THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PIONEERS .^^'^'''^m BY EDWARD S. SHARPE, M. D., PRESIDENT PAPER READ BEFORE THE SALEM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON MARCH lOth, J 908. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PIONEERS ^_.v^^ BY EDWARD S. SHARPE, M. D., PRESIDENT PAPER READ BEFORE THE SALEM COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON MARCH lOth, J908. Tb© Society THE DESCENDANTS OF THE PIONEERS A brief genealogical sketch of the de- scendants of the Pioneers, may not be un- interesting to tlie members of this Society whose attention I crave, while reading the result of my investigation into this subject. We have seen during the last quarter of the seventeenth century, from 1675 to 1700, or thereabouts, the arrival, settla- ment, social and domestic customs, in- cluding marriages and deatlis, of those early colonists and their families; a re- view that causes serious reflection oii the brevity of ! uman life, when we con- sider that in the comparatively brief space of twenty-five years, not only all its elder and some of its younger mem- bers liad been called away by death, but other prominent individuals, associated with them in oublic and private, obeyed ti.e summons of inexorable fate, and made tlieir adieus to life and the world. John Pledger. Sr., Hippolytus LeFevre, Sr.. William Braithwaite, Sr., and their wives; Jolm Worlidge, husband of Ann LeFevre, Joseph Pledger, elder son of John. Sr., Ilatmah Carle, wife of Hip- polyus LeFevre. Jr.. Thomas Jolmson, brotlier of Richard, and Maning Braith- waile, son of William Braithwaite, Si'., by his last wife. Joan, having joined th'> majority In about tlie period mentioned above, leaving only Richard Johnson. Tdppolytus LeFevre, Jr., William Braith- waite. Jr. and Ann I..eFevre Worlidge, to perpetuate families and namos now nearly extmct. The dates of demise of those who suc- cumbed, have beer, already given, in a provioii.s paper on the Pioneers, of which tliis is :i continMallon. Richard Johnson. wlio when he emigrated was a young unmarried man. being the only one of the original immigrants arriving before Fen- wick, who outlived the seventeenth cen- tury, dying January 1719- 20, surviving his wife, Mary Groves, wliom he married in 1782, five years, she having passed away in 1714. The issue of this marriage was three children, Robert, Elizabotli and Ann. The son Robert married in 171? Margaret, widow of Joseph Sayre. They .had four children, viz: Robert. Mary, Ann and Elizabeth, who were all minors, when their father died, at the early age of thirty-four years, in 1728. His widow, Margaret, survived him two years, dying in 1730, agid thirty-seven. Elizabeth, the youngest daugliter of Richard and Mary Grover Johnson, be- came the second wife of John Picrson. By his first, he was father of John Pier- son, "who was the settled minister of the Episcopal Church of St. Johns in Salem" from 1733 to 1747. "He, and his wife and two children, lie in the churcn yard." (Shourds.) Elizabeth Johnson Pierson. widow, made her will in 1720, in which she names her daughter, Elizabeth, under sixteen, sole heiress of real and personal estate. To live with John and Sarah Darkin, until she is sixteen years old. "Real estate 250 acres received from father Richard Johnson." Executors, brother Robert Johnson and John Parkins. (Wills Feb. 11, P. 160.) The Rev. John Pierson married Anna, oldest dau.^'llter of Mary and Joseph Col •■ man, son of Henry Coleman, merchant of Coleman street. London. Mary, tl" wife of the- latter, was tlie dnnghter of Joseph Piilgeou, of London, England, who had married Mary, daughter of Robert Turner, an eminent merchant of Dublin. Ireland, who emigrated to America and settled in Philadelphia in 1683. Mary, the second daughter of Joseph and Mary Coleman, and sister of Anna Pierson, was the first wife of Joseph Sharp, of Piles grove, Salem county, N. J., his second being Grace Smith, Jr., of Mannington, said county. Ann, daughter of Richard and Mary Grover Johnson, born 1687, in 1714 mar- ried Alexander Grant of Salem. His resi- dence was tills very house, wherein is the hall of Ihe Salem County Historical So- ciety built before his marriage, probably about 1710. They had two children, Anna and Barbara Grant. The latter died un- married. Anna, the elder, married Sam- uel Fenwick Hedge, great great grand- sou of John Fenwick. Shortly after their marriage, they removed to Greenwica, Cumberland county, N. J. Shourds in his valuable "History and Genealogy of Feuwick's Colony," relates that Robert, son of Robert and Margaret Sayrc Jonnson, his father having died when he was young, lived some tin-.'