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HISTORY 
 
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 OLD 1'E]\[J^EJ\[1' CpIlIl^Cpl, 
 
 WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 OF ITS PASTORS. 
 
 WRITTEN BY 
 
 REV. FRANK R. SYMMES, 
 
 FIFTEENTH PASTOR. 
 
 FREEHOI^D, N. J.: 
 
 PRINTED By JAMES S. YARD &r SON. 
 
 1897. 
 
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AUTHOR'S NOTE. 
 
 The writing of this little book has been somewhat difiacult from the 
 fact that many of the records of the church were lost by fire in 1869. 
 The author makes no claim of presenting something altogether new in 
 the printing of this history. Much of what is herein said has been 
 published or printed before by different persons at different times, and 
 in different forms. These sketches have been collected, many facts, 
 not previously in print, added, and the whole arranged into a continu- 
 ous story of the old church. Whatever could be found, that was rele- 
 vant and authentic, has been freely used. Neither does the author 
 claim that this little book is without any mistakes, though accuracy 
 has been the constant aim, and much time and labor have been given 
 to the work. Nor is this history of Old Tennent exhaustive. It does 
 not record everything concerning the old church ; and j-et most all 
 facts of note and importance now known will be found within its 
 pages. More and new things are being brought to light continually. 
 But if the printing of this history should wait until everj-thing was 
 gathered together, it might be indefinitely postponed. 
 
 Thankful acknowledgments are heartily made to Rev. Allen H. 
 Brown for his assistance, to Rev. Henry Goodwin Smith for his very 
 kind loan of a number of half-tone plates, to The Freehold Transcript 
 for the use of a number of line-cuts, and to many other persons for facts, 
 suggestions, traditions, etc., as well as to all those who generously con- 
 tributed funds for the printing of the book. Without all these aids the 
 author could not have written and put this little history into book 
 form. The Appendix will be found interesting. It opens a field for 
 larger study of the church life. The proceeds that may arise from the 
 sale of this volume will be devoted to the temporal interests of the 
 Old Tennent cturch. 
 
 Frank R. Symmes. 
 
 Tennent, N. J. 
 
 April, 1897. 
 
LIST OF AUTHORITIES. 
 
 The following named books and papers with names of their authors 
 are the authorities for the statements in this history, and from which 
 various paragraphs have been quoted. To all these due acknowledg- 
 ments are made. And to these the reader is referred for further infor- 
 mation in regard to Old Tennent. 
 
 Records of the Old Tennent Church. 
 
 The Log College Archibald Alexander. 
 
 The Constitutional Historjf of the Presbyterian Church in the United 
 
 States of America Charles Hodge. 
 
 Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. 
 A History of the Presbyterian Church in America. . .Richard Webster. 
 Histor3' of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland. .Robert Wodrow. 
 
 History of the Presbj'terian Church in Trenton, N. J John Hall. 
 
 Annals of the American Pulpit William B. Sprague. 
 
 History of the Old Scots Church Henry Goodwin Smith. 
 
 Various Historical Sketches Allen H. Brown. 
 
 Historical Sketch of Monmouth Presbyterj' Joseph G. Symmes. 
 
 Minutes of the Presbytery of New Brunswick. 
 Minutes of the General Assembly. 
 Minutes of the Presbj-tery of Monmouth. 
 Contributions to the Early History of Perth Amboy. 
 
 [William A. Whitehead. 
 
 History of Monmouth County, N. J Franklin Ellis. 
 
 Court Records in Monmouth County, N. J. 
 
 Life and Times of Rev. Richard Baxter William Orme. 
 
 Brick Church Memorial (Marlboro, N. J.) Theodore W. Wells. 
 
 Memoirs of Rev. David Brainerd Jonathan Edwards. 
 
 The Life of John Brainerd Thomas Brainerd. 
 
 Publications of the New Jersey Historical Society. 
 
 Historical Sermons Archibald P. Cobb. 
 
 Manual of the Village Presbyterian Church, Freehold, N. J. 
 
 Presbyterian Church in Janiesburg, N. J Benjamin S. Everitt. 
 
 Presbyterian Church in Allentown, N. J George Swain. 
 
 Records of the Presbyterian Church in Manalapau. 
 Papers in the Librarj^ of Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 Collections in the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. 
 Records of the Descendants of John Foreman William P. Formau. 
 
History of the Old Tennent Church. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ORGANIZATION. 
 
 The Old Tennent Church is situated in a little hamlet 
 called by the same name, " Tennent," in Manalapan Town- 
 ship, Monmouth Co., New Jersej'. The place may be reached 
 by trains over the Pennsylvania R. R. scheduled in time-table 
 headed " ISTew York and Amboy Divisions : " — or by carriage 
 on the Freehold-Englishtown turnpike, crossing the Manala- 
 pan and Patton's Corner turnpike. 
 
 The present corporate name of the Tennent church is " The 
 First Presbyterian Church of the County of Monmouth." Its 
 history is that of a continuous organization, yet designated by 
 different names. Its earliest formation is called the "Old 
 Scots Church." Afterwards, for more than one hundred 
 years it was known as the " Freehold Church." Under this 
 name it acquired its reputation. But in memory of the saint- 
 ly John Tennent, and the long aud efficient services of his 
 brother William Tennent, Jr. as pastors, it has taken the 
 name of the " Tennent Church." By this name it has been 
 enrolled in the lists of the General Assembly since 1859. 
 This avoids confusing this church with the one organized in 
 Freehold village in 1838, and which now is called " The First 
 Church of Freehold." And finally, from the dignity of its 
 great age and its interesting historical associations it has been 
 colloquially styled " The Old Tennent Church." Thus, follow- 
 ing the successive stages of its history it might reasonably bo 
 called The Scots-Freehold-Tennent Church. 
 
6 HISTORY OF OLD TEXXENT. 
 
 The sanctuaries that have stood on the present site, have 
 locally been called the " Upper Meeting House," the " White 
 Hill Meeting- House," " WoodhuU's Church,'' and " The Old 
 
 of tke vicinity of 
 The Old Scots and. Tennetvt Cfitirclicj^ 
 Scale— 'LmtlGTio I inch. 
 
 ^Lonnvou.tK Courtly 
 X&w c7ei's€y. 
 
 Taken from the State topograpliical maps of George H, Cook and C. C. Vermeule. 
 
 By wliat can be ascertained from the most authentic facts 
 aneut the subject it strongly appears that some of the original 
 members of the Tennent church were of Covenanter extrac- 
 tion. It is not impossible to suppose that more than one that 
 
ORGANIZATION. . 7 
 
 ivorshiped in the Old Scots church had been a witness ot 
 such murderous work as that of the cruel Claverhouse and 
 his dragoons, and of the horrible tortures of the prisoners in 
 the damp and foul Dunottar Castle. 
 
 The Covenanters were chieiiy Scotch Presbyterians that 
 hated and opposed prelacy. They believed that Christ is the 
 head of the church, and the authority in all true religion, and 
 that no man could usurp these prerogatives. They would not 
 unite in worship that was led and governed by so-called 
 functionaries. Therefore they refused to conform to the zeal- 
 ous effort of King Charles the Ilnd to impose the rites and 
 modes of prelatic worship upon them. Disobedience to the 
 King's order by these non-conforming Presbyterians was 
 especially manifested in their attendance on " conventicles," 
 or gatherings for worship that were apart from the established 
 church, and often held in private houses or in retired glens. 
 This opposition to the King's will was the cause of a bitter 
 and bloody persecution of twenty-eight years, from 1660 to 
 to 1688. " The Highland "Watch, as it was called, was let 
 loose upon the country (Scotland): its inhabitants were 
 spoiled of their goods ; cast into prisons, banished, and sold 
 as slaves ; and multitudes of them shot in cold blood, and 
 otherwise butchered, sometimes with, and sometimes without, 
 form of law." (Orme). 
 
 Some have estimated that during these twenty-eight years 
 about eighteen thousand people were either banished or put 
 to death. 
 
 During the summer ot 1685, in the period of the " Killing 
 times " so called, about one hundred men and women were 
 imprisoned in Dunottar Castle, a strong fortress in eastern 
 Scotland, built on a great rock looking out over the North 
 Sea. It is now in ruins. Here these people were shut up in 
 a vault which " was ankle deep in mire, with but one window 
 overlooking the sea. They were without any conveniences 
 for sitting, leaning, or lying, and, indeed, so full was the place, 
 that little more than sitting room was afforded. Stifled for 
 want of air, stinted for both food and water * * * * 
 
8 HISTOHr OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 many died, and others became afflicted with diseases." 
 ("Whitehead). And when several attempted to escape, some 
 were retaken and subjected to excruciating torture by having 
 matches put between their fingers and kept burning for three 
 hours. The scars of these and other barbarous tortures were 
 carried by the persecuted ones through after life. This re- 
 minds one of the story of the " Black Hole " in India, seventy 
 years later. Toward the close of the summer these Dunottar 
 prisoners were marched down to Leith, most of them on foot, 
 " and their hands tied behind their back with small cords," 
 making a weary journey of sixty-six miles after their dreadful 
 incarceration. 
 
 Previous to this a certain George Scot, laird of Pitlochie, 
 having been fined and imprisoned a number of times for the 
 sake of his religion, determined to sail for the plantations in 
 East Jersey, to find there a refuge from the troublous times in 
 his native land. Permission was granted him hj the authori- 
 ties to pass from the kingdom " without any Let, Impedi- 
 ment, or Molestation." He chartered a vessel, " the Henry 
 and Francis, of l^ewcastle, a ship of 350 tons, and twenty 
 great guns, Kichard Hutton, master," or captain. Then he 
 publicly announced his purpose of sailing to the colonies, and 
 invited and solicited others who were of his mind, and like 
 him persecuted, to take passage along with him. Many 
 joined his company. Most of the Dunottar prisoners, then 
 lying ill the tolbooth at Leith, were sentenced to perpetual 
 banishment to America, because they tenaciously and con- 
 scientiously held to their religious principles. A considera- 
 ble portion of them was transferred as a gift to the laird of 
 Pitlochie ; that is, he was to carry them to America and 
 there dispose of them so as to receive their passage money. 
 But verily, in this way, he was acting as a quasi deliverer to 
 these poor persecuted and mutilated prisoners. 
 
 The vessel set sail from the port of Leith on September 5, 
 1685, having on board in all about two hundred persons, of 
 whom seventy-two are said to have been banished prisoners. 
 One historian relates how these prisoners suffered on ship- 
 
ORGANIZATION. 9 
 
 board by being disturbed in their worship under deck by the 
 captain causing great planlis of timber to be thrown down 
 among them. The voyage was sadly disastrous. A sickness 
 of virulent fever broke out, especially among the prisoners; 
 but also among the passengers and crew. About three score 
 people died, and their bodies were committed to the deep, 
 George Scot and his wife were among this number. John 
 Jolmstone, son-in-law to George Scot, took his place in direct- 
 ing the voyage, and in disposing of the so-called prisoners. 
 The captain proposed then to sail to Virginia or to Jamaica ; 
 but the winds set toward New Jersey, and there on its shores, 
 probably near Perth Amboy, the vessel finall3- arrived near 
 the middle of December, 1685, after a voyage of about one 
 hundred days. Many, if not all of the prisoners were, in 
 process of time, cited before the legal autliorities of the pro- 
 vince, and settlements made for their passage money ; after 
 which they went free. The names of some of those on this 
 ship were George Brown, John Frazer, John Foord, John 
 Foreman, John Henderson, Michael Marshall, Andrew 
 Paterson, "William Spreul, Patrick "Walker, and "William 
 "Wilson. 
 
 East Jersey about this time appears to have had a dearth 
 of gospel ministers, and yet the people manifested a desire for 
 the services of such. A certain Peter Watson wrote to a 
 friend in the old country under date August, 1684, " "\Ye 
 have great need of good and faithful ministers, and I wish tliat 
 there would come over some here ; they can live as well and 
 have as much as in Scotland, and more than many get. "We 
 have none within all the Province of East Jersey, except one 
 who is preacher in Newark ; there were one or two preachers 
 more in the Province, but they are dead, and now the people 
 meet together every Sabbath-day, and read, and pray, and 
 sing psalms in their meeting-houses." (Quot. in Hall). 
 
 A goodly number of those that came in the ship " Henry 
 and Francis " moved to New England, and some returned to 
 Scotland. Some evidently settled in Monmouth County, and 
 thus some of these passengers and prisoners most probably 
 
10 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 were among the ear]y members of the Old Scots church. 
 Though this cannot be positively stated, yet facts strongly 
 intimate it. The name of the church suggests that possibly 
 it was so called in memory of George Scot ; or more surely 
 from the fact that many if n»t most of its members were 
 Scotch people. And the name of the eminence ou which the 
 old sanctuary was built was earlj' called " Free Hill," which 
 is very suggestive. Also, a letter of Rev. William Tennent, 
 Jr., under date of October 11, 1744 reads, " This place (Free- 
 hold) lies southwest from JSTew York, and is distant from it 
 about fifty miles. It was the first in the East Jersey, on the 
 west side of the Raritan river, which was settled with a gos- 
 pel ministry. This was owing, under God, to the agency of 
 some Scotch jjeople that came to it; among whom there was 
 none so painful in this blessed undertaking as one Walter 
 Ker, who, in the year 1685, for his faithful and conscientious 
 adherence to God and his truth, as professed by the church 
 of Scotland, was there apprehended and sent to this country, 
 under a sentence of perpetual banishment." (In Alexander). 
 This very similarly corresponds to the story of the poor Dnnot- 
 tar prisoners. Walter Ker, as Whitehead says, " may have 
 been a passenger with Scot." 
 
 In 1855 in the Amboy bay might still have been seen the 
 remains of aH old ship named the " Caledonia," which had 
 been commanded by Robert I)rummond. Possibly because 
 of its old and unserviceable condition the vessel was deserted 
 presumably in 1715, and a storm breaking its moorings to the 
 Amboy wharf, it drifted away to its wreck. Some people 
 have preserved relics from this old vessel. It is supposed that 
 this ship brought emigrants from Scotland as early as 1685, 
 and it is a matter of history that it bore to ]S"ew Jersey many 
 Scotch families about 1715. Some of these most probably 
 joined with the early worshippers of the Old Scots church. 
 
 Also, it is not improbable that some of the settlers that 
 came over with Lord IsTeil Campbell (brother to the Earl of 
 Argyle) in 1685, or through his instrumentality afterwards, 
 had their names enrolled on the Old Scots register. Amono- 
 
ORGANIZATION". 11 
 
 these settlers are found the names of John Campbell, Robert 
 
 Campbell, John I3oycl, John Craige, Archibald , James 
 
 Craige, William Thompson, "William Dunlop, John Duncan, 
 and David Symson, (as given by Whitehead). 
 
 Later on, the early lists of officers, members and supporters 
 of Tennent church discover such family names as evidently 
 indicate the amalgamation of French Huguenot and Reformed 
 Dutch with the Scotch element, which latter at the first pre- 
 dominated. 
 
 The date of the organization of the Tennent church perhaps 
 will never be positively and exactly known. It is a generally 
 accepted opinion that the church was formed in 1692. From 
 a manuscript letter by Rev. John Woodhull, dated April 2-3, 
 1792, we learn that " The church was formed about an hun- 
 dred years ago, chiefly by persons from Scotland." (in Hodge). 
 This might mean a short time previous, or a short time subse- 
 quent to 1692. It may be that in its earlier days there was no 
 formal organization by the Presbyter^', and that it was only 
 nominally recognized as such. Rev. Isaac V. Brown, in a 
 foot-note in his sermon at the funeral of Dr. Woodhull, found 
 authority for saying concerning Old Tennent, " This congre- 
 gation was regularly organized June 3, 1730," which was 
 about the time of the coming of John Tennent as pastor. Yet 
 long before this it was considered as a very church, since it 
 was the first church in New Jersey to belong to the Philadel- 
 phia Presbyter}'. 
 
 The charter of incorporation of Old Tennent, which is still 
 extant, bears date many years after the building of the Scots 
 church, in the twenty-third year of the reign of King George 
 the Second, on the twenty-first day of February, 1749. It is 
 on record in the office of the Secretary of State (New Jersey) 
 at Trenton, in Book C 2 of Commissions, p. 190-195. It was 
 signed by " the trusty and well beloved " Jonathan Belcher, 
 " Captain General and Governor in Chief" over the province 
 of New Jersey, and through whose influence it was obtained. 
 It was granted under the name of " The Trustees of the Pres- 
 
12 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 byterian Church of Monmouth County." There were to be 
 nine trustees, and the names of the first board are therein 
 given, as follows : — " John Little, Jr., Christopher Longstreet, 
 Jonathan Forman, Esq., John Anderson, Esq., James Kobin- 
 sou, John Henderson, Stephen Pangburn, Esq., Robert Imla}', 
 and Tobias Polhemus." This charter is curious and interest- 
 ing. It stood for the several ditierent Presbyterian churches 
 in Monmouth County, as described therein. For the perpet- 
 uation of the board the minister, with the elders and deacons 
 of the several Presbyterian churches were to meet at certain 
 times and places previously agreed on, for the election of new 
 trustees. These several churches were Freehold, Shrewsbury, 
 and Allentown. (See Appendix). 
 
 Some sort of a legal allowance possibly was made for the 
 building of the iirst church on "White Hill, for it is said that 
 a permit was granted in 1727 by King George the First for 
 the erection of that house. (H. G-. Smith). But the opening 
 of the above mentioned charter is so worded that it seems to 
 imply that there was no regular and specific charter previous 
 to it. After the colonies became independent, the church 
 was incorporated under the government of the state. 
 
 Of the first board of trustees under Governor Belcher's 
 charter John Henderson, scribe and elder of the congregation, 
 was president. Very soon after the granting of the charter. 
 
 Seal of the Moumouth church, full size. 
 
ORGANIZATION. 13 
 
 if not at the very first, the board was provided with a cor- 
 porate seal, an illustration of which is given herewith. 
 
 This seal was used by the board in the signing and sealing 
 of important documents made by them. The fact of the one- 
 time existence of such a seal, and of its form and device, was 
 happily brought to light in 1896. The impression of this seal 
 was discovered through the combined eiforts of James Steen, 
 Esq. and Rev. Allen H. BroM-n. It was found on a deed 
 given by the trustees of Old Freehold to Elihu Williams, 
 May 5, 1760, and in the possession of Arthur W. Little, of 
 Philadelphia, who kindly loaned it for inspection. This deed 
 with the impression of the seal was submitted to the Rev. Dr. 
 Henry C. McCook, a connoisseur in seals and emblems, who 
 deciphered the device in the dim impression, and wrote a 
 very interesting paper in regard to it, which was published in 
 " The Presbyterian " of May 27, 1896. Dr. McCook thought 
 that the rough figure of a bush or 'tree on the center of the 
 seal was probably an attempt to reproduce the " Burning 
 
 Seal of the Scotch Kirk. 
 
 Bush," the symbol on the seal of the Scotch Church, from 
 which the Covenanters of Old Scots had come ; or that possi- 
 bly it was meant to represent a " tree of liberty," which he 
 said " has been the Avell-known symbol of popular freedom 
 from early ages." Also Dr. McCook called attention to the 
 similarity of the phrase " Religious Liberty " on the seal, 
 with the words " Free Hill " and " Freehold," as sug- 
 gesting " a clue to the spirit which prompted these lib- 
 erated exiles to perpetuate their gratitude and their senti- 
 
14 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 ments in the motto upon their corporate seal." This seal 
 he said is " the oldest known corporate seal of any Amer- 
 ican Presbyterian church." It stood for the Presbyterian 
 Chiirch of Monmouth County (New Jersey), which would 
 embrace the Freehold, Shrewsbury, and Allentown churches, 
 and possibly Cranbury. It was made and used in accordance 
 with the instructions in the charter that the trustees " shall 
 and may forever hereafter have and use a common seal with 
 such device or devices as they shall think proper." (See 
 " Royal Charter " in Appendix, the studj' of which will be 
 found interesting as to the duties, powers, methods, &c., of 
 the first regular trustees of Old Tennent). 
 
 Of course, after the separate corporation was secured, the 
 use of this Monmouth seal ceased. It is possible that the 
 trustees then adopted a new seal. And yet if they did, it 
 must have been lost or its use discontinued, for as late as May 
 2, 1859, the trustees resolved " to procure a seal for the cor- 
 poration and that the device be a key." If this resolution was 
 carried out, then this seal also could not long have been used, 
 since now for some years the trustees have not been accus- 
 tomed to place any inscribed stamp on their documents. 
 
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 Near the centre of Marlboro township in Monmouth Coun- 
 ty is situated the old cemetery of the Scots' church, a lonely, 
 retired, and sacred God's acre on a little eminence called 
 " Eree Hill." It is about one hundred and ninety feet above 
 mean sea level, and streams flow away from its vicinity in 
 every direction. Here the first sanctuary in Tennent church 
 history was built. The current tradition is that it was built 
 of logs ; it may have been of logs smoothed on the outer and 
 inner sides. Possibly it had a frame with an inclosure of 
 heavy boards without paint. It must have been of primitive 
 fashion as the facilities for house-building were necessai'ily 
 limited in those early days, and especially in that portion of 
 the province, since Webster remarks concerning a district 
 near to Free Hill that " The country around Upper Freehold 
 (Allentown) was at that time a wilderness full of savages." 
 And this is obviously true, for descendants of native Indians 
 remained within the bounds of Old Tennent for one hundred 
 years afterward. By a certain depression in the ground some 
 observers (H. G. Smith) think they can see, and reasonably, 
 the precise spot on which the church was built in that old 
 yard ; and that it indicates an edifice about twenty feet square. 
 Dr. Alexander about 1838 said that the remains of the old 
 building might yet be seen. But now it is difficult if not 
 impossible to find any " memory, tradition, or trace " of what 
 it once was. Its erection was of early date. In the court 
 records of Monmouth County for the next day after the fourth 
 Tuesday in December, 1705, we may read as follows : " At 
 ye Request of Mr. John Craig Walter Ker, William Ronnol 
 Patrick Imly in behalf of themselves & their breatheren 
 ye protestant decenters of freehold Called Presbeterians that 
 
16 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 there publick Meeting house may be Recorded Ordered by 
 this Cort yt It be Recorded as followeth. 
 
 The Meeting House for Relidgous Worship belonging to 
 the Protistant discenters Called ye Presbeterions of ye town 
 of Freehold In ye County of Monmouth in ye Province of 
 New Jarsey is Scituate built lying & being at & upon a pece 
 of Rising grownd or little hill Commonly known & Called by 
 the iiane of free hill In sd town." (Observe accompanying 
 ilkistration). 
 
 The church records road that on August 3, 1730, in a meet- 
 ing of the congroo;ation at William Ker's it was agreed " that 
 the Old or Lower Meeting House be Repaired With all the 
 Haste that can be." This suggests, if it does not prove, that 
 the house had been standing many years, and possibly some 
 time before the record in the County court was made. 
 
 Within this old house the first Presbytery formed in Amer- 
 ica, which was the Philadelphia Presbytery, convened, and 
 there ordained the first known pastor of this church, the Rev. 
 John Boyd, " before a numerous assembly " on the Lord's 
 day Dec. 29, 1706. And this was the first meeting of that 
 Presbytery of which there is anj' record now extant. There 
 must have been a meeting before this, but where and when it 
 is not known, as the first leaf of the records of this Presb}'- 
 tery is lost, and doubtless irrevocably, to the extreme and 
 aggravating sorrow of the Presbyterian Church in this country. 
 
 There is a deed still carefully treasured by the church, un- 
 der date June 1, 1727, given by Alexander Neiper to John 
 Johnston, Senr., Esqr., Peter Watson, Walter Ker, Senr., 
 Patrick Imlay, Senr., Archibald Creige and Richard Watson 
 for a lot of ground five chains square, or two and one-half 
 acres. (See Appendix). In 1815, on the 12th of October, J. 
 H. ISTewell, D. Sur., resurveyed this ground, and made a map, 
 showing the original lines. Within this are the lines of the: 
 cemetery which then enclosed only ninety-four hundredths of 
 an acre. The land was sold by Alexander Neiper " for and 
 in consideration of a competent Sum of money" as is stated 
 in the deed ; and besides this, it reads that these six named 
 
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■EDIFICES. 17 
 
 men were to pay a sort of rent " Yeilding <S^ Paying thei'efore 
 Yearly & every Year for ye Said Tract of Land tinto him 
 ye Sd Alexander Nepier, his Heirs & Assigns, a corn of Peper 
 or the value thereof at or upon every 25th Bay of March for 
 ever hereafter in Lieu & instead of all other Services & Pe- 
 mands." Perhaps this means that the land- A^^as viftually 
 given to the church. This land had been granted; to Alex- 
 ander l^eiper February 6, 1697, by deed of sale " from John 
 Keid Esqr Deceased of Hortensie." John Reid was a map- 
 drawer of the province, and subsequently became its Surveyor- 
 general. According to Whitehead " Hortensia " was a tract 
 of 200 acres of land given to him for his services in drawing 
 maps. It was situated in Monmouth County on the east 
 branch of Hope River. Capt. John Anderson, of Monmouth, 
 married his daughter Anna. John Reid died Nov. 16, 1723, 
 and was buried in the Old Topanemus ground. 
 
 To this deed from Alexander iN'eiper an agreement is added 
 and signed by four men, thus : "Before the signeing & sealing 
 of this Deed the within Mentioned persons Doth all promise 
 that them theire heirs and Every of them shall use the said 
 Land for a buring Yard and to Keep a prisbteran Meeting 
 and for No Other Use the sade Alexander Nipper, his heires 
 Exetor shall Not be troubled with No taveran Nor No Resi- 
 deutar on the said tract of Land Given Under our hands this 
 twenty seventh Day of March In the Year of oure Lord one 
 thousand seven hundred and twenty Eight." The agreement 
 is indorsed by Walter Ker, Archibald Creige, Richard Wat- 
 son and Charles Gordon. This does not signify that there 
 was no burial ground there before 1727. Rev. John Boyd 
 was buried there in 1708. The subjoined agreement together 
 with the phraseology of the deed would seem to imply that 
 there were no trustees of the church in those days, who were 
 leo-ally authorized to receive, hold, and convey church prop- 
 erty, and therefore no regular charter. This adds force to the 
 supposition that the church had no specific charter until that 
 given under Governor Belcher. 
 
 This plot of two and a half acres of ground at Old Scots 
 
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18 HISTORY OF OLD TENISTEXT. 
 
 was held in peaceable possession by the congregation for many 
 years. But Oct. 1, 1816, the trustees of Old Tennent church 
 (Thomas Henderson, M. D., being President of the Board) 
 sold to Garret I. Covenhoven one acre and a half of this 
 ground for the sum of $90, " money of the United States." 
 The deed stipulated that the whole plot of ground was sold to 
 Mr. Covenhoven " excepting and reserving out of the same 
 one acre which has been occupied and used for a burying 
 ground b}' the presbyterian Congregation aforesaid for seven- 
 ty or eighty j-ears past, and is to be and remain for that use 
 and purpose forever hereafter." The trustees of Old Tennent 
 church claimed the right of selling this ground, as they stated 
 in the deed, " by virtue of a deed of sale from under the hand 
 and seal of Alexander K^eiper bearing date the first day of 
 June in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred 
 and twenty-seven which deed has been duly proved and 
 recorded," and also " by virtue of possession the said Congre- 
 gation not having had any Legal claim Set up against the said 
 lot or any part thereof since the date of the aforesaid deed and 
 having enjoyed the peacible quiet and undisturbed possession 
 thereof for about ninety years." This deed is recorded in the 
 County Clerk's office at Freehold, K J., in Book Z, page 288. 
 The statements made in the deed for this ground by the Old 
 Tennent trustees are one of the evidences that Old Tennent 
 church is one continuous organization- with Old Scots. From 
 1816, it appears, the Old Scots burying ground has remained 
 the same in area as it is at this present day, namely about 
 one acre. 
 
 In this Old Scots cemetery are a number of memorial tab- 
 lets of brown sandstone, the forms and inscriptions of which 
 are antique. In these inscriptions is revealed the fact that 
 old Scotland furnished some of the early settlers of this region. 
 Among the oldest of these were "William Bedford and his wife 
 Margaret, who came over in 1682. The tombstone reads that 
 William Bedford died in 1725-6 aged 84 years. 
 
 Possibly this man had seen the blood of martyrs, and him- 
 self had fled the sorrows of persecution, and beco.ne one of the 
 
EDIFICES. 19 
 
 first worshipers iii this early church. It will be noticed that 
 his birth was a,lmost contemporaneous with the sitting of the 
 Westminster Assembly. 
 
 There also is the grave of Archibald Craig, who died 73 
 years of age; and of Jonathan Forman, who died 74 years 
 of age. Both these men were prominent in the church, as 
 will be seen. 
 
 Although not buried in this Old Scots ground mention 
 must be made of Walter Ker, who was the father of Old Ten- 
 nent Church, and whose grave-stone may be seen on a wooded 
 and hilly point of ground about one-half mile east of the pres- 
 ent Tennent church. It bears this inscription, 
 
 " Here lies wliat's Mortal of Walter Ker 
 Deceased June lotli 1748 in y^ 92 year of his age 
 who long with Patience Bore lifes heavy load 
 willing to spend & to be spent for God 
 the noble Portrait in a line to paint 
 he Breath'd a Father liv'd & Dy'd a saint 
 Here sleeps in peace the aged sire's Dust 
 Till the glad Trump arouse the sleeping Just." 
 
 In this lonely retired spot by the side of his grave is also 
 that of Margaret his wife, and also the grave of Margaret the 
 wife of Joseph Ker. Reference has already been made to 
 Walter Ker in connection with the origin of the church. His 
 autograph here given is taken from the deed of 1727, when 
 
 Jjy c}J<:Oj-^ Pj^v^ 
 
 he was in the seventy-first year of his age. His grave 
 is older than the present Tennent church building. In 
 1685 he came from Scotland when about twenty-nine years of 
 age, and " under a sentence of perpetual banishment." He 
 was one of the original promoters of the Old Tennent church, 
 and one of its earliest elders, serving it with long faithfulness 
 and self-sacrifice. He is said to have " left his harvest field 
 and went to Neshaminy to persuade (John) Tennent to go 
 
20 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 home with him " to preach in the church. (Webster). 
 Though he met with a. refusal at first, he ultimately suc- 
 ceeded. Tradition tells that " On his return, he found that 
 his neighbors had cut his grain and stacked it. A very gen- 
 eral loss of the crop followed through some accident after 
 housing it. Kerr's escaped, and furnished seed to those who 
 had so kindly reaped his field." (Webster). He was evi- 
 dently a man of decided opinions and force of character. His 
 descendants may be found in ditferent parts of the country.' 
 Two of his grandsons were ministers, the Rev. ISTathau Ker, 
 of Goshen, JST. Y., and the Rev. Jacob Ker, of Somerset Co., 
 Maryland. The Rev. Frank Melville Kerr, now (1897) in 
 Hempstead, Long Island, is one of his descendants. He passed 
 the years of his early life amid the sad scenes of persecution 
 in his native land ; but the mercy of God gave him to be a 
 man serviceable in promoting the Christian religion in this 
 Old Tennent region, and to be a witness in his declining 
 years of the glorious scenes of " The Great Awakening " 
 in America. 
 
 With him, John Hutton, Charles Gordon, Robert Cum- 
 ming, David Rhe, John Henderson, Capt. John Anderson, 
 and Joseph Ker were among the elders in the early daj's of 
 the church. 
 
 The congregation chose John Henderson to be their clerk, 
 June 9, 1730 ; and it is his smooth and beautiful chirography 
 that is seen on the pages of the earliest records the church 
 now possesses. He was also president of the board of trus- 
 tees. He had a large family of children, and was the father 
 of Thomas Henderson, the physician, who afterwards became 
 a, very prominent officer and supporter of Old Tennent church. 
 John Plenderson's gravestone may be seen in the Old Scots 
 cemetery, showing that he died Jan. 1, 1771, in the 74th year 
 of his age. His Baptismal Record of the church, as shown in 
 the Appendix, is an exceedingly interesting study. 
 
 On Monday, July 20, 1730, the elders and representatives 
 of the church " Met at the House of Charles Gordon and 
 
EDIFICES. 21 
 
 Agraadto. build a Meeting House between William Ker's 
 Barrs & Rocky Hill Bridge." On the following August 3d 
 the congregation met at William Ker's and it was agreed, 
 among other things, " that all Diligence be Used to get Sub- 
 scriptions for the Building the Meeting House." This had 
 reference to the first sanctuary on White Hill. About four 
 weeks later " Saturday August the 29th, 1730 the Elders & 
 Representatives Met at the House of David Rhe & Chose for 
 Undertakers or Managers in Building the Meeting House at 
 Wni Kers Jonathan Forman, Timothy Lloyd, Archibald 
 Craig, David Rhe, William Ker and John Henderson who is 
 to go on in Building with all the Speed possible after this 
 Sowing-time is Over and the Congregation is to give each 
 Man their Bill or Bond to the Said Managers to enable them 
 to go on with the Work. The Meeting House to be made 
 Forty feet Long and Thirty feet Wide. And Each of the 
 Builders to have One Seat in it above their Common Due." 
 These men must have pushed forward the work with all speed, 
 for the first service was held in this new house by the next 
 springtime, April 18, 1731. On the same day Margaret Ker, 
 daughter of William, was baptized ; " the first Baptized in the 
 'New Meeting House " as the baptismal records show. " A 
 tradition has been handed down that it was planned by the 
 ' tindertalcers 'to locate the church upon a site lower than the 
 present situation, and that old Janet Rhea, one of the Scotch 
 Covenanters, seized the small corner-stone in lier apron, and 
 toiling to the top of the hill, set it upon the summit, saying to 
 the astonished builders, ' Wha ever heard o' ganging doon to 
 the Iloose o' the Lord, an no o' ganging oop to the Hoose o' 
 the Lord?'" (Rev. H. G. Smith). This strong minded 
 woman died Jan. 15, 1761, aged about 93 years, and was 
 buried in a private burial plot on the farm now occupied by 
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 of the province." This first .acre of ground on White Hill 
 stretched north and south, twice as long as it was wide ; and 
 the church was placed near to the northern end of the plot. 
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 overshadowed the church, were standing on White Hill when 
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 or more. The records show that on " April 13, 1734, The 
 Meeting House on White Hill being Inclosed The Men of the 
 Congregation Met and Voted That Aaron Mattison, David 
 Ehe, William Ker & John Henderson who had hitherto Car- 
 ried on the Work of the House Should proceed in getting a 
 pulpit & Pews Made and Appoint where each Person Should 
 Sit and what the Price of Each Pew Sliould be. According to 
 the following figure." (See plan). In 1730, in considering 
 the building of this house " It was Agreed that the Service be 
 one Sabbath at the Upper Meeting House & the other at the 
 Lower Meeting House and So to Continue Successively." In 
 this building John and William Tennent preached as pastors; 
 and doubtless also at times David Brainerd, as intimated by 
 his diary. 
 
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 little more than fifty years, the congregation undertook the 
 work of another building. The prosperity' and enlargement 
 of the congregation was such during the twenty years previ- 
 ous that it justified them in undertaking the erection of a 
 more commodious room. It is likely also that stated preach- 
 ing services in the Old Scots church had been discontinued by 
 this time, and therefore the whole congregation were expected 
 to assemble together regularly at White Hill, thereby fre- 
 quently crowding the house. On May 29, 1750, all the trus- 
 tees except Tobias Polhemus being present at the White Hill 
 church, it was determined to build a new edifice that would 
 be 60 feet long and 40 feet wide, thus enlarging the audience 
 room to twice the size of the former one. August 10, 1^50, 
 
24 HISTORY OF OLD TEISrJSTENT. 
 
 the committee metal 'l''^^' Robinson's and appointed John 
 Davies chief carpenter to begin the work on the following 
 February or March, and continue it until finished. (Rev. A. 
 P. Cobb). This third house was erected near to the spot on 
 which the former house stood on White Hill ; and this third 
 house still stands to this present day (1897), in all general 
 respects as it was when the last nails were driven. It is prob- 
 able that some of the timbers of the former house were used 
 in the building of this one. For the most part a new frame 
 was made, hewn out of the enduring white oak. The sides 
 of the building we-re sheathed with long cedar shingles, and 
 fastened with nails wrought out on an anvil. Its interior wtis 
 finished with beaded and panelled white pine. An ancestral 
 tradition tells that "William Redford Craig, a carpenter, built 
 the neat and unique pulpit, as his contribution toward the 
 erection and furnishing of the church. It is placed on the 
 north side of the church, built against the Avall, with narrow 
 stairs leading up to it, clossd in with a door, and the Bible 
 desk being nine feet above the audience floor. Below this a 
 second pulpit was built, where the precentors stood ; and 
 around and in front, a square of seats, commonly called " the 
 Elders Square." The tower or steeple of the church was 
 stoutly built, set on a trestlework of enormous strength in the 
 rafters, capable of supporting, in its ringing motion, a bell ot 
 500 pounds weight. Although in 1856 the trustees made 
 some movement toward the securing of a bell, yet the antique 
 steeple still stands empty and quiet. Benjamin VanCleve, 
 whose initials are stamped in the iron bars of the east and 
 west door-latches, is reported to have^ made the iron furnish- 
 ings of the church, such as nails, door-hinges, latches, and 
 possibly the weather-vane on the steeple, a study in itself. 
 (See Illustration). These were evidently all forged out on his 
 anvil. The capacious galleries, the closed and lofty pulpit, 
 and the straight high-backed pews with entrance doors, are 
 studious samples of the ecclesiastic architecture in colonial 
 times. The work begun in 1750 does not appear to have been 
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26 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 side doors were put on. It ia an amusing little reminiscence 
 of the past, for which Kev. D. V. McLean is authority, that 
 William Tennent and Eev. Dr. John Woodhull were accus- 
 tomed to hang their overcoats, liats, and wigs on the three 
 little wooden pegs fastened in the wall above the pulpit-seat. 
 
 An intensely interesting document is the original subscrip- 
 tion paper, still preserved, that was used to gather funds for 
 the erection of this building. So fast and binding were its 
 stipulations that a man's signature thereunto was substantially 
 in honor equal to his lading a mortgage on his property to 
 the amount subscribed, until payment was made. (See Ap- 
 pendix). This subscription paper contains the names of one 
 hundred and ninety-two persons, and the total amount sub- 
 scribed by these is seen to be about £500. 
 
 The two diagrams of pews and seatings, as shown in this 
 chapter, will be found interesting as affording information of 
 the names of families in the congregation during these early 
 times, as well as suggesting other facts concerning them. In 
 1754 there were five pews in the gallery that were owned as 
 follows, the numbers beginning at the northeast corner : K'o. 
 7 Dr. Peter Lacount, £8. Ko. 11 Thilip Conine, Esq. £5.. 
 10s., and John Siliman, £1.. 10s., making £7. ISTo. 12 James 
 Mulligan and David Brooks, £7. No. 13 Hugh McFarren, £7. 
 Ko. 14 Robert McChcsncy and son, £8. Peter Forman, an 
 officer in tlie Old Tennent church, in "his report May 29, 
 1756, shows that the payment for the pews if not paid was to 
 be on interest after May 1st, 1753." (Foreman Records). 
 
JOHN BOYD. 27 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 REV. .JOHN BOYD. 
 
 1706—1708. 
 
 The Eev. A. P. Cobb stated in a historical sermon that the 
 Rev. Mr. Keith while a missionary at Topanemus preached in 
 the Old Scots church, and that also probably John Gray 
 preached there in 1708. But evidently as far as can now be 
 defiuitety known, the Rev. John Boyd was the first regular 
 preacher in the church. Possibly, before him, there was no 
 stated preaching by one man, the church only being served 
 when occasional supplies could be obtained. The two men 
 mentioned by Mr. Cobb msiy have thus preached in Old Scots 
 either before or after the ministry of John Boyd. When such 
 supplies could not be obtained it is only justice to the old 
 Covenanters to suppose that they gathered on the Lord's day 
 at Old Scots meeting-house, read the sacred Scriptures, sang 
 psalms, catechized the youth, and were led in prayer by Wal- 
 ter Ker, the church pillar, or some other good man of the 
 company. 
 
 John Boyd came to the church in its very earl}' years. His 
 name, identitj'^, and grave must not be confounded with a cer- 
 tain John Boj'd who came from Ireland, and was a teacher 
 and afterwards a merchant in the Tennent community. This 
 man died in 1863, and his grave is in the Old Tennent bury- 
 ing-ground surmounted with a marble headstone. 
 
