Notes:

Shrewsbury Friends Monthly Meeting
. 1797 Dec 14, William Hartshorne of Middletown,
son of Robert Hartshorne & Sharah, his wife of Middletown
married Sarah, daughter of Richard Lawrence & Alice his wife of Shrewsbury,
in a public Meeting in Shrewsbury.

1814 Sept 3, WILL of Mary Lawrence, Monmouth county
My right in the Mulbury Hill farm, inherited from my father, to my brother John Lawrence,
my sisters, Elizabeth LeConte & Sara Lawrence
my niece Helga Lawrence Pennington, said niece not being entitled to her share during lives of my brother & sisters.
Other outlines, inherited from my father, to same & niece, Elizabeth Lawrence Wardell, said Elizabeth to haver her share after deaths of brother & sisters.
Personal estate to Helena Pennington.
Executors, Brother Joh & sisters Elizabeth & Sarah.
Witnesses: Mary Hartshorne, John Eldredge, Obadiah Eldridge.
Proved 1816 Feb 10, when John Lawrence signed as Executor.
Ref: NJ Wills File 9185M, Documents relating to colonial, revolutionary & post revolutionary history.

. 1897 J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House monument:

"Mary LAWRENCE, wife of John LAWRENCE
departed this life February 19th, 1782,
aged 67 years, 9 months & 18 days." - - -

Birth:
- resided.

Died:
Aged 67y 9m 18d; Red Valley, near Cream Ridge, NJ.

Buried:
Wife of John Lawrence.

Mary married John LAWRENCE, Sr., Esq., .6; The Surveyor on 2 Nov 1738 in New Jersey. John (son of Elisha LAWRENCE, Sr. 1st. and Lucia LUCY STOUT) was born on 28 Jan 1709 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 19 Jun 1795 in Cream Ridge, New Jersey; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Helena Eleanor LAWRENCE, .i was born on 16 Sep 1739 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
2. Sheriff & Lieut. Col. Elisha LAWRENCE, .Esq, .3 was born on 22 Nov 1740 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 17 Nov 1811 in Cardingan, Wales.
3. William LAWRENCE, .8 was born on 31 Jul 1742 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 7 Dec 1793.
4. Lucy LAWRENCE, .i was born on 27 Jul 1744 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 11 Apr 1821 in Trenton, Mercer Co., New Jersey.
5. Dr. John LAWRENCE, Jr., M. B. was born on 27 Jan 1747 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 29 Apr 1830 in Trenton, Mercer Co., New Jersey; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ.
6. Elizabeth LAWRENCE, .viii was born on 19 Feb 1750 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 31 Aug 1831 in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ.
7. Mary LAWRENCE, .iv was born on 30 Jan 1752 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died in ? 5 Jan 1821 (?) in Monmouth County, New Jersey; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ.
8. Sarah LAWRENCE, .iv was born on 25 May 1755 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 7 Jul 1821 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ.

Notes:

Two Lawrence siblings married two Hartshorne siblings:
Elizabeth Lawrence married William Hartshorne Sr. as his third wife. &
William Lawrence married Mercy Hartshorne.

. Elizabeth Lawrence was his third wife, his previous ones having been Catharine Bowne & Helena Willett.

. Resided Portland, Highland, NJ. William was the son of Richard Hartshorne, b. 26 Oct 1641, Hathearn, Leicester, England, & Margaret Carre, 1648 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island. He had 12 children with his 3 wives: Catherine Bowne, Helena Willet & Elizabeth Lawrence.

Son: Robert Hartshorne 1721-1801 X Sarah Saltar, 9 children, 4 survived: Wm., Eliz., Richard & Sarah Hartshorne.

. 1712 May the 21st. Then William Hartshorne gave in his Earmark to be Recorded as followeth, viz, the form of a swallow Tayl upon the Near Ear, & 2 slits down the Off Ear, & his Brand Mark for his Horses is the letters HP on the Near Buttock Entered per me, Willm. Lawrence Junr , Town Clerk.

. Wm. Hartshorne's WILL is dated 25 NOV 1745 Middletown, Monmouth Co, NJ.
X-Ref: Collection # 11, Hartshorne Family Papers, 1771 - 1954. Wills of Mary Lawrence & John Lawrence.

. SURVEY [East Jersey]. For William Hartshorne "by virtue of a Deed from Richard Stout" from Cooper's propriety "sold to the said Stout & Obadiah Boune, Garret Wall & divers others" by indenture dated 5 Feb. 1706. Deed dated: 1 Oct. 1716
LOCATION: "All that Seige Island…on the River on the North Side of the Channel between the Mouth of Claypitt Creek … North River … bound on all sides by the River" [Monmouth County] 15 Nov 1722.

