Caleb Shreve (1652 - bef. 1740)

Born 1652 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Areson) Shreve — married 1680 in New York/Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died before 18 Feb 1740 before age 88 in Burlington, Province of New Jersey

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Biography

Caleb was the third son of Thomas and Martha Sheriff. In a will, dated 10 December 1666, of Thomas Hasard of Portsmouth, Rhode Island he was mentioned as "Caleb Sheriff", third son of "Thomas Sheriffe" of Portsmouth.^[1] This suggests that Caleb was likely to have been born in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.

In about 1680 Caleb married Sarah Areson of Long Island.^[2]

"Caleb Shreve (born Sheriff but changed to Shreve later) was born about 1652, possibly in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts to Thomas and Martha Sheriff. Other records show him being christened about 1653 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. While living in Rhode Island, he was in the whaling business. He bought some land in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1676. In 1680, he married Sarah Areson of Flushing, Long Island, New York and their children were: Martha, Thomas, Joseph, Caleb Jr., Joshua, Sarah, Mary, Jonathan, David and Benjamin. The family settled in Shrewsbury in 1680 when they got married. The family remained there until they purchased a large tract of land, over 300 acres, from Richard French in 1699. This acreage was located at Mt. Pleasant, Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. The family were members of the Quaker religion and Caleb was now showing as "yeoman" on the records. His will was written April 5, 1735. He left 2/3 of everything to his youngest son, Benjamin, and 1/3 to his living wife. When she died, it all went to Benjamin. Previously, he had furnished his other children with their farms. Caleb died in 1741 at Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey and is probably buried in that area. The will was proved February 18, 1740." Bio by John E. Sherman #47749330^[3]

Land Records

• Caleb Sheriffe received a warrant of 60 acres at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, East Jersey 4 Dec 1676.^[4]
• Caleb Shrife "in right of John Cook" received a warrant of 240 acres at Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, East Jersey 30 Mar 1677. ^[5]
• Caleb Sheriffe is listed as an owner of adjoining land in a survey of George Parker's acreage at Ramson's Neck, Shrewsberry River, Shrewsbury, Monmouth County 4 Nov 1679. Other neighbors listed were John Chambers, John Clayton, John Hance, and John Havens. Citing Liber 2, Part B : Folio 122 (PEASJ003)
• Caleb Sheriffe's 82 acres at Ramson's Neck; Navesink River; Shrewsberry River; Shrewsbury; Monmouth County was surveyed 5 Nov 1679. [Patent date: 10 Jan. 1681/1682]. (See also: Liber II, Pt. 1; folio 49). John Chambers, John Clayton, and George Parker were neighbors. Citing Liber 2, Part B : Folio 122 (PEASJ003)
• Caleb Sheriffe was an owner of land adjoining John Chambers at Shrewsbury River; Navesink; Ramsont's Neck; Norawateaconck; Shrewsbury; Monmouth County. Survey dated 5 Nov 1679. [Patent date: 6 Dec. 1681]. Other adjoining owners were Francis Borden, John Havens, George Hulett, John Lippincott, Remembrance Lippincott, Peter Parker, and Stephen Williams. Citing Liber 2, Part B : Folio 123 (PEASJ003)
• Caleb Sheriffe appears as an adjoining neighbor in a survey of John Clayton's land at Ramsont's Neck/Shrewsbury River/Navesink River, Shrewsbury, Monmouth County on 5 Nov 1679. [Patent date: 27 Sept. 1681]. Other adjoining landowners were Restore Lippincott, George Parker, and Sarah Reape (Widow). Citing Liber 2, Part B : Folio 124 (PEASJ003).
• Caleb Sheriffe received a grant of 82 acres in Shrewsbury from Elizabeth Carteret (Lady Proprietrix) and Philip Carteret (Esquire) (Governor of the Province) 10 Jan 1681/1682. Citing Liber 2, Part A : Folio 49 (PEASJ003).
• Caleb Sheriff received 50 acres and Jacob Cole ([Coale]) 100 acres in a grant at Pessequanecqua or Passequenoque in the County of Monmouth on 13 Aug 1685. Citing L (EJ) : Folio 33 (PEASJ003)
• Abigail Lippincott ([Leppencott])'s land surveyed 3 Feb 1686/1687 at Passequaneckqua (Passequanecque) by Manesquan brook in Monmouth County references "50 Acres by right of C. Sheriffe." Samuel Dennis ([Dennes], Jacob Lippincott ([Leppencott], John Lippincott ([Leppencott] are owners of adjoining land. Citing L (EJ) : Folio 140-141 (PEASJ003)
• The East Jersey Proprietors granted Caleb Sheriff land at Ramsont Neck, Monmouth County on 22 Jan 1687. Citing B (EJ) : Folio 274 (SSTSE023).
• Richard French and his wife granted Caleb Shreeve land at Mount Pleasant, Mansfield, Burlington County 22 Apr 1699. ^[6]
• Caleb Shreve and his wife granted "sundry tracts" in East Jersey to Charles Hubs on 15 May 1699. ^[7]
• Caleb Shreve granted land to David Curtis in West Jersey on 11 Jan 1700.^[8]
• Caleb Sheriffe was named as an owner of adjoining land in a resurvey of Michael Newbold's 425 acres at Burlington, West Jersey on 20 Dec 1705. In another version of the resurvey, he appears as Caleb Shreif.^[9]
• Caleb Shreeve granted land to Joshua Shreeve in Springfield, Burlington County on 11 Feb 1711. ^[10]
• Caleb Shreeve granted land to Thomas Kinney in West Jersey 7 Feb 1712. Citing M (WJ) : Folio 413 (SSTSE023)
• Caleb Shreeve was listed as an owner of land adjoining Thomas French in "Mancefield" at the time French received a mortgage 25 Apr 1733. Other neighbors of French included Preserve Brown, Jacob DeCow, and Joseph Pancoast. Citing 25 Apr 1733 Burlington Co 1733 Mortgage Register : Folio 4 (CBULO001)
• Caleb Shreeve granted land to Daniel Smith in New Hanover, Burlington County 24 May 1736. Citing HH (WJ) : Folio 70 (SSTSE023)

