Misc. Notes
2. WILLIAM
58, of Greenwich twsp., Sussex co. (now Warren), b. about 1716, in Ireland or Perth Amboy; d. Oct., 1756; m., in 1738, Hannah Cook, (dau. of Arthur Cook). His wife was the granddaughter of a John Cook, through whom she inherited much land along the Musconetcong, in Greenwich twsp. She and her husband sold 500 acres of it Dec. 6, 1742, to an Adam Hall, who sold to Ananias Allen, who, in 1743, as stated, sold 166 2/3 acres of it to William's father, Michael, who sold it to his son Michael, Jr., "reserving one-half acre for burying-ground which now is." It is supposed that William was buried in this plot. After William's death, when only about 40 years of age, Hannah, his widow, conveyed, on Oct. 19, 1757, 696 acres in Greenwich twsp., and 132 acres in Bethlehem twsp., to her father-in-law, Michael Henry, and to William Bishop, son-in-law of Michael Henry, in trust for her children until they became twenty-one. Presumably this was because she was about to remarry, and the deed was to secure the property to her children by William Henry. The widow, Hannah, did remarry afterward (date un known), Capt. Benjamin McCullough, who d. in 1789. William's will of Sept. 30, 1750, probated Nov. 9, 1756, is on record. (Trenton Wills, Book 8, p. 404). This will, signed "William Henarie," mentions his wife Hannah and ch.: Arthur, Michael, Nathaniel, Jane, Elizabeth and Sarah, all under age. Elizabeth m. Robert Kennedy, whose dau., Mary Ann Kennedy, is named under Catherine Maria Henry (38). The other children we have not had opportunity to trace.