Greetings, In Charles E. Stickney's book, "Old Sussex County Families of the Minisink Region" reprinted 1988, he outlines the Haines family as such, pp. 43-50 " The first we find of this name in New Jersey is in the return from Shrewsbury of John Haines, elected for Deputy to the General Assembly June 2, 1680. He is also mentioned in connection with certain rights confirmed to Middletown and Shrewsbury by Gov. Carteret in 1672. This may have been another family for Haines in his Hardyston Memorial, claims that the first of these names came here in 1725. He says, "Soujthampton, L. I. was settled by men of Plymouth Colony, Mass. Gov. Winthrop in his journal says that about forty families finding them- selves in straitened circumstances left the town of Lynn with the design of settling a new plantation. They invited Rev. Abraham Pierson of Boston, to be their minister. William Alexander, Earl of Stirling held by patent from the crown, Long Island and the lands adjacent, and had appointed James Farrel his attorney to dispose of them. The Lynn colony being formed, an agreement was made with Farrel dated April 17, 1640, for eight square miles of land to be located in any part of Long Island, the consideration therefor to be fixed by Gov. Winthrop. The latter, as the Indians had not relinquished their title to the wilderness, fixed it at four bushels of Indian corn to be paid annually at Southampton on the last sday of September. Captain Daniel How carried the colonists to their tract in his vessel and the settlement began in June, 1640. They purchased from the Indians their title for 16 coats, 20 bushels of Indian corn and an agreement to defend them from then violence of the other tribes. They were mostly young men from Northampton, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The Haines were a very ancient family in English holdings and their coat of arms is still preserved there by their descendants. The majority of the new settlers being from Southampton, they gave the name to the new settlement. They organized their church before leaving Lynn, and erected their house of worship the second year of the new Southampton. Young Benjamin Haines is named on the original list of settlers. He had but recently emigrated from England and married Johanna, the daughter of John Jennings, of Southold. His son, James, born 1662, and died 1721, whose grave is in the hay ground yard at Bridgehampton. Benjamin's grandson, Stephen Haines, 1st born in 1704, removed in 1725, to Elizabethtown, where his son, Stephen Haines, 2nd, was born in 1723. Previous to his removal there, a petition to Lord Cornbury to remove restrictions upon the issuing of land warrants in 1707, was signed by John and Richard Haines, as purchasers and proprietors. Joseph Haines and Johnathan Haines, were complained of for seriously distrurbing court proceedings in the Samuel Carter case in 1700. And the same year, Johnathan Haines was concerned in a plot to rescue a prisoner that turned the whole court topsy turvey. In this last matter they were in company with the ancestors of the Ogdens and Meekers, who afterward settled in Sussex County, where some of the Haines family settled so that the force of circumstances would imply that the Haines mentioned were relatives of Benjamin and Stephen Haines. Stephen Haines, 2nd, by his patriotic efforts rendered himself very obnoxious tot eh British after the battle of Long Island in the Revolutionary War. One night when he and his wife were asleep in their bedroom on the ground floor of their dwelling, they were awakened by the tramp of horses outside. English troops guided by Tories who knew the place well, had come from New York for his apprehension. He sprang from his bed to the window, but found it guarded by a sentinel. He passed through another room to the kitchen thinking to escape that way but it was also guarded. There was a back kitchen with a rather obscure door and by that he made his way to the open air. On the west of the house was a corn field with the stalks standing. He sought to gain this hiding place, but was discovered as he was about to spring over the fence. The man rushed upon him with a bayonet crying 'Surrender or die.' He was taken prisoner and marched off barefoot and in his night clothes. He walked over three miles this way and was sent fifteen miles by water to New York, where he was imprisoned in the dreadful pen the British made of the old sugar house which stood on Nassua Street. The hardships he endured were very great, but he survived, while many died. He was captured in the Fall of the year and was not released until after the battle of Monmouth, June 1778, when the numerous capturjes by Washington made the British glad to effect an exchange of prisoners. Job Haines, Stephen'd second eldest son, was twenty years old when the war broke out. He was a private among the 'Jersey Blues' detailed to transport merchandise from Philadelphia. He was just arrived home from a toilsome trip and was asleep in his own bedroom when the house was surrounded. Some informer had notified