APPENDIX.*

On page 20 we have recorded the names of the original Associates and Proprietors of the ElizabethTown purchase. In 1699 there was held here a town-meeting, composed of all the Associates then living, and "those holding under them or some of them," at which the following individuals were admitted to the rank and title of Associates, as possessors, some of first, second, and third lot rights. A first lot right is defined, in our old manuscript book, to be, "the least and lowest share of all the lands contained within the whole bounds and purchase of Elizabeth-Town ;" a second lot right "twice as large a share and division thereof as the first; and a third lot right is thrice as large a share and division of the same premises as a first lot right is." We insert the names of this second generation of Associates here, for the gratification of their very numerous descend

* As we could not well introduce the following facts into the Notes, we place them here together, by way of Appendix.

ants, stating that the autographs of those of them who could write, are in the book from which we take their names. Not a few of them had to make "their mark." Their names are as follows:

The plan on which the town was settled, was this: each proprietor had a town lot in the village, on which to build his house; and the farms were located in the surrounding country. But few houses were built in the country for years after the settlement of the town. And the first houses were built on the banks of the creek, and near the tide water.

Incidents of themselves of a very trifling importance, go far to illustrate the character and simple

habits of a people. It is for this purpose we narrate the two following facts:

In 1761, the year in which Mr. Caldwell was settled in the Presbyterian Church, a Mr. Thomas Woodruff is paid two shillings for riding round the parish and warning the people to a fast.

In the early part of the same year a man is paid two shillings for calling the Elders and Deacons to a meeting "concerning Mr. Kettletas."

The following incidents may reconcile us to some of the occasional detentions which sometimes now prolong a trip to New-York to ninety or one hundred minutes.

In 1739, the Rev. Mr. Whitefield left New-York at noon for Elizabeth-Town. He reached here in safety the next day, time enough to dine with the Rev. Jonathan Dickinson, and to preach in the after

noon.

And many of our aged ones well remember taking passage for New-York at the Point, in the fast sailing boats, commanded by those favorite captains, Lee, Uzal Woodruff, and Twigley, whose cabins were between four and five feet high, and not unfrequently lodging at Bergen-Point, or Staten Island, when wind and tide were adverse.

I find written on the margin of a copy of "Leaming and Spicer's Grants and Concessions," a minute to the following effect: there are also oral traditions which confirm its truth. The centennial jubilee, to commemorate the settlement of this town, was celebrated here on the 28th day of October, 1764. On that day "an ox was roasted on the common, in the centre of the town, nearly opposite Mr. Barnaby Shute's house."

We find also the following note in the handwriting of Wm. M. Ross, dated "Elizabeth-Town, April 22, 1811, Monday afternoon."

"At the time when the ox was roasted on October 28, 1764, Matthias Williamson, junior, then a youth, recollects that the conversation of the period was, that none then living would be alive to partake that day next century of the ox to be roasted on a similar occasion, to celebrate the purchase of the town from the Indians.

They therefore concluded, and passed a resolve. among themselves, that those who should survive. half a century, should have another jubilee, as it was concluded that some of the guests at this centennial dinner might live to see it."

The reason why this jubilee was held on the 28th. of October, probably is, that on that day Governor Nicolls granted leave to John Bailey and others, to extinguish by purchase, the title of the Indians to.