NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey
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NJGenWeb ~ Morris County, New Jersey
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Source: J. Percy Crayon, Rockaway Records of Morris County, N. J. Families, (Rockaway, N.J., Rockaway Publishing Co., 1902) To preserve some of the records relating to Rockaway at this time, I have arranged from the original papers the facts as stated. It will correct some of the statements made in Morris County history related as historical facts. At this period regular assessments were made in the parish of Rockaway, for ministers salary, church and patronage expenses. These assessments were made by authority of the session by Capt. Job ALLEN, both father and son had been so intimately connected and interested in the church. It is presumed that this contains but a small average of the land owners of this section, or its people, as at this time, religion seemed to be at its lowest ebb, the isms of VOLTAIRE and PAINE, had been extensively circulated and imbibed by the soldiers of the Revolution, during hardships, that to live or die, made little difference, and like all other great armies, it is related that they swore "like the army in Flanders", it became a habit not easily shaken off, and the financial system was on no solid basis, with heavy tax burdens, and the seven long years of neglect in the agricultural and mining districts had not been overcome, and the general unrest, and desire to occupy the better lands in the West, left the people very unsettled in their affairs, and but little interest in church affairs. These assessments were rated according to the acreage of improved and unimproved lands, Industries, and the number of acres of improved lands, assessed for church purposes, in the years 1784-5. Many subscribed, refusing to be assessed according to their valuation. This may be an important sketch for future historians, as it gives some idea of Rockaway and its vicinity in those days. It contains many names I have not met with in other records, and as many have been placed their names in the original documents, I have given the original spelling. The best written signatures are, if I am to be the judge, those of John Jacob FAESCH and Bernard SMITH, Abraham and James KITCHEL, David and Samuel BEAMAN, Benjamin BEACH, owned forges, Job ALLEN, Merchant, and David BAKER, Tavern Keeper: Surname Given Name Acres KINT Helmer 106 LUM James 100 DODD Stephen 130 WINDS William 130 KITCHEL James and Abraham 151 BEAMAN Josiah, Samuel and David 126 OSBORN Thomas 60 ANDERSON Eliakim 35 BROADWELL David 100 CONGER Joseph 27 HEDDEN Aaron 98 BIDLOW Jonathan 2 BEACH Benjamin 80 TUTTLE Henry 100 ROSS Isaac, Nathaniel, and William 120 ALLEN Job 215 OSBORN Abrm. 10 BAKER David 109 LAMPSON Elezer and Thomas 250 COOPER John 70 GARRIGUS David 100 WINDS Samuel 64 LYON Abrm. 45 HURD Josiah, Samuel and David 100 WHELAR Joseph 100 BERRY Titus 96 LINDSLY Samuel 50 JACKSON Benjamin 70 JACKSON Daniel 100 HERRIMAN John 80 JOHNSON Samuel 80 HINDS James 10 BIGLOW Aaron 30 HEDDEN Samuel 63 HATHAWAY Silas 65 LINDSLY Levy 50 LINDSLY Ebenezer 120 LINDSLY Moses 50 CLARK John 26 STICKLE George 37 SUBSCRIBERS TUTTLE Moses WHELAR Abial ALGER William KING Andrew McINTOSH John YOUNG John BEAMAN Josiah SCOTT Joseph DANIELS Benajah WILLIAMS Jonas VANDUINE Frances GORDON David HOFF Charles