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Birth:
- verify location.

Anthony married Mrs. Mary RECKLESS. Mrs. was born in 1826 in New York City, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Mary Ann GOELET after 1833 in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy. Mary (daughter of James Francis GOELET, .1 and Sarah Brown LAWRENCE, .vii) was born in 1794 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Dear Friend, I have done extensive research on John Brown Lawrence and the Lawrence Family. I think you may have copied some tree that had a number of incorrect attachments: Briefly, John Brown Lawrence, born 1728, Upper Freehold,
His only TWO wives: Anne Alice Leoanrd (1 child) & Martha Tallman (10 children).
John B is indeed the son of Elizabeth Brown & Elisha Lawrence.
. John was an Anglican, but not a reverend. He was involved in raising a salary for the unpaid Anglican minister in Burlington, NJ. He is a very interesting person with a great many references. Further info can be found on my tree All2gether, on the Rootsweb.com

So the question is which John Lawrence is your ancestor. For instances, he is not the John Lawrence, from Connecticut, who signed many documents for Gen. Washington.

During the Revolution, John B Lawrence, was the Mayor of Burlington, NJ - after NYC, then the 2nd largest city in the USA - John Lawrence protected Burlington from burning & pillage by the German Hessians mercenaries hired by the British. For this bravery, on the contrary, he was falsely accused of siding with the British, dispossessed of his property, imprisoned & lost his lawyer's practice. From 1783 to 1795 he participated in NJ elections - i.e. he did not flee to Canada, as sometimes asserted.

While in the Burlington Goal, he met the injured British General John Graves Simcoe. It is my belief that it was here the John Lawrence discussed with Gen. Simcoe, JB Lawrence's previous attempts to establish an new utopian settlement on the Ohio River. In 1793 John G Simcoe was appointed Governor General (like a commander/ president) of Upper Canada, now known as Ontario. Gov. Simcoe invited John Brown Lawrence (& others) to Toronto to help in the administration of the new utopian Canada as envisioned by Simcoe himself. Some ground work was done but either Simcoe nor John Lawrence lived must longer after that time.
I hope this is not too confusing. Most sincerely, Pat Ahlberg, U.E.

So the question is which John Lawrence is your ancestor. For instances, he is not the John Lawrence, from Connecticut, who signed many documents for Gen. Washington. - - -

Birth:
Confirmation, St. Peter's Ang. Church, 12 Oct 1812.

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Married:
Perth Amboy

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[James' surname is sometimes spelled Goelette - La goelette is French for a type of wooden ship. - PJA]

. Goelet wrote her WILL in 1773 & named "my godson James Goelet, son of my brother Francis, Dec'd." who had died 4 Sep 1767.

. 1793 May 15, Wed. Just imported into Perth Amboy, In the Ship Thomas Wilson, James F Goblet, Master; from Tobago & Turks Island, Muscovado sugar, rum & a large quantity of salt & to be sold on reasonable terms for cost or country produce, by John Henry & co. they have also at their stores at Perth Amboy & New Brunswick, a general assortment of dry goods & Groceries.
Ref: Guardian & NB Advertiser Newspapers.

. 1807 Dec 10 - WILL of James F Goelet, City of Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co, NJ
. First, funeral expense & just debts be paid by Executors;
. Second, beloved wife Sarah Goulet given all Real Estate as long as she remains a widow, then to my children now living, or how said wife Sarah shall divided between the share & share alike;
. Third, if not enough money for debts, then sell, the money arriving from, bequeath to said wife for her support & maintenance of educating my children.
Signed & sealed, James F Goelet.
. Wit: Abagail Compton, James Skinner, Philip Kearney.
. 1809 Dec 29, Sarah Goelet, sole Executor in the within testament of James F Goelet, she will pay firs the debts of said deceased & then legacies. & she will exhibit into the Surrogate Court a true & perfect inventory of all goods & chattel.
. Signed, Given at New Brunswick, NJ, 29 Dec, 1809, Sarah Goelet.
Ref: NJ Wills & Probate Records, 1739-1991, Middlesex Co.,#s 100991 p. 771

Record for research:
. 1849 Apr 19, Thursday, Newark Daily Advertiser (Newark, New Jersey
. Perth Amboy, NJ some residents: Rachel Goelet, Thomas Billopp Goelet with 4 children; Sara Goelet.
Ref: WILL Sarah Howard of Perth Amboy, d 15 Apr., 1796.

