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- The Fundamental Agreement of the first settlers of Newark, New Jersey, was signed by a Daniel Tichenor, While improbable that the signer was this Daniel Tichenor since was only eleven years old at the time, it is still a possibility. The Fundamental Agreement (which provided that only members of the established church would be "admitted freemen or free Burgesses) did not have the force of law, and there is no good reason that a minor could not have signed such a symbolic document. No Daniel Tichenor received land in the first division of land or was on the first taxt list as would be expected of a man of age. His name does not appear in the records of Newark town meetings, after the signing of the Fundamental Agreement, until 1680, when he requested land. This was surely our Daniel Tichenor, as he was 23 at the time. The records give no evidence of an older Daniel Tichenor.
[Charles C. Gardner Collection, held by the Genealogical Society of New Jersey]
[Living Descendants of Blood Royal, compiled by Count d'Angerville, Vol. II]
[Vital Records of Connecticut, New Haven, Series I]
[New Jersey Historical Society Collections - Records of the Town of Newark, Vol. VI, pp. 3-116, and supplement thereto]
Daniel Tichenor's name appears six times between 1680 and 1700 in the town records. In 1684, he had "Liberty ... to take up a piece of land in the Common ..." He was chosen fence viewer in 1689 and was chosen pounder in 1690. One item in the town record of Mar 5 1693 reads as follows: "Whereas, there is much Prophanation of the Lord's Day in the Time of Worship, by the playing of Boys and Girls; therefore Daniel Tichenor and Thomas Lyon are chosen to look after them, and to correct them, or call them by Name as they shall see occasion, for the Year ensuing." [New Jersey Historical Society Collections - Records of the Town of Newark, Vol. VI, pp. 103-116]
On Jun 1 1680, Daniel Tichenor was deeded two acres in his father's home lot. Daniel bought 4-1/2 acres in "Little or Tichenor's Neck" adjacent to that lot on May 2 1694. In 1697, he received land, evidently jointly with his brother Jonathan, in right of their father. On Sep 3 1701, he had an "interest of one right" in purchase agreement covering Indian lands west of Newark. His will, written Nov 4 1727, named his wife Elizabeth and children Daniel, John, Joseph and Jane.
[Charles C. Gardner Collection, held by the Genealogical Society of New Jersey]
[New Jersey Archives]
SOURCE: The foregoing account is taken from Harold A. Tichenor's "Tichenor Families in America," p. 40, citing the author's original sources.
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1656 - 1728 (71 years)
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