Death and Legacy

Caleb Shreve of Mansfield, Burlington County, yeoman, wrote his will 5 April 1735; it was proved 18 Feb 1740, indicating he was deceased by that date. Caleb's will names wife Sarah, sons Benjamin, Thomas, Joshua, Caleb, Jonathan and David, and daughters Mary Gibbs and Sarah Ogburn. Son-in-law Benjamin Scattergood and granddaughter Sarah, daughter of Joshua Shreve are also named. ^[11]

Bio2

Name: SHREVE or SHERIFF, CALEB Born: Born: Circa 1652 in Portsmouth, Rhode Island [LCF; TOMO] Died: Circa 1740, Burlington, New Jersey [TOMO] Married: 1680 [LCF; TOMO]to Sarah Areson of Long Island[LCF]; daughter of Diedrich Areson, of Holland. [TOMO] WFT 2:4810 claims christening as about 1653 Portsmouth, but primary documents are not cited. Caleb received land warrants in East New Jersey as early as 1676. Assuming he was of age that would put his birth date as between 1650 and 1655. Further, if this birth date is accurate, his marriage to Sarah Areson occurred when he was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight, which also seems unremarkable. In all, the birth date is reasonable, but unsubstantiated outside of secondary sources.

Cecil Tharp reports Caleb Shreve permanently located in New Jersey on his marriage, about 1680. He lived after 1699 in Burlington Co., seven miles east of the present site of Mount Holly At that date his children numbered seven. The eldest, Martha, was 12 years of age. The five next oldest were boys , with probably the youngest Mary, an infant; a daughter and two sons were subsequently born. Previous to the birth of the youngest in 1706, the older daughter, Martha, married, in 1704. The family otherwise remained unbroken by marriages and in 1711-1713, during which period Thomas, Joshua, Joseph, and Caleb were married. The marriages of the remaining children occurred; Jonathan in 1720, Mary in 1721, Sarah in 1724, and Benjamin the youngest in 1729. After marriage the father gave each child a fine farm, the precise location of which are not known. They were probable all living in Burlington County in 1739, as a pole book of an election held in that county that year had in it the names of every son and son-in-law, excepting John Ogborn. The four elder children had sons old enough to vote, but they may have moved to other places. In the list of voters is an Amy Shreve and Caleb, Jonathan, Samuel and Thomas Scattergood were probably sons of Martha Shreve and Benjamin Scattergood. The descendants of Benjamin, the youngest child, has preserved the best history of the family. He acquired from his father by Will the old homestead and became by contract with his mother, sole heir to her property, which subsequently they construed to cover her interest in the rumored Amsterdam ____. This instrument was executed February 28th, 1740-41 while she was living with Benjamin, and after the marriages of her other children. Other branches had heard of the estate, and as a precaution had preserved their lineage to protect their claims: but as they became more remotely removed from the old homestead their records are not so complete, and assume a more traditionary character. There is no reliable authority for a correct tabulation of the family of Caleb Shreve and Sarah Areson in the order of ages. The order must be conjectured from the dates of their marriages shown on the church records of the Society of Friends in Burlington County, assuming the sons married at the age of twenty one and the daughters at eighteen, or thereabouts. However the dates of the birth