It is said that William Penn, the founder of Philadelphia, had a reprobate son, and from him have descended the Penns of Cumberland, Burlington and Ocean counties.

James Penn, Sr., emigrated from Cumberland county, N.J., to Washington township, Burlington county, N.J. He settled on the West Plains, where he lived until about the year 1840, when he died, aged about 88 years; therefore, he must have been born about the year 1752. He had brothers, William, Richard and Samuel, who remained in Cumberland county.

It is said by those who have seen the statue of William Penn the great, and are acquainted with the descendants of the above said James Penn, that the posterity of James Penn, at least some of them, have a striking resemblance to the statue, and other representations of the founder of Philadelphia.

James Penn, Sr., of the West Plains had children: William, James, Joel, Jonathan, Stacy, John, Elizabeth, Rhoda and Hannah.

William, son of James Penn, Sr., married Sarah Jenkins, and had children Jesse, Zepheniah, James, William, Susan and Lucy Ann.

Rhoda, daughter of James Penn, Sr., married Zachariah Jenkins.

Elizabeth, daughter of James Penn, Sr., married Lewis Rossell, and among their children were James, Ridgway, Champion and Samuel.

Jesse Penn married Rebecca, daughter of Jacob Headley.

Zephaniah Penn married Hope, daughter of Jacob Headley.

The posterity of James Penn, Sr., is quite numerous, but I cannot trace them, several of them went to the West.

The Birdsall's were settled on Long Island at an early date. In the year l713 William Birdsall, of Long Island, joined with John Mathis and Moses Forman in the purchase of Daniel Mathis' Island. William Birdsall sold out within a year after the contract and from a certain document it is evident that William Birdsall remained on Long Island. From what I have seen and heard I believe that Stephen and Nathaniel Birdsall came with John Mathis to Little Egg Harbor, and probably they were relations, as all writings prove that they had a considerable of friendly intercourse. I have a letter dated 17, 19-20, directed to Stephen Birdsall at Egg Harbor, and this seems to imply that he was a resident of that place. The Stephen Birdsall who in the year 1738 married Deliverance Willits, must have been the son of the above said Stephen Birdsall, and this second Stephen Birdsall was the first elder of the Barnegat Quaker meeting, established in the year 1767. Stephen Birdsall, Sr., must have had a daughter Phoebe who married a Havens, and some where near 1754 she married Joseph Bartlett, the first of the name in New Jersey. After settling in New Jersey Nathaniel Birdsall was called Nathan, and the Nathan's of Little Egg Harbor and Barnegat originated with Nathan or Nathaniel Birdsall.

Mary, wife of Timothy Willits, and Sarah, wife of Jarvis Hazleton, were the daughters of Stephen Birdsall, 2nd, and his wife Deliverance; and they also had a son Stephen, and there might have been other children. The Birdsalls are settled at Barnegat and Waretown.

Charles Dingee was settled in Egg Harbor before the year 1724; he owned the farm now owned and occupied by Barzilla Atkinson, on the road from Tuckerton to West Creek. He sold this farm to Thomas Ridgway, Sr., who in the year 1724 bequeathed it to his youngest son Robert Ridgway.

Charles Dingee and Moses Embro were both living in Egg Harbor before the year 1715, and it appears were members of the Friends' Meeting. In the year 1725 Moses Embro and his wife Mary got certificates for removal to Pennsylvania.

John Stanton was here at an early date. He married Molly Wainwright, of Mannahawkin, and had a daughter Sarah, who married Henry Mott, Sr., and was the mother of James, Thomas, Enoch, Hannah, Elizabeth, Mercy and Christian.

I think the first Gales were settled in Washington township a considerable time before the Revolutionary War. There was a Jacob Gale and a Cornelius Gale, Sr., and he must have been the father of Joseph, Abel and James Gale. Joseph Gale married Mercy Allen, and had children Cornelius, James and Samuel. The second wife was Hannah Mott, and the children Elizabeth, Mary, Henry, Joseph, Mercy, Abel, David, Hannah and Amy.

Abel Gale, Sr., married ______ Smallwood, and had a daughter Margaret, who married Simon Peterson. Jarvis Gale, Sr., married Sarah Cranmer, and among his children were William, John and Hannah, and another daughter who married James Maxfield, Sr.

