Cliffords

56. CHARLES⁴ CLIFFORD (John³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 2 March 1778; died 31 December 1856; married LEAH HOAGLAND;⁶⁸³ born circa 1783; died 26 January 1879, "in her 96th yr;" buried in the Pennington Presbyterian Churchyard (Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey).⁶⁸⁴ Leah was probably the daughter of Derrick Hoagland, born 10 May 1757 in New Jersey, and Charity (Gulick) Hoagland, born 19 May 1760. Charity Gulick's uncle Hendrick Gulick married a Mary Williamson, probably of our Williamson clan.⁶⁸⁵

Both Charles and his wife (listed as his wife, not as Leah) were mentioned in the will of Charles's aunt, Ann (Clifford) Martin (#14).⁶⁸⁶ I have not been able to find Charles and Leah and family in the 1830 federal census for New Jersey (the 1790-1820 censuses for New Jersey are lost), but apparently some of their children were living with Charles and Leah's son Enoch H. Clifford in Hopewell Township in 1830.⁶⁸⁷ In 1840 and 1850, Charles, Leah and family were enumerated in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.⁶⁸⁸ In 1850, Charles was listed as a farmer with $10,000 in real estate. In 1860, Leah and daughter Jane were living with Leah's daughter Mary in the household of Mary's husband Cornelius Howell.⁶⁸⁹ In 1870, Leah (with $10,000 in real estate) and daughter Jane were enumerated with Leah's daughter Elizabeth in the household of Elizabeth's husband Henry Perrine.⁶⁹⁰ In 1880, Leah's daughter Jane was living with her nephew Joseph Clifford (#846) in Hopewell Township; this was about a year after Leah had died.

In 1845, Charles, his brother Enoch, and brother-in-law Kitchen Hartpence sold the Pattenburg house to Charles's son-in-law Peter R. Williamson. In 1847, Charles Clifford purchased the Enoch Armitage house and farm in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey; this house, still standing, was thereafter known locally as the "Clifford Mansion"-see under George Clifford (#2), for more information on the Pattenburg house and the "Clifford Mansion" and transactions involved. In 1858, Peter R. Williamson and Henry B. Perrine (both son-in-laws of Charles), acting as executors of Charles's will, sold to Isaac Welling (no known relation to our Cliffords) of Mercer County, New Jersey, "for and in consideration of the sum of eight thousand four hundred and seventy three dollars and fifty cents … all that certain tract or parcel of land situated in the township of Hopewell County of Mercer … being part of the homestead farm of the said Charles Clifford deceased… ."⁶⁹¹

Charles Clifford's will was written 21 September 1851, recorded 22 January 1857.⁶⁹² Besides Leah, Charles mentioned children Martha Hazard, Charity Williamson, Elizabeth Perrine, Mary Howell, Derrick H. Clifford, Jane Clifford, and grandchildren Mary Elizabeth Clifford, who was "daughter of my son Enock Clifford," and "Charles, Warren, Ann Serepta, children of my daughter, Ann Blackwell, deceased."

Besides Charles's will and the 1850-1900 federal censuses, another document giving information on Charles and Leah's children and grandchildren is an undated, apparently quit-claim abstract in the possession of the Hunterdon County Historical Society.⁶⁹³ This quit claim abstract, perhaps initiated in the 1880s, after the death of Leah Clifford, mentions the following heirs: Martha Hazard (#277) of Trenton; Elizabeth Perrine (#278) and Henry B. Perrine, her husband; James Clifford-I believe this is a transcription error and should be Jane Clifford (#281); Mary Howell (#279) and Cornelius V. Howell, her husband; Joseph W. Clifford (#846) of Hopewell Township; Charles C. Blackwell (#824) and Maria his wife of Lawrence Township [Mercer County]; Serepta Reed (#827) and Levi Reed, her husband; Sarah Catherine Blackwell, wife of Warren Blackwell (#825), deceased; Mary Blackwell, daughter of Sarah Catherine Blackwell; James M. Blackwell (#823) of Accomack County, Virginia; Charity Williamson (#276) of Mt. Pleasant, Hunterdon County; and Elizabeth Davis (#822) of Phillipsburg, Warren County, New Jersey.

Charles and Leah Clifford and some of their children and other relatives are buried in the Pennington Presbyterian Churchyard. We would probably find several other Clifford-line ancestors buried in this cemetery if their stones were still standing or readable. According to The Genealogy Magazine of New Jersey,⁶⁹⁴ the first Pennington Presbyterian Church building was built in the early 1700s, replaced by a stone gothic edifice in circa 1850, which was destroyed by fire in 1874. The present building was built after the fire. According to The Genealogy Magazine of New Jersey,⁶⁹⁵ "The burying grounds surrounding the church contains many old stones, although it is evident that there must have been many more early burials whose stones have long since disappeared." Members of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey copied inscriptions from about two-thirds of the stones in 1965 (the remaining one-third being considered modern) and compared their list to a 1935 list made by the Works Projects Administration (WPA).

