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New Jersey Supreme Court Case 577
Andrews vs. Hodgson, Morris County, Debt,
Filed 6th Sept. 1744
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August term in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Four
Mary Andrews complains against Peter Hodgson Administrator of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of Abraham Bickley deceased at the time of his death who dyed intestate as ‘tis said in Custody &c, of a plea that he render unto her the sum of one hundred and seventy nine pounds seven shillings and six pence which from her he unjustly detains &c, for that / to witt / THAT WEREAS the aforesaid Abraham Bickley in his life time / to witt / the second day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Four att Morristown in the County of Morris had borrowed of the said Mary Andrews the sum of one hundred and seventy nine pounds seven shillings and six pence to be paid to the said Mary when he the said Abraham Bickley [sho’d be thereunto?] Afterwards required. NEVERTHELESS the said Abraham Bickley in his life time & the aforesaid Peter Hodgson since his death to whom Administration of all and singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of the aforesaid Abraham Bickley at the time of his death who dyed intestate / as ‘tis said / in Due form of law was Committed altho’ often required &c, the aforesaid one hundred and seventy nine pounds seven shillings and six pence to her the said Mary hath not paid, but the same to her as yet to pay, he the said Peter Hodgson hath altogether refused & still doth refuse & unjustly detains &c, to the damage of her the said Mary fifty pounds [--?--] money & thereof she brings this suit &c.
Mary Andrews puts in her place John [Coxe?] her Atty against Peter Hodgson Administrator of all & singular the goods and chattels rights and credits which were of Abraham Bickley deceased at the time of his death who dyed intestate / as ‘tis said / in a plea of Debt.
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By Venture of the Annexed writt of our Sovereign Lord the King I have lived on . . . A Certain Tract of land situate on a Branch of Delaware called Pohaticung in the County of Hunterdon in West New Jersey aforesaid Beginning at a heap of stones for a corner not far from the said Branch thence extending North fifty five degrees East ninety eight Chains to a white Oak marked for a corner thence East twenty four Chains to a Chestnut Oak marked for a corner thence north sixty seven degrees east seventy Chains to a white Oak marked for a corner thence north thirty two degrees East forty five Chains to a black Oak marked for a corner thence South sixty seven degrees west Eight two chains to a Chestnut Oak marked for a corner thence south sixty three degrees west one hundred and forty two chains to a Black Oak marked for a corner thence south thirty degrees east eighty chains to the place of beginning containing eleven hundred and fifty acres and usual allowance for highways It is the same eleven hundred and fifty acres of land which William Stevenson and Ann his Wife by indenture of the twenty sixth day of July Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and twenty granted unto the said Abraham Bickley the [?father in Nee?, Which Land ---?--- ] in My hand Unsold for want of buyers. JOHN [---?--- --?-- ]
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There is a third sheet attached to case file 577, much of which is unreadable. It’s relationship to case 577 is unknown. It seems to be a NJ Supreme Court debt case in Sussex or Hunterdon County, between Daniel Agnew and Jesse, Nathaniel and Edward Hart. As far as I can tell, their residences don’t appear on the case’s page. However, research indicates that all involved were residents near Maidenhead. The case before the court at Trenton, the judgment of which was £ 605-10-11, is dated 11 May 1784, and was witnessed by “David Breasley, Esquire.”
[END OF CASE 577]
On page 378 of “Genealogies of New Jersey Families, Vol. II” begins the chapter of the Andrews family by John P. Dornan. The New Jersey patriarch of this large Quaker family is Samuel Andrews. He settled his family in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington County in the 1680’s. Mary was his daughter. She was born 29 July 1683. In 1709 she moved to Philadelphia. She died there in 1761. On page 380 Dornan writes of Mary: “In a suit at law in New Jersey against the administration of Abraham Bickley, Jr., she recovered in execution a tract of 1150 acres of land in Sussex (now Morris) Co., N.J. and devised it in equal shares to her nephews Mordecai, son of her brother Mordecai, and to Peter and Isaac, sons of her brother Edward.”
In 1758 Peter died and his division of the land was allotted to Mordecai. A resurvey of the land found that the tract included 1679 acres. It was divided 929 ac. to Mordecai and 750 ac. to Isaac. Mordecai in his 1763 will directed his executors to sell this 929 acres. It was sold to David Cooper on 20 April 1764. Mordecai had sons Edward, Jacob, and Isaac, none of whom, it seems, inherited a portion of the land and settled on the Pohatcong Tract. (pages 384-5)
As early as 1763 there is record of Isaac attempting to sell his Sussex County land. On “October 3, 1765, he advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette: . . . ‘For sale by Isaac Andrews of Little Mantua Creek in Gloucester Co., West Jersey, a tract of 1270 Acres of land in Sussex County, West Jersey, sixty miles from Philadelphia and about the same from New York on a branch of Delaware river called Pohateenney. Inquire of Isaac Andrews or of Jeremiah Elfreth in Phila.’” In his 1775 will Isaac directs his executors to sell the remainder of his land which included the land along the “Pohatscunck.” Dornan doesn’t record to whom this land was eventually sold. Neither of his sons, Jeremiah nor Isaac, inherited or settled on this tract. (pages 395-8)
Based upon the above information this tract of land in Sussex or Morris County passed out of the hands of the Andrews family. Of course, new information may change what is known of the family; however, it is probable that the families of the Andrews or Andress name in north west New Jersey during the early nineteenth century are not descended from Samuel Andrews of Little Egg Harbor.
Jeremy J. Andress
Andress1776@hotmail.com
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