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Thomas Applegate

     Cathie's 9th Great Grandparents - Thomas Applegate and his wife Elizabeth Morgan arrived in 1635 and settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts.     Thomas Applegate was a member of the Massachusetts Bay colony, as early as 1635, when he was licensed to keep a ferry between Wessaguscus,  (Weymouth), and Mount Wooliston , (Braintree).  On 3 March 1636, "Thomas Applegate was discharged of keeping the ferry of Waymothe, & Henry Kingman licensed to keep the said ferry during the pleasure of the Court".  Between 1635 and 1640, his name frequently appears in the Massachusetts Records.   
     On 02 Sep 1635, "Thomas Aplegate was licensed to keep a ferry betwixt Wessaguscus & Mount Woolliston, for which he is to have 1d. for every person, & iiid. a horse". 
     On 06 Sep 1636, "Elisabeth, the wife of Thomas Aplegate, was censured to stand with her tongue in a cleft stick, for swearing, railing, & reviling".
     On 04 Dec 1638, "William Blanton, appearing, was enjoined to appear at the next Court, with all the men that were in the canoe with him, & Thomas Applegate, which owned the canoe out of which the 3 persons were drowned; & it was ordered, that no canoe should be used at any ferry upon pain of £5, nor no canoe to be made in our jurisdiction before the next General Court, upon pain of £10".
     On 05 Mar 1638/9, William Blanton, Thomas Applegate and four other men "appearing, were discharged, with an admonition not to adventure too many into any boat," and on the same day "Thomas Aplegate was appointed to have 29s. for his canoe, when the arms which he borrowed are returned back as good as they were when he borrowed them".
     In Oct 1640, Thomas Applegate of Weymouth, planter, hired John King of Weymouth, seaman, to be master of Applegate's boat on a voyage both for fishing and for carrying freight. A dispute arose early in 1641 because King had allowed the boat to be overladen.
     On 01 Jun 1641, "Will[ia]m Newland complains against Thomas Applegate, in an action of trespass upon the case, to the damage of £20. The jury find for the plaintiff, and assess him £8 damages, and the charges of the suit" .
     On 01 Jun 1641, "Richard Burne undertook & promised to make good & pay all such damages as might happen if Thomas Applegate should by bringing the suit about again recover anything against W[illia]m Newland, who this Court hath recovered against the said Applegate £8 damages, and the charges of the suit". 
     Perhaps these experiences prompted them to move to the more liberally conducted settlements of Rhode Island, where the name, "Appelgats Plaine" was given to their land and he again appears in court records.
     On 06 Sep 1641, "Thomas Applegate complains against Will[ia]m Newland, in an action of trespass for detaining certain swine. The jury find for the defendant, & give him the charges of the suit". 
     On 07 Sep 1641, "George Allen & Mr. Edward Dillingham are nominated, by consent of both parties, to apprize the swine Will[ia]m Newland hath in execution of Thom[as] Applegate, and what the want in value of eight pounds & charges the said Applegate is to give his bill to the said Newland for payment thereof".  (All of the participants in this dispute except for Applegate resided in Sandwich. Applegate may have resided there briefly between his years in Weymouth and Newport, but there is no direct evidence for this.)
     On 01 Dec 1641, "Thomas Applegate of Newport" sued John Roome of the same town.
     On 07 Jun 1643, William Dyer of Newport sued "Thomas Applegate, weaver, of the same town," and at the same court session Henry Bull sued Applegate.
     On 5 September 1643, "Thomas Applegate of Newport" sued Edward Andrews, and on the same day he sued "W[illia]m Heavens of Portsmo[uth] upon a mortgage of house & land consigned by Sam[uel] Willbore to the said Thomas".
     On 03 Dec 1643, a dispute between Nicholas Cotterell and Thomas Applegate was sent to arbitration; this dispute, or another between the same two men, was still alive in 1646.
     From Rhode Island Thomas Applegate came to the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam, and, upon the creation of the English town of Gravesend, on Long Island, he became one of its earliest settlers.  On December 10, 1645, Lady Moody, Sir Henry Moody, Ensign George Baxter and Sergeant James Hubbard, with their associates were granted a patent by Director Kieft.  The settlers entered into an agreement at Amersfoort with Lady Moody and her associates by which the town (Gravesend) was to be divided into 28 parts, each to receive a plantation lot, also a village lot. In 1646 a new division was made, laying out the town into 40 lots and be given out to: 
1. Lady Deborah Moody
2. Sir Henry Moody
3. James Hubbard
4. George Baxter
5. John Morrell
6. Richard Ussell
7. John Tilton
8. James Ellis
9. Cornelius Swellinant
10. Edward Browse
11. Richard Stout
12. Thomas Cornish
13. George Holmes
14. Thomas Greedy
15. Thomas Spicer
16. Walter Wall
17. John Cooke
18. James Grover
19. Ambrose London
20. John Rinkman
21. Francis Weeks
22. Ralph Cardell
23. Robert Pennoyer
24. William Wilkins
25. Thomas Applegate
26. William Goulding
27. Charles Morgan
28. Thomas Morrell
29. John Thomas
30. Rodger Scott
31. Randall Huett
32. William Compton
33. Enium Bennum
34. Samuel Chandler
35. Pete Simpson
36. Thomas Cornwall
37. William Musgrove
38. Thomas Whitlock
39. Richard Gibbons, received a town plot and a section of land under the second division. 
     On 11 November 1646, a John Ruckman sold to Thomas Applegate his plantation in Gravesend. 
     On 8 January 1651, Thomas Applegate Senior was fined for not keeping his fence in proper repair.
     On 23 May 1662, a Salomon Lachaire "drew up a power of attorney in English for Bartholomeus Applegate to Henry Timberlake of Road Island, to take up and use for the constituent's benefit a certain piece of land there called Appelgate's Plain formerly belonging to his the constituent's deceased father" .
     While a resident of Gravesend, Thomas Applegate was frequently before the court for uncivil behavior. On 14 Feb 1650, he was censured for making a disturbance at court, so that the court could not go on with its business.  His greatest problem apparently arose from his claim that "the Governor had done him wrong about the orphan [presumably the child his daughter Helena had with Thomas Farrington]," as a result of which he was prosecuted on 08 January 1651 for slandering the Governor and some residents of Gravesend.  For his claim that the Governor had taken a bribe in the case, he was sentenced to have his tongue bored through with a red hot iron and to publicly acknowledge his transgression in charging the Director General with bribery. After making a public acknowledgment, he was pardoned. On 11 January 1651, "Thomas Applegate Senior" was required to post a bond of five hundred guilders to ensure his good behavior, and on 7 July 1652, this bond was voided.
     Both Thomas Applegate and his wife, Elizabeth , were, apparently, strong-minded and believers in free speech. This brought them oppressive punishments from civil and ecclesiastical officials, and embroiled them in law suits with their neighbors. But such was the habit of the times. Few or none escaped from conflict of this sort. Their isolated life gave small opportunity for mental development on wholesome and broad lines, and their talk degenerated into gossip of a dangerous, personal nature, readily embellished and circulated over the convivial cup at the tavern. The habit grew in the community till it became customary to air the most petty grievances in court, and the contest savored much of a pastime. So great a nuisance did it become, that the court, finally, for its own protection, passed a rule laying the expenses of the suit upon the plaintiff in the event of his failure to successfully prosecute his case.
  
