Cornelia P BOGGS, .ii

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  1. 1.  Cornelia P BOGGS, .ii was born on 12 Feb 1893 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey (daughter of John LAWRENCE BOGGS, .iii and Christina Maria NEWTON).

    Notes:

    . Cornelia Paterson Boggs, b. Feb 13, 1893, at Perth Amboy.
    she graduated from Oldfields School at Glencoe, Maryland in 1911.
    Dec 24 1915 her engagement was announced to Gilbert McKie Milligan, son of Mr. Thomas P Milliam, of Elizabeth, NJ. And is a partner of Douglas & Miligan, importers, of Montreal Canada, and Vice President of Dominion Exporters Ltd. of Montreal. He is a member of St. James Clurch & resides at 355 Mountain St, Montreal.
    The marriage took place at Grace Church - - -


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  John LAWRENCE BOGGS, .iii was born on 16 Nov 1865 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey (son of John LAWRENCE BOGGS, .ii and Cornelia Bell PATERSON).

    Notes:

    . 1900 Jun 14 - It was voted that the minute respecting Dr. Pennington [late, past president of NJ Historical Society] be appointed from the Society to attend the unveiling of the Presbyterian Historical Monument, near Freehold: John Lawrence Boggs, Perth Amboy.
    . 1921- NJ Historical Society, Woman's Branch. A Year ago last May, Mr. Boggs, Treasurer told us of his desire to raise Raise, $10,000 in honor of the 75th University of founding of the Society, which resulted in the sum of $1,025.75 handed to Mr Boggs last June.
    . After luncheon J Lawrence Boggs gave us a most interesting & instructive talks on How th ePosters Held in the War, displaying many posters about the room.

    . JOHN LAWRENCE BOGGS as born at Perth Amboy, NJ, Nov 16, 1865. He is on the official staff of the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., Newark, NJ & has residences at Perth Amboy & Newark. He was Vice President of the NJ Society of the Sons of the American Revolution; is Secretary & member of the Board of Managers of the Perth Amboy Savings Institution; Vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Perth Amboy; Treasurer of Grace Church, Newark; member of the Board of Trustees of the NJ Historical Society. He was married at St. John's Church, Washington, DC, Feb 11, 1802 to Christina Marie Newton, dau. of Charles Whiting Newton & Jennie Wilson of NY. Mr. Newton was clerk of the US Circuit Court, E.D. of NY & died at Jersey City, NJ, Christina Newton was born in NYC. - - -

    John married Christina Maria NEWTON on 11 Feb 1892 in Washington, District of Columbia. Christina was born in 1866 in New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 3.  Christina Maria NEWTON was born in 1866 in New Jersey.

    Notes:

    Christina is the daughter of Jennie Frances Wilson & Charles Whiting Newton.

    Children:
    1. 1. Cornelia P BOGGS, .ii was born on 12 Feb 1893 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
    2. Christina N BOGGS was born on 15 Mar 1898 in Middlesex County, New Jersey.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  John LAWRENCE BOGGS, .ii was born on 24 Jun 1812 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey (son of Robert Morris BOGGS, Sr. and Mary LAWRENCE, .vi); died on 29 May 1893 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy.

    Notes:

    . JOHN LAWRENCE BOGGS, was born at New Brunswick, NJ, Jun 24 1812 & died at Perth Amboy, NJ May 29, 1893.
    Baptized by Bishop Rev. Dr. Croes, of NJ, sponsors were Isaac Lawrence of NY & Mrs. John Lawrence of Trenton, NJ.
    He was educated at Flushing Institute, Long Island, NY. President Lincoln appointed him Collector of customs for Perth Amboy, later in the Custom House at NY.
    He was registrar for 30 years of the East Jersey Proprietors.

    Married twice: First Jan 14, 1843 to Mary Lloyd VanDeursen, dau. of Wm. Van Deursen, MD of New Brunswick, NJ & Eleanor Hendrickson Van Deursen of Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ. She was born June 2, 1819 & died June 1 1842, buried in Willow Grove Cemetery, NB.