In English History I have read of several persons by the name of Parker, who were distinguished characters, and tradition says that the Parkers of America are of English origin, and it further says that in early times there were four brothers by the name of Parker who came together to America. One of the brothers is said to have settled in New York, one in Monmouth county, N.J., and the other in Little Egg Harbor. In the year 1721, Joseph Parker came from Shrewsbury, N.J., to Egg Harbor, where in the same year he married Hannah, daughter of Edward Andrews, the first white settler in Tuckerton. The children of this marriage were Joseph, Peter, Samuel, Thomas, Alice, Sarah, Hannah and Elizabeth. Parker's first wife died, and in the year 1739, he married Hannah, daughter of Richard Osborn, 1st. She had no children, and after her death her husband married a woman by the name of Elizabeth - but her maiden name is not remembered among her posterity. She was the mother of Daniel, Ann, Temperance and Phoebe Parker. Joseph Parker,Sr., settled on what is now called Parkertown, having located a large tract of land. His descendants seem to have had a strong partiality for their ancestor's homestead, for here a greater part of several generations of them have resided and increased and built upon the old homestead farm, until it has become a village peopled almost solely by the posterity of Joseph Parker, and the great majority of them bearing the name of Parker.

Joseph Parker, Sr., was a Friend and was twice married in the Friends' meeting at Tuckerton. He must have married his third wife in a distant section. For two or three generations, the Parkers were all Quakers, but at this date there is but a few families of the Parkers who possess the faith of their forefathers.

I have not succeeded in collecting a very concise geneologieal list of the Parker family. I have searched out the dead and the living know their own history.

First Branch of Joseph Parker, Sr.'s, Family. - Joseph, son of Joseph Parker, Sr., married Edith, daughter of Mordecai Andrews, Jr. Edith had one child, whose name was Kesiah, and she married Joseph Seaman, Jr. Edith Parker died, and her husband married Abigail Seaman, daughter of Joseph Seaman, Sr. The children of this union were William, Joseph, Mary and Hannah.

William Parker married Rebecca Woolston. Their children John, Benjamin, Joshua, Daniel, Woolston and Sarah.

Benjamin Parker married Phoebe, daughter of Caleb Ogborn. Their children: Elizabeth, Caleb, William, Samuel, Elwood, Sarah Ann and Lucy.

Joseph Parker married Mary, daughter of Alexander Thompson. Their children Alexander, Ebenezer, Jesse, John, Henry, Charles, Sarah, Mary Jane, and Anne Maria.

Joshua Parker married Mary Pharo. I am not able to name their children.

Daniel Parker married Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Thompson. Their children Bodine, Timothy, Margaret and Rebecca. Daniel Parker is the principal business man of Parkertown.

Woolston Parker married Margaret, daughter of Alexander Thompson. Among their children are Nicholas, Joshua and Abigail. Joshua lost his life in the service of his country, he being a soldier in the Union army.

Mary, daughter of Joseph Parker, 2d, married William Bunting.

Hannah, daughter of Joseph Parker, 2d, married Jeremiah Lounsberry.

Second Branch of Joseph Parker, Sr.'s, Family. - Peter Parker married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Seaman, Sr. Their children were Peter, Joseph, Thomas and Hannah.

Peter Parker, Jr., married Rachel, daughter of Timothy Willits, Sr. Their children : Thomas, Nathan, James, Stephen, Timothy, Charles, Phoebe and Elizabeth.

Thomas Parker married Ann Ogborn. Nathan Parker married ______ Homan. James Parker married Mary Rose. Stephen Parker married Rebecca Lines. Charles Parker married his brother Stephen's widow. Phoebe Parker married William Lines. Elizabeth Parker married William Garwood.

Joseph, son of Peter Parker, Sr., married Hannah Woolston. Their, children: Samuel, Thomas, Richard, Jabez, Peter, Joseph, Esther, Hannah, Mary and Elizabeth.

Samuel Parker married Maria Huffman. Thomas Parker married Cornelia Huffman. Richard Parker married Mary Headley. Peter Parker married Meribah Huffman. Jabez Parker married Sarah Headley. Joseph Parker died unmarried. Esther Parker married John Pharo. Hannah Parker married Josiah Sawn. Mary Parker married Joseph Hillman. Elizabeth Parker married Rockhill Shourds.

