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From: Dane Coefer <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] A Quick Question
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:13:00 -0800


Also from A Genealogy of the Quick Family in America, Page 87

+ F 222 TUNIS QUICK (Major) (E64), b 15 Mar. 1762; bap. 11 April,

1762; d 4 May, 1836, aged 74. He m ALCHE VOORHEES, dau. of

Jacques Voorhees,4 Abraham van Voorhees,3 Lucas Stevense van

Voorhees,2 Steven Coerte van Voorhees.1 She was b June 20, 1766;

d Feb. 10, 1845. Both intered Prospect Hill Cem., Flemington, N. J.

They had 3 children [G381-3]. Major Tunis Quick, son of Colonel Abraham
Quick of Somerset County, was a successful farmer and miller. In early life
he had the mills where now the New Brunswick Water Works are located, and
afterwards that which for many years was known as Quick's Mills on the South
Branch River near Flemington, where he died, owning about 1000 acres of
land. He was also owner of land on the Allematunk River. He was a Major in
the N. J. State Militia.

Will of Major Tunis Quick, Readington Twp., Hunterdon County, proved
5-19-1836, provides for his wife, Alche (Voorhees); gives son, Jacques
Voorhees Quick, the 356 acre homestead farm in Readington Twp.; daughter,
Lydia, the farm in Somerset; also the mill and 68 acre proper in Somerset
and $2000; daughter, Nellie, the 97 acre farm in Readington and $10,000.

At Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N. J., two Quick prizes are awarded
annually: "Tunis Quick prize in English Grammar and Spelling," gift of P.
Vanderbelt Spader, A.B., class of 1849, in memory of his grandfather, Tunis
Quick. "Spader-Quick Prize Fund," founded by P. Vanderbelt Spader, A.B.,
class of 1849, in memory of his father, Peter Spader, and his grandfather,
Tunis Quick.

In the Library Building of Rutgers University hangs an attractive oil
painting of Major Tunis Quick on horseback, dressed in a green coat.


-----Original Message-----
From: Marfy Goodspeed [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:36 AM
To:
Subject: [NJHUNTER] A Quick Question

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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