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No 102 04 T T s 1 11 SAN M E . . SO S RE

1876.

Th e foll o w i n g co r re sp o nde nce w ill e xpla in t h e a pp e a ra nce in p r int of thi s His t or i c a l Di sco u rs e :

l P E xxl xc r ox, Ju y 5, 1876.

E v B. E HA R . D G E O GE LE — D EAH BROTH ER Pl e a s e a cc e pt o u r s ince re th a nk s fo r t h e inte re s ting a n d e la bo

a e se r m o e e e i n o u r c u c J u 2d 1876 so a o r a e t o t h e Ge e r t n d liv r d h r h ly , , ppr p i t nt n

a e a o f o u r a o W e w e a r e a ﬁ e t o k o w h a s h a l ﬁ n d a sa e ni l y r n ti n . hil g r ti d n t t it l f

a ce t h e a ch e s of t h e P s b e r a H s o r c a Soc e w e a s k t h e r e e of pl in r iv re yt i n i t i l i ty, p ivil g h a v u b s e a w e m a h a e o u r ome s a n d e e t o t h e ma ing it p li h d, th t y v it in h xt nd it ny c o se a e t o o u r Ch u ch w os e h s o r i s a a ce u r o e h a o u r a o a l ly lli d r , h i t y h lf nt y ld r t n n ti n l e xi s te nce .

T a s t or . DA E L R . F S ER P NI O ,

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F S OH . H N Y . I J S E B U R D D A L C . T xr t s E R B E RR E , , e , ,

r x AM . K E T HA x E xO CH A . T i c s XA T H . H A R T S U EL B C , JO A S , , ‘

. S M H HA R T BS S VA S VE OHN . M UTHHE TD J T JO . CL E J G I , , , W S R A Z A m A H HO ST G EORG E O O E Y JOH E . B U D , LS , ,

A P H E E T V E S THA S S . HA T R L G . PE ER . D . SCH SCK , JO A E ,

A W . D ANI . a s N T V . L ELL EL C JO A HAN B CK ,

R AL P H E O E .

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. O T a n d h e To R E V DANIEL R . F ER S , t

E e s D e a co s a n d T r u s e e s O f Pe t o Ch u ch . ld r , n t nning n r — BE LO V ED BE E T HE E x z I che e r fu lly co mply w ith t h e re q u e s t co nta in e d in you rs

of h 5 h s s o r bl a o . t e t . a n d a c e t h e sc ou e ou h a s f u c in t , pl di r in y r nd p i ti n

W s ce e e a s o u s e e ith in r r g rd , y r v r,

GE O R GE HAL E .

A t t h e m e e o f t h e G e e a A s se mb of t h e P e s b e r a n Ch u ch h e M a ting n r l ly r yt i r , ld y ,

1875 C e e a h o t h e ol o w i e so u o s w e e a do e , in l v l nd, O i , f l ng r l ti n r pt d

' Th a t h e ﬁ s a u l 18 6 de s i a e a o 1. S bba J 7 b e n t d a s da f h a k s t r t th in y, , g y t n g iving a n d a s e t o Go d for t h e ma o b e s si s w w He h a s o w u s pr i , nif ld l ng ith hich cr n e d a s a p e o pl e . “ ‘ 2. Th a t h e a s o o f e a c ch u c h e e a sco u s e o n a da i f n o t r e t p t r h r d liv r di r th t y , p

” s vi o u sl o e o n t h e H o of h i s C h u c . y d n , i t ry r h

I E HISTO RICAL D SCO URS .

T LL E YO U CH ILD N AND E YO U CHI LD N T LL TH I E Y R RE OF IT , L T R RE E E R — 3 l . CHI N TH I CHILD N AN TH N ATI N . oe L DR O G R O J . E , AND E R RE ER E E i

IT is just t w o hundred yea rs yesterday since t h e oldP r ovi n ce L i n e Ne w , the division line between East

ﬁ x e d—a Jersey and West New Jersey, was compromise of vast importance t o the peace and prosperity of New

w a s Jersey . This concluded by a deed between George Carteret Of the on e part and the trustees of 1 Edward Billinge on the other . July , 2 1 4 I 0 66 I . n Already, March , , Charles , Ki g of Great

t n n Britain , had , by royal charter, made an ex e sive gra t of territory in America to his brother James , the Duke f 2 f o . 3 d o York On the June , in the same year, James conveyed to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkley the section which was then for the ﬁrst time named New

Jersey, with boundaries corresponding exactly with the present limits of this State . Sir George Carteret sold t out his right in the part, which subsequently bore he

of Fe n w i ck e fo r name West Jersey , to John , as trustee t Edward Billinge and others . This sec ion having been divided into one hundred parts and distributed among

the proprietors , the tract called the thirty thousand 6 acres above the Falls of the D elaware fell to the lo t of

w h o on 20t h Thomas Sadler and Edward Billinge , , the

1685 ou t of October, , sold their title and interest to

Dr . Daniel Cox , Of London . This is the original town

of of ship Hopewell, the ﬁrst accurate survey which 103 extant is to be found in the Book of Surveys , page ,

f of in the o ﬁce the Secretary of State at Trenton , hav “ ing the marginal note R e -survey of Hopewell tract

Col . CO X for ,

P T M B 1 S 0 . E E ER , 7 7

Resurveyed then for Coll . Daniel Cox , his tract of land called Hope well , beginning at the upper corner of the same by the river Delaware , lo w at a whit e oak corner in the land , and runs thence East South East c fourty hain to a markt maple and hickory for a corner , then east three hundred and one chain to a white oak for a corner , then north by west one hundred and sixty ﬁve chain to a white oak corner , then East two hundred sixty four chain to a white oak corner , then again East two hundred and fourty chains to a white oak corner in a line Called the n Scotch line , or line of partitio between East and West Jersey , then along the said line neare South South West four miles and thirty two

o a k chains to a white corner in the line of Maidenhead Indian purchase , a then alonge the s id line , south west and south south west to the head

O f Sh a b b a con ck a creek called little , then south west to a creek called Sh a b b a kon k ﬁ ve t Great , then down by the same y six chaine to a tree for markt a corner on the south west side thereof, the south west eighty h li i cke r two c ain to a y corner to land surveyed to Thomas Hutchinson , then by the same North West two hundred eighty ﬁve chaines to a hick

' r r n e r e y co by the land surveyed to Pope and Wetherill , then bounded by the same by a line North East seventy three chains and East by

f E le a ve n South ourty nine chaine , and South chaine and East by South

ﬁ ve t y six chaine , and North by East one hundred and three chaines and f a hal e , and west sixty four chains , and South West by West one hundred h i k e r De lla w a r f and ninety eight chaine to a c y corner at the a oresaid , and so bounded up by the said river to the . ﬁrst mentioned corner con i taining one and thirty thousand acres besides allowances for h g h w a y e s .

DANI L L DS . Resurveyed by me , E EE

- of Dr . Daniel Coxe owned twenty two shares propri

w a s of 1687 169 0 ety, Governor West Jersey from to , 7

169 1 a n dappointed Edward Hunlock his deputy . In he conveyed the government of West Jersey and terri tories to a company of proprietaries called the West

su m Jersey Society, for the of nine thousand pounds ’ 19 0 sterling . (Smith s N . J . pp . , Possibly it was this conveyance of the right of gov e r n me n t that furnished the pretext for the sale Of the

u of n merous tracts land in Hopewell and Maidenhead , to parties who were afterwards ejected from their lands

because the title under Thomas Revell was not valid .

Of this more hereafter . It may be interesting to know that there is every reason to believe that the land in this region was fairly f f purchased o the Indians . We have here a O opy o the

Adlor d deed from the Indian Chiefs to Bowde , Agent f o . Dr Daniel Coxe, as follows

’ se n t Te la o To all people to whom this p writing shall come , Hoham , p

M e h e ki h u e Ca e r n on i cko n Na h u si n M e h k a e ka n pamun , g , p , g , and Sha

Sa ch i m a ch e r s O f wonne , Indian and owners of the following tract land

O f in the Province West Jersey , send greeting , Know ye that the said Indian Sa ch i m a ch e r s and owners O f the Tract of land hereinafter mentioned for and in consideration of one hundred

' D u ﬁ u lds fathoms of wampum , Tenne stript Dutch , Tenne broad stea w e lw a t e r m a t ch r ole s m a t ch r ole s sixty , Thirty Gunns , Twenty Kettles ,

' ﬁor t Ha t ch e t t s f Twenty shirts , y pair of stocking s , Eighty , two hal O f Anchors powder , one hundred knives , one hundred and twenty O f O f H barres of lead , sixty pounds shott, one Anchor umme , Two Bar O f R e a dle a d rels Beere , Three pounds of , Three hundred pipes , Three Adlo r d hundred needles , and Three Anchors of tobacco , by Bowde now I m ’ch a n t o a fo r e s‘ of Burlington , and within ye Province of West Jers y at and before the sealing and delivery hereof for and on the b e h a lfe of Gov’n O ' O f Daniell Coxe , Esqr the said Province to them the said Indian Sa ch i m a ch e r s and owners in hand paid whereof and wherewith they doe f ’ hereby acknowledge themselves fully contented s a t i s y d. Have

' a l e n e d e n fe oﬁ e d granted bargained and sold , y , and conﬁrmed , and by

do these presents fully clearly and absolutely grant, bargain and sell ,

‘ a l e n e n fe oﬁe t h e Adlor d a n d y , and conﬁrm unto said Bowde , for to the 8

only proper use behoofs of the said Daniel Coxe and his Heirs As f sig ns orever , All that and those tract and tracts of land beginning at a white oak markt on fouer sides being on the South South west side of Sh a b b i cu n ck Creek by the roadside leading to New York three miles

St a n n l a n ds from the Delaware River or three miles from Hugh y , from thence running north by the land of Thomas Budd to a white pO pla r and a Becche tree upon the head O f Sh a b b i cu n ck e creek on fouer sides and from thence to a small h i ck e r y standing by a black oak markt by c u mm e the line of Thomas Budd aforesaid , from then e to a g tree stand t h e m ing by side of Stony Brook by a lyne tree , fro thence along the line of Thomas Budd aforesaid to a line of markt trees running west north west to one wh ite and one black oake marked on fouer sides a little M e n a e n a sson above p , and from thence by a direct line west and by north to the mouth of a creek called L a ocot on running into De ll a w a r e ’ A t e cok i n s W River about igwam , and soe to run down the side of Della H ware river to a line of markt trees lying two miles above the alls mill , and from thence running East to the white oake on the south west side

O f Sh a b b a cu n ke Cr e e ke aforesaid . And also all and every the mines ll ifis h i n s m i n e r a s woods g hawkings huntings and fowlings . And all Ri vu l e t t s Cr e e k e s every the Rivers , , , Isles , Islands , Lakes , Ponds , ' fie e di n s Pa s t u r i n s r o fit t s Marshes , Swamps , Meadows , g , g , p , commodities appurtenances whatsoever to the said granted tracts O f land or a n y

part thereof belonging or in any wise appertaining . And also all the t t l e n e r t d estate , Right , y , Interest possessio , pp y , claim and emand what soever of them the said Indian Sa ch i m a ch e r s owners or any of them in Lawe Equity either of them of in or into the said granted p’mi s e s R e m a i n dr or any pte or psel thereof, and the reversion reversions , and

s i n r f t h e 86 Re m a d O same and every pte thereof. To have to hold to the

f r r said Adlor d Bowde his Heirs A s si g n s o e ve . And the said Indian Sa ch i m a ch e r s and Owners doe for themselves and fo r He i r e s every of them their and every of their successors , cove nant promise and agree to and with the said Adlo r d Bowde his heirs e Assignes by these presents . That it shall may b lawful to and for the said Daniel Coxe his heirs Assigns forever her e after peaceably quietly to have hold and enjoy the said g ranted barg ained tracts O f land every pte pce l thereof to for the uses aforesaid without any l a w fu ll lett mol e station or disturbance O f them the said Indian Sachi machers owners or any of them or of their Heirs or successors or O f

' ’ from or by any other p son or p e ons whatsoever cla y mi n g or w hic h shall

cla m e e r t or may y any estate Right, title , Interest, Inheritance or pp y of in or out o f the said granted 85 bargained premises or any pte or pce ll thereof by from or under them or any of them or by or through their

t t le cu r e m e n t . or any of their meanes , assent consent y , privity p In witness whereof the said Indian Sa ch i m a ch e r s and owners have 9

e r e u n t o sett their h ands afﬁxed their seals ( according to the English the Thirtieth day of the month called March in the year one thou t An n u . A n sand six hundred and eighty eight oq e R . R Jacobi Sedi g

$ uarter .

8c Signed , Sealed delivered HOHAM , 's e n ce TE P L AO PA M UN in ye p of , S M E RO P PE THOMA BUDD , , H N Y G NLAND WE WE E NO L IN G E R REE , , S W L U HM U SE CO N THOMA BO MAN , , 1m ” W I L L BIDDL J U N PL Z E , , EE E , O HN WILLS M E HE E K ISSU E J , Interpreter . ,

CO PE N AK O N ISKO U ,

E H U IN N O G ,

E HE E KAN N ,

SHA WSU N A .

The territory originally embraced in Hopewell was

of o f diminished on the south by the order the court, which there is the following record

2n d 1 19-20 O March , 7 . rdered by the Court that the bounds of Tren ton be entered upon the record as followeth , ordered accordingly . Begin “ i n u ning at the landing on Delaware river Nottingham , running p s ’ O f river to the mouth Jacob s creek , thence along said creek to a run ’ ‘l ’ u s called Jacob s run , thence p run to Thatcher s swamp , along a run ’ that runs into Sh a b b a ku n k including Ralph Hart s plantation to the line d that divides Hopewell from Maidenhead , Thence along s line until it

‘1 ' s . n a n d comes to the line of Mr Tre ts Tho Lamberts land , thence along

line between Mr . Trents and Thomas Lamberts to Delaware River and so along sd river to the ﬁrst mentioned station .

l 21 1 09—1 of . 7 0 By Act Provincial Assemb y, Jan , ,

Burlington county included Maidenhead , Hopewell and s e t -O ff of Amwell . Hunterdon county was by Act

15 1713—14 A s su n i n k March , , making the p the southern

n bou dary, including what are now Trenton , Ewing, x Lawrence and Hopewell in Mercer, with Morris , Susse ,

Warren and Hunterdon counties . We learn from public records that the following tracts

' of land were taken u nder t h e t i t l e of the West Jersey ] Society, Thomas Revel , Agent

250 1 3—4 20 69 . John Lee of the acres , Feb . ,

500 . 15 16 6 9 . John Smith of DO June ,

122 . 4 16 6 2 9 . Edward Hunt 5 DO May ,

in Maidenhead ,

Sh a k n within the branches of the b b a u k .

. 1000 169 Col Wm Hallet of the acres acres July last 7. 300 Joseph Sacket acres DO . near Samuel Hunts . 400 169 Roger Parke DO . April 7 at Wi s s a m e n son O f , north side Stony Brook . 100 Anne Parke acres adjoining . “ . 1 69 . Andrew Smith for his son Thos Smith Ap . 7 100 acres above Roger Parkes . “ 200 for A 169 Andrew Smith more his son Tho . Smith p . 7. 3 “ 00 . Tw i se . 27 169 6. John Parke acres near Tho g g Feb , 200 . 17 1699 . John Rue Feb , 105 0 12 169 7. Johannes Lawrenson acres July , 200 . 7 1699 . Edward Burrowes acres Nov , 200 Ma 20 168 . Andrew Smith acres y , 8 i n Ho e w e ll which Deed the tract is called p .

Th a t t h e s e , except the last named , and others with them , were bought under a title that did not prove valid , appears from the following document and the events which succeeded its being signed :

‘ Whereas the subscribers whose names are hereunto afﬁxed having p urchased several considerable Tracts of land of one Thomas Revell an A gent o f ye honourable Soci e t i e of West Jersey ( and other the residen tors therein) being part of the tract known by ye name of ye Thirty T housand above ye falls of Delaware Lying in ye Township of Hopewell , county of Hunterdon and Western Division of New Jersey and of h i m re ceived such conveyance as by virtue O f t h e Commission of Agency in the behalf o f ye Honourable Society are Deemed and esteemed in law E ffectual till a more fe z a b l e title can b e made appear and where a s there is now claim laid to our s e ve r a ll Tracts aforesaid by Colonel Cox under a pretence of being Chief Proprietor thereof whose right to u s has not e b en made appear , Therefore not thinking Ourselves not ye least obliga ted to surrender up our respective lands to the use O f said Cox till more l egall proprietorship Ca n b e made apparently by him appear we think 11

it r e q u e si t on such a claim to stand a Tryal as ye law Ta n t e ly shal l

In d a t t or y Direct . order to which proceeding ye s Cox by his has ' Ej ected several of us from o u r p m i se s Oblig ing us to an Issue a n d we subscribers thinking it a hardship to carry on this Suit by one p’ t i cu l a r person wherein so many is concerned we draw this instrument Obliging each of us the subscribers our heirs Exe c utors and administrators to ye ‘ each other in ye penal sum of ﬁ fTe u pounds curr money of this province to be paid by the de fa u t e r if he stand not to and abide by evry of ye

clau ses abovesaid and well and truly perform this Covenant , That is to say Each of the Subscribers oblige themselves to each other in the pen alty e xpr e s t equivalent to the land ye possess [he possesses] to e mb u r s e so much money towards ye carrying of this suit as the whole complement shall be found sufﬁ c ient to defray the contingent charge of Trying this

Title . In Testimony whereofwe have hereunto set the hand this twenty

O f a n n o r e 1 3 1 Second Aprill g Dominy 7 ,

ISAAC HE R E I N A I L A , D V D ROE ,

NATHANI L M OO JN F F E L D E RE , O . I , OS P H O F IDL J E STOUT , J HN ER , IND A S W BA R T HO L O M . ND SO N THOMA ER , ER , TH O M AS TH O M AS R D HOUGHTON , EE , PA BL E J N O . w JOHN RKE , , T . CU R I S G O G WOO LS Y THO , E R E E , X O NATHAN T JOHN HI ON , J S OUT , JN O A . P R OS P H P IC RKE JUN , J E R E , h i s WVI L L I A M CO RN LL I H ND IC SON E , JN O . E R K , ma rk RICHA D R SMITH , H N Y O X L Y A M S M LV IN E R E , J E E ,

RAL P H OS P H HUNT , J E HOUGHTON , WIL LIA M CR I CK E E L D RAL P H , SMITH , T E LNATHAN BALD W IN JOHN TI US , , ROG PA R DANI L ER RKE JUN , E GANO , A E J . D E OS . PA B N R K , J E RKE , ROB RT BLAC W LL F ANCI S E K E , R GANO , ONATHAN F U R HAN J , JOHN HOUGHTON , T M R I LL JOHN HUN , JOHN E R , E V ITT ROG PA JOHN ER , ER RKE , h i s ANDR W PA T S E RKE , THOS . EVAN , a k m r ACOB KN OW L S J E ,

S . N H M IAH THO SMITH , E E BONHAM , E P H AI M S B N J M LL R TITU , E . ERE , h i s AND W M H N S O . I R D RE ER JOHN EE , ma rk

These cases of ejectment were all removed by a rule 12

of the Supreme Court from the county of Hunterdon to

of of r e u the county Burlington , because the alleged p j

i n of dice favor the defendants in Hunterdon . A jury

f Hon o twelve $ uakers (with the . Robert Lettice

t h e Hooper, Chief Justice) tried case, and gave their verdict for the plaintiff. Murray was the attorney for

Colonel Coxe , and Kinsey the attorney for the several

‘ l r r i . Woo s e ca e d defendants One of the latter, George y , t h e case (as a test case) to the Court of Errors ; but it was of no avail .

t h e a The records of Supreme Court, with the sever l

on judgments engrossed parchment rolls , are among the

of o f archives the Supreme Court New Jersey, and fur

of nish a true history this formidable trial, which was the great event of that period to the early settlers of

w of this to nship , and kept the minds the people in a

state of agitation and distressing embarrassment . But the majority of them remained on the farms which they

had originally settled , and in part improved ; and some of these lands are t o-day in possession of the linea l de

s ce n da n t s .

t o Previous these ejectment suits , and shortly after the settlin g of t h e boundary between Trenton and Hope

well, and when Hunterdon county embraced the ﬁve

n of T tow ships Hanover , Amwell, Maidenhead , renton

1722 of and Hopewell , in , we have a roll one hundred - t and thirty eight men subject to axation, sixteen of

n whom were si gle men . There were , besides , eleven

h -ﬁve t slaves , seven undred and eighty ca tle and horses , - and four hundred and eighty seven sheep . There were i ’ two m lls , that owned by Philip Ringo, now Moore s i mill , and the other owned by Cornel us Anderson, in - f the south western corner o Hopewell . 13

The number of acres Of land then in possession was -ﬁ sixteen thousand nine hundred and ninety ve . The t a x-list is as follows

AM E Sh e e . L N S. i s a n d M ll . p .

Il ue St a n dla n d Thomas Smith Richard Arnal Nicolas Ha g e r t e Jo s h a w a y Ward Eld a d Davis John F e a ld Robert Da r ck Abraham Laru James Laru Peter Lar u Thomas Woa ce r John Allb a do Samuel Bou ldw i n Fran c e s Hege Ely Allb a do Cor n e lu s Allb a do Frances Fo n n oy Robert Shaw Timothy Titus Thomas Roberds NVi lli a m R eede Joseph Hu ff James E va n s e Robert M a cle l e a n John Johnson Roger Woolverton Andrew Millburne Jonathan Sticklin Senor Henery He ldr e n John Bennett John M u r ch e d John Coe E z e ke l Olen o Nathaniel Moore Charles Hu ff Jonathan Stickler Jr Joseph Hart John Smith ’ IVi lli a m M cr r e l Junet Hezekiah Bonham Jr Phili p Ring o Benj amin Drack Joshua Andrus June Frederick De b o u g h Aran fu n h u ck Tunus Huff 14

M E h Iﬂh L Sh e e NA s . L a ds p n .

A u dru R o u t t e n hors D a nel Deno S a muel R u n y ou n Je m s e Hide Danel Ge a n o Steven Ge a n o Joseph Combs ”William Merel Sener 300 Benj amin Merel Neh emiah Bonham Jabes Jarvis Joseph Davis A u a n i e s Olen Edward Butler Barth Corvine Jo han n es Hendrikx Samuel Fitc h John E ve r i t John F r a m t on Samuel Furman Jr Jonathan Furman Thomas Runyon Yi e n ci e n Runyon R O g e r Parke Jr Roger Parke Sener John Park John R eede J o hn Sharp V I i lli a m Whited Joseph Longlee Samuel Furman Sener John Ca pe n de r Joshua Ely

c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ri hard Smith 0 Joses Lombard Joseph Stout Hezekiah Bonel Isaak A s s t oll Thomas Combs David Stout Thomas Evans Thomas Curtes W illiam Brient sener Robard Bla ckw e l Eno c h Armitage Ralph Hunt Thomas Huf H e n e r e Hendrix Jeremiah Hendrix Peter Hendrix Addom Bratten l Vi lli a m Larason

John Titus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 E fr om Titus 15

NAMES M i s . L a n ds . . ll

Ralph Hunt stone b r o ok John Hunt y o r e n g Elisha Bord Elnathan Boulder Thomas Reede John Hart Samuel Hunt John Hunt Edward Hart Isaac Herren Thomas Merel Peter Ringo l Vi lli a m Cornel Au dru Foster J e mse Terrel Galap Carman Audru Smith John Hickson William L a rance Henery Oxly William Hu ff ’ IVi l li a mBriant Stone bruk Cor n e l u s Andrus s u n Samuel E ve r i t Joseph Reeder William Miller Joseph Reed sener Thomas Finne Joseph Reede Jr Jemes M e lve n David Pric e William Lin Joseph Na sb e t Nicolas Roberds Jorge Wo lse Thomas Burrus

—In 1 26 N O TE . 7 Hunterdon county had 16 Males above , Females Males under Females

This is perhaps the best place to in sert A Duplicate

f r of 26 1753 . o the Township Hopewell, June , At a meeting of the assessors of the county of Hunterdon at the house O f Philip Ringo in Amwell o n the 12t h day of June 1753 pursuant to an 16

1 order from the Justices and freeholders of s‘ county to divide the $ uota for raising the sum O f One Hundred and Thirty Pounds for repairing

the Gaol and Court House and killing wolves and panthers &c . The $ uota of each Township is as follows viz

King w oo d Bethlehem Reading Lebanon Amwell Hopewell Maidenhead Trenton

E R D ACON G O . ADING Jos . E , E , CO RN LI U S L A CHA L S E RE , R E HOFF , M BAT W M BAY W . S . , E , VANCL V A Z A IAH JOHN E E , R HUNT ,

A s s e s s or s .

