NEW JERSEY
New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800
Ewing Family - JAMES EWING,
the youngest son, married MARTHA BOYD,
whose father came from the
North of Ireland in 1772 and settled in Bridgeton,
where he died the year after.
James Ewing was a member of the famous
"Tea Party" which, on the
night of Thursday, December 22, 1774,
destroyed a quantity of tea
which had been landed at Greenwich, contrary
to the Articles of Association
of the Continental Congress. He was
elected to the Assembly from
Cumberland County in 1778, and liked the
atmosphere of Trenton so well
that he took up his residence there the
next year, 1779. He engaged
in mercantile business, and for a short time
was a partner of Isaac Collins,
the printer of the New Jersey Gazette.
For several years he was one
of the Commissioners of the State Loan
Office. He was the author
of an ingenious "Columbian Alphabet," an
attempt at a reformed system
of spelling, which he explained in a
pamphlet published at Trenton
in 1798. He was Mayor of Trenton,
1797-1803. He died October
23, 1823. His only son, Charles Ewing, born
in 1780, was Chief Justice
of New Jersey, 1824-1832, dying in
office.--Hall's Hist. Pres.
Church in Trenton, 363; Genealogy of Early
Settlers of Trenton and Ewing,
by Rev. Eli F. Cooley, Trenton, 1883, 64;
Elmer's Cumberland County;
Elmer's Reminiscences, 326; N. J. Archives,
IX., 359; X., 532.
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New Jersey Early Germans
BOWMAN, ADAM, m. JANE
BOYD; res. at Washington, N.J.; had ch.: Log****,
m. **** Shultz; Samuel; Mary,unmarried.
FIELDS, RICHARD J., b. 12 Sept.,
1785, d. 6 May, 1671: m., 22 Dec.,
1808, Mary Kline (dau. of
Jacob), b.17 April, 1791, d. 15 Jan., 1869:
had ch. (Story of an Old Farin,
p. 651): (a). Jereniah R., b. 16
Dec.,1809, d. 2 Feb., 1856,
m. Margaret W. Telfair, of New York; (b).
Phebe Maria, b. 18 Nov., 1811,
d. 8 March, 1889, m. Henry Cornell
Brokaw; (c). Jacob K., b.
31 Jan., 1814, m. Rebecca J. Stewart.
(d).Jane, b. 16 March, 1816,
d. 16 Dec., 1857, m. Henry H. Garretson;
(e), Richard R., b. 8 March,
1818,m. his cousin, Margarett**** Miller
(dau of Jacob B., of Morris
Co., N. J.): (f). Benjumin M., b. 1 May,
1820, m. Helen M. Field (dau.
of John D.); (g). R****ahel D., b. 5 June,
1823, d. 12 May,18****1, m.
James Polhemus; (h). John K., b. 27 Dec.,
1825, m. Lucinda Whitehill;
(i). Iasac N., b. 4 May, 1828, m. Mary
Dutcher (daughter of Jacob
C.); (f) Peter. b. 17 Nov., 1830, m. Helen C.
Shipman (dau. of Chauncey
N.); (k). William B.,b.16 Sept 1884, m.
HARRIET R. BOYD.
HANCE, JOHN, b.1768, d. Nov
26 1846, m. ELISABETH BOYD, b.1781, d.
March 31 1851; had children:
JOHN, ANNIE, JAMES, PHILIP, HENRY.
Source: Chambers, Theodore
Frelinghuysen. The Early Germans of New
Jersey; Their History, Churches
and Genealogies. Dover, NJ: Dover
Printing Co., 1895.
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