THOMAS BUDD, earliest owner of Atlantic City NJ - HISTORY Information located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~njatlant/ On a USGenWeb/NJGenWeb Web site TRANSCRIBED BY JANICE BROWN, County Coordinator in 2006 Please see the web site for my email contact. ---------------------------------- The original source of this information is in the public domain, however use of this text file, other than for personal use, is restricted without written permission from the transcriber (who has edited, compiled and added new copyrighted text to same). ======================================================== SOURCE: Absegami: Annals of Eyren Haven and Atlantic City, 1609-1904, Being An Account of the settlement of Eyren Haven or Egg Harbor, and Reminiscenses of Atlantic City and County during the Seventeen, Eighteen and Nineteenth Centuries, by Alfred M. Heston, Atlantic City, 1904, page 104-109. THOMAS BUDD, original owner of the island upon which Atlantic City is built, arrived at Burlington NJ in 1678. Nine or ten years afterwards he published a pamphlet describing the country, and quoting a speech made by one of the Indians, at a conference of the white and red men, held in Burlington. Only three copies of the original edition of Budd's "Pennsylvania and New Jersey" are now in existence, and one of these was sold for a considerable sum (about $900) some years ago. A reprint was lately issued in Cleveland, Ohio. In this book, by Thomas Budd, the Indian chief is quoted as saying: "We are your brothers and intend to live like brothers with you. We have no mind to have war, for when we have war we are only skin and bones; the meat that we eat doth not do us good; we always are in fear; we have not the benefit of the sun to shine upon us; we hide us in holes and corners; we are minded to live at peace. If we intend at any time to make war upon you, we will let you know of it, and the reasons why we make war with you; and if you make us satisfaction for the injury done us, for which the war was intended, then we will not make war upon you; and if you intend at any time to make war upon us, we would have you let us know of it, and the reason; and then if we do do not make satisfaction for the injury done unto you, then you may make war upon us, otherwise you ought not to do it. You are our brothers, and we are willing to live like brothers with you; we are willing to have a broad path for you and us to walk in, and if an Indian is asleep in this path, the Englishman shall pass by, and do him no harm; and if an Englishman is asleep in this path, the Indian shall pass him by, and say, "He is an Englishman, he is asleep; let him alone, he loves to sleep." It shall be a plain path; there must not be in this path a stump to hurt our feet. Notwithstanding the fact that the proprietors were averse to selling the lands "convenient for whale fishing," a considerable portion of these lands in what is now Atlantic County came into the possession of Budd previous to 1695, in which year he sold to John Somers, James Steelman and others many hundreds of acres between the Great Egg Harbor and Mullica Rivers. In 1695 Budd was the owner of 440 acres of Absecon Beach. He was an "original" survey. Subsequent surveys were as follows: John Scott,* 300 acres (January 25, 1714); Andrew Steelman, 256 acres; Amos Ireland, 49 acres; Peter Conover, 100 acres; Daniel Ireland, 34 acres; and John Ladd, 1,035 acres. THE TEN ORIGINAL SURVEYS Absecon Beach was originally located by ten surveys. In 1780 nine of these surveys and one-half the other (which was a survey of 717 acres made to John Ladd) had become vested in Colonel Richard Somers by virtue of sundry conveyances from John Babcock, Frederick Steelman and others. In 1813 the nine surveys and the undivided half of the Ladd survey having become vested in Sarah Keen, the daughter, devisee and executor of the said Col. Richard Somers, were conveyed to George West, who held the same until his death, in 1829. In 1816 a salt works being about to be erected on the beach by John Blake, he obtained leases from George West, and also from Jeremiah Leeds for that purpose. As stated above Absecom Beach from the surf to the thoroughfare, and from Absecon Inlet southward to Dry Inlet, was, between the years 1698 and 1742, taken up, surveyed and granted in ten different surveys. Owing to looseness and generality of description, the title to the land is involved in much obscurity down to the time of Jeremiah Leeds. He was undoubtedly in the possession of and claimed, as owner, the whole of the beach from the surf back to the meadows and the inlet southward to a line near the present city limits at Jackson avenue (excepting a tract known as the Chamberlain tract), at a period as early as the year 1816, and he died in undisputed possession thereof, in 1838, intestate, leaving surviving him a widow, Millicent, and six children, to whom the land descended as tenants in common, subject to the dower of their mother. Millicent Leeds died in September 1873. All of the original surveys referred to were above Jackson avenue, or "Dry Inlet," which at that time was the sound end of the island. The term "Dry Inlet" was for many years used to designate a locality now forming the lower boundary of Atlantic City, at Jackson avenue. About the year 1700 the beach was divied midway by a small inlet, through which the tide ebbed and flowed. Years afterwards it was filled with sand, and the locality was then called "Dry Inlet." In 1695 Thomas Budd sold large tracts of land on the mainland and beaches to actual settlers. Each of his deeds had this clause inserted: "With the privilege of cutting cedar, and commonidge for cattle, etc. on ye swamps and beaches laid out by ye said Thomas Budd for commons." The exaction of these privileges at this date would cause much trouble, as a large portion of the built-up portion of Atlantic City stands upon one of the surveys of Thomas Budd. At the time of the Revolution the population of the island consisted of the families of Daniel Ireland, William Boice and George Stibbs... ---------------------------------------------- SOURCE: New Jersey Biographical Sketches, New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Newark, NJ, USA: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916. Heading: Rev. Thomas Budd Rev. Thomas Budd, rector of the parish of Martock, Somersetshire, England, became a minister among Friends about 1657. In 1661 he was called upon by the authorities to take the "oath of obedience" prescribed by the statute 1st James I., passed "for the better discovering of papist recusants." He declared that he was willing to affirm, but to take an oath was contrary to his religious principles. He was arrested, convicted, and receiving the sentence of praemunire, was sent to the Ilchester jail, where he remained nine years, or until his death, June 22, 1670. In his last moments he "rejoiced and praised God that his children did walk in the way of the Lord."