Looking for death date & place for JAMES-2 BOLLEN. Also looking for his children. He was son of Capt. James-1 Bollen, Secretary of the Province of New Jersey under Gov. Philip Carteret. James-2 was prob. born New York or Elizabethtown 1664-1667 (after 1663 because he was under 21 on 10 May 1683 when he chose Samuel Moore and Nathaniel Fitz Randolph of Woodbridge to be his guardians, and before 1667 as he probably was of age 1688 when he married). James-2 Bollen m/1 24 Feb 1688/9 ELIZABETH GODFREY of New York (New York Marriages Previous to 1784, p. 585). James Bollen m/2 after 1693 and bef. 1707, perhaps even bef. 1698 MARTHA (HUTCHINSON) DENNIS, d/o George Hutchinson of Burlington Co., West Jersey and Philadelphia, and widow of _____ Dennis. Martha Bollen, wife of James was buried Philadelphia 14 Jun 1724 (Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. II, p. 441-2). James Bollen m/3 in Philadelphia 1725 ANN HUGES (GMNJ Jan 1981, p. 30). James Bollen lived in many different places. He was a carpenter, millright, clerk of court, surveyor and "gent;" and at one time was a fugitive from the law and a rioter. Before the death of his father in 1682 he probably lived in Elizabethtown and Woodbridge, New Jersey. His young manhood was spent in Woodbridge, New Jersey, where he was ward of Samuel Moore and Nathaniel Fitz Randolph. He was of age in 1688 when he married his first wife Elizabeth Godfrey of New York. In 1690 he was a carpenter of Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey, when he was made an attorney of his brother George; and on 8 June 1692, James Bollen, carpenter of Middletown, deeded to Samuel Dennis of Woodbridge, N.J., all his estate, right, etc. he may have had in any property that his brother George deeded on that same date to Samuel Dennis of Woodbridge, James being attorney for George. (NJ Arch., 21:204.) His sister Ann had married on 27 Aug 1685 at Middletown, Monmouth Co., N.J. Jonathan Stout of Mi! ddletown (Stillwell, Vol. II, p. 185), and James may have lived near them. James Bollen was a member of the Baptist Church, Middletown, N.J., 24 May 1712 when he signed an agreement to submit differences to friends in Philadelphia. Another member of the church at this time was Elizabeth Bollen, probably his daughter (Stillwell, Vol. II, p. 256-7). On 31 May 1712 he was appointed to take care of the Church Book of the Baptist Church of Middletown (ibid., p. 257). In 1721 James Bollen was a millright of Ridley Township, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, as mentioned in a deed of Mary Collender, daughter of Elizabeth Hutchinson Peers/Pearce, sister of his wife Martha. In 1722 he was of Philadelphia, millright, when he deeded land in New Jersey to David and Samuel Allen of Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. His wife, Martha, also signed this deed. In 1725 he was "Gent" of Philadelphia when he sold land in New Jersey to Gershom Mott of Middletown, Monmouth Co. In 1715 James Bollen was a surveyor in Morris County, New Jersey. In 1715 Deputy Surveyor Samuel Green divided the future site of Newton [Sussex Co., N.J.] into adjacent tracts of land, varying in size between 1,250 and 5,000 acres, surveyed for William Penn, James Budd, John Bollen, and Amos Strettle. (Kevin W. Wright, "Newton, N.J., the Pearl of Kittatinny," 2000, www2.cybernex.net/~wright/). NOTE: John Bollen is an error for James Bollen, and James Budd is an error for John Budd.] ". . . South Newton is included within the bounds of a 1,250-acre tract of land which Samuel Green surveyed for James Bollen and John Budd on October 14, 1715, under a warrant from the West Jersey Council of Proprietors. The property was divided into equal half parts prior to 1739 when John Budd sold his share to John Bayton, a Philadelphia merchant. John Bollen [son of James] inherited his fathers 625 acres and sold them to John Hackett on September 3, 1763. . . . " The above is from my book, Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Rice Lyon and wife Harriet Wade Rice, which I hope to publish this year. I have a lot more biographical material on James-2 Bollen, but don't know where or when he died and I don't know who all his children were. He probably had a daughter Elizabeth, a daughter Mary by Martha Hutchinson Dennis, and a son John. But surely there were others. Any help will be much appreciated. Patty Myers