Notes:

Helena Lawrence, daughter of John Lawrence, 35, married, first, license dated May 30, 1765, James Holmes, of New York, merchant;
married second, Edward Pennington.
Issue: Helena Lawrence Pennington.

. 1814 Helena is referred to as Helena Lawrence Pennington.

Their daughter is Helena Pennington born .c. 1767 New York City, NY. - - -

Helena married James HOLMES on 30 May 1765 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. James was born in in New York City, New York; died in 1769 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
NJ License # H 351 James Holmes of NYC, Eleanor Lawrence, Monmouth.

Helena married Edward PENNINGTON in c1814 in Philadelphia, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania. Edward was born in 1766 in New York State; died in 1834. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Helena Lawrence PENNINGTON was born est 1816 in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Notes:

John is the son of Lucy Stout & Elisha Lawrence & half first cousin of Elizabeth Lawrence who was the third wife of William Hartshorne.

. 1731, Apr. 1 - He was assessed for 360 acres, in Upper Freehold.
. 1731 to 1758 - He was an Assessor, of Upper Freehold
. 1758 - He was assessed for a like acreage, plus a chaise.
. On 1 May, 1744, Isaac Antrum, Yeoman, purchased 94 acres at Asspunpick, Upper Freehold from John Lawrence, Esquire.

. property located in relationship to land 'adjoining on the line run by John Lawrence for the division between East & West Jersey."

. At a special meeting of the Board of General Proprietors of the Western Division of New-Jersey, at the City of Burlington, on Thursday & Friday, the 10th & 11th days of November, 1774 (1743?), it was resolved, that as it is evident the Eastern Proprietors are not disposed to come into the equitable measures proposed by this Board, for settling a true line of partition between them, this Board will assert & maintain their right to the lands lying to the westward of a line, to be run from the mouth of Machackamack, lately established as the Northern Boundary of this province, to the Station Point at Little Egg-harbor & to the eastward of the ex part line, run by Mr. John Lawrence.

. 1743 September - October - John Lawrence, for the East Jersey Proprietors, surveys the partition line between East & West Jersey to the northern terminal. Many grants between the original partition & the Lawrence Line had been granted in the preceding decades, confusing the land titles in this triangular area in the center of the colony.

Surveyor General's Office document 1676, W. Broad Street
The first governors of West Jersey at a time when Burlington was Capital of West Jersey, The Council of West Jersey Proprietors maintains their records in this office.

. These are surveyors we are discussing; men & women who plumb muddy swamps looking for ancient piles of rocks or buried iron stakes, all in the name of accurately dividing the world into pieces we can claim to own. The East-West New Jersey Line, known among the initiated as the Lawrence Line because it was plotted by surveyor John Lawrence, divided the state diagonally between Little Egg Harbor & a point in the Delaware River that is now part of New York State. In 1644, James, Duke of York (the brother of King Charles II of England) seized from the Dutch the "New Netherlands" an area stretching from Massachusetts Bay to Delaware Bay. The Duke gave New Jersey to Lord John Berkeley & Sir George Carteret, two of the crown's supporters during the English Civil War.

Berkeley & NJ Gov. Carteret split New Jersey in two, based on a line drawn by surveyor George Keith in 1687. The two men eventually sold their vast tracts of land to groups called proprietors. Disagreements over the boundaries, including the dividing line between New Jersey & New York, eventually resulted in the hiring of Lawrence by the proprietors of East New Jersey. Lawrence ran the line from a large rock, called Station Rock, in the Delaware River near what is now Cocheton, New York, to a now-submerged marker in Little Egg Harbor. The Lawrence Line left a sliver of New Jersey perched north of the confluence of the Neversink & Delaware rivers, a chunk some called the "New Jersey Peninsula." After 50 years of nasty border fights, the provincial government moved the state line south to its current place. The remainder of the Lawrence Line remained in effect & to this day, there are proprietors representing both sides of the state who oversee & sell the remaining, undeeded land.

. 1749 Apr 14, Gentlemen: Yesterday I forgot to acquaint you that in running the Province Line (when in Pennsylvania), I was stopt by 3 Indians. The Kings's son who claimed the lands where I then was asked me £5 for liberty to go through the lands. I beat them down to £4. The King stopt me above half a day & drank every drop of spirit I head with me the night before & ye day I was so hindered. Billed £6.