--Besse's Sufferings of the Quakers, 1: 580, 609. Issue: 2. i. Thomas2, b. in England about 1640, probably. 3. ii. William, b. in England. iii. John, b. in England. He was of Burlington, Feb. 8, 1692-3; d. in Philadelphia, in 1704, s. p. 4. iv. James, b. in England. v. Ann, m. - Bingham. vi. Susannah, m. Samuel Woolston. Child: John, bap. May 11, 1712. (Samuel Woolston and Elizabeth, his wife, had child Samuel bap. July 26, 1719.) Third Generation. 2. Thomas2 Thomas1 Budd, b. in England, perhaps about 1640; m. in England, Susannah -; d. in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1697-8; she d. in Philadelphia, and was buried in that city Feb. 4, 1707-8.--Penn. Mag. 10: 490. The records of Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends fail to state when, if ever, Thomas Budd presented his letters and was admitted to the Meeting, but he is mentioned as a witness at several marriages. He certainly was one of the most prominent and influential of the first settlers of Burlington, and for many years exercised a large influence in the Province. And yet information concerning his personal history and characteristies, his appearance and habits, is almost entirely lacking. In a paper read by Franklin W. Earl before the Sarveyors' Association of West Jersey, August 13, 1867, it is stated that "Thomas Budd arrived at Burlington, N. J., in the year 1668, and after remaining in the country for a few years returned to London for his family, with which he came again to Burlington in 1678, and came also with him his brothers, William, John and James, with their families."--Proceedings West Jersey Surveyors' Association, 36-42. The statement that Budd arrived at Burlington in 1668 is evidently incorrect, careful and accurate as Mr. Earl usually is. There was no settlement at Burlington earlier than 1678, if then. Budd is first mentioned in the records as the grantee, by deed dated March 1-2, 1676-7, from William Penn, Gawen Laurie, Nicholas Lucas and Edward Billing, of one share or one ninetieth of the ninety equal and undivided parts of West Jersey.--N. J. Archives, 21: 395-6. Having thus become one of the Proprietors of the Province, he signed with others the Concessions and Agreements for the government of West Jersey, dated the same month.--N. J. Archives, 1: 268; Leaming and Spicer, 410. The first mention of his coming to New Jersey is in a letter from John Crips, to his brother and sister, dated "Burlington, in New Jersey, upon the River Delaware, the 19th of the 4th Moneth call'd June 1678," in which the writer says: "Thomas Budd, and his Family are arrived. The ship Lieth before this Town that brought them. I wish you have not cause to repent that you came not along with them. They had a very good Passage, and so had the London ship. They are both in the River at this time. I understand by Thomas Budd that he did satisfie you as near as he could, of the Truth of things here, and you had as much reason to believe him, as that other person, and more too; for Thomas had far more Experience of this Place, than he (I say) could have in the short time he was among us."--"An Abstract or Abbreviation of some Few of the Many (Later & Former) Testimonys from the Inhabitants of New-Jersey And other Eminent Persons Who have Wrote particularly concerning that Place London, Printed by Thomas Milbourn, in the year 1681." This is one of the rarest tracts relating to New Jersey; it is a small quarto, of 32 pp.; the extract given appears on page 15. Appended to the letter is this note: "To the Truth of the Contents of these things we subscribe our Names--Daniel Wills, Thomas Olive, Thomas Harding, Thomas Budd, William Peachy" In the same pamphlet appears a letter from Thomas Budd, dated Weymouth, 28th 6th Month (August), 1678, to "Gawen Lawry in George-Yard, in Lombard Street, Merchant,' in which he says: "I am safely come from New Jersey, where I left Friends in Health. . . . I suppose I have Travelled more in New Jersey than any other Person that came lately, which I did at my own proper Charge, that I might be able to satisfie my Self, and Acquaintance concerning the Country. I intend to be shortly in London." He gives some account of the country, and states that "Many houses are being built on Chygoe's Island." From these letters it would appear that Budd had been some time in New Jersey and had returned to England, before the date of the letter of John Crips; that he returned to Burlington, with his family, arriving in June, 1678, and that two months later he was again in England. How long he remained absent from West Jersey this time it is impossible to tell, but on September 24, 1680, a survey was returned for him or 109 acres along the Salem town line and adjoining Edm. Stuart, and on October 9-10, 1680, we have a memorandum of a deed from Budd to John Long, for half an acre in Burlington. A survey was returned March 30, 1681, for 50 acres along the town bounds (Burlington), adjoining John Cripps, in exchange with Thomas Budd, of 450 acres along the town bounds, the "old head" line of Rankokus lots and the partition line between the two Tenths. He bought of John Kinsey, Dec. 22-23, 1681, one-third of a share in West Jersey, which he sold a week later. A survey was returned to him Feb. 15, 1681-2, for 500 acres, in exchange with Samuel Jenings. On Aug. 4, 1682, a return was made of a survey for Hance Monsiur, of 500 acres, bought of Thomas Budd and Thomas Gardner on public account. John Yeo and