of Joshua and Benjamin have been authoritatively transmitted to their respective descendants. The authority for their names is Caleb Shreve's Will, dated April 5th, 1735; others may have died in infancy or unmarried previously. The authority for the places of their births is the late Samuel H. Shreve; New York City. The places of there deaths, where noted, is the probate records of the state. The precise locations of their homes are unknown, excepting Benjamin's nor whether their places of residence were permanent or transient. The marriages of eight were in Burlington County, New Jersey, by Friends Ceremony. there is every reason to believe Josuah's was also by Friends Ceremony. No record of David is found, excepting in his father's will and the election poll book in 1739 for Burlington County. Caleb Shreve devised to each: Thomas, "my eldest son;" Joshua, Joseph, Caleb, Jonathan, "my son-in-law" Benjamin Scattergood, Mary Gibbs and Sarah Ogborne, five shillings; my son David Shreve, one good cow -- said bequests are designated as "completing his (or her) portion" --undoubtedly referring to the farms given them in his lifetime. ^[12]; Hornor, William S., This Old Monmouth of Ours, Polyanthos, Cottonport, New Jersey, 1974, p. 348; Tharp, Cecil E. Tharp Ancestors, The Search: Viola Longerbone Ancestry: Shreve Family Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries http://www.geocities.com/cetbus/cet5B.html Wilroth, Benjamin Franklin, Little Compton Families. Little Compton Historical Society, Little Compton, Rhode Island, 1967, p. 567. ^[13]

Note

Note:

3. iii. CALEB SHREVE, probably the third child and third

son of Thomas Sheriff (or Shreve), of Rhode Island Colony, and

Martha , his wife, was b. about 1652; m. Sarah Areson,

dau.of Diedrich (or Deric) Areson, of Long Island, about 1680.

He d. in Burlington Co., New Jersey, in 1741.

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Caleb Shreve permanently located in New Jersey on his marriage,

about 1680. He lived after 1699 in Burlington Co., seven

miles east of the present site of Mount Holly. At that date his

children numbered seven. The eldest, Martha, was twelve years

of age ; the five next older were boys, with probably the youngest,

Mary, an infant ; a daughter and two sons were subsequently

born. Previous to the birth of the youngest in 1706, the oldest

daughter, Martha, married, in 1704.

The family otherwise remained unbroken by marriages until

1711-1713, during which period Thomas, Joshua, Joseph and

Caleb married. The marriages of the remaining children occurred

: Jonathan in 1720, Mary in 1721, Sarah in 1724, Benjamin,

the youngest, in 1729. After marriage the father gave each child

a fine farm, the precise locations of which are not known. They

were probably all living in Burlington County in 1739, as the poll

book of an election held in that county that year has in it the

names of every son and son-in-law, excepting John Ogborne.

The four elder children had sons old enough to vote,but they may

have moved to other places. In the list of voters is an Amos

Shreve, and Caleb, Jonathan, Samuel and Thomas Scattergood,

who were probably sons of ]\Iartha Shreve and Benjamin Scattergood.

The descendants of Benjamin, the youngest child, have

preserved the best history of the family. He acquired from his

father by will the old homestead, and became, by contract with

his mother, sole heir to her property, which subsequently they

construed to cover her interest in the rumored Amsterdam estate.