 

Known children of Charles and Leah (Hoagland) Clifford:⁶⁹⁶

+	274	i.	Enoch5 H. Clifford; born 1801; died 9 October 1841; married Catherine Case.
+	275	ii.	Ann Clifford; born 1804; died 17 November 1844; married Nehemiah Reeder Blackwell.
+	276	iii.	Charity Clifford; born 18 January 1808; died 18 December 1901; married Peter R. Williamson.
+	277	iv.	Martha Clifford; born circa 1810; died 13 October 1903; married Alfred Hazard (also spelled Hazzard).
+	278	v.	Elizabeth Clifford; born 22 April 1814; married Henry B. Perrine.
+	279	vi.	Mary Clifford; born circa 1816; died 1911; married Cornelius Vannay Howell.
+	280	vii.	Derrick Hoagland Clifford; born circa 1816;697 married (first) Jane Hazard; (tentative) married (2nd) [-?-].
	281	viii.	Jane Clifford; born September 1825;698 still alive in 1900. She apparently did not marry. In 1850 Jane was with her parents in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. Also in the household in 1850 were Adeline Green, born circa 1831, and Mary E. Green, born circa 1849. I can not place these Greens. In 1860 and 1870, Jane Clifford was living with her mother, Leah Clifford, in Hopewell Township.699 In 1880, Jane was living with her nephew Joseph Clifford (#846) and his family in Hopewell Township.700 In 1900 Jane was living with her nephew Israel Howell (#844) and his family in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey.701
	282	ix.	(tentative) Warren Clifford; born circa 1827; died September 1850. That Warren Clifford was a son of Charles and Leah's is based entirely on circumstantial evidence: (1) The location is correct, namely, The United States 1850 Census Mortality Schedules listing a Warren Clifford of Hopewell Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, a farmer, dying September 1850, age 23, cause of death was "FITS."702 (2) Charles Clifford's 1840 federal census for Hopewell Township, Mercer County, page 121, lists three males that could be sons of Charles and Leah (two born circa 1820-1825, and one born circa 1810-1820). Since their son Enoch was not with his parents in 1840, the son born circa 1810-1820 would probably have been Derrick Hoagland Clifford. One of the other two males could have been the above Warren Clifford. (3) One of Charles and Leah's children, Ann (Clifford) Blackwell, named a son Warren Blackwell. (4) Leah, although she would have been about age 44 when Warren was born, could still have been of child-bearing age. (5) Since Warren Clifford died in 1850, and if without issue, there would be no reason for him to have been mentioned in his father's 1857 will. (6) And very importantly, I know of no other Clifford family in Hopewell Township, Mercer County, for that time. Warren Clifford was not listed with his parents in 1850, and, except for the 1850 Census Mortality Schedules, I could not find him in Hopewell Township, or elsewhere, in the 1850 federal census.

57. ENOCH⁴ CLIFFORD (John³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 28 January 1780;⁷⁰³ died 15 September 1861 in Pittstown, Union Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey; buried in Bethlehem Presbyterian Churchyard, Grandin, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.⁷⁰⁴ Enoch did not marry.⁷⁰⁵ In 1840, Enoch was probably one of the two males born 1780-1790 in the household of his father John, in the Clifford's Pattenburg house, Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County.⁷⁰⁶ In 1850, Enoch Clifford (no occupation given) was living in the household of his niece Charity (Clifford) Williamson (#276) and her husband, Peter R. Williamson, in Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon County.⁷⁰⁷ Enoch was still living with the Williamsons in 1860.⁷⁰⁸ Do not confuse this Enoch Clifford with his nephew Enoch H. Clifford (#274) who married Catherine Case.

Enoch was a veteran of the War of 1812. He was a fifer in Major Andruss' detachment, New Jersey Militia; his rank at discharge was Musician.⁷⁰⁹ Enoch Clifford was listed as a farmer at the time of his death in 1861;⁷¹⁰ but he was also an attorney and public official in Hunterdon County in the early 1800s. For example, as a Justice of the Peace, he married numerous Hunterdon County couples; he was a coroner of Hunterdon County in 1813, and a member of the General Assembly, 1828-1832.⁷¹¹ He was the executor of his uncle Enoch Armitage's estate-see under George Clifford (#2).

On March 8, 1822, acting in his capacity as attorney for Andrew and Elizabeth (Gano) Stull, he brought suit against Stephen Gano (see #22), executor of Colonel Joseph Beaver's will.⁷¹² This was for debts and costs involving Andrew and Elizabeth as heirs by Martha (Beavers) Gano, a daughter of Colonel Joseph and Ann (Clifford) Beavers. If this were happening today, one wonders whether Enoch Clifford would be accused of a conflict of interest, since (based on my alternate hypothesis, see Generation Two): Elizabeth (Gano) Stull (see #57) was his first cousin twice removed; Stephen Gano was the husband of Catherine (Beavers) Gano (#57), Enoch's first cousin, once removed; Martha (Beavers) Gano (#25) was also his first cousin once removed, and she had married Stephen Gano's brother, Richard Gano. And of course Ann (Clifford) Beavers (#4) was Enoch Clifford's first cousin.


