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MARY LORD (CARHART) WARNE, WIFE OF THE PROPRIETOR
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Principally the Descendants of Thomas
Warne, bom 1652, died 1722, one of the
Twenty-four Proprietors of East New Jersey
BY
REV. GEORGE WARNE LABAW
PASTOR OF THE REFORMED CHURCH
OF PREAKNESS, NEW JERSEY
Frank Allahen Genealogical Company
Three West Forty-Second Street, New York
Ccpyrig-ht, 1911, by
FRANK ALLABEN GENEALOGICAL COMPANY
PREFACE
Paul says "Avoid genealogies." The author has not fol-
lowed Paul's advice or counsel in preparing this work, but
he has often wished he had, on account of the excessive and
wearing labor connected with it, together with the annoying
dilatoriness and sometimes the indisposition or disinterested-
ness of many of his correspondents. Plowever, the work has
been a drill and a discipline unquestionably, and has in not
a few respects been a source to draw from in the carrying on
of his regular duties as a pastor and teacher or preacher.
Moreover, a side issue that demands application, care, and
research is a help, if he can get it in, to any professional man.
Of course, the writer need not enlarge upon the courtesy and
consideration that hundreds of correspondents have shown
him, and the manifest inconvenience in some instances they
have gone to in the collection of the data herewith given ; for
any one can see in looking over the volume before him, that
the compiler has had efficient aid from very many people.
With the rounding out of the year 1902, the author issued
his history of "Preakness and the Preakness Reformed
Church," which is quite full of genealogical notes ; and the
gathering of these for the few years preceding is what in-
terested him in the first place in genealogy. The starting of
the Warne Genealogy was in this wise. Mrs. John P. Agnew,
of Philadelphia, Pa., whose brother, Mr. E. P. B. Warne,
of the same city, for years had been and is yet spending his
summers with his wife at Naples, in the State of Maine, was
informed by her brother in September, 1903, on his return
from his usual season's outing, that he had met at his stop-
ping place Mr. Milton Labaw, a younger brother of the un-
dersigned, whose mother was a Warne, and who referred
him to the writer for any possible larger knowledge of the
Warne family he might secure. Mr. Warne, instead of him-
self writing to Preakness, had his sister write in the fall of
that same year, and, letter following letter, as each was replied
to, other people were corresponded with, and the material
for this work naturally accumulated ; and with its accumula-
lation increased interest was aroused. Miss Edith H. Mather,
6 PREFACE
of Bound Brook, N. J., was another of the early helpers the
author had, and a very competent helper she was, her mother
having in years previous to some extent studied the family
history, and even made a voyage to England to search rec-
ords. Miss Mather, being also a heraldic artist, furnished
the beautiful coats-of-arms, which adorn this volume. An-
other much valued helper in the present compilation was
Miss Virginia D. Hughes, of Hamilton, Virginia, whose
knowledge of her branch on the female side of Warnes is
quite extensive, and it was always a pleasure to receive her
letters. But the one who has furnished by far the greatest
amount of material in this mass of information is Miss
Josephine A. Brown, of Keyport, New Jersey, she being a
born genealogist, having been at work for a long time cor-
responding with various persons, consulting public records,
and looking through public libraries.
But to write this way of all or of any considerable number
of those who have been of service to him in this connection,
would put upon the author an unnecessary burden. Some
of the services rendered are acknowledged in the work itself.
Suffice it to say, that among those not thus mentioned, with-
out whose aid this work in its complete form would have
been impossible, may be mentioned, amid a host of others,
the Hon. George C. Beekman, of Red Bank, N. J. ; the late
James Steen, of Eatontown, N. J. ; Hon. James H. Neigh-
bour, of Dover, N. J. ; Hon. and Mrs. Irwin W. Schultz, of
Phillipsburg. N. J. ; Mr. William H. Warne, of Philadelphia,
Pa. ; Mr. William Herron Warne, of Parkersburg, W. Va.
;
Miss Jessie M. Warne, of Syracuse, N. Y. ; Miss Julia L.
Warne, of St. Louis, Mo. ; Miss Mary G. Warne, of Elburn,
111. ; Miss Sarah Lane Warne, of New Brunswick, N. J. ; the
late Rev. Morgan Dix, D. D., of New York City;" Mrs.
Henry Warne, of Koshkonong, Mo. ; Miss Claudie L. Warne,
since married, and Mrs. Emery Warne, of Chicago, 111. ; Mr.
Clinton A. Warne, of Romulus, N. Y. ; Mr. C. W. Rose, of
Matawan, N. J., since deceased; Mr. J. Sutton Wall, of Har-
risburg. Pa. ; Mr. William P. Warne, of Washington, Pa.
;
Miss Mary F. Warne, of Beaver, Pa. ; Miss Mary F. Strong,
of Matawan, N. J. ; Mr. John Neafie, of New York City
;
Mrs. Ida L. Norton, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Mr. Stannard
Warne, of London, Eng., who has furnished considerable
matter contained in the second and third chapters, and others
too numerous to mention.
PREFACE 7
The Warne Genealogy is principally made up of the his-
tory of Thomas Warne, one of the twenty-four early Pro-
prietors of East Jersey, and his descendants, or supposed de-
scendants, of whatever name, together with other family
notes. There is an introductory chapter, immediately follow-
ing this Preface, and then a short chapter on the Warne
family in general. Not following the usual course of the
genealogist, the author has arranged his data on the plan
of a family tree, or for that matter, if it may be so said, of
several trees. If Thomas Warne is the trunk, then there
are six main branches, the trunk and each branch occupying
a chapter by itself. Or, you may take each one of these six
branches as a trunk, with branches extending from it. The
fourth chapter, in regard to Stephen Warne, oldest son of
the Proprietor, and his descendants, may not be correctly
arranged. This is the chapter the writer is least certain
about. The one he is most certain about is the last, which
he claims is absolutely correct. And the other chapters, as
far as he has been able to go with them, he believes are all
comparatively reliable. There are mistakes, there will be
in such a work, but all names and dates have been most
thoroughly gone over, according to the information at hand,
and the records available, and these can be depended on. The
arrangement, however, of some of the names, without any
fault of the author, may be misleading. Had proper response
to all inquiries sent been promptly made by those who could
have made it, some of the lack of this Genealogy could have
been eliminated. But so it is. We are all dependent upon
our friends, and the genealogist especially is.
The author has held up this publication more than once,
and perhaps oftener and longer than he should have done,
because, as he was about to put his manuscript in the print-
er's hands, some new line of research would open up, and
he hoped by following it to solve an unsettled or unsolved
problem, and possibly more than one. Some problems in this
way have been solved, but not all, and consequently conjec-
tures or guesses have had to be made in certain cases, par-
ticularly when correspondents themselves were destitute of
information or disagreed in their statements, and no public
records could be found to bring out the facts. It is regrettable
that things are as they are, but when informants are unin-
formed and records are unobtainable, having been withheld
or mislaid or lost or destroyed, and there is no other source
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to apply to, one has simply to make the best of it and go on.
In the Appendix of the volume inhand the reader will find
much other Warne material than that belonging to the de-
scendants of Thomas Warne, though some of this material, if
we could sort it out, no doubt would be found to belong there.
And then there are notes also of a number of families con-
nected with the Warnes, which will be found in place in a
work like this. The Index is the best the author has been
able to produce, and he has tried to get in every personal and
place name.
Any one detecting errors in the succeeding pages, or who
may have any addition or additions to what he here finds in
print, will confer a favor by communicating with the under-
signed, who, if he sees fit, may some time in the near future
issue a supplement to this work, containing such corrections
and additional information.
It may be stated also in this connection, that while the
Warne Genealogy is largely a subscription work, the author
has arranged to have a limited number of copies printed in
addition, which any one desirous to purchase can secure as
long as they last by corresponding with him. The subscrip-
tion price was $5.00 per copy; bound in three-quarters mo-
rocco, $2.00 extra. The present price is $6.50, bound in buck-
ram, or $8.50 bound in three-quarters morocco. The author
has calculated to secure in this enterprise but little, if any-
thing, above his expenses, allowing nothing of any amount
for his excessive labor and pains.
George Warne Labaw.
Preakness Reformed Church Parsonage.
