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He then became the secretary-treasurer of the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad, where he remained until 1859.  Watson was also an amateur historian and a pioneer in the use of oral histories and public opinion questionnaires.  He published, among other works, Annals of Philadelphia, Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Settlement and Advancement of New York City and State, and Historic Tales of Olden Time Concerning the Early Settlement and Progress of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.  In 1812 he married Phebe Barron Crowell and had 7 children."},{"label":"Date (EDTF)","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1843"},{"label":"Creator","value":"John Fanning Watson (1779-1860)"},{"label":"Place","value":"Greenwich, New Jersey"},{"label":"Format","value":["Manuscript"]},{"label":"Subjects","value":["Diaries","Men-Diaries","Greenwich (N.J.)-Description and travel"]},{"label":"Identifier","value":"Collection 189\n83x174.5"},{"label":"Finding Aid","value":"http://findingaid.winterthur.org/html/HTML_Finding_Aids/COL0189.htm"},{"label":"Rights","value":["No Copyright - United States"]},{"label":"Source Collection","value":["Watson Family Papers (Col. 189)"]}],"description":"Journey to Greenwich, N.J., July 1843","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"0 cover","height":2119,"width":1347,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/50669b67-9138-49a7-906f-ec29b3a3ca20/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/50669b67-9138-49a7-906f-ec29b3a3ca20","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2119,"width":1347},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_1","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Journey of JFW.    to Greenwich N.J.     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I undertook this excursion, for the double purpose of seeing the country - once   the home of my forefathers, and also, as a means of pleasant recreation. -     On the 1 July, after breakfast, I started from Philad on board the Pioneer Steam   boat for Salem - Saw on board Mr. Chs L Wood & Mr Aertson merchts of Philada, - with   many passengers - The day was warm, but bright and fair - The old River & its shores,   were all the same as in former days - only Fort Mifflin seemd renovated & formidable -     Arrived at Salem, by its serpentine River, by 3, O’Clock PM, - & soon took the   Bridgetown stage to go 14 miles to Roads Town, & thence on foot, two miles to   Greenwich* - Ride with a full stage, & a warm sun - Along this road, the farms appear   but ordinary; & two miles of it, was very sandy; - but from the sands, we entered upon   the fine lands of Roadstown, - having 10,000 acres of good land, in the same tract. - The   houses of Roadstown, are of frame - white painted, & red roofs - some of brick, & a few   of ironstone. - One large brick baptist meeting house here, - only one Tavern. and only   one at Greenwich.     From Roads Town to Greenwich, at upper end, is 2 miles of beautifully undulatg   country - fine grass sod road, and a suc-      Marginal note: *My emotions - a year before, at first going up Salem river & thinking of   my father once familiar with this same stream in his boyhood, there, is told in connection   with that visit.  It was like visiting the shores of eternity, & holding converse with a   spiritual race."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/83336bcc-2e42-4295-ae1e-757bde91c342/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_3","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":2095,"width":1335,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77921cc8-e78b-4275-9342-1a6509ffe76e/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77921cc8-e78b-4275-9342-1a6509ffe76e","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2095,"width":1335},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_3","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"10    fix the place of his burial?     On the 4 July, I came homeward, by way of Stow creek, over a causeway, -   passed through Canton and Alloway towns - when at Salem, found my friend Col R. G.   Johnson (the antiquary) sick - I visited Mr. Eakin atty at law, - who gave me two old   brass medals - vizt: - Ploughed up at Finn’s Point “Jacobus ][ Rex - Crown X.X11 -”               The other was ploughed up by Wm Dick Esqe, by the S River side, near Penn’s ville -   “Ratcliffe School 1668 - P T T” - and round the rim - “Fowle Baker in Perceval” - and   in the centre - His half penny”     At Salem - visited Isaac Smart - a Friend - his rather first raised “the Elsinboro”,   along side of a Plum tree in his Garden, near to the Point - Shd be called Smarts Grape -   he says the fort remains is now in water 200 yds from the present shore - was visible   when he was young - He is now 83, - He gave me anecdotes of the British army - They   came to Billings fort under a Colo Abercrombie - then by land - he saw & talked with   Colo Mawhood (without a hand) Colo Sinicoe, Majr Maitland - the troops occupied the   Ct House, Friends meeting, & some houses, - all civil -      I visited Episcopl Ch ground - read Gravestones Nichs Gibbon Esqr died 1758   aged 56 - & Ann his wife died 1760 aged 51 years.  