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William Hartshorne

Grandson of Richard Hartshorne. Around 1720 he built on two hundred acres of the family holding above the Navesink River. The house was restored and bequeathed to the county in 2008; it is Historic Portland Place today, inside Hartshorne Woods Park.

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Margaret Carr

Married Richard Hartshorne in Rhode Island on April 27, 1670.

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.

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