Person:John Smalley (1)

SMALLEY.--John Smalley, of Devonshire, England, came to America in 1632, in the ship "Francis and James," and settled at Cape Cod, Mass.; m., about 1640, but name of wife unknown. Much later he settled in Piscataway, N. J., and d. in 1692. Sons were John, Jr. (who was b. in Mass. Sept. 8, 1644; d. 1733; m. Lydia Martin), and Isaac. Senator William W. Smalley, of Bound Brook, descends from this John, Jr., as do the Smalleys of North Plainfield.^[3]

"It will be remembered that in a previous chapter an account was given of how John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun, and Hopewell Hull, had removed to New Jersey from Piscataqua, New England, in response to the "Concessions and Agreements" published in the East by the lords-proprietors, Berkeley and Carteret. They received a grant on the eighteenth of December, 1666, for the large area of territory which now embraces the township of Piscataway. Within twenty years settlers from New England and the old country had augmented the nucleus of population formed by the Piscataway families to about four hundred. Among the persons to whom land was allotted previous to 1690 are to be found the following names: Nicholas Bonham, 122 acres; Benjamin Clarke, 275 acres; George Drake, 424 acres; Hugh Dun, 138 acres; Benajah Dunham, 103 1/2 acres; Edmund Dunham, 100 acres; John Fitz-Randolph, 225 acres; Rehoboth Gannett, 224 acres; Charles Gilman, 340 acres; Hopewell Hull, 284 acres; Benjamin Hull, innkeeper, 498 acres; John Langstaff, 300 acres; John Martin, 334 acres; Jeffery Maning, 195 acres; John Mollison, 100 acres; Nicholas Mundaye, 101 1/2 acres; Vincent Rongnion, 154 1/2 acres; John Smalley, 118 1/2 acres; Edward Slater, 464 acres."^[4]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Smalley, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   ORIGIN: Unknown MIGRATION: 1632 on William & Francis [Hotten 149] FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
   BIRTH: By about 1613 based on date of marriage.
   DEATH: Piscataway 30 July 1692 [Small Gen 1:29 (source not cited)].

2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:108.

   JOHN, Plymouth, came in the Francis and James, 1632, with Edward Winslow, arr. from London, at Boston, 5 June, rem. 1644 to Eastham, with first sett. there, had Hannah, b. 14 June 1641; John 8 Sept. 1644, both at P.; Isaac and Mary, tw. 11 Dec. 1647, apt. at Barnstable, 27 Feb. 1648; and was liv. in 1655. Hannah m. 23 Jan. 1661, John Bangs; and Mary, wh. is call. Small, perhaps, m. 19 Sept. 1667, John Snow.

3. ↑ Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol VI, p. 39.
4. ↑ Mellick, Andrew D. The story of an old farm, or, Life in New Jersey in the eighteenth century. (Somerville, New Jersey: Unionist-Gazette, 1889)
   p. 194.