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Facts and Events
The Reverend William Housel of Stanton, Hunterdon, NJ is buried at the Newell Cemetery in Stanton, Hunterdon Co, NJ with a date of death that says June 2, 1809. This is only slightly in conflict with a WILL filed for him on May 10, 1808 citing William Housel of Reading Township, Hunterdon Co, NJ.
References
- FindAGrave Memorial for William Housel.
Find A Grave Memorial# 13505322
William Housel
Birth: unknown
Death: Jun. 2, 1809
Inscription: died in his 83rd year
Burial: Newell Cemetery, Stanton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA
FindAGrave Memorial Created by: Mindy
Record added: Mar 03, 2006
- Extracts of Wills, New Jersey Archives.
"Notices of the Brethren's Early Churches..." by Abraham Cassel
NJ Archives, XL wills 1806-1809 p. 184 2362-J his will
Extracts of Wills, New Jersey Archives, XXXIII 1761-1770 p 306 lib 11:359 mentioned
Newell Burying Ground by Deats 1917, Stanton, Hunterdon, NJ 83RD YR
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1808-May 10 William Housel of Reading Township, Hunterdon Co., Will of.
Wife-Altia farm wheron I now live (excepting 8 acres) containing 120 arcres, during her life and as much of my personal estate (excepting my clock and desk) as she chooses.
after her decease, said farm to JacobWagoner Sr.
John Newell 8 acres, as excepted above, already laidoff and surved by Cornelius Wyckoff.
To trustees of German Baptist Church in Amwell township, of which I am a member.$266.46 for use of poor of said church.
Two children of jacob Waggoner: William and Jacob $133.33, when they reach lawful age,
Four children of Jacob Wolf and 2 daughters of Peter Newell: Peter Wolf, Margaret Lyn, Mary Compton. Elizabeth Lane, Hannah Johnson and Altia Fonner-to each $133.33.
To six childrenof Elizabeth Dilts (daughter of Peter Newell) $133.33 when Legal age.
- Hankinson and Dawes vs. Hummer, in New Jersey Law Reports, Volume 12 By New Jersey. Supreme Court
p 64, Sept. Term 1830.
"Joseph HANKINSON and John DAWES, Executor for William HOUSEL, dec. vs. Herbert HUMMER and John HUMMER"
NOTE: This may not be the correct William HOUSEL.
- Readington Township Historic Preservation Commission. Readington Township.
Readington Township Historic Preservation Commission and Readington Township Museum Committee.
Arcadia Publishing, Charleston S.C, Chicago, Portsmouth N. H., San Francisco 2008.
p61.
Chapter Four, Stanon and Dreahook:
"A school was established in Stanton in 1780 when a small building on a triangular plot of ground was erected in the forest. When WILLIAM HOUSEL died 20 years later, he left $200 to be applied to the education of the poor children of the neighborhood. This school was then known as Housel's Free School."
p68.
Photo caption:
"The COLE family is shown at their new home, Hillcrest Farm, around 1897. Pictured are, from left to right, (first row) John, Catherine, Levi KLINE, and father Levi METTLER; (second row) mother Aletta and Laura. The house was built by William HOUSEL and was directly across from Stanton Reformed Church."
- Bailey, Rosalie Fellows. Pre-Revolutionary Dutch houses and families in northern New Jersey and southern New York. (New York: W. Morrow & Co., 1936)
Page 527,528, 529, 1936.
"Howsel-Wagoner House
Stanton
PLATE 158
"On Erskine's Revolutionary map this house is marked William Howzel's. As this was an early family in this locality, it is probable that the house was built by one of its members. The Indian deed of June 27, 1703 to the West Jersey Proprietors for land on the Raritan River west of the Division Line, covered 150,000 acres, most of the present Hunterdon County. The West New Jersey Society, a stock company, was organized in London in 1691; the Society made extensive purchases and had 91,000 acres surveyed for them in June 1711. This tract became known as West Jersey's Great Tract in Hunterdon Co. The policy of the Society at first was to lease farms to settlers; in 1735 98 families were lessees, of whom one was Gasper Hawshill who had 150 acres. It is possible that he was a member of the family in question. There were quite a few German settlements scattered through the county; at Lebanon nearby, Germantown (now Oldwick) to the north, and still further north Long Valley, formerly known as German Valley.