. 1758- 1760 NJ Supreme Court Case # 23744, John Lawrence et al, Surveyor, Plaintiff, VS Jonathan Thomas, Breach of covenant, Debt, Trespass & Asportation & Trespass & Ejectment, Monmouth Co.

1760 Mar 13, WILL of Andrew Riddle, Monmouth co., Ind Bon od John Lawrence, Surveyor, as Administrator; Fellowbondsmen, Hugh Hartshorne, both of Burlington Co.

. 1767 Advertisement for a plantation for sale in Upper Freehold.
1775 Chaired the Defiant Upper Freehold Resolution.

Chaired the Defiant Upper Freehold Resolution:
. 1775 May 4 -Upper Freehold Resolutions, Imlaystown.
"John Lawrence Esq. in the chair: When the following resolves were unanimously agree to:
"Resolved, That is our first wish to live in unison with Great Britain, agreeable to the principles of the Constitution; that we conserve the unnatural civil war which we are about to be forced into, with anxiety & distress but that we are determined to oppose the novel claim of the Parliament of GB to raise a revenue in America & risk every possible consequence rather than to submit to it.
Resolve that it appears to this meeting that there are sufficient numbers of arms for the people.
Resolved that a sum of money be now raised to purchase what further quantity & it is recommended that every man capable of hearing arms enter into Companies to train & be prepared to march at a minute warning; & it is further recommended to the people that they do not waste their powder in fowling & hunting.
A subscription was opened & £160 instantly paid into the hands of a person appointed for that purpose . The officers of 4 companies were then chosen & the meeting broke up perfect unanimity." Elisha Lawrence, Clerk.

. Advanced in life at the Revolutionary year, he was not in arms, but the Whigs put him in jail at Burlington & kept him prisoner 9 months for granting British protections. Efforts were made to induce him to abandon home, in order to confiscate his estate, but he remained. Sabine.
. 1776 July 5, In Congress, Ordered, that the President do take the parole of honour of Mr. John Lawrence, of Monmouth Co., not to depart the house of Mr. Rensellier Williams & if Mr. Lawrence should refuse to give same, that the President order him to be confined under such guard as he may deem necessary.
. Ordered, the President take the parole of Mr. Lawrence, not to depart the Twp. of Trenton, unless with leave of Congress.
. 1776 July 9, John Lawrence, Esq. was permitted to return home on his parole.

. NJ Historical & Genealogical Miscellany, Volume 3
Land Deed (example of one of many: East Jersey Survey for J. Demarie. 2 tracts. 80 acres formerly Devos. Bordering lands of Lawrence the Drawer; Old David Demarie, Deceased; David Demarie Jr., Deceased; S. Demarie; & J. Slot. Survey undated. Years approx. Warrant Date: 3 Aug 1693. Location 296 Acres. East Side of the Hackinsack River, beginning at the Fountain Spring.

. In civil life one branch of the Lawrence family of Monmouth County were ardent Tories. The ELDER JOHN LAWRENCE, who ran one of the several division lines between the provinces of East & West Jersey, was arrested by the Whigs & kept in jail, as was his son, Dr. John Lawrence, a graduate of the first class of the Philadelphia Medical College.

. Advanced in life at the Revolutionary era, he was not in arms, but the Whigs put him in jail at Burlington & kept him prisoner nine months, for granting British protections. Efforts were made to induce him to abandon home, in order to confiscate his estate, but he remained.

. The Council of Safety in April 1777 ...John Lawrence, was committed to the same jail the same week, was charged with high treason. He was an agent to furnish British protection papers.
... In 1777 Col. John Morris, of the NJ Royal Volunteers, a Refugee organization, was sent to destroy salt manufacture buildings near Toms River bridge. But a man names John Williams Had placed the significant letter "R" on him by order of Gen. Cortland Skinner. No explanation is given of what was meant by the 'significant letter R", but the inference is that some of the owners had accepted papers guaranteeing British protection, which given by John Lawrence (of Lawrence's Line note) & perhaps others, to all who signed a pledge not to aid the Americans, but to adhere to the Crown.

. The State of New Jersey to Asher Holmes, Esqr.
"It is hereby commanded you that you take John Lawrence, Esqr. of Upper Freehold & him safely keep so that you may have his body before the Governor & Council of Safety" etc "on the 11th April Instant to answer unto such things as shall be objected against him on behalf of the said State" etc., Ap. 5, 1777. By order of the Council of Safety. Signed, WI LIVINGSTON, President.