58. ELIZABETH⁴ CLIFFORD (John³, James², unknown Clifford¹); born 10 July 1782; died 10 March 1870; married 15 March 1802 KITCHEN HARTPENCE (also spelled Harpence); born 25 July 1780; died 9 April 1859 in Franklin Township, Warren County, New Jersey.⁷¹³ Both Elizabeth and Kitchen are buried in Mansfield Woodhouse Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Washington, Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey.⁷¹⁴

In 1836, Kitchen was living in Mansfield Township, Warren County, when Kitchen purchased a tract of land in Mansfield Township from Philip Woolever; Kitchen's son John C. Hartpence was a witness.⁷¹⁵ In 1845, Kitchen was living in Franklin Township, Warren County, when he was mentioned as an heir of John Clifford (Elizabeth's father) in an 8 April 1845 Hunterdon County, New Jersey deed.⁷¹⁶ In 1850, Kitchen, Elizabeth and family and a Mary Fritts, age 15, were living in Franklin Township, Warren County.⁷¹⁷ In 1860, Elizabeth Hartpence, widow, was still living in Franklin Township with son Armitage, age 41, and an Elizabeth Hartpence, age 24, domestic;⁷¹⁸ perhaps this Elizabeth, "domestic," was Armitage' wife or she could have been the Elizabeth Hartpence, child of John and Ann (Brinkruff) Hartpence.

Kitchen was one of 14 children of Johannes Eberhart Pence (at some time the name was changed to Hartpence/Harpence), born 4 March 1734/35 in Wurttenburg, Germany, and Hannah Kitchen, born 20 September 1742 in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.⁷¹⁹

 

Children of Kitchen and Elizabeth (Clifford) Hartpence:⁷²⁰

+	283	i.	John5 Clifford Hartpence; born 15 June 1803; died 19 June 1891; married Ann Brinkruff (or Bribruff).
	284	ii.	Martha Hartpence; born 29 December 1804; died 3 March 1879; married 8 March 1824 in Sussex County, New Jersey,721 Samuel S. Johnston, born 26 October 1799, died 7 June 1847. Both Martha and Samuel are buried in Union Cemetery, Hackettstown, Warren County, New Jersey. Children of Samuel and Martha (Hartpence) Johnston: (a) John Sherred Johnston, born 29 December 1824, died 25 September 1885, married Angeline Crater. (b) Elizabeth H. Johnston, born 4 July 1826, died 6 August 1894, married William Osmun. (c) Charles Crater Johnston, born 24 January 1828, died 3 March 1865, married Jane E. Caffrey. (d) Ellen Johnston, born 5 September 1829, died 7 February 1922, married Amos Dodge. (e) Mahlon Dickerson Johnston, born 13 December 1831, died 10 April 1861. (f) Levi J. Johnston, born 9 April 1833, died 12 August 1906, married Elizabeth McGowan. (g) Armitage H. Johnston, born 20 October 1836, married Marcia Young. (h) Martha J. Johnston, born 11 February 1839, died 23 August 1918, married J. Alonzo Wire. (i) Mary Caroline Johnston, born 6 December 1840, died 7 July 1865. (j) Samuel Burke Johnston, born 1 December 1843, died 4 October 1916, married Mary King Baker. Samuel Burke and Mary King (Baker) Johnston are buried in Locust Hill Cemetery, Dover, Morris County, New Jersey. Samuel was a dentist in Dover, New Jersey. Children of Samuel and Mary King (Baker) Johnston: (i) Clarissa. Johnston (ii) Edith Johnston (iii) Samuel Burke Johnston (Jr.). (iv) Henry Baker Johnston (married Mary Cummings). (v) Clara Jonston. (vi) Mary Baker Johnston (married Lowell Mason Meeker) (vii) Edsall Riley Johnston, born 17 February 1892, died 14 September 1953, married Mabelle Rhinesmith Howard. One child of Edsall and Mabelle was Edsall Riley Johnson, Jr., married Elaine Ruth Elliott, who provided the information on Samuel Johnston and descendants. (j) Emma M. Johnston, born 7 February 1846, died 20 October 1907, married Charles Cox.
	285	iii.	Charles Hartpence; born 17 August 1808; died 5 October 1809.
+	286	iv.	Jerome Hartpence; born 30 November 1810; died 3 July 1892; married Sarah Melick (or Mellick).
	287	v.	Armitage Hartpence; born 8 December 1819; died 2 September 1883. In 1860, Armitage was living with his mother in Franklin Township, Warren County, New Jersey. Also in the household in 1860 was Elizabeth Hartpence, age 24, domestic. Was she Armitage's wife? Probably not. In 1870 and 1880, Armitage, single, was living with his brother John C. Hartpence and his family in Washington Township, Warren County, New Jersey, where Armitage was listed as a laborer in 1870 and with no occupation in 1880.722