He was son of Benjamin and Elizabeth Smallwood, (the latter late Cooper), both old residents of Gloucester county, N.J.

He was born the 16th of second month, A.D., 1798, at Woodbury, where he resided all his days - except a short time when about seventeen years old, while in a store in Philadelphia.

He married Mary Dunham, of Allowaystown, fourth month, 10th, 1822- (Notice of this marriage yet appears in a preserved copy of "The Woodbury Herald," dated April 17th, 1822). Their children were four sons and five daughters - three of whom died while young - six grew up to man and woman-hood. Three daughters still survive, worthy representatives of their honored parents. The handwriting, neatly done, by two of his daughters, may be found in many deeds and other papers which they assisted him in the preparation of. We are informed that his son, John D. Smallwood, was also partly thus engaged.

In early life the subject of this sketch turned his attention to the study of law. He was employed in writing in the County Clerk's office, pursuing his legal studies during the evenings and spare moments. Embracing these opportunities, coupled with clear discernment, he became familiar with the county records, court procedings and the practical workings of general business affairs, rendering him eminently fitted as a counsellor as well as a worthy and reliable citizen. Impaired health and eyesight at about the age of thirty years caused him, in a measure, to relinquish his prospect of permanently engaging in the profession of law. He took up surveying and conveyancing in addition to the official duties that devolved upon him. The active out-door exercise of field surveying, in which he took great interest, conduced to his physical strength and improved health, and possibly length of days.

A contemporary justly says of him: "That his devotion to his duties as an officer, his care and attention to business, assisted by a remarkably tenacious memory, made him regarded as a walking cyclopedia of business affairs, knowing the lines, title deeds, divisions, &c., of most of the real estate in the county."

He was Deputy Sheriff two years, then County Clerk two terms of five years each, member of the State Legislature, afterwards Surrogate of the county one term, and subsequently elected to the State Senate, over which body he presided as chairman four years. He continued almost to the close of life in the business of surveying, conveyancing, settlement and partition of estates and other matters of a like character; and when we of this generation came on the stage of action, the name of John C. Smallwood was a prominent one and constantly before the public in connection with positions of trust which he most faithfully and impartially filled.

He and the companion of his youth lived to celebrate their golden wedding. This was well attended - many gifts bestowed by friends, and all meeting a cordial reception characteristic of the host.

At the suggestion of our aged friend, an interesting family event took place on Thanksgiving Day, A.D. 1876. The members and descendants of the family, including persons from two up to seventy-nine years of age, repaired to the vacant square, called "Smallwood Place," in the city of Woodbury, and planted about forty centennial shade trees - even the young children assisted in placing a tree or shoveling in some earth. These trees are nearly all alive and promise cooling shade to the present and coming generations.

He was a member of "The Association of Practical Surveyors of West Jersey," survived his wife about four years, and departed this life on the 18th day of ninth mo. (Sept) A.D. 1878, aged eighty and one-half years, beloved and respected by all.

Prepared by request of the Association,

JOB S. HAINES.

1st mo., 6th, 1880.

MR. PRESIDENT: - It is with profound sorrow that I am called upon to announce to this body on this occasion, the demise of one of our oldest, and one of our first members of this Association of West Jersey Surveyors, who departed this life at the house of his son, in Haddonfield, this last year, (1879) in the eightieth year of his age - William R. Braddock.

William R. Braddock was one of the very few who attains the age of four score years, having been born in the year 1799, and the eldest of ten children, five boys and five girls, all born of Darnell and Sarah Braddock, who claim to have descended from General Edward Braddock, of the French and Indian war; an Irishman by birth. William R. Braddock was one of a small number who bound the time of Washington and the last century with the present.

Being born on a farm, in the State of New Jersey, his young and vigorous mind and body had a free field for mental and physical study and action. In his younger days, he was always delighted with out-door sports, of which he was very fond; and with a robust constitution, and great physical strength, he almost always surpassed his playmates in all their gymnastic sports. In early life he took a great liking to the study of numbers, and his text books, with his name and date within them, in 1813 and 1817, show that navigation, trigonometry and geometry, were branches of study he most admired; and branches that in after life lead him to the pursuit which he after followed - that of a land surveyor. Being a man of kind and genial disposition, but firm and honest in his convictions, fitted him as an arbitrator in disputed boundary questions of land, of which he did much. In his prime of life, his aggregate weight was two hundred and seventy pounds, standing six feet two inches in height, and muscular in proportion.

In politics he was a quiet but firm Whig, and in 1849 was elected by his political friends, as their representative in the popular branch of the Legislature of his native State, and again elected in 1850-'51, making a term of three years, which was then considered a full term.

