NJ FISH Items - misc

last updated 02/14/01

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thanks to Bobbie Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey under the editorial supervision of Francis Bazley Lee 
Page 796
WLLIAM G. HOWELL, president of the Mercer Trust Company, a banking
institution of Trenton, doing business at Nos. 202 and 203 South Broad
street, is a descendant of a family which came to this country from England
in the early part of the seventeenth century.

(II) Joshua Howell, son of Daniel and Mary Howell, was born October 11,
1722. He married Rebecca Reed, and had children: 1. Abigail, married Benjamin
Fish, of Trenton, New Jersey. 2. Phoebe,, married John Fleming, of Pennsylvania.
3.Mary, married Peter Elvish, of Hesse Cassel. 4. Peter. 5. Amos, see
forward. 6. Levi, married Nancy Clark. 7. Lot.

Page 791

     (I) Nicholas Berrien was an intelligent farmer, and for a time a
magistrate. He owned a farm on Flushing Bay which he had bought in 1712 of
William Stevenson, it having been owned at an earlier date by John Ramsden.
Nicholas Berrien married his cousin, Sara, daughter of Abraham
Brinckerhoff,
and widow of Jacob Rapelje. He died without issue, December 27, 1737, aged
fifty-six years. He bequeathed his farm to the children of his brother,
John, who sold it to Nathaniel Fish, and is now owned by Daniel Lent.
     II) John Berrien, eldest son of Cornelius, was a farmer and brewer on
the paternal estate, at the head of Flushing Bay. He married, April 5, 1697,
his step-sister, Ruth Edsall. He served as a justice of the peace, and died in
April, 1711. His widow married secondly, Samuel Fish.

(VI) Peter Berrien, son of Cornelius, born 1672, married August 10, 1706,
his step-sister, Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Edsall, Esq. He was a surveyor
by profession, and became a large land holder. He served several years as a
supervisor of the town, and enjoyed a large measure of public confidence.
He presented the ground upon which the First Dutch church in Newtown was
erected. He died very suddenly while riding from Newtown to his home, April
5, 1737. His widow died May 6, 1763. Their children, except two that died
in infancy, were: Cornelius, born May 24, 1707; Samuel, born September 29,
1709, died August 29, 1742; John, born November 19, 1711; Peter, born February 6,
1714; Jane, born September 29, 1716, married Nathaniel Fish; Nicholas, born
August 3, 1720; and Jacob, born April 10, 1723. The last two became
merchants in New York City, and of the last two named children only Nicholas married.
Of this family, Peter settled on a farm in Somerset county, New Jersey,
where he died in 1781, aged sixty-seven years. He married Anna Emmons, and had
sons Henry and John; and daughters, Elizabeth, married Colonel Van Dyck; Sara,
married a Mr. Schureman; and Ann, married Richard Betts. The sons, Henry
and John, married into different branches of the Van Dyck family, but only
Henry had issue.

(VII) Cornelius Berrien, son of Peter, remained in Newtown, and in 1740
bought the paternal farm, later owned by Richard Berrien, and now the
residence of Mrs. Denton. Cornelius Berrien married Amy Smith. He served as
a civil magistrate, and was an elder in the Presbyterian church at Newtown.
He died January 14, 1758, in his fifty-first year.. His widow was a woman of
high educational attainments and culture. She died December 22, 1793. Their
children were: Cornelius, John, Peter, Elizabeth, married Richard Betts;
Amy, married Richard Lawrence; Jane, married William Nicoll; Catharine, married
Nathan Fish. The son, Peter, became a shipmaster and a member of the Marine
Society, sailed a vessel owned by his brother, Cornelius, and lost his life
on the Spanish main in 1777. John for some time studied medicine, and upon
relinquishing his studies engaged in mercantile pursuits, meeting with
success, and was prosperous. He married, April 27, 1763, Sara, daughter of
Elnathan Fish, by whom he had an only child, Rachel, who married Colonel
John Jameson, of Virginia. In 1775 Mr. Berrien was chosen a member of the
committee of safety for the city of New York, and throughout the struggle
for independence gave strong evidence of his patriotism and faithfulness
towards the cause of liberty. His ability was displayed in legislative and other
offices. His private life was adorned by many virtues. Mr. Berrien died
September 25, 1784.
thanks to Annamae who found this on Ancestry.com
(families connected to the Fish family) 
 Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
                                        Stephen Collins McCandless