Andrew Smith Esq Cornelius Polhemus Andrew Smith Ju n r Cornelius Anderson Andrew Mershon Charles Hoff Andrew Foster Charles Sexton Abraham Laroe Cornelius Ringo E qr Andrew Muirhead Cornelius Wi li a m son Adam Ague Daniel Cox Andrew Titus Daniel Hart Abraham Anderson Daniel Ge n oe Azariah Hunt David Stout Andrew Vannoy David Stout Sen Abraham Moor David Price Andrew Morgan Daniel Biles Benj ’“ Cornwall Edward Burrows ’ Be n j n Pelton Edward Hunt R S John Soverns Edward Hunt ’n Be n j Anderson Edmund Palmer ’ Be n j n Ketchum Elnathan Baldwin ”n Be n j Temple Eliakim Anderson ’ ” Be n j n Stout Sen Edmund Herin ’ Be n j In Stout Junr Ephraim Titus n Be n j Merril Elnathan Moore Be n j n Drake Edward Cooper Barnet Christopher Ephraim Merril

Philip Rodgers Stephen Barton Ralph Hart Saml Fitch Reuben Armitage Timothy Smith Ralph Hunt Thomas Burrows Jun ” Ri chard Hart Thomas Hoff Robert Akers Timothy Brush ' Richard Hoﬁ Timothy Titus Richard Roberts Tho“ Cain Return Temple Tho 8 Drake Richard Phillip Tho“ Blackwell Robert Lansing Titus Hixon Richard Evins Valentine Bryant Richard Stillwell Vincent Runyon Sam 1 Stout Esq” Wilson Hunt Seth Field W’m Bryant ‘ $n Sam Furman W Merrill Cooper Sam 1 Hunt Wm Parke ‘ In Sam Tu cker W Reed Sarah Temple Wm Cornwall Sacket Moore Wm Newton Sam l Moore Wm Waters Stephen Burrowes Wm Bu n a l s Sam ‘ Ketcham Wm Merrill Smith Cornwall Zebulon Stout Stephen Biles Zedekiah Pettitt Sam1 Morris

A Z A IAH R HUNT ,

A ss e ss or .

We here introduce brief memoranda of some of the original settlers , beginning with

E NO CH ARM ITAGE of , a model ruling elder the Olden

of time , who deserves some notice in the annals Ameri

n c a Presbyterianism . A record made by himself in forms us that he was a s on 27 1677 of John Armitage , and born November , ,

L i e a t e at g , in Kirk Burton Parish , in the West Riding Hi o f . s Yorkshire , England wife , Martha, died in Eng 4 1713 land , August , . His children, Mary, John, Reu 19

b ben and Lydia, were orn in England , and , with the h exception of John , are known to have settled wit their

s e t father in this country . Mr . Armitage sail from

r 14 1719 Ne w Live pool March , , arrived at York May

3 0 on , and soon took up his permanent residence a farm ‘ a mile northeast from Pennington , in Hopewell Town ship , New Jersey . His property has been owned and most Of the time occupied by successive generations of the family . In about eighteen months after his arrival

o f he was chosen clerk the township , and probably about the same time was appointed an elder Of the Presbyterian Church ; for in the latter capacity he was present with his pastor, the Rev . Moses Dickinson at

of of 1722 24 the sessions the Synod Philadelphia in , ’ a n d 25 O f t h e . His name is found in the minutes mother presbytery, and occurs last in the Synodical f 1 3 Records o 7 7. In the conﬂict in the Presbyterian Church of this 1 174 . country, which issued in the schism of , Mr Armi

of . tage , Thomas Burrowes (ancestor the Rev George

of H Burrowes , Edward Hart , (father John art , of 1776 a signer of the D eclaration Independence , ) and Timothy Baker were prominent supporters of the Old Side in the congregation with which they were con t n e c e d.

The erection of the first church ediﬁce in Pennington is to be ascribed in part to the z eal and liberality of

Mr . Armitage , for credible tradition reports that he gave all the timber, besides work done gratuitously in

of old the line his trade , he being a blacksmith . His

1671 of Bible, printed in , which was the companion his daily meditations , is an instructive relic . Well pre

u s e t served, though much worn by , it reminds of hat 0

“ plain but godly woman who said , I read the Old

m n Testa ent in the morni g, and I read the New Testa — m ent in the evenin g ; but the P s a lms I ke ep llze m

’ ’ a g ozn y a ll llac lime . One of t h e most interesting memorials which this worthy m a n h a s left behind him is an original address

e a s t o r . t h e deliver d by him to the people , after their p , R v e . Moses Dickinson, had left them to be settled in “ Norwalk , Connecticut . It is entitled , Some Medita

u 15t h 16t h 17 of tions pon the , and th verses the

- of Twenty Seventh Chapter Numbers, occasioned by the removal of Mr . Dickinson, and delivered at Hope 2 A . 17 7. well Meeting House by E . , “ — r d He commences th us B eloved f ien s , having no book suitable t o the outward circumstances of the con

n gregation, and bei g something more than ordinary a f l fected with our present deso ate condition , and being encouraged by your kind acceptance of what I have been enabled to do in your service since Divine Provi d m 1 ence cast y lot amongst you , proceed to deliver m y meditations on these verses , especially the last ‘ u of cla se the seventeenth verse , that the congregation ’ of the Lord be not a s sheep that have no s h epherd .

s n o t s Thi , it would appear, was the ﬁr t time he had served them in the absence Of a preacher . His manner of t reating the subject proves him to have been an

b e a r e r attentive of sermons, a close Observer, a clear “ thinker , sound in doctrine, fearless in duty , mighty in ” the Scriptures , and possessed of an admirable Christian

Spirit . The address must have Occupied more than an hour in the delivery . It contains judicious and weighty suggestions that mi ght be proﬁtable to the under-shep ’ herds as well as to the Sheep of the Lord s ﬂock . We 21

— quote the following passages : I think though I ﬁnd — t no Scripture to back my Opinion yet, considering he — many opinions and parties amo n g Christians that it is necessary that he [ a pastor] have a competent kno w l edge O f the original languages from which the Scrip tures were translated . Thereby he will be better able to defend against the errors and heresies ; o t her w ise he must always take the sense of Scripture from others ; ff and wherein they di er, he may be at a loss whose

w . w interpretations to follo But yet it must be o ned , that sometimes it hath pleased Go d in these latter days t t to call men to his work , and furnish them wi h gif s and graces , and blessed their labors to the spiritual good of others , though they only know their native ” m language . His practical re arks at the conclusion are “ s i x o f arranged under heads , viz It is the duty

: 1 t those that are as sheep without a shepherd s . To

o f hearken unto the voice Christ, the chief shepherd . 2 dl . y To preserve unity and concord among themselves . 3 dl y . Pray God to send them a pastor after his o w n

4 h l . 5t h l t . heart . y Seek the common good y . Watch 6t h l against enemies , and over one another . y . Observe the motions and conduct Of Divine Providence . What better counsels could be given to any vacant congre

‘ g a t i on s ?

In regard to meetings for social prayer, he says

i t o f As far as I can learn, hath been the practice t Christians in all ages to mee together to pray , and what can be the reason that this spiri t ual exercise is neglected in this country I cannot account for . I am

Ne w informed it is practised in England , and I have seen an excellent discourse in print that was preached to a company of young men that met together to pray 22 at stated times in Boston ; but here is none of that exercise . But where the fault Of it lies , the Lord knows , and where it will be found at last, there it ’ must be accounted for . I am well assured God s people h - - n i ave found it a soul refreshing, grace strengthe ng exercise ; and I could tell y ou of some remarkable ’ u instances of God s gracious answers to the h mble ,

u f of serio s , understanding and a fectionate prayers his

of . people at such times . It was a saying Mr D od , ‘ ’ What we win by prayer we shall wear with comfort .

on 28 173 8—9 Mr . Armitage died Sabbath , January , , and was buried on the following Wednesday in the t Presbyterian churchyard at Penning on . At his funeral

t h e . Rev David Cowell , of Trenton, preached a sermon “ 29— Now from Luke ii . lettest thou thy servant de ” part i n peace according to thy word . At the conclu sion of the discourse a high tribute is paid to the worth f o the deceased , the larger portion of which is here given “ f The words o our text Mr . Armitage adopted as

ow n his , and desired they might be discoursed upon at h i s funeral . Those most acquainted with him testiﬁed f d h to his disposition or peace . Go a d given him by n ature a calm and quiet spirit, which was his orna ment and glory . He was not subject to anger, heats and passions , as many others are, and this happy t na ural talent, assisted and improved by a religious

i s o princ ple and the love of God , was bright and shining that his moderation w a s known to all men who had the happiness of an intimate acquaintance with him . In his dealings he was strictly just and honest ; t o those in distress , charitable and ready to help and assist . In his conversation he was grave without mo n m r os e e s s and pleasant without levity . Fro the quick ness of his wit and the strength and clearness of his

on ou t judgment, he was ready all occasions to bring f o the good treasure of his heart things new and Old . The sum of his religion was love to God and his neighbor, without being rigid and contentious for things

f of indi ferent . The government his family was with the greatest economy and religious order . His stated

for times prayer, both private and secret, his times for instructing his family, for taking refreshment, and his

of times for following the works his calling, followed on e s o r e volu another constantly by turns , and in the

of tion such certain periods , that they seldom interfered , much less j u stled out each other ; and such a vein Of religion ran through the whole , that his life was like

l of the ife Enoch , whose name he bore, a walking with d Go . If we consider him at church , we shall ﬁnd he was constant and devout in attendance upon God ’s

of f public worship . In the management church a fairs , which was early committed to him , and continued to

of the last, he deservedly obtained that character a good steward to be faithful ; and as his management was the product o f religious principles and a sound

s e e judgment, he had the satisfaction to them approved h by the wisest and best Christians . Suc a religious , honest and just walk in his own house, and in the

of m house God , procured for him the estee of persons of all persuasions and all characters . If he was ma li n e d - g by any self conceited brethren, who run their o w n ways , and give liking unto nothing but what is

on framed by themselves and hammered their anvil, as

s o their ignorance was the cause , that only can plead ﬁdu their excuse . A sovereign God gave him such a 24

ci a l of ow n sight Christ, and his interest in him , founded

on the divine promises , that he adopted the words of

ld ow n good O Simeon for his . He made it the business

of h i s his life to follow peace with all men, and it was

grief his e ndeavors succeeded no better . He desired

to die in peace , and to have a hopeful prospect of peace

after his death . With respect to himself his prayer

was eminently answered . When he passed through

of t the valley dea h , God was with him . Death gave

on e — friendly stroke , and it was over that he rather

t o t o seemed conquer than be overcome .

of M r Of the numerous descendants . Armitage may

be mentioned the Rev . Enoch Green, who died at Deer

ﬁ e ld 2 1776 of , New Jersey , November , , while pastor the Presbyterian Church in that place ; t h e late Enoch

Green, an elder in Easton First Church ; Daniel G .

Howell, once an elder in Pennington Church ; Charles

M u i r h i . e d H . and Henry P , of Philadelphia ; Dr . W, T W . L . Phillips , of renton ; Daniel Christopher, of

Freehold ; Lewis J . Titus , an elder in Lambertville

. i n Church ; Enoch A Titus , an elder Pennington

Church ; Daniel C . Titus , a deacon and trustee at

of Pennington ; Elizabeth Moore , widow the Rev . h J. William Blythe , and her brot ers , Imlah , Charles , Ely and Thomas ; and we ought not to omit his ow n son, Reuben Armitage , who was , until his death in

1783 n f o e o . , Of the strong pillars the church

THO M AS BURRO WE S s on of of Ja , Edward Burrowes

i ma ca, Long Island , is not named as an elder ; but he ff of . took an active part in the a airs the church Mr .

Guild often preached at his house . He owned the three farms now occupied by h i s descendant Stephen

f l became the wife o Ra ph H . Smith and the mother h of Step en B . Smith .

GEO RGE WO O L SEY also came from Jamaica about the year

1700 on , and settled the north side of the road leading from Maidenhead to the Delaware River ” over against

s . Thomas Burrowe His grandfather, George Woolsey, d 163 5 came to Manhattan Islan , , and lived among the

I . 1665 Dutch , and removed thence to Jamaica, L . , , and had three sons , Captain George , Thomas , and John .

s on It was George , the of Captain George , who settled in Hopewell . His sons were Daniel , Jeremiah , Henry and Joseph , and Jemima wife of Ralph Hart and f o . of mother Dr Noah Hart, and his sisters Jerusha,

Hannah and Elizabeth .

“

. s on II Daniel had a Benjamin , who lived in Trenton ,

s on and was the father of a and daughter , Henry and Nancy

. s on of II Henry, George , lived in Pennington, south of of the churchyard , married Martha daughter Ephraim

of Titus , and granddaughter Enoch Armitage , and had

of of only one child , Martha wife Philip Vancleve

Lawrence .

. s on II Joseph , of George , married a Montgomery , and removed to Maryland .

. s on of G II Jeremiah , eorge , married Mary daughter of 15 1753 f Joseph Hart, Dec . , , and had the ollowing

’ i of of ch ldren, whom it is record, that (each and) all

n : were baptized in i fancy, to wit Hannah , born April 27 1755 6 175 7 , ; Ephraim , born March , ; Mary wife of 27 1759 c Louis Perrine Of Freehold , born July , ; J

' mi ma b or n A s 28 1761 u , ugu t , ; S sannah , born Decem

4 1763 16 1769 . ber , , and Jeremiah , born June , 27

’ 11 1762 George Woolsey s will was proved March , , and

i of w a s 2 180 1 the w ll his son Jeremiah proved May , ;

14 1801 h i s he died April , . Ephraim succeeded father Jeremiah in the ownership of the homestead ; married

of Pa Ann Johnson Bucks county, . , and had the follow

: G ing children eorge , the present owner of the old

of homestead ; Ephraim , father Captain Henry Harrison

Va Woolsey , who lost his life before Petersburgh , , in

of the late war ; Hannah wife D eacon Andrew Titus , and mother of the ruling elder, William J . Titus ; Mary f o l . wife Philemon Blackwell , and E iza

. l s on of Dr Jeremiah Woo sey , Jeremiah , graduated at 1787 the College Of New Jersey, , married a Montgomery, practiced medicine at Allentown, N . J went to Cincin 1821 10 1834 nati in , and died February , ; had three

on e of daughters , whom was named Catharine , and two sons , William and Daniel, druggists Of Evansville , Ind .

Captain Henry Harrison Woolsey , son of Ephraim

Woolsey and Eleanor Vancleve , was born about a mile 183 6 west from Pennington, in , and graduated at the 1 l 856. h a d Co lege of New Jersey , He commenced the practice of the law , when the assault on Fort Sumpter S hook the nation , and young Woolsey , brave , patriotic and conscientious as he was lov e ly , felt that he must answer the call to arms . After having distinguished

a O f himself in several battles , especi lly that Gettysburg

of h i s where he had command regiment, he fell at last, d mortally wounde in a skirmish before Petersburg, Va .

1 1 64 I a or u 8 8 . di e i n l i o s June , His last words were , g ca u se a n d e e l t h a t I h a ve n ot li ve di n va i n or t h i s w or ldor , f f ” t h e w or ld t o come . t He was buried at Penning on , June 24 , in the same grave with his wife , who had died just before the tidings of h i s ow n death were telegraphed . 28

Deacon George Woolsey served three years as a mem v ber of the Legislati e Council of New Jersey . He is a

i of third cO u s n Of President Theodore D . Woolsey Yale

“ n College , they both havi g descended from Captain

George Woolsey .

HN CARPENTE R 1 JO also came from Jamaica, L . . His

m 1 1744 a n d will was ade October , , admitted to probate 2 1745 April , , indicating at about what date he must have died . C ’ He married aptain Ralph Hart s daughter Mary ,

S of ister Ralph and Josiah , and had sons , Hezekiah and

w John, bet een whom the farm was to be divided, accord

t o ing the will ; also daughters , Mary , wife of John

of Hunt, innkeeper at Pennington ; Sarah wife Augus

of tine Moore ; Hannah wife Major Stephen Burrowes , f M r f and mother o s . Harriet Smith ; and Catharine , wi e of Israel Moore , and mother of Aaron Moore , Of Eliza f O f o . beth wife Josiah Hart, and Sarah Moore John ,

Col . the son , married Ann, sister of John Vancleve , and

O f had two children , John, who died Of lockjaw at the age

of of fourteen, and Elizabeth wife Peter Beekman 15 183 1 Raritan . He died September , , at an advanced

h i h l e s t e e me d age , having been for many years a g y f citi

zen and a useful ruling elder and trustee Of the church .

H N M UIRHEID w JO was born in Glasgo , Scotland ,

R of o married ebekah Bailey Jamaica , Long Island , N

ve mb e r 22 1706 on , , and settled here about that time

t n o w . on e he farm owned by Henry B Perrine , mile 1725 w . belo Pennington He died in January, , and the 2 1 9 5 75 . widow died December , Both are buried side

by side in the Ewing churchyard . 29

1 29 1710 Their children were ( ) Jane , born August , , M h 2d 1 1 1 . Ni s t 71 . c baptized by Mr Geo ; ( ) March s ,

12 s on 3d Ge or e . , a baptized g by Mr Andrews ; ( ) a son u 1713—14 born Febr ary , and baptized John by Mr . 4t h 14 1715—16 Robert Orr ; ( ) a son born February , , W 5t h baptized illiam by Mr . Robert Orr ; ( ) February

11 171 —18 n 7 s o a n d n w . , , a born baptized A dre by Mr

' 6t h 25 1719 d Robert Orr ; ( ) December , , a aughter bap t i z e d 7t h Rebekah by Mr . James Muirhead ; ( ) a

R i d/i 4 1723 8 1725 daughter baptized , born May , ; ( ) , t a daughter baptized Elizabeth . It is an interes ing fact that all of these eight children were baptized in their i n fancy .

M u i r h e i d t h e ff Mr . was ﬁrst High Sheri of the county

w a s s e t off of Hunterdon after it from Burlington , March

15 1713—14 t a of of , . The ﬁrs g ol the county was built ’ t M u i r h i e ds . logs , and s ood not far from Mr . dwelling

M u i r h i f of . e d A descendant Mr , of the ﬁ th generation,

n a ff bearing his me, John , was not long since the sheri of i s a Mercer county, which mainly t ken from Hunter

of don . With the exception Jane , wife of Edward Bur

a n d m of rowes , who, through the arriage her daughter

t of Catharine wi h Jesse Atchley , became the ancestor all

A t ch le s the y of this region , we are acquainted with none

t a of w h o m but he descend nts Andrew , arried Elizabeth , d daughter of Jonathan Waters . Their chil ren were

1 18 1 0 2. . 75 John , born October , ; Deborah , born 2 1 3 7 1 4 0 75 3 . 755 . March , ; Jonathan , born May , ; m 18 17 7 5 5 . Willia , born October , ; Rebekah , born Feb

r 1 2 1 760 . r u a 8 759 6. 5 7 y , George , born June , ;

7 1764 w h o Andrew , born December , , married Hannah daughter of John Stevenson .

JO NATH AN s on o f . t , the Andrew married Mary Lot , and 30

A of had children John, ndrew , William , Elizabeth wife

Be a k e s of Di sb or ou h William , Mary wife James g , Ann

of wife of George Schenck , and Rebecca wife George 2 183 7 M D ow ll . M u i r h i c e e d . Jonathan , died Nov ,

di e d Ju l 3 0 1817 ﬁft and Mary, his wife, . y , , in her y seventh year . E RGE M UIRHEID m G O was arried to Charity , daughter f u o . . the Rev John G ild , by the Rev Joseph Rue , June

1788 n wh o 9 a d 1s t . , , their children were , John Guild , , i by his w fe , Elizabeth Howell, had eleven children , ﬁve

H . only of whom , Charles , John Guild , William Harri $ 2n d. s on . and two daughters survive Benjamin, who

o f m by his wife , Sarah Howell, had children , who two B m . sons , John and Willia , and two daughters are now f 3d. o . living ; D eborah wife Jess e M Howell, and

of . . mother several daughters , and of the Rev Jesse L h t h 4t h t . 6 . 5 . Howell . . William . George Elizabeth

of s on wife of George Woolsey and mother a , Theodore

F . . , and three daughters now living This M u i r h e i d family has furnished to this church t w o ruling elders and ﬁve trustees , and to the Church at f on e m o . large inister the gospel In each generation , they have been efﬁcient aids in upholding the interests of the congregation in both temporal and spiritual things .

O n 4t h of 1745 M u i r h e i d the January, , Andrew

of Ha r b ou r t ow n bought Joseph Furman a farm near ,

r lately conveyed to him by John Titus , J . , and that has been the homestead of the M u i r h e i d family for one - hundred and thirty six years .

d O a n d t h e The patriotic evotion of Charity wife of John gden , gal M u i r h e id o f o f R lant conduct of General Henry P . , the regiment ush

Lancers in the late war , are held in cherished remembrance by the people of this township . 3 1

I . THANIEL RE . NA MOO came from Newtown , L , and 1708 m took up land about ; arried Joanna, daughter of I J . . t h e . Rev John Prudden, [ ﬁrst pastor at amaica, L , and then pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Newark ,

N . J lived where his lineal descendant, Mrs . Hannah 6 1759 Moore recently died . He died September , , in - the seventy second year of his age . His children were

of John, Joseph , Samuel, Benjamin, Abigail wife her cou sfn of , Sackett Moore and Sarah wife Abraham l Temp e . 11 . Captain John Moore owned the farm which event u a ll of y became the property his granddaughter Rebecca,

s on of the only child of his Amos , and wife Aaron Hart

Senior . Captain John had other sons , John, Samuel,

Th e O h ilu s of Nathaniel and p , and a daughter, wife John

Smith , Esq .

11 Jo on . se h p , son of Nathaniel, lived the farm now owned by John E . Burd , and married a Miss Green, of l Ewing . Their chi dren were Ely, Moses , Ephraim , and l Elizabeth wife of Co . John Vancleve .

11 Sa mu e l s on of . , Nathaniel, occupied the farm now

f . o . in possession Wm B Curlis , married Rebecca Green , of Ewing, and had children, William , Elijah , Samuel ,

o of Rebecca, Ph ebe wife William Green, Mary wife of

t of of Jonathan Smi h , Joanna wife Titus $ uick Amwell ,

of 4000 and Abigail, who left a legacy $ to Pennington

Academy . 1 f 1 . s on o on Benjamin, Nathaniel, lived the home stead . His children were Sarah (wife of David

o f Woodward , and mother Mrs . Hannah Moore and A Mrs . Mary nderson) , and Augustine , who married

u of w h o Sarah (da ghter John Carpenter) , died April 16 1839 - , , aged seventy eight, leaving no children . 3 2

f ’ . s on o on III Ely Moore , Joseph , lived his father s

a t l of farm Pennington , married E izabeth daughter Cor

n e li u s ff a nd of Ho , had Joseph (father Imlah , Charles ,

of i . Ely, Thomas , Catharine wife W lliam A Green, and f Elizabeth wi e of Rev . Joseph W . Blythe) , Sarah , third

of wife Benjamin Stout Hill , Fanny wife of Ira Jewell ,

of . and Elizabeth wife John Maxwell, Savannah , Georgia 11 1 . s on Moses Moore , of Joseph , Senior, by his

of second wife , Martha daughter Abraham Coryell , had

Hon . Ely Moore , member of Congres s from New York

on city . Ely M . was born the farm owned by John

Runk in Hunterdon county .

s on III . Theophilus Moore , of Captain John , married

Rhoda, daughter of Justice John Phillips , and had a daughter who married Samuel Holcomb of New Bruns

f M r wick (and they were the parents o s . George P .

M oll e s on . . , and Mrs Dr Taylor , and a second

f . . o daughter , who married John V Hart Philadelphia 111 m . Nathaniel , son of Captain John , arried Eleanor

Van Brunt, and had sons , Cornelius and John . This John

m of removed to Philadelphia, arried Hannah , daughter

s on d Joseph Price , and had one , and aughters Susan O f second wife Armitage Green, Eliza who ﬁrst married X M . a r i a a Finley and afterwards enophon J Maynard ,

l f . i of . o w fe Mr El ison Philadelphia, and the wife of Mr

Link .

of t Abigail Moore , daughter Na haniel Moore , was

on o born the far m owned by the late Hannah M ore , 1 1 17 7 7 . May , She married her cousin, Sackett Moore ,

: 1 r 8 and had children ( ) Nathaniel , bo n December , 1741 d 3 0 1781 2 , ied September , ; ( ) Jesse , born April 14 1 50 8 1839 3 , 7 , and died July , ; ( ) Joseph , born

14 1744 M a r ch 20 1803 4 August , , and died , ; ( ) Sackett

HN ITUS s An JO T and wife Rebecca, had ons , Joseph ,

drew , Samuel , Benjamin, Philip , John and Thomas

of daughters , Susanna wife Thomas Blackwell, Mary

o f wife Josiah Hart . John T . owned the two farms

oa since held by J b and Noah .

1 r 1 . of Joseph had sons , Uriel , the father Joseph , J . , a

of ruling elder ; Samuel, father Andrew , a deacon, and

of Joseph , second, father Jonathan and Samuel (millers)

Joseph , Sen . , owned the farm above Titusville, where his

s on d . Uriel , and gran son Joseph , were born and died

d s on of II . An rew , John, married Hannah , half sister 1 of M a . j Stephen Burrowes , and had children ( ) Stephen

A s a for the father of George , Andrew, Smith , , John, m any years the cashier of Trenton Bank , Aaron Bur

of n roughs and Charles and daughter Sarah wife Joh . f 2 o . Howell , Easton ( ) Jesse , who had sons , George

W . Jr . Jr . , Stephen, , Jesse , Jr Andrew, , Lot and The

i l u O h s . 3 p ( ) John , the father of Noah , Theodore ,

m s o n of Charles and Theodosia , who arried Samuel ,

Jesse Hunt . Andrew Titus owned the farm near Titus f v n ow . ille , in the hands of Mr . Wyko f Hendrickson

. a s on II S muel , of John, took the homestead , and

: 1 had children ( ) Johnson, who divided the homestead 2 ca b . between his sons J and Noah ( ) Solomon, a dea

con w h o d of , married Susanna, aughter Nathaniel Reed , h R a d . and Reuben (a deacon) , Nathaniel , an elder, M r Da n i e l Abijah and Samuel ; Susan , wife of . Bowne , and 3 Mary wife of Daniel J . Blackwell ; ( ) Benjamin, father L R . R of Randall, David . , Furman, Liscomb , Andrew . , d H . a u h Benjamin Wesley, and Nathaniel , and three g

ters , who married respectively Lewis Drake , Bayard 4 Drake and Williamson Updike . ( ) Enos , who by his ﬁrst wife Mary Reed had Rebecca wife of Henry 3 5

Blackwell, and by his second wife Elizabeth Hill , had

of Stephen, Charles , Adaline , Amanda ﬁrst wife Samuel

H . Burroughs , Maria wife of Joseph Bunn, and Ruth f o . . wife Asher Howell This Samuel Titus , Sr had

u da ghters , Mrs . Mary Hunt, Mrs . Daniel Stout and Mrs .