P. O. address, R. F. D. i, Paterson, N. J.
CONTENTS
Chapter Page
Preface 5
I Introductory 13
II The Wame Family 23
III Thomas Wame, Proprietor 37
IV Stephen Wame, Son of Thomas, and His De-
scendants 73
V Thomas Wame, Son of Thomas, and His De-
scendants 143
VI Samuel Wame, Son of Thomas, and His De-
scendants 205
VII Joshua Wame, Son of Thomas, and His De-
scendants 219
VIII Sarah Wame, Daughter of Thomas, and Her
Descendants 307
IX George Wame, Son of Thomas, and His De-
scendants 331
Appendix
I Wames Who Do Not Belong to the Thomas Wame
Stock 473
II Wames Who May or May Not Belong to the
Thomas Wame Stock 504
III Odds and Ends of Wames 546
IV Notes On Some Families Connected With the
Wames by Marriage 554
V Copies of Some Pertinent Papers 617
Addenda 623
Owner's Lineage (Facing) 628
Index
I Names 631
II Places 692
ILLUSTRATIONS
Facing
Page
Portrait of Mary Lord (Carhart) Warne Frontispiece
The Letter "R" as It Appears in Ancient Documents. . . . (page) 26
Chart of Wame Records A. D. 1066-1415 28
Chart of Wame Records A. D. 1431-1597 30
Wame Arms 32
Autographs of Thomas Warne, Proprietor 46
Lord Arms 58
Autograph of Stephen Warne 76
Portrait of Frank Juhan Warne, Ph. D iii
Residence of William Parkinson Warne, Washington, Pa. ... 120
Portraits of Oilman B. Warne and Family 191
Autograph of The Reverend Morgan Dix (page) 295
Some Old Family Autographs 312
Portrait of Mrs. Jessie (Glen) Schultz 411
Portrait of Major Elisha Spring Warne 412
Mill at Mt. Pleasant, New Jersey, Built by John Warne 424
Graveyard at Mt. Pleasant, New Jersey 432
Portrait of The Reverend George Wame Labaw 436
Portrait of John Warne 442
Portrait of Sarah (Stires) Warne 443
Residence of John Warne, Big Woods, 111 444
Autograph of John Warne (page) 445
Portrait of Asel Avery Gates 446
Portrait of Mary (Warne) Gates 44S
Portrait of John Warne Gates 449
Portrait of Charles G. Gates , 450
Residence of John Warne Gates, Port Arthur, Texas 451
Portrait of William Henry Warne 460
The Preakness Parsonage 470
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY
"The discoveries of Columbus in America were all of them
to the south. Cabot, in 1497, under the patronage of Henry
Vni. of England, discovered Newfoundland, and explored
the coast as far south as the Carolinas. Because of this dis-
covery the English claimed the whole country to Florida."
"Sir Walter Raleigh settled a colony in Carolina in 1584,
and the country, all the way up the coast, including what is
now Maine, received the name Virginia, after England's
virgin queen, Elizabeth. For a long time New Jersey was
a part of Virginia. Subsequently it was a part of New York,
which, in 1664, was made to extend south to Maryland, east
to New England, northward to the River of Canada, and
westward as far as land could be discovered." The Dutch,
however, previous to this, had claimed New York by virtue
of Hudson's discovery in 1609, and occupied it, with New
Amsterdam, as they called it, as their port of entry and chief
city. Early in 1664, on account of the earlier English claim,
Charles H sent out a fleet and took possession of New Am-
sterdam and all that the Dutch had with it. Charles imme-
diately (March 12, 1664) gave a patent to his brother James,
the Duke of York, for a great part of the country ; when it
was called New York. The Duke, June 24, 1664, by inden-
ture of lease and release, granted, bargained and sold unto
John Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret all of what has
since been known as the State of New Jersey, and they were
hence the first Lords Proprietors of the state. They were
also at this time Proprietaries of Carolina as well. Philip
Carteret, brother of Sir George, came over as Governor of
New Jersey in August, 1665, and made Elizabethtown, which
he named in honor of his brother's wife, Lady Elizabeth
Carteret, the capital of the Province. New England Puritans,
English Quakers, and Scotch Presbyterians then came as
settlers from New England and Long Island. Of course, the
colony prospered. No trouble was experienced from the
neighboring Indians, whose power had been thoroughly
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broken by the Dutch, and every thing went on happily until
the year 1670, when the Proprietaries demanded the rents due
from the lands held by the settlers. The settlers would not
pay these rents. Many of them had lived in the province
under the rule of the Dutch, and had bought their lands from
the Indians, on account of which they claimed that the grant
of the province to Berkeley and Carteret could not invalidate
these purchases, since the king had no legal right to the lands
he so lavishly bestowed upon his favorites. Others refused
to pay rents, because they had made their plantations, with-
out any assistance from the Proprietaries, and did not there-
fore acknowledge any debt to them. Hence the representative
of the Proprietaries was obliged to fly for safety from the
Province and went to England for assistance in enforcing his
demands.
The Duke of York heard the complaints of the Proprie-
taries, but the only attention he paid to them was to appoint
Sir Edmund Andros, who subsequently became infamous for
his tyranny in New England, Governor of the province. This
was in flagrant violation of the rights of Berkeley and
Carteret, and at the same time an act thoroughly character-
istic of the last of the Stuarts. Berkeley, in great disgust at
the way things had turned out, on March 18, 1673, sold his
right to half the state to John Fenwick, who in turn sold it
to four Quakers, Billinge, Penn, Lawry and Lucas, the line
of division being considered to be (for it was not run) from
a point in the northwest corner of the territory concerned to
the sea at Little Egg Harbor; and these four, after this, with
Carteret, made five Lords Proprietors of the state instead
of two. Carteret having the eastern portion, and the rest the
western portion of the domain indicated.
On July 30, 1673, the Dutch, through war, having regained
the Jerseys, the country was restored to England again by
treaty the following year, February 9, 1674. But, as this tem-
porary change of rulers now gave rise to doubts in regard
to the validity of the title of the Duke of York, the Duke,
June 29, 1674, obtained of the king, his brother, a second
charter, confirming the former grant. James, immediately
after he received his renewed title, July 29, 1674, executed
a grant to Sir George Carteret individually for East Jersey
alone, he being owner of that territory, after Berkeley's sale,
before the late war withHolland. Later, however, it having
been discovered that this individual grant to Carteret gave
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him more than belonged to him, or more than his share of
the territory, he soon rehnquished his title to the Duke, that
there might be a more equitable division between him and the
assigns of Lord Berkeley ; when the five, i. e., Carteret, Bil-
linge, Penn, Lawry and Lucas, by the execution, on July i,
1676, of the celebrated Quintipartite Deed "for a more equit-
able division" divided the province into East Jersey and West
Jersey, Carteret retaining East Jersey and the other four the
rest of the grant.
Sir George Carteret, after this sole Lord Proprietor of
East Jersey, who died January 13, 1680, in his eightieth
year, by will dated December 5, 1678, left the Province to
trustees to be sold to pay his debts, which sale was made
February i and 2, 1682, to the famous Twelve Proprietors,
all said to be Quakers, as follows : William Penn, Robert
West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart,
Richard Mew, Thomas Wilcox, Ambrose Riggs, John Hey-
wood, Hugh Hartshorne, Clement Plumstead, and Thomas
Cooper. The purchase price was £3,400 or less than $17,000,
and the purchasers became known as "The Twelve Pro-
prietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey." These
twelve later on, each at different times, took a partner, when
the proprietors numbered twenty-four, the additional twelve
being Robert Barclay, Edward Billinge, Robert Turner,
James Brain, Arent Sonmans, William Gibson, Gawen Laurie,
David Barclay, Thomas Barker, Thomas Warne, James,
Earl of Perth, Robert Gordon, and John Drummond, the
names herewith being placed in the order in which the con-
veyances were made from the first twelve to the other twelve.
Should any one notice that there are thirteen of these names,
we explain that David Barclay's name should have been in
with the first twelve in place of Thomas Wilcox, whose re-
maining interest he had bought out. Another thing we note
here, and that is, the legal year in England and Scotland in
those days began on March 25, while the historical year began
January i preceding, which accounts for the seeming impro-
priety or discrepancy in dates, as given in various records
and historical works. For instance, February i, 1681-2, im-
plies that the legal year was 1681, while the historical year
was 1682, which latter is according to our present way of
reckoning.
We further observe in this connection likewise that before
the first twelve Lords Proprietors took each his partner,
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they entered into a deed of survivorship, i. e., should any die,
the survivors were not to have the benefit of his or their
share or shares, but such share or shares should go to each
and every person's own heirs or assigns, and this was after-
wards the case consequently when said shares were divided
and the Lords Proprietors numbered twenty-four.
In Book A of Deeds, p. 290, in the Secretary of State's
office in Trenton, N. J., we find that John Heywood, citizen
and skinner, of London, one of the twelve Proprietors, under
deed dated September 6-7, 1682, sold half of his share to
Thomas Warne, of Dublin, in the Kingdom of Ireland. Each
of the others in the same way, some time during that same
year, also individually conveyed one-half of his share to his
partner, which move undoubtedly was to increase the public
interest in the province, and to hasten the settling of it by
immigrants.
The twenty-four Lords Proprietors now, although they did
not all themselves come to America, in order to have their
title properly confirmed, or made doubly sure against certain
disputed claims, whose merits and demerits we will not here
enter upon, secured a new grant from the Duke of York for
their Proprietorship, under date of March 14, 1682-3, which
gave them not only their proprietary rights in the soil, but
powers of government, too, as Carteret had had them. The
order of the names as they occur in this grant is as follows
:
James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barclay,
David Barclay, Robert Gordon, Arent Sonmans, William
Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groom,
Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Ambrose Rigg, John Heywood,
Hugh Hartshorne, Clement Plumstead, Thomas Cooper,
Gawen Lawrie, Edward Byllinge, James Brain, William
Gibson, Thomas Barker, Robert Turner, and Thomas Warne.
