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History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey Compiled by James P. Snell, Assisted by Prof. W. W. Clayton and a Numerous Corps of Writers Everts & Peck (1881) Stephen, son of Joseph Bailey, was born in Warwick, Orange Co., NY, Jan. 11, 1765. He married, Jan. 15, 1790, Huldah Witney, of the same place, who was born Jan. 6, 1769.They settled at what is now Glenwood, NJ, where he purchased, May 26 1794, fifty-three and forty-six one-hundredths acres for sixty-six pounds seventeen shillings current money of the State of New York, it being a part of the tract surveyed for the Earl of Perth. This was a wilderness tract of land, and he found his way to it by way of a foot-path. Here he encountered the hardships incident to pioneer life, and lived until death, which occurred May 30, 1819. His widow removed with one of the family–Thomas–to Troupsburg, NY , where she died March 27, 1852. She was a member of the Baptist Church, and was buried in “Young Hickory Cemetery” at that place. Stephen Bailey was a man of great muscular strength, stood over six feet in height, and was a man of considerable enterprise and business ability. Prior to his death he acquired a quite large landed estate. He had ten children,–viz., Stephen; Daniel; Esther, became the wife of Charles Mott, of Paterson, NJ; Joseph; Huldah M. became the wife of Joseph Edmundson, of Newton, NJ; Samuel L.; Phebe; Thomas Witney; William O.; and Matthew. Daniel Bailey, son of Stephen, was born Dec. 16, 1792, and married Jan. 12, 1816, Jane, second daughter of Matthew...
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Henry Bale of Sussex County, NJ compiled by Alan Edward Jones | (July 1997) Johann Heindrich BEHL, who went by the name of Henry BALE, was born around 1730 in the Black Forest area of Germany. He spent some time growing up in France. It is supposed that he came from Germany via Alsace-Lorraine through Brest, leaving Rotterdam on the ship Forest and landed in Philadelphia, PA on 11 October 1752. He was the first settler of the New Jersey village of Lafayette, building the first flour mill and the first dam in the area, erecting his business on the Paulinskill River. Henry BALE and his wife, Elizabeth GUNDERMAN (or GUNDEMAN or GUNTERMAN), raised seven children. Elizabeth’s father is reported to have been Conrad GUNDERMAN or GUNTERMAN. She was from Holland or her family was from Holland. Three of their children Jacob, Rhoda and Mary, moved to Kentucky with their families. Two of their sons, Peter and Henry, remained in the area, moving farther down the Paulinskill and building another mill and blacksmith shop in a settlement later to be known as Baleville, which still exists today. Some children and or grandchildren went to many states including KY, NY, IL, TN, etc. Henry BALE had a brother Peter BALE who also came to NJ from Europe. This Peter BALE has 4 sons who fought in the Revolution and his children spread to OH, PA, VA, TN, east KY, and Green county KY. Based on some traditional naming conventions, Henry BALE’s father may have been named Jacob BEHL since he named his first son this name. His second son may have been named after his older brother and his...
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Rockaway Records of Morris County Families by J.P. Crayon | c.1902. Peter or John Card (authorities differ as to the name) came with Col. John Seward to Sussex County in 1751 from near Chester in Morris County, and it is probable that they came with the Seward family from Long Island, as they were untied, and five generations of the Card family have lived on the Seward estate and now own a part of the original tract (1902). The Peter Card did service in the Revolution and many are the anecdotes handed down. He had three children now known, there may have been others. Peter, his son, was born Nov. 10, 1763, was a boy of all work in the Seward homestead and in service on special occasions. He married Nov. 12, 1792, Phebe Angle or Angel as was then written, a daughter of John Angle, who was killed in the Revolution. He died in the old Seward homestead Feb. 14, 1818. John Angle married Martha Burwell, they were among the early settlers of Newark. She died 1773 aged 101 years, and when a girl lived in one of the first three blockhouses built at Newark for the protection of the settlers against the Indians, and it is related that her father was the first to introduce English Bulldogs in the settlement. John Angle and Martha Burwell had children: Betsey, Samuel, Abraham, Edward, John, Hannah, Sarah and Phebe, who was born Jan. 10, 1776, married Peter Card, died May 24, 1854. They were a long-lived family. Henry Card died Jan. 25 1833. Catharine married Joseph Crill, a Revolutionary soldier. Children...
