Note Daniel Leeds marriages to 2 families we already tie to the Nottingham,England to Trenton,NJ Quaker ELY family-Stacy and Revelle. I think his 1st wife was of Robert Leeds, who lived on long settled by the Dutch,Burlington [NJ] Island in the Deleware River. Mahlon Stacy m to an Ely was the great Quaker minister,who settled at Trenton, NJ's site,. Mahlon Stacy was namesake to many Quakers. At least 13 adult spouses were born Leeds in e NJ and were part of our Clermont Co,Ohio colony. < RE: [njgf] Dorothy (YOUNG) LEED Date: 06/04/2000 10:05:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time From: carol@hdyinc.com (Carol Y Reese) Reply-to: njgf@egroups.com To: njgf@egroups.com <u've given me a lot of new information to pursue Here is the text of an article that I found last year that you may or may not be aware of Caro <BR> "DANIEL LEEDS: A Helpful Trouble-Maker", by Carole Ann Lang - South Jersey Magazine, Volume 28, Number 3, July-August-September, Summer 1999, P. 30. It was the most important secular book in the colonial world, the almanac - indispensable to the citizens of the time, who were farmers in nine out of ten cases. Reporting the weather, the hours of the sun's rising and setting, the lunar cycle and movement of the tides were vital bits of information for the agrarian way of life. A New Jersey man, Daniel Leeds, was arguably the first almanac-maker in the United Staes, pre-dating Benjamin Franklin and his "POOR RICHARD's ALMANACK" by forty-six years. But< Daniel left behind a legacy of political and religious controversy, too, as well as a genealogical line that produced retarded children - AND the Jersey Devil, if legend is to be believed. Daniel certainly was fiery; he burned a hole on the pages of our history. Daniel was born in 1652, probably in Nottinghamshire, England, and emigrated with his father (Thomas) sometime in the third quarter of the seventeenth century to America. They may have settled first on Long Island, New York, but later moved to Shrewsbury, New Jersey. Daniel made his own move in 1677, this time to Burlington, where he was appointed the Province's Surveyor-General in 1682 (and to the Assembly that same year). Fourteen years later (in 1696) he made the first authorized map of Burlington (THE STREETS AND LOTS OF LAND LAID IN THE TOWN OF BURLINGTON). In 1702 Leeds was appointed to the Council of Lord Cornbury, the dictatorial governor of the state; Daniel served in this capacity for six years. His support of the unpopular governor made himself unpopular with his fellow Burlington citizens. Daniel "incurred such spleen as to be hounded into the woods by the displeased townsfolk." For that. And other<BR> reasons To put it kindly, Daniel had a mind of his own, even in his pamphleteering and almanac career. His first almanac was issued from William Bradford's Philadelphia press, with the title AN ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR OF THE CHRISTIAN ACCOUNT, 1687, PARTICULARLY RESPECTING THE MERIDIAN AND LATITUDE OF BURLINGTON, BUT MAY INDIFFERENTLY SERVE ALL PLACES ADJACENT In 1688, Leeds published a religious dissertation entitled THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM FOR THE LITTLE WORLD: IN TWO PARTS That same year his second almanac was released, which was, apparently a real barn burner. For "in imitation of the Almanacs published in England Daniel had added some light, foolish, and unsavoury paragraphs, which gave< great uneasiness and offence to Friends (Quakers) of Philadelphia." The Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting "suppressed" this second work and destroyed all unsold copies. Daniel's apology probably did nothing to soothe the Quakers after this episode, for he withdrew from the Society of Friends and began consorting with Bradford and George Keith, Episcopalian opponents of Quakerism. Leeds went further; he began writing a number of pamphlets, recklessly accusing George Fox, founder of the Society, of forgeries, and William Penn of covering up the evidence.< All printed by Bradford (who had in 1693 moved to New York), these works had such dramatic titles as NEWS OF A TRUMPET SOUNDING IN THE WILDERNESS (1697); A TRUMPET SOUNDED OUT OF THE WILDERNESS OF AMERICA (1699); THE REBUKER REBUKED (1703); THE GREAT MISTERY (sic) OF FOXCRAFT DISCOVERED (1705); and THE SECOND PART OF THE MYSTRY (sic) OF FOXCRAFT (the same year).< Retaliation came. Quaker Caleb Pusey published counter attacks in the pamphlets SATAN'S HARBINGER ENCOUNTERED, HIS FALSE NEWS OF A TRUMPET DETECTED (1700) and in DANIEL LEEDS JUSTLY REBUKED FOR ABUSING WILLIAM PENN AND HIS FOLY (sic) AND FALS-HOODS (sic) IN HIS TWO PRINTED CHALENGES (sic) TO CALEB PUSEY (1702). In 1703 Pusey appended "Remarks on Daniel Leeds Abusive Almanac for 1703" to his PROTEUS ECCLESIASTICUS, OR GEORGE KEITH<BR> VARIED IN FUNDAMANTALS and characterized Daniel as "a perverter of our Friends words" and "a false citer in divers respects." In spite of the hostilities Daniel managed to stir up, he married four times: first before leaving England, second February 21, 1681, to Ann Stacy, who bore him a child and died, third, early in 1682, to Dorothy Young, who became the mother of several children, and fourth, sometime between 1700 and 1705, to a widow, Jane (nee Revell). But trouble followed Daniel even in< this sphere. [At least his son,Japhet Leeds remained Quaker] Many of Daniel's descendants seem to have been retarded, "Re-births" of< the Jersey Devil, who was said to have been another of Leeds' genealogical< line (the thirteenth child of a Mrs. Leeds of Estelville). Also, one of<BR> Daniel's children, Titan (who computed the tables for the AMERICAN ALMANAC< from 1714 to 1746), became the victim of one of Benjamin Franklin's< practical jokes. In his first almanac (1733), "Poor Richard" predicted the< death of Titan. In spite of Titan's published protest, Franklin insisted that there was "the strongest probability that my dear friend is no more." Titan had apparently quite abused Franklin in the protest and the fight< between the two went on for several years.<BR> Daniel died September 28th, 1720, in Burlington, where he had spent<BR> most of his life, where he had done so much good and caused so much<BR> controversy. A man who symbolizes the good and evil that fights within all<BR> of us.<BR> Sources:<BR> Joseph Jackson. "Daniel Leeds". DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPH (Volume XI).<BR> New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943, pages 135-136.<BR> Dr. Fred R. MacFadden. "Review on THE JERSEY DEVIL". Baltimore, Maryland:<BR> Coppin State College, page 1.<BR> Robert A. Peterson. "Daniel Leeds: Author of America's First Almanac".<BR> PATRIOTS, PIRATES, and PINEYS: SIXTY WHO SHAPED NEW JERSEY. Medford, New<BR> Jersey: Plexus Publishing, Inc., 1998, pages 19-20.<BR> <B ----------------------- Headers --------------------------------<BR> R From: "Carol Y Reese" <carol@hdyinc.com><BR> M Delivered-To: mailing list njgf@egroups.com<BR> ist-Unsubscribe: <mailto:njgf-unsubscribe@egroups.com><BR> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 10:09:55 -0400<BR> Reply-To: njgf@egroups.com<BR> Subject: RE: [njgf] Dorothy (YOUNG) LEEDS<BR>