HOAGLAND Cornl's. OSBORN Nemiah GARRIGUS Jacob Jr. YOUNG Arthur PARRIT Silas MERRIT Samuel RANDEL John M. SMITH Bernard WILLIAMS Isaac MOORE Joshua LYON Jacob Jr. KINT Jacob Jr. WILAR Pripalos BOWERS Lemuel BEACH Sarah BEACH David NICHLS Jonathan VEAL Henry GARD Daniel DOTY Moses HUNTINGTON Gilbert NIXON John THARP James CRANE Samuel JOHNSON Windsor SOUTHWARD Benjamin CONGER David DeCAMP Jos. O'HARA John LEONARD Elijah YOUNG Morgan JOHNSON Abraham CKARK Reuben HALL John DICJERSON Daniel BADGLY George MUNSON Daniel HARRIMAN Jacob Jr. VEAL Davis VEAL Noah SMITH Joseph HALL Seth CASTERLINE Joseph LYON Asher LOSEY James KIRK William WILLIAMS Samuel YOUNG James CLARK Daniel HERRIMAN Joseph WALTON Mark STILES Thomas STILES Daniel DANIELS Sterling DANIELS James DANIELS Samuel RUSSEL Huston LOWSAN Peter LOWSAN Francis BEACH Abner MATTOX James FAESCH John Jacob BOGERT Theunis CONGER Thomas BURWELL Adam JOHNSON Winsor BRINKERHOFF George D. MORRIS Daniel CLARK Daniel DOD Henry BEAMAN Josiah Jr. COREY John BALDWIN Nathaniel It will be noticed that among the names of the subscribers were those of the largest land and property owners, though very liberal contributors, they avoided assessments and taxation, a trait handed down to this day and generation. Among the papers of this date, or a little before, mention is made of one Thomas MILLEDGE, a very large land and property owner in the parish, but went over to the British side in the Revolution, and became a major. On his return here, he was waited upon by a delegation of our citizens and advised to leave the country for his health, as they did not propose to associate with traitors in the community, he gave them no satisfaction at first, but finally fled for safety to Nova Scotia, and his lands and properties were confiscated. If our forefathers had fought the uses and abuses, of their prevailing weakness, the originator of crime, and destruction of health and property of that day and this, with the same determination and effort, that they fought Red Coats and traitors, the rum traffic of today would have been a thing of the past, and referred to in history as among the good old days of Adam and Eve. CATALOGUE OF CHURCH MEMBERSCommunicants Sept., 1832 at dedication of present church, arranged from Dr. KING’s record. But three were members previous to Oct. 1807. Husbands name of wives in parenthesis. Date received in church. Number of members 331. Surname Given Name Date Rec'd Comments
ABBOTT Abijah 1829
ABBOTT Elizabeth 1826 wife of Abijah
ANDERSON Sarah wife of Eliakim
ANDERSON Priscilla 1812 wife of Cornelius, widow
ANDERSON Dayton 1831
ALLEN Samuel 1818
ALLEN Robert P. 1832
AYERS Daniel 1808
AYERS Mary 1822 wife of GARRIGUS
BAKER Jeremiah 1818
BAKER Mary 1818 wife of KING
BERRY Sarah 1808 wife of Asa
BERRY Nancy 1808 wife of Henry
BENJAMIN Jonathan 1818
BENJAMIN Rebecca 1818 wife of Jonathan
BENJAMIN Anna 1832
BLANCHARD Sarah 1818 wife of Martin
BLANCHARD Abner 1825
BLANCHARD Catharine 1831 wife of Abner
BLANCHARD Aaron 1831
BLANCHARD Sarah Ann 1831 wife of Aaron
BLANCHARD John 1831
BLANCHARD Ellenor 1831 wife of John
BEAM Paul 1818
BEAM Catharine 1818 wife of Paul
BEAM Peter 1825
BEAM Mary 1825 wife of Peter
BROADWELL Archibald 1818
BROADWELL Sussanna 1818 wife of Archibald,
maiden name PALMER,
BURNETT Asenath 1823 widow
BOSTEDO Gideon V. 1828
BREESE Charles 1831
BEACH Samuel S. 1818
BEACH Jane 1808 wife of Samuel S.
