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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 09:12:40 EDT

Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey Vol 1

XXIX) Major William Montgomery, as he was known, only son of William and
Margaret (Paschall) Montgomery, was born in Philadelphia, in 1750. He
inherited from his father a handsome property, and added thereto and improved
it, so that he was at one period of his life one of the wealthiest residents
of Montgomery county. Although a Friend, when the Revolutionary war began, he
became a major in the New Jersey Line, and was expelled from the Meeting.
Through unfortunate speculations and possibly through depreciation of
currency and securities in the period following the close of the war, he lost
his entire fortune and was left penniless with a large family to provide for.

He married, January 15, 1778, Mary, daughter of Robert Rhea, of Monmouth
county, and niece of Colonel David Rhea, who commanded the artillery of the
American army at the battle of Monmouth, and whose son was General Jonathan
Rhea, of Trenton. William Montgomery died in 1815, and both he and his wife
are buried at Crosswicks. Their children were: William W., see forward. Mary,
born July 6, 1780, died October 11, 1797. Margaret, born June 22, 1784,
married Colonel James Hay, of Monmouth county, and died April 1, 1862,
leaving eight children. Robert Rhea, born February 5, 1786, removed early in
life with his two brothers to Louisiana, where he was a planter the remainder
of his life, and died there August, 1857; married Eliza McCutcheon, and had
four children.





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