Thomas, son of Peter Parker, Sr., married Abigail, widow of Joseph Bartlett, and daughter of Timothy Willits, Sr. The children of this marriage were Willits and John.

Willits Parker is a man of high respectability. He is a member of Quaker meeting, of which he is the principal elder.

He is one of the most enterprising farmers of his native place. Willits Parker married Phoebe, daughter of John Willits, Sr. Their children are Oliver, Ezra, Willits, Mary Ann, Jane, Martha, Naomi and Phoebe Ann.

Oliver Parker married Edith,. daughter of George M. Elkinton of Philadelphia.

Mary Ann Parker married George Collins of Barnegat. Jane Parker married William Brown.

John, son of Thomas Parker and brother of Willits, married Beulah Cranmer. John Parker and his family reside in the State of Indiana.

Hannah, daughter of Peter Parker, Sr., married James Wright. No children.

Third Branch. - Thomas, son of Joseph Parker, Sr., left Egg Harbor in his young days and settled in the upper part of Burlington county.

Fourth Branch. - Samuel, son of Joseph Parker, Sr., settled in the upper section of Burlington county, his wife's name was Elizabeth, and their children were Joseph, Sarah, Isaac, Hannah, Samuel, Edward and Elizabeth.

Fifth Branch. - Alice, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., married Samuel, son of Evi Belangee, Sr., and brother of James Belangee, Sr. They removed to a distant locality.

Sixth Branch. - Sarah, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., married Edward Havens.

Seventh Branch. - Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., married Micajah Willits, Sr., of Mannahawkin.

Eighth Branch. - Hannah, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., married Jonathan Cox, Sr.

Ninth Branch. - Daniel, son of Joseph Parker, Sr., by his third wife, did not marry; he was a minister in the Society of Friends. He was born the 3d day of February, 1750, and died the 11th day of April, 1841, aged 91 years.

Tenth Branch. - Ann, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., by his third wife, married Caleb Ogborn of Mount Holly. Their children: Daniel, Joseph, Samuel, William, Stephen, Caleb, Fothergill, Phoebe and Elizabeth. Phoebe Ogborn married Benjamin Parker. Elizabeth Ogborn married Samuel Fenton.

Eleventh Branch. - Temperance, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., had two husbands, the first was named Wainwright, and the second John Southwick.

Twelfth Branch. - Phoebe, daughter of Joseph Parker, Sr., died early in life and unmarried.

About the year 1746, Caleb Carr came from Rhode Island to Egg Harbor, where he married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Ridgway, Jr. Carr had sons Job, Joseph, Samuel, and it is probable that Thomas and James Carr were his sons. Job Carr was with Pulaski's guard, which was stationed on the Ridgway farm, where they were butchered by the British, and it is said Job Carr was among the slain. Thomas Carr married Letitia, a descendant of Samuel Shourds, Sr. They settled at Pemberton, N.J. James Carr settled at Manahawkin; his wife's name was Phoebe, and they were the progenitors of the Carrs of that place.

In the year 1745, Ebenezer Mott and wife came from Rhode Island and brought their certificate to the Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting. It is said that they settled at Barnegat. John and Henry Mott, who must have been the sons of Ebenezer Mott settled in Egg Harbor. Henry Mott had a permanent residence there, he had a farm and a tract of valuable timber land. Henry Mott married Sarah, daughter of John and Molly Stanton. Henry's children were Thomas, James, Enoch, Hannah, Mercy, Christian and Elizabeth. Thomas Mott married Rachel ______ of the upper part of Burlington county. James Mott married Elizabeth Gale, and then Rebecca Rose, widow of Joel Rose. Enoch Mott married Elizabeth ______, of Cumberland county. Hannah Mott married Joseph Gale, Sr. Mercy Mott married Cornelius Gale. Christian Mott married Michael Bennet. Elizabeth Mott married Joshua Gifford, Sr.

In the year 1772, Stephen Birdsall, Jr., married Desire Mott, who must have been a daughter of Ebenezer Mott. About this time there was a Phoebe Mott living at Barnegat; she probably was a daughter of Ebenezer Mott.