wife of Maryland sold to Thomas Budd 500 acres, being part of one-sixth of a share, and 66 acres in Burlington township, with his wharf lot. On Nov. 10, 1682, a return was made to Thomas Budd of Burlington, of 500 acres in Salem Tenth. Under date of 29th 9th mo. (November), 1682, Elianor Huffe widow, by her attorney in fact, sold to Thomas Budd, of Burlington, merchant, 500 acres in Salem Tenth. There is a memorandum of a deed of trust, dated April 5, 1683, Edward Searson, late of the White Leay, Derbyshire, England, now of Maryland, to Samuel Jenings, Thomas Budd and Elias Farre, the consideration having been paid by Thomas Ellis, of Burlington, deceased, on behalf of his daughter, for one sixty-fourth of the First Tenth. In a letter from James Nevill to Governor Penn, dated Salem, ye 23d 3d mo. (May), 1683, he gives a list of lands sold, etc., by John Fenwick since his conveyance made to John Eldridge and Edmond Warner, among them being one to Thomas Budd, 500 acres, on Salem creek. Henry Stacy deeded, 15th 8th mo. (October) 1683, to John Gosling, 100 acres in the Yorkshire Tenth, to be equally divided between the grantee and Thomas Budd. Martin Hoult conveyed to Thomas Budd, 25th 10th mo. (Dec.) 1683, a house and lot in Burlington. He bought from George Porter, with the appointment of his guardians and feoffees, 300 acres in the First Tenth, with wharf lot and town lot in Burlington. A survey was returned to him for 216 acres, in March (1st mo.) 1684. On April 8, 1684, George Hutcheson sold him 100 acres at Lessa Point, Burlington, and the same day George Hutcheson and Thomas Gardner, commissioners for the raising of money towards the discharge of the public debt, sold Budd 600 acres, to be surveyed in the six Lower Tenths. Nov. 20, 1686, Godfrey Hancock, senior, conveyed to Thomas Budd, of Burlington, merchant, 50 acres or one-eighth of a share in the First Tenth. His next speculation was of a peculiarly interesting character; under date of May 25, 1687, Percifal Towle, Francis Collins and twenty-two others, Proprietors of several undivided shares of West Jersey, conveyed to Thomas Budd 15,000 acres of land, he to pay the Indians for their rights. This land "was allotted said Budd by the Country for Satisfaction of a Debt of ?1250 which they owed said Budd; it is said to be the best Land in the Province."--N. J. Archives, 2: 99. Budd sold this tract to Dr. Daniel Coxe, who sold it in turn to the Proprietors of West Jersey, some time prior to December 24, 1692.--Ib. It was then valued by Dr. Coxe at ?10 per hundred acres, but they were willing to sacrifice it at ?5 per hundred acres. Hitherto, Budd appears to have been a resident of Burlington, where he was a "merchant" or "trades." But in the next conveyance, dated October 20, 1687, he is designated as of Philadelphia, merchant, he and his wife Susanna deeding certain lands to Samuel Harriot, of Burlington. Samuel Groome, of London, merchant, conveyed to Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, merchant, Feb. 11, 1689-90, two eights of a share of West Jersey, and on February 5, of the same year, he acquired half a share in West Jersey from James Wasse, of London. His activities in dealings in real estate now relaxed, his next transaction being in 1693, when he located a tract "where the present road crosses the main north branch of Rancocus creek at Pemberton, running north almost as far as Juliustown, embracing all the land from the main street in Pemberton, easterly for a mile and three quarters up said creek."--(Proc. W. J. Surveyors Assoc., 38.) In September, 1699, Susanna Budd, by her deputy, resurveyed the above tract, on the east side of Pemberton, and found it to contain 2,000 acres; on July 11, 1701, she sold it. John Chamnis having mortgaged a tract of 200 acres of land in Burlington county to Thomas Budd, and failing to observe the obligations he had incurred, Budd foreclosed the mortgage and the property was sold to him and Susanna his wife, by James Hill, sheriff of Burlington county, August 8, 1693. A return was made of a survey of 2,000 acres of land at Mount Pisgah, for Budd, in April, 1694 Henry Grubb, of Burlington, innholder, conveyed to Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, merchant, 4th d. 7th mo. (Sept.) 1695, a tract of 50 acres. November 2, 1695, Jonathan Beere made an assignment to Budd. John Reading conveyed to Budd Dec. 3, 1695, a tract of 200 acres called Mount Eagle, on the coast near Great Egg Harbour. Jonathan Beere, Esquire, and Burgess of Salem Town, conveyed to Budd four 12-acre lots in Salem Town marsh, by deed dated May 25, 1696, and on August 22 following Budd acquired two more lots in Salem Town marsh, one of 17 and the other of 8 acres, the grantor being William Hall, of Salem Town. In an Indian deed, May 8, 1699, from Hugnon and Lumoseecon, Sachems, to John Harrison, the tract is described as lying between Cranberry Brook and Milston river, Yorkroad and Thomas Budd, showing that Budd had acquired lands much north of his original purchases. The foregoing list of conveyances, probably by no means complete, has been taken from N. J. Archives, 21. They show the remarkable activity and enterprise of the man. Having bought so extensively in West Jersey, he found quite a number of Swedes already settled upon his lands. At his request, they produced proofs of their titles, and Budd thereupon gave them deeds from himself, confirming them in the ownership of their homes.