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Sangamon + state $$ University e Springfield, Illinois 62708 THE BROADWEL1,S OF CLAYYILLE

AND THEIR ROOTS

Part I11

THE ROOTS IN OHIO AED XEK JERSEY

Kay MacLean

Edward L. Hawes Editor

Produced in Part with Support under a Grant From the National Endowment for the Humanities, A Federal Agency

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List of Maps ...... i

Introduction ...... ii

Genealogical Chart ...... iii

Chapter I The First Two Generations in New Jersey ...... 1

II The Third Generation in in New Jersey ...... 10

111 The Fourth Generation : Jane's Brothers ...... 19

IV The Fourth Generation: Hezekiah, Samuel and Sirneon ....27

Y Tne Fourth Generat ion : Floses of Ohio and Illinois .... 35

1' I The Fourth Generation: Jacob of Ohio ...... 45

Footnotes...... 5 1

Bibliography ...... 60

Xote:

The Cosclusions Set Forth Here Do Knt Xecessarily Represent the Views of thc Kational Endowment for the Humanities List of Maps

Page

I Area of Early Broadwell Settlement inKewJersey...... 3?1

I1 Passaic River Valley where William Broadwell Owned Land ...... 8M(1)

I11 Detail, William Broadwell Homestead Area, New Jersey ...... 8M(2)

IT Area of Broadwell Settlement in Ohio ...... 3 6M

Anderson To~~~,ship,Hamil ton County, Ohio ...... 38!1(!!

VI Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio...... 38M(3)

TII Plan of Cincinnati, Ohio ...... 4 OM Introduction

The ancestors of the Broadwells who built the Clayville Inn lived in present-day Essex, Union, and Morris Counties in New Jersey. New

Jersey became an English possession in September, 1664. That month the colonial governor approved the request of a group of men, the

Associates, then living in Jamacia, Long Island, for permission to take up lands in New Jersey. In October, three representatives of the Associates purchased from local Indian chieftains a tract of land which la?- between the Raritan and Passaic Rivers and extended back about thirty miles from the coast. Families began arriving soon after the governor confirmed their purchase in December, 1664. "Following the typical New England pattern, the new settlers established them- selves in a compact town, which was named Elizabethtown. Eac!~ associate had his home lot and a small farm nearby. The tract was called Eiizabethtown, as well, and was later divided into parts of the counties in which the Broadwells lived. WILLZ~PI~BROADWELL i 1689

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The First Two Generations in New Jersey

The First William

Biographical :

l?illian Broadwell, the great-grandfather of Moses and Jane Broadwell, is said to have come from England to Elizabethto~mwhere he was first mentione? in 1677, thirteen years after first settlement there. On August

21 of that year he married Mary Morse who was probably his second wife.

Sne was born September 19, 1659, at Newbury, Massachussets. Her father was Robert Morse, an English-born tailor who lived in Boston, Newbury, and Rowley, Massachussets, before he settled in Kew Jersey. He and his brother, Peter, were members of the Elizabethtom Associates. Anthony

Morse, probably her grandfather, was born at Marlbourough, England, in

1606. He sailed from England in 1635, located at Newbury, Massachussets, where he was a shoemaker, and died in 1686. 2

William died at Elizabethtown between April 1 and 16, 1689; his will was witnessed and his estate inventoried on those dates. He named Mary

executrix of his estate in which was personal property valued at x67.9.1 whec inventoried, as well as real property. "Letters testimonial on

eitatt of William Broadwell" were granted tc Mary on January 27, 1690.

In July, 1694,it was certified that "Mary Johnson, widow of William

Broadwell," had properly administered the estate. According to the . cat of adzLnis:ration, she expended q02-12.5 to pay funirk1 expenses 3 t;p,c clzinc of at least thirteen creditors.

--.? > . \%IL;L;~Y, mi >;;ir?- had beer, married less tliar~twelve years when he die-d, and had had three sons: John, William, and Richard. ?kry was married again within five years of his death to a man named Johnson, according to one source. She may have married a third tlne,for another solirce gave Jacob Mitchell as her second husband. Kothing is known of their sons' upbringing.

-L~onarnic Activity:

Willia~Broadwell was a cordwainer, a land owner, a "planter," ani had 2 saw mill. According to a county history, he was identified ds L cordvainer when first mentioned in 1677. On Juiy 4, 1681, "Willia~

Rrc;dweii of Ellzabethtown, cordwainer," made a deed to Joseph "Ffrazel;" or ~~izabethtown.- 7 In a compilation of occupations riade fror deeds,

~ilis,and so forth, in the general inde3 cf volume 21 of tnc published

Archives of the State of Xe\; Jersey, Villiarr is one of fift?-five East -- -- and West Jersey colonists listed as "Shoemdher," a categor? which included

cor~wainers. Also listed as shoeaakers are 'dilliarc Allen and 'iilliam

6rar.t whose sum,ames recur in connection witti thc Broadwells, as does

thzr of John Ogden who is listed as a tanner. An unnaiaed broadwell is

?isred unc'r-r the heading "Agricul.turalist ," wllicki ir.cludeC farriers, 5 I;!.>sh,>i~dr,~t?~-,, pls~ters, and yoemen.

i~~~illiiirnErcadwell is said to have owned land in 1678 which he had

purc:h:;st.d from Luke Ir'atson, one of the Elizabethtovn Associates.' At

some 63:~:IIC acquired iand from the "Proprietors of East Jersel-," whom he ~etitioned"for 500 acres, was given 250 at 2 pence/acre in Elizabeth-

tn~~Bounds." In February, 1679, about a pear and a half after his marriage, William received a warrant fror the Governor an6 Council of hew Jer'se?: for 60 acres of land "in right of I:k7ift." Fctul years later, on May 31, 1683, his petition to have tht land surveyec and laid off to hin was approved by the Council. 8

The location of these parcels is not known, but deeds give some specifics by which it may be possible to locate some of it. See Map

I. The 1681 deed to Ffrazep was for 130 acres on the EKE side of the

"Rawack" River. This was probably the Raway rather than Rockaway, judgin~by the proximity of Elizabethtown to the Raway and the later date of settlement on the Rockaway. On May 1, 1684, William and Richard beeck (sometimes Beach), both of Elizabethtown, sold 12 acres there bounded on the east by "the street," north by Crane's Brook, west by

Karnaniel Tuttle, and south by widow Mary Mitchell. On May 6, William,

"planter," and Mary, his wife, sold 35 acres in Elizabethto~mbounded east b>- a creek: south bl- William Pardon, de2eased; west by William

Trotter: norti! by Kathaniel Tuttle. k Mav 14 bill of sale shows that

Wiiliaz., "cordwainer," sold cattle to an Elizabethtown merchant, George 9 KvKenzic, perhaps because he had sold their home ground.

On Yay 24, 1864, William petitioned the Governor and Council for

L "parcel cf Sunken meadow on the South side of Elizabeth Creeke next . . Aljoln~r.;: to the house and Lott Lately Benjamin Wades." The Council n~!-iscd tia at the land be surveyed and laid out "to the petitioner or sme ot11er as it nay lye most Conxlenient for, that the samr may be kept frcz, being a Nusance." The date is unknown of the "Petition of

I;; i liar broadwell touchin;: a grant of the strcan at Elizabeth Town Creek upor v:lich the petitioner has placed a saw mill; which being read, consider- rticln there of deferred ti1 another council." In October, 1864, William Line of t11c-- Iforris C.~nnl,~cw.Itrsp~ (~pwYorli, 1827) in N:lp Collec-tions, New .Jersey Statc Historic-a1 bought, from Joseph Hart of Rahway, 27 acres on the east side of Mill

Creek adjacent to the land of Leonard Headly on the north, Joseph

Searer. south, and Isaac kTriitehead and Joseph Pleaker, easr. Two days

later he sold this land to a New Yorker. 10

Although it is not known for certain that William was granted either

the land on Elizabeth Creek or the use of the stream for his saw mill,

there is evidence that he soon either produced or dealt in lumber. In

April, 1685, he made a bond to deliver lumber to Governor Dongan's mill on Staten Island. Apparently he had not completed delivery before he died in April, 1689, as the bond was receipted to Mary Broadwell in 11 Kovemher, 1690, and to Mary Johnson in February, 1693-4.

"AZ acount of Several1 men's bills of Quite Rent" due annually to

coloni,~lproprietors, dated November 10, 1688, listed 31 names, includinp 12 Williar. roadw well's.

--Comnunity Involvement:

Ko reference to William's religious affiliation wa? found, but his wife, with family from New England and Long Island, was probably a Puritan.

There is no evidence of William's having been elected or appointed

tc perform a goverrmental function, but he was involved in the legalities

cf the lives of others at Elizabethtown. In Iiovember, 1681 he and another ran inventoried the k64.19.8 estate of Iiicholas Carter. Willia~Broadwell znl Jocas Kood entered into bond to administer the estate of Dr. Killiar

Ta>lor. who oded a debt to Wood. Wood petitioned the Governor and Council

on February 29, 1683, complaining that despite the fact that they had not

keen pr

t+le effects of Taylor's estate, "but gives no account thereof to the

petitioner." William denied that he had "received anything since Taylor's death but by notes and orders from Taylor during his lifetime," and that he had received only about 20 shillings. The council ordered that admin- 1 istration be granted to Wood. J

His Three Sons

A. ----.John Broadwell:

John Broadwell was listed first in his father's will, so may have been the eldest son. The only information found on John Broadwell was menrion that others had purchased land from him. The 1745 will of John

Ross, Esq., of Elizabethtown, Essex County, indicates that he had bought land fro^ John Broadwell adjacent to land owned by Cooper Woodruff and

Joseph ?lagee. John Megie (Magee) of Elizabeth Borough left land in his 14 1774 will whick his father, Joseph, had purchased from John.

It is not certain whether those references were to the John Broadwell of this generation or to his nephew, Richard's son, on whom there is also no information. Richard owned a farm on Woodruff's Creek before he died in 1732. John, who was probably his eldest child, could have inherited and sold that land to ?legie before 1745. William Broadwell, brother of

John and Richard, owned land adjacent to ~ichard'sfather-in-law and to

John "Magee," SO the three brothers may have lived near one another in 15 vtstern Essex Countv near the Passaic River.

E. Richard Broadwell: ------a

E i o g r*&cal:

Birth and marriage dates were not found for Richard Broadwell. He married Hannah Bonnel, daughter of Nathaniel who was a carpenter. Hannah died before Richard made his will in which he named only his children as beneficiaries: John, David, Lydia, Sarah, Rachel, and Margaret.

A?thoug'r all were underage when the will was written, he named his son

John and his brother William to be executors. Richard asked that his father-in-law "take care" of his "little daughters,"Rachael and Margaret

Richard's death occurred between July 19, 1732, when his will was witnessed, and August 23, 1732, when his estate was inventoried by

Jonathan Allen and Samuel Potter. The estate, valued at 417.19.08,

included s debt owed him bv William Broadwell. Bonnel's will of June

15, 1736, listed among his beneficiaries three children of his daughter,

"Hannah Broadwell, deceased. ,116 No information was found on either of his sons.

Econoxic Activity:

Richarl Eroadwell was a "husbandman" and "yoeman" in Essex County.

His will indicates that he owned a "Plantation I purchased of Jonathan

Alleri or. the north side of the great island by Woodruffs Creek." The

size of the fami and when he acquired it are not known. In August,

1730, he bought a 13 213 acre tract of "salt marsh meadowground" from

Jnnsthan Allen, "Cordwainer and Tanner ." It was "situated in the bound

of Eliza~ethtomin Elizabethtown Great Meadow lying on a crook commonly

called Woodruff's Crook." The boundaries included a ditch between this 17 meadow and the meadow of Benjamin Meakers (Meekers) .

Neither Woodruff's Creek nor Elizabethtown Great Meadow have been

located on maps. The Great Piece Meadow lies south of the Passaic so was

probably within the Elizabethtom bounds, and may be the same meadow. C. ---Kiliiam Broadwel?. Sr.: T~E--second Killiam, called Kllliar, Sr.,

t1.c zrznlfzth~rof Moses and Jane. __I_.-- p-

Eiographicai :

Born in 1682, William was seven years old when his father died.

