Addenda to "Watson of Nottinghamshire"

Addenda to "Watson of Nottinghamshire" LEV7IS D. COOK, F.G.S.P., F.A.S.G. UPPLEMENTING the study of "Watson of Nottinghamshire and of Burlington County, West Jersey," which apptiared on page 3 in this Magazine in Volume XXVII (No. 1, 1971), the following additional information corroborates and also corrects certain statements made in that report. To the brief account of ISAAC BARNES, Ja., son of Thomas Barnes, Jr., and his wife Hannah Sykes, and grandsbn of 5. Sarah Watson and her husband Thomas Barnes, given on page 33 of that report, may now be added the following data: On 25 January 1806, Trenton Common Council accepted the proposal of Isaac Barnes, Jr., to erect and maintain the city hay scales. By 1836, according to the city ordinances, he had the exclusive right of maintaining such scales, for which privilege he paid the city sixty dollars arumally." Two years after this initial proposal to the city council, Isaac Barnes, Jr., on 31 December 1808, married his second wife, Justice Ewing 'officiating. She was MARY Small, born about 1782. In 1850, two years after her husband's death, then aged 68, she was living with her daughter Lydia S. Taylor and her husband Dr. John L. Taylor in the West Ward of Trenton.' On 27 February 1846, Isaac Barnes, Jr. wrote his will. Therein he devised all his estate real and personal to his wife Mary Barnes during her life, and after her det:ease to his three children, John R. S. Barnes, William Barnes, and Lydia S. Barnes, wife of John L. Taylor. He empowered his executors—his two sons and son-in-law — to sell any part of the whole of the estate if necessary to pay the legal demands against his estate, and place the balance at interest so that his wife might receive such interest during her life. He survived for two years and died on 17 March 1848. A notice of his death appeared 18 March 1848, in the Trenton State Gazette: "Mr. Isaac Barnes, one of the oldest residents of this city, S A History of Trenton, 1679-1929 (Princeton, N. J., 1929), I, 342. 2 Hiram E. Dears, comp., Marriages of Hosnteraon County, N. J. 1795-1875 (Flemington, N. J., 1910, 24. Federal WO Census, West Ward, Trenton, N. J., Fundy 86, examined on microfilm. 184 Addenda to "Watson of Nottinghamshire" 185 died yesterday morning. He had been failing for some time past." He was buried in the churchyard of the Friends Meeting House, corner of East Hanover and Montgomery Streets, Trenton. His gravestone marker is inscribed with only his name and date of death. His will, witnessed by James Hillman, Isaac Fowler and Thomss Gordon, was accepted for probate 7 April 1848.3 Known Issue of Isaac Barnes, Jr. by his 2nd wife Mary Smith: i. JOHN R. S. BARNES, b. ca. 1815; d. in Camden, N. J. 6 April 1874, aged 59; In. MARY, surname not found, b. in Pennsylvania ca. 1816; d. after 1850. He was listed as a druggist in the 1850 Federal Census of New Jersey, and was then living in the East Ward of Trenton. In 1857 his address was 20 State Street, but by 1865 he had removed to Camden where he lived at 518 Federal Street until the year of his death, when according to his death notice in the Trenton Daily True American of 8 April 1874, his residence was 230 Stevens Street, Camden. From 1869 on he was listed in the directories as an M.D. Issue in 1850: 1. CAROLINE BARNES, aged 8 (b. ca. 1842). 2. ROBERT BARNES, aged 3 (b. ca. 1847).° ii. WILLIAM S. BARNES, b. ca. 1816; d. in Trenton 0 April 1873, in his 18th year, bur. First Baptist Church, Trenton; m. 1st, REBECCA ANN, surname not found, b. ca. 1821; d. after 1850; m. 2nd, CATHARINE, surname not found, I. after 1874. A druggist like his brother, in 1850 he was living in the East Ward of Trenton, and had in his household, in addition to his wife and children, two females, perhaps relatives of his wife: Siloam Parker, aged 23, and Laura Parker, aged 16. In 1857 he was listed in the city directory as coal agent of the Belvedere Railroad Company, and lived on Greene Street near Feeder. At his death his residence was 144 Greene Street. In 1874 Catharine, widow of William, was boarding at 10 S. Warren in Trenton. Issue in 1810: 1. 1st,Ac BARNES, aged 7 (b. ca. 1843); in 1874 was a partner in the firm of McNeely & Barnes, grocers, of 93 Greene Street, and lived at 177 Warren. 2. ANNA BARNES, aged S (b. ca. 1845). 3. Orryn BARNES, aged 2 (b. ca. 1848); in 1874 she was boarding at 144 Greene Street, Trenton.