the British of his return. His sister, Joanna, had been extremely wakeful since her father's capture, and hearing then tramp of the horsemen, sprang to her brother's door, awakened him and hurried him into a smoke closet connected to the kitchen chimney where the family meats were cured. She locked the door and took the key. Pretending to be asleep, she did not rise until the troopers poured into the house. Then there was a long time finding a light. At their order she took them through the house, opening every door but the one to the smoke closet. They showed such disappointment, and went away, cursing the Tory who had lied to them. Job's brother, next younger, "was at that time, eleven years old; but boy, as he was, he soon had a man's responsibility in care of their house and cattle. Their horses were stolen and only an ox team was left. Pickets were stationed in the vicinity of Elizabethtown to warn people of the coming of their oppressors. Whenever the warning gun was heard, it was Elias' duty to put the oxen to the sled, and with the remaining members of the family and some of their goods, to start through the back lane and reach a small retired house they owned at 'Sodon' where they could be concelaed until the invaders were gone." Elias became a merchant in New York, and had dealings with Sussex county people, many of whom he was well known. He visited the house of Robert Ogden, 3rd, and in 1800 married their daughter, Mary. His residence "stood fronting the Battery in New York, near what is now the corner of White Hall and South Streets." He lost much of his property in Florida, which the United States Governement afterwards held to be void. He died October 11, 1824, at Elizabethtown. Of the daughter before mentioned the following "incident" was told by the late Mrs. Henry T. Darrah (a neice.) Miss Joanna Haines was an only daughter in a family of four brothers, Job, Elias, Stephen, and Daniel. She grew up a beautiful girl, with clearly cut features, a fine blue eye and transparent complexion with the blush of a rose on each cheek. Being an olny daughter she was indulged in a dainty wardrobe. Many of her dresses has been specially imported from England. She wore high heeled shoes which were made to her measure in London. I have seen the relics. Her band box which fastened with a key had been brought across the ocean containing her beaver hat, trimmed with gold lace and black ostrich feathers. One day a party of Hessians drove up to the house, went into the kitchen, panty and cellars, finding edibles, they satisfied their appetites and then searched for booty to carry off. They ransacked Joanna's bureaus and taking the sheets from the bed, tied up most of the valuable articles in two large packs. She followed them from room to room begging them to spare her treasures, but they did not heed her. Just as two of the men carrying the packs went out of the door, up rode to the verandah, a fine looking British officier. She went to the front door of the piazzi and with the loquacity of a woman and the eloquence of an injured woman, told her trouble. He smiled and said, 'You shall have all your goods back if you grant me a favor. I want you to give him one kiss with your lips, and let me imprint a kiss upon your beautiful cheek.' Her modesty and maidenly nature rebelled but she cast her eye on the two huge bundles and thought of the immensity of her loss. Lifting her bluishing face to the officer's, she sealed the compact. He reprimanded the marauders in their own language and made them return the articles bidding them never to enter that house again." Elias' wife, Mary, daughter of Robert Ogden, was born July 3, 1778, at "Turkey" now New Providence in Union county. Her father came to Ogdensburg to live in 1786. Her youth was spent mostly at Ogdensburg. After her marriage she made frequent trips to her father's house with her children. After her husband's death, she came to Hamburg to reside with her son, who lived in the old Lawrence mansion. She united with the North Church of Hardyston, January 21, 1827. Her death occurred in New York City on May 5, 1852. Of earnest piety she was a most useful womna. Of the other sons of Stephen 2nd: Job, Stephen 3rd, and Daniel, we have no memoranda. Daniel , son of Elias and Mary (Odgen) Haines, was born in New York January 6, 1801. "He graduated Princeton in 1820 and studied law with Judge Thomas C. Ryerson at Newton, Was admitted as Attorney in 1823, Counsellor in 1826, and Sergeant at law in 1827, one of the latest to receive the latter distinction. He settled at Hamburg in 1824 and soon gained a lucrative practice. He married in 1827, Ann Marie Austin, daughter of Alanson Austin, of Warwick, N.Y. who died December 8, 1844. He married again in 1865, Mary Townsend, of Newark, N.J. He had belonged to the Federalist Party but espoused the cause of Gen. Jackson. He entered public life as a member of the Council (now Senate) and in 1839 and -40 took an active part inwhat was known as the Board Seal War. In doing this he opposed the Governor and majority of the