Tenth Generation

636. Johann David EFLAND was born on 21 July 1675 in Mecklar, Hesse, Germany. He signed a will on 28 May 1753 in Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ.³⁹³ He died in 1761 at the age of 86 in Hunterdon Co., NJ.³⁹³ Will proven for name at place on date. Page 137, New Jersey Colonial Documents- Calendar of Wills 1761-1770, Will of David Eveland, 28 May 1753. David of Amwell Twp., Hunterdon Co, will of Personal and real to be sold and money put in interest and the income given to my wife, Mary, while she is my widow, and after her death money to go to my children, John, Peter, Frederick, Margreta, Magdaline, Catherine and Mary. Executors - friends, Adam Teach, Henry Graff and John Anderson. Witnesses: George Reading, Jo0hn Edmunds, John George Bender. Proved Nov 9, 1761. 1761, Oct 26, Inventory, Pounds) 145.3.2 made by Uriah Addams and John Wolever.... Two of the names in the will, Wolever and Graff married into the Eveland line. The property they owned was on the land next to John Readings'. They lived at Morstadt, Hesse, Germany. Came to America in 1709 aboard the ship captained by Jnn Untback. Johann David Eveland was granted 200 acres of land in Hunterdon Co., NJ by Thomas Penn, son of William Penn. According to a notation dated June 15, 1733 in Minute Book K of the Board of Property of the Province of PA. He desired of about 200 acres. He settled on the proprietor's land near John Reading's on the Rariton River. On 28 May 1737 he was deeded a tract of land by the Penn Family. David was a freeholder in Amwell in 1741 ( Hunterdon Co. Freeholders)
The farm owned by David Eveland and mentioned in his will covered much of the land now include in the town of Flemington, NJ., and according to descendants was located where the Baptist Church now stands (1932). The parcel of land contained 147 1/2 acres and was sold June 12, 1762, by Henry Graff and Adam Dicts, executors of the estate.
"Just when the Iffland family left the Hudson River settlements and moved to West Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey is not known but it was probably during the period 1716-1722, since in 1722 David Efland was one of the 'early settlers' of West Amwell Township. His 147 acre farm was located in what is now Flemington, New Jersey. It was sold on June 12, 1762." Rebecca SCHNEIDER and Johann David EFLAND were married on 2 November 1702 in Hocheim Church, Germany.

637. Rebecca SCHNEIDER was born on 1 June 1679 in Hocheim Am Main, Hessen-Nassau, Preussen, Germany. She died before 1714 at the age of 35.

Children were:

	i.	Johannes "John" EFLAND was born on 4 October 1704 in Morstadt, Palatinate, Germany. He was baptized on 4 October 1704 in Germany.393 He died in October 1765 at the age of 61 in Newton, Sussex Co., NJ.393 The Stull Family, by Wayne V Jones, (1996), page 222-228 (excerpt) --Born in Morstatt, a village about 7.5 kilometers west-northwest of Worm am Rhein and was baptized there 5 Oct 1704. The record translates as follows: 1704, Oct 5, a little son Johannes [of] Johann David Iffland, master tailor, and Rebecca, his wife at Morstatt, [Godfather] Johannes Schneider of Hochheim bei Worms. Hochheim bei Worms is about 6 kilometers east of Morstadt and the sponsor, or godfather, undoubtedly was the child's maternal grandfather. Johannes was brought to America by his parents in 1710 and moved with his father from the German camps along the Hudson River to Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, where the family farm on which he grew up is now the city of Flemington. As a young man, Johannes, or John, appears to have moved to Somerset County, New Jersey, where he met his wife-to-be and where they settled after their marriage. He married a daughter of Hannis Lowrence, her given name being unknown, by 1738. Entries in the account books of the Janeway and Broughton store (in Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, the site of the present town of Bound Book), name John Eveland as brother-in-law to John Lowrance as early as May 1738. By 25th Apr 1753 he was in Peapack, New Jersey, the west bank of the North Branch of the Raritan River, quite close to the Lowrance family. His marriage to the Lowrance daughter in the late 1730s must therefore have brought him to her home area, where the couple lived for many years. John died in testate ca. Oct 1765, "late of Newton in the County of Sussex." On 5 Nov 1765, an inventory of his property was made and appraised by Uriah Addams and John Westbrook. Included in the inventory were 95 acres of land, appraised at 61/10/0, 1 horse, 3 steers, 5 cows, 1 bull, 1 mare, 2 calves, 4 hogs, an assortment of farm equipment and a rather minimal amount of household goods. The last item perhaps indicates that his wife had predeceased him. The estate was valued at 145/3/1. On 3 Jun 1766, Frederick Eveland Jr was named administrator of John's estate and he and Uriah Addams made bond in the amount of L290 "proclamation money." The details of John's estate make it evident that he had moved from Peapack in Somerset County to Newton in Sussex County sometime between 1754 and 1765. John Eveland and his wife had one son, Frederick. They probably had no other children. The Stull Family, by Wayne Van Lear Jones (1996) page 222. The Palatine Families of New York, by Henry Z Jones Jr, 1985. Sussex County, New Jersey, Wills XII 434. The Janeway Account Books, 1735-1746, by Kenn Stryker-Rodda, from The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, (33)1/2, 80.
	ii.	Maria Magdalene EFLAND was born on 24 October 1706 in Germany. She was baptized on 24 October 1706 in Germany. She died in 1709 at the age of 3.
318	iii.	Peter EFLAND.