the father. From baptismal record at Re­ formed Dutch Church at Jamaica, for child Catryntie baptised 12-6-1719, at which the sponsors were Jan Kockef er and Tryntie, his wife, it is assumed that Isaac's wife was Catryntie Kockefer. This child died, and a second child, Catrina, was baptised at New Utrecht on 4-2-1721, she being the daughter that later married Dowe Ditmars. GERRET SNEDEKER, FOURTH GENERATION (Revising "Gerrit Snedeker, Third Generation") Gerret Snedeker, probably born about 1705, died in his early forties, presumably not too long after selling his land to Peter Monfoort on 2-9-1747, at Wolver Hollow (Oyster Bay), as per Stoutenburgh, p.499, of "Documentary History of Oyster Bay." Reconstruct­ ing from baptismal records of New Utrecht, Jamaica, and Oyster Bay, plus the will of Isaac Snedeker, third generation, with other facts, we find that Garret mar­ ried about 1728, Maria Van Arsdale. The first child was Isaac, born 6-15-1729, who received the one pound as his first birthright from his grandfather's will. Elsje, baptised 6-27-1731, at Ne,v Utrecht; Lammetie, bap­ tised 3-30-1735, at Jamaica, sponsors being Jan and Lammetie Van Arsdale; Jan, baptised 10-27-1737, at Jamaica, sponsors being Jan and J annetie Van Ars­ dale; Catherine, baptised 12-25-1739, at New Utrecht; and Garret, baptised 2-21-1742 at Oyster Bay. Since five of these six children spent their adult life in Mid­ dlesex and Somerset counties, N. J., it can be safely assumed that either after the death of the father, or of their grandfather in 1758, the children migrated from Long Island to New Jersey. The above revisions do not change the text, but do change the generations quoted, as fallows: "Gentleman" Garret Snedeker, Fifth Generation p. 51 Isaac G. Snedeker, Sixth Generation p. 52 Garret I. Snedeker, Seventh Generation p. 53 I wish to thank Mr. Harold R. Snedeker, special ac­ countant, Savannah Electric & Pov\rer Co., Savannah, Ga., for generously providing me with detailed Sned­ eker family charts which have cost him many years of painstaking work. These supply the two above miss­ ing third and fourth Snedeker generations which our researchers were unable to obtain at the time this book was published. Ancestral Lines 45

In Sept. 1660 an application was made by Rev. Joannes Theodorus Polhemus, minister, and Jan Snedeker, elder, of the First Reformed Church of Midwout for one or two stained-glass windows, for the Church that was then being built and nearing completion. This was one of the first Dutch Reformed Churches in the New World, and one of the oldest religious corporations in this country, dating to 1654. The church was located at Flatbush and Church Ave­ nues, in what is now Flatbush (Brooklyn, N.Y.). The records show that Jan Snedeker, who was born in Amersfoort, Holland, fourteen miles south of Amsterdam, was a cadet when he came to the New Netherlands. He must have been an industrious and public-spirited young man, for he rose in the esteem of those in authority in the New World, and was sent as a delegate from Midwout to a con­ vention at New Orange (now Albany) in 1674. He was one of the prominent inhabitants of Flatbush, a magistrate, and one of the "Twelve lvien." (See First Families of America, page 764, also History of Flatbush, Long Island, by Strong.) We find a relative of Jan Snedeker, one Garrit Snediger, who ,vas granted 27 morgens, 240 rods of land on the west side of the road, or street, north of the church in Flatbush; and about seven and a half morgens in the valley. Since only the two names are mentioned in the early records of Flatbush, it would seem certain that they belonged to the same family, no doubt father and son. There is a will of Gerritt Snedeker and Elsie his wife dated April 20, 1692, of Flatbush Town. Jan Snedeker married first Annetje Buys or Ruys. Chil­ dren: Anna, J annetje, Gerrit, Styntje, and Fryntje who was bp. in New Amsterdam Feb. 23, 1642. Jan's second wife was Egbertje Jans who was the widow of Herman Hen­ drickse. Here are some dates which further confirm Jan Snedeker as living in Flatbush from the following early Dutch records of Provincial Secretary: Nov. 15, 1640, page 80; Dec. 20, 1642, page 41; Oct. 20, 1646, page 151; Aug. 19, 1649, page 57. From Doc. History of Oyster Bay, page 794, by Stout­ enburgh: Jan Snediger 1642, in America as early as this year. Shoemaker. Settled first in New Amsterdam, later 46 Our Family Ties kept tap house or tavern. Among first settlers at Flatbush, his grandson Garret 1st clerk at W olver Hollow, L.I. Following notes gathered at historical library, Jamaica, L.I.: A Garret Snedeker born Sept. 30, 1699, married Nov. 25, 1726, C. Lequear. The Snedeker general store in village of Hempstead, L.I., had these articles on its account book: made beaver hats, repaired shoes, tailored clothing, they sold Bibles, oyl cloth, sperrits, scythes, unbrellers, musling, veal hind quarters, crooked combs, bandana handkerchers, pine boards, clams, cups, and sarsers, rum, potash, sarge, three mushrats, jacket pattrons, a load of hay, a coffin, eggs sold singly, also sheets of paper, salt by the peck, soap by the pound, tobacco by the paper, chintz by the nail, thread by the skein. They were located at 359 Front St. at foot of Main St. They sold more than twenty-five kinds of clothing materials, calemanico, striped mankeen, shaloon, lastick cloth, paneller, and toe cloth, (made of waste flax,) used for slaves, velvet and silk. They sold more button molds than buttons, more vamps and leather than shoes, very few stockings, indicating clothes were made at home. The following list contains some early Snedeker posses­ sions and goods from an inventory: The homes had candle­ sticks for the tallow or bayberry candles, tinderbox of horn for kitchen, and ornamental ones of brass or iron for other mantel shelves, chaff beds, at least one feather bed, and bolster, warming pan, pallow drawers, pewter sucking bot­ tles, wooling wheels, lanthorns, silver dram cups, red rug, red serge coat, mohere coat, leathern clothing, 3 hanker­ chars, 3 pint tankard ( weighed 35 oz.), cost over 21 pounds, porringer, gold coat buttons, shoe buckles, more silver than glass used for liquids wine, cider etc, kept in casks, pewter dishes, earthenware (unpopular because they dulled knives), woodenware of real service, bowl and trencher for each member, kettles and skillets of brass or iron, had long legs to touch bottom beneath ashes of fire place (spiders). Will of Jan Snedeker follows: ·

In the name of God, Amen. On this 12th of December in the year sixteen hundred and seventy-seven, English style, appeared before me Michil Rainelle, licensed clerk of the five Dutch towns under the West Riding of J orckshire upon Long Island by the Right Hon. Lord E. Andros, Esq., Lord of Sansmeres, Governor General under His Royal Highness James, Ancestral Lines 47

Duke of J orck and Albany, &c. in all his territories in America, in their own persons the worthy Jan Snedeger and Egberttie Jansen, wedded people living in Midwoutt, with the undersigned witnesses both of whom, sound in body and in full possession of their minds and senses and using the same, as is clearly evident to me and the witnesses, considering the fragility of human life and the certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour thereof, and desiring with sound mind to make disposition of the property and goods they, the parties appearing may leave behind and release at death, without persuasion or deception by any one, have made their testament and disposition by last will in form and manner as follows : Firstly. They, the testators, annul and revoke all testaments, last wills or dispositions made prior to this date, desiring that this their last testa­ ment shall be observed in every point and be valid and binding and irre­ fragable. First of all, if one of them may happen to die, they commend their immortal souls into the hands of God Almighty, their Creator; and their bodies to the earth and honorable burial. And further disposing of their property they, the testators, have made, allowed and promised, each other to the survivor, mutually and reciprocally, namely the first to die to the survivor of the two, just as they do make, allow and promise hereby in manner the most binding that is possible for them, the dower, usufruct, profit and use of all the property movable and immovable, lands, ground, rents, houses, house-lots, horses, cattle, gold, silver, ,jewels and everything else in the world, nothing excepted, except only the clothing belonging to either's person, which he, Jan Snedeger, desires that his son Gerrit Snede­ ger shall receive immediately after his death : and Egbertie Jansen her children together, without any other heir being able to bring any claim thereon. Furthermore they, the testators, bequeath, each to the other, control in all property, both lands and property situate here in Midwout and in any other parts of the world without any exception whatsoever, for the lifetime of the one living longest, beginning with the death of the :first to die and ending with the death of the survivor, upon condition and provision that the one who lives longest of the two shall have full power over all the property left behind by the first to die, to govern the same, to administer, to lease, receive the rents, excluding herein friends, heirs or orphanage and finally surrendering the same to one another without dispute or opposition, notwithstanding any common laws, decrees or ordi­ nances and other privileges dictating to the contrary hereof, hereby abro­ gating the same. Further it is Jan Snedeger's will and desire that after his death and the death of Egbertie Jansen, his wife, his only son Gerrit Snedeger, a resident here in Midewoutt, out of the rightful half of the property that the last to die shall leave behind shall have first of all a certain house lot situate here near Snedeger's land, that belongs to him Gerrit Snedeger and then the sum of four hundred guldens, sewan value, and also five hundred guldens, sewan value, which he, Jan Snedeger, hereby gives to him for preference and advantage, as he is his only son, wishing and desiring that these four and five hundred guldens, making together nine hundred guldens, sewan value, shall be drawn by him Gerrit Snedeger first from the things or property, that is to say, from the half of the entire estate that the one who lives the longest shall leave behind at death, without any of his sisters being able to wage any claim thereupon. And 48 Our Family Ties

as to what more is left it is his will and desire that he, Gerrit Snedeger, and his sisters shall share and share alike without one laying claim to anything more than another, asking and desiring that they shall agree in love and friendship with one another after his death. They the testators, declare that what is written above is their testament and disposition or final will thus arranged voluntarily and uninfluenced by any one, very particularly desiring that the same at the death of either shall stand in effect, whether as testament or codicil or otherwise, as every last will can best prevail, notwithstanding all the forms of law required have not been observed herein. Thus done in good faith without deceit or trick, in Micle­ wout, day and date as before. The signature of Jan Snedeker follows. His wife Egbertie Jansen signed by mark only. The witnesses were William Geliamse and Rut Aelbertsen. (Flatbush Town Records, pp. 169, 71, 73K, miscellaneous; recorded Oct. 12, 1677, Comm. of Records, Kings County, N.Y., translation same dept. from original Dutch.)

Gerret Jansen Snedeker, Second Generation JAN SNEDEKER and his wife Egbertie Jansen had five chil­ dren. Annie Snedeker Wright thinks that we are descended from his son named Gerret Jansen Snedeker. It could be that among the complete list of overseers of Flatbush men­ tioned by Strong, the name Garrit Sneger, 1676, could have been this son of Jan Snedeker. We hope that more will be found about this Gerret Jans en Snedeker and his son, who make up the three generations of Snedekers who lived in and around Flatbush, L.I., before the fourth gen­ eration, Garret Snedeker (Gentleman Garret) moved to Cranbury, New Jersey, in 1776. Gerret Jansen Snedeker m. 1st, Willemtie Vooks and, 2nd, Elsie Nysson Dec. 1669. Children: Jan, Margaret, Christiaen, Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Garret, Rebecca, and Tuenis. Two wills of Gerret and Elsie Snedeker are on record : In the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. In the year one thousand, six hundred and eighty eight, October tenth, appeared before us undersigned witnesses the person Gerrit Snedeker with his wife Elsie Snedeker, who considering the frailty of human life and the certainty of death but the uncertainty of the time thereof, wishing on this account, while they are still in possession of mind and memory, to make disposition of their temporal goods which the Lord hath given them, in order to ar­ range the same in order by way of testament or last will, as follows : Ancestral Lines 49

1. They commend their souls at their separation from their bodies into the hands of their Creator and Saviour, Jesus Christ, and their bodies to an honorable burial. 2. They will and desire, both testator and testatrix, that after the decease of the first to die the survivor shall remain in the full possession of all real and personal property, nothing excepted, save only that the eldest son of the testator, Jan Snedeker shall have a good 1nilch-cow. 3. In case the survivor may come to remarry, he shall make

Dutch will of Gerret Snedeker and his ,vife, dated 1688 50 Our Family Ties

for the guardians ( who shall be appointed thereunto) an inventory of all real and personal property, nothing excepted, that the orphans be not curtailed in their rights. 4. In case (by remarriage of the survivor) more children be procured, they shall share equally with the other children, so far as the survivors portion is concerned. 5. The survivor shall bring up the children left behind to their twentieth year. This above standing they, both testator and testatrix, declare to be their complete last will and desire that the same shall be firm and irrefragable before all laws and judges. Thus done and decided at Oost Midwoud on Long Island, date as above. The document is signed by Gerret Snedeker. His wife Elsie '' Snedekers '' signed by mark. Witnesses were Rem Remsen and Johannes Van Ekelen. (Flatbush Town Rec­ ords, Liber A, pp. 118, 119, 1670-1708; dated Oct. 10, 1688, Comm. of Records, Kings County, N.Y.; translation from original Dutch.) The second will is also recorded in Flatbush Town Rec­ ords, Vol. 3, pp. 60-61, Kings County Comm. of Records (translation from original Dutch): Will of Gerrit Snediker. The 20th Day of April 1692 appeared be:ffore me and two witnesses Gerrit Snediker known by us which Gerrit Snediker considering the certainte of the death and the uncertainte of the time and willing to take kere for the disposing of his timely or worthly estate recom­ n1ending his unster:fly sole in the marsifull hands of God who did give him the same and his body to the earth. In Primus Shall my wife Elsie Snediker stend in the full possession of all except she come to remarrie att that time the above mentioned Elsie Snediker shall be bound and obliged to rembours the right halve of all, as also it is the last will of the Testator that presently after her deceasing there shall be given one cowe to his eldest sunn Jan Snediker and that all his cloaths and appearal what belongs to his boddy shall be divided betwixt his to eldest sunns Jan and Christian Snedeker broederly eatch the right halve. Further it is the will of the testator that his former children Elsie Snedeker not shall demand anything off hure after they shall have receaved that what was given to them of thire mothers estate. The Testators will js also that if Elsie come to remarry or to dye that all the children shall part and divide his estate except his eldest son who shall take fifty gilders out of the whole estate and further all his children shall divide thire fathers estate egalites that is my uttermost will and testament which I will that after my deceasing in all parts shall be performed as is above and con­ c>erning thestors hereditaele estate of his father and mother, is his will that all his children shall share and part to greater egalites except that there shall be given One Hundred Gilders to the poure of Midwout and concern­ ing the youngest children hure part Elsie Snedeker is to geather in and use for the benefit and property of them untill they shall come to their lawful age as also that is the above mentioned money shall be receaved Ancestral Lines 51 that Elsie Snedeker shall be obliged to pay the hundred gilders which is given to the poure that they are given and be receaved by the deakons, and for the choy that this is his last will and testament he hath seigned with his owne hand in the presents off the above said witnesses. The document is signed by Gerrit Snedeker and Elsa Snedeker, witnessed by Rem R,emsen and J ohannus vVil­ lims. '' Recorded this 9th day of May 1693.'' As the reader will note, the recorded (translated) version of this Will contains some peculiar wording and probable errors.

Gerrit Snedeker, Third Generation ( ?) GERRIT SNEDEKER married Marya Van Arsdalen. Children were Elsie, bap. June 27, 1731; Lammetje, b. Mar. 30, 1735; Jan, b. Oct. 27, 1732; c·atherine, b. Dec. 25, 1739; Gerrit, bap. Feb. 21, 1742 Wolver Hollow, Long Island, N.Y.