He may hzve been reared in the vicinity of Connecticut Farms (present-

day Union, S. J., near Springfield) where he owned a "plancation" when

he died. Williaa, Sr., and his wife, Jane, had eight children whom he

naxJe6 in his will. Two daughters were married: Mary, wife of William

Darling, and Susannah Da~7. The six other children, Josiah, William,

Henr>-, Jrne, Am, and Hester, were underage when the will was written,

probably several years before Willian's death in 1745. Josiah, who

died at age 56 in 1774, would have been 27 or 28 when his father died.

The 1755 will c#f Jane's second husband, John Binds of Elizabeth in 18 Sewark County, named "Jean and Ann Broadwill" among his beneficiaries.

It is uncertain wnether William died in 1746, the year inscribed

on his hesdstone, or in 1745. iiis %49.00.09 personal esrate was inuen-

toried by Daniel Day and John Potter on March 14, and his will was proved

oc March 20, 1745. The executors of his estate were his sons Josiah 19 2nd \

IIzonomic A2a.:tivitv:-

Williax, Sr., was one of the earliest settlers in "the vicinity of

tile Turkey settlement on Long Hill." The village called Turkey became

New Irovlderice in Essex County, south of present-day Sumit. Long Hill

ic aTross the Pzssaic River in Morris County, and runs south fron just 2 0 beloi; present-day Chatham. During the eariy l720s, scattered farms appeared in the present-day

Summit area, east of the Passaic River. Before 1728, John and Daniel

Ddy each had bought 250 acres on the west bank of the Passaic River at

~rs~ent-dayChatharn, and in 1730 or shortly thereafter, erected the

first simple bridge across the river at approximately the point where

State Eighway 24 now crosses the river. William may have been related

to these Days through his daughter Susanah's marriage. He is said to have "appeared in 1727;' purchased land, built "one of the earliest" dams

across the river, and "erected the first saw mill on the Passaic, south

of the bridge." Several other mills were built on the Passaic between

Chathan and New Providence by the Bonnel family, which arrived in the

Summit-Chatham vicinity in the 1740s. William was related to the Bonnels

through his brother ~ichard'swife Hannah. "By 1750, ~ay'sBridge was

a flourishing village sporting a tal~ern,several mills, and a blacksmith shop.

The settlement extended about three-quarters of a mile on both sides of

the Passaic. ,121

William Broadweli drew Lots 13 and 18 of the Elizabethtown Survey,

probably in the second allotment in 1736 and 1738. On Lot 13 he "probably"

built a house "by the brook" (seemingly used to refer to the river).

The hcusc was later lived in by the Parsons family, and is still standing 2 2 today. Lot le was south of Lot 13. See Flaps I1 and 111.

The will of Willia~,Sr., indicated that he owned a saw mill "on and

pear the Fissaick River in Essex and Morris County," additional land in

Xcrris County, "Land in Elizabethtown" adjacent to land of Benjanin - ,ratter, !iethmiel Eonnell, Peter Willcock, John Magee, Jonathan Allen, 23 and John Chandler, as well as a farm at Connecticut Farms. Plnp TI

I1n~::;nic-liiver \'nl Icy \Jlirre \.Ji 11 i:lnl Rrc~:ttlwr~ll i)wried 1,:lnrl

Earl ier Will iam Broadwell

From IIartlob Collection ,-ompi lccl from arc.liivr.; of thc T,n.;t New .Tersev Proprietors in Perth Amboy. Copy on dtposi t in Chi~tliamiIistorj(-nl Sot. iety, Cl~ntllnrn, Ncw .Tcrscy 07928.

--Oommuni iy Involvement-- :

Killiam Broadwell was the plaintiff in two suits in the Essex County

Court of Common Pleas in the 1730s. He sued Blith for trespass in 1730 and Hanna Mitchell for trespass of custody in 1733. No further 24 details are known.

Killiam, Sr., is buried in the New Providence Presbyterian Churchyard.

His sandstone headstone inscribed, "'Here lies body of William Broadwell, who departed this life March llth, 1764, in the 64th year of his age,"' was said to be the oldest in the graveyard in 1882.25 Chapter I1

The Third Generation in New Jersey

(Including ~oses'Uncles and Father)

A. Henrp Broadwell

Biographical:

Kc biographical information was found on Moses' uncle, Henry Broadwell.

He may have been the youngest son, since he was named last in his father's will.

Economic kctivitv:

There is evidence that Henry was involved with, and perhapc keeper of. a taxTern. This advertisement appeared in the August 20, 1764, -New

York Mercurv.

The George Tavern,

Near Elizabeth-Town, with any Quantity of Land, from 20 to 50 Acres near the House, well accomodated and in a fine Standing for Business; to be Lett for a Year, or a Tern of Years, and to be entered upon the first Day of October next, or sooner. For further Particulars enquire of Henrp Broadwell, on the Premises. 2 6

In 1767 he mortgaged property to Joseph French: in 1771, to Elizabeth

Tooker; in 1772, to David Crane. In 1772 he took a mortgage on the property of Cooper ~oodruff.27 Men named French and Crane bought land

from or owned land adjacent to that of Willian Broadwell (presumably, ilia, Sr.). Cooper Woodruff owned land adjacent to land formerly John

Broadwell's. Thus, Henry owned land in western Essex County, perhaps from his father's estate.

Community Involvement:

In October, 1753,Henry witnessed the will of Edward Carpenter of

Turkey, Essex County, who had a farm in Turkey and land "over the Brook."

In January, 1765, at the request of the principle creditors, Henry of

Elizabeth Borough, was appointed to administer the estate of Isaac

Livermore of Rockaway, Morris County, who had died intestate. Noadiah 2 8 Potter was bondsman.

E. -I

-Bioyraphical:

Willian Broadwell, the father of Jane and the uncle of Moses, was probably William Sr.'s middle son. He married a woman named Mary, and they had three sons: William, who was born about 1755 and died in

?!ay, 1761, David and Nathaniel. Mary died in 1757 at age 32. William's second wife was also named Mary (called Polly). They had four sons: Silas,

Ezra (Eazael), Airy (Ari), and William; and five daughters, Jane (called

7fanny, born in February, 1767), Elizabeth, Susan, Rebus (Rebecca), and

Joanna. Mary (Polly) died in May, 1788, at age 53. The inscription 00 her hehdstone reads:

In Anguish, Pain, and Coller Groans; My Days on Earth I end. But what is pain, or Temporal Death; If Jesus be my friend. Willia~.Broadwell died intestate in Morris County. His son - David was 2 9 named administrator of his estate on March 11, 1795. - :~;lozic Activity:

Wi?lials occupation is not known. He may have inherited and farmed

sit of his father's Morris County land. He was listed as a freeholder, or land ohner, in Morris Township in 1752, but no deeds in his name were 3 0 located in either Morris or Essex county.

Comiuni tj Involvement :

William Broadwell and his family were Presbyterians. His son William and his first wife, Mary, were buried in the Xew Providence Churchyard.

In i757, the year Mary was buried, William and his brother Josiah served on c corn-ittee to confer with Reverend Jonathan Elmer about his becoming minister at the Kew Providence Church. William became a member of the

Hanover Church in Morris County in July, 1765, and three of his children by his second wife were baptized there in the 1760s and 1770s. His second wife was buried in that churchyard in 1788, and he was still on 3 1 the rolls there in 1790.

He wzs appointed one of nine overseers of Highways in Morris

Township on March 11, 1760. 32 He inventoried the estates of three men:

AbrahaK van Sickle of Morris County in August, 1759; Joseph Osborn of

Elizabethtown, Lssex County, who had land in the Great Swamp near Long

Eill, in F'larch, 1761; Josephes Woortman, Morris County, in March, 1777.

Be witnessed the wills of several Hanover Township, Morris County men:

Johz Rutan, ?lorristown, February, 1761; John Ball, Jr., with Enoch Beach, in April, 1768; Robert Troup, gentleman, May, 1768; Halsey Recornpence, yec.-~zn, March, 1760; Johr? Ball in March, and John Kitchell in June, 1777; 33 Pettr Cook, Sr., (whose son-in-law was Abner Beach, Jr.,) in March, 1793. C. Josiah Broadwell, Father of Moses:

Biographical :

Josiah Broadwell, born in 1717 or 1718, was about 27 or 28 when his

father, William, Sr., died. He married Sarah Briant or Brant. She may have been related to tavern or public house keepers. Briantfs Tavern was at the western outskirts of Springfield, Essex County, in 1776.

David Brant was keeper of the first public house at Bottle Hill (Madison), between Chatham and Morristown, and near Josiahfs Spring Valley farm.

Josiah and Sarah had five sons: Hezekiah, Samuel, Simeon, Moses and 34 Jacob; and four daughters, Joanna, Mary, Chloe, and Esther.

Josiah died January 24, 1774 at age 56. His will was witnessed on

January 4 by Samuel and Timothy Mills, Jr., of Morristown, and by

E zekial Chrever. To his wife he leftq0 from his personal estate,

the use of his plantation, and the interest of QOO which he intended

to be divided equally between daughtezschloe and Esther when they were

18. To his daughter Mary he left q0. Sons Hezekiah, Samuel, and

Simeon were to inherit the plantation on which he lived; sons Moses

and Jacob were to receiveQ00 each at age 21. He wished his "friend"

Captain Benjamin Bonnel and "brother" (probably brother-in-law) Simeon 3 5 Briant to be his executors.

Sarah Broadwell died at age 52, on February 19, 1774, a month after

her husband's death. The death date on her headstone is February 9, but

her nunculpative (spoken) will was witnessed on the 18th. Timothy

Johnes, a witness to her will, stated that he "visited her on the

day before her death when she was very sick, at which time she made her will." She wished the %50 left her by her husband and her wearing 36 apparel to go to her three daughters. --tc onnmic Activity:

Josiah Broadwell must have been a blacksmith, as his will directed ti~athis "forg~may be sold." This may have been his occupation when he lived on Lot 18 of the Elizabethtown survey in Essex County, south 3 7 of Lot 13 where his father had built a house and probably his mill.

In June, 1746, three months after William, Sr., died, Morris and

Essex county surveyors were called together to alter the road to the mill. Beginning "the East side of the River, by Broadwill's Mill, at the going over place at a Road; thence Southerly" up the river as near it as possible for a "good Road of four Rod Wide" to a red oak near a brook, "about South East from Joshiah ~ro~~d~ill'sdwelling House ,I' then along the established road to the road to Turkey. In January, 1753,

Esses County highway surveyors laid an "open road" beginning at the river about six rods below Samuel Rider's saw mill and running between

Joh~Pierson's land and the mill landing, across the landing and Josiah

Ernadwell's iand, south between Josiah's and Koadiah Potter's property and Josiah's and Willia~Pierson's propert>- lines to the Highway. In

?:ay, 1760, at the request of Samuel Woodruff who had the saw mill then,

th? surveyors directed the alteration of the road to the mill where it 3 8 rar through Josiah's land.

By 1767, Xorris County had been separated out from Esses County.

3i7 rebruary 20, 1707, Josiah registered an earmark: "A hzifpenn\- under

the E;ir and a halfpennx- the upper side rrhe left." On March 11, he

registered the nark which had been Jonathan Osbornls: "A Hole in the 1139 Left Ear and a halfpenny under the Right.

"Josiah broadwell, Esq., 11 was one of the "Ratables in the Township

of Yorris" in 1768.~' A comparison of Josiah with the 28 other Ratables

on the page shows that of the 22 who owned land, only one (with 400 acres) owned more land than his 260 acres; three owned 200; the rest 1 to 143 acres. Josiah's land may have been inherently less valuable or may have been less improved than that of most. Its valuation was less than one holding of 200 acres and eight smaller ones, mre than one holding of 200 acres, and seven ones of smaller acreage, and equal to that of one 400 acres, one 200, and three smaller parcels. Twenty-six of the

29 Ratables had horses and cattle, including six who owned no land.

Josiah's 15 head was the fourth largest holding, behind holdings of

20 and 18. He and fifteen others had sheep; his flock of 24 was the third largest after flocks of 70 and 30. With all livestock combined, the number of acres per animal can be determined. Josiah had next to the least animals per acre, showing relatively unintensive use of his land for livestock.

