CHAPTER X. SIXTH GENERATION. LINE OF DANIEL, DANIEL,3 DANIEL.2 152 DANIEL SAYRE, born probably in Southampton, L. I.; married Margaret Sturges. He owned several hundred acres of land in the present town of Union, Union County, N. J., extending to the Rahway River, on both sides of the road leading from Connecticut Farms to Scotch Plains, and intersected by the road from Scudder's Mills to Cranford. He died intestate, prior to April 16, 1777, which is the date of deed from his son David to his brother William for share of his father's estate, in which reference to his father's death is made. His eldest son, Nathaniel (according to the law of primogeniture then prevailing in New Jersey), became entitled to the landed estate. He, however, apportioned the land among his brothers, "in accordance with the wishes of his revered father," as stated in the deeds executed by him to his several brothers. 469 RHODA,6 d. unmarried. CHILDREN. 470* NATHANIEL,6 b. Nov., 1754; d. unmarried. 471 DAVID,6 drowned in Morris Co., N. J. 472 WILLIAM.6 473* JOSEPH,6 m. Sarah Littell. 474* DANIEL,6 b. 1758; m. Miriam Roff. 475* MOSES,6 m. Elizabeth Oliver. 476* BENJAMIN, b. July 4, 1762; m. Rhoda Wade Wilson. 477* AARON,6 m. Rachel Bradbury. 478* CALVIN,6 m. Mary Dickerson. 479 JOHN, removed to Augusta, Ga. LINE OF ISAAC,4 DANIEL,3 DANIEL.2 161 ISAAC SAYRE, born in Southampton, L. I., 1722. Swaine, daughter of Matthias and Catharine Swaine. He married Jane His father died when he was an infant, and his mother married Jeremiah Ludlow, and they removed from Southampton to Elizabethtown, N. J., subsequently settling in what is now New Providence Township, Union County, N. J., living between the mountains southwest of Springfield near Summit. He kept a tavern near Summit during the Revolution, in which it is stated General Washington was on more than one occasion entertained. During the battle of Springfield, just below the first mountain, in 1780, many of the Continental soldiers made their quarters in this valley [Summit Township]. Here they could have a good view of the approach of the enemy under the command of General Howe, with his six thousand regulars; and Colonel Dayton's detachment lay near Westfield; while scouts lined the summit, bringing messages from General Washington, encamped with the American army near Morristown,` some eight miles west. 66 'Isaac Sayre's house was the resort of many of these foot-sore scouts, and there they found a welcome. "His wife, it is said, could not do too much for them. To her last day she recounted the fact that she had entertained General George Washington, and encouraged his men as they came to her mountain home, never turning them empty away. "The old homestead was, until recently, still standing on the road corner where the old red school-house stood." On August 21, 1804, the trustees of the M. E. Church of New Providence deeded to him and his son Anthony a tract of land of sixteen acres in that town, on the road from New Providence to Chatham (see Liber I, page 812, of deeds, Newark), sold by widow of Isaac, and Anthony, November 23, 1808. Isaac died April 25, 1805. CHILDREN. 480 ELIZABETH,6 m. Enoch Vreeland. 481* MATTHIAS, b. 1746; m. Patience Thompson. 482 CATHARINE,6 m. Timothy Griffin, of New Providence. CHILDREN. I JANE GRIFFIN,7 m. Ist, Francis Brown; 2d, Robert Sweetman. 2 PATTY GRIFFIN,7 m. John W. Foster, of Springfield, N. J. 3 ISAAC GRIFFIN,7 m. Betsey Musty, of Springfield. 4 FRAZEE GRIFFIN,7 d. unmarried. 6 RACHEL GRIFFIN,7 m. John Gray. 7 PRUDENCE GRIFFIN,7 m. Ist, Charles Delancy; 2d, Wm. Vigors. 8 MARY GRIFFIN,7 m. Peter Maverick, bank-note engraver, New York. EPHRAIM GRIFFIN,7 m. Effa, daughter of John Simpson. 