Family Records or Genealogies
Of The
First Settlers Of Passaic Valley
(And Vicinity)
Above Chatham - with Their
Ancestors and Descendants
As Far As Can Now Be Ascertained.
by John Littell
1851
MARSHALL to OSBORN
[Transcribed by Coralynn Brown]
JAMES MARSHALL
JAMES MARSHALL was son of James Marshall, of Rahway. He married Phebe Marsh, sister of Daniel, Christopher, and Ralph Marsh, of Rahway. He lived in Stony Hill Valley, and had children :
1. Mary, who married Peter Allen, son of Joseph Allen, Jun., of Washington Valley. [See Joseph Allen, Jun.]
2. Nancy married, 10th March, 1790, William Allen, brother of Peter.
3. James married Mary Moore, daughter of Isaac Moore, of Passaic Valley ; lived and died at Patterson.
4. Daniel married Polly Frazee, daughter of Jacob, on the first mountain, and went to Ohio.
5. Jane married David Brant, of Morris county. He left her, and went to Ohio, and she lived and died in New York.
6. John, born 1789, married Hannah Willcox, born 1795, daughter of Daniel Willcox. He lived on Stony Hill, and had children : 1. Stephen, who married Amanda Smalley, daughter of Samuel, son of David, and had children : 1. Hutchings; 2. Samuel; 3. Mary. Augusta ; and then went to Illinois.
2. Deborah, born 1816, married William Brant, son of Matthias, of Union, and had a daughter, Mary Alice, born 30th June, 1842, and then parted by consent. 3. Mary Jane, born 1822.
JAMES MARSHALL, (3d child of James,) and Mary Moore, lived at Patterson, and had children:
1. John.
2. David, who died unmarried.
3. Sally married William Hadley, and removed west.
4. Daniel.
5. Rachel married William Walker; lives at Morristown.
6. Betsey, twin to Rachel, married Henry Crane, of Bloomfield.
7. Garret.
8. James.
9. Calvin, who died young.
JOHN MASCHO
JOHN MASCHO married Catharine Potter, daughter of Daniel Potter, 2d. He lived on Long Hill, and had children:
1. Polly. [See Potter]
2. David, who went to Western N. Y.
3. Sarah, who died young.
4. Daniel Potter Mascho, who married Sally Lacy, daughter of Jacob, son of David.
ALEXANDER MARTIN lived on the south side of Long Hill, below Henry Jennings' and the Washington schoolhouse.
His wife's name was Sarah. He was born 1730, and died 14th March. 1785, aged 55 years. She was born 1737, and died 20th December, 1797, aged 60 years; they had children :
1. Jane, who married James Todd, son of Alexander, of Bedminster, Somerset county. [See Todd.]
2. Sarah married William Ludlow, son of Matthias, of Westfield. [See Matthias Ludlow.]
3. Alexander, Jun , married, 26th Oct .1788, Mary Darling, sister of Thomas Darling.
4. David married Susannah Shotwell, daughter of John Smith Shotwell, and sister of William Shotwell, of Plainfield, and had no children.
5. Thomas married, 271h March, 1788, Betsey Hedges, daughter of Uriah. [See Hedges ]
6. Anne, who married George Noble, and had a daughter Jane, who married Sylvanus Oakley, son of Ephraim Oakley. [See Oakley.]
7. Samuel married _______ and went to the West.
JANE MARTIN, (daughter of Alexander,) and James Todd, had children :
1. Alexander Todd, who died in 1849, aged 64 years.
2. Sally married John Norton.
3. William married Catherine Hand, daughter of Jonathan Hand, of Basking Ridge. [See Hand.]
4. James is not married.
5. Anne married John Nesbit, son of James, of Basking Ridge.
THOMAS MARTIN, and Betsey Hedges, had children :
1. Thomas, who married, 14th February, 1822, Rebecca Spinning, daughter of Benjamin, and had children: 1. Jenette. 2. John Dayton, who married. 18th July, 1850, Nancy Pierson, daughter of James H. Pierson.
2. Dayton, who married Sally Crowel, daughter of Silas Crowel, of Green Village, and had children : 1. Harriet Roberts Martin ; 2. William R. Martin.
NOTE— Silas Crowel's wife was Agnes Roberts, daughter of Samuel, son of Samuel Roberts, sen.
3. Polly married Daniel Hole, son of Charles Hole, Jun., and had children: 1, Sally Hole; 2. Nancy Hole ; 3. Thomas Hole. They went to the lakes, N. Y. [See Hole.]
JOHN MAXWELL
JOHN MAXWELL lived in Westfield, and had children :
1. William, who married, 1st, Abigail Day, daughter of David Day, ; 2d, Elizabeth Baker, daughter of Thomas Baker, Jun.
2. John, 2d.
3. David.
4. Esther, who married Moses Miller, son of John Miller, Jun. [See Miller.]
WILLI AM MAXWELL, (son of John Moxwell, Sen.,) owned the farm of 99 acres, adjoining on the west that of John Bedell, and probably he, or his father-in-law, David Day, Esq., built the houie where Peter Hill now lives.
He also owned a tract south of it, extending to the top of Stony Hill. He sold the farm of
99 acres, on the 11 of April, 1761, to Thomas Baker, and removed to or built a house on the north side of Stony Hill, on the other tract now owned in part by John W. Hand, lying east of T. 0. Scudder's wood lot.
William Maxwell had children:
1. Sarah, who married Henry Frazee, son of Joseph. [See Frazee.]
2. David Day Maxwell, baptized 13th May, 1764, married Nelly ______, removed to Canada.
3. William, Jun„ who married Polly Badgley, 28th February, 1792, daughter of Anthony.
4. Polly married, 1st, Isaac Line, son of Capt. William Line, had a son, Isaac Line. Her husband then died, and she married John Willcox, son of John Willcox, sen.
5. Abigail, who died 12th February, 1816, unmarried, an aged woman.
6. Samuel, who died a young man, unmarried.
7. Elizabeth married, 10th May, 1775, John Prior, son of Andrew. [see Prior]
8. John, who married near Pluckemin.
9. Jemima, who married ______.
JOHN. MAXWELL, 2d, (son of John, 1st.) had children:
1. Nathaniel, who died unmarried, during the revolutionary war.
2. John, 3d. was a mason, learned his trade of Jacob Brittin, of Long Hill, was a captain of the militia, married Eunice Osborn, daughter of John, and in April, 1800, removed to Sussex county.
3. Daniel, who morriel Abby Potter, daughter of Caleb Potter.
4. Hannah, married Aaron Baker, son of Daniel, son of Tnornas Baker, 3d. [See Baker.]
CAPT. JOHN MAXWELL. (son of John, son of John, 1st, of Westaeld,) and Eunice Osborn, had children :
1. Jacob Brittin Maxwell, born 5th August, 1786, and married 1st, Phebe T. Russel, born 18th March, 1700, daughter of James Russel, of Sussex ; 2d, Polly Littell, daughter of William, son of Jonathan Littell.
2. Elizabeth married Luke VanBuskirk, Jun., son of Luke, of Sussex.
3. John Osborn Maxwell married Betsey Carey, daughter of Jacob, of Sussex.
4. Esther married James C. Hagaman, son of Baron Hagaman.
5. Israel Baker Maxwell married Mary Anne Onsted, daughter of John.
JACOB B. MAXWELL, (1st child of Capt. John Maxwell:). now lives in New Providence, and by Phebe T. Russel had a son:
1. John T. Baker Maxwell, who married Abigail Higgins, daughter of Davis Higgins.
And by Polly Littell had children :
2. William Newton Maxwell, who died at 25 years, unmarried.
3. Nancy, born 17th February, 1817, who married Samuel Duryee, born 16th November, 1814, son of David, of Newark, and had children : 1. William Brittin Duryee, born 17th March, 1840.
2. John David Duryee, born 4th May, 1841. 3. Phebe Ellen Duryee, born 25th March, 1844, and died 1st October, 1844. 4. Mary Emma Duryee, born 7th October, 1846. 5. Charlotte Elizabeth Duryee, born 28th August, 1848.
4. Israel Osborn Maxwell, born 5th August. 1820, and married Charlotte Catherine Strong, born 1826, daughter of Davis Strong, and had children : 1. Jacob Brittin Maxwell, born 28th November, 1843. 2. Clara Madura Maxwell, born 21st June, 1848.
5. Esther, who died young.
JOHN T. BAKER MAXWELL. (son of Jacob B. Maxwell,) and Abigail Higgins, live in New York, and had children :
1. Phebe Anne ; 2. Louisa ; 3. Charlotte ; 4. Harriet ; 5. Margaret Davis ; 6. Addison Weld ; 7. Mary.
ELIZABETH MAXWELL, (2d child of Cart. John Maxwell and Eunice Osborn,) and Luke VanBuskirk, Jun., of Sussex, had children :
1. Eunice VanBuskirk, who married Horace Cooper, of Morris county.
2. Mary Anne VanBuslcirk married Charles Mackerly, son of Michael, and had children: 1. Michael Mackerly ; 2. Jacob B. Mackerly ; 3. Harriet Mackerly ; 4. Elizabeth Mackerly.
3. John M. VanBuskirk married Mary Anne Reed, daughter of Andrew Reed, and has a son William VanBuskirk.
Mr. Luke VanBuskirk, Jun., was accidentally killed by the fall of a tree, and his widow Elizabeth married Mr. Montague, and had a son : 4. Joseph Montague.