 It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to discover the history ot 
 Rev. John Boyd prior to his coming to the Old Scots church. 
 A person by the same name came to N'ew Jersey among the 
 Campbell settlers in 1685, but he could scarcely have been 
 this minister. Pastor Boyd likely came from Scotland ; and 
 possibly, as historian Webster says, he came over as a proba- 
 
28 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 tioner'witli Makemie, Hampton, and McNish in-1705,- and 
 " probably at the solicitation of his countrymen." He must 
 have had some sort of a license to preach, or was trusted as a 
 man fitted to preach, at least a year before his ordination : 
 for the early Monmouth court records read in Dec, 1705, 
 that " Mr. John Boyd Minnister of the sd Presbeterians of 
 freehold did also Parsonally Appear & did desire that he 
 might be Admitted to quallify himself as the law directs in 
 that behalf. Ordered that further Consideration thereof be 
 Eefered untill the next Court of Quarter Sessions." (See 
 illustration of early Court records). On May 29, 1706, he 
 did qualify himself " as ye Law in yt Case Directs." 
 
 The first page of the earliest records of the first Presbytery 
 in America opens with a minute concerning the examination 
 of John Boyd in view of ordination. These examinations 
 were satisfactory to the members of Presbytery, as also his 
 popular sermon which he preached on trial before Presbytery 
 from John 1 : 12 : "But as many as received him, to them 
 gave he power to become the sons of God." Accordingly he 
 was ordained in the Old Scots meeting house (where it is 
 probable the Presbytery- was convened) on Sunday, Dec. 29, 
 1706, a large audience being present. The next day, Monday, 
 he received liis certificate. ' Rev. Francis McKemie, called 
 the "Father of the American Presbyterian Church," was the^ 
 Moderator of this meeting of Presbytery. 
 
 The first page of these Presbyterian Records begins thus, 
 
 "BOOK. 
 
 •De Reginiine Ecclesia, which being heard was 
 approved of and sustained. He gave in also his Thesis 
 to be considered of against next sederunt. 
 
 Sederunt 2d. 10 bris. 27. 
 Post preces sederunt. Mr. Francis McKemie Modr. 
 Mr. fedidiah Andt'cws and fohn Hampton Minisr, 
 
 Mr. fohn Boyd performed the other parts 
 of his Tryals, viz. preached a popular sermon on 
 fno. I. 12. defended his Thesis, gave satisfaction 
 as to his Skill in ■the Languages & answered 
 
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 to extemporary questions : all which were ap- 
 proved of& sustained. 
 
 Appointed his ordination to be on ye 
 next Lds. day ye 2gth Ins. which was accordingly 
 performed in the publick Meeting hojise of this 
 Place, before a numerous Assembly. And the next 
 day he had ye Certificat of his Ordination." (See Illustration). 
 
 As these Presbjterial records proceed, references to Mr. 
 Boyd may be noticed in which he is appointed to matters and 
 positions of importance among the churches. Because of 
 some differences between the people of the Woodbridge 
 church and the minister Mr. Wade, the Presbytery appointed 
 Mr. Boyd to preach there every third Sabbath for a season, if 
 the Woodbridge people desired it, and if the Freehold people 
 consented to it. In the spring of 1708 the people of the Free- 
 hold church presented a letter to Presbytery concerning the 
 settlement of Mr. Boyd among them. Action thereon was 
 deferred for the time ; and before the next spring Mr. Boyd 
 had gone the way of all the earth. In the next meeting of 
 the Presbytery this short, sad, and expressive record is made : 
 " The Rev. Mr. John Boyd being dead, what relates to him 
 ceases." Thus it may be noticed that Rev. John Boyd was 
 not regularly settled as pastor of the Old Scots church, 
 although nominally he acted in that capacity. 
 
 He died August 30, 1708, and was buried in the Old Scots 
 sacred acre. A tombstone marks his grave. This at first was 
 laid horizontal with the ground on a packing of stone and 
 lime. In this position it rested for nearly 175 years, until, 
 about 1883, in a neglected and dilapidated state, and covered 
 with a luxuriant growth of lichens, it attracted the attention 
 of an observer (Gideon C. McDowell, living near by the cem- 
 etery), who respectfully thinking to preserve it, raised it to an 
 erect position, fastening one end of the slab in the ground. 
 The inscription is in Latin, the first line across the stone at 
 the top being, 
 
 "PIENTISSIMI DOMINJOANXmS." 
 
 Of this inscription the Rev. Dr. John Hall, in his History 
 
■30 
 
 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 ofthe Presbyterian Church in Trenton, K J., has made the 
 following translation : — 
 
 " The ashes of the very pious 
 
 Mr. JOHN BOYD, pastor 
 
 of this church of Calvin, are here 
 
 buried, whose labor, although expended 
 
 on a barren soil, was not lost. 
 
 They who knew him well, at the same 
 
 time prove his worth as rich in virtues. 
 
 Reader, follow his footsteps, and I hope 
 
 thou wilt hereafter be happy. 
 
 He died August 30, 1708, the 29th 
 
 j-ear of his age. ' ' 
 
 Old Tenueut Church as it appeared iu 1S54. 
 
REV. JOSEPH MORGAK 31 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 REV. JOSEPH MORGAN. 
 
 1709—1729. 
 
 The next pastor (the second) was the Rev. Joseph Morgan. 
 He was a 'Sew Englander, born in New London, Connecticut, 
 Nov. 6, 1674, and possibly with Welsh blood in his veins. It 
 is said that he graduated at Yale College, 1702, being in the 
 first class that completed its course in that institution. When 
 he was twenty-three years of age he was ordained to the Gos- 
 pel ministry'. He served churches in Bedford and East Ches- 
 ter, ]Sr. Y. In the close of the year 1708, or in 1709, he came 
 to Old Scots. The exact time of his settlement can scarcely 
 be determined. He was pastor of the Old Scots church, and 
 at the same time he was pastor, or " Dominie," of the Brick 
 church at Marlboro (now called The First Reformed Church 
 of Freehold). "When he appeared in Court to take the 
 necessary oaths as a minister of the Gospel, he was presented 
 by representatives of both congregations. These oaths were 
 required because he was not a minister of the church of Eng- 
 land. According to ' An Act of Parliament for Exempting 
 her Majesties Protestant subjects discenting from the Church 
 of England, from the penalties of certain laws,' every minis- 
 ter not in the communion of the English church was obliged 
 to take oath that he would not teach the doctrine of Transub- 
 stantiation, nor anything contrary to the doctrine of the Trini- 
 ty, as taught in the thirty-nine articles of the English church. 
 This was called 'qualifying,' and in, this manner Dominie 
 Morgan ' qualified ' himself, in December, 1709, having been 
 ' presented by several of said congregation, viz : Jacob Laen, 
 John Wikof, John Sutfin, William Hendrickson, John 
 Essmith, AVilliam Wilkins and Auri Mattison, in behalf of 
 themselves and the rest of their brethren.' The first three of 
 
32 HISTORY OF OLD TElsTNEITT. 
 
 these persons were in the communion of the Reformed cliurch, 
 the others represented the Scotch Presbyterians." (Rev. T. 
 W. Wells). Auri Mattison was probably Aaron Mattison, then 
 twenty-eight years of age. Mr. Morgan lived on the parson- 
 age farm at Marlboro. Speaking of his sons he said, " His 
 eldest son had been more of an impediment than a help to 
 him ; his second son was at Yale ; and the third and fourth 
 relieved him from the labour of the parsonage plantation." 
 (Webster). The Putch church and Scots church were not 
 greatly distant from each other, and Mr. Morgan was able to 
 preach both in the English and Low Dutch languages. 
 But the Brick church at that time was more flourishing than 
 the Old Scots, and so all parties were willing that the Dutch 
 church should employ three fourths of the services of Mr, 
 Morgan. Yet during the whole period of his pastorate he 
 was a member of the Philadelphia Presbytery. 
 
 " At this time Monmouth county was little- less than a for- 
 est. Here and there was a clearing, but the settlements were 
 widely scattered, the streams unbridged, and the roads not 
 much more than paths through the wilderness. Horseback 
 riding for many j'ears was a necessity. In the latter part of 
 his ministry Dominie Morgan, it is said, attracted attention 
 by riding through the country' in a two wheeled cart or gig — 
 probably the first thing of the kind brought into the county." 
 (Wells). 
 
 Perhaps Mr. Morgan might be styled somewhat eccentric ; 
 certainl}' he was possessed of intellectual ability, and was a 
 man of extended erudition for his times. In his later life 
 various charges were brought against him apparently without 
 foundation. But in 1736 Presbytery disciplined him for 
 intemperance, and suspended him from the ministry for a 
 time. lie was restored in 1738. (Webster). 
 
 He removed from the Scots, or Freehold, church about 1729. 
 Some twelve years' later he died, while ardently engaged in 
 missionary labors in destitute districts by theseacoasts of l^ew 
 Jersey; and was buried in a grave now probably unknown. 
 
EEV. JOSEPH MORGAN. 33 
 
 What little is known about the church and congregation 
 during these 3'ears apparently discloses a sad condition ; espe- 
 cially toward the close of Mr. Morgan's ministry. Divisions 
 seem to have arisen among the people ; and probably also an 
 opposition to Mr. Morgan, in which possibly was Walter Ker. 
 Rev. William Tennent, Jr., in a letter to Rev. Mr. Prince, of 
 Boston, says of the Freehold church: "In the year 1729, 
 their minister removed from them, and they were so grievous- 
 ly divided among themselves, that it appeared improbable 
 they would ever agree in the settlement of another. In this 
 miserable, helpless and almost hopeless condition they lay, 
 and few among them had either eyes to see, or hearts to be- 
 wail, their woful, wretched circumstances. Thus they seemed 
 to be cast out, as the prophet Ezekiel represents it in the 16th 
 chapter of his book, and 5th verse. But the Lord, who is 
 rich in mercy, of his unexpected and unmerited love, passed 
 by them lying in their blood, and said unto many of them 
 since that day, Live ; and live they shall to all eternity." But 
 refreshing times, and better days were coming, and the begin- 
 ning of a long period of prosperity and comparative peace. 
 
34 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 IIEV. JOHN TENNENT. 
 
 1730—1732. 
 
 The thii'cl pastoi' of old Freehold was Rev. John Tennent, 
 who was born in county Armagh, North Ireland, Nov. 12, 
 1707. He came to America in 1716 with his fatlier the Rev. 
 William Tennent, Sen., and was educated in his father's " Log 
 College" at Neshaminy, Bucks Co., Penna., about twenty 
 miles north of Philadelphia. Ilis conviction of sin was un- 
 usually deep and intense ; sonaetimes being almost in despair. 
 " For several days and nights together he was made to cry out 
 in the most dolorous and affecting manner, almost every mo- 
 rdent." His conversion was a remarkable experience. His 
 Christian life was distinguished for piety and consecrated zeal. 
 He was a modest, gentle, humble young man, yet proved to 
 be possessed of the traits of an attractive and powerfully 
 etfective preacher. 
 
 Walter Ker, the old painstaking elder of the Freehold 
 church, was instrumental, under God, of inducing him to 
 make a preaching visit to this church, which resulted in the 
 congregation giving him a unanimous call, April 15, 1730. 
 The following autumn, Nov. 19, 1730, he was ordained, and 
 earnestly entered upon his work. The following is John 
 Henderson's account of this settlement : " Thursday, Novem- 
 ber 19th, 1730 Then the Presbytery or a Committee of the 
 Same Met at the Scots Meeting house and after fasting and 
 prayer and Strict Examination and full Approbation Did Or- 
 dain the Rev.d Mr. John Tennent * * Ministerial Charge in 
 
 this Congregation : The Ministers N * that * * * * 
 
 William Tennent, Jonathan Dickinson, Joseph Morgan, and 
 Gilbert Tennent. The Names of the Committee for the 
 Congregation was Walter Ker & John Hutton Elders, Jona- 
 
KEV. JOim TENi^ENT. 35 
 
 than Formal! Esq Riehai-d Clark, David Ehe, Richard Wat- 
 son, William Ker, Eobt Camming, John Henderson, Robert 
 Newall, Waltar Wilson, G-eorge Walker, Timothy Lloyd & 
 Charles Gordon." 
 
 As has been said, the congregation was iu a deplorable con- 
 dition when John Teunent was requested to preach in the 
 church. William Tennent, in his letter above mentioned, 
 says that his brother shrunk from going to preach in Freehold, 
 for he wrote that John " often told nie, that he was heartily- 
 sorry he had engaged to go among them (the Freehold con- 
 gregation), for it seemed to him that they were a people whom 
 God had given up for their abuse of the gospel. But the 
 Lord's thoughts are not our thoughts, nor his ways our ways, 
 for when he had preached four or five sabbaths in the place, 
 which was the whole time he tarried among them at first, the 
 Lord so blessed his labours, engaging people to attend to the 
 things which were spoken, and in stirring them up to search 
 the Scriptures whether these things were so or not, and with- 
 al enabling him to preach to them with such uncommon free- 
 dom and earnestness, that he told me he Avas fully persuaded 
 Christ Jesus had a large harvest to bring home there ; so that, 
 though they were a poor broken people, yet if they called him, 
 he would settle among them, albeit he should be put to beg 
 his bread by so doing." (Alexander). 
 
 John Tennent preached both in the Old Scots church and 
 in the new and first church on White Hill. The next month 
 after his ordination he baptized Jane Henderson, daughter of 
 the clerk, who made this entry in the church record of bap- 
 tisms, "The first Child ever the Revd Mr. John Tennent Bab- 
 tized." She died in her 19th year, and her tombstone may 
 still be seen in the Old Scots yard. John Teunent's ministry- 
 was remarkably fruitful. He came to Freehold as a ready 
 reaper to a ripe harvest. Crowds filled the sanctuary. All 
 classes listened to the preaching of the Holy Word with strick- 
 en consciences. Pastor and people were sometimes in tears 
 together; people sobbed under intense conviction, and at 
 times some were carried out as if dead. A great reforming 
 
36 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 work bei;an. Religion was the common topic witli all. These 
 reviving times in old Freehold under John Tennent formed a 
 portion of the early workings of " The Great Awakening" in 
 America in the eighteenth century. 
 
 But God soon took his young servant to himself; for, only 
 two years after the church had called him, this saintly young 
 man, on a Sabbath morning, April 23, 1732, peacefully en- 
 tered the everlasting rest, in tiie twenty-fifth year of his age. 
 The people, who had greatly respected and trusted him, 
 mourned deeply- over his early departure. This is expressed 
 in the following minute by John Henderson in the church 
 records : —"Lords Day April 28th 17.32 The ReverJ & Dear 
 Mr. John Tenuant Departed this Life between 8 & 9 of the 
 Clock in the Morning and was Buried on The Tuesday fol- 
 lowing A Mournful Providence & cause of great Humilia- 
 tion to this poor Congregation to be bereaved of the flour of 
 Youth The most Labourious Succesful well Quallified & 
 pious Pastor this Age aforded tho- but a Youth of 25 Years 5 
 Months & 11 Days of Age." For about six months before he 
 died he was physically unable to preach in the public services, 
 but " his love for his people and concern for their welfare " 
 rather increased than diminished. The results of his ministry 
 continued to be manifested in the conversion of souls very 
 conspicuously after his death ; and which his brother William 
 said were reaped by him especially during the early years of 
 his long pastorate in the church. 
 
 In whatever credit that may be attached to human agency 
 under God's blessing in making the life of Old Tennent 
 church grand and glorious, the name of John Tennent, in 
 some respects more than William Tennent, deserves a position 
 of distinguished honor. 
 
 He was buried in the Scots ground, hard by the old build- 
 ing ; and for his tombstone that lies horizontal with the 
 ground, the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson composed the epitaph, 
 ivhich still may plainly be seen. 
 
REV. JOIIISr TENNEXT. 37 
 
 ' ' Here lies what was mortal of 
 The Rev. Mr. John Tennent 
 Nat. Nov. 12, 1707 Obijt April 23 
 
 1732 
 Who quick grew old in learning Vertue Grace. 
 Quick finished well yielded to Death's Embrace. 
 Whose mouldered dust this Cabinet contains. 
 Whose soul triumphant with bright Seraphs reigns. 
 Waiting the time till Heaven's bright Concave flame 
 And ye last trump repairs this ruined frame. 
 Cur prsematuram mortemque queramuracerbam 
 Mors matura vinit cumbona Vita fuit." 
 
 The grave tablet is quadrangular in form, lies flat in the 
 ground, gray and brown with age, and sacred with the 
 memory of his godly life, a very inspiration to the thoughtful 
 observer. 
 
38 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 REV. WILLIAM TENNENT, JR. 
 
 1733—1777. 
 
 The fourth pastor of Old Freehold was the Rev. "William 
 Teiinent, Jr., famous in religious atid church history. lie 
 .was born June 3, 1705, in Armagh County, Ireland, and was 
 about thirteen years of age when he came with his father to 
 America. With his brothers he was a student in the Log 
 College at j^esharainy, Pennsylvania. He showed great in- 
 dustry in his studies, and became particularly proficient in 
 the Latin language. His mind and heart were early and 
 deeply impressed with divine things, and he determined to 
 devote his life to the ministry of the gospel. His biography 
 is of surpassing interest, a fascinating story of the unusual 
 and extraordinary' in spiritual life; the main features o'f which 
 are too well known to recount here in detail. 
 
 Hon. Elias Boudinot's narrative concerning William Ten- 
 nent, Jr., which was published by Robert Carter & Bros, in 
 neat booklet form, and also in Dr. Archibald Alexander's 
 " Log College " published by the Presbyterian Board of Pub- 
 lication, will charm and impress the reader in such a manner 
 that he will never forget it. Perhaps a short account of the 
 celebrated trance of Mr. Tennent ought to be here given. 
 The following is a brief letter written by Rev. John Wood- 
 luill to the author of the above named narrative : — 
 
 " ' Monmouth, Neav Jersey, December 10th, 1805. 
 Dear Sir : — Agreeably to your request, I now send you in 
 writing the remarkable accounts, which I sometime since gave 
 you verbally, respecting your good friend, my worthy prede- 
 cessor, the late Rev. William Tennent, of this place. In a 
 very free and feeling conversation on religion, and on the fu- 
 
REV. WILLIAM TENNENT, JR. 39 
 
 ture rest and blessedness of the people of God, (while travel- 
 ling together from Monmouth to Princeton,) I mentioned to 
 Mr. Tennent, that I should be highly gratified in hearing 
 from his own mouth, an account of the trance, which he was 
 said to have been in, unless the relation would be disagreeable 
 to himself. After a short silence, he proceeded, saying, that 
 he had been sick with a fever, that the fever increased, and he 
 by degrees sunk under it. After some time (as his friends 
 informed him) he died, or appeared to die, in the same man- 
 ner as persons usually do ; that in laying him out, one hap- 
 pened to draw his hand under the left arm, and perceived a 
 small tremor in the flesh ; that he was laid out, and was cold 
 and stiiF. The time for his funeral was appointed, and the 
 people collected ; but a young doctor, his particular friend, 
 pleaded with great earnestness that he might not then be 
 buried, as the tremor under the arm continued; that his 
 brother Gilbert became impatient with the young gentleman, 
 and said to him, ' What ! a man not dead, who is cold and stiff 
 as a stake V The importunate j'oung friend, however, pre- 
 vailed ; another day was appointed for the burial, and the 
 people separated. During this interval many means were 
 made use of to discover, if possible, some symptoms of life, 
 but none appeared exeept the tremor. The doctor never left 
 him for three nights and thrise days. The people again met 
 to bury him, but could not even then obtain the consent of 
 his friend, who pleaded for one hour more; and when that 
 was gone, he pleaded for half an hour, and then for a quarter 
 of an hour; when, just at the close of this period, on which 
 hung his last hope, Mr. Tennent opened his ej'es. They then 
 pried open his mouth, which was stiff, so as to get a quill into 
 it, through which some liquid was conveyed into the stomach, 
 and he by degrees recovered. 
 
 This account, as intimated before, Mr. Tennent said he 
 received from his friends. I said to him, ' Sir, you seem to be 
 one indeed raised from the dead, and may tell us what it is to 
 die, and what you were sensible of while in that state.' He 
 replied in the following words ; ' As to dying — I found ni}' 
 
40 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 fever increase, and I became weaker and weaker, until all at 
 once I found myself in heaven, as I thought. I saw no shape 
 as to the Deity, but glorij all unutterable !' Here he paused, as 
 though unable to find words to express his views, let his bri- 
 dle fall, and lifting up his hands, proceeded, ' I can say, as St. 
 Paul did, I heard and I saw things all unutterable ; I saw a 
 great multitude before this glory, apparently in the height of 
 bliss, singing most melodiously. I was transported with my 
 own situation, viewing all my troubles ended and my rest and 
 glory begun, and was about to join the great and happy mul- 
 titude, when one came to me, looked me full in the face, laid 
 his hand upon my shoulder and said, ' You must go back.' 
 These words went thronsyh me; nothinsr could have shocked 
 mc more; I cried out. Lord, must I go back? With this 
 shock I opened my eyes in this world. When I saw I was in 
 the world I fainted, then came to, and fainted for several 
 times, as one probably would naturally have done in so weak 
 a condition.' 
 
 Mr. Tennent further informed me that he had so entirely 
 lost the recollection of his past life, and the benefit of his for- 
 mer studies, that he could neither understand what was spok- 
 en to him, nor write, nor read his own name. That he had 
 to begin all anew, and did not recollect that he had ever read 
 before, until he had again learned his letters, and was able to 
 pronounce the monosyllables, such as thee and thou. But, that 
 as his strength returned, which was very slowlj-, his memory 
 also returned. Yet, notwithstanding the extreme feebleness 
 of his situation, his recollection of what he saw and heard 
 while in heaven, as he supposed, and the sense of divine 
 things, which he there ol)tained, continued all the time in 
 their full strength, so that he was continually in something 
 like an eestacy of mind. ' And,' said he, ' for three years the 
 sense of divine things continued so great, and everything else 
 appeared so completely vain, when compared to heaven, that 
 could I have had the world for stooping down for it, I believe 
 I should not have thought of doing it.' " (See " The Log 
 College," p. 116). 
 
REV. WILLIAM TENNBNT, Jr. 
 (From a picture iu the possession of the Presbyterian Historical Society.) 
 
42 HISTORY OF OLD TEITNEKT. 
 
 Mr. Tennent's confident faith and composure of mind under 
 the imminence of ignominious penalties by the court at Tren- 
 ton, ]sr. J., in a suit brought against him for perjury instigated 
 b^' malicious enemies of religion ; and his remarkable deliver- 
 ance through the intiuence of a dream on the minds of two 
 people at a distance, who opportunelj' arrived to testify in his 
 favor, is a signal case of God's interposition in behalf of his 
 believing people. 
 
 His high spiritual experience while walking in the woods 
 during the interval between the sanctuary services on a Sab- 
 bath day, when he was prostrated with a view of the infinite 
 wisdom and inefliible glory of God, and his profoundly im- 
 pressive preaching after he was led back to his pulpit through 
 the assistance of his elders, forms a record that savors of the 
 times of the apostles. 
 
 Singular and amusing anecdotes have been written concern- 
 ing Mr. Tennent; as that about the mysterious mutilation of 
 one of his feet by the loss of several toes while asleep in the 
 night; and as that about his running after the preaching car- 
 penter in order to converse with him and convince him of the 
 doctrine of the perseverance of the saints. 
 
 Mr. Tennent was tall in stature, being somewhat over six ^ 
 feet. His face was thin, his. nose long-and sharp, and his eyes 
 piercing bright. His countenance was of solemn mien, as 
 might be supposed in such a man, and yet withal it was 
 cheerful. Thus his whole external appearance was such as 
 would command respectful attention before an}' audience. A 
 man of considerable erudition, of pronounced piety and of in- 
 tense spirituality, lie exercised unusual intiuence. He was a 
 successful peacemaker in settling disputes that arose in the 
 surrounding congregations. As a preacher he was strong, 
 attractive, prolific, successful. Only a few specimens of his 
 sermonizing remain for our study in this day. His autograph 
 shown on next page was taken from a receipt of 1773. 
 
 After the death of John Tennent the Freehold congregation 
 turned their attention to William Tennent, who had been 
 preaching in their pulpit for about six months while his broth- 
 
REV. WILLIAM TENNENT, JE, 43 
 
 er John was slow]}' dying. John Ilenderson, the clerk, to 
 whom so much credit is due for full and accurate statements 
 concerning those earlj' days of Old Tennent, sadly writes of 
 
 es; 
 
 w-'y 
 
 jTlynJ-n>'^ 
 
 the young Tennent's death, and then goes on to record, 
 " after which we lived Destitute of a Pastor or any Constant 
 Supply imtiil September 28 Day 1732 when the Revfl Mr. 
 Wm. Tennent Junr after much Reluctance was prevailed 
 upon to Settle amongst us at least a time." In a further rec- 
 ord he writes " Saturday September 8th 1733 David Rhe & 
 Robert Gumming was Chosen our Commissioners to Present 
 a Call to the Revred Mr. Wm. Tennent Junr at the Synod of 
 Philadelphia which Call Mr. Tennent Accepted. Thursday 
 October 25th. 1738 A Committee of the Presbetry Met at 
 "White Hill Meeting House & after Examination & Approba- 
 tion Did with Fasting Prayer & Laying on ot Hands Ordain 
 the Revd Mr. Willm Tennent Junr to Pastoral Charge in this 
 Congregation The !N'ames of the Ministers of the Commit- 
 tee were the RevJ Mr. Joseph Morgan Moderator Mr. "Wil- 
 liam Tennent * * * * & Mr. Eleazar Wales. The Names 
 of the Committee ****** Charles Gordon & John 
 Hutton Elders." 
 
 Mr. Tennent continued the active and earnest pastor of old 
 Freehold until his triumphant death March 8, 1777, when he 
 had almost reached seventy-two years of life. He had been a 
 helper of the poor, a friend to the rich, a true and loyal pa- 
 triot, a peacemaker of unusual tact, and a trusted and revered 
 pastor. A great concourse of people from his own congrega- 
 tion and from the country around assembled at his funeral 
 service. His body Avas buried beneath the floor near the cen- 
 tre of the church on "White Hill where it rests unto this day. 
 It was buried here, it is said, for safety from possible molesta- 
 tion by English sympathizers. Forty-one years after this. 
 
44 HISTORY' OF OLD TENNEXT. 
 
 ill 1818, a memorial tablet three feet by six feet in size, made 
 of white marble and with a suitable inscription thereon, was 
 placed in the wall of the church on the west side of the pulpit. 
 The funds for the erection of this tablet were contributed by 
 friends, subscriptions being solicited by a young woman with 
 others to assist her. In 1890 this tablet was removed to the 
 wall on the east side of the pulpit and its engraved letters re- 
 gilded. This was in order to erect a recess where it had been 
 placed, and in which a pipe organ now stands. (See illustra- 
 tion). 
 
 With the settlement of William Tennent the church en- 
 tered upon a long period of flourishing growth. The number 
 of communicants in the church increased. The reviving times 
 of John Tennent's ministry continued after his death, and a 
 harvest from his labors was partially reaped by his brother 
 through a number of years, lint William Tennent's preach- 
 ing and energetic and thorough pastoral visitation and con- 
 versation promoted a deep spiritual influence throughout the 
 congregation. 
 
 William Ten nelit preached in both pulpits, the one at White 
 Hill and the one at the Old Scots church. The Old Scots 
 church was called the " Lower Meeting House," and the 
 church on White Hill was called the " Upper Meeting House." 
 About the time William Tennent became pastor the larger 
 ]:»ortion of the congregation lived around and south of the 
 church on White Hill, so much so that both churches seem to 
 have been situated on one side of the centre of the congrega- 
 tion. For some yenvs the people of the southern portion com- 
 plained of the "great hardship put upon them in Travailing so 
 far to the Lower Meeting House Seeing the Upper Meeting 
 House was below the Centre of the Congregation." Accord- 
 ingly committees were appointed in the early part of the year 
 1737-8 to consider the matter, which after consultation re- 
 ferred it to the session, and they iu turn " Refterred it to the 
 next Prcsbyterie for their Judgmt in the Afl:air which the 
 Session tho't was Weighty." But on Monday May 8, 1738, 
 after service (wherein Mr. Tennent had given notice of the 
 
KEY. WILLIAM TEXNENT, JR. 
 
 45 
 
 meeting of Presb\tery, and desired tlie congregation to agree 
 amicably or prepare the matter for a hearing) some of each 
 part}- stayed, and having debated the matter settled the ques- 
 tion by themselves, by resolving that the congregation should 
 all join in repairing " the Doors & Defective post of the Low- 
 er Meeting house," which was forthwith done.. They also 
 resolved at this same time that henceforth service should be 
 held for two Sabbaths at the White Hill meeting house and 
 one at the Old Scots church. How long this arrangement 
 continued is unknown ; nor can it be ascertained when ser- 
 vices were finally suspended in the Old Scots house. 
 
 During the pastorate of William Tennent some noted 
 divines are said to have occupied the pulpit of old Freehold. 
 It is very likely that David Braiuerd and his brother John 
 both preached in the first church on White Ilill, and possibly 
 John in the second or present church. Both these men were 
 intimate friends of Mr. Tennent, and their diaries show that 
 they were frequently at his home in connection with their 
 work among their Christian Indians, some of whom lived in 
 the neighborhood of Freehold and sometimes came to Mr. 
 Tennent's parsonage to converse with him. 
 
 The Old Communion Table. 
 
 The famous George Whitefield, England's great pulpit ora- 
 tor and evangelist, doubtless preached in the pulpit of the 
 present church. William Tennent thought well enough of 
 him to visit him, as he was passing through ISTew Jersey dur- 
 ing his last journey in America, and so he must have been 
 one of those ministers that opened his pulpit to this great 
 preacher. It is a well authenticated tradition that Whitefield 
 
46 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 once preached ia the present Old Tenuent pulpit from the 
 text Acts 26 : 18. 
 
 In the church may still be seen an old communion table, 
 that bears evidence of belonging to the first sanctuary built 
 on White Hill. Its workmanship does not correspond to that 
 of the inner finishing of the present church, especiallj' with 
 that of the pulpit and the square inclosure. There is a rugged 
 massiveness about it that suggests the work of an earlier date 
 than that of the fine panel-work of the present church. Also 
 by comparing the conformation of this table with the plans of 
 the seatings of the two buildings, it will be plainly seen to 
 apply more to the former one. It is a tradition that Brainerd 
 (evidently David) administered the Lord's Supper to his con- 
 verted Indians from this old table. David, in his diary Sat- 
 urday, June 7, 1746, writes: "Being desired by the Rev. 
 William Tennent to be his assistant in the administration of 
 the Lord's Supper, I this morning rode to Freehold to render 
 that assistance. My people also being invited to attend the 
 sacramental solemnity ; thej^ cheerfully embraced the opor- 
 tunity, and this day attended the preparatory services with 
 me." And the next day, among other things, he writes, " A 
 number of my dear people sat down by themselves at the last 
 table ; at which time God seemed to be in the midst of them." 
 The people of old Freehold seemed to have been kindly dis- 
 posed toward the missionary work among the Indians in New 
 Jersey. In a certain length of time they raised £12 . lis. for 
 this work. William Tennent was interested in the labors of 
 David and John Brainerd among the Indians near to Free- 
 hold, " and often took the care of the Indian church in their 
 absence." In a letter for the general public written August 
 16, 1746, to attest the work of divine grace among the Indi- 
 ans, he says : "As I live not far from the Indians, I have been 
 much conversant with them, both at their own place, and in 
 my own parish, where they generally convene for public wor- 
 ship in Mr. Brainerd's absence , and I think it my duty to 
 acknowledge, that their conversation, hath often, under God, 
 refreshed my soul." His elders and deacons also made an 
 
KEV. WILLIAM TENJfENT, JR. 47 
 
 attestation of the true work of grace among the Indians as 
 follows : 
 
 " We wliose names are underwritten, being elders and dea- 
 cons of the Presbyterian Church in Freehold, do hereby testi- 
 fy, that in our humble opinion, God, even our Saviour, has 
 brought a considerable number of the Indians in these parts 
 to a saving union with himself Of this we are persuaded 
 from a personal acquaintance with them ; whom we not only 
 hear speak of the great doctrines of the gospel with humility, 
 afl'ection, and understanding, but we see walk, as far as man 
 can judge, soberly, righteouslj-, and godly. We have joined 
 with them at the Lord's supper, and do from our hearts es- 
 teem them as our brethren in Jesus. For ' these who were 
 not God's people, may now be called the children of the living 
 God ; it is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes.' 
 Oh that he may go on ' conquering and to conquer,' until he 
 has subdued all things to himself ! This is, and shall be the 
 unfeigned desire and prayer of, 
 
 Walter Ker, \ William Ker, 
 
 Robert Cummins, ) _ Samuel Ker, 
 
 David Rhe, f g Samuel Craig, 
 
 John Henderson, / ;:2 / g 
 
 John Anderson, V'*^ \f^ 
 
 Joseph Ker, I 
 
 Presbyterian Chnrch, Freehold, Aug. 16, 1746." (Ed- 
 w-ards p. 364 & 366). 
 
 David Brainerd died Oct. 9, 1747, about four years before 
 the present Tennent church was built. 
 
 One of the sore trials and deep sorrows of Mr. Tennent's 
 life was the waywardness of heart and the early death of his 
 youngest son, Gilbert. This son grew up to manhood years, 
 was married, and began the practice of medicine. But he 
 was very worldly. His father importunately prayed for his 
 conversion. While engaged in his medical duties the son 
 contracted a mortal fever. In the midst of its ragings he was 
 overwhelmingly convicted of sin ; but finally he obtained 
 peace in the Saviour, and calling for his old companions in 
 
48 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 sin, he solemnly exhorted them to repent. After a few days 
 more of great suffering he died, twenty-eight years of age; 
 and there being no minister near hy, the father preached the 
 funeral sermon with impressive power. The grave of this 
 young man with its inscribed tombstone may be seen a few 
 yards distant from the front door of the church. It reads thus : 
 
 " Here lies the mortal Part of 
 
 GILBERT TENNENT. 
 
 In the practice of Phj'sick he was 
 
 Successful and beloved. 
 
 Young Gay and in the highest Bloom 
 
 of Life, Death found him Hopefully in the Lord. 
 
 But O Reader, had you heard his last 
 
 Testimony, you would have been convinced 
 
 of the extreme Madness of delaying Repentance. 
 
 Natus April 1742. Obiit March 6, 1770." 
 
 The spirit and the conduct of Mr. Tennent during this sad 
 affliction show him to have been a truly good and great man, 
 more perhaps than any other experience that is related of his 
 life. Mr. Tennent's salary, it is thought, was possibly less 
 than £100. But he lived on the parsonage farm ; and " the 
 glebe belonging to the church was an excellent plantation," 
 capable of yielding a comfortable support to his family. To 
 this place he brought his wife, whom he had wooed in an 
 abrubt and unceremonious manner, and had married after an 
 acquaintance of about one week. Her name was Mrs. Catha- 
 rine iN'oble, a widow ; and the date of their marriage was 
 August 23, 1738, about five years after Mr. Tennent's ordi- 
 nation. 
 
 THE OLD PARSONAGE. 
 
 Some few months after Mr. Tennent's settlement in the 
 congregation steps were taken to procure a permanent home 
 for the pastor. We find in the early records that " Thursday 
 February 13th, 1734 the Congregation Met at White Hill 
 Meeting House and Chose, Archibald Craig & Jonathan For- 
 man Esqrs. and David Rhe and Robert Gumming to Pur- 
 
THE OLD PARSOITAGE. 
 
 49 
 
 chass a Farm for Our Minister to Live on and to Have it 
 Secured for a Ministers place or a Parsonage to Continue for 
 the use of the Presbyterian Congregation forever." The 
 record proceeds as follows : " Second Tuesday in March 
 1734-5 at the Town Meeting the Above Messrs. Craig, For- 
 man, Ehe & Gumming Made Report that the^' in Name of the 
 
 The Old Teuneut Parsouage. 
 
 Congregation had purchassed the Plantation Lying Ijctween 
 Spotswoods Middle and South Brooks from William Cowen- 
 hoven Son of Peter for £500." A certain William Smith, 
 lawyer in \Sew York, was consulted as to the strongest and 
 safest methods for holding this parsonage farm in continual 
 
 4 
 
50 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 possession of.the church, according to the original design in 
 its purchase ; and to this end careful measures were devised 
 and adopted. All this was done, first, because evidently there 
 was no board of trustees legally appointed for the church at 
 this time that could hold and convey property; and second, 
 because the congregation desired that the plantation should 
 always be held in possession by the church alone, and be clear 
 of all claims of interest therein or ownership thereof by any 
 others. The farm embraced " All that tract of Land Scituate 
 Lying and being in the County of Monmouth aforesaid be- 
 twixt Spotswoods Middle Brook and his South Brook Sup- 
 posed to Contain One Hundred and Fifty Acres be the same 
 more or less." The land in this farm was reasonably fertile. 
 A paper, still preserved, states the conditions under which 
 this farm was rented in 1777, after Mr. Tennent's death, dur- 
 ing the interim of pastors; from which it appears that Indian 
 corn, wheat, oats and flax were the principal products at that 
 time, and as such they prove the strength of the soil. 
 
 The parsonage house was situated about a mile and a half 
 by carriage road southeast from the present church building, 
 and is described in Franklin Ellis' History of Monmouth 
 County, page 686, as " a low building, large on the ground, 
 with four lower rooms — two on each side of the hall — with 
 kitchen attached in the rear. Above was the attic room, 
 sloping on one side with the rafters, and with a window facing 
 the north, which, as is said, was used as a study by both Mr. 
 Tennent and Mr. Woodhull. During the battle of June 28, 
 1778, a round shot came through the roof into this room while 
 the conflict raged furiously around the house and in the ad- 
 joining orchard." It is commonlj- alleged that the house on 
 this parsonage farm was erected in 1706. Probably an addi- 
 tion was made to this bouse during the pastorate of Dr. 
 "Woodhull, since a record, dated 1795, shows that a committee 
 appointed to look after the repairs of the parsonage buildings, 
 decided that the building of a new part was advisable, " to 
 the advantage of the Congregation and the Comfort of Mr. 
 Woodhull." 
 
THE OLD PARSONAGE. 61 
 
 In this parsonage home William Tennent lived for about 
 forty years. Here his wife proved herself an able and skilful 
 manager, for " She took the care of his temporal concerns 
 upon her, extricated him from debt, and by a happy union of 
 prudence and economy, so managed all his wordly business 
 that in a few years his circumstances became easy and com- 
 fortable. Besides several children who died in infancy, he 
 had by her three sons who attained the age of manhood ; 
 John, William, and Gilbert." 
 
 To this house came Christian Indians for religious conver- 
 sation with Mr. Tennent. Here Whitefield w^as a guest on 
 more than one occasion, and held fellowship with the godly 
 pastor of old Freehold. To this parsonage David Brainerd 
 was wont to come during his short and toilsome ministry. 
 Here William Tennent also entertained John Brainerd, some- 
 times over night, and comforted him " in his sadness and 
 depression." In this house also it appears, from the diary of 
 John Brainerd, that Mr. Tennent entertained Governor 
 Belcher and his wife in October, 1749. 
 
 In this old parsonage Dr. Woodhull also lived for more 
 than two score years. Rev. D. V. McLean was the last pastor 
 that occupied it, although his predecessor. Rev. Robert Roy, 
 had not made it his home. Many and impressive sermons 
 were prepared under its roof, and many a night it sheltered 
 some of those who were or afterwards came to be active and 
 efficient ministers in the Presbyterian Church in America. It 
 was a silent witness to the struggle on Monmouth's field, and 
 hard by its doors the brave English Colonel Henry Monckton 
 fell mortally wounded. In the fields around, and even under 
 its very windows, musket and cannon balls have been picked 
 up during the years since. 
 
 Despite the eiforts of the congregation to preserve this par- 
 sonage farm in perpetual possession, it appears that it was sold 
 in just about one hundred years after its purchase, for a church 
 record tells us that " William T. Sutphin, being the highest 
 bidder, the farm was struck oflt' to him at the sum of Nine 
 Thousand, nine hundred dollars." This was dated March, 1835. 
 