     Stephen Collins McCandless descends from a long line of Colonial and
Revolutionary ancestors, both paternal and maternal. His
   membership in the "Sons" is gained through the services of his
great-great-grandfather, Rev. Eliu Spencer, D. D., a most distinguished
  patriot and eminent divine of that period, and a brother of General
Joseph Spencer of the Continental army. Rev. Elihu Spencer married
   Joanna Eaton, of Shrewsbury, New Jersey, who was a descendant of
Thomas Eaton, the founder of Eatontown, Monmouth county,
  New Jersey, and of the New Jersey family of that name. Thomas Eaton
married, December 12, 1684, Mrs. Jerusha Wing (the widow of
    Joseph Wing, of Yarmouth, in the Plymouth colony) at the home of John
Dillingham, by the Quaker form of marriage. She was the
     daughter of Rev. Thomas and Jane (Paine) Mayhew, and the
granddaughter of Colonial Governor Thomas Mayhew, of Martha's
  Vineyard, of which he was proprietor and governor for life. Together
with his son, Rev. Thomas Mayhew, Governor Mayhew exerted a
  powerful and beneficial influence over the Indians, and in other
respects was a wise and valuable ruler. Rev. Elihu Spencer, D. D., born
  in East Haddam, Connecticut, February 12, 1721, died in Trenton, New
Jersey, December 27, 1784. Besides his eminence as a minister
   he was a missionary to the Indians of the famous Six Nations, and the
maker of a vocabulary of the Indian language of great value. In
  October, 1753, the Synod of his church directed "that his pulpit be
supplied all the time he shall be absent at the request of his
excellency
  Governor Belcher," probably, as his biographer says, "to attend with
the New Jersey Commission the Congress at Albany, New York, in
  the summer of 1754, to which seven of the provinces sent delegates to
treat with the Indians". In 1758 he was appointed chaplain in the
    expedition against Canada. Coming down to Revolutionary times we find
"On petition in behalf of the Provincial Congress of North
   Carolina, December 26, 1775," he was sent to that province to unite
the people there, in the same cause of Independence. On October
  20, 1777, he was appointed a chaplain in the Continental army. During
the occupancy of Trenton by the Hessians, Rev. Spencer's house
    was burned, together with his valuable library. This was done on
account of his activity in the patriot cause. Another Revolutionary
  ancestor was Colonel Stephen Lowrey, who married Sarah Spencer, a
daughter of Rev. Elihu Spencer. By generation the descent of Mr.
     McCandless is as follows:

Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III
                         Fox Family

      It was the purpose of these emigrants to make their settlement an
industrial one. James Claypoole and Robert Turner, Penn's
   commissioners, writing to Thomas Holme, Surveyor General. say: "At the
request of James Fox, Francis Rawle, Nicholas Pearce and
  Richard Grove, in behalf of themselves and other Friends of Plymouth,
joynt purchasers with them of five thousand acres of land, that
      we would grant the said five thousand acres of land together, for a
township, in the most convenient place for water for the
   encouragement of the woolen manufacture, intended to be set up by
them; these we therefore, in the Proprietary's name, do will and
      require thee forthwith to survey * * * and make return hereof to
the Secretary's office at Philadelphia the 5th of 5Mo., 1686."

NJ items--MISC

from breihsen@hotmail.com who is in search of Lydia Fish of Monmouth's ancestry:


* Connection to the FISH/VANNOTE/PEARCE families:

   See Van Note Family Data Page
   gives: ages of the children of Thomas Vannote 1720 - 1777 includes
   Elizabeth b abt 1753 who may be the Elizabeth who m. PEARCE.
   The will of Thomas Vannote states that Elizabeth was married to a Pearce.
   This would indicate that they would have had to be married before Thomas
   Vannote's death in 1777.  Now, Joseph Pearce and Elizabeth Vannote's
   first child Peter was born about 1785.  The will would place the marriage
   about 7 or more years before the birth of Peter.  But suppose that our
   Joseph spent 5 of those years in prison, as suggested by the "Old Records,"
   possibly from 1777 to 1783.  And that shortly after being convicted of a misdemeanor
   for refusing to serve in the Rev. War., they went to PA because it was "too
   hot" to stay in NJ as also suggested in the "Old Records."  Also note that
   Joseph Pierce & Elizabeth Vannote named a child Thomas.
   Pagy VanNote is in here, she was on Thomas Vannote's will and Elizabeth was
   in the will as Parce and our Joseph married an Elizabeth. 
   Hannah was married to a John Pearce, could she have been his first wife?
   Sarah Fish is also in here from NJ.

* Robert Eaton (who ran a store in Amwell, Hunterdon co,NJ) gave his 
  plantation to "nephew William Fish" (see NJ Archives, Calendar of Wills).

* Capt. William Fish identifies his children in his will (Hunterdon 
  Wills bk 5 p.513 dated 5/14/1747 prob June 1747) John, William, 
  Sarah, Anne, Rebecca, Mary, Elizabeth, and "an unborn child".