"Gentleman" Garret Snedeker, Fourth Generation GARRET SNEDEKER was born on Long Island Jan. 25, 1742, d. Aug. 1, 1825, and was bur. in the First Presbyterian churchyard, Cranbury, N.J. About 1766 he settled in South Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, where he acquired a large tract of land. A successful landowner, he became a man of large means and influence, and was kno,vn as '' Gentleman Garret.'' He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church at Cranbury, N.J., and in his will dated 1791 left 150 pounds to the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N.J., and divided the rest of his property among his children. On Jan. 10, 1775, he mar. his first wife, Margaret Cham­ bers, b. Feb. 23, 1746, dau. of Alexander Chambers and Rose Craig, and sister of Col. David Chambers who served in the Revolutionary vVar. Garret's children by Margaret Chambers were: Alexander, born November 1, 1775, mar­ ried Lydia Perrine, and had two sons and seven daughters; Abraham, who was born April 16, 1778, married Mary Gulick, and had two sons and two daughters; Rose, born July 13, 1780, and who died May 15, 1830, married John Davison, and had eight sons and three daughters; Isaac G., who was born October 2, 1782, died February 22, 1862, and married Ann Salter ( or Sortor); and Maria. Isaac G. is 52 Our Family Ties the son through whom this genealogy continues. Margaret Chambers Snedeker d. May 9, 1791, and was buried in the First Presbyterian churchyard at Cranbury, N.J. (See illus. 5.) After that, Garret married Ursula Gordon, b. 1752, d. Sept. 15, 1792; their infant son, Craig, b. Sept. 9, 1792, lived one day and both were buried in the same churchyard. Garret married a third wife, Gitty A:r;in Veghte (widow), who d. Dec. 16, 1811, in her 65th year; buried same cemetery. A Garret Snedeker is recorded as having served in the Middlesex County militia during the Revolution. (W. S. Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary W... ar, 1872, p. 761.) It is be­ lieved that he is our Garret.

Isaac G. Snedeker., Fifth Generation IsAAO G. SNEDEKER was the fourth son of Garret and Tuf argaret Chambers. He was b. Oct. 2, 1782, in South Bruns­ wick Township, Middlesex County, N.J., d. Feb. 22, 1862, and was bur. in the churchyard of the Second Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, N.J. On D'ec. 1, 1804 he married Ann Sortor, dau. of Thomas Sortor or Sortore and Jane Sut­ phen, who was b. in Somerset County, N.J., Oct. 13, 1782, and d. Nov. 18, 1830, bur. in 1st Presbyterian churchyard, Cranbury, N.J. Isaac G. Snedeker succeeded to a part of the Snedeker Homestead, which was the '' Bennett Tract.'' He was a successful farmer and accumulated considerable wealth. He retired in Cranbury, N.J. He was a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Cranbury for twenty­ four years. The children were: Gertrude I., b. Sept. 9, 1805, d. Aug. 10, 1878. She m. Dominicus Mershon on Jan. 5, 1825. The second child was Garret I., who continues this genealogy. He was b. May 20, 1807, and d. Dec. 10, 1883. The third child was Thomas Sortor, b. June 9, 1809, d. Aug. 3, 1868. On Oct. 9, 1829, he m. Sarah Stryker Bergen. Both of them are bur. in Fernwood Cemetery, Jamesburg, N.J. The fourth child was Margaret Chambers, b. Dec. 9, 1812, d. March 2, 1900. She m. James Buckalew on Dec. 12, 1829. (Jamesburg was named for James Buckelew.) Both bur. Fernwood cemetery. ~""i. ~n~~cl<>kPr fan1il:· l1P,Hlsto11Ps, 11rai11erd Ccn1ctcry, 1 ( ra11hur:·, X ..J.

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Isaac G. Snedeker m. 2nd wife Margaret Everett (widow) April 5, 1838, and she is bur. beside him. His will follows: This is to certify that I make this as my last Will and Testament­ it is my will that my wife Margaret shall have all her own money and house goods forever; and that she shall have the house, Barn and yard and garden with as many of my house goods as she wishes and one hundred and fifty dollars yearly during her Natural life-and 10 or 12 fowls and 5 busels of corn and to pay her funeral charges after her decese then to divide what has been kept for that use it is my will that my executors hereafter named shall sell all my property real and personal as they shall think proper and Divide Equally between my four children after deducting from Sortors share Two hundred Dollars and interest on the same from October 1st Eighteen hundred and fifty four, it is my will that if a Pres­ beterian Church be Built at Washington S. R. [South River, N.J.], within two years after my decease I give one hundred dollars, and I give to our own Church Pew No. 7, and fifty dollars if I have not given after this Date-and I give to each of my namesakes ten Dollars a piece-It is my will that James Mount shall not be pushed for the principal he owes me for ten years-and lastly I appoint my son Garret I. Snedeker and my son in law Dominicus lVIershon my Executors to sell as above, and I give my Right in the Turnpike for a free Road-and after the above that all n1y property be equally divided between my four children, Getrude Mershon, Garret I. Snedeker, Thomas S. Snedeker and I\Iargaret C. Buckelew, in witness wereof I have set my hand and seal this tenth day of September, Eighteen hundred and Sixty one. Signed: Isaac G. Snedeker. Witnesses: Arthur Van Pelt, Henry J. Stults. Probated I\Iarch 4, 1862.

Garret I. Snedeker_, Sixth Generation

GARRET I. SNEDEKER was b. May 20, 1807, and d. Dec. 10, 1883. On Feb. 22, 1831, he m. Catherine Hoagland, who was b. in 1810, and d. in 1876. They had four children: Catherine Ann who d. in infancy, 1Iary Davison, who m. Julius C. l\1artin, Gitty Ann, who m. William Wright; and Isaac G., ,v ho m. Jennie Price. In his mature years Garret I. Snedeker lived in Washing­ ton Village, which is now South River, N.J. He entered business in general merchandise, and so continued for many years. He identified himself with the business of the place, in building vessels, sailing different vessels as captain, in fact engaging in all the enterprises of that time and place. He became prominent in his county and community. Among his last enterprises with others was the building of a large brick factory. The company did not succeed, so he changed CHART ll SNEDEKER FAMILY GARRET SNEDEKER* Known ns "Gentleman Garret." Born 1-25-1742, Long Island, cam<' to South Brunswick Twp., N. J,, abt. 1766, d. 8-1-1825, Cranbury, N. J.; m. 1st, 1-10-1775, Margaret Chambers,• b. 2-23-1746, d. 5-9-1791; m. 2nd, Ursula Gordon,• b. 1752, d, 9-15-17ll:!; m. 3rd, Mrs. Gitty Veghte (nee Sutphen),• b. 1-7-1747, cl. 12-16-1811. I I I I I I ALEXANDER• ABRAHAM G,• ROSE* ISAAC G,t MARIA* CRAIG* h. 11-1-1775 b. 4-16-1778 b. 7-13-1780 h. 10-2-1782 b. 1-6-1780 b. 9-9-1792

THE SORTOR LINE John Sortor, 1735-1769, m. Epenetus Gordon, 1732-1821. Thomas Sortor, 1758-1833, m. Jane Sutphen, 1763-1833. Anne Sortor, 1782-1830, m. Isaac G. Snedeker, 1782-1862. Garret I. Snedeker, 1807-1883, m. Catherine Hoagland, 1810-1876. Gitty Ann Snedeker, 1837-1904, m. William Wright, 1810-1889. Marcus Stults Wright, 1865-1927, m. Caroline Wood Rose, b. 1865. Marcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. 1903.

Their Children 1. 1tiarcus Stults Wright III, b. 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. 1933. 3. James Schureman Wright, b. 1932.

John Sortor~ First Generation JoHN SoRTOR (Salter), son of Jacob and Catherine Sortor, b. about 1735 in Rocky Hill, Somerset County, New Jersey, m. Dec. 24, 1753, Epenetus Gordon, dau. of Thomas Gordon, Jr., and Margaret Oliphant. John Sortor was killed while loading logs, Sept. 11, 1769, leaving a ,vidow ,vith several small children, the youngest aged under a year. Epenetus ,vas b. about 1732, and d. Sept. 9, 1821, in Somerset County, N.J. A photostatic copy of the '' Consent of Marriage'' of Epenetus Gordon and John Sortor from the Archives, Sec­ retary of State's Office, Trenton, is in the possession of l\1arcus S. Wright, Jr.: "December 23, 1753. We the under subscribers do permit Lycence of l\1arryage to pass unto John Salltar. [Signed:] Thos. and Margrest Gordon." The marriage bond reads as follows: Know all men by these Presents, That ,ve John Sortor of Somerset County, yeoman, and James Vanhorne of Perth Amboy, agent are holden and do stand justly indebted unto His "Excel" Jonathan Belcher Esq. Governor of New Jersey in the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of current lawful l\Ioney of New Jersey, to be paid to his Successors or Assigns; for 58 Our Family Ties which payment well and truly to be made and done, we do bind ourselves, our heirs, Executors, and Administrators and every of them jointly and severally firmly by these Presents. Sealed with our Seals, Dated this twenty-fourth Day of December Anno Domini One Thousand Seven hun­ dred and Fifty three. The Condition of this Obligation is such, That whereas the above­ bounden John Sortor hath obtained Licence of l\1arriage for himself of the one Party and for Epenetus Gordon of Perth Amboy, Spinster of the other Party: Now, if it shall not hereafter appear, that they the said John Sortor and Epenetus Gordon have any lawful Let or Impediment, of Pre­ contract, Affinity or Consanguinity, to hinder their being joined in the Holy Bands of l\fatrimony, and afterwards their living together as Man and Wife; then this Obligation to be void, or else to stand and ren1ain in full Force and Virtue. [Signed:] John Sortor. Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of Tho. Bartow, James Vanhorne. After the accidental death of John Sortor, his wife Epe­ netus m. Hezekiah Stout of Hopewell Township, then in Hunterdon County, N.J. The records show that Hezekiah was a kind and good father to the children, for in his will he left each of them a portion, as well as a portion to his stepson, whom he had adopted during the life of his first wife. The children of Epenetus Gordon and John Sortor were: Margaret, Jacob, Thomas, George, Anne, John, Catherine, Epenetus. A will of Ann Sortore mentions Nancy Richards, daughter of deceased sister 11:argaret Hebourn (Hepburn) and Charity Stites, daughter of de­ ceased brother Thomas, and Elizabeth Ann Vaitter, daugh­ ter of deceased sister Catherine Baker, wife of \Villiam Baker; two sons of Margaret, deceased daughter of Epenetus. Ann Sortore left her farm of 130 acres in Hope­ well Township. It adjoined the Philip Service farm. Epenetus is buried beside her second husband, Hezekiah Stout, in the cemetery of the Hopewell, N.J., Old School Baptist Church, organized in 1715. According to their tomb­ stone inscriptions, she d. Sept. 9, 1821, aged 89 years; he d. April 5, 1811, 92 years of age.

Thomas Sortor, Second Generation THOMAS SoRTOR was the son of Epenetus Gordon and John Sortor. He was b. Dec. 7, 1758, and d. March 26, 1833, in Springfield Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, near Cincin- Ancestral Lines 59 nati. He lived in his youth on Opossum Road, Somerset County, N.J., near R,ocky Hill in Montgomery Township. He m. ,Jane Sutphen, daughter of Arthur and Jane (Jan­ netje) Van Mater Sutphen, bp. in the Dutch Reformed Church at Harlingen, N .J., March 6, 17 63, d. July 4, 1833. Thomas and Jane were married between 1778 and 1780, and moved in 1810 to Hamilton County, Ohio. Two daughters, Ann (the eldest of the nine children) and Charity (the next­ to-the-eldest), remained in New Jersey. The children of Thomas and Jane Sutphen Sortor were: Ann (b. Oct. 13, 1782, d. Nov. 18, 1830, m. Isaac G. Snedeker), Charity, Epenetus, Jane, Catherine, Arthur S., Hezekiah, John, and Elizabeth. It could be that the reason Ann and Charity stayed in New Jersey was that they were married at the time. Ann ,vas b. Oct. 13, 1782. The family moved in 1810; so that Ann was t,venty-eight years old when the family moved to Ohio; and Charity was almost that age. Records show that Ann Sortor was mar. to Isaac G. Snedeker on Dec. 1, 1804, so she had been married six years before her father's family moved to Ohio. It is through Ann Sortor that Marcus S. ,vright, Jr., descends. We find records of wills filed in the Probate Court of Cincinnati, Ohio, of Thomas Sortor, filed April 18, 1833, and of his son Hezekiah Sortor, filed July 26, 1839, and of another son, John Sortor, filed June 26, 1855; and still an­ other son, Arthur S. Sortor, filed Aug. 30, 1869. These wills indicate that the Thomas Sortor family, all but Charity and Ann, lived and thrived in the state of Ohio. A most interest­ ing discovery was made in 1957 when a map was found in the Olden genealogy trunk which had been brought from the Olden homestead in Princeton, N.J., thirty years earlier. It was a 12-by-16-inch survey map of the Van Horne brothers' property, covering 5126 acres adjoining the boundary line between West Jersey and Township of Hope­ well. On the back of this map Thomas ''Sortore'' signed his name under date of 1810 and penned I.H.S. {This is a signature for JESUS and indicates the religious nature of Thomas.) One wonders what the social or business relations were between the Olden and Sortor families, as they were not relatives. The Thomas Sortor signature on the map is identical with that found on his will which was filed April 60 Our Family Ties 18, 1833, in Hamilton County, Ohio. This trunk and map are presently in possession of Alice Olden Wright. Thomas Sortor was a sergeant and his brother Jacob was a private in the same company of the First Battalion of Somerset County, N.J., under Captain Simon Duryea. (See Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, by Stryker.) For a continuation of this line, see the :Snedeker Family.

THE SURNAME: SALTER OR SORTOR

.A matter of spelling

The surname of this family is found in various spellings in the old records, one of them being "Salter." This fact has led to some confusion, as there is a well-known Salter family of New Jersey. Marcus S. Wright, Jr., made careful and extensive research to determine that Ann Sortor who married Isaac G. Snedeker was the daughter of Thomas Sortor and Jane Sutphen. However, history of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Perth ~..\.mboy, N.J., by Rev. W. Northey Jones, records that Ann "Salter" m. Isaac G. Snedeker of Cranbury, N.J., while in the Isaac G. Snedeker family Bible dated 1809 the first marriage record states "Isaac G. Snedeker and Ann Sortor was married December the first, Eighteen Hundred and Four." This Bible is now in the possession of Marcus S. Wright, Jr., and this entry when seen by him in 1958 was the first clue that Ann Sortor was the genuine name of the above Isaac's wife and not Salter. Research in the name of Sortor produced the wills of Jacob Sortor of Somerset County, N.J., dated 1819, who is an uncle of Ann Sortor, and his brother Thomas Sortor in Ohio, the father of Ann. At that time the family name was spelled Sortor and Sortore. Variation in spelling of names is found quite often in the early records. This was sometimes due to poor spelling or poor writing of some of our early fathers. The spelling in wills and deeds could be easily mistaken. And then there were some efforts made to change the Dutch to some form of English. Brooklyn for instance was a Holland Dutch name Breuckelen in 1655. And the name Conover was Covenhoven or Van Kouvenhoven in the Dutch. In talking with Mr. Donald Sinclair at the Rutgers Uni­ versity Library, and with the custodian of records, State Department, Trenton, N.J., I was informed that it was not unusual in earlier days to change the spelling of names, even in the same document. In Thon1as Sortor's will, Cincinnati, Ohio (1833), he mentions certain monies he n1ight get from New Jersey and he further states, "I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter Ann Snedacre deceased late wife of Isaac Snedacre one share." The will of Isaac G. Snedeker divides his estate equally between his four children, after deducting two hundred dollars and interest from Sortor's share. In the Consent of J\ifarriage dated Dec. 23, 1753, to Epenetus Gordon, the name of John "Salltar" is used .Ancestral Lines 61

just once in the second line, but the name John Sortor is used three times, and finally for the fourth and last time John Sortor signs the agreement.

THOM.AS SORTOR'S WILL "In the name of God, Amen. I, Thomas Sortor of the township of Spring­ field in the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio, being of sound and perfect mind and memory, blessed be Almighty God for the same, do make and publish this n1y last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say. First I give and bequeath unto my beloved wife Jane Sortor, the sole use of the farm on which I now live containing one hundred and sixty two acres with all the improvements thereon together with all my moveable property and all money on hand or due or coming to me in this country or in the State of New Jersey with the privilege of selling any part of my stock on said farm for her own use and benefit during her natural life. Secondly to n1y three sons. VIZ Hezekiah Sortor, John Sortor, and Arthur S. Sortor, I have already given each one of them a farm on which they now live, which I consider their full share of my estate both real and personal. Thirdly. .At the death of my beloved wife, Jane, then the aforesaid farm and moveable property shall be sold by my executor hereafter nan1ed excepting such articles as will be hereafter named and otherwise disposed of. And the money thense arising together with all money then on hand or which may be due or coming to my estate after deducting two hundred dollars hereafter disposed of shall be divided into six equal shares and be disposed of as follows. I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter Ann Snedacre deceased late wife of Isaac Sned­ acre one share. I give and bequeath unto Charity Stites my daughter and wife of Peter Stites one share. I give and bequeath unto my daughter Epinetus Breaden wife of Jeremiah Breaden one share. I give and be­ queath unto my daughter Jane Long one share. I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter Catherine Write Deceased one share. I give and bequeath unto the heirs of my daughter Elizabeth Murdock deceased one share. And also. I give and bequeath unto Jane Murdock, one of the heirs of my daughter Elizabeth, one Bureau, one bed and bedding, and one one hundred dollars before alluded to. I also give and bequeath unto Thomas Murdock one of the heirs of my daughter Elizabeth all my wearing apparel and one hundred dollars in cash, also one bed and bedding being the bed formerly owned by his mother. And lastly I do hereby nominate and ap­ point my son, Arthur S. Sortor. sole executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking and annulling all former wills by me made. In witness whereof I, Thomas Sortor have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of l\Iarch in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.