A certain historian says: "The Shourds family are descended from Cornelius Shourds, a stockholder of one of the provinces of Holland, who came to this country at the invitation of William Penn. He and his family arrived in Philadelphia, in the year 1684. They lived in a cave for a short period of time near Germantown. (It was quite common then for settlers on their first arrival, to seek temporary shelter in caves, generally on a river bank, until they could erect more desirable dwellings. Many of the original settlers of Philadelphia had temporary residences in caves on the banks of the Delaware.)

The maiden name of the wife of Shourds was Sophia Weimar, and most of their children were born in Holland. Their names were Samuel, Catharine, Esther, Sarah and Sophia. Sophia, the youngest, married Zebulon Gauntt. In 1716, Samuel, the son of Cornelius Shourds, married, and he and his wife had a large family of children."

It is probable that Samuel Shourds, Sr., came to Little Egg Harbor about the year 1735. Before emigrating to Egg Harbor, it is said he was settled at Bristol, Pa., where he owned a grist mill; and when he settled in Tuckerton, he purchased the grist mill built by Edward Andrews, and it is very probable that he purchased the said mill of Jacob Andrews. The above account states that Cornelius Shouerde (or as it has been since written, Shourds) had but one son, but it is likely he had another son, for there seems to have been Shourds who were not Samuel Shourds' posterity, for in the year 1768, there was a Thomason Shourds, and her four children, who brought their certificates from Chesterfield meeting, to the Little Egg Harbor meeting, and three or four years afterwards, got certificates to go back to the place from whence they came. My mother was a descendant of Samuel Shourds, and in all of her talk about Samuel Shourds' children, she never mentioned anything about a son of his who could have been the husband of Thomason Shourds, and it is evident that when Samuel Shourds came to Egg Harbor his children were small, and all of them grew up and married here. Samuel Shourds had four children by his first wife whose names were Joseph, Daniel, Susannah and Mary. Samuel Shourds, in his old age, married a second wife, a widow, by the name of Elizabeth Lunnan, by whom he had two sons, Stephen and Solomon.

Joseph, son of Samuel Shourds, Sr., in the year 1759, married Keziah, daughter of Mordecai Andrews, Jr., and had children: Thomas, Joseph and Mary. There is no account of Joseph Shourds' marriage. It is said he left his native place. Mary, daughter of Joseph Shourds, Sr., married Captain Hammond, and had a daughter Fanny, who left her native place.

Thomas, son of Joseph Shourds, Sr., married Amy, daughter of Solomon Rockhill, Sr., and had children: Samuel Rockhill, John, Joseph, Susan and Mary. Joseph Shourds married Lydia Ridgway.

Thomas Shourds was captain of a vessel which was capsized. He and his crew clung to the wreck, but the weather was severely cold, and they soon perished.

John, son of Thomas Shourds, Sr., married Jane, daughter of Caleb and Rachel Lane. Their children were Rachel, Ann, Mary Jane and John.

John Shourds, Sr., was a seacaptain. He had just built a new vessel, and it was the month of December, before she was ready for sea. Captain Shourds was anxious to try the sailing qualities of his new craft, which he had named the Mary Jane, in honor of his wife and daughter. The vessel was loaded with oysters for the New York market, and left the new inlet, on the afternoon of Sunday, the 5th of December, 1830. At the time of her leaving the inlet, the wind and the clouds bore strong indications of a snow storm; and long before midnight one of the most severe snow storms ever known on our coast was spending its fury on the ocean, and it is supposed that Captain Shourd's vessel shifted her cargo, and went down in the ocean, somewhere between Egg Harbor and Sandy Hook. The crew consisted of Captain Shourds, James Sprague, Eli Gifford and Jonathan Gifford, all of them men of families. And thus were left four widows and four sets of orphan children. None of these widows married again, two of them still survive - Jane Shourds and Esther Gifford. Long and weary did these disconsolate widows look and wait for the return of their companions, as is usual in such cases, clothing their minds with the hope, that their friends had been picked up by some vessel which was bound to a far distant port.

Month succeeded month, and year rolled after year, but no tidings came from the missing vessel or her crew, and now nearly forty years have spent themselves since Captain Shourds and his crew left their homes in Tuckerton, and sailed out amidst the perils of the great deep, never more to return to their friends and homes. It is not known that the ocean ever gave up anything pertaining to this ill-fated vessel or her crew.

Rachel, daughter of Captain John Shourds married Amasa B. Mathis. Their children are Joseph, Margaretta and Henry.