These came from Greenwich - and   are related to Colo R. G. Johnson & lay in a line with his family - Geo Trenchard Esqr   died 1728, aged 42 years. - Wm Vining Esqr collector of Salem died 1735 aged 52 yrs     While at Greenwich, I rode in Chs Woods carriage, with himself & Doct Fithian,   to see Bridgetown - a good looking, larger & pleasant town - houses & churches, built   with taste—     Isaac Smart, told me, that his father told him, of knowing a time when the Pea   patch was small, and scarcely visible, - that as it enlarged, cows waded over to it from   Finns point, probably swimming a little, at the deepest ford - He added, that a man once   coming across the River in the night, in a boat with his horse, came upon the Peapatch   shoal, & thinking it was the mainland, insisted to the ferry man, that he would get out   with his horse - he drowned, & the horse gained the main shore on Finns point -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/77921cc8-e78b-4275-9342-1a6509ffe76e/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_4","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":2095,"width":1250,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/822c4914-80c1-4a1e-9dbd-3a57d4de3247/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/822c4914-80c1-4a1e-9dbd-3a57d4de3247","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2095,"width":1250},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_4","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"11    I here add something of the Watson genealogy of Greenwich of which my father Wm   Watson (son of Abraham) born at Salem, in 1740, was descended, - vizt:     It began in the person of Thos Watson - of English origin, who with others first   came over from Ireland (Dublin), as I have traditionally heard - He was among the first   settlers of Jersey, and therefore, with some show of right, may claim to be of the primores   & magnates of this Country, as first inhabitants - I here copy from an original in my   possession, the first, ms order of James Nevill, Deputy of John Fenwick Esqre, to make   survey of a town lot for Thomas Watson vizt:  “To Richd Tindale (Genel Survey ~ for   Salem Tenth, and to his Deputy, Greeting: - These are to require you or either of you to   survey and lay out for Thomas Watson 16 Acres of land in Cohanzy [now Greenwich] for   a Towne lott, granted to him on condic’on he seate ye same 10th in one yeare after ye   Date hereof"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/822c4914-80c1-4a1e-9dbd-3a57d4de3247/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_5","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"12","height":2071,"width":1323,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/57536f80-88d3-4547-bfa5-dcd0e9f30397/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/57536f80-88d3-4547-bfa5-dcd0e9f30397","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2071,"width":1323},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_5","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"12    hereof - Make a returne of yor doeings herein wthin one month from the Date hereof. -   Dated ye 18h daye of Aprill 1685” -     Of the aforesaid Thomas Watson, who died intestate in the year 1729 , - came,       Wm Watson - who was born in 1690 & died 14 March 1743 aged 53 years -  [Note he died the third year after that my father, Wm Watson, was born in 1740]     He left one youngest Son, Isaac Watson, [and he had other children*] who   married Abigail Ewing his 2d wife the eldest daughter of Maskell Ewing Esqre [the   Grand father of the present Doct Wm Belford Ewing] -     Isaac Watson had two other wives:  one was Sarah Ludlam his 3d wife - another   was Miss Powell of a Welsh family - his 1” wife.       Isaac Watson’s sister Sarah mard. to Enos Woodruff. - Elizabeth* mard. Thos   Whatham - Hannah mard Isaac Wheaton* {Susan mard Coffin - Rachael mard   Shepherd, & Mary mard Welland}     Isaac Watson, by his first wife, Miss Powell, - had one son, Howell Powell   Watson - Isaac W. was a Presbyterian, an amiable man & a first rate farmer - & a   prosperous man - He was a Sea Captain in this time of the Revolutionary War -      Marginal note: *an administration granted to John Smith    Marginal note: *say 2 sons, Saml, Wm and six daughters    Marginal note: *This Isaac Wheaton was of a Rhode Isld race & had a long Pedigree,   done by Isaac Wheaton of Providence in 1785 - It is curious too, that this family of   Greenwich connects to Cathre Crowell who mard Reuben Evans and his Grd Son And D   Evans, marries my niece Ann Wade -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/57536f80-88d3-4547-bfa5-dcd0e9f30397/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_6","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2095,"width":1323,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e80b8c11-87b2-4861-b811-afa25152e617/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e80b8c11-87b2-4861-b811-afa25152e617","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2095,"width":1323},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_6","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"13    His son Howell Powell Watson, became distinguished for raising superior cattle & for his   fine farms, of which at his death, he left seven to his family -     Isaac Watson, by his 2d wife Abigail Ewing, had a daughter, Sarah Watson, now   alive & single, - at the age of 73 - died in 1846.     Howell P Watson, (above named,) died in 1826 - leaving a widow still alive, died   in 1846, who dwells with her son William - They lost four of their children in that year -   two boys & two girls - [her name was Smalley.]     Howell P Watson, had for his surviving sons, Wm Watson who mard Rachel   Shepperd daughter of Josiah Shepperd, - and is a good farmer of 35 yrs age in prosperous   circumstances, with small children. - This family is joined to the Baptist Church -   Another Son “a seventh Son,” was George L. Watson, who died in 1826, & having   married Martha Brooks left an only child Charles Ludlam Watson now a young man of   twenty, brought up in a store, but now on his own farm at farming - his mother’s sister,   Mary Brooks,* now Mrs Gibbon & her daughter Caroline*, are with him keeping house -   he is a tall, intelligent, promising young man - and an only child.      