The Mulliners were English, and came to Little Egg Harbor before the Revolutionary War. The emigrants were Moses and Joseph Mulliner. Joseph Mulliner was the notorious refugee leader known in history as "Joe Mulliner." It is said that Joe Mulliner had no posterity. He had a wife but history is silent as to who she was. After his execution Joe Mulliner was buried in the forest near Batsto Furnace in Washington township, N.J.

Moses Mulliner, the other brother, was a worthy man, and enlisted as a soldier in the Continental army. He went as a substitute for Job, son of Nehemiah Mathis, Sr.

Moses Mulliner married Mary Holden, an English woman, whose mother married a second husband whose name was Moody, and they were the parents of John and Rebecca Moody. John Moody lost his life in the war of 1812. Rebecca Moody married Thomas Willits, Sr.

Moses Mulliner's children were John, Rebecca and Nancy.

John Mulliner married Amy, widow of Thomas Shourds, Sr., and had children John and Nathan L. Mulliner.

John Mulliner married Emeline, daughter of Enoch Mathis, and had children Enoch, Nathan, Marshal, John and Emeline.

Nathan L. Mulliner married Eliza Collins, of upper Burlington county, and had children Helen, Henry, Elizabeth, Joseph and Arabella.

Rebecca, daughter of Moses Mulliner, married Hananiah Gauntt, son of Joseph Gauntt, and had children Reuben, Joseph, Isaac, Hananiah, Moses, Mary, and there were two or three other sons whose names are not remembered.

Rebecca's second husband was James Ragen, Sr., and their children were Rebecca, James and Susan.

Rebecca Ragen married Joel Rose, and had children: Rebecca Ann, William and James. Her second husband was James Mott, and their children were Eldridge, Joel, Mary Elizabeth, Arabella and Susan.

James Hagen, Jr., married Achsah Jones. No children.

Susan Ragen married first Samuel Colkitt, and second Captain Joseph Bruce, a native of Scotland, but after his marriage a resident of Scituate, Massachusetts.

Nancy, daughter of Moses Mulliner, married Isaac, son of John and Susannah Ridgway. There were children but I cannot name them.

Some of the people of Egg Harbor are descendants of the Ellis's of upper Burlington county. I cannot trace out the family with much accuracy, therefore I shall state a few things taken from records, &c.

Rowland Ellis was a public Friend. He was born in the year 1650, in Merionetshire, North Wales, and in 1686 he came to Pennsylvania, and prepared a home for his family, and then went back to Wales, and in the year 1697, brought his family to reside in America. In early times there was a Margaret Ellis, who was a preacher among Friends. She was born in Wales, and came to Pennsylvania when well stricken in years. She died in Philadelphia.

In very early times, history mentions a Thomas Ellis, of upper Burlington county; and during the Revolutionary War there was a Colonel William Ellis, in the Continental army.

It is probable that my great-grandfather, Aaron Ellis, was a son of Thomas Ellis, of upper Burlington county, and he may have been a brother of Colonel William Ellis, and these men might have been the posterity of Rowland Ellis, who came from Wales.

Aaron Ellis was married before 1750, as the ages of his children prove by the following records taken from Aaron Ellis's Bible:

Ages of Aaron and Susannah Ellis's Children. - Leah Ellis, was born October 31st, 1750. Elizabeth Ellis, was born January 5th, 1755. Susannah Ellis, was born June 14th, 1756. Hannah Ellis, was born January 19th, 1762. Abigail Ellis, was born September 19th, 1763.

Leah Ellis was the wife of Job, son of Micajah Mathis, Sr. She was my father's mother, and her children were Micajah, Elihu and Ellis. I have heard my father say, that the late Isaac Ellis, of Ellisburg, Camden county, N.J., and father of Joseph Ellis, of that place, was his mother's cousin. Isaac Ellis might have been a son of Colonel William Ellis.

Elizabeth Ellis married a man by the name of Thrap or Thorp.

Susannah Ellis married Jacob, son of Jacob Ridgway, of Springfield.

Hannah Ellis married a Monroe of Mount Holly, and I think his name was George.

Abigal Ellis married ______ Woolston, and I think his name was George Woolston. They had one child, George Woolston, who married Rebecca, daughter of William Stockton. After her first husband's death, Abigail, his widow, married (I think) Robert Woolston, and resided in Mount Holly.

