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known as " Learning and Spicer's Collection," a trust they executed 

 to the satisfaction of the State and the people. He was born in 

 1716, and died in 1783. 



Another of the early settlers was William Golden. He emigrated 

 to Cape May in or about 1691. He was an Irishman, and espoused 

 the cause of James against William and Mary, and fought as an 

 officer in the battle of the Boyne, in 1690. As he soon after came 

 to America, he was most likely one of those stubborn Jacobite 

 Catholics that William, in his clemency, gave permission to flee the 

 country, or abide the just indignation of the Protestant authority 

 for the part he took in said battle to promote its downfall. He, 

 with Rem Garretson, located ],016 acres of land at Egg Harbor, 

 now Beesley's Point. He was one of the justices of the Court, and • 

 occupied other prominent stations. He died about 1715, leaving 

 but few descendants ; one of whom, his great grandson. Rem G. 

 Golding, now past eighty years old, lives near the first and original 

 location, and has in his possession at the present time the sword 

 with which his ancestor fought, and the epaulette which he wore at 

 the battle of the Boyne. 



Benedict, in his history of the Baptists, says of Nathaniel Jen- 

 kins, who was a Baptist minister, and a member of the Legislature 

 from 1723 to 1733, he " became the pastor of the church in Cape 

 May in 1712. Mr. Jenkins was a Welchman, born in Cardigan- 

 shire in 1678, arrived in America in 1710, and two years after 

 settled at Cape May. He was a man of good parts, and tolerable 

 education, and quitted himself with honor in the Loan office whereof 

 he was trustee, and also in the Assembly, particularly in 1721 (3 ?), 

 when a bill was brought in to punish such as denied the doctrine of 

 the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, the inspiration of the Holy 

 Scriptures, &c. In opposition to which Mr. Jenkins stood up, and 

 with the warmth and action of a Welchman said : ' I believe the 

 doctrines in question as much as the promoter of that ill-designed 

 bill, but will never consent to oppose the opposers with law, or with 



