He  wrote  several  accounts  of  the  first  settlers,  one
of  which  is  as  follows  :

"  Ijct  it  be  remembered,  it  having  wrought  upon
ye  minds  of  some  friends  that  dwelt  in  Ireland,
but  such  as  formerly  came  thither  from  England  ;
and  a  pressure  having  laid  upon  them  for  some
years,  which  they  could  not  gett  from  the  weight
of  until  they  gave  upp  to  leave  their  friends  and
relations  there,  together  with  a  comfortable  sub-
sistence, to  transport  themselves  and  family  into
this  wilderness  part  of  America,  and  thereby  ex-
pose themselves  to  difficulties,  which,  if  they  could
have  been  easy  where  they  were,  in  all  probability
might  never  have  been  met  with ;  and  in  order
thereunto  sent  from  Dublin  in  Ireland  to  one
Thomas  Lurten,  a  friend  in  London,  commander  of
a  pink,  who  accordingly  came,  and  made  an  agree-
ment with  him  to  transport  them  and  their  fam-
elys  into  New  Jersey,  viz. :  Mark  Newbie  and  fam-
ely,  Thomas  Thackara  and  famely,  William  Bates
and  famely,  George  Goldsmith,  an  old  man,  and
Thomas  Sharp,  a  young  man,  but  no  famelys,  and
whilst  the  ship  abode  in  the  Dublin  Harbor,  pro-
viding for  the  voyage,  said  Thomas  Lurten  was
taken  so  ill  that  he  could  not  perform  ye  same,  so
that  his  mate,  John  Dagger,  undertook  it.  And
upon  the  Nineteenth  day  of  September,  in  the
year  of  our  Lord  1681,  we  settsaile  from  the  place
aforesaid,  and  through  the  good  providence  of  God
towards  us,  we  arrived  at  Elsinburg  in  the  county
of  Salem  upon  the  19th  day  of  November  follow-


■>^^-.
Copy  of  Thomaa  Sharp's  Map,  made  A.  D.  1700,  and
B^oiring  the  owners'  namfes  at  that  time,  now  included
in  Camden  City,  Haddon  and  Delaware  Townships.
THE  TOWNSHIP  OF  HADDON.