Aaron Ellis's wife and children, and perhaps himself, were members of the Baptist Church. Leah, wife of Job Mathis, resided twelve miles from Mannahawkin, where was a Baptist Church, and she used to ride on horseback to that place to attend the Baptist meeting.

Aaron Ellis's wife and daughter possessed superior educations, and were well accomplished in the lady-like occupations which were fashionable at that period of time. My grandmother was an expert in fancy needlework, some articles of which, I am carefully keeping as mementoes [sic] of her skill in fancy needle work. She is said to have been a very handsome woman and a perfect lady, with all the virtues of a true Christian. She died in the 1797, when my father was five years of age. At the time of her death she was 47 years of age.

I have not much knowledge of this family. In the year 1753, Ebenezer Gaskill and wife come from the upper portion of Burlington county, and settled somewhere within the limits of the Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting. They were members of the Quaker Church, and brought their certificates from the Burlington Monthly Meeting to the Egg Harbor Meeting. It is probable that Ebenezer Gaskill was the forefather of the Gaskills of West creek, Ocean county, and also of Egg Harbor, who are all of one blood.

Among the old-time Gaskills are William, Moses, Bethiah and Hannah, all of whom were brothers and sisters, and there might have been other brothers or sisters.

William Gaskill married Sarah Cranmer, and had children: Josiah, Reuben and Vincent. His second wife was Sarah, daughter of Benjamin Gifford, and her children were Sarah, Joseph, William, Barton, Samuel, Maria, George and Catharine. His third wife was Elizabeth Cathcart, and her children: Charles, Edward, Ezra, Benjamin, Hannah and Margaret, all of which sums up seventeen children.

Moses Gaskill married Rachel Sprague, and among their children were James, Orrin, and probably others.

Bethiah Gaskill married William Jones, and had children: Robert, Benjamin, Nancy, Sarah, Achsah, Nathaniel and Hanson.

Hannah Gaskill was the mother of Hudson Gaskill. She married John Perkins and had children: Joseph and Hannah.

The Joneses are descended from a Welshman who settled at Cranmertown. One of his posterity, Josiah Jones, married Mary Pharo, and had children: Jarvis, Fountain, Lloyd, Rebecca, Josiah, Asa, John, Ella and Martha.

Jarvis Jones married Elizabeth Cranmer. Fountain Jones married Sarah Cranmer. Lloyd Jones married Elizabeth Ivins and Elizabeth Andrews. Rebecca Jones married Hugh Ireland. Josiah Jones married Hannah Gaskill. Asa Jones married Mary Jane Falkinburg. John Jones married Martha Cowperthwaite. Ella Jones married John Smith. Martha Jones married Jacob Mathis.

My knowledge of the Rose family is rather limited. The Roses were not Quakers, therefore their marriages, &c., are not recorded in the Monthly Meeting Books.

Samuel Rose was among the early settlers, and located in Little Egg Harbor a generation or so before the Revolutionary War. His homestead was the farm adjoining Parkertown, on the westerly side of Rose's brook. Here he lived and died, and after his death the farm was divided between his two sons Samuel and William.

Samuel had the part that the dwelling house was on, and William had the westerly section. Samuel Rose, Sr., had children: Samuel, William, Martha, and there must have been a Thomas and an Ebenezer.

Samuel Rose, Jr., married Hannah Carman, of upper Burlington county, and had children: Charles, Samuel, Stockton, Job, John, Letitia and Kesiah.

Charles Rose's first wife was Sybella ______, of upper Burlington county, her children Mary, Andrew, Eber, Nathan and Francis. The second wife was Ann, daughter of Jacob Headley, and her children were Charles, Mary Ann, and Cordelia.

Mary Rose married James Parker. Eber Rose married Nancy Jones. Nathan Rose married Eliza Engle. Francis Rose married Sarah, widow of James Willits, and mother of Alphonza A. Willits, D.D. Charles Rose married Prudence Burton. Mary Ann Rose married Joseph Wisham. Cordelia Rose married William Reynolds.

Samuel Rose, 3rd, no account of whom he married. Many of the Roses settled in other places and nothing known of them or their posterity.