-; with his uncle, John Pledger, Jr., in Mannington. to learn the farming busi- ness. Upon attaining his majority, he married Margaret Morgan, of Delaware county, Pennsylvania, who died when only tweiity-three years of age, leavini? a daughter, Margaret, who, in 1779 ma'- ried Andrew Sinnickson, of L. P. Neck, and tlius becain(> ancestress of one of the most prominent and influential I'amilies in the State of New Jersey. Robert Johnson's second wife, whom he married in 17G7. was his cousin, Jane (Jibbon, daughter of Nicholas and Ann Gibbon, the issue of which union, beinfj one son, Robei't Gibbon Johnson, who ac- cjuired quite a reputation as a local his torian. He resided in Salem, in the large brick mansion on the East side of Mar- l:i'l street, wliich ho built just one hun- dred year ago, now owned and occupied by his grandson, Henry Johnson, who is, I believe, the 'ast male survivor bearing the surname of this ancient family. As a portion of the above quotation from "Shourds' History" is probably in- correct, it, together with the following, which introduces the Pledger family, will, for a short time engage our attention. Our historian tells us further that "Mary. daughter of Robert Johnson, Sr., and Margaret Sayre Johnson, married John Pledger, of Mannington; they had issue one son and a daughter, Joseph Pledger, their son, after he arrived at the age of- twenty-one, left his native county am) settled in North Carolina. Catharine Pledger, thier daughter, married John Ewing." In the will of John Pledger, 2d, dated December 30, 17-13, the legatees named are "First, wife" (neither chris- tian nor maiden name given), "second, Edmond Weatherby and Martlia. his wife; "Tihrd, son-in-lav.' (was it intended for step-son ?) Joseph Siddons;" "daughter Elizabeth Casperson," grandchildren. Joseph, Sarah and Dorothy Pledger," "grandchildren, John, Joseph and Pledg- er Redstrake." "Executors, son-iu-law. Edmond Weatherby and daugiiter, Mar- tha." "Witnesses, Dan. Mestayor. Wil- liam Swift. George Trenchard." "Pro- bate Jan. 4, 174.!." Personal estate £582.00, about $2700 of our currency. Beside the children named above he had a so.a. John Pledger, 3d, also called Junior, who predeceased him, having died a few months before his fatlier's will whs written. He was the father of tlie tlireo graiidchildren E'ledger named in tliat in- strument, and also mentioned in his own will dated July 28, 1743, and probated Au- gust 10, 1743, jn v>hich he names "wife Mary Pledger," who. with his father, was appointed executi-ix; "son Josepli Pledger," "daughter Sarah Pledger" and "daughter Doroth.v Pledger." "Witness- es, Wm. Pennock. Jeams Jolinson- and Mary Vaughn." Executors, confirmei Alexander Grant House, Salem, New Jersey August 15, 1743. Inventory of personal property £350.14 or about $1750 dollars 'n our curreucy. The wife, Mary Pledgor, referred to by John Pledger, Jr. (3), in his will, was born Mary Johnson, eldest of the three daughters of Robert and Margaret Sayro Johnson, and sister of Robert Johnson, Jr., who, as we have quoted from Shourds, "lived some time with his uncle in Mannington to learn the farming busi- ness;" now John Pledger, 3d, did not, as far as we know, ever live and carry on the business of a farmer in Mannington, liis residence, at the time of his death, and where he made his will, as therein stated was "John Pledger. Jr., of the township of Alloways Creek, Yeoman," and if Robert Johnson lived with the owner and occupant of the "Netherland Farm" we have been unable to deter- mine the exact relatioiiship subsisting between them; that he was, however, a brother-in-law of John Pledger, 3d, named above, is confirmed by the will of Rich- ard Sayre, made in 1736. He was one ^f the two sons of Joseph and Margaret Sayre, the other being Joseph, their mother, Margaret, after the death of her husband, Joseph Sayre, having, as we have stated, married Robert Johnson, 1st. In his will. Richard Sayre speaks of Mary