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Biographical Encyclopedia: Successful Men of New Jersey Frederick W. Ricord, Librarian of the New Jersey Historical Society Editor-in-Chief Volume 1, Page 47, New York New Jersey Historical Publishing Co., 1896 Joseph Coult was born in Frankfort, Sussex County, N. J., May 25th, 1834. He is descended from an old English family which settled in Connecticut in the early part of the Seventeenth Century. It was not until about the middle of the Eighteenth Century that any of the Coult family removed to New Jersey. In Sussex County they first settled, and here the father of the subject of our sketch acquired land and became a successful farmer and an influential citizen. Joseph, the youngest of a family of ten children, enjoyed, like the others, the advantage of education. He received a thorough preparation for a college course, but after much delay in entering thereupon, it was finally abandoned. All the inducements held out to him to devote himself to mercantile pursuits were of no avail, for his habits of study had become fixed, and he determined to study the law. Accordingly, in 1858, he became a student in the office of Thomas N. McCarter, Esq., then a young lawyer at Newton, Sussex County. Subsequently he entered the Law School at Albany, N. Y., and , having thence graduated, he was admitted into the courts of New York State, and began the practice of law in the City of New York. In 1861, he was admitted as an Attorney at Law in New Jersey, and at once opened an office at Newton, in his native County, where he continued to...
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Rockaway Records of Morris County, NJ Families by J. Percy Crayon | Rockaway Publishing Company | c.1902 pp. 135-136. The traditions of this Goble family were that they were of French Hugenots who fled to prevent religious persecutions and settled in North Carolina, and that their names originally were Enoch, Abner, Silas, Aaron and Martha. A large number of the descendants, probably not all of one family, settled in Morris county, NJ, previous to 1750. John, married Elizabeth Burwell, Dec. 22, 1748, and is mentioned in the early Rockaway records. Simeon, a probable son of Enoch, as the name of Enoch runs in the family line, married Abigail Conger Feb. 23, 1749, he died about 1755, and had children: Enoch, Abner, Sally, Martha, Luther and Calvin, perhaps others. His wife married (2) Ebenezer Stiles, May 4, 1778, as second wife, lived at Morris Plains, NJ. She was born 1732, died Dec, 7, 1810. William Goble married Sarah Conger March 3, 1757. Henry Goble married Lydia Conger Dec 11, 1765. Robert Goble, born 1700, died Mar. 29, 1783. His wife, Mary, born 1701, died Feb. 20, 1786. Aaron Goble born 1752, married Charity Lindsley Jan. 30, 1772, died Feb. 1, 1802. His wife was born 1751, died June 4, 1795. Daniel Goble married Pricilla Cook Apr. 1, 1744. Jonas Goble married Ruth Fairchild Dec. 10, 1765. Ruth Goble married Nathan Reeve Feb. 18, 1768. Rachel Goble married Isaac Southard Apr. 12, 1769. Hannah Goble married Ichabod Tompkins Dec. 24, 1746. Salome married Ebenezer Fairchild Aug. 1750. Sally married Josephus Gard June 23, 1798. Of the children of Benjamin and Experience Conger,...
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History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey Compiled by James P. Snell, Assisted by Prof. W. W. Clayton and a Numerous Corps of Writers Everts & Peck (1881) (page 436 A) “The Hardin family are mentioned among the early settlers of New England; from there they removed to that part of New Jersey now Sussex County. The grandfather of the subject of our sketch was Thomas Hardin, who settled in Lafayette township, Sussex Co., before the Revolutionary war; he married Elizabeth Lance of the same place. Later in life he removed to Ohio, where he died. Reuben Hardin, one of his sons, was born in Lafayette township, and married Susan, daughter of Casper Snook, of the same place. Of this union were born the following children: John, deceased, and Joshua.” [deceased bef 1880] Joshua Hardin was born on the homestead in Lafayette, Sept 26, 1801. he attended school and worked on the farm until he was sixteen years old, when he removed to Stillwater township, and engaged in agricultural labor until he was twenty-five years of age. He then removed to Frankford township and learned the trade of blacksmithing. After gaining a knowledge of that business he went to Newton, NJ where he remained fourteen years, working at his trade. In 1855 he removed to Green township, and purchased from Ralph Dildine the farm on which his family now reside. In 1830 he married Effie, daughter of Michael Roff (Roof) of Newton township. Mrs Hardin’s grandfather was Christopher who emigrated from Germany to this country during the middle of the eighteenth century. The children of this marriage are James...