Marginal note: *Elizabeth Watson, was the Grd mother of Dr Rushenbinger of US. Navy-    Marginal note: *daughter of James Brooks, a man of easy circumstances & intelligent,   holding a farm at Roads town and a member of the Baptist Society - he got some Estate   by Wm Marr of New Orleans, his relative -    Note: *Caroline mard in 1847 to Davd Holme Farmer."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e80b8c11-87b2-4861-b811-afa25152e617/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_7","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"14","height":2095,"width":1323,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/51cb9594-aea7-4b22-88b0-c94d48b1b633/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/51cb9594-aea7-4b22-88b0-c94d48b1b633","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2095,"width":1323},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_7","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"14    [Doctr Gibbon of Salem, is own brother to Mrs Gibbon’s husband - and are of the same   Gibbon family, who were first settlers & large land holders in Greenwich - say of 6000   acres - They were also the connections of Dr Ewing & Colo R G. Johnson - The mother   of the Colo, was a Gibbon - & the mother of Dr Ewing’s wife, was a Gibbon]     Howell Powell Watson, had another son, named after himself, H.P. Watson, now   a minor, who is living at Bowers Town with Henry Smalley, his mother’s father -     The Isaac Watson, first above named - had three other sons - “and may have had   more”. - They were named Samuel, William, Lemuel - each of whom have left families   - viz:     Samuel Watson, the first son of Isaac, was a very amiable & successful man - a   farmer, & left a good Estate - but his sons lived freely & got reduced - & their children   went to Cheviot Ohio, 7 miles from Cincinnati and are settled there - Samuel Watson had   a son David who died at Greenwich when young, & left two sons named David &   Samuel - David left"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/51cb9594-aea7-4b22-88b0-c94d48b1b633/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_8","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"15","height":2095,"width":1311,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bb9fa0d4-3f6e-4187-aedd-c12089bfe45d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bb9fa0d4-3f6e-4187-aedd-c12089bfe45d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2095,"width":1311},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_8","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"15    Thomas, & Rebecca, who mard Shepperd - Samuel (the brother of David) mard Ruth   Shepperd - became intemperate, and left Saml Watson (the 3rd) and David Watson - now   a tradesman at Greenwich, and Job Watson, now 16 yrs of age - These two last named,   David & Job, have fine minds, & are ambitious to excel & to get up in the world again.     The descendents of William Watson, (son of Isaac) were many - and have nearly   all moved to Ohio - only one or two of them are remaining - say Wm Watson a   respectable man - a magistrate residing at New Port Village in Downe Tp - He has near   there a brother John, - it is believed.     Lemuel Watson - son of Isaac- was known to me personally, - and died near Cold   Spring Cape May - his son Joseph was a fuller, & now lives at Cincinnati - his daughter   Rachael mard John Dane & lives well at Indian Field at Bridgetown; - his youngest   daughter, is mard to a Baptist Minister, now resident on Cape May -     I was at the house of Reuben Hunt a fine farmer - he married the widow Phebe   Watson - her son - a Sea Capt - & farmer, is named Thos L Watson, - a young man with   a family - & esteemed"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/bb9fa0d4-3f6e-4187-aedd-c12089bfe45d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_9","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"16","height":2070,"width":1335,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de7a6af1-1663-4579-8b22-caa1073fc67b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de7a6af1-1663-4579-8b22-caa1073fc67b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2,4,8]}]},"height":2070,"width":1335},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_9","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"16    The house of Wm Watson, son of Howell - is a frame, - painted white, & red roofed thus:    Note:  here follows a pen and ink drawing of the house with this notation to the side:  he   had a Grape vine, which measurd 3 ½ feet round - going up a Poplar wh. measd 20ft   round - on Road side -    The house of Charles L Watson - thus - of white frame & red roof -    Note:  here follows a pen and ink drawing of the house with this notation to the side:    Elizth Maul - is his intended     Some of the Watson’s, probably branching from Thos Watson, as brothers to the   first Wm Watson, are supposed to be settled (in easy circumstances) at, I believe,   Pittsgrove Tp - where they have fine farms -     I suppose that my father Wm Watson, must have been Grd son to Wm Watson   who died in 1743, and that his father Abraham, must have been first Son to that Wm   Watson - Where there are so many crossing & recrossing names - as now exist at   Greenwich, it is difficult to keep each family succession to its own line of division - So I   found it.  