Merrill .

II . Benjamin, Sr . , married a Moore , and had children .

11 ‘ of on . John, son John ﬁrst, settled the farm now

M u i r h e i d in possession of the family, but removed to a

f Ha r r t n farm north o b o ow .

11 m of . Philip once owned the far now the property

T . Frelinghuysen Titus . The descendants of John Titus bearing the name are m nu erous , and if the kindred by marriage were included , it would greatly increase the number . The family has given to this church six ruling elders , four deacons , and four trustees ; and to other Presbyterian churches three ruling elders and two deacons . John Titus probably

d . . emigrated from Hempstea , L I

PHRAIM ITUS E T , of another family, was for many years

o f an elder of this church , married Mary , daughter

Enoch Armitage , and through his daughters Martha

n . and Lydia, has umerous descendents in this county

I M TH Y ITUS of T O T , the grandfather the late Captain

of Timothy Titus , owned the lands Aaron Stout, and

da u h the late Pierson Bake . Through Susanna, his g

. on ter , who married Edward Hunt, Sr ( the river road) , t of and hrough other female branches the family, he is

of the ancestor of quite a number this congregation .

DWA RD A RT E H , from Stonington , Connecticut, was the commissioner who laid before the Presbytery of Phila 36

h f r f delphia t e call o the pastoral labors o the Rev . John

Guild . His farm is that now owned by the Temple family on the Hopewell and Ewing turnpike . His son Joh n w a s baptized in the church at Maidenhead by the

of 12 Rev . Jedediah Andrews , Philadelphia, on the th

21s t da 1713 old month , y , , sty le , corresponding to l 0t h 1 14 7 . February , , new style This John became a representative of t h e Provincial Legislature of New

of of Jersey , a member the Committee Safety, a mem

of t t a e ber he Continen l Congr ss , and a signer of the l Dec aration of Independence . As his will was executed 16t h 1779 26t h 1779 April , , and approved May , , the

of time his death is nearly ascertained , which was prob i - i ably n the sixty sixth year of h s age . He was origin a lly buried i n the priva te bury ing-groun d of the Hunt family , but was a few years since removed to the

o cemetery of the Hopewell Baptist Church . On the c cas ion of dedicating the monument erected to his mem or on 4t h of 1864 y , the July, , Governor Joel Parker of this State delivered an oration before a large assembly . He spent the latter part of his life on his farm adjoining f o . the Baptist church , now the property Moore Phillips He gave the ground on which that meeting-house was t’ built . John Har s children were Jesse , Nathaniel ,

w f Ed ard , Sarah Wiko f and Deborah .

E dw a I d a ﬁ rs t Hart had a daughter, S rah , who mar

h i s ried Timothy Temple , and after death became the f o . of second wife Stephen Burrowes , Sen , and mother

Major Stephen Burrowes .

ALPH A RT of i R H , brother Edward , l ved over the town l ship ine in Maidenhead , and left his real estate there to h i s n sons Samuel and Be jamin ; but two of his sons , R alph and Josiah , settled in Hopewell , and Mary became f f Wl e b r . the John Carpenter . Ralph , J , married Jemima,

d . aughter of George Woolsey , Sen . , and had a son, Dr

r h a e u s . Noah , and daughters , J , Hannah and Elizabeth

By a second wife , a widow Merrill, he had a daughter

Mary wife of George Smith .

. of II Josiah married Mary Titus , daughter John .

. R e Sen , and had Elijah , Nathaniel, Andrew, Titus ,

of of w becca wife Thomas Wilson, Sarah wife Andre

l of Smith , E izabeth wife of Jacob Ege , and Mary wife

Ishi Vancleve .

III . Elijah married Keziah , daughter of (river road)

of Edward Hunt, and had Enoch , Philip , Hannah wife

of Edmund Phillips , and wife Peter Phillips . l III . Nathaniel married Abigai , daughter of Captain

Joseph Scudder, and had Josiah , Elizabeth wife of

Levi Knowles , Mary wife of Ephraim Roberts , and

Joseph Scudder (who by his marriage with Abigail, daughter of Sackett Moore) became the father of Nath a n i e l and Sackett Moore Hart .

s on of da u h III . Andrew, Josiah , married Elizabeth , g

A s a s ter of Adam Ege , and their children were , Amo ,

M r s . . Esq . , Abner, Adam , Robbins , Mrs Theophilus f o . Stout, Sarah wife John Phillips , and Rebecca

s on III . Titus , of Josiah , a deacon of the church ; by f r o . the ﬁ st wife , Rebecca, daughter Capt Samuel Scud der, he had Samuel , Noah , Mary (the wife ﬁrst of Noah

of Stout and then Benjamin Hendrickson) , Abigail wife of a of s Thomas Blackwell, S rah wife Jo eph Furman,

Rebecca wife of John P . Stout . By his second wife , o f t Phoebe Guild , Charity , second wife Reuben Ti us , f and Hester wi e o f Peter Blackwell .

Of this Hart family, Titus Hart, and Daniel H . Hart 38

s on of n i a Enoch , were deacons , and Natha el, and his

s on . Josiah , trustees

A B RAH A M TEMPLE lived on the farm more recently ' - t b . owned by e late Isaac Primmer , and there lies buried

m of . He arried Sarah , daughter Nathaniel Moore , Sen , a n d had daughters Sarah and Joanna, and sons Benja

mi n and Timothy .

r of Hon . II . Timothy mar ied Sarah , sister John Hart,

n n a d had John a d Nathaniel . f 111. e o John marri d a daughter his uncle Benjamin,

h a d W and Asher, Timothy, illiam , and Sarah wife of

Asher R . . ~ Hart

. e s on III Nathani l married twice , had a John, a

u w h o da ghter, married her cousin , William Temple , t and ano her daughter wife of Benjamin Hendrickson . li . s on IV John , the of Nathaniel, ved and died in h i s on H . s Trenton ; had a William , who, by marriage

w M l ll n cC e a . ith Elizabeth , became the father of the Rev

of . Asher Brown Temple , Seneca, New York

’ SEPH ART JO H occupied the farm , now Amos Furman s ,

h of . had sons Joseph ( the fat er Aaron Hart, Sen , and

t of Jr . grandfa her Jonathan Smith , Aaron , , George H . f o . and Ann, wife James Burroughs) Besides Aaron,

. s on Sen , he had a Israel , who married Mary Davison, h d a n ow . and several children, all deceased There were f o . other sons Joseph Hart, and a daughter Jane 11 . s on . Amos , the of Joseph Hart, Sr , was the father

M r i s . n of of Dan el Furma , Rebecca wife Ezekiel Fur

m n a f of . , and Mary, second wi e Amos Laning, Sen

f of o . Mary , daughter Joseph , Sen , became the wife t h e Jeremiah Woolsey . From this Hart family church

on e n on e . has had trustee , two ruli g elders , and deacon 39

HN ART t 0 JO H , whose farm was on the wes side ’

.o f Roger s road , leading to Trenton, lately in possession

f . . o his grandson, Asher R Hart, was a separate family

of of Among the people the township , the descendants

John Hart were called the white Harts , and the descend

of w ants Ed ard and Ralph were called the black Harts .

John Hart had sons , Richard and John , and Mary, who married a D ean .

: 1 2 of Richard had sons ( ) Joseph , ( ) John R . ( Honey

Hollow , who , by his wife Mary Dean, had Richard , John 3 Dean , Phoebe , and Mrs . Naomi Baldwin) . ( ) Asher f R . o , the father Samuel Stockton Hart, and several daughters .

of John, the son John , settled on the farm long held by his grandson Abner . By his ﬁrst wife had Elijah,

of f of father Catharine Hunt, and grand ather Charles , 2 Elijah , and Theodore Hunt . John, unmarried ; and f by his second wi e , Phillips and Abner . Phillips took

of the homestead , and was father John, Abner, Benja

M r s . min, Joseph , Palmer, and Israel , with Clara Dunn,

Elizabeth wife of Elijah Atchley and Susan .

f ALPH UNT o . R H . There were two this name The on e on who lived the Lawrence road , owning the lands n ow held by Israel Temple and his descendant, John

H . Drake , was called London Ralph . He and his wife E . . . on Elizabeth have the initials of their names , R H , the wrought iron latch of the kitchen door at the old

w homestead . Their sons were John, Ed ard , Nathaniel ,

William and Daniel .

s on II . John , of Ralph, known as Captain Hunt, was

o f unusual as to his stature , had Ruth wife Stephen

of Hunt, and Betsy wife Jesse Hunt, of Kentucky , by

fu ll w Hor s . his ife , Martha 40

11 s on m . Edward , of Ralph , arried Charity, daughter

of or r 1 William Cornwell , Co nell , had sons ( ) Ralph ,

2 t As a ( ) John (the fa her of . Ralph . Edward , Nathaniel f f R . o , Mary , the wi e Henry Drake , Martha , wife of

of John Laning , Lawrence , Elizabeth , wife of Christo 3 pher Vankirk) , ( ) Abigail , wife of Robert Updike , and

4 m . ( ) a daughter Elizabeth , who arried a Northrop

II . Nathaniel lived in Lawrence , opposite Captain In ’ man s , and by his wife , Mary Phillips , had Joseph , Ralph ,

’

of s on . Samuel , and Mary, wife William Hunt s Ralph ’ II . William s children were Ralph and Anne . 11 i . Daniel had Major Ralph , Dr . Benjam n (of Leb f o . anon) , and Elizabeth , wife Jacob Anderson This church is much indebted to the liberalit y of E d

A a M r s . . s ward Hunt, Sen , his grandson, , and to Ruth

Hunt .

ALPH HUNT ca lle d The other R , Stony Brook Ralph , , owned the farm below Mt . Rose , since held by Abraham

w a s Te rhune . He the father of Charity, wife of the f . o Rev John Guild , Azariah , prominent in the public

ff of a airs the township ; Nathan , for many years a ruling

a n d u elder tr stee ; Elijah and Noah .

’ II . Azariah s sons were Ephraim , who was killed by a horse , and Ralph (distinguished for his ﬂaxen hair) of was father William, Catharine and Nancy . ’ II . Nathan s sons , John and Enoch , never married , but his son Noah , by his wife who was a Drake , had

of John, who married a sister Theophilus $ uick , Enoch ,

of who married a daughter Smith Titus , and another,

of who was wife Andrew Blackwell .

U T s on of t I HN N e w o w n . . JO H , of Edward N , L , owned the farm where Stephen Hunt now lives had , by Mar

This Hunt family, in its several branches , has done f much for the interests o the Church .

DWA RD UNT of . E H , quite another family He was possibly the Edward to whom Ralph Hunt of Maiden

i n l 173 2 150 head , his wi l, made , bequeathed acres in

h i s Hopewell . He married Susanna, daughter of neigh bor, Timothy Titus , and had Timothy , John, Keziah

W f of i e of Elijah Hart, Mary wife Moore Scott, Phoebe

of . wife John Furman, Hannah and Sarah

II . Timothy married Fanny, a daughter of Richard

l : 1 Phi lips , and had children ( ) Richard , who married

o f Hannah , daughter John Phillips , and had children,

l of Abner, Wilson , Elisha, Abigai wife Abner Hart,

d R of Rho a wife of ichard Brewer, and Frances wife

2 of Smith Titus . ( ) Timothy, by Catharine , daughter

H . Elijah Hart, and Theodore , Charles , Elijah , and — Francina lived where Daniel H . Hart died .

11 i . John marr ed Jane , daughter of Theophilus Phil l 1 lips , and had chi dren, ( ) Theophilus , who by his ﬁrst wife , a daughter of John Smith , Esq . , had Philip Titus and John Smith ; and by h i s second wife Elizabeth Far

f of ley had George , and Jane wi e Daniel Howell Phillips . From this family there have been two ruling elders in the Pennington Church and on e elder in Titusville

Church .

W ANDRE SMITH . There is some interest atta ched to

of him , as the naming this township probably origi n a t e d from the naming of his early purchase of land

s o w here , in date , far as the records sho , anterior to any t 20 . t h other purchase for occupation On he of May, 1688 of , Cornelius Empson , Brandywine Creek , sold to

w t t Andre Smith wo hundred acres , which trac the deed “ dot h e n e o a n dcon r m u n t o says , he , the said Empson , f ﬁ ﬁ t h e sa idAn dr e w Smit h h e r e t o or e la i d or t h i n t h e cou n t , f f y o Bu r li n t on a or e sa i d a n d a lso se t t le d u on a n d b lzim f g f , p , y A W ” t h e sa id n dr e w Smit /i ca lle da n d t o b e ca lle d PE ELL . , HO This 200 acre tract is probably the homestead near

n Ha r b or t ow . It is an interesting fact that he signed ’ 1 3 9 n 7 . the call for Mr . Guild s services in A drew Smith was a professional surveyor (a s was also his s on f Timothy) , and this would be reason su ﬁcient for the adoption of a name Suggested by h im. He had three

n m sons , A drew , Jonathan and Ti othy .

II . Andrew married Mrs . Mershon , and had Charles Z and ebulon, both unmarried , and Andrew, who mar

ried Sarah , daughter of Josiah Hart, Sen . , and had Ben jamin (dead) , George Washington, Esq . , and Nathaniel . 1 II . Jonathan married Miss Hixon, and had ( ) John

E s . Smith , q , both ruling elder and trustee in Penning

t on a . Church , who , by his wife , daughter of Capt John

t Joli n Moore , had Jonathan (fa her of , ruling elder in t e of Lamber ville) , K ziah wife Daniel Atchley , Jane

of n of wife Theophilus Hunt, Phoebe seco d wife George i f r n a n Jr . . o C e ce W Smith , Esq . , Sarah wife y Vancleve , and the mother of Jonathan and Samuel Titus of Stony

Brook Mill .

II . Timothy, the surveyor (and a beautiful penman) ,

married Jane Lott, and had Joseph , Andrew, George , f of . . o the father Capt Ralph H Smith , and grandfather

of Stephen B . Smith ; John Berrien, Sarah wife James

of Wilson , Abigail wife of John Vannoy, Mary wife ’

s on . Stephen Titus , Andrew s From this family there have been two trustees and a 44

on e ruling elder in Pennington church , and elder of

Lambertville Church .

H N ELLING I 223 JO W came from Jamaica, L . . , bought ’ acres (of which he w a s then in posse s sion by a year s 18 1728 Te r i t e lease) July , , of L ster , who had bought of M u i r h e i d John , and he of John Fitch , to whom it had been conveyed by John Reading and James Trent,

f f Hi s n o . s o Commissioners the Loan O ﬁce , John

of Welling , Esq . , married Esther, the oldest daughter the Rev . John Guild . Their children were 1 21 1769 ( ) Enoch , born April , , married Rebecca , 12 183 7 sister of Samuel Green , who died March , , in f the 63d year o her age . Their children were Enoch 7 G . . , who married Elizabeth Grover He died June ,

48 50t h s on of 18 . , in the year of his age The other 3 1 1832 3 2d Enoch , Sr . , John, died August , , in the year of his age , married Sarah Grover, and has sons ,

Charles and Lewis . 2 17 1772 5 1800 ( ) John , born January , , died July ,

29 t h a e . in the year of his g , an enrolled communicant

“ 3 of 10 ( ) Hannah , wife John Davison, born April 1 4 77 . 4 10 1777 ( ) Charles , born February , , by his wife

on e m Mary Sexton , had nine sons and daughter , of who

of . Charles , Missouri , and two others , survive Charles 15 1857 ﬁft Welling, died October , , having been over y

of seven years an elder Pennington Church , and many years a trustee . 5 1779 ( ) Asa, born November, , and died young . 6 27 1784 29 ( ) Isaac , born January , , died February , 1868 - , having been thirty eight years an elder . He

a w o f . married Hann h , daughter of Le is Perrine , Freehold

s on f o f Their John held the o ﬁce deacon in this church , 45

f and of ruling elder at Titusville . After a life o eminent t pie y and usefulness , he died , leaving three sons , John

o f . Calvin , Joseph and Henry . The two daughters Mr

Isaac Welling are still with us , Mrs . Elizabeth Wiley

M r s . . . n and Hannah Cooley ; also Dr Henry P Welli g ,

d of 1828 of a gra uate of the College New Jersey, , and the Medical Department of the University of Pe n n sy l

for -ﬁve vania, and forty years a skillful practitioner of

. s o n medicine in this region His , Edward Livingston

t h e 1857 Welling , a graduate of College of New Jersey , , D f a n d M . o at the University Pennsylvania, is now

h r i f united with his fa t e n the practice o his profession . His honorable record as a surgeon in the army during the late war deserves a fuller statement than can here be given .

s o n John Welling , Sr . , had , besides his John Welling

r E li z a b e t h 173 0 J . , a daughter named , born , and there

ma r fore ten years older than her brother John . She ried Jacob Carle , a ruling elder in the Ewing Church , 23 1800 7 5 . who died November , , aged She died May 22 1801 . , . Both lie in the Ewing churchyard Their children were John, Jacob , Israel , Elizabeth , wife of

. of John Van Mater, and Hannah By the marriage

s h e m of Hannah to Aaron Vancleve , became the other

of Dr . John Vancleve , and that remarkable woman

E li z a b e t h of W wife Caleb Smith Green, hose children , h John C . Green , George S . Green , C ancellor Henry W .

Green, Caleb S . Green, and grandson Professor William

r t Hen y Green , are all well known in the communi y .

i t Wi lli a m But there rema ns time only o name others , ' Cor n w e ll or Cor n e ll , (with his ﬁve sons , Smith , William ,

s t John, Edward , and Benjamin) , worthily repre en ed by his descendant , Samuel C . Cornell , and whose old home

’ stead is occupied b y one who bears the name William

Cornell Lewis . 46

e At ch le h i s There was Je ss g , from Cranberry, with s i x a n d sons , Edward , Thomas , Levi, Asher, Daniel

on e Jesse , from which family there has been ruling

Jon a t h a n F u r ma n of elder ; there were , ancestor The

o h ilu s \ a n Sa mu e l Hu n t Th oma s H p , elder, , qﬁ whose

Ch a r le s Ho family gave us two ruling elders , ﬁ , whose

d F r a n ci s Va n n o Joh n P h i l family gave us one eacon, g , E f l s s . o ip , q , Pleasant Valley, originally from Lawrence ,

Joh n K e t ch a m s on , his Levi , grandson Enoch , both elder and trustee , and the great grandsons Joshua, Enoch ,

William Smith , and their nephew Samuel, a trustee , whose liberality as a family i n the erection o f the new

R ob e r t Bla ckw e ll church will not soon be forgotten ; , S who , through his sons Francis and Thomas , has pread h over t e township . From this family we have had an

O r a n ce V an cle ve elder , a deacon, and a trustee ; g , whose s on , Colonel John Vancleve , was a trustee , and a great

n R D a e of S. ob e r t r h grandso , John , a deacon , several whose posterity have been on the church roll ; An dr e w

M or a n Th oma s R ob e r t s J oh n F i e ld J osh u a Bu n n Joh n g , , , ,

Ba i n b r id e s on Joh n Ba i n b r id e of g , of the elder g , Law

Ada m E e Wi lli a m Br a n t Joh n R e e d E dmu n d rence , g , g , ,

Ph ili P a lme r Ab r a h a m P it t i n e r Josi a h Be a /r e s and p , g , ,

Joh n D a vi son Ba ke r s R ob e r t L a n i n Jose h Bu r , the , g , p B m l r ou h s s on of . Sa u e g , John , of Ewing, , and his son

Jon a t h a n St ou t a n d a t Jose h Va n ki r k , li tle later came p from Amw ell .

PENNINGTO N

169 7 12 In , July th , eleven hundred acres of land (thirteen hundred in fact) were sold to Joh a n n a s Law of ] renson, Maidenhead (Lawrence) by Thomas Revel , o f t e agent h West Jersey Society . Lawrenson con 47

ve e d Ri ch b e ll 14 1700 y his title to Mott, May , , and 11 1708 Mott sold out his claim November , , to John

a n d Cornwall , John Mott, Nathaniel Moore , Thomas

on of h Read . It is this section land that t is village of

Pennington is built, measuring about one mile and three eighths from north to south , and from east to west em

of bracing about two square miles . The settlement the

n 1 0 village probably began ear 7 8. It was ﬁrst named

of $ ueenstown , in honor of $ ueen Anne , the sovereign 1 4 Great Britain . As early as 7 7 it began to be called

Pennington, which name it has borne ever since . The name by which the old congregation w a s known in its earliest history was

TH E PEOPLE O F MAIDENH EAD AND HO PEWELL . The ﬁrst authentic evidence that there were Chris tian people in this region uniting together for the

of i n maintenance religious worship , is found the record of 169 8—9 18 a deed bearing date , March th , in which

E s . the Honorable Jeremiah Basse , q , Governor of the

of a R e Provinces E st and West Jersey, and Thomas f &c . o vell, , agents the Honorable the West Jersey

for t Society in England , convey the erecting of a mee i n - - - g house , and for burying ground and school house , “ on e of n hundred acres land to Ralph Hu t, John Bain

bridge , Johannes Lawrenson, William Hixon , John

Br e r l y y , Samuel Hunt, Theophilus Phillips , Jonathan

Davis , Thomas Smith , Jasper Smith , Thomas Coleman ,

Benjamin Hardin , William Akers , Robert Lannen ,

Philip Phillips , Joshua Andris , Samuel Davis , Elnathan

Davis , Enoch Andris , Cornelius Andris , James Price .

John Runyan , Thomas Runyan , Hezekiah Bonham , L Benjamin Maple , awrence Updike , Joseph Sackett, “ and Edward Hunt, inhabitants of the said township

i . e . . aforesaid , , Maidenhead , and parts adjacent There i s a strong presumption that the ﬁrst house of worship for the congregation w a s erected in what i s now called

t t h e of Lawrenceville . Fur her, baptismal records the

First Presbyterian Church , Philadelphia, show that the

e de di a h of Rev . J Andrews that church administered

of 1713 1714 the rite baptism at Maidenhead in and ,

‘ and it is matter of ecclesiastical record that the Rev .

w a s i a n d Robert Orr, the ﬁrst pastor, orda ned installed - 20 1715 . October , , in the meeting house at Maidenhead The second church ediﬁce was in what is now known

1712 . as Ewing township , built of logs in , on land con ve e d 9 1709 y by Major Alexander Lockhart, March , , t o Richard Scudder and si xteen Others in trust . The third in order was erected in Pennington , as early as

1724 or 1725 on the year , the site of the old brick 1 4 t 8 7. church , which was taken down in The four h

w a s of 1726 or t of ediﬁce built stone in , on near the si e what is now known as the First Church , Trenton city . The ﬁrst ecclesiastical record of this congregation is

of found in the Minutes the Presbytery of Philadelphia, 1l t h 1709 May , , as follows

h O . a rdered , that Mr Smith go to the people of Maiden e d and Hope

c f m t o well , and on er with them on such atters as shall be propounded

c c c a n d him by them , on erning his being alled to be their minister ; that E Mr . Smith preac h to the people aforesaid on his way to New n g land or

o return from it , or b th ; and that this be intimated to Mr . Smith , and the people be writ to by Mr . Andrews . anything was done to carry out this order ‘ Whether u of is nknown , but the wish the people to obtain the of ministrations the gospel was not then realized .

of 11t h In the Minutes Presbytery of September , 1711 t , i is written

Again

—M r O M e mor a n du m . Robert rr having performed those points of t trial assigned him o satisfaction , namely , preached a popular sermon “ 24 fo e du s from James ii . , and given an Exeg esis on that question , An ’ ” s s i n a t u m foe de r e e sse n t i a li t e r di ﬁe r a t circumcision g a Evang elico , and also answered to several interlocutory qu estions tou ching theological o f matters , and given a specimen his attainments in other parts of learn r O 20t h ing to good app obation , he the said Mr . rr was , on the day of O 1815 t h e ctober , , solemnly set apart to work of the ministry by Masters

Andrews , Morgan (Jonathan ) , Dickinson , Evans and Bradner , at Mai

de n h e a d . , before a numerous assembly

Mr . Orr lived on the farm which until recently was f o . the property William A Green, within the township

f . o on . Lawrence , and the Ewing boundary line Mr

s on . Orr lost a by death , while residing there The

n r of s on grave is in the Ewi g churchya d , by the side a

i r h i of Sheriff John M u e d. The pastoral relation of

Mr . Orr continued about four years . As the Minutes of the Presbytery of Philadelphia from 1717 to Novem

9 t h 173 3 of ber , , have been lost, there is no record the time of the dissolution of the pastoral relation . His name is mentioned a s bei ng present at the meetings of

Presbytery and Synod during his pastorate , and at

' 18 1716 h i s Presbytery, September th , , elder Enoch f Anderson appears with him . The last notice o Mr .

of Orr is in the Minutes of the Synod Philadelphia, “ S 19 1719 of eptember th , , when he is spoken as having

n o . pastoral charge , and Mr Andrews was ordered to prepare Synodical testimonials for him, which were

ou t f made and given him . The time o his death and

h i s the place of burial are unknown .