JOHN 0. MAXWELL, (3d child of Capt. John Maxwell,) and Betsey Carey had children :
1. Phebe married Lansing Predmore, son of Joshua, of Sussex, and removed to Michigan.
2. Jacob Carey married, and removed to Beech Woods, N. Y.
3. Daniel ; 4. Rhoda; 5. James ; 6. John Maxwell.
ESTHER MAXWELL. (4th child of Capt. John Maxwell,) and James C. Hagaman, had children:
1. Hannah Hagaman. who married Mr. Masker, from Patterson.
2. Jacob Brittin Hagaman married Telitha Predmore, daughter of Joseph, and cousin of Lansing Predmore, before named.
3. Eliza Hagaman married Daniel Gunderman, son of Peter, of Sussex county.
4. Sarah Ann Hagaman married Mr. Ross, of Sussex.
5. Catherine Hagaman, who died at about 25 years.
6. Margaret Hagaman, who died at about 23 years.
7. Rebecca Frances Hagaman.
8. James Hagaman.
9. and 10. Daniel and Mary Hagaman, twins.
ISRAEL B. MAXWELL, (5th child of Capt. John Maxwell,) and Mary Anne Onsted, had children:
1. Nancy ; 2. Esther; 3. John Jacob Maxwell ; and then removed to Michigan.
DANIEL MAXWELL, (son of John Maxwell, 2d.) and Abby Potter, were married 5th November, 1789, and had children:
1. Phebe. who married Mr. Bishop, near the Scotch Plains.
2. Esther, who married Ephraim Terri!, of Westfield.
Abby, the wife if Daniel Maxwell, was drowned in January, 1800, in New York bay, the upsetting of a sailboat of Elizabethtown, when several others were drowned.
DAVID MAXWELL, (3d child of John, 1st,) lived in Union, and had children :
1. John, who married Anna Hubbel, and lived in Union township.
2. Samuel married Ruth Ross, daughter of Daniel Ross, and sister of Phebe, the wife of John Crane, [see Crane] and removed to Ballston Springs.
3. Isaac married a daughter of George Scudder, and lived near Union Village, in Passaic Valley, and had children, David and Susan, who went to near Lake Ontario, in Western N. Y.
4. Ruth married Ezekiel Ross, brother of Samuel's wife.
JOHN MAXWELL, (son of David,) and Anna Hubbel, had children :
1. Susan, who married Stephen Foster, of Lyons Farms.
2. David, who died at about 58 years, unmarried.
3. Abner, who married Sally Allen, daughter of John, of Union.
4. Nancy, who died at about 64 years, unmarried.
5. Mary, who married Denman Meeker, of Lyons Farms.
6. Esther married Elias Crane, son of John, 4th. [See Crane.]
ROBERT MEEKER
JOSEPH MEEKER was in the first list of eighty associates, called "the Elizabethtown Associates," and was probablv the father of Robert Meeker, Stephen Meeker, and David Meeker, who
were brothers, and all settled in or near Elizabethtown.
The name of Benjamin Meeker is in the list of the 2d generation of associates, admitted in 1699.
ROBERT MEEKER had sons, James, Robert, Stephen, end David.
JAMES MEEKER, (son of Robert,) married Mary Crucheron, and had children :
1. Mary, who married Ephraim Sayre, of Elizabthtown, and had children : 1. Betsey Sayre ; 2. Polly Sayre ; 3. Nancy Sayre; 4. Ephraim Sayre, Jun.
2. Isaiah married Deborah, the widow of Jonathan Magie, and daughter of Joseph Halsey.
3. Francis married Walters Burrows. [See Burrows.]
4. Anna, who died a young woman.
5. Hannah married Edward Hill, of Basking Ridge.
6. Rebecca married Simeon Morehouse. [See Morehouse.]
7. James married Hannah Foster, of Lyons Farms.
8. Aaron.
9. Hetty, who married Samuel Foster of Lyons Farms.
ISAIAH MEEKER, (son of James,) came up to Turkey, in 1775, and settled on No. 18, of the Elizabethtown lots; first owned by William Broadwell, where Abraham Kent now lives, and died there, 23d February, 1814, aged 73 years. He married Deborah, the widow of Jonathan Magie. She was the daughter of Joseph Halsey, who lived near the Wheatsheaf Tavern, between Elizabethtown and Rahway. She died 6th March, 1836.
Isaiah Meeker, (2d child of James Meeker,) and Deborah Halsey, had children :
1. Abigail, who was born 1767, and married, 9th Sept. 1824, Thomas Parrot, Esq , his 2d wife. She died 1st July, 1646, aged 79 years. She had no children.
2. David Halsey married, 19th Dec. 1790, Silly Wood, daughter of Capt. Daniel S. Wood. He died 27th May, 1798, aged 50 years.
3. Nancy. born 1771, married, 23d Dec. 1790, John Roberts, son of Samuel Roberts. She died 30th July, 1842, aged 71 years. He died 22d April, 1342, age 75 years.
4. Caleb, born 1772, married Charity Frost, daughter of John M. Frost, of Morris county. He died 8th Jan. 1815, aged 43. She died 10th Feb. 1850, aged 72 years [See Ward.]
5. Jonathan Magie, born 2d April, 1776, and married Elizabeth Townley, born 22d August, 1780, daughter of Richard Townley, son of Effingham, and had no children.
6. Mary married Arauna Muir, of New Vernon. She died ______. He died 27th Aug. 1838, aged 60 years.
7. Isaac, born 1778, married, 5th March, 1808, Betsey Willcox, daughter of Daniel.
DANIEL H. MEEKER, (son of Isaiah) and Sally Wood, had children :
1. John M , who married Mary C. Budd, daughter of Doct. John C. Budd.
2. Deborah married Uzel Hand, son of Robert. [See Hand ]
3. Daniel, who went to Connecticut.
NANCY MEEKER, (daughter of Isaiah,) and John Roberts, had children :
1. Phebe. born 791, [1791?] and died unmarried.
2. Abigail, who married Nathan Finnan Pierson, and had children : 1. John Roberts Pierson ; 2. George Pierson ; 3. Elizabeth Pierson ; 4. Daniel Pierson ; 5. Elias Pierson ; 6. Jonathan Meeker Pierson.
Charlotte H. , who died 2d March, 1838, aged 36 years.
JOHN M. MEEKER. (son of Daniel H., son of Isaiah,) and Mary C. Budd, had children:
1. Gertrude, who married Jabez Cook, son of Ellis Cook, of Hanover, and had children: 1. Anne Cook ; 2. William Cook ; 3. Mary Cook.
2. John ; 3. Sarah; 4. Mary ; 5. George ; 6. Henrietta Meeker.
CALEB MEEKER, (son of Isaiah,) and Charity Frost, had 2 children:
1. Polly, who married Amos Wilcox, son of John Willcox, Jun., and died 27th Nov. 1831, leaving a son, Theodore, who married _____, and lives in N. Y.
2. Nancy ; 3. Betsey Townley ; 4. Charity Frost, who all three died young.
5. Caleb Halsey, Meeker, who married Hannah Gillam, daughter of John, son of James Gillam, and had children: 1. Albert . 2. Harriet ; 3. Almira ; 4. Mary ; 5. Emma.
6. Jonathan Magie Meeker married, 1st, Almira Voder ; 2d, Mary Elizabeth Delliger [hard to read], of N. Y., and had children: 1. Frederick ; 2. Mary ; 3. Arvin ; 4 William ; 5. Theodore ; 6. Ellis.
7. Isaac, born 8th Dec. 1811, married Mehetabel Barnet Willcox, daughter of John, 31, and had children : 1. Sarah Anne, who married, 27th Feb., 1850, Benjamin Spinning, son of John, [See Spinning ;] 2. John Lewis Meeker ; 3. Charity Frost Meeker ; 4. Isaac Henry Meeker ; 5. William Francis Meeker.
MARY MEEKER, (daughter of Isaiah,) and Arauna Muir, had children :
1. David Austin Muir, who is a dry goods merchant in Broadway, New York. He married Mary Jaques, daughter of Isaac Jaques, New York, and had children : 1. Elizabeth J. Muir, who married, 10th Nov. 1851, David G. Tappen, of Morristown ; 2. Frances Muir; 3. Lewis Muir ; 4. Austin Muir ; 5. Harry Muir.
2. Jonathan M. Muir.
3. Josiah Frost Muir, who is a paper manufacturer at Chatham. He married Almira Parkhurst, daughter of Ezra, and had children: 1. Harriet Muir ; 2. James Muir.
4. Deborah Halsey Muir.
5. Caleb Meeker Muir, who married, May, 1849, Abigail Brown, daughter of Benjamin, of Chatham.
6. Mary Caroline Muir.
7. Isaac Newton Muir, who died at 6 years.
ISAAC MEEKER, (son of Isaiah,) and Betsey Willcox, lived east of Sterling's Valley, and had children :
1. Mariah, who married Lewis Noe, Jun., son of Lewis, and had children: 1. Jonathan Meeker Noe; 2. Isaac Meeker Noe; 3. Lewis Mulford Noe.
2. Harriet, who married, 12th May, 1840, Abraham Valentine, son of Peter D. Valentine. She died 16th June, 1843, aged 31 years, without children.
3. Eliza Anne, who married, 3d April, 1841, Daniel Noe, of Woodbridge, and died without children.
JAMES MEEKER, (son of James, son of Robert Meeker,) and Hannah Foster, lived at Connecticut Farms, and had children:
1. Nancy, who married John Brewster, son of Timothy, and had but one child, James M. Brewster.
2. Nathan, who married Nancy Watkins, daughter of Trembly Watkins, and had children : 1. James Trembly Meeker, who married Joanna B. Munn, daughter of Doct. Jephtha B. Munn, Of Chatham.