The three Morris County deeds found in Josiah's name were all made by "Josiah Broadwell, deceased," in settlement of his estate by his executors. From these we learn that his land was adjacent to and part of the Great Swamp, with part of it bounded by or containing part of

"~owantaca" Brook. The farm of Simeon, Josiah's son who received part of his land, was described as "in Spring-Valley, about three miles from

Morristokm" in 1800. 4 1

Today Loantaka Brook flows south and east from the eastern edge of

Morristown and into the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge a mile or two southwest of Madison. Spring \'alley Road (County Road 601) nearly parallels the brook for several miles. Now, about eighty percent of the Great Swanp in Morris County is made up of wooded swamp and open marsh. The rest is comprised of wooded ridges or knolls rising five to fifteen feet above the marsh. In the 1860s, "The whole was, until recently, covered by a heavy growth of timber. About one-half of the tract is

cleared, and drained by ditches, and near the uplands, is susceptible of tillage, the rest being excellent meadows, producing very large crops of 'foul-meadox' hay." Josiah's owning land there may account

for the relatively low valuation of his 260 acres in 1768. His or his father's selection of that land may reflect the value they placed on land for the timber rather than for farming. 42

--Cornuni tl- Involvement :

Josiah was involved with the Presbyterian Church at Turkey (New

Providence). He was one of six managers of a lottery held there to raise 352.5 to build a parsonage. Of 1450 tickets available at 14 shillings each, 422 were to be drawn for prizes of from40 toq.8.

-A-niiouncenent was made in August, 1748, that the drawing would be held b>- the first Tuesday in November. Sales did not go as expected at first, but the managers decided to proceed with the lottery and to hold t'tle drawing the last Tuesday in January. 1750, "without fail."

The results are not known. Josiah and his brother William were on

:I committee to confer with a prospective minister in 1757. Two years

later, ,Josiahls 14-year-old daughter Joanns was buried in the New

Pro~lidencrchurchyard. Josiah and Sarah Broadwell are buried in

/&3 Madison, Xew Jersey, cemetery.

Josish was a juror in the early 1750s. In Kovember, 1754, he and

F,obert Ogden were named Essex County Justices of the Peace by the

colonial council meeting at Elizabethtown. He was one among four to

seven justices present at the Court of General Sessions of the Peace at Sewark in January and June, 1755 and 1756, and in April, 1757. Josiah appeared on the other side of the bench, as well. A trespass suit was brought against him in 1756, and another suit in April, 1757. 4 4

It is probable that it was in the capacity of Justice of the Peace that Josiah took steps to ensure the "safety of the King's subjects" during the early years of the French and Indian War. In November, 1755, based on a "petition and affidavit of Josiah Broadwell and others pertaining to the Intelligence of the Motions of the Enemy and of the

Behavior of the Moravians," the governor of New Jersey ordered the muster of regiments and wrote a letter urging the lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania to do the same. "One Saturday night" in December, 1755,

Josiah and three other New Providence men set out to investigate word of "designs of the enemy" on settlements of the Forks of the Delaware.

The next day at Easton, they found people "in utmost consternation and distress" and fearing attack. They had heard that a body of 1500 French and Indians who were building a fort sixty miles away had killed a great 4 5 nur3:~~of people whom two Easton men had helped to bury.

Jc,siah may have been reappointed for tne years 1758 to 1761, but apparently not in 1762. That April, he appeared before the colonial governor and council at Perth Amboy and "Informed His Excellency and the Board that he suspected something Disadvantageous to his Character has beec suggested to his Excellency and the Council to Cause his name bein? left out" of the Commission of the Peace for Essex County. "His

-rxcellency acquainted Mr. Broadwell that the Council Books had been searched and that nothing Reflecting on his character had been offered to his Excellency and the Council." In April, 1768, Josiah was commissioned by the governor on the advice of the council to be one of four judges

"of the ~uorum"to serve with ten other judgesin newly formed Morris County. 4 6 Josiah's long involvement in the legal lives of his neighbors had begun ic Essex Count\- when he was in his mid-twenties. he acted as witness: ?iay, 1746, the renunciation by Elizabeth Sayrc, Elizabethtown, widow, of her right to administer the estate of Ephriam Sayre, carpenter, and the bond of widow Elizabeth Akin, adminitrix of the estate of John

Akin; ?larch, 1760, the will of Robbart Bond. He inventoried estates:

April, 1756, the estate of Daniel Clark; December, 1759, the a32.19.9 estate of Benjamin Carter, including a mill and plantation. He was administrator,in June, 1754, of the estate of David Day who had a home farm, land on Long Hill, and personal property; he was executor, in

April, 1760, of the estate of the nunculpative will of Phebe Searing.

In Morris County in October, 1768, he was executor of the estate of

Samuel Searing of Morris Township, along with the widow, Tounas; Searing had calleC hin "my brother" in his will. He was bondsman for Samuel

Sayer to administer the estate of his father, Samuel Sayer, in June, 1760. 4 7 - 19 -

Chapter III

The Fourth Generation

Jane's Brothers

A. David Broadwell:

Biographical :

David Broadwell, probably William's eldest son, was born in Morris- town in 1748. He was Jane's step-brother. On November 25, 1767, he married Mary Howell, also born in 1748, the daughter of Mica. Mary died on the second anniversary of their marriage, apparently without living children. The following August, David married Sibah Willcocks, the daughter of William Willcocks, a woman who was three years older than he. They had five children: William, born April 9, 1771; Stephen, September 22, 1772; Noah, January 1, 1774; Aaron, September 12, 1779: Rachel, born September 4, 1781, died, July 5, 1794. After Sibah's death on

May 17, 1783, David married Elizabeth Carrol. Their five children were

David, born March 6, 1785; John Carl, December 14, 1786; Joseph,

September 18, 1788; Sibbat, October 15, 1793; David Benton, July 18, 48 1796. This David Broadwell died March 9, 1816.

.-Economic Activitl:

David lived in Hanover Township, Morris County, as early as 1776, and was probably a farmer. His 100 acres of land in the Denvillo district were assessed for church purposes in the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s.

His assessment of in 1794 placed him "among the large property owners of the day." He was listed as a Morris County Freeholder in 1793, and 49 posted a stray in Hanover Township on March 11, 1797. In 1798 "David Brandwe 11'' was a Tax Ratable ir, -Hanover Township.

His wooden, one-story, 28 by 30 foot house had five windows and one kitchen. The house. kitchen, one wooden out-building, and the two acres on which they stood were valued at $500. This was a relstively high valuation in comparison to the twenty-two others listed on the pagcJ with David.

Ali the houses were of wood; all but two were one-story. Iio other had the same dimensions; only six one-story and one two-story houses contained more square footage. Twelve houses had less than five windows; David's and two others had five. Eight houses, including botll with two-stories, had from six to sixteen windows. David and five others had one nut-buiiding; one had two: another, three. All were of wood. David and fifteen others had one kitchen; one had two.

Se\-ent~erof the twenty-three on the page had valuations under $500.

Three, including David, had valuations of $500. Three valued higher

($600, $650, and $1500) had at least one-fourth more square footage, 50 and at least twice as many windows.

The first deed in David's name was recorded in 1800 when he and others were grantors in a transaction with Barnabas Bonghart. In two deeds recorded in 1801, David and Elizabeth granted land in Hanover

Townsbio ro John Hinchman. The first included an orchard, and was on the ?lorristown and Pequannock roads. The second was for additional lan? oil t'~~ehighway near inch man ' s house ir, Denvilie 31T "~~~hrook. "

3enville To-*mship is north of Morris Township. Den Brook feeds lzkes southwest ox the tom of Denville today. David and Elizabeth also made

a deed tcl avid's eldest son, Stephen, for 57.94 acres in Hanover 5 1 Townshin that year. -Commun* --Involvement :

David's first two marriages were recorded at the New Providence

Church. In 1772, he was a member of the Presbyterian Church at

Rockaway, west of the town of Denville, for in that year his land in the Denville district was assessed for the church. His son William, daughter Rachel, "and perhaps others'' were buried at Rockaway. The last mention of him in the Rockaway church records was of his witnessing 52 the contract for rebuilding the old church.

David's name appears on a 1776 poll list showing he voted with the majority for delegates from Morris County to the first N. J. Constitutional

~rlvention.He began as a private in the Morris County, N.J., militia, and became a sergeant in Captain Josiah ill's Company of the Eastern

Battalion. He and another man inventoried the estate of Joseph Hedges,

Hanover Township, in February, 1791. On March 11, 1795 he was named administrator of the estate of his father, William, who had died intestate. He witnessed the will of Amos Lindsly of Pequannock Town- ship, Norris County, in 1796. He served as bondsman for Thomas Tone tc administer the will of Michael Rider, New Hope, Pequannock Township,

3. Kathaniel Broadwell:

-Biographical:

Jane's step-brother, Nathaniel, married Joanna Lindsley, daughter of

Captain John and Sarah L. Lindsley, on December 2, 1778. They had eight children: John; Sarah, born in November, 1781 who married Thomas Armstrong at Xewton, Ohio (the Armstrong family had a grist and saw mill on the Little

Miami River in Anderson Township); Ira; Lindsley; Mary (Polly), born April, 1789; Julia, born 1791: Eliab; Henry, who died at age seven. Xathaniel moved to Ha~.iltonCounty, Ohio, probably sometime after 1796. krften he died there, his cousin Jacob was administrator of his estate. His 54 inventory was filed in April, 1805.

Economic Activity:

Nathaniel owned land in Morris Township. On May 3, 1784, he and

Joanna sold 10.96 acres of woodland bounded by property which Nathaniel had sold to Sanuel Denman, for which no deed was found, and by the property of Abraham Pierson, and Col. A. Dunham. Williarr De Hart bought it for $00. In December, 1790, they sold 19.50 acres on the Chatham 5 5 to 'irax- Load for $120.

- Kathaniel Broadwell was listed among the Morris County Tax Ratables in 1758, as were his cousins, Hezekiah, Simeon, and Samuel. 56 Of the 22 men listea or? the pagr with him, 21 owned land, and only two ovned less tha~hatbaniel's sixteen acres. His cousins all owned more. However, hathaniel's land, valued at 960 and reflecting a multiple of ten, was nore valuable than that of most. Three others, including Simeon, had

iand valued by a multiple of ten; four by more than ten; sixteen,

inc i using the other cousins, by less.

The positions of the Broadwells in the ranks of livestock owners is

s1low.n in thc tsilcc below. All okned more horses than most. Kathaniel ti:!(! thc most 10~~n011nu~ribei- of cattle, but was uncommon in that he owned no hogs. KO occupation other tnan agriculture was found for Kathaniel, bc: wit1 onlv 10 acres and so little livestock, he probably earned his

living in another way at about the age of 40. - 23 - Table 1: Number of livestock owned by Broadwell family members, 1798

Tax Ratables.

Horses Cattle Hogs

Nathaniel 3 2 0 Hezekiah 3 2 1 Samuel 3 1 3 S imeon 3 1 1

Table 2: Number of 1798 Tax Ratables, including Broadwells, owning

various numbers of livestock.

Horses Hogs Cattle I/ Men # Men Men Owning il Owned Owning # Owned Owning ii Owned 3 0 5 0 2 0 6 1 6 2 4 3 1 4

--Community Involvement:.-

~athaniel'sand ~~annalsmarriage was recorded at the Morristown

Church. They both became members there in June, 1780, and their daughters were baptized there in the 1780s and 1790s. He witnessed the will of Benjamin Hallsey of Morristown in November, 1785, and was named an executor of the estate of his "friend," Samuel Cory of

Elizabethtown,in December, 1789. Nathaniel "Brawdwell" was on the

May, 1778, roster of classified militiamen of the Eastern Batallion of

Morris County, New Jersey, in "Aronol's Company. ~5 7

C. Ezra (Azael) Broadwell:

Biographical :

Ezra Broadwell, Jane's brother, was married in 1781 to Sarah Beach. iln Xo~~ember15, 1801, "kzael" Broadwell of Kew 1-orA msrrieci Ruth Hathaway oi ?'lorristown. Ruth may have been the sister or other relative of Sarah

2::itiiaway who m~lrriedEzra's brother, William. Ko record was founl of children of Ezra.

