John Whitehead
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 102
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...1785 that the record of deeds and mortgages AN INDIAN CHIEFTAIN. began in Morris County, and wills were not recorded until as late as 1804. Prior to that they were sent to Trenton and there retained, originals as well as the recorded copies. The records of deeds began on the 19th of February, 1785, and the deed firt recorded was one executed by Elijah Pierson and others, heirs of Benjamin Pierson, deceased, given to Mary Spinnage and others for land in Hanover, and the will first probated was one made by Nathaniel Horton, of Chester, dated August 27, 1800, and proved February 4, 1804. The first meeting of any county court was that of the Gen-, eral Quarter Sessions, composed of John Budd, Jacob Ford, Abraham Kitchell, John Lindsley, Timothy Tuttle, and Samuel Swesy as judges. It met at Morristown, March 25, 1740, and its first judicial act was the division of the county into three townships: Pequannock, Hanover, and Morristown. The court not only apportioned the land of the new county into these municipalities, but it also appointed the officers, and this was done until 1756, when the inhabitants of the county were permitted to elect their own oflicers. The oflicers then appointed by the court for Pequannock were Robert Gold, " clark " and bookkeeper; Garret de Bough, assessor; Isaac Van Dine, collector; Robert Gold and Frederick Demont, freeholders; Matthew Van Dine and Brant Jacobus, surveyors of the highways; Peter Fredericks and Nicholas Hoyle, oversecrs of the poor; Hendrick Maurisson and Giles Mandeville, overseers of the highways; John Davenport, constable. For Morristown: ---Zachariah Fairchild, town " clark " and town bookkeeper; Matthew Lum, assessor; Jacob Ford, collector; Abraham Hathaway and Joseph Coe, ...