The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . Jersey. His first Ameri-ean auceslor, James Smilli, 1mii-ii about l(i(i.~>. is said to havecome from Scotland to lliis conutry in l(iS((, on a sailingvessel whicli landed at Ieilli .Vmboy. James Smith was anorphan, and Die Cajitain of the vess(d, havini;- assnmedgnardianship over him, bronj^ht him to Nmvark and boundhim out to Deacon Azariah Crane, son of .Tasper, one of thefirst settlers of Newark,to serve seven Crane soon after-ward located on whathe called his MountainPlantation, on the east-erly slope of the OrangeMountain
The Passaic valley, New Jersey, in three . Jersey. His first Ameri-ean auceslor, James Smilli, 1mii-ii about l(i(i.~>. is said to havecome from Scotland to lliis conutry in l(iS((, on a sailingvessel whicli landed at Ieilli .Vmboy. James Smith was anorphan, and Die Cajitain of the vess(d, havini;- assnmedgnardianship over him, bronj^ht him to Nmvark and boundhim out to Deacon Azariah Crane, son of .Tasper, one of thefirst settlers of Newark,to serve seven Crane soon after-ward located on whathe called his MountainPlantation, on the east-erly slope of the OrangeMountain in what isnow known as OrangeValley. James servedhis full time and mar-ried Mv. Cranes young-est daughter Mary,Avhose mother was adaughter of GovernorRobert Treat, of Con-necticut. She received asa marriage portion apart of the laud on thesoutherly side of theplantation. Sir. Smith later acquired considerable adjacent property and was oneof the number that made Ihe ilorseneck ])nrciiase fromthe Indians, which included Ihe lands west of Orange Mouu-. STCAUT C. SMITH. 286 THE PASSAIC VALLEY tain and east of the Passaic River. James Smith died in1727, at the age of about sixty-two. and his will, drawnNovember 4,1727, bv Rev. Daniel Taylor, pastor of the FirstPresbyterian Church of Orange, N. J., is as follows: In the name of God, Amen, this fourth daj of November in tlie Year of ourLord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty-Seven (1727). I, James Smith, of Newark and eastern division of New Jersey in America,being weak of body but of perfect and sound mind and memory, thanks beo-iven unto God therefore, calling nnto mind the mortality of my bod}, andknowing it is appointed to all men once to die, do make and ordain this, my lastwill and testament, that is to say principally and first of all. I give andrecommend my soid unto the hands of God who gave it, hoping througli thealone merits of Jesus Christ to have eternal life. And my body I recommendto the earth, being dead, to be b
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