Economic Activity:

Xo information.

-- -- Co~ii~uzity Involvement :

Ezra Broadwell was a Presbyterian. He was baptized at the Hanover

Church on August 5, 1769, and his marriage to Sarah Beach was recorded there. Eis marria~eto Ruth Hathawaq, performed by James Richards, is rec~rdelin the Morristown Church records. He was on the 1778 Roster of Classified Privates in Captain Kitchell's Company of the Eastern 5 8 Bat~allionof the Morris County Kilitia.

D. William Broadwell (the fourth William. Moses' cousin):

Biorraphical:

Xi11133 broadwell and his first wife, Mary, had three children:

Ebenezer, born January 3, 1784; William, June 30, 1786; Baxter,

January 5, 1786. Mary died of consumption at age 25 and was buried June

19, l790. Five months later, on November 22, William married Sarah

Ko deeds in William's name were found in the Morris County indexes.

In Cssex County, in March, 1795, William Broadwell of "New Ark," bought one-fourth acre and premises in New Ark Township on mortgage from Ezekiel

Ball, Jr. The land was on a new road leading to New Bridge over the

Passaic River. The price for the land was $500, due Ball by June 1, 1799.

In December, 1800, the Morristown newspaper announced that the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas would meet at the Morris County Court

House on January 29, 1801 to hear from the creditors of three men, including

William Broadwell, "for or against their liberation from confinement, as

insolvent debtors. ,160

Community Involvement:

On August 9, 1789, William's wife, Mary, became a member of Morristown

Church and their three sons were baptized. His second marriage is recorded

there. William was a private in the Morris County Militia during the

Revolutionary war. 61

E. &v (Asa, Ara) Broadwell:

Biograp_hical :

"Asa" Broadwell married Phebe Munson at Morristown on November 19, 1795

Stephen Munson left $30 and a share of his personal and real property to his

daughter Phebe, wife of Asa, in his 1805 will. One child of "Ary," a

daughter Rebecca who married Ebenezer Tuttle, had a prominent descendant, 62 poetess Sara Teasdale.

Economic Activity:

"Ara Brandwill" was listed among the 1798 Tax Ratables in Hanover

Township as tenant of Cornelius Vorheies. They lived in a 26 by 26 foot,

two-story, wooden house with three windows. One kitchen, one wooden out-

building, and two lots "not exceeding two acres" were also taxable. The valuation of all property was 5350. 6 3

Land transactions by Ara (sometimes Asa) and Phebe Broadwell began

to be recorded in 1800 when they made a conveyance to William Cosgrove.

They were grantees again in transactions recorded in 1801 and 1802 with

John Robinson and with Moses Fairchild. A conveyance to John Martin was

recorded in 1803, and one from S. Morrison, deceased, in 1804. A conveyance

from Stephen Munson, deceased, in 1809, was probably the real property he left to Phebe in his will. They made a conveyance to William Hamilton

Communi tv Involvement:

Air>-Broadwell was baptized at the Hanover Church on October 13, 1773.

his ~arriagewas performed by Reverend James Rlchards of the Church of 6 5 Christ zt biorristown.

F. Silas Broadwell:--

Jane's brother, Silas, and Sarah Byram, both of Morristown, were

rnarri ed by Mathew Perrine ,"Minister of the Gospel :'at South Hanover on 6 6 ?!ar,h 30. 1805. Chapter IV

The Fourth Generation:

Hezekiah, Samuel and Simeon

A. -Hezekiah Broadwell:

Biographical:

Hezekiah Broadwell, ~oses'brother, may have been Josiah's eldest son. He married 18-year-old Abigail Green on May 29, 1769, about four years before his parents' deaths. Her father was Rev. Jacob Green of

Hanover; her brother, Rev. Ashbel Green of Philadelphia. Hezekiah and

Abigail had three children: James, Jacob Green, and Abby. Abigail died in July, 1781, at age 31. Hezekiah married Sarah Lewis in 1783, and they had two sons, David and Lewis. Hezekiah stayed in New Jersey rather than moving to Ohio as his brothers did. He died intestate

in Essex County; Jacob G. was named administrator of his estate on

September 23, 1817. Sarah apparently died before 1804, as thereafter, 67 he sold land in his own name.

Economic Activity:

About three years after his first marriage, on November 6, 1772,

Lezekiah bought land from William Arnes on the south side of the road

from Old Whipany Forge to New Ark in Hanover Township, Morris County.

By his father's will, Hezekiah was to share the family "plantation" with

his brothers Samuel and Simeon. In June, 1776, he mortgaged 106 acres of land on "Lowantaca" Brook in Morris Township, "being land granted tc hir b~ his father." The mortgage was with the Commissioners Loan

Office of Morris County. Sometime before December, 1792, Hezekiah conveyed 105 acres he had received from his father, probably the same land he had mortgaged, to Daniel Spinning. It was "adjacent to and part of" the Great Swamp, and next to land owned by his brother Simenn.

In January, 1789, Hezekiah and Sarah sold 75 acres in Hanover Township which he had bought in 1782, along with an adjacent 12 314 acre meadow, for "450" to Isaac Allen and Linus Condict of New Ark. In 1804 Hezekiah sold land to Jazeb B. Baldwin and to Simeon Briant, et. al., and 6 8 bought from Joseph Casterline.

Hazekiah was listed as a Morris County Tax Ratable in 1798, owning

26 acre,s. This was less than most of the others listed on the same page. His holdings were slightly less than most of the others, including those of his brothers Simeon and Samuel. His livestock holdings were average, but relatively high for the size of his acreage. Kith three horses, he had more than most. He had two head of cattle, the most comTonly held number. His one hog was less than half the others

C,orrm~unitrA Involvement :

KO direct indication of Hezekiah's religious activity was found, but his first wife was buried in the Hanover Churchyard. In June, 1800, 70 he witnessed the will of Elijah Jones, Sr., of Hanover, Morris County.

"Hezek" Broadwell joined other inhabitants of Morris County in signing ri "Remonstrance to the Provincial Congress of the Province of Iiew Jersey

Concerning Appointments of Officers in the Third Battalion" dated February

7, 1776. The petitioners were dissatisfied and uneasy about "the incapacityn of some persons given Commissions in the Continental Army.

They wanted officers "proper and fit to command soldiers venturing their lives in the Cause of Liberty," only "men of Property, Character, and at least of the Age of twenty-one years. No record was found of his serving in the Continental army or New Jersey militia.

B. -----Samuel Broadwell:

Biographical:-

Samuel married Mary Lindsley on September 3, 1775, the year after his psrents died. KO record was found of their having a family. Samuel was appointed his brother Jacob's guardian in June, 1781, and Jacob my have lived in their household. John Mills of Morristown was fellow 72 bondsman for Samuel.

--Economic Activity:

Samuel was a farmer. According to his father's will, he and his brothers Hezekiah and Simeon were to receive shares of his "plantation."

There are other indications in two deeds that land was intended for

Samuel. Land had been "surveyed to" him before 1776 when he mortgaged

50.8 acres to the Commissioners of the Loan Office. Beginning at a post in the Great Swamp lot commonly called Penn's Great Lott, it was adjacent to land John Holloway had purchased from Josiah Broadwell, deceased, and 73 to land Hezekiah had been granted by Josiah.

In April 1789 Samuel, "yoeman:' and Mary made an indenture granting

Pathaniel Hunt of Hunterdon County 145 acres in. Morris Township forG700.

How he acquired this land is unknown. No deeds were found to indicate he purchased iand. The vear following this transaction tf~tadninistrators oi Josialils estate made a deed to Samuel's younger brother Simeon for

105 acres which had been "divided off to Samuel." That 1790 deed of

Samuel's share of land to Simeon was recorded in 1794. The next year

Ralph Hunt of Hunterdon Co. made a deed to Simeon for the 145 acres which Samuel had conveyed to Nathaniel Hunt. The sum in this deed 7 4 wasq700, the same as the sum in Samuel's indenture.

By the indenture, Samuel may have mortgaged the 145 acres to have money in hand for some purpose. If so, and if the 145 acres included the 105 acres of Josiah's estate "divided off to" Samuel, then when the mortgage was paid off, the land would have been deeded back to the 07mer who by then was Simeon. This does not explain why the full

1L5 rather than 105 acres went to Simeon, unless Simeon paid off part of the mortgage and received the 40 acres from Samuel in return.

There were no more deeds in Samuel's name before 1796 k+en he was

listed as a Tax Ratabie in Morris County. Oddly, he then owned 105 acres, whiic hls brothers Hezekiah and Simeon owned only 26 and 20 acres. Of

22 iand ob-riers listed on the sane page, he was fifth highest in ownership.

11,IS 4 land was valued at "640," relatively little per acre. He owned three hcrsss, mrre than most, but the same as his brothers. With twelve head of cattic, he had the largest holding of those listed on that page; his brothers had one or two. He also owned more hogs, being one of four 7 5 men o-ming threc each. His brothers and four other men each owned one.

11, 1799, for "divers causes and considerations," Samuel was living

in ?;nrrison Cou~ty,Kentuck). From there he gave his power of attorney

to twc "trusty friends," his brother Moses who was living in Hamilton County, Territory Korth West of the Ohio, and Col. Sylvanius Seely of

Chatham, Morris County, New Jersey. They were to "collect, receive,

sue or bring suit for all money debts, dues and demands to me belonging

in the state of New Jersey. ,,76 Perhaps they were able to understand his land dealings better than the author. The power of attorney was recorded on March 18, 1800. On April 19, 1800, the indenture to

Nathaniel Hunt made more than ten years before was recorded, and the

transaction between Ralph Hunt and Simeon was recorded six days later.

Community Involvement:-

Samuel's marriage is recorded at the Morristown Church. In 1776 he voted with the majority for Morris County delegates to the First New

Jersey Constitutional Convention. He served as a private in the Eastern

Battalion of the Morris County, New Jersey militia. On March 2, 1785,

Sa~uelwas appointed one of seventeen Morris County Overseers of Roads. 77

C. Simeon Broadwell :

-Biographical -- :

Simeon Broadwell was under age 21 when his parents died in early 1774.

In August of that year he selected Jonathan Styles (Stiles) to be his

guardian. He was married at Morristown on January 8, 1778, to Rachel 78 Lindsley, the sister of his brother Samuel's wife, Mary.

Genealogists state that they had four children: Silas, Ephraim,

Josiah (born in July, 1795), and Lewis. However, the Bill of Mortality

for the years 1768 through 1806 shows that there were other children,

as was probably the case in most of the Broadwell families, and those

children were given the names of deceased siblings. Jonathan died of sm..ill po~at age three in February, 1782. Elary, age 1, "died suddenly"

in January, 1791. Josia died of dysentery at age two in August, 1794.

The next July, another son was born and named Josiah. Ten-year-old

4aron fell fro^ a tree and died in July, 1798. The next Kovembcr,

Jonathan died of inflamatory fever at age 16. He would have been born

the vear after the death of the first Jonathan. In addition to their

own children, Simeon and Rachel may have reared Moses Broadwell after

Simeon was appointed his guardian on January 13, 1779. Ephraim

Lindsly was fellow bondsman. 7 9

Simeon and some of his family may have moved to Butler County, Ohio, before 1806 when his name appeared on a tax list there as a land

proprietor. However, his son Josiah did not go to Dayton until 1815.

Rachel Broadwell died at Dayton on July 0, 1826. Simeon died there in

April or ?:ay the following year, and was buried "probably in the old

Presbyterian graveyard, and the remains were not renoved with the 80 cemetery vas abandoned ."

Econo~ic.-Activity in Sew Jersey:

Sirneon may have had some sak- mill experience. His guardian owned one 81 uitl. John Lindsly (Lindsley) , the father-in-law of his cousin Nathaniel.

Simeon owned land in Kew Jersey, and was a land proprietor in Ohio.

The earliest Morris County deed found bearing his name was recorded in

February, 1789. Simeon and Rachel sold 40 acres of land "on the back and

norti! sideNoi the Great Swamp, south of "the great roadt'leading fromM~asking

Ridgc Meeting house to Jonathan Stiles, Esq.," for3280 to Daniel Stiles. 82 Tvo iinds1e~-men witnessed the deed. Rachel made her mark.

