Ocean County NJ Archives History - Church .....Origin Of Old Barnegat Free Church June 3, 1829
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  The Old Barnegat Free Church
  
  This list is taken from A HISTORY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES, by Edwin 
  Salter, copyright 1890, published by E. Gardner & Son, Bayonne, N.J.
  
  The following copy of a paper shows the origin of the old Barnegat Free 
  Church. To residents of this section the names appended will be read with
  interest, as they recall their predecessors of fifty years ago:
  
  Stafford, June 3d, 1829.
  
  We, the subscribers, inhabitants of Barnegat, in the township of Stafford, and 
  county of Monmouth, do propose to build a meetinghouse for the purpose of 
  preaching, in the village of Barnegat, free and open for the reception of 
  preachers of all Christian denomination. We therefore solicit the aid of all 
  charitably disposed persons, as we are fully persuaded that all that is given 
  for such a purpose will be abundantly made up to us in this life, and tenfold 
  in that which is to come, for we consider it our reasonable duty to use every 
  means prescribed in the Gospel to aid in the diffusion of the Word of God 
  throughout our land.
  
  We therefore promise to pay unto the trustees who shall be appointed to 
  receive the same, the sum annexed to our several signatures, on or before
  the first day of August next ensuing, if thereto required:
  
  Daniel Smith, $20; Thos. B. Odell, $20; D. S. Haywood, $10; John Tilton, $10,
  Caleb Cranmer, $20; Stacy Jennings, $5; Job Inman, $5; John Perine, $5;
  Edward Jennings, $5; Orrin Chamberlain, $5; Benjamin Collins, $5; Lawrence
  Falkinburg, $5; Daniel Conover, $3; John Cranmer, $5; Samuel Perine, $2;
  Amos Birdsall Jr., $3; Wm. Chandler, $1; Sarah Remsen, $10; James Collins,
  $10; Jarvis Hazelton, $4; David Reed, $1; Daniel W. Holt, $5; Doughty Soper,
  $2; Daniel Perine, $3; Solomon Soper, $5; John Birdsall, $5; Samuel
  Edwards, $5; Selah Oliphant, $5; Jesse Rulon, $5; Isaac P. Peckworth, $3;
  John Langans, $1; Edward Jennings, Jr., $1.50; Hezekiah Soper, $5; David
  Johnson, $1; Samuel Taylor, $2; Wm. Letts, $5; Job Cook, $1; Wm. Rulon, $1;
  James T Berline, $10; David Church, $5; Charles Butler, $10; Job Edwards,
  $15; Thos. Lewis, $10; Thos. Edwards, Sr., $5; David Rulon, $5; Prentice
  Rugbee [Bugbee], $10; Wm. D. Olipant, $5; J. F. Randolph, $5; Adam Myers,
  $5; Tunis Bodine, $10; Moses Headley, $5; John Camburn, $3; Timothy Candee,
  $2; Ezekiel Smith, $5; Michael Inman, $3; Joshua Rinear, $3; James Rinear,
  $5; John Parker, $5; Jonathan Oliphant, $3; Jeremiah Predmore, $2; Matthew
  Miller, $2; Gabriel Mills, $10; John Solsburg, $1; Ephraim Predmore, $10,
  Richcard Ridgway, $5; James Edwards, $5; George Edwards, $5; James Mills,
  $5; Alex. Duncan, $5; Benjamin Oliphant, $5; John Rinear, $1; David Swait,
  $1; Jesse Penn, $3; Samuel and John Corlies, $4; Thomas M. Cook, $2; Zalman
  Church, $3; Samuel Birdsall, $5; James Giberson, $3; Noah Edwards, $1.
  
  Total 408.50.
  
  This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/njfiles/
  
  Alphabetical list of above subscribers:  [Added by archivist]
  
  Berline, James T
  Birdsall, Amos Jr.
  Birdsall, John
  Birdsall, Samuel
  Bodine, Tunis
  Butler, Charles
  Camburn, John
  Candee, Timothy
  Chamberlain, Orrin
  Chandler, Wm.
  Church, David
  Church, Zalman
  Collins, Benjamin
  Collins, James
  Conover, Daniel
  Cook, Job
  Cook, Thomas M.
  Corlies, Samuel
  Corlies, John
  Cranmer, Caleb
  Cranmer, John
  Duncan, Alex.
  Edwards, Thos. Sr.
  Edwards, Samuel
  Edwards, Job
  Edwards, James
  Edwards, George
  Edwards, Noah
  Falkinburg, Lawrence
  Giberson, James
  Haywood, D. S.
  Hazelton, Jarvis
  Headley, Moses
  Holt, Daniel W.
  Inman, Job
  Inman, Michael
  Jennings, Stacy
  Jennings, Edward
  Jennings, Edward Jr.
  Johnson, David
  Langans, John
  Letts, Wm.
  Lewis, Thos.
  Miller, Matthew
  Mills, Gabriel
  Mills, James
  Myers, Adam
  Odell, Thos. B.
  Olipant, Wm. D.
  Oliphant, Selah
  Oliphant, Jonathan
  Oliphant, Benjamin
  Parker, John
  Peckworth, Isaac P.
  Penn, Jesse
  Perine, John
  Perine, Samuel
  Perine, Daniel
  Predmore, Jeremiah
  Predmore, Ephraim
  Randolph, J. F.
  Reed, David
  Remsen, Sarah
  Ridgway, Richcard
  Rinear, Joshua
  Rinear, James
  Rinear, John
  Rugbee [Bugbee], Prentice
  Rulon, Jesse
  Rulon, Wm.
  Rulon, David
  Smith, Daniel
  Smith, Ezekiel
  Solsburg, John
  Soper, Doughty
  Soper, Solomon
  Soper, Hezekiah
  Swait, David
  Taylor, Samuel
  Tilton, John