2. Elizabeth W. Meeker.
3. James F. Meeker, who married Rebecca Bloomfield ; is a merchant in Elizabethtown, and had children. 1. James R. Meeker, who married Anna Halsey, daughter of John T. Halsey.
2. William Bloomfield Meeker.
4. Stephen J. Meeker, who married, 1st, Phebe Magie ; 2d,. Eliza Woodruff, daughter of Flave [hard to read], and had children: 1. David Magie Meeker, who married Olivia Gardner, daughter of Samuel Gardner, of Clinton. 2. Phelbe H. Meeker, who married Charles Brown. 3. Jane H. Meeker.
4. Hannah Meeker, who married Mr. ____ Harrison, of Orange. 5. Sally Meeker, who married John High 3d, son of John, Jun., of Westfield. [See High.]
JOHN MILLER
JOHN MILLER lived in Westfield, and had children:
1. Enoch, who married Hannah Baker, who was born 1792, and lived in Westfield.
2. John, Jun. also lived in Westfield.
ENOCH MILLER, (son of John,) and Hannah Baker, had children:
1. Enoch, Jun., who married Eliza Ross.
2. Andrew married Sarah Ross.
3. Moses married, 1st, Azuba Meeker, of Elizabethtown; 2d, Molly Riley, an Irish girl ; 3d, Hannah, widow of Benjamin Bonne!, son of Benjamin Bonne!, Esq. He lived at Union Village, in Passaic Valley, and was an elder in the Presbyterian church of New Providence.
4. Jacob, born March, 1747, married Lucretia Marsh, daughter of Joshua, of Westfield, lived on Long Hill, and removed to Butler county, Ohio.
5. Jedediah.
6. Lydia married Robert Goble, and went to Ohio, and then to Indiana. They had children : 1. Robert Goble; 2. Abby Gable married Robert Shafer; 3. Hannah Goble; 4. ____ Goble.
7. Elizabeth married William Scrawfoot; lived at Springfield, N. J.
8. Josiah married Jemima Ward, of Cheapside ; lived in Westfield.
9. Hannah, twin to Josiah, married David Littell, Esq., son of David, and lived at Cheapside, in Livingston township. (See David Liltell]
ELDER MOSES MILLER, (3d son of Enoch,) and Azuba Meeker, had children:
1. Rhoda, who married, 20th Feb. 1787, Enos Potter, son of Col. Samuel Potter. [See Potter.]
2. Sally married Nathaniel Crane, son of Caleb Crane and Elizabeth Townley, of Elizabethtown.
3. Rachel married Smith Miller, 8th Jan. 1792, son of Moses, son of John Jun., son of John. [See Moses Miller.]
4. Lewis married Betsey Noe, daughter of John, of Long Hill. She died 15th June, 1811, aged 59 years, and he married again. He died 8th Feb. 1850.
5. Charity married, 1st, Noah Meeker, of Union ; 2d. Thomas Conn, from Ireland, 31st March, 1811.
6. Elizabeth married Zophar Williams, son of John, of Livingston.
Elder Miller died -. Azuha his wife died 13th April. 1809, aged 68 years. Zophar Williams died 23d Sept. 1847.
LEWIS MILLER, (son of Elder Moses, son of Enoch) and Betsey Noe, lived in Warren, Somerset county, and had children :
1. Phebe, who married James C. Lyon, son of John. She died 28th Aug. 1835, aged 32 years.
2. Mary married Samuel Osborn, son of Nehemiah. [See Osborn.] She died.
3. Charlotte married Mr. ____ Badgley.
4. Lewis Noe Miller married. 1st, Anne Pennington, and had a son ; he married, 2d, Harriet Ruckman, daughter of Levi, and had a son, Levi; 3d, Luckey Moore, daughter of Jesse.
5. Rhoda Anne married John Adams, of Martinville.
6. Eliza married Stephen Haff, and has a daughter, Mary Elizlbeth Haff.
7. Meeker married _____.
SALLY MILLER, (daughter of Elder Moses,) and Nathaniel Crane, lived in Elizabethtown, and had children :
1. Elihu Crane, who married Eliza Miller, daughter of Kennedy Miller, of Elizabethtown, and had children : 1. Sarah Crane, who died 1850, aged 20 years; 2. Nathaniel Martin Crane.
2. Moses Miller Crane married Phebe Williams, daughter of John, of Long Hill, and had children.:
1. Annar Crane, who married Mr.____ Miller ; 2. Jane Crane; 3. John Williams Crane.
3. Betsey Crane married Parmer Kenyon, and had children : 1. Henry Kenyon; 2. Sarah Kenyon ; 3. John Kenyon.
4. Mary Crane.
5. Abigail Crane married Henry Kiggins, of Elizabethtown, and had children: 1. Charles Kiggins; 2. Symmes Crane Kiggins 3. Theodore Kiggins, who died young.
CHARITY MILLER, (daughter of Elder Moses) and Noah Meeker, had children :
1. William Meeker, who married Eliza Osborn, daughter of Nehemiah, and had children: 1. John W. Meeker; 2. Theodore Meeker.
2. Allen Meeker married Aletta Woodruff, daughter of Benjamin, of Union.
3. Nathaniel Crane Meeker married Electa Dove. She died, and left one child, Mary Elizabeth Hortensia Meeker, and he went to Brazos, Texas.
4. Job Meeker married Patty Pangborn, daughter of Stephen, of Plainfield.
Noah Meekcr died, and she married, 31st March, 1811, Thomas Conn, and had children:
5. George Conn, who went to the South, and married Charlotte Newman.
6. Benjamin Ludlow Conn.
7. Charlotte Conn married Edwin Castner she died, leaving 2 children : 1. Sarah Elizabeth Castner, 2. Charlotte Castner.
8. Sarah Conn.
9. Mary Conn, who married John Peters, from England, lives in Elizabethtown.
10. Elizabeth Conn.
ELIZABETH MILLER, (daughter of Elder Moses,) and Zophar Williams, had children :
1. John Williams, who died at 20 years of age.
2. Polly Williams, who married Ezra Drake, son of Noah, and had one child, Elizabeth Drake, who married Freeman Tucker, son of Lines [? hard to read] and had two sons: 1. Williams Tucker; 2. Lines Ezra Tucker ; and she died Dec. 5th, 1847.
JACOB MILLER
JACOB MILLER, (4th son of Enoch,) and Lucretia Marsh, lived near Trenton. Ohio. and had children :
1. Sarah, who married Moses Crane, son of Noah, in N. J., and had children :
1. Lucretia Crane, who married Michael Culver, and had children : 1. Moses Culver ; 2. Sarah Culver ; 3. Huldah Culver.
2. Noah Crane married Mary Hamilton, daughter of Andrew Hamilton, from Ireland, and had children: 1. Stephen ; 2. Catherine.
3. Stephen Crane married Betsey Simpson, daughter of Aaron, and had a daughter. Huldah. [See Simpson].
Sarah Miller married, 2d, John Martin, in Ohio, and had a daughter:
4. Huldah Martin, who married David Randolph.
2. Joanna, born July, 1787, and married, 1st, Stephen Clark, son of Samuel Clark, Esq., [see Clark,] and had children:
1. Jonas Clark, who married Susan Flenner, daughter of David, and had children: 1. Jane Clark, who married _____; 2. Stephen Clark married _____ ; 3. Elizabeth Clark ; 4. Susanna Clark ; 5. David Clark.
2. David Clink married Mary Slypher, and had a son, Augustus Clark.
3. Jane Clai k married John Hamilton, brother of Noah Crane's wife.
Joanna Miller married, 2d, Jacob Morris, in Ohio, and had children :
4. Mary Morris, who married William Jordan.
5. Hannah Morris married Charles Porter.
3. Jacob Miller married Mary Thompson, daughter of Price ; lives, near Reading, and had an only child, Jacob Miller.
4 Joshua Miller married, 1st, Sally Miller, his 2d cousin, daughter of Enoch. of N. J., and had an only child by her, Matilda, who married Moses Davis, son of Moody Davis, and lives in Indiana.
Joshua Miller married, 2d, Phebe Lyon, daughter. of Nathaniel, son of Peter, and had children:
2. Eliza Anne, who married _____.
3. Charlotte, twin of Eliza Anne, married Rev. William Davis.
4. Jotham, who died unmarried, at 24 years.
5. Jacob married _____, and lives in Indiana.
6. John.
7. and 8. Martha and Lucretia, twins.
5. Elias Miller married Catherine Moore, daughter of Gershom, and had children :
1. Rebecca Anne, who married Joshua Bruce.
2. Ellis married Miss Johnson.
3. Lucretia.
4. Philetha married _____.
5. Mary married _____.
6. Hannah married Solomon Winters.
7. John.
8. Elias.
6. Hannah Miller married her cousin, Nathan Potter, son of Enos, and had 5 children. They and all their children have died.
7. Huldah Miller married Solomon Flenner, brother of Jonas Clark's wife, and had children :
1. William Flenner, who married Lany Flenner, daughter of Daniel, brother of David Flenner.
2. John Flenner.
8. Ellis Miller, born 17th August, 1800, married Rosanna Hamilton, born 5th January, 1805, is sister of Noah Crane's wife. He is a lumber merchant of Hamilton, Ohio ; they had children :
1. William Hamilton Miller, born 16th July, 1823, and is a lawyer.
2. Jacob Miller, born 28th September, 1825.
3. Catherine Miller, born 30th August, 1827, married Ezra Potter, son of Samuel M. Potter, son of Russel, and had a daughter, Mary Potter. [See Potter.]