Simeon, Hezekiah, and Samuel, were to receive their father's "plantation." In 1799, the executors of ~osiah'sestate deeded to Simeon

105 acres that had been divided off to Samuel. The year before that deed was made, as indicated above, Samuel had made an indenture to Nathaniel

Hunt for 145 acres. In 1795, the year after ~imeon'sindenture from the executors r.7~~recorded, Ralph Hunt made an indenture to him for the 145 acres fora'00, the same price mentioned in Samuel's indenture. 83

In 1792, Simeon bought land "adjoining and being part of the Great

Swamp" from Caleb Russel. Russel had purchased a 360 acre tract from the Morris County Sheriff at the estate sale of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, who had died in 1791. Simeon bought the 360 acre tract, except for 100 acres he had sold to John Russel (for which no deed was found), and a tract of about 105 acres which Hezekiah had received from

~osiah'sestate and sold to Daniel Spinning, (for which no deed was found). This would mean that Simeon actually purchased about 155 acres; the sale price wasQ00.~~ Simeon's and Hezekiah's having sold part of this tract suggests that it was Josiah's plantation.

In May, 1795, Simeon bought seven and three-quarters acres and

23 perches of Lot 11 in the cormnissioners sale of the Great Swamp from

Zaphar and Mary Freeman for 39.9.5. It was south of Great Brook, Xd bounded on the east by "widow Muir's land," on the south by George

Pierson's, and on the west by John Oliver's. Five days later he bought two parcels from his brother Jacob, forQ00. One, four and one- half acres, 15 perches, began at the road near Silas ~indsley'sbark house. The other parcel, 6.38 acres bounded by land of John Howell,

Job Brookfield, and David Freeman, contained a house and buildings. In

January, 1797, Simeon sold Benjamin Thompson 26 acres in Morris Township including premises, bounded by Penn's line and Daniel pierson's land for

$250. In February the next year he sold James and John Eddy, Jr., the 85 tv: p:>rctls hi had bought from Jacoh for a profit of $91.

Simeor: was listed as 5 Morris County Freeholder in 1793. In 1798

he was listed as a Morris County Tax Ratable owning twenty acres.

Valued st "200," it was worth more per acre than most holdings listed

on the same page. He had three horses, more than most, and one head

of cattle and one hog, less than most. His livestock valuation of q13.i .O indicates that his animals were not especially valuable. His

Simeon made two land sales in April, 1800. One, which was of

a parcel of a little more than two and one-half acres adjoining

Dar,irl Crane's land, was to Crane for $60. The other sale included

hi. 147.-acre fam. and the swamp lot of 7 314 acres, 23

perches. The buyer, Joseph Villars of Morris County, paid $2050.50

for the two parcels. The following fall this ad appeared in the

blorristc~mnewspaper.

For Sale

The valuable FAmI, lately belonging to Simeon Broadwell, Esq, situated in Spring- I'allev, about three miles from Morris-Tom, containing 153 acres of land, of which 65 are woodland, a large apple and peach orchard, with a variety of other fruit trees. a dwelling-house, a well of best water by tht door, a very spacious barn, a smoke-house, etc. This Farn, as to goodness of soil and pleasantness of its situation, is equal to sny of the country. Persons inciining to purchase the above iam, will apply to the underwritten proprietor. JOSEPH VILLARS crane's r ,:rn , in Spring-Valley, Sept . 10, 1800b7

Sirrjconls land transactions continued after his farm was sold.

In ieptember, 1802, ht bought three parcels for $500: a 31-acre

piect, including a barn, a nine-acre meadow, and an unstated amount of the swamp. In 1803 he bought 32.57 acres, and was grantor in another transaction. In 1804 he was grantee in six, and grantor in five transactions. As grantor in one, he acted in the capacity of guardian. No deeds bearing his name were recorded from 1805 through 1808. In 1809 he was grantor in the only Essex County deed found in his name. In

1810 he was grantor as guardian again, and from 1810 through 1824 he 88 was grantor in many Morris County transactions in his own name.

Economic Activities in Ohio:

Even before the first deed in his name was recorded in New Jersey,

Simeon bought land in the Miami Purchase in Ohio. This one-million- zcre tract, lying between the Great and Little Miami Rivers and extending north Irorr, the Ohio River, was purchased bv Judge John Cleves Symmes, a former member of the Continental Congress from Morris County, from the

Federal government in 1788. Symmes paid $82,198 down, and began to sell the land. h%en he defaulted on the other seven installments, the government reduced the tract to 300,000 acres along the Ohio. Before

Symmes left New Jersey, probably in 1788, Simeon contracted with him and paid him for one section of land and 100 acres in the "reserved townships and purchases. 11 89

Thcl first parcel of Simeon's land was located by a lottery held tit Sorth Bend, on the Ohio west of Cincinnati where Symmes made his home, on May 13, 1789. The drawing for 10-acre lots around North Bend was for the 24 "proprieties" and 20 purchasers of 100-acre lots, including

Simeon. One source says Lot 5 was drawn for him; another indicates that the ten acres were "located in the two five-acre out lots No. 28 and

Ko. 58 in the vicinity of North Bend."

Simeon's second parcel, the section, was located for him on February

4, 1790 by Luther Kitchel (a Morris County man) living in Cincinnati. In Warren County, north of Hamilton Countv, it was described as "secticn

20, inurth tow-xlshi~)east of the Great Miami, second entire range north

of t11e Ohro counting frorr, the Little Miani River north." In order to

encourage settlement rather than speculation, Svmnes ordered that any purchaser who did not settle on or improve his land would forfeit the northeast quarter of the section. Simeon was one of many forfeiters.

Jacob Morri~,"a volunteer settler in the purchase," was given a deed 90 to the northeast quarter of section 20 on August 11, 1791.

On Jcinlicrv lt?, 1831, t:oses Broadwell located the third p;rcei, the other

00 of Sineon's 100 acres. It was "double-priced land" in the southeast corner

of the fifth section, the third tow~lship, first fractional range in

thr Eliami Purchase. Apparently a title problem arose which required

Moses to give a deposition at Cincinnati in 1816. He said that he

had been ~ithSimeon in Kex Jersey when hi paid Swes fcr the 100

acres in thc reserved townsnip. h%en Moses wait to S??mnes at

Simton's request, Spines offered him land which he said he had

purct~aseifron, the proprietors. It was adjacent to the land of another

tiorris County nan, four or five miles west of Cincinnati, and not far

fron th~Ohio River. Moses located the 90 acres there and they exchanged

pnFers, but ?loses did not remember their contents or know their 9 1 whereabouts. See Map IY.

Corn-~riuriitu ~nvolvement: ---A

Sizean Eroadwell vas most likely a Presbyterian, as were nis brothers;

he was buried in a Presbyterian churchyard.

He was one of at least three Morris County "Commissioners to divide

1:ind" appointed Xovember 11, 1789, and a road surveyor in 1791 and 1792.

In at least the years 1795 and 1797, he was a Justice of the Peace in Map IV Area of Broadwell Settlement in Ohio

From Henry A. Ford; Kate B. Ford. History of Hamilton County, Ohio (Cleveland, 1881) . Morris County. At the annual meetings of the Morris County Board of

Chosen Free Holders, he was among seven justices and eight freeholders present on May 13, 1795, and one of eleven justices and nine freeholders on May 10, 1797. The Board dealt with matters pertaining to the Loan

Office, collecting county taxes and the forwarding of tax monies to the state, payments by "militia exempts and delinquents," the condition of the county jail and board of prisoners there, and with erecting and 92 repairing bridges.

Simeon witnessed the will of Daniel Frost, Morristown, in March

1783. HE was one of two administrators of the estate of Benjamin Carter of Morristown in February, 1792. He inventoried the estate of Charles

Ogden, Morristown, in February, 1808. 93

He was a private in Lindley's company of the Morris County militia 94 in May, 1778. Chapter V

The Fourth Generation:

Moses of Ohio and Illinois

-Biographical - :

Xoses Broadwell was born in Morris Township on November 14, 1764.

He was Josiah's and Sarah's fourth son, and was ten years old when his parents died. Where he lived after that is not known, perhaps with one of his married brothers, Hezekiah or Samuel. By his choice, his brother

Simeon was appointed his guardian on January 13, 1779. Ephrairr, "Lindsly" 95 was fellow bondsman.

Moses married his cousin, Jane (Fanny) Broadwell, on Xovember 4,

1788, at the church at Hanover, where her family lived. He was 24 years

old; she, 21. Their first daughter, Mary (Polly), was born in Kew

Jersey on April 27, 1791. Their other children were born in Ohio:

David, June 11, 1794; Sarah, February 16, 1796; John B., September 27,

1797; William, April 27, 1799; Charles, December 3, 1800; Thomas

Jefferson, June 5, 1805; Cynthia, November 2, 1807; Euclid, October 7,

1809. ?loses, his family, and Mary's and John B.'s spouses left Ohio

for Illinois in 1815 and settled in Sangamon County in 1820. Moses 95 died in 1827; Jane, in 1836. Both are buried in Sangamon County.

Economic Activ*:

Kothing was learned of ~oses'economic activities in New Jersey,

altiiough he must have learned tanning there. His brothers were associated Map 1' Anderson Township, Hamilton County, Ohic

-, Cincinnati Historical Society

with tanners, members of the Mills family, and of the Lindsley family 97 who were neighbors and also related by marriage.

Moses and his family moved to what became Hamilton County, Ohio,

between April, 1791 and 1793. They settled first at a fort near

Columbia, west of the Little Miami and a few miles above Cincinnati.

By 1793 there was a "Broadwell's clearing" on the east side of the river

in the Virginia Military lands. It was between Dry Run and the Little

Miami, north of Mercersburg (Newtown). In July, 1795, Moses bought 150

acres of land on the Little Miami which included the upper corner of

John Anderson's survey #427, and the lower corner of John Parker's

survey jj1575. See Map V. This probably included the location of the

clearing. When Moses sold that land to Michael Harness in May, 1804, for

$1500, he excluded one and one-half acres measuring three poles wide

and lying equal distance on each side of the "middle of a draft which

leads out of the Miami at a crooked Sycamore on the lower bank marked

M.B. 1898

In September, 1803, before he sold the land on the river, Moses

purchased land on higher ground east of Newtown. It was part of

William Mosley's survey /I1115 (see Map VI), for which he paid

James Machir of Virginia $1333 1/3. The Hamilton/Clermont County

line later cut through his land. Hall's Run flowed through Moses'

land, and divided the east from the west part of Mt. Carmel, a "long,

straggling village on the Batavia turnpike." The village was not

regularly laid out, but developed slowly as lots were secured from farms

there. "On all's Run, between the two parts of Mt. Carmel, a famous

old-time tavern was kept by John Whetston, at which stages stopped to change

horses and long lines of loaded team passed at night. . . . In early tines Moses Broadwell had a tannery at Hall's Run, near the old tavern stand, and was followed in that business by a man named Wright. ,199

In addition to his tanning business, Moses had a farm, and probably received some income from keeping a horse at stud, but not on his own property. In 1806 he advertised in The Liberty Hall newspaper:

YOUNG BADGER The subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has found it necessary to remove the stand of Young Badger to the stable of Alex- ander King, in Cincinnati. Wheat will be received at the places specified in the hand-bills, also at Van Horne's and Moore's mills. Moses Broadwell. Clermont County, March 24, 1806 .loo

Within three years of buying his land in fi1115, Moses began using

it as a comodity. In December, 1806, he sold 65 acres to James

Phillips for $150. Phillips had settled south of the Mt. Carmel area about 1800. He was a miller and mill wright, and put up mills for the

Arrrstroqc farniiy (Broadwell relatives) on Dry Run. In September, 1807,

?I,~st?ssoia 36L2 acres for $91.50 to his cousin, John Broadwell, who lived north of ?It. Carmel, and 108 acres for $325 to Nathan Sutton, who lived 101 south of ?ft. Carmel. Sutton was fron; New Jersey.

On J'jnuary 3, 1810, Moses bought Lot 401, part of Lot 40 in Cincinnati,

frorr Joel Williams for $200. It had a 24 foot front on the west side of

Main Street between Water and Front Streets, and extended back 40 feet.