BEACH Chilion 1818
BEACH Cornelia 1813 wife of Chilion
BEACH Henry 1826
BEACH Rhoda 1826 wife of Henry
BEACH Emily 1828
BEACH Horace 1829
BEACH Abby S. 1831
BEACH Joshua M. 1831
BEACH Samuel S., Jr. 1831
BEACH John, Jr. 1831
BEACH Mary 1831
BEACH Phebe L. 1831
BEACH Nancy S. 1831
BEACH Solomon 1831
BEACH Charles H. 1832
BREESE Sidney 1829
BREESE Hila 1829 wife of Sidney
CINGER Phebe 1808 widow, wife of Thomas
CONGER Phebe 1829 wife of stephen
CLARK Abigail 1813 widow, wife of John
CLARK Sarah 1819 wife of John R.
CLARK James H. 1832
CLARK Sarah 1832
COOPER Mary 1818
COOPER Mary Ann 1831
COOPER William 1832
COOPER Hannah 1832 wife of William,
maiden name MOORE
CRITTENDEN Ira 1818
CRITTENDEN Harriet 1818 wife of Ira
CRITTENDEN William H. 1831
COOK Jane 1818 wife of John
COOK Isaac M. 1831
CASTERLINE Elizabeth 1826 wife of Daniel
CONDICT Charlotte 1831 wife of Sidney
COE Mary 1831 wife of Thomas
COE Joseph D. 1831
COMPTON Mary Ann 1831
CRYSTAL Martha 1831 wife of Patrick
DENTON Stephen 1818
DENTON Mary 1832 wife of Stephen
DOLAND Mary 1818
DOUGHTY Samuel 1825
DOUGHTY Martha 1825 wife of Samuel
DOUGHTY John A. 1828
DOUGHTY Cynthia 1828 wife of John A.
DOUGHTY Louisa M. 1832
DeCAMP Catharine 1831 widow
DeCAMP James H. 1831
DeCAMP Eliza Ann 1831
DeCAMP Joseph D. 1832
DEAN Maria 1831
DOYLE Matthew 1831
DICKERSON William A. 1832
DELL Maria 1818 wife of Thomas
ESTILE Rebecca 1818 wife of John
EASTON Catharine 1831 wife of Joseph
EDWARDS William 1832
ESTLER David 1832
ESTLER Rachel 1832 wife of David
FORD James H. 1828
FORD Charity 1830 wife of James H.
FORD William 1818
FORD Phebe 1818 wife of William
FORD George, Jr. 1832
FRAZEE Eunice 1828
FAIRCHILD Mahlon 1831
GENUNG Hannah 1808
GENUNG Mary 1831
GARRIGUS Jacob 1831
GARRIGUS John 1809
GARRIGUS Elizabeth 1809 wife of John
GARRIGUS Isaac 1818
GARRIGUS Sarah 1818 wife of Isaac
GARRIGUS James 1821
GARRIGUS Elizabeth 1821 wife of James
GARRIGUS Elias 1828
GARRIGUS Parmelia 1828
GARRIGUS Samuel 1818
GARRIGUS Mary Ann 1825 wife of Samuel
GARRIGUS Sarah 1832
GARRIGUS Stephen 1832
GARRIGUS Alexander W. 1831
GARRIGUS John, Jr. 1815
GARRIGUS Mary 1815 wife of John, Jr.