. S S K S . E IC IN N II The Rev MO D O was the second pastor .

w a s b o 12 169 5 s He rn December , , at Springﬁeld , Mas , s on of Hez ekiah and Abigail Dickinson . He graduated 51

In 1717 at Yale College , in a class of ﬁve members ,

on e of every whom entered the Christian ministry . This was the year in which the college was removed

from Saybrook to New Haven . Dr . Sprague states

of that Mr . Dickinson was settled as pastor the Pres b t e r i a n r of d y Chu ches Hopewell and Maidenhea , New 1719 Jersey, some time before September, , for his ill

n ess at that time detained his brother (Rev . Jonathan - Dickinson) from Synod . Owing to the loss of the

of records Presbytery , this date cannot be veriﬁed . He ﬁrst appeared in the Synod of Philadelphia Sep

20 1722 o f tember , , with his elder, Enoch Armitage , h the Hopewell Churc , and was at Synod with the same 24 1 2 elder in 17 and 7 5 . He continued in the pastoral 26t h 1727 relation until after the of. June , , when the

of or w a lk Society the Congregational Church , N , voted

to request Mr . Dickinson to supply their pulpit, with

reference to a settlement among them . He came , and

or after he had preached two three Sabbaths , they gave

n him a call to become their pastor . The unwilli gness of the Hopewell people to part with him is clearlyr indi

“ ca t e d d by an address , which that worthy el er, Enoch

ou t Armitage , wrote and delivered before the people , 15 16 17t h entitled , Some Meditations upon the th , th ,

of - of vers es the Twenty Seventh Chapter Numbers , f o . occasioned by the removal Mr Dickinson , and de ” - livered at Hopewell Meeting House by E . A .

' of Mr . Dickinson was pastor the Congregational 1 2 1 1778 7 7 . Church at Norwalk from until May , On “ his tombstone is the inscription, Beneath this monu

s mental stone lies interred the body of the Rev . Mose

of of Dickinson, late pastor the First Church Christ in 1 1778 Norwalk, who departed this life May , , in the 50

Again — M r . M e mor a n du m . Robert Orr having performed those points of t trial assigned him o satisfaction , namely , preached a popular sermon “ 24 fo e du s from James ii . , and given an Exeg esis on that question , An ” i r u m i s i n e si n a t u m fo e de r e c e s s e n t i a li t e r di ffe r a t c c c o g a Evangeli o , and also answe red to several interlocutory questions tou c hin g theological

o f matters , and given a specimen his attainments in other parts of learn r O 2ot h ing to good app obation , he the said Mr . rr was , on the day of O 1815 ctober , , solemnly set apart to the work of the ministry by Masters

Andrews , Morgan (Jonathan ) , Dickinson , Evans and Bradner , at Mai

de n h e a d f . , be ore a numerous assembly

on Mr . Orr lived the farm which until recently was f o . the property William A Green, within the township f o . Lawrence, and on the Ewing boundary line Mr . h ’ s on de a t w h i l e . Orr lost a by , residing there The

n c r of s on grave is in the Ewi g chur hya d , by the side a

f ff u i r h i o Sheri John M e d. The pastoral relation of t h Mr . Orr continued about four years . As e Minutes of the Presbytery of Philadelphia from 1717 to Novem 9 t h 173 3 ber , , have been lost, there is no record of the time of the dissolution of the pastoral relation . His name is mentioned as being present at the meetings of

Presbytery and Synod during his pastorate , and at ’ 18 1716 Presbytery, September th , , his elder Enoch

Anderson appears with him . The last notice of Mr .

of of Orr is in the Minutes the Synod Philadelphia, S 19 1719 “ eptember th , , when he is spoken of as having n o pastoral charge , and Mr . Andrews was ordered to prepare Synodical testimonials for him, which were

ou t f made and given him . The time o his death and the place of his burial are unknown .

. . SES ICKINS N II The Rev MO D O was the second pastor .

b o 12 169 5 s He was rn December , , at Springﬁeld , Mas ,

on s of Hez e kiah and Abigail Dickinson . He graduated 51

1717 at Yale College in , in a class of ﬁve members ,

on e of every whom entered the Christian ministry . This was the year in which the college was removed from Saybrook to New Haven . Dr . Sprague states

of that Mr . Dickinson was settled as pastor the Pres b t e r i a n u of d y Ch rches Hopewell and Maidenhea , New 1719 Jersey, some time before September, , for his ill

ness at that time detained his brother (Rev . Jonathan - Dickinson) from Synod . Owing to the loss of the O f records Presbytery , this date cannot be veriﬁed . He ﬁrst appeared in the Synod of Philadelphia Sep

20 1722 h i s o f tember , , with elder, Enoch Armitage , h the Hopewell Churc , and was at Synod with the same 1 24 1 2 elder in 7 and 7 5 . He continued in the pastoral

26t h o 1727 relation until after the f June , , when the

of Society the Congregational Church , Norwalk , voted

to request Mr . Dickinson to supply their pulpit, with

reference to a settlement among them . He came , and

after he had preached two or three Sabbaths , they gave

l n him a call to become their pastor . The unwil i gness of the Hopewell people to part with him is clearlyr indi

‘ ca t e d c by an address , whi h that worthy elder, Enoch

m ou t Ar itage , wrote and delivered before the people , 15 16t h 17 entitled , Some Meditations upon the th , , th verses of t h e Twenty-Seventh Chapter of Numbers f o . occasioned by the removal Mr Dickinson , and de - ” livered at Hopewell Meeting House by E . A .

of Mr . Dickinson was pastor the Congregational 1 2 1 1 7 7 778. Church at Norwalk from until May , On “ i s his tombstone the inscription, Beneath this monu

mental stone lies interred the body of the Rev . Moses

of Dickinson, late pastor of the First Church Christ in 1 1778 Norwalk , who departed this life May , , in the 52

83d 51s t of h i s year of his age , and ministry in said

ma n of church . A good understanding, well informed by study, cheerful in temper, prudent in conduct, he came to his grave in full age , like as a shock of corn ” cometh in his season . The ﬁrst church ediﬁce at Pennington was erected

of during the pastorate Mr . Dickinson . In the words of w a s a memorandum, which furnished by the writer

in $ . J n to Dr ohn Hall , prepari g his History of Trenton “ old of In the records Hopewell Township , we ﬁnd the followi n g

9 t h 1 25—6 March ye , 7 , agreed upon by the majority of the town to hold their town-meeting s i n s u i n g at the new meetin g ~ ho u se by John ” Smiths . This John Smith was a merchant in the village , and owned the lands adjoining the church lot east and south . There is a tradition that before a c hurch was built there was stated preac hing in a s c hool house which stood on the ground that is now the south part of the Pen n i n t o n s ch ool-h ou s e g graveyard , known from time immemorial as the lot . This lot was conveyed by John Smith , for ten pounds , to Nathaniel

~ Moore , William Cornwell , John Everitt , Ralph Hunt, Jonathan Fur m a n , Reuben Armitage , and Stephen Baldwin .

This meeting-house stood nearly on the site of the

’ r i ck b u i ldi n t 1847 si x b g hat was taken down in , but t f . een eet further north It was a frame building, thirty - four by thirty feet, weather boarded with cedar shingles .

t h e on The pulpit was on the north side, and doors the t 1 65 . 7 sou h In , when this frame church was replaced

b i ls t e a d by another, the timbers were removed to the

a on p rsonage farm the Scotch road , and used as the

f h of o . frame a barn That frame , wit quite a number

old - the weather beaten cedar shingles , even yet service - able for weather boarding, may be seen at the present day . 53

n ot That Mr . Dickinson was without spiritual fruit

from his labors here , is evident from a letter written to 1721 Cotton Mather in May , , in which the writer speaks “ of the astonishi ng marks of a work of grace around l him , and which were more plentifu among those who had been longer under the means of grace and in

another letter, written in September, he speaks of “ ’ i n r m n u m magnum c e e t ecclesiae in Mr . Dickinson s ” congregation .

. . SEPH RGA N III The Rev JO MO was the third pastor . His name has led to the Opinion that he was a native 1702 of Wales . He graduated at Yale College in .

President Woolsey, in a letter to the writer, says

Some interest is attached to Mr . Morgan from the

on e of of fact that he was not only, the members the

of ﬁrst class in Yale College , but also the only one the class who did not also take his degree at Harvard that l is the on ly on e u e r i t a b lg e du ca t e d a t Ya e a lon e . He 169 7 1700 was licensed to preach in , and ordained in .

o f R e v He preached the sermon at the ordination the .

of Jonathan Dickinson Elizabethtown, New Jersey, Sep

' 1 ﬁr 9 709 . s t tember , He was settled in the ministry 1710 at Greenwich , Connecticut . In he removed to

s Freehold , New Jersey , being received by the Pre by 1 1 1 t e r 2 7 0 . y September , Here he remained as pastor

1729 o f until , when he undertook the pastoral charge f the church o Maidenhead and Hopewell . ffl While at Freehold , he was greatly a icted by the

o f s on w a s death his Joseph , a graduate of Yale , who 28t h preparing for the ministry . He died on the o f 1723 3 0t h f m November, ; on the the father preached ro 2 1. on m . Job x . , and the next day from Psal cxxxvii 54

These discourses are in print, and to be found in the

r Lib a ry of Princeton Theological Seminary . Another f ’ printed sermon o Mr . Morgan s is deposited in the

Library of the Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massa

h u t c s e t s . 1729 During his pastorate of eight years , from to 6 173 7 April , , he resided at Maidenhead , on the pro p e r t y for many years occupied by the late George

Brearley .

He was deposed from the ministry for intemperance ,

of and afterwards restored . All the proceedings the case now lie before me , but nothing would be gained

a by their publication . His name ppears for the last

on time the records of the Synod as an absentee , May 1740 8 . , When and where he died, and where he was

h a s . buried , not been ascertained f Shortly a ter Mr . Morgan began his ministerial labors

n in the co gregation of Maidenhead and Hopewell, active measures were taken by the Hopewell people to pro

' cure a parsonage farm . The original subscription reads t hus

w e a hereunto subscribed inh bitants of Hopewell , in the county of

c Hunterdon , in the provin e of West Jersey , do promise and oblige our c selves , our executors and administrators , to pay or ause to be paid unto e xe c u Nathaniel Moore , Philip Ring o , and Thomas Reed , their heirs ,

or tors , administrators assigns , or to any one of them , the several sums

- f o r f of money that are to our names annexed , one hal at be ore the ﬁrst o f f f day May next ensuing the date hereo , and the other hal at or before o f 173 1 the ﬁrst day of May , in the year our Lord , the said money being i n trust with the said Nathaniel Moore , Philip Ringo , and Thomas

o f Reed , toward the purchasing a plantation to be a dwelling place at all times for such a gospel minister of the Presbyterian persuasion as shall be duly and r e g u l a r ly p a lle d by the major part of the inhabitants f o Hopewell , which compose the Presbyterian society in that town , but to be enjoyed by su c h a minister no longer than he c ontinues to be su c h a lawful and regular minister to that society , and when the relation

56 that the co m m i s s ig n of the Synod do allow something out of the fund to Tre nton as to them shall appear needful when they are settled with a minister ; whi c h overture being read was approved by the Synod n e mi n e

con t r a di ce n t e .

The Trenton people afterwards procured the services f 1732 of . o the Rev David Cowell Harvard University, ,

of or a native Dorchester, Massachusetts , who was 3d 173 6 dained and installed their pastor November , .

Here Mr . Cowell continued until his death , which 1 s t 1760 . occurred D ecember ,

R E HN UILD V . IV . The JO G is the next pastor that W claims our attention . He was born in rentham , 1 712 s on G . Massachusetts , in a of John and Esther uild

He entered Harvard College , at Cambridge , at the age of eighteen, and, after passing through the regular four ’ 1 4 73 . years course , graduated in He was taken under 6 the care of the Presbytery of Philadelphia April , 1 3 f ’ 7 7 o . , at the time when the result Mr Morgan s case dissolved the pastoral relation, through the action of a

s 4t h o f commi sion held at Maidenhead . On the August, 1 3 13 7 7 . , he was heard in part and approved On the th of 173 7 n September, , after havi g preached a sermon 15 from Galatians vi . , before the Presbytery in the

Market Street Meeting House , Philadelphia, he was licensed to preach the gospel . He was at once em ployed by the Hopewell people to preach with a view 1 41 to settlement . At this time the conﬂict which in 7 divided the Church into two parts , the Old Side and the

New Side , had begun to agitate the religious community 14 1 3 — . of 7 7 8 here At a meeting the Presbytery , March , , the New Side men asked the privilege of hearing Mr .

or James Davenport, some other minister, for three 57

. of G months The friends Mr . uild quietly yielded , and a letter was drawn up addressed to Mr . Davenport by the ministers of the Presbytery . But this negotiation

of was not successful . Finally , under appointment l Presbytery, the Rev . David Cowe l , of Trenton, met the Hopewell people , and drew up the following call , to wit

E WE Au u s t 15 1739 . HOP LL , g , R To M . JOHN GUILD

SI R z—We inhabitants in and near Hopewell , being sensible that the Gospel ministry is the ordinary means by which the ’ glorious Head of the Church carries on the interest of his kingdom in this world , and the necessity we are under in point of duty and the present situation of our ff a airs to have a gospel minister settled amongst us . We having had Satisfactory Experience of your Ministerial Abilities and Christian Deportment during your abode with us , which is almost two years , do Call and invite you to be our settled Pastor , Promising subj ection to you as our Minister in the Lord . And forasmuch as those who minister in holy things are partakers o f w h o the Altar , and it is by the King of the Church ordained that those f preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel , we do there ore Covenant and Promise to communicate to you of our worldly Substan c e ac cording to our Ability for your comfortable subsistence among us while y o u r e main ,our minister . AS RR WES THOM BU O , E E R A T NATHANI L H A T , R LPH HUN , W R RR WE A W ED A D BU O S , THOMAS B LD IN , RR WE J R THOMAS BU O S , . , RALPH HUNT , E E RR WES E R E ST PH N BU O , H N Y WOOLS Y , E RR WE W R ART ED N BU O S , ED A D H , RR W ES RA JOHN BU O , EPH IM TITUS SE R W E R E E JO PH DISB O , G O G WOOLS Y , E E E S J . JOHN TITU , B N T MPL , C A ERTS W R T NI OL S ROB , ED A D HUN , E RE RR L A M EE A S . J MI H BU OUGH , WI LI R D RE W AND SMITH ,

RALPH SMITH , ER PHILIP PALM .

Mr . Guild wisely judged it best not to declare his

i on of acceptance immed ately, account the excitement 58 kept up by the array of the c ontending p arties against

. 8t h of O each other But ﬁnally , on the day ctober, 1741 , arrangements were made for his ordination, wh ich 11t h took place agreeably to appointment, November , 1 41 7 . Mr Guild delivered his trial sermon from John i x v . 6 , in the presence of the Rev . Messrs . David

w e de di a h An Evans , Robert Cross , David Co ell and J

. a drews The ordin tion sermon was preached by Rev . 42 David Evans , from John xii . , after which Mr . Guild

of was by fasting, prayer and imposition the hands of

- the Presbytery, solemnly, in the public meeting house

e s e t at Hopewell, ordain d , and apart to the sacred min ” i s t e r i a l work . - Mr . Guild gave one fourth of his time to the Maiden 1769 t head church at least as late as , when he major part of the Ne w Side party (who had for nearly a quarter of a century worshiped in the church that stood

1742 1826 on e from to in the graveyard, mile west l from Pennington) returned to the o d church . In the Minutes of t h e New Brunswick Presbytery for April 18 1769 ’ , , the tabular statement puts Mr . Guild s name over against Hopewell ; and Maidenhead is I ncluded i ’ among the vacant churches . Mr . Gu ld s relation to the

Maidenhead church was never formally constituted , and f no action taken in reference to the cessation o his labors . ’ ’ It was under Mr . Guild s ministry that the second

for church ediﬁce the Hopewell people was built . It w a s 1765 1 6 76 . commenced in , and completed in The

dedication sermon was preached by the Rev . William

Kirkpatrick . (The Maidenhea d people had already ﬁn i s h e d in 1765 a new church about on e -half the size of on e the projected in Pennington . ) It was placed sixteen

feet further south than the frame church . The pulpit, 59

- shaped like a wine glass , and with sounding board above ,

on . stood the north side , between two large windows

on or The doors were the Opposite , south side , Opening into the churchyard ; and there was a steeple surmount ing the eastern end . It was built very substantially of brick . The aisles were paved with square brick ; a few of which yet remain , having been used for paving the t h south end of e side walk along the graveyard wall . There were four men who gave on e hundred pounds

: each , viz . Reuben Armitage , Ralph Hart, Edward Hunt and John Welling ; and Reuben Armitage gave ﬁve pounds extra for the privilege of occupying a s pe

ﬁ of - con ci e d seat . The names only thirty four other t r i b u t or s have come down to us . A bell (the ﬁrst ever heard in this village) was presented by the young men, John M u i r h e i d and Jonathan Bunn taking an active

n of part in its purchase . Mr . Moore Furma , Trenton,

t of gave he communion table , the marble slab which

t w o was broken into parts by a British soldier, when the British occupied the church , about a hundred years ago . The silk damask cushion for the pulpit was the

f u o f . o gift Charles Cox , Esq , Kingwood , H nterdon

n county . The Buildi g Committee were Noah Hunt,

Edward Hunt, and Jeremiah Woolsey . As Mr . Wool sey was then building a commodious brick house for himself (which has sheltered the family for on e hundred and ten years , in at least ﬁve generations) , he might be supposed to have some qualiﬁcations as a member of a

o f church building committee . William Worth , Law rence , was the chief mason, and Alexander Biles and B Josiah e a k e s the carpenters . The following paper shows who were the leading supporters of this church in 1769 60

We the subscribers hereunto do Promise and Oblig e ourselves to pay to Samuel Moore and Jeremiah Woolsey (or to either of them) , both of s Hopewell , in the County of Hunterdon , and We tern Division of the fﬁ Province of New Jersey , the sums of money as ag ainst our names a xed , on or before the ﬁrst day o f December next ensuing the date hereof ; the said sum or sums of Moneys being fo r the use and propriety of the

‘ a lle r Rev . Mr . John Guild as his Stipend or S y for Preachin g and attend c o f f ing on the Servi e of God , three Fourths his time as hereto ore has - i ~ n n i n t n been usual and Customary at the Meeting house n Pe g o . Given

i n under our Hands , and dated this twelfth day of December , the Year O u - of our Lord ne tho sand Seven hundred and Sixty nine .

( Name and amount

Ralph Hart . Stephen Burrowes ,

Wm . Campbell ,

Joseph Moore , George Huss , Th e O h i l u s David Adair , p Moore ,

Amos Moore , Joseph Baldwin ,

John Moore , Thomas Baldwin ,

Joseph Hart , Robert Combes ,

’ W Jr John elling , . , Henry Baker , ’ Theo s Bainbridge , Noah Hart , Ri n o e Miss g , Amos Hart ,

Nathaniel Moore , Matthias Baker ,

John Carpenter , Jacob Ashton ,

Timothy Hunt , Joseph Vankirk ,

c Moore S ott, Reuben Armitage , n Foster Burrowes , Joh Hart,

Henry Mershon , ( Name torn out) ,

Jeremiah Woolsey , Richard Hart,

Ralph Hart , Martha Lanning ,

Nathan Moore , John Temple ,

Stephen Burrowes , Nathaniel Reed , M u i r h e id Andrew , Philip Roberts ,

’ Asa h Hunt , Samuel Hart ,

Wm . Bryant , Gershom Moore , IVi lli a m a om R Burk , N y eed , ff Andrew Ho , Noah Hunt,

Edward Cornell , Samuel Titus ,

n Benj ami Titus , Nathan Hunt , c m John Ket ham , Ed und Herin ,

Edward Hunt, Sr . , John Baker ,

Ephraim Titus , Thomas Houghton ,

Job Burrowes , Lott, 61

William Cornell , Robert Laning ,

Josiah Hart , Ralph Laning , ’ ff m O . Timothy S ith , John Titus , ( am t torn )

Simeon Phillips , Benj amin Cornell ,

Seth Field , Joshua Bunn ,

Daniel Howell , James Hunt ,

John Akers , Catharine Christopher ,

Joseph Titus , Thomas Blackwell

Edward Hunt Joseph Burrowes ,

John Hunt , Job Sayer,

This township entered with patriotic and self-sacri ﬁci n g s pirit upon the work of maintaining the liberties

1 76 of of the country in 7 . Three companies men were

of f raised , of which the names o ﬁcers and men are here recorded . They were revolutionary soldiers worthy of a lasting record .

I . Company . Captain , Henry Phillips , of Hopewell .

l s t . . Lieut , Nathaniel Hunt

2d . . Lieut , Daniel Howell

h . Ensign , Timot y Titus

John Hunt , Innkeeper , Pennington ; Levi Hart, William Larrison , Z Roger Larrison , Daniel Campbell , ebulon Burrowes , Elias Golden M u i r h e i d M u i r h e id John Field , Jacob Moore , John , Jonathan , George M u i r h e i d f , William Moore , Nathaniel Hart, Titus Hart, God rey Cham ’ b e r l a i n , Noah Chamberlain , Henry Burrowes , Joseph Smith ( Tim s son ) , Ti m e E e Andrew Smith ( ) , John Cornell , Samuel g , Jacob Ege , Joseph ff ff Smith Jonathan Smith , Andrew Ho , Jacob Ho , Abra n c ham Golden , Jonathan Bunn , Col . Joh Van leve , Ezekiel Rose , Moore

c M u i r h e i d S ott, William , Levi Atchley , Jonathan Stout , Andrew Stout , n Joh Knowles , Anthony Burrowes , Uriel Titus (camp fever ) , Peter Lott ,

Wm . Smith , Edmund Phillips , Andrew Phillips , Lott Phillips , Thomas

Atchley . l I ud Company . Captain . Joab Houghton .

l st . . Lieut , Ralph Guild 2 d . Lieut , William Parkes .

Ensign , Timothy Brush . Wm u m . Va u n e John Herin , Gersho Herin , Sto t , Francis y , John Van Ja me s Hu n t ney , Samuel Stout (weaver) , , William Jewell , Jesse Stout ,

c Andrew Morgan , Benjamin Morgan , Thomas Yates . Jacob Bla kwell , 62

Andrew Blackwell , Benj amin Blackwell , William Golden , David Hunt, c Johnson Titus , Solomon Titus , Eno h Armitage , John Vankirk , Josiah ’ a . V nkirk , John Hunt (Nathan s son) , Stephen Hunt

IIId . . Company Captain , John Hunt

l st Lieut . , Ralph Lanning .

2d . . Lieut , Henry Merson

Ensign , Stephen Burrowes . R a l h H u n t William Bainbridge , John Bainbridge , p (son of Edward , - E ll a h died in the prison ship) , j Moore , Amos Lanning , William Moore , In sle e John Temple , Nathaniel Temple , Ephraim Woolsey , Joseph ,

Timothy Mershon , Philip Hart, Abner Hart , Edmund Roberts , Jesse A c Moore , Edward t hley , Levi Ketcham , Ely Moore , Moses Moore , Sam

Be a k e s r uel , William Bake , Joseph Burroughs (camp fever) , James

Burrowes (river road) . M u i r h e i d George ( aged Uriel Titus , John Stevenson , and John

Taylor , went to Elizabethtown during the war , on service alone . Col .

fu a t Seeley was in command , re sed them pay and rations , but ﬁnally ’ h . t a c e d them to Capt . Updike s company They served out for their l m o u t h . in twenty days , and were honorab y discharged Deacon James

Hunt was a brave soldier , killed a British soldier half a mile west of

1776. Pennington , in Benj amin Mershon saw a British soldier enter ’ e Thomas Burrow s house , and having laid his gun by the fence , followed ’ O h i . min and took the Soldier s gun from him , and took him prisoner n 26t h 1776 M u i r h e i d the morning of December , , John , John Guild , and

. t David Lanning , escorted Gen Washington and his army from the Eigh

mile ferry to the north end of Trenton .

By the reunion of the Old Side and Ne w Side divi

f . o . sions the Presbyterian Church , Mr Guild and Mr Cowell were transferred to the Presbytery of New 1 w . 3 1758 Bruns ick At a meeting in Amwell, June , , n the Rev . John Guild was prese t and took his seat as

m of a ember the Presbytery .

. of h Mr Guild married Charity, the daughter the Ralp Hunt who occupied a farm on the north side of Stony

of Brook and south Mount Rose . Nathan Hunt, for

i n many years a ruling elder the Pennington Church , $ of was her brother . He was blessed with a family

s i x three sons and daughters , all of whom lived to be

’ Mrs . Guild s we add

IN MEMORY o r

CHARITY , the Wife of

the Rev . John Guild , who departed this life 16 1 66 February , 7 44 Aged years .