Pledger, as "my sister Marj', now the wife of John Pledger, Jr." Althougn John Pledger 2d omitted the christian name of the wife who survived him, in his last will, we know it was Hannah, from the following report, viz: "1745, May 2S." Award of Arbitrators. David Davis, David Brandreth and James Mason, as to what sum of money "Han- nah Pledger" shall receive yearly from- Edmond Weatherbj , exu., of John Pledg- er, in lieu of her right of dower. They award her £11.0.0 a year. She to release to said Weathorby all her right of dower in the "Netherland Farm." (Salem Coun- ty Clerk's Office.) The "Netherland Farm," in Manning- ton, across Salem creek, now called "the little creek,' 'owned by Preston Carpen- ter, and formerly part of the large land- ed estate of the late Col. Robert Gibbon Johnson, has retained its name for more than two hundred years, as sliown by tlio following assignment, viz: "1690, July 31." Assignment of John Oilman Junior, of New Salem, to Hugh Hutchings, of the preceding, in exchange for his claim in the farm called Nether- land Farm, belonging to John Pledger, of Salem." (Archives Salem Deeds, No. 5.) The ancient brick dwelling house, still standing on this property, a fine example of the architecture of early colonial times, was erected by John Pledger, Jr.. In 1727. It is still in a remaikable state of preservation, and good to stand for a century or two longer. John Pledger 2d was twice married. His first wife is supposed by some to have been Dorothy Roberts, sister of Henry Roberts Junior, who in his will, dated 1713, Nov. 9 makes "cousin John Pledger Junior" residuary legatee. He was born in the year 16S0, and twenty- three years later, had a wife whose chris- tian name was Dorothy, as tlie following deed shows, viz: "1730, April 30 Do. John Pledger, of Manneton, Salem county. Yeoman, and wife, Dorothy, to Hugh Middleton, of Berreton, said county, gentleman, and wife. Mary, for 214 acres, with 10 a. high- way allowance on Salem and Mehoppings creeks." (.\rehive« Salem Deeds. No. 7.) He probably had resided on the Nether- land Farm for more than twenty years before buililing the large substantial brick mansion alroody referred to. Bere- ton Fields, the residence of his father, John Pledger 1st, having passed into the possession — as sliown in the above deed — of Hugh Middleton. through his wife, Mary, widow of Joseph Pledger, who died in the year 1697. John Ph^dger 3d. nltiinngli IiIp rosidonce 5. V ^«^ ■> \l^ 1 ^^« ^R— --t^ w#>»«^ H [^H ft w^ ^^H Hft ^^^1 1 1 ^^^^^H 1 ^^Kl i Netherland Farm— Pledger House. at the time of his death, was in Allo- ways Creek township, owned real estate also in Maunington, as he leaves a plan- tation in the laiter township to liis two daughters, Sarah and Dorothy, to be equally divided between them, when they reached the age of twenty-one years. To his father he bequeathed a suit of clothes and a hat, viz; "To father John Pledger new suit of broad cloth and new beaver hat," also " to Mary Vaughn a milch cow, if she lives until 18 years old with my wife." "To wife, Mary Pledger, all personal estate (except what is herein- after bequeathed.)" To son Joseph Pledg- er, plantation where I now dwell, at 21 years." All his children, at the time of his de- mise, were under age, two of whom, Joseph and Dorothy, we are able to trace in after years, but Sarah is lost, we find no further reference to her, in the rec- ords. From the christian name of his daughter, Dorothy, we infer he was a son of the first wife of John Pledger 2d, and that she was named after his mother. It would be ii'teresting to know if there were any children of John Pledger 2d, by his wife Hannah, who survived him. From the fact tliat the sons and daugh- ters inentioned in liis will, were already married with families of tlieir own, the inference is tliat they were all issue of the first marriage. Martha was the wife of Edmund Weatherby. Joseph Siddons (if a son-in-law, who as we have said might have been a step-son) married a daughter, name not given, viz: "Son-in- law Joseph Siddons to have privilege ot occupying the tan yard lot on above in-emises for 7 years, without charge." He leaves to his wife £.'')0, and to his daughter, Elizabeth Casperson, .C.