. Wm. Hartshorne, Issue by third wife, Elizabeth Lawrence
1. Margaret Hartshorne, born 3, 9 mo., 1704; died in 1745.
2. Richard Hartshorne, born 28, 3 mo., 1708; died at sea.
3. William Hartshorne, born 31, 8 mo., 1709; died 22, 12 mo., 1746.
4. Hugh Hartshorne, born 9 mo., 17, 1719; died 4 mo., 1777.
5. Robert Hartshorne, born 2 mo., 2, 1721.
6. Catharine Hartshorne, born 2 mo., 16, 1723; died young.
7. John Hartshorne, born 8 mo., 6, 1725; died 2 mo., 15, 1813.
8. Esek Hartshorne, born 12 mo., 9, 1728, elsewhere 7 mo., 6, 1727; died 14, 2 mo., 1795.
9. Rachel Hartshorne, born 4 mo., 13, 1730; died 9 mo., 24, 1816.
10. Catharine Hartshorne , born 7 mo., 6, 1732.

. Issue by second wife Helena Willet:
Mary Hartshorne, born 3 mo., 27, 1714, (Apr. 27, 1714): died, Feb. 19, 1782, ages 69 years, 9 months & 18 days.
Thomas Hartshorne, born 2 mo., 28, 1715, (Apr. 28, 1715); died, 20, 9 mo., 1795, aged 80 years, 4 months & 11 days
NY & NJ Historical Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 3.

. Hartshorne Family Cemetery monument:
Here lies intere'd the body of William Hartshorne who departed this life February the 29th day Anno domin 1747. Aged 69 years.
The red Monument is in excellent conditions & remarkably legible printing as of 2010.

. Son of Richard Hartshorne, 1st, was born 22nd of instant, mo., 1678-9; died, Feb. 29, 1747-8, aged 68 years, 11 months & 22 days; married, first Catharine, daughter of John Bowne. He married, second, Helena Willet, of Flushing, L. I., 1713, who was born Dec. 22, 1680, & died May 1, 1715.

He married.3, Elizabeth, daughter of William & Ruth (Gibbons) Lawrence, born Dec. 3, 1690, & died August 1750, elsewhere Apr. in 1751.
Sec Lawrence Family. Her remains lie adjacent to those of her husband, William Hartshorne, in the Hartshorne Burying ground, Middletown, N. J. In 1888, her Monument had fallen, face upwards, & was cracked badly, while her husband's remained still erect.

. 1723 - William Hartshorne, Esq., mortgaged land, in Middletown, to the Loan Commissioners.

. 1725 & 1730 - William Hartshorne was a Justice, & socially & politically prominent in Monmouth County.

. 1745 Nov. 25. WILL of William Hartshorne, of Middletown; proved March 10, 1747, mentioned:
Wife, Elizabeth, who received all she brought with her, the use of "my shas," a sliver cup, etc.
"my Lelt? & Staff that v. - as my Father's 1 give to my son William."
"The Silver tankard that was my second wife I give to my son Thomas."
Daughter, Mary, received six silver spoons.
Daughter, Rachel; His three youngest children, John, Esek, Rachel. Son, Hugh?
Son, Robert, Son, John, Daughter, Margaret.
Executors: wife, Elizabeth, with sons, William, Thomas., Hugh & Robert.

. 1746 Aug. 25. Codicil to WILL of William Hartshorne, mentioned:
Son, William, deceased, & his children, Katharine Hartshorne & Richard Hartshorne.
The testator signed both documents: William Hartshorne. The inventory of his personal Estate amounted to £386-17-134. Issue by first wife.
Will proved 1747 Mar 10.

. 1748, his executors advertised for sale:
The High Lands of Navesinks & Sandy-Hook lying in Middletown, East Jersey, consisting of 2800 acres," including "a good Dwelling-house, 40 feet long & 30 Feet broad, with Sash Windows, 2 good Stone Cellars under it, with 3 Kitchens adjoining, pleasantly situated on Navesinks River."
Ref: N.J. Archives, XII:325, 467, 481, 523.

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

Birth:
or 1679.

Died:
Aged 68y 11m 22y; Will proved 10 Mar 1748.

Buried:
Middletown, NJ.

William married Helena WILLET on 1 May 1713 in New Jersey. Helena was born on 22 Dec 1680 in Flatbush, Long Island, New York; died on 1 May 1615 in Flushing, Queens, Long Isl., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Helena is the daughter of Col. Thomas Willett & Heiltie Elbertse Stoothoff.

The children of Helena & Wm. Hartshorne are:
.  Mary Hartshorne was born on 27 Apr 1714. She married John Lawrence, son of Elisha Lawrence, on 2 Nov 1738. She died on 19 Feb 1782 at age 67.

