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From: "Perry Streeter" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] John GARRISON; Hunterdon Co., NJ; 1761
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:09:43 -0500


Q. Who is the JOHN GARRISON of Hunterdon Co., NJ identified below?

101. Col. William-14 Chamberlain (Lucretia-13 Woolsey, George-12, George-11,
George 'Joris'-10, George-9 Wolsey, John-8, John-7, Thomas-6, Robert-5,
Robert-4, John-3, William-2, John-1) was born 23 Sep 1736 in Ringoes,
Hunterdon, NJ, and died 21 Aug 1817 in Union Co., PA. He married (1)
Elizabeth Ten Broeck 08 Jun 1758 in Hunterdon Co., NJ, daughter of Wessell
Ten Broeck and Neeltje DeWitt. She was born 23 Aug 1740 in Hunterdon Co.,
NJ, and died 29 Apr 1770 in Hunterdon Co., NJ. He married (2) Anne Park Abt.
1771. He married (3) Margaret Park Abt. 1782. He married (4) Ann Mary Kimble
Abt. 1794 in Buffalo Valley, PA. She was born Nov 1769 in New York City, NY,
and died 04 Mar 1859 in PA

Co. Wm. Chamberlain purchased from JOHN GARRISON in 1761 a house and mill on
Neshanic Creek at Rainbow Hill, Hunterdon Co., N. J. At the time of the Rev.
War, he owned a farm and mills on Neshanic Creek near Wertsville. He was a
capt. of the 2nd Regt. of Hunterdon Co. during the Rev War and was in a
number of battles and skirmishes. In 1776 he was promoted to major and later
to Lt. Col. in both the militia and the continental army. Col. Wm. was at
Trenton, Germantown 1777, Monmouth 1778, Elizabethtown 1780, and Springfield
1780. When Major Wm. Chamberlain was promoted in 1776, Capt. Nathan Stout
(see Stout Ch.) took over his company. A foraging party of the British in
1776 burned Col. Wm. Chamberlain's mill at Clover Hill. At the Battle of
Germantown on 10-3 & 10-4-1777, he lost his oldest son Lewis 18y. On
3-22-1780 Col., Wm. was court martialed for his "ungentelmanly and
unofficer-like behavior towards the officers and men, impeding the militia,
and favoritism toward certain officers." He was cashiered from the militia
on 5-14-1781. In the 1780 Hunterdon Co. rateables he had 94 acres of farm
land plus 20 acres of undeveloped land. Col. Wm. moved to Shamoken, Union
Co., Pa., in 1792 where he purchased 600 acres."

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