Mary Jane, daughter of Captain John Shourds, married Chalkley Mathis.

John, son of Captain John Shourds, married Rachel Engle. John Shourds, Jr., was not born when his father was lost at sea, but for several years he has been a sea captain, and has made many successful voyages to foreign ports.

Samuel Rockhill Shourds, son of Thomas Shourds, Sr., married Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Parker, 3rd. Their children: Joseph, Samuel, Thomas, Ann Eliza, Susan, Amy, Mary, Hannah and Sarah Jane.

Captain Joseph Shourds married Charlotte Mathis. Thomas Shourds, Mary Ann Bogan. Samuel Shourds, Josephine Parker. Ann Eliza Shourds, Captain William Gaskill. Susan Shourds, Samuel Anderson, and after his death Alexander Cowperthwaite. Amy Shourds, Captain James Lines. Mary Shourds, Captain Josiah Falkinburg. Hannah Shourds, Sylvester Mathis. Sarah Jane Shourds, Oliver Mathis, and after his death she married Captain Abraham Fort, of Barnegat.

Susan, daughter of Thomas Shourds, Sr., married Paul Lotterett. Their children: Paul, Amy, Mary, and a son who was drowned with his father.

Amy Lotterett was the second wife of Amos Salter, of Ocean county, N.J. Mary Lotterett married Vedder Fox.

Mary, daughter of Thomas Shourds, Sr., married Job Rose. They had no children.

Mary, daughter of Joseph Shourds, Sr., married Captain Hammond. One child Fanny.

Second Branch. - Daniel, son of Samuel Shourds, Sr., married Christian, daughter of James Belangee, Sr. Their children were Samuel, Daniel, John, Amy, Hannah and Shada. Daniel Shourds was a man of considerable property; he owned the mill in Tuckerton, and was one of the prominent men of the age and place in which he resided. He was in the prime of life at the time of the Revolutionary War.

Samuel, son of Daniel Shourds,Sr., married Hannah Gray, of Mannahawkin. He succeeded his father in the mills and other property. He finally sold his possessions and removed to the West.

Daniel, son of Daniel Shourds, Sr., married Rebecca Leeds, of Atlantic county, N.J.

John, son of Daniel Shourds, Sr., married Sarah Johnson, of Atlantic county, N.J.

Amy, daughter of Daniel Shourds, Sr., married Walter Wilson, of Burlington city, N.J.

Hannah, daughter of Daniel Shourds, Sr., married Jonathan Smith, and removed to Salem, N.J.

Shada, daughter of Daniel Shourds, Sr., married Uriah Riley. Their children: Mark, William, Joseph, John, Amy, Mary, Rebecca and Christiana.

Mark Riley married Ann Taylor. John, Mary Howell. Joseph, Rhoda Mudson. Amy, Reuben Adams. Mary, David Watts. Rebecca, William Twining. Christiana, Daniel Flanagan.

Third Branch. - Susannah, daughter of Samuel Shourds, Sr., married a Frenchman by the name of Adam Pavia. They had one child who lived to grow up and she was Amelia who married Benjamin Seaman, Sr., of Ocean county, N.J.

Fourth Branch. - Mary, daughter of Samuel Shourds, Sr., married Jonathan Petitt. I am not able to name any of their children except Amy and Hannah.

Amy Petitt married Samuel Cawley, a merchant of Tuckerton. They had a daughter, Lydia, who married Joseph Willits, son of James Willits, 3d.

Hannah, daughter of Jonathan Petitt married David Smith.

Fifth Branch. - Stephen, son of Samuel Shourds, Sr., by his second wife, married Amy, daughter of James Edwards. Sr., of Barnegat. Their children: Samuel, James, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Catharine, Ellen, William and Lucy Ann.

Samuel Shourds married Keziah Anderson. No children.

Mary Shourds married William Andrews.

Elizabeth Shourds married Charles Clothier.

Sarah Shourds married William Walker.

Catharine Shourds married Samuel Smith.

Ellen Shourds married Jacob Young.

William Shourds married Rebecca Danley.

Lucy Ann Shourds married William Allen. Their children were Sarah, William, Joseph, Charles, Ellen, Samuel and George.

Sixth Branch. - Solomon Shourds married Hannah, daughter of Henry Howell, of Bass river. Their children were Benjamin, David, Stephen, Henry, James, Samuel, John, Abigail, Nancy, Jane and Hannah.

