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Margaret Carr

Married Richard Hartshorne in Rhode Island on April 27, 1670. Her father gave the couple a partly fenced piece of ground, and Hartshorne asked John Hawes to finish the house on it — a chimney, a cellar, and a window. They took possession a month after the wedding.

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William Goulding

One of the twelve patentees named in the Monmouth Patent of April 8, 1665, by which deputy governor Richard Nicolls granted a triangular tract running from Sandy Hook west to the mouth of the Raritan, up the river about twenty-five miles, and southeast to Barnegat Bay.

Richard Hartshorne

1641–1722

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

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.

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