    . Fragment for further research: a serial article by John C. Honeyman on the history of Zion, St. Paul & other early Lutheran churches in New Jersey.

    'The report of the Board of Trustees to the Society made by the Secretary & was approved. The report of the Membership Committee was presented to its chairman, Mr. J. Lawrence Boggs. It was approved. Pages 84-85 & 121.
    General Committee Mr. J Lawrence Boggs.

    . Organized Mar 7, 1889. Annual meeting usually January 3 (Battle of Princeton), or at such other time as the Society at any annual meeting may designate. Officers elected January 3, 1914.
    2d Vice-Pres., John Lawrence Boggs, 44 Spruce St Newark. - meeting usually January 3 (Battle of Princeton), or at such other time as the Society at any annual meeting may designate.

    . Officers elected January 3, 1914.
    President, John Leonard Merrill, 517 Park Ave. East, Orange
    1st Vice-Pres., John Brewer Wight, 17 Prospect Terrace, Montclair
    2d Vice-Pres., John Lawrence Boggs, 44 Spruce St., Newark.
    Ref: National Year Book, the national Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 1914.

    . Fragment: Vol. 12 NJ Historical, Pub Oct. 1927 & Oct 1930
    The report of the Treasurer, Mr. Boggs, was read & showed a balance of $2,042.76, It as approved as having reported { correct by the Auditing Committee. [ John or James L. Boggs? ]

    . BOGGS, PAPERS, ca. 1750-1912.Approx. 2,000 items. Gift of J. Lawrence Boggs.
    Legal documents, letters, receipts, & other documents of the Boggs family & some papers of the Morris family. Incomplete­ly organized. Included are letters of various people.
    Ref: A guide to the manuscripts collection of the New Jersey Historical Society.

    Recorded for further research:
    . John Lawrence Boggs, Jr., from 1852-55 & 1860 & again 1900-18, St. Peter's Anglican Vestery Man, Perth Amboy. - - -

    Died:


    Buried:
    Son of Robt & Mary Lawrence Boggs.

    John married Cornelia Bell PATERSON on 25 Jul 1847 in New Jersey. Cornelia was born on 9 Feb 1820 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 12 Sep 1909 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 5.  Cornelia Bell PATERSON was born on 9 Feb 1820 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 12 Sep 1909 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy.

    Notes:

    Cornelia is the daughter of Jane Eliza Bell & Wm. Patterson.

    Birth:


    Buried:
    Daughter of Wm. Bell & Jane Eliza Paterson & wife of John Lawrence Boggs.

    Children:
    1. Cornelia Van Rensselaer BOGGS, .i was born on 31 Jan 1849 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 12 May 1882 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy.
    2. Maria Lawrence BOGGS was born on 6 Sep 1850 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 24 Dec 1884 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy.
    3. William Patterson BOGGS, .iii was born on 4 Dec 1853 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
    4. Alice Patterson BOGGS was born on 27 Jan 1857 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 10 May 1914 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
    5. Robert Neilson BOGGS, .6 was born in c 26 Dec 1862 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died in 1873 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy.
    6. 2. John LAWRENCE BOGGS, .iii was born on 16 Nov 1865 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Robert Morris BOGGS, Sr. was born on 13 Nov 1766 in Indian Neck, Tinton Falls, New Jersey (son of James BOGGS, MD and Mary MORRIS, .i); died on 11 Jan 1831 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard.

    Notes:

    . Family papers may be found at NJ Historical Society. The collection consists of the papers of the Boggs family, as well as the allied Blauvelt, Kearny & Lawrence families. The materials range in date from 1737 to 1950, & include correspondence; composition notebooks; diaries; estate, financial & legal papers; genealogies; & musical scores.

