findagrave.com ... BEGIN William Lake Birth: Jan. 1, 1656 Gravesend Kings County (Brooklyn) New York, USA Death: Jun. 1, 1726 Atlantic County New Jersey, USA William Lake was born 1 January 1656 in Gravesend, Kings County, New York the son of John and Ann Spicer Lake. He married in 1689 at Great Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, New Jersey Sarah Jenkins the daughter of Nathaniel Jenkins. He died 1 Jun 1726 in Atlantic County, New Jersey at the age of 70. Known Children: William Lake 1690-1760 Md Unknown Died in Hunterdon County, New Jersey Nathan Lake 1694-1750 Daniel Lake 1697-1774 Died Egg Harbor, Atlantic County, New Jersey Family links: Parents: John Lake (____ - 1696) Anne Spicer Lake (1632 - 1709) Spouse: Sarah Jenkins Lake (1670 - 1717) Children: William Lake (1690 - 1760)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Early Settlers Burial Ground Somerville Somerset County New Jersey, USA Created by: John Wilhite Record added: Apr 28, 2016 Find A Grave Memorial# 161820958 END from wwwnet-dos.state.nj.us BEGIN Groom Grooms Residence Bride Brides Residence Date Reference Steelman, Elias Gloucester Lake, Sarah [Unrecorded] 10 Aug 1730 1727-1734 (Licenses) : 151 END from ancestry.com BEGIN Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Volume IV (I) William Lake, the pioneer, settled prior to 1702 in Great Egg harbor, Gloucester county, New Jersey, now known as Atlantic county, and there purchased one hundred acres of land. Daniel Lake settled on Staten Island in 1694, removing thence from Long Island, and as William had a son Daniel, it is possible that Daniel and William were brothers. There are many descendants of Daniel Lake in Staten Island and in all parts of the country. William Lake died at Egg Harbor in 1716, leaving a large estate. He bequeathed four hundred and fifty acres to his son Nathan, and to his son Daniel, who was not yet of age at the time of the death of his father, the homestead and two hundred and fifty acres, which, after the English fashion, was left to the family name of Daniel for generations. The industrial and other interests of the state have been greatly benefited by various members of this family. From their settlement in this country they have been noted for their strict adherence to temperance principles, and were public advocates of these measures before a church opened its doors to any speaker in this cause, and the only two schoolhouses in which these principles were permitted to be advocated, each had a Lake as a member of its board of trustees. (II) Daniel, son of William Lake, was born about 1700, and died at Egg Harbor in 1772, bequeathing his homestead to son Daniel. (III) Daniel (2), son of Daniel (1) Lake, was born about 1740, died in 1799. He willed his homestead to his son Daniel. He married Sarah, daughter of Captain Simon Lucas, of Burlington county, New Jersey. Both Daniel Lake and Captain Simon Lucas served 2002b 2003 in the continental army in the revolutionary war. Children: 1. Christopher, born October 1, 1765. 2. Daniel, August 7, 1767, married Ann Leeds. 3. Jemima, October 18, 1768. 4. Tabitha, May 27, 1770. 5. Sarah, December 2, 1771. 6. John, see forward. 7. Lida, March 17, 1776. 8. Amariah, April 5, 1778, died June 26, 1847. 9. Mary, September 15, 1780. 10. Asenath, January 23, 1783, married (first) Levi Collins; (second) February 13, 1815, Paul Sooy; died July 18, 1860. 11. Lucas. 12. Louis, twin of Lucas, born October 25, 1785. (IV) John, son of Daniel (2) and Sarah (Lucas) Lake, was born at Lakeville, now Pleasantville, New Jersey, December 21, 1773. He lived at Pleasantville, New Jersey, where he took a prominent part in town affairs. His brother Daniel was a surveyor by profession, laid out the Shore road, and had the name of the town changed from Lakeville to Pleasantville. He married Abigail Adams, and his children, all born in Pleasantville, were: 1. Armenia, born April 26, 1797, died September 18, 1853; married Andrew Leeds. 2. John, January 12, 1799, married Deborah Gaskill. 3. Asenath, December 24, 1801. 4. Daniel, May 1, 1803, died February 13, 1851. 5. Margaret, November 30, 1804, married James Tilten. 6. Sarah, March 23, 1808, married John Bryant. 7. Simon, see forward. 8. Lucas, April 25, 1816, married (first) Rachel Scull, (second) Hannah Smith-Somers. 9. David, October 17, 1818, married Amanda Robinson. (V) Simon, eighth child of John and Abigail (Adams) Lake, was born in Pleasantville, New Jersey, September 3, 1813, died in 1881. He was the owner of a large estate of timber, meadow, bay and farm land, and extensively engaged in the oyster trade. He served as internal revenue collector, as state assemblyman and held other offices of trust and responsibility and was an active supporter of the cause of the Union during the civil war. He was one of the founders of Ocean City and with his sons owned nearly all that island. With his brothers, David and Lucas, he owned much land on Great Island, his share being sold in 1876, and his brother David 's in 1884. He married Sarah Blake and had nine children. Three of the sons became ministers. Children, all born in Pleasantville: 1. Ezra B., December 28, 1833, married Alice Elizabeth Core. 2. Mary Eletha, June 8, 1835, died July 10, 1857, married John Rice. 3. Abigail Ann, August 23, 1836, died August 9, 1850. 