The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-05-31
ST. Peters Church,
Freehold and It's RecioTs
REV. GEORGE KEITH, FOUNDER OF
FREEHOLD
By MAxcY APPLICABLE. SR.

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And the Rev. Alexander Times hav
ing thus established his standing as |
EChurchmanr The Rev. Robert Watts
Eof New York, appointed to settle TIL
accounts between Capt. Anderson ans
| the owners Of the Unicorn, found (
| balance in favor Of the Captain Of Els
2s nd ID, for which sum the ship re
mains his debiter.p He was Judge O
the County Courts and member o
/ the Council, and filed many important
positions In 1886, when Govern0l
William Cosby died Capt. Anderson
was president Of the Council and served
as Governor for eighteen days when
| he, too died. His viii was dated January
| 20, 1913. and probated April s, 1876. He
| James. Kenneth Jonathan, Margaret
Helena. Anna. Eiizabe III and Isabella.
Kenneth Anderson became a colonel,
band his daughter Isabella married Col
onel Nathaniel Scudder, whowas killed
at Black Point, Shrewsbury Township
! by the Refugees during the Revolution
/ October Is. 1881. John a nderson Send
| der was surgeons mate lst Regt. May
z. 1777. Helena Reid the other daughter
of John Reid 1.-THE first married the
I
n. Y, and left several children, one Of
whom, Theodosius Barlow, q lawyer
removed to Shrewsbury about 1882 and
there practised till his death in 1746.
His wife was Ann StilwelI who. pro.
missed to name their unborn child for
| him. The child was therefore named
Theodosia and was married first to
| Colonel Provost and subsequently to
Vice President Aaron Burr. 1t is, per,
haps. not to be wondered at that Sc
many of the descendants Of these men
have been among the stanchest OF the
| Presbyterians and Patriots Of Mon
mouth, both the son and grandson 81
John Anderson, bearing Office in Old
Tennent, and host Of their posterlty
both in Monmouth and elsewhere
occupying social and political positions
| worthy such ancestry The Scosch
| tendency was to the Kirk. In Mon
mouth County save for the mlnistra.
ton Of Rev. Alexander Innes (who died
| in 1713.1 a non juror and therefore
Ineligible to any ecclesiastical position
even as missionary of the s. z. o..
there was no Episcopal minister settled
| till 1913, when Rev J ohn Forbes was
sent as a missionary, and It IS sIgnIf1
cant that on May %, 1T17, the justices
of the Peace, the High Sheriff and the
| Grand Jury Of the County OF Monmouth
| ia Session in 1.-THE General Quarter
lSessions OF the Peace at Freehold IN 9
petition addressed to the Honorable
ISociety for the Propagation OF the Cos
pei in Foreign parts showed thai
since the death of the late Alexander
Times, though there were near 400 fam
lies in Monmouth County, there were
Ionly one independent {Rev. Joseph
Worgan) and one Baptist minister
| (Rev. John BurroWs) land some weak
brethen among the Quakers, and
/ prayed for a minister to be sent by
the s. p. g. To this petition were APP
pended these names.
David johnson, Shift.
! Thomas Apologize,
! John Reid Jr.,
/ John Throckmorton,
i Cornelius Thompson,
/ John Reid,
! Samuel Dennis, Jr.,
/ Isaac STEELE,
i Richard Job,
! John Webly,
Thomas Morford.
John Reid,
J. Van Hook.
Jer. Stilwell,
Henry Leonard.
i Richard Chambers,
| John Wilson,
! VIM Leeds.
Benjamin Cooper,
1 Samuel Stilwell
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