The years in which some of the settlers came to Monmouth is given in their claims made in 1675, for "Rights of land due according to Grants and Concessions made by the Proprietors." A record of these claims is preserved in the office of Surveyor General of East Jersey at Perth Amboy, from which the following extracts are made: It will he seen that under the "Grants and Concessions," the men named in the Monmouth Patent were allowed 500 acres each; then each man and wife 120 acres each; then allowances for children, and also for servants.

The names of most of the early settlers of Monmouth are given in Proprietors' Records at Perth Amboy, but in a majority of cases, the year is not given when they came. Very many to whom warrants for land were issued in 1675 and subsequently, had been settlers for a number of years previous.

The following list of warrants gives names of persons who claimed land under Grants and Concessions and the amounts granted them:

1675. Here begins the Rights of Land due according to Concessions:

Richard Stout, of Middletown, brings for his rights for himself, his wife, his two sons, John and Richard, 120 acres each, 480 acres. Item.- For his sons and daughters that are to come of age since the year 1667, viz: James, Peter, Mary, Alice and Sarah, each 60 acres - 300 acres. Total, 780 acres.

John Stout, of Middletown, for himself and wife. 240 acres, Richard Stout in his own right, Shrewsbury, 120 acres; James Stout in his own right, 60 acres; Peter Stout in his own right, 60 acres; Sarah Stout in her own right, 60 acres; James Bound (Bowne) in right of himself and wife, Mary Stout, 240 acres; John Throckmorton in right of himself and wife, Alice Stout, 240 acres.

Thomas Whitlock, of Middletown, for his rights from the year 1664 for himself, wife and three sons, Thomas, William and John, in all, five persons, at 120 per head, 600 acres.

Katherine Brown, the widow of Bartholomew West, of Shrewsbury, in right of herself and deceased husband, from 1666, 90 acres each- 180 acres; and for her two sons and daughter, Stephen, William and Audry West, 60 each- 180 acres.

Nicholas Brown in his own right from 1665, 120 acres, and his wife's from 1666, 90 acres -210 acres.

Captain John Bowne, of Middletown, for his rights, 18th March, 1675, 500 acres, as being a first purchaser -500 acres. Item.- For rights of himself and wife, his father, mother, and for William Compton and his wife from first year, 120 acres each, 780 acres; three servants at 60 acres each, 180 acres.

Jonathan Holmes demands for his 500 acres, given by the Lords Proprietors as being one of the Patentees under first purchase at Navesink, and in right of self and wife, 240 acres - 740 acres.

Obadiah Holmes for self and wife, 240 acres.

Edward Smith, Middletown, self, 120 acres.

James Ashton, self and wife, 240 acres.

Thomas Cox, self and wife, 240 acres.

John Throckmorton and wife from first year, 240 acres; and in right of his father, John, 240 acres.

Job Throckmorton, self, 120 acres.

Charles Hynes (Haynes?) and wife, 240 acres.

Joseph Huet in right of Randall Huet and wife, 240 acres.

Sarah Reape demands for her rights: In right of Benjamin Speare, Shrewsbury, 240 acres; John Horndell Shrewsbury, 240 acres; Thomas Dungan, Shrewsbury, 240 acres; James Leonard, Shrewsbury, 240 acres; Marmaduke Ward, Shrewsbury, 240 acres; William James, half share, Shrewsbury, 120 acres; Self and husband, Shrewsbury, 240 acres, Self and husband, Middletown, 240 acres; Samuel Borden, three-fourth share, Shrewsbury, 90 acres; Joseph Bryer, 120 acres- 2010 acres.

Christopher Allmey demands for his rights, Imp'd for himself and wife and three servants in the year 1665, at 120 acres a head, which is in part in fence, 600 acres; in right of John Hall, who came same year, 120 acres; in right of Henry Bull, one of the first purchasers, 120 acres, in right of Henry Piersie and wife from the year 1666, 180 acres; man servant, 60 acres- 1080 acres.

Jonathan Holmes as being a first purchaser, 500 acres; and for self and wife, 240 acres; Obadiah Holmes and wife, 240 acres, Edward Smith, 120 acres; James Ashton and wife, 240 acres; Thomas Cox and wife, 240 acres; John Throckmorton and wife, 240 acres; John Throckmorton for his father, John, 240 acres; Job Throckmorton, self, 120 acres.

