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Bates, William William Bates, who was one of the colony that settled Newton in 1682, before his death, which occurred in 1700, purchased land in Delaware township, which was left to his son, William, who married an Indian girl and settled upon the land now owned by Joseph C. Browning. His descendants were numerous, and some of them still reside in the township, in the village of Batesville. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Burrough, John The Burroughs were among the first members of the Society of Friends, and came from Warwickshire, England, where they suffered in common with others of their religious belief, prominent among whom was Edward Burrough, of Underbarrow, the defender and expounder of the doctrines of the Society of Friends, and who preached these doctrines to the people, he and a companion (Francis Howgill) being the first Friends to visit London. In 1654 he was mobbed in the city of Bristol for preaching to the people, and cast into prison in Ireland for a like offence, and finally banished from the island. After Charles the Second came to the throne he obtained a personal interview with the King, and procured an order from him to prevent the persecution of Friends in New England, which order the Friends in London forwarded by a ship that they had chartered specially for that purpose at the expense of three hundred pounds. Edward Burrough again visited Bristol in 1662 and held several meetings there, and when bidding adieu to the Friends he said: "I am going up to London again to lay down my life for the Gospel, and suffer amongst Friends in that place." He accordingly visited London, and while preaching to the people at a meeting at the Bull and Mouth, he was arrested and cast into Newgate Prison, where many Friends were then confined. This was about the last of the Third Month; his case was several times before the courts, and he was finally fined and ordered to lay in prison until the fine was paid. The payment of a fine for such a cause being contrary to his religious belief, he preferred to suffer, rather than yield his principles. The pestilential air of the prison soon preyed upon his health, and, although young and of robust physique, he sickened and died in Newcastle Prison Twelfth Month 14, 1662, in the twenty-ninth year of his age. There is no record of his being married or of his ever coming to America. John Burrough was born in the year 1626, and was imprisoned in Buckinghamshire in 1660, and Joseph Burrough suffered the same injustice in Essex during the same year. The son and daughter of William Burrough were maltreated in Warwickshire while on their way to Banbury Meeting. These facts are mentioned to show that the family was numerous in England and mostly Friends. They soon after came to America and settled on Long Island, where John Burrough is first mentioned as being assessed there in September, 1675. Between that date and 1689 John, Jeremiah, Joseph and Edward Burrough were all located on Long Island. In 1688 John Burrough came to Gloucester County, N.J., and located near Timber Creek. In 1693 Edward Burrough located a tract in Delaware township (then Waterford) which embraced the farm now owned by Joseph K. Hillman. He remained only a few years, when it is thought he removed to Salem. This tract of land was held by those of the family name for many years, and until Elizabeth Burrough, a daughter of John, married Samuel Matlack, whose descendants still hold portions of the land. Samuel Burrough, a son of John, was born in 1650, and was the third person of that name that came into Old Gloucester County. He is first noticed at the little town of Pensaukin. On November 16, 1698, he purchased three hundred acres of land from Joseph Heritage, in Waterford township. He first married Hannah Taylor, a daughter of John Taylor, and afterwards married Hannah Roberts, daughter of John and Sarah Roberts, on the 27th day of the Tenth Month, 1699. They had nine children. Samuel, the oldest, was born Ninth Month 28, 1701, and in 1723 married Ann Gray, a daughter of Richard and Joanna Gray. In 1703 his father purchased the farm of Richard Bromly, containing two hundred acres of land, and it was upon this farm and in the dwelling erected by Richard Bromly, that Samuel Burrough and Ann Gray removed soon after their marriage. This farm is now owned by Charles Collins and the house above-mentioned was torn down in 1845. Samuel and Ann had nine children. Joseph, the fifth child, erected the house, in 1761, now owned by Edward Burrough, on a part of the Richard Bromly tract adjoining the homestead. Joseph married, first, Mary Pine; second, Kesiah Parr (widow of Samuel Parr) and whose maiden-name was Aronson; third, Lydia Strech, another widow, whose maiden-name was Tomlinson. He had one son, William, by the first wife and two sons, Joseph and Reuben, by the second wife. Joseph married Martha Davis, a daughter of David and Martha Davis, in 1792, and succeeded his father in the occupancy of the house he built in 1761. They had seven children. Joseph Aaronson Burrough, the fourth child, was born Ninth Month 9, 1802. In 1824 he married Anna Lippincott, daughter of Samuel and Anna Lippincott, of Evesham, by whom he had seven children. Samuel L. Burrough, being the oldest, still owns, and his only son, Joseph A. Burrough, now occupies a portion of the old homestead tract. The house in which he dwells, by a singular coincidence, was built by his grandfather, after whom he was named, in 1861, just one hundred years after that built by the first Joseph, from whom it has regularly descended. The present dwelling of Samuel L. Burrough, erected in 1885, stands on a part of the old Spicer tract, acquired from the Rudderows by his father. Joseph A. Burrough, after the death of his first wife, married Mary H., another daughter of Samuel and Anna Lippincott, being a sister of his first wife, for which offence they were both disowned from membership with the Society of Friends. By this wife were born to him six children, only two of whom lived to attain their majority, -- Edward, who married Emily Collins, a lineal descendant of Francis Collins, and Mary L., who married Henry Troth, neither of whom have any descendants. Edward Burrough still owns and occupies the farm and dwelling erected by his ancestors in 1761, being the fifth generation to whom it has descended. This farm was surrounded by heavy timber, with the exception of one field, which bordered on the King’s Highway, leading from Camden to Mount Holly, and during the Revolutionary period was resorted to by the American army as a pasturage for their cattle during the occupancy of Philadelphia by the British. This farm was selected for that purpose on account of its being so surrounded by timber as to afford a hiding-place from the patrols that were sent out by Lord Howe to destroy the American supplies, and has ever since borne the name of Woodland Farm. The British were evidently informed that cattle were in this vicinity, and a detachment was sent out to capture them, who fortunately took the road to Medford and thus missed their prize, for they were immediately driven to Cumberland County, and were, no doubt, a part of the stores over which the action at Greenwich Point was fought. During the period of the battle at Red Bank the kitchen of this old homestead was made the rendezvous of the American scouts, and, notwithstanding the religious principles of the occupants, these scouts seemed to find no fault or objection to the reception that always awaited them, and many interesting anecdotes have been handed down to succeeding generations. These members of the Burrough family and David A. Burrough, another lineal descendant, being a son of David Davis Burrough, a younger brother of Joseph Aaronson Burrough, and who resides on the farm acquired by Joseph Burrough from his wife, Martha Davis, are all of the name now residing in Delaware township. The family is by no means extinct, members of it being located in nearly every county in West Jersey, and are found in Pennsylvania, Maryland and other States. Much of the land owned by the Burroughs in Delaware township was covered by dense forests of large oak timber and large quantities of ship and building lumber were cut and sawed on the estate at a saw-mill built by Joseph Burrough, on the farm now owned by Edward Burrough. The location of this mill was near the Pensaukin Creek, at the junction of two small streams that flow through the farm, which at that time were a never-failing source of power. This mill was burnt down during the early part of the present century, and was rebuilt by his son Joseph, who had inherited that part of the estate, and cut much fine