. 1790 Dec 6, WILL of John Lawrence, Sr. of Monmouth,
Daughter Mary, negro boy Prince,
daughter Sarah, negro boy Peter.
Real & personal to be sold & divided into 5 parts:
son John, Daughters Elizabeth Le Conte, Mary Lawrence, Sarah Lawrence, Granddaughter Helena Lawrence Holmes, each one fifth part. They all to act as Executors.
Wit: James Lawrie, Robt. Montgomery, John Stillwell.
Proved 1795 Sep 4.
Ref: NJ Lib 33, p 516, File 7257-7260M.

. 1897 J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House Monument:
"John LAWRENCE born Jan 28th 1708/9 & departed this life June 19,1795 in the 86th year of his age."

LAWRENCE, JOHN, FIELD BOOK & RELATED PAPERS, 3-1839.Approx. 25 items. Field book kept by John Lawrence & related papers concerning the dividing line between East & West Jersey.
Ref: A guide to the manuscripts collection of the New Jersey Historical Society
Red Valley, near Cream Ridge NJ. - - -

Birth:


Died:
In this 86th year of his age. [1709.]

Buried:
Red Valley, Monmouth Co., NJ.

John married Mary HARTSHORNE, .2 on 2 Nov 1738 in New Jersey. Mary (daughter of William HARTSHORNE, Sr. and Helena WILLET) was born on 27 Apr 1714 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 19 Feb 1782 in Cream Ridge, New Jersey; was buried in Yellow Meeting House Graveyard, Cream Ridge, Monmouth Co. NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Notes:

. Elisha, son of William, commenced business as a merchant in the latter part of the 1700, at Cheesequakes, on the south side of the Raritan, but his store having been pillaged by the crew of a French privateer, he removed to Upper Freehold then a wilderness.

. 1688 May 12. Patent to Elisha LAWRENCE of Middletown, for two hammocks of land at Shoal Harbour, Monmouth Co., 20 acres, S. Upland, W. William Camptone, N. the sage meadow, S. E. grantee.

. Elisha Lawrence was one of the earliest & most prominent settlers of Monmouth county. He married Lucy Stout & died at Chestnut Grove, Upper Freehold, May 27, 1724. Reprinted 1916.

. 1764 Elisha Lawrence, Jur, West Jersey. Letter waiting in the Trenton post office.

. Richard Salter sold an additional 185 acres near Crosswicks to Elisha Lawrence for £50 on 19 Nov, 1717. Including housing buildings, edifices, structures, barnes, stables, orchards.

Ye Olde Yellow Meeting House Land Elisha Lawrence, Fourth Assembly 1708-9; Fifth Assembly 1709, Co. of Monmouth.
William & Elisha Lawrence, Seventh NJ Assembly 1716, County of Monmouth.
1721 - Elisha Lawrence was Representative to the Assembly.

* Summary: a long & fairly exciting tale of Middletown Proprietors' grievances, rebellion, swords fights, petition of complaint signed, Wm. Lawrence, & numerous others, delivered to the Governor; with a speedy retreat to a waiting ship, firing canons off as a farewell gesture.
"The following is a true copy of the record of this court, which made so much talk & excitement in New Jersey, & among the Proprietors in England, & which brought public matters to a conclusion so far as any further attempts to coerce & drive the people of Middletown township. March 25, 1701, Monmouth."

. They are here represented in a court record, as being guilty of rank rebellion for the mere purpose of enabling- a strange pirate named Moses Butterworth - to escape ... a certain pirate belonging to Kidd's crew - A drummer was sent into to the court as a diversion, the guards were overcome & the pirate drag out of the court to freedom. ... Governor Hamilton sends the petition to the William of Orange. Essentially, the Proprietors' lands were sold out under them by the Governor .
Ref: Early Dutch Settlers of Monmounth Co., NJ, By Geo. C Beekman, Freehold NJ.