9 Littell's "Early 161a EZEKIEL 5 SAYRE, born in Southampton, 1726. Settlers of Passaic Valley " mentions that an Ezekiel Sayre lived in 1788 on Stony Hill, near New Providence, N. J. Some of the descendants of Isaac (161) claim that he was a brother of Isaac. He may have been the Ezekiel who was Lieutenant of the Monmouth County, N. J., Militia during the Revolution. About 1790 he removed to Ohio in the vicinity of Cincinnati, locating a quarter section in Springfield Township, and later went to Reading, Hamilton County O. Daniel, CHILDREN. I PIERSON, b. Sept. 12, 1761; m. June 29, 1786, in New York, Catharine Lewis, CHILD. SARAH.7 2 BENJAMIN 6 was Sheriff of Warren Co., O. 3 RACHEL.6 4 LEVI,6 bp. Jan. 31, 1768; m. Ist, ; 2d, Jane Bell. The will of Levi Sayre was probated at Cincinnati April 25, 1825. It left to his wife Jane the use of his plantation in Springfield Township, Hamilton Co., as long as she remained his widow, and mentions the following named He was 6 HULDAH,6 m. Nov. 29, 1791, Col. John S. Wallace, at Cincinnati, O. LINE OF HANNAH COOPER, DANIEL,3 DANIEL.2 163 THOMAS COOPER, born in 1710; married Mary He resided in Southampton, where he died May 7, 1782. His will, dated 1771, is recorded in the surrogate's office, New York, in Liber XXXV. CHILDREN. 485* ELIAS COOPER,6 b. Sept. 30, 1734; m. Ruth Rogers. LINE OF HANNAH SMITH, DANIEL,3 DANIEL.2 168 WILLIAM SMITH,5 born July, 1720; married first, Mary Smith, daughter of Daniel Smith, of Smithtown. She was born 1735, and died April 23, 1758. He married second, Ruth Woodhull, daughter of Nathaniel Woodhull, and sister of General Nathaniel Woodhull, of Revolutionary memory. She died January 10, 1822, in her ninetieth year. He was a man of considerable rank during the Revolution. He always resided upon the paternal estate at Mastic. He was County Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for several years, and was ever after called "Judge Smith." He was a member of the first Provincial Congress. In 1777 he was elected a Senator, under the State Constitution, which office he retained till peace was declared in 1783. He died March 17, 1799. CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE. 493* JOHN SMITH, b. Feb. 12, 1756; m. 1st, Oct. 16, 1776, Lydia Fanning; 2d, in 1785, Elizabeth Platt; and 3d, Oct., 1792, Elizabeth Nicoll. 494 MARY SMITH,6 died in infancy. BY SECOND MARRIAGE. 495 CALEB SMITH,6 m. Harriet Bowditch, daughter of William Bowditch, of Shelter Island. He died in 1805 in New York. 496 MARY SMITH, b. May 12, 1763; m. Dr. Daniel Robert. 497 HANNAH SMITH,6 b. Oct. 4, 1764; m. Richard Woodhull, of Blooming 500* WILLIAM SMITH, b. April 30, 1769; m. 1791, Hannah Phoenix Smith. 501 PHILETAS SMITH,6 m. Phebe Tredwell. LINE OF ANNA MOORE, DANIEL,3 DANIEL.2 177 STEPHEN MOORE, born 1737; married April 21, 1761, Eunice Ford, daughter of Samuel Ford, who was born April 3, 1743. He removed from Long Island to Speedwell, near Morristown, Morris County, N. J., where he died, January 19, 1777, and his widow subsequently married. John Scott. CHILDREN. 509* HANNAH MOORE, b. 1761; m. Dec. 8, 1778, Davis Vail. 510 SARAH MOORE,6 m. Feb. 13, 1785, Nathaniel Zingley. CHILD. DANIEL ZINGLEY,7 killed by a railroad accident at Denville, N. J. Left a family at Palmyra, N. Y. 511 BETSY MOORE,6 m. Jackson Ayres, a brother of Polly Ayres. They moved to Ohio, then to Crawfordsville, Ind., where she died. 512 WILLIAM MOORE,6 m. Polly Ayres. 513* PHEBE MOORE,6 m. July 7, 1767, Abram Hedges. 514* EUNICE MOORE,6 b. April 19, 1770; m. Dec. 17, 1796, Robert Todd. 178 DAVID MOORE,5 married first, March 30, 1769, Bethia Cutler, daughter of Uriah and Rachel Campfield Cutler, who was baptized November 25 (14?), 1750. They united with the First Presbyterian Church in Morristown, July 18, 1773. He married second, CHILDREN BY FIRST MARRIAGE. 516 RACHEL MOORE, b. April 29, 1771, probably died in childhood. 517 PHEBE MOORE,6 b. Aug. 10, 1772; m. Anthony Cosart, and removed to the vicinity of Utica, N. Y. 518* LOAMMI MOORE,6 b. March 22, 1776; m. March 30, 1799, Huldah Byram. BY SECOND MARRIAGE. 519 HANNAH MOORE,6 m. Cooper, of Denville, Morris Co., N. J. CHILDREN. I STEPHEN COOPER,7 living at Denville, N. J. 2 DAVID COOPER,7 living at Franklin, Morris Co., N. J. 179 SILAS MOORE,5 b. -; settled in Morris Co., N. J. CHILDREN. 520 STEPHEN MOORE,6 moved to Vermont. 521 CEPHAS MOORE,6 moved to Vermont. Dickinson, and moved to Crown Point, N. Y. |