--Penn. Mag., 17: 85. While he was thus engaged in real estate investments or speculations, he was by no means neglectful of public affairs. In 1681, he was appointed by the West Jersey Assembly one of the receivers general to collect ?200 for the purpose of defraying the debts of the Province. In May, 1682, he was chosen one of the commissioners for "settling and regulation of lands," a member of the governor's council, and one of the regulators of weights and measures. In September, 1682, he was appointed a justice of the peace for Burlington; he was elected to the Assembly, and rechosen land commissioner, and to serve on the governor's council; in May, 1682, he was appointed one of the commissioners to raise Provincial moneys in the Second Tenth, and in the six Lower Tenths, and was appointed special Provincial treasurer. He was a member of the Assembly, 3d mo. 1685, and also a member of the governor's council; land commissioner for the Second Tenth, Indian land commissioner, and Provincial treasurer. Budd and Francis Collins were voted, in 1683, each 1,000 acres, "parts of lands to be purchased of the Indians above the falls," the present site of Trenton, in consideration and discharge for building a market and court house at Burlington. At the session of the Assembly in May, 1683, Budd was selected to write to members of the Society of Friends in London relative to the state of the case of the Proprietors with Edward Byllinge. In 9th mo. 1683 he was designated to write to Edward Byllinge on the same subject. In March, 1684, he was appointed with Samuel Jenings to represent the claims of the freeholders to the government, as opposed to Edward Byllinge's pretence to the same, and also to demand that Byllinge confirm what he had sold. The Assembly voted the commissioners 1500 acres above the falls as their security for ?100 sterling. Soon after, in 1684, Budd sailed for England upon his mission. While abroad he rendered to the country his most distinguished service, in the publication of a small book on conditions in the Provinces controlled by Friends, entitled "Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey," which appears to have been given to the printers October 25, 1685. This undoubtedly gave a great stimulus to emigration to West Jersey. In 1685 he was chosen to the Assembly, and became one of the chief promoters in the erection of the new Meeting House at Burlington. 17th 9th mo. in the same year he petitioned the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania for a special court to decide a difference between Philip Th: Lehman and himself. He and others petitioned the same bady, 7th of 12th mo. 1688-9, for encouragement in setting up a bank for money. He went to England again in 1689, returning to Philadelphia the following year. August 6, 1690, he bought the Blue Anchor tavern and adjacent property on the west side of Front street, Philadelphia, and extending toward Walnut street; he gradually demolished the old buildings, and erected a row of timber and brick houses called in the old times "Budd's Long Row"; into the southernmost house of the row the Blue Anchor tavern was moved, so that it stood at the foot of Delaware and Front streets and Dock creek; two of the houses he sold to Anthony Morris, 4, 8, 1697.--Penn. Mag., 20: 431. In 1691 took place the famuos schism among Friends, led by George Keith, who afterwards became connected with St. Mary's church, Burlington, when he wrote that magnificent hymn, which has been sung by countless thousands of Christions, "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord." Budd was one of the signers of the confession of faith, or declaration, of Keith. Morgan Edwards says he afterwards became a Baptist, and was a preacher among them. No evidence of this has been found, however, and Edwards doubtless erred. Keith was formally disowned by Friends, 1692, and probably Budd likewise. In December, 1692, Keith and Budd were presented by the grand jury of Philadelphia, as the authors of an attack made by Keith upon Samuel Jenings and the magistracy; they were tried, convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of ?5 each, but the penalty was never exacted.--Proud's Hist. Penna., 1: 373; Penn. Mag., 18. 425. Budd continued loyal to Keith, and accompanied him to England in 1694, to defend him before the Yeaily Meeting of Friends. His wife adhered to the Society of Friends, among whom she was prominent. The will of Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, is signed February 8, 1697-8, and was proved March 25, 1698. The only real estate specified is that which he devised to his son Thomas, and in which his son lived, "being the corner house nearest the dock." He gives his daughters ?100 each. There is no residuary clause. His personal estate was inventoried at ?457.--Philadelphia Wills, Liber A, f. 384. There is much reason to believe, however, that at the time of his death he still possessed much of the vast estates acquired by him during his score of years in America. In his will he names four children: i. Thomas3. ii. Mary3, b. 2d 7 mo. 1677, as recorded in Burlington Monthly Meeting Records of Births and Deaths, 1677-1698, in Friends' Library, Philadelphia. The place of birth is not stated. It was not unusual to record in America births which had taken place in England She m 1st. Dr. John Gosling, of Burlington; 2, in 1686, Francis Collins; he was a bricklayer, in Gloucester, but on his marriage removed to Burlington; in 1690 he built the Burlington county court house, for which he received ?100 and a tract of land. iii. Rose3, b. 13th 1st mo. 1680-81, as recorded in the same volume as her sister Mary's birth. 5. iv. John3. 3. William2 Thomas1 Budd had issue (bap. in St. Mary's church, Burlington): 3. William2 Thomas1 Budd, b. 1680; m. Elizabeth -. He was known as William Budd, junior, to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name. Edward Armstrong, in his interesting, accurate and learned Introductory Note, to Gowans's reprint of "Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America," says: "William, who died in 1723, at his farm in Northampton township, Burlington county, about four miles west of Mount Holly, and who by his will left a benefaction to the Episcopal church of St. Mary's at Burlington, of which he appears to have been a steadfast member, and where he is buried, and also land in Northampton township, on which to build a church. His descendants are very numerous in Pennsylvania, and in southern New Jersey, and we believe that with the exception of those of the name who trace their origin to Thomas Budd, and who are comparatively few, all the rest in the regions referred to are descended from the first William." A return was made 2d mo. 1693, of a survey made by Symon Charles and Daniel Leeds, for William Budd, for 500 acres of land with 15 acres highway allowance for other land, on the North branch of Rancokus river; and also for 200 acres next to Budd. William Budd was appointed a justice of the peace, June 5, 1705. Issue: i. Mary3, bap. Sept. 9, 1704; prob. m. Joseph Shinn. ii. Susanna3, bap. Sept. 6, 1706. iii. Thomas3, bap. Dec. 3, 1708. iv. William3, bap. Jan. 2, 1710 or 1711; d. 1723. v. David3, bap. July 14, 1714. vi. Abigail3, bap. May 15, 1716. vii. Sarah3, bap. March 11, 1718. viii. Rebecca3. ix. Elizabeth Ann3. 