4. Mary Anna Miller, born 28th December, 1829, married Abner C. Campbell, son of Samuel, near Franklin ; lives in Hamilton. He is a partner of his father-in-law, Ellis Miller, and has a daughter Catherine.
5. Charles Marsh Miller, born 30th October, 1839.
JOHN MILLER, JUN.
JOHN MILLER, Jun., (2d-son of John Miller, of Westfield,) had children :
1. Moses, who married Esther Maxwell, daughter of John Maxwell, Sen., of Westfield.
2. Maline, who was a seafaring man; know not what became of him.
3. John, 3d, who married Phebe Valentine, daughter of Richard, of Stony Hill. [See Valentine.]
4. Jonathan married ____, daughter of Samuel Williams, of William's Farms, and lived between Basking Ridge and Liberty Corner.
5. Mary, who married Isaac Crane, of New Providence. [See Isaac Crane.]
6. Ruth married Joseph Crane, brother of Isaac. [See Joseph Crane.]
7. Abigail married Mr. _____ Haines.
8. Abner.
MOSES MILLER, (son of John Miller, Jun.,) and Esther Maxwell, had children :
1. Smith, who married, 8th January, 1792, Rachel Miller, daughter of Elder Moses Miller, son of Enoch.
2. Betsey married Samuel Headly, of North Farms, towards Newark.
3. Sally married Moses Williams, son of Samuel, of Williams' Farms. [See Williams.]
4. Ezra married Mary High, daughter of John High, Jun., of Westfield.
SMITH MILLER, (son of Moses, son of John, Jun.,) and Rachel Miller, daughter of Elder Moses Miller, had children :
1. Joseph, who died at 16 years.
2. Betsey, who married John Fisher, son of George, of Fox Hill, Hunterdon county.
3. Ezra, who went to Ohio, married _____, and had 3 children, one of which was Smith.
4. Smith Maxwell Miller, born 16th February, 1799, married Catherine Coddington, daughter of Benjamin, of Mount Bethel.
5. Mary married Daniel Alward, son of Benjamin, Sen., at Dead River.
6. Sally married Joseph Magie, son of Michael, of Elizabethtown.
7. Esther married old Minard Farley, of Hunterdon county ; he died, and she married Peter Green ; lives in Surgeonsville in Hunterdon county, and has a daughter, Josephine Green.
8. Abby married William Lyon, son of Aaron, of Lyon's Farms, and has children : 1. William Lyon ; 2. Baker Lyon ; 3. Adelaide Lyon.
9. Azuba married Henry P. Webb, of Cauldwell, and has a son.
10. Phebe married William Bowen, of Springfield, and has children : 1. William Frederick Bowen ; 2. John Joseph Bowen.
11. John Wesley married Margaret Collins, at Elizabethport, and had children : 1. William Henry ; 2. Emily.
BETSEY MILLER, (daughter of Smith.) and John Fisher, had children : 1. Miller Fisher ; 2. William Fisher ; 3. Hannah Fisher ; 4. Daniel Fisher ; 5. Rachel Fisher ; 6. John Fisher.
SMITH M. MILLER, (son of Smith,) and Catherine Coddington, had children :
1. Joseph, who married Mary Kinner, daughter of Alexander, of Piscataway.
2. Jane married William Wetmore, son of Samuel, of Springfield.
3. Hannah ; 4. Martha ; 5. Mary ; 6. Caroline ; 7. Minard Farley ; 8. William ; 9. Edward.
MARY MILLER, (daughter of Smith, son of Moses,) and Daniel Alward, lived near Dead River, and had children:
1. Benjamin Alward, who married his cousin, Amanda Lawrence, daughter of Stephen, who married Esther Alward, sister of Daniel. [See Alward.]
2. Moses Miller Alward married Sarah Drake, daughter of Abraham J. Drake, son of William.
3. Elizabeth Alward.
4. Elisha Alward, born 29th April, 1826, married, 31st August, 1847, Rachel Drake, daughter of said William Drake, of Schoolie's Mountain.
5. Daniel Alward, Jun. ; 6. William Alward ; 7. Esther Alward ; 8. Smith M. Alward ; 9. Rachel Alward.
SALLY MILLER, (fith child of Smith,) and Joseph Magie, had children :
1. Joseph Magie ; 2. Phebe Anne Magie ; 3. Minard Farley Magie ; 4. Hester Magie.
EZRA MILLER, (son of Moses, son of John, Jun.,) and Mary High, lived in Westfield, and had children :
1. Eliza, who married Charles Williams, son of Nathaniel, went to Racine, Wisconsin, and had children : 1. Jane Williams, who married William Vandeveer ; 2. Rebecca Williams, who died at about 20 years ; 3. Alexander Williams; 4. Mary Williams; 5. Margaret Williams ; 6. Anna Williams ; 7. Belden Williams.
2. Rachel, who married John Drake, son of Nathaniel, of Scotch Plains, and had children :
1. Harriet Drake ; 2. Ezra Drake : 3. Sarah Drake; 4. Huldah Drake ; 5. Emma Augusta Drake.
3. Esther married David B. Crane, of Newark, (son of John, son of Prince, son of Moses Crane, of Parcipany, Morris county,) and had children: 1. Mary Crane ; 2. Mentor Crane ; 3. Asenath Crane ;
4. Moses Crane; 5. William Crane.
4. Linus High Miller married Abigail Price, daughter of Elihu, of Elizabethtown, and had children :
1. Sarah ; 2. Anna ; 3. Moses ; 4. William.
5. Moses married Frances Durand, of Racine, and lived there, and had children: 1. William ; 2. _____.
6. Ezra married, 17th Dec. 1849, Evelina Pierson, daughter of Deacon Squier Pierson.
7. William, who went to Racine, Wisconsin.
8. Mary Anne married Aaron H. Verselas, son of George Verselas, Esq., of Germantown, Hunterdon county, and had children : 1. Mary Helen Verselas ; 2. Rebecca Frances Verselas.
9. Rebecca.
JONATHAN MILLER, (son of John, Jun.,) and Miss Williams had children :
1. Dickerson, who married Jane Kirkpatrick, daughter of David, Sen., [See Kirkpatrick.] and had children : 1. John, who went to Ohio ; 2. David, who married _____; 3. Andrew, a lawyer ; 4. Dickerson, a lawyer ; 5. Caleb ; 6. Samuel.
2. Phebe, who married William C. Annin, of Liberty Corner.
3. Polly, who married Capt. William Tuttle, of Morris county, and had no children.
4. Williams, who married Polly Boyle, daughter of Joseph, of Long Hill ; lived where his father did and had children : 1. Joseph, who married two sisters ; 2. Jonathan ; 3. Elizabeth, who married Jacob Stultz Haas, son of Jacob Haas, near Liberty Corner ; lives in Darke county, Ohio, near Hill Grove, and keeps a tavern ; 4. George.
EPHRAIM MILLER
EPHRAIM MILLER lived at Smalley's Bridge, in Somerset county, and had children :
1. Eliphalet who married ____, daughter of Col. Seely, of Chatham.
2. Elizabeth married Jacob Stevens, son of Jonathan. [See Stevens.]
And by a 2d wife _____, Ephraim Miller had children:
3. Ephraim, who was partially insane.
4. Conklin married Mary Reel, of Virginia lived near Dayton, Ohio, and had children : 1. John, who died at about 16 years. 2. Hannah. 3. Sarah. 4. William married Anne Eliza Sourby, daughter of Wil liam, of Dayton. 5. Samuel. 6. Martha married the Rev. Mr. Griffith, a Presbyterian Minister, from Wales. 7. Ephraim married Margaret Howey, daughter of Albert. 8. Henry married. 9. Emily.
10. Margaret, died at 4 years.
5. Sabra.
6. Hannah married Jacob Kautz, near Cincinnati, and had children: 1. Emily Kautz. 2. Jacob Kautz married Mary Walker. 3. Sarah Kautz married William Gallagher. 4. Margaret Kautz.
7. Meeker Miller
JOHN MOORE
JOHN MOORE lived near Patterson, and had children :
1. Tabitha, who married Jacob Smalley, son of John Smalley, Sen. [See Smalley.]
2. Isaac married, 1st, Sally Smalley, daughter of John Smalley, Sen., 2d, Lydia Bedell, daughter of Moses, and granddaughter of David Littell.
3. John, Jun., married and lived near Patterson, and from thence removed to the Lakes. He had children : 1. Charles ; 2. Rachel, who married her cousin, William Moore, son of Benjamin ; 3. Anne married David Pier ; 4. Sarah; 5. Ruth ; 6. Abraham ; 7. Harriet.