52 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Thus was made a break in the historical connections of the 
 temporal possessions of the old church, which never can be 
 replaced, since the old parsonage was more venerable than the 
 old church building itself. For some j-ears this old house 
 stood empty, a sorrowful reminder of men that were buried 
 and of things that were piast. It gradually fell into decay and 
 became lamentably dilapidated, partly by the ravages of time, 
 and partly by the hands of relic seekers, who frequently 
 stopped off' the railroad trains, which ran close b^', and carried 
 away memento pieces. Finally, about 1861, tlie old building 
 was taken down. 
 
 The Old Teuueiit Parsouage in dilapidated state. 
 
 John Brainerd writes in his journal, " Tuesday', Aug. 22, 
 1749. — -Attended religious duties, and after some time took 
 leave of Dr. Le Count and his spouse, and rode about three 
 miles to a medicinal spring,, where were a number of ni}- peo- 
 ple, who came there to drink the waters ; with these I spent 
 considerable time in conversation and prayer. Took leave of 
 them and went to several houses in Freehold, where I had 
 business, and in the evening came to Mr. Tennent's ; after 
 some conversation with him attended to reliEcious duties and 
 went to rest." The name of Dr. Peter Laconte appears in the 
 early church records as a communicant in 1744; and again 
 the same name is put for the owner of pew No. 7 in the gal- 
 lery of the church, and purchased in 1754 for £8. Also in the 
 baptismal records occur five names of children of Dr. Peter 
 
THE BATTLE OF INIONMOUTIi. 53 
 
 La Coiite. Doubtless this is the same person of whom John 
 Brainerd speaks, and whom Brainerd's biographer calls, " a 
 pious parishioner of Teiinent's." The medicinal spring here 
 mentioned may possibly' be the one on the farm on which 
 Forman Stillwell lived before his death, 1894, and about three 
 miles from the Old Tennent church. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH, 
 
 (or battle of MONMOUTH COURT IIOUSe). 
 
 June 28, 1778. 
 
 Much historic interest is added to the Old Tennent church 
 through its connection with the famous field of Monmouth. 
 The battle was fought a little over a mile to the southeast of 
 the sanctuary. Only a brief outline of the combat can here 
 be given, the facts and figures being mostly based on a paper 
 read by Charles King, Esq., before the New Jersey Historical 
 Society, at Freehold Sept. 13, 1849. The date of the battle 
 was June 28, 1778, on a Sunday afternoon. Old Tennent was 
 at that time without a pastor ; and yet there could scarcely 
 have been any service in the church on that morning because 
 of the excitement of troops passing b}', and because so many 
 of the families in the neighborhood had evidently gone into 
 the woods to hide. Gen. George Washington commanded 
 the Americans, and Sir Henry Clinton the British. The 
 Americans had passed the winter at Valley Forge, Pa., with 
 all its rigorous experience ; while the British had been com- 
 fortably quartered in Philadelphia. The British left Phila- 
 delphia about the first of June to pass through ISTew Jersey to 
 'New York, and went b}' a route through Moorestown, Mt. 
 Holly, and Allentowu. Washington, though some of his staff 
 counselled the opposite, was desirous to attack the enemy 
 before they should reach New York. Accordingly he broke 
 camp at Valley Forge, set his army on the march, crossed the 
 Delaware at Lambertville, and came on through Kingston, E". 
 
54 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 J. The Americans had about 11,000 men, while the British 
 had about 10,000, but these were better appointed for war. 
 Gen. Clinton moved on his way and took a strong position at 
 Freehold town. Gen. Washington came on through Cran- 
 bury, and afterwards through Englishtown. "Washington had 
 sent on in advance of his armj- several detachments of troops 
 at different times to harrass the British army. All of these 
 detachments were finally commanded by Gen. Charles Lee, 
 sent forward with instructions to arrange an attack. Accord- 
 ingly Gen. Lee fell upon the British at Freehold in the fore- 
 noon of June 28. But for some seemingly unexplained rea- 
 son after onl}' a little fighting the Americans fell back in con- 
 fused retreat along the road toward Englishtown, which at 
 that day passed within about one hundred yards of the church 
 door. Washington was meanwhile hurrying forward to the 
 field, and met the retreating regiments about a mile southeast 
 of the meeting house. Considerably disappointed and exas- 
 perated, he quickly reformed these retreating regiments, facing 
 them about to meet the pursuing enemy; and riding back to 
 his main armj' he hurried them forward to the field of battle, 
 and the engagement became general. The struggle took place 
 near to the old parsonage, and over a little brook with a morass 
 running right across the battle field. The Americans fought 
 bravelj', never more persistently, again and again repulsing 
 the repeated charges of the enemy. When night came the 
 advantage was decidedly with Gen. Washington. He deter- 
 mined to renew the strife on the next morning, the armies 
 having gone to rest close by each other in the evening. 
 " Washington, wrapped in his cloak, laid himself to rest 
 among his soldiers." But during the night Sir Henry Clin- 
 ton with his army stole awa}' from the battlefield, and by 
 morning light was well on his way towards the rising ground 
 of the ISTavesink Hills. Thither Gen. Washington could not 
 follow him to renew the attack, for just at that time Lord 
 Howe with a fleet had arrived off" the Hook and the two forces 
 of the British were combined. The sudden, silent, and un- 
 usual retirement of the British from the battlefield made 
 
THE BATTLE OF MOFMOTJTH. 55 
 
 "Washington's victory more pronounced. Monmouth was one 
 of the memorable battles of the revolution, and strengthened 
 and encouraged the colonies in their struggle for independ- 
 ence. In it Gen. Washington was unusually exposed to the 
 enemy's fire in his endeavors to inspirit his soldiers ; and also 
 in this battle most of the prominent officers of the American 
 army were engaged. A long list of names is preserved of the 
 men of Monmouth County who at this time fought for their 
 liberty and their homes. The day of the battle was exceed- 
 ingly hot, so that many soldiers died of the etfects of heat. 
 The Americans lost 8 ofiicers and 61 privates killed, and 161 
 privates wounded. The British lost 4 officers and 245 privates 
 killed, beside a considerable number of officers and privates 
 wounded. Dead British soldiers were buried on the battle- 
 field, and probably also some of the Americans. The house 
 of William Ker near by the Old Tennent church was one of 
 the places used as a hospital at the time of the battle. This 
 house is no longer standing. 
 
 Ancestral tales and traditions are still told that relate to the 
 church and its people in connection with the battle, and with 
 a good degree of authenticity. It is a current tradition that 
 musket balls and possibly cannon balls pierced the sides of the 
 church during the battle. Whatever breakings were thus 
 made in the inclosure have long since been repaired by other 
 shingles being inserted. It is also a much repeated tradition 
 (and most probably a true one), that during the battle an 
 American soldier, possibly fatigued with the heat, was sitting 
 on the headstone of a grave a few feet to the southwest from 
 the church, when he was struck by a cannon ball and badly 
 wounded, and the headstone broken off. He was carried into 
 the church and laid in the third pew from the door in the west 
 aisle. Here his blood dripped out, and he died. The blood 
 stains from his wounds can still be seen on the board seat; 
 and before the graining of the pews was put on, the marks ot 
 the bloody hands of this dying soldier were visible on the 
 book-rest of the pew in which he died, and on that also in the 
 pew behind. The head-stone of the grave is now gone, 
 
56 HISTORY OF OLD TEISTNENT. 
 
 though a part still remains underground, and the foot-stone is 
 also standing. The grave was that of Sarah Mattison, buried 
 in 1774. 
 
 It is an ancestral tradition that in September Ibllowing the 
 battle, Samuel Craig with his brother was cutting buckwheat 
 on his farm about a half mile to the west of the church. Hear- 
 ing their dogs barking excitedly in the woods they went over 
 to investigate the cause, and found, leaning against a tree and 
 supported by a thick growth of briers, the dead body of a 
 Hessian with his musket standing by him. It was supposed 
 that he had been wounded in the battle and strayed away in 
 the woods ; or had lost his way, and being overcome with the 
 excessive heat had drunk profusely of water in the brook near 
 b}', and thus had died, a sad and lonely specimen of the dread- 
 ful events of war. 
 
 Lt. Col. Henry Moiickton, a gallant and able officer com- 
 manding the second battalion British Grenadiers, was killed 
 in the battle. The Americans took possession of his body 
 and buried it a few feet from the southwest corner of the 
 church. A half century or more later William R. Wilson, a 
 native of Scotland, and a school master in Monmouth county, 
 set up a board over Col. .Monckton's grave with an inscription 
 thereon beginning with the Latin words " Hio jacet." Some 
 years after this Samuel Fryer, a marble dealer of Hightstown, 
 N. J., erected a marble headstone with a suitable inscription, 
 in the place of the board slab. Over this grave on Decoration 
 Day a British flag is placed by the detail from the Grand 
 Army of the Republic Post, while the Stars and Stripes are 
 set over many graves around it. 
 
 May 12, 1874, R. Perrine Craig, sexton of the cemetery, in 
 digging a grave came upon three skeletons of human bodies. 
 One apparentl3' had an arm bone broken, or the arm amputa- 
 ted. The bodies had evidently been buried together, and 
 there were no signs of there being any coffin. These were 
 supposed to have been soldiers that possibly had died in the 
 church, which was used to some extent as a hospital at the 
 
THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH. 
 
 57 
 
 time of the battle. Three flags are placed across each other 
 over this grave on Decoration Day. 
 
 In reciting the story of this battle the tradition concerning 
 Mollie Pitcher is frequently told, the brave and loyal woman 
 v^^ho kindly carried water to the wounded soldiers until, her 
 husband being killed at the guns, she took his place and as- 
 sisted in loading and firing the cannon in the midst of the 
 strife. She is spoken of as the " heroine of Monmouth." 
 
 Monmouth Battle Mouumeut. 
 
 A monument commemorative of this historic battle has 
 been erected in Freehold (town); and was unveiled with ap- 
 propriate ceremonies Nov. 13, 1884. The funds for this mon- 
 ument were started by an Association organized in its interest 
 in 1878, which raised $10,000. To this sum the State Legis- 
 lature added $10,000, and Congress contributed $20,000. The 
 monument is built of Quinc}- and Concord granite, and stands 
 nearly one hundred feet high. On the top is placed a large 
 granite statue, st^ded " Liberty Triumphant." Around the 
 base are five magnificent bronze tablets, bas-reliefs of thrilling 
 scenes in the battle and previous to it. 
 
58 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 CHAPTER Vn. 
 
 REV. JOHN WOODHOLL, D.D. 
 
 1779—1824. 
 
 To secure and settle a suitable successor to such a rnan 
 as the Rev. William Tenneut, Jr., and to such a pastor- 
 ate as his had been in such a large and respectable congrega- 
 tion as Freehold, was no insignificant matter for the church to 
 undertake. The people, it seemed, would have another Ten- 
 nent, for they immediately turned their attention to Rev. "Wil- 
 liam McKay Tennent, then in 'New England, to become their 
 settled minister. But evidently he did not become their min- 
 ister, since both in the April and October meetings of New 
 Brunswick Presbytery during that year, 1777, different sup- 
 plies were appointed for Freehold. However, after an interim 
 of pastors of about two j-ears, Providence graciously guided 
 the church to the selection of a man that was in every respect 
 worthy and capable of being a succeeding pastor to the cele- 
 brated William Tennent. This was the Rev. John Woodhull. 
 called to the church in 1778. The exact date of his settlement 
 is not given in the minutes of Presbytery (New Brunswick). 
 The following is given in reference to the call ; and also, it 
 serves to show how important and influential the Presbj'tery 
 considered the Freehold congregation at that time : " A Pe- 
 tition was brought in from the Congn. of Freehold for leave 
 to prosecute a Call before the New Castle Pby in fiivour of 
 the Rev. John Woodhull one of their Members. The Pbj' 
 chearfully grant the praj-er of the petition & do earnestly 
 recommend the aforesaid Congregation to the notice of the 
 Pby of New Castle and of Mr. Woodhull in particular as an 
 important branch of the Church of Christ where a faithful 
 Minister of the Gospel will have as fair a prospect of useful- 
 
REV. JOHN WOODHULL, D.D. 
 
 (From a photograph of a portrait paiiiteii liy TIk 
 in 1822, when Dr. Woodhiili was 7* 
 
 mas Sully, of Philadelphia, 
 years of a;^e.) 
 
KEY. JOHN WOODHULL, D.D. 59 
 
 ness & comfort as in any vacancy within our knowledge." 
 This was Oct. 20, 1778. At " AIle"nston August 4, 1779 " the 
 minutes read : " The Eev. John WoodhuU a Member of N". 
 Castle Pby being present was desired to sit as Correspondent 
 & he took his seat accordingly." A note is made between the 
 records of two meetings, thus : " W. B. The Presbyy met at 
 Bedminster (Lamington) according to adjournment" (namely, 
 4th Tuesday in April, 1780), " but the Minutes of it are lost. 
 It was opened by Mr. Woodhull. * * * * Mr. John 
 "WoodhuU late from the Pbyy. of New Castle haveing accepted 
 the Call from Freehold joined the Presbytery." Mr. AVood- 
 hull began preaching in Freehold doubtless sometime during 
 the year 1779. His tombstone reads that he " in 1779 re- 
 moved to this congregation, which he served with great dili- 
 gence and success for 45 years." 
 
 Those who have written sketches of his life and estimates of 
 his character and worth, present the following facts : He was 
 born at Miller's Place, in the County of Suftblk, Long 
 Island, January 26, 1744, descended from illustrious 
 ancestors whose genealogical line is traced back to the time 
 of the Norman Conquest, 1070. He graduated from Prince- 
 ton College in 1766, having taken the full four years' course 
 of study. "While in college he made his profession of faith in 
 Christ, passing through a profound spiritual experience. His 
 theological studies were pursued under the care of Rev. John 
 Blair, at Fagg's Manor, Pa. As a young preacher he was 
 accepted with more than usual popularity. Several calls from 
 churches were tendered him, but duty led him to answer the 
 call from the Leacock congregation, Lancaster Co., Pa., 
 where he was ordained and installed August 1, 1770. From 
 there he came to Old Tennent, in whose pastorate he con- 
 tinued uninterruptedly for forty-five years, until his death. 
 
 In physical health Dr. "Woodhull was vigorous, seldom 
 being laid aside from his labors through sickness. In this he 
 exercised judicious care as is apparent from a letterhead- 
 dressed to his session and congregation explaining his absence 
 from his pulpit on a certain Sunday. He was troubled with a 
 
60 lirSTORV Ob^ OLD TENo^EXT. 
 
 distress in his ear that badly affected his iiearing; but he had 
 gained some relief, and so he wrote : " I am not sick — and 
 have hesitated much about going to Church this day — but 
 concluded on the whole that in a case so delicate which in- 
 volved my future comfort and usefulness, it was best to run 
 no risk." lie concluded his note by saying, " Let sermon be 
 appointed at 12 o'clock next Sabbath. — I hope to be with you. 
 Pray for me, that my hearing may be so restored as not to 
 prevent my usefulness." 
 
 One of his acquaintances describes him as having ''the ad- 
 vantage of most men in his personal appearance. He had a 
 fine, tall, well proportioned frame, and his motions were easy 
 and graceful. His countenance was expressive of vigour and 
 intelligence, as well as honesty and strength of purpose. His 
 manners were free and agreeable, but never lacking in dignity. 
 He had fine powers of conversation, and could accommodate 
 himself with great facility to any circle into which he might 
 be thrown. You could not have been in his eompanj', with- 
 out feeling that jou were in the presence of a well bred gen- 
 tleman of the old school." (Sprague, Vol. III). 
 
 Like William Tennent, Jr., he was a member of the Board 
 of Trustees of the College of New Jersey at Princeton. In 
 1798 Yale College conferred on him the honorary degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity. Of him his son wrote : " The same year 
 of his settlement (1779) he built an house on an acre of ground 
 leased of the congregation for the purpose ef establishing a 
 school." From this grammar school went out many young 
 men to usefulness in life, and some to positions of great honor 
 and distinction. He was also an instructor of young men in 
 their studies for the gospel ministry, until the opening of the 
 Princeton Theological Seminar^' in 1812, when he would no 
 longer perform such service. 
 
 In 1772, seven years before Dr. Woodhull came to Old Ten- 
 nent, he married Sarah Spaftbrd, of Philadelphia, a step- 
 daughter of the Rev. Gilbert Tennent, an excellent woman, 
 with whom he lived to pass bej-ond the golden anniversary of 
 their marriaa-e. 
 
REV. JOHN WOODHULL, D.D. 61 
 
 Dr. Woodlmll was a popular and useful preacher, and his 
 sermons abounded in scriptural references. For the word of 
 God he had a true reverence, and in the interest of its circu- 
 lation he was one of the founders of the Monmouth County 
 Bible Society-. In ecclesiastical bodies he was highly respected 
 for his skill and judgment. He wjis the Stated Clerk of the 
 Presbytery of IS'ew Brunswick from October, 1781 to April, 
 1801. In Ma}-, 1791, he was chosen Moderator of the General 
 Assembly', and the following year he opened the Assembly 
 with a sermon from IL Tim. 4:1,2. This respect and these 
 positions in the church courts, together with the high regard 
 fer his estimable character, combined to give him a wide and 
 strong influence in the church and in society. In connection 
 with the above facts it may be said here that Col. John 
 Covenhoven, Dr. Woodhull's elder, attended the meeting of 
 the General Assembly in 1796, and possibly in 1795 also, as a 
 regularly appointed commissioner. He was thus probably the 
 first of all the Freehold elders to be a commissioner to the 
 highest court of the church. 
 
 There were no Sunday-schools in the congregation during 
 Dr. Woodhull's pastorate. But he had a watchful eye to the 
 religious welfare of the youth. Evidently he faithfully and 
 eft'ectually expounded the doctrine of infant baptism, as ap- 
 pears from the following list of infant baptisms for seven con- 
 secutive years :— 33 in 1803, 32 in 1804, 39 in 1805, 45 in 1806, 
 62 in 1807, 58 in 1808, 48 in 1809, or 317 in seven years; and 
 the communicants in the church at this time numbered from 
 250 to 300. This gave good promise of future ingatherings. 
 It was the custom of Dr. WoodhuU also to catechize the chil- 
 dren of his charge two times a year; and in cases where they 
 had been studied he asked for the scriptural references as 
 proofs to the catechism answers. He was fond of the j'oung 
 people, and they of him, so that a hajipy memory remained 
 concerning him long after his death, among those who had 
 seen and known him personally. 
 
 In his temporal and financial affairs Dr. "Woodhull was 
 shrewd and careful. He possessed fine business qualifications. 
 
62 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 It is said of him that he became very wealthy, and it is thought 
 that he owned about 50,000 acres of land in different localities 
 in New Jersey, Mississippi, Tennessee and. Maryland. It is 
 told of him that when his only daughter, Sarah, was married, 
 he gave her a dower of $80,000. 
 
 Dr. WoodhuU was an ardent and loyal patriot. At the 
 beginning of the war of the Kevolution he entered the field as 
 chaplain. Historian Lossing says of him that he toQk from 
 his Leacock congregation^ every man that could bear arms. 
 Col. William C. Alexander says that Dr. Woodhull was in the 
 battle of Monmouth. Certainly in after years his social con- 
 versation abounded in interesting reminiscences of the mem- 
 orable war for Independence. Among the church papers is a 
 fine specimen (copied) of Dr. Woodhull's sermons ; it is a 
 patriotic discourse delivered on a Thanksgiving Day, 'So- 
 vember, 1789. 
 
 Dr. Woodhull's end came suddenly, !N"ov. 22, 1824, in the 
 81st year of his age. On the occasion of his funeral, ITov. 
 25, 1824, the Rev. Isaac V. Brown preached a sermon from 
 the text Rev. 2 : 10, which was requested for publication by 
 the session, through ITathaniel S: Rue, clerk, and printed in 
 pamphlet form. A large procession attended his body to the 
 grave, which lies about fifty feet to the south of the middle 
 door of the church, and is surmounted by a marble monument. 
 
 As is frequently the case in regard to a minister of such a 
 long pastorate, so concerning Dr. Woodhull, folk-lore and tra- 
 ditions exist. An amusing story is told of him in connection 
 with the superstition of some that Old Tenuent cemetery was 
 haunted. An ancestral tale is told of him that in his later 
 years he once sat on a table in a house while he preached a 
 funeral sermon, presumably because he was feeble, and because 
 sitting on a table would enable him to see the people better 
 than sitting down in a chair. His text on this occasion was 
 Heb. 4 : 9. 
 
 SEPARATE INCORPORATION. 
 
 In 1785 steps were taken to have the church incorporated 
 separately from the Upper Freehold (Allentown) and Shrews- 
 
REV. JOHIsT WOODHULL, D.D. 63 
 
 bury churches, and under the government of the State. Prob- 
 ably Dr. Woodhull was one of the chief movers in this matter. 
 On "Wednesday, April 6, 1785, the members of the session and 
 the congregation met, and after electing Gen. David Forman 
 as trustee for the church in the room of Robert Rhea deceased, 
 they decided to petition the Legislature for a " separate Act 
 of Incorporation," and requested and appointed Dr.. Wood- 
 hull to notify the other congregations, and engaged Thomas 
 Henderson, M. D., to draw up the petition to the Legislature. 
 August 7, 1786, the congregation met and elected the follow- 
 ing trustees : Jacob Wickoff, Thomas Henderson, M. D., 
 David Forman (son of Jonathan), Kenath Anderson, Jr.; Gen. 
 David Forman, Col. John Covenhoven, and John A. Scudder, 
 M. D. Then on March 13, 1787, these seven trustees sub- 
 scribed themselves under the new corporate title " The Trus- 
 tees of the first Presbyterian Congregation in Freehold in the 
 County of Monmouth." The form of their Trustees' oath was : 
 
 ' ' We the Subscribers do solemnly profess 
 and swear that we do not hold our- 
 selves bound to bear Allegiance to the 
 King of Great Britain. 
 So help us God. 
 
 We the Subscribers do solemnly profess 
 and swear that we do and will bear 
 true Faith and Allegiance to the 
 Government of this State as established 
 under authority of the people. 
 So help us God. 
 
 We the Subscribers do solemnly profess 
 and swear that we will execute the trust 
 reposed in us, as Trustees of the first 
 Presbyterian Congregation in Freehold, 
 during our continuance in office with 
 Fidelity and to the best of our Understandings. 
 So help us God." 
 
 Six of the trustees took oath before Thomas Henderson, M. 
 D., Justice of the Peace; and Thomas Henderson took oath 
 before John Covenhoven, Justice. The seal after the auto- 
 
64 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 ■graph of these seven trustees subscribing under their new title, 
 is a device of two birds standing: fiice to face under what 
 appears to be a leaf. 
 
 More than seventy years later this corporate name was 
 changed again, by an act passed by the Legislature of the 
 State of ITew Jersey, and approved by the Governor March 
 16, 1859, to the name " The First Presbyterian Church of the 
 Count}' of Monmouth." This act was not to take effect until 
 it had been submitted to the congregation and approved by 
 them, and a certiticate thereof, signed by the President of the 
 Board of Trustees, should be filed in the office of the Secre- 
 tary- of the State of 'New Jersey. It was approved almost 
 unanimously by the congregation. But the certificate, 
 through some inadvertence, Avas not filed until several j'cars 
 afterwards, when through a business transaction arising in 
 connection with some money to be transferred to the church 
 the neglect was discovered, and the need of its remedy made 
 apparent. Report was then made to the legal authorities and 
 tlie corporate title of the church was recorded ; and also, all 
 deeds given by the trustees under this name since 1859 were 
 made true and etfectual. This was completed in 1882, and 
 thus the above named title is the present legal name of Old 
 Tennent, viz.: 
 
 " The First Presbyterian Church of the County of Monmouth." 
 
REV. JOB FOSTEE HALSEY, D.D. 65 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 1826—1828. 
 
 After the death of Dr. "WoodhuU, a year and a half elapsed 
 before the congregation again had a settled pastor ; when a 
 call was given to Job Poster Halsey, a young man twenty-six 
 years of age, and lately from his studies in Princeton Semi- 
 nary. The salary promised in the call was $700 annually. 
 Mr. Halsey, young in years and experience, was a contrast to 
 the preceding pastor; but during his short ministry in Ten- 
 nent he proved himself an earnest and energetic successor to 
 the old and able servant of the church. 
 
 He was born at Schenectady, IST. Y., July 12, 1800. His 
 parents names were Luther and Abigail. At nineteen years 
 of age he was converted ; and the same year, 1819, he gradu- 
 ated from Union College in the town of his birth. In 1820 
 he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of ITorth River. 
 He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 182.3, where 
 he studied for three years. June 14, 1826, he was ordained 
 by the Presbytery of !N"ew Brunswick in session in the Old 
 Tennent Charch, and installed its pastor. In December of 
 that year he was married to Elizabeth Parker Brinley. His 
 pastorate was one of the shortest in Old Tennent's list, contin- 
 uing for one year and nine months, when it closed March 
 5, 1828. 
 
 Afterwards he served in important positions as a teacher, 
 and also as a pastor in different churches. The degree of 
 Doctor of Divinity was conferred upon him by Lafayette Col- 
 lege, 1860. He died March 24, 1882, at Korristown, Penna., 
 having survived his generation. 
 
 When Mr. Halsey became pastor at Tennent there were two 
 hundred and five names on the communicant roll of the 
 
 5 
 
6Q HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 church. Among the oldest members at that time were Eliza- 
 beth English, who had been a communicant since 1767, and 
 Eleanor C. Forman since 1776. 
 
 During his pastorate ninety-two members were added to the 
 communion, forty of these joining on one occasion. This 
 manifested a healthy activity in spiritual things in the church, 
 and gave evidence of the faithful sowing of seed by Dr. Wood- 
 hull, as well as of zealous etfort on the part of the young 
 pastor Halsey. 
 
 A seminary student (-1. W. M.), from Princeton visited Mr. 
 Ilalsey in the summer of 1827, and many years afterwards 
 wrote of him thus : " lie was in the habit of keeping his 
 p)0ckets filled with verses of Scripture, which were printed on 
 blue pasteboard in that daj', for Sabbath-schools, and distrib- 
 uting single verses to people whom he met. lie called them 
 ' small shot ' — good for driving away black-birds." 
 
 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 
 
 About the year 1827 a Sunday-school was started in the 
 church, and Mrs. Ilalsey, wife of the pastor, was its first su- 
 perintendent. This was the beginning of a branch of church 
 work that has proved of inestimable benefit to Old Tennent 
 down to the present time. Those who have served as super- 
 intendents of the Sunday-school in the church are: 
 
 Mrs. Job F. Ilalsey, Joseph Combs, 
 
 ISTathaniel S. Rue, Elijah Reid, 
 
 William G. Denise, Luther D. Bugbee, 
 
 James Rue, William H. Reid, 
 
 R. Perrine Craig, George L. DuBois. , 
 
 The Sunday-school services were conducted at first in the 
 old Session House on Sunday afternoon. Afterwards they 
 were held on Sunday morning in the new Session House. 
 And finally it became the custom to convene the Sunday- 
 school in the church building in connection with morning 
 sanctuary service. 
 
EEV. JOB FOSTER HALSEY, B.D. 67 
 
 For many years it had been the custom to hold two services 
 in the church on Sunday, with abqut a half hour intermission 
 for the partaking of some refreshments. As late as 1819 the 
 congregation decided to hold two services on Sunday from the 
 middle of April to the middle of September, and only one ser- 
 mon on each Sunday throughout tlie remainder of the year 
 " except on sacramental occasions." 
 
 This practice of having two sermons and services close to- 
 gether was well suited to the conditions of a newly settled 
 country, where church privileges were rare^aud some of the 
 people driving many miles to and from service. It was not 
 specially needed in long settled communities, and it had its 
 disadvantages in more ways than one. Every age suits itself 
 to convenient and advantageous progress ; and thus this prac- 
 tice of holding two services near together was finally aban- 
 doned in the churches. But it was not because of a disposition 
 to lessen labor on the part of the pastor nor attendance on the 
 part of the people, for since this change sanctuary services 
 have tended rather to increase in number than to diminish. 
 
 About the time of Dr. WoodhuU's death this old custom 
 was discontinued in Tennent church. It was possible that 
 this change was made when Mr. Halsey became pastor ; 
 or certainly so during Mr. Roy's ministry. 
 
 PERRINEVILLE CHURCH. 
 
 The old New Brunswick Presbytery appears to have been 
 watchful of promising places for the establishing of churches, 
 and of supplying destitute districts with the means of grace. 
 An interesting item occurs in its records under date April 28, 
 1802: " The committee appointed to enquire into the State 
 of the frontier Settlements Reported that there is a considera- 
 ble extent of country on the Sea coast, between 80 & an 100 
 miles in length & about 20 in breadth very destitute of the 
 means of grace : There are some villages considerably inhab- 
 ited & tolerably productive, but generally the cpuntry is of a 
 thin Soil & thinly inhabited. Their religious instruction hath 
 been chiefly from the Methodists, who we believe have been 
 
68 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 useful among them." Obviously this refers to the southeast- 
 ern portions of 'Sew Jersey. 
 
 Perrineville Avas an outstation of the older churches that 
 early became an important point. Preaching services were 
 conducted here possibly as early as 1777. Rev. John Wood- 
 hull manifested special interest in this work, and secured reg- 
 ular preaching at Perrineville by Rev. Joseph Clark, who had 
 been a theological student under his care, and in 1784 was or- 
 dained as an evangelist. Mr. Clark became pastor at Allen- 
 town June, 1788, having preached there regularly for a con- 
 siderable time previous. After this there was an arrange- 
 ment by which Perrineville was regularly supplied with preach- 
 ing by the pastors of Tennent, Cranbury, and Allentown. 
 This continued until 1826, when on June 5, of that year, the 
 Perrineville church was organized, Rev. Symmes C. Henry 
 acting as the committee. There were thirteen original mem- 
 bers. The church took the name of " The Second Presbyter- 
 ian Church of Upper Freehold." This name was changed by 
 .an act of the Legislature in 1847 to the name " The First 
 •Church of Millstone." Rev. William Henry Woodhull, 
 grandson of Rev. Dr. John Woodhull, was the first pastor at 
 Perrineville, being installed there Sep. 6, 1826, and continu- 
 jng in the office for more than five years. 
 
HEV. ROBERT ROY. 69 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 REV. ROBERT ROY. 
 
 1829—1832. 
 
 After Mr. Ilalsey left the congregation there was another 
 long period without a settled pastor. And yet souls were 
 added to the church. Twenty-two united with the commun- 
 ion in the autumn of 1828. It is possible that some minister 
 was serving the church more or less statedly at this time. 
 
 Feb. 18, 1829, the Rev. Robert Roy was installed pastor, the 
 congregation having previously extended to him a call prom- 
 ising an annual compensation of $700. lie entered Princeton 
 Theological Seminary in 1820 and studied there for three 
 years. Afterwards for a time he was a missionary - in Ya. 
 He came from the Presbytery of Hudson to the New Bruns- 
 wick Presbytery. 
 
 In 1829 Mr. Roy purchased nine and a half acres of ground 
 from Joseph II. Sutfen ( et al), which is the same plot of 
 ground on which Mrs. A. P. Cobb's house now stands. On 
 this he built a home at his own charges, and here he lived 
 during his ministry. Here also he died. After his death this 
 was the home of his widow for many years. 
 
 Mr. Roy was not of robust health. Within two years after 
 his settlement he made a journe}^ to the South, seeking repair 
 of his throat and lungs. From St. Augustine, Jan. 1831, he 
 wrote a letter to his elders in the session of Old Tennent, ad- 
 dressing it to John Baird, one of the oldest elders at that time. 
 This letter ( still preserved) is full of expressions of interest 
 and attachment to his charge. On his return he endeavored 
 to preach, but it was with a weak voice, which was not much 
 above a whisper during the last of his pulpit services. He 
 died at his home March 15, 1832. Rev. Dr. Archibald Alex- 
 ander preached the sermon at his funeral, and he was buried 
 
70 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 a few feet from the door of the church, being the fifth pastor 
 laid to rest in the grave-yards of Old Tenueiit. Mr. Hoy was 
 a very sociable man, exceedingly pleasant in conversation and 
 company, and kind to all. lie was very much liked by the 
 people of his charge, and left a happy memory among them. 
 
 HOWEL CHURCH. 
 
 While Mr. Eby was pastor, a Presbyterian church was 
 formed at Ilowel, N. J., which may be considered as an off- 
 shoot from Old Tennent. The organization took place N'ov. 
 1, 1831, and was effected by Rev. Eli F. Cooley, pastor of the 
 First Church at Trenton N. J., the Rev. Robert Roy also be- 
 ing present. There were eight original members, three of 
 whom came by certificate from Tennent church. These were 
 Amos Shaw and his wife Caroline, and Thomas Gulick, all now 
 buried in Old Tennent cemetery. The other five members 
 came by profession of faith. Amos Shaw and Thomas Gu- 
 lick were elected and ordained ruling elders. This church 
 existed about seven years, and then was dissolved by an act of 
 Presbytery, and its members were directed to unite with the 
 church in Freehold village, which they accordingly^ did, April, 
 1839. Yet preaching services were held at this place for 
 some time afterwards, since as late as 1848 personal notes, 
 made by Amos Shaw, record the fact that Revs. J. F. 
 Halsej-, L. H. VanDoren, and D. V. McLean preached there 
 at intervals during that year. 
 
 STOVES IN THE CHURCH. 
 
 In the comforts and conveniences of the sanctuary services 
 for the early worshipers in Old Tennent, necessity was a law 
 as regarded some things; so also was stern and rugged con- 
 science. The latter of these was possibly the reason that no 
 stoves were used in the church for many years, neither was 
 there any fireplace. But this was in accordance with the cus- 
 tom and opinion of the times, as some church people of those 
 early days thought that the introduction of stoves into church- 
 es was "an invention of Satan." The Old Tennent building, 
 
REV. ROBERT ROY. 71 
 
 in its erection, could easily have been arranged to be heated, 
 or fitted up for this sooner than it was. It has been said that 
 the Tennent fathers of those days gave as their reason for not 
 having any fire in the church, that they had determined not 
 to be lukewarm, but to be either cold or hot. This may ap- 
 pear somewhat facetious, and yet nevertheless it suggests the 
 existence of a rugged sense of self-sacrifice in religion. 
 
 For sometime it was the custom for the women worshipers 
 to keep themselves warm by means of a " foot warmer," 
 which was a tin-lined box with a pan of live-coals in it, cover- 
 ed over with some ashes. 
 
 Stoves were introduced into Tennent church somewhere 
 about 1800, and even then some of the church members were 
 opposed to their being put in. It is known by the records 
 that they were in the church by 1815. They stood in the aisle 
 that runs the whole length of the church ; one near to the 
 juncture of this aisle with that running north and south on 
 the east side, and the other correspondingly on the west side. 
 The smoke pipes led up over the gallery, and passed out at 
 the windows on the east and west gable ends of the church. 
 The present arrangement is different. 
 
 In this broad aisle, running the whole length of the church, 
 four pews were added in 1815, one at the end of the wall 
 pews on the east side of the church, and one on the west side 
 of the church ; also one on each side of the middle entrance 
 aisle at its juncture with the long aisle. These pews were sold 
 to the highest bidders, viz., the one on the east end to Jacob 
 Baker for $27.00, the one on the west end to Samuel Forman 
 for $26.50, the pew on the east side of the middle aisle to Dr. 
 Woodhull for $48.50, and that on the west side to Moses 
 Sproule for $48.50. Some years afterward the two pews open- 
 ing on the middle aisle were removed in order to give more 
 space in the long aisle in front of the " Elders' square." 
 
72 HISTORY OF OLD TENJSTENT. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 REV. DANIEL VEECH MC LEAN, D.D. 
 
 1832—1836. 
 
 Another comparatively short pastorate followed that of Mr. 
 Roy, viz., that of Rev. T>. V. McLean. He was born at Dun- 
 lap's Creek, Eayette County, Pa., ISTov. 24, 1801, and was the 
 brother of Judge Amzi C. McLean. When about twenty-one 
 years of age he united with the Presbyterian church at 
 Athens, Ohio. Li 1824 he graduated at the University of 
 Ohio, and subsequently for a time was a teacher in Chambers- 
 burg, Pa. He studied for two years in Princeton Theological 
 Seminary, and was ordained as an evangelist by the Presby- 
 tery of Miami, June 29, 1831. At Somerville, K J., Feb 1, 
 1830, he was married to Miss Evelina B. Linn. Although he 
 acted as Stated Supplj- for a church in Lebanon, Ohio, for a 
 short period after his ordination, his first installation was in 
 Old Tennent, which took place ISTov. 16, 1832. Dr. McLean 
 is said to have preached for his first time in Tennent church, 
 on a week day in the summer of 1832, a day set apart for fast- 
 ing and prayer on account of cholera then raging. The text 
 for his sermon was Joel 2 : 13-14. 
 
 During the four years of his ministry' in Tennent additions 
 were made to the communion ; but the meagre records of those 
 years, that are extant, show no specially large ingatherings. 
 The largest number of enrolled members at this time was two 
 hundred and seventy. But attention is noticeably called to 
 the liberality of the congregation by the large increase in the 
 church's gifts to missions, which appear to have been steadil}' 
 generous through all Dr. McLean's pastorate. The largest 
 amount reported, during any year of his pastorate, as contrib- 
 uted by the church to this object was $178. This may be con- 
 
REV. DANIEL VEECH McLEAN, D.D. 73 
 
 trasted with the church's contribution to the missionary fund 
 of $20, in 1812, and of|29.50in 1825. 
 
 Whatever other compensation was given Dr. McLean as 
 salary for his pastoral services, the amount of money paid him 
 annually was $600. He resided in the old parsonage, and was 
 doubtless the last of the Tennent pastors to occupy it. 
 
 FREEHOLD VILLAGE CHURCH. 
 
 In 1836 Dr. McLean resigned his charge, and Presbytery 
 dissolved the pastoral relation Nov. 8 of that year. Previous 
 to this, in March 1835, a few members of Old Tennent church 
 and congregation resolved to build a house of worship in the 
 village of Freehold, with no special intention at that time of 
 forming themselves into a separate church, " but rather to 
 provide for themselves and families more convenient facilities 
 for holding religious service." Accordingly, on June 10, 1835, 
 the corner stone of a brick bwilding was laid. Two years and 
 one week later it was dedicated, having been completed at a 
 cost of about $4,000. Feb. 21, 1838, a committee composed 
 of Eev. Eli F. Cooley and Benjamin H. Rice, D.D., of the 
 Presbytery of New Brunswick, organized this church with 
 thirty-two members, all of whom presented letters from the 
 Tennent church. The first elders were Samuel Forraan, M. 
 D. (previously an elder in Old Tennent,) and William T. Sut- 
 phin. 
 
 The corporate name adopted for this church was " The Vil- 
 lage Church at Freehold." On the roll of the churches of 
 Presbytery this name was changed in April 1873 to " The 
 First Church of Freehold," which has sometimes caused con- 
 fusion from the fact of its similarity to the early name of Old 
 Tennent. 
 
 Dr. McLean having supplied the pulpit of this young organ- 
 ization for some time, was finally installed its pastor, Nov. 1, 
 1838, which position he filled with efliciency for twelve years. 
 He was a man of considerable energy, of fine preaching abili- 
 ties, and of business capacity. In 1848 he received the honor- 
 ary title of Doctor of Divinity from Lafayette College. Three 
 
74 
 
 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 years later this college called liim to her Presidency, which 
 office he filled from 1851 to 1857. Dr. McLean was also a 
 Director in Princeton Theological Seminary from 1848 to 
 1860, In his later life he again entered the work of the pas- 
 torate, and in this service he died ISTov. 2-3, 1869, at Red Bank, 
 'New Jersey. His grave is in the new portion of Old Ten- 
 nent's burying ground. 
 
 When Dr. McLean came to Tennent the old church edifice 
 appears to have been painted red ; for in the question of re- 
 pairing and repainting the church building it was resolved in 
 congregational meeting " to paint the outside white, provided 
 the expense between red and white be made up without charge 
 to the congregation." This was in 1835, and it infers that 
 previously the church had been painted red; and also it ex- 
 plains the reason of the name " The Old Red Church," locally 
 used of Old Tennent in the early part of this century. 
 
 Fiuial of the Steeple on the Old Teuneut Church, 
 
REV. JAMES CLARK, D.D. 75 
 
 CHAPTER Xr. 
 
 REV. JAMES CLAEK, D.D. 
 
 1837—1839. 
 
