History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . the help of two pumps and sev-eral hundred buckets they freed her of water andstopped the leak, and fitted her out in the night-time;and one hundred and thirteen went on board and setsail in the night-time for fear of detection, and in themorning Providence so ordered it that a thick fog arosebetween her and the land so that they escaped. Theyhad fair winds and weather all the passage till theyarrived on the shoals of Amboy, when she leaked sothat the pumps would not free her, and sh
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . the help of two pumps and sev-eral hundred buckets they freed her of water andstopped the leak, and fitted her out in the night-time;and one hundred and thirteen went on board and setsail in the night-time for fear of detection, and in themorning Providence so ordered it that a thick fog arosebetween her and the land so that they escaped. Theyhad fair winds and weather all the passage till theyarrived on the shoals of Amboy, when she leaked sothat the pumps would not free her, and she sank, butall escaped safe to land and dispersed among theIndians. Stephen Crane with others settled at Eliza-beth Town. He was a man of note and one of thefirst Associates. He married a Danish woman withred hair, by whom he had several children. JOHN C. DENMAN, the progenitor of the Denman family, from whomthe subject of this sketch was descended, settled onLong Island, from England, in 1667. His son, JohnDenman, came from Southampton, L. I., and settledback west in the fields, now called Westfield, and. was one of the Elizabethtown Association in 1699,and was among the early Episcopalians of the bor-ough of Elizabethtown. John Denman, Jr., settledon one hundred acres of land in Westfield, now thetownship of Cranford, in 1723, and this property hasbeen successively owned by his descendants in directline to the present time (1882). He died in March,1776, leaving children,—John, Joseph, Daniel, Chris-topher, Mary, and Jennie, of whom Christopher suc-ceeded to the homestead ; was born March 5, 1741,and died Oct. 21,1808. His wife, Abigail Hendricks,bore him the following children : Susanna, Anna,Abigail, John, Huldah, and Mary. Of these chil-dren, John succeeded to the homestead, where he wasborn Feb. 28, 1782, and died Sept. 25, 1849. He wasa farmer and a representative business man, beingwidely known throughout the State. A sketch of hislife will be found on another page of
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