    . Robert Boggs 3 wives are:
    1st. Cousin Mary Morris, daughter of Uncle Robt. Morris. T2 Boggs children. Married 28 May 1795.
    2nd. Mary Lawrence, daughter of Hon. John Lawrence, of Burlington, NJ. married 7 Aug, 1802.*
    3rd wife: Maria Eliza Brenton Stewart. Widow of Leslie Stewart of Halifax, NS. Married 17 Jun 1817. One Boggs child.

    . Robert, eldest child of Dr. James & Mary Morris Boggs, was brought up together with his other brothers & sisters whom his father had left behind him in New Jersey, in the home of his uncle, Judge Morris, of New Brunswick, with whom he studied & practiced law, spending his life in that city where he was at one time clerk of the US district court. He died in New Brunswick, in 1831. He married (first) his cousin. Mary Morris, by whom he had one child, Robert, who married Jane Dunham, & had 3 children.
    He married (second) Mary, the sister of James Lawrence, United States Navy, who commanded the frigate "Chesapeake" in her engagement with the "Shannon." She bore him 3 children:
    1. Brenton, of the United States navy.
    2. Mary, married J. S. Blauvelt, of New Brunswick.
    3. Charles Stuart, referred to below. He married (third) Maria Brenton, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1780, died in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1866. They had one child: Edward Brenton.
    Ref: Genealogical & memorial history of the State of New Jersey, 1910.

    . The children of Dr. James Boggs & Mary Morris 2 sons, Robert & James, remained in the United States, when the family removed to Nova Scotia. The American Branch of the Boggs Family.
    ROBERT BOGGS was born at Indian Neck, Tinton Falls, near Eatontown, New Jersey, Nov. 13th, 1766, at 3 P. M., & died at New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 11th, 1831, after a lingering illness caused by tumor of the stomach. The Baptismal Register of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, N.J., has an entry for Dec. 14th, 1766, & indicates that the ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Cooke; that it was a private one; & that the sponsors were Robert McKean, Theodore Maurice, & Elizabeth Stogdell.
    Robert was seventeen years of age at the time the family removed from New Jersey to Nova Scotia, & he chose to remain in the United States. He studied law in the office of his uncle, Judge Robert Morris, & practiced his profession in New Brunswick, N. J. He was admitted Attorney-at-law in 1789, a* Counsellor-at-law in 1794. He was Judge Advocate General of the NJ Militia, from 1794 to 1795. He was Clerk of the United States District Court from 1790 to 1815, & appointed Sergeant-at-law in 1816. He was elected a trustee of Rutgers College in 1800. An active & influential member of the Anglican Church, he was almost all his life connected with Christ Church, New Brunswick Co., [USA] holding office frequently. He was Clerk of the Convention; member of the Standing Committee; Deputy to the General Convention. He was Vestryman & Clerk of the Parish in 1793. He continued an active & prominent member of the vestry until his death. His remains were interred in Christ Churchyard, New Brunswick, where his tombstone bears this inscription: Born November 13th 1766. Died January 11th, 1831.
    'This mortal shall put on immortality. For the trumpet shall sound & the dead shall be raised'."
    Robert was one of the executors of the will of his uncle, Robert Morris, who died in June 1815, & it would seem from the correspondence that has survived the years, regarding this duty, that it was by no means a small task, extending, as it did, over several years, & entailing a vast amount of correspondence. The settlement of the 2 wills, that of Robert Hunter Morris, & that of his son, Robert Morris, loomed up as a business of prodigious importance & almost interminable work & worry for all the members of the family in the days of Robert Boggs & his contemporaries.
    Robert Boggs was married 3 times. His first wife, whom he married on May 28th, 1795, was his cousin, Mary Morris, daughter of Judge Robert Morris. She was born at Newark, N. J., in Feb. 1775, & died at New Brunswick, N. J., June 24th, 1799, aged 25 years. She was interred in Christ Churchyard, New Brunswick.
    Robert's second wife was Mary Lawrence, daughter of John Lawrence, Esq., of Burlington, N. J., & a
    sister of Capt. James Lawrence, the heroic commander of the United States frigate "Chesapeake. … Mary Lawrence was born at Burlington, N. J., in 1777, & died at New Brunswick, N. J., Feb. 12th, 1815. She was married to Robert Boggs, August 7th, 1802.