. 1696 Jan 1 0 - At the publique Middletown meeting agreed the poor rate to £30. Persons chosed to make the sd. rate, Ben. Borden, Obediah Bowne, Elisha Lawrence & Will Lawrence Jr. Signed, Will Lawrence, Towne Clark.
. 1723 Jun 17 - Lawrence his brand mark for his horses is L on the near buttock. Entered by me, Elisha Lawrence, Towne Clerk.
Note: Elisha recorded many ear marks that day. -PJA

. 1722 April 14. WILL of Lawrence, Elisha, of Freehold Township, Monmouth Co., yeoman;
Wife Lucy.
Children: Elisha, John, Joseph, all three under age,
Elizabeth, wife of John Saltar,*
Sarah, wife of John Imlay,
Hannah, wife of Richard Saltar,
Rebeckah. Farm at the mouth of Buckhold Brook in Doctors Creek along James Coxes & Robert Burtnetts line. Personal Estate (bonds due by Capt. Richard Saltar & by John Saltar).
Executors the wife & son Elisha.
Witnesses Robert Imlay, Thomas Saltar, Alse Imlay.

. Codicil of March 15, 1723-4, makes another disposition of the land & calls daughter Hannah, wife of Richard Saltar.*
Witnesses Daniel Hendrick, Petter Imlay junior, Zebulon Cleayton, junior.
Proved May 27, 1724.
Ref: NJ Calendar of Wills, Lib. A, p. 293.

. 1724 May 2. Inventory of the personal Estate ( £775.8.4, incl. plate £30, a Bible, other books & 40 gamoas £7, 3 negroes £150, 2 white servants £21.3.4); made by Richard Saltar & Zebulon Cleayton. Endorsed: to be left at Jam Vanlletes in Allenstown.

. 1713 March 31st, The peace of Utrecht:
Having put an end to hostilities between Great Britain & France, & terminated a merciless war upon the American continent. Some leaven of the political spirit, which had been engendered during the administration of Gov. Cornbury, still worked, at times, among the people, & in the Assembly. Graham Mott, & Elisha Lawrence, merchants from Bergen, who had been of Cornbury's party, having entered on the minutes of council, reasons for voting against aiding the expedition to Canada, were severally expelled the House of which they had become members, ...was actually a ploy to delay passing certain measures & was meant to irritate the Governor.
Ref: History of NY.

. 1897 J. Lawrence Boggs of Perth Amboy recorded the Yellow Meeting House Monument:
"Here lieth the body of Elisha Lawrence who died April the 25th 1724, aged 58 years 2 months & 8 days."

Stone reads: By indulgence of the General's family, his companions in arms, erected this tribute of affection the 1st day of January, 1800 (Large horizontal stone.)
Ref: Historical Miscellany, Vol. 2, John Stillwell.

. The 4th child of Wm. Lawrence, Elisha, born in 1666, began business as a merchant near the end of the century at Cheesquakes, (now Mongan's Railroad Station) on the south side of Rarity.

The 3 Elisha's all were owners of the family homestead, Chestnut Grove. When the first Elisha Lawrence died, in 1724, the meeting house was the only public burial ground within 25 miles, a great distance in those days.
Ref: Three Men Named Elisha.
Buried at Chestnut Grove, Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.

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Birth:
1. Newtown, Long Isl., NY. 2. Middleborough, LI, NY.

Died:
Aged 58y 2m 8d [21 Jun 1665.] Heart engraved on black Monument reads 1724.

Buried:
Slate monument.

Elisha married Lucia LUCY STOUT on 12 Jan 1691 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. Lucia (daughter of Richard STOUT, Jr. and Frances HEATH) was born in 1675 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 27 May 1724 in Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; was buried . [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Cousin of her sept-mother, Elizabeth Lawrence".

. 1698 Mar 10. Elisha Lawrence & wife Lucy of Middletown to Jeremiah Stillwell, late of Gravesend, LI, for the following lots in Middletown:
(1b) 120 a. of Horse Neck, E. Thomas Morfoot, w. at creek. n. unsurveyed, s. Neversinks.
(2) 3 a. meadow e., Thomas Morfoot, s.w. & n. unsurveyed, the whole 123 acres granted to Thomas Herbert by patent June 4, 1677, by him sold to Robt. Hamilton, by him to Wm. Lawrence, who conveyed it to present grantor.
(3) a lot on Hogpen Neck, bought of John Reid June 9, 1691. - - -

Birth:
ALT DOB 1665 Shrewsbury, Alt Name Lucy.

Died:
Alt Name: Lucy.

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.

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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:

Capt. Wm. Lawrence, sinour, landed in America on Sunday, 1635 Apr 2, on the ship "Planter" age 12 years.

