The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-04
so COLONIAL, you KNOW.
DANES with Long Genealogies Meet
ait Trenton.
spscioi to The Jersey Cify Ne,os.

Special to The Jersey Citv Netos.
TRENTON, April 4, 1S93-The historic
Trenton House was yesterday at noon the
assembling place of leading women OF this
city aud State, members of the New Jer-
sey Society OF the Colonial Danes of
America. 1t was in many respects a re-
markable gatheri ng. inasmuch as it was
the first business meeting of the associa-
ton in New Jersey.
The Reception Committee were Mrs.
William w. Phillips, Mrs. cleveland
Hilson and Mrs. Henry Barbour.
The President delivered an %appropria tie
address of welcome, which was followed
by the customary official reports, among
them being the minutes of the national
meeting In Washington on January II OF
this year. An appeal was also made by
the National Secretary. touching tn g
monument proposed to Mary Was hing
ton. aud memberships in the Monume ut
Association. Miss Mary Sherred Clark
Of Belvidere, member of the Board OF
Lady Managers of the Chicago Fair,
invited lists of colonial relics which
will be published in catalogue form.
Miss Anne M. McIlvaine of this city. the
HISTORIAN Oh tu6 SOClObJ3 ACa0 q poDSA
Sketch OF Colonial New jersey" Miss
McIlyaine's monograph was of deep In
terest, showing much original investiga-
ton and breadth of treatment. Her an
ecdotal illusions were particularly
charming.
HERE ARE G%ENEALoGIEs.
Last years board OF officers were re-
elected as follows:
President, Mrs. S.. Meredith Dickinson
| of the Moore famil Y of Long 1sia nd,
First Vice President, Mrs. S. u. Olfphant;
| Second Vice President. Mrs. Henry Bar
bour of Israel Putnam descent. The
Board OF Managers are Miss Mary Dick
Treasurer Samuel Meredith; Miss
Elizabeth Afford Smith OF Lloyd
Carpenter lineage; Miss Caroline
Elmer Nixon of distinguished Gambler
land county ancestry, Miss Anne DE
Bellvilie McIlvaine, who traces her like
from the Rodmans, de RapeiJes and ship
pens; Mrs. Alexander Jameson OF Memo
las Stiilwell (Long Island) ancestry; Mrs.
| Frederick Lewis. Mrs. w. w. L.. Phillips,
| Mrs Hugh Ha7nill of the Mercer county
Scudders, Mrs. Justina Atterbury of New
York ancestry, Mrs. Cleaveland H1lson.
! Assistant National Secretary of Revolu-
tiouary Moore Furman; Mrs. Hugh
Oliphant counts among her ancestors the
Morgans and Boyntons of the Quaker
City, and the De Peysters and De kays of
New York, Miss Helen Griswold Green OF
the distinguished Green family of this
county.
MORE AND ORB
Other ladies present were Miss Mary
Sherred Clark of Belvidere, Mrs. En-
lily Brown Milliken of Philadelphia, OF
Roger Williams descent; Mrs. John L.
Patterson of Lawrencevilie, Miss Sinnick-
son of the Salem Swedish family of great
antiquity, Miss Quimby of Newark, one
of whose ancestors was Governor Treat:
| Miss Katherine Elmer Mills of Norris
town, of John Alden of New England;
Miss Mary Merriam Welsh of Lambert
Vile. Miss Sue M. Carpenter of the
Samuel Carpenter lineage, Miss Hnbbell
of Philadelphia, Miss Kate Mott of Bor-
dentown, Mrs. Joseph L.. Bedip, Jersey
City. There were from Trenton: Mrs. F. G.
| Lowthrop, Jr., of the New York Willetts
family; Miss Ellen 2. Wood, Miss Eleanor
| Graeme Nixon, Mrs. James Rushing.
Mrs. Walter Brooks, Of the Cumberland
County Nixons; Mrs. James p. Stephens.
Mrs. Charles Van SICKLE, Miss Bessie
| Stephens; the three latter ladies descend
from an early and con spicuous Mercer
County family. the Sterlings; Mrs.
Robert F. Stockton, Jr., the Misses
Blackfan, Mrs. John r.. Chambers, of
| very distinguished Virgin ia ancestry.
Lunch was servad at two o'clock in a
room charmingly arrayed with lowers.
Hillborn, the florist, prese nted the ladies
with handsome bouquets.