.  Thomas Hartshorne was born on 28 Apr 1715. He married Phebe Wright; 1st wife. He married Marah Smith on 22 Jan 1754; lic., 2nd wife. He died on 20 Sep 1795 at age 80. He resided at Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ. - - -

Birth:
Flatbush - from the Dutch, western Long Island in New Amsterdam.

Notes:

Richard is the son of Katherine & Hugh Hartshorne.

Richard Hartshorne Sr. married 1670 Apr 27 to Margaret Carr, born 12 May, 1693. daughter of Monmouth patentee Robert Carr, in Newport, Rhode Island, on 27 April 1670, and died in Middletown, New Jersey in 1722.

Richard arrived on the Newasink River, New Jersey in May 1666, which is the year of the Great Fire of London. The previous year of 1665, plague severally reduced the population of London & must have been an added incentive to leave from England. - PJA 2010.

Biography: Richard Hartshorne was an English Quaker & in spring of 1672 prominent Quaker George Fox visited the Friends Meeting at Oyster Bay, Long Island.
A devout Quaker, Richard was a personal friend of George Fox and entertained him at Shrewsbury, as described later by Fox in his journals. He was asked by William Penn and others to survey for Quaker settlements along the Delaware in 1676.A member of the Provincial Assembly for 20 years, Speaker 1686-93 and 1696-98, he served as Deputy 1688, 1692 and 1693. He was also Town Clerk, Sheriff, Commissioner of Highways, Judge of Court of Sessions, Member of Governors Council & Practitioner before the Courts, Constable of Middletown, Clerk of the Court of Small Causes, & one of the Judges of the Court of Common Right at Perth Amboy.
Said to have been "a man of good reputation & benevolent disposition", he was a steadying & conciliatory influence during the years of constant upheaval between the settlers & Proprietors, as an influential spokesman for the conservative wing of the Anti-Proprietary group, & later in disagreements with the Royal Governor, Lord Cornbury.
Ref: Descendants of Founders of NJ.

. 1704, Richard Hartshorne made a record, in writing, of his marriage to Margaret Carr, (Richard P. Tatum, Esq., of Philadelphia, says that Richard Hartshorne was born at Hathcome Hall, Harthearne, Leicester, England; & thinks that Margaret Carr, the wife of Richard Hartshorne, may have been the daughter of Ezekiel Carré, a Huguenot, who lived at Kingstone, Rhode Island. This was copied by Elisha Lawrence son of John Lawrence, of Upper Freehold, & has been transmitted through the descendants of this branch of the Lawrence Family to the present generation.

. 1722 May 14. WILL of Hartshorne, Richard, of Middletown, Monmouth.

. Richard Hartshorne also owned the whole of Sandy Hook, which he used for a fishing station & a cattle grazing ground. In a meadow on Sandy Hook stands a lone pine tree. Captain Kidd is supposed to have buried treasure under this tree. The meadow is still called Kidds Meadow or Kidds Tree. Capt. BlackBeard fought a pitched battle with the farmers on the highway in Middletown Inhabitants can still remember their grandfathers' tales of horse racing on Kings Highway, on the Sabbath Day. Someone put up a bushel of doughnuts or gallon of applejack fore the prize.

Children: Hugh, Mary Clayton, Katharine Fitz Randolph, Sarah Taylor, Mercy Lawrence, William; legacy for the poor of the Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting of Quakers.
Half an acre of land, fronting the street & including wife's grave, to be laid out as a family burying ground, East of the homestead, bought of John Bowne; land on the North side of town, adjoining Moses Lippitt, meadow near John Pew, do. near John Wilson, all in Middletown meadows; 100 acres on South side of Manasquan River. Personal property (books, papers, a silver tankard).
Executors: the two sons.
Witnesses: Richard Stout, John Wall, Joseph Cox.
Proved May 22, 1722. Lib. A, p. 221.

. The names of most of the early settlers of Monmouth are given in Proprietors' Records at Perth Amboy, but in a majority of cases, the year is not given when they came. Rights of Land:
Richard Hartshorne, in right of servants that he hat brought, 90 acres each, 270 acres; Right of Wm. Golding & wife 240 a. right of Robt. Jones & Wife 240 A. Total 750 Acres.

. When Richard Hartshorne the first, moved from Portland Point to the village of Middletown he built the old house which still stands on the north side of the street & which today is probably the oldest building extant in this country. Here he died in 1722, & in his will made mention of a 'family burial plot of a half acre on the street, in the orchard east of the house where I now live.' Here he was buried, though the knowledge of the exact site is lost."
Ref: Robert J. VanKirk from a 1927 book by the Rev. Ernest W. Mandeville, Rector of Christ Church, Middletown, NJ.