Benjamin Shourds resided in Philadelphia, and married Margaret May.

David Shourds married Catharine Cranmer, of Philadelphia.

James Shourds married ______ Adams.

Nancy Shourds married ______ Lee.

Henry Shourds married Matilda Cowperthwait.

Hannah Shourds married Collins Trueax.

Many of the former generations of the Shourds family were members of Quaker meeting. SUSANNAH SHOURDS.

Susannah, daughter of Samuel Shourds, Sr., as before stated, married Adam Pavia, and they had but one child who lived to grow up, and that child was Amelia, who married Benjamin Seaman, Sr. After Pavia's death, his widow, Susannah, married a man by the name of ______ Humphreys, who, if he was not a native, at least settled at, or near Pemberton, N.J., and had children: Sarah, and I think, Keziah. Sarah Humphreys married ______ Unsles, and had at least two children: Susan and Letitia. Susan married a Gale of Mount Holly, and Letitia married Thomas Carr, and resided at Pemberton. The second daughter of Susannah Humphreys, whose name must have been Keziah, married Thomas Earling, of Pemberton. The posterity of the above named persons (if there is any) are the descendants of Samuel Shourds, Sr., of Tuckerton.

In the year 1716, Robert Allen, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth county, N.J., came to Egg Harbor and married Edith, daughter of Edward Andrews, of Tuckerton. They were married in the Friends' meeting house at Tuckerton, and were the second couple married in that primitive edifice. Allen settled at Bass River, on the west side of the river, at the place now called Allentown. He had two sons whose names were Peter and Edward, and also a daughter named Edith, who married a man by the name of Story. Allen might have had other children, but if he had there is no one now living who has any knowledge of them.

First Branch. - Peter, son of Robert Allen, had sons, Joseph and Richard, and a daughter Elizabeth.

Peter Allen, like Nimrod of old, was a great hunter, and lost his life in consequence of his love for the chase. Sometimes he went a considerable distance from home for the purpose of killing deer, and at such times he put up in some rude hut in the wilderness, where he stored the game, which he procured on his last hunting expedition, he went from home with the intention of spending a week in the chase. The week passed away but did not bring back the hunter, but his friends supposed he was still pursuing his wild, but to him, pleasurable avocation; but after a considerable time had elapsed they became alarmed at his protracted stay, and went in search of him. After a long search they found an old log cabin which had tumbled down, and beneath the ruins they found the body of Peter Allen in a state of decomposition.

Joseph, son of Peter Allen, in his time, was one of the prominent men of Bass River. He was a Justice of the Peace, and was usually spoken of as 'Squire Allen. He had two wives, his first wife, Sarah Cranmer, daughter of Isaac C., Sr. She was the mother of Rebecca Allen, who married Captain William Cale. Rebecca's children were William, Wesley, Chalkley, Mary and Sarah.

After Captain Cale's death, Rebecca married Abraham Maynard, by whom she had a son named was Alfred.

Joseph Allen, Esq's., second wife was Mary, daughter of Captain John Leak, Sr. The children of this union were Joseph, William, Thomas, George, Phoebe, Achsah, Sarah, Mary, Eliza and Martha.

First Branch. - Joseph Allen, Jr., married Sarah, daughter of John Bodine. Their children: Jesse, Achsah, Abigail, Mary Jane, Maria and Louisa.

Captain Jesse Allen married Hannah, daughter of Job Weeks.

Aehsah Allen married ______ Anderson.

Abigail Allen married ______ Taylor.

Mary Jane Allen married ______ Smallwood, and after her death her sister Maria married her husband.

Louisa Allen married Reuben Loveland.

Second Branch. - William Allen, Esq., in his time, was one of the principal business men of Bass River. He married Rebecca, daughter of Captain Josephus Sears. Their children were Joseph, John, Samuel, Josephus, William, Catharine, Elvira, Abigail, Mary and Victoria.

Joseph Allen married Eliza Adams.

John Allen married Phoebe Cranmer.

Samuel Allen married in Philadelphia.

Josephus Allen married at Jersey Shore, Pa.

William Allen married Lydia Vaughn.

Catharine Allen married Peter Gass.

Elvira Allen married Nathan Moore.

Abigail Allen married Forman Smith.

