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From: "Marfy Goodspeed" <>
Subject: A Quick Question
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:35:54 -0500


To those interested in the Williamson, Gordon, Bonnell and Quick families, I
have a question that has bugged me for years.

The Williamson farm of 396 acres +/- was sold in 1812 to a threesome known
in deeds as Bonnell, Quick and Gordon. That was Alexander Bonnell (
c.1765-1819), Thomas Gordon (c.1780-c.1852), and –here is the mystery—Nellie
Quick [from Deed 19-248, for Delaware Twp Block 13 lot 19. I've never been
able to figure out who Nellie Quick was.

In 1825, after Alexander Bonnell had died, some real estate was offered for
sale by Bonnell, Quick and Gordon, but this time the Bonnell was Alexander's
heir Charles, and the Quick was Tunis of Readington, instead of Nellie. The
ad appeared in the Gazette for Dec. 29, 1825.

In 1830, the executors of Alexander Bonnell dec'd sold his third interest in
the property, and in 1838, Thomas Gordon offered the farm for sale,
apparently having acquired a whole title. I haven't done a deed search to
find out exactly who bought the farm when, but I do recall looking for an
Eleanor or Nellie Quick in the index and not getting anything helpful. It
seems as if she might have been a relation to the Tunis Quick of Readington.
A Tunis Quick died in Hunterdon in 1838, but I don't have an abstract of his
estate.

Does anyone know who Nellie Quick was?

Marfy

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