terms of the grant it was provided that all persons who failed
to settle on their lots, with proper stock and materials for the
improvement of their lands, before the last day of November, 1767,
should forfeit all claim to the lands allotted them. The township was
supposed to consist of 200 shares but only 61 shares were included in
the grant of 1765. At least two other grants were passed prior to the
coming of the Loyalists--one in 1770, the other early in 1783; but
there were still some vacant lots which were gladly taken up by these
unfortunate exiles. For their accomodation also a grant was made Dec.
22, 1786, of the rear of the township and such men as Samuel Ryerson,
Justus Earle, Joseph Ryerson, Wm. Van Allen, Abraham Van Buskirk,
Samuel Tilley and Lodewick Fisher[59] were among the grantees.

[59] Samuel Tilley and Lodewick Fisher were the progenitors
respectively of Sir Leonard Tilley and Hon. Charles Fisher,
the one came from Long Island, N. Y., the other from New
Jersey. It is curious they should have settled on adjoining
lots in view of the intimate relations of their distinguished
grandsons in the battle for responsible government. The other
names given above are those of officers in Lt.-Col. Van
Buskirk's battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers who were of
Dutch descent.

Nearly all the original settlers in the township of Maugerville were
from Massachusetts, the majority from the single county of Essex. Thus
the Burpees were from Rowley, the Perleys from Boxford, the Esteys
from Newburyport, while other families were from Haverhill, Ipswich,
Gloucester, Salem and other towns of this ancient county which
antedates all others in Massachusetts but Plymouth. These settlers
were almost exclusively of Puritan stock and members of the
Congregationalist churches of New England.

The list of the grantees of the Township of Maugerville, alphabetically
arranged, includes the following names:--

Benjamin Atherton,
Jacob Barker,
Jacob Barker, jr.,
Thomas Barker,
Richard Barlow,
Benjamin Brawn,
David Burbank,
Joseph Buber,
Jeremiah Burpee,
Jonathan Burpee,
James Chadwell,
Thomas Christy,
Joseph Clark,
Widow Clark,
Edward Coy,
Moses Davis,
Jos. F. W. Desbarres,
Enoch Dow,
Joseph Dunphy,
John Estey,
Richard Estey,
Richard Estey, jr.,
Zebulun Estey,
Joseph Garrison,
Beamsley P. Glazier