. William Lawrence lived in the North Riding of Yorkshire, left Plymouth, England in 1635, & landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts. Patentees of Flushing, Long Island in 1645.
Ref: Magna Carta Barons & their Descendants, Charles H. Browning, reprinted 1969.

Summary of locations he lived:
. First resided at Flushing at, age 12. - Patent & lived in Middleburg, also known as, Newtown, 1656, purchaser. Returned to Flushing & bought Tew's Neck later named Lawrence's Neck, (i.e. a penisula) where he lived the rest of his life.
. Proprietor of Lawrence's Neck (also called Flushing, Long Island, New York City) which stretches into the Sound between Flushing Bay & Whitstone, 900 Acres:
was first called Maspeth, New Netherland, until 1643 Indian attack. Flushing was first named Vlissingen for Zealand, Holland;
. 1651 renamed Middleburgh, New Netherland;
. 1664 Hastings when the English assumed New York;
. 1665 Apr 23 - Middletown NJ, Town Book - In a legal towne meeting 4 men present, Richard Gibbins, Richard Stout, William Lawrence & Jonathan Homes, on behalf of the towne reported they unanimously agreed Robt. Jones, about to build a mill, shall be made good by the whole towne;
Newton, Queensborugh, was the name the locals had used.

. Among those who came from Long Island before the expiration of the 3 year limit in the Patent was William Lawrence. He became a large landowner & during his life deeded tracts to his children.

. 1666 - Berkley & Cartaret assured to the settlers of New Jersey, that the province should be ruled by laws enacted by the representatives of the people who had the power of peace & war entrusted to them. No tax, subsidy, tillage, assessment or duty whatever is to be imposed, except by the authority & consent of the general assembly. Land was allotted according to the time of arrival & the number of indented servants & slaves; the settler paid a half penny per acre quit rent & was bound to maintain one able bodied male servant per 100 acres.
Richard Nicolls, the duke's governor, convened an assembly from the towns of Long Island, & Westchester to meet at Hempstead, March 1st, 1665, At this meeting, Nicolls promulgated the laws called the duke's laws, which continued in force, notwithstanding the peoples discontent, The large Assembly of deputies assembled at Hempstead in March 1665. ...The colonies chose their own magistrates & he instructed they in the law to go before the King. A judgement having been obtained against William Lawrence, of Flushing, the governor, on appeal, made it void.
Ref: History of the New Netherlands, Vol. 2.

. 1665 - Wm. C. Lawrence was a magistrate under the Dutch government in Flushing & again a magistrate & a military commissioner for the North Riding of Yorkshire, Long Island, NY.
. 1669 Jul 20, William Lawrence, Daniel Estall, George Mountand, Richard Gibbins were chose deputies for this present year according to the order made: to assist the constable & overseers.
. 1669 Monmouth County Quit Rent, William Lawrence Sr.
. 1670 May the 9th, In a legal towne meeting the major part being present, Ed. Smith was by the major vote chosen to be constable for the following year. Wm. Lawrence chosen overseer.

. 1669 April 30th, Fort James in York. To John Richbell of Mororonock, Wm. Lawrence of Flushing. A Warrant to John Archer to take up a stray horse. These are to empower you to make enquiry after & to take up if he can be found a certain stray horse running in ye woods or some other place near unto or about your Towne of Westchester. The said horse being of gray color & branded with an Anchor on ye near shoulder & that you cause him to be brought to the Towne, where he shall remain until it be made appear to whom it doh with right belong or be disposed of as ye Law shall direct and for so doing this shall be your warrant. Given under my hand, Signed, Francis Lovelace.
. Another to take up a stray Bull. These are to empower you to take up a certain stray bull now running at your Plantation about 3 years old the which you are to make & if you find it convenient, geld him & if the right owner appeare not to claime him within the time in the Law prescribed that you dispose not of him without my order. Given under my and at Fort James, NY, Fr. L.
Ref: Minutes of the Executive Council of the province of New York.

. LAWRENCE OF MONMOUNTH COUNTY, N.J.
. 1677 - William Lawrence, owning land at Middleborough, now Newtown, L.I., came to Monmouth Co., NJ about 1677; settled at Hop River, where he had a house, a fulling mill & orchard. He owned land at Middletown & Wakake. Was an overseer at Middletown in 1668 & 1670-71; & in 1669 & 1673 was a Deputy to the Legislature.