"At the time of the transfer of East Jersey to the twenty-
four Proprietors, the population of the different towns is esti-
mated to have been 3,500, and the families, scattered on plan-
tations throughout the Province, half as many more, making
the entire population over 5,000 souls." (Whitehead's East
Jersey under the Proprietors, p. 141.) The principal towns
thus referred to were, Bergen, Newark, Elizabethtown,
Woodbridge, Piscataway, Middletown, and Shrewsbury.
(Early Days and Early Surveys, Roome, p. 18.) When the
powers of government were afterwards surrendered, April
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17, 1702, the population is estimated to have exceeded 10,000.
(Roome, p. 21.)
As to the boundaries of the Province of East Jersey, there
was always, until the final settlement, and even after that,
more or less uncertainty and dissatisfaction. The division
between East and West Jersey made by Carteret and the
trustees of Byllinge in the Quintipartite Deed was by a
line drawn (Leaming and Spicer, Grants and Concessions,
Somerville, 1881, p. 6y) "from the east side of Little Egg
Harbor, straight north, through the country, to the utmost
branch of the Delaware river." The exact language, with
a few omissions, of the Quintipartite Deed in reference to
the part released to Carteret is : "All those easterly parts
* * * of said tract * * * extending eastward and
northward along the sea coast and the said river called Hud-
son's river, from the east side of a certain place or harbour
lying on the southern part of the same tract of land, and
commonly called * * * i^y ^]^g name of Little Egg Har-
bour, to that part of the said river called Hudson's river
which is in forty-one degrees of latitude, being the further-
most part of the said land and premises which is bounded by
the said river, and crossing over from thence in a strait
line, extending from that part of Hudson's river afore-
said to the northernmost branch, or part of the before men-
tioned river called Delaware river, and to the most northerly
point or boundary of the said tract * * * now * * *
agreed to be called the north partition point, and from thence
* * * by a strait and direct line, drawn * * *
southward through the said tract of land unto the most south-
erly point of the east side of Little Egg Harbour * * *
agreed to be from henceforth called the south partition point,
—the above to be called the line of partition between East
Jersey and West Jersey."
"The line, however, was not at that time run, as it ought
to have been, due to the slip-shod and careless manner of the
Proprietors in regard to their lands and lines." (Early Days
and Early Surveys, Roome, p. 14.)
Later, "in 1687, George Keith, the Surveyor General of
East Jersey, ran the line from the point designated on Little
Egg Harbor as far as the South Branch of the Raritan at
a point just east of the old York road; but as that was
deemed by the West Jersey Proprietors to be too far west,
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thereby encroaching on their lands, and they objected to its
continuance, it was discontinued. Then on the 5th of Sep-
tember, 1688, Governors Coxe and Barclay, representing the
respective interests, entered into an agreement to terminate
the dispute. It was, that this Hne, so far as run, should be
the bound, and that, on its extension, it should take the fol-
lowing course : From the point where it touched the South
Branch, 'along the back of the adjoining plantations, until
it touches the North Branch of the Rariton, at the falls of
the Allamitimg (now the Lamington Falls), thence running
up that stream northward to its rise near Succasunny." From
that point a short straight line was tobe run to touch the
nearest part of the Passaic river. Such a line would pass
about five miles north of Morristown. The line was to be
continued by the course of the Passaic as far as the Paquanic
(Pequannock) and up that branch to forty-one degrees
north latitude, and from that point in a straight line due east
to the partition point on Hudson river, between East Jersey
and New York. This line gave to the northern part of West
Jersey the counties of Warren and Sussex, and portions of
Morris, Passaic and Bergen. The Coxe-Barclay agreement,
however, was not carried into effect, although until Morris
county was erected in 1738, the division line constituted the
eastern boundary of Hunterdon county." (Snell's History
of Somerset and Hunterdon Counties, p. 20.)
Had Surveyor General Keith, in 1687, continued his survey
in a straight line to the Delaware river, he would have come
out on the river at Walpack Ferry, or opposite where the
Bushkill creek enters the Delaware on the Pennsylvania side,
in which case West Jersey would have contained 53,890 acres
less than East Jersey or 26,945 acres less than half the
Province. The Coxe-Barclay agreement endeavored to
obviate this difficulty, but the Keith line, as run to the South
Branch of the Raritan, with the Coxe-Barclay irregular ex-
tension of it to the partition point on Hudson river between
East Jersey and New York was not at all satisfactory to the
East Jersey Proprietors, as it gave West Jersey altogether
too much land, and it is no wonder it never went into effect.
A temporary arrangement therefore was made, which ob-
tained until 1743, when the so-called Lawrence line was run
by John Lawrence, of the Captain Lawrence "Don't-give-up-
the-ship" stock,—which line extended from Little Egg Har-
bor on the coast to a point near Dingman's on the Delaware
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—and has since been established or determined by our courts
as the legal division between East and West Jersey,—it being
very nearly the same as the old Quintipartite line, or that de-
lineated in the original Quintipartite Deed.
Note.—A good map of the Partition Line between East and
West Jersey is found in the "Bi-centennial Celebration of the
Board of American Proprietors of East New Jersey at Perth
Amboy, November 25, 1884," a copy of which is to be found
in the New Jersey Historical Society's rooms in Newark.
There is considerable information in this small work.
CHAPTER II
THE WARNE FAMILY
CHAPTER II
THE WARNE FAMILY
The Warne family is a very old one in England. How
old? We do not know. Nor can we tell whence it came.
Some claim it is of French extraction, and some German.
But whether the English claim is not as good as or better
than either or any other is a question. The name Le Warne
is found in Southern Germany, and is very numerous there.
And there are those in New Quay, County Cornwall, Eng-
land, who call themselves by the name of Le Warne. The
same may be said in regard to France, and the Warne or
Varne or Guarne name in that country, viz., in sections it
is very common. Did not the Le Warnes or Le Varnes go
over into Germany from France? But who can claim that
the German Le Warnes and the French Varnes, who may be
and have been Le Varnes, did not originate in England, as
well as vice versa ? It is said, that the battles of the Crusades,
and the wars in France, with the occupation of Calais, in
1347, quite account for the names of Warne and Warren or
Guarine there, the family of Dover especially, mentioned
more fully a little further on, who had much trade with
Calais, and to whom the Warne arms are also ascribed, being
called both Warne and Warren.
We read in Gieseler's Church History, and also in Kurtz,
that in 799, one Paulus Warnefridi or Warnefrid, or Warne-
freid (perhaps Warnefried) was invited by Charlemagne,
probably from Lombardy, to the French court. Warnefreid
was one of the most learned men of his time, and for this
reason Charlemagne, one of the greatest of emperors, desired
to have him with him. We have found, too, on record in
English history one Ralph de Warneville, 1173, Treasurer
of York, under Henry II. These names, it seems to us, mean
something in connection with the name Warne.
And then there is the river Warne in Germany, as well
as the seaport Warnemunde at its mouth, in the circle of
Lower Saxony and the duchy of Mecklenberg. The Swedes
at one time had a house at Warnemunde where they took
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toll, but in 1710, when their affairs were upon the decline,
the Duke of Mecklenberg put a garrison in it. (Brooke's
Gazette, 1812.) Moreover, the Warne or Warn name is
not an unknown name in Sweden itself, as we have recently
learned.
The original family name of Warne in England was
Waryn or Warin, then Warn, then Warne, the letter y, as
in the first instance, being early used as a long r, although
some authorities state that I was first used instead of Y, as
seen in the second instance. Hence, many old legal docu-
ments and records, as chancery suits, are signed Wayn and
Wayne for Warn and Warne. On this account also, i. e.,
the original spelling Waryn, the Warrens have often been mis-
taken for the Warnes and the Warnes for the Warrens, which
mistake people have not been able to avoid even in these
days. Many of the old English church parish registers in
this respect are greatly at fatilt. The vicar often left entries
of baptisms, etc., to be made by the curate, who entered them
in abbreviated Latin, or sometimes left them to be made by
the sexton, who attempted to copy the other Latin examples
before him, and thereby not infrequently made poor work of
it, confusing the Warnes and the Warrens, when those names
were the names dealt with. This confusion, too, thus caused,
was added to by the old court handwriting before the date
of Queen Elizabeth, making the official records, both eccle-
siastical and civil, very difficult sometimes to read. For in-
stance: Here is a sketch of the letter R taken from a pub-
lication of 1778, entitled "Court Hand Restored," by Andrew
Wright of the Inner Temple.
These letters vary according to the writing of the clerk,
and each one stands for the letter R.