 Exactly one year after Dr. McLean left the Old Tennent 
 pulpit, Rev. James Clark was installed pastor of the church, 
 Ifov. 8, 1837. He was born in the city of Philadelphia on the 
 9th of March, 1812. He studied in the University of Pennsyl- 
 vania and in the Princeton Theological Seminary with honor 
 and capacity; iind he extended his studies for some time in 
 France and Germany, manifesting considerable linguistic pow- 
 ers. Polished and cultured in all his speech, whether written 
 or spoken, he was also an earnest Christian and a strong sup- 
 porter of the missionary cause. He was ordained ])y the 
 Presbyter}' of ]S"ew Brunswick in session in Old Tennent on 
 the same day in which he was installed pastor of the church. 
 He remained in this his first charge for about two years, until 
 October 2, 1839. After this he was pastor of several church- 
 es, and for a time President of Washington College, Pa. 
 During the latter part of his life he was a resident of Philadel- 
 phia, and without pastoral charge. He was honored with the 
 title of Doctor of Divinity by Jefferson College in 1850. His 
 death occurred 'Sov. 1, 1892, in the eighty-first year of his age. 
 
 In the spring of 1837 Mr. Clark married Julia "Woodhull, 
 second daughter of John T. Woodhull, M. D., a ruling elder 
 in the Tennent church. During his pastorate he lived in the 
 home of Mrs. Robert Roy, boarding with her. In the spring 
 of 1839 the church reported to Presbytery : added on examina- 
 tion, 10; — added on certificate, 3 ; — total number of members, 
 236 ; — adults baptized, 5 ; — infants baptized, 5 ; — contributions 
 to Home Missions, $61 ; — contributions to Foreign Missions, 
 161. 
 
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 76 HISTORY OF OLD TEN"NENT. 
 
 During the incumbency of Dr. McLean the old parsonage 
 with the farm land attached was sold, as has been mentioned 
 before. Then, near the close of Mr. Clark's ministry, the 
 congregation purchased a house and lot in Englishtown for a 
 parsonage. This property was bought of Margaret Perrine, 
 April 18, 1839, for the sum of |2,100. It contained four acres 
 of land. Subsequently, May 1, 1841, more land was bought, 
 which appears to have been added to the parsonage, since it 
 was a lot of land " situate lying and being near the village of 
 Englishtown in Freehold." It contained ten and one one- 
 hundredth acres, and Avas obtained of Dr. J. Smith English, 
 guardian of Cornelia Ann Clayton ( minor, ) at $24.05 per 
 acre. These two lots of land were sold by the congregation 
 March 15, 1850 to Juliet Conover, for $2,050. This parson- 
 age house afterwards passed through the hands of several 
 owners. It has since been remodelled and considerably en- 
 larged, and was the home for many years of the late John H. 
 Laird. It is now owned and occupied by William E. 
 Mount. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAL CONNECTIONS. 
 
 Old Tennent has been connected with several different 
 Presbyteries, some of which have been famous in the history 
 of the Presbyterian Church in America. Obviously Old Ten- 
 nent was tirst connected with the Philadelphia Presbytery, 
 and appears to have been the first of all the churches of ISTew 
 Jersey that was connected with this mother of American 
 Presbyteries. The first extant record of the meeting of this 
 Presbytery shows it assembled at the Old Scots church, for the 
 ordination of Mr. John Boyd. 
 
 The Synod of Philadelphia was formed in 1716. This 
 Synod established the Presbytery of East Jersey in 1733, by 
 dividing the Presbytery of Philadelphia. The manner in 
 which this record reads, together with the fact that Old Free- 
 hold was located in the _ district called "East Jersey," seems 
 to imply that slie was included in the organization of this 
 Presbytery ; and in some instances after this in the records 
 
REV. JAMES CLARK, D.D. 77 
 
 Rev. William Tennent, Jr., is spoken of as a member of East 
 Jersey Presbytery. 
 
 Then in 1738 the Synod of Philadelphia formed the Pres- 
 bj'tery of If ew York by uniting the remnants of the Presby- 
 tery of Long Island with the Presbytery of East Jersey, of 
 ■which Old Tennent was then a member ; and therefore she 
 became connected with ISTew York. 
 
 Two days later, on May 26, 1738, at the same session, the 
 Synod erected the Presbytery of 'New 13runswick, and includ- 
 ed Old Tennent within its bounds. Of the Presbytery of !N"ew 
 Brunswick Rev. William Tennent, Jr., was one of the five 
 original members that came from the Presbytery of New York. 
 He with his elder, Robert Gumming, were present at its first 
 meeting in New Brunswick Aug. 8, 1738. Rev. Gilbert Ten- 
 nent opened the Presbytery at this its first meeting with a ser- 
 mon on the text John 21 : 15. Its third meeting was held at 
 Old Tennent, Sept. 7, 1738, and John Henderson was the el- 
 der present to represent the church. 
 
 After one hundred and twenty-one years in this connection 
 Old Tennent made another change. The Synod of New Jer- 
 sey in Oct., 1859, erected the Presbytery of Monmouth, and 
 naemd Tennent as one of its churches. This Presbytery was 
 formed wholly out of New Brunswick, and in 1870 became the 
 legal successor to the Presbytery of Burlington. The first 
 meeting of Monmouth Presbytery was held in the Old Ten- 
 nent church Jan. 11, 1860, when Rev. Charles F. Worrell 
 preached the opening sermon from Eph. 2:8. At that meet- 
 ing elder James Rue represented the Tennent church, and the 
 pastor. Rev. Donald McLaren, was made the first Stated Clerk 
 of the Presbytery. 
 
 Thus, summing up Old Tennent's Prcsbyterial connections, 
 they are as follows : — 
 
 1. Erom the earliest records until 1733, with the Presby- 
 tery of Philadelphia. 
 
 2. From 1733 until 1738, with the Presbytery of East Jer- 
 
 sev. 
 
78 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 3. From 1738 until 1738 (for 2 days only ) with the Pres- 
 bytery of New York. 
 
 4. From 1788 until 1859, with the Presbytery of New 
 Brunswick. 
 
 5. From 1859 until the present time, with the Presbytery 
 of Monmouth. 
 
 During the discussions and difficulties in the Presbyterian 
 Church throughout the country in the j-ears 1837 and 1838, 
 which finally resulted in the division of the Church into Old 
 and New School, there is apparently nothing in the records 
 to show that Rev. James Clark (who was pastor in Old Tea- 
 nent at that time, ) did for himself or for his congregation 
 manifest any other desire than to support the principles of the 
 Old School Branch of the Church. He, and his elder Wil- 
 liam I. Thompson, at the meeting of New Brunswick Presby- 
 tery in Oct., 1838, doubtless voted in the affirmative (for the 
 vote was unanimous,) on the adoption of the resolution 
 " That this Presbytery hereby declares its cordial adherence 
 to the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 
 on the basis of the Acts of 1837 and 1838, of the General As- 
 semblies, for the re-formation and pacification of the church." 
 In this connection Old Tennent remained through all the per- 
 iod of division, until the happy Re-union of the two Branches 
 in 1869. 
 
REV. LUTHER H. VAN DOREN. 
 
 (Kindness of J. E. Van Doreii.) 
 
REV. LUTHER IIALSEY VAN DOREN. 79 
 
 CHAPTER Xn. 
 
 REV. LUTHER HALSEY VAN DOREN. 
 
 1840—1856. 
 
 The tenth pastor of Old Tennent was the Rev. L. H. Van- 
 Doren. He was the child of eminently pious parents, his 
 father being a most godly minister, and his mother a devout 
 woman, a sister of Rev. Job F. Halsey, a former pastor of Old 
 Tennent. Mr. VanDoren was one in a family of fourteen 
 children, of whom it was said "all received the adoption of 
 sons and daughters of the Lord." He was born at Hopewell, 
 Orange Co., ]S"ew York, March 14, 1808, and at the early age 
 of twelve years he made a public profession of faith in Christ. 
 He graduated at the College of New Jersey, (Princeton,) 1831. 
 Afterwards he studied for orders in the Episcopal Church, un- 
 der Bishop R. B. Smith, of Kentucky. But later, he decided 
 to enter the Presbyterian Church. 
 
 -In 1834 he was ordained by the Presbytery of Columbia, 
 Mo., and soon after began preaching in St. Louis, where he 
 organized what afterwards became a large and flourishing 
 church. Old Tennent called him to her service, offering him 
 an annual compensation of $700 with the use of the parsonage 
 house and lot in Englishtown. On Jane 17, 1840, he was in- 
 stalled pastor of the church, and continued in this relation fo^' 
 about half a generation. During his ministry at Tennent, the 
 work of the Lord greatly prospered. More than one revival 
 largely added to the membership of the church. Conspicu- 
 ous among these times of refreshing was the season of 1848, 
 when a large number united with the church at the spring 
 communion. That year's statistical report shows that one 
 hundred and fifteen persons had been added to the church 
 during the foregoing year, all but three of whom were on con- 
 fession of faith ; while the whole number of communicants 
 
80 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 was four hundred and thirty-three. Two years later, 1850, 
 the total membership was four hundred and eighty-one, doubt- 
 less the largest number of communicants the church ever had 
 in an}' one year. Most of the revival meetings of 1848 were 
 held in the old school house at Englishtown. William M. 
 Paxton (a young man not quite twenty-four years of age, and 
 at that time a student in Princeton Theological Seminary), 
 frequently preached in these meetings with great acceptance. 
 Because of his j-outh he was called " The Boy Preacher." He 
 is now a professor of Homiletics in the same Seminary from 
 which he graduated. 
 
 During the former part of Mr. VanDoren's pastorate he re- 
 sided in the parsonage at Englishtown, of which mention has 
 been made. He was the first pastor to occupy this parsonage, 
 at least for any considerable length of time; and he was the 
 last one. Afterwards Mr. VanDoren moved to a farm, his 
 own property, situated about half way between Englishtown 
 and Tenneut. Here he lived for some years. He was twice 
 married; first to Miss Susan "Wynkoop, of Bucks Co., Pa., 
 and second, in 1840, to Miss Lydia Ann Carnahan, daughter 
 of President Carnahan, of Princeton College. 
 
 After Mr. VanDoren's ministry closed at Old Tennent, July 
 5, 1856, he served several churches in different places. His 
 death occurred Oct. 5, 1876, at Middletown, IST. J. 
 
 In the latter part of Mr. VanDoren's pastorate propositions 
 were made at various congregational meetings to alter and re- 
 model the pulpit, pews, and gallery of the church building, 
 and also to rebuild the church edifice "with or without using 
 the old frame." At times some of these propositions appear- 
 ed to meet with some approval. But either because of a strong 
 opposition throughout the congregation against making a 
 change in the old house, or from failure to secure funds for 
 rebuilding, or from both these causes combined with others, 
 no change was made, and the old edifice remains essentially 
 the same as in the days of Williani Tennent. 
 
REV. LUTHER HALSEY VAN DOREIST. 81 
 
 JAMESBURG CHURCH. 
 
 And now again Old Tennent was connected with and con- 
 tributed to the formation of other churches. In the early part 
 of this century the Methodists held services in the school house 
 near to where Cornelius Mount subsequently lived. Also they 
 held regular services at John Hoffman's, between Englishtowu 
 and Jamesburg. But earnest though they were, they " failed 
 to hold or fully occupy " the field, for ministers of other de- 
 nominations began to supply the district with preaching, nota- 
 bly among which were the Presbyterians. Pastors from Cran- 
 bury and from Tennent, with now and then others, held occa- 
 sional services in Jamesburg. Subsequently these services be- 
 came more regular through different supplies, until June 6, 
 1854, when the Jamesburg Presbj-ferian church was organ- 
 ized by a committee from the New Brunswick Presbytery, 
 consisting of Revs. Symmes C. Henry, J. W. Blj'the, L. H. 
 VanDoren and S. D. Alexander. Of the eleven charter mem- 
 bers only one came from the Tennent church ; this was John 
 B. Johnson, one of Old Tennent's elders at that time. He 
 and John C. Vandeveer, were elected elders of the James- 
 burg church. But in less than one month afterward ( July 2, 
 1854,) Mr. Johnson was dismissed back to Old Tennent, hav- 
 ing been borrowed, as was said, for the purpose of completing 
 the Jamesburg organization at that time. Rev. J. Halstead 
 Carroll was the first pastor of the Jamesburg church. 
 
 MANALAPAN CHURCH. 
 
 In April 1856 between two and three hundred persons of 
 Manalapan and vicinity, forty seven of whom were members 
 of Presbyterian churches, petitioned the Presbytery of New 
 Brunswick to organize a church in that neighborhood to. be 
 known as " The Manalapan Church." Presbytery granted 
 the request and appointed a committee on organization : Rev. 
 Symmes C. Henry, D.D., chairman. Rev. S. D. Alexander, 
 and Rev. J. M. Rogers, with elders Bennington F. Randolph 
 and Elias Dye. The church edifice having been begun in 1855 
 was in due time completed, and on July 31, 1856 it was dedi- 
 
82 HISTORY OF OLD TENNEISTT, 
 
 cated, Dr. S. C. Henry preaching the sermon from Ezra 6 : 16. 
 On the same day, immediately after this service, the commit- 
 tee appointed by Presbytery organized the church with forty- 
 eight members, all of whom presented letters of dismission 
 from other churches, from the first church of Cranbury, the 
 Old Tennent church, the village church of Freehold, and from 
 the First church of Millstone, (Perrineville.) Nine of these 
 members came from Old Tennent, and thirty-four came from 
 the Perrineville church. William P. Forman, John J. Ely, 
 John "W. Vanschoick, and Gilbert S. lieid were elected and 
 installed ruling elders, all of whom had been elders in the 
 Perrineville church. Rev. John Leslie Kehoo was the first 
 pastor of the Manalapan church. 
 
KEY. DONALD McLAEEj^, D.D. 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 REV. DONALD MC LAUBN, D.D. 
 
 1857—1862. 
 
 Soon after the close of Mr. VanDoren's term of service the 
 church called Rev. Joseph G. Sjmmes to its pastorate. This 
 call was dated ISTov. 25, 1856. Mr. Symmes, then preaching- 
 in Madison, Indiana, could not see his way clear to accept this 
 call. But just one generation later his second sou, as a sort 
 of belated substitute for his father, was installed pastor of the 
 church. 
 
 Rev. Douald McLaren, son of Rev. D. C. McLaren, follow- 
 ed Mr. VauDoren in the Old Tennent pulpit, being ordained 
 by the Presbytery of New Brunswick, July 1, 1857, and the 
 same day installed pastor of the church. Two months pre- 
 vious the congregation had given him a call, promising him 
 a salary of $1,000. 
 
 He was born in Caladonia, New York, March 7, 1834, and 
 was educated at Union College. He was licensed to preach 
 by the Associate Reformed Presbytery of Caladonia. Woos- 
 ter University, Ohio, conferred upon him the degree of Doctor 
 of Divinity, in 1880. 
 
 Mr. McLaren came to Old Tennent as a young man, fresh 
 from his studies in Princeton Theological Seminarj^, Avhere he 
 graduated. His pastorate continued for more than five years, 
 when he resigned on account of delicate health, and his pas- 
 toral relation was dissolved Nov. 5, 1862. His ministrations at 
 Tennent were crowned with blessings. Steadily year by year, 
 numbers were added to the church, and the congregation 
 built up. The goodly number of infant baptisms each year 
 gave promise of ingatherings for the future. Missionary be- 
 nevolence was somewhat increased ; and when Mr. McLaren 
 left, the communicants numbered three hundred and fifty-one. 
 
84 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 On May 20, 1858, some time after Mrs. Eoy's death, the 
 congregation purchased of the heirs of Eev. Robert Roy, 
 through Bennington P. Randolph (one of the Masters of the 
 Court of Chancery,) what had been the " Roy Parsonage." 
 It contained nine and one-half acres of land with a house 
 thereon, and the price paid was |2,050. Extensive repairs 
 were made on this property, bringing the whole cost up to 
 $4,334.90. Here Dr. McLaren lived during his ministry at 
 Old Tennent. 
 
 Dr. McLaren has served as a chaplain in the United States 
 liavy for more than thirty years. He still lives (1897.) 
 
 In April 1859, the congregation resolved at their annual 
 meeting that the Sesson House Public School District should 
 be allowed a location on the ground of the church on which to 
 build a new school house ; while the School District was to al- 
 low the congregation to use the new house from time to time 
 iis a sort of compensation for the occupancy of the ground. 
 
 SINGING AND MUSIC. 
 
 There is no record of the fact, yet nevertheless it is most 
 probably true that there was a precentor who led the' congre- 
 gation in singing, and lined out the hymns and psalms in the 
 early days, according to the Scottish custom. It is an ances- 
 tral tradition that Peter Forman " led the singing in the 
 church for some years after it was first used for the public 
 worship." (Foreman Records, p. 25.) 
 
 June 1797, Jonathan Forman, William McChesney, Thomas 
 Coock & David Sutphin were appointed as Clerks " In Read- 
 ing & Singing Such Psalms as they Shall Se Proper Or Are 
 Directed to be Sang by the Pastor Or Proper oflicers of Sd. 
 Church." And on April 10, 1799, the congregation resolved 
 " That whereas for some time past the Clerks' of the Congre- 
 gation have been directed to sing the first psalm on the intro- 
 duction of public worship without reading the line, they be 
 directed in fnture to have the line of the first psalm read and 
 to sing the second psalm without reading." From this it 
 might appear that all hymns sung in the church were called 
 
REV. DONALD McLAREN", D.D. 85 
 
 " psalms," or that the congregation in those days sang only 
 psalms. 
 
 In a congregational meeting held May 28, 1805, it was " Re- 
 solved tiiat It be requested that the Tunes which make part 
 of the Public worship be sang without the use of the pitch 
 pipe. Resolved that it is the sence of this meeting that all 
 Psalms which shall be sung during Public worship shall be 
 raised or carried from the desk or square." 
 
 Again, in April 1824, William Sutphen, John T. Woodhull, 
 M. D., John W". Maxwell, IT. S. Rue, and Hugh McChesney 
 were " appointed Clerks, to raise & Carry the sacred musick 
 in the church." 
 
 Later than this, it is known, that there were three men 
 who acted as precentors. They stood in the lower pulpit of 
 the square, gave the pitch and led the singing. These men 
 were John T. Woodhull, M. D., IS'athaniel S. Rue, and David 
 Sutphen ; Dr. Woodhull leadings and the other two assisting. 
 
 After this a choir of singers was formed, during the minis- 
 try of Mr. VanDoren. This choir was organized and led by 
 Dr. John T. Woodhull ; and it stood in the gallery opposite 
 the pulpit. 
 
 Still later than this, Edward Redfield, a professor of music, 
 was engaged by the congregation to lead the choir for a year, 
 and teach a singing school for six months. This singing 
 school was held on Saturday evenings in the church building. 
 Mr. Redfield led the choir during church services with a vio- 
 lin, and the choir stood in the south gallery opposite the pulpit. 
 
 The next step in the history of church music in Old Ten- 
 nent was the leading of the choir by C. Augustus Craig. He, 
 and his brother James, used violins, and were accompanied 
 with a violoncello, a clarionet and a flute. There were about 
 twenty singers in this choir, and it was still stationed in the 
 gallery. 
 
 About 1856 a melodeon was purchased by the congregation. 
 It was of the Estey & Green manufacture. C. Augustus Craig 
 was the chorister, and his brother, James B. Craig, was the 
 first to play this melodeon in the leading of the choir music. 
 
86 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 This modest melodeoii was the first musical instrument of the' 
 organ character that the church possessed : though previous- 
 ly it had purchased a violoncello and a clarionet for the use of 
 the choir orchestra. The raelodeon was placed in the gal- 
 lery. 
 
 Later, about 1872, a Mason and Hamlin pedal organ with 
 two manuals was purchased. C. Augustus Craig was the first 
 to use this as an organist. This organ was set in the gallery; 
 but about 1878 it was moved to thelower floor, into the square 
 in front of the pulpit. 
 
 The last step in the history of music iu Old Tennent was 
 made in 1890. A pipe organ was built by M. P. Moller, of 
 Hagerstown, Md., under order of the congregation. This was 
 made a one manual organ with five octaves, eight full regis- 
 ters, and four hundred and forty-two pipes. It was used in 
 the church service for the first time, on Sunday Dec. 14, 1890, 
 having been placed in a recess built especially for the purpose 
 on the west side of the pulpit. J. Chalmers Rue was the first 
 to use this organ as an organist in leading the choir. 
 
 There have been other men who led the choir, and there 
 were women organists at different times, whose names have 
 not been mentioned in the above list. Simply the chief fea- 
 tures in the story of Old Tennent's church singing and music 
 have here been given. 
 
 Watts' Hymn Book was used by the church in the early 
 part of this nineteenth century. About the time Dr. John T. 
 Woodhull formed the choir in the church, the hymn book en- 
 titled " Psalms and Hymns," published by the Presbyterian 
 Board of Publication, was introduced and was used for about 
 thirty years until 1875, when the church began to use a hymn 
 book having both tunes and hymns, and styled " Hymns and 
 Songs of Praise." This book is still in use in the church. 
 
REV. ARCHIBALD P. COBB. 
 (Kindness of Rev. G. B. F. Hallock.; 
 
REV. ARCHIBALD PARRITT COBB. 87 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 REV. ARCHIBALD PARRITT COBB. 
 1863—1881. 
 
 The twelfth pastor of Old Teniient was Rev. Archibald P. 
 Cobb, a man of plain habits, active mind, and earnest heart. 
 Parsippany, New Jersey, was the place of his birth, ISTov. 9, 
 1821. His parents were Henry Cobb and Maria Baldwin, 
 (maiden name.) His father was a farmer. The Christian 
 life of his godly mother, who presented all her children for 
 baptism in their youth, manifestly marked the character of 
 his mature years. At thirteen years of age he went to work 
 in a store in Madison, N. J., and afterwards in a dry-goods 
 store in l^ewark. Subsequently he held a position in the 
 wholesale dry-goods store of H. B. Claflin & Co., New York 
 City. He was converted in the twenty-second year of his age, 
 and united with the church of his mother's early life, the First 
 Presbyterian, of Newark, IST. J. Immediately he decided to 
 study for the gospel ministry. Returning home he prepared 
 for college, under the tutelage of Rev. John Eord, and enter- 
 ed Princeton in 1847 in the Sophomore class. Here he stood 
 in the foremost rank as a scholar, being one of the Junior 
 Orators in 1849, and graduating with the highest honors of 
 his class in 1850. In the autumn of that year he entered the 
 Theological Seminary at Princeton, and continued his studies 
 in that institution for two years. Having it then in mind 
 that he would enter upon Foreign Mission work, he spent the 
 third year of his course at Union Seminary, New York City, 
 that he might attend medical lectures in connection with his 
 theological studies. He was licensed to preacli by the Pres- 
 bytery of Newark, April 20, 1853. From 1853 to 1854 he 
 was a tutor in mathematics in Princeton College, and at the 
 same time he acted as Stated Supply to the "Witherspoon 
 
88 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Street church (colored) iu Princeton. April 19, 1854 he was 
 ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Newark. His 
 first pastorate Avas in the Southwark Mission church in Phila- 
 delphia, being installed there Dec. 23, 1855. Here he re- 
 mained for six years in successful labors in the gospel. Then 
 he withdrew from the active pastorate, and for two years re- 
 mained without charge on account of impaired health. His 
 last and longest pastorate was in the pulpit of Old Teunent, 
 over which church he was installed pastor August 8, 1863, 
 and continued thus for seventeen years and a half until his 
 death Feb. 26, 1881. Among the last words he said was the 
 cry " Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." At his funeral ser- 
 vice a large concourse of friends and parishioners gathered in 
 his spacious dwelling house, and then bore his body to rest in 
 the cemetery by the church. A granite boulder, smoothed 
 on one side, and inscribed with his name and dates of birth 
 and death, surmounts his grave. 
 
 Mr. Cobb married Miss Marianna C. Brown, daughter of 
 Robert J. Brown, of New York. She with two daughters 
 survived him. 
 
 The session of the church with whom he had been many 
 years so happily associated, adopted, among others, the fol- 
 lowing resolution of respect : " That we record with rever- 
 ence and sincere affection, our admiration of his eminent tal- 
 ents and learning, his fervid eloquence and great earnestness, 
 his consecration to the cause of Christ and our good, his la- 
 bors most abundant in season and out of season, his powerful 
 pulpit utterances, his kindness to the poor, his charity and 
 faithfulness toward all." This same higli esteem was felt by 
 his ministerial brethren, as expressed by the Historian of Mon- 
 mouth Presbytery writing a biographical sketch of Mr. Cobb 
 and saying " Here (at Tennent) he gave himself to the work 
 of preaching the Gospel with a zeal seldom equalled, never 
 excelled. * * * Jjjg friends said he did too much ; his 
 people say ' we never asked him to do so much ; ' he himself 
 felt he never could do enough." (J. Q. S.) Such tributes are 
 unusual, and all the more so because so very truthful. 
 
REV. ARCHIBALD PAKRITT COBB. 89 
 
 Mr. Cobb was a man of excellent parts, and of indefatigable 
 labors. He possessed splendid gifts in preaching, and some- 
 times seemed almost inspired. During the Sabbath day, and 
 through all the week following, the number of services he at- 
 tended and conducted, and the long list of pastoral calls he 
 made, were enough to appall and exhaust most men ; except 
 one like him, who apparently possessed an abundant store of 
 nervous energy and a strong physicial constitution. It seemed 
 as though nothing could daunt his spirit, nor still his activity, 
 until his last sickness shut him in his home. 
 
 Oct. 23, 1867, Mr. Cobb and his wife purchased of the con- 
 gregation, what was known as the" Roy Parsonage," of which 
 mention has been made before. On this property he gave a 
 mortgage to the congregation in the sum of |3,000. But the 
 congregation allowed Mr. Cobb to hold this amount free of 
 interest as long as he remained their pastor, presumably in 
 lieu of a parsonage. After his death his heirs paid this mort- 
 gage to the trustees of the church. 
 
 This " Roy Parsonage " house Mr. Cobb finely remodelled 
 and greatly enlarged. But it had scarcely been finished and 
 handsomely furnished, than it was burned to the ground, on 
 a Sunday afternoon, July 25, 1869. Besides the great loss 
 that thus came to Mr Cobb, the church also suffered the irre- 
 parable loss of most all its sessional records, which lamentably 
 subtracts from the writing of a more interesting and complete 
 history of the church. 
 
 Afterwards, Mr. Cobb and his wife erected a larger house 
 near the same spot, and in this house he lived until his death. 
 After the burning of the first house the congregation made 
 Mr. Cobb a gift of |3,000, out of a mortgage which they held 
 at that time on the old parsonage farm. This was as an en- 
 couragement for him to rebuild, and an inducement for him 
 to remain as their pastor. Nothing ever drew him away from 
 this people, though at one time he received an enticing call 
 from another church, prominent in position and oiFering a 
 large salary. 
 
 An idea of the size and condition of the Old Tennent con- 
 
90 HISTORY OE OLD TEl^TNENT. 
 
 gregatioii about this time may be obtained from a record made 
 by Mr. Cobb in the minutes of session. This record was the 
 result of a careful visitation, made in 1870, after the burning 
 of the old records, and with the design of iinding "exact 
 names of church members, what children have been baptized, 
 what number of families visited by the pastor and identified 
 in general with his pastoral care." It is as follows : — " Entire 
 number in the congregation 1,660. Adults 983; Children and 
 Youths, 677; Families, 412; Church members, 390; Baptized 
 children and youths 267. Those who should present letters 
 of admission to the church membership, 27. Those who 
 should be encouraged to profess faith in Christ, 23. Children 
 ■ of Parents professing which were not baptized, 70. Children 
 not baptized of Parents who should profess their faith in 
 Christ (i. e.) be counselled to do so, 30. Members of our 
 church in Englishtown village, 74. Baptized children in Eng- 
 lishtown, 55. Members of our church in Freehold, 17. Bap- 
 tized children there, 5." 
 
 The communion membership of the church was greatly in- 
 creased by Mr. Cobb's labors. The spiritual results of his 
 ministr}' in Old Tennent cannot be measured nor counted. 
 The records of the ingatherings are beyond the usual. While 
 he was pastor, five hundred and one persons united with the 
 church, of whom three hundred and eighty-eight were on 
 confession of their faith. There was not a single year of his 
 pastorate in which there were no accessions to the church. 
 
 Six was the lowest number of any one year, and one hun- 
 dred and forty-two the highest. This blessed revival time oc- 
 curred in 1876, which year the membership of the church 
 numbered four hundred and eighty, the largest number ot 
 members at any one time during the incumbency of Mr. Cobb, 
 and within one of the largest number the church ever had in 
 one j-ear during its history. The record of ingatherings dur- 
 ing eacli year of his pastorate, as reported to Presbytery at 
 the regular spring meetings, is remarkable for its repeatedly 
 large additions, and deserves a place in the written history of 
 the church. It is the following : — 
 
REY. AECHIBALD PAREITT COBB. 91 
 
 ADDED ADDED TOTAL 
 
 YEAR. - ON EXM. ON CERTF. COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 1864 14 7 339. 
 
 1865 53 5 380. 
 
 1866 25 5 382. 
 
 1867 13 5 382. 
 
 1868 44 16 421. 
 
 1869 16 6 420. 
 
 1870 15 2- ■ 403. 
 
 1871 9 5 400. 
 
 1872 15 10 410. 
 
 1873 1 6 350. 
 
 1874 18 11 371. 
 
 1875 4 3 265. 
 
 1876 130 12 480. 
 
 1877 6 5 300. 
 
 1878 6 2 350. 
 
 1879 13 4 300. 
 
 1880 4 5 300. 
 
 1881 2 4 300. 
 
 Mr. Cobb, being a man of fine musical taste and ability, a 
 great lover of song and an excellent singer, labored for the 
 best development of praise in his congregation. lie made a 
 searching study of the diiFerent hymn books with notes pub- 
 lished for use in congregational singing, and decided in favor 
 of the one entitled " Hymns and Songs of Praise." This book 
 was introduced into the church to take the place of the old 
 hymn book, in the year 1875 ; and the school houses in which 
 Mr. Cobb preached also had a supply of the same style of 
 books. It was his custom to conduct evening singing services 
 in Englishtown, when the tunes of the church hymn book 
 were practiced. These singing services were largely attended 
 and enthusiastically conducted. 
 
 "While at all times the preaching of Mr. Cobb was energetic 
 and attractive, some of his sermons were more prominent than 
 others in the minds and memories of his listeners. His ser- 
 
92 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 mon on the life, character, and death of Rev. William Ten- 
 nent, Jr., preached in the church in 1877, — a sermon on the 
 one hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Monmouth, preach- 
 ed in the church to a large gathering of people on a Sunday 
 morning in June, 1878, — also a sermon on a comparison be- 
 tween Alexander the Great and Paul the Apostle preached in 
 Freehold, — and a sermon on the subject of Tempei-ance, 
 preached in Englishtowii a few months before his death, were 
 among the most thrilling, impressive, and memorable of his 
 Tennent pastorate. 
 
 ENGLISHTOWN CHURCH. 
 
 After Mr. Cobb had been at Tennent for thirteen years, a 
 considerable portion of the congregation was formed into a 
 separate church at Englishtowu. Preaching services had 
 been maintained in this place for some years in connection 
 with Old Tennent, and a building had been erected in which 
 the meetings were held. In 1876 a petition for the organiza- 
 tion of a church was presented to Monmouth Presbytery by 
 residents of Englishtown and vicinity. After deliberation on 
 the matter, through a committee appointed to visit English- 
 town, Presbytery granted this request, and accordingly a 
 Presbyterian church was organized there, Thursday, Dec. 14, 
 1876. Of the committee on orgauization, there were present : 
 Rev. Benjamin S. Everitt, (Moderator of the Presbytery at 
 that time, and chairman of the committee,) Rev. J. M. An- 
 derson, and Rev. Rufus Taylor, D.D., with elders Ezekiel 
 Silvers and William R. Murphy. Fifty-seven members from 
 Old Tennent and one from the First Church of Cranbury, IST. 
 J., were enrolled as charter members of the church. Four 
 elders were chosen and ordained, Charles H. VauDerveer, 
 Andrew S. Sickles, Matthew Rue, Jr., and William C. Lef- 
 ferts. Soon after its organization this church secured the ser- 
 vices of Rev. Donald McLaren, a former pastor of Old Ten- 
 nent. Thus it will be noticed that the history of the forma- 
 tion and early life of the church at Englishtown is very simi- 
 lar to that of " The Village Church at Freehold." 
 
1 
 
 PULPIT OF OLD TENNENT CHURCH IN 1895. 
 (Kindness of Rev. H. G. Smith.) 
 
REV. ARCHIBALD PARRITT COBB. 93 
 
 God's gracious providence to the congregation of Old Ten- 
 nent was manifested in the preservation of their historic sanc- 
 tuary from a threatened devastation. The church was struck 
 by lightning on Thursday, Aug. 1, 1878, at nine o'clock in the 
 evening, and set on fire. Through the prompt energy of Lem- 
 uel Bedle and a few of the near neighbors, the building was 
 preserved from distruction. The session in behalf of the con- 
 gregation adopted resolutions of thanks and commendation to 
 Lemuel Bedle, John Snyder, Luther D. Bugbee, John R. 
 Sutphen and others " for their instant attention and zeal in ar- 
 resting the burning." It seemed a providential provision that 
 R. Perrine Craig, the sexton, had that very evening placed a 
 barrel under one of the corner pipes of the church for the pur- 
 pose of collecting water for the use of those desiring to water 
 flowers in their grave plots. The water collected in this bar- 
 rel from the same thunder shower that brought the lightning 
 stroke contributed largely if not made it a possibility to the ex- 
 tinguishing of the flames. 
 
 The trustees were authorized by the congregation in 1868 to 
 move the horse-sheds to a more desirable location. These 
 sheds at that time stood close along the public road to the 
 west of the church. Accordingly they were removed to the 
 opposite side of the church, on the low ground running along 
 the east side of the church-yard, the work being done by 
 Rezeau Brown. At the same time the grounds of the 
 church were graded and improved. A carriage road was laid 
 out in front of the sanctuary so that after this, though not 
 before, carriages could be driven up to the very door of the 
 church. 
 
 The people of Old Tennent deserve credit for their con- 
 stant and careful repairing of the old sanctuary ; without which 
 care it would long since have crumbled to the ground. Each 
 year added to its history endears the old building and yard to 
 the ohurch people, adds to its value as a sacred heritage, and 
 increases its interest to visitors. It has sufl'ered somewhat 
 from vandal hands ; so much so indeed that the church peo- 
 ple in 1867 resolved to give notice of caution against disfigur- 
 
94 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 ing the church seats in the gallery ; and to procure signs warn- 
 ing persons who visit the church not to mutilate it by tearing 
 off pieces of shingles from the inclosure. To this old build- 
 ing and its little high pulpit Mr. Cobb became more and more 
 attached, loving it as an endeared home. In its preservation 
 he ever took a keen interest, and also in the improvement of 
 the surrounding grounds. 
 
 The church people, and those of neighboring communities 
 cherished the memory of Mr. Cobb long and beloved ; which 
 fact together with his successful labors and earnest faithful- 
 ness combines to emphasize what once was said of him, that 
 he Avas not unlike his illustrations predecessor of a century be- 
 fore, the famous William Tennent, Jr. 
 
KEV. GEORGE GARDINER SMITH. 95 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 REV. GEORGE GARDNER SMITH. 
 
 1881—1885. 
 
 On May 30, 1881, the congregation extended a call to Rev. 
 George G. Smith, a native of Pennsylvania, born at Pitts- 
 burgh, Nov. 22, 1838. In the call was promised him a salary 
 of $1,000 and house rent free. Mr. Smith graduated at Wil- 
 liams College, Mass., 1861, and at Western Theological Semi- 
 nary, 1867. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Carlisle, 
 1868. His installation at Old Tennent took place June 27, 
 1881; and he continued pastor here until April 1, 1885. 
 
 One of the most beneficial accomplishments of his ministry 
 at Tennent was the organizing and establishing of a Woman's 
 Missionary Society. It was organized Oct. 8, 1881, and for 
 the purpose of interesting the women of Tennent church in 
 Home and Foreign Missions, as well as in the work of all the 
 Assembly's Boards. This society' is still in fiourishing opera- 
 tion, meeting twice each month from October to April, in dif- 
 ferent homes of the families of the congregation. It has ac- 
 complished much good in the church; and is this day an ef- 
 ficient means toward increasing Tennent's benevolences. Dur- 
 ing the summer months this society devotes its collected funds 
 to the aid of its own church. 
 
 The money which Mr. Cobb's estate returned to the trustees 
 of the church after his death was used in the purchase of the 
 home of James Rue, who had died a few years previously and 
 who was an elder in the church. The date of purchase was 
 October 22, 1881, and the amount paid for the property was 
 $2,643.50. This house is situated about one mile south of the 
 church on a beautiful eminence one hundred and thirty-one 
 feet above mean sea level ; and it has four acres of ground 
 attached. This has been the parsonage of the church from 
 
96 HISTORY OP OLD TEISTNENT. 
 
 the time of its purchase, where all the pastors since that time 
 have resided, Mr. Smith being the first to occupy it. 
 
 Fifty-one people united with the communion of the church 
 during the pastorate of Mr. Smith ; and when he left the 
 church its membership numbered two hundred and ninet}^- 
 ■five. Mr. Smith still lives. 
 
REV. ROBERT CRAWFORD HALLOOK. 97 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 REV. ROBERT CRAWFORD HALLOCK, I'H.D. 
 
 1885—1889. 
 
 The congregation made out a call to Robert C. Hallock, 
 Sept. 3, 1885, with an annual compensation of $1,000 and free 
 use of parsonage and lot. Mr. Hallock was born at HoUiday's 
 Cove, West Virginia, ISTov. 9, 1857. He graduated at Prince- 
 ton College, 1882, and also at Princeton Theological Semi- 
 nary 1885. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Monmouth 
 Oct. 16, 1885, in session in the Old Tennent church, and the 
 same day installed its pastor. Like a number of precedino- 
 pastors his first charge was in Old Tennent. Here he contin- 
 ued for four years, until ISTov. 19, 1889, when he removed to 
 become pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Southampton, 
 Long Island. 
 
 Mr. Hallock, during his pastorate, published a paper in the 
 interest of the Tennent church, chiefly for congregational 
 reading. At the first it was issued monthly, and afterwards 
 every week. This paper was named " The Old Tennent." 
 It was largely subscribed to b}' the church people, was greatly 
 enjoyed, and was the means of doing much good throughout 
 the congregation. 
 
 The preaching of Mr. Hallock was spirited and much liked 
 by his people. His pastorate, though quiet and short, was 
 blessed with happy results. Seventy-six persons united with 
 the church during his ministry of four years ; and the church's 
 gifts to Home and Foreign Missions increased. 
 
 In 1888, Mr. Hallock received the well-earned degree of 
 Doctor of Philosophy from the University of New York. He 
 is now pastor of the Presbyterian church, at Clinton, IST. Y. 
 where he was installed Jan. 20, 1897. 
 
 7 
 
98 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 REV. FRANK ROSEBROOK SYMMES. 
 1890— 
 
 The present find fifteenth pastor of the church is Rev. Frank 
 R. Symmes. On Feb. 18, 1890, he was installed at Old Ten- 
 nent, b}' the Presbytery of Monmouth, and in this office he 
 still continues. 
 
 A Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor was form- 
 ed in the church in 1890. . On Oct 17, of that year the organ- 
 ization was completed in the adoption of the Constitution _ and 
 By-Laws which had been drawn up by a committee previous- 
 ly appointed. The officers of the Society had been elected 
 Oct. 9, and these first otficers were George L. DuBois, Presi- 
 dent ; Miss Mamie V. Rue, Vice-President ; Miss S. Jennie 
 Reid, Recording Secretary ; W. Harvey Reid, Treasurer; and 
 Augustus Reid, Corresponding Secretary. The organization 
 started in October with fifteen active members, and by the 
 close of the following December this number had increased to 
 thirty-three. The custom of the Young People's Society has 
 been to hold prayer meetings in the church every second Sun- 
 day evening. 
 
 During the autumn of 1892 a fire-proof safe was purchased 
 from The Lytic Safe & Lock Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio. It was 
 procured through a generous deal of Daniel S. Aumack. In 
 this safe the records and papers of the church are preserved. 
 To this collection, historical materials concerning Old Ten- 
 nent, have continually been added, and more are earnestly so- 
 licited as they may be discovered from time to time in the old 
 desks, closets and attics of friends of the church. 
 