See Map VII. In Play, 1811, Isaac Anderson built a house on the lot

for ?loses. It was adjacent to the property line on the north; its

gable end fronted on the street; the stairs were on the "out and south

side of the house, I I four or five feet wide. When the stairs were up, Daniel Drake, Statisti& View of Cinfinnati (1815). t according to Anderson's deposition, Moses asked what he would do for

an alley to the back of his lot. Anderson suggested he buy an

additional five feet from Williams, which he did. He paid $40 of

$112.50 due in three semi-annual installments, according to a contract

they signed. By deed, Moses "reconveyed" the 24 foot by 40 foot lot

to Williams on November 28, 1811, a few days after his second install- ment on the five feet was due. On August 29, 1821, Moses gave a deposition in Cincinnati regarding the south boundary line of Lot 401

and the purchase of the five feet. He must have been back briefly

from Illinois, as records of the deposing indicate that the witness 102 was expected to be leaving the state shortly.

In July,1812, Moses paid Hezekiah Flint $620 for lot 89 of the

Cincinnati plot. It had a 66 foot front on the north side of 4th Street,

beginning 101 feet east of the comer of 4th and Main. It was 99 feet

deep. Possibly because he owned this property, he was listed in the

1817 Cincinnati census. Moses still owned this lot and a house on it when he wrote his will in 1825. He directed that it be sold "as soon Mr.

Rull's leas(e) expires or . . . sooner if a good opportunity offers."

He advised that in selling "a long credit be given for the grather part

of the purchis money provided it is made seccure."

The lot became the subject in a lawsuit filed against ~oses'estate

by "Clilliam Lewis (for the use of [~icholas] ~ongworth)"of Cincinnati.

Apparently ?loses sold the lot to Longworth in March, 1819, for $1,350 with

both of them knowing that Lewis had filed an attachment suit against it.

In September, 1833, John B. Broadwell, ~oses'son, stated in a deposition

that he was endeavoring to find witnesses who could straighten out the

matter,but that fear of cholera had prevented him and his brother Charles 103 from traveling to Cincinnati the previous summer. Moses also bought Lot 10 in Milford, a village on the Little Miami.

Hr paid Abraham C. Roll $120 for it on April 1, 1811. It was bounded by Flain Street and was adjacent to Lot 6. He sold it in Aprii, 1816, 104 for $15.

A deed dated March 14, 1818,and recorded on April 30 shows that

Moses bought a three mile by six mile tract of land in Jonathan Carver's purchase in the "Northwestern Territory." The price for the tract of about 11,520 acres was $2,000, which was "acknowledged paid." Joseph

L. Dickerson of Madison, Hamilton County, Ohio, sold the land. Described according to a map drawn by "John Mellish, Geographer of the United

States," it seems to have been the eastern half of a 36-section township called "Elizabeth." It began at the northwest corner of "Joseph" 105 township, and was bordered by "Harmon," "Eliza," and "Aaron" tawnships.

On July 29, 1818, Moses bought 16 acres in j.1115, beginning at a schnol house, from Oliver Lindsey, sheriff, for $21.96. Then be began selling flis land in i:i115. In October, 1818,he sold 21 acres and 76 acres to neighbors Nathan Sutton and Dominicus Abbott for $120 and $1,142, respectively. Also in October, he bought five acres north of the new road near "Broadwell's oil mill" from Sutton for $20. The next January he sold the 16 acres by the school house to Joseph Wright for S45, more thar, twice what he had paid the sheriff for it. Wright may have been the tanner named who followed Moses as tanner on Hall's Run. The same 106 month he sold another 16 acres on b all's Run to John Broadwell for $100.

Finally, on March 12, 1819, he sold 390 acres in $1115 for $9,500.

It was bounded by the land of Rathan Sutton, John Broadwell, Timothy Day,

John hose, James Phillips, and Dominicus Abbott. ~oses'son, John B.

Eroadwell, witnessed the signing. The purchaser was William Lewis of

Cincinnati. Moses took ~ewis'mortgage on 330 acres for $2,460, which was due with interest in three installments by April, 1822. It was marked paid on September 19, 1821. As the land lay in both Hamilton and Clermont Counties, deeds were recorded in both counties, and they do not agree. The Hamilton County deed states that 890 acres were 107 sold for $9,900.

In addition to selecting land for himself, in January, 1804, Moses located 90 acres west of Cincinnati in the Miami Purchase for his brother Simeon who still lived in New Jersey but had purchased the land from Symmes, the proprietor, years earlier. Moses gave a deposition on the circumstances of the purchase in 1818, mentioned in the previous chapter .

Community Involvement:

No direct proof of Moses' religious denomination was found, but he was probably a Presbyterian. He was married at the Presbyterian Church in Hanover, K.J. Until about 1840 there was no Presbyterian church at Mt. Camel, but there was one at Round Bottom on the Little Miami, 108 the neighborhood in which Jacob Broadwell lived.

Moses was a private in Captain carter's company, Eastern Batallion,

Morris County militia, in Captain ~ayton'scompany, New Jersey line, 1780, and in the Continental Army. 109

In Ohio, Moses helped survey a road from "the Garrison" at Mercersburg

(Newtown) to Dry Run, by road well's clearing," and on to the Little

Miami. His name was mentioned in County Commissioners Records in connection with other roads, as well. In September, 1808, a proposal was made for a road beginning where the road to Cincinnati crossed Shaylor's Run, and intersecting the state road two and one-half miles east of Moses

Broadwell's; in 1815 a road was proposed from his place to the top of Denhamtown (Bethel) Road. In March, 1819, a change in the Williamsburg

to Cincinnati road was approved between Apple's fan! and the farm

"lately owned by Moses Broadwell. 'Ill0

Moses "Brodway" voted in Cincinnati in 1798, and his name appeared

on the Clermont County Tax List for 1810. The only mention found

of Moses' involvement in the legal lives of others was from relatively

early in his life. In August, 1798, he and Elisha Saunders served

as bondsmen for Enoc Thompson, administrator of the estate of Isaac

Koe, Hamilton County. 111 - 45 -

Chapter VI

The Fourth Generation

Jacob of Ohio

Biographical:

Jacob Broadwell, Josiah's youngest son, was born in 1766, eight years before his parents died. In June, 1781, when his brother Samuel was appointed his guardian, John Mills of Morristown was bondsman.

Jacob married Jane Williams of Metuchen, who was three years younger than he. They had children: Jacob, Jr., Samuel, Cyrus (born in 1801),

Lewis, and Phebe. Jacob moved to Hamilton County, Ohio, before 1799.

His will was probated there on September 3, 1836,and Jane's on June

17, 1842. They were buried in the Broadwell cemetery on their farm. 112

Economic Activity:

Jacob was probably the most economically versatile and histnri- cally visible Broadwell of his generation in Ohio. He was a land owner in both New Jersey and Ohio. He bought two parcels of land in Morris

Township from Zapher Freeman in April, 1791, for 380 and sold them in

May, 1795 to his brother Simeon for 400. One parcel of four and one-half acres, 15 perches was on a road described as leading "to Widow Corunklin's tan house" in 1791 and "to Silas ~indsley'sbark house" in 1795. The other parcel of 6.38 acres included a house and buildings. Both deeds were recorded in November, 1800. As Jacob did not sell his land in

New Jersey until two years after Moses was known to be in Ohio, he probably followed his older brother there. He is said to have been one of the earliest settlers in the Mt.

Cnr~nelregion of Hamilton County, Ohio, the eastern part of Anderson

Township. Jacob owned land in Jacob Fear's survey jf706. See ?lap TV. It has been said that he bought most of his 200 acres in 1801, 1803 and

1805, after Fear did not pay taxes, for under two cents an acre. He is said to have owned a 400-acre farm when he died.l13 He had apparently established that farm by 1807 when the following sale ad appeared in the Cincinnati newspaper.

For sale.

That well known farm on which the subscriber now lives near Round Bottom containing about 400 acres of Land, 200 of which is first rate bottom, and about 80 acres under excellent fence, and the most of the timber cut off. There is on said farm, a hewed log house, well finished, 40 feet by 20, with a kitchen at the end and a well of never failing excellent water; a well finished new large hewed log barn, with a Walnut roof; a still house with an excellent spring within the enclosure, that has never failed, which affords water for all the flock: there are about 150 bearing peach trees, a young apple orchard of two hundred trees, besides a variety of other fruits, and a plenty of meadow. The situation of this fam, with the beautiful prospect it presents, lying in a good neighborhood, and having 20 mills of differenr kinds now running or building, the furthermost of them not exceeding 8 miles, is a desirable object for a farmer. For particulars apply to the subscriber on the premises, who will make the terms of payment easy to the purchaser. Jacob Broadwell. Round-Bottom, Feb . 9, 1807

Jacob did not sell the farm. His name was on the Anderson Township

Tax List in 1810. His nan~eappears in an 1812 mortgage indenture as 115 owner of land in $706 adjacent to the land being mortgaged.

Jacob was living in Anderson Township and engaged in agriculture when the 1820 U.S. population census was taken. In his household were a male and a female both over the age of 45, a male between 16 and 18, one female between age 10 and 17 and one under age 10. A January 9, 1825, letter from Jacob to his brother, Moses, indicates that he was then actively involved with his "Spring Hill Farm." He wrote that he was repairing his old house (perhaps the one of hewed logs mentioned in the

1807 sale ad) "by covering it all in a new." By himself, he had built a set of corn cribs and wagon house. He also had a new cider house, and had made 150 barrels of cider the previous fall and distilled about

500 gallons of brandy. He had raised a "fine crop" of wheat, but complained of low prices scarcely paying expenses. Since he was not in debt, though, it did not trouble him. 116

Like Moses, Jacob may have been a horse breeder. He advertised that several valuable horses and brood mares would be sold at Round

Bottom Mills on January 18, 1805. 11 7

Jacob owned land in Clermont County, just east of Hamilton County, which he bought from William Lytle. He bought 90 acres in Carrington's survey /)2434 on the west bank of Hall's Run for $292 in March 1812, and 38 acres in #706 on the north bank of the Run for $155 in September,

1814. See Map V. In 1816 he sold 10 acres south of Hall's Run at the south end of a saw mill dam to Daniel Day, his son-in-law. In July 1825, . after Day's death, Jacob conveyed eight acres in /I2434 west of Hall's

Run to his daughter, Phebe Day, for $100. In January 1832 Jacob sold

90 acres on c all's Run bounded by the end of the "old" saw mill dam and 118 the road from Cincinnati to Batavia to Benjamin Cross for $900.

Jacob sold Lot 111 in Williamsburg to Benjamin Ellis for $45 in

1817 and Williamsburg Town Lot 37 to Azel Byran for 20 cents in 1826.

In addition to his own lots there, Jacob had purchased lots 37-110 from William Lytle for $10 in 1802 as the assignee of Bambo Harris, in turn 119 the assignee of Sarah Nelson.

Part of Jacob's economic activity was undertaken as agent for John

Smith, Esq. In October, 1804 he placed a notice in a Cincinnati newspaper that he, for Smith, wanted to employ a number of good hands

"acquainted with digging in a Mill-Dam; also a few good hands for other business," who would be paid generously when the work was done. He also needed "two or three lads who wish to learn the Cooper's trade."

Jacob could be reached at Round Bottom. In January, 1806 he was acting

as Smith's agent to sell tracts of 600 and 200 acres on the Little

Miami which were described as being so many miles below good mils on

the river. Jacob's business location then was "Round Bottom Mills."

He gave notice that on June 9, 1806 he would be at the site of a

new town, Germantown, to sell lots and also to sell or lease S~ith's

land in that neighborhood. Then the following Wednesday, he intended 120 to be at Staunton to offer a number of lots for sale in that town.