Stockton Rose married Bathsheba Troth, of upper Burlington county, and among their children were Mary, who married Hananiah Gauntt, 3rd. Rebecca, who married Chalkley Seaman. Hannah, who married Philip McCloskey.

Job Rose married Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas Shourds, Sr. They were childless. Job Rose was constable of the township of Little Egg Harbor, for a long term of years, and he and his wife were prominent members of the Methodist church.

John Rose married Jeannett, widow of Thomas Ridgway, 3d. They emigrated to the State of New York. John was a local preacher among the Methodists.

Letitia Rose married Amos Pharo, 2d, and had children: William, John, Charles, Aaron, Hannah, Lydia, Catharine, Ann, Louisa and Abigail.

Kesiah Rose married Hezekiah Smith, and had children: Peter, Samuel, William, Benjamin, Hezekiah, Elvin, Eliza and Sarah. Elvin Smith married Jemima Headley, and all the rest of the children of Hezekiah Smith left their native place and married strangers.

Second Branch of Samuel Rose, Sr.'s, Family. - William, son of Samuel Rose, Sr., married Mary, daughter of Semor Cranmer, and had children: William, Mary, Semor, James, Jesse and Joel.

Mary Rose married James White, of Pasquatonk, North Carolina, and had children: William, Reuben, Maria, Semor, Eliza, Sarah, James, Ann, Lucinda M. and Robert.

William White married ______ Stockton, of Burlington city.

Reuben White married Hannah, daughter of Captain Hezekiah Brown, Sr., and had children: Barton, John, Wesly and Micajah.

Maria White married ______ Camp. Semor White married Maria Palmer, and had children: William, Adeline and Hannah Ann.

Eliza White married William Hughes. Sarah White married Hezekiah Brown, Jr., and had children: Daniel, Mary, Hannah, Micajah, Margarett, William, James Thomas, Eliza and Hezekiah.

Lucinda M. White married a Mr. Lafour, of Philadelphia.

Semon Rose married Martha Devinny, and had a large family of children.

Joel Rose married Rebecca Roger, and had children: Rebecca, Ann, William and James.

Third Branch of Samuel Rose, Sr.'s, Family. - Martha, daughter of Samuel Rose, Sr., married Captain John Leak, Sr., of Bass River. Martha Rose is said to have been as beautiful as a rose. She had children: Samuel, William, George, Mary, Achsah, Martha, Phoebe, and there may have been another girl.

Samuel Leak married Sarah, daughter of Micajah Mathis, Sr.

William Leak married Catharine Loveland.

George Leake married Hepsabah Grant.

Mary Leak married Joseph Allen, Esq., and had children: Joseph, William, Thomas, George, Phoebe, Achsah, Sarah, Mary, Eliza, and Martha. William Allen married Rebecca Sears. Thomas Allen, Anne Cranmer. George Allen, Abigail French. Phoebe Allen, Captain Josiah Cale, Sr. Achsah Allen, Captain John Carlisle. Sarah Allen, Recompense Darby. Mary Allen, Ebenezer T. Deacon. Eliza Allen, Samuel Deacon, Jr. Martha Allen, Captain Samuel Cavileer.

Achsah Leak married Chalkley Cranmer, and had one child, Caleb Cranmer. Her second husband was Captain Josephus Sears, and their children were Chalkley, William, and Jesse R. Sears, Martha, ______ Clark, of Atlantic county, N.J.

Phoebe Leak married Captain John Towers.

A large number of the people of Bass River, and the descendants of Martha Rose, and many of the people of Tuckerton, and West creek, are the descendants of Samuel Rose, Sr.

There was an Ebenezer Rose who must have been a son of Samuel Rose, Sr. This Ebenezer had a son, John, who had a son Henry, who was the father of T.F. Rose, one of the Proprietors of the New Jersey Coast Atlas.

Among the old-time Methodist ministers there was a Thomas Rose, of Little Egg Harbor, and he also must have been a son of Samuel Rose, Jr.

There are Roses in Atlantic county, N.J., and it is probable they are descendants of a brother of Samuel Rose, Sr.

The Roses are of English extraction.

