| Source |
Hunterdon County Freeholders, 1741 |
| Author |
Wittwer, Norman C. |
Coverage
Publication information
| Type |
Article |
| Publisher |
The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey |
| Date issued |
May 1962 |
| Periodical / Series name |
The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey |
| Volume / Film# / Pages |
Vol. 37, May 1962, Number 2 |
Citation
| Wittwer, Norman C. Hunterdon County Freeholders, 1741. The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey. (The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, May 1962). |
Source: "Hunterdon County Freeholders, 1741"; The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 37, May 1962, Number 2; By Norman C. WITTWER
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Page 49:
The following list which was found in the papers of the then Chief Justice Robert Hunter MORRIS (Rutgers University Library) appears to be the enumeration of Freeholders…. In using the list, the reader should bear in mind the meaning of the word “freeholder”…. …those embedded in the Fundamental Constitutions.
Page 50:
For the Province of East Jersey in 1683 in which “The Persons qualified to be Freemen . . . shall be every Planter and Inhabitant dwelling and residing with the Province, who has acquired rights to and is in possession of Fifty Acres of Ground, and hath cultivated ten Acres of it; or in Boroughs, who have a House and three Acres; or have a House and Land only hired, if he can prove that he have Fifty Pounds in Stock of his own.
County of Hunterdon Freeholders Book 1741….
{The following are men from the list who are of seen to be of interest to those researching the HOUSEL Family}
Page 53:
Amwell Township
Peter Woollever
Henry Farnsworth
John Farnsworth
Jacob HOWSEL
Jacob Woolever
Page 54:
Anthony Deerdoffe
Henry Deerdoffe
Isaac Woolverton
Dennis Woolverton
Matthias HOUSEL
Joannes Trimmer
Page 55:
Joannes HOWSELL
Peter Billesfelt
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