Peter Elias’ Family History (Continued)
Peter Elias’ Family History (Continued)
Eleventh Generation
Caretaker or overseer of Gardiner’s Island. Was Town Officer at East Hampton through 1664 and left Long Island and became an Associate of Elizabethtown, NJ in 1665. (This from NJ Calendar of Will records and from info about Price family members found in genealogies of other NJ families: Ogden, Ross, Woodruff, Clark.)
May have come to LI around 1639 with Lion Gardiner as he was a witness on 10 March 1639/40 to the deed given by James Farret (Lord Stirling’s agent) to Gardiner. Benjamin PRICE first settled in Southampton; in 1649 he settled East Hampton with several others from South Hampton. On 7 Oct 1651 he was appointed Recorder (Town Clerk) and on 1 Aug 1660 was one of the Patentees of Montauk Point. He was a respected member of the community and when in 1665 he moved to NJ to help found Elizabeth Town, he was instrumental in bringing a number of other Long Islanders with him. He remained active in NJ and in 1675 represented the town in the House of Burgesses. In 1682 he was one of Governor Rudyard’s Council. He was appointed Justice of the Peace 4 Feb 1682/83; on 28 Mar 1683 one of Governor Lawrie’s Council; and on 29 Jan 1692/93 one of the Judeges of Small Causes. He outlived most of the other founders: his will was made 30 Aug 1705 and admitted to probate 7 Oct 1712.
At the southwest corner of Florida Street and Elizabeth Avenue remains the oldest marker in the city of Elizabethtown, surrounded by a rusting fence and identified by a plaque and marking the old boundary between the properties of Benjamin PRICE and his neighbor Richard Townley. Their initials “BP” and “RT” and the date “1694” are visible, chiseled into the stone.
Ca 1638 when Benjamin was 17, he married Mary SAYRE.
They had the following children:
i.
Thomas (1650-<1733)
ii.
John (1660-1749)
832iii.
Benjamin (1676-1773)
iv.
Damaris
v.
Captain Daniel (-1743)
vi.
Ephraim (-1737)
vii.
Mary (-<1733)
Evidence suggests they married in 1638 before they moved to East Hampton, LI where Benjamin was an overseer of Lion Gardiner’s Island, and witnessed Lion Gardiner’s Deed for Gardiner’s Island.
1668. John WOODRUFF, son of 3336. John WOODRUFF 2d & 3337. Sarah (Mary) OGDEN. Born in 1665 in Elizabethtown, NJ.
First white child born in Elizabethtown, NJ.
On 25 Oct 1683 when John was 18, he married Sarah COOPER in Jamaica, LI, NY.
1669. Sarah COOPER, daughter of 3338. Timothy COOPER & 3339. Elizabeth MUNSON. Born 17 Mar 1665/66. Sarah died in Elizabeth, NJ, on 3 Jun 1727; she was 62.
1670. Nathaniel BAKER, son of 3340. Thomas BAKER & 3341. Alice DAYTON. Born on 22 Dec 1655 in East Hampton, LI, NY. Nathaniel died 27 Feb 1738/39; he was 82.
Nathaniel married Catherine SCHELLINGER.
They had one child:
835i.
Mary (1688-)
1671. Catherine SCHELLINGER, daughter of 3342. Jacob SCHELLINGER & 3343. Cornelia (Loper) MELYN. Catherine died in East Hampton, LI, NY on 14 May 1722.
1680. John OGDEN, son of 3360. Richard OGDEN & 3361. Elizabeth HUNTINGTON. Born on 19 Sep 1609 in Bradley Plain, ENG. John died in Elizabethtown, NJ, in May 1682; he was 72.
One of the immigrants bringing family to eastern Long Island, probably arriving at South Hampton in 1640. The family moved for about three years to Stamfod, CT, but had returned to Hempstead by 1644 and South Hampton by 1647. Relocated to Elizabethtown, NJ in 1665.