^i.0.0, and "to grandchildren, John. Joseph an'i Pledger Redstrake, £."1.0.0. eacli at 21 years." Now Elizabeth Casperson was the mother of the three Redstrake boys, hav- ing before her marriage to Anthony Cas- person Oct. 15, 1739, been the wife oi John Redstrake, the immigrant, and thl.s brings us in touch with the Redstrake family. We first meet with the name of John Restrake in connection with the settle- ment of the estate of Alexander Dever- enx, in June 1711. Secondly, as John Restrake, a creditor of Gunnin.g Bedford, of "Pens Neck." Salem county, who died during the first week of February 1724- 25. Thirdly, as John Readstrake. making an inventor.v of the personal estate of Thomas Vickery, of Penn's Neck, Salem county, September 23, 1725, in conjunction with Rainey Van Hirst, and finally, as John Readstrake, administrator of the estate of Samuel Chandler, .lune '^, 1728. This is all the information derived from the Archives, the remainder being foun.i in his will written December 17th, 1737. In that instrument he spells his name Redstrake. and those of his sons, also his wife. Restrake, all spelled alike: "Will of John Redstrake." "of Penn's Neck, in the Western Devision of New Jersey, this seventeenth day of Decem- ber, 1737." Names:— Loving wife, Eliza- beth Redstrake; sons:— John Redstrake. Joseph Redstrake and Pledger Red- strake. He leaves "sister-in-law Mary Pledger fifty pounds." "Unto my cousin, that is to say unto Rebecca Johnson, 30 pounds of current money." Wittnesses:" —"George Fling, John Richmond. Rebec- ca Richmond. John Pledger." There is a tradition, that when the Im- migrant arrived at the mouth of the As- samhocking River, now Salem creek, he determini^d to seat himself on the island. "Restracks Island." that for two cen- turies has borne liis name, and with bricks brought from England, built the lar.go sub.stantial house in which most of his descendants have been born, and which stood unchanged, until submerged and consumed, within the last twenty- five or thirty years. I regret the limits of this paper pre- elude transcribing tlie entire will, from which the preceding extracts have been taken, as it embodies tlie character of the man, a mental and moral portrature drawn upon the parchment beneath its written lines. We there see an opulent, influential citizen of strong mind with laudable intentions, honorable and just toward all, a fond husband and parent, beloved by liis family, into which liis last thoughts reverted as the final hour ap- proaclied. and to whom, in the disposi- tion of liis large estate, he exliibits lib- eral, impartial and benevolent qualities of the human heart. In case his sons sliould die without legal heirs, he disposes of the property de- vised to them in the following manner, viz:— "I give, devise all and singular my aforesaid lands and tenements unto my loving wife, Elizabeth Redstrake, and to her heirs and assigns forever." "Item." "My will is that my loving wife shall have, enjoy, the uses, profits of all my estate whatsoever and wlieresoever for and in satisfaction for bringing up- my three cliildren until they come to their several ages as aforesaid, and that she enjoy the whole profits until the time aforesaid." The solicitude expressed for tlie "bring- ing up" of his sons, miglit warrant the assumption that they were the offspring of anotlier marriage— the wife and mother's interest and affection being ap- parently ignoreil— did we not know it was a testanr.'niary fashion of the times. John Pledger 'M makes a similar pro- vision in his will, viz: — "To wife Mary Pledger all presonal estate (except what is hereinafter bequeathed) all rents ana privileges of real estate till .son Josepu is 21 years old. provided slie brmgs up and maintains said son and daughters un- til 21 without ciiarge upon the estate; ' and Williim PiMin in the following- posi- scrii)t, imposes a similar obligation, viz: — "Postnipt in my own hand:"— ".\.