     8th Great Grandparents - Bartholomew Applegate  married Annetje (known as Hannah) Patrick in Oct 1650.  Bartholomew purchased land in Gravesend 10 Aug 1667 - granted plantation lot 11 from Nathan Whitman.
     On 8 Mar 1674 Bartholomew and brother Thomas and Richard Sadler successfully petitioned the Governer General of New York, Anthony Colve, to purchase a tract of land in Monmouth County, NJ from the Indians.  A condition was that they had to take out a patent and settlements made within 2 years or the land would be forfeited.
     In 1650 Bartholomew Applegate, with William Wilkins, completed a tide mill on Strome Kiln, Gravesend . 
     22 Oct 1653 Bartholomew sold some land to Claes Paulus at Gravesend.
     In 1657 he had eight acres of land under cultivation in Gravesend.
     15 Jun 1670 he was sued by Richard Stillwell, at Gravesend, for debt and judgment was given.
     06 Nov 1671 "Whereas the Governour was pleased to order Wm. Wilkins to pay ten pounds toward the release of Hanna Applegate and her child, this sheweth that Thos. Whitlock received of Mr. Delavall five pounds of the aforesaid somme, of wch the said Thomas delivered five pounds to the constable and overseers, of Gravesend , in red cloth," etc. Gravesend Records as per T. G. Bergen , Esq.  Doubtless she and her child had been taken prisoners by the Indians and this was the ransom demanded.
     08 Mar 1674. Bartholomew, with Thomas Applegate and Richard Sadler, was granted permission to purchase lands of the Indians, near the Neversinks, in East Jersey.
      