Biographical Notes About John OGDEN (1609-1682) The Pilgrim
Birth, Marriage and Emigration:
John Ogden was born September 19, 1609 in Bradley Plain, Hampshire, England. On May 8, 1637 he married Jane Bond, daughter of Jonathan Bond. While in England they had three children, including a set of twins. He sold his property on October 18, 1639 (including a house, garden, orchard, four acres of pasture and two acres of woodland) to Ezekiel Howard of Bradley Plain and sailed with Pilgrim companions to Southampton, Long Island. The vessel he sailed on is not known. He was a leader in the settlng of Southampton and was granted land (on 17 April 1640) and took up residence on a tract on the south edge of Southampton known then as Shinnecock Hill.
Care must be taken to distinguish between John Ogden of Rye who came first to Rye and then moved to Connecticut and his cousin, John Ogden the Pilgrim, who resided initially on Long Islad and later in Elizabethtown, NJ.
John Ogden of Rye was 9 years older, the son of Thomas Ogden (b 1565) and came to the New Haven Colony in 1638, two years before John Ogden the Pilgrim came to Long Island, and was one of the first settlers of Stamford, CT. He is closely associated with his father-in-law John Budd, whose daughter Judith became his second wife 19 April 1638.
Early Years on Long Island
John Ogden and his brother Richard were the builders of Gov. Kieft’s stone church within the New Amsterdam fort. Building began in 1642 and was slowed by the Indian Wars and finished by 1652. The church was destroyed by fire in the mid 1700s.
In 1644 he was living in Stamford, CT and (with Rev. Robert Fordham, John Stricklan, John Karman, John Lawrence and Jonas Wood) received a grant on Nov 1st 1644 from Gov. William Kieft (Dutch governor of the New Netherlands) for a tract of land on the great plains of Long Isalnd “from the East River to the South Sea and from a certain harbor commonly called Hempstead Bay and westward as far as Matthew Garritson’s Bay.” They were empowered to settle 100 families and build a town with necessary fortifications, and “erect a body politic” and nominate magistrates. After several years in Hempstead he became dissatisfied with what he felt was inhumane treatment of Native Americans by the Dutch Government and he removed to the eastern end of Long Island to live with his countrymen.
In 1647 he recieved permission of the Southampton authorities to plant a colony of six families at “North Sea” (Great Peconic Bay) and several years later he established there the settlement of Northampton.
During these years he became interested in whaling and in 1650 he and his company received permission to kill whales in the waters off Southampton.
On March 31st, 1650 he was made Freeman (“Southampton Aprill. It is ordered uppon the 31st of March 1650 by the General Court that Mr. Thomas Topping and Mr. Iohn Ogden were chosen freemen of this towne of Southampton aforesayde.”)
He was elected magistrate of Southampton on October 7th 1650 (along with Edward Howell and Thomas Topping) and was re-elcted on October 6th, 1651 and October 6th 1659.
In March of 1651 John Ogden and Richard Mills entered legal complaints of trespass against each other and on March 11, 1651 a jury found for John Ogden in both actions (40 shillings damages plus court costs).
On March 6th, 1657 Mr Ogden was one of six men chosen at town meeting to arbitrate a land dispute with East Hampton.
John Ogden was very active in civil affairs. He is mentioned as sitting on many juries and held various offices including sitting on the General Court as Representative from Southampton in 1659 and the Upper House in 1661. He also is recorded in multiple real estate transactions, including Wyandanch’s deed of ands to him, witnessed by Lion and David Gardiner.
Removal to Elizabethtown, NJ
At the age of 54 and after 24 years on Long Island he sold his multiple land holdings in preparation for a move to New Jersey. He secured a patent from Gov. Nicolls of New Jersey: The Elizabeth Town Patent was granted December 1st 1664 by Governor Richard Nicolls under his Royal Highness ye Duke of York to Capt. John Baker of New Yorke, John Ogden of Northampton, John Baily and Luke Watson of Jemaico on Long Island. They received a parcel of land bounded on the south by the Raritan River, on the east by “the sea which partes State Island and the Main,” to the north to the first river running westward after Cull bay and to the west twice the breadth of its extent from North to south. Interestingly, John Ogden and his associates first obtained consent of habitation and purchased the land from the Indians one month before receiving the patent from the English governor (400 fathom of white wampum).
