James Grover Genealogy
Record modified: 2003-09-10
This is my direct ancestor 11 generations back.
Born: 1607-11-08 Chesham, Buckinghamshire England
Died: 1685-12-00 Middletown, Monmouth Co, New Jersey USA
Marriages:
1. 1651-00-00 Rebecca Cheeseman
Children of James Grover and Rebecca Cheeseman:
Notes:
born 1611?
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parents from this page
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some sources, such as this RootsWeb entry, have his wife as Rebecca Cheeseman b1628 Middlesex Co NJ died 1686-10, d/o William Cheeseman b1577 England and Martha Dorset b England.
"The will of WILLIAM CHEESEMAN Dec. 3, 1753 lists SAFETY BORDEN as his GRANDSON. This Safety Borden was probably the son of Abigail Grover and Benjamin BORDEN."
note: That won't work unless Abigail Grover is William Cheeseman's daughter. If we change that to William's great-grandson, it would work. (Or if we change it to Safety GROVER being his grandson.)
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one genforum message says Rebecca Cheeseman married James Grover about 1658, which means she would not be the mother of Abigail or the older children.
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genforum message 850
I have been told that he married Rebecca in 1651 in Gravesend. It is pretty well established that James had the following children:
1. Joseph b. about 1652 died after December 7, 1688
2. Abigail born 1653 in Gravesend married Benjamin Borden Sept. 22, 1670 Shrewsbury, New Jersey died January 8, 1719/1720 in Evesham, Burlington Co., New Jersey
3. Hannah born about 1655 married Richard Gardiner then William Winter
4. James Grover born about 1656 married Alice Unknown
5. Safety Grover (a male) born about 1658 maried Mercy Unknown.
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RootsWeb shows Rebecaa Cheeseman married James Grover abt 1651; daughter of William Cheeseman b abt 1577 d 1653 Middlesex NJ
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from genforum, about Gravesend, Long Island NY:
-James Grover: Apprenticed to James Hubbard at Lynn - 1643. Founder of Monmouth County, granted land at Gravesend 20 Feb. 1646 in the first division of land there. With Hubbard and Baxter, raised the banner of rebellion in 1655. Managed to escape to Boston and later to England. Later returned with a letter from the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell to the English inhabitants on Long Island. Grover Dec. 1 1685, at Middletown His wife’s name was Rebecca. Their children were; James, Joseph, Safety, Abigail - (wife of Benjamin Borden) and Hannah - (wife of Richard Gardiner). Grover had land on NE side of Mill Creek. Will proved; 28 Jan. 1685.
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WILL of JAMES GROVER, SENR, of Middletowne, Mon. Co., "being Sencible of my Mortallity." Dated Dec. 1st, 1685. Proved by testimony of Richard Hartshorne and Tho. Webley, before John Throckmorton, Jan. 28, 1685.
Gives: "my Mansion house my Mill with all that belongs thereto and all my land lying on the N. E. Side of the Mill "Creeke, togather with all my Meadow land adjoyning or elsewhere shall be devided --to three Equall parts (???) I "give to my Son James Grover, One third to my Son in Law Benjamin Borden for the sake of his Wife my Daughter "Abigall, and the other third part ... to my Son in Law Richard Gardiner for the sake of my Daughter Hannah "his Wife with all the privelidges ... thereunto belonging to them and
to theire Heires ...." "All the rest "of my Estate Moueable and immoueable both household stuffe tooles Implements Cattle, horses, Swine and euery thing "else that is mine ... after the decease of me and my Wife it shall be Equally devided between my fiue Children "James, Joseph, Safety, Abigall and Hannah ..."; "after my Decease all my Estate both Reall & personall shall "be & Remaine in the pofsefsion of my Deare Wife Rebecca for her support & Maintenance so long as she shall liue or "remaine a Widdow ...."
Appoints "my Son James Grover and my Son in Law Richard Gardiner to be my Executrs and none other ...."
JAMES GROUER fen
Wits.:
Richard Hartshorne
Tho. Webley
Intd on fol. 235, lib. 1.
[On the endorsement of the will appears the following: "... dated ffirst December, 1685, proved [?] ffeb.ffollowing."]
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Grover genforum message 617:
[James Grover] was apparently a devout Baptist and one of the followers of Lady Deborah Moody who founded Gravesend (now in Brooklyn) in 1645 after she was kicked out of Salem Massachusetts for her beliefs on adult baptism. He was also evidently an ardent English patriot even though he lived for many years in Gravesend in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Peter Stuyvesant, the Director General of New Amsterdam ordered the arrest of James Grover after intercepting a message that Grover had carried from Oliver Cromwell to the English settlers in Gravesend urging them to rise up in revolt.
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Some source I forgot to write down shows other children Josiah (1648) and John (1640), but it seems this is wrong.
Hinds Site: Genealogy of Ken Hinds -- page 1740
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