4. James2 Thomas1 Budd was elected to the West Jersey Assembly in 1685, and was appointed a justice of the peace the same year. He sold 500 acres of land on Northampton river to John Rodman, of Flushing, L. I. James was drowned at Burlington. His will, dated January 29, 1727-8, names four children: i. William, under age, Jan. 29, 1727-8. ii. James, m. -. Ch., Samuel, bap. April 6, 1740. iii. Joseph, under age, Jan. 29, 1727-8. iv. Ann. Fourth Generation. 5. John3 Thomas2 Thomas1 Budd m. Rebecca Sandiland, sister of James Sandiland, of Upland, who was sheriff of Philadelphia county 1706-7. In his will, dated June 1, 1710, he refers to kinsman Peter Baynton, b. 1696, d. 1723, m. his cousin Mary, dau. of John and Rebecca (Baynton) Budd.--Penn. Mag, 2: 448. (Prob. John3 Thomas2 Thomas1, mentioned above as of Burlington, Feb. 8, 1692-3.) John settled in Morris county, where his father had located extensive tracts of land. He was probably the John Budd who sold to Jacob Corson, of Staten Island, lands described by the latter in his will dated Oct. 8, 1742, as "all my messuages and lands in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, at or near the township of Reading."--N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1869, p. 120. His will, dated Sept. 6, 1749, proved May 16, 1754, names children: i. John. He was a physician, and settled in Salem county, where he was Sheriff in 1758. In 1763, and again in 1764, being then of Salem, he advertised for sale a large new house, "just finished off in a handsome manner," near the court house, Morristown, and four other tracts of land in the vicinity.--N. J. Archives, XXIV., 188, 315, 373. He was again Sheriff of Salem county in 1764 and 1765.--Ib., 346, 406, 517. He became financially embarrassed, placed his property in the hands of trustees for the benefit of his creditors, and made frequent appeals to his creditors for their support. He then removed to Long Island, New York. In 1769 he gave notice to his creditors that he feared they were not likely to get anything "if things remain in their present situation," and that he therefore proposed to apply to the Legislature for "a license to return and reside in the said province, five years free from arrest, to collect in the money due to me and pay my debts."--N. J. Archives, XXVI., 438. Nothing came of this. Some time after 1771 he removed to Charleston, S. C., where he d. in 1791. During the Revolution he served as Surgeon of a South Carolina Regiment of Artillery. ii. Thomas, a physician. In 1767 he was living in Hanover, Morris county, and advertised for sale a plantation at that place, of 400 or 500 acres, joining the lands of William Kelly.--N. J. Archives, XXV., 434. iii. Bern, a physician. "Dr. Bern Budd, of Hanover, in Morris county," advertises a runaway negro man, August 9, 1764.--N. J. Archives, XXIV., 399. Misceilaneous: Jemima, "wife of Thomas Budd, senior," was buried at Mount Holly, Aug. 29, 1770. William Budd, senior, one of the vestrymen of St. Andrew's church, Mount Holly, was buried at Mount Holly, Aug. 29, 1770. Thomas Budd, a native of New Mills, Burlington county, b. Feb. 19, 1783, became a preacher in the M. E. church. ------------------------ Rev. Thomas Budd 2. i. Thomas2, b. in England about 1640, probably. 3. ii. William, b. in England. iii. John, b. in England. He was of Burlington, Feb. 8, 1692-3; d. in Philadelphia, in 1704, s. p. 4. iv. James, b. in England. v. Ann, m. - Bingham. vi. Susannah, m. Samuel Woolston. Child: John, bap. May 11, 1712. (Samuel Woolston and Elizabeth, his wife, had child Samuel bap. July 26, 1719.) Third Generation. 2. Thomas2 Thomas1 Budd, b. in England, perhaps about 1640; m. in England, Susannah -; d. in Philadelphia, Feb. 15, 1697-8; she d. in Philadelphia, and was buried in that city Feb. 4, 1707-8.--Penn. Mag. 10: 490. The records of Burlington Monthly Meeting of Friends fail to state when, if ever, Thomas Budd presented his letters and was admitted to the Meeting, but he is mentioned as a witness at several marriages. He certainly was one of the most prominent and influential of the first settlers of Burlington, and for many years exercised a large influence in the Province. And yet information concerning his personal history and characteristies, his appearance and habits, is almost entirely lacking. In a paper read by Franklin W. Earl before the Sarveyors' Association of West Jersey, August 13, 1867, it is stated that "Thomas Budd arrived at Burlington, N. J., in the year 1668, and after remaining in the country for a few years returned to London for his family, with which he came again to Burlington in 1678, and came also with him his brothers, William, John and James, with their families."--Proceedings West Jersey Surveyors' Association, 36-42. The statement that Budd arrived at Burlington in 1668 is evidently incorrect, careful and accurate as Mr. Earl usually is. There was no settlement at Burlington earlier than 1678, if then. Budd is first mentioned in the records as the grantee, by deed dated March 1-2, 1676-7, from William Penn, Gawen Laurie, Nicholas Lucas and Edward Billing, of one share or one ninetieth of the ninety equal and undivided parts of West Jersey.--N. J. Archives, 21: 395-6. Having thus become one of the Proprietors of the Province, he signed with others the Concessions and Agreements for the government of West Jersey, dated the same month.--N. J. Archives, 1: 268; Leaming and Spicer, 410. The first mention of his coming to New Jersey is in a letter from John Crips, to his brother and sister, dated "Burlington, in New Jersey, upon the River Delaware, the 19th of the 4th Moneth call'd June 1678," in which the writer says: "Thomas Budd, and his Family are arrived. The ship Lieth before this Town that brought them. I wish you have not cause to repent that you came not along with them. They had a very good Passage, and so had the London ship. They are both in the River at this time. I understand by Thomas Budd that he did satisfie you as near as he could, of the Truth of things here, and you had as much reason to believe him, as that other person, and more too; for Thomas had far more Experience of this Place, than he (I say) could have in the short time he was among us."