4. Annie Margaret, April 14, 1838, married Somers T. Champion. 5. Frances Amelia, March 27, 1842, married, February 6, 1864, Mary Jane Scull. 7. James Edward, January 19, 1845, was the founder of the town of Atlantic Highlands under temperance restrictions, and of National Park, New Jersey; married Emily M. Venable. 8. John Christopher, see forward. 9. Sarah Ellen, March 15, 1851, married J. Timothy Adams. (VI) John Christopher, son of Simon and Sarah (Blake) Lake, was born in Pleasantville, New Jersey, September 2, 1847. He was a manufacturer and invented a number of improvements in window shade rollers. What is generally known as the lock and balance shade roller was manufactured by him in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Aurora, Illinois, and his business was an extensive and prosperous one. Subsequently he had a foundry and machine shop at Tom's River and Ocean City, New Jersey, and when he retired from active manufacturing interests he removed to Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he has devoted time and attention to various inventions and to the perfection of the flying machine. He married (first) Miriam Mary, daughter of Elisha Adams, a sea captain, and a direct descendant of Jonathan Adams, who settled in Hartford, Connecticut, as early as 1636. He married (second) Margaret Corson. Children by first wife: 1. Simon, see forward. 2. Arletta, married C. E. Adams, of Bridgeport, who is associated in business with his brother-in-law. (VII) Simon (2), son of John Christopher and Miriam Mary (Adams) Lake, was born in Pleasantville, New Jersey, September 4, 1866. The first eight years of his life were spent in his native town, after which the family removed to Philadelphia, where young Lake attended the public schools, until he was fourteen years of age, subsequently becoming a student at the Clinton Liberal Institute at Fort Plain, New York, and finishing with a mechanical course in the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. When he was about ten years of age he read Jules Verne 's "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea," which made so deep an impression on his youthful fancy that it probably had a great deal to do with shaping the course of his future life. At the age of fifteen years he commenced to work on his idea of submarine craft, which is without doubt one of the most wonderful inventions of the present day. Upon the completion of his course of study he entered the factory of his father in Philadelphia, and later in the machine shops and foundry of his father at Ocean City, and it was but a short time when he took charge of this, his father going to Aurora, Illinois, 2004 to superintend the operations of the factory at that place. In 1888 he went to Baltimore, Maryland, to sell and install steering gears which he had invented for use in packet and oyster boats. In the meantime he had been devoting his attention consistently to perfecting his idea with regard to submarine navigation, and in the winter of 1894 he built the "Argonaut, Jr.," doing the greater part of the work with his own hands. This was accomplished at Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, the dimensions of the finished boat being fourteen feet in length, four and one-half feet in width, and about five feet in height. It had been the intention of Mr. Lake to build this first venture of much greater size, but he found no one willing to advance the capital necessary for what they considered such an "impossible" idea. William T. Malster, president of the Columbian Iron Works and Dry Dock Company, of Baltimore, was the first one to begin to appreciate the ideas of Mr. Lake at their true value. During the months of July and August, 1895, this boat was experimented with in every possible manner, three men--Messrs. Lake, S. T. and B. F. Champion --being submerged in her at one time for one hour and fifteen minutes at a depth of sixteen feet, and during this proceeding the door was opened and articles lost from the dock or thrown overboard were easily recovered. These experiments were witnessed by many people of prominence, and, so favorable were the impressions made by the demonstrations, that a sufficient capital was subscribed to permit the organization of the Lake Submarine Company, in November of that year, the object being to enable Mr. Lake to build a larger boat. The amount of money raised was not sufficient to permit the