° iii. LYDIA S. BARNES, b. ca. 1819; d. after 1859; m. 6 June 1838, per register of St. Michael's Church, Trenton, JOHN L. TAYLOR, M.D., b. ca. 1812, son of Capt. Edward and Sarah (Lloyd) Taylor of Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J. Educated at Burlington and graduated at the Medical Univer8 'ffill of Isaac Barnes, Mercer County, N. 3., will 440-R; a /tem copy of it was supplied thmush the courtesy of the Archives and I-Estory Bureau, New Jersey State Library. Fetkral 1850 Census, East Ward, Trenton, Family 439; 'Wm. H. Boyd, comp., 1857 Trenton City Directory; Chew's Camden City Directories, 1867.1873. .In the 1850 Census, all the family were listed as being born in New Jersey except Mary Barnet, wife of John R. S. Barnes. Her age was given as 34, his as 36. see Daily True American, Trenton, issue of 7 April 1873, for notice of William Barnes' death, which gives his address and place of burial. Boyd, Trenton City Directory for 1857, 1874. 186 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine sity of New York City, he settled at Trenton and was first associated with Dr. James Clark. "He acquired a large practice and a good reputation as a physician." He left "a widow and four children, one of whom is the wife of Gen. Charles Haight."' His address in 1857 was 28 West State Street, and he was living there at the issue of his death. In 1867 he was president of the Trenton Board of Health. Issue: I. MARY B. TAYLOR, aged 9 in 1850 (b. ca. 1841); m. CHARLES HAIGHT, b. Colts Neck, N. J., 4 January 1838; d. Freehold, N. J., 1 August 1891, buried Maplewood Cemetery, Freehold. 2. GEORGE TAYLOR, aged 7 in 1850 (b. ca. 1843). 3. Ram L. TAYLOR, aged 11 mos. in 1850 (b. ca. 1849), in 1874 was listed as a cabinetmaker in the Trenton Directory, living at 158 Greene Street. 4. GMBERT TAYLOR, b. after MO.. Passing on to the account, also on page 33, of Isaac Barnes, Jr.'s aunt, MARY BARNES, daughter of S. Sarah Watson and her husband Thomas Barnes, an account of her death and last will can now be given. According to the Trenton Emporium of 16 March 1822, her death was reported as follows: "Died. In this city, on the 11th inst., Miss Mary Barnes in the 88th year of her age." Her will had been drawn up four years before on 26 December 1818, when she was "in good health, and of sound and disposing mind and memory." In the first item, she gave the use of all her property, real and personal, to her sister Sarah Barnes if she survived Mary. In the second item, she devised her right in the "lott of woodland, formerly my father's situate in the township of Lawrence in the county of Hunterdon on the Trenton and Princeton branch Turnpike road" to her three nephews Thomas, Samuel and Isaac Barnes, Jr., to be divided equally between them. In the third item she devised the house and lott in Bloomsbury where Samson Peter "now lives," to his wife Amelia Peters for her life and sole use and occupation and that of her family; after her decease it was to go to the heirs of her body. Her fourth bequest was the lot on the west side of Bloomsbury Street in Nottingham Township, Burlington County, which was to be divided into three equal parts, each having 7 5'rancis Bayley I.e, comp., History of Trenton, N. I. (Trenton, 1895), 207. "Taylor Family," Tier /me)... (Flemington, N. 5., 1902), Vol. 8, 20. E. 9,1. Woodward and John F. Fineman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia, 1883), 582. (Washington, D.C., 1950), 1248, , Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 contains a short biographical sketch of Charles Haight. Federal 1850 Census, West Ward, Trenton, Family 86. Taylor's age tau given as 38, his wife's as 31. All the fassily was born in New Jersey. Included in the household, beside his mother-in-law Mary Barnes, aged 65, were Sarah Donley, aged 24, b. in Ireland, Catherine Trier. aged 12, b. in Germany, both of whom probably were maids, and James Cunilf, aged 17, b. in Germany, a gardener. °Bloomsbury seems to have been an early name for the area immediately south of the Assunpink Creek along the Delaware River waterfront. Addenda to "Watson of Nottinghamshire" 187 an equal front on the street. One part was to go to William Barnes, son of Belinda, for his life, for his sole use and occupation and that of his family, but was not to be disposed of by him or be subject to the payment of his debts. After his death it was to be equally divided between the heirs of his body "lawfully begotten." A