As in England so in America, the name is and has been
spelled both Warn and Warne, the letter e in the latter being
apparently only a flourishing terminal,—the name even in the
same branches of the family often being changed from Warn
WARN E GENEALOGY 27
to Warne, occasionally brothers writing their names one
Warn and the other Warne, as well as the other way. Some
likewise in England spell it Warns and Warnes, using the
plural form; and now and then, perhaps in England as in
America, there are those who will spell it Warner, or it has
been carelessly spelled that way for them by their friends,
or by clerks making entries in the public records. There
are several instances of this kind, not to speak of others, in
the Parish Register of Christ Church at Shrewsbury, N. J.,
which we have ourselves seen ; besides, both in New Jersey
and in Virginia, the name Warner instead of Warne has
quite frequently crept in among certain family given names.
Then, to say nothing of several instances of the same kind in
the New Jersey Archives, where both Warner and Warren
are wrongly used for Warne,—in some places we find the
name Wearne,—and likewise in a history or two Varne and
Nairne—in each of these latter two cases Thomas Warne,
one of the twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey, being the
person referred to,—to say nothing, we repeat, of these vari-
ous instances in the New Jersey Archives, we furnish some
very pertinent illustrations in addition to them from over the
water, especially in regard to the name Warren. Take this
case as per the Irish records in which throughout, for the
name Warne, Warren is ahvays written. Two captains in
the time of Oliver Cromwell were sons of, and were christ-
ened, Warne ; but were afterwards called Warren, and some
years later were knighted Warren,—the error being caused
by a third person writingto a stranger relative to a Warne,
but calling him Mr. Warren, and the correspondence was car-
ried on in the latter name.
Also a pedigree of Thomas Warne, of Snowhill, County of
Gloucester, is entered from the Harleian Mss. in the British
Museum, throughout the whole pedigree, as Warren, whereas
the chancery suits between the various branches of the family
are all in the name of Warne.
In Pafronymica Britanica, by Mark Anthony Lower, the
author claims, but for what reason he does not state,—nor
can we imagine—that the name Warne is a curt pronuncia-
tion of Warren,—although, except as people make it, we be-
lieve that there is no connection between the names. While,
moreover, the claim has again been put forward that the name
should be pronounced as if spelled Warna, after the French
Varne, and not "Warn" at all. This, however, we regard
as merely fanciful. There is a street in the city of St. Louis,
28 WARN E GENEALOGY
Mo., which some people call Warna, pronounced as if spelled
with two syllables, but this is a great mistake, as said street
was named after Marinus Willett Warne, who went to St.
Louis from New Brunswick, N. J., in 1847, ^^^ in his day
was a prosperous merchant there.
As we have said, the Warne family is a very old one in
England. The ancient records in that country quote a Warne
as sherifif of Shropshire in 1066. But who knows how old
the family was then? The name is found among the soldiers
in the battles of Cressy, 1346, a town in France, where the
English under Edward III, gained a great victory, and of
Agincourt, a village likewise in France, in the department
of Pas-de-Calais, where the English, October 25, 141 5, under
Henry V, were victorious over the French under Charles VI.
At least two of the family fought at the latter place.
The following has been furnished us along with consider-
able of the material of this chapter, as well as some other
items elsewhere, by Mr. Stannard Warne, of London
:
"XXV October 1415. Henry Vth ist An. the Battle of
Agincourt.
Index to the Roll of Arms.
Henry Wareyn 47. John Waryn 54. The Retynew
(Retinue) of Sir Thomas West Henry Wareyn. Lancers
XIV. Archers XL.
The Retinue of Sir Ralph Shyrley. John Waryn."
This, it is declared, is a literal quotation, but what it means
we are not able fully to tell. The figures 47 and 54 probably
represent the numbers under which the two soldiers were
distinguished or fotight. Henry Wareyn was in the retinue
of Sir Thomas West, which consisted of fourteen lancers and
forty archers, and John Waryn was in the retinue of Sir
Ralph Shyrley, the size of which is not given.
Likewise a Warne was once long, long ago, constable of
Dover Castle. Also the first English Governor of Edinburgh
Castle was a Warne. The Manor of the Myrtle, in Glou-
cester, on the borders of the County of Worcester, in 1560,
owned then by one Thomas Warne, was quoted at that time
by the chancery suits as having been in possession of the
Warne family "from time immemorial." The families of
Warne for centuries have been very numerous in most of
the counties of England from Norfolk to the Lands End, in
Cornwall. In the seventeenth century there were many
branches of the Warne family in Cornwall and Devonshire,
principally in the neighborhood of Plymouth, whence Thomas
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Warne, one of the twenty-four Proprietors of East Jersey,
in colonial days, came ; and at the time of the Cromwellian
insurrection many of their number went abroad, some of
them purchasing the rebel lands in Ireland. In fact, quite a
number of the original twenty-four Proprietors themselves,
besides Thomas Warne, merchant of Dviblin, (and, as the
records show, other Warnes), were among these people who
earlier hailed from Devonshire, and hence were naturally, in
business ventures, more or less associated with each other.
Also the families of Warne, especially near Plymouth, were
much interested in shipping and colonial enterprises, the pre-
vailing custom being to go from the north of Cornwall south-
ward toward Plymouth, agriculturists becoming merchants
seeking for a seaport, etc.
We have observed that the name Warne was in very early
days spelled Waryn. According to the early historians there
were three distinct Waryn families in England, viz. : Warren,
as he wrote his name, Earl of Surrey ; Waryn the Bald ; and
War}^ de Metz, each bearing heraldic arms of the date of
Edward I and III, 1272-1377. Warren, Earl of Surrey, was
evidently the first Warren. He was a Waryn, but for some
reason wrote his name Warren, differently from the way the
rest of the family wrote it. Otherwise the Warrens and
Waryns or Warnes probably have no connection with each
other. Apparently the name Warren is derived from the
grants of free warren. In feudal times the grant of free
warren in England was given only to special favorites, and
the Earl of Surrey was such an one. The warren was a
place privileged by prescription or grant from the king for
keeping certain beasts and fowls called beasts and fowls
of warren. Again, also, warren is a privilege in England
which one has in his lands by royal grant or prescription of
hunting and taking wild beasts and birds of warren to the
exclusion of any other person not entering by his permission.
I. Warren, created Earl of Surrey A. D. 1068, married
Gundred, a stepdaughter of William the Conqueror, but he
had no children by her,—his children were all illegitimate by
Maud de Nerford. The armorial bearings of this family
were cheque or and az. There is in Westminster Abbey
a beautiful shield of arms of these quarterings, engraved
brass enamelled, on the monument of William de Valence
and Aymer de Valence, Earls of Pembroke, the former dying
in 1296, and the widow of the latter 1373. The shield on this
tomb is so beautiful that it is by many persons supposed to
30 WARN E GENEALOGY
be of the latter date, and is often quoted as the shield of
Aymer de Valence, whose widow, Mary, appended to a
charter dated A. D. 1347, a magnificent seal of arms. This
lady founded Pembroke college, Cambridge, A. D. 1373.
2. Waryn the Bald is the head of the second of these
families. Ordericus writes that King William gave his niece
Emeria or Ameria and the command of Shrewsbury (Isn't
there something in this name Shrewsbury to identif)^ this
family with the New Jersey Warnes, who were early so
closely associated with Shrewsbury, N. J., and who may have
themselves named the place?) to Waryn the Bald, Sheriff
of Shropshire, A. D. 1066. Ordericus and Eyton, the two
Shropshire historians, differ in the spelling of the name of
William's niece, one spelling it Emeria, and the other
Ameria or Aimeria. Waryn the Bald died 1083-5. His
widow, Emeria or Ameria, married Reginald de Balliol. Her
daughter, Ameline, married Alan Fitz Flaed, ancestor of the
Fitz Alans, Earls of Arundel. It is claimed that Waryn the
Bald was appointed to defend the Welch or Welsh marches,
and that the family connections with the Arundel family is
the cause of the martlets quoted in the Arms (from Hiron
delle, French for a swallow). Oswestry, County of Salop,
was at an early date, annexed by Roger Montgomery to the
Shrievalty of Waryn the Bald, whom he called his Viscount.
William the Conqueror gave it to Alan, ancestor of the Earls
of Arundel, in whose family the Barony has been for up-
wards of five hundredyears. It is now held by the Duke
of Norfolk. The armorial bearings of this family are those
claimed by the Warnes.
3. Waryn de Metz, ancestor of the noted Fitz Waryn
family, is by some of the authorities quoted as a son of
Waryn the Bald.
Armorial bearings: Per fesse danche ermine et argent.
In Burke's Visitation of Seats, Vol. II, Plate XXIX, we
find the arms of one John Warnes, esqr., of Bolwick House,
Norfolk.
The armorial bearings of the family of Waryn the Bald,
being those now claimed by the Warnes, and in existence
long before the date of the Herald's college, 1484, have also
been quoted for a family at Dover, under the name of War-
ren, a fact that we cannot explain,—which family in early
days had much trade with Calais, and hence, as some claim,
the origin of the Warren name in France. These bearings
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are of the date of Edward III, and seem to point back to the
crusades.