John Ogden was in the first group of 65 to take the oath of allegiace to King Charles II on Feb 19, 1665 and was settled in the Elizabeth Town tract by August 1665. His house was located on Point Road, later called Elizabeth Avenue. The town was named after Lady Elizabeth, wife of Sir George Carteret, who, with John, Lord Berkeley, was granted in 1664 the territory of Nova Caesara by the Duke of York. The proprietor Sir George Carteret and John, Lord Berkeley, appoointed Phillip Carteret as first Proprietary Governor.
John Ogden was appointed Just of the Peace on October 26, 1665 by Carteret: “Whereas, I have conceived a good Opinion of the ability prudence and Integrity of you John Ogden Gentleman, In the management of Publique affairs, I have therefore thought fitt, & doe by these presents Constitute & appoint you the said John Ogden to beare the Office of a Justice of the Peace in the Province of New-Jarsey, Giving you the full power and authority to execute all such Laws, as are or shall be made for the good goverment of the said Province....”
John Ogden was commissioned by Carteret a member of the Council and Deputy Governor.
When the boundary between Elizabethtown and Newark needed adjudication, John Ogden (with Luke Watson, Robert Bond, and Jeffry Jones) were selected to meet with the commissioners from Newark to establish the ine. They met May 20th, 1668 and successfully and peacably determined the line.
In 1668, John Ogden was selected and served as a Burgess in the Legislature consituted at Elizabethtown. At this time he had a mill and was still involved in the whaling trade.
In the late 1660s and early 1670s John Ogden was active in a political dispute. Gov. Carteret had angered the Elizabeth Town colonists by giving away lands within what they felt was their tract. As tensions mounted, in March 1672 Governor Carteret and his Secreatary William Pardon destroyed the records of the General Asembly of March 26th 1672 and fled to Bergen. There the refugee governor convened a council and issued a proclamation, charging the residents of Elizabethtown with “attempting to make alterations in the Government” and “a tendency to mutiny and rebellion.” Governor Winthrop of Connecticut wrote on Juy 2nd 1673 to Governor Sir George Carteret in London in support of the Elizabethtown settlers, and metnions Mr. John Ogden by name. At this time, in July 1673, the Dutch retook New York and the English settlers at Elizabethtown (and Newark, Woodbridge, Piscattaway, Middletown, and Shrewsbury) petitioned the Dutch, who granted the colonists “all their former priviledges.” The Dutch Generals and Council of War made John Ogden “Schout” or Sheriff of the six towns on September 1, 1673 and he and Samuel Hopkins were instructed to take an inventory of the late Gov. Carteret’s estate.
For the next year or two, the colony was quiet and Ogden was virtually governor of the English towns in New Jersey. However, the Dutch rule ended with a treat of peace sined at Westminster in England on February 9th, 1674, returning Jersey to Dutch rule as of November 1674. Captain Philip Carteret returned from England after his two year absence (on the same vessel with his kinsman Col. Edmund Andros, the newly appointed Governor of New York) to govern for Sir George Carteret who was now sole proprietor of East Jersey and had power “to settle and dispose of the country upon such terms and conditions as he shall see fit.” All the concessions and patents issued during British rule by Nicolls were declared void and the settlers were required to apply to thhe Surveyor General by May 15, 1675 or their lands and improvements would be declared confiscated. The terms were so odious that only one applied during the prescribed time period, and others very slowy. John Ogden was the last in October 1678, and under protest.
John Ogden’s last several years are little known. His will was made December 21, 1681 and he died in May of 1682.
