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25251 (1) Stiles, Henry R., Families of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut [Reprint], Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company, Inc., 1999, pp. 713-714:

Lieut. JAMES [TREAT] . . . , b. 1634, in Eng.; m. 26 Jan., 1664-5, Rebecca (dau. John & Ann) Lattimer, who d. 2 Apl., (or W. C. R., 23 Aug.,) 1734, ae. 88, spoken of as "that godly woman." He inher. by father's will, his gristmill and Ids. including 2 ho.-stds., in Weth.; was made freeman, 1657; lost his ho. by fire 1678, so that the Gen. Ct. remitted his county-tax, recommended the Town of Weth. to remit his town-tax and minister's rate, and gave him 200 acs. for a farm; he listed as a trooper in 1658, was app. Lieut. 1679, and served in the Ind. wars; in 1665 and 1682 he was constable; 1668 fence-viewer; 1692 on a comm. to get a minister; served as dep. to Gem Ct., 16721707; in Council of Safety, 1689; comm'r, 1693-7; memb. of Gov.'s Council, 1696-8; J. P. of Htfd. Co., 1698-1708; in Mch., 1675, supervised, with others, the construction of a Palizado in center of town; in 1685, with others, received a patent, confirming title to township of Weth. fm. Gov. Robert Treat; in 1705 bo't of Inds. 500 acs. Id. E. of Conn. River; d. 12 Feb., 1708-9; amt. of invent. ??1,235-14-02.

Children (Weth. Rec.) :

1. James, b. 1 Apl., 1666. . . .

2. Jemima, b. 15 Mch., 1667-8 ; m. 17 Dec., 1691, Stephen Chester, Jr.; she d. 25 May, 1727.

3. Samuel, b. abt. 1669; m. 22 Nov., 1716, Sarah (dau. Simon & Sarah Chester) Wolcott; b. 1690 ; d. 1743; he hayward [?], 1693; d. 5 Mch., 1732-3. . . .

4. Salmon (Rev.), b. abt. 1672; m. (1) 1698, Dorothy (dau. Rev. James & Dorothy Stanton) Noyes, of Stonington, Ct.; m. (2) Mrs. Mary (wid. of Capt. John) Parke; he grad. H. C. 1694, and was one of 4 young H. C. students who rec'd degree of A. M. at Y. C. 1702; he became the first pastor of the ch. org. at Preston, Ct., 1698, from which he resigned 1743-4, on acct. of his salary not having been paid. The case hung fire in the courts until Dec., 1748, when a satisfactory settlement was effected - and two yrs. later he made a gift of ??87-10 to the South Society of P. as a foundation of a parish church fund especially specifying that no Episcopalians or Separatists should enjoy any benefit from it - yet, it is curious to note, his son, Rev. Samuel Treat, became a Separatist minister and his gd-son, James, a Baptist. He was an influential man in ecclesiastical circles. He d. 6 Jan., 1762 in his 90th yr.; left 9 ch., all b. in Preston.

5. Richard, b. abt. 1675, in Weth.; m. 23 Nov., 1704, Catharine (dau. of Rev. Gershom) Bulkeley. . . .

Richard Treat Died 7 May, 1712, at Glast. Invent. ??636-02-06, taken 1st July, 1713, by Jonathan Belding, Edward Bulkeley, Joshua Robbins. Will dated 2 May, 1713. . . .

6. Jerusha, b. abt. 1678, in Weth.; m. (1) as his second wife 17 May, 1705, Capt. Thomas Welles, who d. 1711 ; she m. (2) as his 2d wife, 25 Dec., 1712, Capt. Ephraim Goodrich; she d. Weth., 15 Jan., 1754 in 76th yr. . . .

7. Joseph (Lieut.), b. abt. 1680. . . .

8. Rebecca, b. abt. 1686, Weth.; m. 27 Dec., 1704, Ebenezer (s. of Ebenezer & Sarah) Deming, a gd-son of Honor (Treat) Deming; she d. 26 Dec., 1753, in Weth. . . . 
TREAT, Lt. James (I23020)
 
25252 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, Vol. IV, New York, NY: 1916, pp. 71-73:

MOTT OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY

The Motts had been seated in the adjoining counties of Essex and Cambridge, England, for several centuries, when two of the name of Adam Mott, one from each county, emigrated to America. Adam Mott, from Cambridge, called the taylor, came with his family, to Boston, in 1635, and Adam Mott, from Essex, left some years later and settled in New Amsterdam.

It is singular that these two Adam Motts, each with sons, Gershom and Adam, should have lived contemporaneously in the early history of this country, and it would have been confusing had they have resided in the same locality, but, fortunately, they dwelt apart; one in Rhode Island, whose descendants have been traced by Austin, while the other, in whom we are interested, resided, first, in New Amsterdam, and later, on Long Island.

From certain affidavits and statements, made at various dates, of little interest in themselves, and from appearing as a witness, it would seem that Adam Mott was a resident of Manhattan, in 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1647 and 1648.

1646, Aug. 23. He owned a patent of land of twenty-five morgens size, at Mespath Kill (Bushwick, L. I.), but by Jan. 7, 1653, he had parted with it, for on that date, Claude Barbier and Anthony Jeroe conveyed this tract of land, with the buildings thereon, to Jacob Steendam.

1657, Mch. 17. Adam Mott was one of the "townsmen" for Hempstead.

1663-4, Feb. 24. Adam Mott, Capt. John Underbill and David Denton signed, for the English settlers, an agreement with the Dutch government. . . .

1681-2, Mch. 12. Will of Adam Mott, being aged about sixty or thereabouts, very sick, etc., mentioned:

• Eldest son, Adam, fifty acres in land, yet to be taken up, and five shillings in money.
• Son, James, two cows, and land.
• Daughter, Grace, four great pewter platters, and lands.
• Son, John, meadow and lands.
• Son, Joseph, lands.
• Son, Gershom, five cows.
• Son, Henry, three cows and two heifers.
• Wife, Elizabeth, and the children he had by her, the house and certain lands in Hempstead, with particular provision for his youngest son, Adam.

In the codicil, he mentioned: "Henry's three children."

1689 [1690], May 10. It was proved, by the witnesses, before Thomas Hicks, Daniel Whitehead and John Cornwell, magistrates; at the Court of Sessions, Queen's County, Apr. 8, 1690; at New York, before Gov. Leisler, May 12, 1690, when letters of administration were issued to Elizabeth, the widow of Adam Mott, and again, Sept. 20, 1691, to Adam Mott, his son, and still again, before Gov. Ingoldsby, at Fort William Henry, Oct. 30, 1691, when letters were issued to Elizabeth, his widow, and Adam Mott, his eldest son.

ADAM MOTT, THE FIRST, was married three times. First, in New Amsterdam, July 28, 1647, as Adam Maet, young man from county Esseck, to Jenne Hulet, young woman, from county Buckingam . . . ; second, to _____, daughter of William Bowne, of Gravesend, L.I., and Middletown, N.J. . . ; third, to Elizabeth Redman, daughter of Ann Parsons, widow of Mr. Redman, and later wife of John Richbell. Elizabeth Redman, wife of Adam Mott, upon the demise of her husband, married Robert Hobbs or Hubs, and was living as late as 1698.

Issue by first wife:

[i] Adam Mott; baptized, at New Amsterdam, Nov. 14, 1649.
[ii] James [Jacobus] Mott; baptized, at New Amsterdam, Oct. 15, 1651.
[iii] Grace Mott; married Jonathan Smith, Jr.
[iv] Henry Mott
[v] John Mott
[vi] Joseph Mott

Issue by second wife:

[vii] Gershom Mott

Issue by third wife:

[viii] Richbell Mott, born about 1670.
[ix] Mary Ann Mott
[x] William Mott
[xi] Adam Mott
[xii] Charles Mott
[xiii] Elizabeth Mott

(2) Harris, Edward Doubleday, The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., New York, NY: 1899, pp. 2-6:

Adam Mott is first heard of in 1645, when he was of New York. On the 28th of July, 1647, he married there, Jane Hulet, he then as from county Essex, and she, a maid, from county Buckingham. His oldest children Adam and James were baptized in New York. Ten years later he was settled at Hempstead, on the north shore, where he continued to reside until his death. There are several important documents upon record concerning him. One, dated 1682, enumerates his "four sonns by my First wiffe Jane Mott, viz. Addam, Jeams, John and Joseph." The second is his Will, dated March 12, 1681-2, wherein he names his "eldest son Adam," sons James, John, Joseph and Gershom, dau. Grace, three children of his deceased son Henry, "youngest son Adam," wife Elizabeth and "all ye children I have by her."

The third document is an agreement dated 1691 by which the widow confirms certain lands to sons by the first marriage, viz. Adam, James, John and Joseph, being joined therein by one of her own sons, Richbell, probably the only one then of age.

The last of these documents is a release given by John Okeson, in 1703, (who had meantime married the youngest daughter by the second wife,) of his interest in the estate which Adam Mott did give to his six youngest children which he had by his last wife Elizabeth, unto Richbell Mott, William Mott, Charles Mott. and Adam Mott, Jr.

The second wife of Adam Mott was the daughter of Ann, the wife of John Richbell of Mamaroneck, probably by a previous husband whose name was Redman. She married not long prior to Nov. 5, 1691, Robert Hubs, and was living as late as 1698, as his wife.

Adam Mott died probably a little while before Apr. 5, 1690.

His children were:

Adam, James, Henry, Grace, John, Joseph, Gershom, by the first wife, and
Richbell, Maryanne, Elizabeth, William, Charles, and Adam, by the second wife.
Of the daughters, Grace married Jonathan Smith, Jr., and Elizabeth mar. John Okeson.

Adam, the oldest son, was bapt. in New York Nov. 14, 1649. His wife seems to have been Mary, the dau. of Nicholas Stillwell. He was of Hempstead, a Justice of the Peace, and in 1713 was living at the south side, at Rockaway. Nothing is known of him or of his wife after 1719. The only children known as his were Ann, Mary, and Adam, all on the census list of 1698. Of the daus. nothing is known. The son Adam had, some time before 1719, married his half cousin Elizabeth Mott, and was living at Rockaway, but later was of Staten Island, where he was the county clerk from 1728 to 1738. He was alive the next year, but nothing later is known of him. His widow Elizabeth made her Will in 1777 (proved 1778) then of Staten Is. Their children were Elizabeth, who before 1743 had mar. Benj. Seaman, and Richbell, who mar. 1736 Mary Seamans, dau. of Richard and Sarah, and died before July 11, 1745, leaving a son Richbell.

Nothing further has been learned of this branch of the family. The residence on Staten Island, place of burial, and particulars of the descendants of Adam and Elizabeth are much desired.

James, the second son of Adam, was bapt. in New York Oct. 15, 1651. A license was granted Sep. 5, 1670 for his marriage to Mary Redman, the daughter-in-law (step-daughter) of John Richbell. He was living at Hempstead in 1682, but had removed to Mamaroneck in 1690, where his wife died before 1698. He married again Elizabeth ? who survived him and administered his estate 1707. His children were Elizabeth, Grace, James, Phebe, and Martha, all living in 1698. The son James, was of Mamaroneck in 1728, but nothing further of this branch has been learned.

Henry, (probably the third) son of Adam Mott died Nov. 21, 1680, and administration was issued to his widow Hannah Nov. 13, 1682. His real estate was a house and seventeen acres of land at Hempstead. Three minor children were living in 1682, their names unknown. Nothing further is known of them, and in 1698 none appear on the census list of Hempstead, unless the Grace Mott, living in family of John Cornwell, was a daughter.

John, son of Adam Mott, born about 1658, mar. Sarah (said to have been daughter of John Seaman,) was of Hempstead, and had living in 1698 children John, James, Sarah, and Martha. He is traced to the year 1725, and then disappears from the record. It has not been possible as yet to identify a John of Hempstead with wife Rebecca, as his son, although there is a strong probability of the connection. Nor is the son James traced. One James was of Hempstead, whose son James mar. Anna Rogers at Huntington in 1723 and gave rise to a long line of descendants, but the connection with John is problematical. Mrs. Bunker gives John two other sons, Henry and Patrick, but I can find no proof of the assumption, and until Henry's children are known, it is unsafe to ascribe these two men, who were certainly brothers, to John. The discovery of John's bible or family record is very much to be hoped for, and it seems highly probable that some Long Island home will yet prove to be its possessor, and so solve many perplexing questions.

Joseph (probably the fifth) son of Adam Mott, and the eldest of the sons from whom descent can as yet unquestionably be traced, was of Cow Neck, a vestryman of St. George's parish, and had wife Mariam. His Will was made Mar. 24, 1734-5 and was proved in Feb. following. His children were Mariana married Samuel Cornell, Jane mar. Benj. Seamans, and three sons, Joseph, Samuel and Jacob (the last born Aug. 9, 1714 or '15). All had issue. . . .

