| Pages 51-2 trace the ownership of tracts in Kingwood Township. Below are the paragraphs relating to Fox. "William Biddle, of Mount Hope, Burlington county, bought in 1676 the third division of one quarter of a proprietary of land of Joseph Helmsley, and one quarter of a proprietary of Thomas Hutchinson, in 1686, containing, I believe, in the whole, 1665 acres; he dying, it descended to his son William; he sold it, or a portion of it, lying west of Rosemont, to Charles Wolverton, in 1714; he, May 18th, 1719, conveyed 284 acres, constituting at present the farms of John Hartpence and William R. Allen, and six acres on the southeast corner of John Huffman's farm. "The southwest corner of latter tract was in John Reading's line, near John Huffman's gate, and was sold to George Fox, who came from England. "While Fox owned this tract, a young man came over from England to George Fox's, where he died soon after his arrival, of ship fever, and was the first person buried in Rosemont burying ground, one quarter of an acre being reserved after this for a grave-yard. "June 10th, 1727, Mr. Fox conveyed the aforementioned tract to Thomas Canby of Bucks County, Pa.. Aug. 19th, 1735, Canby conveyed it to Henry Coat. March 2nd, 1741, Mr. Coat conveyed it to Derrick Hoagland. William Rettinghouse (as it was then spelled) owned the land east of this; he and Derrick Hoagland altered their boundary line to conform to its present course in the road north of Rosemont. Mr. Hoagland conveyed this in 1750 to his son James; in 1760 he conveyed it to his brother William. Peter Morrow had purchased six acres off the southwest corner, of Derrick. This tract was afterwards conveyed to Asa Reed, then to Thomas Lequear, then in part to John Waterhouse." On page 53: "Mrs. Stanberry sold 300 acres of land, which laid east of Kingwood hotel and store, to George Fox, who owned the land near Rosemont, by a deed dated May 14th, 1746. George Fox and Gabriel Fox, Executors of George Fox, sold a portion, 76 acres, of this to John Waterhouse. In 1763, and how much earlier I know not, a Uriah Bonham of Piscataqua, was in this neighborhood as a school teacher. He married Ancher, daughter of George Fox, the elder. They had 5 children, 2 sons and 3 daughters. The sons were Amos and Zedediah. "Amos Bonham married Rebecca, daughter of William Rettinghouse. Of this union two children are living; one of them Mr. William Bonham, of Rosemont, now 82 years of age, of sound active mind, and an unimpaired physical body, possessing a great fund of humor--a social friend--with whom one can spend an hour pleasantly and profitably, his memory being richly stored with incidents and anecdotes of the past. An only son of his, a young and promising lawyer, died in Carlisle, Pa., a few years ago." |
| George Fox in Lequear's Traditions of Hunterdon |