OLD TENJSTENT CEMETERY. 99 
 
 OLD TENNENT CEMETERY. 
 
 Soon after the first sanctuary was built on White Hill, a 
 cemetery began to form around it. There was room for bur- 
 ials here considering that the first lot of ground was one acre 
 in extent. Yet long after the second and present Tennent 
 church was built on White Hill, some of the most prominent 
 families in the congregation continued to bury their dead in 
 the Old Scots yard, though evidently they attended service at 
 White Hill. This perhaps was owing to the fact that they 
 early had family grave-plots there, and that .thej' cherished 
 sacred memories of the early rugged church in the wilder- 
 ness. 
 
 The date of death marking the earliest tomb-stone in Old 
 Tennent cemetery is Oct. 27, 1744. This stone stands over 
 the grave of John Mattison, who died in his twenty-third year. 
 Possibly there were burials around the church on White liill 
 previous to 1744, and like many others since, the graves have 
 become obliterated or cannot be identified. From this date 
 burials have continued to be made in Old Tennent's yard, 
 and here grave-stones mark burials of the dead for almost 
 every jear from 1744 down to the present. 
 
 The diagram given here of the early lots of Old Tennent 
 cemetery was taken from an old map. The figure on the 
 north end of the first acre shows the church building; that in 
 the southwest corner is evidently meant for the old log school 
 house; and that in the southeast corner possibly indicates a 
 horse-shed, or more probably the well that once stood near that 
 spot. The letters at the corners obviously refer to the sort of 
 oak that marked the line. The fact of this ground beins; cov- 
 ered with oak trees possibly explains the name " White Hill," 
 perhaps meaning " White-oak Hill." 
 
 As time went on more land was added to the original lot. 
 The trustees of Old Tennent, or those acting as trustees at 
 that time, purchased from William Ker one acre of land,' the 
 original site on which the church now stands. The deed for 
 this plot of ground was dated May 1, 1731, and the price paid 
 was " One Shilling Current Money of the province." Dec. 1; 
 
100 
 
 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 1764, two and eighteen hundredths acres were purchased from 
 Jonathan lihea, and the price paid was £17. .8.. 10. John An- 
 derson, Deptj'. Surveyor, protracted a _map of the church 
 ground at this time. The ground was covered with white, 
 black, and red oak trees. Then again Oct. 11, 1803, one and 
 
 plan of the early lots of Old Tenuent Cemetery. 
 
 ten hundredths acres were purchased from- Lewis Perrine, for 
 the sum of $29.34. The church and grave-yards now con- 
 tained four and tweutj^-eight hundredths acres. This was sur- 
 veyed by John L. Anderson, Deputy' Surveyor, on the same 
 day in which the deed was given. May 3, 1841, one and nine 
 
OLD TENNENT CEMETERY. 101 
 
 hundredths acres were bought of John I. Conover, for |43.60 ; 
 and again May 10, 1849, fifty-nine hundredths of an acre from 
 William McChesney, for $38.35. Oct. 25, 1867, the largest 
 purchase of ground was made. It was bought of Miss Anna 
 Mary Gordon, for |1,600, and contained 9.05 acres. Dec. 18, 
 1868, the trustees of the church purchased of John M. Per- 
 rine, 1.70 acres, for $340. These probably embrace most, if 
 not all, the purchases of land that were made, and this last ad- 
 dition increased the size of the church grounds to 16.71 acres. 
 About one year subsequent to this, 4.13 acres on the north 
 end of the yard were sold to Ellison E. Clinton, for $400. 
 Thus according to this list of purchases, the present church 
 grounds are very ample, and ofter wide room for desirable 
 burial plots to those wishing to secure them. Of these plots 
 the sexton of the yard takes special care, when' their owners 
 have made such arrangements with him. 
 
 In former years, a well stood about one hundred yards south 
 of the east door of the church. It has now been closed up for 
 some years, and the ground over it occupied by the grave- 
 yard. . The site of this well was not far from " "William Ker's 
 Barrs." A map of the old part of the cemetery was made by 
 A. B. Ammerman. It was begun in 1852, and it shows the 
 location of all the graves at that time. Mr. Ammerman also 
 made a list of the names of all persons buried in this old por- 
 tion of the cemetery, giving also, the age and date of death, 
 and indicating whether or not a stone marks the grave. But 
 some of the graves could not be identified, and evidently some 
 were obliterated and therefore may never be known. The 
 portion of the cemetery known as " The New Part" embraces 
 the ground purchased from Miss Gordon, and covers between 
 four and five acres. The first grave opened in this new por- 
 tion was that of John M. Perrine, in September, 1870. 
 
 In past years a public highway (carriage road) ran on the 
 west and north of the church grounds, bet^veen what is now 
 the old and the new part of the cemetery. But in response to 
 an application made by Robert E. Craig and others to the 
 Court, it was ordered that this piece of road should be vacated 
 
102 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 and dosed to the public in April, 1867. The road, trom which 
 the vacated piece was cut off', was opened into the Manalapan 
 and Patten's Corner turn-pike further to the north, dividing 
 the land owned by Matthew Rue Gordon. 
 
 These burial grounds have been repaired and improved from 
 time to time by the congregation. It is at present the custom 
 for the men of the congregation once a year to gather in the 
 yard and mow and rake it. Besides this the sexton is contin- 
 ually repairing it, and, as has been said, takes special care of 
 such plots, whose owners make a private agreement with him 
 to do so. The grounds are increasing in beauty and value, 
 and in historic interest and sacred memories. 
 
 A large proportion of Old Tennent's members have been 
 laid in this tranquil resting place ; and manj- persons make 
 journey's to this " God's acre " in memory of and in sorrow 
 over departed friends. It is indeed a sacred spot, hallowed in 
 many minds, and endeared to many hearts. From different 
 and distant places the children of this church are being brought 
 for burial among the scenes of their youth in this rural grave- 
 ground. A large " city of the dead" is extending its white 
 and gray stones over these peaceful acres. And we of the liv- 
 ing are shortly expecting to come to the undisturbed repose in 
 this s'epulchre of our fathers. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 LIST OF PASTORS. 
 
 FULL NAME. 
 
 ORDAINED. 
 
 INSTALLED. 
 
 DISMISSED. 
 
 John Boyd..'. 
 
 Joseph Morgan 
 
 John Tenneut ; 
 
 William Tennent, Jr 
 
 John WoodhuU, D.U 
 
 Job Foster Halsey, D.D 
 
 Robert Roy 
 
 Daniel Veech McLean, D.D 
 
 James Clark, D.D 
 
 Luther Halsey Van Doren 
 
 Donald McLaren, D.D 
 
 Archibald Parritt Cobb 
 
 George Gardner Smith 
 
 Robert Crawford Hallock, Ph.D. 
 Frank Rosebrook Symmes 
 
 Dec. 2g, 
 
 Nov. 1 9, 
 Oct. 25, 
 Aug. I, 
 June 14, 
 
 1706 
 1700 
 1730 
 
 1733 
 1770 
 1826 
 
 Nov. 19, 
 Oct. 25, 
 
 June 14, 
 Feb. 18, 
 Nov. 16, 
 Nov. 8, 
 June 17, 
 July I, 
 Aug. 8, 
 June 27, 
 Oct. 16, 
 Feb. 18, 
 
 1710 
 
 1730 
 1733 
 1779 
 1826 
 1829 
 I8ii2 
 1837 
 1840 
 1857 
 1863 
 1881 
 1885 
 
 1729 
 
 Aug. 30, 1708. 
 
 March 5, 1828 
 
 Nov. 8, 1836 
 
 Oct. 2, 1839 
 
 July 5, 1856 
 
 Nov. 5, 1862 
 
 April 23, 1732. 
 March 8, 1777. 
 Nov. 22, 1824. 
 
 Mch. 15, 1832. 
 
 April I, 1885 
 Nov. ig, 1889 
 
 Feb. 26, 1881. 
 
 II. 
 
 LIST OF ELDERS. 
 
 [ This list of the names of Elders in the Old Tennent Church was made with much care 
 and labor. It is doubtless not fully complete. Some names may be omitted, only because 
 nothing is now known of them. And this list may not be absolutely correct, since a few 
 names are placed here on the ground of strong inference aud association rather than 
 direct statement ; such names being given the benefit of the probability. The dates of 
 ordination are given, or are put as early and near to the correct time as could be ascer- 
 tained with certainty ; yet they may not be strictly accurate in every case. Because of 
 lost records and the silence of the pa-st it is probable that this list, with those of the Dea- 
 cons and Trustees, will never be fully completed.] 
 
 1730 Walter Ker. 
 
 1730 John Hutton. 
 
 1 73 1 Charles Gordon. 
 
 1734 Robert Cumming-. 
 
 1735 David Rhe. 
 1735 John Henderson. 
 1745 Capt. John Anderson. 
 1745 Joseph Ker. 
 
 1763 Aaron, Mattison. 
 
 1764 William Cowenhoven. 
 
 1768 Derrick Sutphin. 
 
 1769 Peter Foreman. 
 
 1776 John Baird. 
 
 1787 Thomas Henderson, M. D. 
 
 1788 John Craig. 
 
 1788 David Forman. 
 
 1789 Jacob Wyckoff. 
 
 1790 Peter Johnston. 
 1792 John Covenhoven. 
 
 1794 Thomas Cook. 
 
 1795 Peter Wyckoff. 
 179s Kenneth Anderson. 
 1798 William Johnson. 
 1798 Joseph Sutfin. 
 
104 
 
 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 1798 Ruleff Vanderveer. 
 
 1846 George S. Woodhull. 
 
 1798 John Dey. 
 
 1849 James Rue. 
 
 1804 John Rue. 
 
 1849 Robert E. Craig. 
 
 1805 Samuel Forman, M. D. 
 
 1850 John B. Johnson. 
 
 1805 Woolsey Baldwin. 
 
 185 1 Asher Tunis. 
 
 1805 Ruleff P. Schenck. 
 
 1856 Joseph H. Sutphin. 
 
 1805 John I. Raid. 
 
 1859 R. Perrine Craig. 
 
 1806 Ezekiel Gordon. 
 
 1859 Cornelius E. Dey. 
 
 1822 William Davis. 
 
 186 Garret B. Conover. 
 
 1822 Robert Conover. 
 
 186 Joseph Combs. 
 
 1822 John T. Woodhull, M. D. 
 
 186 Enoch Ely. 
 
 1822 Nathaniel S. Rue. 
 
 1876 Daniel Davison. 
 
 1822 William I. Thompson. 
 
 1876 G. Spafford Reid. 
 
 1822 William W. Dey. 
 
 i87/6Aaron L. Reid. 
 
 1828 John English. 
 
 1876 Taylor Mount. 
 
 1828 William I. Ely. 
 
 i88^^Luther D. Bugbee. 
 
 1830 Joseph L. Conover. 
 
 1884 Spencer E. Gulick. ' 
 
 1830 David B. Dey. 
 
 1887 Jacob M. Quackenbush 
 
 1831 William G. Denise. 
 
 1887 William H. Reid. 
 
 1 841 John I. Conover. 
 
 1896 George W. Stillwell. 
 
 1844 Abraham Ammerman. 
 
 1896 James B. Rogers. 
 
 III. 
 
 LIST OF DEACONS. 
 
 [This list is certainly uot complete. Possibly iu some names it may be incorrect. But 
 it is the best that can now be made. The dates are those of ordination, or as near as can 
 be accurately ascertained. 
 
 1734 William Ker. 
 
 1734 Samuel Ker. 
 
 1745 Samuel Craig. 
 
 1776 John Baird. 
 
 1788 John Craig. 
 
 1794 Thomas Cook. 
 
 1797 Joseph Sutphin. 
 
 1797 Ruleph Vanderveer. 
 
 1797 William Johnson. 
 
 1797 John Dey. 
 
 1803 Ezekiel Gordon. 
 
 1803 John Rue. 
 
 1805 Samuel Forman, M. D. 
 
 1805 Woolsey Baldwin. 
 
 1805 Peter Johnston. 
 
 1805 Ruleff P. Schenck. 
 
 1815 Denise Forman. 
 1 815 John Reid. 
 1859 G. Spafford Reid. 
 1859 William Duncan. 
 1870 John R. Sutphen. 
 1870 Gilbert Marcellus. 
 1870 Elijah Reid. 
 1870 James R. Magee. 
 1876 Jacob McElwaine. 
 1876 William Snyder. 
 1879 Luther D. Bugbee. 
 1879 Spencer E. Gulick. 
 1884 John P. English. 
 1884 Jacob M. Quackenbush. 
 1884 Charles T. Clayton. 
 1884 James L. Rue. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 IV. 
 
 105 
 
 LIST OF TRUSTEES. 
 
 [It must uot be supposed that this list is complete. But it is the best that can uow be 
 made. The dates givsu are those of the entrance into service, or as near as can be accu- 
 rately ascertained.] 
 
 1727 
 1727 
 1727 
 1727 
 1727 
 1727 
 1730 
 1731 
 1731 
 1731 
 1731 
 173s 
 1735 
 1736 
 1736 
 174s 
 1745 
 
 QUASI TRUSTEES. 
 John Johnston. 
 Peter Watson. 
 Walter Ker. 
 Patrick Imlay. 
 Archibald Creige. 
 Richard Watson, 
 William Ker. 
 Aaron Mattison. 
 David Rhe. 
 John Henderson. 
 Samuel Ker. 
 Jonathan Forman. 
 Robert Gumming. 
 John Anderson. 
 Peter Gordon. 
 Peter Forman. 
 Robert Rhe. 
 
 FIRST TRUSTEES UNDER THE GEN 
 ERAL CHARTER. 
 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 1750 
 
 John Little. 
 Christopher Longstreet. 
 Jonathan Forman. 
 John Anderson. 
 James Robinson. 
 John Henderson. 
 Stephen Pangburn. 
 Robert Imlay. 
 Tobias Polhemus. 
 
 1763 Peter Forman. 
 
 1763 Peter Imlay. 
 
 1763 David Knott. 
 
 1777 Robert Rhea. 
 
 FIRST TRUSTEES UNDER THE SEPA- 
 RATE CHARTER. 
 1787 Jacob Wikoff. 
 1787 Thomas Henderson, M. D. 
 1787 David Forman. 
 1787 Kenneth Anderson. 
 1787 Gen. David Forman. 
 
 787 John Covenhoven. 
 787 John A. Scudder, M. 
 
 D. 
 
 797 
 797 
 803 
 803 
 806 
 8x0 
 810 
 810 
 8i3 
 81S 
 816 
 818 
 818 
 818 
 8x8 
 820 
 826 
 826 
 829 
 829 
 83s 
 83s 
 83s 
 836 
 
 843 
 843 
 844 
 846 
 846 
 
 853 
 858 
 860 
 870 
 870 
 
 871 
 871 
 872 
 876 
 878 
 882 
 
 Thomas Cook. 
 
 John Craig. 
 
 Joseph Scudder. 
 
 James R. English, M. D. 
 
 Samuel Forman, M. D. 
 
 John P. Covenhoven. 
 
 Woolsey Baldwin. 
 
 John Sutfin. 
 
 Tunis Forman. 
 
 Wm. I. Covenhoven. 
 
 John McChesney. 
 
 Robert Conover. 
 
 John I. Reed. 
 
 John J. Ely. 
 
 John T. Woodhull, M. D. 
 
 James English, M. D. 
 
 James Bowne. 
 
 John I. Conover. 
 
 David R. Vanderveer. 
 
 John B. Forman. 
 
 John Suydam. 
 
 Cyrus Bruen. 
 
 Daniel Polhemus, M. D. 
 
 Arthur V. Conover, M. D. 
 
 Robert E. Craig. 
 
 David I. Vanderveer. 
 
 Jaxnes Applegate. 
 
 Joseph Combs. 
 
 Enoch Cowart. 
 
 Joseph C. Thompson, M. D. 
 
 Peter P. Clayton. 
 
 William D. Herbert. 
 
 William Perrine. 
 
 Elijah Reid. 
 
 John R. Sutphen. 
 
 George Quackenbush. 
 
 R. Perrine Craig. 
 
 Charles Quackenbush. 
 
 James F. Herbert. 
 
 W. Denise Herbert. 
 
106 
 
 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 1882 RedfordJ. Gulick. 
 1884 Charles T. Clayton. 
 1884 William H. Reid. 
 
 1884 Jacob M. Quackenbush. 
 
 1885 Spencer E. Gulick. 
 
 1885 John A. Okerson. 
 1885 James L. Rue. 
 1894 Ephraim Laird, 
 1897 John W. Craig. 
 1897 George L. DuBois. 
 
 V. 
 
 LIST OF EARLY COMMUNICANTS. 
 
 "Persons A.dmitted to the Lord's Table (besides the Session Mem- 
 bers) June 8, 1735. all the Session Present." 
 
 Robert Newal 
 & his Wife. 
 Hannah Deboogh. 
 Lydia Gordon. 
 Ann Loyd. 
 Mrs. Sarah Crawford. 
 Margaret Ker. 
 Margaret Robinson. 
 Michael Errickson. 
 Mary Cumming, 
 James Robinson. 
 Margaret Campbell. 
 John Service. 
 Hannah Hutton. 
 John Lowrey. 
 Sytie Truax. 
 ]\Iary Perrine. 
 Ann Scobie Jr. 
 John McGallird. 
 Joseph Ker. 
 
 Margaret Gordon. 
 Mary Baird Sr. 
 Rebeca Annesley. 
 
 Margaret Mount. 
 Richard Britain. 
 John Little Esqr. 
 Wid. Janet Rhe. 
 Alice Lloyd. 
 Ann Clark. 
 Elisabeth Cook. 
 Elisabeth Hampton. 
 Janet Ireland. 
 Elisabeth Ireland. 
 Hannah Lloyd. 
 Mary Craig, Jr. 
 Anne Henderson. 
 John McConnell. 
 Mrs. Mary Craig. 
 Ealeanor Kinnan. 
 Frances Van Hook. 
 William Annesley. 
 Robert Campbell, 
 Daniel Baker. 
 
 Admitted 1736. 
 
 Elisabeth Stevens. 
 Margaret English. 
 Elisabeth Ross. 
 
 James English. 
 Margaret his Wife. 
 Alice Allen. 
 John Anderson Jr. Esqr. 
 Thomas Noble. 
 Richard King. 
 Waltar Wilson. 
 John Glacking. 
 William Aduddle. 
 Hugh McFerrin. 
 Margaret his Wife. 
 Isaac Dey. 
 Elisabeth Barclay. 
 Janet McDovcall. 
 Ann Rhe. 
 Isbela Berry. 
 Rachel Mitchel. 
 Robert English. 
 Euphunea Fraizer. 
 
 David Cariile. 
 
 Admitted April 26, 1739 & Sep. 12, 1739 & Sep. 1740. 
 
 John Cariile. 
 Margaret his Wife. 
 Duncan McCay. 
 George Rhe. 
 Jonathan Combs. 
 
 James Reid. 
 Agnos his Wife. 
 Margaret Whitlock 
 Marj' Graham Jr. 
 Eleanor Newal. 
 
 May II, 1741. 
 
 Richard Stevens Esqr. William McKnight. 
 John Stevens. Patrick Brown. 
 
 John Heron. Mary Lefertson. 
 
 Catharine Ker. 
 Yana Negro Woman 
 of Wm. Cowenhoven. 
 
 Elisabeth Saltar. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 107 
 
 Peter Clark 
 
 & Grissel his Wife. 
 
 Dr. Peter Laconte 
 & Velariah his Wife. 
 
 Martha Mattison. 
 Joseph Wilson & 
 Margery his Wife. 
 Hannah (Wife of 
 Kenneth Anderson) 
 
 Philip Conine & 
 his Wife Sarah. 
 
 Sep. IS, 1743. 
 Thomas Stevens. 
 
 May 4, 1744. 
 
 Phebe Mills 
 
 wife of Richd. Mills. 
 
 Sep. 4, 1745. 
 
 Mary Noble. 
 Hugh Greg & 
 Jane his Wife. 
 John Campbell. 
 
 Kate Negro woman 
 
 Wid. Martha Cole. 
 Samuel Stelle. 
 George Edger. 
 Gertrude (Wife of 
 John Benham). 
 
 1746 May & Sept. 
 Anderson 
 
 VI. 
 
 A List of the Names of the Subscribers to the building of 
 the present Old Tennent Meeting House, with amounts 
 subscribed. 
 
 " We the Subscribers Do Promise & Bind Our Selves Our Heirs Ex- 
 ecutors and Administrators To Pay unto The Trustees of the Presby- 
 terian Church of Monmouth County or their Successors the Sum Sub- 
 scribed with Our Names for and towards the Building a House for 
 Publick Worship near the Meeting House on White Hill near William 
 Ker's which Sum We Promise to pay the one half of it when the frame 
 of Said House is Raised and the other half Six Months After Witness 
 Our Hands each Man for himself this Sixteenth Day of March 1749-50." 
 
 £ s d 
 
 Robert Gumming 10 00 
 
 James Robinson 10 00 
 
 Jonathan Forman 10 00 
 
 William Ker 7 00 
 
 John Anderson 13 00 
 
 Aaron Mattison 5 00 
 
 David Rhe 10 00 
 
 Peter Gordon 14 00 
 
 James English 5 00 
 
 Joseph Ker 5 00 
 
 William Laird 5 00 
 
 William Norcross 3 00 
 
 Thomas Davies 4 00 
 
 John Craig 4 00 
 
 William Wikofif 7 
 
 William McGalliard ... i 
 
 Peter Covenhoven 2 
 
 John Bennem 4 
 
 Sarah Reed 
 
 Jacob Cumten 
 
 Elizabeth Cumten 
 
 Thomas Cragg 3 
 
 Joseph Kinnan i 
 
 Dr. Le Conte 10 
 
 David Gordon 4 
 
 John Reed i 
 
 Timothy Lloyd 3 
 
 Rebeca Van Scihoc .... 
 
 I s 
 
 o 
 
 10 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 10 o 
 
 10 o 
 
 8 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
 o 
 
108 
 
 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 £ s d 
 
 Robert Rhe 4 
 
 William Cowenhoven, Sr. 5 
 
 William Hugan 3 
 
 Aaron Mattison, Jr 5 
 
 William VanKirk 5 
 
 Peter Forman 8 
 
 John Trueax 4 
 
 George Walker 10 
 
 Jacob Gistven 8 
 
 Samuel Ker 6 
 
 David English 5 
 
 John Lloyd 4 
 
 William Hampton 3 
 
 James Lesl j' 2 
 
 John Heiiderson 10 
 
 William Crawford 3 
 
 Phillip Conine 5 
 
 John Chambers i 
 
 John Reid i 
 
 George Rhe 2 
 
 Sarah Dick 2 
 
 Alexander Thompson ... i 
 
 Charles McCart i 
 
 James Wilson 7 
 
 George Forman 3 
 
 David English 3 
 
 James Mulligan i 
 
 Mary Eeman 
 
 Robert McGalliard i 
 
 Thomas Thompson i 
 
 James Hilcrees i 
 
 William Craig 2 
 
 Henry Guest i 
 
 Henry Strickland 
 
 Adam Bois 
 
 Samuel Forman 5 
 
 Joseph Forman 7 
 
 Thomas Robinson 
 
 Benjamin Claik 
 
 William McConcky 3 
 
 Benjamin Van Clif 2 
 
 John Clark Smyth 
 
 Richard Van Clif i 
 
 Andrew Mean 
 
 George Eggers 
 
 Mary Leffers 
 
 Garret G. Wyckoff 3 
 
 Abraham Zntven 
 
 Richard Pettinger 3 
 
 Peter Watson 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 IS 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 IS 
 
 
 
 IS 
 
 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £ s d 
 
 Elizabeth Tedrick 10 o 
 
 Garret Schanck 2 20 
 
 IMargrat Watson 100 
 
 John Beard 100 
 
 Zebulon Baird i 00, 
 
 John Lamberts i 00 
 
 Hendrick Van Vorhis . . 5 00 
 
 Mical Ericson 7 00 
 
 Henry Swinler 10 o 
 
 William Cruckshank . . i 00 
 
 William Shaw i iS o 
 
 Robert Millegin 2 00 
 
 Robert McChesney .... 3 00 
 
 John Norman 2 00 
 
 John Casmen 2 00 
 
 Charles Rhodes i 00 
 
 Peter Clark i 00 
 
 Matthew Rue. 2 00 
 
 John Burns i 00 
 
 Felix McGuire i 00 
 
 John Campbell, Jr i 00 
 
 Henderike Bennem.... 10 o 
 
 William A. Conhoven . . 5 00 
 
 John Van Clafe 2 00 
 
 John Williams........ 3 00 
 
 John Clayton 700 
 
 Abram Clayton 3 00 
 
 William Preston, Jr . . . . i 00 
 
 David Clayton 150 
 
 Ambrose Stelle 5 00 
 
 Garret Covenhoven .... i 00 
 
 Richard Jeams 176 
 
 David Clayton i 150 
 
 John Covenhoven i 00 
 
 ■John Vooris i 00 
 
 William Rue i 00 
 
 George Davison i 00 
 
 Aron Sutphen 140 
 
 John Suthen 140 
 
 John Cambers, Jr 10 o 
 
 Peter Cowenhoven 14 o 
 
 Matthias Lane 14 o 
 
 Dirik Zutphen, Jr 200 
 
 John Longstreet i iS o 
 
 Chri.stofFel Longstreet.. 14 o 
 
 Isaac Sutphen 140 
 
 William Sutphen 14 o 
 
 Diric Zutphen 3 00 
 
 Koert Schenck 3 100 
 
 Peter Lefiferts 70 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 109 
 
 £ s d 
 
 Thomas Addoms 2 00 
 
 Robert English 2 00 
 
 I 14 8 
 
 Kenneth Anderson 5 00 
 
 David Baird 3 00 
 
 Mical Killy i 100 
 
 John Fenton i 106 
 
 John Gaston 5 00 
 
 Gawin Watson 3 00 
 
 William McKiiight 4 00 
 
 Edward McVallely i 10 o 
 
 William Watson i 10 o 
 
 Joseph Grevat 100 
 
 Michael Sweetman 3 00 
 
 John Fish 100 
 
 John Reid i 00 
 
 Daube Sconland 10 o 
 
 Joseph Preston i 00 
 
 Richard Compton i 10 o 
 
 John Clayton, Jr i 10 o 
 
 Nicolas Cook 10 00 
 
 Robirt Embly i 100 
 
 John Silleman i 100 
 
 Jonathan Andeson 140 
 
 Thomas Hankeson 2 00 
 
 Joseph Newton, Jr i 00 
 
 William Truax i 00 
 
 Samuel Runan i 10 i 
 
 Samuel McConkey 3 00 
 
 William Cumpton 2 00 
 
 Andrew Davison i 80 
 
 Joseph Cheesman i 00 
 
 ■£ sd 
 
 Teunis Vanderveer .... 7 00 
 
 William Hilsee 14 o 
 
 John DeBue 150 
 
 John Cewall i 100 
 
 James Dey, Jr 140 
 
 John Dey, Sr 10 o 
 
 Michael Mount i 00 
 
 Samuel Preston i 00 
 
 Thos. Duncan of Cranbery 2 o o 
 
 William Preston, Sr. . . 3 00 
 
 Samuel Grandin 50 
 
 Guizbert Vanmatra .... i 00 
 
 Jamima Kannon 140 
 
 Violet Newell 150 
 
 James Dey 2 00 
 
 Sara Francis 80 
 
 Andrew Baird, 2,500 seder shingles. 
 
 Thomas Langdons i 00 
 
 John Newell i 00 
 
 Thomas Newton 140 
 
 John Barclay 2 00 
 
 Robert Davizon 5 00 
 
 Meran McCalaster 100 
 
 David Barclay 2 00 
 
 Elizabeth Ireland 100 
 
 Peter Knott, in Boards . 400 
 Lawrence Van Hook \^ Boards 150 
 
 Mary McCay 17 6 
 
 Margarat Wilianis 10 o 
 
 Thomas Thompson .... i 1 1 o 
 
 Joseph Emans 100 
 
 Tunis Denis 2 20 
 
 VII. 
 
 DEED FOR THE OLD SCOTS GROUND. 
 
 June i 1727. 
 
 TH9S 3NDSNTKRS made this first Day of June and in the 
 thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord George over Great 
 Brittain, &c., King, &c., Annoq Domini, one Thousand, Seven hun- 
 dred, Twenty and Seven, BETWEEN Alexander Nepier, of Free- 
 hold, in ye County of Monmouth, & Province of East New Jarsey, 
 Yeoman of ye one part, & John Johnson, Sen. Esq., Peter Watson, 
 Walter Ker, Sen., Patrick Imlay, Sen., Archibald Creige & Richard 
 
110 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Watson, all of ye Same Place and Province aforesd., Yeomen of ye 
 other Part WITNESSETH, that ye Sd. Alexander Nepier, for & 
 in consideration of a competent Sum of money to him in hand, 
 paid by ye Sd. John Johnston, Peter Watson, Walter Ker, Patrick Im- 
 lay, Archibald Creige & Richard Watson, the Receipt whereof he doth 
 hereby Acknowledge & himself therewith fully Satisfied and contented 
 & thereof & of & from every Part & Parcel thereof do fully & freely, 
 acquit. Exonerate & Discharge ye Sd. John Johnston, Peter Watson, 
 Walter Ker, Patrick Imlay, Archibald Creige & Richard Watson, their 
 & every of their Heirs, Executors & Administrators for ever by these 
 Presents, Hath Aliened, Granted, Bargained & Sold & by these Pres- 
 ents doth Alien, Grant, Bargain & Sell, unto ye Sd. John Johnston, 
 Peter Watson, Walter Ker, Patrick Imlay, Archibald Creige & Richard 
 Watson to their and every of their Heirs, Executors & Administrators, 
 for ever ; A certain tract of Land, Scituate, lying & being in the Town- 
 ship of Freehold, in the County & Province aforesd. BEGINNING at a 
 Stake wch Ij'es North, North West & two Degrees more Northerly 
 Sixteen Chains & three fourths of a Chain from Walter Benthills, 
 north East Corner along Alexander Neipers line & from ye Said line 
 due East two Chains & Seventy-one links, & running Ea.st five Chains, 
 thence North, five Chains, thence West, five Chains, thence South, 
 five Chains, to where it began, TOGETHER wth. all & all manner of 
 Buildings, Feedings, Pastures, woods, underwoods, waters, water 
 Courses, water Falls, Ponds, Pitts, Pools, Mines, Mineralls, Easements, 
 Profitts, and Commodities to the Same belonging or in any manner of 
 ways Appertaining & all the Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Reversion, 
 Remainder, Claim & Demand whatsoever of him the Sd. Alexander 
 Nepier of, in to, or out of, the Same or any part or parcel thereof, as 
 fully & Amply to all constructions. Intents & Purposes as the Same 
 was Granted and Afiirmed to me the Sd. Alexander Neiper by Deed of 
 Sale from John Reid, Esq. , Deceased of Hortensie bearing Date Febru- 
 ary the fifth Annoq Domini 1697 Entered upon Publick Record in Li- 
 ber E folio 1539. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Sd. Tract of Land & 
 Premises with their & every of their Appertenances, unto them the Sd. 
 John Johnston, Peter Watson, Walter Ker, Patrick Imlaj^, Archibald 
 Creige, and Richard Watson, their and every of their Heirs, Executrs. 
 & Administrs. to & for the Use, benefit, & behoof of them ye Sd. John 
 Johnston, Peter Watson, Walter Ker, Patrick Imlay, Archibald Creige 
 and Richard Watson their & every of their Heirs, Executrs. & Ad- 
 ministrs. for ever YEILDING 5: PAYING therefore Yearly & every 
 Year for ye Said Tract of Land unto him ye Sd. Alexander Nepier, his 
 Heirs & Assigns a corn of Peper or the value thereof at or upon every 
 25th Day of March for ever hereafter in Lieu & instead of all other 
 Services & Demands & ye Sd. Alexander Nepier doth hereby for him, 
 his Heirs, Executors & Adniinstrs. doth covenant, promise, Grant & 
 Agree to & with ye Sd. John Johnston, Peter Watson, Walter Ker, 
 Patrick Imlay, Archibald Creige & Richard Wattson & their Heirs &c. 
 that at ye time of the granting of ye Premises is Seized, of ye above 
 Sd. Tract of Land of a Sure Perfect & Absolute Estate of Inheritance 
 in ye Law, in fee Simple, & that ye Sd. Land is free from any former 
 or other Grant, Joj'nture, Dowrj', or Incumbrance whatsoever So as to 
 
APPENDIX. Ill 
 
 alter change, charge or make void the Same estate. IN WITNESS 
 whereof the Sd. Alexander Nepier hath hereunto Set his hand & Seal 
 ye Day & Year above written. 
 Signed, Sealed & Delivered 1 
 
 in the Presence of J ALEXANDER NEIPER. 
 
 John Reed. 
 
 David Rhe. 
 
 John Hepburn Junor. 
 
 [This deed is written on a large page of thick white paper. Ou the reverse side the 
 following agreement and memorandum is written] : 
 
 Before the signeing & sealing of this Deed the within Mentioned 
 persons Doth all promise that them theire heirs and Euery of them 
 shall use the said Land for a buring Yard and to Keep a prisbteran 
 Meeting and for No Other Use the sade Alexander Nipper his heires 
 Exetor shall Not be troubled with No taueran Nor No Residentar on 
 the said tract of Land Giuen Under our hands this twenty seuenth 
 Day of March In the Year of Oure Lord one thousand seven hundred 
 and twenty Eight. 
 
 WALTER KER. 
 
 ARCHIBALD CREIGE. 
 
 RICHARD WATSON. 
 
 CHARLES GORDON. 
 MEMORANDUM That on this twelfth day of November Anno Dom. 
 1741 David Rhe one of the within subscrib'd Evidences personally ap- 
 pear'd Before Me Fenwick Lyell one of His Majesty's Councill for the 
 province of New Jersey, who being sworn on the Holy Evangelists did 
 declare and depose That he was present and Saw Alexander Neiper 
 party to the within Instrument Sign Seal and as his voluntary act and 
 Deed deliver the same to the use therein mention'd, and that he sub- 
 scribd his Name as an Evidence thereof 
 Jurat die et anno supra dictis coram me. 
 
 FENW'K LYELL. 
 The within Deed is Recorded in the Secretary's oflSce at Perth Amboy 
 in Lib : F. No. 2. Page 535 &c and Examin'd. 
 
 THOS. BARTOW, Secy. 
 
 viir. 
 
 ROYAL CHARTER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 
 OF MONMOUTH COUNTY. 
 
 Granted Feb. 21, 1749. 
 
 GEORGE THE SECOND by the grace of God of Great 
 Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith 
 &c To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : 
 Whereas the advancement of true religion and virtue is ab- 
 solutely necessary for the promotion of the peace, order. 
 