Gershom, the youngest son of Adam Mott by his first wife, had removed to Monmouth, N. J., before 1685, married. Catherine Bowne, was high-sheriff and member of the Provincial Assembly, and died about 1733. None of his descendants appear later in Long Island. The late General Gershom Mott was the great grandson of his son William. A notice of this branch of the family is in the N. Y. Gen. & Biographical Record of 1894.

Richbell, the oldest son of Adam Mott by his second wife, was of Great Neck. He married, 1696, Elizabeth Thorne, and died in the fall of 1734. His children were Edmund, Richbell, who apparently died soon after his majority and unmarried, Elizabeth, the wife of Adam Mott, Mary, the wife of Jo. Treadwell, Richard, Ann, the wife successively of Daniel Kissam and Jotham Townsend, Jemima, wife of Stephen Wood, Kezia, wife of John Jackson, and Deborah, wife of Joseph Mott. . . .

William Mott, the second son of Adam by the second wife, was born Jan. 20, 1674. His wife was Hannah Ferris. They lived at Great Neck, where he died June 30, 1740. Issue were an only son William, Hannah, wife of Philip Pell, Martha, and Elizabeth, both of whom died unmarried. . . .

Charles Mott, the third son of Adam by the second wife, was married probably not much before 1695 to Elizabeth ?, who apparently died in his life time. His Will was made Feb. 10, 1740 and proved Mar. 11 of same or next year. He was the owner of lands in Cacayas or Kakiat (New Hempstead) in Orange Co. His children were Charles, Gershom, Jacob, Amos, Benjamin, Adam; Maryann who having been first the wife of a Starkin, then married, 1730, Patrick Carrell, Elizabeth, who married a Hunter, and John. . . .

Adam, the youngest son of Adam Mott, lived at Cow Neck. He mar. 1732 Phebe Willets and died Dec. 10, 1738. They were Friends. His two sons were Adam and Stephen.

(1) Harris, Edward Doubleday, The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y., New York, NY: 1899, pp. 2-6:

Adam Mott is first heard of in 1645, when he was of New York. On the 28th of July, 1647, he married there, Jane Hulet, he then as from county Essex, and she, a maid, from county Buckingham. His oldest children Adam and James were baptized in New York. Ten years later he was settled at Hempstead, on the north shore, where he continued to reside until his death. There are several important documents upon record concerning him. One, dated 1682, enumerates his "four sonns by my First wiffe Jane Mott, viz. Addam, Jeams, John and Joseph." The second is his Will, dated March 12, 1681-2, wherein he names his "eldest son Adam," sons James, John, Joseph and Gershom, dau. Grace, three children of his deceased son Henry, "youngest son Adam," wife Elizabeth and "all ye children I have by her."

The third document is an agreement dated 1691 by which the widow confirms certain lands to sons by the first marriage, viz. Adam, James, John and Joseph, being joined therein by one of her own sons, Richbell, probably the only one then of age.

The last of these documents is a release given by John Okeson, in 1703, (who had meantime married the youngest daughter by the second wife,) of his interest in the estate which Adam Mott did give to his six youngest children which he had by his last wife Elizabeth, unto Richbell Mott, William Mott, Charles Mott. and Adam Mott, Jr.

The second wife of Adam Mott was the daughter of Ann, the wife of John Richbell of Mamaroneck, probably by a previous husband whose name was Redman. She married not long prior to Nov. 5, 1691, Robert Hubs, and was living as late as 1698, as his wife.

Adam Mott died probably a little while before Apr. 5, 1690.

His children were:

Adam, James, Henry, Grace, John, Joseph, Gershom, by the first wife, and
Richbell, Maryanne, Elizabeth, William, Charles, and Adam, by the second wife.
Of the daughters, Grace married Jonathan Smith, Jr., and Elizabeth mar. John Okeson.

Adam, the oldest son, was bapt. in New York Nov. 14, 1649. His wife seems to have been Mary, the dau. of Nicholas Stillwell. He was of Hempstead, a Justice of the Peace, and in 1713 was living at the south side, at Rockaway. Nothing is known of him or of his wife after 1719. The only children known as his were Ann, Mary, and Adam, all on the census list of 1698. Of the daus. nothing is known. The son Adam had, some time before 1719, married his half cousin Elizabeth Mott, and was living at Rockaway, but later was of Staten Island, where he was the county clerk from 1728 to 1738. He was alive the next year, but nothing later is known of him. His widow Elizabeth made her Will in 1777 (proved 1778) then of Staten Is. Their children were Elizabeth, who before 1743 had mar. Benj. Seaman, and Richbell, who mar. 1736 Mary Seamans, dau. of Richard and Sarah, and died before July 11, 1745, leaving a son Richbell.

Nothing further has been learned of this branch of the family. The residence on Staten Island, place of burial, and particulars of the descendants of Adam and Elizabeth are much desired.

James, the second son of Adam, was bapt. in New York Oct. 15, 1651. A license was granted Sep. 5, 1670 for his marriage to Mary Redman, the daughter-in-law (step-daughter) of John Richbell. He was living at Hempstead in 1682, but had removed to Mamaroneck in 1690, where his wife died before 1698. He married again Elizabeth ? who survived him and administered his estate 1707. His children were Elizabeth, Grace, James, Phebe, and Martha, all living in 1698. The son James, was of Mamaroneck in 1728, but nothing further of this branch has been learned.

Henry, (probably the third) son of Adam Mott died Nov. 21, 1680, and administration was issued to his widow Hannah Nov. 13, 1682. His real estate was a house and seventeen acres of land at Hempstead. Three minor children were living in 1682, their names unknown. Nothing further is known of them, and in 1698 none appear on the census list of Hempstead, unless the Grace Mott, living in family of John Cornwell, was a daughter.

John, son of Adam Mott, born about 1658, mar. Sarah (said to have been daughter of John Seaman,) was of Hempstead, and had living in 1698 children John, James, Sarah, and Martha. He is traced to the year 1725, and then disappears from the record. It has not been possible as yet to identify a John of Hempstead with wife Rebecca, as his son, although there is a strong probability of the connection. Nor is the son James traced. One James was of Hempstead, whose son James mar. Anna Rogers at Huntington in 1723 and gave rise to a long line of descendants, but the connection with John is problematical. Mrs. Bunker gives John two other sons, Henry and Patrick, but I can find no proof of the assumption, and until Henry's children are known, it is unsafe to ascribe these two men, who were certainly brothers, to John. The discovery of John's bible or family record is very much to be hoped for, and it seems highly probable that some Long Island home will yet prove to be its possessor, and so solve many perplexing questions.

Joseph (probably the fifth) son of Adam Mott, and the eldest of the sons from whom descent can as yet unquestionably be traced, was of Cow Neck, a vestryman of St. George's parish, and had wife Mariam. His Will was made Mar. 24, 1734-5 and was proved in Feb. following. His children were Mariana married Samuel Cornell, Jane mar. Benj. Seamans, and three sons, Joseph, Samuel and Jacob (the last born Aug. 9, 1714 or '15). All had issue. . . .

Gershom, the youngest son of Adam Mott by his first wife, had removed to Monmouth, N. J., before 1685, married. Catherine Bowne, was high-sheriff and member of the Provincial Assembly, and died about 1733. None of his descendants appear later in Long Island. The late General Gershom Mott was the great grandson of his son William. A notice of this branch of the family is in the N. Y. Gen. & Biographical Record of 1894.

Richbell, the oldest son of Adam Mott by his second wife, was of Great Neck. He married, 1696, Elizabeth Thorne, and died in the fall of 1734. His children were Edmund, Richbell, who apparently died soon after his majority and unmarried, Elizabeth, the wife of Adam Mott, Mary, the wife of Jo. Treadwell, Richard, Ann, the wife successively of Daniel Kissam and Jotham Townsend, Jemima, wife of Stephen Wood, Kezia, wife of John Jackson, and Deborah, wife of Joseph Mott. . . .

William Mott, the second son of Adam by the second wife, was born Jan. 20, 1674. His wife was Hannah Ferris. They lived at Great Neck, where he died June 30, 1740. Issue were an only son William, Hannah, wife of Philip Pell, Martha, and Elizabeth, both of whom died unmarried. . . .

Charles Mott, the third son of Adam by the second wife, was married probably not much before 1695 to Elizabeth ?, who apparently died in his life time. His Will was made Feb. 10, 1740 and proved Mar. 11 of same or next year. He was the owner of lands in Cacayas or Kakiat (New Hempstead) in Orange Co. His children were Charles, Gershom, Jacob, Amos, Benjamin, Adam; Maryann who having been first the wife of a Starkin, then married, 1730, Patrick Carrell, Elizabeth, who married a Hunter, and John. . . .

Adam, the youngest son of Adam Mott, lived at Cow Neck. He mar. 1732 Phebe Willets and died Dec. 10, 1738. They were Friends. His two sons were Adam and Stephen.

(3) Harris, Edward Doubleday, "Adam Mott of Staten Island," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 45 (1914), p. 117:

Heretofore but little has been published concerning the elder branch of the ADAM MOTT family of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. The patriarch had, as is abundantly established by contemporaneous documents, two sons bearing his own name, Adam, the eldest of the children, who was baptized in the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, 14 Nov., 1649, and Adam, the youngest, who was born at Cow Neck, 20 Aug., 1680, as the bible record reads, "at 1 P. M."
 
MOTT, Adam I (I27785)
 
25253 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany — Early Settlers of New Jersey and their Descendants, Vol. III, New York, NY, pp. 42-43:

--- BOWNE, daughter of William Bowne, I, married --- Mott.

While the name of this daughter is unknown; yet the following quotation establishes, beyond dubiety, her existence:

"Gershom moot soon of ye deseased John Bowne sister."

This memorandum occurs twice among the Mott papers, at Cherry Hall, Matawan, N. J., in old documents dated 1684 and 1686, relating to the settlement of the estate of John Bowne.

It would seem from the fact that Gershom Mott was taken into the family of his uncle, John Bowne, and treated in his will with the same liberality as his child, that his mother had died while was still young, and probably left no other issue. She was doubtless the second of the three wives of Adam Mott, of Hempstead, L. I.
 
BOWNE, --- (I48916)
 
25254 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 262. According to this source, at the time of James' death, he was "aged 81 yrs., 3 mos. & a few days" at the time of his death on 9 November 1789, and his death is listed in a record of the Baptist Church, Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ.

(2) www.findagrave.com:

James Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Unknown

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Leigh Miller
Record added: Aug 15, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57117645

[Note by compiler: Since no birth or death dates are listed in this burial record, the compiler is not certain that this burial record relates to the James FROST who died on 9 November 1789.] 
FROST, James (I30207)
 
25255 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 262. According to this source, Benjamin was "near 4 score years" of age at the time of his baptism.

(2) Note by compiler: There are three populated places named Middletown in NJ: in Cape May, Morris and Monmouth Counties. 
FROST, Benjamin (I30206)
 
25256 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 282. According to this source, Sisera Ann was "aged 25 years, 8 months, 9 days" at the time of her death on 18 March 1831. Based on this information, the compiler has calculated Sisera Ann's birth date to have been 9 July 1805.

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Sisera Ann Murray Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: 1831

Frost, Sisera Ann (wife of Joseph Frost / daughter ofWilliam and Anna Murray) ~ died 1831 (prior work lists "died Mar 18, 1831, aged 25 years, 8 months, 9 days") ~

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Bev
Record added: Jun 30, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9017953 
MURRAY, Sisera Ann (I30209)
 
25257 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 282. According to this source, William M. was "aged 36 years, 4 days" at the time of his death on 4 December 1856. Based on this information, the compiler has calculated William M.'s birth date to have been 30 November 1820.
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William M. Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Nov. 4, 1856

Frost, William M. (son of Joseph & Sicera Ann) ~ died Dec 4, 1856 (prior work lists "aged 36 months, 4 days") ~

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Bev
Record added: Jun 30, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9017954 
FROST, William M. (I30212)
 
25258 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Ann, daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Frost, died Jan. 24, 1842, aged 15 years, 3 months, 13 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated Ann's birth date to have been 11 October 1826.]
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Ann Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Jan. 24, 1842

Inscription: 15 years - 3 months - 13 days; Daughter of Ben & Sarah Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306377 
FROST, Ann (I30225)
 
25259 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Benjamin, son of Benjamin and Sarah Frost, born Nov. 10, 1830; died Dec. 23, 1874.

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Benjamin Frost
Birth: Nov. 10, 1830
Death: Dec. 23, 1874

Son of Benjamin & Sarah Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Leigh Miller
Record added: Aug 17, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 57251278 
FROST, Benjamin (I30227)
 
25260 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Caroline, daughter of do. [Benjamin and Sarah Frost], died May 7, 1858, aged 19 years, 8 months, 3 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated Caroline's birth date to have been 04 September 1838.]

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Caroline Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: May 7, 1858

Frost, Caroline (daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Frost ~ died May 7, 1858, aged 19 years, 8 months, 3 days ~

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Bev
Record added: Jun 30, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9017940 
FROST, Caroline (I30230)
 
25261 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

James H., daughter of do. [James and Sarah F. Frost], died Sept. 16, 1828, aged 9 months, 18 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated James H.'s birth date to have been 29 November 1827.]