My own opinion is that Abraham Watson, must have been the elder brother of   Isaac, & that it was the purpose of the religious father, - the aforesaid Wm Watson, to run   the names of the three Patriarchs, in succession, as “Abraham, Isaac & Jacob” -:  And as   the preceding genealogy,"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/de7a6af1-1663-4579-8b22-caa1073fc67b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_10","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"17","height":2095,"width":1299,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/849145bb-0f49-44b0-97d0-575ad393a7ef/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/849145bb-0f49-44b0-97d0-575ad393a7ef","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1299},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_10","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"17    only gives the descent of Isaac Watson’s race, there can be nothing to the contrary of   there having been two other lines, by Abraham & Jacob.  In the case of Abraham, there   was a quick extinguishment of family, as he died early, and only left my father Wm   Watson, named after his Grd father Wm Watson - The race of Jacob, (if there was such a   Son,) may have gone to another settlement of Watson’s in the County - perhaps to   Pittsgrove Tp. - It is enough for my purpose that, my father always said he was of the   family of Salem county, and that he inherited some family estate - probably by the death   of his Grd father Wm Watson of Greenwich, who died in 1743 - just one year after my   father’s birth -*  I am also to remark, that altho’ my father inherited something, he used   to say, that when he was grown up from childhood, he was made to understand that he &   his sister, (the only children,) were wronged in some way by their Executors or   Guardians* - He left Salem when young, & went to Sea; & afterwards, married Miss   Beeson, & my mother Lucy Fanning, & settled on the Highlands of Christiana, and never   made any visits to Salem County, - indeed, the progress of the Revolutionary War, cut off   family intercourse, & made men of family to Stay at home as much as they possibly   could - Into that War, he entered early as a volunteer, & got himself imprisoned for   sometime in the New York Provost, - as one of the rebel enemies of Majesty!           J      Marginal note:  *his own father’s Inventory of appraisemt, on record, of personal estate at   his death, was £333.10/. -     Marginal note:  *his sister lived with her uncle Garrick a farmer at Penns neck - & was   mard."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/849145bb-0f49-44b0-97d0-575ad393a7ef/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"18","height":2095,"width":1311,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e260dca9-1b4b-4cce-9017-defc53db273d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e260dca9-1b4b-4cce-9017-defc53db273d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1311},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"18    I trust, that it is not a weakness to endeavour to look a little into Family affinities - Bible   example, has shown a remarkable regard to the preservation of family classes & tribes.    The Heralds offices in Europe, show sufficiently, the attachment of enlightened men to   these things - Even the Indians - following the dictates of nature, much reverence &   esteem the bones & remains of their fathers. - The monuments & Grave stones, as they   exist in all Grave grounds, are so many proofs of an instinctive respect for the fathers and   families who have preceded us - To forget them, only because they have gone from our   presence, is only kindred to “the Brutes, that perish”!  Doct Franklin, has said that, he   could generally tell the intellectual & moral feeling of any given community, by the   measure of their attention to their Grave Grounds - They operated as “a measuring need”   to appreciate the force of family-ties, and family-respect, and even of self-respect -       Note at bottom of page:  I allowed Ch L Watson to have a copy of the preceding pages as   a keepsake - token of my visits - He came to visit me Sept 3d 1847 -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/e260dca9-1b4b-4cce-9017-defc53db273d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"19","height":2095,"width":1287,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7ec69b18-e30f-430b-9a80-85067e786180/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7ec69b18-e30f-430b-9a80-85067e786180","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1287},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"19      It is of record, at Trenton archives, that Letters of Administration in 1749, were granted   to Margaret Watson, wife of Abraham Watson of Salem Co, he having died intestate year   1749 - They are the proper records of Salem County, since depostd at Trenton - copy   this - viz:  “Margrt Watson ad & of Abram Watson dec’d 4 Novr1749, Jonthn Belcher   Esqre for {    } granted letters of adm to Margrt Watson in the Estate of Abrm Watson   late of the County of Salem - Inventory filed £333.10.0” [being of course, the amt of   personal estate, & not of land -]     At the same time, I found of record at Trenton - to wit:     John Watson died intestate 1704 & administration granted to John Watson -      Salem Co     Thos Watson - Salem Co died intestate 1729 - and administn granted to John      Smith.     Wm Watson, Greenwich Salem Co died 1743 - leaving sons Saml Wm & Isaac -      and daughters Rachel Shepherd, Susan Coffin, Sarah Martin, Hannah      Wheaton, Mary Watson & Elizabeth Watson -     Wm Watson, Greenwich - then Cumberland Co, died intestate 1760 -       administration granted to his wife Mary -     Wm Watson - died 1759. leaving son Wm & daughter Mary England.    