Warrants for tracts of land to be subsequently located and surveyed, were issued by the Proprietors to the following among other persons:

1675. Nicholas Brown, 210 acres; Thomas Wainright and wife 180 acres; Katherine Brown, late widow of Bartholomew West, in right of her deceased husband, 180 acres; Stephen, William and Audry West, 60 acres each, 180 acres; Edward Lafetra and wife, 180 acres; Robert West. 120 acres; Abraham Brown and wife, 120 acres; Joseph Parker and wife, 240 acres; Richard Stout, Jr., and wife, 120 acres; Richard Stout, Sr , and wife, 780 acres; John Stout, 120 acres; James, Peter and Mary Stout, 60 each, 180 acres; Richard Hartshorne, 200 acres; Peter Parker, 180 acres; Francis Le Maistre, 240 acres; Clement and Pauline Masters, 120 acres; Thomas Wright, self and wife, 180 acres; Gabriel Stelle, 120 acres.

1676. Christopher Allmey in right of self, wife and others, 1080 acres.

Sarah Reape in right of ten persons, 2010.

John Throckmorton, 480 acres; Job Throckmorton, 120 acres; James Ashton, 240 acres; Thomas Cox, 240 acres, Joseph Huet, 210 acres; James Bowne, 240 acres; Thomas Warne, 240 acres; Stephen Arnold, 360 acres; Hannaniah Gifford and wife, 240 acres; Thomas Leeds, Sr., and wife, 120 acres; William Leeds and wife, Dorothea. 120 acres; Daniel Leeds and wife, Anne, 120 acres; Thomas Leeds, Jr., 120 acres; Clement Shinn and Eliza his wife, 120 acres; George Shinn, 60 acres; Thomas Jacob and wife, 120 acres; William Heyden, 60 acres.

1676. Thomas Cook, 60 acres; John Champners, 60 acres; William Shattock, 360.

Samuel Spicer, for his rights from Lords Proprietors, 500 acres; and for self and wife, 240 acres- 740 acres.

Col. Lewis Morris, (for iron works,) about 3,000 acres.

John Hance, 330 acres; Richard Richardson, 150 acres; John Wilson, 240 acres; James Grover, (500 and 360)- 860 acres; Peter Tilton (500 and 570)- 1070 acres; Richard Gibbons, 500 acres; Sarah Reape, 500; Nathaniel Silvester, 500 acres; James Grover, Sr., 400 acres; Henry Leonard, (450 and 360)- 750 acres; Richard Sadler, 240 acres; John Jobs, 120 acres; George Jobs, 120 acres; Francis Harbert, 120 acres; Thomas Harbert, (132 and 240)- 372 acres; Benjamin Devell (Deuell), 250 acres; John Vaughan, 135 acres.

1676. Walter Wall and wife, 240 acres; William Layton and wife, 240 acres; John Smith and wife, 240 acres; Richard Dans and wife, 120 acres; Daniel Estell and wife, 120 acres; James Dorsett and wife, 240 acres; George Mount and wife, 240 acres; William Cheeseman, 120 acres; Thomas Morford, 120 acres; John Williams and wife, 240 acres; Henry Marsh, 120 acres; William Whitelock, 120 acres; John Whitelock, 120 acres.

Richard Hartshorne, in right of servants that he hath brought, 90 acres each, 270 acres; right of William Golding and wife, 240 acres; right of Robert Jones and wife, 240 acres- 750.

William Lawrence, in right of self and sister, Hannah Lawrence, 240 acres.

John Havens and wife, 240 acres; William Worth and wife, 240 acres; Morris Worth, 120 acres.

1677. Caleb Shrife (Shrieve), in right of John Cooke, 240 acres; John Slocum and wife, 240 acres; Benjamin Burdan and wife, 240 acres; John Hance, wife and man servant, 360 acres; in right of John Foxall, 240 acres; in right of Thorlogh Swiney, 240 acres; Edward Wharton and wife, 240 acres; Francis Borden in right of Nathaniel Tompkins, 240 acres; and for self and wife, 240 acres- 480; John Borden and wife, 240 acres.

Sarah Reape, in right of Thos. Winterton and wife, 240 acres; also Christopher Fasze(?) and wife, 240 acres; also Gabriel Hicks and wife, 240 acres; also Marmaduke Ward, 240 acres; also William James, 120 acres; also self and husband, 240 acres; also Samuel Borden, 90 acres- 1410.

1676. Hugh Dikeman, wife and daughter, 360 acres.

Abraham Brown and wife, 240 acres, and in right Peter Tilton and wife, 240 acres- 480; Isaac Ouge and wife, 120 acres; John Ruckman and wife, 240 acres; Richard Lippencott, wife and two sons and two servants, 600 acres; John Lippencott and wife, 240 acres; John Woolley and wife, 120 acres; Eliakim Wardell, in right of Nicholas Davis, ten shares, 480 acres; Thomas Ward and wife, 240 acres; Stephen Arnold and wife, in right Samuel Holeman, 560 acres; George Hulett and wife, 240 acres; Thomas Barnes, wife and maid servant, 180 acres.