    . 1791 Apr 15, Tues. District Court of US, NJ District, By Order of Hon Robert Morris, Esquire, Judge of said Court. Notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern the following goods & wares, fabric, buttons, china etc. sized as contraband by Jon Ross Esq. collect of customs for the port of Burlington. By Order of the Court, Robert Boggs, Clerk.
    Ref: Brunswick Gazette, NJ.
    . 1787 Wardens of Christ Church, New Brunswick Diocese, NJ, Robt. Boggs.

    . 1799 Oct 24. Dr. Boggs wrote to his son Robert, who was in New Jersey, & in this letter says "we have just received accounts of Seringapatam being taken & Tippoo killed & a most complete victory obtained over him, so that the black Scoundrel will never disturb that quarter of the World any more."

    . 1798 Dec 3rd, Thomas Boggs, writing from Halifax to his brother Robert in NJ, indicates that he he still living with his parents & has recently purchased a large house which they occupy & to which they invite their New Brunswick, NJ relatives for a visit.

    . Stayed in NJ when his parents moved to Halifax, NS. He served in the US Navy in the Mexico & Civil Wars. In the Civil War he commanded at Varunan under Farragut's fleet in their entry to New Orleans.
    Robert had studied law in the Rutgers College office of his uncle Robert Morris (who served with the Revolutionary troops) & practiced law in New Brunswick. Robert Boggs served as the Judge Advocate General of the New Jersey Militia from 1794-1795, then a clerk of the U.S. District Court from 1790-1815, & became a Rutgers trustee in 1800.

    . Robert Boggs, studied law in the office of Uncle, US Judge, Robt. Morris; Attorney-at-law, 1789, Counsellor-at-law 1794, Judge Advocate General of NJ Militia, 1794-5 Clerk of US District Court 1790-115.
    Sergeant-at-law in 1794. [His father-in-law, John Brown Lawrence had also held this position.]

    . Unrecorded Estate Papers 2914-3142, Middlesex:
    . Account of Maria E Boggs & Wm. Brenton Boggs & their disbursements of the Estate of said RM Boggs [Extracts from very orderly account of 15 pages!]
    . 1831 Feb 24, Amount of Inventory, $30,330.68 [listing investments in banks & money owing to him]
    . Amounts of Bonds & Montages not collected, Total $235.11
    . Amount paid Mrs Boggs for supper of household out of income of Estate/per Will, $3,440.30.
    Balance in accounts: $58,683.66. as of
    . 1834 Mar 17, Signed, M E Boggs, Wm Brenton Boggs, Executors.
    Surrogate Court Wit: Thos Hance, Jos Churney, To ford, Simons Maungy. [p452]
    Ref: NJ Wills & Probate Records, 1739, Estate File 983, Robert Morris Boggs, p 441-460.

    . 1790 Nov 17 - New Brunswick, on the 2nd instant the District Court of NJ was held in Burlington. Robert Boggs & Joseph Scudder, Esqrs. were admitted as attorneys of said Court.
    Ref: NJ Journal.

    . 1799 Oct 24th, Dr. Robt. Boggs wrote to his son Robert, who was in NJ, & in this letter tells about British battle at Tippoo.
    In 1798 Dec 3rd, Thomas Boggs, writing from Halifax to his brother Robert in NJ, indicates that he he still living with his parents & has recently purchased a large house which they occupy & to which they invite their New Brunswick, NJ relatives for a visit.

    . 1800 Dec 24 -WILL of Joseph Covehoven, Franklin Twp. Somerset: Wit. Robt. Boggs.
    . 1812 Jan. - Ben. Tuttle of N. Brunswick, Middlesex Co. NJ. Wit: Robt. Boggs, Kearney Newell.