. 1892 Jun 30, An auction of rare books, The Voyages & Travels of Francis Goelet of the City of NY, 96 pages, seven colored drawings of ships at sea. Capt. Francis Goelet ancestor of the wealth Goelet family.
Ref: NY Times Newspaper.

. John Goelet - Robert Guestier Goelet - dgt? (Goelet) Mrs Elber Kip - Beatrice (Goelet) Manice - Anne Marie (Guestier) Goelet - Robert Ratsey Goelet d 1820 NYC - Almy Goelet - Peter Goelet 1727-1811, NYC
. Peter P. Goelet 1764-1828, NYC - Peter Goelet III 1800-1879, NYC- Hannah Greene (Goelet) Gerry - Robert Goelet II 1809-1879, NYC - Robert Goelet III 1841-1899, NYC - Ogden Goelet 1846-1897 NYC -Mary Wilson "May" Goelet(-Innes-Kerr (Duchess of Roxburghe).
. Robert Goelet (IV) 1880-1966, NYC- Robert Walton Goelet 1880-1941.

. NYC - Francis Goelet
Goelet, Aefje, 1700, & 1704, NYC
Goelet, Francis, 1691, NYC
Goelet, Jacob, 1688, NYC - Translator of Dutch for the Province of New York"
Goelet, Jan, 1694, NYC
Goelet, Leah, 1702, NYC
Goelet, Phillipus, 1699,1701, 1708, 1743- NYC, 1701
Goelet, Raphael, 1696, NYC 1747. - - -

Birth:
Alt Spelling: Golet / Goelette / Goulet.

Buried:
Perth Amboy. Red sandstone monument is born off on lies on the ground (2006).

James married Sarah Brown LAWRENCE, .vii on 19 Jul 1788 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Sarah (daughter of John Brown LAWRENCE, Esq., U.E. and Martha TALLMAN) was born on 20 Apr 1764 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey; was christened on 20 Apr 1764 in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Burlington, NJ; died on 1 Oct 1828 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. Burlington April 20th 1764. Baptiz'd Martha the wife of John Lawrence
& two female infants, named Sarah & Catherine.

. James Golet (Goelet) &Thos. L. Hewlings, Esq. of the City of Burlington, bound to William LIVINGSTON, Governor, £500 on 19 July 1788., a contract of marriage between James GOLET & Sarah LAWRENCE.
Witness: Tho's Adams [on the back: Burlington 1788.] #G 325.

. James Francis Goelet married Sarah, daughter of John Lawrence of Burlington, N.J. by his 2nd wife, Martha Tallman, born 1760, died Oct 1, 1828.

Capt. James F Goelet owned the house on High Street south. Thorn Golding house (the later was demolished in 1923) & he died seized intestate of same. The title to the entire lot became vested in his daughter, Mary Ann Goelet, on of his heirs-at-law, who intermarried first with John Patrick, second with Joseph W Reckless.
The above property was formerly owned by Capt. Samuel Leonard, his grandfather, who purchased same from Wm. Hodshon.
The property is now (1923) known as 272 High Street residence of Mr. Forrest L. Smith.*
Ref: The history of St. Peter's Church in Perth Amboy, New Jersey
Note: * In 2010 this house is now referred to as the Kearny Cottage (Samuel Leonard to his granddaughter Elizabeth Lawrence Kearny).

New Jersey Wills: James F Goelet, 1807. - - -

Birth:
Twin to Catharine.

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