Little is known of his wife, Jane Bond. She is felt to have probably been the sister of Robert Bond, an associate of John Ogden in Southampton. She survived her husband and was executrix of his will. Her date of death is not known and their burial places aren’t recorded, but traditionally they would have been buried in the area immediately behind the church, in this case the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. At the time of their deaths the church was a wooden structure and was replaced with a larger building in 1724. An addition was abuilt at the rear in 1766 and the church was burned by the British and Tories on the night of January 25th, 1780. It was rebuilt over the years 1780-1789. It is reasonable to speculate that their graves were in the area immediately behind the original church and that the markers were lost or destroyed over time.
On 8 May 1637 when John was 27, he married Jane BOND in Bradley Plain, ENG.
They had the following children:
i.
John Jr (1638-1702)
840ii.
Jonathan (Twin) (1638-1731)
iii.
David (Twin) (1638-ca1692)
iv.
Joseph (ca1642-<1689)
3337v.
Sarah (Mary) (ca1643-)
vi.
Capt. Benjamin (1654-1722)
1681. Jane BOND, daughter of 3362. Jonathan BOND. Born in Bradley Plain, ENG. Jane died in Elizabethtown, NJ.
About 1644 removed from New Haven to East Haven and built a house. In 1651 he sold his house and removed to Branford, and later to Newark.
Jasper CRANE's origin is uncertain, but circumstantial evidence suggests England, possibly London, and tradition has it that he came in the ship Arabella with Winthrop. The certain date and place of his birth remain unknown, but it is estimated he was born around 1605.
He was one of the original settlers of the New Haven Colony and signed the first agreement at a general meeting of the free planters in Mr. Newman's barn on 4 June 1639. He was a surveyor and merchant by trade and worked with a Mr. Myles to lay out most of the New Haven town plot, locating grants, establishing division lines and settling disputed titles. He took the oath of fidelity at the time of organization of the government along with Campfield, Pennington, Gov. Eaton and others. He served as steward of the Rev. John Davenport's property in 1639. In March of 1641 he received a grant of 100 acres of land in the East Meadow. He was a member of the New Haven Company, concerned in the develoopment of the Delaware River in 1642. In 1643 his estate was valued at 480 pouns and his family consisted of himself, his wife and his son, John. In 1644 he was excused from military training 'because of his weakness' on condition that he find one to serve in his place. In 1644-45 he received a grant of 16 acres of upland in East Haven and built a house, where son Joseph was born. In 1651 he was interested in a bog-ore furnace at East Haven.
He sold his house and land on 7 Sept 1652 and became one of the first planters in Branford, CT, a new settlement being formed from families out of Wethersfield, CT under the leadership of Mr. Swayne, along with a few settlers from Southampton, LI.
He and Mr. Swayne were the first deputies to the General Court of Electors from Branford in May 1653. He served in this capacity for four years. In 1658 he was elected one of four magistrates for the New Haven Colony, having held the office of deputy for several years prior, and held this appointment until 1663.
In 1665, unhappy that New Haven Colony had united with Connecticut Colony and given the right of suffrange to inhabitants not members of the church, he joined 21 others signing a contract to found Milford, later to become Newark, NJ. The exact date he left New Haven for Branford (Newark) is uncertain and he remained active in Branford affairs for at least a year while other members of the group settled in Newark. On 20 Jan 1667 he headed the list of signers and church members of the first Church of Newark and became one of the most influential and active men in the new colony. He was the first president of the town court and first on the list of deputies to the General Assembly of New Jersey. At the 6 Feb 1667 drawing for home lots, he received lot 49 and his eldest sons Deliverance CRANE and John CRANE received lots 62 and 40. He was one of the purchasers of the "Kingsland Farms," an immense estate near Newark now known as Belleville.