(2) www.findagrave.com:

James H. Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Sep. 16, 1828

Inscription: Son of James & Sarah F. Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306278 
FROST, James H. (I30214)
 
25262 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

John H. Frost, son of do. [Benjamin and Sarah Frost], died March 24, 1852, aged 23 years, 7 months, 9 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated John's birth date to have been 12 August 1828.]

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John H. Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Mar. 24, 1852

Inscription: 23 years - 7 months - 9 days; Son of Ben & Sarah Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306380 
FROST, John H. (I30226)
 
25263 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

John S., son of James and Sarah F. Frost, died June 2, 1868, aged 37 years, 3 months, 23 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated John S.'s birth date to have been 10 February 1831.]

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John S. Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Jun. 2, 1868

Inscription: 37 years - 3 months - 23 days; Son of James & Sarah F. Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306381 
FROST, John S. (I30215)
 
25264 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Lydia, daughter of do. [Benjamin and Sarah Frost], died Feb. 4, 1835, aged 2 years, 5 months, 12 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated Lydia's birth date to have been 23 August 1832.]

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Lydia Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Feb. 4, 1835

Inscription: 2 years - 3 months - 12 days; Daughter of Ben & Sarah Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306281 
FROST, Lydia (I30228)
 
25265 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Lydia, daughter of do. [James and Sarah F. Frost], died March 23, 1857, 1 year, 3 months, 2 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated Lydia's birth date to have been 21 December 1855.]

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Lydia Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Mar. 23, 1857

Inscription: 1 years - 3 months - 2 days; Daughter of James & Sarah F. Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306282 
FROST, Lydia (I30216)
 
25266 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Rachel, daughter of do. [Benjamin and Sarah Frost], died Oct. 11, 1837, aged 3 years, 14 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated Rachel's birth date to have been 11 August 1833.]

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Rachel Frost
Birth: Unknown
Death: Oct. 11, 1837

Inscription: 3 years old; Daughter of Ben & Sarah Frost

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: thom healy
Record added: Jan 03, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 46306384 
FROST, Rachel (I30229)
 
25267 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 283:

Sarah, wife of James Frost, died March 2, 1865, aged 55 years, 10 months, 14 days.

[Note by compiler: Based on the information set forth above, the compiler has calculated Sarah's birth date to have been 16 April 1809.]

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Birth: Unknown
Death: Mar. 2, 1865

Frost, Sarah (wife of James Frost) ~ died Mar 2, 1865, aged 55 years, 10 months, 14 days ~

Burial: Middletown Baptist Churchyard, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Bev
Record added: Jun 30, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9017947 
HOPPING, Sarah (I30213)
 
25268 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. II, New York, NY: 1906, p. 89. FROST, Samuel (I30205)
 
25269 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, Vol. IV, New York, NY: 1903, p. 314:

ESTHER STOUT, daughter of Jonathan Stout, . . . married, first, Mr. Frost, and second, Mr. Hedden.

There was a James Frost, Esq., born Jan. 1, 1769; died Mch. 23, 1821, with wife, Lydia, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia (Crawford-Compton) Morris, who died, Nov. 23, 1863, aged ninety years, nine months and twenty-eight days, who had three children, Rachel, Eliza Ann, and Caroline. This James Frost, Esq., may have been a son of Esther by her first husband.

By Mr. Hedden, she probably had Jonathan Hedden, born Jan. 31, 1780; died Apr. 15, 1882, who married Mary _____, born Aug. 5, 1791, and died Apr. 28, 1847. They had a daughter, Esther Hedden, who died, Nov. 23, 1843, aged 21 years and 6 months, and a daughter, Caroline Hedden , born Sept. 11, 1829; died Nov. 29, 1841. 
STOUT, Esther (I29627)
 
25270 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, Vol. IV, New York, NY: 1903, pp. 310-311:

DR. JONATHAN STOUT, son of Richard Stout, Esq., . . . was born Mch. 26, 1702; died, Apr. 27, 1773, aged 71, 1, 1; buried in the Old Presbyterian Churchyard, Middletown, N. J.; married Leah, daughter of Amos and Hannah (Mills) White, prior to 12 mo., 27, 1728-9, since Amos White, in his will of that date, calls him son-in-law. Leah White, his wife, was born in 1704, and was living at the date of his will, 1773. Both Jonathan Stout and his wife, Leah, were baptized, at Shrewsbury, N. J., in 1759. She must have been the mother of all of his children.

1729, Aug. 6. He recorded his cattle-mark, which passed to his son, Peter, in 1775, thence to Peter 's brother, Abraham, in 1789, and then, in 1834, to Esther and Mary, daughters of Abraham Stout, and finally, in 1854, to William Carhart .

1773, Oct. 13. Jonathan Stout made his will, which was proved Apr. 1, 1775, which seems from the inscription on his tombstone, to be an erroneous date, and in which he mentioned:

Wife, Leah.

Son, Richard; land adjacent Edward Burrowes and Andrew Layton.

Second son, Jonathan; land adjacent Edward Taylor and widow Mary Stout.

Third son, Peter.

Fourth son, Jehu.

Fifth son, Abram.

Daughter, Esther Stout.

Daughter, Rebecca.

Grandchildren, Leah Benjamin and Stout Benjamin, not 21 years.

Four daughters, Leah, Esther, Rachel and Rebecca .

Executors: sons, Peter and Abram.

He was a man of considerable wealth, and made liberal provision for all of his family.

His children were also legatees in the will of their uncle, Zephaniah White, who died in 1758. (Amos White married Hannah Mills. In his will, of 1728, he appoints his son-in-law, Jonathan Stout, an executor. Amos White had children: Zephaniah White, who died in 1758; Amos White, Andrew White, Avis White, who married John Fisher, Hannah White, who married William Layton, and Leah White, who married Jonathan Stout. Zephaniah White, who died in 1758, alludes to his nephews and nieces, as cousins, the oldtime phraseology for that kindred. They were Leah Stout, deceased cousin Hannah Stout, Richard Stout, Jonathan Stout, Jr., Mary Stout, Hester Stout, the other children of Jonathan Stout, for some reason, were omitted.)

Issue [not listed in age order] . . .

[i] Richard Stout, born 1728; died 1807; was a legatee in the will of his uncle, Zephaniah White, in 1758. . . .

[ii] Jonathan Stout; living, as Jonathan Stout, Jr., in 1758, and a legatee in the will of his uncle, Zephaniah White. . . .

[iii] Jehu Stout; not mentioned, in 1758, in the will of Zephaniah White. . . .

[iv] Peter Stout, born 1734[?]; died 1828; not mentioned in the will of Zephaniah White, in 1758. [Note by compiler: This source also states that Peter was born in 1744.] . . .

[v] Abram Stout, born 1750; died 1830; not mentioned in the will of Zephaniah White, in 1758. . . .

[vi] Hannah Stout, born 1732; died 1757. . . .

[vii] Esther Stout; mentioned in the will of her uncle, Zephaniah White, in 1758. . . .

[viii] Mary Stout, mentioned in the will of her uncle, Zephaniah White, in 1758. . . .

[ix] Rebecca Stout; married, by license dated Oct. 5, 1763, Alexander Grant. . . .

[x] Leah Stout; mentioned in the will of her uncle, Zephaniah White, in 1758; married, by license dated Oct. 12, 1761, Samuel Taylor. . . .

[xi] Rachel Stout, born 1746; married James Patterson, born 1733.

(2) New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 [database online], Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011:

1773, Oct. 13. Stout, Jonathan, of Middletown, Monmouth Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Leah, the use of all real and personal estate, in order to bring up my children. Son, Richard, a tract of land, bounded by Edward Burrowes and Andrew Layton; also the lot where he lives. Son, Jonathan, the land north of the road, along the line of the widow, Mary Stout. Son, Peter, land south of the road. Son, Jehu, land along Peter's land. Son, Abraham, rest of my plantation. Sons, Jonathan, Peter, Jehu and Abraham, that land north of son Richard's. My salt meadow at Shoal Harbor, to my said sons. Daughter, Esther Stout, ??40. Daughter, Rebeckah ??40. Grandchildren, Leah Benjamin and Stout Benjamin, ??40. My lands in Shrewsbury Township, and my lot at Perth Amboy, to be sold, and the money to be given to my daughters, Leah, Esther, Rachel and Rebekah. Executors - sons, Peter and Abraham. Witnesses - Henry Tunis, John Tunis, Andrew Brannan. Proved April 1, 1775. Lib. L, p. 345.

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Jonathan Stout
Birth: Mar., 1703
Death: Apr., 1775

Note: Died at 71 years, 1 month, and 1 day

[Note by compiler: If, as claimed above, the decedent died in April 1775 and was aged 71 years, 1 month and 1 day when he died, he would have been born in 1704, not 1703.

According to the decedent's tombstone, he "Departed this Life April the 27 1773." However, his will was dated October 13, 1773 and proved on April 1, 1775.]

Burial: Presbyterian Burial Ground, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA

Created by: Edotte
Record added: Sep 21, 2004
Find A Grave Memorial# 9489008 
STOUT, Jonathan (I29642)
 
25271 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey, Vol. IV, New York, NY: 1903, pp. 62-63:

BENJAMIN MORRIS, who I believe to be either a son of Thomas or Lewis Morris, resided at Nutswamp, Middletown, N. J. He married, by license dated June 1, 1767, Lydia Crawford, who had previously been licensed to marry, July 30, 1756, Cornelius Compton, who left her widowed, shortly prior to her marriage to Benjamin Morris.

Issue

[i] Joseph Morris

[ii] Benjamin Morris

[iii] Stout Morris

[iv] Lydia Morris, born Jan. 25, 1773; died Nov. 23, 1863; married James Frost, born Jan. 1, 1769; died Mch. 23, 1821.

[v] Esther Morris; married, Oct. 27, 1799, Jonathan Stout. 
MORRIS, Benjamin (I29639)
 
25272 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, p. 396:

John Scudder, born in London, England, 1610, was the son of Thomas, who, with his family, came to Salem, in 1635; thence to Brookhaven, L. I., 1662.

John Scudder, about 1642, married Mary, daughter of William and Dorothy King, of England, who came to Massachusetts in 1636. In 1651, he, (John Scudder), came from Salem to Southold, L. I. He was one of the original purchasers, 1665, of Brookhaven; lived at Huntington, L. I., 1657, and came thence to Messpath, (Newtown), prior to 1660, where he was prominent and influential. Among other children he had Elizabeth Scudder, born about 1648, who married first, Jan Alburtis; second, William Lawrence.

John Scudder and his brother, Thomas Scudder, were the progenitors of the missionary family of that name, and of the Revolutionary War Scudders, of Monmouth County, N. J.
 
SCUDDER, John I (I49135)
 
25273 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, p. 396:

Peter Caesar Alburtis, a Venetian, married, in 1642, in New Amsterdam, Judith Jans Meynie, of Amsterdam, Holland, and had among others, a son, Jan, born at the Wallabout, L. I., in 1643. He married, about 1666, Elizabeth, daughter of John Scudder, of Newtown, L. I., and dying, in April, 1691, in his 48th year, left his widow and the following children:

• William Alburtis
• John Alburtis
• Samuel Alburtis
• Elizabeth Alburtis; married John Stewart.
• Mehitable Alburtis; married James Lawrence.

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Pietro Cesare "Peter" Alberti
BIRTH: 2 Jun 1608, Venice, Città Metropolitana di Venezia, Veneto, Italy
DEATH: 9 Nov 1655 (aged 47), Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA
BURIAL: Alberti Farm Cemetery, Kings County, New York, USA

Baptised June 20, 1608 San Luca Church, Venice, Italy

Landed in New Amsterdam, May 30, 1635.He was the first Italian resident of New Amsterdam (now New York City).

He and his wife were killed by Indians on his plantation in Brooklyn near New Amsterdam on November 9, 1655

It is assumed their bodies were buried on their land.

Resources:
The New York Times, Friday, June 3, 1960
Trenton (NJ) Times, Wed., Feb. 28, 1979
Italian-American Review, October 1976
Italian Historical Society of America, Brooklyn, New York
The Long Island Historical Society, June 2, 1959
Annals of Newtown, Long Island
Long Island Forum, Aug. 1943, Vol. VI, No. 8, Sept. 1943, Vol. VI, No. 9
Baptisms at Reformed Dutch Church, New Amsterdam, 1639-1730

Gravesite Details: Memorial marker located in Bowling Green Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York

Family Members: Parents: Andrea Piero Alberti (1579–1655), Veronica de' Medici Alberti (1583–1608); Spouse: Judith Jans Manje Alberti (1622–1655, m. 1642); Children: Jan/John Alburtis I (1643–1691), Aert Arthur Alberti (1647–1690), Francyna Alburtis (1654–1715)

Created by: Max Haines
Added: Feb 25, 2012
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 85707187
 
ALBERTI, Pietro Caesare "Peter" (I49110)
 
25274 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, p. 403-404:

JOSEPH LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, 1, was born in 1670, and married, first, Sarah, born 12 mo., 27, 167__, daughter of William Worth, of Shrewsbury, who, dying, (she being deceased in the will of her father dated 10, 10 mo., 1710), he married, second, 18, 10 mo., 1712, Rachel Folke, widow of David Curtis, of Mansfield, Burlington County. . . .