GORDON Nancy 1808 wife of David
GREEN Gabriel 1821
GREEN Mary 1821 wife of Gabriel
GRIFFITHS Nancy 1818 wife of William
GRIFFITHS Catharine 1818
GARDINER Timothy P. 1818
GARDINER Mary Elizabeth 1832
HERRIMAN Lydia 1809 wife of Daniel
HERRIMAN Betsey 1818
HERRIMAN Mary 1818
HERRIMAN Hannah 1829 wife of David
HERRIMAN Ann Eliza 1831
HALL Chloe 1808 widow
HALL Stephen 1818
HALL Lydia 1815 wife of Stephen
HALL Mary Caroline 1832
HALL Harriet 1832
HALL Betsey 1831 widow, wife of Daniel
HICKS Samuel 1808
HICKS Samuel, Jr. 1818
HICKS Rachel 1818 wife of Jason
HUBBARD Abigail 1811 wife of George
HUBBARD Eliza K. 1831
HOAGLAND John E. 1831
HOAGLAND Elizabeth 1831 widow
HALSEY Mary Ann 1832 wife of William
HALSEY Maria 1818 wife of Silas
HILER Harriet N. 1832
HILER Nancy 1817 widow, wife of Peter
HILER Ruth 1818 wife of John
HURD Charles R. 1832
HURD Josiah 1816
HURD Matilda 1816 wife of Josiah
HURD John S. 1832
HURD Louisa 1828
HOWELL Sarah 1832
HOWELL Sylvanus 1818
HOWELL Harriet 1818 wife of Sylvanus
HUSK Anna 1818 widow
HOFF Hannah 1825
HOFF Elizabeth 1818
HOFF Harriet 1818
HOFF Mary Ann 1818
HAMILTON David 1825
HAMILTON Anna 1825 wife of David
HAMILTON William 1825
HAMILTON Lewis 1825
HAMILTON Mary E. 1828
HAMILTON Silas 1813
HAMILTON Hester 1831 wife of Silas
HAZARD Delia 1827 wife of Silas
HARRISON Benjamin 1832
HINCHMAN Felix 1829
HINCHMAN Eliza 1829 wife of Felix
HATHAWAY Sarah 1826
INGRAM Margaret Ann 1831
INNIS Catharine wife of John
INNIS Jane 1821
JACKSON Clarissa 1808 wife of James
JACKSON Joseph 1818
JACKSON Electra 1808 wife of Joseph
JACKSON Stephen J. 1818
JACKSON Mary Ann 1829 wife of Stephen J.
JACKSON William 1818
JACKSON Susan D. 1818 wife of William
JACKSON Nancy B. 1832
JACKSON William A. 1831
JOHNSON Rhoda 1822
JENNINGS John 1826
JENNINGS Lucy 1825 wife of John
JENNINGS Redmond 1831
JENNINGS Fanny 1831
JAYRED Frederick 1831
JAYRED Eliza 1831 wife of Frederick
KANOUSE Catharine 1818 wife of Peter F.
KANOUSE Sarah 1818
KITCHELL James 1818
KITCHELL Hannah 1818 wife of James
KITCHELL Ford 1825
KITCHELL Elizabeth 1808 wife of Ford
KITCHELL Emily 1828
KITCHELL Charity Ann 1831
KITCHELL Jane Rebecca 1831
KITCHELL Matthias 1832
KITCHELL Caroline 1832 wife of Mattias
KITCHELL Joanna 1831 wife of Ebenezer
KINNEY Jacob A. 1819
KELSEY John B. 1822
KELSEY Delia 1822 wife of John B.
KING Clarissa 1823 wife of Barnabus
KING Elizabeth T. 1828
KING Electa J. 1831
KING Barnabas B. 1831
KING Susan C. 1831
KING Samuel B. 1831
KING Harriet 1832
KING Susan 1832
KING Mary 1831 wife of Lewis
KING Phebe 1832 wife of James
KENNEDY David 1828
KENNEDY Palmer 1829
KETCHAM Margaret 1831 wife of Samuel
LAMSON Daniel 1818
LAMSON Phebe 1816 wife of Daniel
LAMSON Eleazer 1826
LAWRENCE Jane 1818 wife of Jacob
LYON Lewis 1832
LOSEY William 1832
LOVE Jane 1832
LOVE Sarah Ann 1832
LOVE Mary 1832
MOTT John 1818
MOTT Parnell B. 1825 wife of John
MOTT Isaac H. 1831
MENARD Henry 1818
MENARD Hannah 1818 wife of Henry
MENARD Sidney R. 1832
MUIR Susan 1823 wife of Thomas
MILLS Rachel 1831 widow
MARTIN Clark J. 1831
MARSH Benjamin 1831
MARSH Mary G. 1832 wife of Benjamin
MORGAN Mary 1825 wife of James
NORRIS Joanna 1818
NORRIS Catharine 1831 wife of David
NELSON Mahalah 1832 wife of Jacob
OSBORN Daniel 1808
OSBORN Charles H. 1832
PALMER Samuel
PALMER Naomi 1808 wife of Samuel
PALMER Timothy 1818
PALMER Electa 1818 wife of Timothy
PALMER Eliza 1831
PALMER Silas S. 1831
PALMER Albert A. 1832
PALMER John G. 1832
PALMER Naomi 1831
PIERSON Catharine 1818 wife of John R.