Mary Allen married Joseph M. Budd.

Victoria Allen married Captain William J. Parmentier.

Third Branch. - Thomas Allen married Anne, daughter of Caleb Cranmer, Esq. Their children were Caleb, Mary, Thomas Jefferson, Uriah, Joseph B. and Maria.

Caleb Allen married Mary Eliza Leak.

Mary Allen married Enoch Adams.

Thomas J. Allen married Anna Jones, and after her death he married Amelia Throckmorton.

Uriah Allen married Phoebe Leak.

Joseph B. Allen married Marietta Mathis.

Maria Allen married William Gaskill.

Fourth Branch. - George Allen married Abigail French. Their children were Ellen, Hannah, Thomas, Achsah, Mary, Henry, George, John, William and Joseph. The marriages of George Allen's children have been related in the French family.

Fifth Branch. - Phoebe Allen married Josiah Cale. Their children: Joseph, Josiah, William, Martha, Mary, Eliza, Margaret, Phoebe Ann, Achsah and Marietta.

Captain Joseph Cale married Elizabeth Loveland.

Captain Josiah Cale married Catharine Leak.

Captain William Cale married Elizabeth Adams.

Martha Cale married Joseph French, Esq.

Mary Cale married Thomas Mathis.

Eliza Cale married Charles F. Cranmer.

Margaret Cale married Chalkley C. Sears.

Phoebe Ann Cale married Captain David Cavileer.

Achsah Cale married Zebulon M.P. Mathis, a prominent man of Bass River.

Marietta Cale married Adolphus Lamson, of Mannahawkin.

Sixth Branch. - Achsah Cale married Captain John Carlisle. Carlisle was one of the jolly sea captains of "ye olden time." Captain Carlisle's children were Richard Risley Carlisle and Elizabeth.

Richard Risley Carlise is Prof. Risley, of theatrical fame. He was born and spent the early part of his life at Bass River. It is said that from his earliest youth it was manifest that nature had formed him for a play actor. He married Rebeeca Willits.

Elizabeth Carlisle married Dr. Egbert, Jr.

Seventh Branch. - Sarah Allen is one of the most prominent, useful and amiable ladies of Bass River. She is never weary of administering to the sick and afflicted. She is well advanced in years, yet long may she live to be a blessing to her native place. She married Recompense Darby, of Scotch Plains, East Jersey. Their children were Ann, John, Joseph, Margaret, William, Carlisle, Allen, Stanbury and Mason.

Ann Darby married Caleb S. Cranmer.

John Darby married Mary Robbins.

Joseph Darby married away from his native place, and resides in a distant town.

Margaret Darby married Edward Lane.

Carlisle Darby married Louisa Gerue.

Stanbury Darby married a daughter of Captain Samuel Johnson.

Allen Darby married Mary Amelia Jones.

Mason Darby married Sarah Johnson.

Eighth Branch. - Mary Allen married Ebenezer T. Deacon, son of Samuel Deacon, Esq. Among their children were Ann, William, Samuel, Sarah, Maria and Ebenezer.

Ninth Branch. - Eliza Allen married Samuel Deacon, Jr.

Tenth Branch. - Martha Allen married Captain Samuel Cavileer. Their children: Eliza Jane, Joseph Morris, Elmira, Samuel, Harry, Sarah Louisa, Gilbert and William.

Richard, son of Peter Allen, married in the upper part of Burlington county. His wife's name was Penelope. Richard Allen removed to the upper section of Burlington county, where his posterity reside.

Second Branch of Robert Allen's Family. - Edward Allen married Rachel, daughter of John Cranmer, Sr., of Bass River. Among Edward's children were Charles, Simeon, Edward, John, Edith, Mercy, Sarah, Kesiah and Phoebe.

Charles Allen married Anne, daughter of Jacob Cranmer.

Simeon Allen married a Johnson, sister to Mathias Johnson.

Edward and John Allen did not marry.

Edith Allen married Jeremiah Peterson.

Mercy Allen married Joseph Gale.

Sarah Allen married William Wilson.

Mary Allen married David Brewer.

Kesiah Allen married William Myers.

Phoebe Allen married ______ Sooy.

Elizabeth, daughter of Peter Allen, married ______ Hambleton and had two children, Joseph and Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Hambleton married Solomon Truax.