second equal third part of the lot was to go to Caroline Jennings, wife of William Jennings, under similar provisions, and the third equal part of the lot was to go to Fortin Barnes Singer. " Her next bequest was her right in the house and lot in Allentown, Monmouth County, and the lot in Lawrence Township, Hunterdon County, which were to be sold by her executors for the best price, the monies arising therefrom to be used to build a house on each of the three lots above devised, so far as the money would extend. Her executors were to assist the devisees with any further sums out of her estate as they thought necessary to assist them in building comfortable houses on each respective lot for the accommodation of their families. The rest of her estate she left to her nephew Isaac Barnes, Jr., and to his heirs and assigns, nominating him and her sister Sarah as executor and executrix of her will, the survivor to have full power to execute the terms of the will after the death of either of them. The will, witnessed by Evan Evans, John C. Chambers and Abner Reeder, was accepted for probate 18 April 1822. 11 Supplementing and correcting the account of SARAH BARNES, sister of the above Mary Barnes and aunt of Isaac Barnes, Jr., it can now be stated that she was born, not about 1735, as given on page 33 of the No. I issue of this Magazine, but about 1747. Apparently she was the youngest child of 5. Sarah Watson and her husband Thomas Barnes. She died 2 July 1834, according to the notice in the New Jersey State Gazette of Trenton of 5 July 1834. Under "Deaths" appears the following: "In this city, on the 2nd inst., of a paralytic stroke, Sarah Barnes, in the 88th year of her age. She was a native of Trenton, and with her sister, Mary Barnes, who died about ten years since, at the same advanced age, for many years kept the only Apothecary's store in Trenton, and were generally known both in town and the surrounding country, as Miss Polly and Sarah Barnes, and were much respected and esteemed by a large circle of acquaintances for their kind and friendly dispositions and their pleasant and agreeable manners." 10 None of these legatees have been identified as relatives. 50 WO of Mary Ban., Hunterdon County will 31724 A zerox copy was supplied by the New Jersey State Library, as noted in Note J. 188 The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine No inventory of Sarah's estate was made until 15 June 1835, almost a year after her death. Its modest total of $636.50 included $160 "Rent in arrears," and $400 due on one Joseph Rogers' bonds, marked "this is very doubtfull." The other items inventoried—two beds, 2 bureaus, a carpet, table, two trunks, ten chairs, one pair of candlesticks, etc.— appear only to be enough furniture for one room, possibly that which she had shared with her sister Mary. Isaac Barnes, Jr., "sole executor" of his aunt Sarah, and William McKee, one of the appraisers, were attested before W. H. Sloan, Surrogate of Hunterdon County, 20 August 1836. ' 1 To the account of GEORGE WATSON, son of 8. John Watson by his third wife Abisha, given on pay 48 of the No. I issue of this Magazine, may now be added the following data. Born 23 December 1791, according to the little commonplace book kept by his father, George Watson died 25 May 1827, in his 36th year. He was buried in the First Presbyterian Churchyard, Trenton, with gravestone marking his resting place. His wife MARY B. LABAU, born 24 May 1795, was the daughter of Francis Stout Labau, a blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth Hutchinson." Mary (Labau) Watson died in Rahway, New Jersey, 24 November 1841, as "Mary, widow of the late George Watson" of Trenton, and was buried in Trenton 26 November 1841, according to the New Jersey State Gazette of 2 December 1841. Her parents had lived in W. Windsor Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey between 1794 and 1807. From 1813 on for many years her father Francis was Keeper of the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, and from 1815 to 1819 lived in Lamberton, South Trenton. He died 5 May 1837, in his 69th year, and was buried in the Princeton Baptist Churchyard, Penns Neck, Mercer County, New Jersey." 12 Inventory of Sarah Barnes, Hunterdon County file 42891. 'Tabau-Labaw Panay," iI2 George Lahaw, A Genealogy of the 'Marne Family in America (New York, 1911), 593. 14 The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 50 (1955), 56.