The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1923-02-01
Isl. Peters Church,
Freehold and It's Rectors
BIZ MAxcY APPLReATE. sR.
REV. GEORGE KEITH, FOUNDER OF
FREEHOLD.
BIZ MARCY APPLRaATE. SR.
ToPANEMUs.

Thomas Warns, second son Sof
| Thomas, will was dated MAY "a. 1853.
as per sale of deed of Richard Fran
SEES his executor: to John Warne. I'M
der date Of July 6, 1889, said Richard
Franses bing decedent's brother-in-
law, the decedent at the time of his
death being of Middletown or Middle
town Point, N. j., now Matawan, and
Richard Franses, at the time Of making
out the deed being of the same place,
Tue land described in this deed was a
tract OF land of one and three-qnarters
acres lying in .Cheesequakes,n later
called Jacksonville, but now again
heesequakes. Another deed dateo
March 4, 1886, by Richard Franses.
ex,. OF the said Thomas Warne, to
John Bowman. was for a tract OF land
lying In Freehold township.
Thomas Warne born 1902, d. Nov.
lsol, was the second son and child OF
Thomas Warne, Proprietor, LII. al
Deborah-born 1904. d March is,
1881, aged " years, as her tom bstone
description at Topanemus saws she
was the wife Of Thomas Warne: IN.
90 Hannah 1t would be very in
teresting to know the names before
marriage of these wives. The old
Warne or Franses family bibles, if
found, would probably tell
THE FRANsEs GRAVES.
Rev. DR.. Labaw says THAT all but
the first of the children, that is eleven
in all of children OF the Proprietor, are
all buried at Topanemus. Sarah
Warne. fifth child and only daughter
Eof Thomas, one of the Proprietors Of
East New Jersey, and Mary, his wife,
was born Aug. q, I'LL, and died Aug.
., 1909, aged 81 years, II months and
IL days She married Richard Fran
SEES b Feb. l, 1903, d Now 10, 1896, aged
~ years, months and 8 days. Ae-
cording to the parish register Of Christ
Church, Shrewsbury, he appears to
have lived on farm, although from
the contents OF paper signed by him
he was also merchant OF Mfddletown
Point He was a Vestryman in said
church at Shrewsbury in 171S and
again in 1851, the latter in the room of
Thomas Eaton, deceased.
| There are several Franses' recorded
IN the Parish Register Of Shrewsbury
z. Z. church. The name, however,
there and elsewhere, is spelled Frances
and Francis as we'll as Franses. On
the tombstones at Topanemus it is
spelled Franses. 1t seemed Richard,
| ST., spelled it himself by his
| signature, the same as is on the tomb
stones, but in old Court records it is
spelled Francis.
1t may be interest to include the fol-
lowing as the descendants of this
branch are still very numerous in this
section.
| Catherine Franses b Nov. 80. 1888.
d July "a, 1890, IN Nov. A, 1865, Thy
Rev. Samuel Cook, Samuel Throck-
morton, Jr., son of John and Mary, b
July 6, 1922, Lived in Mon
mouth County, at or near Freehold.
Samuel Throckmorton was probably
descended from John Throckmorton,
or Throgmorton as the ancient Eng
] lish name was, who embarked for this
country from London Dec /, 1880, in
the ship Lion and landed at Nantasket,
Mass, Feb'y 5, following. He was af-
terward of Providence. Z. l., and it is
said, finally came to Monmouth coun-
ty.
Some of the descendants of these
children were also buried at Topane-
mus.
To show how the Quakers were per-
secuted in New England and the reas-
on why many old Quaker families
settled here, we append the following:
According to the laws Of Massachu-
setts woman before being publicly
whipped was stripped naked to the
waist; the sentence being, 'sshaii be
stripped naked from the middle up-
wards. and shall be openly whipped
until his or her body shall be bloody
were the words of the old English law.
Some Quakers were hung as heretics
or fanatics, or were branded or MAIN
ed for life and banished from Massa-
chusetts. Both male and female suf-
fered alike for their religious princi-
pies. No wonder then that Monmouth
County seemed haven OF refuge to
these down trodden people.
| The weaing of the hat was a symbol of
human equality with principalities,
and powers. Even the Almighty could
not be honored by uncovering the
head. Penn wrote. The first and most
pressing motive upon our spirits is to
decline the practice OF these present
customs of pulling OF the hat, bending
the body or knee and giving people
gaudy titles and epithets. in our salu-
tations and addresses. was that SAVIOR,
| sight and sense that God by his light
and spirit has given US Of and Chris
tan worlds apostacy from God and
the cause and eject of that great and
lamentabie detection.
This is the moral ground Of the first
protest of the Friends and the inst ex-
PLANTATION of those habits and manners
for the sake of which they endured with
humility cruel III treatment.
| Said Penn Honor was from the be-
beginning, but hat respects, and most
titles are of hate"
| George Keith, when he was Quak-
er preacher and contemporary OF
Fox, In ridiculing the fashion OF
uncovering the head, wrote:
| THE preachers in Germany and es-