    . 1805 Jan 31 - The stockholders of the Trenton & New Brunswick Turnpike Company met at Kingston, 622 shares being represented & elected: President John Baynard, Robert Boggs, Director.
    . 1805 Jun 17, New Brunswick, Notice is hereby given that the Trento & NB Turnpike Company will received proposals for forming & graveling eh Turnpike Rd from Trenton to NB about 24 miles on Tuesday 23 July next. The road will be contracted for entire or in ports as may be agreed at the time; when its with & form, will be made known & drafts of contracts for the inspector of those disposed to contracts, By order of the Board, R Boggs, Clerk,

    . 1811 Jan 7 - Clerk of the District of New Jersey, Trenton.
    . 1812 Jun 15, District of NJ SS. Be it remember that on the 22 May in 36 year of independence of USA, Abj. Davis of the said District have deposit in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: An American Version of the Psalms of David, suited to the state of the Church in the present age of the world. by Abj. Davis, manger of the Gospel at Millville, NJ conformity with the act of the Congress of the US, "An act for the engagement? of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts & broke to the authors & proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.: L.S. Robert Boggs, Clk. of the District of N.J.
    Ref: True American Newspaper.

    . 1815 Aug 30 - 2nd Election of a Bishop of NJ, Annual Convention of Diocese of NJ, St. Michael's Church, Trenton. 18 parishes represented by lady deputies from Burlington, Jackson B French. Appointed to Standing Committee: Robert Boggs.
    . 1815, 1818, Warden of St. Mary's Church,. Jackson B French.
    .1819 Jul 13, 1824 Apr 19. St. Mary's Treasurers, Jackson B French.

    1822 Sep 26 - Fire! On Saturday night last about midnight a barn & 2 barracks, all nearly filled with hay gain etc situated a short distance from this city belonging to Robert Boggs, Esq. were totally consumed by fire. In the barn were a pair of valuable horses & farming utensils of considerable value which were also burnt. The estimated loss by this fire we have not heard. The conflagration was undoubtedly the work of some vile incendiary.
    Ref: New Brunswick Fredonia Newspaper, New Brunswick, NJ.

    Supreme Court Case Files:
    Numerous examples may be found, including:
    . State of NJ - Boggs, Robt., Attorney for Defendant, Middlesex, Morris & Somerset 1813-14, Habeas corpus in Manumissions case #34942
    Harris, Robt. - Boggs, Robt. & James, 1772
    Boggs, Robt. -Talmage, Elias C., Sussex Co., 1818, Trespass & Ejectment #5423
    Boggs, Mary - Kay, Isaac, Gloucester, 1796, Debt, #3802.

    . 1815 August 30 - Robert Boggs, Esq. & a Isaac Lawrence were on a Standing Committee for St. Mary's Burlington Church & on Thurs. morning, 28 May, 1829, Robt. Boggs. Esq., Standing Committee.

    . 1817 May 27 Tuesday - Wm. Penningaton, Esq. of Newark is appointed Clerk of District Court of US, NJ District, in place of Robert Boggs, Esq., resigned.
    Ref: Centinel of Freedom, Newark Centinel Newspaper.

    . 1822 Sep 26, Thurs. FIRE! Saturday night last, about midnight a barn & 2 barracks, all nearly filled with hay, grain, etc, situated a short distance from this city, belonging to Robert Boggs. Esq. were tollway consumed by fire. In the barn were a pair of valuable horses & farming utensils of considerable value, which were also burnt. The estimated loss by this fire we have not heart. The conflagration was undoubtedly the work of some vile incendiary.