SEPH R UE s on of V . Rev . JO , the ﬁfth pastor, was the 19 1751 Joseph and Sarah Rue , born June th , , in Free hold , New Jersey . His paternal ancestor (La Rue being the original name) was on e of the Huguenots who ﬂed from France at the revocation of the Edict of

Nantes . of He prosecuted for a time the trade shoemaking, but an accident, by wh ich he lost his right arm , was the providential event which led him to form the purpose

of of entering the Christian ministry . The pastor his childhood and youth was the celebrated Rev . William f Tennent, for whom he had a warm a fection . He gradu ated at the College of New Jersey in the autumn of 1776 , and commenced his theological studies with his 1 7 old . . 77 pastor Mr Tennent died in , and was suc 9 d 177 . D D ce e de : . in by the Rev John Woodhull, , with

for whom Mr . Rue completed his preparation the min

t r 1 1778 i s . 7 y At Baskingridge , October , , he was taken under the care of Presbytery as a candidate , and was licensed as a probationer for the gospel ministry A l 2 1 81 5 7 . at llentown, Ju y , After this he continued preaching in various places in the Presbytery until

l 1783 of for Apri , , when the people Shrewsbury asked

his services as a stated supply . Here he labored until A 1784 pril, , when the congregation of Shrewsbury and Shark Rive r proposed to make ou t a call for him to be 67

15t h their pastor . On the of June , having preached , at Pennington, a trial sermon from Hebrews

i 1 . . x . , he was ordained as an evangelist Mr Joseph

Clark was then also ordained . At the same time a call from Shrewsbury and Shark River was put into his hands , which he took into consideration . This call he

did not accept . When the Presbytery met at Basking 2 1 8 ’ 6 7 5 . ridge April , , Mr Guild s relation to the church

w a s at Pennington was dissolved , and a call laid before the

of . Presbytery for the pastoral services Mr Rue . This he took into consideration ; and in the mean time the Presbytery adjourned to meet at Pennington on the

1 of h a s 8th of October . The record that meeting been t los , but there is documentary evidence that the Pres b y t e r y did hold its sessions on the 18th and 19 th of

October , and doubtless Mr . Rue was duly installed on

19 1785 . t the th of October, Four years af er this , April

28 1 89 I s t 7 . , , the Trenton Church gave Mr Rue a call

- n for one fourth of his time for o e year . At Presbytery

20 179 1 w in Pennington, September , , they rene ed the - application for one fourth of his time for three years .

7t h 1800 I s t a On the of April, , the Trenton Church p - ’ on e t h i r d of . s plied for Mr Rue s time , which reque t was 1 21 8 . granted . This arrangement continued until On 2 4t h . m the of April, Mr Rue asked to be released fro

of 1s t w a s a t his charge Trenton Church , which granted 25 1821 a subsequent meeting, July , . From this date ,

Mr . Rue gave the whole of his time to the Pennington 15 congregation until his death, which took place April , 2 t 18 6. He lef behind him a widow (Elizabeth , daughter

of . Thomas Liscomb) , two sons and two daughters The

sons , Thomas and Joseph , removed to Ohio . Joseph

only is now living . The w idow and daughters remained 68

w t in connection ith his church to the close of life , and t l d heir dust ies in this churchyar , by the side of the ven

a n d cra ted husband father . There is no record o f any large ingathering during the e of of arly part his ministry, but in the records the

for 28 1801 Presbytery April , , there is this minute

The attending ministers . in compliance with an especial rule on that of t h e subj ect , severally gave into the Presbytery a verbal account state

c of religion in their respective congregations , whi h , in general . exhibited a a favorable state of true piety . In some of the congreg tions , very visi of ble and pleasing evidences appeared the power and grace of Christ, especially in that of the Rev . Joseph Rue .

In a circular adopted by the Presbytery, September 15 1801 , and printed for distribution among the churches , it is said

u We render praise and thanksgiving nto God , that in this dark day h n ot i n ﬂu He ath forsaken you , but hath in some places shed down His

n i n e ce s a plentiful manner , and made a preached gospel mighty for

convincing and converting sinners , and pulling down the strongholds of

Satan . The tabular statemen t printed w ith this pastoral letter shows that the number of communicants in the two

n churches served by Mr . Rue had increased within o e

- - year from sixty eight to one hundred and sixty eight .

e That this work did not soon c ase , is manifest from the

n 26 1803 records of the meeti g held in Princeton April , . where it is written The Presbytery were exceedingly comfor t ed by learning that in seve e P e n n i n t on ral congregations under their car , particularly the g and

Tr e n t on l s t c 2d Chur hes , Baskingridge , Amwell Church , and Kingston , a very considerable revivals of religion had taken place , that the Lord p p e a r e d to be pouring out His spirit to the awakening and consolation of m c any souls in those pla es , and not a few , within a short time , had been

added to the church .

It pleased God to grant to Hi s servant special tokens A t of His favor in the evening of his days . f er he was 69

‘ ch a r e of 1s t released from the g Trenton Church , the Pennington Church was twice blessed with gracious vis i t a t i on s 1821 i n 1823 , in adding twenty , and adding

- f r e twe nty eight to the number o communicants . The cords of the Presbytery show that during the twenty-five f ’ 1 1 2 t o . 80 18 6 years Mr Rue s ministry, from to , here had been accessions of two hundred and fift y -five to the communion roll by profession .

The last Sabbath on which Mr . Rue preached was made impressive by an unexpected circumstance . The

s n f oldest o o parents at whose marriage Mr . Rue had

f for o ﬁciated some ﬁve years before , was presented bap t i m t h s . e The baptismal service was begun, but when ’

of . words the institution were reached , Mr Rue s mem m ory utterly failed him ; he could not repeat the for , and with weeping eyes and deep emotion he withdrew , and left the service incomplete . More than forty years

u afterwards, and while that faithf l mother was still

t s o living, it was my privilege to ﬁnish he rite long ago commenced , and to receive this friend and brother into the fellowship of this church . The kindness of the Presbytery of New Bruns w ick ’ t r t u in sending ministers to supply Mr . Rue s pulpi g a i tously for about two years after disability , both mental

for and bodily , had laid him aside , and in like manner s i x months after his death , that the salary might inure

fﬂ of to the beneﬁt of the a icted family , is worthy spe t ci a l note . The benevolent actors have gone up to heir reward , with but one or two exceptions . This Presby ’ u o f t e r y met Mr . R e s expenses at the College New

Jersey, as a candidate for the ministry , and well did he

h i s s repay this small expenditure by long , faithful, earne t and successful ministry . 70

of The Rev . David Comfort, Kingston, who preached 13 (from Rev . xiv . ) a sermon on the occasion of his funeral , states

u Mr . Rue labored long without seeing m ch fruit . The discourage

w h e m e nts ag ainst hich had to struggle became so great, that he used to ple a d with h i s Heavenly Father to remove him from his charge by de a t h or o t h e r w i s e as He in inﬁnite wisdom saw ﬁt , that he mig ht not stand in

b e the way , as supposed , of some more favored and successful minister of

a t h e g ospel . God answered his request in a way c lculated to advance

His own glory , and satisfy the enlarged desires of His devoted servant . The Spirit of the Lord came down u pon this people like showers u pon the mown grass , and a glorious harvest was gathered into the granary of the Lord .

In a few other paragraphs , having borne testimony to ’ Mr . Rue s ﬁdelity, he spreads before us the closing scene $ O ur departed father was not only a faithful pastor , ready in season and out of season to break to them the bread of life , and visit from house t o house as well as to reprove , rebuke , exhort and entreat , but he was also a faith ful attendant on all the j udicatories of the church which r e

e h i s c quir d presen e .

For two or three years past . his bodily powers and the faculties of his m c ind have been evidently sinking , though in that time he oc asionally f performed the duties of his o ﬁce to general satisfaction .

Five weeks ago there was a marked change , since which his strength f h a s c . o de lined The hopes his friends are blighted , and he is removed to the possession of a better inheritance .

fe w For a weeks during his illness , a dark cloud hung over him , and c e vi de n t l u s obscured the prospe t of eternity , which he saw y j t before

c him . He could not therefore enjoy those brig ht eviden es , and that as ’ c i sured conﬁden e of his Saviour s love , which are so desirable in the m f m w o . ediate vie death But the remedy was at hand . He who had been f t or . aught of God , knew where to look and how to apply relief His ’ t o rust was in the Savi ur s merits , and he did not plead in vain . Thou g h ” h e f c L or d h a ve m e r c u on me was O ten heard to ex laim , , y p , this simple

l ca . p prevailed Ilis prayer was heard , and that mercy which he asked a n d M for was obtained , he was heard in the triumphs of faith to say , g e a r s h a ve le t m e I n o w o i n t h e s t r e n t h o t h e L or d f f , g g f , and rej oicing in t h e h O pe and the immediate prospect of eternal blessedness with God in ” heaven . He called upon all around him to praise God for that i nﬁ n i t e m ercy which , in answer to prayer , had been bestowed upon him in that 71

trying moment . And thus died the dear departed friend whose loss we sensibly deplore . While we mourn our own loss , let us rejoice in his eternal gain .

Thus ended a pastorate among this people of forty

n f -ﬁ o e o ve . years , and a life nearly seventy

On the memorial stone which covers his remains , is engraved the following epitaph , composed by the Rev . D D . . . Samuel Miller, , of Princeton, N J . THIS MARBLE Covers the mortal remains of the Reverend O J S E P H R U E , For forty-one years The active and useful Pastor o f the Presbyterian Church of E ER E P NNINGTON , New J S Y . ff An a ectionate Husband , Pa r t i o t A kind Parent, a ﬁrm , And as a Christian Minister

Pious , faithful ,

Successful and beloved . He depart ed this life 15 1826 April . , 5t h In the 7 year of his age .

’ M r I nscription on s . Rue s tombstone

E L IZABE TII O LISC MB , Widow of

Re v. Joseph Rue .

5 1 60. Was born September , 7 25 1845 Died August , . For forty years she adorned the

Christian profession by a holy walk .

ff c . An a e tionate wife , a tender parent, a

constant friend , devout, hospitable ,

cheerful , patient, and discreet, she was

a n example to her sex .

The memory of the j ust is blessed . 72

As a memorial of the majority of communicants in the 1806 h Pennington Church in , t is subscription paper is here inserted

We , the subscribers , agree to pay by the ﬁrst day of January next , the M u i r h e i d several sums annexed to our names into the hands of John , u se Treasurer , for the purpose of purchasing two silver cups for the of

the Communion of the First Presbyterian Church of Hopewell .

E E E 06 R 16 18 . S PT MB ,

’ CR BE R E B CR BER E . SUBS I S NAM S . SU S I S NAM S

John Smith , Margaret Hunt , M u i r h e id John , Elizabeth Sexton , M u i r h e i d Charity , Jesse Christopher ,

John Hunt , Mercy Christopher ,

Jane Hunt , Elizabeth Titus , Be a ke s Hannah Hunt Hannah ,

Keziah Hart, Sarah Cornell , Re b e ck a h Elizabeth Hunt , Fitch ,

Philip Hart , Mary Hunt ,

Be a k e s Anna Hart, Rachel , Be a ke s Edmund Roberts , Elizabeth ,

Elizabeth Roberts , David Baldwin , M cCl e ll a n John , Mary Davison , M cCle lla n Letitia , Mary Hart , M cCle ll a n ff Elizabeth , Christian Ho ,

Sarah Phillips , Daniel G . Howell M a r s e lli s Sarah Phillips , Charlotte ,

Elizabeth Moore , John Carpenter ,

Abigail Smith , Mary Carpenter ,

Rebekah Smith , Charles Welling ,

Keziah Hoagland , Hannah Welling,

Peter Phillips , Isaac Welling ,

Mary Phillips , Stephen Burrowes , R e b e ck a h R oberts , Hannah Burrowes ,

Nathan Christopher , Mary Woolsey ,

Elizabeth Christopher , Anne Woolsey ,

John Hart, Susanna Moore ,

Mary Hart, Hannah Howell , h Ric ard Hart, Elizabeth Moore ,

Elizabeth Hart Edmund Burroughs ,

Jane Smith , Susanna Burroughs ,

Polly Smith , Hannah Hunt ,

74 for the ministry at t h e Theological Seminary of the b Pres yterian Church in Princeton . He was licensed as as a probationer by the Presbytery of Philadelphia A 1821 pril, , and by the same Presbytery ordained 1822 B Pa . June , , at Bensalem , ucks county , , where he

n labored as a missionary for o e and a half years . He

of of was installed as pastor the Chu rch Lewistown ,

1823 of D elaware , in , by the Presbytery New Castle,

where he remained three and a half years . In the mean f time the Presbytery o Lewes was formed .

28t h of 182 r N 6 . e On the ovember, , Mr Ogden was ce i ve d from the Presbytery of Lewes by the Presbytery of New Brunswick , when a call from this church was

O n 5t h of placed in his hands and accepted . the

1826 of December, , he was installed the pastor this

c of . church by a committee onsisting Dr Samuel Miller,

and the Rev . Messrs . Eli F . Cooley and George S .

Woodhull .

In this ﬁeld Mr . Ogden did not labor in vain . In the 1 83 3 t o h i s . summer of , he called aid the Rev Daniel

D e r u e lle of , who began by preaching a series sermons

ﬁft -ﬁr s t to Christians from passages in the y Psalm . The

of word came with power . The hearts believers were

melted , backsliders returned , unceasing prayer was f o fered mingled with praise , and sinners were brought

of to repentance . Although it was in the midst the

t o harvest, there was no hindrance . The farmers arose m their work in the ﬁeld at about three in the orning,

and closed at noon . Having dined , they arrived at the 3 M m for a t P . . church in ti e one service , and another at

8 P M . . , the intervening hours being devoted to meetings

A S u of for of . prayer . It was a time great j oy a fr it

w a s this work, there an addition to the communion roll 75

' - of . or forty seven persons Of these , only two three are

still with y ou . The church was blessed with another revival in the f 183 —8 winter o 7 . It is well described in an article

. N t published in the Presbyterian , signed N . , da ed Pen m 24t h 1838 ingtou, April ,

The following communication relative to a revival of relig ion which

c 1837 1838 c oc urred during the winter of and , on many a counts extra i t w ordinary , is thought ill be read with interest in future time . “ I was one o f the numerous assembly that thronged the Presbyterian

c 1 i 5 16t h n s t s . Chur h at Pennington on Saturday and Sabbath , the th and , ’ a n d I o f felt, in common with the rest the assembly , that it was good to

. c c be there This chur h then received an addition of three s ore persons ,

- i h t e x m n t on w o f t e a i a i t . O n u e ﬁf y g on , and by certiﬁcate this mb r twen t - I l t w a s c c . y nine were baptized on Saturday . a p easing spe ta le Those

who witnessed it can never forget it . Amongst the number was an aged

man who had been in the world nearly three score and ten years , and h d a . yet only just beg un to live for eternity He , with two others , one

o f h a d of them his sister , nearly the same age , g one into the vineyard at

c a s i f the eleventh hour . In this display of divine gra e it seems no age

or class of people h a s been passed b v . The youngest of the number

l ve n received into church fellowship was e e years of age . The larger f f T portion consisted of those who had reached the meridian o li e . hirty

a A four of them were or had been m rried . mongst this number there

were nine husbands with their wives . In one place a father and a son ,

a in nother a mother and a daug hter , stood side by side when the sacra

ment of baptism was administered . There a husband rej oiced on a o ’ o f f count his wife , and there a wi e on her husband s accou nt , there a ’ ’ h i s brother for sister s sake , and there a sister for her brother s sake ,

whilst many a father and mother , with enraptured hearts , exclaimed

concerning a son or a daughter , this my child was dead , but is alive

ag ain , was lost, but now is found . Indeed , the heart of the whole church

c seemed to overﬂow with wonder , love and gratitude , on ac ount of the e salvation they had witnessed and experienced . The discourse d livered O t h e . by pastor (the Rev Benjamin gden ) , on the Sabbath , was from ‘ ’ w b r a ce e a r e sa ve d o f these ords , y g y , and in speaking the revival of ‘ c religion whi h had occurred , he remarked We are compelled to refer We it all entirely to the grac e of God . cannot say to other cong rega

do . tions , as we have done , and you will have a revival of religion A similar effort would not follow unless God should take occasion there

from to g lorify and magnify the riches of His grace . Our congregation , 76

o f when the operations the Holy Spirit ﬁrst manifested themselves , was like Elij ah ’ s altar after twelve barrels of water had been poured upon m it . And as in his case the Heavenly ﬂa e not only c onsumed the wood , soaked as it was with water, but laid hold of the stones and the

a n d dust, turned the very water itself into fuel , so it has been with us . o ve r ﬂo w e d u We were surprised ; our hearts with love and gratit de , and ff w were a ected with a deep sense of our un orthiness , whilst the aston i sh e d world looked on with awe and reverence , and said , the Lord hath done great thing s for them . The Lord hath done great things for us , ’ whereof we are glad . “ The Lord has cleared the darkest skies , Has given us day for night ; Bade dr 0 ps of sacred sorrow rise ” To ri vers of delight . Our meetings have during the past winter been more frequent than usual ; but it was n o t the frequency of our meetings that caused the revival , but the revival the spiritual appetite that caused the meetings .

n t a s It was e so much we that got up the revival , the revival that got us

u . N a p o extraordin ry means of grace have been used , and the preached w ord to which you have chieﬂy listened has been dispensed by your pas c tor, and it has been similar to that to whi h you have now listened for - eleven years and a half ; and all the assistance your pastor has had has ’ been from ministerial brethren located near us . But the day of God s a lmi h t ow e r f g y p came , and the people were , in consequence thereo , wil

. 1 h ling And oh it has been a season , a sweet, refreshing season , suc as we shall never forget . Religion , religion , has been with us , since the

on l i n t e r e s t i n t e i c o t h ou h t a n d con commencement of this year , the y g p f g

ve r s a t i o n . The one thing needful , blessed be God , has arrested and held the attention of this community to the exclusion of almost every

. o f thing else And now , seated around the table the Lord , we may say , ‘ c all bitterness , and wrath , and anger , and lamor , and evil speaking , with all malice , so far as they have existed , are put away , and we are - f kind one to another, tender hearted , org iving one another , even as God ’ ’ i f u s . for Christ s sake has forgiven Nay , there be in this large assem bly of communicants a single bosom which is not warm with love towards each and every other person , I am happily ignorant of it .

The Presbytery, at the annual meeting on the last

e i n Tu sday in April , took notice of this same revival these terms

An interesting communi c ation of renewing and reviving grace has c c i n - been experien ed by the hurch Pennington ; the more remarkable , as it was introduced by no favorable premonition , but on the contrary , de 77 scended upon the people in the very moment w hen they were full of

e f apprehension from the signs of a brooding storm . God hims l appeared

co m e d e to down into the mi st of jarring el ments , and compose them to

h a d a calm . Though the year beg un without promise , it ended with

ﬁft - a n d i t the accession of y eight new communicants ; this enumeration , m o f is to be re arked , includes only the last communion season the ye The earliest decided m anifestations of religious interest took place in public assemblies these tokens were multiplied during pastoral visita e f f u c tion . and as the means of grace wer urnished with greater req en y

c c d c in corresponden e with the in reased emand for them , the publi relig ious sentiment increased in intensity and extent , with extraordinary rapidity , until the whole texture of society was imbued with its pre f f dominating soli citude . The exercises o those who were hope ully con d ff ft verte were marked by strength and a ection , and a er the anguish of c c great humiliation and ompun tion , there was usually an answerable

fﬁ f r serenity and joy in the Lord . The di culties that had been looked o were prevented ; the greatest harmony continues to prevail ; and the

o f c duties and Observances the chur h are rendered with zeal , brotherly

c love and deli g ht . This work of gra e may be characterized as having to a remarkable degree embraced persons in middle li fe and the heads f o families . — The interior of the church ediﬁce of 1765 6 was r e

m of 183 0 modeled in the sum er , and the whole plan

. w a s ou t changed The brick pavement taken , the height of the ceiling was reduced by puttin g in a false

w ceiling belo the original one , the modern slip was adopted instead of the antique pew ; t he old pulpit with

- a t its sounding board was removed , and another built the

n - west end of the buildi g between the two entrance doors .

’ 183 3 t of n In April, , he plan raisi g the pastor s salary by rents on the pews was introduced. The method previously resorted to was an annual subscription . In 1834 t the year , the church was enlarged by the addi ion of i t eighteen feet to the west end , bringing out even - . on 5t h with the street side walk And the of March ,

1834 a d , the ﬁrst steps were t ken towar s erecting a

e of a t church ediﬁce in the west rn part the congregation ,

. e Titusville , for Sabbath afternoon services This hous , 78

of w a s for built stone , ﬁnished and opened worship in the

9 of summer of 183 . The land and a large part the cost f o m f . aterial and work was the gift o Mr Joseph Titus . The whole number received o n the profession of their ’ faith under Mr . Ogden s ministry was on e h u ndred and - i x eighty s . On the completion of his ministry he removed to

Three Rivers , Michigan, and thence to Valparaiso , In 11 1 3 85 . diana, where he died January , He was married 1 21 5 18 . e to Emily T . Sansbury, October , Th re were

s i x ten children, four sons and daughters,all of whom were living at the time of his death . One daughter is

of . the wife the Rev James Greer, and another of the

ff r D . R e i h e lda e D . Rev . J . G . , One son, Thomas Speu cer, entered the ministry . Born at Pennington , January

9 1832 i n b e , , and baptized the May following, was licensed as a probationer by the Presbytery of New

o Brunswick , and was rdained by the same Presbytery in the Millstone Presbyterian Church, Monmouth county, 2 9 1857. . J . N , August , After having been united in marriage to Miss Ph oebe

se t Elizabeth Combs , he sail for Corisco , Western Africa, 5 1857 October , , where, after a faithful service of three years as a missionary, he died and was buried . His wido w and infant child returned to this country .

G D D . . E R E ALE . . VII The seventh pastor, the Rev G O H , ,

of was a native the State of New York , a graduate of Wil

183 1 of liams College , , and Princeton Theological Semi 3 18 8. nary , The call to this pastoral charge was signed

of n o w by the ruling elders and trustees , all whom are dead . The elders were Aaron Hart, Charles Welling,

Isaac Welling, Joseph Titus , Joab Titus , Enos Titus , 79

Edmund Roberts , Theophilus Furman, Enoch Ketcham , f Nathaniel R . Titus and John Ho f. The trustees were

Joseph Titus , Aaron Hart, James Stevenson , Charles

n . Welli g, Garret J Schenck , Andrew Titus , and C . L . Wyn

of koop . At the meeting the congregation , Wednesday, 2 1 3 9 8 . January , , the Rev Hugh Hamill presided , when m the election took place and the call was signed . A co i m t t e of E s . e . , consisting James Stevenson q , and George

M r h i d u i e . , Esq , was appointed to wait on the pastor elect

of and to inform him the action of the congregation , which duty they discharged promptly and most cordially .

In reviewing this pastorate , which continued a little 7 1869 more than thirty years , to March , , the winter — of 1841 2 presents itself as a season worthy of a grate ful memorial of the rich Spiritual blessings bestowed on

of t t his people . The Spirit God had begun o move on

of some hearts as early as the former part November , i but this fact was not revealed unt l afterwards . Through the third week in D ecember there was preaching daily, with much praye r ; but Satan Wa s struggling for the mastery, and it seemed for a time doubtful which side At would be victorious . this solemn crisis , Tuesday ,

28t h of s e t h u mili the December, was apart as a day of

of ation , fasting and prayer . The members the church appeared early at the sanctuary . Two sermons were preached in the morning from the same text— Romans 11 -“ xiii . And that, knowing the time , that now it is high time to awake out of sleep : for now is ou r salva i ” t t on nearer than when we believed . The ﬁrs sermon

a r of was dd essed to professors religion by the Rev .

H r m n . . e e a ce . Henry , and the second by the Rev P O D D . Studdiford , . , to the impenitent . The whole after noon was devoted to fer vent prayer . There was earnest 80

f pleading and great melting o heart . Like the Syro “ e pho nician woman , the church cried, Lord , help us ; and , while with humble and contrite hearts they pros t r a t e d God themselves before , they received some tokens of the divine presence . The congregation met for wor ship i n the even i ng . The house w a s still as a death chamber . An unusual awe settled upon the assembly .

f r . o God was there The text the evening was , I pray ’ thee have me excused . The preacher s lips were touched wit h sacred ﬁre ; every sentence he uttered was armed with power and pierced to the inmost soul .

of The secrets the heart were disclosed , excuses were

sa t scattered to the winds , and sinners before God con - de mn e dand speechless . Twenty seven newly converted persons sought spiritual counsel that evening, and many more returned home in silence to weep and pray in secret . From this evening the work went forward m powerfully, until it pervaded the whole co munity .

Preaching services were also held at Titusville , which were greatly blessed to the families in that vicinity . Evening meetings were held at private houses in the

o f t several sections the congregation, and horough pas toral visitation was kept up from week to week . By

t 20t h of 1842 Sabbath , he March , , when a sacramental service was held , the results were manifested . On that day on e hundred and twelve stood up at once to enter

s a t for into covenant with God and his church , and down the ﬁrst time at the communion table ; of whom eighty persons were baptized . The whole number gathered into the visible Church through this work of grace was on e -t w o - hundred and thirty , forty nine of whom were heads of families . The hopeful converts were of every - w . age , from t elve up to eighty two

of 1850—51 refreshing was enjoyed during the winter of , in each case cheerin g the hearts of the people of God and gathering in sinners from the world . But in the winter of 1857—58 the Lord was pleased

of to visit the church again in a more striking manner, which the pastor at the time made the following record

RE VIVA L AT PENNINGTON .

It has pleased God recently to visit the Church of Pennington , New

Jersey , with a g racious outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as the result of which sixty persons have united with the church by a public profession O of their faith . f this number there were ten husbands , with their f wives ; ten emale heads of families . three of whom were the wives of -m f church embers ; and five male heads of amilies , who were husbands - i n five . r e of communicants , making all thirty heads of families The m a i n de r were single persons of both sexes , ranging from the age of six u O f - - teen pward . the sixty , twenty two are males and thirty eight are females . Among them are found the children of the covenant and the lineal descendants in the fourth and fifth generation of the g odly men t f who nearly a century and a half ago laid the founda ions o this church , as well as some of the posterity of a former pastor who labored faith “ e n t u r fully among this people for almost half a c v. He hath remem bered his covenant forever , the word which he commanded to a thousand ” g enerations .