There were several Watsons recorded of Burlington County - beginning with Wm    Watson died 1722 - then Marmaduke Watson died 1749 - leaving sons Aaron &    Marmaduke -    In 1847 “there is living in Pitts grove, John Watson, of the Mdst Ch in good    circumstances” - so says W Ramsay, Cashr, Salem     Isaac Watson of Burlington Co died 1726, leaving sons Wm, Isaac, John & 5      daughters -     Mathew Watson, Burlington Co. died 1750, leaving a daughter, Hannah Welding.    Pencil notation at bottom of page:  Enquiries - Who was “uncle Garrick” at Penns Neck    In Pitts grove Tp - ask if any descendts of Jacob Watson"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/7ec69b18-e30f-430b-9a80-85067e786180/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_13","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"2","height":2107,"width":1274,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/33a2fe67-41fc-4bc6-bee9-39bf81dc78e9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/33a2fe67-41fc-4bc6-bee9-39bf81dc78e9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2107,"width":1274},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_13","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"2    cession of most remarkably fine looking farms.  Their houses all look neat &   comfortable, but none of them proud or aspiring.  Saw most excellent orchards of apple   & Peach trees, - several cases of vigorous thorn hedges; & otherwise, post & rail fences,   & sometimes sodded or Bank-fences - The country grows excellent wheat, & clover   fields were many. - To me, the whole face of the country was beautiful, and attentively   tilled - The chief of the farm laborers are blacks, who have a town of their own, of 20   houses & little corn & truck fields, a mile out of Greenwich, where they hire themselves   to farmers - They are all Methodists of two kinds, & have two churches - They have   been slaves formerly, & get here as an Asylum - As I go along the road, cannot but   notice with pleasure the many red cherry trees in the street, from which I can pluck the   fruit and pass on - This seems liberal & hospitable.     I visit at Greenwich, Dr Fithian, Dr Ewing, Reuben Hunt, farmer - Sarah Watson,   (daughter of Isaac) Wm Watson, farmer, and Charles L Watson - These two last, I hail as   cousins - Dr Ewing is also related by intermarriage -     Greenwich is a long town of scattered houses of two miles"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/33a2fe67-41fc-4bc6-bee9-39bf81dc78e9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"20","height":2095,"width":1360,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5c99ed08-6883-4fa5-a236-5ff8319191b8/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5c99ed08-6883-4fa5-a236-5ff8319191b8","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1360},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"20     The first Watson (Thomas) named in the foregoing, must have been a citizen of   some eminence in his day, & is also proved to have been one of the Primores of the   Country, because he is used as one of the four Witnesses (three being Swedes and   interpreters) at the original Treaty, (still on file in the State records at Trenton) made the   10 Sept 1677, with the four Indians Sachams, Katemas, Sekappio, Peanto, alias Enequeto,   and Rennowighwan, “of lands lying between the mid streams of Rancocas and Timber   Creeks, bounded on the East by a right line drawn between the uppermost head of each   stream”. and on the West to the River Delaware - The other three witnesses (Thos   Watson, being the sole Englishman) were the three Swansons of Philada site (“Sons of   Sven”) to wit:  Andrew Swanson, Swan Swanson & Lacey Swanson.     on the 27 Sept 1677 - another Deed was made to the Commissioners, by the   Indian chiefs, Mohocksey, Tetamchro, and Apperinges, for “the land between the   midstream of Oldman’s creek (i e Aldermans creek) and the midstream of Timber creek,   bounded eastwd by the heads of said two creeks” - To which conveyance were witnesses,   Robert Wade, James Saunderland (both of Upland or Chester) and James Yesteven, Saml   Lovett & Henry Reynolds”     This period of 1677 marked the eve of the first arrival at Salem of the first English   settlers - (vide Mickle’s Old Gloucester of 1845.)     The purchase consideration of the first purchase was 46 fathd duffels, 30 blankets,   150 lbs powder, 30 guns, 200 faths wampum, 30 kettles, 30 axes, 30 hoes, 30 glasses, 30   pr stockings, 30 knives, 7 anchors brandy, and other things.    Marginal note:  Thos Sharp letter of testimony - shows, that the Irish settlers (from   Dublin?) first went out to Jersey - & settled at Salem in 1677 - to which place Sharp &   others followd from Dublin in 1681 - & stopt at Salem.  Thos Watson, went out in the   first vessel in 1677 -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5c99ed08-6883-4fa5-a236-5ff8319191b8/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_15","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"21","height":2095,"width":1299,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f3b66c7c-1935-4197-a7c1-8853593e96be/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f3b66c7c-1935-4197-a7c1-8853593e96be","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1299},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_15","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"21    Note: The next two pages are written sideways in journal.     