1739, June 23. Will of Joseph Lawrence, "of Manasquan, in Shrewsbury"; proved May 12, 1743. . . .





 
LAWRENCE, Joseph (I49144)
 
25275 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 393-398:

LAWRENCE OF MONMOUTH COUNTY

The early history of the Lawrence family in this country abounds in confusion, largely resulting from the efforts of genealogists to connect all of the name. In truth there are several distinct families unallied so far as is known. Keith, in his Pennsylvania "Councillors," traces one family, located in Philadelphia and vicinity, to one, Popinga, a Dutchman. On Staten Island, N. Y., was early located Hans Laurens, (which later was written Lawrence), who was the son of Laurens Duytsen, also a Dutchman. The one who first settled within the bounds of Monmouth County, was WILLIAM LAWRENCE, an Englishman. He came to the Monmouth
Tract in 1666, as appears in the Dialogue written by his son, William Lawrence. Nothing is known of his birthplace or parentage, if we except the single statement made by O'Callaghan that, "One William Lawrence, resided for a time in Newtown — a man of wealth, and of as much importance as his counsin [sic], (the sheriff), William Lawrence, of Flushing."

"Dec. 3, 1670 James Mills (formerly ship master and living in James river in Virginia) and william Lawrence came before mee this day to have a former sale of land made void wch is as ffolloweth . . . Whereas James mills had formerly received a bill of sale of william Lawrence sometimes an Inhabitant of Middleborough
upon Long Island for his house and land there: wch said bill (beeing casually burnt by wch means the tenor and date of the said bill is unknowne: Therefore wee the said James mills and william Lawrence doe by these presents declare that all bills of sale of what tennor and date soever are by mutuall agreement of us (Viz: william and James are by these presents made void and of noe effect notwithstanding any Record in any
town or court manifesting to the contrary.

In witness hereof they have hereunto sett there hands
JAMES MILLS
WILLIAM LAWRENCE
Town Book, Middletown, N. J.

Testified by mee
EDWARD TARTTE"

Here it is distinctly set forth that he owned a house and lot in the village of Middleburgh, a Long Island village, now known as Newtown; further, the language of this memorandum suggests that, either in the Court or Town Books, there may yet remain a record of this transfer. The settlement of Middleburgh was effected, in 1652, by people from New England and the adjacent town of Hempstead. From one of these places, or perhaps from New Amsterdam, or Gravesend, L. I., where the name of William Lawrence likewise appears, he may have come, but further research is needed to carry his history backward. His fellow townsman, William Lawrence, was an early settler in Flushing, whence he removed to Middleburgh. He came at the age of twelve years, with his brother, John, aged seventeen years, and sister, Maria, aged nine years, to this country in 1635. They became distinguished men and their history, family and individual, has been fully dealt with by all Long Island historians.

When the settlement of the Monmouth Tract was agitated, William Lawrence was prompt to join the enterprise and was one of the first five who settled upon the land where subsequently Middletown was located. It is a mistake to think that this site was occupied at once by a large body of settlers, moving with their families and trade implements; to the contrary they came singly, or by ones and twos, often the head of the family alone till such time as a clearing could be made. Such a pioneer was William Lawrence. Within a year or two a town organization was perfected and the projectors commenced to allot themselves lands according to their rights.

In the original division of lands, in 1667, he drew lot No. 31. In the year following, he was appointed, with two others, to "agitate" concerning the erection of a mill. In the quarrel that arose between the Governor and the town, he was one of those selected to make reply to the "governor's men," in the town's behalf, and a right manly and able protest they made.

In 1669, he was elected by the townspeople, a Deputy, to assist the Constable and Overseer in their local court.

In 1671, he was chosen Town Constable, and later on in this year was elected a "burgess," with Edward Tartte, to represent the town in the General Assembly, at Elizabethtown, but making a satisfactory excuse, another was substituted.

In the following year, 1672, the same honor was conferred upon him.

In 1675, he was again chosen Town Constable, but doubtless tiring in the public service and deeming that he had discharged his duty to the town in previous terms, he declined to serve. The outcome of his refusal is recorded in the Court Records, Deeds A. B. C , p. 90.

"It is ordered that Upon William Lawrence, of ye towne of Middletowne, his refusall of being Invested into ye Office and place of a Constable & to beeing . . . [?] according to Law, after a legall choiss at a towne meeting of ye inhabitants of middletowne, that for such his refusall hee is ordered by this Court to pay ye sume of five pounds as a fine to bee levied by ye Court Marshall & to bee disposed of according to ye discretion of ye Court."

Probably the fine was collected and thereafter he was let alone, for there is no further evidence of his being in the service of the town that I can find.

1677, August. He defined the attitude of the Monmouth settlers to the General Government in plain and emphatic English.

He acquired a large estate, by patent rights and purchases, which he was continuously adding to or disposing of. These transactions, with developing his lands, must have consumed much of his time. Judged from the meagre evidence now obtainable, he was a man of ability, integrity and wealth. He stood high in the estimation of his townsmen and was trusted by them in matters of moment. He reared a large family of children and grandchildren under his roof, and started them all in life with an education and means, and his name, as well as theirs, to his credit be it said, was pure and untarnished.

He died at a ripe age, leaving a will recorded at Trenton, written Dec. 3, 1701, and probated May 22, 1704.

William Lawrence, as already stated, acquired a large estate, and became one of the largest land holders of his day. He obtained about 3000 acres of land in Monmouth County by Proprietary grants, and he added to these by numerous purchases. . . .

William Lawrence was born, by deduction, prior to 1638. He married at least twice.

If other evidence was wanting the phraseology of the will would establish the fact that his present wife was one of recent date, for he returns to her "all and every part of the household goods and furniture" that she brought with her, not the language he would use to a wife he had married fifty years before.

This second wife is known to have been Elizabeth, daughter of John Scudder of Newtown, L. I., whom he married in the latter part of 1693. She was then the widow of Jan Alburtis. There appears in the Newtown Township Records, a record made in 1693, in the shape of antenuptial gift from William Lawrence to his prospective wife, wherein he deeds her a "house and land, at Middletown, New Jersey, in consideration of my love and affection for her as I intend marriage with her."

1693, Nov. 13. She assigned her power, as executrix, as given her by late husband, John Alburtis, of ye same town, to her son, John Alburtis. She affixed her mark.

It might be added that Elizabeth Alburtis gave her share of her husband's estate, upon her second marriage, to her son Samuel. Her son, William Alburtis, moved to Maidenhead, N. J., and her son John, to Mansfield, Burlington County, N. J., and it is from this John that all, who bear the name now, descend.

It is not unlikely that Elizabeth, widow of William Lawrence, was living as late as 1712, as in the Baptist Church at that date, an Elizabeth Lawrence, Jr., is mentioned by which we can infer that there was still a senior Elizabeth, and if so, it probably would be the wife of William Lawrence, the First. . . .

Issue:

2 James Lawrence
3 William Lawrence, born 1658.
4 Benjamin Lawrence
5 Elisha Lawrence, born 1666.
6 John Lawrence
7 Joseph Lawrence
8 Hannah Lawrence
 
LAWRENCE, William I (I49137)
 
25276 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 398-399:

HANNAH LAWRENCE, daughter of William Lawrence, I, married, first, Joseph Grover, who died in 1689; second, Jan. 9, 1694, Nathaniel Leonard.
 
LAWRENCE, Hannah (I49145)
 
25277 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 398-399:

JAMES LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, I, married his step-sister, Mehitable, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Scudder) Alburtis.

1729-30, Mch. 6. Will of James Lawrence, of Freehold, yeoman; proved Apr. 7, 1730. . . . 
LAWRENCE, James (I49139)
 
25278 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 399-400:

WILLIAM LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, I, was born in 1658, and married, June 24, 1686, Ruth Gibbons. He lived in Middletown, N. J.


1741/2, Feb. 20. Will of William Lawrence, of Middletown, "in the eighty-fourth year of my age," hence born 1658; proved Nov. 22, 1750. . . . 
LAWRENCE, William II (I49140)
 
25279 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 400-401:

BENJAMIN LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, I, was born in 1664, and died in 1755.

1748, July 13. Will of Benjamin Lawrence, of Upper Freehold; proved May 19, 1755. . . . 
LAWRENCE, Benjamin (I49141)
 
25280 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 401-402:

ELISHA LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, 1, was born Feb. 17, 1666, and died, Apr. 25, 1724, as per tombstone at Yellow Meeting House, Cream Ridge, aged 52 years, 2 months and 28 days. He married Lucy Stout, of Shrewsbury. . . .

1722, Apr. 14. Will of Elisha Lawrence, of Freehold Township, County of Monmouth, yeoman, with Codicils dated 1723 and 1723/4; proved May 27, 1724. . . .
 
LAWRENCE, Elisha (I49142)
 
25281 (1) Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants, Vol. 3, New York, NY: 1814, pp. 402-403:

JOHN LAWRENCE, son of William Lawrence, I, was born in 1668, and died in 1719. He married Rachel _____. . . .

1719, Apr. 4. Will of John Lawrence, of Freehold; proved Feb. 23, 1719/20. . . . 
LAWRENCE, John (I49143)
 
25282 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, p. 22:

Mary Stillwell, daughter of Capt. Richard Stillwell, married, Feb. 20, 1699, Thomas Walton, Esquire, the Second, of Staten Island. Their marriage license was dated Dec. 23, 1698. He was a prominent man in Richmond County. . . .

Issue:

[i] Thomas Walton

[ii] Richard Walton

[iii] Matthew Walton

[iv] William Walton

[i] Martha Walton

[v] John Walton

[vi] Abraham Walton (?), who may have been a posthumous child as deduced from the will of Mary Ricketts, though, more likely, he was her nephew, Abraham Walton. . . .
 
STILLWELL, Mary (I48894)
 
25283 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, p. 27:

Jeremiah Stillwell, son of Captain Richard Stillwell, was born in 1681, as his age is given as 25 years, in the Staten Island Census, of 1706. He was a mere lad when his father died and was brought up, like the other younger children of Captain Richard Stillwell, in the household of his brother, Captain John Stillwell, whose paternalism and generosity showed itself in the gift to him of the Aquackanonck property, by a deed dated May 24, 1708,for the nominal sum of five shillings. . . .

1713, Nov. 4. He was a witness to a deed on Staten Island. From this time on I lose track of him, if he be not the Jeremiah Stillwell, who, about this date, appeared for awhile in Philadelphia, Pa. 
STILLWELL, Jeremiah (I48897)
 
25284 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, pp. 17-21:

Richard Stillwell, Esq., son of Capt. Richard Stillwell, was born 1671.

He became an eminent merchant in New York City, and amassed a large fortune. He was prominent in the Presbyterian Church and was one of the founders of that body in New York City, and a benefactor of it upon his demise. He withdrew to Shrewsbury, N. J ., where he lived the latter portion of his life, and where, with his second wife, he lies buried in the Presbyterian Churchyard.

He married, first, in 1705, by license dated Sept. 3, issued by Lord Cornbury, Debora, daughter of Capt. John Bowne, by his wife Lydia, daughter of the Rev. Obadiah Holmes. She was born, at Gravesend, L. I., Jan. 26, 1668, and died without issue, at a date unknown, but prior to 1710, as Richard Stillwell was then again married, and the father of a son, Richard, born that year. Richard Stillwell married, second, not far from 1708, Mercy, daughter of Samuel and Dorothy (Ray) Sands, of Long Island, born 1693. She was a highly educated woman, much noted for her pride and beauty, her strong character and thrift, and was probably possessed of a pious turn of mind, as she left the Presbyterian Church, of Shrewsbury, N. J ., a legacy. She wrote a neat, clear hand, punctuated and spelled with great precision, and corresponded for her husband about his affairs, and it would appear, from the bills and letters I have seen, and from the prominence she had in them, as if she might have had the conduct of his business just before they retired to Shrewsbury. . . .

Richard Stillwell was ripe in years when, Nov. 17, 1742, he made his will, in which he declared himself as of Shrewsbury, merchant, late of New York City. March 31, 1743, following, it was proved in New York City and at Freehold. . . .

Issue:

[i] Richard Stillwell, born about 1710

[ii] Mary Stillwell, born Aug. 17, 1714

[iii] Anne Stillwell, born Aug. 17, 1714 (P)

[iv] Catharine Stillwell, born about 1716

[v] Deborah Stillwell, born about 1718

[vi] Elizabeth Stillwell, born about 1723

[vii] Samuel Stillwell, born about 1725

[viii] Lydia Stillwell, born about 1726 or later 
STILLWELL, Richard (I48893)
 
25285 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, pp. 22-26:

Thomas Stillwell, son of Captain Richard Stillwell, was married, by license dated Apr. 9, 1703, to Ellis (Alice) Throckmorton. She was a daughter of John Throckmorton, Esquire, of Middletown, N. J ., by his wife Alice, daughter of Richard and Penelope Stout, and the sister of Rebecca Throckmorton, who had become the wife of Thomas Stillwell's brother, Captain John Stillwell,of Staten Island.