Legislature, and bore the principal part of the discussion against them. In 1843 he was chosen Governor and Chancellor for the term of one year, but continued in office some months longer, until his successor was installed. The State Normal School was first proposed by him. He was Commission to assist in making the present Constitution of the State. His decisions are recorded in Green's Chancery Reports. In 1847 he was nominated for Governor and elected. In 1852 he was placed upon the bench of the Supreme Court, which position he held for fourteen successive years. The circuit included Newark and ELizabeth. In 1845 he was appointed one of the Commissioners to select a site for the State Lunatic Asylum and was a member of the first Board of Managers of that institution. In 1868 he was appointed by joint ballot of the Legislature, "to examine the State prison system of this and other states, and to report an improved plan for its government and discipline." In October, 1870, he was appointed by Gov. Randolph, one of the Commissioners to the National Reform Congress at Cincinnati. By that body he was appointed one of the committee in London, England, in 1872. In the organization of the National Reform Prison Association he was one of its incorporators and a Vice President. For many years he was one of the Board of Trustees of Princeton College. Later in life he was placed on Commissions relative to State boundaries and the municipal affairs of Jersey City and Paterson. He had three children, Alanson Haines, Thomas Ryerson Haines and a daughter who married Prof. Guyot, of Princeton College. "A son-in-law, Major Frank H. Tucker also served in the Army." (A. A. Haines -- This must have been his daughter's second husband. The army was the Union Army, one in the late Civil War.") In church matters he was quite as noted as in secular affairs. He joined North Hardyston in 8131, was made elder in 1837 and served in various useful church capacities. He died at Hamburg, January 26, 1877. His remains were borne to their last resting place by a large concourse of dfriends. Impressice addresses were delivered by Rev. Dr. Stearns, and Dr. Craven, of Newark, giving very trust tributes to the memory of the deceased. Rev. Dr. Fairchild, once his pastor at Hamburg, closed the services. Gov. Bedle issued an order that National flags on the State buildings should be displayed at half mast, and at 2 o'clock on Tuesday, the day of the funeral a salute fired at Trenton. (Here I am editting for genealogical content....) His son, Thomas Ryerson Haines, born at Hamburg, March 15, 1835, graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1857, and was admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1860. He commenced practicing in Newark, NJ. In August 1861, he was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company K, First Regiment New Jersey Cavalry. Later Captain of Company M. On June 6, 1862, Capt. Haines was shot from his horse and killed. His body was interred in North Church cemetery near Hamburg, NJ. His (Gov. Haines) other son, Alanson Austin, was born March 18, 1830 at Hamburg, where the late Thomas Lawrence lived. He graduated Princeton College and adopted the profession of civil engineer in 1850. He entered the Presbyterian Church and was pastor at Berlin, Indiana for two years. In 1860, he went to Amagansett, L.I. where he remained until 1862. He was chosen Chaplin of the 15th Regiment NJ Volunteers in the Union Army. He returned after the war to Hamburg and preached until 1873 when he took leave to go as an engineer with the U. S. Exploration Society to Egypt and the Holy Land. He wrote various historical articles and collected Indian and animal relics. He died December 11, 1891. A brother of Gov. Daniel Haines and son of Elias and Mary (Ogden) Haines, Sidney P., born in New York in 1804, and was an agent for his father in their rights in the state of Florida under their Spanish title. He made numerous trips up and down the coast. He returned to Hamburg in 1830, conducting a general merchantile trade. He married Diadannia Austin that year, and they lived where first settler Walling lived. He ran a forge for some time and postmaster at Hamburg. For nearly 30 years he labored and preached for the church through the mountains. He finally went West and undertook to found a town on the banks of the Mississippi in Missouri. He moved his family there in 1838. But after a great freshet that flooded the place he moved to Hannibal, Mo., where he died July 13, 1847. A daughter of Elias and Mary (Ogden) Haines, Mary O., born October 3, 1806, married Henry H. Darrah, son of WIlliam Darrah and Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Edsall. They lived at Hamburh in what was later transformed into the Baptist parsonage. He removed to Missouri in 1837, and died in St Louis. His widow died at Flora, Illinois in 1883. Their only child, elizabeth, born June 25, 1832, married Gen. Lewis B. Parsons, of Illinois, and died at Scarboro, Maine, September 2, 1887." I hope this helps someone, Cathy DiPietro