1677. Thomas Applegate, Sr., 240 acres; Thomas Applegate, Jr., 120 acres; John King, 60 acres; Ebenezer Cottrell, 120 acres; Thomas Williams, 60 acres, Adam Channelhouse, 240 acres; Restue Lippencott and wife, 240 acres; Peter Easton and wife, 240 acres; Peter Tilton, in right of his brother John and wife, 240 acres; Gideon Freeborn and wife, 240 acres; Jacob Cole and wife, 240 acres; Benjamin Rogers and wife, 120 acres; Remembrance Lippencott and wife, 240 acres; Judah Allen, in right of Annanias Garrett, 240 acres; Judah Allen, in right Daniel Gould, 120 acres; Judah Allen, in right Joshua Coggeshall, 120 acres; Annaniah Gifford, in right Wm. Gifford, 120 acres; Eliakim Wardell and wife, 240 acres; Eliakim Wardell, for Robert Story and wife, 240 acres; Samuel Woolcott and wife, 240 acres; Hannah Jay alias Hannah Cook, 60 acres; Samuel Hatton (no amount).

1678 Daniel Applegate, 120 acres; Samuel Leonard, 240 acres; Nathaniel Leonard, 120 acres; Thomas Leonard, 120 acres; Henry Leonard, Jr., 120 acres; John Leonard, 120 acres; Samuel Willett and wife, 120 acres; Lewis Mattex, three tracts, Cornelius Steenmen, adjoining lands; William Lawrence, in right of original purchaser, for self, wife and son, 360 acres.

1679. Roger Ellis, 440 acres; William Compton, 280 acres; Nicholas Serrah, 80 acres; Isaac Bryan, 840 acres; Jacob Triax, (Truex) 120 acres; Peter Parker, George Parker, Stephen West, John Jerson, Christopher Gifford, Jarret Wall and wife, 120 acres; Randall Huet and wife, 240 acres; Derrick Tuneson and wife, 240 acres; Joshua Silverwood and wife, 120 acres. Safety Grover and wife, 120 acres; Jacob Triax (Truax), 120 acres; Robert Hamilton, 100 acres; Thomas Potter, wife, son and daughter, at Deale, 500 acres; Francis Jeffrey, at Deale, 120 acres; Isaac Bryan, Poplar Swamp, self, wife, four children and eight servants, 840 acres.

1681. Patents, or confirmations of titles for land were granted to Gideon Freeborn, Hannah Joy, Henry Bowman, Caleb Shrieff, (Shrieve), Peter Easton, John Williams, George Parker, Nathaniel Cammack, Samuel Wolcott, Francis Jeffries, Daniel Leeds, Joseph Wardell, John Chamnis, Restre Lippencott, Remembrance Lippencott, John Lippencott, Christopher Gifford, Morris Worth, Annanias Gifford, Edward Wharton, Henry Marsh, John Slocum, Nathaniel Slocum, Thomas Potter, Elizabeth Hatton, Job Havens, Samuel Spicer, William Shattock, John Hance, Peter Parker, John Clayton, Stephen West, Edmond Lafetra, William West, Francis Parden, (Purdaine ?), John Chambers, Robert West, Thomas Hilborne, Tobias Hansen, John Borden, John Worthley, Hugh Dickman, William Worth, Eliakim Wardell, John Jerson, Benjamin Rogers.

In 1685 to Richard Gardiner, Samuel Colver, Garret Wall, and George Corlies.

In 1686 to Gershom Bowne, George Mount, Safety Grover, James Grover, Jr., Joseph West, George Keith, Robert Hamilton and Francis Jackson.

In 1687 to William Shadock, Edward Williams, Thomas Eatone, Jacob Lippencott, Thomas Huet, Abigail Lippencott, Francis Borden, John Borden, Peter White, John Cranford, John Brea (Bray), Samuel White, Job Jenkins and Nathaniel Parker.

In 1688, Mordecai Gibbons in right of his father, Richard Gibbons, had confirmed to him a tract of 540 acres. And so called "head lands" were granted to James Paul and Isabel, bis wife, 30 acres; Robert and Mary Cole, 30 acres; Archibald Siliver and Christiana, his wife, 30 acres; also patent to Thomas and Richard Hankinson, 120 acres.

In 1689 Rebecca Coward, a servant of William Duckura, had a patent for 30 acres, which she transferred to John Bowne.

In 1692 Richard Hartshorne had patent in right of Walter Clark, of R. I., one of the patentees, 500 acres.

In 1693 Thomas Webley had patent in right of Stephen and Audry West.

In 1697 patents were given to Gershom Mott and John Chamberlain.