The Watson family of Ireland, came, in time, to be preeminently distinguished in   the person of Admiral John Watson, who for his valuable public services in the East   Indies, recd in 1767, a peculiar Coat of Arms - “Granted, unto John Watson of Ireland,   Commander in Chief of the Marine Forces ion the Coast of Malabar”.     Admiral Watson, arrived in the East Indies in 1754, and soon caused the surrender   of many important places - for, working in conjunction with Colo Clive (an unmilitary   gentlm of great military tact,) caused the conquest of a vast country to the British   dominion.  “But the joy of these successes was much diminished by the death of Admiral   Watson, who fell a victim to the unwholesome climate on the 16 augt 1754 (?) {Pencil   notation, 1767/8?}universally esteemed and regretted” - (Vide Smollett)     The Naval Chronicle - Vol 2d, - contains a memoir of Lord Hood (son of a   Clergyman) wherein it says that, “few men had such opportunities to form himself under   such favorable models, as being with Watson, - a man to bring to our recollection, every   thing that could adorn the Navy - his being in the confidence of such a man must have   instilled those principles which became so useful and honble to him in future life”.     The same work, also says, that, “Lieut Hood (Lord Hood) was removed to the   Princess Louisa in 1748, then bearing Admiral Watson’s flag, who with ten other Captns   had been advanced for their gallant behaviour in Lord Anson’s action with Monsr. de la   Jonquiere’s squadron in 1747” - Lieut Hood, went with Admiral Watson to Louisburg in   1745 - and at the Peace, returned with him to England (in 1748).       [Admiral Anson went to the South Seas in 1740 - He took the French fleet off   Cape Finistre on 3 May 1747.           turn -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f3b66c7c-1935-4197-a7c1-8853593e96be/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_16","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"22","height":2095,"width":1299,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/15a470bb-780e-4e6b-8782-430e0113ff1d/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/15a470bb-780e-4e6b-8782-430e0113ff1d","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1299},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_16","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"22    Memoranda - of Watson’s -     Edwd Watson in 1665 is named as Earl of Rockingham -  Bishop Watson, an English Prelate, was born in Westmoreland in 1737 -  Doct Robt Watson “an elegant historian”, was born in Scotland in 1730 -  Sir Wm Watson, “an eminent physician of London” - born in 1715 - died May 10. 1787    In 1786, he was knighted, for his merit.  The plant Watsonia, was so called in    honour of his name, and as M.D. F.R.S., &c.    Admiral Watson’s coat of arms - is very militaire - Two castles - & a bomb fixed proper   in base - Crest a Tiger rampant - with a bar shot in one paw - in the other (dexter) a   banner - besides - a scymeter lying fess ways.  A description of the whole was sent to   me, by letter, in 1804 - He was of Ireland.  He was the best Admiral in the British service   - and he, with Colo Clive, were the chief, & most exalted agents in producing the   Conquest of India - His arms were conferred on him in 1767. in complement to his   achievements - See History of England & India, &c"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/15a470bb-780e-4e6b-8782-430e0113ff1d/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_17","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"3","height":2107,"width":1299,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5aec0c3b-8868-41fe-b9f8-a2f2c8af948c/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5aec0c3b-8868-41fe-b9f8-a2f2c8af948c","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2107,"width":1299},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_17","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"3    along one main & wide street, leading directly away from the River Cohanzey -   originally called, in old Papers, New Cæsaria River - It is a pleasant walking street, being   all carpeted with white clover, clean & green & pleasant to the tread.  I had not imagined   so fine a country, in any part of Jersey, as I found here - There is no appearance of Sand   in the fields - The soil looks rather like a free dark soil, mellowed with ashes - No weeds   appear in any of the fields.  I could not be ashamed of such a home to my forefathers.     Took up my stay for the first night with Charles L Watson - son of Howell P   Watson 2d, he is single, - but 20 years of age, and has his house kept by his aunt Mary   Gibbons - her husband is in the West - she has a daughter with her, a young woman   grown, named Caroline, and three younger children. - The next morning we all go in a   two horse carriage to Roadstown baptist meeting - there hear the Revd Edwin Fannell   from W. Chester - The Church is of brick, & in newness of appearance - The grave   stones in the Yard, seem generally of such as have been made in the last 50 years - While   there, visited Mr James Brooks, a good farmer dwelling in the town - He is the father of   Mrs Mary Gibbon, and of Mrs Shute* the mother of Chs L Watson, - when she      Marginal note: *her husband Schute is a farmer & storekeeper -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/5aec0c3b-8868-41fe-b9f8-a2f2c8af948c/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_18","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"4","height":2095,"width":1299,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/62e4afbe-15de-4333-bafb-d3848478ba8b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/62e4afbe-15de-4333-bafb-d3848478ba8b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1299},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_18","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"4    was the former wife of Howell P. Watson - Her present husband - is a farmer & store   keeper there - and they have a tall son of fine appearance.     