The German name of Hausschild was gradually simplified to Housel. The following are a few scattered references to this name: in 1730 Jacob Houselt and in 1744 Matthias Houshilt were naturalized; in 1735 Gasper Hawshill was leasing 150 acres in Hunterdon County; in the Dutch church at Readington were baptized in 1736 Peter, son of Johannis and Neeltje Housel, and in 1744 Marten, son of Jacob and Catharina Houselt; Jacob Hausschild and his wife Anna had two sons, William, b. 1784, and John b. 1786, both baptized in 1786 at the German Reformed Church of Alexandria; Johannes Houshell of Amwell Twp. made his will in 1761, as did his brother Jacob, and also a brother Mathias in 1778.
"From a series of maps, we find that William Howzel owned the house in question during the Revolution, W. Wagner in 1852, W. Wagoner (probably the same man) in 1860, and A. Lowe in 1873. The owner of the house evidently held the leadership of the community, for the village at various times was called Mt. Pleasant, Housel's, and Wagoner's Hill. It was finally named Stanton, after Lincoln's Secretary of War. The Revolutionary William Howsel may be the one whose will was probated in 1809. The Wagoner family who owned the house in the middle of the nineteenth century was undoubtedly also of German origin. Shortly after the Civil War the house passed through several hands. It has been owned since 1925 by W. B. Wayman, who has been very much interested in restoring it.
"A veritable community of stone houses stands on this farm. The old stone barn is dated 1741; new trim now hides the stone in part so that only the century figures show. This is a good approximate date for the erection of the farm buildings. The one and a half story stone house is built on a hill slope and has a full basement story at the rear. The ceilings are low in the basement and of medium height on the main floor. The different floor levels in the basement are probably due to its gradual improvement at various times. The kitchen is here, lighted by very small windows, and a cold spring has been piped to an adjoining closet room. The house has many wall and corner cupboards, and all forms of old hinges. There was formerly a Dutch oven on each end of the house, but they were torn down about twenty years ago. The brick archheads of the windows are interesting. The colonial doorway and benches at the entrance are modern pieces of work, but blend very well. A broad gable roof covers the house and is unbroken by dormers. The house has been recently repainted. but the very irregular stonework still shows to advantage. On the east end is a wing which is of later date, although its ceilings are lower than the main house and its windows smaller. This wing was formerly covered with long red shingles secured by hand-made nails; they were removed and the wing has been clapboarded and painted white. The old barn is similarly built of irregular stone. About fifty years ago it was used as a blacksmith shop, and the central third of the side by the road was cut out up to the rafters for a large entrance way, so that wagons could pass straight through, This section has been rebuilt and a small window inserted, but the lines can be seen easily. A frame addition was made at some later period on the end of the barn toward the house, thus tying it architecturally with the main house. Near the frame wing of the house stand two small stone structures, one of which is the stone spring house. The other is the kitchen of a small two story house, which was torn down recently, and which consisted of only one room on each floor, It is unusual to find two houses on the same property. The theory is that this was the temporary structure in which the family lived while the main house was being erected. As a two story building requires the hewing of good-sized beams and a great deal of labor, it is more likely that this house was built for permanent use, possibly by another member of the family. The hillside at the rear has been utilized to great advantage by the present owners in the formation of very attractive terraces and gardens. It is interesting to compare the similarity and yet subtle differences between this German house and the Dutch houses of the period.
"The house is on the south side of the road, west of the four corners of Stanton village. Behind it is Round Mountain, and in front lies Round Valley. The road on which the house stands is a pre-revolutionary road leading from Raritan and Readington in a general westerly direction, crossing the road to Coryell's Ferry over the Delaware and the road to Whitehouse, skirting Round Valley, then crossing the South Branch of the Raritan River at the present village of Hamden, and finally passing north of the settlement at Pittstown to Johnson's Forge, now called Bloomsbury."
- Weis, Frederick Lewis, and American Antiquarian Society. The colonial clergy of the middle colonies, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, 1628-1776. (Worcester, Massachusetts: American Antiquarian Society, 1957).
listed:
William Housel b. Neuritt, Germany 1728 settled Amwell, (Hunterdon), N.J. after 1760; Germ. Bapt.
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