" [Signed:] Thomas Sortor.

"Signed, sealed and published and declared by the above named Thomas Sortor to be his last will and testament in the presence of us who have hereunto set our hands as notaries in the presence of the testator. Thomas Smith, John Gaston, John S. Peterson." 62 Our Family Ties

The following information is derived from a letter of May 17, 1960, written to me by Bertha and Ruby Sortor of West Chester, Ohio, great-great-granddaugb~ers of Thomas Sor­ tor through his son Hezekiah: When Thomas and Jane Sortor came from New Jersey to Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1810, they purchased about 500 acres in the area of Glen­ dale, Ohio, in the northern part of Hamilton County. The farm of 230 or so acres they resided on until they died in 1833. A tract of deep woods for which they paid $6.25 an acre they divided between (their sons) Hezekiah, John and Arthur, each a farm of 86 acres which they cleared. Two of these farms, Hezekiah's and Arthur's, were in the family 100 years or so. John's was in their family about 60 years. The farm where Thomas and Jane lived was willed to the girls. when Jane died. Thomas Sortor d. March 26, 1833, and his wife Jane d. July 4, 1833, while sitting beside the fireplace after dinner, taking a pinch of snuff. When Thomas and Jane sold their property in New J er­ sey it had been in the family 80 years, which coincides with their ( the Sorto rs') naturalization. In the Rockefeller fam­ ily history was the naturalization item, giving Peter Rocke­ feller, Jacob Sortor (note the spelling), Hendrick and Johannes Peter (John) Sortor-July 8, 1730, in a class of 71 men. Thomas, Jane, and Hezekiah were all bur. in the Spring­ field Baptist Cemetery. Hezekiah d. in 1839 of an injury to his leg in cutting dovrn a tree when the axe slipped. It healed too soon and went to his lungs, so they said. This cemetery was located on Wayne Avenue, Lockland, Ohio (it is out of existence now). Thomas and Jane trans£erred their church membership here from the Hopewell, N.J., Baptist Church, where Thomas' mother Epenetus Gordon Sortor .Stout is bur. be­ side her second husband, Hezekiah Stout. Epenetus was christened at St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Perth Amboy, N.J. Ancestral Lines 63

THE VAN DEVENTER LINE Jan Pietersz Van Deventer, b. in Netherlands, bp. April 24, 1627, d. 1692 in New Netherlands, n1. Maria Hoogeboom. Pieter Jansen Van Devent~r, b. in Netherlands, bp. 1653, m. March 22, 1686, Maria Van Doorn. Christian or Christopher Van Deventer, hp. March 29, 1687, Flatbush, L.I., m. Patience -- Isaac Van Deventer m. Anne Willett. Mary Van Deventer, b. about 1760, m. Francis Letts, b. about 1758. Isaac Letts, b. 1780, d. Feb. 7, 1860, m. Anna Hoffman, b. 1786, d. 1864. V\Tilliam Letts, b. Aug. 9, 1804, d. Nov. 2, 1878, m. Mary Ann Van Deventer, b. Nov. 7, 1808, d. Nov. 11, 1875. J\Iary Jane Letts, b. May 14, 1835, d. March 1, 1906, m. George Washington Rose, b. Oct. 28, 1832, d. May 31, 1895. Caroline Wood Rose, b. Dec. 19, 1865, m. Marcus Stults Wright, b. June 15, 1865, d. June 11, 1927. 1'1arcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. Dec. 9, 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. Aug. 29, 1903.

Their Children 1. Marcus Stults Wright III, b. Dec. 14, 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. Dec. 10, 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. July 17, 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. Aug. 3, 1933. 3. James Schureman Wright, b. Dec. 16, 1932. The writings of G. Braun, an historian of the early 1600's, contain a curious account of the town of Deventer: The province of Overijssel, commonly known as "Das Landt von iiber Issell,'' is situated to the north of the province of Gheldria. It is divided into three districts. That district nearest the Issel is commonly called Isselandt. The district that lies across the river Vidrum, the modern V echt, is called Twente, apparently retaining the ancient name given it by Strabo and Tacitus. These historians located the I venteri or, according to others, Tencteri and Teventeri next to the Camanni. The chief city of this people was Deventer. Its name not ineptly alludes to that of the Teventeri. There are, however, not a few scholars, born in this city who claim that the name is not "Daventria" but "Davon­ tria." This opinion moreover is quite in accord with that held by those who claim that this city took its name from an influential man, Davon by name, once held in high honor by the Saxons. 64 Our Family Ties

The city is now named "Deventer," and in 1959 has a population of 45,000 and is in Netherlands. It is famous especially for trade. Its in­ habitants carry on their business in distant lands. The land near Deventer is most fertile and suited to any sort of cultivation, being especially fruitful in grain. Deventer has also brought forth excellent men, renowned for the eloquence of their learning and their virtues, men who have brought honor to their country. ·van Deventer means "From Deventer" that is, one who comes from Deventer. Of course where it is retained in America it means that their ancestors came from this city in Netherlands.

Jan Pietersz van Deventer, First Generation JAN (JoHN) PrETER.sz VANDEVENTER was b. April 24, 1627, in the city of Deventer, province of Overyssel. He was the founder of the family in America. He was the son of Pieter Hermans van Deventer, from Twello, and Fenneke Hen­ dricks, b. in W eseke, Westphalia. He died in New Nether­ land (New York) about 1692. The middle name of Jan Pietersz ( or Pietersen) van Deventer is from the first name of his father, with "sz" or "sen" added, signifying "son of." In the year 1652, in the village of Houten, province of Utrecht, Jan Pietersz van Deventer and Maria Hoogeboom were married, in a church that is. still in use. Maria was the daughter of Rochus Adriaens Hoogeboom and Maria Willems van Odyck (b. at Odyck). Rochus is a Dutch chris­ tian name after St. Rochus (French R,oger). The Reformed Church changed R.ochus to Rutger. Jan Pietersz van Deventer came from Bunnik, in the province of Utrecht, with his wife and three children. They sailed on the ship "Hope," arriving in New Amsterdam April 8, 1662. A list of the passengers on this ship is given in the Holland Society of New York Year Book, 1902, p. 20. Jan Pietersz van Deventer, who landed in New Amster­ dam April 8, 1662, very soon went to Breukelen (Brooklyn), on Nassau Island, and first settled there. His presence is shown by a petition of March 1, 1663. Among twenty-eight substantial citizens he signed his name ("Jan Pietersz van Deventer "), to a petition by the inhabitants of the village of Breukelen, for a grant of land in the vicinity of Breuke­ len, for a new town and salt meadows. Jan van Deventer and his wife Maria were admitted to membership in the Reformed Dutch Church of Brooklyn, N.Y., December 25, 1662, on the presentation of letters from Ancestral Lines 65

the church at Bunnik, Holland. In 1664 Jan van Deventer settled in New Utrecht. In 1688 he was constable of New Utrecht. His name appears as Jan van Deventer on the assessment roll of real and personal property of the inhab­ itants of New Utrecht in 1675 and following years. Jan van Deventer is one of the ,grantees in a patent given May 13, 1686, by Gov. Dongan, whereby additional lands were granted to the town of New Utrecht. In Oct., 1677, a Dutch church with a membership of twenty-seven was established in New Utrecht, organized by Dominie Casparus van Zuuren. The minutes. of the first meeting show that ''Jan Pietersz van Deventer and Maria his ,vife '' ,vere participants in the organization of the church and were among the original members. Other orig­ inal entries show that their daughter Adriaentje became a member in September, 1677, and their son Peter in July, 1679. The records sho,v that Jan van Deventer was a deacon in the Reformed Dutch Church of New Utrecht, 1679 to 1689. On April 2, 1693, Jan's son Pieter made a gift of fifty guilders to the church in memory of his deceased father, Jan Pietersz van Deventer. On the 260th anniversary.. of the Church on Nov. 21-22, 1937, an address was delivered by the Honorable Willis Van Deventer, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to whom The Van Deventer Family book was dedicated by the compiler, Christo belle Van Deventer; it is from this book much of our material is taken.

Pieter Jansen van Deventer., Second Generation PIETER JANSEN VAN DEVENTER was the eldest son of Jan Pictersz van Deventer and Maria Hoogeboom. He was b. in the village of Bunnik, in the province of Utrecht in 1653. In accordance with a Dutch custom, he was given the name of his J>aternal grandfather, Pieter Hermans van Deventer, and the first name of his father, with "sen" added, signify­ ing "son of." He was the only son of his parents to be born in the Netherlands, and he was nine years old when he came with them to America. The Year Book of the Holland Society of New York, 1898, shows a marriage record of Pieter Jansen van Deventer, 66 Our Family Ties young man, from the '' Bishopric of U ytrecht, '' residing on Marteman 's N eek, and Mayke Christiaense, young dame, from Ne,v Uytrecht, residing at Geele Hoeck (Yellow Hook, later New Utrecht), married March 22, 1686." Mayke's full name was Mayke Christiaense Van Doorn. She was the daughter of Christiaen Van Doorn and sister of Jacob Van Doorn. In 1679 Pieter Jansen van Deventer was a member, and in 1697 a deacon of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Utrecht. About 1701 Pieter Jansen van Deventer and his family went over into Monmouth County, New Jersey. The children of Pieter Jansen and Mayke or Maria (Van Doorn) Van Deventer were: Christian, bapt. March 29, 1687; Maria, bp. April 16, 1688; Abraham (twin) bp. Sept. 5, 1697; Isaac ( twin of Abraham), bp. same time, d. 177 5, Loudon Co., Va.; and Jacob, bp. Oct. 20, 1709. In 1701 Pieter Jansen was one of the inhabitants of East Jersey who petitioned the King to take the .government immediately into his own hands. The Reformed Dutch church of Freehold and Middletown (now Marlboro), N.J., was organized Oct. 19, 1709, with Pieter Van Deventer as one of the elders and Jacob Van Doorn, a brother of Pieter's wife, as one of the deacons.

Christian Van Deventer, Third Generation CHRISTIAN VAN DEVENTER, the eldest son of Pieter Jansen, bp. March 29, 1687, Reformed Dutch Church, Flatbush, L.I., m. Patience--; went with his parents about 1701 to Mon­ n1outh Co., N.J., where he purchased land from John Wall by deed, dated April 28,. 1719. (Off. Sec'y. of State, Tren­ ton, N.J. Deed gives name as Christopher, but is indexed Christian.) Children : 1. Peter, of Middletown, m. April 19, 1746, Hannah Newport (sup.), d. intestate, letters of adm. granted Feb. 2~ 1747 /8. A deed to 40 acres of land in 1\1:onmouth Co., N.J., formerly owned by him, was given April 20, 1771, by Daniel Wainwright, Jr. and Patience of Shrewsbury to James Herbert of Middletown. "The same was the property of Peter Van Deventer, who died in­ testate, and by co-heirship fell to his two daughters, Mary, wife of James Herbert, and Patience, wife of Daniel Wainwright." (Monmouth Co., N.J., Deed Record; N. J. Arch. The same land had been owned by Christian Van Deventer.) .Ancestral Lines 67

2. Isaac, m. Ann Willett. It is through Isaac Van Deventer that this genealogy continues. 3. Christopher, b. 1731, Monmouth Co., N.J., d. Aug. 25, 1798, Dans­ ville, N.Y.

The records show that a Christopher Van Deventer was a private in the Middlesex County, New Jersey, militia in Captain 1forgan's Company, 2nd Reg., Middlesex Co., Isaac Van Dev enter was a Revolutionary War patriot. There is also a Peter Van D'eventer listed as a private from Mon­ mouth Co., who possibly was son of Christian. Peter Van Deventer, son of Christian and Patience, d. about 17 47.

Isaac Van Deventer., Fourth Generation

IsAAC VAN DEvENTER of Middlesex County, N.J., m. Anne Willett. He was a patriot in the Revolutionary War, cap­ tured and taken as a prisoner of war to the Old Sugar House Prison, Liberty Street, New York, where he died. Isaac and Anne Willett were farmers and large landowners. They had nine children: 1. Peter. 2. Abraham.

3. Christopher, b. Oct. 12, 1755, S. Amboy Twp., Middlesex Co., N.J.7 d. June 23, 1840, South River, N.J. 4. Zenas. 5. Isaac, b. 1762, d. Oct. 18, 1826, Dansville, N.Y. 6. John, b. Sept., 1773, d. June 7, 1831, Dansville, N.Y. 7. Sarah. 8. Mary (Polly), m. Francis Letts (b. 1758), Revolutionary soldier. Their son, Isaac Letts, m. Anna Hoffman, dau. of Willian1 and Mary Hoffman, and their son William, m. Mary Ann Van Deventer. It is through Mary, called Polly, that this genealogy continues. 9. l\'Iargaret.

Some of the above are bur. in Monumental Cemetery, So. River, N.J. For a continuation of this line, see the Letts Family. 68 Our Family Ties

THE WRIGHT LINE William Wright, 1810-1889, m. Gitty Ann Snedeker, 1837-1904. l\farcus Stults Wright, 1865-1927, m. Caroline Wood Rose, b. 1865. 1\1:arcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. 1896, m. Alice Olden, b. 1903.

Their Children 1. l\,farcus Stults Wright III, b. 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise Wincklhofer, b. 1933. 3. James Schureman Wright, b. 1932.

William Wright~ First Generation WILLIAM WRIGHT, of London, m. as his third wife, May 12, 1859, Gitty Ann Snedeker, dau. of Garret Isaac Snede­ ker and Catherine Hoagland, b. Dec. 23, 1837, d. April 5, 1904. They were mar. by Rev. Thomas D. Hoover at the Second Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, N.J. They had eight children: Stephen, C., b. 1860, d. 1921, m. Josephine Gillespie in 1883; Elmer Ellsworth, b. 1861, d. 1867; Garret Snedeker, b. 1863, d. 1929, m. 1st Annie Boston, 2nd Tessie Cross; Marcus Stults, b. June 15, 1865, d. June 11, 1927, m. Caroline W. Rose Oct. 22, 1888; Katie Snedeker, b. Sept. 27, 1867, d. Nov. 2, 1942, m. Robert Thomas; Annie Snede­ ker, b. Dec. 12, 1869, d. Jan. 25, 1935 (single) ; Walter, b. July 31, 1871, d. July 7, 1951, m. Henrietta Darragh; Clar­ ence, who died in infancy. For William Wright's portrait, see illus. 7. Caroline Rose Wright, the wife of Marcus Stults Wright, remembers her mother-in-law very well, and remembers her as a very fine woman. Between what she remembers and what Marcus Stults Wright, Jr., recollects. of his grand­ mother, we know that she was a kindly, generous, and modest woman of strong convictions and exemplary life. She was a good mother to her eight children, attending the Baptist C·hurch nearby, and teaching them the great princi­ ples of life. She became a grandmother many times, and would always have five or ten cents for the grandchildren; when she visited the homes of her children she would bring gifts for everyone. Grandma Wright d. in 1904, when I For insertion in Our Family Ties (1960), by M. S. Wright.

