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- By an affidavit, taken Apr. 26, 1707, it appeared that he was 49 years of age, hence born 1658. New Jersey Archives, Vol. III, p. 211.
1683 - He was appointed Ensign in the local militia.
1686, July 21 - The Proprietors, of East Jersey, granted to Safety Grover of Middletown. 68 acres, in said town, South of his father's land; 32 acres of land, S. W. of his father's land, on the Navesink River. and another piece, of 20 acres, on the East side of Shoal Harbor. West of his father's land.
1687/8, January - Safety Grover was one of the bondsmen of Hanna Gardiner of Middletown. administratrix of her late husband, Richard Gardiner .
. 1688. In deeds of this date, he is called Capt. Safety Grover .
. 1691 Mar 8 or 28 - Safety Grover bought of Richard Hartshorne 20 acres, which, with 200 acres of upland adjoining, was patented, Nov. 23, 1676, to Charles Haynes.
. 1692, Mar. 5 - He was commissioned Lieutenant, of a Foot Company, in Middletown.
Book C., Commissions, p. 180, Trenton, N. J.
. 1701 - He was mentioned as Capt. Safety Grover. in the uprising against the Court, sitting at Middletown.
. 1711 - Elisha Lawrence of Freehold, late of Middletown, yeoman, sold to Safety Grover of Middletown, yeoman, for £3, three acres, lying at the East side of Shoal Harbor.
. 1711 Feb. 19 - Edward Taylor of Freehold, yeoman, son and heir to Edward Taylor, late of Middletown, deceased, sold to Safety Grover of Middletown, gentleman, for £3, one acre, of meadow, at Shoal Harbor. adjacent to the above mentioned land.
. 1720, Dec. 5. Gawin Drummond of Lochaber, in Shrewsbury. Gent., sold, for £5, to Safety Grover, Gent., and William Winter, yeoman, both of Middletown, 10 acres of his 705 acres, to be taken up in right of his Property, formerly Thomas Cooper 's and which, he, Drummond, bought from Obadiah Bowne. Aug. 21, 1714.
. 1721, Feb. 27 - He was a Juryman.
. 1724 - He was appointed, by the Court, an Overseer of the Highways, for Middletown .
. 1726 - He was a bondsman for James Grover, apparently his son.
. 1727 - He appeared, as Capt. Grover, in an old account book.
There was a Mercy Grove, one of the witnesses to the WILL of Thomas Applegate. Sr., of Middletown. Feb. 1, 1698-9.
Note: Was she the wife of Safety Grover?
. Issue:
Hannah Grover; married William. son of Edward Taylor. the First, born 1688.
James Grover
Two, Daughters
Mordecai Grover [?]
And perhaps other children; among them, supposed, Elizabeth. wife of John Bowne, cordwainer. - - - [1]
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1707 - 1717 (9 years)