ISAAC MOORE, (son of John,) and Sally Smalley, lived in Passaic Valley, in Warren Township, Somerset county, and had children:
1. David, who married Betsey Boyle, daugher of Solomon, and sister of Col. Solomon.
2. Daniel married, 16th July, 1793, Betsey Rolph, daughter of Jonathan. (See Rolph].
3. Rachel married Garret Vreeland, of Acquackanak.
4. Mary married James Marshall, son of James ; lived at Patterson. [See Marshall]
5. John married Chloe Tucker, daughter of Samuel, and went to Cincinnati, Ohio.
6. Tabitha married John Lyon, son of Ebenezer. [See Lyon.]
7. Sally married Samuel Evans, of Hanover, Morris county. Isaac Moore, by his 2d wife, Lydia Bedell, had children.
8. Isaac married Mary Davis, daughter of John, of Washington Valley, and had children :
1. Mary ; 2. Abraham ; 3. Louisa ; 4. John ; 5. Isaac ; 6. Rachel ; 7. Martha ; 8. Sarah.
9. Moses married Phebe French, daughter of David French, Sen. They both died and left children :
1. Emeline, who died at 3 years ; 2, Lydia lives at Brooklyn ; 3. Israel, who married Sally Anne Allen, daughter of David ; 4. Harriet married Mr. Force, a blacksmith; lives at Madison ; 5. David married Catherine Drake, daughter of Mary Drake ; 6. Isaac, went to California, in April, 1849.
10. Betsey married, 22d Jan. 1808, Daniel Parker, son of Judah.
11. Samuel married Mary Ludlow, daughter of Joseph, son of Jeremiah.
12. Ruth married, 2d Aug. 1821, Garret Brown, of Acquackanak.
13. Nancy married Robert Anderson, son of James, had children : 1. Lydia ; 2. Aaron 3. Phebe ; 4. Eliza; 5. Sarah ; 6. Charlotte, and went to Indiana.
14. Rhoda married Reuben Smalley, son of James, [See Smalley,] and went to the Lakes.
15. Phebe, who died a young woman.
16. William I. married Eleanor Falls, lives where his father did, and had children : 1. Delia Anne ; 2. Charles Wesley ; 3. Lewis Craig.
17. Susan married William Stevens, son of James Stevens, lives on Wolf Hill, near Union Village, and had children : 1. Mary Jane Stevens, who married John McIntire, and went to Seneca Falls, N. Y.
2. Phebe Anne Stevens married John G. McCord, son of Nathaniel, of Martinville, and went to Jacksonville, Illinois. 3. Sarah Louisa Stevens ; 4. Elizabeth Stevens ; 5. Almira Stevens ; 6. Ellen Stevens ; 7. William Stevens ; 8. Harriet Stevens ; 9. Moses Stevens ; 10. Susan Stevens.
Mrs Susan Stevens died at the birth of her last child, 28th May, 1845.
SIMEON MOREHOUSE
SIMEON MOREHOUSE came up from Elizabethtown, in the time of the Revolutionary war, and lived some time back of Long Hill, North of Peter Rutan's. He then removed to near the Franklin Mill, and subsequently bought of Jeremiah Ludlow, or his heirs, the farm on which his son Amos now lives. He married Rebecca Meeker, daughter of James Meeker, of Elizabethtown, [see Meekerj and had children :
1. James, who died 12th October, 1784, aged 6 years.
2. Betsey, born Jan. 1780, and married Joseph Ludlow, son of Obadiah, Jun. [See Ludlow.]
3. Hannah, who died 13th October, 1784, aged 3 years.
4. David, born 1st April, 1783, and married Sally Walker, daughter of Asher. [See Walker.]
5. Samuel, who died in infancy.
6. Amos, born 15th April, 1786, married, 9th May, 1811, Phebe Noe, born 13th May, 1790, daughter of John.
7. Hannah 2d, who died at 17 years.
8. Nancy married, 13th May, 1810, Moses Lum, son of Stephen, [see Lum,] lived in Newark.
9. Fanny married, 18th September, 1815, Amos Lum, brother of Moses, [see Lum,] lived in Newark.
10. Polly married John Marsh Parsons, son of David. [See Parsons.]
Simeon Morehouse died 4th May, 1836, aged 81 years; his wife died 16th December, 1839, aged 86 years.
DAVID MOREHOUSE, (son of Simeon,) and Sally Walker, lived on Long Hill, and had children :
1. Asher Woodruff Morehouse, who married Eliza Anne Whitehead, daughter of Samuel, of Morristown.
2. Jonathan Walker Morehouse married Mary Anne Tyack, daughter of John, of New York, lives in Elizabethtown.
3. Arnon, who went to Mobile, .and married Mary ____, and lives there.
4. Rebecca.
5. David Jun., married Mary Condit, daughter of Haines Condit, of Morristown, and lives there.
6. Sally Anne.
AMOS MOREHOUSE, (son of. Simeon,) and Phebe Noe, lives where his father did, and had children:
1. David Noe Morehouse, who died a young man, unmarried.
2. John A. Morehouse, who married Julia Anne Wilber, of Brooklyn.
3. Mary, born 23d March, 1817.
4. James M., born 2d Feb. 1820, married, 1st, Susan M. Kinney, daughter of John, and had a son, Horace Beach, born 10th October, 1844 his wife Susan died 30th March, 1848, and he married, 2d, 20th March, 1850, Henrietta Van Kirk, daughter of Nathan.
5. Elias Riggs Morehouse, born 4th December, 1824.
JAMES MOREHOUSE
JAMES MOREHOUSE, was son of David Morehouse, of Canoe Brook, near Cheapside, in Livingston township. He married, 1st, _____, a daughter of Capt. Enos Baldwin, of Cheapside, and had a son, Baldwin Morehouse, who married Polly Potter, daughter of Noadiah, of Ohio. The first wife of James Morehouse, died ; and he married, 26th Nov. 1788, Mary Potter, daughter of John, [see Potter,] and had other children :
2. Joanna.
3. Esther, who married Joel Kennedy, and lived at Hamilton, Ohio ; he died _____.
4. Amos ; 5. Betsey ; 6. Aaron ; 7. Moses 8. Nancy.
Mr. Morehouse removed to Warren county, Ohio.
CAPTAIN JONATHAN MULFORD
EZEKIEL MULFORD, DAVID MULFORD, THOMAS MULFORD, and two other brothers, with their father, whose name is not now (1810) known, lived at East Hampton, Long Island.
Ezekiel Mulford married Abia, whose mother was Deborah Mulford, a daughter of John Mulford, probably a relation of her husband. He removed, about the year 1700, to Cape May, in New Jersey, and had two sons,. Ezekiel and Jonathan.
Jonathan, at four years old, at the request of his uncle David, who was a bachelor, was sent back to East Hampton. But his uncle David died four days before he arrived, making his:nephew, Jonathan, his sole heir. The child lived with his grandfather, who at a proper age bound him an apprentice to Thomas Osborn, a tanner and shoemaker. His father also died before he arrived at 21 years of age. Soon after he came of age, he went to Cape May, and received his share of his father's estate, amounting to £170, and returfied. to East Hampton. Soon after his return, he married Esther, a daughter of Cornelius Conklin, and shortly afterwards removed to Passaic Valley, and, by deed bearing date the 26th of April, 1740, bought of John Pierson a tract of land "containing fourscore acres," lying adjoining and west of Nathaniel Smith's tract, and adjoining the river, and having John Bedell, Jun. on the west, on which he lived till his death. He was born 29th September, 1718, and died 16th October, 1789, aged 71 years. His wife, Esther Conklin, was born 27th August, 1715, and died 22d October, 1776, aged 61 years.
CAPT. JONATHAN MULFORD, and Esther Conklin, had children :
1. Mary, born 18th December, 1741, and married Obadiah Valentine, son of Richard. [See Valentine.]
2. Deborah, born 30th Jan. 1744, married John Bedell, son of Henry. [See Henry Bedell.]
3. Ezekiel, born 24th June, 1746, and died 3d July, 1768, aged 22 years, unmarried.
4. Jonathan, Jun., born 6th Nov. 1748, married, 27th Nov. 1771, Deborah Ludlow, daughter of Jeremy Ludlow. He died 5th Dec. 1792 she died 28th April, 1801, aged 50 1/2 years.
5. David, born 5th October, 1750, and died October, 1768, unmarried.
6. Isaac, born 9th July, 1753, and died 25th October, 1759, aged 6 years.
7. Cornelius, born 18th April, 1757, and died 14th May, 1823, aged 66 years. He married Nancy Bryant, of Springfield, who died 16th March, 1837, aged 77 years.
8. Esther, twin to Cornelius, who married Edward Ball. [See Ball.] Esther Ball died January, 1819, aged 62 years.
9. Mary B., who died young.
Capt. Jonathan Mulford, after the death of his 1st wife, married Eleanor or Aula Bedell, widow of Jacob Bedell, (her maiden name was Aula Powers,) and had a son, Isaac 2d, who died Jan. 29th, 1783, aged 1 year and 4 months.
JONATHAN MULFORD, (son of Capt. Jonathan,) and Deborah Ludlow, had children :
1. Jane, who died in infancy.
2. Elizabeth married John Crane, son of Joseph. [See crane.] She died 9th March, 1828, aged 53 years.
3. David, who married Polly, daughter of Elder Benjamin Cory, of Elizabethtown. They both died without children.
4. Mary, who died 28th Sept. 1781, aged 2 years.
5. Daniel, who graduated at Princeton College, about 1805, studied law, commenced practice, and bid fair to become eminent in his profession; but consumption seized upon him, and he died 26th Oct. 1811, aged 30 years.
6. Jane, (2d) who died in infancy.
7. Mary, (2d) twin to Jane, 2d, who died 3d Dec. 1796, aged 11 years.
8. Levi, who died 7th Sept. 1814, aged 26 years, unmarried.
CORNELIUS, MULFORD, (son of Capt. Jonathan,) and Nancy Bryant, had children :
1. Sally, who married Capt. Stephen Day, son of Benjamin, and had a son, Mulford Day, and died 7th April, 1801, aged 20 years. [See Stephen Day.]