lumber. In 1816 a cyclone passed through a portion of his timber, on the land now owned by the heirs of Joseph C. Stoy (deceased). The track of the cyclone was not over one hundred yards in width. The timber uprooted by the storm consisted of large white oaks, which were sold to the ship-yards in Philadelphia. Among the trees uprooted was a white oak just the shape of a ship’s keel and seventy-four feet long; it was hewed in the woods and drawn to Coopers Creek by seventeen horses, under the management of Jacob Troth, where it was floated down the creek to Philadelphia and used as the keel of the United States sloop-of-war "Seventy-Four," from which circumstance the vessel was named. The value of the wood and lumber at that day was greater than at present, a proof of which is evident from the fact that the cord-wood cut from the tops of these blown-down white oaks was sold at the landing on Coopers Creek for twelve hundred dollars. In 1836 a severe rain-storm occurred, which so flooded the streams that nearly every mill-dam in the township was destroyed, among them the dam of the pond above referred to, which has never been rebuilt, although much of the dam is still standing, and in a good state of preservation. A short time previous to the breaking of the dam the mill was destroyed by fire. The calamities occurring so near together, and the inroads made in these primeval forests, no doubt caused the site to be abandoned for mill purposes. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman ‎ Champion, John The family of Champions were at Hempstead, L.I., in 1673, where John and Thomas and their families resided. On the 13th of May, 1700, Henry Franklin conveyed to John Champion, of Hempstead, L.I., a tract of three hundred acres of land on the north side of Coopers Creek, in Waterford township (now Delaware), to which place he removed. Part of this estate is what is now known as the Barton farm, and upon which stood the residence of John Champion; this was near where one of the roads, crossed Coopers Creek in going from Burlington to Philadelphia. The difficulty of getting travelers across the creek led to the establishment of a ferry, a license for which was granted by the grand jury of Gloucester County, and the charges fixed. The coming of John Champion to West Jersey was, no doubt, caused by his daughter Elizabeth marrying John Wright, a son of Richard Wright, who had purchased land there of Thomas Howell. In 1691 and 1693 the son John increased his possessions by purchasing adjoining tracts from Thomas Howell’s heirs. In 1718 John Champion divided his landed estate between his sons Robert and Nathaniel, by a line running from the creek into the woods, and made each a deed dated April 24th. His other children were Thomas and Phoebe. He died in 1727. Robert Champion had one son, Peter, who, in 1740, married Hannah Thackara; she deceased and he married Ann Ellis, a daughter of William, a son of Simeon Ellis, in 1746, by whom he had one son, Joseph. Peter Champion died in 1748, and his widow, Ann, married John Stokes, and after his demise she married Samuel Murrell, 1761. By each marriage she had children. Joseph Champion, the issue of the second marriage of Peter, married, Rachel Collins, a daughter of Samuel Collins and Rosanna (Stokes), in 1771. By this marriage he had three sons [Samuel C., William C. and Joseph] and a daughter, Mary. Rachel Champion died January 7, 1783, when her youngest child, Joseph C., was but two weeks old. Joseph married Rachel Brown, of Springfield, Burlington County, in the spring of 1784. By this marriage he had three sons and one daughter. Ann Ellis, the wife of Peter Champion, inherited a tract of land on both sides of the Moorestown and Haddonfield road, now owned by the heirs of William Morris Cooper and Samuel M. Heulings, a lineal descendant of Simeon Ellis, through the Murrells on his mother’s side. Joseph C. Champion, the son of Joseph Champion, married Sarah Burrough, daughter of John Burrough, in 1809. His children were Ann W., who married Joseph Ellis; Chalkley Collins, who married Christian a Geading, of Philadelphia, and died in 1866; William Cooper, married Rebecca F., daughter of Benjamin Howey (he died in 1879); Elizabeth R., married George G. Hatch in 1836 (he died in 1842, leaving her with three children; the oldest one, Charles, was a soldier in the Union army during the entire War of the Rebellion); John B., married Keturah Heulings in 1850 (he died in 1884, without issue); Mary M., married William Yard, of Philadelphia, in 1852 (he died in 1862, no issue); Benjamin M., married Mary Ann, the daughter of General William Irick, of Burlington County; Joseph, died single in 1829; Emily, died young; Samuel C. Champion, a twin brother of Richard B. Champion, never married; Richard B. married Mary G. Kay, in 1855. He has three children -- Marietta K., Sarah J. and Isaac K. -- who reside in Camden. The name is now extinct in the township. Joseph C. Champion died January 28, 1847; his widow, Sarah Champion, died July 12, 1860. Samuel C. was a blacksmith, and plied his calling at Colestown, on the property lately the residence of George T. Risdon, but now owned by Watson Ivins, adjoining the farm of Thomas Roberts. Francis Collins, of whom a full account will be found in Haddon township, where he resided, soon after his settlement, in 1682, located five hundred acres of land fronting on the north side of Coopers Creek, in what is now Delaware township, a part of which he afterwards conveyed to his son Francis, who, in 1718, sold it to Jacob Horner. It is now the estate of William C. Wood. Francis Collins, the father, in 1720, conveyed two hundred acres of the tract to Samuel Shivers, a part of which is yet in the family name. Francis Collins also located land north of Coopers Creek, as the first purchase of John Kay was land from Francis Collins, which he afterward sold to Simeon Ellis, and embraced the farm of Samuel C. Cooper, now occupied by Jesse L. Anderson, in Delaware township, and in 1689 Thomas Shackle bought land of Francis Collins a little north of Ellisburg, which became the property of John Burrough in 1735, and is now owned by Amos E. Kaighn. In 1691 Simeon Ellis purchased two hundred acres of land from Francis Collins, which lay upon both sides of the King’s Highway, and was a part of a tract of eight hundred acres conveyed in 1687 to Samuel Jennings and Robert Dimsdale (the latter his son-in-law), as trustees for his daughter Margaret, and a part of which became the property of Margaret Hugg (a daughter of Francis Collins), who sold the same to Simeon Ellis in 1695. It included the town of Ellisburg and several surrounding farms. In 1705 William Matlack purchased two hundred acres of land of Francis Collins, in Waterford township, near the White Horse Tavern, lying on both sides of the south branch of Coopers Creek. In 1691 Thomas Atkinson purchased a large tract of land of Francis Collins, in Waterford (now Delaware) township, on Coopers Creek, of which he sold Edward Burrough one hundred and seven acres in 1693. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Cooper, Benjamin B. Benjamin B. Cooper, in 1803 the first postmaster at Camden and who later resided near Ellisburg, in Delaware township, and died in 1835, was an enterprising and representative man. He was a son of William and Ann (Folwell) Cooper, and was born March 22,1779. He owned and occupied the farm first settled by Wm. Cooper, who emigrated from England, from whom he traced his lineage in a direct line. As a farmer he was always in advance with any improvement that appeared. He gave much attention to fruit and had the largest orchards of choice varieties in the county. He was always an authority on cattle and horses and dealt largely in both. In the politics of the county and State he took much interest, representing the county several times in the Legislature and was a leading man in the Board of Freeholders for several years. General Jackson, as President of the United States, was the one person who met his notions of a statesman. He had scarcely attained man’s estate before a leading characteristic of his life developed itself -- speculation in land. The first piece of property he purchased was in 1803, and his dealings were continuous until his death, the records of Gloucester County alone showing the entry of one hundred and fifty-eight deeds of purchase and one hundred and thirty-seven deeds of sale, many of which conveyances contained several tracts of land. His transactions extended to Cumberland, Salem and Cape May Counties, in West Jersey, and Sussex, Warren and Monmouth Counties, in East Jersey. He was agent for the Holland Land Company, whose possessions were in Pennsylvania, and had large individual