«! a further testimony of my love to my dear wife, I of my own mind give unto lier out of the rents of America, Vest Pensylvania £300 a year for her natur- all life, and for her care and charge over my children in their education, of which she knows my mind, as also that I de- sire they may settle at least in good part in America, wheie I leave them so good an interest to be for their inheritance from Generacon to Generacon, which the Lord p'serve and prosper. Amen." John Restrack left each of his three sons a large improved estate, probably not surpassed by any in the Colony, also valuable personal property, not forget- ting as we have seen his "loving wife.' His last thoughts were of her, viz: "I do before signing add this in my last will and testament, that my wife, Elizabeth Redstrake, shall have all the timber and wood piece of land I pur- chased of Josepn Gregory during her nat- ural life. ' "Te, dulcis conjux ****** ** Te, veniente die. te, decedente. canebat" And yet in less than two years from the commencement of her widowhood she married Anthony Casperson. Tiiere was nothing, however, unusual in that. It was the vogue in those days, not only to remarry, but to remarry soon. So soon, that now it might be deemed, with in- decerous haste. Then was a period of adventure and romance, not so remote from the age of chivalry as to-day. How nany of our ancient acquaintances, friends and relatives did likewise I Did not Mar- garet Sayre marry Robert Johnson 1st ? Did not Margaret Braitiiwaite marry Isaac Sharpe ? Did not her daughter, little Prudence, after the death of Josepn Moi-ris, marry -Andrew Bull ? Did not Mary Pledger, when left a widow by Jolin Ple', marry William Brail I, - waite, Jr. ? and Mary Hurle.v. nee Pople- ton ! She did not wait a single year be- for she changed her name to Pledger. and very .soon asaiii to Middleton. wliile Isabella Redsti-ake remated first with James Smith and secondly with the Rev. Peter Vin Horn, and who as Mistress Isabella Dunlap. tos^rether witli the per- sonality at present under consideration, Mistress Elizabeth Pledger, owing to theso rapid changes "mutato nomine" came very near being actually unknown by their family names, with which, "in maiden meditation fancy free," they might have contemplated without appre- hension or regret the cegnomenal relin- quishment incident to the matrimonial state; and so that custom will continue, until "Parturiunt monies"— again moun- tains are in parturition, or Olympian Jove requires the services of Vulcan as an accouncheur. a parthenogenesis, the era of Gods and Titans, a fabulous propoga- tion, where a mother was superfluous. "Prolem sine matre creatam." Not until then will organized society dispense with iT/arital rites and consequent loss o? maid- en names, entailing on the puzzled gen- ealogist, forever, insuperable embarrass- ments, in attempting to trace the mai3 as well as female descendants of import- ant families, and fix relationships, exist- ing but unknown, between friends and en- cmines, consanguineou.?, the same blood hut little changed, imperceptable at least to the naked eye, pulsating in each others hearts. We have referred to the death of Gun- ning Bedford in February 1724-2.5 as as- .«ociated with the meagre publislied rec- ords in whicli John Restrack 1st figures. The family had been settled in New Jer- sey for at least ten years previous to his demise as we find in the account of the estate of William Mall, 1715. June 30. Ounnin.g Bedford named as one to whom payment was made by the widow. Sarah Hall, execurtix. The name transmitted for more than one hundred years, through a unusually distinguished postei-ity, ren- ders pertinent the query, whether the poor Yeoman, dying during the inrlem- ent February of that far distant winter, whose personal estate amounted to only "£19.13, including a silver tumbler," was the American progenitor of that illus- trious line ? After his death we hear no more of his immediate family in this State, and it is not improbable, that the widow" and children removed to Delaware, upon the history of which State the names of his descendants were destined to be written large in social, civil and military affairs, comprising, a Governor, Gunning Bedford, an eminent Judge, Gunning Bedford, Jr., also in another State, a son of one of them. Gunning S. Bedford. A. M., M D., Professor of Ob- stetrics in the University of New York, and author of a standard work on that branch of medicine, published in 1S6.3, one of the best treatises on tliat important subject 1 have ever seen, invaluable as a work of reference in unusual and dif- ficult cases. What a contrast between the vast estate of that brilliant literateur, and the poverty of the Penn's Neck Yeo- man, who died one hundred years be- fore, leaving a personal estate, as w>"j have said of less than one hundred dol- lars, out of which the widow paid to the estate of the Rev. George Ross, of New Castle, he having died before the settle- ment. "£3.0.0 for trouble in crossing thj river and preaching his funeral sermon," for he died in the odor of sanctity. A doe- tor Tinny was the attending physician being paid "for medicines and visits." We have no knowledge of the lives, sub- sequent to their father's death, of Joseph and Pledger Redstreak. but the eldest son. John, married, April 28. 