construction of a boat of the size which Mr. Lake had had in his mind, and he was obliged to content himself with the building of one, thirty-six feet in length. Although there was small accommodation for a crew in a vessel so lacking in size, yet in 1898 five men made a cruise in her of more than two thousand miles, in the Chesapeake bay and along the Atlantic coast, traveling submerged and at the surface, putting the vessel through all the tests which had been suggested, and bringing her into the harbor of New York in December, 1898, having outlived the extremely fierce storms of October and November of that year, which destroyed more than two hundred vessels along the coast. During the winter Mr. Lake made plans for the enlargement and improvement of this boat, which were later carried into effect successfully. As a result of these experiments, Jules Verne in a special cable from Amiens, France, said: "While my book 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' is entirely a work of the imagination, my conviction is that all I said in it will come to pass. A thousand mile voyage in the Baltimore submarine boat is evidence of this. The conspicuous success of submarine navigation in the United States will push on under-water navigation all over the world. If such a successful test had come a few months earlier it might have played a great part in the war just closed. The next great war may be largely a contest between submarine boats." The "Argonaut Jr." was the first boat to prove the practicability of the art of submarine navigation in the open sea and to navigate the water bed of the ocean. In 1901 the keel of another boat was laid by the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, each type which they created being the superior in some respect of its predecessor. This one was named the "Protector," and while the United States inspectors were discussing the advisability of acquiring it when completed, the outbreak of the war between Russia and Japan made its sale to the former country an easy matter. So satisfactory was it, that Mr. Lake went abroad to instruct the Russians in its methods of operation, remained to build a shipyard in Russia, and has since that time constructed four vessels there for Russia. He has also sold six of his boats built in this country to the Russian government, and has built two for the Austrian government in Austria. In 1910 he was engaged to build three submarines for the United States. He is the inventor and builder of what is known in the navy as the even-keel type of submarines, which offers decided advantages over any other type. He is the president of the Lake Torpedo Boat Company, the Lake Submarine Company and the Bed Rock Gold Submarine Machinery Company. He is a member of the Manufacturers' Association of Bridgeport, a member of the committee on traffic and president of the Milford Village Improvement Association, having resided for some years in Milford, where he purchased the Judge Fowler mansion, which he has had remodeled and enlarged. During the past few years he has spent a large part of the time abroad, traveling about and collecting many rare paintings of the early masters and other artistic treasures. A large number have also been gathered in this country, and his home is a store-house of art in all directions. He is a member of the Seaside, Outing and Algonquin clubs, of Bridgeport; Engineers' Club of New York City; Free and Accepted Masons; 2005 Knights of Pythias; Improved Order of Heptasophs; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers of the United States; Institution of Naval Architects of England; the Schiffsbautechbische Gesellschaft of Germany; Society of Naval Engineers of the United States, and other scientific societies. Mr. Lake married, June 9, 1890, Margaret, born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 26, 1873, daughter of John Vogel, who was a baker. Her grandfather was John Vogel, who came from Nuremburg, Germany, in 1845, and settled in Baltimore. Children: Miriam, born May 2, 1891; Thomas, November 8, 1892; Margaret, January 24, 1894. END from https://state.nj.us BEGIN Lake, William (of Great Egg Harbor, Assignment from Mordecai Howell, 100 acres) (Grantee) TO: Mordecai Howell (Assignment to William Lake, 100 acres); William Lake (of Great Egg Harbor, Assignment from Mordecai Howell, 100 acres) FROM: Council of Proprietors WARRANT (TO SURVEYOR GENERAL). 