LIST OF JUDGES, CLERKS, SHERIFFS, SURROGATES, & ATTORNIES OF SALEM COUNTY, NJ, 1849 Contributed by Mary Paynton ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** LIST OF JUDGES, CLERKS, SHERIFFS, SURROGATES, & ATTORNIES OF SALEM COUNTY, Prepared by Col. Robt. G. Johnson, First Vice-President of the Society. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 1849; vol IV(1): 37-52. 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The Records of the proceedings of the town of Salem, from the time the Swedes occupied the place, until John Fenwicke came and took possession as Chief Proprietor, are all lost: and the records during his ownership, until ten years after his death, are all that are left to mark the doings of the inhabitants, except an old mutilated book in which was kept, although very inaccurately, a part of the subsequent proceedings of the people of the town. # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849,) reside in the county. # Samuel Hedge, sen'r (son-in-law of John Fenwicke,) was Clerk of the County and Recorder of Deeds until 1692 # Benjamin Acton, Clerk and Recorder, 1693 # John Jeffery, Bailiff, 1693-4-5 # Rodger Milton, Bailiff, 1697 # Samuel Hedge, jun'r, Recorder, 1698 # John Dickson, Bailiff, 1698-9 # John Scoles, Clerk and Recorder, 1699, 1700-1-2 # Rodger Milton, Bailiff, 1701-2 # Samuel Hedge, Clerk and Recorder, 1702 # James Ridley, Clerk and Recorder, 1701-2-3 The Court Records of the County of Salem, from the settlement of the Swedes, and until the year 1806, are all missing, as before stated. The first regular Court Record begins, when the Court was opened, September 17, 1706. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1706 Thos. Killingworth --------- -------- Nathaniel Brady Obediah Holme Isaac Sharp, Deputy 1707 As above. Samuel Alexander William Griffin As above. 1708 As above. David Straughn; William Britton, Commissioned by Col Rich. Ingoldsby, Att'y Gen'l for E. and W. Jersey; Alexander Giffiths 1709 Wm. Hall; Thomas Clark # George Trenchard As above. Isaac Sharp; Thomas Macknamora W. Dare; Hugh Middleton 1710 Jeremiah Basse; # Gregory Empson As above. As above. Saml. Lewis; Alex. Grant 1711 Grant; William Griffith David Rumsey The number of actions as Hugh Middleton; # William Empson recorded by Brady from 1706 to Rich'd Johnson 1712, was 416. 1712 As above. Gregory Empson; As above. John Rolph Jeremiah Basse 1713-14 As above. Basse; As above. As above. Empson; Griffith 1715 Johnson; Thos. Gordon, Att'y Gen'l; June--Wm. Griffith Thomas Hill Grant; Henry Vernon; Sept--John Rolph Middleton; Mr. -- Maw; Rumsey Gregory Empson; Jeremiah Basse 1716 As above. As above. James Skerron Thomas Hill, Clerk and Surrogate 1717 As above. Basse; Robert Johnson Thomas Hill Maw; Alex. Griffith; Samuel Alexander (to prosecute the prisoners charged with the murder of James Skerron the sherrif.) 1718 As above. As above, with John Kinsey As above. As above. 1719 As above. As above, Basse, Att'y Gen'l As above. As above. 1720-21 Grant; Peter Evans William Griffin # Francis Gandonett Mason; Hews; Maskell; Rolph 1722 As above. Basse; As above. As above. Evans 1723 John Rolph; Edward R. Price; George Trenchard As above. Joseph Gregory David Mackbride; James Gould; Peter Evans From this time 1723 to August 1727, no record is made in the book. # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849,) reside in the county. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1727 Gregory; Price; Trenchard Gandonett Rolph; Evans; Jonath'n Fithian; Wm. Dare; Samuel Smith Gould; Wm. Hancock Macbride 1728 Rolph; Edward Pearce; Trenchard Rob't Johnson, Cl'k Fithian Price; ^ Francis Gandonett, appointed by his Ex. John Montgomery to prosecute for the Crown. 1729 As Above. Gandonett; Joseph Gregory Sam'l Hedge; Price; John Jones, Dep'y Cl'k; Pearce; # Dan'l Mestayer, D. Clerk 1730 Rolph; Att'ys as Above -------- F. Gandonett, appointed to act Smith; as Prothonotory and Clerk in John Pledger the room of S. Hedge, deceased 1731 Rolph; Price; -------- Dan'l Mestayer, Deputy Fithian; Pearce; Gillman Gould; # John Jones 1732 Jonathan Fithian; As above. -------- F. Gandonett, appointed until Josiah Fithian the Governor's pleasure be known; Mestayer, Deputy 1733 Fithian; Jones; Trenchard ------ Benjamin Acton; Gandonett; Pledger; Pearce; Richard Smith Gould; Price 1734 Acton; Jones; Trenchard Wm. Cosby; Rich'd Smith John Price; D. Mestayer, Deputy Gould; Gandonett; Pearce 1735 Benj'n Acton Gould; John Hunt Wm. Cosby, Cl'k Jones; Price; Pearce; Joseph Worrell, Att'y Gen'l; # Daniel Mestayer 1736 Acton Jones; Hunt Wm. Pennock, Cl'k; Pearce; John Poole, Deputy; Price; # Philip Chetwood, Deputy Mestayer; Gould; Evans; John Cox 1737 Acton; Gould; Hunt Poole, Deputy; Pledger; Price; Wm. Frazer, Deputy Josiah Fithian; Cox; Richard Smith Jones; Mestayer; Worrell 1738 As above. Jones; Hunt Frazer, D. Clerk John Cox; Mestayer; Gould # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849) reside in the county. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1739 As above. Jones, Dep'y Att'y Gen'l; Hunt Chas. O'Neill, commissioned by Cox; Gov. Burnet; Mestayer; Wm. Frazer, Deputy Gould 1740 Josiah Fithian; Cox; Hunt O'Neill Pledger; Jones; Clement Hall Meystayer; # Robert Hartshorn 1741 Hall; Meystayer; Nicholas Gibbon O'Neill Pledger; Jones; Wm. Hancock Cox; Justices Price # Philip Chetwood; Leonard Gibbon 1742 Hancock; Jones; Gibbon O'Neill Pledger; Mestayer; Isaac Sharp; Price; Chetwood, Justice Hartshorn 1743 Hancock; As Above Gibbon O'Neill Pledger; Shepherd; Chetwood, Justice 1744 Hancock; As Above Gibbon O'Neill Sharp; Davis; Philip Chetwood, commissioned to take Bail in all causes in the Supreme Court. 1745 Sharp; Joseph Ross or Rose; Gibbon O'Neill Shepherd; Hartshorn; Vanhist; Jones; Chetwood (died) Mestayer 1746 Hancock; Ross; Gibbon O'Neill Sharp; Mestayer; Vanhist Jones; Hartshorn 1747 Hancock; Ross; Gibbon O'Neill Sharp; Mestayer; Shepherd Hartshorn; Lewis Ashfield; Francis Bowes 1748 Sharp; Ross; Wm. Barker Nicholas Gibbon Hancock; Mestayer; Vanhirst; Hartshorn Wm. Frazer 1749 Hancock; Hartshorn; Barker Gibbon Frazer; Meystayer; Vanhist Ross 1750 Sharp; Hartshorn; Barker Gibbon Hancock; Mestayer; Wetherby John Lawrence 1751 Sharp; Hartshorn; Barker Gibbon Vanhist Mestayer 1752 Sharp; Mestayer, Att'y for Salem; John Nicholson Gibbon Hancock Hartshorn (died); E.R. Price; Lawrence; Joseph Scattergood; Robert (?) Morris; Pidgeon # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849) reside in the county. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1753 Hancock; Mestayer; Nicholson Gibbon Sharp; Scattergood; Wetherby Lawrence, King's Att'y; # James Kinsey; Joseph Worrell, Att'y Gen'l; # Geo. Trenchard; Pidgeon; Morris 1754 Sharp; Mestayer; Nicholson Gibbon Vanhist; Scattergood; Hancock Lawrence; Kinsey; Trenchard 1755 Sharp; Trenchard; Robt. Johnson Gibbon Vanhist; Lawrence; Frazer; Mestayer; Wm. Hall Kinsey 1756 Hancock; Trenchard; Johnson Gibbon Sharp; Lawrence; Vanhist Mestayer, Att'y Gen'l (died); Kinsey, on the recommendation of Courtland Skinner, Esq., app'd to prosecute the Pleas, in the absence of the Att'y Gen'l, during good behavior 1757 Hancock; Kinsey; Johnson Gibbon Sharp; Lawrence; Frazer; Trenchard Wetherby 1758 Sharp; Trenchard; Johnson Gibbon Vanhist Lawrence; Read; Kinsey 1759 Hancock; Kinsey; Johnson Gibbon Sharp Lawrence; Trenchard; Augustine Moore 1760 Hancock; Kinsey; Johnson Gibbon Sharp Lawrence; Moore; Read; Trenchard 1761 Hancock; Kinsey; Joseph Burroughs Gibbon Sharp Moore; Lawrence; Trenchard, appointed to prosecute the pleas 1762 Hancock; Trenchard; Burroughs Gibbon Wetherby Moore; Lawrence; Kinsey; Samuel Allinson, licensed as Att'y, by Thos. Boone, late Gov. 1763 Wetherby; Trenchard; Burroughs Gibbon Robert Johnson; Lawrence; John Holme; Allinson; Hancock; Bard; Preston; Smith; Carpenter; Kinsey Grant; Gibbon 1764 Wetherby; Trenchard; Burroughs Gibbon Johnson; Allinson; A. Sinnickson; Lawrence; Holme; Bard; Gibbon; Smith; Elisha Bassett Kinsey 1765 As Above. Kinsey; E. Test (to 1767) John Budd Trenchard; Lawrence; Allinson Blank until 1769 # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849) reside in the county. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1769 Basset; Trenchard, Att'y. Gen.; Burroughs Geo. Trenchard A. Sinnickson; Allinson; Holme; Lawrence; Johnson; Worth; R. Howard; Kinsey Sam'l Linch 1770 Carpenter; Trenchard; Burroughs Trenchard Sinnickson; Allinson; J. Holme Worth; Lawrence; Kinsey; Joseph Read 1771 Sinnickson; Allinson; Trenchard Trenchard Carpenter; Trenchard; Grant; Lawrence; Gibbon Read 1772 Bassett; Allinson; Trenchard Bateman Lloyd; Sinnickson Read; Trenchard Lawrence; James Bowman; Trenchard; Kinsey; # John Carey 1773 Bassett; Lawrence; Bateman Lloyd Trenchard Holme; Kinsey; Sinnickson; Carey; Gibbon Read; Trenchard; Bowman; Allinson; Shaw 1774 Bassett; Trenchard; -------- Trenchard Sinnickson; Carey; Robt. Johnson; Lawrence; Mayhew; Bowman; Howard Ross 1775 Bassett; Trenchard; -------- ------ Sinnickson; Ross; Mayhew; Carey; Johnson 1776 Sinnickson; Joseph Bloomfield, Atty. Gen.; -------- ------ Holme; Shaw; G. Gibbon Lawrence; Johnson Ross; Carey; Campbell; ^ Samuel Leake 1777 Holme; Saml. Leake; -------- Bateman Lloyd Sinnickson; John Carey Mayhew 1778 Holme; Carey; -------- Curtis Trenchard Sinnickson; Davenport; Johnson; S. Leake, State Atty Mayhew; Mecum 1779 Sinnickson; Carey; -------- ------ Johnson; Leake; Mecum Bloomfield; Davenport 1780 Sinnickson; Richard Howell; -------- John Smith Mecum; Franklin Davenport; Johnson Leake; Bloomfield; Carey 1781 John Holme; Bloomfield; -------- ------- Robert Johnson Davenport; Carey; Leake; Howell 1782 Holme; Bloomfield; -------- -------- Sinnickson; Davenport; Johnson; Leake; Mecum Howell 1783 Holmes; Davenport; Whitten Cripps John Rowen Johnson; Bloomfield; Mecum; John Lawrence; Sinnickson Howell, Atty. Gen.; Leake; Joseph Read 1784 Sinnickson; Howell; Cripps ------- Johnson; Leake; Mecum Davenport; # Kinsey; Lawrence # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849) reside in the county. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1785 Holme; Leake; Cripps Rowen Sinnickson; Lawrence; Mecum; Kinsey; Johnson; Davenport; Mayhew Howell; # Richard Burchan 1786 Mecum; Leake; Benjamin Cripps ------ Sinnickson; Lawrence; Johnson Kinsey; Davenport; Burchan; Howell 1787 Holme; Burchan; B. Cripps ------ Mecum; Howell; Mayhew; Leake; Isaac Harris Davenport; Lawrence; Aaron D. Woodruff; ^ John Vanleinvenigh 1788 Holme; Lawrence; B. Cripps ------ Sinnickson; Burchan; Mayhew; Davenport; Mecum; Vanleinvenigh; Harris Howell; Leake 1789 Holme; Burchan; Whitten Cripps Anthony Keasbey (to 1795) Mecum; Leake; Sinnickson; Vanleinvenigh; Harris; Davenport; Mayhew Lawrence; Giles; Howell 1790 Vanleinvenigh; W. Cripps ------ Davenport; Burchan; Lawrence; Leake 1791 J. Holme; Burchan; W. Cripps ------ Wetherby; Leake; B. Holme; Davenport; Thos. Sinnickson John Lawrence, Jun.; Giles; Maskell; Ewing; Lawrence, Senr.; Rob. Pearson; ^ Lucius Horatio Stockton; Wm. K. Hugg 1792 J. Holme; Davenport; Edwd. Hall ------ Wetherby; Leake; B. Holme; Bullus; Sinnickson Pearson; Lawrence, Jun.; ^ Colvin; Giles; Burchan; Lawrence, Sen.; Stockton; Ewing; Hugg; John Moore White; Wm. Griffith; Joseph Read; Howell; # James Kinsey, Jun.; Amos Pearce 1793 J. Holme; Colvin; Edwd. Hall ------ Harris; Stockton; Mayhew; Leake; Wetherby; Burchan; F. Sinnickson Giles; Hugg; Ewing; White; Davenport; Lawrence, Jun.; Pearson; Pearce; Lawrence, Sen.; Jos. Read 1794 Holme; ^ Saml. Leake Edwd. Hall ------ Wetherby; # Aaron Leake; Sinnickson; Read; Harris Colvin; Stockton; Davenport; White; Lawrence, Jun.; Pearce; Burchan; Giles; Pearson 1795 Holme; S. Leake; Clement Acton (to 1798) ------ Mayhew; A. Leake; Wetherby; Burchan; Bateman Lloyd Colvin; Giles; Stockton; Davenport; Pearce; John Kinsey; Lawrence, Jun.; Pearson; Lawrence, Sen.; Read; Woodruff, Atty Gen.; White; James Kinsey, Jun. # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849) reside in the county. Date Judges Attornies Sheriffs Clerks ____ ______ _________ ________ ______ 1796 Holme; S. Leake; -------- James Login Wetherby; A. Leake; John Smith Burchan; Pearce; Lawrence, Jun.; Davenport; Stockton; Giles; Kinsey, Jun.; White; Colvin; # Abijah Whiting 1797 Smith; Amos Pearce; -------- James Login Benj. Smith; Whiting; James Wright; Davenport; B. Lloyd; A. Leake; Eleazer Mayhew Stockton; Lawrence, Jun.; Woodruff; S. Leake; Burchan; Kinsey; White; Griffith; Giles; Griffith; Pearson 1798 J. Smith; A. Leake John Tuft Acton B. Smith; White; Eleazer Mayhew; Pearce; James Wright Burchan; Kinsey; Davenport; Pearson; Lawrence, Jun.; S. Leake; Stockton; Whiting; Woodruff 1799 Smith Lloyd; Davenport; John Tuft (to 1800) Clement Acton (to 1803) Jacob Hufty; Whiting; Jonathan Waddington; Woodruff; Wm. Biddle; Burchan; Mayhew Kinsey; Lawrence; Giles; Stockton; White; Pearson I here desist from pursuing my researches, in consequence of the irregularities of the Records, excepting so far as refers