NEW JERSEY COLONIAL DOCUMENTS:
. Shares of meadow in Hunt's cove, 16. 1 share of salt meadow at Head of the bay, 16, one Negro, John, 50, Negro Andrew, 40. Ten Negroes in all. One English boy called by the name of Bishop, for a year & some months service, 5. 32 oxen, 160. 46 cows. 17 Horses. The inventory is very lengthy, showing great wealth & high social station. Total, 4,032. Taken by Richard Cornell, John Browne, John Lawrence, Abm. Whearly. Elizabeth Lawrence & Wm. Lawrence, administrators, made oath to the same in presence of Governor & Council, November 18, 1680.

. 1675 Sept. 10. - Patent to Hans Alberts of Newark for land there, vizt: 1, a house lot of 6 acres, along the highway on the N. W. of Richard Lawrence & John Ward Turner; East. of Daniel DOD; N. of John Crane & Tho. Hundinton; 2, seven acres of upland in the Great Neck, bounded W. by Stephen Bonde by Rich. Lawrence; 3. 20 acres of upland beyond the Mill Brook on the Great River; 4. seven a. in the Mill Brook swamp, adjoining Stephen DAVIS; 5. three a. of meadows near Wheelers Creek, coming up to Tichenors Cave; 6. four acres of meadow near the Hay S. of Zachariah Burwell, 136 Acres.

. 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:
. 1676 - William Lawrence, in right of self & sister Hannah Lawrence, 240 acres.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY :
. 1676 -7 January 10. To John Vaughan of Middletown for:
A tract of 126 acres, bounded N. W. & S. W. by Richard Gibbons, S. E. by un-surveyed land, N. E. by Poirsy Run;
Nine acres of meadow, formerly Benjamin Deull's; bounded E. by James Grover; W. by Wm. Lawrence; S. by upland; N. by the beach. 165 Acres.
Ref: Calendar of New Jersey Patents.
. 1678 Jun 1 - Memorial concerning 1,000 acres at Chohazicke, intended for Wm. LAWRENCE, upon Richard Noble's assignment. (Undated. Previous entry, 1678 June 1.)

. 1681 July 5 - William Lawrence of Middletown, East Jersey, planter, by his attorney, Anthony Page of Monmouth River, W. J., planter, to Jasper Harman of Chohanzey, W. J., yeoman, for 500 acres, part of the 1,000 a. tract bought by said LAWRENCE of Richard Noble, April 15, 1676, to whom John Fenwick had granted it May 14, 1675.

. 1685-6 Jan. 5 - To William Lawrence of Middletown, for 420 a. on the South Hop River, bounded on all sides by South Hop & North Hop Rivers. ... The first fulling mill, owned by Wm. Lawrence, was on Long Bridge Road.
One of New Jersey's first fulling mills (perhaps the oldest) was run & owned by William Lawrence on Hop Brook. Fulling was a process of cleansing or thickening cloth by beating or washing. William Lawrence died in 1701 & willed the mill, house & properties to one of his sons, James who later moved to Crosswicks, on Long Bridge Road.
Ref: History of Colts Neck, CN Library 1965.

. Jacobus Suydam married a daughter of Capt. Cor. Rapelye, after engaging successfully in commerce in NYC, he retired from business & bought the Estate of William Lawrence of Newtown. Here he lived until his death in 1825.

. 1675 Oct 21, the Indians to follow the directions of the Assizes to remove from Mr. Pells. No powder nor lead to be sold in this town to the Indians. Mr. Cornell, Captain Wm. Lawrence from Flushing, M. Gildersleeve & Mr. Geo. Hewlett, Hempstead, same according to the order this day from 2 towns Tackpouha & the rest came not till this evening & brought some pretending to land with them the persons appeared just agreeing returned with them. Indians renewed their pretense to land North of Hampstead & particularly Cows Neck, Little Madnams New, Great Madnasa Next, makes offers but they not will to consent with Colts Neck so to remain as it is but neither Christian nor Indian to be permitted to settle there at present. One of the Indians claims Thee Necks to belong to hem & an old Squaw they asked 120 Lbs. again as before for the Three Necks & to keep Colts next themselves all that have pretenses must come together some other time & the Governor will agree with them.
Ref: Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 1886.

. 1678 May 7 - Order referring to the Sessions the complaint of the constable of Flushing against Capt. William Lawrence, for fencing in the highway. p90.
Ref: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, NY, Edmund B O'Callaghan, 1866.