In the crusades the Enghsh bore a cross or (gold) ; the
Scots carried a St. Andrew's cross ; the French a cross argent
(silver) ; the Germans a cross sable (black) ; the Italians
a cross azure (blue) ; the Spaniards a cross gules (red).
After the foreign wars of Edward III there was such a
rage for heraldic bearings that laws were passed to prevent
persons using arms that did not belong to them, and King
Henry V, on June 2, 141 7, cautioned his soldiers against
using coat armour not their own, "except those who bore
arms with us at Agincourt."
In England, only the head of the family can use the
whole arms on his plate, paper, seal, etc. ; the other male
members of the family using the crest. In America, where
there is no law of primogeniture, every Warne has a right
to the family coat-of-arms.
In Burke's Landed Gentry, according to the "Genealogical
Record of the Descendants of Thomas Carhart, of Cornwall,
England," by Mary E. (Carhart) Dusenbury (A. S. Barnes
& Co., 1880), the Warne family is recorded as seated in
St. Colomb and Padstow, County Cornwall, England.
Arms.—Sa. a cross or, in the first and fourth quarters, a
martlet of the second ; in the second and third a chaplet ar.
Crest.—A horseshoe or between two wings, ppr.
In "Fairbank's Crests" the Warne crest is also given thus :
Warne.—Eng. a horseshoe or between wings ppr.
The abbreviations are: Eng. ^ English; or ^ gold; ppr.
= proper.
In Plate 17, Crest 3, is a drawing of the Warne crest.
Mr. Stannard Warne, of London, gives the arms as fol-
lows, with explanations
:
Warne.—Sable a cross or, in the first and fourth quarters
a martlet of the second ; in the second and third quarters a
chaplet argent.
The cross being gold shows that the arms are of English-
men fighting in the Crusades. The martlet, without feet, is
emblematical of foreign traveling, and is probably connected
with the arms of the Arundel family. The chaplet is a gar-
land or entwined wreath of leaves and flowers or of leaves
alone.
The French Heralds deprived their martlets of beak as
well as feet.
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As to a Warne motto, Stannard Warne writes: "I have
no authentic evidence. It has been described as 'Nil Des-
perandum,' and the crest as an ostrich trying to eat a horse-
shoe." A free translation of the above motto therefore would
be, Despair of nothing, or, Never be discouraged, or, Let
nothing make you give up.
Here, however, is another coat-of-arms which must be
German
:
Arms op Warne.—Ermine, on a cross regular sable, 5
stars of 6 points each or.
From Roll of Arms of the date of Henry HI, Sir Harris
Nicolas describes these arms from a copy in Herald's Col-
lege made in 1586 from the Original Roll begun in 1240 and
ended in 1245. All heraldry is supposed to have sprung from
Germany.
In "Burke's Commoners," Vol. II, 1836, p. 68, we read
that Catherine Warpe, daughter of Christopher Warne, Esq.,
of St. Columb, and thence removed to Padstow about the
middle of last century (1750), was espoused in 1736 by
William Rawlings, Esqr., an eminent merchant, distinguished
alike for active philanthropy and literar}' attainments. "Wil-
liam Rawlings, Esqr., of Padstow, in the County of Corn-
wall, b. 1788, a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the
shire, was a descendant of theirs. The family (Rawlings)
originally of Herefordshire, was for many generations con-
nected with its city."
Also we have seen that Mary, only daughter and heir of
William Warne, of Thankes in Devonport in 1713, married
Thomas Graves, a member of an Irish family. She died
without issue in 1718. Thankes or Thanks was no seat. It
was probably a farm bought by Mr. Warne, and later
turned into a gentleman's place. In 1824 it belonged to Lord
Graves.
In Burke's Descendants of Royalty in America, it is de-
clared that William the Conqueror was a Warren or was of
Warren descent.
Eleanor Lexington in the Pittsburg Leader claims that
"the first to assume the name of Warren was a Norman
baron, who lived on the Varenne. Hence the name, which
has had various forms—de Varenne, Warrenne, Warena,
Warrener, Warinus, and finally Warren. The Baron de
Varenne's daughter, Gunnora, married Richard, Duke of
Normandy ; their grandson, Robert, was the father of Wil-
liam the Conqueror. When William and his Norman army
Watne
WARN E GENEALOGY 33
invaded Great Britain, one of his knights was William de
Varenne, who was given estates and was known as Earl
of Warren, and married the Conqueror's daughter" (rather
stepdaughter), "Gundrada. If the mighty Conqueror was
the greatest man of his day, then the Earl of Warren ranked
second in importance, for when William was absent from
his realm, Warren was guardian of the kingdom, and an
additional earldom, that of Surrey, was given him. Malcom
and William, Kings of Scotland, also were of Warren stock."
On the other hand, Mr. Stannard Warne, of London,
through whom, as we have noted, we have secured many of
our facts in this chapter, thinks that the river Varenne has
nothing to do with the Warren name, and declares that in
his opinion the original name of Warren is taken from the
Grants of Free Warren held by the owners of land in feudal
times in England. In France, he says, the name is always
written "Guarine."
In Charles Wareing Bardsley's English Surnames, we
find: "Of names specially introduced at the Conquest, or
that received an impulse by that event, few were more popu-
lar than that of Warin or 'Guarin' or 'Guerin,' the latter the
form at present generally found in France."
If then the Waryns, Warins, Warns, Warnes, some of the
Warrens, and some, if not all who bear the name of Warner,
have had a common origin, they were at any rate separated
many centuries ago.
The Warne name, it may be here added, is also on the
roll of martyrs. From Fox's Book of Martyrs we learn that
one John Warne, aged 29, upholsterer, of the parish of St.
John, in Walbrook, in London, on May 30, 1555, with his
companion in martyrdom, named John Cardmaker, was
burned at the stake at Smithfield. Warne had been examined
on May 23 previous, after having been detained in Guild
Hall, and was then sent a prisoner to Newgate. Through
some means or other a pardon was secured for him from
Henry VIII ; but it appears the pardon was conditional ; for
because he would not change his views in regard especially
to the Sacrament, viz. : denying the Real Presence, etc., and
having been examined again and again, on May 24 and 25,
without being shaken in his position, he was at lastgiven
over for execution on the day aforesaid ; on which day, after
saying his prayers, he first was bound to the stake; while
Cardmaker was yet being plead with by the sheriiiFs, as there
seemed to be some prospect of his weakening, but he would
34 WARNE GENEALOGY
not weaken any more than Warne had not. For we read
that "at length Cardmaker departed from the sheriffs, and
came toward the stake, and, in his garments as he was,
kneeled down and made a long prayer in silence to himself
;
yet the people confirmed themselves in their fantasy of his
recanting, seeing him in his garments, praying secretly, and
no semblance of any burning. But his prayer being ended,
he rose up, put off his clothes unto his shirt, went with
bold courage to the stake, and kissed it sweetly. He took
Warne by the hand, and comforted him heartily, and so gave
himself to be also bound to the stake most gladly. The
people seeing this so suddenly done, contrary to their fearful
expectation, as men delivered out of a great doubt, cried
out for joy (with so great a shout as hath not lightly been
heard a greater), saying: 'God be praised; the Lord
strengthen thee Cardmaker; the Lord Jesus Christ receive
thy spirit.' And this continued while the executioner put fire
to them, and they both passed through the fire to the blessed
rest and peace among God's holy saints and martyrs, to enjoy
the crown of triumph and victory prepared for the elect
soldiers and warriors of Christ Jesus in his blessed kingdom.
To whom be glory and majesty forever. Amen."
John Warne wrote, or rather signed, his confession,—it was
no doubt written for him,—the day before he was burned.
The following August, John Warne's widow, Elizabeth,
was burned at Stratford Bow, nigh unto London. She had
been apprehended, among others, January ist, in a house in
Bow church yard, in London, as they were gathered together
in prayer, and at that present was carried to the Compter,
"where she lay as prisoner unto the nth day of June; at
which time she was brought into Newgate, and remained
there in the like case until July 2. Then she was sent by
the king and queen's commissioners unto Bonner, bishop of
London, who, the 6th day of the same month, caused her,
with divers others, to be brought before him in his palace,
and there examined her upon sundry articles, viz. : as to the
real presence, not coming to church, speaking against the
mass, etc. In the end, when she had been divers times
brought before him and his adherents, and there earnestly
exhorted to recant, she said, 'Do what ye will ; for if Christ
were in an error, then am I in an error.' Upon which
answer she was the 12th day of the same month of July,
adjudged and condemned as a heretic, and so delivered unto
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the secular power, as they termed it, to be put to death, which
was done the same month."
The chief procurer of her death, as we read, was one Dr.
Story, supposed to be related either to her or to her late hus-
band. He had also brought about the death of her husband,
as well as that of their daughter, it seems later, though she
certainly must have been very young unless her death was
deferred for some years, as it may have been.
One Joan Warne, or Lashford, was also burned at Smith-
field, January 2y, 1556. Her story, however, we do not
have.