--"An Abstract or Abbreviation of some Few of the Many (Later & Former) Testimonys from the Inhabitants of New-Jersey And other Eminent Persons Who have Wrote particularly concerning that Place London, Printed by Thomas Milbourn, in the year 1681." This is one of the rarest tracts relating to New Jersey; it is a small quarto, of 32 pp.; the extract given appears on page 15. Appended to the letter is this note: "To the Truth of the Contents of these things we subscribe our Names--Daniel Wills, Thomas Olive, Thomas Harding, Thomas Budd, William Peachy" In the same pamphlet appears a letter from Thomas Budd, dated Weymouth, 28th 6th Month (August), 1678, to "Gawen Lawry in George-Yard, in Lombard Street, Merchant,' in which he says: "I am safely come from New Jersey, where I left Friends in Health. . . . I suppose I have Travelled more in New Jersey than any other Person that came lately, which I did at my own proper Charge, that I might be able to satisfie my Self, and Acquaintance concerning the Country. I intend to be shortly in London." He gives some account of the country, and states that "Many houses are being built on Chygoe's Island." From these letters it would appear that Budd had been some time in New Jersey and had returned to England, before the date of the letter of John Crips; that he returned to Burlington, with his family, arriving in June, 1678, and that two months later he was again in England. How long he remained absent from West Jersey this time it is impossible to tell, but on September 24, 1680, a survey was returned for him or 109 acres along the Salem town line and adjoining Edm. Stuart, and on October 9-10, 1680, we have a memorandum of a deed from Budd to John Long, for half an acre in Burlington. A survey was returned March 30, 1681, for 50 acres along the town bounds (Burlington), adjoining John Cripps, in exchange with Thomas Budd, of 450 acres along the town bounds, the "old head" line of Rankokus lots and the partition line between the two Tenths. He bought of John Kinsey, Dec. 22-23, 1681, one-third of a share in West Jersey, which he sold a week later. A survey was returned to him Feb. 15, 1681-2, for 500 acres, in exchange with Samuel Jenings. On Aug. 4, 1682, a return was made of a survey for Hance Monsiur, of 500 acres, bought of Thomas Budd and Thomas Gardner on public account. John Yeo and wife of Maryland sold to Thomas Budd 500 acres, being part of one-sixth of a share, and 66 acres in Burlington township, with his wharf lot. On Nov. 10, 1682, a return was made to Thomas Budd of Burlington, of 500 acres in Salem Tenth. Under date of 29th 9th mo. (November), 1682, Elianor Huffe widow, by her attorney in fact, sold to Thomas Budd, of Burlington, merchant, 500 acres in Salem Tenth. There is a memorandum of a deed of trust, dated April 5, 1683, Edward Searson, late of the White Leay, Derbyshire, England, now of Maryland, to Samuel Jenings, Thomas Budd and Elias Farre, the consideration having been paid by Thomas Ellis, of Burlington, deceased, on behalf of his daughter, for one sixty-fourth of the First Tenth. In a letter from James Nevill to Governor Penn, dated Salem, ye 23d 3d mo. (May), 1683, he gives a list of lands sold, etc., by John Fenwick since his conveyance made to John Eldridge and Edmond Warner, among them being one to Thomas Budd, 500 acres, on Salem creek. Henry Stacy deeded, 15th 8th mo. (October) 1683, to John Gosling, 100 acres in the Yorkshire Tenth, to be equally divided between the grantee and Thomas Budd. Martin Hoult conveyed to Thomas Budd, 25th 10th mo. (Dec.) 1683, a house and lot in Burlington. He bought from George Porter, with the appointment of his guardians and feoffees, 300 acres in the First Tenth, with wharf lot and town lot in Burlington. A survey was returned to him for 216 acres, in March (1st mo.) 1684. On April 8, 1684, George Hutcheson sold him 100 acres at Lessa Point, Burlington, and the same day George Hutcheson and Thomas Gardner, commissioners for the raising of money towards the discharge of the public debt, sold Budd 600 acres, to be surveyed in the six Lower Tenths. Nov. 20, 1686, Godfrey Hancock, senior, conveyed to Thomas Budd, of Burlington, merchant, 50 acres or one-eighth of a share in the First Tenth. His next speculation was of a peculiarly interesting character; under date of May 25, 1687, Percifal Towle, Francis Collins and twenty-two others, Proprietors of several undivided shares of West Jersey, conveyed to Thomas Budd 15,000 acres of land, he to pay the Indians for their rights. This land "was allotted said Budd by the Country for Satisfaction of a Debt of ?1250 which they owed said Budd; it is said to be the best Land in the Province."--N. J. Archives, 2: 99. Budd sold this tract to Dr. Daniel Coxe, who sold it in turn to the Proprietors of West Jersey, some time prior to December 24, 1692.--Ib. It was then valued by Dr. Coxe at ?10 per hundred acres, but they were willing to sacrifice it at ?5 per hundred acres. Hitherto, Budd appears to have been a resident of Burlington, where he was a "merchant" or "trades." But in the next conveyance, dated October 20, 1687, he is designated as of Philadelphia, merchant, he and his wife Susanna deeding certain lands to Samuel Harriot, of Burlington. Samuel Groome, of London, merchant, conveyed to Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, merchant, Feb. 11, 1689-90, two eights of a share of West Jersey, and on February 5, of the same year, he acquired half a share in West Jersey from James Wasse, of London. His activities in dealings in real estate now relaxed, his next transaction being in 1693, when he located a tract "where the present road crosses the main north branch of Rancocus creek at Pemberton, running north almost as far as Juliustown, embracing all the land from the main street in Pemberton, easterly for a mile and three quarters up said creek."