Additions to page 68: Since the publication of Our Fa·mily Ties I have been fortunate enough to obtain a complete record which identi­ fies the parents of my grandfather William Wright (1810- 1889), ,vi th full names and birth dates of his brothers and sisters. The parents of the family were an elder William \Vright, b. 1Iarch 26, 1787, and his wife Mary Ann, b. July 13, 1787, who were married July 1, 1806. Except for these details and the dates of their children (below), nothing is known about this V\lilliam and his wife. It is assumed, ho-\vever, that they lived in England, since his son (my grandfather) is said to have been born in London. The children of vVilliam and 1'1ary Ann Wright were :

l\Iary Ann, b. June 9, 1807. Sarah Louisa, b. Nov. 2, 1808. Willimn (grandfather), b. Feb. 6, 1810, d. Nov. 16, 1889, n1. three times, the third wife being Gitty Ann Snedeker. Lydia, b. Sept. 11, 1811. Sophia, b. Nov. 2, 1813. Stephen John, b. Jan. 4, 1815. Margaret, b. l\1arch 6, 1817. "Georgeina," b. Oct. 3, 1818. Alfred, b. April 20, 1820. Charles, b. Jan. 4, 1822. Eliza, b. Aug. 5, 1824. San1uel & George (twins), b. June 13, 1827. Ann, b. Aug. 6, 1829, d. Aug. 31, 1829. J an1es, b. Sept. 1, 1830. William vVright (1810-1889) was a masonry contractor, specializing in factory steam-engine foundations and erect­ ing refractory brick ,vork on powerhouse steam boilers in New York City, ,vhere he was n1ost successful. For about a five-year period, around 1870, he was the owner of a brick manufacturing business in South River, which proved unsuccessful. Because of his disappointments and frustrations with the brickyard, he returned to New York City, to his masonry business. There he devoted the re­ mainder of his life to the recouping of the financial losses sust~ined in South River. Due to the brickyard failure, he disliked South River so much that he wished not to be buried there upon his death. He, his second wife M.ary Ann, his infant son Clarence, and t,vo granddaughters, are buried in Green-\"\T ood Cen1etery, Brooklyn. William's first wife died 1829 at the birth of her son, William, Jr. When the latter was twelve-hence about 1841-William and his second wife (by whom there were no children) brought their family to America. William Wright, Jr., son of William Wright (1810-1889) by his first marriage, was b. in England, Feb. 5, 1829, d. Sept. 6, 1897, m. Jan. 1, 1868, Emma Doggett, an English woman, b. May 19, 1838, d. March 27, 1920. This half­ brother of father is said to have been a venerable gentle­ man, for whom everyone had a high regard. He was a charter graduate of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York and manager of a wholesale drug firm which fai~ed in the 1876 depression, after which he continued in various phases of the drug business. At one time he is said to have marketed a product called ''Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills." He d. in New York City and Emma d. in Mahopac, N. Y.; both are buried in Evergreen Cem., Hillside, N. J., in the same plot with infant son vVilliam and a 10-year-old dau. Annie. Their dau. Emma, b. Oct. 3, 1868, graduated from Hunter College, N. Y. City, 1889, and taught school in Brooklyn for seven years. She m. March 5, 1896, Rev. Ed,vard Louis Chichester, a Presbyterian minister, who was b. l\1arch 27, 1856, lived for years at Mahopac, N. Y., d. June 1, 1956, and ,vas buried Southern l\femorial Cem., Miami, Fla. Children: (a) Dr. Charlotte Wolfson, b. Nov. 19, 1898; (b) Hazel, b. Oct. 31, 1900; ( c) Ed\vard Darnin, b. Oct. 22, 1902; ( d) Samuel Chapin, b. March 6, 1905, d. April 2, 1960. Emma resides (1961) with her two daugh­ ters, Miami, Fla. Annie Boston, wife of William Wright's son Garret, is believed to have been born in Manchester, England; she is buried in Kensico Cemetery, Valhalla, N. Y. Katie Wright, another child of William, together with her hus­ band Robert Thomas and daughter Viola, is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick, N. J.; their son Arthur is buried in Ferncliffe Mausoleum, Aberdeen, Wash.; Walter Wright, also son of William, is buried in Veterans' Cemetery, Farmingdale, L. I. Ancestral Lines 69

(Marcus, Jr.) was only eight years old. I did not see her very often because she lived in New York City, and travel before there were automobiles was a slow and somewhat painful process; but when she did come to see us here in South River it was an occasion we could never forget. She spent much of her later life with her daughter Katie Thomas who lived in New Brunswick, N.J. From that home she visited her four children in New York, and Marcus and his family in South River.

Marcus Stults Wright, Second Generation MARCUS STULTS WRIGHT, son of William and Gitty Ann Snedeker Wright, was b. in South River, N.J., June 15, 1865, where be attended the local schools. He was named for Lieut. Marcus A. Stults, who participated in the Civil War as a men1ber of Co. H, 14th N. J. Volunteers, reported miss­ ing at Cold Harbor, Virginia, June 2, 1864. ( See illus. 6.) Lieut. Stults "\\... as of Cranbury, N.J. Immediately after acquiring his education, he began map­ ping plans for a career for himself. He fore saw possibilities for development in the construction business in this area; in which he became engaged, as he was both a mason and bricklayer. He also had a keen yen for real estate invest­ ments in a large way which over the years since his death in 1927 has resulted in great profit to his family. His wife ,vas always his guiding spirit in these deals. As a young man, he started out in the business field in which be was most successful. During his career he con­ structed some of the finest buildings in New Brunswick, also schools in Spotswood, Helmetta, Jamesburg, and Mill­ town. He also built a large dormitory at the Jamesburg State Home for Boys, and the Glen Gardner, N.J., reservoir for the tuberculosis hospital. In later years, he engaged in the sand business and founded the Marcus S. Wright Com­ pany, a business still being operated in South River by his widow and other members of his family. He was an outstanding citizen of South River and was widely known throughout all parts of Middlesex County, as a man of sterling character, and was held in high esteem by the people. He was one of the founders of the South 70 Our Family Ties River Trust Company, organized in 1915, and served as its president and director. He was also president of the Workingman's Building & Loan Association, a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Monumental Cemetery Association, and a charter member of the Cham­ ber of Commerce. During his youth, he attended and was a member of the famous Trinity Episcopal Church at Broadway and Wall Street, New York City, where he sang in the choir. At that time he resided with his parents at 262 West 22nd Street, New York. Later he and his wife and children attended the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in South River, N.J., where three of their children were baptised. Here he and his wife presented a cover for the baptismal font, inscribed '' In l\iemorium of Walter Clemens Wright, 1899-1904" {their son). They were then living on Martin Avenue near Holy Trinity Church. About two years later the family moved to 94 Main Street, in the same borough, adjacent to the Conklin Methodist Church. This gave Caroline Rose Wright the opportunity to return to the church of her youth with her husband l\1arcus and their children, where they all be­ came active members, and where later he became an im­ portant member of the Official Board. He was a leading figure in fraternal and social affairs, having been a charter member and also one of the organ­ izers of Philo Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons of South River, N.J., which was founded in the parlor of his home at 94 lVIain Street; Riverside Council No. 33, Jr. O.U.A.M.; and originally joined Apollo Lodge, Free and Accepted l\1asons of Cranbury, N.J. He served as one of the first Town Commissioners previous to 1898, when South River was changed to a borough form of government. Father was never lacking when any of his family needed him. I wish to add that he helped me in every way when I decided to establish myself independently in business. He endorsed my notes to the limit of his means and intro­ duced me to Clinton Gilbert, asking that Gilbert assist me, financially and otherwise, during the difficult founding period of the South River Sand Company. Gilbert's con­ nection with the Company fortunately brought him, in time, both profit and satisfaction. ).. ,, • ~ --,.•. /.-\ ....~-. ~ ·-'

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It was Oct. 22, 1888, when Marcus Wright married Car­ oline Wood Rose, daughter of George W. and Mary Jane Letts Rose of Sayreville. Seven children were born to the couple: William S.; Marcus S., Jr.; 11:ilton; George; Mabel (Knote); Edna; and Walter Clemens, who is deceased. l\!arcus Wright d. at the age of sixty-two years, on Satur­ day, June 11, 1927. His passing caused widespread grief among his legion of friends throughout the county. He is buried in Monumental Cemetery, South River, N.J., the town of his youth and the municipality which he loved. He was of medium height, fair-complexioned, with twinkly blue eyes and light brown hair, on the blonde side. He was blessed with a kindly disposition,. loved and esteemed among his f ello"r men as f e,v men are privileged to be. His hobby was his ,vife, home and his family. His wife, CAROLINE R. WRIGHT, the mother of Marcus S. Wright, Jr., was b. Dec. 19, 1865, the daughter of George W. and Mary Jane Letts Rose. She was born in Sayreville, N.J., and attended school there. Later, the family moved to South River, where they lived at the corner of Stephen and George streets. Since her marriage to the late Marcus S. Wright, Sr., in 1888, she has resided in South River, where her daughter, Miss Edna Wright, lives with her. Both she and her husband were devout members of the Conklin Methodist Church, where she continues to hold membership. Caroline R. Wright devoted her life to her church and family. She took great pride in and was happy to be at home with her seven children and give them a mother's .guidance. She cherished the happiness of being with her family, and was devoted to them and they to her. She and her late husband were generous contributors to the Conklin l\{ethodist Church. Their financial assistance aided materially in carrying the building plans to a successful conclusion. Caroline Wright to this day possesses extreme business acumen plus frugality. She and her husband made a great business team, since they each had the necessary requirements ,vhich, when combined, spelled success. She ,vas of medium stature, dark brown hair, brown eyes, fair-skinned, refined features, and with an excellent taste in dress. She guided her children with a firm but loving hand. One of her greatest attributes is her wonderful sense 72 Our Family Ties of humor. At this writing she is enjoying her usual good health in her 95th year and always extends a warm welcome to her family and friends. It is said, to her credit, that her grandchildren and great-grandchildren love to visit their grandmother Wright. This genealogy line continues through Marcus Wright, Jr., family. For portraits of Marcus S. and Carolina Rose Wright, see illus. 8 and 9. Children of Marcus S. Wright: 1. Mabel A. Wright, m. 1st, Harold Corwin; one child William Cor­ win, retired submarine chief engineer mate, World War II, also served in Korea, m. J\Iabel Classen, grad. Presbyterian Hospital, Denver, Colo., R.N. 1943, U. S. Navy Nurse Corps, World War II. Mabel Wright m. 2nd, John McBride Knote, grad. Witten­ berg (Ohio), 1904; also grad. Ohio State Univ. Manufacturer of clay refractory cement and paints in South River, where he resided. Child : Joan, died young. 2. William S. Wright, president of Marcus S. Wright, Inc., m. Eunice Best, who attended Art Institute, Dallas, grad. Con1mercial De­ signing Federal Schools, Inc., also Business College, Amarillo, Texas. Live South River. 3. Edna B., secretary of J\Iarcus S. Wright, Inc., single. Live South River. 4. Marcus S. Wright, Jr., the compiler of this volume, m. Alice Olden. See biographical sketch on pages 10-13. 5. Walter, died young. 6. George W. Wright, vice-president of l\'Iarcus S. Wright, Inc., m. Mildred Reeves, a graduate of Trenton State Normal School. Live at South River. Children : (a) Georgette, grad. Drake Business School 1947, New Brunswick, N.J. Husband Russell Sherman, B.A. 1951, Liberal Arts, Rutgers University, store mgr., F. W. Woolworth Co.; lives Chatham, N.J.; (b) Audrey Anne, grad. Univ. of Va., R.N. 1954; husband Robert Payne, grad. B.S. in Agronomy, Univ. of Conn.; grad. Univ. of Va., LL.B. 1956; with Federal Bureau of Investigation; lives Cleve­ land, Ohio; (c) David Reeves, grad. B.S. business admin. Va. P. I. 1953; grad. B.S. Mech. Eng. 1960 (will get his degree June, 1960) same school; wife Susan Miller, a graduate of Mata­ wan, N.J., High School. 7. Milton R. Wright, supervisor of construction work, m. 1st, Dorothy Buckley; one child Milton, Jr.; he m. 2nd, Martha Schilling, grad. Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio Art Academy, 1939; grad. B.S. Education (Wittenberg) 1953. Live Clearwater, Fla. For dates of marriages and children for all above per­ sons, see Garret Snedeker Chart. cL:

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Ancestors of Alice Olden Wright

THE OLDEN LINE William Olden, d. 1719 /20, m. Elizabeth Giles. John Olden, 1689-1757, m. Mary Brearley, 1694-1766. Thomas Olden, 1735-1826, m. Sarah Hart, 1741-1773. Hart Olden, 1767-1841, m. Temperance Smith, 1770-1841. Job Gardner Olden, 1807-1876, m. Maria Brenton Boggs, 1819-1863. Charles Hart Olden, 1844-1915, m. Almira Gulick, 1846-1923. Walter Hart Olden, 1872-1935, m. 1st, Caroline Schureman, 1878-1918, m. 2nd, Julia Saxon Beatty, b. 1882. Alice Olden, b. 1903, m. l\iarcus Stults Wright, Jr., b. 1896.

Their Children 1. l\farcus Stults Wright III, b. 1927, m. Oct. 18, 1958, Beatrice Nancy Fuller, b. 1937. Child: Alexandra Stuart, b. Aug. 26, 1959. 2. Walter Olden Wright, b. 1930, m. Oct. 8, 1960, Barbara Louise ·wincklhofer, b. 1933. 3. J arnes Schureman Wright, b. 1932.

William Olden, First Generation VVILLIAJ\tl OLDEN was born in England. When just a lad he was brought to .America, and received an education as a farmer. When he became of age he was employed by Sir Edmund Andros, Governor of New York, as a manager and overseer of his lands and farming business, which were extensive. He saved his money, and was soon able to pur­ chase some land in New Jersey near Bound Brook in Mid­ dlesex County. He made a second purchase near Basking Ridge; and later, a third in the neighborhood of Stonybrook, near Princeton. On the last purchase he settled his son John Olden, in whose family alone has been kept the name Olden, his other sons having had no male children. In the year 1685 William Olden married Elizabeth Giles, eldest daughter of James Giles. By this marriage he had 73 74 Our Family Ties nine children: John, Thomas, William, Susannah, Ann, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, and one other. The oldest authentic record of William Olden is to be found in the Piscataway register of births, marriages, and deaths, entered in the "Piscataway Town Book" (now missing). On March 8, 1679, his father-in-law Major James Giles applied to Governor Philip Carteret for a tract of land con­ taining 180 acres within the bounds of New Piscataway, upon the Raritan River and along the Bound Creek. His application was granted on Jan. 6, 1681. Major Giles built a house on his land, and moved into it with his family Jan. 6, 1682. He was not to enjoy his new home for long, since he died during the summer of 1688, leaving an estate of considerable value. His brother Matthew Giles received a part of the estate, and for some unknown reason traded his own farm of 120 acres to his eldest sister Elizabeth Olden and her husband William Olden for their interest in the estate. In a very old handwritten letter copied from another very old handwritten letter, the two being more than 200 years old, we find a most interesting record of some of the dangers endured by the early Oldens, and by many of the early colonists. The letter tells us that James Giles came to Boston in 1669, and moved from place to place because of the Indian Wars.

About the beginning of April 1675, all being peace and quiet, I [James Giles, father of Elizabeth Giles, wife of William Olden] went down the Muddy River to Mr. Weaswells house, which stood empty, and there I planted some Indian Corn and other things. I intended in the Fall to go up to our House with the rest of our neighbors, if the peace had continued with the Indians; but the Providence of Allmighty God had otherwise ordered it; for about the middle of the summer, King Phillip being killed, and most of the chief Sachems being killed or driven out of the N arra­ ganset country, such as were left alive came away eastward to join with those Indians who were glad to play the rogue, and on the 9th August 1676, early in the n1orning, when no Englishman thought of any war, they came down to Rouseck and took it, and killed and took away about 50 people, and burnt down the house, and all the buildings about it, killing and destroying all that came in their way. So we were forced to flee for our lives in a canoe and leave all we had, and be glad we saved our lives. "\Ve and the rest of the Kennebec neighbors, whom God had preserved from the cruelty of the Indians got to Damoras's Cove that day. There was a fishing Island about two miles from the main, where we met with the people Ancestral Lines 75 of Shipscut, Pinequid, and all other places there about, who :fled there to save their lives. We stayed there a week, in which time we made several attempts into the river to see if we could get off anything that was left behind; but all was in vain, for the Indians lay in an1bush and beat us off, so as we could get nothing but blows. We saw all our houses burnt, and our cattle killed, and evP.rything ruined and destroyed, and no help like to come to us from the Bay. And we being about 300 souls on a little Island, and no meat, drink nor anything else to relieve us. And being in this poor condition we thought good to call a council to consult what course we should take for relief. First we were to consider what vessels and boats there were in the harbor. And finding there were enough to carry all the people away, the 16th day of August, at night we set sail, and left not one man, woman or child behind; some for Piscataway, Salem, Boston and other towns in the Bay according as they had friends and relations. ["Copied from the Original which now belongs to Benjamin Clark, the 17 day of the 12 month 1785. (Signed:) Samuel Olden." ( Again copied from the last-named copy by Mary S. Olden, May 1832.]

