From an issue of "The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey" (date and number not known) : BEGIN Peter Aller of Amwell, apparently born abt. 171-; d. abt. April 1778; md., prob. betw. 1735 and 1745, Elizabeth Kaes (Case), dau. of that Johan Philip Kaes of Amwell who was natuaralized in 1730; she was living in 1773. This marriage took place well before 1752, so that he could not have been the Johann Peter Aller who reached Philadelphia Sep. 15, 1752, as conjectured by Chambers. (NJW:349J, 1055J; CEG:230, 285; Strassburger's Penna. Pioneers, I:479). He was one of the ex'rs of the will of J. P. Kaes, and was sworn at probate in 1756, but in filing the accounting in 1772, he was affirmed, while his co-ex's was sworn, which perhaps indicates that he had adopted the Quaker faith in the interim. (NJW:349J). His will May 17, 1773-Apr. 17, 1778, names three sons (Peter the eldest) and seven daughters, at least four and perhaps all of the latter being unmarried. He left his plantation in Amwell to his son John, who sold part of it in 1809, the deed indicating that it was next to the German parsonage. (NJW:1055J; HuD 16:145). Children of Peter Aller and Elizabeth Case: 1. Peter, b. abt. 174-; md. Elizabeth ------; d. 1792. (It is possible that he had first md. Anna Hoppaugh, but see the family of Peter Aller of Lebanon, hereinafter). (NJA 33:203; 37:12). 2. John, b. abt 174-; md. Keziah ------; d. abt. June, 1817. (NJW 38:67J). 3. Philip, b. abt. 175-. 4. Catherine, b. abt. 174- or 175-. 5. Elizabeth, b. abt. 174- or 175-. 6. Mary, b. abt. 174- or 175-. 7. Anna, b. abt. 175-. 8. Rebecca, b. abt. 175- or 176-. 9. Rachel, b. abt. 175- ot 176-. 10. Sarah, b. abt. 176-. END from https://goodspeedhistories.com/the-township-farm/ Marfy Goodspeed BEGIN Johan Petrus Aller (1716-1778) was born in Anhausen, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany. His wife Anna Elizabeth Case/Kaes (1718-1774) was also born there and came to America with her parents Johann Philip Kaes and Ann Elizabeth Jung, owners of what became the Dvoor Farm in Flemington.19 Both families settled in Amwell Township, where Johan Aller and Anna Case married in 1737. According to Johan Peter's will written on May 17, 1773, the couple had eleven children. He left to his oldest son Peter 5 shillings and the "plantation where he lives" which Aller had purchased from Philip Kase. To his wife Elizabeth he left "the plantation where I live while my widow," and after her death or remarriage, it was to go to son John, whom he named as his sole executor.20 (Even though son John was originally named John Peter Aller, since he had a brother named Peter, it was important for John to drop his middle name. As it is, there are too many Peter Allers to keep them straight. See The Aller Family.) In any case, John's mother Anna Elizabeth predeceased her husband, dying in 1774, so after his father Peter died in 1778, John Aller had sole possession of the homestead farm. Sometime before his parents' deaths, John Aller married a woman named Keziah, often spelled 'Coziah.' So far, her family has not been identified. The couple had at least four children from about 1773 to 1776.21 Evidence of the location of John Aller's farm began to turn up in 19th-century records, the first one in 1803 when Aller was fellowbondsman (security) for neighbor Elijah Carman, administrator of his mother Mary Carman's estate. Aller made an inventory of Mary Carman's estate with another neighbor, William Merrill. When John and Keziah reached their 60s, they began conveying title to property to their son Peter Aller (1776-1828), one of those properties being a farm of 66 acres +/-, conveyed to Peter on September 26, 1809 for only $300.22 The deed identified the farm as the one bequeathed to John Aller in his father's will of 1773. In 1809 the farm was described as bordering land of John Leigh, "Laquear's line", a lot reserved by John Aller, and the German 'Parsonal' Lot, which would soon be sold to David Bellis. This was the southern half of the original Aller farm. After Peter Aller's death in 1828, the farm was sold to Samuel Britton, who appears there on the 1850 map of Raritan Township. John Aller still had a fair amount of property at the time of his death, which was on July 2, 1817. He had written a will in 1813, leaving movable property to his wife "Coziah," and mentioned that if his plantation was sold, she should have a share of the proceeds. He named his son Peter and son-in-law Peter Rockafellar (husband of Elizabeth Aller) his executors. In 1822, those executors sold several lots remaining to John Aller, dec'd to some of his neighbors. A lot of 3 acres was sold to David Bellis, a lot of 16 acres to John Leigh, and another lot of 15 acres to Elijah Carman. Keziah Aller survived her husband by many years, dying on October 30, 1833 at the age of 80. Not many months later, her grandson John Aller, Jr. (1803-1878), despite the fact that he was not an administrator of his grandmother's estate, went to the Orphan's Court asking that his grandparents' homestead farm of 98 acres (minus 34 acres sold to satisfy creditors) be sold and proceeds divided among the heirs. And so the court ordered. At the public sale held on May 10, 1834, Derrick A. Sutphin was the highest bidder for the northern half of the Aller homestead farm. He then sold it to the Inhabitants of Township of Raritan. 19. See Hubert G. Schmidt, Rural Hunterdon, p.33 for a nice summary of the German migration to Hunterdon County. 20. According the Abstracts of Wills, the will was witnessed by Andrew Heath, and Samuel and Joseph Furman. An inventory of the estate was taken on April 16, 1778 by Samuel Furman and Peter Rockafellow, and the will was proved in April "at Pitts Town." 21. As far as I know, John Aller did not fight in the Amwell militia during the Revolution, but he was the right age to do so. 22. H.C. Deed 016-145. END