interests in that State, at one time owning nearly the whole of Clearfield County. He was also attorney for the Pemberton and Kirkbride possessions in New Jersey. In 1814 he purchased of Thomas Cadwalader, agent of the West New Jersey Society, all the shares of propriety owned by that corporation. At the time of his death his landed estate was large and valuable. He disposed of it by will. His wife was Sarah Van Meter, of Monmouth County, N.J. Three children survived him: Ralph V. M., Sarah Ann and W. Morris. His remains and those of his wife lie buried in the "Sloan" part of the old Newton grave-yard. Source: The History of Camden County, New Jersey by Geo. R. Prowell, Philadelphia: L.J. Richards & Co. 1886: Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware. --submitted by Carol Eddleman Cooper, William William Cooper was the first settler of the name at Coopers Point (now Camden), of whom a full account will be found in the early settlement of that city. In the latter part of his life he conveyed all his land at Pyne or Coopers Point to his sons and retired to a tract of land containing four hundred and twenty-nine acres, which he located in 1685, it being in the township of Waterford (now Delaware), where he built a house and about 1708 moved to the place. A part of the house is still standing, being a portion of the homestead of Benjamin B. Cooper, and afterwards the property of Ralph V. M. Cooper (deceased). To this house he removed, but not long to remain, as he died in 1710. The funeral party went on boats down Coopers Creek to the river, thence to Newton Creek and up the latter to the old grave-yard. William Cooper left a large family and his descendants still hold some of the original estate in the city of Camden, which has followed the blood of the first owners from generation to generation for nearly two hundred years. Alexander Cooper and his son, Richard M., lineal descendants, are the only ones of the name now residing in the township, although not upon these lands. William Cooper, in 1687, located five hundred and seventy-two acres of land, now in Delaware township. This came to his son Joseph and later to his grandson Joseph. He had a daughter Mary, who married Jacob Howell. She died young, but left two daughters, Hannah and Mary; the former married John Wharton, and the latter, in 1762, married Benjamin Swett. They lived upon these lands, which in old records are designated as the Wharton and Swett tracts. The Wharton farm includes the farm now owned by Mrs. Abby C. Shinn, widow of Charles H. Shinn. On this farm stands an old house, built prior to 1728, at which time it was occupied by George Ervin, a tenant of Joseph Cooper. Other farms on the original survey are owned by Charles H. and Robert T. Hurff, Edward W. Coffin, Montgomery Stafford and others. Benjamin Swett, to whose wife part of this survey descended, built a saw-mill on a stream running through it, and his son, Joseph C. Swett, subsequently built a grist-mill on the same site. This was carried away by a freshet, and another erected, which was burned a few years since. Daniel Cooper, the youngest son of Daniel (the son of William), settled on a tract of land, in 1728, on the south side of the north branch of Coopers Creek. This was a survey of five hundred acres made by William Cooper in 1687, and is now divided into several valuable farms. The dwelling of Daniel Cooper was on the plantation formerly owned and occupied by William Horten, deceased. In the old titles Daniel is called a "drover," which calling he perhaps connected with his farming operations and derived some profit therefrom. In connection with the Cooper family, it might not be out of place to call attention to the harmony which seems to have always prevailed between the early settlers of Gloucester County and their Indian neighbors. There are no traditionary tales of night attacks, wars, massacres and pillage, as are found in the histories of almost all the other colonies; this is attributable, no doubt, in a great measure, to the settlers being largely composed of the Society of Friends, whose peaceful propensities soon won the confidence of these children of the forest, and their treaties, like that of Penn, were never broken. It is a singular coincidence that, as the Coopers settled among the Indians of the county, so the last of the aborigines died upon the land of the Coopers, on the farm lately owned by Benjamin D. Cooper, in Delaware township. This Indian was well-known to many of the present generation, and was found dead in an old hay barrack, one morning in December, where he had no doubt sought to spend the night after one of his drunken revelries. He was buried in a corner of an apple orchard, on the farm which ever afterward and still is known as the Indian Orchard. This grave is in a good state of preservation.** It is located near a corner to the lands now owned by Samuel Coles, Geo. W. Moore and the heirs of Sarah A.C. Lee (formerly Cooper). Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Davis, John Thomas Shroud, in his "History of Fenwick Colony, Salem County," says "that John Davis emigrated from Wales and settled on Long Island. He married Dorothea Hogbin, an English woman of large wealth. He belonged to the sect called Singing Quakers, worshipped daily on a stump and was very pious and consistent. He lived to the extreme old age of one hundred years. A number of years before his death, about 1705, he moved with his family to Pilesgrove, Salem County, N.J., near where Woodstown is now located. His eldest son, Isaac, came to New Jersey first. John also came soon after with his family. The latter and all his family subsequently became members of Friends’ Meeting." Joseph A. Burrough, in a genealogical record of the Burrough family, made in 1850, and who was a lineal descendant on his mother’s side, says the Davises came from Montgomeryshire, England, where Richard Davis, a felt-maker, lived, who died First Month 22, 1703, aged seventy-three years. Tacy Davis, his wife, a native of Welchpool, from London, died Third Month 1, 1705. They were both ministers in the Society of Friends. Richard was a recommended minister for forty-five years. Their son, John Davis, and his wife, Joanna, came to America and settled at Woodstown, Salem County, N.J. They had a son David, who married Dorothea Causins, who was born in England Eleventh Month 19, 1693, and had two sons: Jacob, who remained at Woodstown, and whose descendants are now to be found in that vicinity, and David, who married Martha Cole. They had seven children: Mary, Joseph, Jacob, Samuel C., David, Martha and Benjamin. Martha married Joseph Burrough in 1792; Mary married William Rogers; Joseph married Mary Haines, daughter of Nathan Haines; David married Mary Haines, daughter of John Haines; Jacob married Elizabeth Coulson; Samuel C.; Benjamin remained single. Samuel C. Davis acquired through his mother about eight hundred acres in the eastern part of the township, which was a part of the original Samuel Coles estate, and owned and resided in the house now owned by Joseph O. Cuthbert. He seems to have maintained a lordly estate, a large part of which he inclosed with a high picket fence and established a deer-park, which is remembered by persons now living, and which included most of the land now owned by Joseph O. and Allen Cuthbert. This park fence was so constructed as to admit the deer from the outside, but to prevent their egress, and at certain seasons tame does with bells on were liberated and sent into the forest, and upon their return many a stately buck accompanied them within the inclosure only to find himself a prisoner. The Davises also acquired other property, as the farm now occupied by David A. Burrough was acquired by his grandfather, Joseph Burrough, as his wife’s legacy from her father, and it was upon this farm that the last elk in West Jersey was slaughtered, the horns of which are now in the possession of Edward Burrough, another of the descendants. The Davises were a numerous family, some going into Burlington and other counties, until the name is now unrepresented in the township. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Ellis, Simeon The Ellises came from Yorkshire, England, in 1680 or 1683, and settled in Springfield, in Burlington County. Simeon Ellis purchased land in Waterford township, on the north side of the north branch of Coopers Creek, of Francis Collins, in 1691, but the place of his nativity is unknown. He built his log cabin on a portion near the stream, on the farm now owned by Samuel Lippincott, and occupied by Samuel H. Griscom, and named the place Springwell. In 1695 Simeon Ellis bought four hundred acres of land of Margaret Hugg, adjoining his first purchase. This Margaret was a daughter of Francis Collins. These first purchases of Simeon Ellis included the land now occupied by the village of Ellisburg, in Delaware township. He purchased other tracts of land in the vicinity, some of which include the farms of John Ballenger and others on the south side of the stream, and other portions are now owned by William Graff, Logan Paul and Joseph K. Lippincott, Jr. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and was one of those who made up the assemblages at John Kay’s or Thomas Shackle’s houses. He died in 1715, dividing his property among his children, seven in number. Simeon, the fourth son, acquired that portion now embracing the village of Ellisburg. He died in 1773, leaving six children,— Isaac, who married Mary Shivers, a daughter of Samuel Shivers; Benjamin, who married Sarah Bates; William, who married Amy Matlack; John, who married Priscilla Peterson (widow); Sarah, who married William Duyre; and Simeon, who married a Bates, sister to Benjamin’s wife. Isaac settled that portion of the homestead including the village of Ellisburg, and died there, leaving several children: Isaac, Rebecca and Simeon. Isaac married Sarah Hillman in 1785, and always lived near Ellisburg, on his father’s homestead. About the year 1795 the Evesham road, now Marlton turnpike, was laid, crossing the Haddonfield and Moorestown road nearly at right angles, and it was at this crossing that Isaac Ellis erected a hotel, a part of which is still standing. He had three sons by his first wife, [Simeon, Isaac and Josiah] and also two daughters, Martha and Hannah. His second wife was Ann Zane, by whom he had one son, Joseph Ellis, the present owner of the hotel, and the oldest resident in the place, being eighty years of age, to whom most of this property descended. He died in 1828. Joseph Ellis married Ann W. Champion, the eldest child of Joseph C. Champion, who still remains the companion of his declining years. Notwithstanding his advanced age, he is still active and participates in nearly all the public meetings held in the township, and possesses a mind well-stored with the traditions of the neighborhood and his ancestors. Joseph and Ann W. Ellis have four daughters remaining, out of a family of eight children [Martha Ann, who married James Wills; Sarah, who married Samuel M. Hulings; Elizabeth, who married George C. Kay; and Hannah, who remains single] all of whom reside in the township. The pioneers of this family shared, with their neighbors, the privations of the Revolutionary period, and many interesting anecdotes are told concerning their adventures. At one time the Indians encamped at Oxfords Landing, at the junction of the north and south branches of Coopers Creek, came to the house of Isaac Ellis to borrow fire; the farmer was engaged threshing buckwheat in the barn at the time, and directed them to the big fire-place in his kitchen for the coals desired; having secured a large brand, they started for home, but evidently desiring to return thanks for the favor, proceeded into the barn with the lighted torch, where Friend Ellis was threshing; his surprise and anxiety can well be imagined, and it took considerable jabbering to convince his dusky neighbors of the danger they were subjecting him to; but happily no damage resulted. He continued to live on friendly terms with these people as long as they remained in the neighborhood. During the movements of the British through New Jersey, about the time of the battle of Red Bank, they were informed by a Tory named Wines that there was a considerable number of cattle on the Ellis and Kay farms, which they were not long in securing. They drove them towards Moorestown, and when passing the residence now occupied by David A. Burrough, a weaver who was there at the time came out from behind the house and shook his frock, which frightened the cattle and they stampeded down a lane known as Fore Lane and then into the deer-park woods, from which the British failed to extricate them, and consequently the cattle, in a day or two, returned home. At the close of the war the Tory Wines fled to Nova Scotia, but returned, after an absence of many years, to be indignantly received by all who knew him. It is from these families that the town of Ellisburg was founded, and the present Joseph Ellis is a descendant, and at one time owned a large tract of land in and adjoining the town. Mr. Ellis is now one of the oldest and most respected of the inhabitants, and will ever be remembered with kindness by all who knew him. After the death of Peter Champion, Ann Ellis (his widow) married John Stokes, by whom she had two sons, who settled in Virginia. By Samuel Murrell she had two children: Samuel, who married a Chambers, and had daughters; Ann E. Murrell, who married Batheuel M. Heulings, who inherited the farm whereon her son, Samuel M. Heulings, now resides, from her half-brother, being a part of the tract Simeon Ellis gave to his son William, and has since remained in the blood, although passing out of the name. Ann E. Heulings (late Murrell) was left a widow in 1845, with ten children, five of whom at this writing are deceased. Her two sons, Batheuel and Abram, were soldiers during the entire War of the Rebellion. They were both in the Union army, and Batheuel was severely wounded at the battle of Gettysburg by a musket-ball which passed clear through him, from the effects of which he finally died several years after the close of the war. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Evans, Ellwood Ellwood Evans, the well-known and progressive farmer of this township, is of Welsh descent, and of a family first represented in America by William and Elizabeth Evans, who arrived this side of the Atlantic about 1660, and were the first settlers of Burlington County, N.J. The region being at that time an unbroken wilderness, inhabited only by Indians, they were obliged to live for a time in a cave, and eventually built for themselves a house near Mount Laurel, in Evesham township, where they settled. Elizabeth was a minister in the Society of Friends. Their children were Thomas, John and Jane. Thomas, born December 12, 1693, married Esther Haines on October 1, 1715, and they had six children: William, Elizabeth, Isaac, Esther, Jacob and Nathan. Nathan, born in February, 1727, married Sylvania Gaskill, and had children: Isaac, Susanna, Joseph, Jacob and Nathan. Jacob married Deborah Troth, by whom he had four children, of whom one, Esther, grew to maturity. As his second wife he married Rachel Borton, by whom he had nine children, viz.: Abraham, Amos, Sylvania, Uriah, Rachel B., Jacob, Carlton, Joseph B. and Susanna. Uriah, born October 10, 1801 married, February 17, 1831, Rachel Saunders, daughter of Solomon and Lydia (Burrough) Saunders, of a very old family of Burlington County, and was the father of six children, of whom our subject was the youngest. They were Lydia B., Joseph B., Deborah S., Jacob, Elizabeth L., and Ellwood Evans, born September 2, 1840. Ellwood Evans was educated in the schools of the neighborhood and at the Westtown (Chester County, Pa.) Academy, which he attended for four years. The next four years were spent on the farm; he being very fond of machinery, was about to secure a place in Baldwin’s Locomotive Works, when his only brother dying suddenly and his father being in poor health, and unwilling to leave his farms, necessitated his remaining at home. He was chosen one of the committeemen of his township when only about twenty-five years of age. When twenty-nine years of age he removed to Marlton, where he was soon afterwards elected collector, which office he held until his return to Delaware, in 1876. About that time, his father and wife’s father dying within a period of a few months, large responsibilities were thrown upon Mr. Evans and he was obliged to decline political and official honors, though frequently urged to accept offices of honor and profit. From this time to the present his mill, farm and several kindred interests have received his entire energies and he has developed the fine tract of land on which his home is located, near Cropwell -- so called because of the great productiveness of the region -- into one of the most valuable farms in this rich region. The farm consists of about three hundred acres, of which two hundred and fifty are under cultivation. He has erected all of the buildings upon this property except one barn -- four houses, three barns and a steam saw and feed-mill. One of the barns has a storage capacity of three hundred tons of hay and grain. In the mill Mr. Evans does a large amount of custom work and he also carries on a lumber business of considerable proportions. He is a farmer of the advanced and progressive