In addition to his being involved with Smith in Round-Bottom Mill,

he was president and on the first board of directors of a company formed

at Round Bottom in October, 1810, to sell 1,000 shares of stock at $50

each for the financing of a mill. The mill being built in 1804 may have

beec a flour and grist mill, judging from the need for coopers who would

hav~~made barrels. This may have been a saw mill, as Enoch Buckingham

(Bockenheims), who was also on the board, owned a small saw mill on

the Little Miap-i opposite Miarniville. Another of the board members was

William Lytle, z land proprietor who had advertised to sell or lease 121 a grist and saw mill at Williamsburg in January and February, 1807. Jacob probably owned property in Cincinnati in 1817 when he was listed in the census there. His household was not enumerated, and it was noted that he lived in the country. By 1829 Jacob had a residence in that city on 6th Street between Walnut and Main. His household, enumerated in the 1830 census of Cincinnati, Ward 5, included a male and a female between 50 and 60 years of age and a female between 10 and 15 years of age. His 6th Street residence continued to be listed in city directories through 1836-7. Jacob may have been involved in business there with his sons Jacob, Jr. and Cyrus. Cincinnati directories list the sons in the grocery business in 1831 and as ship chandlers in 1834. One geneologist says Jacob was a dealer in steamboat supplies, 122 but this may actually have been Jacob, Jr.

Community Involvement:

Jacob Broadwell had more military experience than his brothers.

He was a private in the 3rd Batallion, 2nd Establishment, 3rd Regiment; he was in Captain Mitchell's Company, 1st Regiment, Eastern Batallion,

Morris County militia. He enlisted in the Continental Amy in 1780, and was in the battles of Connecticut Farms, New Jersey, and against the Hessians at Staten Island. He was ordered to West Point when

Major Andre was executed. He was later commissioned a Lieutenant of 123 the Ohio Militia by Governor St. Clair.

Jacob voted in Cincinnati in 1799. In September, 1805 he was one of three men whom "An old American Farmer," in a letter in the newspaper

"To the Freeman of Hamilton County," suggested would be a "useful" member of the state assembly. Two weeks later Jacob informed his

"friends and fellow citizens, that however I might be flattered at the approaching election, by their support and confidence, from the office I now hold under the authority of the state, T an not eligible tc serve then as representative."124 What that office was was not learned.

A businessman and farmer, Jacob was on the first executive committee of the Cincinnati Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy in 1819. He and his nephew, Josiah, offered toasts at the celebration at Milford on July 4, 1825. 125

In January, 1805 Jacob notified his deceased brother Nathaniel's debtors and creditors that he was administrator of the estate. Nathaniel's inventory was filed on April 3, 1805. In February, 1814, Jacob,and John

Day and Timothy Day were appraisers of the estate of Simeon Biggle, and in April, 1815, with Thomas and Lemuel Armstrong, the estate of

Daniel Rood. klhen Jacob's son-in-law Daniel Day died, he and Jonathan

Pancoast secured the $1,200 bond for the administrators, his daughter,

Phebe,and his son, Samuel. In April, 1825, Jacob put up $600 bond for

Pnebe who was appointed guardian of her eleven, eight and two-year-old 126 daughters. FOOTNOTES

Introduction

1. Richard P. McCormick, New Jersey from Colony to State (New Brunswick, 1964), p. 20. Hereafter cited as McCormick.

Chapter I

2. Clayton Woodford (ed.), History of Union and Essex Counties, New Jersey (1882), p. 348. Hereafter cited as Woodford. Mrs. High M. Price (comp.), roadw well and Morse Family Notes" (Geneology Files, New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J., 3 pp. typescript) p. 3. Hereafter cited as Price.

3. William Nelson (ed.), Calendar of Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, 1664-1703, volume 21 in Archives of the State of New Jersey (Patterson, 1899), pp. 173, 183, 215. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 21. William Nelson (ed.), Calendar of New Jersey Wills, I, 1670-1730, volume 23 in Archives of the State of New Jersey (Patterson, 1901), p. 61. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 23.

4. Archives, vol. 21, p. 173; vol. 23, p. 61; Price, p. 3.

5. Woodford, p. 348; Archives, vol. 21, pp. 49, 720ff.

6. Woodford, p. 348; McCormick, p. 20.

7. Xote by Margaret Keisler of Summit, K.J. from p. 69 of "The Hartlob Collection," a compilation by Samuel Hartlob, a Summit attorney, of materisl in the archives of the East Jersey Proprietors. Note appeared on a page from the title abstract of land which was part of William Broadwell, Sr.'s, Lot 13 of the Elizabethtown Survey, which Ms. Keisler's ancestor, William Parsons, had owned. Hereafter cited as Keisler.

8. Frederick W. Ricord and William Nelson (ed.), Journal of the Governor and Council IV, 1682-1714, volume 13 in Archives of --the State of New Jersey (Trenton, 1890), p. 96. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 13.

9. Archives, vol. 21, pp. 49, 58-9.

10. Archives, vol. 13, p. 128. Keisler from p. 174, "Hartlob Collection." Archives, vol. 21, p. 61.

1:. Archives, vol. 23, p. 61.

12. Archives, vol. 21, p. 165.

13. -Archives, vol. 21, pp. 45, 165. 14. A.Van Doren Honeyman (ed.), Calendar of Wills, - . 111, 1751-1760,-- volume 32, Archives of the State of New Jersey (Somerville, K.J., 1918), p. 275. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 32. Elmer T. Hutchinson (ed.), Calendar of Wills,.-- . .YI-1781-1785, volume 35, in Archives of the State of New Jersey ('Trenton, 1939), p. 270, w ere after cited as Archives, vol. 35.

15. William Kelson (ed.), Extracts from American Newspapers Relating --to Rev Jersey V, 1762-1765, volume 24, in --Archives of the State of New Jersey (Patterson, 1902), p. 62. Hereafter, Archives, vol. 24. A. Van Doren Honeyman (ed.), Calender of New Jersey Wills, ... 11, 1730-1750, volume 30 in Archives of the State of New Jersey (Somerville, 1918), pp. 51, 62. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 30.

16. --Archives, - vol. 30, p. 51; vol. 24, p. 62.

17. Archives, vol. 24, p. 62. "~ssexCounty Deeds," Book B (County Clerk's Office, Essex County Hall of Records, Newark, K.J.), p. 100.

18. Archives, vol. 30, p. 62. Geneva Freeman (comp.), "~nscri~tions Fron Morris County" (Morristown Public Librarv, Plorrist~m.K . 3.. manuscript), p. 84. Hereafter cited as re em an. ~rchives,vol. 32, p. 159.

19. Wondiord, p. 348; --Archives, vol. 30, p. 62.

20. Woodford, p. 345. Korman F. Brydon, --The Passaic River, Past, --Present and Futu~(New Brunswick, 1974), p. 71. Hereafter cited as Brydon. See map of "Colonial New Jersey," in Richard P. McCormick, Kew Jersey from Colony to State (New Brunswick, 1964).

21. Woodford, p. 345; Brydon, pp. 69-71, 128-9, 178.

22. John Littell, Family Records or Geneologies of the First Settlers of Passaic valley- Vicinity) (Baltimore, 1976), p. 348. Hereafter cited as Littell.

23. -Archives, -- vol. 30, p. 62.

24. "Common Pleas Judgements," vol. By 1724-1739 (Essex County Court Records, Essex County Hall of Records), pp. 57, 216. Hereafter cited as Essex "Common Pleas."

25. Woodfnrd, p. 348.

Chapter I1

26. --Archives, vol. 24, p. 404.

27. "1ndex to Mortgages, Essex County, New ~erse~"(County Clerk's Office, Essex County Hall of Records). 28. Archives, vol. 32, p. 53. A. Van Doren Honeyman (ed.), Calendar of Kew Jersey Wills . . . IV-1761-1770, volume 33, &hives of the State of New Jer- (Somerville, 1918), p. 254. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 33.

29. John G. Wood, "Notes on the Broadwell Family of New ~ersey"(Gene- ology Files, New Jersey Historical Society, 10 pp. typescript). pp. 1-2. Hereafter cited as Wood. Wheeler and Halsey, Inscri tions (Morristown Public Library), p. 36. Elmer T. Hutchinson (barof Wills, . . . VIII, 1791-1795, volume 37 in Archives of the State of New Jersey (Jersey City, 1942), p. 51. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 37.

30. Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol. 16, p. 62. Hereafter cited as Gen. M. of N.J.

31. Wood, pp. 1-2; Woodford, p. 348.

32. "Record of Town Offices, 1741-1802," "Morris-Town Book, Minute Book of Morris Township, Kew Jersey" (Morris town Public Library), p. 161. Hereafter cited as "Morris-Town Book."

33. Archives, vol. 32, p. 339; vol. 33, pp. 28, 315, 369, 438. A. Van Doren Honeyman (ed.), Calendar of Wills, . . . V, 1771-1780,-- volume 34, --Archives of the State of New Jersey (Trenton, 1931), pp. 31, 220, 290, 601. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 34. Elmer T. Hutchinson (ed Calerdar of Wille,-- . . . 1711, 1786-1790, volume 36, Archives of the State-- of hew Jersey (Trenton, 1941), p. 461. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 36. Archives, vol. 37, p. 83.

34. Wood, p. 2. Mrs. Orville D. Dailey (comp.), Official Roster 111, Soldiers of the American Revolution L%o --Lived in the State of Ohio (Greenfield, Ohio, 1959), p. 48. Hereafter cited as Roster 111. Brydon, p. 85. John W. Barber, Historical Collection of New Jersey: Past and Present (New Haven, 1868), p. 376. Hereafter cited as Barber.

35. Freeman, p. 84; -Archives, vol. 34, p. 66.

36. Wood, p. 2; Freeman, p. 84; Archives, vol. 34, p. 66.

37. Archives, vol. 34, p. 66; Littell, p. 59.

38. "Road Record," A (Essex County Hall of Records), pp. 111, 113, 127.

39. Yorris-Town Book, "Reckord of Ear Marks, 1740-1834," p. 12.

GO. Harriet Stryker-Rodda (ed.), Some Early Records of Morris County, New Jersey, 1740-1799 (New ~rcans,1975), p. 65. Hereafter cited as Stryker-Rodda. 41. "?:orris County Deeds," Book D (County Clerk's Office, ?lorris County Ha11 of Records, Morristown, X.J.), p. 484. Hereafter cited as "MCD,I1Bk. John D. Canfield, wo orris County Loan Office Mortgages (i776-1787) ," (Yorristokq Public Library, typescript), p. 11. Hereafter cited as Canfield. Genius of Liberty (Morristown, N.J.), (9/18/1800), p. 4, c.3.

42. See Map of Morris Count\. New Jery (Conuenr Garden, K. J., 1976) . ---. Hereafter cited as Morris Countv M~D111.

43. William Nelson (ed.), Extracts from American Newspapers Related to Sew Jersey, 11, 1740-1750,'volume 12, Archives of the State of Kew Jersey (Patterson, 1895), pp. 475, 593. Woodford, p. 348; Wood, p. 2.

4A. "Essex Common Pleas," vol. D (1752-1764), pp. 91, 98, 116, 120, 128, 142, 155. F.W. Ricord (ed.), Journal of the Governor and Council, VI, 1748-1775, vol. 16, Archives of the stateof Kew- Jersey (Trenton: 1951), p. 504. I

45. William A. Vhitehead (ed.), Administration of Governor Jonathan Belcher, 1751-1757, vol. 8, Archives of the State of Sew Jersey (Kewerk, 1885), p. 165. ~iliiarnKelson (ed .) , Extracts from American Newspapers Relating to Eew Jersey, 111, 1751-1755, vol. 19, Archives of the State of New Jersey (Patterson, 1895), pp. 565-6.

46. F.L'. Kicorc (ed.), Journal of the Governor and Council, V, 1756- 1768, vol. 17, Archives of the State of New Jersey (Trenton, 1892), pp. 289-90, 501-2, 504.

47. --Archives, vol. 30, pp. 11, 415; VO~.32, pp. 35, 54, 59, 88, 279, 284; vol. 33, p. 378.

Chapter I11

48. Wood, pp. 3, 5; J. Percy Crayon, Rockaway Records of Morris County, ---Z.J. Families (Rockaway, 1902j, p. 274. Hereafter cited as Crayon. Barbars Hoskins, "Men from Morris County, Kew Jersey, Who Served in the American Revolution" (Morristown Public Libraq. 1974, typescript) p. 21. Hereafter cited as Hoskins.

49. Crayon, p. 274; Stryker-Rodda, pp. 56, 93, 148.

50. Stryker-Rodda, p. 176.

51. "Grantor Index to Morris County Deeds" (Morris County Hall of Records). Hereafter cited as Morris "Grantor Index." "MCD,"Bk E, pp. 175, 178; Bk H, p. 370. Morris Co. Map 111. "MCD,"B~ G, p. 478.

52. ---Gen. M of X.J., vol. 18, pp. 89-90; Crayon, p. 274. Stryker-Rodda, p. 93; Hoskins, p. 21; Archives, vol. 37, pp. 51, 171. Elmer T. Hutchinson (ed.), Calendar of Wills, . . . IX, 1796-1800, vol. 38, Archives of the State of New Jersey (Sewark, 1944), pp. 227-8, 297.

Wood, p. 3. Hamilton County Chapter of Ohio Geneology Society, Abstract of Book 1 and Book A Probate Record, 1791-1826 Hamilton-- County, Ohio (Cincinnati, 1977), p. 132. Hereafter cited as Hamilton County Abstract.

"MCD," Bk. A, p. 93; Bk. B, p. 16.

"New Jersey Tax Ratables, 1798" (Morristown Public Library, manuscript). Hereafter cited as "N.J. Ratables, 1798."

Wood, p. 3. Archives, vol. 35, pp. 172-3; vol. 36, p. 54. Harold I. Meyer, orris County Militiamen of 1778," Gen. M. of N.J., vol. 39, p. 107. Hereafter cited as Meyer.

Wood, p. 2. "Marriage Records:' Book A (County Clerk's Office, Morris County Hall of Records),~.139. Hereafter cited as Morris "Marriage:' Bk. A. Meyer, p. 107.

Wood, pp. 3-4. William Cherry, Bill of Mortality 1768-1806 (Morris- tom, 118061 1968), p. 66. Hereafter cited as Cherry.

"Essex County Mortgages," Book D (County Clerk's Office, Essex County Hall of ~ecords),p. 115. Hereafter cited as "EC Mort," Ek. Genius of Liberty (12/26/1800), p. 3, c.4.

Wood, p. 3-4; Hoskins, p. 22.

Morris "Marriage" Bk. A, p. 7. Elmer T. Hutchinson (ed.), Calendar of Wills, . . X, -1801-1805, vol. 39, Archives of the State of New Jersey (Trenton, 1946), p. 326. Hereafter cited as Archives, vol. 39. Gen. M. of N.J., vol. 14, p. 41.

63. Stryker-Rodda, p. 179.

64. "Grantor Index to Morris County Deeds" and "Grantee Index to Morris County Deeds" (County Clerk's Office, Morris County Hall of Records). Hereafter cited as Morris ItGrantor/Grantee Indexes."

65. Wood, p. 2; Morris "Marriage ,I1 Bk. A, p. 7.

66. llorris "Marriage," Bk. A., p. 191.

Chapter IV

67. Wood, p. 4; Littell, p. 60. William H. Broadwell, br road well Fanily ~ree"(Geneology Files, New Jersey Historical society). "~dninistration"Book A, Docket #I795 (surrogate's Office, Essex County Hall of Records), p. 137. "?ED," Bk. A, p. 352; Canfield, p. 11 (Loan offices located in each county with a quota of money to loan at interest were a means of financing government in a species-short econony. The provincial g~\~ernmentprinted money which was accepted at face value in payments of debts and then was retired after a period of years. The first printing was in 1723. The paper from the fourth and last printing in 1774 was legal tender for payment of taxes only. Mc Cormick, p. 74). "MCD," Bk. C, p. 484; Bk. A, p. 352. Morris I1Grantor/Grantee Indexes. If

"N. J. Ratables, 1798 ."

Wood, p. 4; Archives, vol. 39, p. 249.

Stryker-Rodda, p. 131.

Wood, p. 2; Archives, vol. 35, p. 59.

"MCD," Bk. C, p. 474; Canfield, pp. 11, 17.

"MCD," ~k.D, p. 474; Bk. B, p. 359; Bk. C, p. 482.

"X.J. Ratables, 1798."

"MCD," Bk. C, p. 456.

Wood, p. 4; "Morris-Town Book," p. 192; Stryker-Rodda, p. 95; Hoskins, p. 22.

Archives, vol. 34, p. 66. A-Combined Registers, 1742-1885, First Church, Morristown, K.J., p. 25. Littell, p. 59.

John C. Power, Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Spring- field, 1876), p. 142. Hereafter cited as Power. Cherry, pp. 49, 67, 75, 85, 86; Archives, vol. 34, pp. 66.

Butler County Tax List, 1806 (Cincinnati Historical Society). Hereafter cited as Butler Tax List. Power, p. 142. "Death Notices, 1798-1849, copied from Newspapers in Morristown, N.J." (Morristown Public Library), pp. 122, 131. Frank D. Henderson (comp.), The Official

--Roster of the Soldiers of the American -- Revolution Buried in the --State of Ohio (Columbus, Ohio, 1929),p. 52. Hereafter cited as Official Roster of the Soldiers.

Archives, vol. 35, pp. 246-7.

Butler Tax List. "MCD," Bk. C, p. 103.

"MCD," Bk. By P. 359; Bk. C, pp. 474, 482.

"MCD," Bk. C, p. 484.

"MCD," Bk. C, pp. 104, 486; Bk. D, pp. 104, 108.

86. Stryker-Rodda, p. 143; "N.J. Ratables, 1798." 87. "MCD," Bk. D, p. 264; ~k.E, p, 23. Genius of Liberty (9/18/1800), p. 4, c. 3.

88. "MCD," Bk. H, pp. 211, 267. "Morris GrantorlGrantee Indexes." "Grantor Index to Essex County, New Jersey, Deeds" (Essex County Hall of Records).

89. RoyM.Robbins,OurLandedHeritage (Lincoln,Nebr.,1962) p. 8-11. Robert E. Riegel, Robert G. Athearn, America Moves West (New York, 1964), p. 88. Chris McHenry, sFes Purchase Records, (Cincinnati, 1979), "Introduction." Hereafter cited as McHenry. "Hamilton County Deeds," Book R2 (~ecorder'sOffice, Hamilton County Court House, Cincinnati, Ohio), p. 226. Hereafter cited as "HCD, I' Bk.

90. McHenry, pp. "~ntroduction," 16, 67, 99, 105. "MCD," Bk. E, p. 464.

91. McHenry, p. 67. "HCD," Bk. R2, p. 226.

92. "FICD," Bk. E, p. 282. "Roads A" (Morris County Clerk's Office, Morris County Hall of Records). Hereafter cited as "~oadsA" (Morris). Historical Records Survey, "~ranscri~tionsof the Morris County Board of Chosen Freeholders Minutes, 5/10/1786 - 8/23/1799," (Morris- to~mYtlblic Library, typescript), p. 43; "Transactions . . . 9/1/1799 - 5/14/1823," (Morristown Public Library, typescript), p. 62.

93. Archives, vol. 35, p. 155; vol. 37, p. 67. Elmer T. Hutchinson

(ed.), Calendar of Wills, ...XI, 1806-09, vol. 40, Archives --- of the State of New- Jersey (Trenton, 1947), p. 251.

9L. Official Roster of the Soldiers, p. 52.

Chapter V

95. Power, p. 142; Archives, vol. 34, p. 66.

96. Power, p. 142-4; Wood, p. 4.

97. Timothy Mills Family Book (Morristom, 1967). pp. 28-32. "MCD," Bk. D, p. 104; "Roads A" (Morris), p. 246.

98. Power, p. 142. Newton, Ohio, 175th Anniversary, 1792-1967, p. 1. Henry A. Ford and Mrs. Rate B. Ford, History of Hamilton County, Ohio (Cleveland, 1881), p. 223. Hereafter cited as Ford and Ford. "HCD," Bk. A, p. 102; Bk. G, p. 175.

99. "HCD," ~k.F, J.L. Rockey and R.J. Bancroft, History of Clermont County, Ohio (1880), pp. 449-50. Hereafter cited as Rockey and Bancrof t .

100. Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette (Cincinnati, Ohio), (3/2/06), p. 2, c. 1. 101. "HCD," Bk, G, p. 320. "~lermontCounty Deeds," Book F5 (County clerk's Office, Clermont County Court House, Batavia, Ohio), pp. 341, 232. Hereafter, "CCD," Bk. Rockey and Bancroft, p. 445.

102. "HCD," ~k.H, pp. 378-9; ~k.K, pp. 482-3; ~k.V, pp. 117-8.

103. "HCD," Bk. K, p. 259. Marie Dickore, ----Census for Cincinnati, Ohio, -1817, and Hamilton County, Ohio, Voters' Lists, 1798 and 1799 (Cincinnati, 1960), p. 7. Hereafter cited as Dickore. Willof M~ses Broadwell, Probate Records (County Clerk's Office, Sangamon County Court House, Springfield, Illinois), p. 5. Sangamon County Court Records, (Archives, Sangamon State University, Springfield, Illinois).

10L. "CCD," Bk. H7, p. 346; Bk. N12, p. 526, Canfield, p. 23. A John Roll owned land east of Josiah's in Morris County, New Jersey. The family later settled in Sangamo Town, Sangamon County, Ill.

105. "HCD," Bk. R, p. 394. This property has not been located.

106. "CCD," Bk. R16, pp. 109, 470, 81; Bk. S17, pp. 87, 264.

107. "CCI)," Bk. Sl7, p. 259; Bk. U19, p. 62. "HCD," Bk. S, p. 508.

108. Rockey and Bancroft, p. 452.

109. Hoskins, p. 22.

110. Ford, p. 223; Rockey & Bancroft, pp. 79, 85.

111. Dickore, p. 84. Esther Weygandt Powell, Early Ohio Tax Records, p. 57. Hereafter cited as Powell. Hamilton County Abstract,-- p. 49.

Chapter VI

112. Archives, vol. 35, p. 59; Littell, p. 59; ---Roster 111, p. 48. Hamilton County Ohio Chapter Ohio Geoeology Society, ----Will Index, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1792-1850 (Cincinnati, 1975).

113. "MCD," Rk. D, pp. 104, 106; Rockey and Bancroft, p. 445. Stephen E. Smalley, Then and Now in Anderson Township (1969), p. 1. Roster 111, p. 48.

4 Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Mercury (Cincinnati, Ohio), (2/17/1807), p. 4, C. 2.

115. Powell, p. 153. Virginia Cumins (cornp.), Hamilton County -- Ohio- Court and Other Records (3 vols.; Cincinnati, 1969), vol. 2, p. 84. -- P 116. U.S. Census, 1820, Ohio, Hamilton County, Anderson Tcwnship (microfilm). Letter: Jacob Broadwell to Moses Broadwell, 1/9/1825 (Clayville Papers, Sangamon State University Archives, Springfield, Ill). Western Spy and Miami Gazette (Cincinnati, Ohio), (1/9/05), p. 2, c. 4. 2 "CCD," Bk. 18, p. 45; Bk. M 11, p. 33; Bk. X22, pp. 310-11; Bk. D 28,

"CCD," Bk. M11, p. 55; Bk. Y23, p. 343; Bk. Al, p. 57.

Western Spy and Miami Gazette (10/24/04), p. 4, c. 2;(1/15/06), p. 4, c. 2; (6/10/06) p. 4. c. 2.

Ford, p. 398; Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Mercury (2117107) p. 4, c. 2.

Dickore, p. 7. Robinson and Fairbank, Cincinnzi Directory, 1829, p. 23. U. S. Census, 1830, Ohio, Hamilton county ,mcinnati Ward 5 (microfi1m)J . Robinson and Fairbanks, Cincinnati Directory, 1831; p. 24. Deming and Company, Cincinnati Directory, 1834,- p. 25. J. H. Woodruff, Cincinnati Directory, 1836-7, p. 25. Roster 111, p. 48.

Roster 111, p. 48; Official Roster of the Soldiers, p. 52.

Dickore, p. 92. Western Spy and Miami Gazette (9/11/05), p. 3, C. 2; (9/25/05), p. 3, c. 2.

Ford, p. 204, Rockey and Bancroft, pp. 152-3. Western Spy and Miami Gazette (1/9/05), p. 2, c. 3; Hamilton- County Abstract, pp. 132, 149, 265, 270, 309. - 60 -

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