Although there is no name to the fore going journal, it is known beyond a doubt to have been written on behalf of James Giles who afterwards died and was buried at Bound Brook. He left a second wife, and four daughters who married as follows: the eldest, Elizabeth, to William Olden; the second, Ann, to Benjamin Clarke; the third, Jane, to John Worth; and the fourth, Sarah, to Joseph Worth; from whom the several families of the Oldens, Clarks, and Worths have descended. On Jan. 13, 1696, William Olden bought for the sum of 45 pounds, current silver moneys of the province of New York, a plantation of 330 acres at Stony Brook then in Middlesex County, East New Jersey, from Benjamin Clark, Jr., one of his brothers-in-law. In 1696 Clark acquired 1200 acres in Piscataway Township; but he did not like the land, and decided to sell it and buy elsewhere. Having heard of the Warne tract at Stony Brook, located about twenty-five miles to the south, he considered buying it. As the acreage was greater than he wanted, it is believed that he entered into an agreement with two of his brothers-in-law, William Olden and Joseph Worth, to take the 1200 acres, then divide the same among all three, agreeable to the desire of each. The plan having been followed through, Olden took 330 acres, "\Vorth took 220 acres and Clark kept the remaining 650 acres. 76 Our Family Ties

William OJ.den having acquired title to the afore said prop­ erty, it is assumed that he and his family soon took posses­ sion of, and occupied it. From time to time he purchased more land, some of which he added to the home place. Many of the Olden family fore bears were farmers, owning con­ siderable land. William Olden already owned two or three extensive tracts of land, and the records show that he bought another tract then in Middlesex County, on the Raritan River near Bound Brook, containing 120 acres. A few years later he acquired still another 60 acres from his brother-in­ law Matthew Giles. William Olden now owned more than 900 acres of land. It required men and women of great courage to go out into a wilderness such as this country was in those days. They were truly pioneers. Their experiences in developing a new and uncivilized region were both dangerous and interesting. Much heavy labor and long toilsome days were spent in clearing a site where a house and a few small build­ ings could be erected. Trees were cut down ruthlessly, the best of them being saved and carefully dressed for building purposes, the remainder piled into heaps and burned. Few churches had settled ministers, most of them being obliged to accept the services of circuit pastors who traveled about in a canoe or on horseback, from one settlement to another, preaching, baptizing, marrying, attending the sick, writing wills and conducting funerals. About this time, William Olden and a number of other inhabitants of Pis­ cataway, made application to Governor Hunter for license to build a church in the town of Piscataway, wherein they might worship God according to the form and manner of the Church of England. The request was granted by the Governor. Part of the grant read as follows: ''Whereas I am informed of Your Pious designe to build a Church for the worship and service of God according to the f orme and manner prescribed in the Liturgy of the Church of England and applyed to for a Lycence to erect it in the towne of Piscataway aforesaid I have thought fitt and doe hereby give Leave and Lycence to you to erect such a building.'' In 1714 William Olden became a vestryman of St. James' Church, Piscataway, N.J. St. Peter's at Perth Amboy in­ stalled the Rev. William Skinner as the first rector of that Ancestral Lines 77 church in 1720; four years later he was made rector of St. James at Piscataway also. In 1747 he wrote, "My circuit from the first Sunday in May is from Amboy to South River, from thence to Piscataway, and from thence to Amboy, while the river is passable, or travelling possible, and indeed the extremes of heat and cold render the service at sixty years of age very hard to your most humble servant.'' For 30 consecutive years he filled both offices acceptably and faithfully. He died in 1758 at the age of 71. William Olden was called upon to serve in public office from time to time, as is shown in the early :records of Mid­ dlesex County. '' At ye Court of Sessions of County Court held at Piscataway for ye County of Middlesex ye Third Tuesday in September 1694, '' among those called and sworn to serve on a special jury were William Olden, John Worth and ten other property-owners. Two of William Olden's sons, William, Jr., and Thomas, were members of the old Presbyterian Church at Bound Brook, and took an active interest in it; the latter provided in his will, that his executors should immediately put into the hands of the elders and deacons the sum of sixty pounds current money, at eight shillings the ounce, toward the support of the Gospel in the Presbyterian Congregation of Bound Brook. In dra-,ving to a close this authentic story of William and Elizabeth (Giles) Olden, two of the pioneer settlers of Bound Brook, it seems worth while to pay to their memory this lasting tribute: '' Together they began a new genera­ tion in a wild unsettled country, where fores ts must be subdued, civilization established, and many hardships en­ dured. They made a comfortable home for themselves and their children, worked hard, were careful and conservative, thus laying the foundation of a religious and patriotic gen­ eration who served their Country well, in times of war and peace." William Olden died between Jan. 1, 1719/20 (when he made his will) and Feb. 10th of that year (when the inven­ tory was taken). He left an estate of considerable value in both real and person.al property. In his will, among other items, he says, ''I give and bequeath to my ouldest son John all my farm or plantation situate lying and being upon 78 Our Family Ties Stony Brook in the County of Thtliddlesex and province afore­ said, together ,vith all orchards, Medows, and improvements to him and his heirs and assigns forever." Walter Hart Olden in his notes says, "It is interesting at this time (l\1arch 31, 1933) to observe, that the plantation of 330 acres, which William Olden devised to his son John at Stony Brook, descended to his grandchildren and even then to some of his great-grandchildren. From their gen­ eration until now, just one haif of the acreage has been sold for residential purposes, and the Princeton Water Supply Development. The remaining one-half is owned and occu­ pied by the writer.'' In an article written by Professor John S. Kendall in the Tulanian, April, 1936, he says '' the Oldens were one of the six 'First' Families of Princeton, N.J. They held property there under a grant directly from the British Crown dated 1692. About the middle of the eighteenth century the family ,vas represented by Hart Olden, who in 1785 married Tem­ perance Smith. Their children were Sarah, Charles, Jane, Mary, and Ruth. Charles Olden became governor of New Jersey.''

John Olden, Second Generation JoHN OLDEN, son of Elizabeth and William Olden, was b. near Bound Brook, in Piscataway To,vnship, Middlesex County, East New Jersey, April 5, 1689. He d. Feb. 18, 1757, on his plantation at Stony Brook, in New Windsor Township, Middlesex County, East New Jersey. On March 20, 1712, he married Mary Brearley, b. Sept. 18, 1694, and d. Aug. 3, 1766, the fifth child and eldest daughter of J obn and Sarah Brearley of "Spring Grove Farm" at Maiden­ head (now Lawrenceville), then in Hunterdon County, West New Jersey. John Olden, it appears, was brought up in the family of Joseph Worth, his uncle. It was there that he was influenced by a schoolmaster to spell his name Oldden. This manner of spelling the family name Oldden is a well-known fact. John invariably wrote his name with the two d's as did most of his children, and some of his grandchildren. We have not been able to discover at what age he went to live Ancestral Lines 79

,vith his uncle Joseph Worth at Stony Brook; but it was while there that he became acquainted with Mary Brearley of Maidenhead v1ho lived but a few miles away. Soon after John and lviary were married, they took up their abode on his father's plantation at Stony Brook which was about a mile east from where his uncle Joseph Worth lived; and there they established themselves permanently. This was the tract of 330 acres ,vhich William Olden bad purchased from his brother-in-la,v Benjamin Clarke, Jan. 13, 1696, and which John inherited at his father's death. Here John erected a house on the original Olden tract at Stony Brook. It was built of logs amid the hoary oaks of the deep green woods, and located in the center of the plan­ tation, near a never-£ ailing spring of fresh sparkling water, ,vhich ran down among the trees and emptied into Stony Brook. Within that little log house standing in a primeval forest, this young couple brought forth a new generation, and thereby helped to establish civilization in a wilderness. Their nearest neighbors were a family of Lenni Lenape Indians, living in their tepee, about a half of a mile to the south, whose paths ran in various directions-one to Hope­ well, another to the village of Cross,vicks, others to Trenton, White Horse, Burlington, and the Seashore. It is not definitely known how long they occupied that little log house in the woods, as tradition relates that the f an1ily soon outgrew it, and another site was selected for a new and larger house. Going up the hill about 300 yards in a northwesterly direction, where the present manor house stands, they built another log house of greater dimensions. Some years later a more pretentious addition was attached to the so-called ''New House'' ,vhich consisted of a cellar sixteen-by-twenty feet, with a room of equal size above it, over which were two small bedrooms, and an attic over all. As the family continued to grow both in size and nu1nbers, again it became necessary to provide more room for the comfort of the children. The foundation walls were built of stone, the chimneys and fireplaces of brick, the general construction being timber and brick to the peak, with heavy weatherboard enclosure. 80 Our Family Ties It was a common custom among the early settlers to help one another clear some land and build a home. They cut down all the undergrowth first, then the smaller trees, and the brush in heaps for burning. Then all the large trees were girdled with the axe, and left standing until dead, then cut down; at which time enough of the best timber would be selected for the construction of a cabin or house. As there were no sawmills in the community, the axe was de­ pended upon to do much of the work. The best straight­ grained red and black oak trees were chosen, from which split boards and planks for the floors, doors, and roof; the selected timber was dressed, mortised for the frame. Hinges, latches, and belts ,vere all made of wood. The doors and shutters were pinned together with wooden pins. Windows were mostly square open spaces, which were closed at night, and in cold weather with heavy shutters. The stream at the lower end of the plantation known to the Indians as "Wapowog" and named Stony Brook by the proprietors' early surveyors, rises in the vicinity of Woods­ ville in Hope,vell Township, meanders down from the hills in a southeasterly direction for twenty miles and empties into the 1'fillstone River at a point where Carnegie Lake begins. During the 17th and 18th centuries many mills were erected along this historic stream, serving the farmers and people of various communities with flour, feed, and general merchandise. Many a miller used part of his mill as a store, and carried groceries, clothing, and tobacco. The pioneer settlers who first came into the neighborhood, and estab­ lished the community known as Stony Brook, were Daniel Brensen, John Houghton, Benjamin Clark, Joseph Worth, John Horner, Richard Stockton and John Olden. John and Mary Olden attended Friends' Meeting (see illus. 11) with a certain amount of regularity, and soon became members of the Society, their children joining into membership at the proper time. Later on, a schoolhouse was erected, and the children of the neighborhood all at­ tended the Friends' school. John Olden having married at the age of twenty-three a wife who was eighteen, they had eleven children, seven sons and four daughters. All but Elizabeth lived to grow up. About six years before his death, John Olden began dividing up his lands among his 11. Fri(•Hri11c·Ptoll, X ..r.

Ancestral Lines 81 sons Joseph, David and James ; each purchasing certain tracts from their father. The remainder of his plantation he divided by will among his. sons John, Thomas, Benjamin, and James. Just why he left most of his land to James, and none to "\Villiam, is hard to understand. John Olden died Feb. 18, 1757, on his plantation at Stony Brook. We find in Stryker's Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War: Corp. Thomas Olden, Third Regi­ ment, and John Olden, both of Middlesex County, N.J., are listed, probably sons of the above.

Thomas Olden, Third Generation THOMAS OLDEN,. sixth son of John Olden and Mary Brearley Olden, was b. Sept. 16, 1735, in Princeton, New Jersey, then in Middlesex County, and d. Jan. 6, 1826. He m. July 3, 1766, Sarah I-Iart of Hopewell, New Jersey, a close relative of John Hart, later one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. She was b. June 3, 17 41, and d. March 5, 1773. They had two children: Nathaniel who became a school teacher, and who remained single all his life; and Hart through whom the Olden lineage continues. Thomas lived on the Stony Brook Plantation, and was a hard-work­ ing and successful farmer. Thomas and Sarah are buried in the Stony Brook Friends' cemetery. There is some con­ flict about their dates : the gravestones give their respective years of death as 1827 and 1772 (not 1826 and 1773, as in other records) ; also one source gives Thomas' birth date as Sept. 27 ( not 16) ,, 1735. In front of the original Thomas Olden home, still standing in good condition on West Stockton Street, near Stony Brook, Princeton, N.J., is a tablet: '' THOMAS OLDEN HousE~ From the porch of this pre-Revolutionary house General Washington reviewed his troops on their march to Trenton December 1776. After the battle of Princeton he came here to seek aid for the British sick and wounded.''

Hart Olden, Fourth Generation HART OLDEN was b. on the Olden Plantation near Princeton, N.J., son of Thomas and Sarah Hart Olden. He was a 82 Our Family Ties

,vheelwright by trade and worked in his shop at Stony Brook. In the year 1810 he associated himself with Josiah Worth in business, and conducted a store at the western end of Worth's mill for a period of one year. He then removed to a stone house near the mill owned by J erusha Pierson ( this was owned by Charles Smith Olden in 1860), bought out the interest of Josiah Worth in their partnership, and car­ ried on alone for a number of years. He lived in the stone house for two years, then removed to a house opposite the home of Mr. Worth, later the residence of Joseph H. Bruere, and resided there for three years. This house was torn down in 1826 and the stone used to build a barn for Mr. Worth and was still in use in 1907. He lived in Trenton in 1816, and was in business. there two years, returned to Princeton and purchased property on Nassau Street that was a portion of the estate of Enos Kelsey. Here he ran a general store until 1831, ,vhen he sold his entire stock of goods and retired from business life. Hart Olden married Temperance Smith (see illus. 13 and 14), dau. of Ethan and Ruth Saxon Smith, and they were parents of the following children:

1. Sarah, b. Sept. 1, 1796, d. March 26, 1870; m. Henry Clow.

2. Charles Smith, b. Feb. 19, 1799, d. April 7, 1876; m. Phoebe Ann Smith.

3. Jane, b. Aug. 3, 1801, d. Feb. 17, 1848; single.

4. l\iiary Smith, b. Feb. 27, 1803, d. May 14, 1851; single.

5. Job Gardner, b. June 22, 1807, d. Feb. 27, 1876; m. l\ilaria Brenton Boggs.

6. George, b. Aug. 31, 1810, d. Oct. 2, 1837; single.

7. Ruth Saxon, b. June 18, 1813, d. July 28, 1862; m. Rev. James Stebbins.

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Job Gardner Olden., Fifth Generation JoB GARDNER OLDEN, b. June 22, 1807, d. Feb. 27, 1876, second son and fifth child of Hart and Temperance Smith Olden, born in Stony Brook, Princeton T,vp., N.J. He resided for a time with his brother, Charles S., in New Orleans, La. Returning to Princeton, he opened a general store in 1832, conducting it successfully for seven years, then sold out and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Maria Brenton Boggs, daughter of Morris and Elizabeth Dunham Boggs, born in New Brunswick, N.J., and a descendant of the Boggs, Dunham, and 11:orris families of East Jersey. Through the Dunhams she traces her ancestry back to Ed­ ward Fuller of the 11:ayflower. Their children are: 1. Charles Hart, b. Jan. 22, 1844, d. Feb. 19, 1915; m. Almira Gulick. 2. Julia Boggs, b. May 23, 1846, d. Feb. 10, 1921; m. 1867, Charles Conrad Abbott, M.D., b. June 4, 1843, of Trenton, a noted naturalist and writer. 3. l\Iary Gardner, b. Oct. 6, 1849, d. Oct. 6, 1925; m. Robert Smith Beatty. 4. Catherine Saxon, b. Aug. 2, 1852, d. Sept. 26, 1922; m. Rev. John Elsworth Peters.

Charles Hart Olden., Sixth Generation CHARLES HART OLDEN, b. Jan. 22, 1844, at Princeton, d. there Feb. 19, 1915. He married Almira Gulick, b. Feb. 3, 1846, d. Dec. 9, 1923, whose father was William Gulick and mother was Mary Frances Johnson, of Lawrenceville Township, near Lawrenceville, N.J. They lived on the estate, "Olden 11:anor, '' which was in possession of the Olden family for seven ,generations. ( See illus. 12.) His land extended from the Stony Brook, to the old road leading from Princeton to Worth's Mill. It embraced the land occupied by Job G. Olden and his brother Governor Charles S. Olden, and ''Woodlawn'' the residence of Judge Field at the time of his decease. This tract of land is in high state of cultivation, and the title remained in the Olden family, except "Wood­ lawn." Charles H. Olden was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1888. 84 Our Family Ties

Children: 1. William Gardner, b. Jan. 16, 1868, d. March 9, 1913; m. Lucy Ellen West. 2. Charles Sn1ith, b. March 4, 1869, d. July 18, 1923; m. Lavinia Smith. 3. Frank Gulick, b. July 9, 1870, d. Jan. 18, 1903 ; single. 4. Walter Hart, b. March 31, 1872, d. Jan. 5, 1935; m. Caroline Schureman. 5. Emma Winifred, b. Jan. 31, 1875, d. Aug. 19, 1876. 6. George Thon1as, b. May 4, 1877, d. April 25, 1886.