In January of 1668 at a town meeting, Jasper CRANE, Sr. and Robert Treat were chosen magistrates and elected as deputies or burgesses for the General Assembly of New Jersey. (This Robert Treat was the first recorder or town clerk for Newark and was very prominent in Newark public affairs until 1671 when he return to Connecticut where he served as Governor for several years.)
From January 1668 until his death, Jasper CRANE Sr, was an active and prominent figure in the establishing of Newark. On 20 May 1668 he was part of the committee that fixed the border between Newark and Elizabeth Town. He was elected magistrate and Deputy to the General Assembly in 1668 and 1669 and 1670, and served as deputy annually until 1674. In 1674 he was confirmed as justice of the peace.
Jasper married Alice *CRANE.
They had the following children:
i.
John I (1635-1694)
ii.
Hannah (1638-1695)
iii.
Delivered (1642-1675)
iv.
Mary (Mercy) (1645-1671)
v.
Deacon Azariah 1st (1647-1730)
vi.
Micah (1647-1666)
842vii.
Jasper Jr. (1657-1712)
Samuel married Johannah WARD.
They had the following children:
i.
Mary (1649-1655)
ii.
Elizabeth (1654->1706)
iii.
Phebe (1654-)
iv.
Mary (1654-)
v.
Christiana (1659-)
843vi.
Joanna (1659-1720)
vii.
Abigail
viii.
Sarah (1661-)
1687. Johannah WARD, daughter of 3374. Stephen WARD & 3375. Joyce TRAFFORD. Born ca 1625 in Northamptonshire, ENG.
Arrives at Stamford, CT by 1655/56, when he marries Mary Ackerly, widow of Vincent Simkins.
December 1664 chosen in Stamford, CT as “warner to warne ye toune.”
On 19 February 1665/6 was one of 65 to sign an “Oath of A Leagance and Fidelity taken by the Inhabitants of Elizabeth Town and Jurisdiction Thereof.”
On 10 September 1679 received letters of administration on the estate of John Symkins granted by his mother Mary (Ackerly) Oliver, wife of William Oliver, on behalf of her other son David Simkins.
His last recorded contribution to the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethtown was 1694.
Ca 1655 William married Mary ACKERLY in Stamford, CT.
They had the following children:
i.
Mary (1657-)
ii.
David (1659-)
848iii.
Samuel Sr. (1662-1722)
iv.
Elizabeth (ca1664-)
v.
Sarah (ca1668-ca1738)
vi.
William (ca1668-1715)
vii.
Daughter?
Some of his friends came on the Anne, but there is no documentation that he did. His exact time and place of arrival are uncertain. He probably arrived in the group between 1629–30. He lived in Plymouth about 12 years and is recorded numerous times acquiring land and fulfilling civic duties. He then removed to Nauset (later called Eastham) with 6 other men around 1644. He then moved in about 1669 with Edward Fitz Randolph of Barnstable to New Jersey and was a settler/founder of Piscataway. The reasons for leaving Eastham are unclear but were probably more related to crowding and lack of good land than religious or other political difficulties.
In Oct 1651 Richard married Mary *YATES in Eastham, MA.
They had the following children:
i.
Eliakim (1654-)
ii.
William (Problem) (1654-)
iii.
Jediah (1656-)
iv.
Zerah (1658-ca1695)
v.
Thomas (1661-)
vi.
Lydia (1664-)
vii.
Rebecca (ca1666-)
849viii.
Mary (1652-1729)
ix.
Ruth (ca1668-)
x.
Sarah (ca1670-)
1728. Henry JAQUES Sr., son of 3456. Richard JAQUES & 3457. Grace UNKNOWN. Born ca 1619 in Rodborne, North Wiltshire, ENG. Henry died in Newbury, MA, 24 Feb 1686/1687; he was 67.
Close association of the JAQUES family with John WOODBRIDGE (nephew of Reverend Thomas PARKER). Woodbridge came from England in 1634 on the ship MARY & JOHN and founded Newbury, MA. In 1640 Woodbridge petitioned to establish a new community at Cochichawick which subsequently became Andover, MA where he was subsequently ordained. Henry JAQUES, Sr. probably moved from Newbury to Andover in 1641 or 1642 as an early founder.