2. Polly, who married, 31st Jan. 1824, Elias Coles, son of Master William Coles, and had children, Mulford and Mary, and died 4th May, 1843, aged 56 years. [See Cole.]
ESTHER MULFORD, (daughter of Capt. Jonathan,) and Edward Ball, lived in Clinton, and had children:
1. Prussia Ball, who married, 1st, Jacob, Peshine, 2d, John Gardner, both of Newark.
2. Sally Ball married, 1st, Edward Bruen, 2d, David Doremus, both, of Newark.
3. Nancy Ball married, 1st, Caleb Pierson, of Newark, 2d Smith Burnet, Esq., as his 2d wife.
4. Jane Ball married Edward Gruet.
5. Hetty Ball married Mr. Robison, of Newark.
EZEKIEL MULFORD. (brother of Capt. Jonathan Mulford,) came to this valley from Cape May. His first wife's name was Jane, who died 6th Aug. 1759, aged 40 years, and he married Jemima Marsh, 6th Sept. 1767. He had children :
1. John.
2. Deborah.
Mr. Ezekiel Mulford, with his son, John, returned to Cape May. soon after his 2d marriage, leaving his daughter here, who married Daniel Willcox, son of John, Sen. [See Willcox.]
JOB MULFORD
JOB MULFORD, came from Long Island, and settled at Connecticut Farms. He lived a little east of Scudder's Mills, in Union Township.
He married Sarah Hampton, sister of Jonathan Hampton, of Elizabethtown, and had children :
1. John, who married Esther Ball, daughter of Nathaniel Ball. [See Ball.]
2. Abigail married Mr. Harrison.
3. Abraham married, for a 2d wife, Hannah Sickle.
4. Davis married Hannah, widow of Mr. Willis.
5. Caleb married, 13th Oct. 1786, Sarah Stevens, daughter of Jonathan Stevens.
His wife Sarah, died 30th Dec. 1787, and he married. 23d June, 1788, Phebe, the widow, of Charles Johnson, and daughter of William Bedell, and removed to Warren county, Ohio.
6. Hannah, who married John Allen.
7. David married _____, and had a son, Job, who married Effa Thompson, daughter of Daniel Thompson, of Ohio. [See Thompson.]
JOHN MULFORD, (son of Job,) and Esther Ball, had children :
1. Mary, who married Andrew Drake, of Staten Island, and lived there.
2. William married Hannah Durand, daughter of Bryant Durand, and brother of John Durand, of Jefferson's Village.
His wife Hannah died, and he married, 2d, Betsey, the widow of Lewis Ludlow, and daughter of Deacon Jacob Davis, of Westfield.
CALEB MULFORD, (son of Job,) had children :
1. Jacob. who married Jane Hole, daughter of Doct. John Hole, of Montgomery county, Ohio. [See Hole.]
2. Rebecca married Elias Littell, son of Ephraim, son of Andrew Littell. [See Littell.]
3. William married Martha Meek, and died without children.
4. Job married Mary Dudley.
They all lived in Ohio.
WILLIAM MULFORD, (son of John, son of Job Mulford) lived where Thomas Squier formerly lived, in Passaic Valley, Morris county, and by his wife Hannah, had children :
1. Mary, who married Henry Clearman, of New York, and had 6 children, who all died young.
2. Esther, who died at 16 years.
3. Sarah, married John Cameron, of New York, and had children: 1. Mary Cameron ; 2. William Cameron ; 3. George Cameron ; 4. Isabel Cameron ; 5. Hannah Cameron ; 6. John Cameron.
4. John, who married Phebe Lodowiska Davis, and went to Ohio.
Mr. Mulford's wife. Hannah, then died, and he by his wife Betsey, had other children :
5. Hannah Eliza who married David E. Townley, son of Enos [see Townley,] and had children :
1. Sarah Elizabeth Townley; 2. Hannah Jane Townley ; 3. Laura Townley ; 4. Phebe Jaques Floride.
6. Harriet.
7. Mary married her cousin Joseph Davis, son of John, [see Davis,] and had children : 1. Phebe Lodowiska Davis.
8. Esther, 2d.
9. William, who died a young man, unmarried.
10. Paulina married Joel D. Thompson, son of Aaron. [See Thompson.]
11. Jacob Davis married 17th Oct. 1849, Sarah Valentine, daughter of P. D. Valentine.
12. Isaac Newton.
NOTE.--There was also a Jeremiah Mulford, in this place. In the Rev. Mr. Elmer's record of baptisms is recorded Abigail, daughter of Jeremiah Mulford, Jun., baptized 29th Feb. 1769. Deborah, daughter of widow Mulford, baptized 29th March, 1769. Hannah, daughter of widow Mulford, baptized 17th Feb. 1772.
JOHN NOE
JOHN NOE, was son of Daniel Noe, of Woodbridge. He married Mary Ayres, of Woodbridge, and came up and bought the farm formerly owned by William Darling, at the east end of Sterling Valley, where Isaac Meeker now lives, and lived there till his death. He died 26th April, 1828, aged 71 years. His wife Mary died 31st Oct. 1823, aged 64 years. They had children :
1. Ellis, who married, 1st, Esther Osborn, daughter of Smith S. Osborn. She died 15th Oct. 1805, aged 23 years, and he married, 2d, Rachel, the widow of David Cole, of Westfield, and daughter of Noah Williams, of Long Hill. She died 27th Dec. 1827, aged 51 years, and he married, 3d, Jane Crane, of Elizabethtown. He lived in Elizabethtown, and kept the Hotel there several years.
2. Betsey, who married Lewis Miller, son of Elder Moses Miller. [See Miller.]
3. Rachel married Philemon Bonnel, son of Nathaniel Bonnel, 3d. [See Bonnel.]
4. Phebe married Amos Morehouse, son of Isaiah Morehouse. [See Morehouse.]
5. David married, 10th April, 1810, Huldah, widow of Timothy D. Pettit, and daughter of Nathaniel Bonnel, 3d.
6. Sally married Israel Doty, son of James Doty, and died 3d Oct. 1828, aged 31 years. {See Doty.]
7. Matthias Freeman married Martha Howel, daughter of Calvin Howel, of Madison.
ELLIS NOE, by his wife Esther Osborn, had children : Et 1. John, who died in Western New York.
2. Ketura, who married James McGinnis, and had children : 1. Elmira, who married, 6th Dec. 1849, Nicholas Dellicker, of Newark ; 2. John McGinnis ; 3. Uzel McGinnis.
by his 2d wife Rachel, Ellis Noe, had children :
3. Hester, who married David Sanderson. They live above Somerville ; had no children.
4. Eliza married William Starkweather, and had a son, Augustus Starkweather.
5. Isaac married Mariah Miller, of Elizabethtown ; lives in New York, and had children:
1. Ellis ; 2. Augustus ; 3. Samuel D. Burchard ; .4. Henry Martin ; 5. Francis ; 6. Daniel.
6. Daniel W. Noe married Mary Mulford, daughter of Jonathan, of Pluckemin. He died 18th Feb. 1846, and had children : 1. Daniel, who died young ; 2. Esther.
7. David married Mary ____ at Patterson, and had a son Albert.
And by his 3d wife, Jane Crane, Ellis Noe had children:
8. Rachel, who married, 7th June, 1849, her cousin, Matthias Doty, son of Israel, and had children :
1. John Henry ; 2. Eliza Mundy.
9. Ellis.
DAVID NOE, (son of John,) and Huldah Bonnel, had children :
1. Joseph Crane, born 25th Sept. 1811.
2. Mary, born 12th Jan. 1814, and married Samuel Clark, son of Daniel S. Clark, Esq., and had children : 1. Arthur Berry Clark ; 2. Samuel Clark.
3. Martha Bonnel, born 24th Aug. 1816, who married George B. Ayres, son of David, of Metuchen, and had children: 1. Anna Mariah Ayres, who died 14th May, 1840, aged 2 years ; 2. David Ellis Ayres, born 18th Oct. 1840 ; 3. Ezra Fairchild Ayres, born 17th Oct. 1742 ; 4. George Wallas Ayres, born 7th Feb. 1845 ; 5. Hellen Mundy Ayres, born 4th Nov. 1847 ; 6. Huldah Noe Ayres, born 10th March, 1849.
4. Ellis Frazee, born 1st Dec. 1818 ; went to Illinois, and died there 17th Oct. 1844.
5. David, born 3d March, 1821.
6. Jane Bonnel, born 19th Aug. 1823.
7. Huldah, born 1st Feb. 1826, and died 12th March, 1833.
Mr. David Noe was ordained an elder in the Presbyterian church, 22d July, 1822.