    . 1822 Oct 9 - $100 REWARD. At a late meeting of the Society for the protection of property, in this city, it was resolved that a reward of $100 be offered for the apprehension of the incendiary, who set on fire the barn of Robt. Riggs, Esq. on the 21st ult. At the same time a committee was appointed from he society to solicit the aid & cooperation of the Common Council of this city, endeavoring to ferret out & bring to condign punishment the perpetrator of that diabolical act - the the society adjourned to meet again at Joseph Runyon's on Sat. 12th inst. at 7 o'clock in the evening.

    . 1822 Oct 4, In Common Council. Resolved that the Mayor be authorized to offer a reward of $100 for the discovery of the persons who set fire to the barn of Robert Boggs Esq. on the night of 21 Sep. last, to be paid on conviction of the offender/s. H C Guest, Clerk.

    . 1822 Nov 5, Autumnal Cattle Show & Fair, at an early hour at Runyans hotel, President R Boggs Esq. from he head table announced to the society the premiums & delivered them to the successful candidates in neat silk purses made expressly for the purpose & presented by several ladies friendly to the Institution:
    to Rt M Boggs. of NB, for the best Fat Cow, $6.
    Ref: Fredonia Newspaper, New Brunswick, NJ.

    . 1826 Nov 1, Fri. - 3 o'clock, the House met. Mr. McDowell presented the petition of Wm L Johnson & Robert Boggs, on behalf of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of NJ, praying the incorporation of the convention of said Church. - [no outcome mentioned.]
    Ref: New Brunswick Fredonian Newspaper, NJ.

    . 1830 North Brunswick Twp., Middlesex Co., New Jersey
    Robert Boggs, men between 60 - 70 y. one;
    Boys 5 years & under: one;
    Women between 20 - 30 years: 2; Women between 50 - 60 years: one.

    . 1831 Jan 11, Died on 11th inst. New Brunswick, Nj, 64 years, Robert Boggs, upwards of 40 years a highly respectable member of the Bar in that State.
    Ref: NY Evening Post newspaper.

    . 1897 relative, J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House monument:
    "In Memory of William Boggs who departed this life October 27, 1776, aged 36 years."

    . "In memory of Jere Boggs, who departed this life October 12, 1776 aged 4 years."
    Ref: "Notes on Lawrence of Hackensack" New York Genealogical & Biographical Record. Vol.XXVIII., p.170.


    Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

    Part Two Newspaper Article

    . 1807 Jan 21 - To Robert Boggs, Esq. The editors of this paper a few weeks since, published a hand bill said to be signed, by you & five other gentlemen of your city, as a Committee, appointed to address the electors of your county, previous to the lat election: I have waited with some hope of seeing you come forward & publicly deny your agency in that handbill: for I cannot conceive how a man in your station - an officer one of the US courts, and as such, possessed of the means of correct information on the subject of your address - would lend his signature to give currency to a catalogue of tales that have been hackneyed so long and refused so offend, as those on which you have ventured your reputation, as a man of veracity. And this address is made to you, in preference of your colleagues only as you are an officer of the government you have thought fit to traduce.
    Every gov. expects support for every member that a composes it; but should it pursue a system evidently inimical to the interest of the governed, the virtuous ember will certainly preset this duty paramount, which he owes his country & denounce the corruptor vicious part of it. His virtue will also to be consistent, compel him to decline all cooperation in the administration of the gov. he hold it his duty to denounced, and all the emoluments too, annexed to his part of it.
    How Mr. Boggs, will you conduct square with this rule? You have done you at most to calumniate, even beyond the verge of the circle of your influence the gov. that feuds you: you have put your name to a general libel on it, without adducing one singe solitary evidence to support this libel. And yet you receive the wages of the gov. you have libeled Unhappy, infatuated X! That animal is but a type of thee, that while he greedily gnaws his bone, snaps at the hand that reaches at! If our gov. is so wretched, why have any thing to do in it. Withdraw your Herculean shoulder from the wheel and let it sink into the more of contemptibility!
    Your committee has bravely constructed a Socratic battery? against the administration of our union & state gov; and annoy them severely with a folly of insidious questions. You seem deeply read in this kind of argument - but how happened your Socratic wisdom totally to overlook the obligation you were under the finding some mode of argument to prove the truth of the assertions on which you questions are predicated? You as a lawyer, would not admit your adversary to beg the question. Your committee is a set of sturdy beggars who have begged nine in a breath! But owing to jerry? perhaps, you never thought of proving one of them. Now sir, your queries may all be answered, as far as they have any specific meaning attached to them where they have not have or may follow you into the wide field of conjecture and if the answers are forward for us, we'll direct you to where you may find them already done, in a manner that forbids every idea of cavil or doubt. This will be undertaken as leisure and convenience will admit. I am YOUR FRIEND.
    Ref: True American Newspaper, Trenton, NJ. published 1805 Feb 4.