In England there have been several men of the name of Gifford who were distinguished characters. History speaks of a Lord John Gifford who owned and lived in one of the old-time castles which be greatly improved, and Sir Walter Scott speaks of a Lord John Gifford who was taken prisoner at the battle of Bannockburn - probably the above-named Lord Gifford. In a history of the city of Worcester, England; it is stated that in the year 1281, the first pavement was laid in that city, and that Godfrey Gifford, the Bishop, laid the first stone. Sir Walter Scott speaks of William Gifford, a knight, and at a later date there was an English author by the name of Gifford, and there are Giffords in America, of whom honorable mention is made.

Jonathan Gifford, Sr., came from England and settled in New Jersey, it is said in Ocean county, and it is further affirmed that he had sons: Jonathan, William, Abraham and Benjamin.

Jonathan Gifford, 2d, was the son of William Gifford, Sr., and Catharine, his wife, and had children: Jonathan, Benjamin, Mary and Elizabeth.

Jonathan Gifford, 2d, was born 1740, and died 29th, 7th mo., 1825. He married Hannah Jennings, daughter of Thomas and Ann Jennings. Hannah Jennings was born 1735, and died 16th, 5th mo., 1823.

Jonathan Gifford and Hannah Jennings were married in the Little Egg Harbor Friends' Meeting 10th, 12th mo., 1759.

Jonathan Gifford, 2nd, bought the place now called the Levi Gifford farm of John Ridgway, Sr. He settled on this farm where he ended his days at an advanced age. His children were Thomas, William, Hannah, Catharine, Anne, Elizabeth, Jonathan and Joshua.

First Branch of Jonathan Gifford, 2nd's, Family. - Thomas Gifford married Mary, widow of Reuben Soper, Sr., of Barnegat, and daughter of Jeremiah Mathis, of Egg Harbor. Their children were Isaac, Eli and Hannah.

Isaac Gifford married Hannah, daughter of Eli Mathis. Their children were Esther, Eli, Mary, Rachel, Charlotte, Leah, Hannah and Isaac Ellis.

Esther Gifford married Thomas Gifford.

Mary Gifford married Elisha Berry. They have one son, Isaac Lewis Berry.

Rachel Gifford married Daniel, son of Aaron Mathis.

Eli, son of Charlotte Gifford, married Anna, daughter of James Kennedy. He is the Rev. Eli Gifford of the Methodist denomination.

Leah Gifford married Mandolph Reynolds.

Hannah Gifford married Daniel Loveland.

Isaac Ellis Gifford married Sarah, daughter of Phineas Burton, Jr.

Eli, son of Thomas Gifford, Sr., married Susan Stiles. Their children were Charles, Mary, Francis Julia, Sarah Jane and Amelia.

Mary, daughter of Eli Gifford, Sr., married Thomas Sleeper, son of Rev. Joseph Sleeper.

Hannah, daughter of Thomas Gifford, Sr., married David Gifford.

Second Branch. - William Gifford married Hannah, daughter of Rehaboam and Jemima Braddock, of Medford, N.J.

William Gifford was born 5th mo., 29th, 1772, and died 12th mo., 28th, 1863, aged about 91 years. Hannah, his wife, was born 15th, 9th mo., 1772, and died 1st, 7th mo., 1851. Their children were Jemima, born 12th, 3rd mo., 1798. Jonathan, born 16th, 8th mo., 1800. Rehaboam, born 23rd, 11th mo., 1802. Job, born 22d, 2d mo., 1805. Thomas, born 28th, 8th mo., 1807. William, born 29th, 7th mo., 1810, and died 22d, 10th mo., 1816. John D., was born 14th, 5th mo., 1813. Anne, 14th, 2d mo., 1816. Jonathan, son of William Gifford, was lost at sea 5th, 12th mo., 1830. Rehaboam Gifford died 22d, 1st mo., 1847. Job Gifford died 1st mo., 1847.

William Gifford's father gave him the John Mott farm, on which he resided at the time of his decease.

Jonathan, son of William Gifford, married Esther, daughter of Eli Mathis, 2d. Jonathan Gifford was lost at sea with Captain John Shourds. Jonathan and Esther Gifford's children were Elton and Jemima Ann.

Elton Gifford is a merchant in Philadelphia. He has had two wives. His first wife was Deborah Yarnall, and his second wife Mary Parnell.

Job Gifford married Ann, daughter of Eli Mathis, 2d. Their children were William, Eli, Judith and Hannah.