In the Archives of New Jersey, Vol. I, p. 268, we find that
Joseph Warne's name, under date of March 3, 1676, was
signed to Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors,
Freeholders and Inhabitants of the Province of West New
Jersey in America. Who was this Joseph Warne? Pie may
have been a connection of Thomas, the Proprietor, as we
notice some of the name of Joseph among his progeny. From
Thomas Warne, one of the Proprietors of East Jersey, how-
ever, are descended most of the Warnes who have since been
and are yet in America, or the United States of America.
And then we also notice a Thomas Warne (or his name)
here in 1676. Who was he? Did Thomas, the Proprietor,
own land in East Jersey as early as that? In Salter's His-
tory of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, p. 29, we find among
warrants for tracts of land to be subsequently located and
surveyed, issued by the Proprietors, one issued to Thomas
Warne for 240 acres in 1676. But this could hardly have
been so at that time, as the celebrated Twelve Proprietors
even were not such until 168 1-2. So that this date, 1676,
must be a mistake.
CHAPTER III
THOMAS WARNE, PROPRIETOR
CHAPTER III
THOMAS WARNE, PROPRIETOR
The ancestry of Thomas Warne, one of the twenty-four
Proprietors of East Jersey, is uncertain. That he was born
in Plymouth, in Devonshire, County Cornwall, England,
and, before coming to this country, lived some time in Ire-
land, we know from his tombstone ; but further than that,
except that his father's name was certainly Stephen, we are
not sure. He died intestate at Perth Amboy, N. J., May 15,
1722, aged 70 years, which gives us approximately the date
of his birth, viz.—1652—probably the earlier part.
It is claimed, and we think rightly, that Thomas Warne's
father's name was Steven or Stephen, as per a certain deed
:
N. J. Archives, Vol. XXI, First Series, p. 327. "Aug. 20,
1700, Deed: Steven Warne, his son Thomas Warne, and
Mary, wife of Thomas, to Andrew Burnet, all of Monmouth
Co., for half of the land called Warne's Neck, betw. Mata-
vane and Gravell Creeks." Steven made only his mark to
this deed, as also to another March 22, the same year. Was
he old or sick?
Moreover, Stephen and Thomas Warne, who came over
together in March, 1683, without any relationship in such
cases being specified in the records, were associated in other
transactions, as follows
:
(i) N. J. Archives, Vol. XXI, First Series, p. 62. Stephen
and Thomas Warne, March, 1683-4, had imported into the
Province for their joint account eleven servants.
(2) Perth Amboy Records, Book A, p. 420. Grant unto
Stephen Warne, of Amboy Perth, and Thomas Warne, of
Amboy Perth, one of our fellow Proprietors, Sept. 13, 1686:
"All that tract of land scituate, lying, and being, etc., on the
south side of Mittevang Creek, called by the Indian name
Nachenkine, containing (after allowance for barrens, etc.)
400 acres, 375 acres part thereof being granted to them for
headlands for themselves and eleven servants, imported into
the Province in the year 1683, and the other 25 acres re-
mainder thereof being part of the said Thomas Warne, his
Propriety in the said Province, etc."
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It will be noticed that there is a year's discrepancy in the
dates here in regard to the importation of the servants. But
it is particularly stated in Book A, p. 171, of Deeds at Perth
Amboy that "all having servants were imported into this
Province on or about the last of March in the year 1683-4."
This is a strange way of putting it, but we have literally
copied the record. Also it should be noted that the "head-
lands" above referred to were a certain number of acres
granted to or for the account of each person who came or
was brought over as a settler, the master acquiring title to
allowance for a servant.
In "East Jersey Under the Proprietors" by Whitehead, p.
136, we read : "Headland grants of 50 acres were allowed
to each master of a family and 25 acres for each other per-
son composing it, whether wife, child or servant, each servant
to be bound three years, at the expiration of which time he
or she was to be allowed to take up 30 acres on separate ac-
count." This will make the 375 acres granted to Stephen
and Thomas Warne come out correctly.
(3) Perth Amboy Records, Book G., p. 287. "Sale from
Stephen Warne and Thomas Warne of the county of Mon-
mouth and Province of East New Jersey to William Red-
ford, et al., a small tract of land on the east side of Mata-
wan Creek, under date of March 22, 1700."
In all these transactions we observe that the name of
Steven or Stephen Warne is first mentioned, which would
imply not only that he was at least the elder of the two per-
sons, but that he was alsoapparently, on the ground of
courtesy, entitled likewise to some other consideration, as for
instance, the reverence and respect due to the relationship
presumably of father; for otherwise the latter, as Proprietor,
on account of his position in the business, social and politi-
cal world, it seems to us, would have taken precedence of the
other, even if Stephen, as the historian Whitehead declares,
had been an elder brother.
Again, Stephen, father of Thomas (and this Thomas, as in
the above mentioned deed, is no other than the Proprietor),
as we claim, and as it is perfectly clear to us, that he was
his father, is never himself called a Proprietor, although the
latter's son Stephen, after May 15, 1722,—when his father
died,—a number of times, is so termed ; for it was not Steven,
but Thomas who was the first Warne Proprietor in this
country; while Stephen son of Thomas, born about 1700, or
a little before, was the second and last of the name in the
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Board of Proprietors. Stephen Warne, the father of the
Proprietor, and of whose origin we tcnow nothing more than
that he must have come from "PHmouth, in Devonshire, in
Great Britain," probably died soon after the year 1700, and
no trace of him after that can be found. (E. H. Mather, letter
November 30, 1903.) (Last item so far discovered, March
22, 1 700- 1, Neafie.)
Vol. XXIII, N. J. Archives, Wills, etc., gives us: 1687-8,
Feb. 17. Stephen Warne, of Amboy Perth, one of the bonds-
men on bond of Susannah, his widow, as executrix of will of
Thomas Anger (Alger), Middlesex Wills.
Stephen Warne's wife's name was probably Catharine, as
a release has been found in England, of proper date, to one
Catharine Warne of Ireland. (E. H. Mather, July 13, '04.)
Mrs. D. W. C. Mather, when in England, was told that
the name of Warne is a Dorsetshire, and really not a Devon-
shire name at all. Of course., Thomas Warne's birth in
Devonshire may have been an accident.
In Joel Munsell's Sons' American Ancestry, Vol. VI, p. 73,
under Herbert, Jacob, of Freehold, the statement is made
that Thomas Warne, Proprietor, was the son of Katharine,
a sister of Dr. Thomas Triplett, a dean of Westminster
Abbey. (See Appendix, under Herbert.) The article in
American Ancestry thus referred to was written by Mrs. De
Witt Clinton Mather (deceased), and on inquiry of her
daughter, Miss Edith H. Mather, we learn (letter December
4, '05) that her mother's authority was the Westminster
Abbey register, a copy of which is in the Astor Library, New
York. That work I have consulted and find as follows
:
"1670, July (— ) Dr. Thomas Triplet, Prebendary of this
church :* near the Vestry." [The superior figure, "8," refers
to the following footnote.]
"Said by Anthony Wood to have been born in Oxford, or
its vicinity, but he matriculated from Christ Church 16 Mch.
1620-1, aged 18, as of London, and son of a gentleman. He
was installed Prebendary of York 2 Sept. 1641 and of Salis-
bury 6 Oct. 1645. And was collated to a stall at Durham 20
Mch. 1648-9, but not then installed. During the Common-
wealth he taught school at Dublin and at Hayes Co. Midx.
After the Restoration he was installed at Durham 2 Nov. 1660,
and resumed his other stalls. He was created D. D. at Ox-
ford I April 1661 and 20 Jan. following installed Prebendary
of Westminster and was sub dean at his death. He is said
to have died the iSth of July, and the unofficial register
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gives that as the date of his burial. His will dated 21 Jan.
1668-9 was proved 12 Aug. 1670. His residuary legatees
were his sister, Mrs. Katharine Warne, then residing in Ire-
land and her three children."
Mr. Stannard Warne, of London, (letter Oct. 31, 1905)
confirms the above information as follows: "The Triplet
family came from Devonshire near the junction of Plymouth
and the Tamar river, which divides Devonshire from Corn-
wall. Thomas Triplet, the Sub Dean of Westminster was
born in London; he matriculated at Oxford i6th March
1620-1, aged 18; he was a B. A. 17 June 1622; M. A. 20th
June 1635 ; D. D. by diploma 2nd April 1661 ; rector of Whit-
burn 1 63 1 and of Washington, both in the County of Dur-
ham, England, 1640; Canon of York 1641 ; Canon of Salis-
bury 1645, ^^^ was collated to a stall in Durham 1648-9.
During the Commonwealth he was deprived of his Livings
and taught school at Dublin in Ireland and at Hayes in
Middlesex. After the restoration of the monarchy he was
installed at Dublin (most likely an error for Durham, G. W.
L.) 2nd November 1660. He was installed Prebendary of
Westminster 1661-2, and was sub dean at the time of his
death i8th July 1670. He is reported to have had a sister,
Mrs. Katharine Warne."