    . 1807 Feb 16 & cont. Feb 23rd - for the True American To Robert Boggs, Esq.,
    The crisis, we think is drawing near when the American people will no long believe that the provisions of a constitution they hold hear can be best carried into effect by its bitterest enemies.
    Question 1. Can the American people always believe that he spirit of the '76 exclusively inspires foreigners who have emigrated either since '83 or mushroom patriots, who have sprung up since '89?
    Ref. True American Newspaper, Trenton, NJ. Extracted long article, appears to be the questions by Robt. Boggs. -

    . Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

    Birth:
    b. at 3 P.M. - in Indian Neck, Tinton Falls, near Eatontown, New Jersey.

    Died:
    COD: lingering illness caused by tumour of the stomach.

    Buried:
    Burlington, NJ. The mortal shall put on immortality. For the trumpet shall sound & the dead shall be raised.

    Robert married Mary LAWRENCE, .vi on 7 Aug 1802. Mary (daughter of John Brown LAWRENCE, Esq., U.E. and Martha TALLMAN) was born in Nov 1776 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey; died on 12 Feb 1815 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]


  2. 9.  Mary LAWRENCE, .vi was born in Nov 1776 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey (daughter of John Brown LAWRENCE, Esq., U.E. and Martha TALLMAN); died on 12 Feb 1815 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard.

    Notes:

    Mary is the daughter of Hon. John Lawrence, Mayor of Burlington, N. J.
    Mary Lawrence married Robt. Morris Boggs.

    Birth date: At the midmorning on Dec. 11, 1776, the first group of nonlocal fighting men, a party of 60 rebel Pennsylvanians, retreated through Burlington. Commodore Seymour fired on the entrenched Hessians (for British side). John Lawrence & other leading men when to ensure "the safety of the town" by meeting with the troops who returned the firing on the mayor. We made our escapes & were under the necessity of taking Refuge among the King's troops, & as the design of taking post at Burlington was soon after given up, I have been obliged to leave my wife & three children (the youngest not five weeks old, = Nov 1776) & to ramble as a Refugee, God knows when to return. "

    . Brothers Capt. James Lawrence, naval hero "don't give up the ship.
    & Dr. John Brown Lawrence, Jr. one of the first American born doctors.

    Robert & Mary (Lawrence) Boggs had issue:
    . LUCY LAWRENCE Boggs, b. 1801; d. 1813.
    . JOHN LAWRENCE Boggs b. May 10th, 1S03; d. Sept. 22nd, 1S04, after 7 weeks' illness.
    . JAMES BOGGS, b. Aug. 2Sth, 1804: d. Sept. 14th, 1805, at Long Branch, N. J., after 3 months' illness. He was buried at New Brunswick, N. J.
    . JAMES LAWRENCE Boggs, b. Jan. 18th, 1806; d. July 28th, 1828. Was a graduate of Princeton.