This instrument was executed February 28th, 1740-41,

while she was living with Benjamin, and after the marriages of

her other children. Other branches had heard of the estate, and as a precaution

had preserved their lineage to protect their future claims ; but

as they became more remotely removed from the old homestead

their records are not so complete, and assume a more traditionary

character.

There is no reliable authority for a correct tabulation of the

family of Caleb Shreve and Sarah Areson in the order of ages.

The order must be conjectured from the dates of their marriages

shown on the church records of the Society of Friends in Burlington

County, assuming the sons married at the age of twentyone,

and the daughters at eighteen, or thereabouts. However,

the dates of the births of Joshua and Benjamin have been authoritatively

transmitted to their respective descendants. The authority

for their names is Caleb Shreve's will, dated April 5th, 1735;

others may have died in infancy or unmarried previously. The

authority for the places of their births is the late Samuel H.

Shreve, of New York City. The places of their deaths, where

noted, is the probate records of the state. The precise locations

of their homes are unknown, excepting Benjamin's, nor whether

their places of residence were permanent or transient. The marriages

of eight were in Burlington Co., New Jersey, by Friends

Ceremony. There is every reason to believe Joshua's was also

by Friends Ceremony. No record of David is found, excepting

in his father's will and the election poll book in1739 for Burlington

County. Caleb Shreve devised to each : Thomas, "my

eldest son ;" Joshua, Joseph, Caleb, Jonathan, "my son-in-law"

Benjamin Scattergood, Mary Gibbs and Sarah Ogborne, five

shillings ; my son, David Shreve, one good cow—said bequests

are designated as "compleating his (or her) portion"—undoubtedly

referring to the farms given them in his lifetime.^[14]

"The Magazine of American History, by J. A. Stevens, December, 1878, describes a journey in 1788 of Col. Israel Shreve, and occupying twenty-five days in wagons, from New Jersey to the Monongehala River, Pennsylvania, where he settled and hired farms from Gen. Geo. Washington. I think the following facts were derived from this magazine, viz. : That Caleb Shreve came from near London. England. Bought land at Shrewsbury in 1676. Settled in Mansfield township. New Jersey, 1699. Died 1741. It he died in 1741, at ninety years of age, he would have been born in 1651, and bought the land when twenty-five years old. But as the Shreve adults appear to have generally died between fifty and sixty years old, and as the name Caleb was repeated for several generations, it would appear that probably Caleb's father or uncle of the same name bought the land." [1]

Caleb Shreve moved from Plymouth, Massachusetts to Rhode Island.

Timeline

Caleb Shreve married Sarah, daughter of Dirick Areson of Flushing, Long Island, New York. "Caleb Shreve came from Rhode Island, or Nantucket, where he had followed the whaling business, and settled in 1699 at Mount Pleasant, Mansfield township, Burlington county, New Jersey, three miles from the Black Horse and six miles from Bordentown. He married Sarah, daughter of Diedrick, or Derick, Areson, of Amsterdam, Holland. They had a son, born June 9th, 1706, Benjamin Shreve, who probably died about 1751. Caleb Shreve came originally from near London, England. He bought land at Shrewsbury 1676. He died in 1741." [2]

1680 Caleb Shreve moved to Shrewsbury, East New Jersey.

1690 Caleb Shreve [Shreive], perhaps this one or his son, served on the grand jury in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [3]

1692 Caleb Shreve yeoman of Shrewsbury Monmouth East New Jersey and his wife Sarah sold land, purchased from Indian Pessaquenocqua, to John Lippincott Jr. Adjacent to land of George Parker and John Clayton. [4]

1699 Caleb Shreve purchased 300 acres from Richard French (Father of Rebecca French, who married youngest son, Benjamin Shreve) in Mt Pleasant, Mansfield, Burlington County, West New Jersey.