These converts , with scarcely an exception , have been regular attend o n ants the house of God , and were experimentally well acquainted with the truths of Christianity . It is worthy of observation that this revival

ff ff r is no sudden a air , produced by a little unusual e o t and mere human machinery ; but it is the i n g a t h e r i n g of the ripened fruits o f seed which h a s been sown from time to time through a period of years . Two persons date back their religious impressions two years ; one , three years ; two , four years ; one , five years ; one , six years ; five , eight years ; one , nine years ; four, ten years ; five , twelve years ; two , fifteen years ; three , sixteen years ; two , eighteen years and three , twenty years ; while f fr e others have been under the aithful training of Christian parents ,

i n - quently warned by pious friends or well instructed the Sabbath school . The immediate occasions of the religious awakening of individuals have ’ been various . Here one traces the ﬁrst determination to seek the soul s salvation to the solemn charge of a dying Christian mother ; there a n

' a ﬂe c t i n - other recalls the g scene at the death bed of a father , or a sister ,

. a e or a child ; noth r is brought to reﬂection by overhearing, from day to 83

day , the voice of secret prayer ; another by the sudden death of a beloved friend ; and still another was led to give earnest attention to the concerns “ of eternity by being brought throu g h wasting sickness nigh unto death while several refer their earliest convictions to the seasons of gracious i m inﬂuence enjoyed by this congregation in former years , and some to pressions received from t h e public services of the house of Go d at a more recent date . The spiritual exercises of these hopeful subj ects of ' h renewing grace ave been of the most satisfactory character , agreeing

e ff in all essential points , but in oth r respects di ering according to the n atural temperament, age , circumstances and degree of scriptural knowl edge . O 185 o f In the latter part of ctober, 7, there were indications a deeper interest in spiritual things among the people of God , and one or two cases of awakening among the impenitent . About that time a course of systematic pastoral visitations was commenced and was prosecuted to its completion ; social prayer-meetings were multiplied ; renewed a n d special attention was given to household baptisms ; and preaching was appointed from time to time at private houses i n the several neighbor

of hoods the congregation . A season of fasting , humiliation and prayer n was observed on the third of December , the day on which the Penningto Church was to be visited by a Committee of the Presbytery of New

- i n Brunswick . At this time began the week day public services the f sanctuary , and these have been continued with g reater or less requency ,

i n as the state of the congregation seemed to demand . In gathering this Spiritual harvest there has been no resort to extraordinary measures ; but the great truths of the gospel have been addressed with plainness i and pungency to the understanding , the consc ence and the heart , and with special adaptation to the known condition o f the various classes of f hearers . While there has been no noise , no con usion in the public assembly , there has been deep feeling, with that breathless silence and that ﬁxed attention which mark the powerful Operation of the Holy

Spirit accompanying the ministrations of the word . Christians have

u been stirred up to nwonted fervency and importunity in prayer , with “ contrition of spirit, and have been permitted to rejoice that praying ” breath is not spent in vain ; while at the sacramental supper parents have welcomed their sons and daughters ; husbands have come for the

ﬁrst time to sit down with their wives , and wives with their husbands ;

’ and brothers , sisters and near kindred have met around the Lord s table as children of a common Father and heirs of the same eternal inheritance . a As to some of these cases of conversion , it is a ple sing consideration that i n them are n o w answered the o ft -repeated prayers of the pious dead , whose bodies h ave long since mouldered to the dust . This blessed work of grace furnishes great en courage ment to pastors - “ of churches , believing parents and Sabbath school teachers to be not 84

- ” “ e h . w ary in well doing . for they that sow in tears s all reap in joy He f that goeth orth and weepeth , bearing precious seed , shall doubtless ” come again with rejoicing , bringing his sheaves with him .

It gives us pleasure to make special mention of the valuable assistance rendered in t h e greatly i n creased labors of this revival by ou r esteemed brother 1 f n ow 876 . b o Roberts , ( ) Dr Ro erts , Elizabeth , New

Jersey .

18t h of 1863 n On the November , , bei g the twenty ﬁft h a nniver s ary of the day on which the pastor began

a his regul r labors in this church , he preached a $ uar - 28 t . er Century Sermon, from Psalm lxviii Thy

God h a t h m n co manded thy strength stre gthen , O God,

that which thou hast wrought for u s . The latter part of that sermon i s here given for the purpose of present

i n g the main facts relative to that period . The speaker said

O o f 1838 c n the third Sabbath November , , I prea hed my ﬁrst sermon , “ c u o f m l 6 in the o rse y regular ministrations here , from James v . The ff c o f ” e e tual fervent prayer a rig hteous man availeth mu ch . The pre

ci o u s c truth onveyed in this text has , under God , proved to be the key note to the Spiritual history o f this people fo r the quarter of a century

w n o w . f o . hich closes I had already , during the ministry the Rev Ben O c 2 j amin gden , prea hed three sermons , on Wednesday , the l st , and

22d c o f Thursday , the , of the preceding February , at the lose a series of c c h a d religious servi es , whi h been attended with a special work of a c c divine gr e . This brief a quaintance led to an invitation from you in

o f u c com e h i t h e r the month Aug st following , through a ommittee , to a n d c M again prea h , with a view to a settlement as your pastor . [ n Ogden h a d already announced his purpose to resign ] The invitation cc t h e was a epted , time designated being the third Sabbath in November , t h when I came agreeably to appointment ; and on the 7 of February , 1839 , the ordination and installation were solemnized by the Presbytery - . ﬁ ve of New Brunswick During these twenty years , there has been a

perceptible advancement , gradual but steady , in all the material inter

ests in this region . Farms have been enriched and more thoroughly

cultivated , so that the annual productions of the soil are more than 85

“ doubled . The proprietors have in numerous instances pulled down ” their barns and built greater , and have either improved their dwel n e w ling s or have erected ones more commodious .

In this village , where there are now standing about one hundred

- f n dwellings , at least sixty ( more than one hal ) have been put up withi ‘ nd a . this time , many of the others have been improved and enlarg ed h There have been erected the Methodist Episcopal Male Seminary , wit

c n fo r the re ent additio the other sex , and the Literary Hall , the Pen n i n t o n n e w g Institute on the Opposite side of Delaware street, a house c of worship for the Methodist Episcopal Chur h , a church building for

- c the people of color , and a neat , well furnished and spa ious ediﬁce for

t h e i n our public school . Then , only brick pavement was that front of

the old church , constructed mainly of the square brick tiles which were of 1 65—6 used to pave the aisles the church of 7 , until the ﬁrst alteration 1830 in . Now , only a little more enterprise is wanting to complete such - a side walk as is needed o n both sides of Main street and elsewhere . Most of t h e ornamental trees whi c h improve the aspect of the p lace

have been planted during this period . Then , only two relig ious peri o di ca ls n o t , a few copies of the weekly papers of the county , and one t - daily , were lef here by a tri weekly mail ; and now , to say nothing of

what is brought to the four other post villages in this township , our

c daily mail omes well freighted , and a newspaper is deemed in almost

f i n every family to be one of the necessaries of li e . More interest is felt

the cause of common schools , better qualiﬁed teachers are employed , the f standard of scholarship has been raised ; in a word , the subj ect O edu cation generally has been exciting more earnest attention throughout

the community .

Happily , this is not the only region where such favorable chang es as

these have been in progress . This laudable Spirit of enterprise , which

i n a c aims at the public good , found multitudes of pl es , has contributed

to develop the resources of our land , and to make this one of the most f prosperous nations o the earth . In this congregation much has been done to advance its welfare i n

externals . A house for relig ious services at Titusville was completed , 1 3 8 9 . furnished and dedicated , in the summer of Since the organiza tion of that churc h in the western se c tion of the c ong regation by colony 1844 from this , in January , , they have provided a comfortable parsonag e t house , and have buil a church ediﬁce far more tasteful and convenient

than the former , with the various other appendages necessary to an e s

t a b li sh e d . 1847 o fb u i ldi n ch u r ch cong regation In , the work g the in which

we are now ( in 1863 ) worshipping was undertaken . As the income O f the congregation in the O ld building was never su fﬁcient to meet the annual

f a n e expenditure , and there was reason to ear accumulating d bt ( that

u f terrible inc bus on all churches) , unless it were prevented by the o t 86 repeated generosity of a few individuals as the accommodations were too limited to supply the wants of all the families ; and as some parts of the

ff h o w old house were su ering from decay , rendering it uncertain long it

f w a s f could be sa ely occupied without essential changes , it resolved,a ter m uch deliberation and prayer , to put up a building entirely new on the - 5 t h 184 present site . The corner stone was laid on the of May , 7, and the

l 0t h 1848 n fu r n i house was dedicated on the of Aug ust , . The procuri g of c ture for the main audience room and the le ture room , the bell , the iron

- w l railing , the grave yard all , and the pavement along the who e church l t — o these demanded much activity , toil and generosity from the ladies , l ' as we l as from the other sex . A like spirit of improvement is seen in the purchase and laying out of the cemetery , the erection of sheds for car r i a e s g and horses , and the planting of ornamental trees in the church

c yard . We are indebted prin ipally to the ladies for the organ in this m — room , and the elodeon in the lecture room instruments which have rendered valuable service both to the choir and to the congregation , in - o f sustaining this highly important part of public worship , the praise

God . There have been stated contributions t o associations for charitable purposes , and to missionary societies , more especially to the boards under the control of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church . The sum of $1545 25 has been raised for foreign missions ; $ 1201 for domestic m issions ; $ 1579 83 fo r the edu c ation of young men for the ministry ; $775 06 for the Board of Publi cation ; $732 12 for Church Extension ; $343 for Princeton Theologi c al Seminary ; $89 for the Fund for c 19 6 16 for Disabled Ministers ; the American Tract So iety , $ ; for c 59 3 42 oh the Ameri an Bible Society , $ for miscellaneous charitable

e ct s 245 1 72 9479 57. j , $ ; making a total of $ To this should be added legacies to the amount of about $4500 to the Boards of Education and

Domestic Missions . This does not include the moneys raised and ex fo r for n e w c pended the parsonage , the chur h ediﬁce , its furniture and

- of appendag es , for the Sabbath school libraries , for the stated support the gospel , and the ordinary expenses of the congregation under the di rection of the trustees .

ch a n e s As in other communities , so here , many g have taken place -ﬁ e ﬁft during these twenty v years . I have attended four hundred and y

f . O f f one unerals these persons one hundred and four died in in ancy , and one hundred and twenty at the time of their d e ath were over sixty o f -ﬁve years age ; and of these one hundred and twenty , forty were over - a e . seventy , thirty two over eighty , and eight over ninety years of g

There were one hundred and nine male heads of families , and one hun dred and thirty-four female heads O f families making two hundred and forty-three married persons o f the congregation at whose funerals I have ﬂi i t e - o c a e d. Ther are but about forty of those who were pew holders at 87

the date of my settlement that are pew-holders now [ only sixteen in 1876] and embracing both the congregations of Pennington and Titus

ville , the number of families that are living in the same homes which

they then occupied does not much exceed forty . I have united in wed - lock two hundred and forty three couples , of whom fourteen males - and twenty seven females have died since their marriage . There - have been baptized in infancy three hundred and seven , thirty two of i — - whom have since d ed only about one tenth , an unusually small pro portion . Since I came among you I have preached not less than four thousand f - and ﬁve hundred times , ully one tenth of these services having been on - funeral occasions . The Wednesday evening prayer meeting has been

e di ﬁca held steadily from house to house in the village , greatly to the tion of those who have availed themselves of its privileges . During the

- i n winter season , prayer meetings have been held the neighborhood .

c - The Sabbath afternoon servi e , at school houses and private houses not

c in the village, has been maintained , and servi es have been held during the week whenever circumstances admitted , and the state of the congre a t i on c g alled for them . The children of the congregation have been ta ught to commit to memory the Westminster Assembly ’s Shorter Cate - chism . The Sabbath school in the village has bee n regularly sustained

m i n both winter and summer, and fro three to six others have been kept

i n Operation during the summer other districts , with a g rowing interest , f ’ . c O on the whole , in this good cause The sa rament the Lord s Supper has been statedly administered , and on no one of these occasions have I been absent since my ordination . Days of public thanksgiving , days of r m fasting and humiliation , and days of special prayer , whether e co mended by our National or State Executive , or by our ecclesiastical h In courts , ave been uniformly observed . the exercise of discipline O f (one of the most painful duties) according to our form of government ,

u s t ki n d the Session has always endeavored to be both j and , guarding ’ o f the honor Christ s house , and in the spirit of the g ospel , aiming to ff ’ make sure , if possible , the salvation of the o ender s soul . It is a p leasure to record the fact that no disturbance has ever been m ade by an attempt to resist any act of the Session , nor has one of its decisions for these twenty-ﬁ ve years been made the g round of either appeal or

’ complaint before the higher ecclesiastical courts . For nearly ﬁve years I maintained fo r your special beneﬁt a classical school for boys , but as the demand on both time and strength was found too great to be compatible with the pressing labors of a pastoral charge

. 1840 like this , it was not continued In the latter part of the year , fully impressed with the important bearing of this undertaking on the of interests this church , the female seminary , known as Evergreen Hall , was revived under Presbyterian auspices , by the aid of eleven liberal 88

and public Spirited gentlemen of this congregation . From the ﬁrst of 1841 April , , it has been quietly doing its work , while I have watched its a n d progress with no little toil , anxiety prayer . The good aecom li s h d p e throug h its instrumentality will be best known hereafter . - During my ministry among you , three hundred and eighty six persons have been admitted to the communion o f this church on the profession of their faith ; two hundred and six of whom were baptized at the time c - w of their re eption , and one hundred and twenty seven ere received by

c d certificate from other chur hes , making a total of five hun red and thir If c teen . to the number of communi ants in the Titusville church the number connected with this be added , it will give more than four hun dred and fifty communicants now within the territory covered by this 1838 congregation in . The maj ority of those who have been hopefully converted here during this quarter of a century have been brought into the church in times of

. 1840 h O f f h special awakening In t ere was a season re res ing , when - — r c . 1841 2 a n twenty six we e re eived In the winter of , there was extra

O f c ordinary work grace , as the fruit of whi h one hundred and twelve young converts took their seats at the communion -tabl e for the first time - on the same day in 1843 another gracious season added twenty three ; — - in the winter o f 1845 6 a revival of considerable power added fift y six l 184 —8 to the ro l of communicants ; in the winter of 7 , while the new h churc was in progress , the Lord was pleased to visit us again , and add fifteen to ou r number ; in 1851 anoth er work of grac e gave as its fruit sixteen hopeful converts ; in 1852 there was a time of some religious e 1854 interest , wh n nine were received ; in the summer of the church was refreshed and strengthened , and five members added ; the winter of 1857—8 “ ’ ” was a day of the right hand of God s power , when sixty — were broug ht in thre e powerful revivals and six other times of special $ “ religious interest Surely , the Lord hath done great things for us , f ” whereo we are glad . “ u w w I can tr ly say ith the apostle Paul , And I , brethren , hen I came f ” unto you , came in weakness , and in ear and in much trembling . It o f t h e is true that in my earlier years , when the question entering

Christian ministry was seriously contemplated , it was the height of my

c ff ambition to be ome the pastor of a rural congregation , of an a ectionate “ c people , who ould appreciate the gospel , who would esteem a pastor f ’ ” o r . highly in love his work s sake , and be at peace among themselves In this , our Heavenly Father has been be tter to me than my fondest hopes . Hither His providence brought me without my own motion ; l here I is providence and grace have upheld me thus far ; and here , contrary to my fears and above my fears , He has strengthened , sustained

Th n b . e and lessed both you and me Divine blessing upo my ministry , thou g h not equal to my desire , has been altogether beyond my expecta

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— of 1865 6 e : of , ther was a season a little reviving which

of brought ten within the fold , and in the winter

1866—67 of , there was a spiritual work still greater

power, when the church was enlarged by an accession - of . s e e twenty six As the general result, we during

r these thirty years , ﬁve hundred and thi teen added on

on e - profession, and hundred and twenty seven by cer - t i fica t e . There were three hundred and fift y s i x bap t i z e d in infancy ; and there were five hundred and fifty - five . funerals , and two hundred and seventy marriages In the meantime the church raised over $4000 for mis s i on a r - on e y purposes , nearly one half as much in five and third years as had been contributed within the previous -fi w Ve . n a t enty And withi those five ye rs , a new inter e s t i a - was awakened the cause of Sabbath schools , and a more powerful impulse given ; deeply felt alike by

— a n t h e parents and children, inﬂuence which prepared way for blessings yet to come . Special atte n tion has uniformly been given to the Shorter Catechism of the Westminster Assembly ; and at the annual gathering of the children of all the Sab

- on e bath schools , a Bible was given to each who had committed the Shorter Catechism to memory , and a copy of the New Testament to such as had learned the ’ Child s Catechism . These occasions , in which an abun

for dant feast was spread the children , and in which addresses , prayers and cheerful songs were commingled ,

re n we animati g and impressive , and remembered with pleasure by the old as well as the young . It is pleasant to know that twenty -ﬁve of the mem bers who were in communion at the beginni n g o f this 183 8 i ministry in November , , are now liv ng here , f l although all the o ﬁcials , whether ruling e ders , deacons , 9 1

f or . A o trustees , are dead l l the churches the Presby t e r si x of y have changed pastors , and only the ministers w h o were then in i t s connection are n ow alive . The following facts and correspondence Show the pleasant relations subsisting between the pastor and his

i n for people . He having ﬁrst consulted the Session at an

t a r ob a mal mee ing , when each member signiﬁed his pp tion, sent to the Pennington congregation the following communication E 23 1 6 8 . J . 7 P NNINGTON , N . , March , To THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESBY TERIAN CHURCH AND CO NG R E GA I' ‘ IO N OF PENNINGTON — BELOVED BRE TE RE N z For a few weeks past I have been holding under consider ation the question of spending the coming summer i n m Europe . An important element in aking u p a decision would be the

ou r u ll on s n t r d r o t on assurance that I have y f c e and co i a l a pp b a i . The

o f c term my absen e will probably not exceed six months , and during that period I propose to obtain the servi ces of a substitute who would reside within the limits of the congregation . It may be proper for me here to mention a fact whi c h is probably not t known to most of you , namely , hat at the time of my settlement among - you , a little more than twenty eight years ago , there was a verbal agree

d n ment that I should be allowe a annual vacation of six weeks . This c indulgen e it has never been in my heart to demand , for it has ever been m f y pre erence , while health and strength permitted , to remain at home prosecuting my labors . That your reply may be su c h as shall be sanctioned by the Great Head fo r o f of the Church , and the ultimate good all concerned , is the prayer f of Your riend and pastor ,

GEORGE HALE . To this a reply was returned as follows E . J . 25 1867. P NNINGTON , N , March ,

E . E R E E D D R V G O G HAL , . — DEAR SI R Your letter was received and read at the annual meeting of the congregation , and

R e s olve d l st, and unanimously adopted , That leave of absence be granted you for six months , or so long as may suit your convenience . R e s olve d 2d h , T at the congregation pay the substitute you shall fur nish in the time of your absence .

Respectfully yours ,

R Mode r a t or . JOHN E . BU D , 9 2

Ne w for The pastor sailed from York Havre , France , 25 S Saturday , May , in the teamer Guiding Star, and on

his return in the Arago from Falmouth , England , landed

on in New York , and arrived at Pennington Thursday, 14 18 ov . 67 e ven m . N , , at g On Friday, two hundred of

the congregation met at Evergreen Hall, and gave their pastor and those who returned with him a cordial greet

ing . An address of welcome was delivered by Major M i . u i r h e d John G in behalf of the people, and responded t o by the pastor . A neat family Bible was at the same

. . . . a n e w a time presented to Rev J H B J y , who had sup d f plie the pulpit . The ample supply o provisions with “ ” which the tables groaned that eve n ing was furnished by the ladies . Reading the Scriptures , singing and prayer,

ou r . in which friend and neighbor Dr John Hall, of

Trenton, took part, closed this joyous festive occasion .

The congregation , true to its promise , had continued ’ the pastor s salary, and paid in full the amount agreed f upon for the services o the substitute .

11t h f u 1 9 o 86 . On the Febr ary, , the Rev George

D . D Hale , . , was elected , by the Trustees of the General

of Assembly of the Presbyterian Church , the Secretary t the Fund for Disabled Ministers and their Families , o f ﬁll the vacancy created by the death o the Rev . Joseph D . D . . s u b H Jones , Having accepted the appointment,

e ct of i j to the action of the Presbytery New Brunsw ck , he addressed the following letter to the congregation at 2 S 3 P . M . a pecial meeting held at , Tuesday , March , 1869 , to wit E 2 1869 P NNINGTON , March , . To THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AND CONGREGATION AT PENNING TON — BELOVED BR E r H RE N You have already learned from other sources that I have been elected Secretary of t h e Committee on the Fund for 9 3

” fﬁ d Disabled Ministers and their Families . This O ce I think it my uty to f c - ac cept . You have there ore been alled together to day that I may resig n

t O f c in o your hands , so far as I received it from you , the charge this chur h and people ; and also that you may make arrangement to unite with m e i n applying to the Presbytery of Ne w Brunswick ( at its meeting in - 3 M . Trenton , at P . , to morrow) for the dissolution of the pastoral rela

b u t a ls o t o tion . The contemplated separation is not only trying to you m c e . This consideration has had its due weig ht in oming to the decision

i n which I have reached . The interest I feel this congreg ation is deep and abiding , for it has been matured for many years during which I have anxiously watched over you , and labored and prayed for you , and

c o u r o s . rejoi ed in y j y and wept in your sorrows Nevertheless , with all

m ca lm a n d s o b e r u d m n t i s co n vi n ce d a n d m the lig ht I now have , y j g e , y con s ci e n ce cle a r t h a t t h i s a oi n t m e n t s a s t r u l a ca ll o Go d a s t h a t , p p i y f

r u m h h r t o u r n w w h i ch b o g h t e i t e b e y o p a s t or . It is a consolatio to kno o f that you are under the care the Great and Good Shepherd , who will never forsake you unless you forsake Him ; and that in answer to your e - pray rs , He will soon send you an under shepherd , who will do for you f all that He shall Se e to be or your highest good and His own glory .

It is , therefore , my earnest request that the kind feeling which you - have ever c herished towards me will now be Shown by in t er posing no c e b f m e c Obsta l s , but y cheer ully uniting with in the appli ation to Pres b y t e r y for the dissolution o f the pastoral relation subsisting between us . f I have endeavored to be faith ul while I have been with you , and wherein

I may have failed , I implore your kind indulgence , while I take refuge in atoning blood .

i n Grant me , dearly beloved , as long as you shall live , an interest your prayers , as it will ever be my privilege to remember you at the throne of grace , until that day when we must , both people and pastor , f stand be ore God . “ ? What is my hope , or joy , or crown of rejoicing Are not even ye ” in the presence of our Lord Jesus at his coming .

And now , brethren , I commend you to God , and to the word of His a n d grace , which is able to build you up , to give you an inheritance among them which are sanctiﬁed .

n Ever your sincere frie d in our common Lord and Saviour , E R E E G O G HAL .