112 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 and prosperity of the State ; And Whereas it is the duty of all Chris- 
 tian princes and governors by the law of God to do all they can for the 
 encouragement thereof ; And Whereas sundry of our loving subjects' 
 inhabiting within the County of Monmouth within our Colony of 
 New Jersey in behalf of themselves and others being of the Presbyterian 
 Persuasion by their humble petition presented to our trusty and well 
 beloved Jonathan Belcher, Esq. our Captain General and Governor in 
 Chief in and over our Province of New Jersey &c Chancellor and Vice 
 Admiral of the same &c in Council showing That the petitioners and 
 those of the same persuasion in the same County are very numerous 
 and consist of several churches and congregations that the most advan- 
 tageous support of religion amongst them necessarily requires that 
 some persons among them should be incorporated as Trustees for the 
 community that they may take grants of lands and chattels, thereby 
 to enable the petitioners to erect and repair public buildings for the 
 worship of God, and school houses and alms houses and for the main- 
 tainance of the ministry and poor of their churches and other ofBces of 
 piety and charity, and that the same Trustees may have power to let 
 and grant the same under a public seal for the uses aforesaid, and that 
 the same Trustees may plead and be impleaded in any suit touching 
 the premises and have perpetual succession : That also the known 
 loyalty of the petitioners and the Presbyterians in general to us their 
 firm affection to our person and government and the Protestant suc- 
 cession in our royal house gave the petitioners hopes of all reasonable 
 indulgence and favor within the same colony where the religious rights 
 of mankind are so happily preserved and where our equal grace and 
 bounty to all our Protestant faithful subjects however differing in- 
 opinion about lesser matters has hitherto been so sensibly felt and 
 enjoyed, the said petitioners therefore most humbly prayed 
 our grant of an Incorporation to the petitioners by the name of 
 THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF MON- 
 MOUTH COUNTY with all such powers capacities and privileges as 
 might be effecttial in law for the purposes aforesaid, and that John 
 Little, Jun., Christopher Longstreet, Jonathan Forman, Esq., John 
 Anderson, Esq., James Robinson, John Henderson, Stephen Pangburn, 
 Esq., Robert Imlay, and Tobias Polhemus might be the first Trustees, 
 which petition signed with the names of a large number of our faithful 
 and loving subjects belonging to the Presbyterian churches and inhab- 
 iting within the said county, we being willing to grant KNOW YE 
 that we of our especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion have 
 willed, ordained, constituted, given and granted, and by these presents 
 for us our heirs and successors do will, ordain, constitute, give and 
 grant, that John Little, Jun., Christopher Longstreet, Jonathan For- 
 man, Esq., John Anderson, Esq., James Robinson, John Henderson, 
 Stephen Pangburn, Esq., Robert Imlay, and Tobias Polhemus from 
 henceforth and their successors forever thereafter shall be and remain 
 one body politic and corporate in re facto and nomine by the name of 
 The Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Monmouth County and 
 them and their successors by the name of The Trustees of 
 the Presbyterian Church of Monmouth County one body cor- 
 porate and in re facto and nomine really and fully, we do for 
 
APPENDIX. 113 
 
 a.vs our heirs and successors erect, make, ordain, constitute, declare, 
 and create by these presents and that by that name they shall and may 
 have perpetual succession, and also that they and their successors by 
 the name of The Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Monmouth 
 County be and forever hereafter shall be persons able in law to pur- 
 chase, take, hold, receive, and enjoy any messuages, houses, buildings, 
 lands, tenements, rents, possessions, and other hereditaments and real 
 estate in fee and forever or for term of life or lives or years or in any 
 other manner so as the same exceed not at any one time the yearly 
 value of seven hundred and fifty pounds sterling per annum beyond 
 and above all charges and reprises the statute of mortmain or any oth- 
 er law to the contrary notwithstanding and also goods, chatties, and 
 all other things of what kind or quality soever ; and also that they 
 and their successors by the name of The Trustees of the Presbyterian 
 Church of Monmouth County shall and may give, grant, demise, 
 assign, sell, or otherwise dispose of all orany of the messuages, houses, 
 buildings, lands, tenements, rents, possessions, and any other heredit- 
 aments and real estate and all their goods, chatties, and other things 
 aforesaid as to them shall seem meet at their own will and pleasure : 
 and also that they and their successors by the name of The Trustees of 
 the Presbyterian Church of Monmouth County be and forever there- 
 after shall be persons able in law and capable to sue and be sued, im- 
 plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and 
 be defended in all courts and places before us our heirs and successors 
 and before us and any of the judges and justices, officers and ministers 
 of us our heirs and successors in all and all manner of actions, suits, 
 complaints, pleas, causes, matters, and demands whatsoever and of 
 what kind or nature soever in as full and ample manner and form as 
 any of our other liege subjects of our said province being persons able 
 and capable in law can or may sue and be sued, implead and be im- 
 pleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, by any 
 lawful ways and means whatsoever : and also that the said Trustees of 
 the Presbyterian Church of Monmouth County for the time being and 
 their successors .shall and may forever hereafter have and use a com- 
 mon seal with such device or devices as they shall think proper for 
 sealing all and singular deeds, grants, conveyances, contracts, bonds, 
 articles of agreement, assignments, powers, authorities and all and 
 singular their affairs and things touching or concerning the said cor- 
 poration : and by virtue of these our letters patent it shall and may be 
 lawful to and for the said Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of 
 Monmouth County and their successors for the time being as they 
 shall see cau.se to brake, change, and new make the same seal, or any 
 other common seal or seals when and as often as to them it shall seem 
 convenient which Trustees by these presents appointed as aforesaid 
 shall continue and remain the Trustee of the Presbyterian Church of 
 Monmouth County with all the powers and authorities aforesaid until 
 the first Tuesday in October next to come and until other Trustees be 
 duly elected and chosen in their places in such manner as herein after 
 is directed : and we do further of our special grace, certain knowledge, 
 and mere motion for us our heirs and successors will, ordain, give and 
 grant that the minister, elders, and deacons of the several particular 
 
114 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Presbyterian churches and congregations within the said county of 
 Monmouth may and shall meet and assemble together at Freehold in 
 the said county on the first Tuesday in October next after the date of 
 these our letters patent, and afterward at such time and times place 
 and places within the said county as to them or the major part of 
 them and their successors and the major part of their successors shall 
 seem meet and convenient forever hereafter and then and there by 
 plurality of voices or votes (by ballot) then meet, elect and choose out 
 of the inhabitants of said county nine Trustees of the said Presbyterian 
 Church of Monmouth County which persons so hereafter to be elected 
 and chosen Trustees as aforesaid shall be declared by indentures unt'.L-r 
 the hand and seals of the majority of the electors then present and 
 shall have all the powers and authorities of the above named Trustees 
 given by these our letters patent and all and every such person and 
 persons so to benewly chosen and appointed Trustees as aforesaid shall 
 serve in their respective ofiices until other fit persons be in the same 
 manner chosen and appointed in their respective rooms : and we do 
 further will and ordain, give and grant that the Trustees of the said 
 Presbyterian Church of Monmouth Count3' and their successors for the 
 time being shall from time to time have power to choose their Presi- 
 dent out of the Trustees for the time being who shall have the custody 
 of the public seal or seals of the said incorporation and all books, 
 charters, deeds, and writings any way relating to the said corporation 
 and shall have power from time to time and at all times hereafter as 
 occasion shall require to call a meeting of the said Trustees at such 
 place within said county as he shall think most convenient for the 
 execution of all or any of the power hereby given and granted, and in 
 case of sickness, absence or death of the President all the powers by 
 these presents granted to the President shall remain in the eldest or 
 senior Trustee upon record until the recovery or return of the President 
 or until a new President be chosen as aforesaid : and we do further 
 will, ordain, give and grant that all and every act and order of five of 
 the Trustees (but not of any lesser number) consented and agreed to 
 at such meeting of the Trustees as aforesaid shall be good, valid, and 
 effectual to all intents and purposes as if the whole number of the said 
 Trustees had consented and agreed thereto : and we do further will 
 and ordain that all the acts of the said Trustees or any five of them 
 shall from time to time be fairly entered into a book or books to be 
 kept for that purpose by the President of the Trustees for the time 
 being which book or books together with the seal or seals of the said 
 corporation and all charters, deeds, and writings whatsoever any way 
 belonging to the said corporation shall be delivered over by the former 
 President to the President of the said Trustees newly elected for the 
 time being as such President shall hereafter from time to time succes- 
 sively be chosen : And we do further will, ordain, give, and grant 
 that if at any time hereafter the number of the Trustees shall be dimin- 
 ished in the intervals of their election by the death or absence of any 
 of the said Trustees that then it shall and may be lawful for any one 
 minister and two elders of any particular Presbyterian church within 
 the said county to call a meeting of the ministers, elders, and deacons 
 of the several particular cljurgb^S and congregations within the said 
 
APPENDIX. 115 
 
 county giving notice of the time thereof by writing under their hand 
 to the ministers of the said several churches at least seven days before 
 the time of such meeting which meeting shall be held at Freehold 
 within the said county who may then and there by plurality of voices 
 or votes then meet, elect, and choose out of the inhabitants of the said 
 county so many Trustees for the said Presbyterian Church of Mon- 
 mouth County as shall make up the number of nine Trustees living 
 and inhabiting within the said county which person so to be elected 
 and chosen shall be declared by indentures under the hands and seals 
 of the majority of the electors then present to be chosen and elected in 
 the place and room of such of the said Trustees as are then dead or ab- 
 sent, and all and every such-person or persons so newly chosen and ap- 
 pointed as aforesaid shall have all the powers and authorities of the 
 above named Trustees given by these our letters patent and shall serve 
 in their respective ofiG.ces until other fit persons be chosen and appoint- 
 ed in their respective rooms : and we do further of our especial grace, 
 certain knowledge, and mere motion for us our heirs and successors 
 by these presents give and grant unto the said Trustees of the Presby- 
 terian Church of Monmouth. County and their successors forever that 
 they and their successors all and singular the rights, privileges, pow- 
 ers and capacities and authorities herein before mentioned or intended 
 to be hereby granted shall and may forever hereafter have, hold, enjoy, 
 and use without the impediment of us our heirs and successors or any 
 of the justices, sheriffs, escheatOrs, coroners, bailiffs, or other officers 
 or ministers whatsoever of us our heirs or successors and that these 
 our letters being entered upon record in our Secretary's ofiice of New 
 Jersey and the record and the enrollment and either of them and all 
 and everything therein contained from time to time and at all times 
 hereafter be and shall be firm, valid, good, sufficient, and effectual in 
 law towards and against us our heirs and successors according to the 
 . true intent and meaning hereof and in and through all things shall be 
 construed, taken, and expounded most beningly and in favor and for 
 the most and greatest advantage, profit, and benefit of the Trustees of 
 the said Presbyterian Church of the said County of Monmouth and 
 their successors forever as well in all courts or elsewhere notwithstand- 
 ing any defect, default, or imperfection may be found therein or any 
 other cause or things whatsoever. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have 
 caused these our letters to be made patent and the great seal of our 
 said province to be hereunto afiixed and the same to be entered of rec- 
 ord in our Secretary's office in our said province of New Jersey in one 
 of the books of records there remaining. Witness our trusty and well 
 beloved Jonathan Belcher, Esq., our Captain General and Governor in 
 chief of our said province of New Jersey Chancellor and Vice Admiral 
 of the same &c by and with the advice and consent of our Council of 
 our said province at Burlington the twenty-first day of February in the 
 twenty-third year of our reign. 
 
 J. BELCHER. 
 I have perused and considered the within draught of the charter of 
 incorporation and approve the same finding nothing therein contained 
 but what is consistent with the honor and interest of the Crown. 
 
 JOS. WARRELL, Att. Gen. 
 
116 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 The within charter is recorded in the Secretary's office at Perth Am- 
 boy in Book C No. 2 of Commissions, Charters &c page 190 to 195 in- 
 clusive. 
 
 Examined by THOS. BARTOW, Secretary. 
 
 IX. 
 WALTER KER'S DESCENDANTS. 
 
 [At present, (1S97) they have reached to the number of about 2,000.] 
 
 ONE I,INE OP THR DESCENT IS HERE GIVEN. 
 Abbreviations ; b. — born. d. — died. m. — married, bap. — baptized, des. — desceudauts. 
 
 1st Generation. 
 
 Walter Ker. b. 1656, d. June 10, 1748, and was buried on a hilly 
 point of ground about one-half mile east of the present Tennent 
 church building. He, with other Scotch nonconformists, was de- 
 prived of his property and exiled under perpetual banishment upon 
 the accession of James the Ilnd. in 1685. Came to New Jersey and 
 
 settled in Monmouth County, m. Margaret b. 1661, d. 1734. 
 
 As nearly as can be ascertained left four sons, William, SAMUEL, 
 Joseph, John. 
 
 IInd Generation. 
 
 William Ker. (See Baptismal Records in Appendix). He had 9 
 children: Margaret, bap. April 18, 1731, the first baptized in the 
 new meeting-house on White Hill. Mary, bap. Nov. 4, 1733. 
 Nathan, b. Sep. 7, 1736, d. 1804. The first of second wife's children. 
 Educated at Princeton. Ordained by Presbytery of New Brunswick 
 Aug. 17, 1763. Was pa.stor of the Presbyterian Church in Goshen, 
 N. Y., for 38 years. lycft 5 children. Elizabeth, bap. Mar. 19, 1738; 
 Hannah, bap. Aug. 31, 1740 ; Lydia, bap. Feb. 7, 1742 ; Sarah, bap. 
 Sep. 18, 1743 ; Nathaniel, bap. Sep. 15, 1745 ; Waltar, bap. Dec. 
 18, 1748. 
 
 Samuel Ker. He had 11 children: Waltar, bap. Mar. 12, 1732; 
 William, bap. Mar. 25, 1733 ; JOSEPH, bap. Sep. 22, 1734 ; Eliza- 
 beth, bap. Nov. 15, 1735, d. Dec. 31, 1755 ; Isbela bap. Mar. 20, 
 1737 ; Jacob, bap. Dec. 17, 1738 ; Samuel, bap. Dec. 6, 1740, d. 
 Nov. 18, 1763 ; Rachel, bap. June 20, 1742 ; John, bap. Feb. 12, 
 1744 ; Catharine, bap. Mar. 16, 1746 ; Stephen, bap. April 28, 1751. 
 
 Joseph Ker. m. Margaret . She was b. 1711, d. Dec. 20, 1745. 
 
 He had 1 1 children: Mary, bap. Oct. 20, 1734; Margaret, bap. 
 June 4, 1738 ; Ursula, bap. 1742 ; Sarah, bap. July 8, 1744 ; Waltar, 
 bap. Aug. II, 1745 ; Euphunea, bap. Mar. 13, 1748, the first child of 
 2d wife ; Ursulla, bap. Aug. 6, 1749 ; Anna, bap. Jan. i, 1751 ; Eb- 
 enezar, bap. Nov. 25, 1754 ; Lydia, bap. Sep. 19, 1756 ; Rachel, bap. 
 March 23, 1760. 
 
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 TOMBSTONE OF WALTER KER IN 1897, FATHER OF 
 
 OLD TENNENT CHURCH. 
 
 (Photographed by L- R. Cheeseman, Freehold, N. J.) 
 
APPENDIX. 117 
 
 John Ker. He had 2 children : Rebecca, bap. July 19, 1732 ; Joseph, 
 bap. Mays, i734- 
 
 IIIrd generation. 
 
 Joseph Kerr, son of Samuel, b. 1733, d. 1824. m. Elsie Hampton, 
 b. 1734, d. 1796. He left 10 children ; SAMUEL, b. 1757, d. 1824, 
 manydes. ; Elizabeth (Kerr) Green, b. 1759, many des.; William 
 Hampton, b. 1761, d. 1798, many des.; Catherine (Kerr) Beavers, b. 
 1763, many des.; Gertrude (Kerr) Hazen, b. 1765, many des.; Lewis, 
 b. 1768, many des.; Jacob, b. 1771, d. 1855, manydes.; Lydia, b. 
 1774, d. 1796 ; Aaron, b. 1776, manydes.; Joseph, Jr., b. 1778, d. 
 1802. 
 
 IVth Generation. 
 
 Samuei- Kerr, son of Joseph, b. 1757, d, 1824. m. Rhoda Beckerer, 
 b. Jan. 12, 1757. He left 10 children : Joseph, b. 1781, manydes.; 
 John, b. 1782, nodes.; Robert, b. 1784, nodes.; SAMUEL, b. 1786, 
 d. 1S44, many des.; Abram, b. 1788 ; Gertrude (Kerr) Scott, b. 1789, 
 had 12 children, and a large number of des.; Jacob, b. 1792 ; Lewis, 
 b. 1794 ; Aaron, b. 1796, manydes.; Walter, b. 1798, manydes. 
 
 Vth Generation. 
 
 Samuel Kerr, son of Samuel, b. 1786, d. 1844. m. Jane Nevin, b. 
 1789, d. 1868. He left 11 children ; Margaret (Kerr) Pew, (ist hus- 
 band) and Satterlee (2d husband), b. 1815, d. 1890, many des.; John 
 N., b. 1822, d. 1890, nodes.; Joseph H., b. 1824, d. 1895, two chil- 
 dren ; Mary Jane (Kerr) McClure, b. 1825, d. 1886, many des.; An- 
 drew W., b. 1827, two children ; George H., b. 1829, nodes.; Martha 
 M. (Kerr) Fleming, b. 1832, manydes.; Sarah E. (Kerr) Marshall, 
 (ist husband) and Putnam (2d husband), b. 18-54, three children; 
 Charlotte I. (Kerr) McKee, b. 1836, no des.; SAMUEL M., b. 1839, 
 two children ; Robert A., M. D., b. 1841, many des. 
 
 VlTH Generation. 
 
 Samuel M. Kerr, son of Samuel, b. 1839. m. Mary Dearment, b. 
 1841. He had two children: FRANK MELVILLE, b. 1866; 
 Jennie Nevin. 
 
 VHth Generation. 
 
 Frank Melville Kerr, son of Samuel M., b. 1866. m. Evelyn 
 Nichols. He is now (1897) pastor of the Presbyterian Church in 
 Hempstead, Long Island. He has one child : Samuel Stewart 
 Melville Kerr, b. 1893. 
 
 [Note.— The above list was prepared by Samuel M. Kerr, Adamsville, Pa,,, who earu- 
 esUy desires correspondence with all persons that are able to give autheutic information 
 concerning the Kerr family, in order to complete the genealogy.] 
 
118 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 X. 
 
 Early Baptismal Records In Old Tennent Church, Mostly 
 During the Pastorate of Rev. William Tennent, Jr. 
 
 Note. — The pages of this old Record are so soiled, broken aud worn with age that in 
 some cases it is impossible to distinguish the full dates aud names. Some uuhappy ref- 
 erences in the original record have been omitted in this printed list. The records are 
 mostly iu the handwriting of John Henderson, clerk of the congregation. 
 
 Lord's Day, October 5, 1735, was Baptized Jacob, Rebeca and 
 
 Children of Benjamin Applegate. 
 
 Lord's Day, August 8, 1736, was Baptized Elizabeth and Hannah, 
 Daughters of Thomas Applegate, (the Son of J0hn). 
 
 Lord's Day, November 27, was Baptized Lydia, Daughter of Zebu- 
 Ion Applegate. 
 
 Lord's Day, Sept. 18, 1763, was Baptized Amie a Negro Woman of 
 Wm. Williamson's, Son of A , on profession of her Faith. 
 
 Thomas Adams had bap, Joseph, Jan. 21, 1731 ; James, Sep. 24, 1732. 
 
 Mr. Anderson's son John was bap. Aug. 28, 1748. 
 
 John Ander.son, Esq'r had bap. Helena, Jan. 28, 1733 ; Kenneth, 
 
 Nov. 7, — 4 ; Ursilla, July 11, ; Elizabeth, Jul}' 4, ; James, 
 
 July 6, ; Kenneth — the first Kenneth being Deceased, July 4, ; 
 
 Ursilla, June 3, ; Lewis, Sep. 27, ; Margaret, Oct. 13, 175 1. 
 
 William Allen had bap. Sarah, Jan. 8, — i; Janet, Apr. i, — 6. 
 
 David Adams. Margaret, Said David's Wife made open profession 
 of Faith Apr. 28, 1734, and had bap. Hannah, Sarah, David, Children 
 of Said David & Margaret Adams ; James, May 2, 1736. 
 
 Daniel Allen, Dec. 15, 1734, Baptized upon open Profession of his 
 Faith. 
 
 William Addudel had bap. William, Aug. 22, 1736 ; Isbela — Bap- 
 tized at a Society, Oct. 6, 1737; John Murray, a Child he took to bring 
 up, March 19, 1738. 
 
 William Annesley had bap. Thomas, Mar. 20, 1737; July 
 
 16, 1738; William & Rebeca, Twins, Sep. 2, 1744. 
 
 Zebulon Applegate had bap. Zebulon, June 2, 1754; Nathaniel, May 
 
 23, 1756- 
 
 Joshua Anderson had bap. Sarah, May 11, 1766; Elleonar, June 7, 
 1772; Cathrine, June 16, 1776. 
 
 William Anderson had bap. Sarah, April 19, 1767; William, June 
 II, 1769. 
 
 John Anderson, Son of James, had bap. Lewis, Sep. i, 1771 ; Cath- 
 erine, — , ; Elizabeth, June 26, 1774 ; Anna, Nov. 26, 1775. 
 
 John AUwood, had bap. Joseph, Ma}' 9, 1779. 
 
 David Barklaj', had bap. William, his first Child by Elizabeth 
 Walker, alias Barclay, May 19, 1751 ; George, April , 1753 ; Catha- 
 rine, Jan. 18, 1756; Esther, Nov. 19, 1758; Rachel, Nov. 22, 1761. 
 
 Ezekiel Bennit had bap. Abraham, Nov. 18, 1753 ; Margaret, June 
 — , 1756; Leah, Nov. 25, 1758; Cornelius, May 6, 1762; John, Sept. 
 
 24, 1766. 
 
 Andrew Brannan married to Jane Sweetman ; had bap. Jane, Oct. 
 
 2, 1757. Presented by the Father and Grandmother, the Mother 
 
 in Child bed. 
 
APPENDIX. 119 
 
 Peter Benham had bap. John, Robert, Peter, Richard, Amey & Cath- 
 arine, all Baptized at once, presented by their Father and their mother- 
 in-law Hannah which had been Clayton, May 31, 1759. 
 
 David Brooks had bap. Jonathan, July 15, 1759 ; Agnos, Sept. 6, 
 1761 ; David, April 8, 1764; these three presented by the Mother; 
 David Brooks the father Baptized on profession of his own Faith, Jan. 
 4, 1767 ; Hannah, presented by Father & Mother, July 10, 1768. 
 
 John Bonnel, had bap. Isaac, Nov. 20, 1737. 
 
 John Benham, had bap. Benjamin, Dec. 17, 1738 ; Nealtie at home, 
 being dangerously sick, Dec. 2, 1742 ; Joseph, ■ 1744- 
 
 Samuel Buckalue, had bap. John, June 12, 1743. 
 
 Samuel Breese, of Shrewsbury, had bap. Samuel Byard, by the Rev. 
 Mr. Woodhull, May 2, 1779. 
 
 Patrick Brown, had bap. Thomas, May 6, 1744. 
 
 James Bryson, had bap. Nancy, June 3, 1770. 
 
 Adam Boise, had bap. Cornelius, July 22, 1744 ; Molley or INIary, 
 Aug. 10, 1746 ; Anne, April 30, 1749 ; Elizabeth, about 3 years old, & 
 Matthias, about 3 months old, June 9, 1754 ; Martha, Aug. 10, 1755 ; 
 , May 28, 1758. 
 
 David Baird, had bap. Mary, May, . 
 
 Robert Barclay, had bap. Lewis, Oct. 18, 1761. 
 
 Arthur Brown, had bap. William, Jan. 23, 1731 ; Thomas, July 21, 
 
 1734- 
 
 Edward Barber, had bap. Sarah, March 14, 1731. 
 
 James Brown, had bap. John, Oct. 17, 1731 ; Robert ; Joseph ; 
 Solomon. 
 
 John Berry, had bap. Mary, Nov. 25, 1731 ; Thomas, Nov. 4, 1733 ; 
 Isabella, Jan. 22, 1738 ; David, May 18, 1741 ; John, Feb. 27, 1743 ; 
 Sidney, June 30, 1745 ; Ebenezar, July 19, 1747; Samuel, March 5, 
 
 1749- 
 Mary Baird, wife of John Baird, had bap. Grace, a Child she was to 
 
 bring up, Aug. 4, 1734. 
 
 Arthur Brown, had bap. Margaret, March 27, 1737 ; Andrew, July 15, 
 
 1739- 
 Capt. John Barclay, had bap. Robert, Sep. 16, 1737 ; Catharine, June 
 
 13, 1742 ; Richardj June 30, 1745. 
 
 Thomas Brown, married Daughter of Capt. Barclay, had bap. John, 
 July 28, 1765 ; Davrd, June 28, 1767 ; William, Aug. 13, 1769 ; Cath- 
 erine, Dec. I, 1771 ; Mary, March 13, 1774. 
 
 David Carlile, had bap. William, Dec. 9, 1739. 
 
 John Chambers, Cordwainer, had bap. William & James, the Bap- 
 tism of the first Deferred till this day, June 15, 1740 ; Margaret, March 
 6, 1743 ; Elizabeth, his Wife, & Bridget, his Daughter, April 26, 1747 ; 
 John, April i, 1749 ; James, June 2, 1751 ; William, June 24, 1753 ; 
 Mary, May 3, 1756. 
 
 Janet Carswell, (alias) Reed, had bap. Sarah, July 12, 1741. 
 
 Jonathan Combs, had bap. William, June ir, 1742 ; Robert, April 
 24, 1744 ; John, June i, 1746. 
 
 Peter Clark, had bap. Peter, Aug. 11, 1745. 
 
 John Craig, son of Archibald, he was married about a year ago to 
 Anna, daughter of Capt. John Barclay, Esq., had bap. Catharine, 
 
120 HISTORY OF OLD TEN"NENT. 
 
 Nov. i8, 1750; Samuel, Feb. 19, 1752 ; Archibald, April 21, 1754; 
 Peter, May 23, 1756 ; Anne, by his second wife, John Reed's Daughter, 
 April 4, 1762 ; William, April 15, 1764 ; Mary, March 15, 1766. 
 
 Jonathan Clayton, son of John, had bap. John, May 6, 1764 ; Amie, 
 July 31, 1768. 
 
 John Campbell, his 2d wife Henritia Cowenhoven, had bap. William, 
 April 14, 1765 ; Elizabeth, April 12, 1767. 
 
 John Craig, Blerchant, married Jane, widow of David English, had 
 bap. Mar3^ June 29, 1766 ; Charity, Aug. 20, 1769 ; Daniel, June 12, 
 
 1774- 
 
 Jacob Cole, had bap. Rebekah, his Wife on profession of her Faith, 
 & Benjamin his son an Infant, Aug. 7, 1768 ; John, June 13, 1773 ; 
 Danniel, Feb. 27, 1780. 
 
 Asher Clayton had bap. Elizabeth, June 23, 1776. 
 
 Wm. Covenhoven, Jr., had bap. Jane, Feb. 23, 1772 ; Elshie, April 
 24, 1774. 
 
 Joseph Combs, S. T., had bap. David, June 27, 1773 ; Elizabeth, 
 Feb. 5, 1775 ; Thomas, May 18, 1777. 
 
 Joseph Combs had bap. Elizabeth, Oct. 12, ; Mary, 15, . 
 
 Wm. Cole, deceased. James & Margaret presented by the Widow, 
 their Mother, May 29, 1737 ; Mary, upon profession of her own faith, 
 Nov. 3, 1745. 
 
 Samuel Craig had bap. Elizabeth, Sep. i5, ; John, Jan. 21, ; 
 
 William, March 15, ; Ursilla, May i, ; Mary, Nov. 3, . 
 
 John Combs, son of Thomas, had bap. James, Dec. 14, — 5 ; Charles, 
 Sept. 9, — 9 ; John, Aug. 25, 1771 ; Jonathan, Oct. 17, 1773. 
 
 Joseph Cowenhoven, son of William, had bap. Ealenor, March 13, 
 
 1757- 
 
 Daniel Covert, had bap. Peter, Feb. 4, 1776 ; Mary, Sept. 21, 1778. 
 
 Williamtye Cowenhoven, Widow of Elias Cowenhoven, Baptized 
 on publick profession of her Faith, May 22, 1757. 
 
 Peter Cowenhoven, son of William, had bap. Mary by his Wife 
 Anne, daughter of Thomas Davies, May 19, 1751 ; Lewis, Oct. 16, 1752 ; 
 
 Thomas, Feb. 1756 ; Elizabeth & Phebe twin children, June 26, 
 
 1768. 
 
 Thomas Craig, had bap. John, Oct. 27, 1751 ; David, Jan. 19, 1755. 
 
 Thomas Craven, had bap. Peter, Feb. 9, 1752. 
 
 William Compton, had bap. Lucia, Feb. 25, 1753; John, May 11, 
 1755; Elizabeth, Oct. • 1756; Joseph, May 4, 1760. 
 
 John Cowenhoven, son of Albert, had bap. David, March 4, 1753. 
 
 David Cowenhoven, son of William, had bap. Sarah, Oct 26, 1755 ; 
 John, Mar. 26, 1758; Anne, Aug. 17, 1760; David, July 10, 1763; 
 Garret, May 11, 1766 ; Elizabeth, June 25, 1769. 
 
 Albert Cowenhoven, the son of William, had bap. Elizabeth, May 
 
 13. 1759 ; Feb. 14, 1762 ; Eleanor, presented by the 
 
 mother, the father being dead, June 14, 1764. 
 
 Sanimuel Craig, son of John, Deacon, had bap. John, June 27, 1773. 
 
 Peter Clark, had bap. Elizabeth, by a second wife, July 22, 1759. 
 
 William Claj'ton, soil of Abraham, had bap. Thomas, April 15, 1764. 
 
 William Cahale, had bap. Anne, May 18, 1760. 
 
 Wm. Covenhovn, son of Benjamin, had bap. Cathrine, Aprile 7, 1775, 
 
APPENDIX. 121 
 
 Garret Cowenhoven, had bap. Gertrude, Aug. 17, 1760. 
 
 William Cole, had bap. David, May i, 1763 ; Zilpah, June 29, 1766. 
 
 John Calvert, had bap. William, May 14, 1775 ; Michael by Mr. 
 Smith, May 10, 1778; Mary, by Mr. WoodhuU, June 20, 1779. 
 
 Isaac Cowenhoven, son of William, had bap. Sarah and Eleanor, 
 July 10, 1763 ; Elizabeth, Feb. 23, 1766 ; Thomas, Sep. 13, 1767. 
 
 William Craige, son of Archd. Craig, Esqr., had bap. James, ; 
 
 D'avid Dec. 6, 1755; Samuel, May 17, 1758; Mary, Apr. 25, 1760; 
 John, June 6, 1762; Anne, May 6, 1764; Ursila, May 18, 1766; Mar- 
 garet Oct. 30, 1768. 
 
 John Covenhovn, sonofWm. Millar, had bap. Cathrine, July 14, 
 .1771 ; Abigale, June 13, 1773 ; William, Aug. 7, 1774 ; John, Aprle 21, 
 ; Sammuel, . 
 
 William Craig, had bap. James, ;. Alexander, Jan. 28, . 
 
 Wm. Covs'enhoven, son of Peter, had bap. Mary, Aug. i, 
 
 1731-2 D & Eleanor Campbell joined in Wedlock Feb. 24. 
 
 Charles Carson, had bap. Daniel, Feb. 21, . 
 
 Thomas Combs had bap. Thomas, Sept. 24, ; Elizabeth, Feb. 9, 
 
 ; Joseph, Aug. 28, 1743. 
 
 Abraham Clayton, had bap. himself, and Martha his daughter by 
 
 Mr. Wales, Jan. 28, ; Mary, Feb. 9, ; Rachel, June 12, ; 
 
 Abraham & William, Baptized at home because amiss, June 26, 1746. 
 
 Wm. Clark, deceased. Elizabeth, bap. April 29, . Presented 
 
 by her Aunt, Ann Reed. 
 
 Charles Carson, had bap. Francis, Sep. 16, ; Joseph, Aug. 8, . 
 
 Andrew Crawford, had bap. Gideon and James, Baptism being neg- 
 lected to the first, Sept. 16, ; William and Ursilla, at the same 
 
 time was Baptized Mary his wife upon profession of her Faith, 
 
 12, ; John, and Andrew Home, not twins, June 27, . 
 
 Robert Cumming, had bap. Mary, Feb. 12, . 
 
 Hannah Craig, had bap. Leah, 19, . 
 
 William Crawford, had bap. Margaret, June, 4, ; Said Crawford 
 
 married said Hannah Craig ; William Redford,. May 4, ; Gertrude, 
 
 May 23, ; Perregrine, April 21, ; Lewis, July 19, ; Lydia, 
 
 May 13, . 
 
 Nicholas Cook, had bap. Thomas, March 26, ; John, Aug. 11, 
 
 Elizabeth, June 8, ; Rachel, April 17, ; Hannah, April 
 
 6, ; George, April 24, 8 ; Jonathan, Sept. i5, o ; Ben- 
 jamin, Oct. 17, 6. 
 
 Moses Craig, had bap. Thomas a son, & Catharine a daughter, April 
 
 13. 5- 
 
 Wm. Cowenhoven, son of Peter, had bap. William, Sep. 28, 1735; 
 Samuel, Sep. 24, 1738 ; Sarah, Aug. 5,, 1744 ; John, Aug. 24, 1746. 
 
 Abraham Clayton, had bap. Thomas, June 5, . 
 
 Samuel Crawford, had bap. Reyntie & Keturah, both this daj', Aug. 
 25, J745- 
 
 John Craig, sou of Archibald, had bap. James, March 27, 1768 ; John, 
 April 26, 1772 ; Lewis, Feb. 26, 1775. 
 
 Robert Cuming was married to Mary Noble, Jan. 8, 1746, being his 
 second wife, had bap. Catharine, the first Child of the Second Mar- 
 riage, May I, 1748; Anna, (Alias Agno.s), , May 27, 1750; John, at a 
 
 9 
 
122 IIISTOEY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Catechising at Mr. A. Mattison's, Feb. 5, 1752 ; Margaret, July 28, 
 
 1754- 
 
 Benjamin Clark, had bap. Mary, June 18, 1749 ; Elizabeth, April 15, 
 1753 ; Alexander, June 9, 1754 ; Andrew, April 18, 1756. 
 
 Richard Compton, had bap. Joseph, May 6, 1750. 
 
 Joseph Clayton, son of John, had bap. Himself & his Wife Hannah, 
 on profession of their Faith, & then their Son John, Nov. 6, 1757; 
 Joseph, Sep. 17, 1778. 
 
 Thomas Combs, Jr., had bap. Solomon, April g, 1758 ; Rachel, Oct. 
 18, 1761 ; Esther, June 14, 1764. 
 
 Daniel Clark, had bap. John, Aug. , 1758. 
 
 Frederick Deboogh, had bap. Frances, a Daughter, Jan. 21, 1; 
 
 Sarah, Jan. 8, 4. 
 
 William Davison had bap. ■ presented by the Mother, Sep. 
 
 24, 1732. 
 
 John Davison, had bap. Mary, pre.sented by the Mother, Jan. 28, 1733. 
 
 Robert Davison had bap. John, Dec. 29, 1734; William, July 11, 
 1736; Alice, Jan. 13, 1740; Robert, May 23, 1742; David, Oct. 15, 1752. 
 
 Hannah Brown, (Alias Deboogh), had bap. Thomas, April 5, 1755. 
 
 Isaac Day had bap. Hannah, May 4, 1735 ; Gilbert, Aug. 13, 1738 ; 
 Isaac, May 10, 1741 ; Sarah, Aug. 21, 1743. 
 
 Frederick Deboogh, had bap. Isaac, Maj' 2, 1736 ; Benjamin, Nov. 
 
 13. 1737- 
 
 John Davison, blacksmith, had bap. Mar3', Sept. 9, 1739. 
 
 William Deveny, had bap. William, Sep. i, 1745. 
 
 John Drommond, deceased. Ruth Drommond, a j-oung Woman 
 grown, bap. May 25, 1752, on profession of her Faith. 
 
 William Devinney had bap. John, May 10, , by Mr. Smith. 
 
 Joseph Dennis, a Man above 60 years of Age, Baptized upon profes- 
 ,sion of his Faith, April 14, . 
 
 Dinah, Negro Wench of Hendrick Voorhees, bap. upon profession of 
 her Faith. 
 
 John Davies had bap. Catharine, April 16, 1757. 
 
 James Denham. John, baptized Aug. 5, 1759, on profession of his 
 own faith, being a young man grown. 
 
 Aaron Davis, had bap. Jannet, June 5, 1774 ; Aaron, March 30, 1777. 
 
 John Davison. His wife, Elizabeth, baptized on profession of her 
 faith, & James his son, July 9, 1775. 
 
 Abraham Egburg, had bap. Policy, Presented b3' the Mother, Oct. 
 31. 1779- 
 
 Michael Errukson, had bap. Thomas, May 5, 4 ; Susanna, Aug. 
 
 19, 9. 
 
 James English, had bap. Elizabeth, March 23, 1734; Jonathan, 
 March 19, 1738 ; John, Sept. , 1739; James, Son of liis Son James 
 Deceased, July 10, 1768. 
 
 David English, had bap. Mary, & his Apprentice William Cole, 
 March 20, 1737 ; Jane, Sept. 24, 1738; David, March 17, 1741 ; Mar- 
 garet, Aug. 26, 1744. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Eaton, (Son of John Eaton, of Shrewsbury), a merchant 
 in New York, Baptized on profession of his own Faith, Aug. 20, 1749. 
 
APrENDIX. 123 
 
 George Bagger, had bap. William, May 6, 1750; Daniel, April 26, 
 1752 ; both presented by the father, the mother not joining. 
 
 Elizabeth Eaton & Johannah Eaton, (Daughters of John Eaton, Esqr. 
 Deceased), Young women grown. Baptized on profession of their own 
 Faith, Aug. 5, 1750. 
 
 Michael Errickson, Jr., had bap. John, Dec. 3, 1752. 
 
 David English, son of James, had bap. Jane, Nov. 30, ; Marga- 
 ret, July — , 1758 ; David, Oct. 24, 1760, Being a Thanksgiving Day ; 
 James Robinson, May i, 1763, Presented by the Mother Dead. 
 
 Cornelius Erwing, had bap. James, Phebe, Cornelius, Daniel & Jo — 
 Sep. 10, 1758 ; Baptized at one time & presented by the father & . 
 
 Jonathen English married Wm. Laird's daughter Elizabeth, May — , 
 
 1763 ; had bap. Margaret, June 3, 1764 ; Elizabeth, June 29, 1766 ; 
 David, May 14, 1769. 
 
 George Elliot, had bap. Alexander, June 10, 1764. 
 
 Thomas Errickson, had bap. Janet, April 14, 1765 ; James, May 15, 
 1768; Timothy, Aprile 21, 1771 ; Sammuel, Aug. 22, 1773 ; Susanna, 
 June I, 1777. 
 
 Robert English, son of James, married Robert Montgoraerie, Esqrs. 
 daughter Jane ; had bap. Robert, Sep. 22, 1765. 
 
 John Freeman had bap. Mary Howel, June 29, 1777. 
 
 Jonathan Forman, Esqr., had bap. David, 4, -. 
 
 David Fornian, had bap; Jonathan, June 4, 1758 ; Samuel, Sept. 19, 
 
 1764 ; Daniel, June 11, 1769. 
 
 Aaron Forman deceased's Children. George and Pri.scilla, these 
 
 two made profession of the Faith for themselves, Jan. 23, ; Lewis, 
 
 Andrew, Lydia, Phebe, Robert, these five were presented by their 
 Mother who engaged for their Instruction in the Faith. 
 
 Peter Forman, had bap. Anne, Jan. 27, ; Jonathan, Aprils, ; 
 
 Mary, April 9, , the Fast Day before the L. Supper ; Jane, Jan. 21, 
 
 ; William, Oct. 6, ; Ealeanor, Sep. 9, ; Peter, Apr. 4, 
 
 —6; Samuel, Dec. 11, — 7 ; Heleana, Sep. 9, 1759 ; Lydia, Jan. 31, 
 1762. 
 
 Aaron Forman. Elizabeth, the Wife of Said Aaron Baptized upon 
 profession of her Faith, Oct. 29, 1748. 
 
 Samuel Forman, had bap. Catharine, June — , 1753 ; Jonathan, Dec. 
 
 i4> 1755- 
 
 George Forman, had bap. Aaron, Dec. 6, 1755. 
 
 Jonathan Gordon, had bap. Ambrose, July i, 1750; Pri.scilla, Apr. 
 26, 1752 ; Ezekiel, Aug. 4, 1754 ; Jane, Apr. 17, 1757 ; Catharine, June 
 I, 1760 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 22, 1764 ; Lewis, Apr. 6, 1766. 
 
 Samuel Goodenough, had bap. Mary, June 5, 1757 ; Sarah, May 7, 
 
 1758- 
 
 John Gaston, Jr., whose Father was Murthered by the Indians ; had 
 bap.' William, Sep. 6, 1761 ; Joseph, July 17, 1763 ; John, Apr. 14, 
 
 1765 ; Samuel & James, Twin Children, Apr. 12, 1767. 
 
 Charles Gorden, son of David Gordon, had bap. — , 1762; 
 
 Hannah, Oct. 7, 1764. 
 
 Daniel gaston, had bap. John, Aprile 14, 1776. 
 
 John Gordon, had bap. Lydia, June 15, 1740. 
 
 David Gordon, had bap. Charles, Jan. 31, 1742 ; John, Sep. 11, 1743 ; 
 
1-24 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 ]31izabeth, June i, 1746 ; William, Apr. 3, 1748 ; David, May 27, 1750 ; 
 Hannah, June 28, 1752 ; Alice, Sept. 2r, 1754 ; Peter, Apr. 15, 1759 ; 
 Lewis, Nov. 22, 1761. 
 
 Charles Gordon, had bap. Robert, Sep. 17, 1742; Mary, the first 
 child by Gertrude his Second Wife, which had been George Walker's 
 Wife & Widow, Dec. 11, 1748. 
 
 Hugh Greeg, had bap. William, July 10, 1743 ; Hugh, June 16, 1745 ; 
 James, Sept. 27, 1746. 
 
 Elias Golden, had bap. John, Aug. 23, 1747. 
 
 James Graham, had bap. Anne & Sarah, at home, July 26, 1731. 
 
 John Glendinnen, had bap. John, Sep. 16, 1733. 
 
 Peter Gordon, had bap. William & Elizabeth, twins, Nov. 3, 1734 ; 
 Catharine, Oct. 17, 1736; Alice Apr. 15, 1739; Margaret, the first 
 child by his Second wife, Mary Craig, Jan. 8, 1744; Peter, Nov. 3, 
 174s ; Archibald, Feb. 21, 1748 ; Mary, Mar. 4, 1750 ; Sarah, Jan. 5, 
 1752 ; Lewis, July 7, 1754. 
 
 John Graham, had bap. Mary, Mar 4, 1739. 
 
 John Gaston, had bap. Mary, Dec. 9, 1739 ; James, Mar. 28, 1742 ; 
 Hugh, July 15, 1744 ; Mary & Elizabeth, Twin Children, Mar. 8, 1747 ; 
 Daniel, Apr. 3, 1749 ; Catharine, June 2, 1751 ; John, Jan. 20, 1754 ; 
 William, July 18, 1756 ; Jane, Mar. 25, 1759. 
 
 William Hults, had bap. Jane, Sep. 19, 1764 ; Margaret, Apr. 13, 
 1766 ; William, May 14, 1769 ; Peter, July 28, 1771 ; Jane, May 8, 
 
 1774- 
 
 Coneraed Hendrickson, had bap. Elizabeth, Nov. 22, 1761. 
 
 Samuel Harvey, had bap. Thomas, June 24, 1751. 
 
 Thomas Hankinson, son of Robr., had bap. Margaret, presented by 
 the Mother, Hugh McFerrin's daughter, Apr. 4, 1762. 
 
 James Hill, had bap. Elizabeth, Aug. 24, 1755. 
 
 William Hendrickson Maried Charity Robinson, Dec. 23, 1757 ; had 
 bap. John, Nov. 19, 1757. 
 
 Samuel Heriot, son-in-law to Joseph Ker, had bap. Margaret, June 
 15, 1760. 
 
 Keineth Hankinson, had bap. Keineth, June 7, 1772 ; Lyidia, June 
 
 19, 1774. 
 
 John Henderson, Jr., had bap. Elizabeth, Feb. 4, 1762; Borne 23 
 Dec. 1 761. Anne, March 27, 1763; Borne 21 Jan. 1763. William, 
 
 June 2, 1765 ; March 31, 1765. Jane, June 7, 1767 ; Borne 2 May, 
 
 1767; Deceased Sept. 27, 1773. Thomas, Apr. 15, 1770; Borne 9th 
 Day february, 1770. Mary, Aprile, 26, 1772 ; Borne 8th Day of March, 
 1772. John, June 12, 1774; Borne 1 8th Day of Aprile, 1774. Charles 
 Lee, Oct. 7, 1776 ; Borne 27th Day of July, 1776. Jane the Second, 
 Aprile— , 1779 ; Borne 2i,st Day of Octobr., 1778. Elizabeth, Apnle 
 29, 1782 ; Borne 26th Day of Octobr. , 1781. 
 
 John Hutton, had bap. Mary, Oct. 6, 1734. 
 
 Richard Hankins, had bap. Hugh, Aug. 29, 1736 ; Rachel, Apr. 2, 
 1742 ; Euphunia, May 14, 1744 ; all presented by the mother, who is 
 John Fraizer's daughter. 
 