Thomas Stillwell probably died about 1739, as no further allusion to him is found after this date among the records. . . .

Alice Throckmorton, the wife of Thomas Stillwell, died in or before the year 1710. It is possible that all his issue was by her. Inasmuch, however, as there is a hazy tradition of a typical step-mother diverting property from the first wife'schildren to her own, and resultant ill-feeling, it is very probable that Thomas Stillwell did have some issue by his second wife, Hannah Taylor. His marriage to this lady occurred prior to 1712, for in that year she joined with him in a conveyance. She was the daughter of Edward Taylor, Esq., of Middletown, who was one of the early settlers in that location, and progenitor of the Taylors of Monmouth County, and was born Jan. 16, 1680. She heired considerable wealth from her father, and an entry, on the Second Town Book of Middletown, conveys the impression that she was generous in the use of it — "the town has ye use of £300 for ye support of ye poor," from Hannah Stillwell. This entry, aside from its family interest, is instructive, as it shows the importation, by the first settlers, of the English custom of the opulent providing for the needy. . . .

Issue:

[i] Thomas Stillwell

[ii] John Stillwell

[iii] Mary Stillwell

[iv] Elsie (Alice) Stillwell

[v] Hannah Stillwell

[vi] Obadiah Stillwell

[vii] Jeremiah Stillwell
 
STILLWELL, Thomas (I48896)
 
25286 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, pp. 27-28:

Gershom Stillwell, son of Capt.Richard Stillwell, was born, according to his original Bible record, in my possession, Aug. 17, 1683, and died Jan. 24, 1752. He is found, with the other children of Richard Stillwell, in the Staten Island Census of 1706, wherein he is declared to be 23 years of age. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Grover, born June 7, 1685, and who died Jan. 18, 1763.

John Stillwelltook out letters of administration on estate of Elizabeth Stillwell, deceased, 1768.

Gershom Stillwell moved to Moreland, outside of Philadelphia, Pa., at or about the time of his marriage. What prompted him to move from Staten Island or New Jersey, to Moreland I know not, but the Jeremiah Stillwell, who appeared in Dublin township, adjacent to Moreland, about the same time, may have been his brother, of whom I lose sight on Staten Island, in 1713. Gershom Stillwell remained but a short time, however, in Pennsylvania, for he soon appeared in Middletown, where he built what is now known as "The old Gershom Stillwell House," situated some distance behind the residence of the late Senator William Henry Hendrickson. Here he and his wife lived and died, and his descendants resided for many years, and as they died, were interred in the burying ground adjacent to the house. . . .

Issue:

[i] John Stillwell, born Mch. 15, 171(6)

[ii] Mary Stillwell, born Apr. 2, 171(8)

[iii] Hannah Stillwell, born Nov. 11, 1720

[iv] William Stillwell, born Sept. 20, 1722
 
STILLWELL, Gershom (I48898)
 
25287 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, pp. 28-29:

Sarah Stillwell may have been a daughter of Capt. Richard Stillwell. Her license to marry Richard Crego was issued, June 29, 1696.

He, Richard Crego, died 1710. His will was written July 3, 1710, and proved Sept. 21, 1711. At that time, he declared himself "Very sick." His wife was appointed sole legatee and executrix. Whether he had issue, I cannot say.

1715, June 16, the Council reported favorably on the petition to allow Sarah, widow of Richard Crego, to sell a lot of land in the City of New York, late her husband's.
 
STILLWELL?, Sarah (I48899)
 
25288 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Captain Richard Stillwell, Son of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, and His Descendants, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1930, pp. 29-30:

Nicholas Stillwell, supposed son of Captain Richard Stillwell, was probably he whose land is mentioned on Staten Island in 1721.And it was probably he, Nicholas Stillwell, who administered the estate of Tunis Van Pelt, of Richmond County, N. Y., in 1735. He probably died in 1739. . . .

George Clark, Lieut. Gov. to Adam Mott, principal creditor and administrator of Nicholas Stillwell, who died lately, intestate, of Staten Island, "Marytle, [Marytje], Widdow of the deceased having relinquished her right of administration." Aug. 14, 1739.  
STILLWELL?, Nicholas (I48900)
 
25289 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1929, p. 35:

The American Stillwells are fortunate. It can positively be asserted that the founder of the family, Nicholas Stillwell, came from the County of Surrey, England, as well as did Jasper Stillwell, his American contemporary, but the kinship of these two and their parentage has yet to be proven. Their motives for emigration were mainly for the betterment of their estates and, perhaps in a lesser degree, for greater civil and religious liberty.

Jasper Stillwell came, with other emigrants, from Guilford, England, and its vicinity, in 1639, and planted the town of Guilford, in Connecticut, which they named in loyalty and affection after their Surrey home. He was created a freeman May 22, 1648, and died November 8, 1656. He was the owner of one of the four stone houses erected in the village, whose occupants were the Rev. Henry Whitfield, the Rev. John Higginson, son-in-law of Mr. Whitfield, and Mr. Samuel Disbrow, the magistrate and a relative of Oliver Cromwell, which suggests that Jasper Stillwell was a man of affluence. His wife was Elizabeth _____. Their daughter, Elizabeth Stillwell, married John Graves November 26, 1657, who was for many years Town Clerk of Guilford, a Deputy to the General Court, and who held many other positions of importance; and their daughter, Rebecca Stillwell, if such she be, and note the difference in dates, married James Craven March 23, 1644, which should probably more correctly read James Graves.

Jasper Stillwell dying without male issue, it follows that Nicholas Stillwell becomes the sole progenitor of the American Stillwells.

(2) A Jasper STILLWELL, a son of a John STILLWELL, was baptized in Surrey on September 20, 1607. See: Surrey Baptisms:

First name(s): Jasper
Last name: Stillwell
Baptism year: 1607
Baptism date: 20 Sep 1607
Father's first name(s): John
Place: Dorking, St Martin
County: Surrey
Country: England
Archive: Surrey History Centre
Archive reference: DOM/1/1
Register type: Baptisms, marriages & burials
Year range: 1538-1647
Record set: Surrey Baptisms
Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory: Parish Baptisms
Collections from: England, Great Britain

* * *

Another Jasper STILLWELL, son of a Nicholas STILLWELL, was baptized in Surrey on May 29, 1608, but the latter Jasper STILLWELL died in Surrey in 1677. See the pp. 15-16 of the Stillwell book, supra.

(3) The compiler has not located a town named "Guilford" in Surrey, England; however, the compiler has located a town named "Guildford" in Surrey, about 27 miles southwest of central London.
 
STILLWELL, Jasper (I48838)
 
25290 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1929, pp. 113-114:

JOHN COOKE Of Salem, Massachusetts, and Gravesend, Long Island

Savage, in his New England Genealogical Dictionary, records the presence of a John Cook in Salem, Massachusetts, who came, a servant, in The Abigail, in 1635, aged seventeen years. He was a Proprietor there in 1636 and a Freeman 8 May, 1642. He had children:

Sarah Cook baptised 19 Sept., 1640.
Elizabeth Cook baptised 16 May, 1641.
Mary Cook baptised 22 Oct., 1643.

He died, continues Savage, I suppose, in 1650, when his inventory was brought in. Perley in his History of Salem (pp. 440-442) says: Aug. 7, 1637. John Cooke was admitted [with others] an inhabitant of Salem and had five acres granted to him; further that some of those who were admitted became permanent settlers, but that John Cook, who was apparently newly wedded and lived in the North field and was repeatedly requesting grants of land, left Salem about 1645, and had children baptised in Salem:

Elizabeth, Mary 16, 1641.
Mary, Oct. 22, 1643.

The sources of information of these two authorities were probably the same, but Savage gives John Cooke one more daughter and Perley definitely fixed John Cooke's removal from Salem as 1645.

These facts concerning John Cooke, of Salem, conform so perfectly to what should be the history of John Cooke, of Gravesend, that it seems Warrantable to believe that they were one and the same individual. Note how the baptismal arrangement of the daughters of John Cooke, of Salem, and their number and their names correspond perfectly to those given in the will of John Cooke, of Gravesend. And Savage's supposed
date of John Cooke's death and inventory, 1650, really represents the date of the final settlement of his affairs in Salem, for John Cooke had moved and was among the first settlers of Gravesend, where he received, in 1646 (Feb. 20), a house-lot and farm, and it is known that most of these settlers came from New England. He soon attained distinction in his new home as the Gravesend Records show:

1650, Mch. 16 According to Bergen, allotted Plantation No. 8. This does not appear in the public copy of the Town Record, having apparently been torn out of the book. The same is true of two other cases of this date which are cited by Bergen, who must have found the missing page in the book when he had access to it.

1651, Jan. 17. Contributed to Common Charges.

1656, Jan. 15. Appraiser of John Morris' estate.

1656, Mch. 20. John Cook was elected Schout, of Gravesend, the Dutch for Constable.

1656, Sept. 6. Witness to a deed; signs by his mark.

1657. He had ten morgens of his farm, which was in the northwest quarter of the town, under cultivation.

1659, April. He was elected a Magistrate of Gravesend.

1659, May 12. Mentioned in connection with Lady Moody as sharing in one division of the meadow lots.

1660, Mch. 29. He bought from John Applegate plantation No. 12 (originally belonging to Francis Weeks), which descended to his son-in-law Nathan Whitman.

1661, 1662 and 1663. He was re-elected Magistrate of Gravesend.

1662, Jan. 9. Witness; signs his name.

1662, Mch. 20. Witness; signs his name.

1663, Mch. 4. Witness; sigsns his name.

1663, Mch. 4. Signs,as witness, in capacity of Magistrate.

1663, June 19. Signs,as witness, in capacity of Magistrate.

1663, Dec. 4. Chosen to settle dispute in re highways and fences.

1665, April. He was named one of the patentees of the Monmouth Tract, East Jersey, but apparently never settled there.

1672. Allotted West Meadow lot, No. 31.

1674. Allotted 15 acre lot.

1676. John Cook and John Tilton being Quakers, refused to take oath but gave their engagements.

1677. Allotted Guysbert Island lot.

1679. Will of John Cooke, of Gravesend, on the Island of Nassau . . . "make my wife Sarah executrix. . . . I leave to my daughter Sarah Whitman two oxen and all the money due me in the hands of Mr. Nicholas Mayor . . . ; to my daughter Elizabeth Holmes two cows, and to her husband, Obadiah Holmes, all my iron ware and one-half of my horses . . . ; to my daughter Mary Stillwell two cows and one hundred guilders, and to her husband, Richard Stillwell, one-half of my horses, and I give the sheep, which are in his hands, to his children, Thomas and Martha Stillwell. . . ." "And this is my will and pleasure for to do." Written 15th of 1st. mo. [March], 1679; proved Sept. 11, 1699, and Jan. 6th, 1702. New York Wills.

Whatever may have been the reason for this delayed probate is now unknown, but it was probably due to some amicable division of his estate among his heirs, for both Obadiah Holmes and Richard Stillwell, his sons-in-law, were men of remarkable integrity and amiability.

John Cooke died, however, during 1679, for that year his widow removed to Staten Island, whence, Feb. 20, 1680, "Sarah Cook, widow and executrix of her late husband, John Cook, deceased," authorized her loving son, Obadiah Holmes, of Staten Island, to sell all the lands of her deceased husband in Gravesend. In pursuance with the authority thus conferred on him, Obadiah Holmes sold, Apr. 15, 1680, the estate of John Cooke to John Tilton, consisting of the farm allotted him in 1646, a house-lot on the southerly side of the southwest square, a fifteen acre lot, lot 31, in the West Meadows, and lot 18, on Guisbert's Island.
 
COOKE, John (I48903)
 
25291 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1929, pp. 35-37, 88-90:

As a family we have had our family history entertainingly chronicled by the late Benjamin M. Stilwell, Esq., in his Life and Times of Nicholas Stilwell. In his work Mr. Stilwell incorporated, without discrimination, both fact and fiction, sometimes citing authorities insufficiently convincing. He stated therein that Nicholas Stillwell, the First, married Abigail, sister of Lord Ralph Hopton, a lady in waiting to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, whom he rescued under perilous circumstances.

That the Hoptons were allied to the Stillwells was so strong a matter of belief with the Hon. Samuel Stillwell (born 1763, died 1848), that, had he been blest with a son he would have called him Ralph Hopton is very likely, but how, when or where such an alliance occurred has not been transmitted. Unfortunately, too, Lord Hopton had no sister Abigail, nor does history tell us the names of the maid and the cavalier who escaped with the unfortunate Queen of Bohemia, so of necessity there falls to the ground the tale of an Abigail Hopton, wife of the first Nicholas Stillwell. . . .