William Gifford went to the West, where he married a stranger.

Eli Gifford married Lucy Ann, daughter of Collins Truax.

Judith Gifford married ______ Reed, and went to the West.

Hannah Gifford marrried Joseph Chew.

Rehoboam Gifford married Nancy Chew. Their children were Jonathan, Hannah Ann and Martha.

Thomas Gifford married ______ Gifford. Their children were Phoebe Ann, Ellen, Hope, Charles, Thomas Chalkley, Ann Eliza, Marietta, Leah, Jonathan, Louisa and George.

Hope Gifford married, first, Edward Williams, and second, William Rose.

Marietta Gifford married George Walker.

Chalkley Gifford married Sarah Cole.

John D. Gifford married Phoebe, widow of Robert Rutter, and daughter of James Cranmer. Their children were William, ______ and Anna.

William Gifford married Emma Huston.

______ Gifford married Anna Fulton.

Anna Gifford married Edward Hopkins.

Anna, daughter of William Gifford, married James French, of Medford. Their children were Hannah Ann, Charles, Mary Emma, Jean and Robert.

Jemima, daughter of William Gifford, married Barzilla Collins, of Medford. Their children were William, John, Jonathan, Charles and Barzilla.

Joshua, son of Jonathan Gifford, 2d, married Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Mott. They had one child, Elizabeth, who married, first, David Garretson, and second, ______ Adams.

Third Branch. - Jonathan Gifford, 3d, son of Jonathan Gifford, 2d, was one of the strictest of strict Quakers, and for a long time he was an elder in the meeting. He was a friend to education, and took great interest in the schools of the township. He married Melissa, daughter of Isaac Andrews, a woman who was loved and respected for her truly amiable disposition and Christian deportment, and I thought her

Jonathan and Melissa Gifford's children were Joseph, Joshua, Asa, Mordecai, Levi, Isaac, Melissa, Catharine and Ann.

Joseph Gifford married Rachael Brown, a widow, whose maiden name was Young. She was a native of Massachusetts, and after Gifford's death, she and her children went to reside in Massachusetts. Their children were Joseph, Jonathan, Asa, Russel, Phoebe and Rachel.

Joshua Gifford married Sarah Teal, of Salem county, N.J. Their children were William, Elizabeth, Angeline, Jonathan and Albert.

William Gifford resides in Philadelphia, where he married Elaxina Gregory.

Elizabeth Gifford married Joseph Hulse, of Freehold, N.J.

Mordecai Gifford married Mary Ann ______. Their children: Sarah, Maria, Charles, Kate, Edward and Anna.

Levi Gifford married Mary ______. Their children: Frances, Henry George, Fortiner, Joshua, Saida, Lincoln and Isaac.

Isaac Gifford married Mary Ann Crane. Their children: Asa, Thomas, Angeline, Melissa, Jonathan and Kate.

Melissa Gifford married John Fuller, of Vermont. No living children. Catharine and Ann Gifford unmarried.

Fourth Branch. - Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Gifford, 2d, in the year 1781, married Joshua Peacock, of New Freedom, near Berlin. They had five children, three of whose names were William, who married ____ ______, and left several children now residing in Camden county. Joseph, who married Tamor Penn, and had sons: George, Samuel, Joshua, and daughter Tamor. Anne, and the other two daughters' names unknown. One of them married Samuel C. Thackara, of Haddonfield, N.J. Samuel C. Thackara left one son, Benjamin, of Philadelphia; and another married William Parker, near Darnell's mills, Upper Evesham, N.J. William Parker died at Haddonfield, leaving sons: Isaac, Jonathan, Joshua and others.

Fifth Branch. - In the year 1786, Catharine Gifford, daughter of Jonathan, 2d, married Jacob Famuline, 2d, and settled near Chilocothe, Ohio. Their children: Hannah, Jonathan, Anne, Charles and Jacob.

Sixth Branch. - In the year 1782, Anne Gifford, daughter of Jonathan, 2d, married Isaac Dukemaneer, and moved to Ohio. Their children were Elizabeth, Hannah, Anne and Isaac.

Elizabeth Dukemaneer married Gershom Perdue.

Hannah Dukemaneer married Thomas Wills. Anne died unmarried. Isaac married Ann Dorell.