MATTHIAS F. NOE, (son of John,) and Martha Howel, lived at Morristown, and had children :
1. Ellis ; 2. Stephen ; 3. David ; 4. Mary Eliza ; 5. Hannah ; 6. John.
LEWIS NOE
LEWIS NOE was brother of John, he came up from Woodbridge, and bought the farm formerly owned by Thomas Darling, where Smith M. Miller now lives. He married Phebe Mundy, daughter of Henry Mundy, of Metuchen. He died 5th April, 1838, aged 73 years. She died 11th May, 1814, aged 54 years ; they had children:
1. Henry lives in Brooklyn, New York.
2. Frazee, who married 3d November, 1810, Dency Hart, daughter of David, and died 11th April, 1832.
3. Margaret married David French, Jun., son of David, lives in Stony Hill Valley. [See French.]
4. Lewis married 7th April, 1834, Mariah Meeker, daughter of Isaac. [See Isaac Meeker.]
5. Huma married Ellis Coddington, of Woodbridge.
6. Phebe, married 21st January, 1815, Joel Drake, son of Jeremiah.
FRAZEE NOE, (son of Lewis,) and Dency Hart had children:
1. Daniel Hart Noe, who married 25th September, 1839, Mary Osborn, daughter of Stephen B. Osborn, and had children:
1. Lewis Henry.
2. Phebe Mundy Noe, who died 5th June, 1832, aged 17 years.
3. John Noe, married 3d December, 1845, Martha Bonnel, daughter of Philemon Bonnel, she died without children.
4. Sarah Emeline Noe, born 1811, married John S. Dean, born 1806, son of William, and had children : 1. William Henry Dean, born 1831; 2. Phebe Mundy Dean, born 1834 ; 3. Eliza Robison Dean, who died at 2 years old ; 4. Hannah Mariah Dean; 5. Eliza Jane Dean, born 1st, April, 1839, twins. 6. Sally Hart Dean, who died 6th February, 1849, aged about 7 years ; 7. Dency Anne Dean, born 1846 , 8. Martha Frances Dean, born November, 1849.
DAVID OAKLEY
DAVID OAKLEY of Long Island, had sons :
1. David, Jun. who continued at Long Island.
2. Ephriam, who was born 1700, and married Sarah, who died 9th April, 1761, aged 52 years ; he died 3d April, 1761 ; they were buried in the New Providence church yard. I have no account of their children.
3. Thomas came to New Jersey, lived in Morris county, near Passaic river, above Jonathan C. Bonnel's factory and paper mill. He married Betsey French of Westfield, and had three children, who all died, and his wife also died, and he married her sister, Nancy French, and had three children, and his 2d wife died, and he married Nancy Clark, of Long Island, and had 8 other children.
4. Sylvanus came to New Jersey, and lived where John Willcox now lives. His 1st wife's name was Martha, who died 23d August, 1768, aged 43 years, and he married 2d, 8th December,1768, Sarah Davis, widow of Isaac, and mother of Jonathan and Elijah Davis. [See Bedell.] And he married, 3d, Mary, the widow of Henry Clark, of Westfield, and daughter of Richard Valentine. He died 23d May, 1787, aged 63 years.
SYLVANUS OAKLEY, (4th child of David, 1st,) had children:
1. Ephriam, married 5th July, 1774, Susanah Raimond.
2. Matthew, baptized 24th February, 1765.
3. David, baptized 1st November, 1767.
4. Isaac, who died 23d September, 1768.
And by his 2d, wife Sarah, widow, of Isaac Davis, he had other children :
5, Esther, baptized 21st, January, 1770.
6. Nancy married, 1791, James Bedell, son of William, and went to Ohio. [See Bedell.]
7. John, who did not marry ; he was lame, had a wooden leg.
8. Polly married John Abel, and went to Ohio. (His daughter Nancy went to the Shakers.)
9. Elzabeth, who died 11th October, 1791, aged 11 years.
EPHRAIM OAKLEY, (eldest son of Sylvanus,) and Susannah Raimond, had children :
1. Rachel, who married her cousin, Sylvanus Oakley, son of Thomas.
2. Isaac, who went to the Beech Woods, Wayne Co., Penn.
3. Peter Raimond Oakley, who went to Ohio.
4. Hannah, who married Cooper Osborn.
5. Patty married, 1st, David Miller ; 2d, David Goble, 31st October, 1787.
6. Sylvanus married Jane Noble, daughter of George Noble.
7. David, who went to the Beech Woods, with Col. Seely, of Chatham.
THOMAS OAKLEY, (3d son of David,) by his 2d, wife, Nancy French, had children:
1. Sylvanus, who married Rachel Oakley, eldest daughter of Ephraim.
2. Dorcas, married 2d July, 1795, Josiah Day, son of Nathaniel Day, of Chatham. [See Day.]
3. David, who went to the south.
Thomas Oakley, by his 3d, wife, Nancy Clark, had other :
4. Jonathan, married at Haverstraw, New York, and lived and died there.
5. Phebe married Elijah Day, brother of Josiah, and went to Ohio.
6. Aaron, born 15th August, 1783, married, 9th November, 1804; Sarah Doty, born 20th August, 1788, daughter of Joseph Doty, 3d, and lived on Stony Hill.
7. Johannah married Richard Minthorn, and went to the Lakes, New York.
8. Jeremiah, who went to the south.
9. Daniel, married 10th September, 1814, Lockey Cory, daughter of George ; lives at Franklin Place.
10. Clark married Lucy Wood, of Spotswood ; lives on Staten Island.
11. Lot, who died young.
AARON OAKLEY, (son of Thomas,) and Sarah Doty, had chilren:
1. Ira, who died at 19 years.
2. David Austin, who married Eliza Douglas, daughter of Peter, of New Vernon.
3. Elias Runyon Oakley went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and there married Mary Anne Turner. She died April, 1847, and he removed to Iowa.
4. Rosetta D. married Ebenezer Sturges, son of Benjamin, of Green Village.
5. Edward H. A. Oakley.
6. Aaron Doty Oakley married, 1st, Sarah J. Housey. She died, and he married, 2d, Sarah A. Minnick, daughter of Jacob, of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
7. Sarah E. married, 7th Feb. 1847, John G. Hovey, of Worcester, Massachusetts.
8. Nancy C. Oakley.
DANIEL OAKLEY, (son of Thomas,) and Lockey Cory, had children:
1. William.
2. Julianne, who married Daniel Paxton, and had children : 1. Eliza Anne ; 2. Lewis.
3. Electa married Charles R. Morehouse ; has no children.
4. Nancy ; 5. Sarah ; 6. Ezra ; 7. Damiel Thomas.
SMITH STRATTON OSBORN
SMITH S. OSBORN was son of Jacob Osborn, of Long Island. He married Sarah Burnet, daughter of Stephen or Jonathan Burnet, of Long Island. She was a cousin to Col. Israel Day ; he lived where George Cory now lives. He died 25th April, 1816, aged 58 years. She died 15th Sept. 1841, aged 81 years. He was a shoemaker. They had children :
1. Esther, who married Ellis Noe, son of John Noe, [see John Noe.] She died 15th Oct. 1805, aged 23 years.
2. Stephen Burnet Osborn married, 21st Feb. 1808, Sally Potter, daughter of Amos Potter, Esq., and died 22d Oct. 1844.
3. Hannah married 15th Oct. 1817, Richard Holloway, son of Elijah. They lived at the east end of Sterling Valley. She died Jan. 1848, leaving but one child, Smith S. Osborn Holloway.
4. Jacob ; 5. Stratton. They went to Western New York, and both died there.
6. Ellis, who went Ohio, and died there.
7. Israel Day Osborn, who married Charlotte Vreeland, daughter of Daniel, and have no children. They live near the Franklin Mill, on the east side of the river.
STEPHEN BURNET OSBORN, (son of Smith S. Osborn,) and Sally Potter, had children : (They lived where David Flinn once lived.)
1. Esther, who married Joel Faurette, son of James Faurette, of New Brunswick. They lived near the Summit, where Col. Samuel Potter formerly lived, and have no children.
2. Mary married Daniel H. Noe, Esq., son of Frazee, son of Lewis Noe, and had a son, Lewis Henry Noe.
3. Ellis married Meribah Osborn, daughter of Daniel Osborn, of Plainfield ; they lived where his father did; she died 16th Feb. 1848, leaving a daughter, Sarah B. Osborn, and he married, 16th
Nov. 1848, Eliza Anne Pierson, daughter of John M. Parsons, and had a daughter, Harriet Newel Osborn.
4. Charlotte Potter married, 14th Feb. 1844, Ellis Bonnel, (as La 2d wife,) son of Philemon. [See Bonnel.]
5. Elizabeth, born 1830.
6. Hannah, who died 27th March, 1833, aged 13 years.
7. Phebe P., who died 16th Sept. 1834, aged 11 years.
8 Sarah Burnet, who died 21st Sept. 1834, aged 8 years.
THOMAS OSBORN
THOMAS OSBORN was a son of Jacob, and brother of Smith S. Osborn. He came from Long Island to this Valley about 1780, and lived where Jonathan Meeker, Esq , now does.
His 1st wife's name was Lois Ellison. They had children:
1. Elizabeth, who married Stites Scudder, son of Richard. [See Scudder.]
2. Smith S. Osborn, who was a physician. He married Kitty Howel, widow of Joseph Howel, of Burlington county. Her maiden name was Kitty Reynolds. They had but one daughter, Eliza S. Osborn, who married Samuel Willcox, Esq., son of John, Jun., and lives is Newark. [See Willcox.]
Thomas Osborn's wife Lois died 18th Jan. 1783, aged 37 years, and he married, 13th May, 1783, Rachel, the widow of David Sayre, brother of Deacon William Sayre. Her maiden name was Rachel Roff. After Mr. Osborn's death, which occurred 5th of April, 1801, she married Col. Jedediah Swan, of Scotch Plains.
Doct. Smith S. Osborn died 29th Sept. 1806, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Scudder, died 22d Nov. 1848.