Death of William Lawrence:
. Whereas Captain William Lawrence, late of Cow's Neck in Flushing, one of the Justices of the Peace of the North Riding, died intestate, leaving a considerable Estate, & divers children, & Elizabeth his wife, & his eldest son, William by a former marriage, having made application for Letters of Administration, & having brought in an inventory, they were appointed March 25, 1680. Ref: Page 269.

The Duke's Laws of 1665 mandated that an inventory was to be taken within 48 hours after appropriate official inquiry of the death had begun [into a person dying instate.} William Lawrence's inventories portray a sober man of considerable wealth. His personal wearing apparel was sturdy, useful, & appropriate for a man who at once was a Quaker, merchant, trader, magistrate, planter, & slaveholder. The 2 of William Lawrence's inventories taken at his death in 1680 - one for his warehouse in Manhattan & the other for his shop & dwelling in Flushing.

Benefitting from Flushing's abundance & quasi-independence from the colonial government centered at New Amsterdam/New York, William Lawrence flourished in the New World. The value of his land, chattels, & effects at £4432:01:10 ½ was substantial for 1680.
The personal clothing of William Lawrence listed in the inventory include one worsted & 1 haire camlet cloak, a broadcloth (textile made of carded wool in plain weave that is fulled after weaving) suit, a drugg et (a lighter woolen) suit, an old norwester, & a castor (beaver fur hat). Lawrence was likely among the richest men in the colony. His material wealth is comparable to that of Cornelis Steenwyck, one of New Netherland's principal merchants who also served as magistrate, burgomaster, & alderman.

The Business of Agribusiness Lawrence was among the largest landowners in Flushing. The main dwelling house, along with orchards & meadows, were located at Tew's Neck, an extensive swath of land jutting into the Long Island Sound (today College Point, Queens). Other Flushing property included land at Whitestone & lots in the center of town where his retail shop probably stood. In addition to property in lower Manhattan, Lawrence owned acres in Newtown to the west, meadows across the Long Island Sound in Westchester & land at various places further east near Smithtown. Lawrence's expansive property include numerous shares of Salt Meadow, a grassy marsh prone to flooding by salt water. In colonial America salt meadow was an important resource for sustaining animal herds, especially cattle. Adriean van der Donck notes in A Description of New Netherland (1656) that cattle were suffering from disease due to the consumption of "sweet hay." The issue was not resolved until animals started consuming hay grown on salt wetlands. At his death, Lawrence had 173 Cattle & 72 swine & were probably shipped to provide provisions to West Indies plantations or at the Manhattan market. Barrels of pork & beef, along with hooks, sickles, scythes & pitchforks for wheat harvesting, are listed in his Manhattan warehouse.
Ref: William Lawrence's Manhattan warehouse inventory currently resides in the manuscripts collection: "Inventories, New York State, 1680-1844", MS 450.2 at the NY Historical Society Museum & Library, & a copy at Bowne House Historical Society, NY.

. 1680 Mar 10 - Whereas William Lawrence, late of Flushing, deceased, had left a considerable estate & 7 young children, that is to say Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Richard, Samuel, Sarah & James, whose proportion & share of their said father's estate according to law amounts to each of them £277 12s 4p which is & remains in the hands & possession of Elizabeth the widow & administratrix of the said Wm. & mother to the said children who desiring in Council to be admitted their guardian, these are to certify that he said Elizabeth Lawrence is by advice of the Council admitted & allowed of to be guardian for the said 7 children & to have possession & enjoy their said portions giving sufficient security to satisfy & pay the same to them & such of them when they shall attain the age of 21 y or be married.
Ref: Booke of Orders & Warrents, Secretary of State, Albany, NY, p39.

