1739 Petition Includes Thomas Aten, John Aten and other Allied Names
Dear Aten Family Researchers,
Yesterday I came across a web site that shared a http://www.teeplepeople.com/petition.htmlhttp://www.teeplepeople.com/petition.html
1739 Petition from Somerset Co NJ,
where-in, the inhabitants of a pie-shaped area, including Bridgewater Twp, were mistakingly surveyed and cut out of Somerset Co NJ, and added to Essex Co.....They Petitioned, as it made a hardship for those residents to attend the Essex courthouse....Above is the website where you can view the name of Thomas Aten, Thomas Aten [sic]yr, and John Aten, aswell as many allied families, of Aten, signing this petition.This appears to be the group of neighbors of our Thomas Aten and Elsje Skillman.
"The original petition is among the Robert Hunter Morris Papers, on file at the Department of special Collections, Rutgers University Library, accession number 588. It is given here in fullo, as are the facsimiles of the actual signatures of all sixty-four petitioners."