--(Proc. W. J. Surveyors Assoc., 38.) In September, 1699, Susanna Budd, by her deputy, resurveyed the above tract, on the east side of Pemberton, and found it to contain 2,000 acres; on July 11, 1701, she sold it. John Chamnis having mortgaged a tract of 200 acres of land in Burlington county to Thomas Budd, and failing to observe the obligations he had incurred, Budd foreclosed the mortgage and the property was sold to him and Susanna his wife, by James Hill, sheriff of Burlington county, August 8, 1693. A return was made of a survey of 2,000 acres of land at Mount Pisgah, for Budd, in April, 1694 Henry Grubb, of Burlington, innholder, conveyed to Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, merchant, 4th d. 7th mo. (Sept.) 1695, a tract of 50 acres. November 2, 1695, Jonathan Beere made an assignment to Budd. John Reading conveyed to Budd Dec. 3, 1695, a tract of 200 acres called Mount Eagle, on the coast near Great Egg Harbour. Jonathan Beere, Esquire, and Burgess of Salem Town, conveyed to Budd four 12-acre lots in Salem Town marsh, by deed dated May 25, 1696, and on August 22 following Budd acquired two more lots in Salem Town marsh, one of 17 and the other of 8 acres, the grantor being William Hall, of Salem Town. In an Indian deed, May 8, 1699, from Hugnon and Lumoseecon, Sachems, to John Harrison, the tract is described as lying between Cranberry Brook and Milston river, Yorkroad and Thomas Budd, showing that Budd had acquired lands much north of his original purchases. The foregoing list of conveyances, probably by no means complete, has been taken from N. J. Archives, 21. They show the remarkable activity and enterprise of the man. Having bought so extensively in West Jersey, he found quite a number of Swedes already settled upon his lands. At his request, they produced proofs of their titles, and Budd thereupon gave them deeds from himself, confirming them in the ownership of their homes.--Penn. Mag., 17: 85. While he was thus engaged in real estate investments or speculations, he was by no means neglectful of public affairs. In 1681, he was appointed by the West Jersey Assembly one of the receivers general to collect ?200 for the purpose of defraying the debts of the Province. In May, 1682, he was chosen one of the commissioners for "settling and regulation of lands," a member of the governor's council, and one of the regulators of weights and measures. In September, 1682, he was appointed a justice of the peace for Burlington; he was elected to the Assembly, and rechosen land commissioner, and to serve on the governor's council; in May, 1682, he was appointed one of the commissioners to raise Provincial moneys in the Second Tenth, and in the six Lower Tenths, and was appointed special Provincial treasurer. He was a member of the Assembly, 3d mo. 1685, and also a member of the governor's council; land commissioner for the Second Tenth, Indian land commissioner, and Provincial treasurer. Budd and Francis Collins were voted, in 1683, each 1,000 acres, "parts of lands to be purchased of the Indians above the falls," the present site of Trenton, in consideration and discharge for building a market and court house at Burlington. At the session of the Assembly in May, 1683, Budd was selected to write to members of the Society of Friends in London relative to the state of the case of the Proprietors with Edward Byllinge. In 9th mo. 1683 he was designated to write to Edward Byllinge on the same subject. In March, 1684, he was appointed with Samuel Jenings to represent the claims of the freeholders to the government, as opposed to Edward Byllinge's pretence to the same, and also to demand that Byllinge confirm what he had sold. The Assembly voted the commissioners 1500 acres above the falls as their security for ?100 sterling. Soon after, in 1684, Budd sailed for England upon his mission. While abroad he rendered to the country his most distinguished service, in the publication of a small book on conditions in the Provinces controlled by Friends, entitled "Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey," which appears to have been given to the printers October 25, 1685. This undoubtedly gave a great stimulus to emigration to West Jersey. In 1685 he was chosen to the Assembly, and became one of the chief promoters in the erection of the new Meeting House at Burlington. 17th 9th mo. in the same year he petitioned the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania for a special court to decide a difference between Philip Th: Lehman and himself. He and others petitioned the same bady, 7th of 12th mo. 1688-9, for encouragement in setting up a bank for money. He went to England again in 1689, returning to Philadelphia the following year. August 6, 1690, he bought the Blue Anchor tavern and adjacent property on the west side of Front street, Philadelphia, and extending toward Walnut street; he gradually demolished the old buildings, and erected a row of timber and brick houses called in the old times "Budd's Long Row"; into the southernmost house of the row the Blue Anchor tavern was moved, so that it stood at the foot of Delaware and Front streets and Dock creek; two of the houses he sold to Anthony Morris, 4, 8, 1697.--Penn. Mag., 20: 431. In 1691 took place the famuos schism among Friends, led by George Keith, who afterwards became connected with St. Mary's church, Burlington, when he wrote that magnificent hymn, which has been sung by countless thousands of Christions, "How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord." Budd was one of the signers of the confession of faith, or declaration, of Keith. Morgan Edwards says he afterwards became a Baptist, and was a preacher among them. No evidence of this has been found, however, and Edwards doubtless erred. Keith was formally disowned by Friends, 1692, and probably Budd likewise. In December, 1692, Keith and Budd were presented by the grand jury of Philadelphia, as the authors of an attack made by Keith upon Samuel Jenings and the magistracy; they were tried, convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of ?5 each, but the penalty was never exacted.--Proud's Hist. Penna., 1: 373; Penn. Mag., 18. 