type. His purchase of imported Jersey and Guernsey cattle and the introduction of steam as a motor for machinery in his farm buildings, was regarded by his neighbors as a venture not warranted in his calling, and which would end in loss. This was not the case, however, for soon others indulged in Jersey and Guernsey herds and also concluded that the application of steam saved much labor and time about their plantations. What was several years since regarded as of doubtful economy in his case, may now be found of practical utility among agriculturists throughout the county. He is a member of the American Jersey and of the American Guernsey Cattle Clubs, and of other organizations of like aims. He was one of the projectors of the Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford Railroad, and did much to bring about its completion, advancing considerable sums of money at a period when few persons had faith in the success of the enterprise, and when the other directors and the president refused financial aid, thus relieving the company from serious embarrassment and insuring the speedy completion of the road. This project at first was considered of doubtful success, but it has opened one of the best sections of West Jersey to markets and travel, and been of much benefit to the farmers and dairymen. Mr. Evans adheres to the religious belief of his ancestors. On March 27, 1873, Mr. Evans married Sarah L. Evens, only child of Thomas Evens, a descendant of one of the earliest representatives of the Evans family in America, though the name was, through some person in the line, changed from the commonly accepted spelling. She is a descendant of the eighth generation from William and Elizabeth Evans, through the Thomas Evans’ branch. He married Esther Haines. Their son William, who married Sarah Roberts, had a son Jacob, who married Mary Cherrington. Their son Thomas married Mary Eves, and among their children was Joseph, who married Rebecca Roberts. Thomas, their son, married Sarah Lippincott, and she was their only child. Source: The History of Camden County, New Jersey by Geo. R. Prowell, Philadelphia: L.J. Richards & Co. 1886: Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware. --submitted by Carol Eddleman French, Charles Charles French, a son of Charles French, owned and occupied a large tract of land in the easterly part of this township, whereon stood a gristmill. A large portion of this tract is now occupied by Albertson Lippincott, but the mill has been taken down. It is bounded by the county line, the south branch of Pensaukin Creek, from which stream the pond was raised. Charles French was a progressive man, and his specialty was "straight roads," and he was the terror of all the old fogies in this region, who were willing to let well enough alone. Many amusing anecdotes are told of him in this connection. One of his neighbors was so aggrieved by having new roads cut through his lands and timber that he sold out to get clear, as he said, of "French’s straight roads." He purchased another tract of land near Blackwoodtown, and, as he thought, entirely beyond the reach of his old enemy. Things went smoothly for several years, but one day the old man found Charles French, Anthony Warrick, John Hyder, John Clement (as surveyor) and others standing in his door-yard prospecting for a line whereon to place a straight road going toward Blackwoodtown. After some talk he concluded to accept the situation, and admitted the impossibility of getting away from the progress of things in general and Charles French in particular. On another occasion, when the opponents of a road were hotly pressing the advocates, and were likely to defeat the improvement, he, to keep with the surveyors, left his horse and carriage in the woods. The proposed road was several miles long, and in the excitement Charles French forgot his horse and carriage and rode home with one of his neighbors. After supper the woolly head of Bob, his old servant, was seen in the door-way. He said, "Boss, whar’s de hoss and wagon?" After some reflection the old gentleman told old Bob where he left them hitched in the woods, to which place the colored man resorted and found everything safe, but the horse restive and cold. He was an extensive dealer in ship stuff and heavy lumber, supplying Philadelphia builders with their keels and largest pieces. His teams were of the best, and his drivers and axemen would relate many incidents of his energy and resources when fast in the swamps, with wagons broken, horses mired and men discouraged. In his later years he removed to Moorestown, where he died at a ripe old age, respected by all who knew him. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman FRENCH, CHARLES Charles French, a son of Charles French, owned and occupied a large tract of land in the easterly part of this township, whereon stood a gristmill. A large portion of this tract is now occupied by Albertson Lippincott, but the mill has been taken down. It is bounded by the county line, the south branch of Pensaukin Creek, from which stream the pond was raised. Charles French was a progressive man, and his specialty was "straight roads," and he was the terror of all the old fogies in this region, who were willing to let well enough alone. Many amusing anecdotes are told of him in this connection. One of his neighbors was so aggrieved by having new roads cut through his lands and timber that he sold out to get clear, as he said, of "French’s straight roads." He purchased another tract of land near Blackwoodtown, and, as he thought, entirely beyond the reach of his old enemy. Things went smoothly for several years, but one day the old man found Charles French, Anthony Warrick, John Hyder, John Clement (as surveyor) and others standing in his door-yard prospecting for a line whereon to place a straight road going toward Blackwoodtown. After some talk he concluded to accept the situation, and admitted the impossibility of getting away from the progress of things in general and Charles French in particular. On another occasion, when the opponents of a road were hotly pressing the advocates, and were likely to defeat the improvement, he, to keep with the surveyors, left his horse and carriage in the woods. The proposed road was several miles long, and in the excitement Charles French forgot his horse and carriage and rode home with one of his neighbors. After supper the woolly head of Bob, his old servant, was seen in the door-way. He said, "Boss, whar’s de hoss and wagon?" After some reflection the old gentleman told old Bob where he left them hitched in the woods, to which place the colored man resorted and found everything safe, but the horse restive and cold. He was an extensive dealer in ship stuff and heavy lumber, supplying Philadelphia builders with their keels and largest pieces. His teams were of the best, and his drivers and axemen would relate many incidents of his energy and resources when fast in the swamps, with wagons broken, horses mired and men discouraged. In his later years he removed to Moorestown, where he died at a ripe old age, respected by all who knew him. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Gills, John The Gills were relations of Elizabeth Estaugh, and no doubt came to America under her patronage, and at one time owned and resided on a valuable tract of land in this township (see Haddonfield borough). The first grant of land made by John Haddon to John Gill was in 1714, for two hundred and sixty acres, situated on both sides of the Haddonfield and Berlin road, and near the head of the stream known as Swett’s Mill stream -- the land now owned by Joseph C. Stafford and others. At the time of this conveyance John Gill resided on this tract. Prior to 1739 this tract came into the possession of Bartholomew Horner and remained in that name until the close of the century, but has long since passed entirely out of the name and blood. It is from these early owners that Horner’s Hill School no doubt received its name. John Gill afterward resided nearer Haddonfield, on the premises now owned by Griffith. On this property near the junction of the two branches of Coopers Creek, was a landing known as Axfords Landing, a place where considerable business was transacted, it being the highest landing on the stream, but its exact location at this time is unknown. John Gill married Mary Heritage in 1718, and died in 1749, leaving two children, John and Hannah, who, after their marriage, resided outside the limits of this township, and from whom the Gills now residents of Haddon and Centre townships are lineal descendants. Much of the lands formerly owned by the Gills still remain in the family name. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Haines Family, The The Haineses settled in the eastern portion of the township, contemporary with the families previously mentioned, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Dr. E. B. Woolston, near Cropwell, and John H. Lippincott, both lineal descendants. They soon became connected with the Lippincotts, who settled adjoining plantations in Burlington County, and founded the Friends’ Meeting-house at Cropwell, of which religious society both families were members. The Haineses soon began to migrate and seek other employment, and at present the name is almost extinct in the township, although many of the females married and settled in the adjoining counties, and to whose descendants the properties above mentioned have descended. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Heritage, Richard Richard Heritage was one of the proprietors of the town of Gloucester when it was laid out, in 1686. He owned lots in the original town, and was one of the signers of the memorandum made by the proprietors as to the division of lots. He was the first who bore the name in West Jersey, and came from Warwickahire, England. He purchased rights of Edward Byllinge and his trustees in 1684, and made a location of land on the north side of Pensaukin Creek, in Burlington County, and called the place "Hatten New Garden." He purchased other rights and located other lands in this township. He died in 1702, without a will, and most of his land passed to his heir-at-law, his eldest son, John. In 1705 he sold to William Matlack one thousand acres of land in Waterford township. John married Sarah Slocumn in 1706. To his son Joseph he conveyed considerable land. Much of this land he sold. It lay on both sides of the creek and now embraces several valuable farms. Samuel Burrough purchased a part of this tract in 1698. Joseph Heritage died in 1756, leaving six children: Richard, who married Sarah Whitall and Sarah Tindall; Joseph, who married Ruth Haines; Benjamin, who married Keziah Matlack; John, who married Sarah Hugg; Mary, who married John Gill and John Thorne; and Hannah, who married Mr. Rogers. It was from Joseph Heritage and his children that many of the early settlers purchased land, and, although the family appears to have been a large one, yet the name is now unknown among the residents of the township, although some remain within the present limits of Waterford township and still hold a small portion of the land. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Howell, Thomas One of the earliest settlers in what is now Delaware township was Thomas Howell, who, although not of the Dublin colony, yet, in 1675, purchased part of a share of the propriety in West Jersey of Benjamin Bartlett, whose wife, Gracia, was a daughter of Edward Byllinge. Howell resided in Staffordshire, England. He came to this country and located a tract of six hundred and fifty acres of land, in 1682, on the north side of Coopers Creek, in Waterford (now Delaware) township, which "included what is generally known as the Jacob Troth farm on the east, and extended down that stream nearly one mile, and back into the woods about the same distance." Upon this tract, which he called "Christianity," he built a house, in which he lived the short time he was in the settlement. The next year, 1683, he, with Samuel Coles, represented the territory which a few years later became Waterford township, and, with Mark Newbie and others from Newton township, represented the Third (or Irish) Tenth in the Legislature of the State. The house in which he lived is supposed to have been near the creek, on the Barton farm. He located other lands in Gloucester County, which soon after passed to others, as he died in 1687. Before his death he conveyed one hundred acres of the land on Coopers Creek to Richard Wright (whose son John married Elizabeth Champion). He settled upon it and left it to his son John, who, in 1691 and 1693, purchased other lands of the Howell survey and adjoining land, later owned by John Champion, his father-in-law. His family consisted of his wife, three sons -- Samuel, Daniel (married Hannah Lakin, in 1686) and Mordecai -- and three daughters, -- Priscilla (married Robert Stiles), Marion (married Henry Johnson) and Catharine. His children were born in England, and his wife, Catharine, did not come to this country during, his life-time, but, in 1693, was a resident of Philadelphia. Samuel, the eldest son, remained in England. Daniel came into possession of the homestead, and in 1687, the year of his father’s death, he sold to Mordecai two hundred and fifty acres of land, with the buildings, on Coopers Creek. In 1688 he conveyed one hundred acres of the homestead to Moses Lakin, probably a brother of his wife, and, in 1690, sixty acres of the same tract to Josiah Appleton, adjoining other lands of John and Richard Appleton, at a place then called "Appletown," a little village entirely lost. In 1691 Daniel moved from Coopers Creek to a place near Philadelphia, which he called Hartsfield, and after a short residence removed to Stacy’s Mills, at the falls of the Delaware, around which the city of Trenton was afterwards built. He became, with Mahlon Stacy, one of the first and most active residents of that now thriving city. Mordecai Howell, son of Thomas, was one of the witnesses in the controversy between the Penns and Lord Baltimore. He says he came to America in 1682, and ascended the Delaware River in company with the ship that brought William Penn, in November, 1682. After his father’s death, in 1687, he returned to England and resided there three years. The ancestral home at Tamworth, in Staffordshire, in the division of the estate, was left to Daniel, who subsequently passed it to his brother, Mordecai, who retained it. He returned to this country in 1690, and lived on the homestead property on Coopers Creek. In 1697 he sold it to Henry Franklin, a bricklayer, of New York, who did not move to the place, but, May 13, 1700, sold it to John Champion, of Long Island, who settled upon it. The farm contained three hundred and thirty acres and was named "Livewell," probably changed from "Christianity" by Mordecai Howell, who resided there several years. In 1687 Thomas Howell, the father, erected a dam on Coopers Creek, probably with a view of building a mill. He was indicted by the grand jury for obstructing the stream, and abandoned the work. His son Mordecai, a few years later, built a saw-mill at the mouth of a small branch that emptied into Coopers Creek. This mill in time came to John Champion, and was in use many years. He became largely interested in real estate in Gloucester County, and, in 1702, bought of Henry Treadway the Lovejoy survey, an account of which will be found in the history of Haddonfield borough. Lovejoy was a blacksmith, and a tract of land now in Delaware township, on the north side of Coopers Creek, where the Salem road crossed that creek, which he obtained for his services from the Richard Mathews estate, was named by him "Uxbridge," probably from a town of that name in Middlesex, England. Mordecai Howell located a tract of fifty acres of land adjoining and below the present Evans mill. It does not appear that he was ever married, and that about 1706 he removed to Chester County, Pa. The widow of Thomas Howell, in 1693, then a resident of Philadelphia, conveyed to Henry Johnson (who about that time married her daughter Marian) eighty eight acres of land, on which he settled, and where for a generation his family also resided. Gabriel Thomas, writing in 1698, says of Robert Stiles, who married Priscilla Howell: "The trade of Gloucester County consists chiefly in pitch, tar and rosin, the latter of which is made by Robert Stiles, an excellent artist in that sort of work, for he delivers it as clear as any gum arabick." He settled on the north side of the south branch of Pensaukin Creek on land now owned by Samuel Roberts, where he died in 1728, leaving two sons, Robert and Ephraim, from whom the family of that name descend. Thomas Howell by will bequeathed to Priscilla one hundred acres of the homestead property, which herself and husband, in 1690, conveyed to Mordecai. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Kay, John The Kays came from Yorkshire, England, about 1683. Many of them were Friends, and, consequently, suffered persecution at the hands of those in authority, in the shape of fines and imprisonments. At the Court of Quarter Sessions held at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, in 1661, John Kay, Baronet, was the presiding judge, and committed sixty Quakers to prison. Ten years after, John Kay was fined for attending Friends’ Meeting, at York, in the same shire. It is possible that the latter was the same person as the former, and that while the committing magistrate he became convinced of the truth of the doctrines preached by George Fox, laid aside his title and suffered with the Friends in person and estate. Whether this was the same John Kay that purchased land in this neighborhood in 1684 is not definitely known, but such is supposed to be the case. This first purchase is now a part of the farm of Samuel C. Cooper, now occupied by Jesse L. Anderson, about a mile east of Ellisburg. The tract embraced the farm of Isaac M. Kay, on the opposite side of the creek, and which has regularly descended to the present owner, who is a lineal descendant of John Kay. There is a tradition that John Kay first lived in a cave on the hill-side near the creek, but the location of the place is unknown, although the story is not improbable. In 1685 a religious meeting was established at the house of John Kay, by consent of Burlington Friends, in connection with one of a similar character held at the house of Timothy Hancock, at Pensaukin, on alternate First Days. These meetings were continued until 1707. During this period several marriages took place, the last one recorded being that of Benjamin Thackara and Mary Cooper, in 1707. These meetings were attended by Friends from Evesham (Mount Laurel) and Marlton, and serve to show how strongly these people were attached to their principles, and what difficulties they were willing to overcome in order to observe the requirements of the society. In this connection it may be proper to mention that another meeting was held at the house of Thomas Shackle, from 1695 to 1721, when John Estaugh gave the ground for a meeting-house at Haddonfield. The house of Thomas shackle stood upon the farm now owned by Amos E. Kaighn, a lineal descendant of John Kaighn, who located near Kaighns Point in 1696. In 1735 the farm became the property of John Burrough, who most probably built the brick part of the house, still standing, in the year 1736. John Kay located several tracts of land near his first purchase, fronting generally on the north branch of Coopers Creek. In 1710 he purchased the mansion-house and corn-mill, on the north side of Coopers Creek, now belonging to the estate of Josiah B. Evans (deceased). This corn-mill was built by Thomas Kindall, in 1697, and stood some distance below the dam. The remains of the race may yet be seen, but the site of the mill is obliterated. He died in 1742, a wealthy man, leaving a large landed estate, most of which has passed out of the name, until the only part of the original tract that has remained continuously in possession of the family is the farm of Joseph F. Kay, which has descended through the blood for nearly two hundred years, no deed ever having been made for the same. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Matlack, William The Matlacks came from a small village in Nottinghamshire, England. William Matlack came in the first boat that came up the Delaware, and was the first person to put his foot upon the shore where Burlington now stands; this was about the year 1677. In 1682 he married Mary Hancock, and removed to a tract of land between the north and south branches of Pensaukin Creek, in Chester township. In 1701 William Matlack purchased of Richard Heritage a tract of one thousand acres of land, now part in Waterford and part in Delaware townships, Camden County. In 1705 John Matlack purchased two hundred acres of land of Francis Collins, in Waterford township, and in 1708 he married Hannah Horner, and settled upon his purchase. A part of this estate is now owned by the heirs of John Wilkins, and the old house stood a short distance from the handsome residence of the present owners. In 1714 William Matlack gave his son George five hundred acres of land, a part of that purchased from the Heritages. In 1717 he purchased two hundred acres of land, upon which his son Richard settled in 1721. This tract lies in Delaware township and upon it is located the old Matlack burying-ground. Richard died in 1748 and was the second person buried there. In 1779 the estate passed out of the name to William Todd, and was subsequently bought by Richard M. Cooper, father of Alexander Cooper, the present owner, who, as before stated, is a lineal descendant of William Cooper, the first settler of Camden. The Matlacks are a numerous family and are mostly Friends. Some of the name still reside within the township and others in Chester township, in Burlington County. William Ellis (a son of Simeon) married Amy Matlack, one of the descendants in a direct line, and who, thereby, became owners of part of the estate. Levi (a son of William and Amy) became the owner, and his grandson, Charles E. Ellis, is the possessor of and resides on the estate. William and Amy settled on the land, and the house they occupied is still standing. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Shivers, John John Shivers appears as the first settler of the name in these parts, and purchased a tract of land in Delaware township, of Mordecai Howell, in 1692, upon which he erected a dwelling. He died in 1716, and his widow, Sarah Shivers, was appointed administratrix. In 1720 she purchased an adjoining tract of land, which extended the estate east of the mill-pond. The dwelling on the farm now belonging to the estate of Richard Shivers, deceased, is thought to be the spot where John Shivers erected his first house, and doubtless some of the material in the present edifice was taken from the old. John Shivers dying intestate, there is some doubt as to the exact number of his children, although they are supposed to be as follows: Samuel, who married Mary Deacon; John, who married Mary Clement; Mary, who married Thomas Bates; Hannah, who married John Matlack; and Josiah, who married Ann Bates. In 1720 Samuel purchased two hundred acres of land from Francis Collins, and the following year he conveyed his interest in his father’s estate to his brother John, who remained on the old farm and whose descendants still occupy portions of the original tract represented in the farms now occupied by Richard Levis Shivers and William A. Shivers, the descendants mentioned. At one period the house in which John Shivers, the second, lived was kept as an inn, and was no doubt a favorite resort. John Shivers acquired several other tracts of land in this and the adjoining townships. He had three sons: Isaac, Samuel and John. The latter resided in Salem County, and Charles P. Shivers, his son, lives at Swedesboro’. Samuel had three sons: John G. Shivers, who resided in Haddonfield, and whose sons, Charles Hendry Shivers, an allopathic physician, and Samuel Shivers, a bricklayer, still reside in the borough; Joseph C. Shivers resided at Marlton, Burlington County, and his descendants still reside in that vicinity, excepting Bowman H. Shivers, who is a homoeopathic physician and resides in Haddonfield; Bowman was the third son. Isaac Shivers, the son of John Shivers, the second, was born September 16, 1773, and acquired the homestead estate, which, in turn, descended to his children and grandchildren, Richard Levis Shivers and William A. Shivers, who reside thereon. In 1837 Isaac Shivers removed to Haddonfield, but returned again to his farm in 1842, but in 1847 he again removed to Haddonfield, where he died October 19, 1872, having attained the advanced age of ninety-nine years and one month. He was buried in Colestown Cemetery. his children were as follows: Sarah, born May 1, 1805, and remained single; Joseph Levis, born January 7, 1807, married Henrietta Hendry, a daughter of Dr. Bowman Hendry, of Haddonfield, and had four children: Bowman H., Isaac, Elizabeth and William M.; Anna, born October 4, 1808, and remained single; Richard, born November 21, 1810, married Mary Troth, a daughter of Jacob Troth, and had five children: Susan, Richard L., Isaac, Anna E. and Sallie N.; Charles, born July 7, 1814, married Martha Harker, and had three children: William A., Charles and Ella; Jehu, born March 17, 1821, married Mary Ann Hillman, and had four children: Alfred H., Edward H., Frank W. and Jehu H.; Benjamin, born January 27, 1823, married Harriet D. Hartley, and had five children: Mary, Eliza, Thomas H., D. Lewis and Maria; David, born August 13, 1826, married Julia Cloud, and had six children: Cora, Nellie, Walter, Larenia C., Clifford and Clara. Many of these descendants of Isaac Shivers now reside in Camden City and others in Virginia. Those remaining in the township are Richard Levis Shivers, on the old homestead, and William A. Shivers, on another portion of the original tract. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman Speakman, William Elwood WILLIAM ELLWOOD SPEAKMAN, son of Thomas Say Speakman, by his wife Emma Eliot Draper, born at Camden, New Jersey, December 13, 1858; died at Woodbury in the same State, May 13, 1915. He was a graduate of the Episcopal Military Academy of Cheshire, Connecticut, and of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, where he received the degree of Ph.G. His business life was for many years connected with a prominent wholesale drug firm, from which he finally retired to make extensive European travels. A man of broad sympathies and diverse interests, he was associated with many social, philanthropic and fraternal organizations and business enterprises. He never entered public life, as that term is commonly accepted, but he was deeply interested in all public questions and his political affiliations were with the Republican party. As a vestryman and senior warden of Christ Church, Woodbury, he gave years of unstinted service, and he was for a long period active in the Red Cross Society when there was a State Society, He was also in the directorate of The Delaware Insurance Company, one of the board of managers of the Red Bank Sanitarium Association of Philadelphia, and of the Transatlantic Society of America, a member of Florence Lodge, No. 87, F. and A. M., Knights Templar, the Atlantic Union of London, the New Jersey Society Sons of the Revolution, the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, the New England Society of Pennsylvania, the Washington Association of Morristown and the Historical Society of New Jersey, the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the Union League and Philobiblon clubs of Philadelphia, the Woodbury Country club and the Navy League. He married Martha C. Winchester, of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, and is by her survived, together with a daughter, Eleanor B. Speakman, and two brothers, the Rev. Henry D. Speakman, Mount Alto, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Howard Draper Speakman, of Pau, France. Source: Annual Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution, 1915-1916, Philadelphia, Pa., 1916, p. 61-2. --submitted by Carol Eddleman Stokes, Thomas The Stokeses came from London about the year 1698 and settled in Burlington County. In 1709 Thomas Stokes (whose father settled in Burlington County) purchased three hundred acres of land of John Kay, now in Delaware township, the larger part of which tract is now owned by Mark Ballinger and the heirs of Jacob Anderson, Nathan M. Lippincott and Daniel Hillman (deceased). This land extends on both sides of the north branch of Coopers Creek, and is some of the best and most productive land in the township. He settled on this tract, and his house was located near the present residence of Mark Ballinger. In 1696 Samuel Harrison located about eight hundred acres of land on the south side of the north branch of Coopers Creek. This consisted of four several and adjoining surveys, now included in the farms of Eliza A. Hillman, Joseph K. Lippincott, the heirs of Jacob Anderson, Aquilla and Alfred Hillman (formerly Stokes), John Craig and others. He resided on this tract for several years, but the place where his house stood is not known. Samuel Harrison was a mariner, a brother of William and Sarah Bull, who settled at Gloucester soon after it was made a town. This land descended to his son William, who sold it in tracts to various persons. It was in the midst of an Indian neighborhood, which extended from the north branch southerly nearly to the south branch. Thomas Sharp, a surveyor, in 1686, in describing a tract of land, spoke of a water-course known as the Peterson’s mill-stream as "the same as the Indian King liveth on," Judging from the settlements of the first emigrants, the residence of the king spoken of is believed to have been on the farm now owned by the heirs of Joseph H. Ellis. That this tract was occupied by a numerous tribe of aborigines is beyond a doubt, as their implements of stone have been found on nearly all these farms. Nathan M. Lippincott, during his life, took a pride in preserving those found upon his farm. A large sycamore-tree, standing in his door-yard, was adorned with these rude implements of the children of the forest, among which could be found tomahawks of different sizes, pestles with which they ground their corn, arrow-heads and other articles, all fashioned out of stone, of a kind which is not found in this section, and corresponding with similar implements found in other sections of West Jersey. There is evidence that this Indian settlement was an extensive one. Within the memory of some of the present inhabitants a few of these eked out a miserable existence on the part of the land formerly owned by Thomas Stokes, near the residence of Aquilla Hillman and brother (who are lineal descendants of the Stokeses), on the lands of Mrs. Dr. E.B. Woolston, in Delaware township. Near the Cropwell Meeting-house there lived, during the first quarter of the present century, an Indian woman by the name of Nancy, and a man by the name of Josh Te Kaylere, or Tekaler, who were well known throughout the neighborhood. Probably the last of this tribe was an Indian by the name of Joel, who followed basket-making, and, although he preferred to live in his cabin in the woods, dressed and conducted himself in imitation of his white neighbors; yet in many ways he followed the customs of his ancestors. This man was well known to the present residents of Marlton, Burlington County, and is distinctly remembered by the writer. He died about thirty years ago near Taunton. Source: The History of Camden County, George R. Prowell, pp. 713-738, Chapter 17 -- The Township of Delaware (Early Settlers). --submitted by Carol Eddleman WOOD, HENRY (DIED 1691) Among the many of the name of Wood who emigrated to New Jersey about the time of the settlement under the proprietor was Henry Wood, who came to this place from Newport, R.I., and on the 4th of September, 1682, purchased of Samuel Coles a tract of one hundred acres of land on the north side of Coopers Creek, adjoining the land subsequently sold to Samuel Spicer. The deed describes the place as "situate at Arwawmasse, in West Jersey; also the dwelling-house or tenement which he, the said Samuel, inhabiteth, with the folds, yards, etc., excepting one cow-house." The farm fronted on Coopers Creek and the Delaware River, and was named by him "Hopewell." He was a member of the Assembly in 1683 -84, and in the latter year was appointed commissioner for laying out land, and in 1685 for opening highways. In 1683 he purchased three hundred and fifty acres of land on the north side of and fronting Coopers Creek, and in 1686 sold it to Mathew Burden, who was a resident of Portsmouth, R.I., and a connection of Henry Wood. In 1711 Richard Burden, a son of Mathew, conveyed the land to John Coxe, and later part of it was included in the farm of Abraham Browning. Henry Wood died in April, 1681, [1] leaving as children Henry, James, Richard, Judith (who married Thomas Willard in 1689), Abigail (who married Daniel Cooper, a son of William, in 1693), Hannah (who married Joseph Nicholson in 1695), Elizabeth (who married Stephen Newbie, son of Mark, in 1703) and Benjamin (who married Mary Kay, daughter of John, in 1707). The homestead, in 1699, came to Joseph Nicholson, who lived adjoining from James Wood, a grandson of Henry. At the time of Henry Wood’s death he was in possession of considerable land near the homestead tract, which was divided among his children. His son Henry died in 1754, single, and left his portion to his brothers and sisters. Benjamin purchased the home farm on which Joseph Nicholson had lived, and upon his death, in 1738, left it to his son Henry, who devised it to his son Henry, who sold part of it, February 1, 1788, to Samuel Haines, who died in 1789, and John Haines and Dr. John H. Stokes, his executors, sold one hundred and eighty-four acres of it to Daniel Cooper. Henry, at his death in 1814, left three hundred and sixty-eight acres to his two sons, Henry and Zachariah. He died June 18, 1814, aged fifty-six years. His wife, Hannah, survived him and died August 23, 1856, aged eighty-seven years. Zachariah died May 5, 1847, aged fifty-four years. Other children of Benjamin Wood, who died in 1738, were Mary (who married Joseph Coles and Richard Matlack), Hannah, Abigail, [2] Benjamin, John, Judith and Jane. Source: George R. Prowell (1886). The history of Camden County, New Jersey. L. J. Richards & Co., pp. 739-763. Note: 1. Other sources report the will of Henry Wood of Hopewell, Gloucester Co., NJ, dated April 4, 1691, was proved June 18, 1691. 2. Abigail Wood, daughter of Benjamin Wood and Mary Kay, married Robert Hunt (1709-1764) on December 19, 1733 in Gloucester County, New Jersey. --submitted by Robert M. Hunt