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The Hartshorne Family

Also recorded as: Hartshorn

The Hartshorne family arrived at the Bayshore in 1674 and held the ground that most of Sandy Hook, the Navesink Highlands, and what is now Middletown Township was legally read from for the next hundred and thirty years. Richard Hartshorne's 1677 and 1678 transactions with the Navesink Lenape are the deeds every later chain of title in this region runs through. His grandson's cabin, put up around 1720 at Portland Poynt, is the visitor center at Hartshorne Woods Park today.

3 people

Robert Hartshorne

First son of Richard Hartshorne and Margaret Carr, born December 5, 1671, in Rhode Island, three years before the family crossed to the Navesink Highlands.

William Hartshorne

Grandson of Richard Hartshorne.

Richard Hartshorne

1641–1722

English Quaker, born in Hathern, Leicestershire, in 1641.

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