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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [NJGLOUCE] Galloway twnsp,now Atlantic Co,NJ 1793 militia
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:48:53 -0500

Many of these men settled their families in the Lake Harsha-East Fork
State Park
area of Clermont Co,sw Ohio just east of Cincinnati.. Lake Harsha flooded
the stone
houses built by Rev John and Sarah Blackman Collins,and by Isaac and
Sophia Somers
Higbee,and by Cornelius and - Leeds McCollum soon after 1803. My Samuel
Ely m 1804 Rachel
Leeds house was flooded [1970''] and the barn of Betsy Leeds m -Wilson.
The Elk Lick house
built 1st,1815,by James and Ruhama Champion Blackman was moved to Sharon
Woods Park,nw
Cincinnati. Robert and Margaret Leeds Leeds cabin was in
Bantam,Ohio,and Edward
Doughty's farm became the campground of East Fork State Park. Robert
Burnet's 1816 estate
auction was attended by mostly ex-Galloway and Great Egg Harbor twnsp,NJ
MEN. John H
Scull,Joseph Dole, John Stiles Carter,Jesse Justice,etc
There once was a Methodist church in the Port Republic-Leeds
Point-Smitrhville-Collins Mill
area of Galloway township,old Gloucester Co,NJ whose membership moved to
Clermont Co,Oh
in 1803 ,and a 2nd NJ church formed. In Ohio,they called their
church,Bethel,or now,Old Bethel
Methodist. [built 1817 by James Blackman on lands of John Collins and
David White-ex Tuckerton]
Thomas String,and his Albertson wife. John ,etc Conover,and Jemina
Blackman.
From:
To:
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 06:10:03 EST
Subject: [NJGLOUCE] #4 Military Census 1793 ~ Gloucester, Camden &
Atlantic
Resent-Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 04:10:10 -0700

#4 Military Census 1793 ~ Gloucester, Camden & Atlantic

New Jersey Legislature, on 30 NOV 1792, passed a new militia law. Under
this
act all men between the ages of 18 and 45 years who were able bodied
could
either enroll in the county militia or pay an annual tax of three
dollars.
However, exempt from these were all government officials, postal
officials,
mail stage and mail ferry drivers, mariners and ministers of the Gospel.

Galloway Township (now Atlantic County) ENROLLMENTS ~ 1793 was old
Gloucester VCo,NJ IN 1793
Samuel FLANIGAN, Commissioner, appointed Richard HIGBEE, Deputy
Commissioner,
to enroll said township:

Abraham ALBERSON [ALBERTSON] ~ Gipson ASHCRAFT ~ John (times 2), Henry
and
Jesse ADAMS


James and Osha BAREMORE [BARRIMORE ~ BARRYMORE] ~ William BARRET ~ James
BELL
~ John BENET (BENNET] ~ James and David BLACKMAN ~ Isaac BRANDIF ~
William
BROWN ~ Josier, Edward, and Pirnel BOOIN ~ Jonas and Robert BURNET


Benjamin and Thomas CLARKE ~ William CLIFTON ~ Lias, Jesse, Peter, Adam,
Joseph, David (times 2), and Zair COVENOVER ~ Matthew and Levi COLLINS ~
Clem, Daniel, Joseph, Vinson and William CORDERY ~
David, Henry, and Joseph DAVIS ~ Robert, Samuel and Thomas DENIKE ~
Abner,
Edward, and Zephiner DOUGHTY ~ James DUNLAP


John INDECUT [ENDICOTT] ~ Daniel FARROW ~ Thomas FORDE ~ Aninias GANT ~
David, James, and Jobe GIBERSON [GIBSON ~?] ~ David HOWELL ~ David and
Daniel
HOMAN [HOLMAN ~?] ~ John HOMES ~ Edward, Isaac, Josier, Absolm, Samuel,
and
William HIGBEE ~ Jonathan, John, Aaron, Edmond, and Joseph IRELAND


Joseph JOHNSON ~ Thomas JOHNSTON ~ Enock, Jonas, Robert, James, Solomon,
and
Peter LEEDS ~ Solomon MANRY ~ John MATHIS ~ Patrick McCOLLOM ~ George and

Barney MIRS ~ Jonas and Daniel MORSE ~ William (times 2), and Daniel
NEWBERRY
~ Benjamin PEACOCK ~ Jonathan and Diar REEDE [READ ~ REID ~?] ~ Richard
RISLEY and Enock RISLY


John SELLERS ~ George SIMKINS ~ Samuel SMALLWOOD ~ Asa, Henry, Thomas,
Benjamin, Noah, Enos, and Nathan SMITH ~ James, Isaac, Enock SOMERS
[SOMMERS
~ SUMMERS ~?] ~ Samuel and Richard SOOY ~ Daniel STELMAN ~ Absolom and
John
STEELMAN ~ Isiah STITS [STITES] ~ Acy and Israel STRICKLAND [STRICKLIN]


Frederick TAYLOR ~ Peter TURNER ~ John VanZANTE [VanZANDT] ~ John WELDON
~
John WESCOT ~ Martin WILEY ~ Zechel WIX


Galloway Township EXEMPTS:
George PETERSON ~ Simon LUCAS ~ Samuel and Vinsen LEEDS ~ Abijah SMITH ~

John SHORS [SHORES] ~ Evy, David and Robert SMITH


Galloway Township Officers:
First Company: Richard HIGBEE, Captain ~ Edward HIGBEE, Lieutenant ~
Josier
BOOIN, Ensign. Second Company: Edmond IRELAND, Captain ~ John STEELMAN,

Lieutenant ~ Samuel SOOY, Ensign.

George Peterson-exempt,above




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