JOHN OSBORN
JOHN OSBORN, who is named in the 2d generation of the Elizabethtown Associates, admitted in 1699, and is said to have come from Long Island, and probably the father of John Osborn, who married Puah Howel, who died 15th April, 1785, aged 60 years. They lived where Doc. Ridley Kent now does, and owned also the Lacy farm opposite to it, extending north to the river. He was born 1718, and died 1st Sept. 1776, in consequence of a kick by a horse. They had children :
1. Esther, who married, 25th Dec. 1767, Joseph Abbot, of Newark.
2. Puah, who married, 25th Oct. 1770, Joseph Marsh, of Morris county.
3. Jonathan Howel married, 5th Jan. 1766, Deborah Hart, daughter of Jeremiah ; she died 11th March, 1792, aged 37 years., and he married, 2d, in the winter of 1783, Margaret Simpson, daughter of John.
4. Rachel, who married, 3d Sept. 1771, Jonathan Bailey, of Morris county. [See Bailey.] He died and she married, 2d, Andrew Wade, of Morris county, [See Brown.) He died and she mrrried, 3d, Dec. 7th, 1787, Isaac Clark, (a bilnd man ;) lived in this valley. He died, and she married, 4th, Samuel Tucker, son of Abner Tucker. [See Tucker.] Mr. Tucker died ; left her a widow again, and she lived several years, till Feb. 1840.
5. Polly married brrham [trans. note: it says brrham, sorry] Bedell, son of Jacob Bedell. [See Bedell.]
6. Eunice, who married, 6th Nov. 1785, Capt. John Maxwell, son of John. [See Jacob Bedell and John Maxwell.]
7. John, Jun., married, 28th Dec. 1785, Mary Bebout, daughter of Peter Bebout.
8. Jane married Samuel Clark. Esq., son of elder John Clark. [See Clark.]
ESTHER OSBORN, (daughter of John,) and Joseph Abbot, had children :
1. Mary Abbot, who married David Hays, merchant of Newark, and had children :
1. Esther Hays, who married Ira Tichenor, of Camptown: lives in Richmond, Virginia, and had an only child, Mary Tichenor, who married Lewis Lyman, of New York.
2. Nancy Hays, who married Henry King, of Morristown, and had children : 1. Caroline King ; 2. Oliver King.
3. David Hays, who is a lawyer, and married the widow Caroline Hays, of Burlington, N. J.
2. Rebecca married William Badgley, of Elizabethtown, and had children : 1. Joseph Badgley, who went to Indiana ; 2. Cornelius Badgley, who lives in N. York; 3. Mary Anne Badgley, who married Henry Donnington, of Elizabethtown, and had children : 1. William Donnington ; 2. John Donnington ; 3. Joseph Donnington ; 4. Sarah Donnington ; 6. Caroline Donnington ; 6. Mary Donnington.
PAUH OSBORN, (daughter of John,) and Joseph Marsh, removed to Sussex, and had children :
1. Polly Marsh, who married John Day, son of George Day, Jun., of Long Hill. [See Day.] He died and she married Thomas Rigby, of Sussex.
2. Howel Marsh married Miss Russel, daughter of James, of Sussex, and sister of Jacob B. Maxwell's wife, and lives on Long Island.
JONATHAN HOWEL OSBORN, (son of John Osborn,) and Deborah Hart, had children :
1. Jeremiah Hart Osborn, who married 1st, 23d December, 1789, Polly Squier, daughter of Ellis Squier. [See Ellis Spier.] She died 21st Nov. 1793, aged 25 years, and he married. 2d, 3d March, 1795, Polly Clark, daughter of Stephanus, and went to Ohio. [See Stephanus Clark.]
2. Jane, born 16th July, 1770, married David Parsons, son of William. [See Parsons.]
3. Rhoda married Moses Potter, son of Amos Potter, Sen., and went to Ohio. [See Potter.]
4. Sarah, who died 12th April, 1792, aged 9 months.
5. Jonathan, who died 8th January, 1789, aged 4 years.
6. Puah, who went to Ohio, and married William Squier, son of Meeker, son of Benjamin Squier. [See Squier.]
7. Sarah; 2d, who died young.
And by his 2d, wife, Margaret Simpson, J. H. Osborn had children :
8. Deborah, who married George Doty Clark, son of John, son of Elder John Clark. [See Clark.]
9. Esther, who died 12th February, 1794, aged 5 years.
10. John, born 20th April, 1787, married, 2d July, 1809, Sally Clark, born 1789, daughter of John Clark, son of Elder John Clark, and lives where his father did.
Mr. Jonathan Howel Osborn died 2d December, 1792, aged 49 years, by accident in the woods. His widow Margaret, died 7th September, 1832, aged 82 years.
JOHN OSBORN, (son of Jonathan Howel Osborn,) and Sally Clark, had children :
1. Jane, who married Aaron M. Ludlow, son of Joseph. [See Ludlow.]
2. Aaron C., who died 15th October, 1826, aged 14 years, 2 mo.
3. Jonathan H., who died 18th October, 1826, aged 12 years, 1 month, and 21 days.
4. Jeremiah, who died 11th July, 1838, at Carlisle, Penn., aged 21 years, 8 months, and 12 days.
5. Margaret, born 20th August, 1809, married, 12th September, 1838, Samuel Kent, a carpenter, son of Abraham, and had children : 1. Mary Emily Kent, born 1840 ; 2. Sarah Anne Kent, born 1844.
6. Sarah H., who died 23d January, 1823, aged 1 year, 4 mo. 11 days.
7. Sarah Anne, who married 16th May, 1844, Samuel Totten, son of Jeremiah. [See Totten.]
8. Deborah, born June, 1826.
9. Sibbel, born 23d August, 1828, and married 24th September,. 1851, Albert Pierson, son of James H. Pierson, son of Jacob S. Parsons. [See Parsons.]
10. John Clark Osborn, who died at 8 months.
RACHEL OSBORN, (daughter of John, Sen.,) married, first, Jonathan Bailey, of Morris county ; [see Bailey;] 2d, Andrew Wade, of Morris county, and had a daughter, Patty, who married Thompson Brown, son of George ; [see Brown ;] 3d, Isaac Clark, of Morris county, in this Valley [see Isaac Clark;] 4th, Samuel Tucker, (as his, second wife,) son of Abner Tucker.; [See Tucker.]
JOHN OSBORN, Jun. (son of John,) and Mary Bebout, had children :
1. Puah, who married Burrows Vanwy, of Sussex county, and had children : Jane Vanwy, who married William Completon, of Guernsey county, Ohio, and lives there.
2. Lewis married, 16th Nov. 1811, Mary Anne Cory, daughter of George, and went to Ohio.
3. Nancy married, 3d April, 1813, Daniel Wilson, son of Samuel, and went to the Lakes, New-York, and had children : 1. Jane Wilson ; ______.
4. Jane married, 15th April, 1815, Isaac Denman, son of Joseph, of Springfield, and had children:
1. Runyon Denman, who married _____. 2. Elizabeth Denman married Theodore Hill. 3. John Denman married _____. 4. Mary Denman, born ___, 1823. 5. William Denman, born ___ 1828. 6. Jonathan Howel Denman, born ___, 1830. 7. George Denman, born ___, 1832.
5. Jonathan Howel Osborn married Phebe M. Sturgis, daughter of Eleazer Sturgis, of Green Village ; lives at the 'Saw Mill on Passaic River, near Baskin ridge, and had children : 1. Mary Jane, who married William M. Corbit, and had a son, Lewis Corbit. 2, Lewis F., who married Anne Eliza Armstrong, daughter of Lewis, of Pleasant Valley, and had children : 1. William Osborn ; _____.
3. Sarah Roberts Osborn.
NEHEMIAH OSBORN
NEHEMIAH OSBORN came from Connecticut Farms to Long Hill; he married Mary Baldwin, daughter of Gabriel Baldwin ; he died 14th March, 1846, in his 85th year. They had children :
1. David L., born 4th January, 1787, and married Phebe Ward, daughter of Joshua, of Cheapside, and had children : 1. Joshua Ward ; 2. David Nelson ; 3. Albert H., who married Adaline Boyle, daughter of Dr. William Boyle ; [see Boyle] 4. William Sanford ; 5. Edwin ; 6. Phebe Anne.
2. Rachel, born 30th October, 1788, and died 20th July, 1808, unmarried.
3. Ezra, born 27th March, 1790, and died at about 30 years, unmarried.
4. Asa, born 19th Dec. 1795, married, 20th May, 1824, Jane L. Bennet, and had a daughter, Mary Jane. His wife Jane died 1827, aged 20 years, and he married Hannah Wood, daughter of Daniel S. Wood,Jun and had a daughter, Anne Eliza, born 18th January, 1831, and married, 24th Sept. 1850, Philemon Tomkins, son of A. A. Tomkins.
5. Matthias, born 20th Sept. 1797, married Elizabeth Bonnel, born 11th February, 1797, daughter of Nathaniel Bonnel 3d, and had children : 1. Mary Elizabeth, born 29th Nov. 1829. 2. Martha Jane, born 28th Sept. 1833. 3. Sarah Anne, who died in infancy.
Matthias Osborn was ordained, 30th November, 1828, an elder in the church at New Providence.
6. Nehemiah, born 6th February, 1799, lives at Sparta, in Sussex county ; he married, first, Miss Hunt ; 2d, the widow Coursen.
7. Samuel B., born 16th February, 1804, married, 1st March, 1824, Mary N. Miller, daughter of Lewis. She died 23d February, 1844, in her 40th year, and left children : 1. Eliza; 2. Martha ; 3. David ; and had several others, who died young.
8. Eliza, born 3d October, 1807, and married William Meeker, son of Noah. He lives near Succasunna Plains, Morris county [See Charity Miller, daughter of Elder Moses.]