Robert Colver

Birth: Jun. 10, 1713 Groton New London County Connecticut, USA Death: Jan. 7, 1783 Schooleys Mountain Morris County New Jersey, USA

Robert Colver left a rather detailed will in 1783. Within it he identified his children:

David (firstborn); then, according to legal custom of the times, the other males are listed in order of birth. Timothy Joseph Robert Then, daughters: Mercy Anne Lavinah Esther

According to the Colver-Culver Family Genealogy (Page 64): Robert Culver (the 4th generation in America, after Edward 1; John 2; and John 3) was born June 10, 1713 in Groton Connecticut, and died Feb. 7, 1783 in Schooley Mountain, Morris, New Jersey. He married Anne Clark, daughter of Stephen and Sarah Hill Clark, born June 17, 1717, in New Haven Connecticut, and died July 17, 1777 at Schooley Mountain. Robert bought land on Dec. 22, 1748 in Sussex County, New Jersey, while living in Monmouth County. Robert, a Quaker, and Anna, witnessed a Barnegat (?) deed of Richard Mann to Thomas Culver of Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, on Dec. 13, 1748. It's the deed of John Collver and Sarah, his wife, of Roxbury, Morris, New Jersey, to Robert Collver of the same, on Nov. 2, 1752, and iin particular Robert's sale of this interest, which proves Robert to be the son and reveals the identity of John's wife, Sarah. Robert's will, proved Jan 16, 1783, calls him of Roxbury, New Jersey, and names his wife; first-born son, David; daughters Mercy Hill, Anne Waier, Lavina Saverin (Sovereign), Esther Hann. Timothy Colver and Jacob Hann were executors. Anne is buried at Schooley's Mountain Cemetery, and at one time, her tombstone, a small rough square marker with the initicials of "A.C." was to be seen, along with her husband's Family tradition has it that most of the family sided with the Loyalists during the Revolutionary War and moved to Canada. From "Early Germans of New Jersey" Robert Culver, the second son of John and Sarah (whose maiden name is listed as Winthrop) came to the Upper German Valley from Montmouth County, when he bought 265 acres on Schooley's Mountain. His will (Trenton Lib. M., fol 181), Jan. 1, probated June 16, 1783, names wife Anne and eight children, including Levinah, who married Frederick Saverin (Sovereen).

The Rogerenes (also known as the Rogerens Quakers or Rogerines) were a religious sect founded in 1674 by John Rogers (1648–1721) in New London, Connecticut. Rogers was imprisoned and spent some years there. He was influenced by the Seventh Day Baptists and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and opposed the Established Puritan church. Rogerenes initially held to a Seventh Day (Saturday) Sabbath, but over the years began to regard each day as equally holy. Their disdain for Sunday worship often brought them into sharp conflict with their neighbors. Increasingly they adopted a Pacifist stance, including war tax resistance, which further brought them the ridicule of the larger community. Some of the Rogerenes left Connecticut and migrated to New Jersey settling in parts of present-day Morris County. One such group settled in what is now the Landing section of Roxbury Township, New Jersey near Lake Rogerine, then known as Mountain Pond in about 1700. Another smaller group of Rogerenes in about 1734 settled on the eastern side of Schooley's Mountain near present-day Hackettstown, New Jersey.

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