William R. Braddock was one of the first who commenced the cultivation of cranberries, and was successful; and for that alone his name should be respected, for in 1848 he planted the first vines, and in 1850 he cultivated the first cranberry plantation of ten acres, successfully.

As he had lived in peace with all mankind, esteemed and respected by all, so he died, among his loving and kind family and friends: and his many kind acts of friendship, will, I trust, be long remembered by the older members of this Association, with whom he has been associated, and as a tribute of respect to his memory, I respectfully ask, that this memorial be entered on the journal of this Association, and be printed in our next publication.

Samuel P. Chew, a former member of this Association, was a resident of Chew's Landing, in Camden county, N.J., and occupied the estate formerly owned by his father and grandfather.

He was born August 19th, A.D. 1816. He was carefully educated and was proficient in the languages. He became a student of the law, making rapid advances in the profession; but on account of continued bad health never passed an examination.

As a practical surveyor he was careful, and has left no work behind him that will not bear criticism. His practice was limited to his own neighborhood, and gave general satisfaction.

As a conveyancer, his style was peculiar, yet embodied all the essentials for correctness and simplicity, not often leaving his intention liable to misconstruction or doubt. He was a man of decided character, always, however, giving every subject a thorough examination, and drawing his conclusions from the best sources. Ingenuity of argument or plausible presentations were lost on him, if not founded upon clear and undeniable facts.

He generally took an active part in public affairs, and held many important positions in the gift of the people, discharging his duties faithfully, regardless of consequences. In the advancement of this Society he felt much interest, and when his health permitted attended the meetings, participated in the proceedings, and considered its object of importance and value, not only to the members, but to the community at large.

The preservation of old deeds, maps and memoranda relating to land, the genealogies of families who had been the owners of the soil, and everything that had bearing upon the titles to real estate, were considered important and received his attention. Always being of delicate constitution, which terminated in pulmonary consumption, he gradually retired from active business, and died October 13th, 1875. He was buried in the yard of the Episcopal Church, at Chew's Landing, near where lay the remains of his ancestors for several generations.

Was born in an "old log house" (still standing,) situate in the township hereinafter named, on the 8th day of 3rd month, (March,) A.D., 1810. He died at his residence "Cedar Lawn Farm," where he had lived for more than forty-one years; on the 23d day of 4th month, (April,) A.D., 1876, near Upper Greenwich, in the township of Mantua, county of Gloucester, State of New Jersey, where the mound over his honored remains of all that is mortal marks the sacred spot we will long in memory cherish. For about forty years he went out and came in, mingling at times with the most dificult of public affairs, which were submitted to him for proper and legal adjustment, he ever endeavoring to quiet differences, and subdue evil: and for a like period was known as one of the truest and most reliable of practical surveyors of West New Jersey, of which organization he was one of our first members, and so remained ever true, and willing at all times to give counsel, (to your humble servant, or any who might appeal to his master mind for instruction,) and thus he closed his useful pilgrimage on earth to enter the home prepared for all the good and the faithful; much esteemed and greatly honored. His memory still we will sweetly cherish. He so eager to increase in knowledge, would even after making observations of various stars in the early evening, arise in the dead hour of night and make re-observations with his compass, take notes thereof, etc., etc. This should prompt us to rigidly apply ourselves to the work committed to our hands.

With much pleasure, and to call to mind the past, we can very profitably refer to his concise "Chain of Title," of Gloucester county alms house farm near Clarksboro, as printed in the pamphlet of the "Proceedings of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey;" and the weekly correspondence a few years since, for month after month with the Constitution, of the laying out of nearly all of the public roads in the township of Mantua, aforesaid, giving their date and general events, as well setting forth the names and owners along each highway - scarcely any one knowing from whose pen. And as occasion and circumstance would allow, he greatly encouraged the industrious and tasteful, but admonishing those that were slothful, not merely in dress or business, but in the dilapidated appearance of their residences, etc., and soon the unsightly became attractive.

He for many years was closely and very sympathetically attached to the doctrines and Society of Friends. Of his religious example and life, there were none to question; in his private vocation, and in the most public intercourse with all people with whom he mingled, there was but one common acceptation, that what he said or did was right, just and honest, between God and man.

At the meeting together of neighbors, friends and relatives, to pay the last tribute of respect to those who once lived, but were soon to be laid away out of sight, he would with all the tenderness of true affection for the dead, and a responsible duty to the living, present most justly our duty to God and His will toward us, ever tendering that great solace to the sorrowing and distressed.

JOHN D. SHUTE.

BARNSBORO, N.J., January 23d, A.D., 1880.