1735 Caleb Shreve of Mansfield, Burlington County, dated his will on 5 April. Named wife Sarah, sons: Benjamin, Thomas, Joshua, Caleb, Jonathan, and David. Daughters: Mary Gibbs, Sarah Ogburn. Son-in-law Benjamin Scattergood. Grand-daughter Sarah, daughter of son Joshua. [5] "By (the original) Caleb Shreve's will, dated April 5, 1735, it appears that he had then living his wife Sarah and sons Thomas, Joshua, Joseph, Caleb, Jonathan and David. These sons being spendthrifts and having spent farms, of which he had given each one, were cut off by the will. Benjamin, the remaining son, had two-thirds of real estate and two-thirds of personal; the widow had one-third of each real and personal, and the best room in the house while unmarried. If she married, was to have no part in the real estate. Also two daughters. Mary Gibbs and Sarah Ogburn, for whom no provision appears to have been made." [6]

1740 Caleb Shreve's will was proved 18 February 1740. [7]

Birth

Birth: :: Date: 1652

Place: Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA^[15]

Death

Death:  :: Date: 1741 Age: 88-89

Place: Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA. Burial place unknown. Find A Grave: Memorial #191135730 ^[16][17]

Research Notes

Amy Shreve Gaskill is the granddaughter of Caleb Shreve and Sarah Areson, will of son Caleb Shreve dated 22 October 1746. ^[18] Note abstracts of Father and Son.

A gedcom import of 2011 had a child Solomon Shreve attached, but there is no good evidence for the relationship, Solomon was of uncertain existence.

Sarah Shreve (Wills) is actually Sarah Shreve Ogbourne, whose daughter Sarah married Thomas Wills. The other two Sarahs appear to be duplicates, despite the differences in birthdates. There is no documentation to verify the existence of any surviving female children other than Sarah Shreve Ogbourne, who is mentioned in her father's will. Last name Wills appears to be an error.

Sources

1. ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. p. 295, NEHGS website, accessed 3 May 2020. Subscription required. also available on Ancestry.com
2. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. NEHGS website, accessed 3 May 2020. Subscription required.
3. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 July 2019), memorial page for Caleb Shreve (unknown–1741), Find A Grave: Memorial #191135730 ; Maintained by Sherman-Thomas (contributor 47749330) Unknown.
4. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing Liber 2, Part B : Folio 45 (PEASJ003). PDF Available.
5. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing Liber 2, Part B : Folio 53 (PEASJ003). PDF available.
6. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing B (WJ) : Folio 643 (SSTSE023)
7. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing G (EJ) : Folio 110 (SSTSE023)
8. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing AAA (WJ) : Folio 371 (SSTSE023)
9. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing Basse A (Surveys, 1-206) : Folio 58 (SSTSE023). PDF available. Also recorded in Leeds Book (WJ Surveys) : Folio 81/78/[86] (PWESJ004). PDF available.
10. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. Early Land Records 1650-1900s [database]. https://wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us/DOS_ArchivesDBPortal/EarlyLandRecords.aspx. Citing O (WJ) : Folio 341 (SSTSE023)
11. ↑ Calendar of Wills, Administrations, Etc. 1730-1750. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. (Trenton, NJ: Archives of the State of New Jersey), volume 30, page ### page 432
12. ↑ Allen, Luther P., History and Genealogy of the Shreve Family p. 22
13. ↑ Robert and Janet Chevalley Wolfe, Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy, "Notes for Caleb Shreve and Sarah Areson"
14. ↑ VIOLA LONGERBONE ANCESTRY SHREVE FAMILY SEVENTEENTH & EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES A Digest of a Manuscript by C. Tharp
15. ↑ Source: #S-2127643531 Page: Birth year: 1652; Birth city: Newport Co; Birth state: RI. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=4732743&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1652Birth place: Newport Co, Portsmouth, RIDeath date: 1741Death place: New APID: 1,4725::4732743
16. ↑ Source: #S-2127643531 Page: Birth year: 1652; Birth city: Newport Co; Birth state: RI. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=genepool&h=4732743&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1652Birth place: Newport Co, Portsmouth, RIDeath date: 1741Death place: New APID: 1,4725::4732743
17. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 July 2019), memorial page for Caleb Shreve (unknown–1741), Find A Grave Memorial no. 191135730, ; Maintained by Sherman-Thomas (contributor 47749330) Unknown.
18. ↑ A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 432, GoogleBooks, HathiTrust.

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