    . MARY REBECCA Boggs, b. April 4th, xx d. March 7th, 1885, at New Brunswick, N. J. She attended the school for young ladies, conducted by Miss Frances Brenton, in Harlem, N. Y. She was married May 9th, 1831, at New Brunswick, N. J. to John Scott Blauvelt, of New Brunswick, N. J., who died July 30th, 1859, aged 54 years. Mary Rebecca (Boggs) & John Scott Blauvelt had issue:
    Robert Boggs Blauvelt, b. Feb. 13th, 1832; d. in NY, Feb. 2nd, 1911, in his 79th year; m at. Elizabeth, N. J., by Rev. Stevens Parker, Feb. 12th, 1874, to Anne Johnstone Fleming, daughter of Gilbert R. Fleming, of Elizabeth. Mr. Blauvelt was a Volunteer in the Civil War, serving with the Seventh Regiment, N. G. N. Y., & later with another NY regiment. He was also employed as a clerk in the War Department at Washington. For many years he was an insurance broker in NY City. He was a resident of New Brunswick,
    NJ., a man highly respected in the community, of whom it was said: "He walked uprightly, worked righteousness, & spoke the truth in his heart."
    James Lawrence Blauvelt, b. Feb. 1st, 1S34; d. at
    New Brunswick, X. J., June 20th, 1907, in his 74th year. He was a man of warm & tender heart & much given to philanthropic effort. A true friend of those in need, his death was lamented by a wide circle of friends & acquaintances & those in whom he had interested himself. Like his brother, he served in the Civil War, but in the navy. He was with his uncle, Charles Stuart Boggs, in the naval engagement at New Orleans.
    Mary Lawrence Blauvelt, b. Jan. 12th, 1S36; d. Aug. 27th, 1851, in her 15th year.
    Jane Mitchell Blauvelt, b. Dec. 9th, 1837.
    Edward Blauvelt, b. Aug. 9th, 1841; d. Sept. 20th, 1841.
    Lawrence Kearny Blauvelt, b. Nov. 27th, 1842; d. Aug. 20th, 1864 in his 22nd year.
    Frances Brenton Blauvelt, b. May 17th, 1846; d. at New Brunswick; N. J., April 27th, 1909

    . WILLIAM BRENTON Boggs, b. July 2nd, 1809; m. Eleanor Carter.
    . CHARLES STUART Boggs, b. Jan. 28th, 1811; m. 1st, Sophia Dore; 2nd, Eugenie (Molt) Bull.
    . JOHN LAWRENCE Boggs, b. June 24th, 1812; m. 1st, Mary Lloyd Van Deurscn; 2nd, Cornelia Bell Paterson.
    Ref: The genealogical record of the Boggs family, W E Boggs, 1916, Halifax, NS.

    . Series1, Box1 Lawrence Family Correspondence/Misc. documents 1737-1816 &
    . Box 13, Lawrence-Boggs estate related correspondence 1904-1939.

    Transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg, Thank you. - - -

    Birth:
    'not 5 weeks old' c Dec 1776

    Died:


    Buried:

    Children:
    1. Lucy Lawrence BOGGS was born in 1802 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 16 Oct 1813 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
    2. John Lawrence BOGGS, Sr. was born on 10 May 1803 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey; died on 22 Sep 1804 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey; was buried on 23 Sep 1804 in Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard.
    3. James Lawrence BOGGS, .iv was born on 18 Jan 1806 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 23 Jul 1828 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
    4. Mary Rebecca BOGGS was born on 4 Apr 1808 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 7 Mar 1885 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey.
    5. William BRENTON BOGGS, .i was born on 2 Jul 1809 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 11 Mar 1875 in Georgetown, District of Columbia; was buried on 15 Mar 1875 in Oak Hill Cemetery.
    6. Rear Admiral Charles Stuart BOGGS, .i was born on 28 Jan 1811 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 22 Apr 1888 in Middlesex County, New Jersey; was buried in Christ Church Episcopal Churchyard.
    7. 4. John LAWRENCE BOGGS, .ii was born on 24 Jun 1812 in New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; died on 29 May 1893 in Perth Amboy, Middlesex Co., New Jersey; was buried in St. Peter's Anglican Church, Perth Amboy.