Seventh Branch. - Elizabeth, daughter of Jonathan Gifford, 2d, married Eli, son of Caleb Cranmer, Sr., and had children: Lavinia, Hannah, Eli and Clayton.

Eighth Branch. - Joshua, son of Jonathan Gifford, 2d, married Elizabeth Mott, and had one child, Elizabeth, who married David Garrison, and then Evi Adams. The children by Garrison were Joshua, Samuel and David.

Second Branch of William Gifford, Sr.'s, Family. - Benjamin, son of William Gifford, Sr., and Catharine, his wife, married ______ Johnson, of Atlantic county, and had children: Lionel, who married Jerusha ______, of Atlantic county, N.J., and had children: Elizabeth, William and Phoebe. Benjamin Gifford's other children were Michael, Benajah, David, Aaron, Sarah and Mary.

Aaron Gifford married Susan Price, of Atlantic county, N.J.

Sarah Gifford was the second wife of William Gaskill, Sr., and the mother of Sarah, William, Barton, Samuel, Maria, Catharine, Joseph and George.

Sarah Gaskill married Jeremiah Horner. Their children: Joseph, Elizabeth, Sarah Ann, Mary, Ann, Thomas, Samuel, Alonzo, William and Jeremiah.

William Gaskill, Jr., married Ann Eliza Shourds. Their children: Eliza, William, Rockhill, Sarah, Josiah, Lloyd, Amy, Susan and Thomas.

Barton Gaskill married Sarah Mott. Their children were Enoch, Maria, Josephine, Norwood, and two sons.

Samuel Gaskill married in New York.

Maria Gaskill married Jeremiah Sprague. Their children: James, Reuben, Henry, Sarah, Ann Eliza, Phoebe.

Reuben married Amanda Andrews, Sarah, William Kelley, Ann Eliza, ______ Willits.

Michael Gifford married ______ Stanton. Their children were Daniel, Mary, Eliza, Sarah and Hannah.

Mary Stanton married Morford Horner. Their children: Peter, Edward, Charles, Eliza and Alfred.

Peter Horner married Eliza Gaskill.

Charles Horner married Louisa Wilson.

Edward Horner married Sabra Walton.

Eliza Horner married Captain Job Anderson.

Eliza Stanton married George ______, of Philadelphia. Their children: Adelbert, Thomas and Edwin.

Sarah Stanton married Mahlon King.

Mary Gifford was the second wife of Ziba Mathis, and the mother of Benajah, John, George. Robert, Elizabeth and Harriet.

Third Branch of William Gifford, Sr.'s, Family. - Mary, daughter of William Gifford, Sr., married Jacob Petit, of Tuckerton. No account of their posterity.

Fourth Branch of William Gifford, Sr.'s, Family. - Elizabeth, daughter of William Gifford, Sr., married John Mott. He was a Tory, and had to seek refuge in Nova Scotia.

I cannot trace the descendants of Jonathan Gifford, Sr.

Abraham Gifford, at an early age, was a resident of Little Egg Harbor.

Hannah Gifford, who married Joseph Bartlett, Jr., must have been a sister of William Gifford, Sr., or else a daughter of one of his brothers. She had a daughter, Phoebe, who lived to old age, and died unmarried. These women, probably, were the daughters of Abraham Gifford.

Hannah Gifford, who married Joseph Bartlett, 2d, was the grandmother of Hannah, wife of Timothy Pharo, of Tuckerton. Her grandmother Bartlett brought her up.

Joseph Bartlett and his wife's children, were John, Mabel, Rachel, Phoebe and Mary.

John Bartlett married Elizabeth Sooy. Mabel Bartlett married Maja Mathis, Esq. Rachel Bartlett married Asa Mathis, brother of Maja. Phoebe Bartlett married James Willits, 3d, and was the mother of Hannah, Anne, Archibald, Joseph, John, Mary and Rachel Willits.

Mary Bartlett married John Willits, Sr., and was the mother of Asa, Phoebe, Charlotte, Hannah, Martha and Naomi Wlllits. All of Maja Mathis, Esq.'s, posterity, all of Asa Mathis' ditto, James Willits' 3d, do., John Willits, Sr.'s, do., and John Bartlett's do., are the posterity of the first Jonathan Gifford.