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From: "Arline J. Sarver" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] MANNERS
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 21:13:59 -0800


Hi Jeff and List:

From Snell's "History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, New
Jersey", p. 353 the following background of the MANNERS family is given.

The MANNERS family, closely connected with the Stouts by marriage, was
one of the earliest in the township. (The township referred to was East
Amwell.) John MANNERS, the emigrant settler of Amwell, was an
Englishman,--born in Yorkshire, England, in 1679. He settled at Freehold
and married Rachel, one of Richard STOUT's daughters. In 1718 they
came to Amwell and purchased the farm where Jacob S. MANNERS now lives.
A deed, of date 1728, shows that John MANNERS owned about 400 acres.
This, as well as Benjamin STOUT's land, was purchased of C. Van SYCKEL,
who bought of Thomas STEVENSON, the owner of a large tract of the
William Penn grant from the "West Jersey Society" of Quaker
proprietors. John MANNERS' house formerly stood but a few feet east of
the present wagon-house, "and about 200 yards east of the present
mansion-house there." Here the second John MANNERS was born. The ruins
of the second house built by John MANNERS, in 1750, are still to be
seen, a short distance east of the present mansion. John MANNERS, Jr.
married Mary HIGGINS (daughter of Jediah HIGGINS and Hannah STOUT,
daughter of Jonathan, son of Richard the first), and had a son, John,
who removed to Readington and was the father of Dr. John and Gen. James
S. MANNERS. The latter, born in 1780, was three years sheriff of the
county and a general of the militia; he lived near Kuhl's Mill, and died
in 1851, without issue. John MANNERS, Jr., after the death of his first
wife, Mary HIGGINS, married Rachel, a daughter of James STOUT. They had
two
children,--Rachel, born in 1773, and David, born in 1777, who was the
father of Jacob S. MANNERS, who now lives on the homestead. (This book
was published in 1881.)
David MANNERS, son of John, Jr., married Mary SCHENCK, and had nine
children, the names of the five sons being as follows: John, Abraham,
Theodore, Abraham (2), and Jacob S. Abraham died without issue; John
married a daughter of the Hopewell John STOUT; Abraham (2) married a
daughter of Abram QUICK (her mother being a STOUT); Theodore married
Caroline WERTS; and Jacob S. married a daughter of Jacob BLACKWELL, and
lives on the old MANNERS homestead. Jacob S. Manners has recently
purchased a lot adjoining the old STOUT graveyard and laid it out for a
family cemetery.

Hope this is helpful to you.

Best regards, Arline

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