The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . it is to be divided into fourparts to be ecpially dividedamongst the chihlren I had bymy former wife, as Daniell, Kdwanl and .loliri Preston, and my daughters Kliza-lieth, Sarah and Mary. William ^Meeker and Sarah Preston had issni .Tos(^ph,horn in KUS; , born Marcli 17, l(i4;t; Sarah, born{(?bniary 7, ; jNIay, born ()ctob(i; ami Jidin,liorn Sc|)lcml)cr 7, KKKi. \\illiam ^Meekers will was datedl»ecend)er .I, l(i!»(l, ami he died soon after. Benjamin, second son of William ^lec ker, married Eliza-I)th, wlio snrvi\(d him. His
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . it is to be divided into fourparts to be ecpially dividedamongst the chihlren I had bymy former wife, as Daniell, Kdwanl and .loliri Preston, and my daughters Kliza-lieth, Sarah and Mary. William ^Meeker and Sarah Preston had issni .Tos(^ph,horn in KUS; , born Marcli 17, l(i4;t; Sarah, born{(?bniary 7, ; jNIay, born ()ctob(i; ami Jidin,liorn Sc|)lcml)cr 7, KKKi. \\illiam ^Meekers will was datedl»ecend)er .I, l(i!»(l, ami he died soon after. Benjamin, second son of William ^lec ker, married Eliza-I)th, wlio snrvi\(d him. His will was Iccorded in had issne William, , donalhan, Daniid, Sani-iici, Tliomas, and -loseph. itenjannn .Me(-j<er, second son of Ienjamin, made a willwhiih was recorded in lli married Ihebe,who siir\i\.5, aged seventy-fivp. Theyhad issue .Meeker, Sanimd ^Meeker, Ihebe (wife ofNeiiemiah Lmllano, Ilslhei (wife of Stephen Hinds), andSarah (wife of Isaac Wondrnff).. SAMUEL MEEKKR. 182 THE PASSAIC VALLEY Samuel Meeker, second son of Benjamin (2), was born in3716 and died in 1757, in his forty-first j^ear. He marriedCliarity, and liad issue Benjamin Meeker (married MaryHarrinian), Matthias Meeker (married Miss Parsons), andCaptain Samuel Meeker (married Mary Clarke). Captain Samuel Meeker lived in Springfield Township, inthat part now known as Short Hills, both during and afterthe Kevolutionary War. Pie commanded a troop of lighthorse that was recruited in Essex County, largeh^ fromSi^riugfield and vicinity. This troop was in constant serviceduring the war, was in both battles of Springfield, and actedas the escort to the scaffold of Morgan, tlie murderer of Caldwell, January 2i), 1782. During the years 1777,1778, and 1779 it was stationed at Eahway at Terrels Tav-ern, watcluug the enemj. The troop ijaraded before Gen-eral Washington while he was stopping at the house of theRev. iM. Van Arsdnlf^ at Springfield. Among its memberswere
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