John Smalley 1
- Born: 17 Sep 1794
- Marriage: Letitia Bronson
- Died: 24 Mar 1880 aged 85
General Notes:
JOHN SMALLEY
"I COULD SEE THE Future of Raritan Landing when I put my lot and house up for sale in the 1720s. There weren't going to be many more farmers like me living at the Landing. It was a place for commerce and industry. I had built a good house with a well and a good cellar on an acre of ground, all that was needed for a brewer or a shoemaker or a tanner. There was a brook running through the property with a fine spring, a bark mill and ten pits already dug. I did a little tanning right there on the property although it didn't really suit me. My wife, Liddea, and I were Baptists; we belonged to the church in Piscataway and socialized mainly with people there. They were more like us than the Dutch traders at the Landing who all seemed to come from Somerset families. Of course, there were the fancy men from New York. Mr. Antill, our neighbor, was good enough to us, but we might as well have been living in different worlds. He could talk about the orchard, though, and that we had in common, but that's about all." 2
John married Letitia Bronson. (Letitia Bronson was born on 10 Sep 1796 and died on 15 Jul 1866.)
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