DAVIS- Nicholas Davis of Rhode Island was one of the twelve men to whom was granted the Monmouth patent in 1665, and he is also named among those who paid for a share of land in 1667. He had 480 acres. Nicholas Davis, the patentee, was a freemen of Barnstable, in Plymouth Colony 1643. About 1656-7 he joined the Quakers, and July 14, 1659, he was arrested at Boston, where he had gone to trade and kept in prison until September, when he was banished, with Mary Dyer, under pain of death if they returned. Mary Dyer subsequently returned and was hanged on Boston Common. Thomas and James Davis were taxed in Middletown 1761, and William Davis in Shrewsbury 1764.

DAVISON- William Davison is named in deeds, 1691, and subsequently; he was a carpenter and his will was dated Freehold, April 6, 1723. James Davison lived in Freehold, 1776.

DE BOOGH, DE BOGH, DEBOW- Frederick De Bogh, innholder of Monmouth, bought land 1715-22 of John Romine and w. Gertie. William De Bowe, Monmouth, and w. Elizabeth sold land to William Cox, 1802. Lawrence Debow was taxed in Upper Freehold, 1758.

DE HART- Elias, or Elyas De Hart, an early settler of Old Shrewsbury, was a son of Simon Aertsen De Hart who came to this country in 1664. Morris De Hart was a tax payer in Shrewsbury, 1764.

DENISE- Jacques Denise (spelled Denys) and Hendrick Hendrickson of New Utrecht, L.I., bought land, 1719. Tunis Denise of Utrecht, L.I., bought land in Freehold, 1720. The common ancestor of the Denise family was Tennis Nyssen or De Nyse, who emigrated as early as 1638, from Holland. He resided then in New Amsterdam, now New York. In the Revolutionary war Dennis Denice was Major in 3rd Regiment of Monmouth. Daniel Denise was a private in Captain Waddell's company, Fourth Regiment. In a list of patriots of Monmouth who signed a pledge regarding retaliation for Refugee depredations during the Revolution, are the names of Daniel Denise and Jaques Denise.

DENNIS- Samuel Dennis was born about 1650, in Great Britain, settled in Shrewsbury 1675; he had w. Increase, two sons and three daus. He was foreman of grand jury 1690, and a justice of the court from 1700 to his death in 1723. His only w. was Increase, who departed this life twenty-eight yrs. before him. The name Dennis occurs among original settlers of Woodbridge, where Robert, John and Samuel Dennis were among the first.

DENYKE- Conraed Denyke bought land of Samuel Warne and Margaret his w. in 1727. Probably the name was meant for Conraed Tenyke or Ten Eyck as the name is now generally given.

DEVILL, DEUELL- William Deuel] of Newport, R.I., bought Mark Lucas' share of land in Monmouth. In 1672, father, William, was an early settler in Plymouth Colony, named there 1640.

DEVEREAUX- John Devereaux, during the last century came to this country from Ireland, but his ancestor came from Evreaux in Normandy, and hence received the name of D'Evreaux.

DE WILDEY- The will of John De Wildey of Monmouth county, dated March 30th, 1708, proved Aug. 20th, 1708, named dau. Dinah. Executors. Anthony Woodward and Richard Salter.

DEY, DYE- Isaac Dye bought 51 acres of land of John Antonides in Monmouth county in 1737. In the Revolutionary war, John Dey, Josiah Dey and Cyrus Dey were soldiers in the patriot army, the latter in Captain Kenneth Hankinson's company.

DIKEMAN, DYCKMAN- Hugh Dyckman was appointed "Schepen," or magistrate, in Monmouth by the Dutch during their brief supremacy in 1673. Dyckman, who came to America was Joannes who came in 1652. The Hugh Dikeman of Monmouth seems to have been of another line.

DILLON- James Dillon had land at Toms River in 1762. It is said he owned, in 1763, Dillon's Island, now Island Heights, which, in 1774. was referred to in a deed of John Coward, who bought land on the opposite side of Toms River. He had a dau. who m. Aaron Buck and she and her husband had two daus., one of whom m. Judge Ebenezer Tucker, from whom Tuckerton derives its name, and the other dau. m. John Rogers, ancestor of families of that name in Berkeley. James Dillon was a soldier in the Continental army. William Dillon, brother of James, was an unprincipled Refugee, who is noticed in account of Refugee raids; it was probably he that instigated the burning of Toms River. In 1783 he went to St. John, N.B., where he was given a town lot. The lands of John Dillon, north side Toms River, are referred to in 1787 in a deed to James Parker.

DORSETT- James Dorsett is named as a juror 1676-8. In 1677 he took up 202 acres of land from proprietors. His cattle mark is given in the old Middletown Town Hook. His will was dated Sept. 26, 1741. The will of Samuel Dorset of Middletown, was dated Sep. 10, 1741. In 1741 John Dorset was an administrator on estate of John Carman of Middletown. Among the soldiers from Monmouth in the Revolutionary army were: Benjamin, John, Samuel, James and Joseph Dorset, the latter in Capt. Dennis' company. A dau. of John Dorsett m. James Wall, who was father of General Garret Dorsett Wall, once Senator from New Jersey. Thos. I. Bedle, father of Ex-Gov. Joseph Dorsett Bedle, m. Hannah Dorsett. Four or five generations of the Dorsett family lie buried in the Dorsett burying ground, on the Dorsett farm (lately owned by John Stilwell, deceased) about three miles from Matawan. The tradition in the family says that the founder of the Dorsett family came from Bermuda.

DOUGLASS- Thomas Douglass is named in a bond of John Salter 1716. This bond is in possession of James G. Crawford, near Freehold. Richard Douglass, of Monmouth, was m. to Lydia Salter, March 10, 1740. William Douglass, of Monmouth, had license to m. Rebecca Lawrence, Jan. 9, 1734. Thomas Douglass, of Monmouth, had license to m. Rachel De Bow Aug. 20, 1773.

DOVE- Alexander Dove d. Oct. 7, 1736, and was buried in Topanemus burying ground; will was dated Sept. 29, 1736. It is probable that he came from Shropshire, England, about the year 1700. He took up numerous tracts of land in what is now called Ocean county, and had a mill near the line of Ocean and Monmouth. He was assessed in Freehold in 1776.

DRUMMOND- Gawen Drummond of Loch Harbor or Lochaber, gent, deeded land to John Tucker of Deale, May 21, 1695. He was clerk of the court of Monmouth 1700-1. He received a patent for 265 acres, which is now the site of Key East on the north side of Shark River. He had five children. A brother James, lived at Prestonpanns, in Scotland, and one account says his father was Peter Knott, who took up land in Monmouth as early as 1720. In 1819 Robert, son of Gawen Drummond, and Mary, his w. of Shrewsbury, gave deed to Britten White.

DUNGAN- Thomas Dungan was awarded a share of land 1667-70; 1674, Dec. 21, he transferred it to Sarah Reape. He was a noted Baptist minister of Rhode Island. In 1684 he left, Newport and settled at Cold Springs, near Bristol, Pa., where he established a Baptist church. He d. there in 1688.