100 acres. In any part of the province where legally purchased of the Indians and not before lawfully surveyed. Notation: "Tho[mas] Gardiner[.] To [part illegible] Lake ye Contents of ye above warr[an]t is ye order [signed] Mordecai Howell". Notation on verso: "This warre[n]tt was executed to Mordecay Howell [... February 4, 1696/1697. Signed] Tho[mas] Gardiner". "To W[illia]m Lake of Great Egg Harbor". OTHERS NAMED: Thomas Gardiner (Surveyor General); Indians; John Reading (Signatory) LOCATIONS: West Jersey; Indian land; Unappropriated Land 10 Dec 1696 WJ Loose Records : 1696 - Howell, Mordecai (24500) (PWESJ004) END Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730. BEGIN 1716-7 March 22. Lake, William, of Egg Harbour, Gloucester Co., yeoman; will of. Wife Sarah. Sons- Nathan and Daniel; three daughters, names not given. Land on Great Egg Harbour River. Home farm. Personal property. Executors - the wife and John Scull. Wit- nesses' names do not appear, but Peter White is one of them according to jurat of proof, June 11, 1717. Lib. 2, p. 78 1717 June 5. Inventory of the personal estate, £110.15.-; made by John Coziear (?) and Peter Schull. END Archives of the State of New Jersey, First Series; Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Volume XXIII - Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I, 1670-1730; Edited by William Nelson; Paterson, NJ 1901. BEGIN p. 279 1716-7 March 22. Lake, William, of Egg Harbour, Gloucester Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Sarah. Sons—Nathan and Daniel; three daughters, names not given. Land on Great Egg Harbour River. Home farm. Personal property. Executors—the wife and John Scull. Witnesses' names do not appear, but Peter White is one of them according to jurat of proof, June 11, 1717. Lib. 2, p. 78. 1717 June 5. Inventory of the personal estate, £110.15.-; made by John Cozier (?) and Peter Schull. END Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. I 1670-1730. BEGIN 1702 Nov. 2. Valentine, Jonas, of Eggharbour, Gloucester Co.; will of. Wife Grace. Children - Jonas, Richard, Grace, Deborah, Elizabeth, Martha, Sarah. Real and personal estate. The wife sole executrix. Witnesses - Lubbett Guysebuss and William Leeds senior victor. Proved March 26, 1703. 1703 March 26. Inventory of the estate, [pounds]107.3.-; personal, [pounds]60; a plantation of 250 acre); made by Daniel Leeds and William Lake. 1703 May 11. Bond of the widow Grace Valentine as executrix. Dan- iel Leeds fellow bondsman, both of Little Egg Harbour, Gloster Co. Burlington Wills 1708 Dec. 27. Petition of Jonas Christopher Tow, who has married Grace the widow and executrix (dec'd in 1707), for letters of administration on the estate of said Valentine. Granted. Gloucester Wills. 1708 Dec. 28. Administration on the estate granted to Jonas Christopher Tow. Lib. 1, p. 222. END from Jerry Ueckermann ... BEGIN Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:14:39 -0400 From: Jerry Ueckermann To: 'Marshall Lake' My maternal grandmother, Alberta Philips Adams, is on page 253 of the Adams & Risley book. (my great-grandmother, Kate E. Bowen, is #405 in the Adams and Risley book). I have found a deed that says that William Lake, s/o William Lake, who was s/o Daniel Lake (#4 on page 39 of the Adams & Risley book) sold 30 acres in Egg Harbor NJ that he inherited pursuant to his grandfather Daniel Lake's 1772 will to John Tilton in 1782 and 1783. It's not much, but it's something that Adams & Risley didn't have. I'm pasting my abstract of the deed below. BOOK: Glou Co Deeds E3:416 GRANTOR: John Price Jr. & Mary h/w, of EHT GRANTEE: Daniel L. Collins of EHT DATE: 30 5mo 1832 CONSIDERATION: $1,600 DESCRIPTION: Beginning at mouth of a line ditch between said John Price, Jr. & Daniel Lake where it empties into Lakes Bay thence: 1. N48.5W 100 chains up the same in said Lakes line and along the laid out road to said Lakes cross line; 2. S41.5W 7.5 c to Isaac Risley's corner; 3. S48.5E near 125c in Risley's line through the woods field & marsh to Ireland's Thoroughfare; 4. N55E 5c along same to Lakes Bay (or channel); 5. near N41W 26.5c up course thereof generally to place of beginning; Containing near 100 acres CHAIN: Being part of 100 acres William Budd conveyed to William Lake by deed dated 3 11mo. 1702; William Lake by last will & testament conveyed to son Daniel Lake; Daniel Lake by last will & testament conveyed 40 acres to grandson William Lake, and 35 acres and 5 acres of meadows to son Abraham Lake. Abraham Lake conveyed his 40 acres to James Steelman, Esq. (no date), which James Steelman conveyed to John Tilton by deed dated 21 3mo 1796. Said William Lake by two deeds, one in 1782 and one in 1783, conveyed about 30 acres thereof to John Tilton, and Daniel Lake by deed in 1792 conveyed 10 acres thereof to John Tilton, the remainder being a survey of 14 35/100 acres made to John Tilton as appears by Surveyor General's certificate dated 23 4mo 1801 and John Tilton and Daniel Lake by quit claims in 1805 settled their division line. The above described farm was conveyed by deed dated 29 8mo 1822 from John Tilton and Mary to Daniel Leeds, Jr, and from Daniel Leeds & Rebecca his wife by deed dated 22 3mo. 1830 to John Price the present grantor. -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Lake Sent: Friday, September 10, 2021 11:57 