Walter Hart Olden., Seventh Generation

WALTER HART OLDEN was b. 1v1arch 31, 1872, at Princeton, N.J., Mercer County. He was born, reared, and d. Jan. 15, 1935, in "Olden Manor" at Princeton, N.J. He m. Sept. 10, 1902, Caroline Schureman, daughter of Howard Bishop Schureman and Stella Alice Hagar of Newark, N.J. Walter Hart Olden and Caroline Schureman had five children: Alice, Joseph Bruere, James Schureman, Charles Smith, and Walter Hart. Walter Hart Olden was educated at Princeton Model School, Princeton Preparatory School, and Rider Business College, Trenton, graduating in 1894. In his student days he achieved v1ide fame in baseball and football, particularly the gridiron gan1e, being rated one of the best tackles in the East. He also played on the Y.M.C.A. football eleven when that team scored on the champion Princeton eleven in 1893. Mr. Olden was for a number of years assistant registrar at Princeton University, and for eight years was secretary of the Princeton Chamber of Commerce. In ad­ dition to real estate activities, he operated the large farm in Princeton Township. He was always active in govern­ mental and civic affairs and was elected to the House of Assembly in 1925, re-elected in 1926 and 1927 by large majorities, being high man on the ticket. Walter Hart Olden ,vas a director of the Mercer County Y.M.C.A., member of the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, member of the Sons of the Revolution, Princeton Chamber of Commerce, Nassau Club, Princeton Township 1 - .... ) . \\... a:tcr IIart ()l(lp11 at llis desk in the Xe\\· .J l1 n·,PY ~.\ ss<.?111 hh· ~ .

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Republican Club, Princeton Agricultural Society, Trenton Republican Club, and many other organizations. Walter Hart Olden took great pride in his ancestry, and lands, about which he gathered much interesting informa­ tion. It was during the lifetime of his father, Charles Hart Olden that some of the Olden estate was divided and sold for building lots. This process was continued by Walter Hart Olden. Soon after his death the rest of the Olden property was sold to the Institute for Advanced Study. He was greatly interested in the history of Princeton, and the Battle of Princeton; and he compiled much valuable information about them. ""\Vhile he held several important political positions, he was not at heart a politician. He was elected to office mostly by the votes of his friends and acquaintances. He was happy with his political associates, as he greatly enjoyed people, and he was glad to give time and effort to help solve their problems. He was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, and served as deacon, elder, and trustee. He saw to it that all his children attended church regularly. At his instigation, the Friends' cemetery at Stony Brook, near Princeton, where so many of his ancestors are buried, was rescued from the thorns and weeds that over-ran it, and he restored the beautiful, quiet spot, surrounded by the very old wall, and the enormous old trees. This sacred ground he chose to be his :final resting place, alongside his ,vife ( Caroline Schureman). For his portrait, see illus. 15. Caroline Schureman was born Jan. 23, 1878. She and Walter Hart Olden were united in marriage at the Reformed Church, Franklin Park, N.J., Sept. 10, 1902, by Rev. Clifford P. Case, where a very beautiful ceremony was performed. The wedding was a green-and-white affair, the church being very elaborately decorated with flowers and plants of these two colors, and filled with guests from Franklin Park and other surrounding cities and towns. The bride was charm­ ingly ,gowned in crepe de chine and wore a picture hat. She was attended by Miss May Durland as the maid of honor, and the best man was James Percy Schureman, a brother of the bride. Later Caroline Schureman Olden was trans­ ferred to the First Presbyterian Church of Princeton, of 86 Our Family Ties which her husband, Walter Hart Olden, was a member and an important official. She died June 17, 1918, and is buried beside her husband at Stony Brook, Quaker Cemetery, Princeton, N.J. Though her life was brief, she left five children who remember her ,vith deep love and devotion and "\\i"ho are perpetuating her life through the years. For her portrait, see illus. 16. Children of Walter Hart Olden and Caroline Schureman: 1. Alice Olden Wright, wife of Marcus S. Wright, Jr. 2. Joseph Bruere, grad. Lehigh Univ. C. E. 1928; right-of-way con­ sultant, Michigan State Highway Department; he and wife Viola live Alpena, Mich. 3. James Schureman, grad. B.S. in forestry, 1929, New York State College of Forestry, Syracuse Univ., New York; is engaged in his profession with Masonite Corp.; lives Laurel, Miss. Wife Annie Laurie, grad. Huntingdon College, B.A. 1939, Montgomery, Ala. 4. Charles Smith, grad. New York Univ. B.S. 1934 in M. E. (Aero­ nautical Option); now Aeronautical Engineer at U. S. Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla. Lives Orange Park, Fla. Wife Lancaster attended Huffstetler Business College, 1935, Mobile, Ala. 5. Walter Hart, Jr., grad. Amherst College, B.A. 1936; salesman with Millville Mfg. Co., New York City. Lives Pennington, N.J. Wife Helen, grad. Connecticut College for Women, B.A. 1935.

GOVERNOR CHARLES S. OLDEN Brother of Job Gardner Olden through whom this Genealogy is traced CHARLES S. OLDEN is an uncle to those who belong to this lineage; but he is so closely related that we think it proper to tell briefly of his life. He was the brother of Job Gardner Olden, and the son of Hart Olden and Temperance Smith. Charles S. Olden was governor of New Jersey during the War between the States. A book by Chaplain Henry R. Pyne, History of the First New Jersey Ca-valry, is dedicated to Charles S. Olden, "As a slight appreciation of his continued and valuable aid in promoting the interests of his State, and maintaining the perpetuity of our National Union." The writer continues, "The book is dedicated to as true a man and as noble a Governor as New Jersey ever had. Standing at the head of affairs at the breaking out of the rebellion, and holding the helm with so firm and loyal a hand, we believe the men who supported hi1n in the field will be glad that this recognition of his worth has been given, and so beautiful and correct a portrait of Governor Olden presented." Ancestral Lines 87

"In addition to his other duties, Governor Olden filled most acceptably the position of judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals. He was an intelligent observer of events and eminent among his fellow citizens for practical wisdom, probity, unostentious charity, loyalty, and in short, all the qualities of mind and heart which constitute a true man. Most fortunate was it for New Jersey that in such an emergency she could command the services of such a governor. His name is inseparably connected with many of the most brilliant pages of her history; and his patriotism, integrity and republican simplicity will be perpetuated in the memory of a grateful people." Charles S. Olden and his wife Phoebe Ann Smith adopted a daughter whose name was Mary L. Sisty, who married John McLean. They had a daughter Phoebe who was educated by Governor and Mrs. Olden in their ancestral home near Princeton. Fron1 a History of Princeton and Its Institutions, we read, "Charles Smith Olden was a native of Princeton, a son of Hart Olden a merchant in Princeton, a lineal descendant of William Olden, one of the early settlers who came to Stony Brook in 1696. He did not graduate from college, but he acquired a good english education in the best schools of Princeton and Lawrenceville High School. He devoted himself to mercantile life, and attracted the attention of ~1:atthew Newkirk in Philadelphia, in whose mercantile house he was employed until 1823; and in 1826 he went to New Orleans. There he established a high character for business, and accumu­ lated property. He returned to Princeton in 1832 and built a handsome residence "Drumthwacket" on a part of the original Olden Tract, on the old road from Princeton to Worth's Mills, just out of the limits of the borough of Princeton, where he lived until he died. He was elected by the Whig Party State Senator from the County of Mercer, which office he held for two consecutive terms [1845-50]. His successor was Col. William C. Alexander, of Princeton. fie was treasurer of Princeton College in 1845. "In 1859, Mr. Olden was elected by the united Republican and American Parties, Governor of the State of New Jersey, and was inaugurated in January 1860. Governor Olden was no orator, but he was an exceedingly popular n1an with the masses, especially with the agricultural masses, and received the support of many farmers who belonged to the opposite party. He was treasurer of the College of New Jersey [now Princeton University], and an influential director in the State Bank of Trenton. He attended as a member the Peace Convention at Washington, which tried to avert the impending civil war. "Governor Olden rendered preeminent service to the national cause­ laboring arduously and heartily, in recruiting and equipping the full com­ plement of volunteers demanded by President Lincoln. He was well sus­ tained in his duties by the Attorney General of the State, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, who never allowed the governor's faith to falter, or his courage to fail. Being a Princeton man, patriotic and watchful over the financial interests of the State, his influence as Governor was salutary in Princeton, as it was throughout the State, giving a n1oral as well as official support to the war. CHART III OLDEN F AIIILY WILLIAM OLDEN d. Feb. 10, 1719/20 m. abt. 1685 E1iznbeth Giles I - .. - -- I I I I I I ! I I ELIZABETH SUSANNAH WILLIAM, Jr, ANNE JOHN SARAH MARY HANNAH MARGARET THOMAS b. 12-23-1687 b. 12-16-1690 b. 3-14-1693-4 b. 4-7-1695 b. 4-,'"i-lGSO b. 6-28-1697 b. 10-!!0-1099 b. 2-1-1701 b. 8-25-liO-! b. 10-18-1706 d. 1764 d. 2-18-1757 d. 11-1770 Ill. 3-20-1712 MARY BREARLEY b. 9-18-1694 d. 8-3-1766 I I I I I I I I I I WILLIAM SUSANNAH JOHN JAMES THOMAS* ELIZABETH JOSEPH SARAH DAJID MARY BENJAMIN b. 1-27-1713 h. 10-12-1715 h. 6-27-1717 h. 10-18-1719 h. 9-16-1735 h. 12-W-1722 b. 7-4-17W h. 3-20-17:?7 b. 3-24-1729 b. 3-9-1782 b. 3-11-1737 d. 10-20-1757 d. 2-1-1791 d. 9-11-1789 d. 4-5-1777? tl. 1-H-18:?6 d. 1-14-1733 d. 7-28-1786 d. 3-6-1746 d. 11-10-1702 d. ·1-1-1761 d. 8-15-1822 Ill, 7-3-1766 SARAH HART• b. 6-3-li41 d. 3-5-1773 I HART* NA~HANIEL h. 4-10-1767 h. 3-5-177:l 11. 6-3-1~-tl d. 183a Ill • 11-1-1795 TEMPERANCE SMITH• h. 5-20-1770 d. 11-3-1841 I I I I I I SARAH• OHiRLEB SMITH* JANE* JOB GARDNER* MARY SMITH* GEORGE* RUTH SAXON b. 9-1-1796 b. 2-10-1799 h. 8-:l-1801 h. 6-:!2'-1807 h. 2-:!i"-ff03' b. S-:H-1810 h. 6-18-1813 d. 3-20-1870 d. 4-7-1876 d. 2-17-18-18 d. 2-27-1876 d. 5-14-1851 d. 10-2-1837 d. 7-28-1862 Governor of N. J. Ill, 1-19-1842 1860-'63 MARIA BRENTON BOGGS• h. 3-16-1819 d. 4-13-1863 I I JULIA BOGGS MARY GARDNER CHiRLES HART* OATbRINE SAXON b. 5-23-18-1-6 b. 10-G-1849 h. 1-22-1844 b. 8-2-1852 d. 2-10-1921 d. 10-6-1925 cl. 2-l!l-1915 <1. 9-26-1922 111. 5-3-1865 ALMIRA GULICK* IJ. 2-3-1846 d. 12-9-1923 I I I I I WiiLIAM GARDNER• CHARLES SMITH* FRANK GULICK* WALTER HART* EMMA WINIFRED* GEORGE THOMAS• b. 1-16-1868 b. 3-4-1869 b. 7-9-1870 b. 3-31-1872 b. 1-31-18i5 b. 5-4-1877 d. 3-9-1913 d. 7-18-1923 d. 1-18-1903 d. 1-5-1935 d. 8-19-1876 d. 4-25-1886 Ill, 1st, 9-10-1902 CAROLINE BOHUREMAN* b. 1-23-1878 d. 6-17-1918 m. 2nd, 9-20-1019 JULIA SAXON BEATTY b. 10-9-lf..S2 I I I I .rostPH BRUERE JAMES SOHUREMAN ALICE CHARLES SMITH WALTER HART, Jr, b. 5-11-1905 b. 8-9-1907 b. 8-29-1903 b. 11-27-1910 b. 1-4-1915 Ill, 5-25-1934 Ill, 11-16-1940 Ill, 6-16-Ul.26 Ill, 7-la-1943 m. 12-15-1945 VIOLA STUVE ANNIE L, SNELLGROVE MARCUS S, WRIGHT, Jr, M. LANCASTER WILKINS HELEN E. LIVINGSTON b. 8-21-1908 b. 4-7-1916 b. 12-9-1896 b. 8-3-1916 b. 8-2-1913 I I I 1, MAhK WRIGHT 1. MARCUS S. WRIGHT, III 1. ALICE OLDEN 1, CAROLINE LIVINGSTON b. 4-22-1942 b. 12-14-1927 b. 8-30-1947 b. 6-15-HJ47 Ill. 10-18-Hr38 2, JOSEPH LEE }Ado1,ted 2. PHOEBE 2, PETER CARTER b, 5-14-1943 BEATRICE NANCY FULLER b. 4-19-1953 b. 12-10-1937 3, STEPHEN HART } Twins 3, CHARLES SMITH b. 10-13-19fj0 clau. ALEXANDRA STUART b. 10-9-1957 b. 8-26-1959 2, WALTER OLDEN WRIGHT b. 7-17-1930 m. 10-8-1960 BARBARA LOUISE WINCKLHOFER b. 8-3-1933 3, JAMES SCHURE:M.AN WRIGHT b. 12-16-1932 * Buried in the cemetery of Stony Brook Meeting, Society of Friends ( established 1709), Princeton, N. J. 90 Our Family Ties

"Governor Olden withdrew fro1n the Society of Friends, of which his parents were members, and became a member of the Episcopal Church; but for several years before his death he was a regular attendant, supporter and com1nunicant of the Second Presbyterian Church of Princeton. He was a tall and good-looking man, but very modest and retiring in his manners. He had a large estate, having received by will a prominent por­ tion of the estate of Dr. Charles Smith, of New Brunswick, whose name he bore, and who was a relative of his. He died April 7, 1876 at the age of 77 years, leaving his widow (Phoebe Ann Smith) surviving him. He was buried at Stony Brook." For a portrait of Governor Olden, see illus. 17.

THE SCHUREMAN LINE

Jacobus Schuurman m. Antje Terhune. No dates. John Schuurman, b. Feb. 27, 1729, d. July 6, 1795, m. Ann De Riemer (widow of Peter Stryker), Oct. 10, 1721, d. May 25, 1800. James Schureman, b. Feb. 12, 1756, d. Jan. 22, 1824, m. Eleanor William­ son, b. Jan. 16, 1761, d. July 15, 1823. William Willian1son Schureman, b. April 19, 1799, d. Jan. 30, 1850, m. Ann Bennett, b. Aug. 16, 1798, d. Nov. 15, 1880. James Schurcman, b. June 22, 1823, m. Hannah Cox (Kocks), b. Dec. 1828, d. l\iarch, 1901. I!oward Bishop Schure1nan, b. July 17, 1849, d. Oct. 10, 1923, m. Jan. 26, 1876, Stella Alice Hager, b. Aug. 31, 1855, d. July 5, 1915.

Their Children 1. Dr. James Perey Schureman, l\LD., b. Feb. 27, 1880, d. May 6, 1931, n1. Helen Scofield Underwood, b. June 2, 1885. 2. Caroline Schureman, b. Jan. 23, 1878, d. June 17, 1918, m. Walter Hart Olden, b. l\iarch 31, 1872, d. Jan. 5, 1935. Their daughter Alice Olden, b. Aug. 29, 1903, m. Marcus S. Wright, Jr., b. Dec. 9, 1896. THE name appears in both the Dutch, Schuurman, and the English, Schure- 1nan. In Germany about the year 1300, appears the name Hermann Scure­ man, who held in fee a piece of land at Scheuren, near Dortmund, Arnsberg, Westphalia. Later on Johann Schuremann held the same land, and other possessions. In 1371, at Arnsberg, Johann Schuyrmann was given title to various lands, among them the "Manse at Holland" for himself as well as his brothers, Everhard and Hinrich. From this line descended the famous Anna l\iaria Schuerman, distinguished as a linguist, scholar, the­ ologian, and accomplished woman. The name in this line is found also at Antwerp, Cologne, and Utrecht. On the night of October 4, 1564, Friderich von Schurman, with his wife, who was of the family of the Barons of 18. .Ja1nP~ Re1n1r0H1an and ,vifc }:lea nor "\Yi llia1• 1so11

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Lumey, Counts of la 1\!Iarck, left Antwerp for Cologne, abandoning position and property, rather than give up his evangelical faith. In the United States there is a line of Schuremans, earlier than the lineage that we are tracing in the family of Alice Olden Wright. They are assumed to be descendants of Harmen Schuerman; of whom the record is found: "1649, June 3. Release of Harman Scheurman of all claims against Cornelis Maerson, deceased, on account of the purchase of a tract of land on Man­ hattan Island."