425. Budd continued loyal to Keith, and accompanied him to England in 1694, to defend him before the Yeaily Meeting of Friends. His wife adhered to the Society of Friends, among whom she was prominent. The will of Thomas Budd, of Philadelphia, is signed February 8, 1697-8, and was proved March 25, 1698. The only real estate specified is that which he devised to his son Thomas, and in which his son lived, "being the corner house nearest the dock." He gives his daughters ?100 each. There is no residuary clause. His personal estate was inventoried at ?457.--Philadelphia Wills, Liber A, f. 384. There is much reason to believe, however, that at the time of his death he still possessed much of the vast estates acquired by him during his score of years in America. In his will he names four children: i. Thomas3. ii. Mary3, b. 2d 7 mo. 1677, as recorded in Burlington Monthly Meeting Records of Births and Deaths, 1677-1698, in Friends' Library, Philadelphia. The place of birth is not stated. It was not unusual to record in America births which had taken place in England She m 1st. Dr. John Gosling, of Burlington; 2, in 1686, Francis Collins; he was a bricklayer, in Gloucester, but on his marriage removed to Burlington; in 1690 he built the Burlington county court house, for which he received ?100 and a tract of land.P> iii. Rose3, b. 13th 1st mo. 1680-81, as recorded in the same volume as her sister Mary's birth.P> 5. iv. John3. 3. William2 Thomas1 Budd had issue (bap. in St. Mary's church, Burlington): 3. William2 Thomas1 Budd, b. 1680; m. Elizabeth -. He was known as William Budd, junior, to distinguish him from an uncle of the same name. Edward Armstrong, in his interesting, accurate and learned Introductory Note, to Gowans's reprint of "Good Order Established in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in America," says: "William, who died in 1723, at his farm in Northampton township, Burlington county, about four miles west of Mount Holly, and who by his will left a benefaction to the Episcopal church of St. Mary's at Burlington, of which he appears to have been a steadfast member, and where he is buried, and also land in Northampton township, on which to build a church. His descendants are very numerous in Pennsylvania, and in southern New Jersey, and we believe that with the exception of those of the name who trace their origin to Thomas Budd, and who are comparatively few, all the rest in the regions referred to are descended from the first William." A return was made 2d mo. 1693, of a survey made by Symon Charles and Daniel Leeds, for William Budd, for 500 acres of land with 15 acres highway allowance for other land, on the North branch of Rancokus river; and also for 200 acres next to Budd. William Budd was appointed a justice of the peace, June 5, 1705. Issue: i. Mary3, bap. Sept. 9, 1704; prob. m. Joseph Shinn. ii. Susanna3, bap. Sept. 6, 1706. iii. Thomas3, bap. Dec. 3, 1708. iv. William3, bap. Jan. 2, 1710 or 1711; d. 1723. v. David3, bap. July 14, 1714. vi. Abigail3, bap. May 15, 1716. vii. Sarah3, bap. March 11, 1718. viii. Rebecca3. ix. Elizabeth Ann3. 4. James2sup> Thomas1 Budd was elected to the West Jersey Assembly in 1685, and was appointed a justice of the peace the same year. He sold 500 acres of land on Northampton river to John Rodman, of Flushing, L. I. James was drowned at Burlington. His will, dated January 29, 1727-8, names four children:P> i. William, under age, Jan. 29, 1727-8. ii. James, m. -. Ch., Samuel, bap. April 6, 1740. iii. Joseph, under age, Jan. 29, 1727-8. iv. Ann. Fourth Generation. 5. John3 Thomas2 Thomas1 Budd m. Rebecca Sandiland, sister of James Sandiland, of Upland, who was sheriff of Philadelphia county 1706-7. In his will, dated June 1, 1710, he refers to kinsman Peter Baynton, b. 1696, d. 1723, m. his cousin Mary, dau. of John and Rebecca (Baynton) Budd.--Penn. Mag, 2: 448. (Prob. John3 Thomas2 Thomas1, mentioned above as of Burlington, Feb. 8, 1692-3.) John settled in Morris county, where his father had located extensive tracts of land. He was probably the John Budd who sold to Jacob Corson, of Staten Island, lands described by the latter in his will dated Oct. 8, 1742, as "all my messuages and lands in Hunterdon county, New Jersey, at or near the township of Reading."--N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., 1869, p. 120. His will, dated Sept. 6, 1749, proved May 16, 1754, names children: i. John. He was a physician, and settled in Salem county, where he was Sheriff in 1758. In 1763, and again in 1764, being then of Salem, he advertised for sale a large new house, "just finished off in a handsome manner," near the court house, Morristown, and four other tracts of land in the vicinity.--N. J. Archives, XXIV., 188, 315, 373. He was again Sheriff of Salem county in 1764 and 1765.--Ib., 346, 406, 517. He became financially embarrassed, placed his property in the hands of trustees for the benefit of his creditors, and made frequent appeals to his creditors for their support. He then removed to Long Island, New York. In 1769 he gave notice to his creditors that he feared they were not likely to get anything "if things remain in their present situation," and that he therefore proposed to apply to the Legislature for "a license to return and reside in the said province, five years free from arrest, to collect in the money due to me and pay my debts."--N. J. Archives, XXVI., 438. Nothing came of this. Some time after 1771 he removed to Charleston, S. C., where he d. in 1791. During the Revolution he served as Surgeon of a South Carolina Regiment of Artillery. ii. Thomas, a physician. In 1767 he was living in Hanover, Morris county, and advertised for sale a plantation at that place, of 400 or 500 acres, joining the lands of William Kelly.--N. J. Archives, XXV., 434. iii. Bern, a physician. "Dr. Bern Budd, of Hanover, in Morris county," advertises a runaway negro man, August 9, 1764.--N. J. Archives, XXIV., 399. Misceilaneous: Jemima, "wife of Thomas Budd, senior," was buried at Mount Holly, Aug. 29, 1770. William Budd, senior, one of the vestrymen of St. Andrew's church, Mount Holly, was buried at Mount Holly, Aug. 29, 1770. Thomas Budd, a native of New Mills, Burlington county, b. Feb. 19, 1783, became a preacher in the M. E. church.