     7th Great Grandparents - Daniel Applegate was born abt 1658 in Gravesend.  He married Rebecca Tilton in Shrewsbury, New Jersey in 1687.
     In 1678 he received a warrant for one hundred and twenty acres of land in Monmouth County.
     01 Jun 1697 Peter and Rebecca Tilton conveyed one hundred acres, to their daughter, Rebecca , wife of Daniel Applegate , between Hop and Swimming Rivers, Middletown.
     15 Oct 1709 he made his will; proved 07 Nov 1710, in which he called himself, Daniel Applegate, senior, resident of Middletown, Monmouth Co. , and mentioned: Wife, Rebeckah , sole heiress and executrix of real and personal estate.  Two eldest sons, John and Jacob , each to receive 6 shillings.  Two youngest sons, Bartholomew and Ebenezer , each to receive 1 shilling.  Four daughters, Susanna , Hannah , Mary and Rebecca , each to receive 1 shilling.  Witnesses: John Newman, Thomas Shepherd and Thomas Applegate. 

     6th Great Grandparents - Jacob Applegate and Catherine Hartshorne.  Not much is known of them other than they lived in Monmouth County, New Jersey.

     5th Great Grandparents - Catherine Applegate and Levi Hart married on 29 Dec 1757 in New Jersey.  She was a Presbiterian and he was a Jewish merchant who emmigrated from England.  They had a tavern, Harts Tavern, in what is now Coltsneck, New Jersey.  This area was called "Jewstown" during the time of the Revolutionary War due to the large amount of Jewish settlers.  After Levi's death Catherine married Joshua Huddy.  He has an interesting history.  While not an ancestor I found it interesting.  (In 1776, Joshua Huddy joined the New Jersey militia and became a captain of artillery in 1777. That year, he gladly pulled the rope to hang Stephen Edwards, a New Jerseyan who had been spying for the British. After the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, he and his men harrassed the British after they left Freehold to make their way to Sandy Hook. Soon after his marriage in 1778 to Catherien Applegate Hart, Huddy had to defend himself in a lawsuit (Van Brunt vs. Huddy, 1779) alleging that he had cast Catherine's children out of his house and sold her possessions without her permission. Huddy also was brought into Monmouth County court for assault in 1778 and for appropriating a horse carriage in 1781. On February 1, 1782, Huddy was given command of the blockhouse at Toms River that was built to protect the local salt works. On March 24, a large party of Loyalists overwhelmed Huddy's forces and burned the village. Huddy was captured and taken to New York, where the leader of the Board of Associated Loyalists, William Franklin (the last Royal Governor of New Jersey), approved Huddy's execution. On April 12, under the direction of Richard Lippincott , Huddy was taken to Highlands and hung on the beach after dictating and signing his will. His executioners left a note on his breast, "Up Goes Huddy for Phillip White," in reference to a Tory who had recently been killed while in Patriot custody. It was reported that Huddy died calmly and bravely, and even shook hands with Lippincott.)  To contimue this line see Catherine and Levi on the Hart page.

      

Ares  b: ?  d: ? Bartholomew  b: ?  d: ?    Bartholomew*  b: abt 1625  d: ?  m: Annetje Patrick   Benjamin  b: ?  d: ?     Catherine*  b: Abt. 1732  d: ?  m: (1) Levi Hart*  (2) Joshua Huddy   Daniel*  b: Abt. 1658  d: Abt. 1710  m: Rebecca Tilton Ebenezer  b: ?  d: ? Hannah  b: ?  d: ? Hannah  b: ?  d: ? Helena  b: abt 1623  d: ?  m: (1) Thomas Farrington  (2) Louis Hulet  (3) Carle Morgyn Jacob  b: ?  d: ?  m: Catherine Hartshorne

Jacob  b: ?  d: ? John  b: ?  d: ? John  b: abt 1630  d: ?    John  b: Bef. 1658  d: ?  Mary  b: ?  d: ? Mary  b: ?  d: ? Rebecca  b: ?  d: ?  Susannah  b: ?  d: ? Thomas  b: ?  d: ?    Thomas*  b: abt 1598  d: bet 1656-1657  m: Elizabeth Morgan  Thomas  b: abt 1628  d: ?  m: Johanna Gibbons

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