 William Huggon, had bap. Joseph, May 29, 1737 ; Elizabeth, by his 
 Second Wife, June 24, 1758 ; Sarah, Sept. — , 1759. 
 
APPENDIX. 1'25 
 
 Charles Hibbets, had bap. James, May 29, 1737 ; Mary, Sep. 9, 1739 ; 
 Charles, Nov. i, 1741 ; Elizabeth, May 6, 1744. 
 
 Silvester Hughs, on Profession of his Faith, Sep. 24, 1738. 
 
 Hendrick Hanse. Janatie or Jane, presented by the Mother, Mar. 2, 
 1746. 
 
 William Hampton, Widw., Maried Wid. Gertrude Craig, had bap. 
 
 Samuel, their first child that lived, July 2, 1749 ; Gertrude, , 1751 ; 
 
 Catharine, Apr. 13, 1755. 
 
 John Henderson, had bap. Jane the Second, May 19, 1751. 
 
 Hannah, an Old Negro Wench of the widow of Cornelius Cowen- 
 hoven, Deceased, bap. upon profession of her faith, June 17, 1744 ; 
 Aged above 80 years. 
 
 John Henderson, had bap. Jane, The first Child ever the Rev. Mr. 
 John Tennent Baptized, Dec. 26, 1730. Jane Henderson stept in the 
 Lord Jan. 4, 1749 ; Elizabeth, by Mr. Wales, Jan. 28, 1733; Married 
 June 19, 1755. Anne, by Mr. Wm. Tennent, Jr., Feb. 9, 1735; De- 
 ceased June 18, 1748. Stevens Nicholas, Apr. 24, 1737 ; Deceased 
 Nov. 27, 1737. Michael, Jan. 22, 1739. John, Oct. 3, 1741. Thomas, 
 Aug. 28, 1743 ; he married Mary, daughter of Jno. Hendricks, Sep. 23, 
 1767. Margaret, Apr. 27, 1746 ; She Maried Wm. Tinney, July 23, 
 1769. Anne, the Second, Dec. 18, 1748 ; Deceased June 13, 1749. 
 
 Hannah Hankinson, bap. on the profession of her own Faith, Feb. 
 24, 1732, Aged 13 yrs. 
 
 Joseph Hankinson & Thomas, his son, bap. Feb. 24, 1734 ; The 
 father having made a publick profession of his faith ; Aaron, Apr. 4, 
 1736 ; William, Nov. 27, 1737 ; Anne, Mar. 11, 1739 ; John and Joseph, 
 after his Removal to Readington, Oct. 19, 1746. 
 
 William Hampton, had bap. Isabella, Feb. 24, 1734 ; Timothy, Oct. 
 5, 1735 ; Alice, Nov. 6, 1737; John, Jan. 13, 1740; Lewis, June 13, 
 1.742 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 15, 1744. 
 
 William Hughs Daughters. Catharine, bap. Jan. 26, 1766; Margaret, 
 • 1766, on profession of their owen faith. 
 
 Michael Henderson, had bap. John, Feb. 17, 1766 ; James Anderson, 
 July 19, 1767. 
 
 Samuel Henderson, married George Rhes daughter Margaret, had bap. 
 David, Nov. i, 1767 ; William, 1770. 
 
 James Herbert, married Wm. Cowenhoven Albs. Daughter Elizabeth, 
 had bap. , June 10, 1770. 
 
 Richard Herbert, had bap. Cathrine, April 4, 1776. 
 
 Doctor Thomas Henderson, had bap. Mary, Oct. 2, 1779. 
 
 William Jolley, had bap. David, Apr. 25, 1732. 
 
 William Johnston, had bap. James Montgomery, Aprile 14, 1776; 
 William, Feb, 14, 1779. 
 
 Joseph Johnson, had bap. John, May 5, 1734 ; Grifith, July 27, 1735. 
 
 Abraham Jones, had bap. Elenor Robinson, pre.sented by the mother, 
 Feb. 19, 1775. 
 
 Mihael Johnston, Maried to Euphenia Watson May 17, 1750, had 
 bap. Peter their first Child, Aug. 12, 1751 ; Mary, Feb. 18, 1753, De- 
 ceased Sept. 1754 ; John, Mar. 2, 1755 ; Mary, June 22, 1757, De- 
 ceased 1764; William Watson, Sept. 30, 1759 ; Jane, July 5, 
 
 1761 ; Margaret, July 10, 1763 ; Michael, July 7, 1765 ; Thomas, Jan. 
 
126 HISTORY OF OLD TENISTENT. 
 
 22, 1768, Baptized at a Catechising at Mr. Cooks ; Joseph, Mayg, 1772, 
 his Mother was Buried the same Day. 
 
 Hendrick Johnson, had bap. James, Aug, 19, 1753; Marj', July 31, 
 1757; Mindert, Oct. 7, 1759; Samuel, Jan. 15, 1764. 
 
 John Jewel, had bap. Jane, July 9, 1769. 
 
 John Jammison, had bap. William, May 14, 1775. 
 
 Catharine Job, daughter of Geo. Job Jr. , Feb. 8, 1756, Baptized on 
 profession of her own faith. 
 
 Jaef a Negro Man of RoelefSchenck Brewer Baptized Sep. 27, 1747, 
 on profession of his faith. 
 
 Joseph Ker, had bap. Mary, Oct. 20, 1734 ; Margaret, June 4, 1738 ; 
 
 Ursula, ; 1742; Sarah, July 8, 1744; Waltar, Aug. 11, 1745; 
 
 Euphunea, the first child to his Second Wife, Mar. 13, 1748 ; Ursulla, 
 Aug. 6, 1749; Anna, Jan. i, 1751 ; Ebinezer, Nov. 25, 1754 ; Lj'dia, 
 Sep. 19, 1756. 
 
 Richard King, had bap. Robert, March 4, 1736 ; James, Sept. 4, 
 
 1737- 
 
 Walter Ker, son of Samuel, had bap. Ezekiel, Apr. 30,. 1758 ; Wat- 
 son, Mar. I, 1761 ; Sarah, May 13, 1764. 
 
 Joseph Ker, had bap. Rachel, March 23, 1760. 
 
 Kate, a Negro Wench of Benj. Van CleePs, March 14, 1742, on pro- 
 fession of her faith. 
 
 Jo.seph Kinnan, had bap. Ealeanor, Nov. iS, 1753. 
 
 William Ker, had bap. Margaret, April 18, 1731, the first Baptized 
 in the New Meeting House ; Mary, Nov. 4, 1733 ; Nathan, Oct. 3, 
 1736, the first of his Second Wife's Children; Elizabeth, March 19, 
 1738; Hannah, Aug. 31, 1740; Lydia, Feb. 7, 1742; Sarah, Sept. 18, 
 1743 ; Nathaniel, Sept. ,15, 1745 ; Waltar, Dec. 18, 1748. 
 
 Samuel Ker, had bap. Waltar, Mar. 12, 1732; William, Mar. 25, 
 1733 ; Joseph, Sept. 22, 1734 ; Elisabeth, Nov. 15, 1735 ; Isbela, Mar. 
 2(3, 1737 ; Jacob, Dec. 17, 1738 ; Samuel, Dec. 6, 1740 ; Rachel, June 
 20, 1742 ; John, Feb. 12, 1744 ; Catharine, Mar. 16, 1746 ; Stephen, 
 Apr. 28, 1751. 
 
 John Ker, had bap. Rebeca, July 19, 1732 ; Joseph, May 5, 1734. 
 
 Moses Laird married Elisabeth, the daughter of James English, had 
 bap. David, May 10, 1767 ; William, Jan. 8, 1769 ; Catharine his 
 Second wife on profession of her faith, & Elizabeth their daughter, 
 Aprile 17, 1773 ; Catharine, Oct. 3n, 1774. 
 
 Peter Longstreet, had bap. EHas, June 14, 1767 ; Anne, April 29, 
 1770. 
 
 Danuiel Lane, had bap. His wife Lyda, Jan, 27, 1775, on Profession 
 of her own faith, & then their daughter Cathrine ; David, Oct. 13, 
 1776. 
 
 David Loyd, had bap. Elias, Jan. 27, 1775 ; Peter, Sep. 14, 1777. 
 
 Dr. Peter LaConte, had bap. William, John Eaton, & Margaret at 
 home, ; Thomas, July 26, 1747 ; Peter, May 19, 1751. 
 
 William Laird, son of Thomas, had bap, Jane, Aug. 21, 1768 ; Sarah, 
 Oct. 28, 1770 ; Thomas, May 28, 1775. 
 
 Rachel Lovell, a young & grown Woman, Bapti.sed upon profession 
 of her faith, Dec. 4, 1742. 
 
APPENDIX. 127 
 
 John Lloyd, had bap. Anna, Apr. 26, 1747 ; Margaret, July 3, 1748. 
 
 John Laird, had bap. Susanna, Sep. 3, 1775. 
 
 Alexander Laird, Deceased, Sep. 8, 1771, had bap. His Wife Lydia, 
 Daughter of Robert James, and then his son William, , 1756 ; Rob- 
 ert, , 1758 ; Richard, June 22, 1760 ; Amie, Sept. 26, 1762 ; Elisa- 
 beth, April 14, 1765 ; Lydia, Aprile 7, 1771. 
 
 Aaron Longstreet, of Rocky Hill, had bap. Lydia, June 10, 1759. 
 
 John Lambertson, had bap. Roleph, June 20, 1731. 
 
 William Laird, Deceased Aug. 16, 1772; had bap. Alexander, Nov. 
 
 4, 1733 ; Moses, Oct. 19, 1735 ; Sarah, July 10, 1737 ; Jane, Oct. 19, 
 1740; Elisabeth, July 4, 1742; Marj', April 15, 1744; Margaret, Apr. 
 27, 1746 ; Beavan, May 22, 1748 ; deceased Sep. 21, 1774 ; William, 
 Oct. 22, 1751. 
 
 William Logan, had bap. Sarah, May 19, 1734; Stoffel, Aug. 31, 
 1735 ; William, Dec. 18, 1737. 
 
 Wm. Laird, son of Wm. had bap. William, by Mr. Smith, May 10, 
 1778. 
 
 Nathaniel Morgan, had bap. Hannah, July 4, 1736. 
 
 Thomas Laird, had bap. Moses, May 19, 1734. 
 
 John Lowrey, had bap. Nathaniel, May 29, 1736 ; Jane, Sept. 18, 
 1738. 
 
 David Lee, had bap. Patience, July 2, 1738. 
 
 Timothy Lloj-d, Jr., had bap. Peter, June 20, 1742 ; David, Feb. 10, 
 
 1745- 
 
 Daniel Lott, had bap. Mary, July 9, 1775. 
 
 William Laird, had bap. Susanna, Apr. 21, 1754. 
 
 Robert McAfie, had bap. Agnos, Feb. 18, 1750 ; Elisabeth, presented 
 by the Mother the father being absent, March 18, 1753 ; Ealeanor, 
 Both parents engaged, March 22, 1755. 
 
 John McChesney, deceased March 10, 1775 ; had bap. Robert, May 
 14, 1758; James, by Second Wife, March 30, 1760; John, April 8, 
 1764 ; Eleanorj May 11, 1766 ; William, July 10, 1768 ; Samuel, Aug. 
 
 5. 1770 ; Joseph, Aprile 18, 1773. 
 
 Francis Mount, married Andr. Reed's daughter. Ezekiel, bap. June 
 7, 1767 ; Anne, July 16, 1769, both presented by the Mother ; Elisabeth, 
 June 5, 1774. 
 
 Mary Montier a Grown Young Woman, Baptized on her profession 
 of her Faith, March 27, 1763. 
 
 Daniel Mackelwain, had bap. Margaret, Sep. 2, 1744. 
 
 Hugh Mack Gill, had bap. William, June 28, 1767. 
 
 Robart McKnight, had bap. John, May 8, 1774. 
 
 Mink, a Negro Man of Court Schenck's upon profession of his faith, 
 Julys, 1741. 
 
 Moses, a Negro Man of upon profession of his faith, 
 
 June 18, 1749. 
 
 William McKnight. Sarah Wife of Wm. McKnight upon profession 
 of her Faith, Dec, 16, 1744; had bap. Robert his finst child, Nov. 3, 
 
 1745 ; Jane, , 1747 ; Amie, July — , 1749 ; John, April 28, 1751; 
 
 Lewis, June 24, 1753 ; Mary, Jan. 26, 1755 ; James, May 8, 1757 ; 
 Thomas, Dec. 10, 1758; Joseph, Oct. 19, 1760. 
 
 Andrew McGallird, had bap. James, July 19, 1747. 
 
128 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Amniariali Morris had bap. Garret, May ii, 1775 ; Mary, June 20, 
 1779, both presented by the mother. 
 
 James Moorhead had bap. William, May 8, 1748. 
 
 Robert McGallird had bap. Jane, March 26, 1749. 
 
 Hugh McFerrin had bap. Margaret, July 11, 1736 ; Robert, Nov. 26, 
 1738 ; Isabella, Dec. 13, 1740 ; Susanna, Mar. 20, 1743. 
 
 John McFerrin had bap. Daniel, May 29, 1737 ; Elisabeth, March 
 
 4, 1739- 
 
 Humphrey Mount, had bap. William, May 14, 1739, Presented by 
 the Mother. 
 
 Robert Morris, had bap. Wilson, May 11, 1775 ; William, June 20, 
 1779, both presented by the mother. 
 
 Matthias Mount, had bap. John, June 5, 1743 ; Rachel, . 
 
 Richd. Mills, had bap. William, Mar. 25, 1750, presented by the 
 Mother; David, Oct. 22, 1752, presented by the Mother also. 
 
 Samuel McConky, had bap. William, March 11, 1744 ; Jacob, Sept. 
 13. 1745 ; John, July 19, 1747 ; Anne, Apr. 23, 1749 ; Mary, March 
 — , 1751 ; Samuel, June 10, 1753. 
 
 Hugh McFerrin had bap. Elisabeth, Dec. 6, 1730 ; Jane, Nov. 4, 1733. 
 
 Daniel McCay had bap. Elisabeth, May 2, 1731 ; Daniel, presented 
 by the mother, the father being dead, Nov. 4, 1733. 
 
 Humphry Mount had bap. Brittan, June 2, 1731 ; Dorcas, Mays, 
 1734 ; Mary, June 7, 1736 ; all presented by the mother. 
 
 Jacob Mattison had bap. Anne his wife, Feb. 11, 1732 ; Elisabeth 
 his Daughter, ; Marj', Jan. 8, 1734. 
 
 Andrew Mains, had bap. Andrew, Julj^ 19, 1732 ; Charles, March 31, 
 1734 ; Jane, June 22, 1735. 
 
 John McConnel had bap. Eleazar, Sep. i, 1733 ; Martha, March 
 28, 1736. 
 
 Duncan McCay had bap. Mar3', Catharine, Anne & William, all at 
 once, Oct. 5, 1735 ; James, June 12, 1737 ; John, April i, 1739. 
 
 Joseph Newton, his wife Eleanor, daughter of John Anderson, Esqr. , 
 had bap. Thomas and James, Nov. 2, 1766 ; Kenneth Anderson, Oct. 
 23, 1768, presented by the Mother, the Father being Absent. 
 
 George, a Negro Man, belonging to Joseph Van Matren, Baptized on 
 profession of his faith, Oct. 25, 1761. 
 
 Negro Woman, Hagar Slave of Hendr, Hendrickson, Dr. Baptised on 
 profession of Faith, Apr. 14, 1751. 
 
 Negro Mink, had bap. Peter, Sep. 18, 1748, the Mother lives at Mr. 
 
 Jas. Robin,son's ; Ninus, Sept. , 1751, Mr. Robinson Joined with 
 
 the Child's father. 
 
 Mr. Robt. Cummings. Negro Cube, bap. Oct. 16, 1752, on pro- 
 fession of his own faith ; Titus, Apr. 15, 1753, Child of Sd. Cube ; 
 Samson, May 8, 1757, Child ofSd. Cube. 
 
 Mr. Gumming. Minibo, Cube's Wife, bap. Aug, iS, 1765, on pro- 
 fession, &c. 
 
 John Newal had bap. Adam, Apr. 4, 1731. 
 
 Thomas Nesmith, had bap. Anne ; Father & Child Baptized togeth- 
 er July 19, 1732 ; Margaret, May 26, 1734. 
 
 John Newal, had bap. Agnos, Dec. 23, 1733. 
 
 William Norcross was married to Martha Mattison, Dec. ' — , 1745 ; 
 
APPENDIX. 129 
 
 Baptized upon profession of his Faith, June s, 1743 ; had bap. John, 
 his first Child, Jan. 11, 1747 ; Aaron, on fryday before the Lord's Sup- 
 per, Apr. 8, 1748 ; Elisabeth, Dec. 31, 1749 ; Abraham, Dec. 2aj 1751 ; 
 Rebeca, Sep. 15, 1754. 
 
 Thomas Newman, Baptised upon profession of his Faith, Aged about 
 18 or 19 years, May 13, 1750; had bap. his first child, George, by 
 Mary, the Daughter of Mr. George Wilkie & his Wife, Aug. 18, 1754. 
 
 Elisabeth Nichols, bap. Aug. 4, 1754 ; Anne Nichols, bap. June 22, 
 1755 ; Daughters of Joshua Nichols, Baptised on profession of their faith. 
 
 Alice, Negrowench of Benja:V:Cleef, & Diana, Negrowench of John 
 Longstreet, were Baptized May 13, 1753, on profession of their faith. 
 
 Negro Samson, belonging to Mr. Wm. Rue, bap. Oct. 26, 1755. 
 
 Cofie, Negro to Michael Johnston, bap. Oct. 17, 1756. 
 
 James, Negro to Mr. Tennent, bap. June 5, 1757. 
 
 Jack, Negro to Capt. Joseph Rue, bap. Aug. 6, 1758. 
 
 Jaef&Rose, man & Wife, Negroes to Capt. John Van Cleef, bap. 
 Jan. 7, 1759. 
 
 Thomas & Mary, Negroes belonging to Jacob Weykof, bap. Nov. 
 2, 1766. 
 
 Thomas Napier, had bap. John, Oct. 31, 1769. 
 
 John Pittinger, had bap. Richard, Oct. 5, 1760. 
 
 Widow OHarra had bap. Sarah, Oct. 12, 1760, the Father, John 
 OHarra, being lately Deceased. 
 
 Bryan OGallouchor, had bap. James, Sept. 16, 1750 ; Ebenezar, 
 
 March 2, 1755; John, Junes, ^757 '• Agnes, April 15, 1759; 
 
 , Jan. 24, 1762 ; James, Aug. 5, 1764 ; Catharine, May il, 1766; 
 
 Samuel, Nov. 5, 1769. 
 
 George OBryan. Margaret, bap. May 3, 1756; presented by the 
 Mother, the father not appear. 
 
 Bryan ODocherty. Hannah, bap. April 13, 1766 ; Susanah, 
 
 — , ; both presented by the . Mother. 
 
 Henry Ferine, Son of John, had bap. Lydia, April 5, 1767 ; Joseph, 
 July 23, 1769 ; Mary, Aug. 11, 1771 ; Henry, Nov. 14, 1773 ; William, 
 Mar. 26, 177s ; Mathew Rue, June 29, 1777. 
 
 Parent Sammuel, had bap. Michale, Nov. i, 1772. 
 
 Jpsiah Parent, had bap. Thomas, July 19, 1732 ; Margaret, May 31, 
 
 1734- 
 
 James Pettit, had bap. James, Feb. 9, 1735; Kezia, May 29, 1737 ; 
 Stephen, June 3, 1739. 
 
 -Daniel Perrine, had bap. Daniel, Oct. 5, 1735 ; Elizabeth, Aug. 8, 
 1736 ; Hannah, May 4, 1739 ; Elizabeth, April 15, 1744 ; the last three 
 presented by the Mother. 
 
 William Preston, Jr., had bap. Hannah, May 27, 1750. 
 
 Richard Pittinger had bap. Euphunea, June 20, 1736 ; John, Apr. 22, 
 1739 ; Rachel, March 28, 1742 ; by his second wife, Samuel, Aug. 18, 
 1754 ; the Second wife had been the wife of Wm. Deveny. 
 
 Richard Pittenger, Jr., had bap. Jacob, Jan. i, 1758 ; Euphemia, Oct. 
 
 28, 1759- 
 
 Peter Perrine, of Matchaponix, had bap. Mary, July 11, 1736 ; Mar- 
 tha, Nov. 5, 1738 ; Margaret, May 10, 1741 ; William, Apr. 15, 1744. 
 
 Tobias Polhemus, had bap. John, March 19, 1738. 
 
 Joseph Preston, had bap. Rebeca, -Nov, 13, 1737. 
 
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130 HISTOllY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Samuel Parent, had bap. Robert, ]\Iarch 27, 1743; Samuel, July 26, 
 
 1747- 
 
 William Rue son of Matthew, had bap. Matthew, July 30, 1763 ; 
 Samuel, Nov. 24, 1765 ; William, June 7, 1767 ; Mary, Dec. 6, 1773 ; 
 Richard & Margaret, Sept. 26, 1779. 
 
 Joseph Robinson son of James. His Wife Unice & her si,ster Han- 
 nah Baptized on profession of their Faith, & his Daughter Mary pre- 
 sented by the parents, Oct. i8, 1767 ; James, July 9, 1769. 
 
 David Rhe, had bap. Cathrine Nott, April 4, 1776. 
 
 John Rue, had bap. Joseph, Oct. 31, 1779. 
 
 Mathew Rue, had bap. Abigale, Aprile 9, 17S0. 
 
 Peter Rosabacb, had bap. Aeltije, May 27, 1757. 
 
 Ealeanor Reynolds a young grown Baptized on profession of her 
 Faith, Nov. 2,1766. She is the daughter of William Reynolds deceased. 
 
 James Reed, had bap. James, Aug. 14, 1737. 
 
 Isaac Ross, had bap. John, Feb. 2, 1735. 
 
 John Reed, had bap. Jane, May 26, 1734. 
 
 David Rhe, had bap. Jonathan, Sep. 26, 1731 ; Nelley or Nealtije, 
 Dec. 30, 1733; Janet, May 16, 1736; David, Sep. 22, 1740; Anne, • 
 March 6, 1743. 
 
 James Robinson, had bap. Mar3\ Feb. 5, 1732 ; Jane, Feb. 25, 1734 ; 
 John, Oct. 3, 1736 ; Charity, March 4, 1739 ; Henry or Hendrick, July 
 12, 1741 ; Joseph, Marcli 25, 1744. 
 
 James Rue, had bap. Marj', Jan. 28, 1733. 
 
 Thomas Redford, a Man grown, made open profession of the Faith, 
 and was bap. April 29, 1733. 
 
 William Rogers, had bap. V/illiam, April 29, 1733 ; Mary and Eliz- 
 abeth, May 9, 1736 ; Rebeca, presented by the mother. May 10, 1752. 
 
 Widw. Margt. Robinson, had bap. James, Sep. 16, 1733. 
 
 Robert Rhe, had bap. Margaret, Aug. 24, 1746, Said Rhe's first Child 
 deceased Nov. — , 1747 ; David, Sep. 18, 1748 ; Margaret the Second, 
 March 17, 1751 ; Anna, Sept. 9, 1753 ; Mary, Dec. 6, 1755 ; Jonathan, 
 April 9, 1758 ; James, Sept. 28, 1760 ; David, Baptized by Mr. Wm. 
 Tennent, Jr., March 10, 1763 ; Robert, Dec. 15, 1765 ; IMargaret, June 
 26, 1768. 
 
 George Rhe, had bap. Anna, Sep. 26, 1746, the Fryda}' before the Ls. 
 Supper ; David, June 26, 1748 ; Mary, Oct. 28, 1750 ; Margaret, Oct. 
 16, 1752 ; Elizabeth, on a fast day, June 4, 1755. 
 
 Ruth Rounay, was Baptized upon publick profession of her Faith, 
 July 13, 1735. 
 
 Janet Carswell, alias Reed, had bap. Sarah, July 5, 1741. 
 
 Charles Rhoades, had bap. Hester, or Esther, Oct. 27, 1751. 
 
 Robinson, Son-in-I<aw to Andrew Mains, had bap. Elizabeth, 
 
 May 10, 1752. 
 
 Henry Robinson married Anne Rhe, daughter of David Rbe, Esqr. ; 
 had bap, Charit3^ Apr. 14, 1765. 
 
 Andrew Reed, had bap. Mary, , ; John, IMarch, 26, 1758; 
 
 Samuel, Apr. 13, 1760; James, Ma3' 6, 1762. 
 
 Jonathan Rhe married to Lj'da Forman, daughter of Aa: Forman, 
 Deed.; had bap. David, May 11, 1755; Aaron, May 8, 1757; Esther, 
 July 29, 1759 ; John, Apr. 4, 1762 ; Anne, Oct. 25, 1767, pre.sented by 
 the Mother, the Father being dead. 
 
APrENDIX. 131 
 
 James Reed, son of John Reed, had bap. Aaron, March 21, 1756. 
 George Riddel, had bap. Agnos, Dec. 21, 1755 ; Margaret, Aug. 20, 
 
 1758 ; John, July 5, 1761 ; Elizabeth, Nov. 28, 1762 ; David, Aug. — , 
 1765 ; Mary, July 13, 1766. 
 
 John Shaw, had bap. Sarah, at home for Sufficient Reasons, Nov. 23, 
 1733; John, Thomas, Henry, Joseph, Elizabeth, Dec. 13, 1744. All these 
 Baptized at one time at a Catechising at Mr. Shaw's House. 
 
 John Smith. John & Joseph sons, & Sarah & Esther daughters, all 
 Baptized at once, June i, 1735. 
 
 Michael Sweetman, had bap. Jane, at princetown, , 1733 ; John, 
 
 May 2, 1736 ; Michael, June 25, 1738 ; Thomas, Oct. 19, 1740 ; Catha- 
 rine, Aug. 15, 1742 ; Margaret, Oct. 7, 1744 ; Henderson— John, Feb. 
 
 , 1747 ; Anne, Mar. 26, 1749 ; John & Mary, Twins, Mar. 25, 1752, 
 
 John Died 4 days After. 
 
 Moses Smith, Dec'd. Moses & Dorothy, presented by the Mother, 
 & Eleanor, Presented by Thomas Kinnan & his Wife, Aug 29, 1736. 
 
 John Stuart, had bap. Stephen, Nov. 20, 1737, presented by the 
 Mother; Margaret, April 24, 1743, presented by Father & Mother. 
 
 John Service had bap. Esther, Mar. 19, 1738 ; James, Jan. 13, 1740. 
 
 Patience Stout, was Baptized on profession of her Faith, May 18, 
 1741. 
 
 Richd. Stillwell, had bap. Hannah, Sept. 13, 1745, presented by the 
 Mother. 
 
 Henderson Sweetman, had bap. Michael, Aprile 2, 1775; Forman, 
 June I, 1777. 
 
 Simeon, Negro Man of Capt. Matthias Lane, baptized on profession 
 of his faith, Feb. 22, 1761. 
 
 Senate, a Negro Man of Joseph Hankinsons, baptized on profession 
 of his faith, March 14, . 
 
 David Smith, had bap. Euphama, May 30, 1773. 
 
 Peter Smith, had bap. Himself & on Profession of his own faith & 
 his daughter Elizabeth, Jan. 27, 1775. 
 
 Richard Stevens, son of Benj. Stevens, married to Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of John Henderson, June 19, 1755. Their first child Jane was born 
 & baptized the 13th day & deceased at 8. o'clock afternoon the same 
 evening, Oct. 5, 1756 ; Anne the 2d. Child Baptized the 25th Dec. 
 1757; Nicholas, March 30, 1760 ; Margaret, July 30, 1763 ; Elizabeth 
 May II, 1766, presented by the mother, her father being dead about a 
 fortnight ago. 
 
 - Dr. Nathaniel Scudder married to Isbella daughter of Kenneth An- 
 derson 30th of , had bap. John Anderson their first child, , 
 
 1759 I Joseph, March — , 1762 ; Hannah, Oct. — , 1763 ; Kenneth An- 
 derson, Nov. 3, 1765 ; Lydia, July 10, 1768. 
 
 Thomas Sweetman, had bap. John, Aug. 24, 1766 ; Margaret, April 
 15, 1769 ; Michael, July 8, 1770 ; Joseph, May 8, 1774. 
 
 Michale Sweetman, had bap. Michale, Sep. i, 1771 ; Eleoner, May 
 30, 1773 ; Mary, March 30, 1777. 
 
 Andrew Smith, had bap. Moses, Oct. 31, 1774 ; Mary, May 18, 1777 ; 
 Michdel Sweetman, May 9, 1779. 
 
 George Tomson, had bap. John, Sep. 5, 1731. 
 
 John Tomson's Wife Rachel bap. by Old Mr. Tennent on profession 
 
132 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 of Faith, April 25, 1732 ; John Said Tomson's Son, March 5, 1735 ; 
 James, Jan. 8, 1738. 
 
 William Terry, had bap. Richard, presented by the mother, March 
 
 17. 1734- 
 
 Rebeca Tomson had a daughter baptized June 15, 1735. 
 
 John Truax, had bap. Roelef, Aug. 25, 1735. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. William Tennentjr., had bap. John, by his Uncle the 
 Rev. Mr. G. Tennent, Sep. 15, 1739 ; William, March 15, 1741 ; Gil- 
 bert, May — , 1742; Catharine, Sept. 26, 1743; Margaret, Aug. 7, 
 1745, who died soon after as did another daughter who was a twin 
 child with this 3 days before. 
 
 John Tone, had bap. Andrew, Feb. 17, 1743 ; Thomas, Feb. 17, 
 1745 ; Hannah, Aug. 23, 1747 ; • ■, June 18, 1749. 
 
 Moses Thompson, had bap. John, Feb. 21, 1768. 
 
 Abraham Truax, had bap. Sceytie, July 19, 1767 ; Lyda, June 23, 
 1771. 
 
 Tom, a Negro man belonging to John Henderson Baptized on pro- 
 fession of his faith, Dec. 28, 1746. 
 
 Tony, a Negro man belonging to Court Schenck, Baptized on pro- 
 fession of his faith, April 19, 1747. 
 
 Peter, a Negro man belonging to the Rev. Mr. Erruckson, Baptized 
 on profession of his Faith, June 25, 1758. 
 
 George Tinney, had bap. Euphunea, Aprile 4, 1776. 
 
 Wm. Van Kerk, Jr., had bap. Samuel, Elizabeth, May 4, 1760 ; 
 William, July 5, 1762 ; John, July 22, 1764. 
 
 Wm. Van Voorhes, had bap. Cathrine, March 24, 1771 ; Elloner, June 
 27, 1773 ; Mary, May 28, 1775 ; William, Sept. 14, 1777. 
 
 John Van Voorhees, had bap. Hendrick, which is his first child, 
 
 — , 1753; Aeltie.-Dec. 7, 1755. 
 
 Jacob Van Arsdalen, had bap. Mary, Sept. 20, 1767. 
 
 William Van Kerk, had bap. Esther, June 3, 1754. 
 
 Aaron Mattison. Sarah, his Wife, Baptized on profession of her 
 faith. May i, 1763. 
 
 John Vancleif, S:B:B., had bap. Benjamin, June 27, 1773 ; Peggy, 
 May 10, 1778 ; both Baptized by Mr. Smith. 
 
 Matthias Van Kerk, son of John V. K., married John Truax's Daugh- 
 ter Alice in May — , 1753 ; had bap. John, July 28, 1754. 
 
 David Van Schcaik, had bap. Josiah, June 24, 1758 ; JBenjamin, June 
 I, 1760 ; Robert, May 16, 1762 ; David, June 3, 1764 ; Isabella, May 8, 
 1768; Hannah, Aug. 4, 1771. 
 
 Thomas Van Kerk, had bap. William Cox, Nov. 22, 1761 ; Mary, 
 June 19, 1763. . 
 
 Barnard us Ver Bryke, Esqr., had bap. Aeltije, May 9, 1736. 
 
 Arthur Van Kerk, had bap. Hannah, his Wife, & Elshie his Daugh- 
 ter, Jan. 12, 1746. 
 
 John Van Scaiack, had bap. John, July i, 1756 ; David, Dec. 17, 
 
 1752 ; Janet, March 22, 1755 ; , Jan. 30, 1757 ; Peter, by his 
 
 Second Wife, June 2, 1765 ; William, June 7, 1767. 
 
 Lawrence Van Hook, son of Aaron, had bap. Lloyd, Feb. 12, 1751 ; 
 Aaron, Aug. 12, 1753 ; Elizabeth, May 18, 1755. 
 
 Ryke Van Matren, son of John, had bap. Ida, June 9, 1751 ; his ex- 
 cuse for coming to Mr. Tennent to baptize his child was that his Wife 
 
APPENDIX. 13C 
 
 did not understand Dutch ; Janatie or Jane, April 15, 1753 ; John, Aug. 
 24, 1755 ; Catharine & Mary, Twin Children, June 25, 1758 ; William, 
 June 22, 1760; Nelly, Feb. 13, 1763. 
 
 William V.Voorhees, had bap. Jane, Oct. 11, 1767. 
 
 Peter Van Voorhees, had bap. , a Daughter, March 7, 1731. 
 
 John Van Kerk, had bap. Alice, Jan. 28, 1733 ; Peter, Nov. — , 1734. 
 
 Baldwin Van Delip, had bap. Baldwin, March 25, 1733, presented by 
 the mother. 
 
 William Van Kerk, had bap. Elsie, Sep. 16, 1733 ; Hannah, March 
 
 23, 1735 ; William, Oct. 3, 1736 ; Thomas, — ; John, Nov. 19, 
 
 1738; Roelef, ; Lydia & Sarah, Twin Daughters, July 10, 
 
 1743 ; Catharine, June 30, 1745 ; Anne, Sep. 20, 1747 ; Jo,seph, March 
 4> 1750. 
 
 Franci.s Van Schcaik, had bap. Elizabeth, March 23, 1735; Aniie, 
 
 Hendrick V: Voorhees, Jr., married Jane Eeslee ; had bap. Peter, 
 April 8, 1764 ; Sarah, April 13; ^66. 
 
 Hendrick Van Voorhees, had bap. Jane, Nov. — , 1735. 
 
 George Williams, had bap. James, Dec. 6, 1730 ; Margaret, April 
 14, 1734 ; both pre.sented by the Moflaer. 
 
 Gerri| Weycof, had bap. Gerrit, Dec. 27, 1730 (?) 
 
 Thomas Whitlock, had bap, Sarah, Mar. 14, 1731, presented by the 
 Mother: ^ 
 
 Richard Watson, had bap. Richard, July 25, 1731. 
 
 John. Wilson, had bap. Catharine, Aug. i, 1731, presented by the 
 Mother. 
 
 Waltar Wilson, had bap. Rachel, Sept. 12, 1731. 
 
 James Wall, had bap. Rebeca, Oct. 10, 1731. 
 
 James Wilson, had bap. Rachel, Wife of John Tomson, April 25, 1732. 
 
 Wid : Cathr. Wilson, had bap. Hannah, Sept. 24, 1732. 
 
 Waltar Wilson, had bap. Rachel, Sept. — , 1731 ; Jane, March 25, 
 1733 ; Euphunea, . 
 
 Peter Wilson, man grown & made publick profession, April 29, 1733. 
 
 Thomas Witlock, had bap. John, March 17,' 1734; Mary, Feb. 29, 
 1736; both presented by the Mother. 
 
 James Wall had bap James, July 27, 1735. 
 
 Joseph Wilson Baptized and his Son Andrew, Oct. 19, 1735 ; Joseph, 
 July 2, 1738; Isabella, March 25, 1739. 
 
 George Walker, married to Priscilla Forman Oct. 26, 1747 ; Esther, 
 their first Child was Baptized Sep. 25, 1748 ; Ursulla, Oct. 7, 1750 ; 
 Parthenia, May 20, 1753 ; George, June 6, 1756 ; Aaron Forman, May 
 6, 1759; Lucretia, April 26, 1761 ; Lydia, April 8, 1764; Elizabeth, 
 Nov. 2, 1766, Deceased June 5, 1767 ; Elizabeth Row'ena, June 26, 1768. 
 
 Gerrit Weycof, had bap. Oakey, Dec. 4, 1748. 
 
 James Wilson, son of Waltar, had bap. Hannah, Jane & William, all 
 presented by their father, Dec. 2, 1764. 
 
 Peter Wilson, son of Peter, was Baptized himself first on profession 
 of his Faith & then his child or daughter, Sarah, Sep. 30, 1753 ;, Deb- 
 orah, , 1755- . 
 
 Jacob Weycof, had bap. Anne, June 27, 1756 ; Catharine, Aug. 2[, 
 1757 ; Sarah, Sept. 22, 1765. 
 
134 IIISTOllY OF OLD TEKNENT. 
 
 William Whitlock, had bap. William, Feb. 14, 1762 ; Lockhart, 
 Oct. 29, 1763. 
 
 Thomas West, had bap. Himself on profession of his faith, & then 
 his son, Benjamin, May 14, 1775. 
 
 George Williams had bap. George, April 24, 1737. 
 
 John Wind, had bap. John, June 5, 1737, presented by the Mother. 
 
 George Walker had bap. E.sther, Jan. 8, 1738 ; James, Feb. 26, 1741; 
 Anne — Clark, April 15, 1744. 
 
 Peter Weaver, had bap. Johannah, Feb. 16, 1738 ; Elizabeth, Dec. 9, 
 1739; Abigal, April 26, 1741 ; Peter, Oct. 25, 1767. 
 
 Michael Ward, had bap. William, Apr. 24, 1743. 
 
 Yana, a Negro Wench of Wnr. Covvenhoven the son of Albert bap. 
 upon profession of her faith, March 19, 1738 ; her children Mack, Gyro, 
 and Nancy presented by said Yana their Mother, Mar. 8, 1747. 
 
 John Yateman, had bap. Peter, John, Mary, Elizabeth, Margaret and 
 Lucia, June 27, 1756 ; all presented by their Mother Margaret Daugh- 
 ter of Peter Gordon deceased & Grand daughter of Robert Rhe Long 
 deceased ; Manoali, May 8, 1757 ; Isbella, Nov. 22, 1761, both present- 
 ed by their Mother. 
 
 John Zutphen, had bap. Aentije, Dec. 5, 1730. 
 
 Derek Zutphen, had bap. Nealtije, June 2, 1731. 
 
 Abraham Zutphen, had bap. John, Dec. 15, 1734. 
 
 Derick Zutphen, son of Jacob, had bap. Joseph, Aug. 4^ 1754 ; 
 John, July 4, 1756 ; David, Apr. 25, 1760. 
 
 XL 
 
 NAMES AND DATES OF EARLY BURIALS. 
 
 (1). In Old Scots Cemetery. 
 
 Hannah Amy, died March 23, 1762, aged about 53 years, wife of John. 
 
 John Boice, died Feb. 14, 1805, in his 47th year. 
 
 Jane Boice, died March 8, 1849, aged 91 years, wife of John. 
 
 Rev. John Boyd, died Aug. 30, 1708, in his 29th year, first pastor of 
 
 Old Scots Church. 
 Richard Clark, died May 16, 1733, born Feb. 10, 1663, in Scotland. 
 Archibald Craig, Esqr., died March 6, 1751, aged 73 years. 
 Mary Craig, died Nov. i, 1752, aged 69 years, wife of Archibald. 
 Samuel Craige, died Nov. 17, 1746, in his 39th year, son of Archibald 
 
 and Mary. 
 William Craig, died Aug. 8, 1726, in his 2nd year, son of Archibald. 
 William Craig, died Aug. 28, 1743, in his 3rd year, son of Samuel. 
 William Crawford, died March 22, 1760, in his 55th j-ear, late High 
 
 Sheriff of Middlesex County. 
 Samuel Crawford, died July 8, 1748, in his 36th year. 
 Jonathan Forman, Esqr., died Dec. 28, 1762, aged 74 years. 
 Margaret Forman, died Dec. 21, 1765, aged 72 years, wife of Jonathan. 
 
APPEISTDIX. 135 
 
 William Forman, died in bis 7th year, born Feb. 20, 1729, son of Jona- 
 than and Margaret. 
 
 Jonathan Forman, Died May 20, 1758, in his 37th year, son of Jona- 
 than and Margret. 
 
 Euphamea Freeizer, died March i, 1748, in her 22d year. 
 
