Abbreviations used
Date January 26 1884
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
The founder of the family in New Jersey was Richard HARTSHORNE, an esteemed Quaker and a friend of George FOX, the founder of that seat. Richard came from London in Sept. 1699 and purchased lands on the Highlands and Sandy Hook. (see Ancestry of the First Families of St. John, N.B. by Edwin Salter, Washington, D.C.)