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Somerset County Historical Quarterly - Vol. IV.--1915
EDITOR: A. Van DOREN HONEYMAN
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There was also a William, an elder there in 1750. There was a Jacobus
living in the neighborhood of Ten-Mile Run in 1735, and a William in th
section, who had several children baptized in the old Six-Mile Run church at the brook, at an early date. Whether they were connected with the William named above is not known.
William Williamson may have been the elder who was elected in the church at New Brunswick in 1750. He was a true patriot, a captain in Col. Neilson's Regiment of State Troops, and an intimate friend of General Washington, of whom it is said he sometimes quartered at his house. He died in 1799, owning a large tract of land, commencing where Isaac W. Pumyea lives, at the line between lands of William A. Williamson and the late Ephraim Van Tine, and running in the Old Path to the line formerly of the DeHarts, and extending from the Path to near George's Road, and including a tract of one hundred acres in Somerset county, containing in all about 640 acres.
These lands were devised to his six children by his will made the 7th day of September, 1779, and were divided by commissioners, who were George Van Neste, Simon Addis and John Stryker. The division was as follows: First. To Isaac, born 1759, who married Ann Van Harlingen, and lived on that part of the tract now owned and resided on by William A. Williamson.
Isaac died in 1835, aged 76 years. His wife, Ann, died in 1837, aged 79 years. Isaac was a kind neighbor, of a genial disposition, a good friend of the church and of Dr. Cannon, his pastor, who for a long time held catechetical exercises at his house. He was a great joker, and indulged very freely in passing off sharp jokes at the expense of others, for which he sometimes in return received his just deserts, a sample of which may suffice:
His land, like that of many of his neighbors around him, by continual
cropping had become much reduced. In a certain season he had a very poor field of corn. Dr. Van Harlingen being on a visit at his house one day said: "Uncle Isaac, I think this soil is not adapted to the raising of corn; or, it may be, that it is too rich, pushing it forward so rapidly as to cause it to come out in tassels by the time it gets knee high." Stoutenberg Cannon, a son of his good friend the Doctor, passing along about the same time, said: "Uncle Isaac, I think that you had better go to the seashore, get a load of clam shells, bring them home, cover your corn with them, and give it a chance for another season." About the same time there was a party of young people going
to his house one afternoon to take tea. On their way they crossed the
cornfield lying in front of the house.
Coming to the middle of it they affected to be lost, on account of the
large and heavy growth of corn. One of the young men offered to make an attempt to find his way out to the house, in which, if he should succeed, he would hail them. He succeeded, mounted the fence in front of the house, and cried out; "This way--this way." They then all repaired to the house, took tea, and paid him a neighborly visit. What his jokes were on that occasion is not told.
Second. William, born 1762; married Ann Suydam; lived where G. J. Rink lives. He was also one of Dr. Cannon's great church friends. William W. Cannon, now of Ten-Mile Run, was named by his parents out of respect for him.
One of his sons, Abraham, married Eliza, a daughter of William Scott. She has survived him, and lives in the village of Franklin Park. William's daughter, called Nettie, named after her grandmother, Angenetie, resides with Peter S. DeHart, near Elm Ridge Cemetery, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, on land formerly owned by Capt. Williamson, and separated from the original tract by the Franklin and Georgetown Turnpike. William belonged to a troop of horse in the Revolution.>>>>><<<<
Tradition states that there was an Indian settlement on the east bank of
the Millstone at the mouth of the Six-Mile Run brook. A few years since, in clearing and cultivating a piece of new ground, a great many implements used by the Indians were there plowed up, such as arrow heads, stone axes, hatchets, etc., of various sizes. John S. Voorhees has a stone hatchet with an eye through it. The Indians passed up and down the brook very frequently, probably in search of game, remaining out all night and sleeping on the ground along its banks. It is said that a company of them at one time, while lodging on land afterwards owned by the DeHarts, were found in the morning completely snowed under. It is said that there was a time when they had huts there on the north side of the brook.
The first night that the Wyckoff family passed in their rude dwelling,
one of them was bitten by a rattlesnake, which had entered it through some crevice. One of the Indians near at hand was called to apply a remedy, which he did, and the patient was cured from the effects of the bite. A drunken Indian one day came to the house and kicked the door open. Mrs. Wyckoff gave him a complete drubbing with her wooden scrub-broom; his comrades present laughed heartily and said that she served him right.
There were six mills erected and in operation at different times on the
Six-Mile Run brook; three grist and three saw mills. On the upper and most eastern branch of the land of William Pumyea are the remains of a dam and timbers of a saw mill, which was doubtless erected by Capt. Williamson when he first settled on the place. About three hundred yards south of it was another on the southern upper branch. It stood about 100 yards north of the residence of John S. Voorhees. It was built and run for a number of years by Abraham DeHart, who owned the property.>>>><<<
at the land of Henry P. Cortelyou. Since the turnpike has run straig
many of the worst bends, it is difficult now to conceive the crookedness of the Old Path, which the Old Road formerly followed.>>>>>
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Source: David M. Riker, "DeHart Family The - Some of the descendants of Balthazar de Haert, a Merchant of Early New York"," Privately published 1979-1980, pg 17.
The couple lived in Elizabethtown, New Jersey where William Williamson operated a grist mill. They had two sons, Matthias and William.
Margaret married a second time, a William Chetwood who kept a famous Inn known by the name :The Nag's Head" in Elizabethtown (ref. #34) After Wm. Chetwood died, Margaret ran the Inn, which she then sold in 1761.
Margaret married a third time, a James Johnson. She also operated
another Inn in the old Philip Carteret Mansion, which she also called " The Nag's Head". She later changed the name of the Inn to the "Duke of Rutland".
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Ancestry.com
New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800
Name: General Matthias Williamson
Matthias Williamson was born about 1716, being the son of William
Williamson, of Elizabethtown, who died Jan. 10, 1735. His mother was
Margaret, daughter of Capt. Matthias DeHart; she married, second, William Chetwood, who kept a famous inn, known by "The Sign of the Nag's Head," in that ancient town, which she continued some years after his death, and as late as 1759
In that year Matthias lived near the tavern. He was Lieutenant of a
company of cadets at Elizabethtown in 1740, and was High Sheriff of Essex County in 1757. In 1759 he was designated an alternate Paymaster of the New Jersey expedition against Canada. On Dec. 6, 1774, he was selected by his fellow citizens to serve on the Committee of Correspondence for Elizabethtown. He was commissioned Colonel of a regiment of light horse, Oct. 27, 1775; Brigadier General of the New Jersey Militia, Sept. 6, 1776;
Brigadier General commanding a brigade, State troops, Nov. 27, 1776, which last named commission he resigned, Feb. 6, 1777. He also served as Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, as Assistant Quartermaster General, and as Quartermaster General. In all these various positions he rendered good service to the patriot cause during the Revolution. He was a vestryman of St. John's Episcopal Church in 1749, and was an active and liberal supporter of that church for many years. He married Susanna Halsted. His residence was some years ago occupied as the Union Hotel. He died at Elizabeth, Nov. 8, 1807, aged 91 years. He was the father of Isaac H. Williamson, who was Governor and Chancellor of New Jersey, 1817-1829, and who di
July 10, 1844; the latter was the father of the late ex-Chancellor Benjamin Williamson. Mathias Williamson was a native of Elizabethtown. New Jersey. After graduating at Princeton College in 1770, he studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in November, 1774; but the war commencing, he became an officer in the Commissary department. He died in Elizabethtown in 1836, aged 84.--N. J.
Archives, XXVII., 268.
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