Jacobus S chuurman, First Generation JACOBUS ScHUURMAN m. Antje Terheun, dau. of Albert Ter­ heun, of Flatbush, L.I. ; and his marriage was in 1720, or early 1721. He settled at Three Mile Run, near New Bruns­ wick, New Jersey; no doubt, he and his wife were members of the Dutch Church at Three Mile Run. The record of bp. of their children was there; and the burying-place of that Church is supposed to have received their bodies. Jacobus was a schoolmaster, and voorleser or prelector, and came to New Jersey in the company of Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frielinghuysen, on the ship '' King George.'' It was the policy of the Dutch Church in Holland to send a schoolmaster with each of their ministers to the New World. Rev. Frielinghuysen preached in New York on Jan. 17, 1720, on his way to New Jersey. He entered at once on the duties of his pastorate over the churches on the Raritan, to ,vhich he had been appointed. He settled down at Three 1\1:ile Run, and married Eve Terheun, sister to the wife of Jacobus Schureman. The Church at Raritan was organized 1696; the one at Three 7\file Run about 1703, and the one at New Brunswick, known as the '' Church of Laurenz Brook by the River," the year 1717. Frielinghuysen and Schureman lived with Hendrick Reinersz. They settled near the small church building then standing at Three 11ile Run. They were both zealous for the sound doctrine of the church, Jacobus it seems even more than Theodorus. Jacobus was received into church 1nembership on confession, April 15, 1720. He had so1ne talent in the writing of Dutch verse, which he used in de­ fense of his pastor Frielinghuysen, who had been attacked on account of his doctrine. Jacobus was the church choris­ ter, and taught school in the Dutch language. Schureman 's 92 Our Family Ties first child Ann b. Oct. 10, 1721, if the statement of her age, and the date of her death upon her tombstone are correct. He had a child Albertines, bp. April 4, 1735, after which his name is not found. The other records are probably at Three Mile Run, or Six Mile Run, which is now called Franklin Park. The children of Jacobus Schureman and Antje Terheun are recorded as follows: Anne; J acoba, bp. Feb. 2, 1724, d. 1760; she was the first wife of Archibald Thomson. l\fargaret was b. Sept. 27, 1726, d. Aug. 4, 17 45; she m. Petrus Vredenburgh. John Schureman, with whom we shall be directly interested, was b. Feb. 27, 1729, d. July 6,. 1795. He m. Mrs. Antje (De Riemer) Stryker, who was. bp. Oct. 4, 1721. The other children of Jacobus were Ferdinand, who n1. Eleanor Voorhees; Jacob (supposed), whom. Maria Van Voorhees; and Albertines, bp. April 4, 1735, in New Brunswick.

John S chureman, Second Generation JoHN ScHUREMAN was b. Feb. 27, 1729, m. Antje DeRiemer 1751. His tombstone and wife's are in the First Dutch Re­ formed churchyard, New Brunswick. His states that he d. July 6, 1795, aged 66 yrs., 4 mos.. , and 9 days. Antje De Riemer was the daughter of Isaac and Antje (Woert­ man) De Riemer, bp. New York City on Oct. 4,. 1721; how­ ever, note that the birth date as figured from her tombstone inscription in the New Brunswick Reformed churchyard ( d. May 25, 1800, aged 78.7.15) would be Oct. 10, 1721. This clash between birth and baptismal date probably represents some frailty of our forebears-either bad memory or bad arithmetic. It may be guessed that the birth date was actually in September, rather than October. Antje or Ann had been received in church membership at New Brunswick, on confession, Oct. 9, 1750, as the widow of Peter Stryker. John Schuurman settled in New Brunswick, where he had a storehouse on the Raritan River, at the foot of Dutch, now Schureman Street. It does not appear when he left Three Mile Run. A map made in 1766 has John Schureman 's name on the north side of the road, half-way between ~1:id- .Ancestral Lines 93 dlebush and Millstone: but he may have owned without occupying that land. He was admitted to church membership at New Bruns­ wick, Nov. 2, 1752, and was chosen deacon, along with Archi­ bald Thomson Oct. 25, 1754. The churches of the Raritan group had been incorporated June 7, 1753. The church building, which was then standing at the corner of Burnet and Dutch streets, had been erected about 1714; and 1717 it was determined that it should be "known as belonging to the people of Laurenz Brook'': and the two consistories were to meet as one on matters of importance. John Schuur­ man was an elder of the church in 1765, and was appointed chairman of the building committee in Sept. of that year. The new building was erected in a new location, and was occupied in the autumn of 1767. The old lot was sold to John Schuurman. He was elder again in 179-3. On the 24th of Aug., he signed the call for Rev. Dr. Ira Condict, and he headed the subscription list. '' In the church he was con­ spicuous for an unaffected piety, fervent zeal, and fruitful benevolence.'' He was a subscriber to the fund to meet the last payment on the parsonage at Millstone, and his sub­ scription ,vas 2 pounds 5 shillings. John Schuurman was active and influential in the Revolutionary struggle. The Provincial Congress assembled at Trenton, May 23, 1775, and among the deputies were Col. John Schureman and Col. David Williamson, who were also members of the Pro­ vincial House of Assembly. A Provincial Convention had met at New Brunswick July 21-23, 1774, and had appointed a general Committee of Correspondence for the whole province, with authority to call a Provincial Congrees when­ ever they should think necessary. News of the Battle of Lexington had been received April 24th, and on May 2nd the Committee had met at New Brunswick and called the Congress. John Schureman was on this Committee. August 17 the Congress adjourned to the 20th day of Sept. after having appointed a Committee of Safety, to exercise their powers during recess : John Schureman was on this Com­ mittee of Safety. In 1783 John Schureman was offered the position of State Treasurer, but declined. He ''was a very estimable member of society. Such were the expressions of respect entertained 94 Our Family Ties for the endowments of his head, and the excellent qualities of his heart, that he frequently elected a member of the legislature, and was appointed one of the judges of the county.'' His children were: Margaret, b. Jan. 20, 1752, m. Peter Vredenburgh, Jr., July 30, 1786; Catrina bp. Aug. 25, 1754; James, b. Feb. 12, 1756, d. Jan. 22, 1824; Isaac, hp. Dec. 31, 1758, died young, of small-pox, which destroyed the right eye of his brother James and killed Isaac and William, sons of James; Elizabeth, hp. Aug. 9, 1761, m. David Nevius.

James S chureman, Third Generation JAMES ScHUREMAN was an important forefather in the line­ age of Alice Olden Wright, b. Feb. 12, 1756, in New Bruns­ wick; bp. there on Feb. 15, just three days later. He attended Queens College, now R,utgers, and was graduated 1773. His name appears in the catalogue in the lustrum 1771-75. The Committee of Safety of Ne,v Jersey, the 10th of Jan. 1776, appointed him second lieutenant, in Captain John Taylor's Company, in Col. John Neilson 's battalion of minutemen. Later it was through his example, and plead­ ings at public meetings, that a company was raised in New Bruns-\vick, which served ,vith great credit in the Battle of Long Island. James Schureman was an officer in Captain Guest's command at the interception of Col. Simcoe. On the 25th of Oct. he saved the life of Col. Simcoe and took him prisoner instead. Early in the year 1777, Schureman, wi.th his cousin John Thomson was captured by the British cavalry, on Laurence Brook, at which was afterwards Bergen Mill, three miles south of New Brunswick. They were confined for a short time in a guardhouse in New Bruns,vick, and then were trans£erred to the '' Sugar House Prison,'' in New York City, on the southerly side of Liberty Street. They escaped through a hole in the wall; and securing a small boat with one oar, they paddled over to Pouel's Hoek, where they went to the Patriot army at Morristown, N.J. After the War he was a representative in the General Assembly of New Jersey for several years, 1783 to 1788; and then a member of the Council, 1808 to 1812. In this .Ancestral Lines 95 last year he was vice-president of the Council, which office corresponded with the presidency of the Senate. In 1786 he was one of three delegates from New Jersey, to the con­ vention of delegates from six states, which met at Annap­ olis. In 1786-87 he was a member of the Continental Con­ gress, and in 1789-91 of the First United States Congress. He served twice again in Congress, 1797-99 and 1813-15. In 1799 he succeeded John Rutherfurd as. a member of the United States Senate. He was a trustee of Queens College (now Rutgers University), 1782-95; treasurer of the Col­ lege for many years. A portrait of James Schureman hangs in Kirkpatrick Chapel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J. James Schureman m. Eleanor Williamson, dau. of David and Eleanor Schuyler Williamson, on Jan. 28, 1778. The Williamsons were of Scotch blood. Eleanor's parents were members of the Presbyterian Church at Cranbury, New Jersey; and her father kept the stage-house at Rhode Hall, near Cranbury. Schureman was a merchant at New Bruns­ wick, and his house and store were on Burnet Street, at the foot of Schureman Street; which was later named for him. He was mayor of the city from 1801 to 1813, and from 1821 to 1824. Rev. Dr. Isaac Ferris said of him, ''Mr. James Schureman was a noble specimen of a man, highly intelli­ gent and judicious, and possessed of general influence, and of large and liberal views. He had seen much of public life, in honorable positions, and was qualified for the leading place which others assigned him.'' In 1783 he purchased a place at One Mile Run, which remained in the family for more than one hundred years. It was occupied in succession by his sons James and William, and by James, son of Wil­ liam. vVe read in .A History of Trenton by Trenton Historical Society, Vol. I, p. 251 : '' At the beginning of the nineteenth century, travel and cartage became so great that turnpike companies were chartered in all sections of the East. The present Brunswick Pike is the result of the chartering of the Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike Company of November 14, 1804. The Incorporators were James Ewing, Joshua Wright, John Neilson, James Schureman and Thomas Hill. '' 96 Our Family Ties He d. on the 22nd of January 1824; he and his wife are bur. in First Reformed churchyard, Neilso::1 St., New Brunswick, N.J.

William Williamson Schureman, Fourth Generation WILLIAM WILLIAMSON ScHUREMAN was b. April 19, 1799, d. of smallpox on Jan. 30, 1850, m. Dec. 5, 1822, Ann Bennett, daughter of John Bennett, and granddaughter of James Bennett, at one time mayor of New Brunswick, N.J. She was b. Aug. 16, 1798, d. Nov. 15, 1880. William was at first a merchant at New Brunswick. Afterward he settled on the farm at One 1\1ile Run, which had belonged to bis father, and bad been occupied by his brother James. It was there that he died. This property was purchased by his father in 1783, and was subsequently occupied by William's son James Schureman. The children of William Williamson Schureman and .Anne Bennett were: James, b. June 22, 1823, d. Nov. 22, 1901, m. Hannah Rattoon Kocks; Susan Bennett, b. Feb. 2, 1827, and d. April 14, that same year; and William vVilliamson, Jr., b. Dec. 13, 1829, in New Bruns­ wick, d. Aug. 15, 1842. William Schureman and -wife bur. First Reformed Dutch churchyard, Neilson St., New Bruns­ wick, N.J.

James Schureman, Fifth Generation JAMES ScHUREMAN, b. June 22, 1823, presumably at the One l\1ile Run home which was purchased by his father in 1783. He was bp. Oct. 18, 1823, at New Brunswick, N.J. He d~ at the residence of his son in Franklin Park, N.J., on Nov. 22, 1901. Hem. on June 20, 1848, at New Brunswick, N.J., Hannah Rattoon Kocks, b. Dec. 23, 1828, daughter of Henry Christopher and Mary Mattox (Van Nostrand) Kocks. James succeeded to the ownership and occupation of the farm of his grandfather Schureman, at the One 11ile Run; which remained in the family over one hundred years. He lived afterward at Voorhees Station, on the 1\1illstone rail­ road, near the first settlement of the family. It was there that Hannah d. in :I\1arch 1901. The children of James Schureman and Hannah R. I{ocks : Howard Bishop Schure- 19.

Fo1.'"H GEXEHAT1oxs: ~I arr S1Jc111ec Gnlick, StPlla ....\liec Ilag:c1· Scln11·e111a11, Caroli nc ( }nliek I-fc1 °·er Carolin(: < , :-, ' Schure111a11 Olden

20. Forn GEXEHAT1oxs: (\u·olinc Gulick I-lager, Stella .A..lice I-lager Schurcn1c111, Caroline Schure111an Olden, .....\liec Olden \\... right ( age 17 1nouths)

Ancestral Lines 97 e. man, b. July 17, 1849, m. Stella A. Hagar, on Jan. 26, 1876; Henrietta Kocks Schureman, b. July 20, 1850, d. Feb. 10, 1877, m. James Edgar Powelson Nov. 20, 1873; Mary H. Campbell Schureman, b. July 12, 1854, d. Nov. 20, 1876. James Schureman and wife were bur. in the Morris Street cemetery, behind the Public Library, Livingston Ave., New Brunswick, N.J.

Howard Bishop Schureman, Sixth Generation HowARD BrsHOP ScHUREMAN, b. July 17, 1849, d. Oct. 10, 1923, m. Jan. 26, 1876, Stella Alice Hager, b. Aug. 31, 1855, d. July 51 1915, dau. of Albert H. and Caroline Gulick Hager of Central N e,v York. Howard Bishop was an inventor as well as a manufacturer of axes and hatchets in Newark, N.J. He later lived in retirement at Princeton and Franklin Park, N.J., and died at the residence of his only son in New Bruns,vick, N.J. was bur. there beside his wife in Elm­ wood Cemetery. Children: Caroline, b. Jan. 23, 1878, d. June 17, 1918, m. Walter Hart Olden; James Percy, b. Feb. 27, 1880, d. 11:ay 6, 1931. For a continuation of this line, see the Olden Family.

DR. JAMES PERCY SCHUREMAN, M.D. Brother of Caroline Schureman DR. JAMES PER.CY ScHUREMAN, b. Feb. 27, 1880, d. May 6, 1931, was the brother of Caroline Schureman, the wife of Walter H. Olden and mother of Alice Olden Wright, through whom this lineage continues. He was graduated from Princeton Univ., B.A., June, 1901, and received his medical education at the Univ. of l\fichigan, at Ann Arbor. He resided at 92 Bayard St., New Brunswick, N.J., where he practiced his profession. He m. Oct. 19, 1910, Helen Scofield Underwood, b. June 2, 1885, of Newark, N.J. During America's participation in the European war he enlisted as 1st lieut., Medical Corp; honorably discharged April, 1919, and until Oct., 1929, held rank of major in the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army. He was affiliated with the First Reformed Church, New Brunswick, N.J. It was said of him at his death that he knew, as others had known for some time that his health was collapsing and that a long rest was imperative. He had been frequently ad·vised to leave his practice and go away for a time but he placed the welfare of his many patients above that of his own. He was that kind of a doctor and that kind of a man. He was whole­ hearted and generous to a fault. The indigent he attended with as great a 98 Our Family Ties care and patience as the affluent. He died at the Middlesex Hospital and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick, N.J. Children: 1. Helen, b. March 2, 1913, attended Pine Manor College and New Jersey College for Women; m. Oct. 22, 1937, Dr. Joseph T. L. Nicholson, b. March 17, 1911, grad. Princeton University 1933 and University of Penna. Medical School 1937; their children: Helen Katherine, b. Oct. 2, 1940; Roberta, b. March 30, 1943; Jean Anne, b. March 28, 1950. Reside Devon, Penna. 2. James, b. Feb. 18, 1915; grad. Yale University, B.A. 1937; m. March 21, 1942, Emily Ward Ford Glover, b. Aug. 18, 1920; their children: Emily, b. May 5, 1943, d. Aug. 16, 1956; James Percy Schureman II, b. June 9, 1948; Rosette Suckley, b. Oct. 14, 1953. Reside Princeton, N.J. 3. Alice, b. Sept. 3, 1921, grad. Duke Univ., B.A. 1942, Phi Beta Kappa; m. J\1:arch 6, 1943, James McAllister Vogdes, b. March 15, 1917, grad. Duke University, B.A. 1940; their children: James McAllister III, b. Sept. 17, 1945; Christine Ellen, b. Aug. 9, 1956. Reside Collingswood, N.J. Appendix A Some letters of Annie Snedeker Wright which will serve to show her interest in genealogical research pertaining to her family are quoted belo-\v. For the most part, the orig­ inals, have been followed exactly, despite inconsistencies in form, spelling, etc. April 16, 1934. From Aunt Annie Snedeker Wright (Family Genealogist), 440 A 6th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. For Joan McBride Knote: Middlesex County, South River, New Jersey.