PIERSON Catharine 1831
PIERSON John 1818
PIERSON Betsey 1818 wife of John
POWERS Albert A. 1829
POWERS Jacob 1829
POWERS Mary 1829 wife of Jacob
POWERS Charles 1832
PRUDDEN Euphemia 1831 maiden name LUDLOW
REED Mary 1818
ROWLAND George 1831
ROWLAND Harriet 1819 wife of George
ROWLAND Ann Eliza 1832
ROWLAND Mary Jane 1831
ROSS Kesiah 1822 widow
ROFF Mary 1827
ROFF Anson 1831
ROFF Minerva 1832
RUTAN Manning 1832
STICKLE Sarah 1808 wife of George
STICKLE Anna 1808 widow, wife of George, Jr.
STICKLE Adams 1818
STICKLE Sarah 1831
STICKLE John E. 1832
STICKLE Israel 1832
STICKLE Beaman 1818
STICKLE Phebe 1831 wife of Beaman
SCOTT Milton 1818
SCOTT Elizabeth 1818 wife of Milton
SCOTT Abigail 1818 wife of Joseph
SMITH Elizabeth 1818 wife of Gilbert
SMITH Harriet Eliza 1829
SMITH Richard C. 1832
STRONG William 1818
STURTEVANT Thomas M. 1831
STURTEVANT Maria 1821 wife of Thomas M.
SEARING James 1828
SEARING Rachel 1829 wife of James
SIMPSON Hannah 1818 wife of Mahlon
STACKHOUSE Hannah 1818 wife of Joshua
STROCK Margaret 1832 widow
TALMAGE Harriet 1822
TALMAGE Elizabeth 1828 wife of Job
TROWBRIDGE Julia 1816 wife of Stephen
TUTTLE Belinda 1832
TUTTLE Phineas M. 1832
THOMPSON Jane 1832
TOMKINS Rebecca 1823 wife of Seely
VANNESS Elenor 1816
VOORHEES Abraham 1831
VOORHEES Jemima 1831 wife of Abraham
VANDERHOOF Henry 1832
VANDERHOOF Elizabeth 1832 wife of Henry
WILLIAMS Ruth
WILLIAMS William 1831
WILLIAMS Mary 1831 wife of William
WARD Nancy 1809 wife of Phineas
WHITEHEAD Thomas 1809
WHITEHEAD Juliet 1809 wife of Thomas
WHITEHEAD Benoni 1828
WHITEHEAD Elizabeth 1828 wife of Benoni
WIGGINS Susan 1814 wife of William
WIGGINS Phebe 1818
WIGGINS David F. 1832
WIGGINS Jane 1819
WIGGINS Sarah F. 1828
WILSON Mary 1822 wife of Mordecai
WEIR Emily 1832 wife of Charles
WEIR William H. 1832
WEIR Sarah Ann 1832 wife of William H.
WINGET Huldah 1831
WOOD Eliza 1832 wife of Silas
WALKER Agnes 1832
YOUNG Sarah 1831
ZINDLE Lydia 1818 wife of CharlesTranscribed by: John Cresseveur (1949-2003) |
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