 John Henderson, Esqr., died Jan. i, 1771, in his 74th year. 
 
 Ann Henderson, died Oct. 4, 1776, in her 65th year, wife of John. 
 
 Michael Henderson, died Aug. 23, 1722. 
 
 Jane Henderson, died Oct. 10, 1722, wife of Michael. 
 
 Anne Henderson, died June 18, 1748, born Dec. 27, 1734. 
 
 Jane Henderson, died Jan. 4, 1748-9, bor.i Oct. 8, 1730. 
 
 John O'Harrah, died Sep. 16, 1760, in his 35th year. 
 
 Margaret O'Harrah, died Sep. 3, 1760, in her 6th year, daughter of 
 John and Sarah. 
 
 Catharine Patten, died Feb. g, 1774, aged 52 years, wife of John. 
 
 Daniel Peacock, died May 3, 1823, in his 6ist year. 
 
 Ann Peacock, died April 19, 1825, in her 55th year, wife of Daniel. 
 
 David Pease, died Oct 15, 1758, in his sgth year. 
 
 Abraham Probasco, died Nov. 30, 1806, in his 70th year. 
 
 Nelly Probasco, died Sep. 9, 1806, in her 74th year, wife of Abraham. 
 
 JacolD Quackenbush, died Dec. 29, 1828, aged 84 years. 
 
 Experience Quackenbush, died Dec. 27, 1830, aged 93 years, wife of 
 Jacob. 
 
 Elizabeth Reder, died June, 1735, aged about 79 years, wife of Jeremiah. 
 
 William Redford, died March i, 1726, aged 84 years, came from North 
 Brittain, 1682. 
 
 Margret Redford, died April 17, 1729, aged 84 years, wife of William. 
 
 Rev. John Tennent, died April 23, 1732, born Nov. 12, 1707 ; third pas- 
 tor of Old Scots Church. 
 
 Elinor uan Dorn, died May 22, 1733, in her 21st year, wife of Abra- 
 ham, daughter of Jonathan and Margret Forman. 
 
 Cathrine van der hiden, died Jan. 10, 1747, aged 33 years, wife of John, 
 and daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth ward. 
 
 Anthony Ward, died Dec. 6, 1746, aged 76 years ; born in Great Britain. 
 
 Walter Wall, died Feb. 2, 1738, aged 47 years. 
 
 Anna Wall, died Jan. 19, 1758, in her 63d year, wife of Walter. 
 
 {2\ In Old Topanemus Cemetery. 
 
 [This cemetery is .situated about oue mile west oi Marlboro, N. J. Here was located iu 
 its early days. St. Peter's Episcopal Church, which was afterwards moved to Freehold 
 village. Rev. Geo. Keith, who had beeu a Quaker, but afterwards joiued the Episcopal 
 Church, wasamougthe first to conduct services iu Old Topauemus]. 
 
 Coll. John Anderson, died March 28, 1736, aged 71 years, once Presi- 
 dent of his Majesty's Council for the Province of New Jersey. 
 
 Anna Anderson, died July 6, 1723, aged 43 years, wife of Coll. John, 
 and daughter of John Reid. 
 
 Hannah Anderson, died Aug. 15, 1762, in her 44th year, wife of Kenneth. 
 
 Lydia Anderson, died Aug. 18, 1744, aged 3 yrs. 11 mos. 23 days, 
 daughter of Kenneth and Hannah. 
 
 James Abraham, died Sep. 13, 1765, aged 69 yrs. 6 mos. 18 days; born 
 in Northhamptonshire in Old England. 
 
 Jannet Abraham, died April 3, 1747, in her 44tli j-ear, wife of James. 
 
136 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Charles Abraham, died Sep. i8, 1760, in his 35th year, son of James 
 and Jannet. [land, 1683. 
 
 John Baird, died April, 1755, aged about 90 years; came from Scot- 
 John Baird, Jr., died Feb. 6, 1747, in his 41st year. 
 
 Zebulun Baird, died Jan. 28, 1804, in his 84th. 
 
 Anne Baird, died Dec. 28, 1794, aged 63 yrs. 4 mos. 11 days, wife of 
 
 David Bowne, died Dec. 9, 1820, in his 73rd year. [Zebulun. 
 
 Mary Bowne, died Feb. 28, 1813, in her 48th year, wife of David. 
 
 Sarah Brown, died Aug. 8, 1771, aged 27 yrs. 9 mos., wife of Andrew. 
 
 John Barclay, Esq., died Feb., 1786. 
 
 Katherin Barclay, died Oct. 26, 1757, born June 14, 1705, wife of John 
 Barclay, and daughter of Charles Gordon. 
 
 John Clark, died March 17, 1777, aged 58 yrs. 16 days. 
 
 William Clarke, died May — , 1709, (tombstone is a double one, for 
 himself and wife, and is broken off). 
 
 Elizabeth Clarke, died Dec. 25, 1697, aged 42 years, wife of William ; 
 .she was born in Scotland. 
 
 Allexsander Clark, died Aug. 7, 1730, aged 37 3-ears, born in Newjarsey. 
 
 Mary Carhart, died Aug. 10, 1737, aged 41 years, wife of Robart. 
 
 Richard Deni.se, died Aug. 17, 1802, aged 31 j-ears, 2 mos. 16 daj'S, 
 son of Denise & Margaret. 
 
 Margaret Denise, died Dec. 18, 1770, aged 22 yrs. 10 mos. 24 da5'S, 
 wife of Denise Denise, and daughter of Richard and vSarah Fran.ses. 
 
 Alexander Dove, died Oct. 7, 1736, aged 73 years. 
 
 Jane Dove. 
 
 John Driskel, died Nov. 19, 1804, in his 41st year. 
 
 John Fenton, died Aug. 5, 1747, aged 77 yrs. 3 mos. 
 
 John Fenton, died April 7, 1736, in his 12th year, son of John & Mary. 
 
 Richard Franses, died Nov. 10, 1795, aged 86 yrs. 9 mos. & 9 days. 
 
 Sarah Fran.ses, died Aug. 8, 1809, aged 97 yrs. 11 mos. & 12 days, wife 
 of Richard, and daughter of Thomas and Mary Warne. 
 
 Thomas Franses, died Feb. 20, 1768, in his 31st year, son of Richard 
 and Sarah. 
 
 James Frances, died Sep. 26, 1766, in his 13th year, son of Richard 
 and Sarah. 
 
 John Franses, died March 21,1 759, in his 8th 3'ear, .son of Rich. & Sarah. 
 
 Mary Franses, died Aug 10, 1753, in her 15th year, daughter of Rich- 
 ard & Sarah. 
 
 John Fran.ses, died April 6, 1730, in his 4th year, son of Rich'd & Sarah. 
 
 Richard Fran.ses, died Nov. 8, 1796, son of Richard and Sarah. 
 
 Rachel Fran.ses, died Oct. 19, 1791, in her 43rd year, daughter of Rich- 
 ard and Sarah. 
 
 Daniel Grandin, died Nov. r, 1790, aged C7 yrs. 6 mos. & 20 days, sou 
 of Daniel and Mary; 
 
 vSarah Grandin, died Feb. i, 1761, aged 39 yrs. 2 mos. & 20 days, wife 
 of Daniel. 
 
 John Grandin, died Aug. 3, 1774, in his 22d year, son of Daniel & Sarah. 
 
 Hellana Hankinson, died Feb. 19, 1748, in her 42d yr., wife of Thomas. 
 
 Jonathan Holmes, died Dec. 26, 1766, in his 86th year. 
 
 Rebekah Holmes, died Nov. 10, 1761, aged 70 yrs. & 9 mos., wife of 
 Jonathan. [& Rebeckah. 
 
 Joseph Holmes, died March 23, 1738, in his 17th year, son of Jonathan 
 
APPENDIX. 137 
 
 Samuel Holmes, died Nov. 29, 1769, in Ms 44th year. 
 
 Molly Holmes, died April 23, 1773, aged 46 years, wife of Samuel. 
 
 Elisha Holmes, died Feb. 13, 1792, aged 22 yrs. 11 mos. & 26 days. 
 
 Adrian Hun, died Jan. 15, 1738, aged 28 yrs. and 7 mos. 
 
 Phebe Hun, died May 10, 1739^ aged 9 mos. & 17 days, daughter of 
 
 Adrian & Phebe. 
 Sarah Jolley, died Feb. 10, 1806, in her 26th year, daughter of William 
 Thomas Killpatrick, died Jan. 31, 1755, aged 56 years. [& Hannah. 
 David Lyell, died Jan. 28, 1725, aged 55 years. (His tombstone has a 
 
 Latin inscription, and also an engraved coat-of-arms). 
 Alice Loyd, died Jan. 29, 1761, aged about 78 years, wife of Timothy. 
 MargretMcCormick, died Oct. 24, 1760, aged 50 years, wife of Jeremiah. 
 William Nichols, died April 9, 1743, born in Dublin, Ireland, Oct. 23, 
 
 1685 ; for many years a physician in Monmouth County. 
 Sarah Nichols, died April 6, 1755, aged 70 yrs. 2 mos. & 4 days, wife 
 
 of Dr. William. 
 John Reed, died July 5, 1819, aged 96 yrs. & 3 mos. 
 Sarah Reed, died May 30, 1785, aged 57 years, wife of John, and 
 
 daughter of John & Anne Wetherill. 
 William Reed, died July 31, 1802, in his 34th year, son of John & Sarah. 
 Elizabeth Reed, died Feb. 6, 1796, in her 36th year, daughter of John 
 
 & Sarah. 
 John Reed, died June 10, 1770, aged 93 yrs. i mo. & 7 days. 
 Anne Reed, died June 4, 1777, aged 92 yrs. & 9 mos., wife of John 
 
 Reed of Monmouth County. 
 James Reed, died Dec. 29, 1809, aged 81 j'ears, son of John and Anna. 
 Moyka Reed, died Aug. 11, 1757, in her 23d year, wife of James, and 
 
 daughter of Aaron & Catharine Longstreet. 
 Sarah Reid, died April 24, 1753, aged 11 years, youngest daughter of 
 
 Coll. John Reid. 
 Samuel Reid, died Dec. 23, 1802, aged 65 yrs. 9 mos. & 11 da3'S. 
 John Reid, died Nov. 16, 1723, aged 67 years. He came from Scotland 
 
 his native country, with his wife -Margaret and three daughters, to 
 
 New Jersey, Dec. 19, 1683. (Noted surveyor and map-drawer). 
 Margaret Reid, died May i, 1728, aged 84 years, wife of John Reid. 
 John Rockhed, died Sep. 12, 1737, aged 56 years; second son of Thomas 
 
 Rockhed, of Whitsomhill, in the shire of Berwick, upon Tweed, in 
 
 North Britain. 
 Anna Smith, died Feb. 20, 1773, aged 24 yrs. 4 mos. & 9 days, wife of 
 
 David. 
 Susannah Smith, died Nov. 14, 1759, in her 2otli year, daughter of 
 
 John and Hesther. 
 Hugh Taylor, died Aug. 19, 1750, in his 65th 5'ear, born at Coates, in 
 
 the county of York, in Great Brittain. 
 Latitia Taylor, died Sep. 10, 1801, aged 55 yrs. 8 mos. & 10 days, wife 
 
 of Hugh Taylor, and daughter of Richard and Sarah Franses. 
 Hugh Taylor, died Oct. 8, 1763, aged 24 days, son of Hugh & Letitia. 
 Jo.seph Throckmorton, died April 8, 1752, aged 26 yrs, 3 mos. & 20 
 
 days, son of Joseph and Alice. 
 Job Throckmorton, died Feb 2, 1765, in his 45 year, son of Joseph and 
 
 Alice. 
 Mary Throckmorton, died April 19, 1790, in her 67 year, wife of Job. 
 
 n 
 
188 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 James Throcmorton, died May 28, 1749, in his 6th year, son of Job and 
 
 Mary. ' 
 Rebekah Tice, died June 24, 1757, in her 24th year, wife of Gilbert Tice. 
 Elizabeth Thomas, died Jan. 16, 1762, in her 35th year, wife of Enoch 
 
 David Thomas, & daughter of James and Jannet Abraham. 
 Thomas Warne, died May 15, 1722, ag^ed 70 years, born in Plimouth 
 
 in Devenshire in Great Brittain. Lived some time in Ireland. And 
 
 in the 31st j'ear of his age came over a Proprieter in East Jarsey. 
 Deborah Warne, died March 15, 1731, aged 27 years, wife of Thomas. 
 Joshua Warne, died Aug. 5, 1758, in his 52nd year. 
 Sarah Warne, died Oct. 11, 1742, in her 6th year, daughter of Joshua 
 
 & Elizabeth. 
 John Williams, died Jan. 9, 1759, aged about 20 j-ears, sou of George. 
 
 (Headstone broken), 
 
 (3). In Old Tennent Cemetery. 
 
 James Anderson, Esq., died Sep. 15, 1766, in his 27th year. 
 
 John Anderson, died July 19, 1793, in his 90th year. 
 
 Sarah Anderson, died Aug. 10, 1787, aged 82 years, wife of John. 
 
 Jane Brannan, died Sep. i, 1757, in her 25th year, wife of Andrew. 
 
 Rebecca Baird, died Jan. 6, 1778, aged 22 years, wife of David. 
 
 Lydia Baird, died Feb. 15, 1791, aged 36 years, wife of Capt. David. 
 
 Joseph Bowne, died Oct. 8, 1812, in his 78th year. 
 
 Hannah Bowne, died May i, 1823, in her 84th year, wife of Joseph. 
 
 Robert Gumming, died April 15, 1769, in his 68th year. 
 
 Jane Covenhoven, died Aug. 14, 1798, in her soth year, wife of John P. 
 
 Hannah Crawford, died Jan. 21, 1755, aged 51 years, wife of William. 
 
 James Craig, died July 31, 1806, in his 39th year. 
 
 Ann Craig, died Aug. 26, 1795, in her 31st year, wife of James. 
 
 Dr. David Combs, died Jan. 11, 1795, in his 22nd year. 
 
 John Campbell, died Mar. 30, 1783, in his 33rd year, son of John and 
 
 Campbell Combs, died July 6, 1778, in his 22nd j'ear. [Rachel. 
 
 Esther Combs, died Mar. 20, 1796, in her 33rd j-ear. 
 
 John Craig, died Sep. 25, 1783, in his 73rd year. 
 
 Archibald Craig, died August i, 1777, in his 24th j-ear. 
 
 Samuel Craig, died July 6, 1777, in his 26th year. 
 
 William P. Covenhoven, died May 3, 1777, in his 74th year. 
 
 Mary Covenhoven, died Jan. 30, 1777, in her 70th year, wife of Wm. P. 
 
 Charlotte Campbell, died July 4, 1794, in her 25th year, wife of Dr. 
 
 E. Combs, died 1777. [George W. 
 
 T. Combs, died 1777. 
 
 Rebecca DeBow, died June 19, 1761, in her 27th year, wife of Vanhook. 
 
 Frederick DeBow, died Dec. 19, 1757, in his 72nd year. 
 
 John Dey, died June 13, 1799, in his 19th year, son of John & jSIary. 
 
 Sarah Dick, died May 3, 1763, aged 63 years. 
 
 David English, Jr., died Sep. 13, 1762, in his 36th 3-ear. 
 
 Robert English, died April 25, 1768, in his 40th year. 
 
 David English, died Feb. 15, 17S2, in his 24th year, son of David. 
 
 Jane English, died May 26, 1791, in her 36th year, daughter of David. 
 
 Jonathan Forman, died March 20, 1784, in his 38th j'ear. 
 
 Sarah Forman, died Jan. 18, 1799, aged 26 years, wife of William G. 
 
 Joseph Forman, died July 14, 1775,- aged 71 years. 
 
APPENDIX. 139 
 
 Elizabeth Forman, died Oct. 15, 1774, aged 64 years, wife of Joseph. 
 
 Anna Forman, died Sep. 9, 1798, in her 63d year, wife of David. 
 
 Margaret Forman, died July 8, 1767, in her 25th year, daughter of Peter. 
 
 Peter Forman, Esq., died Sep. 8, 1785, in his 67th year. 
 
 Eleanor Forman, died Nov. 6, 1771, in her sand year, wife of Peter. 
 
 Ann Forman, died April 27, 1793, in her 26th year, wife of Dr. Samuel. 
 
 Margaret Gordon, died Feb. 28, 1792, in her 56th year, wife of Jona- 
 
 Peter Gordon, died April 21, 1770, in his 67th year. [than R. 
 
 Jonathan Rhea Gordon, died August i, 1800, in his 83d year. 
 
 Sarah Huggen, died Dec. 3, 1753,' aged 47 years, wife of William. 
 
 Mary Hendrickson, died Oct. 26, 1762, in her 27th year, wife of Conradt. 
 
 Joseph Johnston, died Feb. — , 1791, in his 22nd year. 
 
 Michael Johnston, died Sep. 9, 1785, in his 66th year. 
 
 Euphemia Johnston, died May 8, 1770, in her 41st year, wife of Michael. 
 
 Elizabeth Ker, died Dec.,31, 1755, in her 21st year, daughter of Samuel. 
 
 Samuel Ker, died Nov. 18, 1763, aged 23 years, son of Samuel. 
 
 Eliza Laird, died Aug. 31, 1794, in her 22nd year, daughter of Moses 
 
 Moses Laird, died — ,1798, in his 62nd year. [and Cat3^ 
 
 John Loyd, Esq., died Oct. 14, 1784, in his 62nd 3'ear. 
 
 Aaron Mattison, died April 26, 1762, in his 82nd year. 
 
 Elizabeth Mattison, died Feb. 3, 1773, in her 91st 3'ear, wife of Aaron. 
 
 John Mattison, died Oct. 27, 1744, in his 23d year, son of Aaron. (His 
 
 tombstone is the oldest in Old Tennent Cemetery). 
 Sarah Mattison, died April 23, 1774, in her 49th year. (Her tomb.stone 
 
 was broken bj' the Battle of Monmouth). 
 Hugh McFerran, died March 7, 1769, aged about 80 years. 
 William McKnight, died Oct. 21, 1761, aged about 45 3'ears. 
 Elizabeth McGaliard, died Aug. 14, 1797, in her 77th year. 
 Robert McGaliard, died March 31, 1782, aged 67 years. 
 John McChesne3', died March 10, 1775, aged 45 years. 
 Mary McChesney, died May 20, 1791, aged 56 years, wife of John. 
 Joseph Morford, died Aug. 20, 1760, aged 27 years. 
 Col. Henry Monckton," died June 28, 1778. British Officer, killed in 
 
 the Battle of Monmouth. 
 Catherine Perrine, died April 28, 1792, in her 84th year, wife of John. 
 Rebecca Reid, died June 8, 1796, in her 38th year, wife of Aaron. 
 James Robinson, died Jan. 22, 1773, in his 74th year. 
 Charity Robinson, died April 23, 1762, in her 58th j'ear, wife of James. 
 Henry Robinson, died April 3, 1768, in his 27th jear, son of James. 
 Thomas Smith, died Oct. 17, 1799, in his S7th year. , 
 Derrick Sutfin, died June 27, 1796, in his 84th j'ear. 
 Mary Sutfin, died Sep. 11, 1794, in her 73rd 3'ear, wife of Derrick. 
 Phebe Sutfin, died Aug. 5, 1777, in her 24th 3'ear, daughter of Derrick 
 
 and Mar3'. 
 AlC2 Smith, died Jan. 14, 1759, in her 39th year, wife of Legget. 
 Michael Sweetmari, died Aug. 28, 1766, aged 67 3-ears. 
 Mary Sweetman, died Aug. 14, 1771, aged 66 3'ears, wife of Michael. 
 Nathaniel Scudder'died Oct. 16, 1781, aged 48 years. 
 Isabella Scudder, died Dec. 24, 1782, aged 45 3'ears, wife of Nathaniel. 
 Samuel Tw3'bill, died Sep. 13, 1799, in his 19th year. 
 John Trout, died March 26, 1768, in his 68th year. 
 GilbertTennent, Jr., diedMarch6, 1770, born April, 1742. (Aph3'sician). 
 
140 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Rev. William Tennent, died March 8, 1777, in his 72nd year. (His 
 body is buried under the church). [min. 
 
 Martha Vanschoick, died June 4, 1791, in her 2ist year, wife of Benja- 
 
 Helena Vanderveer, died Aug. 23, 1784, in her 26th year, wife of Tunis. 
 
 Catherine WyckofF, died Dec. 21, 1782, aged 25 years, daughter of Ja- 
 cob and Sarah. 
 
 Sarah WyckofF, died Aug. 25, 1796, aged 64 years, wife of Jacob. 
 
 Hartshorne White, died April 12, 1774, in his 38th year. 
 
 Phebe White, died Jan. 2, 1775, in her 40th year, wife of Hartshorne. 
 
 George Walker, died Jan. 2, 1791, in his 67th year. [John. 
 
 William H. Woodhull, died Sep. 6, 1798, in his 20th year, son of Rev. 
 
 Mary WyckofF, died May 17, 1781, in her 22nd year, daughter of Jacob 
 and Sarah. [Jacob and Sarah. 
 
 Rhoda Wyckoff, died April 12, 1783, in her 22nd year, daughter of 
 
 About one-half mile east of the Old Tennent church on the brow of 
 a little hill covered with woods, known by the name of " Locust 
 Grove," is the grave of Walter Ker, died June 10, 1748, in the 92nd 
 year of his age. Near by are two other graves, Margaret Ker, died 
 Oct. I, 1734, in the 73rd of her age, wife of Walter; and Margaret 
 Ker, died Dec. 20, 1745, in her 34th year, wife of Joseph. 
 
 On the D. D. Denise farm, about one mile west of Freehold village, 
 is the private burying ground of the Rhea family, in which is the 
 grave of Janet Rhea, died Jan. 15, 1761, aged about 93 years ; this is 
 the Janet Rhea of the corner-stone incident. Here also are a number 
 of other graves of the Rhea family. 
 
 On " WickofF's Hill " two miles east of Freehold village is a family 
 burying-plot, in which are the graves of a number of the Forman fam- 
 ily. Here is Samuel Forman, died Oct. 13, 1740, aged 77 years ; and 
 Mary Forman, died March 18, 1728, aged 61 years, wife of Samuel. 
 
 The oldest tombstone in the Perrineville cemetery is that of Joseph 
 Holman, died August 9, 1777, in his 9th year. 
 
 XII. 
 SOLDIERS' GRAVES IN OLD TENNENT CEMETERY. 
 
 [The following: list of the uanies of soldiers, with their army couuections, buried in Old 
 Teuueut Cemetery, was prepared with much labor some years ago t)y R. Perriue Craig:, 
 who was sexton of the church aud church yard from 1868 to 1SS9. The auther acknowl- 
 edges the kindness of Mr. Craig in permitting the use of this list in this book, and also in 
 furnishing assistance aud information in the compiling of this History.] 
 
 SOI^DIERS OP THE OLD FRENCH WAR AND OP THE REVOLUTION. 
 
 Anderson, James, Lieut. Hazen's Reg't, (2d Canadian), Continental 
 Arm J' ; discharged at the close of the war. 
 
 Anderson, John, ist Lieut. Capt. Reading's Company, 3dBatallion, ist 
 Establishment, Feb. 7, 1776 ; resigned. Capt. 4th Battalion, 2d Es- 
 tablishment, Nov. 28, 1776 ; retired Sept. 26, 1780. Also, Capt. mil. 
 
 Anderson, John, Priv., Capt. Waddel's Company, i.stReg., Monmouth. 
 
 Anderson, Kenneth, Adjt., ist Regt., Monmouth, May i, 1777. 
 
APPENDIX. 141 
 
 Baird, David, Private, ist Regt., Monmouth; Sergt, ditto, 1776; En- 
 sign, ditto; Lieut., ditto ; Quartermaster, ditto; Capt., ditto, 1777. 
 
 Baird, John, Revolution. 
 
 Bowne, Joseph, Corporal, Capt. Waddell's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Bowman, John, Capt. Dunn's Company, ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Brewer, Joseph, Captain, Monmouth. 
 
 Craig, David, Private, Captain Walton's troop, Light Dragoons, ]\Ion- 
 mouth ; Sergeant, ditto. 
 
 Craig, James, Ensign, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Mon- 
 . mouth ; Ensign troop, ditto ; State, ditto. 
 
 Craig, John, Capt. Waddell's Company, ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Craig, John, ist Lieut., Capt. ElishaWalton'sCo., istReg't, Monmouth. 
 
 Craig, Samuel, Troop Light Horse, Monmouth. 
 
 Craig, William, teamster. 
 
 Campbell, William, Continental army. 
 
 Campbell, John, Capt. Waddell's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Clayton, Jonathan, Capt. Walton's Troop Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Cale, Jacob, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, ]Monmouth. 
 
 Conover, David, Monmouth. 
 
 Conover, (Covenhoven), Theodoras, Sergt. Capt. Hankinson's Com- 
 pany, ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Conover, John M., Troop Light Dragoons. 
 
 Covenhoven, Cornelius, Capt. Hankinson's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Covenhoven, Lewis, Sergt., Infantry; Sergt. Troop Light Horse, Mon. 
 
 Covenhoven, John, Col., Mon.; Capt. Hunn's Co., ist Regt., Monmo'th. 
 
 Covenhoven, John, Capt. Walton's Troop Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Covenhoven, Wm., Capt. Hankinson's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Combs, Joseph, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons ; Serg't, ditto, 
 
 Combs, Thomas, Captain, Rangers, Middlesex. [Monmouth. 
 
 Combs, John, Capt. Waddell's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Chambers, John, Capt. Walton's Troop Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Cheeseman, William, Private, Sergeant. 
 
 Davis, William, Captain. 
 
 Dey, John, Monmouth. 
 
 Edwards, Thomas, 2nd Lieutenant, Monmouth. 
 
 Emmons, Abraham, Monmouth. 
 
 English, David, Middlesex. 
 
 English, James, Surgeon's Mate ; State Troops, Surgeon's ditto. 
 
 English, James, Monmouth. 
 
 Errickson, Michael, Monmouth. 
 
 Forman, David, Paymaster, Monmouth. 
 
 Forman, Jonathan, Cornet, Capt. Walton's Troop Light Dragoons, 
 Monmouth ; Cornet, Capt. Walton's Co., (horsemen). State troops. 
 
 Forman f Jonathan, Capt. Waddell's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Forman, Tunis, Private, Sergeant. 
 
 Forman, William, Capt. Walton's Troop Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Freemen, Henry, Fifer, Continental Army. 
 
 Gordon, David, Ensign, Capt. Elisha Walton's Co., ist Reg't, Mon- 
 mouth, May 7th, 1777 ; Captain, ditto, 1778. 
 
 Gordon, Ezekiel, Middlesex. 
 
 Gordon, James, Middlesex. 
 
 Gordon, Jonathan, Revolution. 
 
142 HISTORY OF OLD TENNENT. 
 
 Hays, John, Capt. Bond's Co., 4th Battalion, 2nd Estab. Also militia. 
 
 Hankinson, James, Capt. Walton's Light Dragoon's, Monmouth. 
 
 Hankinson, Kenneth, Capt. Colonel Fonnan's Battalion, Heard's Brig- 
 ade, June i6th, 1776; Captain, 1st Regt., Monmouth, 1777. 
 
 Herbert, Daniel, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Herbert, James, Troop Light Horse, Monmouth. 
 
 Henderson, John, Lieutenant, Monmouth ; Captain, ditto, 1777. 
 
 Henderson, Thomas, 2d Major, Col. Stewart's Battalion, Minute Men, 
 Feb. 15, 1776 ; Major, Col. Heard's Battalion, June 14, 1776 ; Lieut.- 
 Col., Colonel Forman's Bat., Heard's Brigade ; Brigade Major, Mon. 
 
 Johnston, Peter, Sergt., Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Mon. 
 
 Johnston, Wm., 3rd Battalion, ist Estab'.; Capt. Flanagan's Co., 3d 
 Battalion, 2d Estab.; Capt. Anderson's Co.,_3d Regt.; ist Regt. 
 
 Low, Alexander, Sergeant, Monmouth. 
 
 Laird, Moses, Revolution. 
 
 Laird, William, Cap. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Laird, William, Capt. Nixon's Troop, Horse, Middlesex. 
 
 Laird, Richard, Private, Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth ; 
 Corp. ditto ; Serg't ditto. Also, Serg't Pulaski Legion, Cont. Array. 
 
 Leonard; Samuel, Serg't, Capt. Waddel's Company, ist Reg't, Mon- 
 mouth ; ist Battalion, 2d Estab., 3d Reg't ; also militia. 
 
 Lloyd, John, Capt. Waddel's Company, ist Reg't, Monmouth. 
 
 Mount, Matthew, Revolution. 
 
 McKnight, Joseph, Monmouth. 
 
 McChesney, Robert, Revolution. 
 
 McDermott, William. 
 
 Newell, Hugh, (grandfather of Gov, Newell), blacksmith, Capt. Brew- 
 
 Perrine, John, Middlesex. [er's Company, Monmouth. 
 
 Perrine, Lewis, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Perrine, Matthew, Middlesex. 
 
 Reid, Aaron, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Horse, Monmouth. 
 
 Reed, John, Serg't, Capt. Hankinson's Companj', ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Rogers, John, Revolution. 
 
 Rogers, Samuel, Lieut. Tice's Company, ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Rue, John, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Scudder, Nathaniel, Lieut. Col., ist Regt., Monmouth. Col. ditto, 
 Nov. 28th, 1776; killed in skirmish with refugees at Shrewsbury, 
 Monmouth Countj', N. J., Oct. 15, 1781. 
 
 Schenck, Ruliff, Capt. Flanagan's Companj-, 3d Battalion, 2d Estab. 
 
 Seabrooks, Stephen, Troop, Light Horse, Monmouth. 
 
 Smith, Thomas, ist Reg't, Monmouth ; also Continental Armj'. 
 
 Sprowls, Moses, Private, 3d Battalion, ist Estab. ; Private, Capt. Pat- 
 terson's Co., 3d Battalion, 2d Estab. ; Private, ist Reg't ; Serg't, 3d 
 Reg't; Quartermaster-Serg't, ditto; Ensign, 2d Reg't, June 21, 
 1781 ; Ensign, ist Reg't ; discharged at the close of the war. 
 
 Sutphen, Derrick, Private, Capt. Waddel's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth ; 
 Serg't Capt Barnes Smock's Co., Artillery, ditto. 
 
 Sutphin, Joseph, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 Sutphin, John, Capt. Hankinson's Company, ist Reg't, Monmouth. 
 
 Suydam, Jacob, Middlesex, 
 
 Thompson, Joseph, Capt. Waddel's Co., ist Reg't, Monmouth. 
 
 Tone, William, Capt. Nixon's Troop, Light Horse, Middlesex. 
 
APPENDIX. 
 
 143 
 
 VanCIeve, Benjamin, Ensign, Capt. Smock's Co., ist Regt., Mon- 
 mouth, Sept. I St, 1777; Lieutenant, ditto; Captain, ditto, 1780. 
 
 Vanderveer, John, Monmouth. 
 
 Voorhees, John, ist Battalion, 2nd Regiment ; ist Regt. 
 
 Walker, Aaron, Fifer, Continental Army ; also Drummer, Capt. Wad- 
 del's Co., ist Reg't, Monmouth. 
 
 Walker, George, served as Capt. in 2nd Battalion, 2nd Establishment, 
 as a volunteer vsfithout pay; Ensign, 2d Regt., Sept. 26, 1780; Lieut., 
 ditto, Jan. i, 1781; discharged at the close of the war; Capt. by brevet. 
 
 Walton, Elisha, Ensign, ist Reg't, Monmouth; Capt., ditto. May 7, 
 1777; 2d Major, ditto ; ist Major, ditto, March 27, 1778; Major 
 Battalion, State Troops, June II, 1779. 
 
 Wilson, Joseph, Revolution. 
 
 Woodhull, John, D.D., Chaplain. 
 
 WickofF, Jacob, Capt. Hankinson's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 WikofF, William, Corp., Capt. Waddell's Co., ist Regt., Monmouth. 
 
 Yetman, James, Private, Continental Army ; Sergeant, ditto. 
 
 Yetman, John, Monmouth. 
 
 Perrine, Peter, Captain, Third Battalion, Middlesex. 
 
 Rhea, David, Lieut., Capt. John Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Mon- 
 mouth; Lieut., Capt. Walton's Co., State Troops, (horsemen); Lieut., 
 Capt. Nixon's Troop Light Horse, Middlesex; Quartermaster, militia. 
 
 Coward, Enock, (Grandfather of Capt. Enoch L.. of 14th Regiment). 
 
 Henderson, Wm., Capt. Holmes's Co., 4th Battalion, 2nd Establishm't. 
 
 Clayton, John, Capt. Walton's Troop, Light Dragoons, Monmouth. 
 
 SOIvDIERS OP THE WAR WITIJ EN'GLAIJD, l8l2 AND '14. 
 
 Anderson, Jno. L. Capt 
 Brewer, Daniel, 
 Boyde, John, 
 Bowne, Peter, 
 Bruen, Cyrus, 
 Coward, Enock, 
 Combs William, 
 Clayton, John, 
 Conover, Rob't. Capt., 
 Conover, John I., 
 Conover, Benjamin, 
 Craig, John, 
 Craig, Joseph, 
 
 Craig, Robert E., 
 Emmons, Isaac, 
 Freeman, Simeon, 
 Gordon, Lewis, 
 Gordon, John E., 
 Gordon, James, 
 Hampton, William, 
 Laird, David, (Navy), 
 Kerr, Joseph, 
 Myers, Nathaniel, 
 Malatt, Matthias, 
 Nesbit, John 
 
 Perrine, Rob't, Quartermaster. 
 
 Robinson, Jas., Capt. 
 Robinson, John, 
 Rue, William, 
 Teneyck, Wm., Capt. 
 Thomson, Joseph, 
 Thompson, Pearson, 
 VanSchoick, Samuel, 
 Voorhees, Stephen, 
 White, William, 
 Wilson, Robert, 
 Yetman, Eseck, 
 Yetman, Walter. 
 
 SOIvDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1861. 
 
 Abrahams, James, 
 Breece, William, 
 Coombs, William, 
 Duncan, William, 
 Dey, Roland, 
 Fisher, David R., 
 
 Fisher, David A., 
 Gordon, Conover, 
 McChesney, Geo. S., 
 Rue, John A., 
 Reid, Spaflford V/., 
 Smith, Josiah. 
 
 Smith, Jacob,* 
 Van Aman, James N., 
 Woodhull, Dr. Addison, 
 Weeden, John E., 
 Yetman, Tunis. 
 
 * Also served iu the war with Mexico. 
 
144 HISTORY OF OLD TENJSTENT. 
 
 XIII. 
 MEMORIAL. 
 
 Ill October, 1S94, the Synod of New Jersey adopted the following resolution ; " That a 
 Committee be appointed to consider and report what shall be done, if anything', to com- 
 memorate the establishment of the old Scots Church and the Tenneut "Church in Mon- 
 mouth county, and the historical places and events thus intimately connected with the 
 beginnings of the Presbyterian Church in this country." Accordingly the following per- 
 sons were appointed, The members of Synod's Permanent Committee on Historical Mate- 
 rials, viz.: Revs. Allen H. Brown, (chairman), Henry C. Cameron, U.D., David R. Fraser. 
 D.D., Charles Herr, D.D., John C. Clyde. D.D.. Rev. William F. Whitaker. Eben B. Cobb, 
 D.D., R. Hamill Nassau, D.D., and elder James Steeu ; and with these, George Swain, 
 D.D., Rev. Frank R. Symmes, Rev. Henry Goodwin Smith, elder R. Perrine Craig of Ten- 
 neut church, and elder Andrew Perrine of the church in Freehold, members of the Pres- 
 bytery of Monmouth. At the same session of Synod this Joint Committee (for so it was 
 called) was " authorized to arrange for the visitation of these historic places, and for 
 appropriate addresses, ou someone day of next summer (1895), without involving the Syn- 
 od, as a Synod, in any financial responsibility," After deliberations of this Joint Commit- 
 tee and especially by the Executive Committee which it had appointed of its number, 
 arrangements were finally completed for the visitation or " Pilgrimage," to take place on 
 Tuesday, June 4,1895. Extensive preparations were made. Invitations were sent to 
 different ecclesiastical bodies, to various iustitutions, and to high public officials, to be 
 present at the exercises ; and general notices were given through the press. About this 
 time the Rev. Henry Goodwin Smith issued in pamphlet form au excellent history of the 
 Old Scots Church which he had studiously and carefully written, and which may still be 
 procured for 60c. by mail from Moreau Bros.. Freehold. N.J. A very interesting and 
 appropriate program was previously arranged bj-^ the Committee for the exercises of the 
 whole day. This was carried out in the main, with but few oraissiQns or changes. On 
 the day appointed, June 4, 189^, a goodly assemblage of people gathered in the Old Scots 
 cemetery under the trees during the forenoon. Here, besides devotional services and 
 singing, addresses were made on " The Beginnings in Monmouth," by Rev. Geo. Swain, 
 D.D.. ou " Walter Ker and his Posterity," by Rev, Frank Melville Ker, on " Makemie, 
 our First Father, and his Monument : Our First Presbytery and its Fruits," by Rev. John 
 S. Mcintosh. D.D., and on " Rev. John Boyd " by^Rev, Henry Goodwin Smith. A large 
 portion of the Pilgrimage dined in Freehold. In the afternoon a still larger assemblage 
 gathered in the Old Tennent Church and filled it to overflowing. The prepared program 
 was followed out. The pastor of the church extended greetings to the assembled compa- 
 ny, and exhibited interesting relics ; addresses were made on "Pioneer Guard of New 
 Jersey Presbyterianism " by Rev. Howard Duffield, D.D., on " The Presbyterian Histori- 
 cal Society " by Rev. J. Henry Sharpe. D.D., on " The Battle of Monmouth " by Col. Jas. 
 S. Yard, and on " Prominent Scotch, Irish and Huguenot Settlers of Monmouth County " 
 by James Steen, Esq.. together with devotional services and singing. The Treasurer of 
 the Joint Committee, Rev. Eben B, Cobb, D.D., made a plea for funds, (i) To pay the ex- 
 penses of this meeting, estimated at $200. (2) To have printed the proceedings, including 
 the speeches, $100. Q,) To secure funds to remove the old stone, now falling to decay, 
 over the grave of ReiT John Boyd, to the Presbyteiian Historical Society, and to erect a 
 monument in its place, $700. lu the collection that was taken there were $84.97. A vote of 
 thanks was tendered to Rev, Allen H.Brown for his valuable and successful services in 
 planning and carrying out this Pilgrimage. This Pilgrimage meeting also appointed the 
 Committee of the Synod to serve as a Committee to carry out the expressed desire for the 
 removal of the stone, and securing of a monument over the grave of the Rev. John Boyd, 
 with power to add to their number. The session of the Old Teunent Church had, previ- 
 ously to this, expressed their willingness for the removal of this tombstone provided a 
 suitable granite stone with inscriptions be erected in its place. The enrollment of those 
 attending this " Boyd-Tenuent Pilgrimage" showed a large number that came from 
 various Presbyteries, from different church denominatious. and from historical societies, 
 besides interested visitors, and reporters for prominent newspapers. The Synod of 1S95 
 heartily thanked the Rev. Allen H. Brown for his interest and zeal in this historic memo- 
 rial ; and resolved " That the Joint Committee be continued, with the addition of one 
 ruling elder from each Presbytery, to solicit funds for the publication of the proceedings 
 of the late commemoration, and for the due preservation of the ancient gravestones of 
 John Boyd and of John Tennent, and for the erection of a suitable memorial or monu- 
 ment on the site of the Old Scots Meeting House, where the first Presbytery ordained 
 John Boyd, and that the said Committee have discretionary power to execute these ob- 
 jects, provided that they see the way entirely clear financially." The Synod of 1S96 con- 
 tinued this Committee. 
 
 At present (1897) this Committee is workihg towards the erection of the proposed mou- 
 umeut in the Old Scots yard ; and if sufficient funds can be procured the Committee hope 
 in the near future to accomplish this object. When this is finally completed, the old 
 weather-worn tombstone that now stands over the grave of Rev. John Boyd, will be re- 
 moved to the rooms of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, or to some 
 other safe place for secure preservation. 
 
TOMBSTONE OF REV. JOHN BOYD IN 1895 ; OIvD SCOTS GROUND. 
 (Kindness of Rev. H. G. Smith.)