New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . on of cosmopolitan social elements. But one instance need be cited to show thedistinctively Calvinistic type of early East Jer-sey life. It is in the matter of personal nomen-clature. To East Jersey the settlers from Newand Old England brought Christian names indic-ative of a Puritan and in some cases Quaker an-cestry. Among ancient deeds and wills are tobe found some curiosities of given nameswhich descendants have carried down to dis-tant generations. Thus in the family of Lippin-cotts, of Shrewsbury, in 1683, were living
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . on of cosmopolitan social elements. But one instance need be cited to show thedistinctively Calvinistic type of early East Jer-sey life. It is in the matter of personal nomen-clature. To East Jersey the settlers from Newand Old England brought Christian names indic-ative of a Puritan and in some cases Quaker an-cestry. Among ancient deeds and wills are tobe found some curiosities of given nameswhich descendants have carried down to dis-tant generations. Thus in the family of Lippin-cotts, of Shrewsbury, in 1683, were living Free-dom, Remembrance, and Restore. Jedediah Allen,who lived near by, in Neversink, had among hischildren Experience, Ephraim, Judah, and Pa-tience, while in 1688, in that portion of MonmouthCounty, resided Exercis, probably a corrupt spell-ing of Exercise, and Elisone Coale, daughters ofJacob. Among the names of women appear Sy-biah Dennis, Faith Hewitt, in 1691, and Safty(Safety) Grover, the latter a daughter of James, DUTCH COUMK^ lEolLE. 178 NEW JERSEY AS A COL. of Middletown. In 1697 there was Hope Bloom-field, of Woodbridge; in 1701, Eupham, wife ofJohn Johnston, of Monmouth County, and BethiahKitchell, daughter of William, whose home, in1683, was in Newark. In 1694 Hephziabiah Man-nin, of Piscataway, was the widow of one of theplantation owners, and in 1697 Tidey buried herhusband, George Warren, of Elizabethtown. Com-fort was the wife of Samuel Marsh, of Bahway,while Deliverance is mentioned as a daughter ofJohn Throgmorton, of Middletown. Among the children of Thomas Thomson, ofElizabeth, in 1675, were Aaron, Moses, and 1669 Hopewell Hull was a settler in Wood-bridge; Dishturner Ward appears in Newark in1696; and in 1694 Barefoot Brynson is alluded toas a son of Daniel. In 1682, or shortly thereafter,occurred the marriage of Nidemiah Sanford,daughter of William, to Eichard Berry, son ofJohn Berry. The respective fathers presented tothe young couple as wedding g
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