The statement that the wife of Nicholas Stillwell, the First, was a Dutch Woman rests on too meagre evidence to be entertained. Judge Nicholas Stillwell, a descendant through Nicholas Stillwell, the Second, and a resident of Gravesend, had a hazy tradition that either the first or the second Nicholas Stillwell brought from Leyden, Holland, "a Dutch wife and a couple of children"; and from Benjamin M. Stilwell came the assertion that she was either a Van Dyke or a Van Dincklage, daughter of the New Amsterdam Schout Fiscal of that name. With him, Benjamin M. Stilwell, it was merely a belief that she was a member of one of these two families, based upon some remote association in his mind of these names, but of proof he had none. . . .

Of Ann, the wife of Nicholas Stillwell, the First, little is known. She was probably an English woman, for she subsequently became the wife of William Wilkins and of William Foster, both Englishmen, and nowhere among the Dutch records, wherein her name appears and where the opportunity has been ample, has her surname been given, as was common among the Dutch of that day. The earliest mention of her name that I have so far seen occurs in the Dutch Church Records of New Amsterdam, when 1647, Jan. 14, Anne, the wife of Nicholas Stillwell, was a sponsor, with Richard Cool, at the baptism of Anna, daughter of John Marten, in the Dutch Church, at New Amsterdam. She was a lady of good birth and breeding and was alluded to in contempoary records as Mistress Anne Stillwell, an appellation of restricted use and confined to those of good station.

Ann Stillwell was the mother of many, if not all, of Nicholas Stillwell's children, and was presumably somewhat younger than her husband Nicholas Stillwell, and perhaps somewhat older than her last husband William Foster. Nicholas Stillwell may have married her in Old England, or perhaps in Virginia. She proved a capable, energetic woman, a loyal and untiring companion, and a mother whose wise councils and loving admonitions reared an admirable family.

Ann Stillwell, shortly following the death of her husband, removed from Staten Island to Gravesend. Here she had bought, June 21, 1672, while residing at Dover, from Jan Jansen Van Ryn (Rhyn) the house and lot, No. 18, with the meadow reserved, which the grantor originally had purchased from her husband Nicholas Stillwell. Gravesend Town Records. Upon this property she probably took her up residence in company with her children Mary and Jeremiah, and perhaps John. Capt. Nicholas Stillwell, her son, one of the most eminent men of the town, was her neighbor. Her interests therefore were equally divided between the Staten Island and the Long Island settlements.

Dec. 29, 1672, a few months following her arrival in Gravesend, and so close as to be the likely cause of her removal to that town, she married the local magistrate, William Wilkins. They made an agreement which partitioned his estate:

"Memorandum That I, William Wilkins of Gravesend, upon Long Island, in Yorkshire, do this present day as underwritten, hereby signify, declare and make known unto all whom it may concern: That I, the said William Wilkins, with the consent, approbation and good liking of my loving wife, Ann Wilkins, have mutually agreed together, how all my own proper estate brought with me and remaining, and debts then and since made by me, shall, after my decease, be ordered, disposed of and paid.

["]In the first place an Inventory is to be taken of the whole that is left — land, the house and housing and all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging — my said wife, Ann Wilkins, is to have, hold and possess and enjoy for and during her life time, and after her decease, the said house and land shall return to my son, Obadiah Wilkins, and in case of his mortality before that time, then unto his children that now are or shall be.

["]And next, after all such debts and requirings as aforesaid, and out of the said estate to be discharged and satisfied, which being done according to the true intent hereof, then in the last place, an equal division is to be made of all whatever there shall remain, the one half thereof to be for the use of my said wife, or her assigns, and the other half unto my son Obadiah Wilkins, or his assigns, and to this our agreement, for the prevention of future troubles, we, both of us, have hereunto set our hands this 11th day of the 4th month, 1675.

WILLIAM W WILKINS
ANN A WILKINS

In the presence of us,
JOHN TILTON, Sen.
SAMUEL SPICER "

Recorded the 30th day of August, 1694, per Henry Fillkin, Register. Liber II, p. 10, King's Co., Conveyances, Register's Office, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mr. Wilkins died in 1676, and after a brief widowhood, she, Ann, married, by license dated Jan. 13, 1679, William Foster, of Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. Original marriage license in possession of Dr. John E. Stillwell.

Ann Stillwell's death probably occurred about 1686, for she joined her husband, William Foster, in conveyances, as late as 1684, and was alluded to in an inventory of the estate of Cornelius Stenwick, taken about July 29, 1686, as "Nicholas Stillwell's wife," debtor to the amount £177.4.0, wampum value. That her demise must have occurred about 1686, is further confirmed by the fact that William Foster, in 1687, had another wife, Hannah, alluded to in deeds, as also in his will of this date, 1687.

So far as I have seen Ann Stillwell left no will. Her lands on Staten Island she may have given to her daughter Anne, wife of Nathaniel Britton, or to her son Thomas Stillwell.

Her Gravesend property she gave, June 20, 1683, by deed, in which her husband William Foster joined, to her son Jeremiah Stillwell, in consideration of his paying £3, annually, during the life of the longest liver.

Je—(?), 24, 1682. William fforster of Jamaica and Anne his wife quit claim to Jeromiah Stillwell of Gravesend one half of lot formerly belonging to John Johnson bounded by land of John Emans. Said Stillwell to pay fforster and wife Anne every year of their life on first day of February three pounds of lawful money. Both sign by mark. Witnesses Joseph Lee and Peter Smith. Recorded Nov. 21, 1695, by Henry ffilkin, Register. Vol. 2, King's County Conveyances, p. 76. From Mrs. Josephine C. Frost.
 
(STILLWELL), Anne (I48834)
 
25292 (1) Stillwell, John E., The History of Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell, Progenitor of the Stillwell Family in America, New York, NY: John E. Stillwell, 1929, pp. 35-88:

The American Stillwells are fortunate. It can positively be asserted that the founder of the family, Nicholas Stillwell, came from the County of Surrey, England, as well as did Jasper Stillwell, his American contemporary, but the kinship of these two and their parentage has yet to be proven. Their motives for emigration were mainly for the betterment of their estates and, perhaps in a lesser degree, for greater civil and religious liberty. . . .

As a family we have had our family history entertainingly chronicled by the late Benjamin M. Stilwell, Esq., in his Life and Times of Nicholas Stilwell. In his work Mr. Stilwell incorporated, without discrimination, both fact and fiction, sometimes citing authorities insufficiently convincing. He stated therein that Nicholas Stillwell, the First, married Abigail, sister of Lord Ralph Hopton, a lady in waiting to Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, whom he rescued under perilous circumstances.

That the Hoptons were allied to the Stillwells was so strong a matter of belief with the Hon. Samuel Stillwell (born 1763, died 1848), that, had he been blest with a son he would have called him Ralph Hopton is very likely, but how, when or where such an alliance occurred has not been transmitted. Unfortunately, too, Lord Hopton had no sister Abigail, nor does history tell us the names of the maid and the cavalier who escaped with the unfortunate Queen of Bohemia, so of necessity there falls to the ground the tale of an Abigail Hopton, wife of the first Nicholas Stillwell. . . .

The statement that the wife of Nicholas Stillwell, the First, was a Dutch Woman rests on too meagre evidence to be entertained. Judge Nicholas Stillwell, a descendant through Nicholas Stillwell, the Second, and a resident of Gravesend, had a hazy tradition that either the first or the second Nicholas Stillwell brought from Leyden, Holland, "a Dutch wife and a couple of children"; and from Benjamin M. Stilwell came the assertion that she was either a Van Dyke or a Van Dincklage, daughter of the New Amsterdam Schout Fiscal of that name. With him, Benjamin M. Stilwell, it was merely a belief that she was a member of one of these two families, based upon some remote association in his mind of these names, but of proof he had none. . . .

It will be shown further on that Nicholas Stillwell first arrived in New Amsterdam from Virginia in 1645-46, and that he fled from Virginia because of complicity in the Kent Island matter, which Fiske says "caused quarrels in families, separated friends, and sowed distrust far and wide." In his career there is enough romance to meet all requirements, and exact data enough to establish him as the mysterious refugee.

The marriage of Richard Stillwell to Mary, daughter of John Cooke, the Magistrate of Gravesend, Long Island, is established; not so his marriage to a daughter of John Cooke, the Regicide. With this last alliance eliminated, there would be complete exclusion of the Regicide's family as the refugee's, and strong confirmation, on the other hand, that Nicholas Stillwell was the political exile. And I am constrained to believe that the claim of descent from the Regicide John Cooke is erroneous.

While the life of Nicholas Stillwell has already been written it becomes necessary, in the light of recent research with its great yield, to rewrite it and eliminate the error that has crept therein. This we can do, following him step by step, from his appearance in Virginia, in 1639, until his death upon Staten Island in 1671.

In the first third of the seventeenth century, 1600-1633, the present great metropolis, New York, was the center of a vast wilderness, which had been only slightly impressed by the white race. The Dutch trader had given way to the Dutch settler, and a small straggling village had slowly grown up around the fort located upon the extreme lower end of Manhattan Island. So too, in the East, in Massachusetts and a part of Connecticut, settlers had arrived from England, who brought with them a religion both austere and intolerant, by which they shaped their daily lives. To the South still another colony of English Protestants were developing the land now known as Virginia. Without exact knowledge of the size of their respective domains and their boundaries, contentions arose between them. To obtain more accurate information, and for further expansion by trade and settlement, each of these interests started explorative expeditions.

In 1623, four Dutch couples were settled on the South River (Delaware River), by order of the Dutch governor of Manhattan. Three years later Fort Nassau, which had been erected upon the East side of South River, on the Jersey shore, about four miles below the present city of Philadelphia (probably upon the point of land at the junction of the Big and Little Timber Creeks in Gloucester County, New Jersey), was evacuated by its small garrison, and in 1628 all those who were at South River had removed to Manhattan. In 1633, when the place was visited by De Vries, it was deserted.

In Virginia "Governor Yeardley, in 1627, and Governor Pott, in 1629, successively commissioned William Claiborne (of whom more further on), their Secretary of State, to trade with the Indians and explore the regions North and East of the Chesapeake." Claiborne's license to trade was further expanded by a royal decree, in May, 1631, to give effect to which Sir John Harvey, the new governor of Virginia, issued a colonial commission the next year by which Claiborne was authorized to sail and traffic "unto any English plantation," and "unto the adjoining plantations of the Dutch, seated upon this territory of America." . . . . Claiborne availed himself of his trading licenses only in the neighborhood of the Chesapeake, where he established two trading posts, one on the Isle of Kent.

June 30, 1632, Virginia was shorn of a portion of its land by a royal charter to Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore, giving him the territory now comprising the states of Maryland and Delaware, and a portion of Pennsylvania. Two years later, 1634,the new colony, called Maryland, was peopled by nearly two hundred Roman Catholic gentlemen, with their indented servants, and a half-brother of Lord Baltimore, Leonard Calvert, was appointed governor. Protestant Virginia protested against the dismemberment of its territory, but with no avail. Claiborne, who chose to construe his trading license into a commission to plant colonies, refused to relinquish his pretensions to Kent Island, which now fell within the colony of Maryland, and likewise refused to submit to Calvert's authority. A skirmish between these rivals occurred (February, 1635), and Claiborne, sufiering defeat and escaping to Virginia, was demanded by the Maryland authorities as a fugitive from justice. But the Virginians, looking on the colonists of Maryland, as intruders within their territory, were disposed to side with Claiborne. Harvey, however, unwilling to do any act in apparent opposition to the royal charter to Lord Baltimore, in a spirit of compromise sent Claiborne a prisoner to England. This step was viewed by the Virginians as a betrayal of their interests, and Harvey was immediately deposed by the council, and Captain John West, one friendly to Claiborne, was appointed to act as governor until the king's pleasure should be known.

While at Jamestown, two years previously, De Vries, a trader from New Amsterdam, had explained to Harvey the situation of Fort Nassau, and his account . . . provoked the covetousness of Claiborne's friends. Under the encouragement of West, a party of fourteen or fifteen Englishmen was accordingly dispatched from Point Comfort, under the command of George Holmes, to seize the vacant Dutch fort. The enterprise was successful for there was now "nobody in possession" to oppose the invaders. But Thomas Hall, one of Holmes' men, deserting his party, brought prompt intelligence of the aggression to Fort Amsterdam. Van Twiller now perceived that Fort Nassau must be reoccupied by the Dutch, "or they would otherwise lose it to the English." An armed bark, belonging to the company, was therefore promptly dispatched thither with a competent force, and Holmes and his party were immediately dislodged, sent on board, and brought as prisoners to Manhattan (September 1, 1635). Their arrival increased the embarrassment of Van Twiller, who now learned that they had been expecting a reinforcement from Virginia. Meanwhile, De Vries had visited Manhattan again, in the ship King David, and after three months' delay in repairing his leaky vessel, which he had "hauled up on the strand," was about to sail for the Chesapeake. His opportune presence extricated the troubled director from his new dilemma. At Van Twiller's earnest entreaty, De Vries delayed his voyage for a week; the prisoners were sent on board the King David with "pack and sack", and two days afterward (8-10 September, 1635), Holmes and his invading party were relanded at Point Comfort. Here a bark was found lying ready to sail for the South River, with a force of twenty men on board, "to second" the enterprise which Holmes had begun, but by the unexpected return of the captured invaders, "their design was broken up." . . . .