I have just now had time enough to notice men & manners, & to mark the   primitive & simple stile of the people - Many of the men in the Church, are sitting in   their shirt sleeves, because the day is warm - Even such as have cushioned seats, so suit   their ease, and at home, they only consult comfort, - by putting off top coat & stockings -   They deem this too common to deserve apology - In the houses of the best livers, I   observe a very common use of rag-carpets, and rush-bottomed chairs, with upright backs   painted red - They all sat down too, to one common table, in a room adjoining the   kitchen, or in the kitchen itself, having the working men of the farm, eating at the same   table, & at same time - They even admit the blacks to the same equality, when they hire   them - This reminded me of Bartram’s manner at his Schkll farm, so commended by a   foreign traveller - Upon their tables, are no stint of good things.  One of the professional   gentlemen of the place, who has been educated at College, & for many years a Legislator   &c, tells me, that he makes no scruple to set his black men down to the same table with   his family."}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/62e4afbe-15de-4333-bafb-d3848478ba8b/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_19","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"5","height":2095,"width":1299,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/745fd36b-a8b8-4458-8390-4b5b18e9cbaa/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/745fd36b-a8b8-4458-8390-4b5b18e9cbaa","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1299},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_19","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"5    The men & women as they appear in churches, all dress after the City fashions - The   Baptists are a prevailing & proselyting people - the Presbyterians are next - visited their   new rebuilt church in upper end Greenwich, - served by the Revd Mr Lawrence - The old   building once on the opposite side of the way, is all torn down, but there still remains   there the old Grave yard, - with many marble stones. - Some of my own name are there; -   & from others, I learn the connection of sundry modern names of fame with their   forefathers there - Such are the Ewings, Bloomfields, Mackels, Woodruffs.     There are in Greenwich two sects of Friends, & each having their seperate   meetings.  The oldest society have a fine brick meeting house near the Cohanzey River -   the other is of wood & unpainted, with a school room in its 2d story - This place must   have been very early settled by friends; for as early as Thos Chalkleys days he owned   tracts here, & finally laid out the form of the town as it stands - It has some noble shade   trees - Every body looks easy & comfortable.  They seem to have got beyond the vortex   of the worlds ambition; & seem only to think of their own happiness, & how easiest to   promote that - They are manifestly, too"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/745fd36b-a8b8-4458-8390-4b5b18e9cbaa/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_20","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"6","height":2095,"width":1336,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/91175f90-6889-4922-851a-c519d38789d9/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/91175f90-6889-4922-851a-c519d38789d9","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1336},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_20","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"6    careless of fashionable modes & forms of life, to readily suit the artificial notions of   refined folks from the City - They are not therefore likely to be visited for permanent   residence, by any of their sons, who have gone abroad & made fortunes, and want to   build, & to luxuriate “in tall mansions, to shame the humble shed”! - Such spirits will   find no congeniality here -     I visited in company with Doct W.B. Ewing, and his son James-Josiah, the old   Baptist burying plce in the first Baptists from Rhode Island, at the first settlement. - It is   about 2 miles further up the Cohanzey, & nearly opposite New England town, where they   had a presbyterian church - The old Baptist church of frame, is taken away & made into a   barn. - Only the Grave ground remains; & among the many marble Stones, I saw these   remarkable inscriptions, - viz’- “In memory of Deborah Swiney who departed this life ay   4 April 1760 in the 77th year of her age ~~ She was the first white female child born in   Cohanzey”. next to it, stood the stone of John Swiney who died in 1756 at the age of 79   years - thus showing, that early settlers could have long life - I also noticed a stone to   Mary Mulford who died in 1705 aged 22 yrs - probably the earliest inscribed stone in the   Grave yard * - I have felt at a loss to conceive where they got marble stones - as they are   but of modern use, at Philada -      Marginal note: *there was also a stone to Lieutn Mulford aged 29. - killed by the   Hessians at Haddonfield in 1777.  