Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Richard HARTSHORNE
Richard Hartshorne was born Oct. 24, 1641, at Hathearne, Leicestershire, England; he married Margaret Carr, Nov. 27, 1670. Coming from London to America, in September, 1669, he located in East Jersey, and took up an extensive tract of land at Middletown and the Highlands of the Navesink (acquiring Sandy Hook in 1677), where he lavished a generous hospitality, as attested by George Fox and others, he being a Friend, and naturally partial to the traveling ministers of that persuasion.--Smith's Hist. N. J., 63, note; N. J. Archives, II., 329, note; Old Times in Old Monmouth, 12. He was Town Clerk of Middletown in 1675.--Hist. Monmouth County, 519. In 1683 he was appointed Sheriff of Monmouth County, an honor he sought to decline.--N. J. Archives, XIII., 77. The precedent has not been followed to any extent. In 1683 he also became a member of Gov. Gawen Laurie's Council. In the same year he was elected to the Assembly, and in 1686 was Speaker of that body, holding that position until October, 1693, and again, from February, 1696, to March, 1698, when he became a member of Gov. Jeremiah Basse's Council. He continued in the Assembly also, and held both offices until the surrender of the Province to the Crown, in 1702.--N. J. Archives, I., 220, note. He was again elected to the Assembly from the Eastern Division in 1703 and 1704. He died in 1722.--Old Times in Old Monmouth, 291; Hist. Monmouth County, 534.
His children were: 1. Robert, born 5th 12th mo. 1671; probably died young; 2. Hugh, born 15th 5th mo. 1673; died in infancy; 3. Thomas, born 14th 9th mo. 1674; 4. Mary, born 14th 8th mo. 1676; married - Clayton; 5. William, born 22d 1st mo. 1678-9; lived at Portland, on the Highlands; died 1748; had issue; Richard, William, Margaret (wife of Gershom) Mott, Thomas, Mary (wife of John) Lawrence, Hugh, Robert (died in 1801), John Esek (died in 1796 or 1797), Rachel Robinson; 6. Richard, born 17th 2d mo. 1681; died in infancy; 7. Katharine, born 2d 3d mo. 1682; married Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, of Woodbridge; 8. Hugh, born 21st 6th mo. 1685; m. Catharine Tilton (b. 14th 7th mo. 1684), and had ch. Margaret, who m. Robert White, saddler; she d. 10th of 5th mo. 1747; 9. Sarah, born 3d 7th mo. 1687; married - Taylor; 10. Richard, born 15th 12th mo. 1689; 11. Mercy, born 12th 5th mo. 1693; married William Lawrence.--N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, XIV., 95. Robert and Esek appear to have carried on business together, in Monmouth county, in 1767.--N. J. Archives, XXV., 292.
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