Safety BORDEN

Male 1682 - 1757  (75 years)


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  • Name Safety BORDEN 
    Born 6 Sep 1682  Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • / resided.
    Gender Male 
    Died Nov 1757  Bordentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1630  Richard Patterson NJ & ON
    Last Modified 21 Sep 2017 

    Father Joseph BORDEN
              b. 12 May 1687, Monmouth County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 22 Sep 1765, Bordentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 78 years) 
    Mother Susannah GROVER
              b. 1686, Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 11 Mar 1774, Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Family ID F793  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • . Safety Borden, born Sept. 6, 1682; died, November, 1757, in Bordentown, N. J.
      married Martha. He is supposed to have married his first cousin, a daughter of Capt. Safety Grover, whose name is unknown. She may have been this Martha, or perhaps be married twice.

      . 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 two hundred 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 - WILL of 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, ten acres of his seven hundred and five acres, to be taken up in right of his Propriety, 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 Grover, 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:
      1. HANNAH GROVER, daughter of Safety Grover, 4, married William, son of Edward Taylor, the first, of Middletown, N.J. William Taylor and his wife, resided at Freehold, N. J. He was born 1688, and died 1767, leaving a will proved Oct. 12, of that year, in which he set forth that he was a resident of Upper Freehold, and mentioned among others, his wife, Hannah, and his brother-in-law, James Grover.

      2. James Grover, resided Middletown, NJ.
      . 1733 - James Grover was indicted for fornication; pleaded not guilty. Bonds signed by himself and Safety Grover .
      . 1737 - James Grover, Jr., was prominent in local politics. Holmes ' Journal.
      . 1740, Dec. 9 - James Grover, Jr., recorded his cattle-mark, formerly Walter Wall 's.
      . 1748 - James Grover was a deacon in the Baptist Church, Middletown .
      . 1754 - James Grover was appointed a Justice, in Monmouth County, N. J.
      . 1769 - James Grover was prominent in Baptist Church affairs, in Middletown .
      . 1774, July 19 - He was one of the Committee sent, from Monmouth County, to the Provincial Convention held at New Brunswick .
      . 1777 - Justice James Grover was suspected of being a Tory, and because of his supposed sentiments, was rebuked by the church, which he bluntly told was rudely trespassing upon his individual rights, and was lodged in jail, at Bordentown, pending an examination before the Governor and Council of Safety.

      3. Two, Daughters
      5. Mordecai Grover [?]
      And perhaps other children; among them, supposed, Elizabeth, wife of John Bowne, cordwainer.

      . Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - [1]

  • Sources 
    1. [S29] John E Stillwell, M.D. 1903. .