I surmise, and I think correctly so, that Nicholas Stillwell, then a young man, was one of this party of fourteen or fifteen Englishmen from Virginia, who ventured to possess themselves of Fort Nassau. While their attempt was defeated, and themselves taken prisoners by the Dutch, they were considerately treated during their short captivity, which was long enough, however, to impress them with the advantages of Manhattan Island as a domicile, and though they were reshipped and delivered to their very own doors, yet some of them at least shortly returned. Nicholas Stillwell was, however, not among them, but Holmes and Hall were. They arrived in 1638; Stillwell not until 1645-1646. . . .

[There follows, on pp. 40-86 of this book, an account of Nicholas STILLWELL's life in NY after 1645-46. This account is too lengthy to repeat here.]

All that is now known concerning Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell has been recited. Perhaps more may come to light, but enough has been rescued, to establish him as one of the most conspicuous and stirring figures of his eventful time. At this late day he seems like an adventurer of fiction, or a hero of the romantic past. With his great natural force he dominated his fellowman, who during his long career perpetuated him in public office, both elective and appointive; and in private life he was the chief adviser of Lady Deborah Moody and a host of his fellowtownsmen. Though possessed of a martial spirit, he was free from the swashbuckling and buccaneering qualities which in that day were prone to accompany prowess. Likewise his deportment was such that he avoided the many scandals and lawsuits common to his time, in the vicinity of New Amsterdam. His persistent activity, ready exposure to hardship, and the age he attained, justly creates the impression that he was a man of great physical strength and robust constitution. He was ever foremost where valor was called for, or where Dutch resistance to English aggression was needed. His sense of loyalty to his benefactors was paramount to all personal interests, and the intensely Dutch authority, T. G. Bergen, Esq., who was never accused of favoring any person or thing English, paid him the merited compliment of saying that he never swerved from his allegiance to the Dutch, which is more than could be said of many of his English neighbors. That he was hasty and passionate of speech under excitement, we concede, but it was only by a handful of malcontents and wrongdoers, against whom he had fearlessly stood alone in the turbulent moments, that he was called unreasonable and a distruber of the peace.

There is nothing extant which proves the religious convictions or affiliations of Nicholas Stillwell, but the tone of his last will indicates that he possessed the piety of his day, which is confirmed by a letter dated, April 12,1660, to the Director and Council, signed by Nicholas Stillwell, and other residents of Gravesend, wherein they bitterly lament the licentiousness of their town, the desecration of the Sabbath, confusion of religious opinions, and: "as the fear of the Lord alone holds out promises of temporal and eternal blessings, and as we, your petitioners, to our sorrow and constant regret, see no means by which to make a change for the better, we have concluded to address ourselves to your Honors as being the only hope for us and the well-being of the Community and humbly and respectfully do ask and pray that a preacher or pastor may be sent here that the glory of God may be spread, the ignorant taught, the simple and innocent strengthened and the licentious restrained."

Certain it is that Nicholas Stillwell lived for the ultimate betterment of the human race. Amid quieter scenes Nicholas Stillwell's life drew to its close. His mantle of authority descended to his children, who were called to fill many high offices in the government. Surrounded by a numerous and respected family, his last years were spent in reposeful dignity awaiting the final summons which came Dec. 28, 1671. Post tempestatem tranquillitas.

A few days prior to his demise he made a will conveying practically all of his [e]state to his wife Anne:

In ye name of God, Amen, I, Nicholas Stillwell of Staten Island in ye terrytoryes of his Royal Highness, James Duke of York in America, Husbandman, being sick and weake in body, but of perfect and sound understanding, Thanks bee rendered to Allmighty God for the same, doe make and ordain this my last will and Testament in manner and forme following, Viz:

Imprimis: I give and bequeath my Soull unto ye Hands of Allmighty God who gave it in hopes to be saved in and through ye Passion, merritts and mediacon of Jesus Christe my only Saviour and Redeemer and my bodye to ye earth to be buryed in decent and Christian like Buryall according to ye discretion of my executrix hereafter named.

Item. I give and bequeathe unto my youngest son Jeremiah one Iron Grey Mare of about 4 years old to runn upon ye Island for his use.

Item: I give and bequeath unto my well beloved and affectionate wife Anne Stillwell all my whole estate consisting of Lands, Housing, Cattle, Corne, Oxen, Kine, Horses, Mares, Sheep, Swine, bee they of what nature or kind soever, as also all manner of Household goods moveable and Immoveables whatsoever being and lying upon Staten Island aforesaid or elsewhere with all manner of debts whatsoever and of Right belonging unto mee.

And I do also hereby constitute and appoint my said wife to be my full and sole executrix of this my last will and testament. Revoking all former wills and Testaments by mee formerly made.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale ye 22nd day of December in Annon 1671.

NICHOLAS X STILLWELL
his marke (Seal)

Sealed and Delivered in the presence of
N. DE MEYER
RICHD CHARLTON

June 17th, 1672, Letters of administration were granted unto Anne Stillwell ye widow and relict of ye deceased as executrix of this his last will, and testament above written. New York Wills, Book 1, p. 161.

A custom frequently kept among the early English settlers in this country was the observance of a year and a day of widowhood before remarriage. Inasmuch as Anne, the widow of Nicholas Stillwell, married December 29th, 1672, a second husband, it has been deduced that the exact date of Nicholas Stillwell's demise was December 28th, 1671. This may be correct, but we are only sure of the fact that he died between December 22nd, 1671, and June 17th, 1672, the respective dates of the execution and probate of his will.

Issue:

[i] Capt. Richard Stillwell born between 1633 and 1638; died 1688-9.

[ii] Capt. Nicholas Stillwell born about 1640; died 1715.

[iii] Ann Stilwell born between 1635 and 1640; married between 1653-1656, Nathaniel Britton, who died on Staten Island in 1684.

[iv] Alice Stillwell born about 1644; married first, in 1665, Lieut. Samuel Holmes; married second, in 1680, William Osborne; married third, Daniel Lake, Esq.

[v] William Stillwell born about 1650; progenitor of the Cape May, N.J., family.

[vi] Capt. Thomas Stillwell baptised at New Amsterdam, July 9, 1651; died 1704. His widow, Martha Billew married the Rev. David de Bonrepos.

[vii] Daniel Stillwell, Esq. baptised at New Amsterdam Nov. 13, 1653; died 1719 (?).

[viii] Mary Stillwell married July 16, 1678, Adam Mott, Jr., Esq., of Hempstead, Long Island, N.Y.

[ix] John Stillwell (supposed).

[x] Capt. Jeremiah Stillwell baptised at New Amsterdam, Jan. 13, 1663; died about 1749 in Monmouth County, N.J.

(2) Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Vol. I:

p. 135:

PATENT BOOK No. 1 — PART II. . . .

NICHOLAS STILLWELL, 202 acs. Charles River Co., Oct. 8, 1642, Page 826. On Frosbury Cr., a br. of Severne, near Richard Burtes land. 2 acs. of which is allowed for a path. Trans. of 4 pers.

p. 486:

PATENT BOOK No. 5. . . .

DANIELL CLARKE, 200 acs. on N. side of Northermost br. of Seaverne in Mockjack bay, running N.N.W. to land of Nich. Stillwell &c. 17 Mar. 1663, p. 284, (240). Granted to Abra. Moone 20 July 1652 & by him sold to sd. Clarke.

(3) The compiler is not certain which, if either, of the following baptismal records relates to "our" Nicholas STILLWELL:

Surrey Baptisms:

First name(s): Nicholas
Last name: Stillwell
Baptism year: 1605[/6]
Baptism date: 01 Feb 1605[/6]
Place: Puttenham, St John the Baptist
County: Surrey
Country: England
Archive: Surrey History Centre
Archive reference: PUT/1/1
Register type: Baptisms, marriages & burials
Year range: 1562-1754
Record set: Surrey Baptisms
Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory: Parish Baptisms
Collections from: England, Great Britain

\* \* \*

Surrey Baptisms:

First name(s): Nicholas
Last name: Stillwell
Baptism year: 1608
Baptism date: 20 Nov 1608
Father's first name(s): John
Place: West Horsley, St Mary
County: Surrey
Country: England
Archive: Surrey History Centre
Archive reference: HW/1/1
Register type: Baptisms, marriages & burials
Year range: 1600-1754
Record set: Surrey Baptisms
Category: Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Subcategory: Parish Baptisms
Collections from: England, Great Britain
 
STILLWELL, Lt. Nicholas (I48833)
 
25293 (1) Stott, Clifford L., "English Origins of William and Judith (Tue) Knopp of Watertown, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 147, pp. 315, 324-327 (1993):

WILLIAM KNOPP . . . was baptized at Bures St. Mary 1 January 1580/1, and he died at Watertown, Massachusetts, 30 August 1658. He was a carpenter. He married first, at Wormingford, Essex, 11 January 1606/7, JUDITH TUE, daughter of John Tue, baptized there 31 May 1589. She died before 1651. William married second, probably in 1651, PRISCILLA (-) AKERS (with whom he signed a prenuptial agreement as cited below), widow of Thomas Akers.

Although William???s descendants have adopted the surname Knapp, the name is usually spelled Knop(e), or Knopp(e) in the records of England and early New England. William arrived in America in 1630 indentured to Sir Richard Saltonstall. He is first mentioned in New England on 30 November 1630, when the Court of Assistants ordered that "whoesoeuer employeth Willm Knopp or his sonne in any work shall pay the one half of their wages to Sr Rich: Siltonstall, & whoever buyeth boards of them shall pay one halfe of the price to 5r Richard, till the money hee bath disbursed for them be satisfied." (Shurtleff, 1:82). On 22 March 1630/1 the debt owed to Saltonstall stood at ??19 5s (ibid., 1:85).

William was granted seven parcels of land in Watertown, including a sixteen acre homestall, a ninety-three acre farm, thirty acres in the Great Dividend, and smaller parcels totalling twenty-nine acres (Watertown, 1, pt. 2:3,10,12,54,104,137). As an old man, he frequently received assistance from the town. Until 1 May 1652, he performed work around the meeting house and was the poundkeeper, for which he received a small wage. He is often referred to as "Ould Knop," or "Father Knop" in the records (ibid., 1, pt. 1:24,25,28,29,30).

William Knopp was in frequent violation of the law. On 7 November 1634 he was bound in the sum of ??10 to appear at the next court for swearing (Shurtleff, 1:133). Of a more serious nature, he was directed by the court on 6 June 1637, upon pain of a fine of ??100 and imprisonment, to bring in sureties within eight days for his appearance at the next Quarter Court for speaking against Governor Vane (ibid., 1:199). The outcome of this charge is unknown. William was fined ??5 on 1 June 1641 for selling beer for two years without a license (ibid., 1:318). On 13 November 1644 the records of the court show that a fine of ??5 for some unknown offence had been reduced to 20s (ibid., 2:90). On 7 October 1651 he was again presented for his "scurulus and undecent words," this time to the schoolmaster. For this he was sentenced to pay 13s 4d or to spend two hours in the stocks (Middlesex Co. Court Records, 1:23, transcribed by David Pulsifer, 1851, FHL film 892,250).

On 25 March 1655 William sold much of his outlying property to his son John for "sundry and good considerations" and ??5 lOs (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2:12). Late in 1656, William applied for assistance to the selectmen of Watertown, who in turn proposed that he place his estate in the hands of his children in exchange for their support; if the children refused this proposal the town should undertake a similar agreement on the same terms (Watertown, 1:1:49). The children were apparently reluctant. During the last years of his life, the town leased out William???s lands and reimbursed others for their assistance to him (ibid., 1:1:53-56).

The original will of William Knopp, dated 5 July 1655 and witnessed by Richard Bu[__], Richard Bloss, and Nathaniell Salisbury, is found in the Middlesex County Court files (folio 16 #5, FHL film 878,221):

After all just debts of the aforesaid William Knope is satisfy the estate that remains is to bee Equally devided Amongst [illegible] children viz. William Knope John Knope James Knope Elizeath [sic] Knope Mary Knope Ane Knope Judeth Knope the house & land Adioyninge to it & cattell & Moveables viz I give unto my wife two pound tenn shillings

William Knop

The will was never proved, possibly because of ambiguous language. The bequests made to the wife are unclear; if only ??2 10s was her intended legacy, the will would certainly have been challenged. The daughter Anne had died prior to the death of her father, but the will had not been modified to dispose of her portion. Elizabeth Buttery of Bures St. Mary refers to the will of her late father in her 1660 power of attorney. However, the remaining heirs in New England indicated in a deed, dated 1 April 1662, that he died intestate (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2:201-203).