These Mulfords are of the family of Doct Mulford of   Camden, historian - and are related to my relative Capt Andw D. Evans of Philada -"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/91175f90-6889-4922-851a-c519d38789d9/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_21","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"7","height":2095,"width":1262,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a0625023-7764-4a4c-b854-6a104d40c776/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a0625023-7764-4a4c-b854-6a104d40c776","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1262},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_21","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"7      The Protestant Episcopal church, once there (opposite to Dr Ewings) is now all in the   dust - It had long been disused, & some neighbour coveting the use of its bricks, so   robbed it, as to cause the remainder to fall - Colo R. G. Johnson of Salem, who has a fee   in the land, from his maternal ancestor Gibbon, made the man pay 60 Ds for his trespass   - but that, did not restore the Church!  within the body of the Church lay two fine large   flat marble stones - inscribed with the names of Leonard Gibbon Esqr, & that of his wife   - they died in 1743 - In the Grave ground, stands the Slate head stone of my ancestor   Wm Watson, born in 1690 & died in 1743. - near to his, are those grave stones of the   Walland family. - It might be curious at the present day, to consult the published   accounts of the Society in England “for the propagation of the Gospel”, at the period   above named as compiled by Humphries to learn the facts concerning the origin &   progress, & decay of this early Episcopal church.  I should wish to learn what the several   names above mentd, as well as my own patronymic, had to do in the matter of founding   & perpetuating.     This country, being now sufficiently cleared & dried, - & the marshes drained &   turnd into valuable meadows,- is quite healthy"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/a0625023-7764-4a4c-b854-6a104d40c776/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_22","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"8","height":2095,"width":1348,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f22090ef-864a-4f2b-b5c0-000048696cc6/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f22090ef-864a-4f2b-b5c0-000048696cc6","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1348},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_22","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"8    There have been times within the early memory of Dr Ewing, when intermitients &   dysentery, severely prevailed - Ague & fever, would sometimes sicken whole families -   all is now changed & gone!  The Cohanzey might well deserve the name of River, tho’   called a creek - It is one of the best in the state - it carries 16 feet of water, & has 7   fathoms at the town landing - In former days, it was a great place to visit at the Fairs held   there.  There, would come 20 or 20 vessels from Philada, laden with articles for such an   occasion - There are two very distinct & visible remains of two Indian villages once here   - one on Doct Ewing’s land is marked with 70 separate excavations of earth - of the sise   and appearance of a partially filled up Cellar.  Into these, in case of attack, the Indians lay   down to guard against assailing arrows, and made their own discharges of missiles, with   less of danger - The whole was overgrown with large trees, since their use - Their stone   arrow-points, hatchets & axes, are still ploughed up about the place -     The first Watson settler, Thos Watson, had his grant of sixteen acres for a town   lot in Cohanzey (now Greenwich) ordered and fixed there, by Fenwick Surveyor Genl in   1685; - and I see by a Deed, that it must have been"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/f22090ef-864a-4f2b-b5c0-000048696cc6/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_23","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"9","height":2095,"width":1360,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/20ced850-f21f-417b-a645-624e27ab0838/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/20ced850-f21f-417b-a645-624e27ab0838","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2095,"width":1360},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4fbf33ba-0b08-4aab-b53f-a5e96cfa1fdd/canvas/_23","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"9    nigh by the Episcopal Church - for the instrument dated 1722, calls it “Wm Watson’s   present ownership of Thos Watson’s lott” - a Subcn paper of the year 1735 to rebuild and   enlarge the Presbyterian church in Greenwich, gives the signature of Wm Watson for 10£   in facsimile thus - vizt:      “William Watson” 10£  That Subcn paper is itself a curiosity -:  It purports as a reason for zeal in the Subcn, that,   “whereas the Episcopal party are driving forward an erection with all possible expedition,   which will very much affect us, if something be not done to prevent it”! - To this object,   Wm Watson, Josiah Fithian (forefather of present Dr. Fithian) Elias Cotting, Benjn Dare,   Abram Reeves, and Constant Maskell, each subscribe 10£ - the next highest sums run for   5£ each, & others still lower - The dissenters then shrunk from contact with Churchmen,   as from Evil doers! - After such a subcn as above of Wm Watson in 1735, we find him,   eight years after, put into the Episcopal ground!  Could he have become a convert, or did   his family living so near that church, become such, and"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/20ced850-f21f-417b-a645-624e27ab0838/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/50669b67-9138-49a7-906f-ec29b3a3ca20/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/logo"}