to the following Officers: SURROGATES. Samuel Dick 1785 to 1804 Artis Seagreaves to 1808 Jacob Hufty to 1809 Daniel Garrison to 1823 Morris Hancock to 1838 Joseph Brown to 1843 Isaac Hacket (the present incumbent.) SHERIFFS. Jacob Hufty to 1804 Samuel L. James to 1807 Thomas Bines to 1810 Henry Freas to 1813 Richard Craven to 1816 Samuel Miller to 1819 Jonathan Richie to 1822 Joseph Kille to 1825 Edward Smith to 1828 John Hacket died 1828 Isaac Johnson to 1831 James Logue to 1834 David S. English to 1837 Thomas I. Carter to 1840 Isaac Johnson, 2d to 1843 Robert Newell to 1846 Isaac Conklin (the present incumbent.) CLERKS. Edward Burroughs to 1806 Merriman Smith to 1829 Joseph Kille to 1839 Thomas Smith to 1844 and now Thomas Dickenson to 1849 # Indicates those officers who lived and died in the county. ^ Indicates those who after living in the county removed therefrom. * Indicates those who are now (January, 1849) reside in the county. ATTORNIES, From 1777 to 1849-have practices in our Court 1798 ^ Isaac Watts Crane 1800 * Josiah Harrison 1804 Wm. Rattoone 1804 Abraham Brown 1800 Andrew S. Hunter 1802 Charles Ewing 1804 Garret D. Wall 1804 Charles Kinsey 1805 Daniel Elmer 1806 Robert L. Armstrong 1808 John L. Nugent Aaron D. Woodruff 1811 Samuel L. Southard 1813 ^ Charles Burden 1813 ^ Charles Seeley 1814 # M. Bloomfield Wall 1814 ^ Wm. N. Jeffers 1825 Richard Stockton, Sen. 1815 Lucius Q.C. Elmer 1815 Elias P. Seeley 1815 Thomas Chapman 1817 Richard S. Coxe Wm. B. Griffith 1825 ^ Aaron O. Dayton 1829 ^ Oliver K. Freeman 1821 ^ John E. Jeffers 1822 * Alfonso E. Eaken 1823 ^ John Smalley 1823 * Francis L. Maccullock ^ Richard S. Field 1825 * Richard P. Thompson * James M. Harmah ^ Benjamin H. Latrobe ^ Henry Ellett * Thomas S. Smith * Samuel A. Allen * Wm. S. Clawson * Andrew Sinnickson * Anthony Q. Keasbey I have now finished examining every leaf of the Records of our Courts from 1706 to this time; it has been a great labor.-- From about the year 1765 to 1820 and 30, the Records were kept in the most disorderly manner that can be conceived. I examined as much as an armful of what are called the Court Records; the entries were made in just such books as used by boys at school--for cyphering and copy books--many of them even without their ordinary covers. This brings to my recollection a remark once made to me by Senator Southard, after he had been in the Clerk's office on business, "That he had never seen such confusion in all his life--and that in consequence of such neglect and derangement, there were in that office the means for litigation for many years to come, if such were sought after." The number of Judges, counting from 1707 to 1800, I make 53; the number of Sheriffs, including four Bailiffs, 44; Surrogates and Recorders from the 1692 to the present time, I make 17; but it is from recollection that I have added the Gibbons's, father and son, having often heard my parents say that they were Surrogates. Nicholas Gibbon was my grandfather, Grant Gibbon my mother's brother. I have also heard that the two Trenchards were Surrogates--they were brothers. Sinneckson preceded Doctor Sam'l Dick--they were brothers-in-law. The Johnson, Gibbon, Trenchard, and Sinneckson families were matrimonially connected. --Robt. G. Johnson.