PM To: ukes5@comcast.net Subject: LAKE Hi, In 2016 I saw the message below from you. (It was probably posted in a mailing list.) I descend from the Gravesend LAKEs. I'm trying to document as many LAKEs and their descendants as I can. If you would like to share, I'd like to see your line back to William LAKE of Cape May. If it is already published in the Adams & Risley book then please tell me the pertinent pages. (I also have the 2001 "A Statistical Update of the Lake Family Genealogy" if your line is in there.) Thanks. Marshall Lake from Jerry 31 Jan 2016 ... I'm a descendant of John Lake of Gravesend, L.I. through his son William who moved to Cape May in the 1690s and then to Egg Harbor by 1702. The house that I grew up in was located on land near Lake's Bay that William Lake bought in 1702 . My ggg grandfather, Daniel Lake Collins, kept a journal of a trip that he took in 1830 with his cousin Mark Lake to Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and then down the Mississippi. The journal is printed at the end of "A Genealogy of the Lake Family" by Arthur Adams and Sarah Risley (1915), which you have probably seen. The journal has the following entry dated 6 Oct. 1830: We took breakfast on the sixth at one Zenas Lake's on White River, two miles west of Indianapolis. Here we were used well. He came from Jersey. There seemed to be a family likeness in his features and in other respects, which made us think he was a descendant of our forefathers. Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 11:09:39 -0400 From: Jerry Ueckermann To: 'Marshall Lake' Subject: RE: LAKE Parts/Attachments: 1 Shown 199 lines Text 2 OK 159 KB Image 3 OK 2 MB Image 4 OK 2 MB Image ---------------------------------------- Hi Marshall, There are two earlier deeds for that same property that are also in the Gloucester County NJ Deed books. One is in Deed Book LL at p. 54 (From John Tilton to Daniel Leeds) and the other is from Deed Book A3 p. 223 (from Daniel Leeds to John Price). They are here: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C37K-K6SH?i=353&cat=221544 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4Y-LQN8-9?i=127&cat=221544 The deeds are pretty similar but have more specific dates for the 1782 and 1783 deeds from William Lake to John Tilton. I made a map some years earlier of 1725 land ownership in Pleasantville and northern Northfield, which I'm attaching. The land involved in these deeds is the land between the Pleasantville-Northfield border and the line formed by Tilton Road. These deeds were undoubtedly prepared by Daniel Lake (1767-1843 - #18 in the Adams & Risley book). He drafted many of the deeds in the area, and usually did a good job describing the history of ownership of the land involved. In this case, Daniel Lake lived on the land adjacent to the land being deeded, he was very familiar with the land and its history, and it was being sold in 1822 to his son-in-law Daniel Leeds, so he really did a bang-up job with it. The William Lake who deeded the land in 1782 & 1783 must be the "William Lake, Preacher" who is mentioned in an account book of Richard & Constant Somers as "run away to Carolina from his family" around 1789. (I'm attaching copies of those ledger pages. The original books are in the Stewart Collection at Rowan University). I looked at some of the Egg Harbor & Galloway NJ Tax lists that I have. I don't think that Adams & Risley had them available to them when they wrote their Lake Genealogy in 1915. There are some names are mentioned in the tax lists that Adams & Risley don't mention, including: Joseph Lake, single man, on 1773 EHT tax list (Galloway section); on 1785 EHT list as householder (next to Nathan Lake); householder on Sept 1795 EHT list Jonathan Lake, householder, on the June 1778 EHT tax list thru July 1786 EHT list Joshua Lake, householder(?), Sept 1795 EHT tax list A family Bible has my grandmother's name as "Alberta Phillips Adams". My grandmother married Edward Thomas Stephenson on Aug. 8, 1917. She died in 1980 and Edward died in 1944. I have more dates and details if you want them. I'm not sure how far down you're taking this. There are some other minor errors in the entry on "Catherine E. Bowen", #405 in the Adams and Risley book. First, according to my mother her grandmother was insistent that her first name was "Kate", not "Catherine". She and Elwood Adams were married June 24, 1881, and their daughter Leola was born August 4, 1882. Leola died in December 1972. Her son Karl and his wife hosted a big birthday party for her every year when I was young. (I was born in 1959) We called her Aunt Ole. END "Calendar of Historical Manuscripts, in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y.", E. B. O'Callaghan, Part II, 1866 BEGIN 1714. June 17. Letter. Will. Lake to Geo. Clarke, requesting him to pay Araon Vanoostend for constructing a well, page 60 END