Henry JAQUES, Sr. married Ann KNIGHT and in the 1660s moved to Woodbridge, NJ (named for Reverend WOODBRIDGE) with other related families from Newbury and Andover. Captain Phillip CARTERET was the newly appointed Governor of the Territory of New Jersey and he advertised for New Englanders to come to NJ and settle.
Henry JAQUES Sr. was a carpenter and experienced housewright, known to have built the Ipswich meeting house, the Newbury meeting house, a private home in Boston for Henry Ellis, and having helped with the Newbury minister’s house.
Henry JAQUES Sr. was an active participant in civic affairs and is referred to as “yeoman” suggesting that he was not of the moneyed upper class. He was literate. He served at different times on a Grand Jury, as a Selectman and as a Constable.
Henry JAQUES Sr. is the well documented progenitor of this JAQUES line in the colonies. His origin from Europe is more controversial, and several very plausible theories have been postulated:
(1) Sir Richard (or Roland) de JACQUES of St. Jacques in Normandy, came with and attended William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He was given three hides of land (a hide was a measure of about 80-100 acres) in Suffolk County, England. There is a pretty well defined descent from him for five centuries in England, linking JAQUES and JACQUES in the counties of Middlesex, York, Somerset, Worcestor England, as well as Scotland and Ireland.
(2) A descent from a JAKES of Baynebridge, Yorkshire that is mapped out for 20 generations and culminates in three brothers John, Roger and Christopher.
(3) A descent from a Sir Roger JAQUES of Yorkshire.
(4) French Hugueot JAQUES who emigrated to England and then to the colonies. (French Protestants, followers of John Calvin, who founded a Presbyterian Church in France in 1559 and became one of the nation’s most industrious and prominent factions. The were the victors in the Wars of Religion (1562-1598) and by the Edict of Nantes (1598) received some religious and political freedom. Cardinal Richielieu captured their strongholds and by the time of the Peace of Alais (1629) they had lst their political power and were losing their religious freedom. In 1685 Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes. During the early and mid 1600s, countless Huguenots fled from France to Protetant areas of Europe and to America.) Family tradition has it that out JAQUES line were French Huguenots.
On 8 Oct 1648 when Henry was 29, he married Ann KNIGHT in Newbury, MA.
They had the following children:
864i.
Henry Jr. (1649-<1679)
ii.
Mary (1651-1653)
iii.
Mary (1653-)
iv.
Richard (1658-1683)
v.
Stephen (1661-)
vi.
Sarah (1663-)
vii.
Hannah (1665-)
viii.
Daniel (1667-)
ix.
Elizabeth (1669-)
x.
Ruth (1672-)
xi.
Abigail (1673-)
1729. Ann KNIGHT, daughter of 3458. Deacon Richard KNIGHT & 3459. Agnes (Ann) COFFLEY. Born ca 1631 in Hamphsire, ENG. Christened on 5 May 1631 in Ramsey, Hampshire, ENG. Ann died in Newbury, MA, 22 Feb 1704/1705; she was 73.
1732. Colonel Thomas BLOOMFIELD, son of 3464. John BLOOMFIELD & 3465. Elizabeth UNKNOWN. Born in 1617 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Thomas died in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, NJ, on 10 Jun 1684; he was 67.
Ca 1640 when Thomas was 23, he married Mary WITHERS in Newburyport, MA.
They had the following children:
i.
Mary (1642-1705)
ii.
Sarah (1643-1689)
866iii.
John (1646-1713)
iv.
Thomas (1648-1679)
v.
Nathaniel (1651-1689)
vi.
Ezekiel (1653-1703)
vii.
Rebecca
viii.
Ruth
ix.
Timothy
Child:
872i.
Laurence Janszen (ca1645-)