DEAR JOAN, The small silver teaspoon marked "C. H. L." which I recently gave you is one hundred and three years old, as your Great, Great Grandmother, Catherine Hoagland, was married to Garret Isaac Snedeker on February 22, 1831. She is numbered "338", in Carpenter's Hoagland Family in America." See pages 171-223. She was a descendant of Sarah Rapelje who was born June 9, 1625 at Fort Orange, now Albany, New York, and died 1685. So you, thru your mother, Mabel A. Wright Knote, are a descendant of the first female white child born in New Netherlands, now New York State of European parents. References: See Bergen's "Bergen Family" for colored picture of many Coats of Arms including those of de Rapelje, Van Bergen, Schenck, etc. The Hoagland coat of arms consists of Three Crowns of Gold-Field-Azure Purple raisins-Field-Argent. References: Early Settlers of Kings County T. G. Bergen page 32. Colonial Dames of New York Society Ancestors page 466. Joris Jansen de Rapelje (1600-1665) from France to New Netherlands in 1623, married Catalina Trico born in 1605, daughter of George Trico of Paris. First Families in America, Volume IV, pages 764-732-733, by Hoagland. Abridged Compendium American Genealogy; First Family Ancestors in America) page 740; Ancestry by Neale. Stiles' History of Brooklyn & Kings County; New Yo·rk Genealogical and Biography Record) 46-1915. Daughters of Holland Society, page 84; Proceedings of New Jersey History Society, page 521, Volume 13. Snedeker-Snedeger, etc. Bergen's Kings County New York Settlers pages 266-268. Bergen's Queen County New York History page 249. Register of Colonial Dames New Jersey Society New York Society page 530-Jan Snedeker-Delegate to Convention held at Flatbush 1664. Magis­ trate of Midwout 1654-1658 etc. (Midwout now Midwood, Brooklyn, New York.) American Ancestry page 4. History of Union & Middlesex Coun-

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ties New Jersey: Clayton. Jan Snedeker-Cadet 1640. Came here, at least in 1640. Was Delegate from Midwout to Convention at New Orange 1674. Jan Snedeger ( Snedicor-Patentee) was one of the original proprietors­ Patents granted-1651-1652 the part of Flatbush-Old Town. A second Patent was granted in 1656 to the inhabitants of :rviidwout­ title to a parcel of meadow-ground or valley lying in East-North East of Canarsie Indian planting lands. This tract is known as Canarsie Meadows. This is the only original Dutch Patent of any part of the town which has been discovered. In 1684, the English Governor ordered Dutch Patents and Deeds taken to office of Secretary of New York, destroyed or sent to England. The object of this was to cause towns to take out new Patents and thus not only acknowledge the English Governor but to increase the revenue of English Government. Patent granted to John Snedeker by Petrus Stuyvesant January 24, 1662. Will of Jan Snedeger and Egbertie Jansen, his wife; December 12, 1677, dated-Flatbush Town Recorded Liber Docket page 338. Will of Gerritt Snedeker and Elsie, his wife-October 10, 1688, dated­ Flatbush Town Recorded Liber A page 118 New Book page 247-Com­ missioner of Records Kings County, 1670-1708.

Will of Garret Snedeker of Midwout, Dated April 201 1692-Proved May 8, 1693. Registrants office Borough Hall, Brooklyn Commissioner of Records Office. Descent from First Female white child of European Parents born in New Netherland, now New York State:

Genealogy I. Hans Hansen Bergen, born in Bergen, Norway 1625; died about 1654, came from Norway 1633 to New Amsterdam and married in 1639 Sarah de Rapelje widow of Jan de Clerck, Born June 9, 1625 at Fort Orange, now Albany, New York, died 1685, Daughter of Joris Jansen de Rapelje and of Catalina Trico his wife, born 1605 daughter of George Trico of Paris, Thrice married and third marriage to Tunis Gysbert Bogart.

Genealogy II. Annetje Hansen Bergen-first husband Marten Ryerse from Amsterdam, married October 8, 1662. Dirck Jansen Hogeland, born 1635; second husband came from Moerseveen, Province of Utrecht, Holland in 1657; second marriage to Elizabeth.

Genealogy III. Hendrick Hogeland Baptized at Flatbush 1679. Died prior to April 21, 1746. Married Sarah Hogeland born about 1680, daughter of Adrian and Annetje Schenck Ryerse page 39, Long Island, probably Flatbush.

Genealogy IV. Abraham (Hogeland) Hoagland born about 1710; died about 1793; Long Island, probably Flatbush. Married Johanna Stoothof, daughter of Elbert Stoothof, Somerset County, New Jersey. See will of Elbert Stoothof volume 3; 1751-1760, Somerset County Yeoman. See Stryker Volume 22 first series page 312, New Jersey Col. Document, see Marriage License, New Jersey page 183-Hanna of Somerset, May 9, 1741. Ancestral Lines 101

Genealogy V. Elbert Hoagland, Sr. born 1745, died 1810-page 202. Married Johanna Stoothoff daughter of John and Nielje Stoothof of Six Mile Run ( now in 1957 Franklin Park, New Jersey, six miles west of New Brunswick), New Jersey. Genealogy VI. Elbert Hoagland, Date of will October 27, 1829, Proved January 11, 1830, Voluffie 3 pages 1252-2219, baptized Six Mile Run (now Franklin Park, New Jersey) February 21, 1779; Married First wife Catherine Gulick born 1784; died 1814, Book by Stryker, Grandfather of Catherine and Anne. His second marriage to Ann B. Gulick, sister of Catherine born 1788; died about 1867; See Stryker 1, Somerset County page 631. Both of Elbert's wives are buried in First Presbyterian Church­ yard, Cranbury, N.J. Genealogy VII. Catherine Hoagland born 1810, died 1876, South River, Middlesex County, New Jersey. See Hoagland's Family in America page 223; married Garret I. Snedeker February 22, 1831. This Garret born 1807 Cranbury, New Jersey, died 1883, South River, New Jersey. Both are buried in Monumental Cemetery, South River, New Jersey. Genealogy VIII. Gitty Ann Snedeker born 1837 Cranbury, New J er­ sey, died April 1904, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Married May 12, 1859 by Reverend Thomas D. Hoover at Second Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, New Jersey to William Wright, born February 6, 1810 in London, England, died November 16, 1889 New York City; Will of William Wright Probated December 19, 1889 liber 429 page 116, Hall of Records Surrogates Court, Chambers Street, New York City, New York. Gitty is buried Monumental Cemetery, South River, New Jersey; William buried Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York. . ., Sometime I shall send to you more data which may be useful to you when you are older and wish to unite with some society. From AUNT ANNIE WR.IGHT •

.Addendum See Carpenter's Hoagland Family in America. }.i!ap of Old New Am­ sterdam shows location of land belonging to Hans Hansen Bergen, lying between the lot of Jan Snedeger and that of Joris Jansen de Rapelje, outside the fort, on what is now Pearl Street, New York City. "American Genealogy" by Holgate, has a family tree of Joris Jansen de Rapelje extract: France by her cruel and horrible persecutions had expelled hundreds of thousands of her most enlightened and wealthy citi­ zens. Many took refuge in Holland, the only government that cherished the true principles of toleration etc. The first yielding to the temptation to emigrate to the banks of the Hudson was the family of Rapelje, so Joris Jansen de Rapelje and his brother William took passage to New Amster­ dam. Gaspard Colet de Rapalje was born in France in Chatillon, Sur Loir in 1505 and during reigns of Francis I and Henry was made a Colonel of Infantry, December 22, 1545. He became a Protestant and when the 102 Our Family Ties

King in 1548 began to enforce edicts against the Protestants, he was compelled to :flee to Holland. Here he married the daughter of Victor Antoine Jannsen of Antwerp by whom he had three children. Nearly opposite New Amsterdam, east of city of Brooklyn, near the Navy Yard is a small bay or cove known as W alle-Boght-Walloon-Bay-as Rapalje or others who followed him were Walloons. On the point of land formed by this Cove, was built the first house on Long Island inhabited by Joris Jansen de Rapalje, one of the first white settlers on Long Island. Here lived Sarah de Rapalje, daughter of Joris Jansen de Rapalje and Catalina Trico, the First white female child born in New Netherlands of European parents. September 19, 1709 names of Christian Snedecore and John Snedecore listed as Elders of the Dutch Congregation in Queens County, Long Island, in a petition in favor of the Reverend Mr. Freeman. New Netherland Register pages 76 and 77 Jan Snediker May 3, 1660; Delegate for "Con­ vention holden at i\:lidwout, Long Island for the purpose of sending a delegate to Holland to lay before the States General and West India Company the distressed condition of the country," etc. Gerrit Snediger, Patentee January 24, 1664, 27 morgens, 240 rods of land on west side of road north of the church land and 7½ morgens of valley of Midwout-Long Island-Flatbush. Patentee-one and a half miles thru to Parade Grounds to New Utrecht line and other lands: See Colonial Daughters of New York Historical Manuscript Part 1 in Dutch 1630-1664. Joris J anse de Rapelje was a descendant of a noble family from Brittany, a Hugenot, fled France to Holland. Thence in "Unity" to New Amsterdam in 1623, on to Fort Orange, now Albany, in 1623, where his daughter Sarah, was born. Later he resided at Wallabout-Was a Magis­ trate-One of the "Twelve Men". md. Catatyntie (B. 1605-D. 1689) dau. of Joris Trico of Paris. Ostrander's Hist. of Bklyn. & Kings Co. P. 30 . .Joris Janse de Rapelje was one of the Walloon emigrants who came over with Peter Minuit in 1623-First residence was at Fort Orange ( now Albany). In 1626 he removed to New Amsterdam. In June 1637, he bought a tract adjacent the Rennejackonk, a little Long Island stream ent. the East River at the Wahlebocht (Wallabout) (335 acres). A part of this land is now the Marine Hospital. At this time, Rapelje lived on the north side of the River Road ( now Pearl St.) and on the South side of the fort. In about 1654, he moved to W allabout-Served as a Magistrate in Breuekelen (Brooklyn) 1655. Part of the time he was in New .,A.msterdam he was an innkeeper. Aug. 1641-he was one of the "Twelve Men" to rep. Manhattan, Breuckelen, and Pavonia in considering measures in dealing with the Indians. Rapeljes son-in-law (H. H. Bergen) had extensive lands (farm). In 1664, patents were issued to Hoagland and others for lands. He lived in Brook­ lyn. Probably the same as Dirck Jansen of W allabout. Dirck J anse H oog­ landt 1635-1734. From Moorsseveen, Utrecht 1657 to New Netherland. Founder of Village of Bedford, with permission of Gov. Stuyvesant 1664. Patentee of Bedford 1644. Rec'd. Magistrate's Testimonial of Court of Overseer of Brookland 1678-83. Took oath of allegiance in Flatbush 1687. Hoogland means Highland. Dirck J anse Hoogland md. on Oct. 8, 1662 to Ancestral Lines 103

Annetje Hansen Bergen) dau. of Hans Hansen Bergen and Sarah Rapelje. Sarah de Rapelje md. 3 times; the first time when she was between 14 & 15 years old to Jan de Clerck (1st) 1639-Hans Hansen Bergen (2nd) Tunis Gisbert Bogart (3rd). She became the ancestor of Polhemuses, Bergens, Bogarts and many other of the most notable families of Kings County.

From Aunt Annie Wright) to Alice Olden Wright) about April 2J 1933 The Graycourt 124 West 82 Street New York

DEAR ALICE: Enclosed you will find the genealogy of Almira Gulick which I came across last week at the Library. It might interest you as I imagine it is that of the A. G. from whose spoon I sipped and also the one whose in­ scription I read at the Quaker Cemetery.... Copied March 29, 1933, from New York Genealogy and Biography Records Volume 38-1907. Page 304. New York Public Library: Genea­ logical Record in one line of Gulick Family contributed by .A.rnatt Reading Gulick, M.D. 1st Generation: Hendrick Gulick and his wife, Geertruyt Willekins, came to this country from Holland in 1653 with their two children Jan and Jochem. 2nd Generation: J ochem ( died 1711) Gulick, son of Hendrick Gulick, born in Holland-married J acomyntie Van Pelt. 3rd Generation: Johannes Gulick, died 1751, son Jochem Gulick, born 1695, Gravesend, Long Island, New York, married Reinshe Van Sicklen. 4th Generation: Joachim Gulick, b. 9-27-1724, d. 12-26-1803, son of Johannes Gulick born in Harlingen, Somerset County, New Jersey. Mar­ ried Rebecca Emans. 5th Generation: William Gulick, son of Joachim Gulick, born in Kingston, Middlesex County, New Jersey, February 22, 1775; died 7/30/1865; married Elizabeth King Henry, daughter of Col. James Henry. 6th Generation: Alexander Gulick, son of William Gulick, was born in Princeton, Mercer County, New Jersey on June 14, 1820, died March 31, 1884. Married Almira Reading, daughter of Judge Robert Kennedy Reading. P. S. In marriage Records New Jersey Archives, there is a record of: Gulick, Joachim, Somerset, and Rebecca Emans, Middlesex, 1751, Novem­ ber 30.

Appendix B Inscription from the headstones of some Snedeker and allied families, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Cranbury, N. J.

The grave of Garret Snedeker He died August 1, 1825 in the 84th year of his age. "Weep not for me The days of my mourning are ended"*

Craig Snedeker• Maria Snedeker• [Infant] [Infant]

In Memory of Margaret Snedeker, First wife of Garret Snedeker, who departed this life J\,Iay 9, 1791 in the 46th year of her age. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord"*

In Memory of Ursula Snedeker, Second wife of Garret Snedeker, who departed this life September 15, 1792 in the 40th year of her age. "Be thou faithful until death and I will give thee a crown of life"*

In Memory of Gitty Snedeker, Third wife of Garret Snedeker, who departed this life December 16, 1811; in the 65th year of her age. "The righteous is taken uway from the evil to come"* 105 106 Our Family Ties

Sacred to the memory of Abraham G. Snedeker, Who was born April 16, 1778 and departed this life November 1, 1823. "As I am now so you must be, Prepare in time to follow me"

In Memory of ~Iary First wife of Abraham G. Snedeker who departed this life, February 10th, 1810; 28 years, 24 days. "Low at thy feet oh Lord i bow Oh pity and forgive Here will i be and wait till thou Shall bid me rise and Live."

In Memory of Sarah Second wife of Abraham G. Snedeker who departed this life March 8, 1815 ; 33 years, 24 days. "Enter with but a serious thought Consider who is near This is a consecrated spot The Lord is present here."

In Memory of Ann Late the wife of Isaac G. Snedeker, who died November 18, 1830 in the 49th year of her age. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. All you that read may plainly see This world is nothing more to me But you that do in this world Eve Prepare your last account to give."*

In Memory of Catherine Ann Who died September 28, 1832; age 9 months, 1 day; daughter of Catherine and Garret I. Snedeker. "Sleep sweet babe in the dust Until God calls thee to rest."* Ancestral Lines 107

In Memory of Catherine Wife of Elbert Hogeland, who departed this life, August 19, 1814, aged 30 years and 6 months. "Great God attend to my complaint Nor let my drooping spirit faint When foes in secret spread the snare Let my salvation be Thy care"

My Mother's Grave Ann B. Gulick (2nd) Wife of Elbert Hoagland. Died February 27, 1867. Aged 79 years, 10 months and 8 days. "My Grace shall be Sufficient for Thee"

(Nearby headstone of Christie, a non-relative. Marcus S. Wright, Jr., had lettering recut because of its unusual headstone inscrip­ tion. Next to the James Chambers Crypt.)* Here Lies the Body of William Christie Native of Scotland a.nd late merchant of Philadelphia, who was cut off in the flower of his youth by falling from the stage coach near Cranbury, New Jersey on the 14th of October, 1796. He was killed on the spot.

Beneath this stone are deposited the remains of James Chambers, Who died September 6, 1785 in the 85 years of his age, and of Ann, his wife Who departed this life July 5, 1784 in her 52nd year. Near this tomb lie the remains of their two children Alexander and James who died in infancy•

* The asterisks indicate headstones having letters recut by M. S. Wright, Jr., in Dec., 1958.