. 1680 Nov 18 - Inventory of Estate of William Lawrence, Flushing. The neck of land called Cows Neck, with housing, orchards & meadows, 1,250. Two 50 acre lots at Whitestone, 60. 50 acre lot, No. 13, 20.
The 50 acre lot in Newtons Neck 15. 104 acre lots lying at the Town, with all housing, orchards, etc., 60. 640 acres lying adjoining to Sunk meadows, eastward, & also running west to the Fresh Pond, & north to the Sound, & south to the path that goes to John Goldin's house, 150. 1/2 share of salt meadow at Townsend, & 2 shares of fresh meadow, one at Grays, & the other in the middle meadow, 10, 1 share of salt meadow at Terrys Point, 30, 6 shares of meadow at Westchester. 3 shares of meadow in the New Found Passage, 3.3 shares of meadow in Hunt's cove, 16. 1 share of salt meadow at Head of the bay, 16, one negro, John, 50, negro Andrew, 40. 10 negroes in all. One English boy called by the name of Bishop, for a year & some months service, 5. 32 oxen, 160. 46 cows.17 Horses.
The inventory is very lengthy, showing great wealth & high social station. sword, plate & personals, Merchant's list of 3 & half pages of shop goods, mostly cloth, nothing haberdashery, pewter & tools.
Total £4,432. Taken by Richard Cornell, John Bowne, John Lawrence. He made Elizabeth [nee Smith] Lawrence & Wm. Lawrence, administrators, made oath to the same in presence of Governor & Council, November 18, 1680. Page 405.
Ref: Surrogate's Office, city of NY, Liber 22, p24.

. At first this Flushing region was in the possession of William Lawrence, a gentleman of note in Colonial days, descended from that sturdy " William Lawrence, of Flushing,'' who, in 1666, was fined by Governor Nichols for daring to criticize some of his measures under the Duke's Laws. After the Revolution a part of this property came into the market, and was bought by Eliphalet Stratton for $1,250. In 1836. Here was to be conducted a regular collegiate institution under the name of St. Paul's College at College Point, for the preparation of young men for the ministry of the Episcopalian church.
Ref: Leslie's history of the greater New York V.2. - - -

Died:
Long Island. Died intestate, leaving a considerable Estate.

William married Elizabeth SMITH on 4 Mar 1664 in Hempstead, Livingston, Long Island, Nassau Co., New York. Elizabeth (daughter of Colonel Richard SMITH, Patentee and Sarah FOLGER) was born in 1643 in Smithtown, Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York; died in Jul 1712 in Elizabethtown, Essex Co., New Jersey; was buried in First Presbyterian Church. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 1845 May 9. Ballinafad. A meeting was held for the purpose of appointing 3 trustees for the cemetery. A deed was drawn up between Nathaniel Roszell & his Wife Hannah, "in the Township of Erin, in the county of Waterloo, in the Wellington district, in the prince of Canada". The trustees were Obadiah Roy, Archibald Patterson & Jos Hilt. Witnesses present were Donald McMain & Arthur Thompson. The same of 5 shillings was paid for the land.
Ref: Flesherton Advance newspaper. - - -

Died:
Will dated 8 Mar 1712.

Notes:

Married:
"Whereas I have received information and satisfaction that there is an intent of Marriage between William Lawrence of Flushing and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Smith of Mishaquak'd, upon Long Island upon their request I give them license, so to do and do herby require you to proclaim the said William Lawrence and Elizabeth Smith man and wife and so record them and to proceed therein according to your formed customs on the like occassions. Given under my hand at Hempstead this 4th day of March 1664. Richd. Nicholls.

Note: Lawrence father and son married two Smith sisters:
Older sister Elizabeth Smith in1664 married William Senior, who was his second wife,
{or in other words, sister Eliz. is now the mother-in-law.
In 1680 William Jr. married Deborah, the youngest daughter of Richard Smith, the Patentee of Smithtown on Long Island, NY. {i.e. Deborah now became her older sister's daughter-in-law. - - -

Notes:

. The History of the Stout Family
Ref: First Settling in Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, By Nathan Stout, 1823.

. 1708 June 19. Laiton, Layton, William, of Middletown. Inventory of the personal estate of (£62.19.0); made by Elisha Lawrence & Richard Stout.

. 1712 July ye 21 - Then Richard Stout gave in his Brand Mark for his horses, viz, the Letters P S on the Near Buttock Entered per Me, Willm. Lawrence Junr, Town Clerk, [Middletown, NJ.] - - -

Birth:
Alt Name: "Squan Dick" for his settlement location.

Died:

Richard married Frances HEATH in 1670 in Squan, New Jersey. Frances was born in 1646 in Gravesend, Long Island, New Amsterdam; died on 9 Jun 1705 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Children of Richd. & Frances Stout are:
John, Richard III, James, Johnathan, David, Benjamin, Mary, Alice, Sarah.
daughter-in-law, Mary Stout & her son John.
Kinswoman, Mary Stout, daughter of Peter Stout. - - -

Birth:
Alt Surname: West; DOB Bet 1747 -1650

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: