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- . Piscataway's name derives from various Native American works, including, "it is getting dark, place of dark night, great deer river, & division of the river. There was for a long time a flourishing shipping trade at the community known at Raritan Landing.
. John Wilsons, the younger, his eare marke is a crop 1 the Right eare & 2 slits in the crop & one halfe penny the under side of the Left eare Recorded to his son Joseph Willson the June 21, 1837.
Historical & Genealogical Miscellany, Vol. 2.
. 1735-6, Jan. (Earlier) inventory of £23.4.9 includes loom & tackling, share coming from Estate of Mary Willson, mother of John Willson.
Made by John Bennem & George Walker.
Ref: Monmouth Wills, New Jersey. Complete reference not found, perhaps attached to below Will, NJ Will Lib C, Vol. XXX.
. 1737 Mar 15, WILL of JOHN WILLSON of Middletown Twp., Monmouth Co., Gentleman, being aged.
Eldest son, John, Loom & tackling, now in his possessions.
Sons, James & Andrew.
Sons, Joseph & Benjamin, lands granted to them by testator by deeds of Apr 22, 1727.
Son, Benjamin, negro man Monk, negro woman Pegg & her son Robin.
Daughter Susanna,
Daughter Joan, box the testator kept his writings in, pewter platter that was her grandmother’s & as much pewter as the rest of my daughters already married have.
Granddaughter, Hannah Disbrow, residue to daughters, Sarah, Hope, Joan, Elizabeth, Mary & Susannah.
Executors: Thomas Morford, Esq, & sons James & Benjamin.
Witnesses: Lambert Willson, Benjamin Colman, Mary Disbrow, Robert Dondesworth.
. 1737 Apr 9. Codicil. Mentions sons Benjamin & daughter Susannah.
Witness: Robert Dodsworth.
Proved May 19, 1737.
Ref: New Jersey Calendar of Wills, Lib C, p. 164.
. 1737 April 25 - Willson, John, of Middletown, Monmouth Co. Int.
Inventory: £246.08.5) includes 35 lbs. tobacco, negro woman & child £45, negro man £20, debts due from William Lawrence & Richard Gibbons.
Made by George Taylor & John Teunisson. Lib. C. p. 164.
. 1745 Feb - WILL 1745 Feb. 18. WILL of Thomas Kearney, of Monmouth Co., merchant;
Wife, Catherine, To son, Thomas, land bought, November 19, 1717, from Elisha Lawrence; land in Middletown, bought of John Willson & wife Hannah.
. 1666 Dec 11 - A contract made by Capt. Philip Carteret, Governor of the Province of New Jersey, John Ogden & Luke Watson, of Eiizabethtown, of the first part, & Daniel Pierce, of Newbury, Massachusetts, & his associates, of the second part. Four score pounds sterling for tract of land known by the name of Arthur Cull, or Amboyle. Purchased from the natives 28 Oct 1644. The first settlers came to Woodbridge in the later part of the summer of 1665 & were a portion of the company of 30 English people who came to NJ with Gov. Careret. A number of family were drawn by publishing from New England. The Governor's ship, The Philip, returned to England & returned the following year with other emigrants with implements & seed for tilling, planting. Each lot contained 500 Acres of upland & meadow; towns 6 or 8 miles square. Liberty of conscience in religious worship was to be allowed. …they were to have authority to impose fines on criminals inflict corporal punishment by stocking, ducking, pilloring & whipping not more than 20 stripes.
Ships sailed back & forth from nearby Elizabethtown to England, bring thence friends, letters & needed supplies.
PISCATAWAY HISTORY: Founded in 1666, Piscataway Township is the 5th oldest town in NJ & 50th oldest town in USA. It in lied the most of Somerset County & the future Middlesex County across the Raitan River.
Ref: Piscataway Public Library - - - [1, 2, 3]
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1665 - 1737 (72 years)