The cp n g r e g a t i on gave expression t o their conﬁdence in their pastor, and their warm regard for him , by com plying with his request ; and accordingly t h e relation f 1 9 7 86 . a s was dissolved , to take e fect March , The p tor was appointed to preach in the Pennington Church on 94

that day, and to declare the pulpit vacant . On that ’ of Sabbath , in the morning, the sacrament the Lord s

Supper was administered , and in the evening, after a

S m of ermon fro the words God to Moses , Speak unto

of t o the children Israel that hey g forward, the action of the Presbytery was cited , and the last word spoken .

n o a r e w e ll . There was a separation in form , but f — The church ediﬁce built in 1847 8 was a stately Gothic s t r u t u r e in the - style of the eleventh century , with the lancet arch . It was in imitation

of brown freestone , all the old material on the ground being used as a

matter of economy . It was some time after the subscription began to be

O n 5t h 1845 circulated before the work was begun . the of August , , the

congregation appointed a committee to circulate a subscription paper . The following amounts were subscribed

M O N 500 00 James B . air, $ Elizabeth Stevenson ,

300 00 . . Charles Welling , D B Skillman , 250 00 Isaac Welling, James Burroughs , 250 00 John Conrad , Joshua Ketcham ,

275 00 . . Asa Hunt, Wm S Hunt, 200 00 Stephen B . Smith , Hannah Howd , 200 00 Georg e Woolsey , Josiah Baldwin ,

200 00 Jr . Andrew Titus , Joseph Phillips , ,

. 100 00 Henry P Welling , Azariah Titus ,

100 00 . C . L . Wynkoop , Joseph C Van Doren , ' 100 00 Wi ko ﬂ D . N . Wiley , Margaret , 100 00 ff Ephraim Woolsey , Sarah Wiko ,

200 00 . . . George Hale , Geo and A S Lanning ,

100 00 . Reuben Titus , Solomon D Irvin , Bla h l e 200 00 c . Absalom y , Wm Smith Hunt, 1 5 0 00 . Andrew Baldwin , John C Titus , J 100 00 Garret . Schenck , Benj . $ . Ege , 100 00 Mary L . Hale , Boswell Howe , 100 00 Pierson Bake , Charlotte Titus , 1 00 r . 00 Aaron Hart, J , Ursula Fish , 100 00 J . Smith Hart, Sarah Schenck , 100 00 John Welch , Sarah Phillips , n Ok . 100 00 S o B . S Holt, Jesse ,

100 00 . Azariah Hunt, Benj Taylor , 50 00 Mary Hart , Azariah Reed , M u i r h e id 25 00 Georg e , Clark Miller ,

. M u i r h e id 25 00 John G , Hannah Ketcham , 9 5

1 5 00 . 0 00 Eliza Ketcham , $ John V Terhune , $ c 2 00 25 00 Sarah S . Van leve , Randall Drake , 5 00 u 15 00 Deborah Dennison , Charity Dup , 25 00 20 00 N . R . Titus , Edward Hepburn ,

15 00 . 25 00 Daniel C . Titus , Enoch A Titus ,

2 00 . 20 00 Charity Vancleve , George R Cook , 00 5 00 . 10 Charles Tindall , John S Vancleve , O 1 00 10 00 Benj amin gden , Samuel Hart , O 1 00 10 00 Emily T . gden , James Large , W’ 5 00 5 00 Mary L . ynkoop , Jesse Atchley , 3 00 5 00 Ann Reed and daughters , John Vancleve s 00 5 00 Sarah Wilgus , Anthony Reed , 15 00 10 00 Asher R . Hart, Uriah Burd ,

1 00 . 5 0 . 0 0 John D Drake David B Green ,

10 00 . . 50 00 John Temple , Wm A Green , 1 00 00 . 0 . . Samuel S Hart, Wm P Vankirk , 7

1 00 . 5 00 Israel Temple , John C Hunt, 5 00 10 00 Rhoda Hunt, Isaac Primmer,

15 00 . . 3 00 Timothy Hunt, Wm H Temple , 5 00 1 . 0 00 Samuel H Burroughs , Asher Brown , M l ll . 25 00 cC e a n 3 00 Aaron W Stout, Hannah , 5 00 2 00 Ann Hagaman , Mary Hunt,

20 00 . 5 00 Augustine M . Vankirk , Henry H Phillips ,

. 25 00 50 00 Henry B Perrine , John Dilts ,

. 25 00 25 00 John E Burd , Malvina Forman ,

20 00 . 40 00 Edward Atchley , Daniel J Blackwell ,

5 00 . c 5 00 Jonathan Anderson , Ishi V Bla kwell , 5 00 a n d 5 00 Israel Baldwin , Andrew Charles Fish , M Cl ll c e a n 5 00 . 10 00 John , Nathaniel H Hart, ’ Wm . 10 00 . . 5 00 Williamson , J P Martin ,

. Dc . 3 00 a . 5 00 Abm H Williamson , Joh Beatty ,

ff 5 00 . . Pe t h e r b r i d e 5 Charles Ho , R W g , 00 10 00 5 00 Jonathan Burd , Edward Cooke , 20 00 5 00 Peter Updike , Joseph Bunn ,

10 00 . . 5 00 Joseph Titus , Enoch V D Waters , 10 00 Charles Kelsey , Simeon Phillips , 1 00 5 00 & c. 10 00 William Beatty , Williamson , Burroughs , ,

. 20 00 . . David L Titus , I and I P . Steiner , 5 00

. 25 00 W Joseph M Vancleve , Mary C . hite , 5 00

. l Ve s t 5 00 . . 1Vh i t e 25 00 Thomas II , G H , 5 00 . 10 00 Susanna Titus , Ludlow D Potter , ‘

10 00 . E vr e n h a m 6 Elias Golden , Ed , 00 R 20 00 . 10 00 William osco , John S Hunt ,

. 5 00 50 Samuel C Cornell , Widow of Asher Temple , 9 6

50 Mr . Moses Baldwin , Wm . Davis ,

M u i r h e i d 20 00 . Hannah , John H Phillips , 20 00 Josiah Hart, Isaac H . Bergen , 10 00 Joseph Vannoy , Aaron Hart,

Mrs . Mary Smith gave timber . ﬁft - Here are one hundred and y one subscriptions (of these donors , - 5619 sixty only are living , ninety one are dead) amounting to $ , and yet for with that beginning , a church that could not now be erected was built at a cost in cash of to the congregation .

Messrs . Isaac Welling and John Conrad , who undertook the contract 4 ’ 000 . from love to the church , lost over $ In God s own time , the reward w ill come to them and to their posterity . The designing architect was

u . Mr . Johnson , of Philadelphia ; the s perintending builder , Augustine M Vankirk the master mason was John M cPh e r son ; the building commit

. M N i r . . W n c n . . c a O O . tee were Be j amin S Holt , Dr James B , and C L y p

of - The exercises at the laying the corner stone , May 5 1847 , , were

1st . . . Invocation and reading of the Scriptures , by the Rev James R

Bla e n u r h . w b . Talmage , of g , N J “ ’ ” 1 0t h R : . 0 e v. 2d. Psalmody Before Jehovah s awful throne Psalm , u George Ely , Hamilton Sq are . - 3d. . Laying the corner stone and prayer , by the pastor h “ ” & 8 t Go d c . 4t h . : 7 Psalmody Psalm , in its earthly temple , By

Rev . R . D . Morris .

D D. P 5t h . . . . a . Addresses by Rev Joseph H Jones , , of Philadelphia , ,

f . P O D . D . and Rev . . . Studdi ord , , of Lambertville

u 10 1848 At the dedication , A gust , , the exercises were as follows

“ ” 1 t h e . . . Voluntary , by choir , Jerusalem my happy home Mr Peter

V . D . Schenck , leader .

D . . . O . D. . 2. c Invo ation , by the Rev P Studdiford , of Lambertville

3 c ...... Reading S riptures , Psalm xx , lxxxiv and cxxii , by Rev R D

o f . Morris , Newtown , Pa

1 2 H a s . . 2 d w w 4 . Psalmody Psalm (P . M . ) o pleased and blest I

O f . By Rev . George Ely , Hamilton Square

5 R . D . D . O f . . Prayer by ev Samuel Miller , , Princeton 6 . Dedication hymn prepared for the occasion

n o w In Thy blest presence ,

Father in Heaven , we bow ; O h , be Thou near .

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s on A county, New York , the of Edmund and nn Eliza Foster ; received into the full communion of the church

1849 for in January , ; prepared college at Peekskill ‘ of Academy ; took the degree of AB . at the College 1 3 A M 1 86 . . 866 New Jersey , , and in ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary m 1866; was licensed as a probationer for the gospel ministry by the Presby t e r y of Connecticut, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 24 1866 , , and entered upon his duties as pastor elect in

of 1 the Presbyterian Church Phelps , New York , June ,

of 1866. He was ordained to the work the gospel ministry and installed pastor of the church at Phelps

29 1866 t h e Pr e sb t e r . July , , by y y of Rochester City

25t h 1868 a On the of June , , he was m rried to Miss Anna

f O f o . Evans Steward , daughter Mr Jonathan Steward , 1869 Trenton , New Jersey . In the month of October, , his pastoral relat ion to the church at Phelps was dis

t ou solved . He en ered his ministerial duties on the 1870 n ﬁrst Sabbath of October, , at the Pen ington

Church . Having received a cordial and unanimous call from t his people he was installe d pastor on the 17th of

1871 of of April, , by a committee the Presbytery New

Brunswick . On that occasion the Rev . James B . Ken n e d y presided , and preached the sermon from Exodus 11 12 . D D . xvii , , the Rev . A . Gosman, . , gave the charge - to the pastor, and Dr . Hale , the ex pastor, gave the charge to the people .

Previous to the call and the installation , the Lord came down with power upon the people , thus owning

of of the labors His servant . All the members a Bible class taught by on e of the elders were subjects of the t - work , wi h several others from the Sabbath school , two of n - l the childre of the ex pastor, and chi dren of the 9 9

h u r h f c c . . o ﬁcers , with others of mature age Mr Foster had been preaching with great pungency , with the view of arousing the church members to more earnest prayer

f w and e fort ; services were held for nine successive eeks , in w hich Short expositions of the Word of God were fol m lowed by prayer and exhortation . In the eantime visitation from house to house was diligently prose outed . Another means which helped forward the work was the establishment of cottage prayer-meetings at ﬁve f di ferent points in the congregation . These meetings were conducted by the people themselves , the pastor

n taki g the general supervision and appointing the leader . The earliest conversions appeared amo n g the young men , of whom there were several in the congregation , A and most of them the children of the covenant . S

of the result this blessed work , over seventy were gath ered within the spiritual fold . On the minute-book of the session of the church is found this record E 25 18 4 7 . P NNINGTON , January ,

fe c The Moderator takes the liberty of recording , for future re ren e , that ' ’ between the hours of twelve and one o clock to-day the e di ﬁce o f this

c c chur h was burned , the third house of worship they have ere ted upon these grounds . The benediction had been pronounced and the people had just left the building when the alarm Of ﬁre was

n ﬁft -ﬁve given , and withi y minutes the steeple had fallen over and the church was a heap of ruins . The musical instruments , the old and new communion tables ,

old n e w l the pulpit chairs , and , with the o d pulpit 1766 cushion of and the Bibles , were saved . It was a s a d hour to that pastor and people a s they stood by and sa w the ﬂames ascendi ng to heaven from their burn ing sanctuary While almost scorched by the intense 9 8

s on of county, New York , the Edmund and Ann Eliza Foster ; received into the full communion of the church 1849 i in January , ; prepared for college at Peeksk ll ‘ A of Academy ; took the degree of B . at the College 1 t 863 A . M . 1866 New Jersey , , and in ; graduated a Princeton Theological Seminary m 1866; was licensed as a probationer for the gospel ministry by the Presby

t e r y of Connecticut, at Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 24 1866 , , and entered upon his duties as pastor elect in

of 1 the Presbyterian Church Phelps , New York , June , 1 866. He was ordained to the work of the gospel ministry and installed pastor of the church at Phelps

29 1866 . July , , by the Presbytery of Rochester City

25t h of 1868 a On the June , , he was m rried to Miss Anna

of Evans Steward , daughter of Mr . Jonathan Steward , f 1869 . o Trenton, New Jersey In the month October, , his pastoral relation to the church at Phelps w a s di s

ou on solved . He entered his ministerial duties the

of 1870 n ﬁrst Sabbath October, , at the Pen ington

Church . Having received a cordial and unanimous call from t his people he was install e d pastor on the 17t h of

1871 of of April, , by a committee the Presbytery New

Brunswick . On that occasion the Rev . James B . Ken m edy presided, and preached the sermon from Exodus 11 12 D . D . xvii , , the Rev . A . Gosman, . , gave the charge - . to the pastor, and Dr . Hale , the ex pastor, gave the

cha rge to the people .

Previous to the call and the installation, the Lord

came down with power upon the people , thus owning

of of the labors His servant . All the members a Bible class taught by on e of the elders were subjects of the t - work , wi h several others from the Sabbath school , two of n - i the childre of the ex pastor, and ch ldren of the

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n a heat, the trustees conve ed informally and appointed

for o wn on t meeting their body Monday, and for he

n on whole co gregation Wednesday, to consider what

must be done . These meetings were held ; and at that O f the con gregation on Wednesday it w a s resolved unani

mou sly that measures be adopted t o rebuild at once . Three gentlemen subscribed on e thousand dollars each

(George Woolsey, John Smith Hunt and Joseph A . o ﬁf Frisbie) , and that afternoon a subscripti n Of over teen thousand dollars gave assurance that the w ork would be done ; The proper committees were appointed

l . a p an selected , a contract formed , and the work begun The corner-stone of the new church was laid May 5

1874 on 27t h of of , the anniversary the laying the - corner stone of the church just burned down . While

d of s for w or estitute a anctuary , the people assembled ship i n the spacious room of the public school in the

morning, and held a joint meeting with the congregation

of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the evening .

14t h of 1875 The January, . was a j oyful day with

of n the Presbyterians Pennington, the day of the openi g

f A of o the new church . fter the reading of the report

M u i r h e i d the building committee by Major John Guild , which showed a balance of over ﬁve thousand dollars

on of yet due the building , a check one thousand dollars f from Mr . Enoch Ketcham, of New York , was o fered

h i s t h e by Samuel Ketcham , nephew, on condition that

whole debt be paid at once . The proposition met with f . . M u i h i l . . r e d a avor Messrs C H and H . P . (who had ready given the new bell) made a joint donation of ﬁve b hundred dollars , and other liberal contri utions were

s o pledged , that within twenty minutes the whole

amount was raised ; and then the building, which cost 101

was by the pastor d edicated to the worship of Almighty God . l The fol owing paragraphs , written by Dr . Thomas f d P o a . o Murphy , Frankfor , , who took part in the ex r

r e a d w i t h u $ cises , may be . interest some f ture day

The newly -erected ediﬁce O f the Presbyterian Church in Pennington 14 c o n . was dedi ated Thursday , th inst , under circumstances of peculiar o f interest . The age the church organization , the blessed spirit reigning

co n among the people , the large attendance , and the delightful union ,

. a o tributed to this interest A little less than a year g , the former

t w f building was burned to the ground , amidst the deepes sorro o the people and their pastor , Rev . D . R . Foster . But while the ruins were still smoking , some steps towards rebuilding were taken , and before a week had elapsed , more than half the needed funds were subscribed .

The new structure was now to be devoted to God . c The occasion drew together a vast concourse of people . The itizens o f m all denominations , the embers of neig hboring churches , larg e num

o f c bers persons from Trenton , Philadelphia , and New York , attra ted l O d . by associations , thronged the church So g reat was the interest , f All that the stores O the town were generally closed . admired the

l c m c . nob e building , whi h had been so soon and so har oniously ere ted

cc Si x s Large enough to a ommodate or seven hundred worshipper , f f beauti ully frescoed , and tastefully carpeted and urnished throu g hout , with prayer-meeting and Sabbath-school rooms ready fo r their impor f o c c . tant departments servi es , it ould not but be g reatly admired

The dedicatory sermon was preached by the Rev . Joseph T . Duryea , D f —s o D . o . , Brooklyn ; and a noble sermon it was simple , so full of o f r Scripture , so full g rand thoughts , so warm and so pe tinent to the

c — occasion . Several other clergymen took part in the exer ises amon g f . o cc them Dr . Hamill , of Lawrenceville The music the o asion was . admirable ; and its interest was increased by the fac t that it was co n f f J r . . . o ducted by Georg e Hale , , M D , of Philadelphia , son the ormer pastor of the church . At the close of the sermon a statement was read , h o f showin g that the w ole cost the ediﬁce , as it stood , was about twenty

O f w - e n seven thousand dollars . this amount , t enty two thousand had be

c e already se c ured . Before the buildin g was actually dedi at d to Go d b y c prayer , the remaining ﬁve thousand dollars were ontributed or sub f u . scribed o the spot , amidst enthusiastic and most happy eelin g The

c e e . gifts were overﬂowing , and more ould very easily have been coll ct d

‘ h a r mo n i o u s s o f a co- i t w a s All was so easy , so , ull of he rty Operation , m f a r a ffe e ani est that m ny , many p yers had been O red up for the bless d consu mmation that day experienced . 102

In the evening another exceeding ly interesting meeting was held . M ‘ i Na r . Short addresses were made by Rev . W . W . and by Rev Asher

o f R . . B . Temple , both sons the old church , and by the ev Dr Gosman , a neighboring pastor . But the important feature of the evening was a leng thy and most deeply interesting historical sketc h o f the church by

D . D . Rev . George Hale , , Secretary of the Relief Fund of the General o f Assembly . It was warm and loving , and wonderfully full knowledge O f the old families which h a d founded the church one hundred and ﬁfty years ago . Nothing, in fact , is more pleasant in connection with this famous congregation than the kind a n d unselﬁsh interest still taken in t h i r t it by its former pastor , Dr . Hale . For y years did he minister to it, until called to his present important po s ition as Secretary of the Relief

O ld Fund . But his love for his charge is unabated ; and he stands faith fully by its present pastor in rendering all the assistance that can be

h i c drawn from s lon g and rich experien e . Happy is that present pastor i n such a friend $ Happy and grateful may brother Foster well be in what the Lord has wrought for him and his people $ We could not but m congratulate him m ost heartily . May any years of prosperity and happy union in the cause of Christ be granted to this church , upon which so many covenanted blessings are now coming down .

of 1876 a In the month January , , began . precious w o f ork grace . A few weeks before the Week O f

n Prayer, the pastor divided the co gregation into dis t r i ct s ou t of , and made a list the male members of the

w h o church would be willing, in his judgment, to join with the elders and deacons in making a thorough vi s i t a t i on S , with a view to the piritual good of all the

n o f families of the co gregation , and any families that

n f might be fou d living in neglect o church privileges .

This plan was submitted to the elders and approved . Notice was given from the pulpit of the day on which

of the families in each district would be visited, and the persons who might be expected to call in the per for ma n ce r i n t of this service . All who we e a pppo e d to co-Operate in this work were invited to attend a couse cration service . This was a solemn occasion, and served to prepare their minds and hearts for such an

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Other communicants were afterwards received ; the young men ’s prayer-meeting has become an established ’ institution ; a young men s Christian Association (with ’ reading-room) for the church has been formed ; a youth s meeting has been held by the pastor during the winter

‘ s r m and p g , for special instructions ; the cottage prayer meetings are maintained through the winter ; We dn e s day evening is uniformly devoted to religious exercises , and the practice of presenting a Bible to every child that commits to memory the Shorter Catechism is con ’

. on e tinned As the result of Mr . Foster s labors , hun dred and eighty-on e have been added to the roll o f

on - communicants profession, besides twenty six by certiﬁcate .

LUS CONC ION .

ou r CE NTENNIAL YE AR o n This , for nation, is the and this last Sabbath of the ﬁrst century of our national existence , thousands of assemblies will send up their thanksgivings to God . Let us heartily acknowledge a Jehov h as our God , as the Governor among the na

u ou r tions , as the a thor of national prosperity , and the only source from which we can receive substantial good in days to come . Let us swell this volume of “ s o : praise , He hath not dealt with any nation and as f r o w . his judgments , they have not kno n them Praise ” ye the Lord . h In viewing the history of this churc , we see an illus t r a t i on of the fact that t h e original colonists of any region give direction, tone and character to the people

old gathered into that community for centuries . The

of n Presbyterian Churches Jamaica, Newtow and 105

Hempstead had the moulding of the families who s e t l m t e d here . They did not neglect infant baptis . They brought with them an open Bible and the Sabbath ; they planted the sanctuary and the school-house Side by

for side , and called the living preacher ; and with divine grace in their hearts , they purposed to establish a free

Christian home for themselves and their children .

Through their constancy, their labors and their prayers , this has been a spot peculiarly favored with heavenly inﬂuences .

n - Duri g the last three quarters of a century , there have been n ine general revivals of religion ; and in addition

o f to these, ten seasons of refreshing from the presence the Lord . Here the truth has been preached with

ﬁdelity, the word has been heard with gladness , souls t have been converted , and sain s have been ripened for glory . It i s doubtful whether there are many pla ces on this earth where , for a century and a half, so large a

of proportion the inhabitants have , at their departure hence , in the judgment of charity, exchanged earth for heaven . In this churchyard they sleep in Jesus ; but

of in the remembrance their example , and the rich S legacy of their prayers , they till live ; nor can their

o u t inﬂuence die while the world stands .

of Brethren , beloved the Lord , the lines have fallen unto you in pleasant places . You have a goodly herit

. a age Set proper estimate upon your privileges . Guard as a sacred trust this precious inheritance that has come down from your fathers , and hand it over to posterity i un mpaired . How often h a s He whose heart is love opened His hand to do you good Tell ye your r children of it, and let y ou children tell their children , ” and their children another generation . 106

RULINC ELDERSO F THE CHURCH AT PENN INGTON . — 27 1677 28 1738 9 . Enoch Armitage , born November , ; died January ,

3 1705 18 1783 . Reuben Armitage , born November , ; died November ,

Ephraim Titus .

u 3 22 4 1 9 . . 0 17 7 7 Joseph Tit s , Sr , born May , ; died December ,

22 1727 e 10 1808. Nathan Hunt , born March , di d April ,

179 1. Thomas Baldwin , died June ,

1 4 O 29 1819 . . 13 7 7 John Smith , Esq , born April , ; died ctober ,

13 1747 18 1827. John Hunt , born April , ; died March ,

M u i r h e i d O 18 1750 19 1830 . John , born ctober , ; died March ,

12 1743 30 1821. Abraham Pittenger , born July , ; died July ,

15 183 1. John Carpenter , died September ,

5 1767 19 1839 . Nathaniel Burrowes , born May , died July ,

1755 8 1812. Major Stephen Burrowes , born ; died July ,

ff 1767 12 1812. Jacob Ho , born June , ; died December , 4 1828 1 2 2 . Israel Har t , born 77 ; died May ,

ff 2 1782 1 1839 . John Ho , born March , ; died April ,

1 69 16 1840 . Enos Titus , born 7 ; died February , 28 1 O 3 1 852. . 2 777 Daniel G Howell , born ctober , ; died February ,

1768 14 1853 . Aaron Hart , born died August ,

10 177 O 15 1857. Charles Welling , born February , 7; died ctober ,

4 1774 c 5 1850 . Enoch Ketcham , born July , ; died Mar h ,

17 1773 O 28 1850 . Theophilus Furman , born June , ; died ctober ,

1780 Oc 3 1866. Joab Titus , born ; died tober , 6 1829 Edmund Roberts , ordained February , . . 6 1829 27 1784 Isaac Welling , ordained February , born January , ; died 29 1868 February , .

R 6 1829 O 21 1863 . Nathaniel . Titus , ordained February , ; died ctober ,

1829 1853 . Joseph Titus , ordained ; died

M u i r h e i d 24 1850 n 25 1789 John Guild , ordained March , ; bor June , ; 1 1866 died November 7, .

24 1850 . Azariah Hunt , ordained March ,

John Smith Hunt,

n Benj ami S . Holt,

John Ellis Burd ,

Enoch A . Titus ,

Wilson Blackwell,

William J . Titus ,

George R . Cook ,

Wilson Atchley ,

John V . Terhune

Ralph Ege ,

Jacob Dilts ,

Reuben C . Titus ,

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O f same time drew a certiﬁcate to certify the name the church , which is

f Vi z as ollows ,

c L We , the Subscribers , being duly ele ted agreeably to a a w in that c ase made and provided , do assume the name of THE TRUSTEES OF THE FIRST PRESBY TERIAN C HURCH OF T HE T O W NSHIP W E E c o f o f . OF HOP LL , in the ounty Hunterdon , in the state New Jersey 4t h o f O 1 86 Witness our hands and seals , this day cto b er , 7 J E R . JOHN W LLING , ,

T E S . JOHN SMI H , $ ,

TE E RR W ES J R . S PH N BU O , , S RE AMO MOO ,

JOHN P . HUNT , NAT HANIEL HAR T

E Z E K R H IAH S . WOOD UFF ,

c O 5 D 1 A . . 86 which ertiﬁcate was recorded , ctober , , 7 , in the Registry & f 3 c . o r 1 5 . of Deeds , , the County of Hunterdon , page

We here add the names of Trustees ele cted Sin c e that date 4 5 M u i r h e i d c 1 183 . 1788. . Nathan Hunt , April , John G , Mar h ,

8 1838. 6 1790 . . c c 2 Henry Baker , April , Garret J S hen k , , W n coo John Hunt , C . L . y p,

M u i r h e i d 29 1841. John , George Woolsey , c John Van leve , Asa Hunt, 4 9 18 . . . 7 1800 . . 2 7 Ephraim Woolsey , Sr , Apr , Stephen B Smith , ,

c . . Eno h Hunt , Wm D Blackwell ,

Stephen Titus , Jonathan S . Hart, 8 6 1 01. . Jesse Hunt, April , George R Cook ,

1 1806. m Jesse Moore , April , Ephrai Woolsey ,

1806. Stephen Hunt , April , John Ellis Burd , 8 6 1807. . 29 184 . John Carpenter , April , Benj amin S Holt , March , 2 25 1 1 18 8 86 . 8 0 . . James Stevenson , March , John V Terhune , 8 V Bl a ckw ll c 180 . e Enoch Ket ham , Jonathan .

6 1 10 M u i r h i d R 2 8 . . e Edmund oberts , , William B

M i r h i u e d 3 1 1817. c George Ar hibald Updike , M u i r h e i d Samuel Moore , John G . , Jr . 3 1868 l Ve lli n . 2 . Charles g , Henry B Perrine ,

Aaron Hart, Daniel C . Titus , 3 1 4 0 8 . . 7 Josiah Hart , Samuel B Ketcham , 30 1829 e Andrew Titus , . Ralph E g ,

Joseph Titus , THE NEWSIDE PRESBYTE RIAN CH URCH

MAI ENHEAD AND H PEWEL D O L .

O NE mile west of Penni n gton there is a graveyard o n t which once stood a Presby erian church , and where a

Presbyteria n minister lies buried . This naturally ex

t n o w ci es inquiries , which it is proposed to answer . 1741 In the year , the Presbyterian Church in this country was rent asunder, the two parties being known as O ld Side and N e w Side . The cause was n o t any — difference in either doctrine or church polity for all a d hered t o the Westminster Confession and Catechisms but in a difference of opinion as to thorough preparation of candidates for the ministry , and certain new measures in the conduct of revivals . The leader in this division

of t was a minister undoubted pie y , orthodoxy and

s talent, but of great impetuo ity of temper , ardor , and

o f . t of force will, the Rev Gilbert Tennen , then pastor

o n the church in New Brunswick . He was e of the mos t not ed revival preachers of that day . But his zeal out

n s runni g his judgment, he censured in no mea ured terms t his brethren who did not fully sympathize wi h him , and j oin in his course o f action . His sermon at Notting “ Pa 1740 r ham , , in , On the Dange of an Unconverted

d ff . s Ministry , gave eserved o ence He denounced ome c t of the best men in the chur h as unconver ed , wolves in 110

’ sheep s clothing , whited sepulchres , and plastered hypo crites , and encouraged his friends to obtrude into the congregations and pulpits of such as in his View were - not faithful to the souls of professors and non professors .

