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From: "Marfy Goodspeed" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] A Quick Question
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 17:12:27 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <9951966A7609D048AC81E1F62C4073E5134381@apollo.orshakes.org>


Dear Dane,
This information on Tunis Quick and his daughter Nellie seems most
promising. I will try to follow through with it.
Thank you very much!
Marfy

On 3/2/06, Dane Coefer <> wrote:
>
> 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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