Edward Earle, (III)

Burial record:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36856258/edward-earle

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Wikitree Profile: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Earle-21

His father, Edward Earle Sr. (1628-1711), purchased Secaucus Island from Nicholes Varlet and Nicholas Bayard for two thousand Dutch dollars on April 24, 1676, and so acquired what was known as the largest plantation in New Jersey. This Edward Earle was not only wealthy but occupied an influential position in the state for he was a member of the House of Delegates in 1694 and 1698 (Note: supposed to be his son), a Justice of the Peace in Bergen County in 1684, and an assistant Judge for Bergen Common Please Court in 1705 (1). Earle and his wife had only one child, Edward Jr, who died in 1713. Of Edward, Jr's thirteen children,

Sylvester and Enoch (2) and their families concern us because of their loyalism.

The size of the Secaucus property: About 2000 acres

•3 years later he sold half of it for 500 pounds sterling to Judge WIlliam Pinhorne

Edward Jr Earle (son of Edward Senior Earle and Hannah Baylis) was born bet. 1665 - 1668 in Calvert County, Maryland, America. He married Elsie Vreeland on February 13, 1687/88 in Gemonepa Bergen, Bergen County, New Jersey, America, daughter of Enoch M. Vreeland and Dircksje F.Meyers

"Edward Earle Junior seems to have been a man of considerable prominence in the community. On 20th October 1692, when he must have been still quite a young man, he was appointed High Sheriff of Bergen County, and in the commission was designated as Edward Earle, Jr., Gent."

"On November 1st 1692, Edward Jr., was commissioned as Chief Ranger of Bergen County. A few months later, in February 1693, he received a commission as County Clerk. In 1694, August 20th, he was commissioned as Coroner of Bergen County. These offices, some of them very important, bestowed upon so young a man in rapid succession, lead us to think that he was a man of no mean ability. And it may be that educated men were rather scarce in those days. In 1693 he was elected to the General Assembly from Bergen. In 1698 he was again returned, with probable service between those dates, his name being frequently mentioned as conveying messages to Citizens' Councils at Perth Amboy. These documents are in the New Jersey Archives."

"1658-1730. G. G. Grandfather. Record of Edward Earle 2nd.

• Born 1658 -1668.
• Buried 13 Feb 1688.

Married [1st] Elsie Vreeland.

2nd marriage - Elizabeth. Issue surviving in 1730.:

• 1. Edward 3rd. born 12 April 1690
• 2. Hannah. b. 26 March 1695
• 3. Marmaduke. b. Oct 1696
• 4. Johannes or John. b. 8 Sep 1698
• 5. William. b. 1 May 1703
• 6. Alice. b. 1704
• 7. Thomasina. b. 1706
• 8. Theodosia b. 1707
• 9. Phillip b. 1708
• 10. Matthew. b. 1709
• 11. Sylvester. b. 1710 d. 1774

Hannah married Stephen Bourdette. Thomasina married Gerritt Hallenbeck.