. HOLMES PAPERS, 1680-1907.Approx. 3,000 items. Exchange, 1956.
Correspondence, legal documents, business documents & other papers of various members of the Holmes family & re­lated families of Monmouth County. The following materials are included: diary, Jo Revolution­ary War courts-martial documents, muster rolls, & other mili­tary documents; a letter from the Shrewsbury, deputies to the County Committee [of Safety] for Monmouth, 1775; & vendues & inventories for various estates, 1787-99. Some included are letters of Richd. Hartshorn.
Lawrence, John Saltar,
Ref: A guide to the manuscripts collection of the New Jersey Historical Society.

. 1722 May 14, WILL of Richard Hartshoren, Monmouth Co., being sick & weak in body. My Will is all my debts be paid, and it is not in my memory I owe 5 Shillings to any man or Men ...."; "
& my Will is there be half an Acre of Land Laid out for a Burying Place or Grave-yard, & to be for me & my "Chilldren & their pofterity to be Buryed in and to be laid out by my Executors fronting the Street upon a square so "as to Include the Grave-yard where my wife lyes buryed in lying to the Eastward of my orchard where I now live "being in the home Lott formerly John Bownes "; "to my son Hugh & his heirs my house & Orchard & "all my Land Joyning to it , (The Grave-Yard excepted & reserved) & all my land lying on the North side of the "Town next the land formerly Moses Lippitts; Also 9 Acres & 6 acres of meadow lying near where John Pew "lives also 6 Acres of meadow lying near to the meadow of John Willson all in Middletowne Meadows"; "
unto my daughter Mary Clayton, my daughter Katharine Fitz-Randolph, my daughter Sarah Taylor, my daughter Mercy Lawrence: all my land lying on the south side of Manasquan River, being in 3 severall parcells being about 100 acres equally to be divided amongft them & their heirs as & to hold as Tenents in Common";
"all my books to "my son William & my son Hugh, and my papers for them to take care of";
"to my son Hugh My silver Tankard";
"to the poor of the Community commonly called Quakers in Shrewsberry, & belonging to the Meeting house that stands "on the north side of the Road in Shrewsberry over against the land formerly Nicholas Browns £4bt o be paid "to the meeting within 13 months after my decease but for the use of the poor aforefaid."
"And I have 10 ewes 3 or 4 neat cattle that goe at my son William's Plantation all which sheep & neat cattle I Give to my son "William Hartshorne & also my leather girdle & staff with a sillver head ....";
"to my 4 daughters "Namely, Mary Clayton, Katharine Fitz-Randolp, Sarah Taylor, & Mercy
Lawrence the sum of £200 "viz, the sum of £50 to the use of each of them to be by them severally apply'd for to procure themselves, servants to help them, & to my said 4 daughters all the remaining part of my perfonal estate & debts whatsoever to be amongft them equally divided ...."
Executors: mky sonn William and my son Hugh.
Wits.: RICHARD HARTSHORNE, Richard Stout, John Wall, Joseph Cox.
This WILL is only record without a probate June 4, 1722. Endorsed.

Verify which Richard Hartshorne:
. 1809 Sep 11 - WILL of Richard Hartshorne:
Inventory $116.47 made by Cornelius P VanDer Hoef, Wm. P Walton. Lists 1 gun in possession of John Hartshorne, leather in possession of Delafayette Schneck, some items in possession of Wm. Hartshorne, NY City, a long chain at Jacob Rickows, & a crow bar at Peter Bourdett.
Sworn by Wm. Hartshorne, Administered at Freehold, Jan 11, 1810. File NJ 8853M. - - -

Birth:
Called ' the Emigrant'.

Died:

Richard married Margaret CARR on 27 Nov 1670 in Newport, Rhode Island. Margaret was born in 1650 in Newport, Rhode Island; died on 6 Mar 1721 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Margaret is the daughter of Robert Carr.

Children
1 Robert Hartshorne, b: 5 FEB 1670
2. Hugh Hartshorne, b: 15 JUL 1673
3. Thomas Hartshorne, b: 14 NOV 1674
4. Mary Hartshorne, b: 14 OCT 1676 in Middletown, Monmouth Co, NJ
5. William Hartshorne, b: 22 JAN 1677
6. Richard Hartshorne, b: 17 APR 1681
7. Katherine Hartshorne, b: 2 MAY 1682
8. Hugh Hartshorne, b: 21 AUG 1686 in Middletown, Monmouth Co, NJ
9. Sarah Hartshorne, b: 3 SEP 1687 in Middletown, Monmouth Co, NJ
10. Richard Hartshorne, b: 15 FEB 1688
11. Mercy Hartshorne, b: 12 MAY 1693 in Middletown, Monmouth Co, NJ. - - -

Died: