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THE EARLY HISTORY OF MORRIS not as great as many who have hved, they are our forefathers, and the work they did for us COUNTY.* merits a grateful record at our hands. elaborate his- ^ It is not my design to write an The beginners of society in Morris Coimty Morris, but rather to ^^ tory of the County of were plain people, many of whom had very lit- concerning it which ^\ff make a few statements tle education. The records of the county and interesting and important, seem to me to be of several churches which date back far toward community has a hi.story which, if since every the first settlement on the Whippany River, be interesting and even properly related, must prove this. I have spent not a httlo time and to those who belong to it. important, at least effort to fix a precise date to the foundation of progress it may have In its beginnings and society in the county, but with no marked suc- the grand drama borne a very humble part in cess. In the year 1767, the Rev. Jacob Green, is acting, and yet humble as which the world th e third ))astor of the Hancver Church, wrote to those who that part may be, it was grand what ha called a "History of the Hanover Pres- old community or acted it. There is not an byterian Church." This is copied from a book in our State whose church in any old county in which Mr. Green recorded baptisms. In a interest to history has not a very considerable preface to this manuscript record Mr. Green nev- the local antiquary and historian. It may writes that "about the year 1710 a few familicK er have held a very prominent position as re- removed from Newark and Elizabeth, &c., and lated to the general commonwealth. It may settled on the west side of the Pessaick River in a Geneva, the cen- be neither aWittenburg or that which is now Morris County. Not long after Phila- ter of moral revolution, a Runymede or the settlers erected an house for the publick adelphia, rendered famous by some immortal worship of God on the bank of the Whippenung scene, the birth of a Magna Charta or the pub- River (about three miles west of the Pessaick lication of a Declaration of Independence. Its River), about one hundred rods below the pages of general his- history spread out on the Forge which is and has long been known by tory might seem out of place or be eclipsed by the name of The Old Iron Works. There was the the more distinguished deeds recorded on a church gathered in the year 17—. Mr. Na- same pages, and yet that humble history has thaniel Hubbel was ordained and settled by the the merit (/f being in a sense personal to our- Presbytery of New York. About this time this selves. Here the fathers of such a community place obtained the name of Hanover and be- -fought the battle of life, wrestled with the came a township, but the place was most com- problems of moral responsibility, loved the monly known by the Indian name Whippenung. loving, pitied the sorrowful, helped the weak, Mr. Hubbel continued to minister here till , dying here they laid the foun- wept over the ; when for some uneasiness between him and the dation s of the social fabric as best they could, people he was dismissed. This church then in blind honest method, lived often a very yet had no proper book of Records. And if Mr. life it, leaving as we now hve and they died Hubbel kept a/iy church records of his own their graves to us as silent monitors not to per- they were not left to those who came after." mit them to sink into forgetfulness. Although Mr. Green began his ministry in 1746, when some of his pioneers were still living, and he *Read before the N. J. Historical {Society, May 20th, 1869. could have easily found the date of settlement . — ANNALS OF MORRIS COUNTY. The unvarying tradition has and given the names of the settlers and many ty ascertained. that the first settlement was made at facts of interest, but it is too often true that to been another tradition declares that those who are near the facts of which history Whippany. and Abraham Kitchel, grand.son of the Kev. Abra- is composed, thost.! facts do not seem of fjreat Pierson, Sen., of Newark, and the two bro- Talue, at least not enough to caase them to be ham Tuttle, wore among carefully preserved. By way of extenuatinR thers Timothy and Joseph is not verified by "Parson Green' for not secunug in permanent the earliest settlers, but this which fix the form these un-merchautable statements as to an examination of their deeds,* removal to Hanover who the eurly settlers were and when they date of .\braham Kitchcl's fourteen years after the origi- cameand what they did, all of which were then in 1724, at least nal settlement is supposed to have been made. within his easy reach, it may be alleged th..t he April 1726, Timothy Tuttle con- was a man of many callings, a very busy man. On the 2d of "loving brother Joseph Tuttle, of His salary was small, and he says this "led him veyed to his real estate in that place. It to take more worldly cares and hu.sinoss than Newark," certain he could nare chosen." His people encourag- is supposed—the deeds are now to be had Tuttle removed to Morris County ed him in this course, assuring him "that that Timothy country congregations could not have ministers the year he sold real estate to liis brother. On unliss ministers would take some care to pro- the 23d of January, 1733-4, John and Samuel vide and help support their own famiUos." He Johnson, of Newark, deeded to Joseph Tuttle. studied and practiced medicine, he had a school of the same place, some real estate in Newark, still resident under his care, often wrote and executed wills so that he was then a there. purchased, in 1725, large for his patients and had a share both in a grist Meanwhile he had a on Hanover Neck, a part of mill and a distillery. Some wag is said to have tract of land which of directed a letter to him with this somewhat is still occupied by one his descendants. Who then did settle first at Whippany, and comprehensive superscription : when did thev settle there ? It is very certain "To the llev. Jacob Green, Preacher, that there had been some settlement previous And the Kev. Jacob Green, Teacher ; To the Rev. Jacob Green, Doctor, to 1718, for on the second day of that year one Green, Proctor ; And t..e Kev. Jacob "John Richards, of Whipanong, in the County To the Rev. Jacob Green, Miller, Hunterdon, in the Province of Jersey, And the Kev. Jacob Green, Distiller." of New Schoolmaster," was the owner (jf a tract of land In regard to his numerous avocations, he which is now known as the Whippany Burying said in his autobiography : "When I entered Yard, id the northwest corner of which, for upon worldly scheme 3 I found them in general many years, stood the First Presbyterian a plague, a vexation, and a snare. If I some- Church. At that date the 'Schoolmaster," what incieased my worldly estate, I also in- "for and in consideration," as he said, "of the creased sorrow and incurred blame in all things love, good will and affection which I have and except the practice of physick."* do bear toward my Christian friends and neigh- to account tor such a man's It is not hard bours in Whippanung aforesaid, as also for the to collect record history which regiect and desire and regard I have to promote and ad- import- was then too recent to seem of much vance the publick interest," gave the described ance, yet it is very annoying that the good and tract of land for the site of "a decent and suit- an pastor and physician wa.>> constant- man who able meeting house for the publick worship of ly those who could have told him the meeting Ood," as also for "a school-house. Burying very facts we b<j much desire to know, should Ground, Training field, and such like publick not have interrogated the witnesses and re- uses." The lot contained three and a half corded their answers. acres. In the deed he speaks of hit land as be- earliest reference to Morris County that Th« ing "in the township of Whipanong, on that I is in a letter of David Barclay, Arthur find, part commonly called Peurpenong, on the Gawen Lawne, to the Scots Propri- PorlK'8 and northeastirly side of the Whipanong River." etors of East Jersey, under date of March 29, It is fair to infer that considerable progress 16M4.
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