The following came from a History of New Jersey: James Rightmire, the first member of the family of whom we have definite information, comes of an old and honored family of New Jersey, and according to tradition his grandfather was in 1713 sheriff of Middlesex or Somerset county. He may have been a brother of the Jacob Richtmyer of Middlesex county , who married Maria, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Van Vorhees and Neetltje Nevius. James Rightmire born in 1770 and died March 7 1829, his will being proved the following year. For many years he was a school teacher at Deans Middlesex County New Jersey. He married Sarah born Nov 26 1779 and died 1843 daughter of Jacob and Mary Van Pelt. It is the Rightmire family I am interested in...I would like to know how to obtain James Rightmire's will. I am trying to find a connection between a New Jersey (or New York) Rightmire family and Rightmire families who were in Loudoun and Monongalia Virginia in the late 1700's and the first decade of 1800. James, John, Benjamine, and Robert were the first names of the Virginia Rightmire's ....I am descended from one of the James Rightmire's who married Elizabeth Daugherty in 1803 in Monongalia County Virginia. They may have lived in Loudoun County Virginia also. Our family tradition says this family was Holland Dutch. I think it possible they were German but married into a Dutch family. I would appreciate any help or any clue on the New Jersey Rightmire family and especially would like to obtain the will for clues. . Thanks, Alice