* "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of
  New Jersey" Vol XXII   Marriage Records, 1665-1800. - "Edited with an
  Historical Introduction on the Early Marriage Laws of New Jersey and the
  Precedents on which they were Founded  by  William Nelson."
  Patterson NJ, 1900. (various volumes?)
  on pg 138
  FISH,John, Monmouth, and Sarah Bennet  1752, Jan.13.  .
  page 146:
  FISH, Lydia, Monmouth and John Pearce, Monmouth, 1746 Oct. 17.
  FISH, Anna and Elias Conover, Monmouth  1780, Oct. 14
  page 298: 
  PEARCE, John, Monmouth and Lydia Pish(Fish) Monmouth 1746, Oct. 17.
   &
  Rebecca FISH married to Thomas Burrough, Gloucester, in 1777, Sep 8.

  (LSD records show a Jacob Pierce m. Elizabeth Colkitt in 1796 in PA.
   Any connection to family des. from Thompson Hayes & Maraby (Maribah
  Pierce. Thompson b. abt. 1805 and Maraby b. 3 May 1807. Maraby's parents 
  were David Pierce b. 22 Jan. 1767 probably Monmouth, NJ, died 1850 in 
  Indiana, PA: married Deborah Smith b. 5 Sept. 1765, died about 1858. 
  Parents of David were John Pearce b. 1710 - 1725? married Lydia Fish b. abt 
  1725)

from the SALEM, NJ (newspaper?) M&D Vol 1
DIED Friday, February 13, 1863 


FISH -- On the 8th inst., Rebecca, daughter of William Fish, of
Upper Pittsgrove, aged 16 years.

from the SALEM COUNTY WILLS 1831-1860 U.S Craig p.74
1846, June 1 -- JAMES FISH, Upper Pittsgrove. To dau. Clarissa Davis, bedding and a share of remainder of estate after debts are paid. Dau. Harriet Rodan, $20 and a share of estate. Dau. Emily Ann, wife of Silas Green, a share of estate, the principal to be invested; if her husband dies, she shall receive the principal. Sons William, James and Richman, each a share. Residue to dau. Sarah Avis' children, William, Ruth and Rebecca. Exec. Charles Elwell, Michael Hurse, John Harding and James Hurse. Proved Mar. 29, 1847.
D-553

from SALEM, NJ: Wm. Patterson's Book #1 CEMETARY RECORDS

Fish, James                            Daretown Presby.
                                        (Old Yard)
Born

Died Mar. 1847 Age 92

from the GLOUCESTER Co., NJ Marriages by Craig p.83-84
Fish.

Benjamin L., and Lavinia D. Huff, 2-21-1866.
Charles, and Rachel Browning, 3-12-1812.
Charles, and Eliza Fennimore, 6-24-1838.
Charles H., and Mary H. Tussy, 10-14-1852.
David D., and Mary E. Pike, 4-4-1841.
Elias, and Margaret Swain, 8-8-1795.
Isaac H., and Maria Browning, 12-18-1823.
James, of Pittsgrove, and Mary Ann Horn, 2-2-1831.
John, and Martha Walker, 12-25-1804.
Joseph H., and Hannah G. Allen, 7-14-1849.
Mahlon, and Mary Leconey, both of Burl. Co., 3-26-1829.
Mesach, and Kitty Horner, 4-19-1798.

and from NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES (same source p.11)

Fish,
Alexander, and Dinah Adams, 12-12-1737.
Michael, and Diana Flannigan 8-12-1737.

from the Pittsgrove, NJ TAX LIST Pittsgrove - 1799 

p.2
                  Acres  H&C
Fish, Asa          S-     H
Fish, Enas         38     2
Fish, James        8      1

Pittsgrove Ratables - Tax for Bridge 1799

Fish, Thomas       8      2
Fish, Enos         38     1
Fish, Asa (single) 12

Pittsgrove Tax List 1802
                  Acres  H&C  total tax
Fish, James        8      2     1.37
Fish, Enos         50     2     1.71

BURLINGTON CO

from The HISTORY OF CAPE MAY,NJ R974.998 S844H 1997
p.53 John Fish listed as "possessed land by 2nd purchase" ~1700

CUMBERLAND CO

HUNTERDON

MONMOUTH

MORRIS

Inquiries

Any info on these folks? email Ed

looking for the Father of this group:

A Fish family who lived in Camden, NJ during the early to mid 1800's. 

There were 3 children, Charles P. (?), Esther A. and Joseph. 
In the 1880 census Esther A. had married an O'Brien
and her mother Jane was living with her.
 Joseph found but not Charles.