At the same time , he and his associates were dissatisﬁed with a rule of Synod requiring that candidates for the ministry Should be examined by a committee of Synod before their licensure could be accepted as valid . Mr . Tennent and his friends claimed to be the only a dvo f o a lle a t i on w a s n ot t r u e . cates revivals , which g The Old Side men sought o n ly to prevent the introduction into the mmi s t r y of men insufﬁciently educated and to “ have All things done decently and in order . The

s o of SO feeling was intense , the war words ﬁerce , and

s o i n e vi t a the misapprehension great, that schism was

u v ble . The ﬁrst ch rch disturbed by this contro ersy f “ ” was this o Maidenhead and Hopewell . We give in full the minutes in this case

At a meeting of the Presbytery of Philadelphia pro re nata at Maid h d 1 3 — e n e a 7 7 8 . . , March , ubi post preces sederunt Mr J Andrews , t . d R . c t h . Mr ob Cross , Mr Ri h Trea , Mr . Hug Carlile and Mr David

Cowell , Mr . Cross chosen Moderator , and Mr . Treat clerk . r The Pr e sb y having met at the appli cation of the people of Maiden head and Hopewell in order to clear their w a y for the settlement of the gospel ministry among them , they heard all parties at large in what they ff had to say respecting that a air , and there being a considerable number

f b e that insisted upon the trial o another candidate besides Mr . Guild f c ore they come to a determination about any one parti ular man , after much discourse those that were well satisﬁed with Mr . Guild conde i n V scended , iew of the good and peace of the whole , to the motion of

fo r trying another the space of th ree months , which three months are to commen c e at the expiration of the present agreement of said people with

Mr . Guild , or as soon as such candidate or probationer can be procured

: after said time provided that the said persons , that are desirous of this h e new trial , at the whole charge of brin g ing said probationer hither ; s which said per ons have consented to . So that , upon the whole , presby

’ t e r y agrees and concurs with this pr O pos a l of making trial of another

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A supplication was brought into the Presby from some people of the congregation o f Hopewell and Maidenhead requesting that t hey might

c be ere ted into a separate society of themselves , containing also the rea t sons to suppor their request, and also a paper of subscriptions from the

other part of that congregation , and both parties adding what they

c n thought proper , were heard at length in referen e to the conte ts of said — a m supplication , and also the matter was deb ted among the embers of

the Presby . At last it was agreed that inasmuch as the Presby j udg e it k their duty and business that whenever new erections are made , they ta e particular care that the old standin g congregations be not hurt or ruined — d thereby to prevent this , it was agreed to ask s supplicants whether they owned the authority and would submit to the determination of the Pres in c a se they could not agree about the seat of a new meeting d S — c house for supplicants , when they shall be erected , whi h question

when proposed occasioned considerable reasoning between par t ies . At a c l st it was by all parties agreed to , and promised that when ere ted they Should endeavor to agree among themselves about a place for said meet

- c old ing house , that is to say a pla e about which a majority of the con g r e g a t i on o f Hopewell and Maidenhead and also a m a jority o f sd designed

new erection Shall agree . But in case they cannot so agree , that then “ — the ﬁnal determination con cerning the place o f s meeting house shall ’ again be remitted to the Presb , who shall at a convenient time meet

y upon the place and SO ﬁnally determine as the shall ﬁnd it reasonable , whi c h abovesaid proposal was read publicly and submitted unto by both

o f c c parties , viz . by those in behalf the suppli ants for the new ere tion I Sa m t t —b Benj amin Stevens , John Anderson , Hun and Jose ph Bir y

c c Th e m e s those in behalf of the old ongregation Eno h Armitage , Bur — t h e y rowes , Edward Hart and Timothy Baker , and then Presb pro d e e de d c c c c to ere t S suppli ants into a separate congregation or so iety , whi c h was done unanimously . d ’ A suppli cation from S new erection was bro t into the Fr e sh ” request

' i n g to be set oﬂ from this Presby that they m i g h t j oy n the Presy of New y ff a c . Brunswi k The Presb taking the a air under consider tion , do j udge that inasmuch as their engagements before m entioned are not yet fu l

v c o ff Pr e sb . ﬁlled , they cannot onsent to set them from this for the pres

t h e ent , but if the business with respect to setting of their house be s a a li acc omplished to satisfaction , the Pre will be re dy upon their pp cation to them to take their request under consideration .

o f 173 9 At the meeting Philadelphia Synod in May , ,

n s a Mr . Gilbert Ten ent and his friends prote ted g ainst the rule in reference to the examination o f candidates ; severe censures were passed on t h e Presbytery of New 113

for Brunswick licensing Mr . Rowland in violation of the order of Synod ; the New Side people of Hopewell a n d

Maidenhead were rebuked for their course of action , and the following language used :

The Synod do j u dg e that the said people have behaved with great i n decency towards their Presb ? by their unmannerly reﬂections and u m j ust aspersions , both upon the Synod and the Presbytery , and that they R have acted very disorderly in improving Mr . owland as a preacher

n o t among them , when they were advised by the Presbytery that he was to be esteemed and improved as an orderly candidate fo r the ministry and the Synod do wholly disallow the said complainants bein g erected into a new co n gregation until they do ﬁrst submit to the determination

c fo r - of the pla e erecting a new meeting house to their Presbytery , as was formerly ag reed between them and their nei g hbors as a condition n of their bei g a separate congregation . The overture was approved by

. t h e a great majority And it is further ordered by Synod , That when the Presbytery of Philadelphia meet at Hopewell and Maidenhead to ﬁx o f - c the place a new meeting house , they shall call the following orres

o n de n t s . Nu t t m a n p Messrs John Pierson , John , Samuel Blair , Aaron 1V Burr , Nathaniel Hubbell and Eleazar ales .

“ From this time we ﬁnd nothing of this new erec

29 t h 1742 t o tion until May , , when they applied the

Presbytery of New Brunswick for supplies . October 12 4 17 3 . th , , Rev James Davenport being at this Pres b t e r y y , this people applied to have him settled as their minister . The Presbytery, however, upon conversation with him , judged that he had not retracted all his errors , and therefore that the way was not clear for his settle t ment, but gave them permission to employ him as sta ed 1 44 7 . 12 supply until May , They sought, September th ,

1744 . Joh n Gr a h a m o f , for the services of the Rev , C Southbury , onnecticut, but failed . f i t . of In a le ter rom the Rev Will am Tennent, Free ’ hold , to Mr . Prince , of Boston, in Gillies Historical

n O f 11t h 1744 Collectio s , under date October , , he says : 114

About four weeks since , at the invitation of the people and desire of ’ our Presbytery , I gathered a church and celebrated the Lord s Supper at a newly-erected congregation in the towns of Maidenhead and Hope well .

Perhaps i t was about this time that their house of

m t o worship was built, and a for al organization given

28 h 1 4 for . t 7 5 the church On May , , they applied the

Da n i e l L a w r e n ce ministerial services of the Rev . , and 19 1745 September th , , sent in a call for him , which he h a dn ot the clearness to accept and on the 21s t of 1746 ‘ May, , the application was renewed , but nothing permanent was secured . It was at this date that Mr .

of Davenport was received into the Presbytery, which this is the record

Mr . James Davenport , an ordained minister , having been for some time past preaching the gospel within our bounds , and being likely to u s y a d abide still longer among , made application to the Pres for mi t t a n ce as a member with us and having signiﬁed his satisfaction and consent to the doctrines contained in the Westminster Confession of

u s Faith , and catechisms received by , together with our plan of govern ment, so far as he has had Opportunity of inspecting into it , he was thereupon readily received as a stated member .

21st 1746 At the same date , May ,

The Presbytery , considering the broken state of the towns of Hope t ff well and Maidenhead , wi h respect to their religious a airs , as being two distinct congregations , and being desirous that said congregations might be united into one under one minister, if any means can be found h ’ f to accomplis it, the Pres , a ter much consideration and discourse d S ff c O f upon a air , came into this con lusion that for a committee the Pr e sy Presbytery , with correspondents from the New York , to meet at Hopewell , and treat with Mr . Guild and both congregations upon the

c for . subje t , is the most likely means it ; and accordingly appoint Mr ‘ M K n i h t Gilbert Tennent , Mr . Wm . Tennent, Mr . Beatty , Mr . g and y Treat, to be a committee of Pres to meet at Hopewell the third

Wednesday of June , and do invite Messieurs Dickinson , Pierson , Burr , ‘I S and Brainard , as correspondents to meet with them at time and ff place , to consult about and a ssist in that important a air . O 46 15 1 . Maidenhead , ctober th , 7 The committee appointed to mee at Hopewell me t according to appointment, with correspondents , but

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c a t pointed to prea h Hopewell on the Sabbath previous , to prepare the w a for d y s instalment ; also , in consideration of the disappointment and

n damag e sustained by the delay of the instalment of Mr . Dave port y throu g h the default of the people of Hopewell and Maidenhead , the Pres i ’ ( £ 0 a n do order that s people advance Mr . Davenport s salary to 7 per n u m two years sooner than was recommended to them by the last Presy

‘ also the Pr e SI do recommend to the people of Maidenhead that they — follow the example of t h e people of Hopewell in respect to half yearly D payments of salary to Mr . avenport .

The report of the installing committee was a s follows

O c o 22d 1854. m e t a t ber , The committee at Hopewell according to p pointment for the instalment of the Rev . Mr . James Davenport . Mi ‘ i : . . . M Kn h t . ters present Messrs Wm Tennent and , Chas g Ministers absent : Messrs . Thos . Lewis and Israel Read . Mr . Tennent preached

f 25 : 18 a sermon rom Acts ; after which , ﬁnding the way clear , they installed Mr . Davenport as their pastor .

3 1s t 1757 May , , the Maidenhead people asked to be discharged from the pastoral relation to Mr . Davenport . 3 w a s . 0t h 1757 The request granted June , , the Hopewell people urged the same request . A committee was a p

b e pointed to consider the matter, but they did not act, caus e the parties appearing had n ot been chosen by the

n t o co gregation act as their representatives . This matter engaged the attention of Presbytery at several s u b s e

God quent meetings ; but before it was issued , took his servant home . 13 t 1758 June h , , the Rev . Thomas Lewis was called h by t is same people . The matter was considered at

of ﬁve other meetings Presbytery besides this , but with out favorable result . 28t h 1 1 76 . April , , Mr Parkhurst, Mr . Smith , and ‘ M K n i h . t 11t h Mr g were appointed supplies , and on 1763 . w a October, , the Rev Enoch Green s appointed a supply . It was at this very date that the acre of gr ound on which the New Side Church stood was con 117

“ ve e d s u m y to ten trustees , for the of four pounds , to the proper use a n d behoof of a new erected congrega ” tion belonging to New Brunswick Presbytery . This step was taken in the hope that the Rev . Enoch Green would receive and accept a call to settle as pastor . This matter of a call was brought up at every meeting of the Presbytery for about three years , but no satis t factory arrangement could b e made . The las instance of s u li e S 21s t 23d an application for pp was October and , 1766 , at which time an arrangement for four Sabbaths

r l after the latter date was concluded . It was e a y in this year that the new brick church at Pennington was opened , and there remained but an extremely feeble minority, and that for only a short period , to perpetuate the schism . About the time of the American R e volu tion that house began to be used as a preaching place by Methodist ministers of the Trenton circuit . The ground had also been appropriated for burial purposes , and s o continues to this day . The house was taken down

1826 of in , at the time the erection of the ﬁrst Method ist Episcopal Church in the village (the building n e w occupied as a dwelling by Aaron S . Laning, The only relic of that old church is a sun-dial o n the so u th

f . of side o the M E . Conference Seminary Ne w Jersey at Pennington . This people had a chequered and painful history for nearly forty years . They met with unusual difﬁculty in raising funds for pastor or parsonage . They were much of the time dependent on the pastors of the Pres f b t e r . y y for supplies At di ferent meetings , as the extracts from the minutes show , they presented calls ,

s . that were declined , to Mes rs John Rowland , Timothy

Allen, Daniel Lawrence , Thomas Lewis , Samuel Park 118

hurst and Enoch Green ; and they were served occa

i n ll s o a . y by Messrs John Graham , William Robinson ,

M cCr e a Henry Martin and James , and by Messrs . mi h Hunter and Lamb . The only nister w o was ever

installed over them as pastor was the Rev . James

of h i s Davenport, and at the time death steps had already been taken for severing this tie . It may well be said that on e of the greatest miracles of Christianity is that it has survived the ﬁerce disputes and

con s ci e n conﬂicts among its professors . That good and tious men should, in the excitement and war of words , in

of the name the gentle and loving Prince of Peace, become the victims of intense prejudice , and employ caricature , t r misrepresentation, denuncia ion, and the most eproach

on ful epithets , is a painful commentary the weakness of

u S of human nat re , and hows the necessity applying the a h e postolic injunction , Let not your good evil spoken ”

f. 1S o Schism always to be deprecated . This breaking

of up of the visible Church into hundreds fragments , each more anxious to win from the other than to bring souls to Christ, should cease everywhere, and untiring

f t o e fort should be put forth break down, or rather melt f w o . down , the alls that separate the true friends Christ “ L e t there be the unity of the Spirit in t h e bond o f “ peace , and the love which never faileth , however it may be as to n ames and outward organizations . The existence of sects is a fruit and evidence of human de l pravity, and the bigotry, fanaticism , prose ytism , pious frauds and carnal strategy which follow in the train are deplorable . It was well said by Paul, Whereas there ‘ f i n o t 7 are stri es and div sions among you, are ye carnal It is yet more unfortunate that these conﬂicts Should s o often come in to mar some of the most glorious dis

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- be forty seven . In the midst of that little churchyard ,

on e i n mile west of Pennington , you may read this scription IN ME MORY OF O The Rev . JAME S DAVENP RT who departed this life 10 1 5 Nov . , 7 7, 4 Aged 0 years .

0 D a e o $ a S e a h o ce c a , v np rt r p n in l y A brig h t e r S e ra p h n o w in h e a v e nly da y H o w g l o w e d t h y H e a rt w ith s a cre d l ov e a n d z e a l ;

H w k h o li e t o t a t t h y k indre d Ang e l s fe e l . Cl o the d in h u m ility t h y virtu e s s h on e I n e v e ry E y e ill u s tri o u s b u t th in e o w n ;

Ho w k e t h M a s e on w h o s e e B e a s li y t r, fri ndly r t

h h n h e s T ou oft a s l e a n e d a d s a ll fore ve r r t .

i By his side l es his widow , who survived him over thirty years IN MEMORY o r

PARNEL , wife of

The Rev .

James Davenport, who departed this life 21 1789 August , , 60 Aged years .

s on . Two children outlived them . The , the Rev

of John Davenport, was pastor the Presbyterian Church

f D e r ﬁ ld o e e . , New Jersey, where he died Elizabeth , the daughter, married Enos Kelsy, of Princeton , New

. . M r s . Jersey, a merchant Mr and Kelsy are buried in the Princeton Cemetery .

Posr s a i r r — c . The sources from which the facts and documents that make up this history are drawn are s o

numerous that they cannot well be recited . E E EE ALL V RGR N H .

DURING the year 183 5 (and to some extent previous

of to that) , some of the more enterprising citizens Pen n i n g t on consulted together with regard to the establish

u ment of a Female Seminary, which might f rnish the young ladies of the community with instruction in other branches than those usually taught in the public schools . The result was the organization of a stock company in 183 6. The evidence of this is the following legal doc a ment, which is here copied in full

Whereas , it has been signified to us the undersigned , that leg al notice was given to the Association for constructing the Female Seminary o f 18 Pennington , to meet on the th of this instant, for the express purpose of c hoosing three Trustees to a n institution for the promotion of learn i n g in that village , at which time and place the persons so associated and assembled did proceed to elect by plurality of voices three Trustees to the same Association . And by the minutes of the meeting , under the k signature of the President and Cler respectively , it was also signified that the undersigned were ele c ted Trustees of the same . f f Now , there ore , we certi y that this Institution for the promotion of learning takes and would be known by the name o f the Female Semi f nary o Penning ton . And for the guidance and government of all per c sons who are or may be oncerned , this writing is to be recorded in due f ’ Offi f orm of law in the Clerk s ce of the County o Hunterdon .

Given under our hands and seals this nineteenth day of March , in the O year of our Lord ne Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Six .

E T S L s . JOS PH TI U , [ . ] A C E L s . ISA W LLING , [ . ] RE W T L AND TI US , [ .

d 2 3 ’ Re e . 9 18 6 O ﬂi ce Mar , , at the Clerk s in Hunterdon County , and i 2 & n . c . . recorded Vol of Incorporations , Farlee , Clk 122

Besides the trustees above named , Dr Henry W . ‘ M a i r . N Blachly, Dr Absalom Blachly, Dr . James B . and other gentlemen were interested , and subscribed

lot liberally . A was purchased and an excellent brick building erected by Augustine M . Vankirk , architect . f o of . The services the wife the Rev . George C Hyde , from New England , were engaged, and the seminary was t s e . in operation For the first year, success seemed to ff crown the e ort, but for some causes , now unknown , f the principal left at the end o the year . This discour aging feature deterred many from subscribin g additional stock sufficient to pay for the seminary edifice ; the stock already paid in was voluntarily sacrificed , and

. on ow n Mr Vankirk took the building his hands , to f meet the cost o material and work .

While the property was held by Mr . Vankirk , for ‘ two or more years an excellent s ch ool w a s maintained by Roswell Ho w e , Esq . , and two of his daughters . In

of 1841 f the spring , having o fered it for sale , it was bought by an association of gentlemen connected with the Presbyterian congregation of Pennington . Joseph

of l of - Titus , Titusvi le , assumed the payment one half - the purchase money, and the balance was made up by

Asa Hunt, Aaron Hart, Sr . , Rev . George Hale , Stephen

t r . . . J B Smi h , Aaron Hart, , J Smith Hart, George

G . Woolsey, Andrew Titus , arret J Schenck , and Eph raim Woolsey . The Misses Scovel were employed to take charge of

n of . the departme t instruction, and Mrs Ann Reed of the boarding department . This arrangement con

m o f 1842 tinned until the onth November , , when the young lady who was acting as principal accepted (as ladies have a right to do) a position for life as the

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failure . It has been eminently a blessing , not only in

t o Pennington and its vicinity , but families widely scat t r d u ou r e e thro gh country and in foreign lands . Several of the graduates have married ministers of the gospel ;

s t o some have gone out as missionarie the heathen , and others have done themselves and their teachers credit by their usefulness in the spheres they have been called to occupy .

That this institution may yet prosper, the fervent prayers and earnest co-operation of the Christian people

of the Pennington congregation are solicited . SUBSCRI PTIONS FO R REBUILDING TH E CHURCH 18 —75 74 .

The following record of the offerin g s of the donors to replace t h e 1874 church that was burnt down in January , , is due to those who gave ,

c and to others also , as an example of a prompt answer to a all of God for free-will offerings V l 1100 00 0 00 l oo s e . 35 George y , $ Daniel C Titus . $ 1000 00 3 25 00 John Smith Hunt Archibald Updike , A 1104 50 0 . s 300 0 Joseph Frisbie , John Steven on Hunt ,

8: M u i r h id . . . . e 380 00 C H H P , George Laning Sons , h for 371 58 T e od. . 3 10 00 Bell , $ F Titus . 4 1111 58 00 0 00 J r . 250 Cash , 7 Reuben Titus , ,

Y 1000 00 . . . 300 00 Enoch Ketcham , N . . , H P E L . Welling ,

M u i h i 18 0 2 . r e d 0 0 . 2 5 00 Wm Harrison , David B Burd , M u i r h e i d 240 00 200 00 John G . , Aaron Hart , i 0 M u r h e i d 150 00 . 200 0 Sallie , John S Vancleve , 5 2 00 . 2 5 0 . . 1 0 E M Titus , Reuben Titus , Sr , O 200 00 . c 250 00 John gden , Henry J Bla kwell , l M i i 20 z . h d 0 00 200 00 . u r e B , A ariah Hunt , 0 0 w . 0 R . 70 0 . 200 00 Rev Daniel Foster , William Le is , ‘ 600 00 M L e n a h a n 225 00 John E . Burd , Lizzie , K c 650 00 W Po m e a 125 00 Samuel B . et ham , illiam y ,

a 450 00 c 125 00 C tharine Ketcham , Jesse At hley ,

. . c 50 00 o 110 00 Geo W Ket ham , Newark , Joseph Piers n Blackwell , h a 500 00 n 1 5 0 . 0 0 Wm Smith Ketc m , Joh Phillips Hart,

100 00 . 100 00 Louisa Ketcham , John H Drake ,

. m 60 00 b e 100 00 Mary M Ketcha , Susan Cham rlain , 0 60 0 . n 100 0 0 Maggie S . Ketcham , Sarah S Van oy ,

580 00 . 100 . 00 Henry B Perrine , John L Phillips , 525 00 100 00 Isaac Voorhees , Elizabeth Wiley ,

. 500 00 . . 150 00 Enoch A Titus , J E Parker , I I . 5 50 00 . 150 00 Timothy Hunt, Moses H Burroughs , 500 00 B c w l 100 00 Andrew Ege , Enoch Armitage la k e l

B 50 00 . B n c c 0 . e 100 00 E o h la kwell , John H E ak , 11 3 0 00 0 0 . ck 1 0 0 s . w 0 Jo eph Golden , Charles T Bla ell 300 00 h 100 th ) Ralph Ege , Jo n Fleming , 300 00 l Vi lli a m B 100 00 Mary Lay Hale , . Curtis , 3 00 D . D. 00 00 100 R . ev George Hale , , Hannah Atchley , M 25 0 10 0 Jr . D . 0 . . 0 0 Georg e Hale , , R S Leaming , 126

Louisa Updike , Gideon B . Burd ,

S . Moore Hart, Reuben H . Burd ,

Abigail Hart, Mary Brown ,

Israel Hart , Charles Schenck ,

Levi T . Atchley , Elizabeth Stout ,

. . Ho o ck Aaron V Stout, Wi lliam pp ,

George H . Titus , Hannah Herron ,

Hannah Moore , Eliza Drake ,

Nathaniel Hart , Georgianna Young ,

Edward Updike , Jesse M . Temple ,

William L . Burroughs , Ida Hart,

Joseph B . Wiggins , H . Welling Stout,

Vr a . l M . A g g , Ralph Phillips ,

Hezekiah Anderson , Robert H . Drake ,

Asa Titus Hart , Ralph S . Hart ,

Isaac Primmer , Elias Skillman ,

Elizabeth Drake , Noah H . Tindall ,

Moses Stout Drake , A . Titus Atchley , IIo lcomb e Thomas , Sophia Harvey ,

Furman D . Updike , George Updike ,

WVm . . P Manners , Gertrude Taylor , V l l e s e . Samuel C . Cornell , y B Taylor,

e . Ann C Blackwell , Elizabeth Temple , ‘ M Cle lla n William H . Moore , Hannah ,

Mary D . Coryell , Lucinda Hurley , a Willi m Morris Titus , Daniel Hurley ,

Hannah Titus , James R . Bergen ,

Rachel Updike , Emma K . Titus ,

Thomas P . Moore , L . V . D . Schenck ,

George R . Cooke , E . L . Cheeseman ,

David Chatten , Sarah Wilgus , o Jonathan Anderson , Ph ebe Titus , Be a k e s Isaac Hawkins , Abbie ,

t i t e n a ch . Susan , Stephen H Golden ,

t . . Rober H Drake , Asa H Drake ,

Richard Brewer Hunt, Annie A . Schenck ,

Keturah Phillips , George A . Hill ,

R . Lavinia Hart , Benj . S . Hill ,

F . W . Swan , Emma A . Titus , VV h ﬂ' . . . c o Crook S . Conrad , Isaac V C y ,

s . G . Frelinghuysen Cook , Jame V Wilson ,

P . S . Hoagland , Joshua L . Allen ,

Jr . c . Anthony Reed , , Sedg ewi k F Sharpe, A Alfred S . Burd , J . . Dilks ,

1 t 00 00 . Ju . o . . Samuel R Smith , Tren on , $ Hon T Nixon , Trenton R s 50 00 Samuel obert , Peter Katzenbach ,

25 00 . Edmund Roberts John S Noble , 100 00 . . R c Hon A . G i hey , William Dolton , 1 a . . 00 00 C leb S Green , Esq Alexander Dunn , 2 . 5 00 Dr . W . W L . Phillips William R . Titus , 5 . . 0 00 H G Scudder , Miller , Wiley , 50 00 George S . Green , David Shaw , c 100 00 Hon . E . W . S udder , Charles Baker , 5 m 0 00 . R . s Benj a in Fish , J Free e ,

u 100 00 . E . B . F ller , Albert D Smith ,

5 0 u k r . 0 0 . . St e t Joseph G Brearley , J F , 150 00 Jonathan Stewart, B . Ridgeway , O 25 00 William J . wens , Murphy Bechtel , Gu m me r e 100 00 Barker , In addition to the above there were received by the Treasurer from ’ t h e f c Ladies Funds , from Harvest Homes , rom the colle tion on Dedica

00 . tion Day , and various other sources , E R R A T A

8 for On page , among the Elders John Smith Hart

Tn u w g a mma ” m u m r p a ﬂ .