The inventory of the William Knopp estate, valued at ??130, was taken 31 August 1658, and it includes a note from John Knopp to his "mother" for a ??1 5s, 0d (Middlesex Co. Probate, 1:241; for the full inventory, see Threlfall, 179-181). The creditor was apparently his stepmother, Priscilla; she received the money as part of her settlement at the court held at Cambridge on 5 April 1659, along with ??10 as payment for a note she held from her late husband. The note, dated 20 June 1651 and almost certainly a prenuptial agreement, was payable to Priscilla upon the death of William from estate, or was to be paid by William to Priscilla's heirs if she should die first (Middlesex Co. Court Files, folio 24 #4, FHL film 878,221; for full transcript see Threlfall, 178-179). Priscilla presented the note at the court of 5 April 1659, receiving in return for it a total of ??11 5s plus the use of one-third of the lands of her late husband during her lifetime, as well as a moiety of the rest of the moveable estate after the debts were paid. The balance of the estate was divided among the surviving children or their heirs, with the eldest son receiving a double portion. Receipts are found in the court records for William Knapp, James Knap, John Knop, Thomas Smith (husband of Mary Knopp), and Nicholas Cady (husband of Judith Knopp) (Middlesex Co. Misc. Index and Records, 1st series, 1659-1692, 250-53, FHL film 385,74).

The real estate of William Knopp consisted of a dwelling house, barn, orchard, and eighteen acres of land in Watertown. John Knopp eventually purchased the portions of his father's estate set off to his siblings, William, James, Mary, and Judith. On 26 November 1661 John Knopp sold the property to Nathaniel Coolidge, with William Knopp, James Knopp, Thomas and Mary Smith, and Nicholas and Judith Cady signing a release to Coolidge on 1 April 1662 (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2.1-203).

Elizabeth Buttery, the daughter of Williams Knopp who remained in Bures St. Mary, appointed two New England men to act as her attorneys. On 27 March 1660 Thomas Danforth of Cambridge and John Parmenter, the Elder, of Sudbury, were authorized to obtain Elizabeth's portion of the estate of her late father (Middlesex Co. Probate file 13409; recorded also Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2:218). As a former resident of Bures St. Mary, Parmenter was probably well acquainted with the Knopp family. On 24 June 1662 Elizabeth's inheritance was sold to Nathaniel Coolidge for ??12 (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2:217-219). Unfortunately, Elizabeth did not live to receive her small legacy. She was buried in Bures St. Mary on 23 February 1661/2, four months before the sale.

Children with first wife Judith; surname Knopp:

i. ELIZABETH, bp. at Wormingford, Essex, 10 July 1608; bur. at Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, 23 Feb 1661/2, as "Widow Buttery"; m. - BUTTERY. On 27 March 1660 she gave power of attorney to Thomas Danforth and John Parmenter to receive legacies from her father's estate in New England. Administration on her estate was granted 7 Jan. 1662[/3] to her daughter Elizabeth, wife of Abraham Ive, and an inventory of ??14 14s 2d presented the same day (Administration Act Book, Archdeacon, Court of Sudbury, A5f5/38).

ii. WILLIAM, bp. at Wormingford, Essex, 3 Feb. 1610/11; d. at Watertown, Mass., 25 Sept. 1676 (Middlesex Co. Probate, 5:33); m. (1) ca. 1642, MARY -, (2) before 2 March 1652/3, MARGARET -.

iii. MARY, bp. at Wormingford, Essex, 19 Aug 1613; m. by 1637 THOMAS SMITH (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2:201; Watertown, I:3:5).

iv. ANNE, bp. at Wormingford, Essex, 24 Dec. 1618; m. ca. 1649, JOHN PHILBRICK . . . of Bures St. Mary. Anne d. at sea with her husband and daughter Sarah, when their ship sank en route from Hampton to Boston, 20 Oct. 1657 (Hampton Town Records, 1:566). The surviving children were heirs to their grandfather Knopp's estate (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2:201-203).

v. JOHN, bp. at Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, 20 Jan. 1622/3; d. at Watertown, Mass., between 22 Jan. 1695/6 (date of will) and 9 April 1696 (date of inv.) (Middlesex Co. Probate, file 13400); m. at Watertown, 21 May 1660, SARAH YOUNG. They resided at Watertown.

vi. JAMES, bp. at Wormingford, Essex, 30 April 1626; m. ca. 1654 ELIZABETH WARREN, dau. of John Warren of Watertown They removed to Groton but he perhaps returned; the inventory of James Knopp, of Watertown, is dated 11 Nov. 1700 (Middlesex Co. Probate. file 13399).
vii. JUDITH, bp. at Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, 16 July 1629; d. probably at Groton, Mass.; m. ca. 1650 NICHOLAS CADY (Middlesex Co. Deeds, 2,201). They removed to Groton where she probably died. 
KNOPP, William (I15475)
 
25294 (1) Strassburger, Ralph Beaver, Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. I-II, Norristown, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934:

At the Court House at Philadelphia, Monday, the 23d of October, 1752. Present: Edward Shippen, Esqr.

The Foreigners whose Names are underwritten, imported in the Ship Rawley, Capt. John Grove, from Rotterdam, but last from Plymouth, this day took the usual Qualifications to the Government. . . .

Johannes M??ller

(2) Egle, William Henry, Genealogical Record of the Families of Beatty, Egle, M??ller, Murray, Orth, and Thomas, Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Printer and Binder, 1886, p. 49:

JOHN M??LLER, son of RUDOLPH M??LLER, b. about 1715, in the Palatinate, Germany; emigrated with his family to America in 1752, on the ship "Bawley," ["Rawley"] George Grove, captain, "from Rotterdam, last from Plymouth," arriving at Philadelphia on the 23d of October, 1752. He settled in Lebanon township, then Lancaster county, Pa., where he died in 1760, leaving a wife, BARBARA, who survived her husband several years, dying in 1783, and children as follows:

i. John, b. 1734; d. prior to 1785; m. Juliana ---; d. prior to 1785; and had a son Rudolph.

ii. Ursula, b. 1736; m. Martin Thomas, (see Thomas record.)

iii. Anna, b. 1738; m. Matthias Reigard.

iv. Rudolph, b. 1740; m. first, Catharine ---; secondly Susanna ---.

v. Elizabeth, b. 1743; m. Christopher Lobingier.

vi. Barbara, b. 1745; m. John Wolf, of Cumberland county, Pa.

vii. Mary, b. 1747: m. Henry Felger, of Westmoreland county, Pa. 
M??LLER, John (I11104)
 
25295 (1) Streeter, Perry, "Gerrit Jansen Van Oldenburg: DNA Testing Yields More Garrison Descendants in New Jersey & New York," New Netherland Connections, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2009), p. 19:

"The [property] line of Dongan aliven [?] [sic] and Joseph berstido [Bastido]" was identified in a 26 September 1716 road survey of Staten Island and "Duncan Olpherts" witnessed the will of Alexander Stewart of Richmond County on 11 February 1716/17. Thus, Duncan and Mary (_____) Oliphant were still residing on Staten Island in 1714 when the sisters of Johannes/John Gerritsen/Garrison who also resided there were identified in the estate of their brother, Cornelis Garretson. It is logical to conclude that, by omission from the estate, Mary (_____) Oliphant was not a sister of Johannes/John Gerritsen/Garrison. Duncan Oliphant's eldest son, David, was likely named in honor of Duncan's father but the Garrisons had no known son bearing that name, so it also logical to conclude that Hester (_____) Garrison was probably not Duncan's sister. Thus, Duncan Oliphant probably identified Johannes/John Gerritsen/Garrison as his brother-in-law because their wives were sisters. Perhaps he felt compelled to explicitly use the phrase, "my brother-in-law," because the connection was actually through their wives. If Mary and Hester were sisters, the fact that both had known (or probable) sons named James may ultimately prove to be a clue for determining their origins.

(2) Message posted by Perry Streeter on 9 December 2014 to the Dutch-Colonies-L mailing list:

. . . the available evidence uncovered to date suggests that Hester, wife of Johannes/John GERRITSEN/GARRISON . . . , and Mary, wife of Duncan OLIPHANT, were *probably* sisters. In any case, it is highly unlikely that Mary (_____) OLIPHANT was a GARRISON, as many have previously assumed based only on the phrase, "my brother-in-law John GARRISON," appearing in Duncan OLIPHANT'S will.

(3) Some sources claim not only that Mary (_____) OLIPHANT was a GARRISON, but also that she was a daughter of Lambert GARRISON. The compiler has seen no evidence that Lambert GARRISON had a daughter named Mary. See Miller, Phyllis J., "The Garrison-Gerritsen and Segers Descendants of Gerrit Segers," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol. 124, No. 3 (July 1993), pp. 141-142. 
(OLIPHANT), Mary (I42989)
 
25296 (1) Streeter, Perry, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex," The New England Historical and Genealogical Record, Vol. 175 (Winter 2021), p. 16:

DANIEL CLENCH, b. say 1589; bur. Earls Colne 26 May 1639 as "Dan Clinch"; m. Earls Colne 3 May1614, as "Daniell Clench" to "Ellin'r" Brewer [ELEANOR BREWER], b. say 1593 but no baptism found in
Earls Colne, despite many records for other Bruer/Brewer children in the same era. Daniel married just months before his probable brother Thomas married, so Daniel was possibly younger than Thomas or his
twin.

[Note by compiler: Daniel CLENCH is listed by this source as a probable son of John CLENCH and Mary MARSHALL. 
CLENCH, Daniel (I47772)
 
25297 (1) Streeter, Perry, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex," The New England Historical and Genealogical Record, Vol. 175 (Winter 2021), p. 16:

JOHN CLENCH, bp. St. Nicholas 29 Jan. 1587/8 as "Clenche"; possibly living when "John ye yongr Sonne of John Clench," was bp. St. Runwald 26 Aug. 1607.

[Note by compiler: This John CLENCH is listed by this source as a probable son of John CLENCH and Mary MARSHALL.] 
CLENCH, John (I47771)
 
25298 (1) Streeter, Perry, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex," The New England Historical and Genealogical Record, Vol. 175 (Winter 2021), p. 17:

HENRY CLENCH, gentleman, apothecary, bp. St. Nicholas 2 April 1592 as "Henrye Clenche"; d. St. Runwald 24 Dec. 1624; bur. St. Runwald 2 Jan. 1624/5; will made 24 Dec. 1624; m. as "Henrie Clench," Earls Colne 17 March 1617, JANE HARLAKENDEN, daughter of Richard and Margaret (Hubert) Harlakenden of Earls Colne, bp. Earls Colne 4 Feb. 1601. Jane m. (2) Earls Colne 14 Aug. 1638, JOHN ELLISTON, son of John Elliston of Black Notley, near Braintree.

Children of Henry and Jane (Harlakenden) Clench:

1. Jane Clench, b. say 1619; a minor in her father's 1624 will.

2. Eleanor Clench, b. say 1621; a minor in her father's 1624 will.

3. Henry Clench, b. Earls Colne Priory Manor, Earls Colne, 9 June 1625, bp. Earls Colne 16 June 1625; bur. Earls Colne 26 Nov. 1626; not named in his father's will because he was born posthumously, according to his maternal grandfather's account: "my daughter Clench was bought abed of a son the 9.6.1625 at my
house her husband being dead at xmas before this son was christened and named Hen."

(2) Source: Steinman, G. Steinman, "Pedigree of Harlakenden, of Kent and Essex," in Nichols, John Gough, Editor, The Topographer and Genealogist, Vol. I, London, England: Society of Antiquaries, 1846, p. 235. 
CLENCH, Henry (I23980)
 
25299 (1) Streeter, Perry, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex," The New England Historical and Genealogical Record, Vol. 175 (Winter 2021), p. 17:

SAMUEL CLENCH, b. say 1593; probably the Samuel Clench, Baker of Colchester, who made his will 16 Jan. 1662/3; "Samuell Clenche [and] Marye Halgrave [MARY HALGRAVE] marryed" St. Runwald 13 April 1618.

Known child of Samuel and Mary (Halgrave) Clench:

1. Samuel Clench, b. St. Botolph, Colchester, ca. 1624; admitted to be a free scholar in the Colchester School as "the eldest son of Samuel Clench, baker.

[Note by compiler: Samuel CLENCH is listed by this source as a probable son of John CLENCH and Mary MARSHALL.] 
CLENCH, Samuel (I47774)
 
25300 (1) Streeter, Perry, "Thomasine (Clench) Frost of the Great Migration: Her Probable Correct Origins in Colchester, Essex," The New England Historical and Genealogical Record, Vol. 175 (Winter 2021), p. 18:

ANNE CLENCH, bp. St. Runwald 29 April 1600 as "An Clenche."

[Note by compiler: Anne CLENCH is listed by this source as a probable daughter of John CLENCH and Mary MARSHALL.] 
CLENCH, Anne (I47777)
 

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