17.52. 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He, aud liis wife, Isabella, lie side by side, under the large elm, in the gi-ave yard of the old Baptist Cluirch, demolish- ed many years ago. It was built duriuti- his incumbency at a cost of £1500 about six thousand dollars. The lot was bought of widow, Mary Dunlap, who left her es- tate to the church, as the following epi- taph states: "Here lays all that was mortal of Mary Dunlap, widow, who by her last will aud testament did devise and be- queath all her real estate aud most of her personal estate to the Baptist Church in the Town of Salem. She was daughter of James and Elizabeth Wiggens. Born October 1725. Depart- ed this life January 1797. Aged 71 years." "Corruption earth and worms Shall but refine the flesh, &c., &c." Captain James Dunlap, the progenitor of the Dunlap family of West Jersey, came from Delaware, aud settled iu Peun's Neck. In the year 1725 his name was included in the list of creditors of Feuwick Adams, Fenwick's Grove. Salem county, gent. In 1730 he bought 1295 acres of land iu Piltsgrove. and January 21. 1746 married Ann Hunter. He died Jaii- uary 16, 1780. The family wei-e prominent Baptists in early Colonial days, and the descendants under various other names, are numerous and occupy high social positions to-day. ■ Thomas Bradway— son of Aaron Bradway and his second wife. Sarah Smith— married Isabella Dunlap: their eld'.'st daughter, Sarah .Ann. mar- ried John S. Wood, of Jericho. Cumber- laud county; Eliza Bradway. another daughter, married Judge Dubison, of Natcheg, Miss. The late Thomas Brad- way. of L. P. Neck, near Penn.sville, was 1 believe the only son. James Smitli. son of Daniel Smith ami grandson of John Smith, of Smithfield. was twice married. By his first wife he Imd three sons. .John. ■nt'n.i:imiu and James. The latter married, when mil- lionaires were not as numerous as at present, a sister of Jacob Ridgway, the Philadelphia Croesus. He took his brother-in-law into partnership in the shipping business, the firm name being Smith and Ridgway. James Smith mar- ried secondly February 21, 1771, Isabella Redstreak, uee Dunlap. They had two children, Edward and Mary Smith, the latter married Into the Bacon family, of Bacon's Neck, Cumberlaudd county. As we have already hinted, the two previous names of Elizabeth Casperson i. e. : — Pledger and Redstrake might read- ily have been forgotten. She being only referred to as Casperson, without any allusion to her maiden name or that by her first marriage in her father's will. so might Isabella Van Horn's original marital union have been consigned to oblivion, but for the indirect manner 'ii which John Redstreak 3d refers to her as his mother, viz:— "John Redstreak, administrator of Isa bella Van Home, deceased , June terra li)23 and filed, Daniel Garrison. Register." "Item." "1823 December 24," "Cash paid Wm. N. Jeffers for opinion on "mother's will." $5.00." John Redstreak 3d was born June 11. 1770. Married Sarah VaiiCulen February 6. 1792. She died June 10. ISOG. One daugh- ter was the issue of this marriage, Sarah- Smith Redstreak. who married William .\. Dick, and is referred to in her father's will as "my daughter Sarah Dick." His second wife was Ruth Johnson. He died in the year 1825. "Will of John Red- streak. of the township of Lower Penn's Neck, in the county of Salem and State of New Jersey," "this sixteenth day of June, in the' year of our Lord one thous- and, eignt hundred and twenty-five." Names:— "Wife Ruth Redstreak." "young- est child, Isabella Redstreak." "my daughter Sarah Dick." "my granddaugh- ter, Mary Robinson." "Cliildreii, James Redstreak. Mary .Ann Roilstreak. Eliz.i Elm Tree, Baptist Cemetery, Salem, New Jersey. LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 014 205 005 5 ^