Mr. Stannard Warne, Nov. 13, '05, enclosed extracts from
the will of Thomas Triplett, Doctor of Divinity and Sub Dean
of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, Westminster, after
expressing his Christian Faith and disposing of his worldly
goods as under, viz. : "First, I give and bequeath unto my
sister Katharine Warne, now living in Ireland, the sum of
one hundred pounds, and to her three children the sum of
fifty pounds apiece to be paid to them at their several ages
of twenty-one years or marriage, which shall first happen,
and if any of them die before the age of one and twenty
years or be married then the part of him or them so dying
shall remain with the survivor or survivors." Then the
writer goes on to say: "Various legacies of money or goods
to a great number of persons and to other relatives, called
Christopher Triplett, of Hampton House, County of Oxon
(?). To Richard Triplett, brother of the said quoted Chris-
topher, and to Elizabeth, his wife. To John Hughes and
Theresa, sister of said Christopher. To my cousin Sydney
Triplett, son of P'aul Triplett of Hampton, and to cousin
Ralph Triplett." He bequeathed money to several persons to
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buy rings in memory of his decease. He appointed three
executors and gave a legacy to each of them, viz. : Dr.
Henry Killegrew, Mr. Nicholas Curley, and Mr. John Need-
ham. He appointed his sister Katharine Warne and her
three children residuary legatees. "I hereby request through
the great love that I bear to my sister and her three children
that she will make an effort to have them baptized in the
Christian Faith and see that they are carefully taught the
tenets of the Church of England." There seems to be some-
thing wrong here from a religious point of view. Were
Katharine Warne and her children dissenters? What could
their church relations or religious tenets have been? Were
they Quakers? Judge I. W. Schultz, of Phillipsburg, N. J.,
suggests that they might have been Catholics, who in those
days were called by the English "pagans and idolators."
Mr. Warne also in his letter states : "I do not think that
Thomas Warne, Gent, of New Jersey, who was born in 1652,
will prove to be the son of Katharine Warne; but I think
it is a valuable clue, and Katharine Warne may have been
the second wife of the father of Thomas Warne. I shall
now make a search for the will of Katharine Warne" (which
was not found) "to ascertain the names and date of birth of
her three children. Katharine Warne evidently lived in
Dublin and her brother Thomas Triplett taught school there,
therefore, as Thomas Warne" (afterwards Proprietor) "wp^
17 years old when Dr. Triplett made his will, he could hardly"
(though he may) "have called him," and spoken of him as
he did, "as one of the children of his sister Katharine Warne.
No reference is made to Katharine Warne's husband, there-
fore, she was probably a widow in 1669." (But she may not
have been.) And "again, the birth of Thomas Warne is
clearly stated to have been in Plymouth, and the Triplett
family at that date were residents of London and Oxford,"
although originally from Devonshire. "Dr. Triplett also
quotes in his will that one of his family was a great loser by
the fire in London."
Mr. Stannard Warne further writes, December i, '05: "I
have searched the Registers of Wills from A. D. 1670to
1690, but find no record of the will of Katharine Warne of
Dublin." "I have a record of a Warne family of Norfolk
which quotes a Katharine Warne of the same date as your
Thomas Warne, but as all the evidences of your Thomas
Warne prove him to have been a merchant of Dublin, I can-
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not imagine that the Norfolk family are related ; although the
tombstone record that he was born in Plymouth does not
prove that he was a son of a Devonshire family."
From all which it almost appears that we should probably
look elsewhere for Thomas Warne's maternal ancestry at
least ; nevertheless we may possibly have it here. If Stephen
Warne, Sen., was the father of the Proprietor, could Kath-
arine (Triplett) Warne, of Dublin, have been his mother?
Of course, it is possible, but is it probable? Again, however,
is there anything in this? Thomas Warne's only daughter's
oldest daughter was named Catherine. His daughter's own
name was Sarah, evidently from his zvife's side of the house.
The name Catherine also appears often enough in later gen-
erations. Are not these indications that the name Catharine
or Katharine was somewhere not far back?
J. Stewart Warne, of Washington, N. J., says (July 27,
'04) that Stephen, father of Thomas Warne, the Proprietor,
also had a son John, who never came over. Have I any
reference to him in the Appendix?
A certain writer or correspondent for one of the local
newspapers of Northern Jersey (Warren county), apparently
a woman, claiming to belong to the stock, says that "Thomas
Warne was the scion of a long line of esquires or untitled
nobility, who were magistrates, kings, counsellors, members
of Parliament, and under all circumstances sturdy defenders
of English liberties, as declared at that early day," but what
her authority is or was we have to this date (Sept., 1906)
been unable to determine.
The current or general idea so far as heretofore printed
history goes in regard to Thomas Warne, Proprietor, has
been greatly distorted and twisted by the manifestly palpable
and unwarranted mistake of William A. Whitehead, the
Newark historian and chronicler of Perth Amboy and East
Jersey matters, who in his "East Jersey Under the Pro-
prietors,'" p. 202, 1846 edition, says : "Thomas Warne of
Dublin, merchant, sold two-thirds of his interest in 1682, and
the remaining one-third descended to his son, Stephen Warne,
who with his brother, Thomas Warne, came to East Jersey
in 1683, arriving in March, with eleven servants. Stephen
was among the early settlers of Perth Amboy, and Thomas,
who was styled carpenter, took up his abode in Monmouth
county."
So far as this statement goes we would observe that
Stephen Warne, son of the Proprietor, did inherit his fath-
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er's remaining one-third, but it was not until 1722, certainly
not in 1682. for Thomas Warne himself the Proprietor, came
over early in the spring of the next year in the 31st year of
his age, as his tombstone states, and lived for 40 years after-
wards in this country, later marrying and raising a fair sized
family of children, in fact two families,—for he had three
step sons, his wife's children by a former husband,—in a
certain place, (Book K, p. 94, Perth Amboy Records) called
his sons-in-law. He was of Monmouth, it is true,—that is,
at one time,—but for the greater part of his residence in this
country, the earlier and latter parts, he was of Perth Amboy,
and there is where he died. Nor is this all. Stephen, the
father of Thomas, during his life in New Jersey, appears to
have made his home with his son. As to the "carpenter"
business we will see later.
The names of the eleven servants above specified, together
with the periods or terms of their indentures, are as follows
:
Indentured for three years, William Elleson, tanner; for four
years, John Kighin, (also spelled Kaign, Kaighin) ; Nora
Kae (Rae) ; for five years, Patrick Kemane, or Kenmane,
not Kennan ; for seven years, Anthony Ashmore, Walter
Newman; for nine years, Abraham Smith; for the custom of
the country, Jane Hankinson, and her children, Thomas,
Peter and Richard Hankinson." In "Old Times in Old Mon-
mouth" we find this,—apparently under date of 1687 •
"Thomas Warne of Middletown, did complain to the court
against his servants, Thomas Hankinson and Peter Hankin-
son, that said servants had absented themselves several times
from his service which was greatly to ye cost and damage
of ye said Warne,—the said servants pretending they were
free by their time ; therefore the said Warne did humbly de-
sire the court to be judge of their age, and also what time
they shall serve." Many brought over servants in this way,
who after serving their time, in some cases became promi-
nent citizens and high officials in the service of the colony.
In Perth Amboy Records, Book D, p. 65, we find: "July 2,
1688, an indenture between the Proprietors and John Keig-
hin, late apprentice to Thomas Warne in the County of Mon-
mouth, granting him 145 acres. This was after Keighin's
or Kighin's time was out."
Whitehead's declaration especially in reference to Stephen
and Thomas Warne, who came over in 1683, being the sons
of Thomas, the Proprietor, the merchant of Dublin, has led
to no end of difficulty in connection with these persons, for
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all other historians, who have had occasion to write concern-
ing- them, since the date of the publication of "East Jersey
Under the Proprietors," have, it seems, without looking
into the grounds for his careless assertion, simply copied
from him, thus perpetuating his error. While we may say,
if Macauley, Motley, Prescott, Washington Irving, Francis
Parkman and other writers of the world's histories were, or
have been, no more accurate in some of their statements than
our Newark historian was in what he here says about Stephen
and Thomas Warne, there are a great many more errors in
our written histories, than the general, or at least the ordin-
ary, reader is aware of.
What Mr. Whitehead's authority for what he says or
writes in this connection was we have never been able to
ascertain, or even to discover in regard to it the slightest
clue. Certainly no records that we have come across war-
rant it, whereas, on the contrary, ever}^ thing we have seen
is absolutely and positively against it. Moreover, in a per-
sonal letter to the author in December, 1870, in reference to
the matter, the chronicler does not throw any additional light
on the subject.
Wherefore to us, and in view of all the particulars in the
case, it is now unquestioned, that Thomas Warne, of Dublin,
the merchant there, and not his sons, Steven and Thomas,
for he had no such sons at that time,—in fact was not yet
married,—came himself, with his father, to this country in
1683. But this is not all. That Thomas Warne, Proprietor,
was in this country there can be no doubt, for other reasons.
For instance, in a long list of "instructions" to Deputy Gov-
ernor Gawen Lawrie and "other" of the Proprietors of East
New Jersey from Robert Barclay, Governor, and others of
the Proprietors of East New Jersey, dated London, August
I, 1684, power is given to said Lawrie, Thomas Rudyard, Sec-
retary of said Province, "Thomas Warne, one of our fellow
Proprietors," and to others again who were "proxies" for
"Proprietors not upon the Place." The rendering of these in-
structions indicates forcibly that Thomas Warne, the original
Proprietor, was "upon the Place," i. e., in East Jersey, at
that time. (Leaming and Spicer, Grants and Concessions,
p. 195.) See also N. J. Archives, First Series, Vol. I, p. 466.
In this volume likewise, p. 390, is a fac simile of Thomas
Warne's signature. We have noticed, too, that Thomas
Warne signs as "Proprietor" at Perth Amboy, April 14, 1687,
and again, November 19, 1695. Once more, he appears as
( ^mi ;
Fac -simile of the Autographs of Thomas Wame, Propriety
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Thomas Warne of Monmouth County, Gent., inhabitant and
one of the Proprietors of East New Jersey, June 19, 1701.
—N. J. Archives, First Series, Vol. II, p. 387. This puts to
rest Steen's objections, as he claims there were two Thomas
Warncs, imcle and nephew, the former of Perth Amboy and
the other of Middletown.
Moreover, in Learning- and Spicer, p. 282, Grants and Con-
cessions, we note under date of November 15, 1684, Thomas
Warne's signature next to that of Deputy Governor Gawen
Lawrie in an allowance satisfying and confirming, with cer-
tain exceptions, the laws and acts of the General Assembly
at Elizabethtown, from March i, 1682-3, to December 5th
following. This shows again that Thomas Warne and not
Stephen, as Whitehead claims, was at that time Proprietor,
and that he was in this country.
In the New Jersey Historical Society also we have found
an old deed of the Proprietors of the Province of East Jersey
to Thomas Rudyard as part of his propriety, etc., under date
of June 10, 1688, which has Thomas Warne's own signature
and in his own hand writing, among the other signatures.
The writing above the signatures is as follows
:
"In witness where of wee have caused the scale of our
Sd Province to be hereunto affixed and the same to be signed
by our deputy Governor, the major part of his Councill for
the tyme being, and such of us and our proxies as reside in
the said province at Amboy Perth in the county of Middle-
sex, etc, etc."
Thomas Warne, Proprietor, however, was not only one of
those who were "upon the Place," but, as will be noted, he
was otherwise also a prominent man in the Province. For
example: March i, 1682-3 (which appears to have been be-
fore he landed in America) he was commissioned (Liber C.
of Commissions, p. 391) Justice of the Court of Common
Right (which is now our Court of Chancery), a position
which he held for years,—his commission from time to time
being renewed, viz.: Aug. 14, 1683, Feb. 28, 1683-4, Nov.
26, 1684, May 9, 1687, and confirmed Nov. 28, 1687. He
was likewise a member of the "Governor's Councill" for a
long time, any how from May 11, 1683, to August 24, 1699,
apparently without intermission and perhaps longer. Liber
A of Deeds, p. 187, Trenton, Secretary of State's office.
Thomas Warne and James Johnstone were members of the
Governor's Council, 1684-5. The former is mentioned in this
connection right along with the Deputy Governor, and next
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to him in order. Capt. John Berry, and other historical per-
sonages of those days in the Province were in this council.
"May 6, 1698, Thomas Warne among others was a member
of the councill, for the' management of the Public affairs of
the said Province (East Jersey) in all Debates, Consultations,
Resolutions and procedures as well in the Councill as in the
General Assembly of said Province, and other ways in all
causes, cases and things belonging to the office and place of
a Councillor." They were "to do and act to the best of their
skill, knowledge and direction, and according to instructions
and the Lawes and constitutions of the Province.* Thomas
Warne was at this time of Monmouth. May 9, 1687, he was
of Perth Amboy. We have seen his name time and again,
as such official, signed to proprietary and other documents,
which were executed at Perth Amboy, even during the period
that he lived in Monmouth county.
In 1697-8 Thomas Warne aspired to, and was a candidate
for, membership in the House of Deputies (N. J. Archives,
Vol. XIII, p. 236), but for some reason he did not succeed
in securing the honor. In "Old Times in Old Monmouth,"
p. 257, we are informed that it was probably for going on the
bond of Sheriff Samuel Forman for the escape of the Negro
Jeremy, who had feloniously murdered his master, that
Thomas Warne "was excluded from the House at a Councill
of Generall Assembly the 17th of March, 1697-8." The
bond was dated March 26, 1696, and was for Samuel For-
man 's appearance to answer for the escape of said Jeremy.
N. J. Archives, Vol. Ill, First Series, pp. 482-3: A letter
concerning a riot in Woodbridge, 1709, from George Wil-
locks and Lewis Morris, in which Thomas Warne figures.
This letter is among the documents referring to the irregular
proceedings of Lewis Morris, George Willocks and others,
and which were transmitted to the Lords of Trade.
Also, Early History of Perth Amboy, etc., by White-
head, 1856, p. 250. Date May 14, 1685. "It is agreed and
ordered that the Town House be built on that piece of land
fenced in by Thomas Warne, next Thomas Hart's and Cle-
ment Plumstead's lots," of late years termed the Lewis place,
"and in case any damage be done thereby to Thomas Warne's
corn, now sowed, before reaping, that he be paid for same."
In April, 1696, twenty pounds were voted to Mr. Warne on
condition that he released the lot again to the Proprietors.
To reiterate : Thomas Warne, Proprietor, who came to
*Liber C. of Deeds, p. 278, Perth Amboy Records.
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East New Jersey in 1683, notwithstanding the assertion of
Whitehead to the contrary, was most unquestionably the
"merchant of DubHn" who on September 6 and 7, 1682,*
bought of John Heywood, one of the original twelve Pro-
prietors, the one-half of his share, or one twenty-fourth part
of the whole Province of East New Jersey. The purchaser,
however, did not buy this twenty-fourth part for himself
alone, as by a previous agreement, with two other parties,
viz. : Anthony Sharpe and Samuel Clarridge, he took over
the Propriety in trust for them all, and then on October 13,
1682, or only about five weeks later, for the nominal sum of
five shillings in each instance, he conveyed to these said par-
ties each one-third of what he had, retaining the other third
for himself, i. e., one-third of a twenty-fourth part of the
whole Province,—an interest which he afterwards held until
his death. (Perth Amboy Records, Liber C, No. 3, p. 186.)
We might add that the proof, or one proof, that Thomas
Warne of Dublin, merchant, was the same as the Proprietor
who came over in 1683 is found in Perth Amboy Records,
Book C, p. 36:
"May I, 1688. The Proprietors to Thomas Warne, of
Amboy Perth, Gent., (who still holdeth one-third of a pro-
priety)" etc., etc.
N. J. Archives, First Series, Vol. I, p. 530, shows us how
things stood in 1687 in regard to the twenty-fourth part that
Thomas Warne bought in 1682.
He himself yet held J-
Anthony Sharpe \
Samuel Claridge \ )
Tho. Sesson tV [• Dub.
Wm. Bingley tV
)
This last name, says Stannard Warne, should be Buisby.
The name is Irish. Claridge probably sold to the two who
owned each a twelfth. All these parties after Thomas Warne
evidently, in 1687, were living in Dublin.
Another matter we would refer to at this point. Some
claim that Thomas Warne, Gent., of Perth Amboy, and
Thomas Warne, Gent, of Middletown, or of Monmouth
county, were different persons, which we emphatically deny,
the two, in our opinion, as proven from the records, being
the same. For instance, time and again, whether it is Thomas
There were two of these deeds, one under each date, for the same Propriety: one
probably for a certain length of time, and the other absolutely.
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Warne of Perth Amboy, or Amboy Perth, or Thomas Warne
of Middletown, he is spoken of as "one of the Proprietors,"
or "one of our fellow Proprietors," or in some other way
his "propriety" is referred to, and we know there were not
two Proprietors of that name, e. g., Perth Amboy Records,
Liber A, p. 420. "Thomas Warne, of Amboy Perth, one
of our fellow Proprietors." This relates to the 375 acres
of headlands for him and his father, Stephen, and their
eleven servants, together with 25 acres additional, as taken
from his proprietary share "on the south side of Mittevang
Creek." Date September 13, 1686. Again, Liber B, p. 524.
"Thomas Warne of Amboy Perth, Gent., one of our fellow
Proprietors as part of his propriety." May 10, 1688. And
Book F, p. 297: "Grant to Thomas Warne, of Middletown,
in the County of Monmouth, Gent., one of our fellow Pro-
prietors." December 8, 1696. Once more. Liber C, p. 278.
"The Governor and the Proprietors