184 EARLY HISTORY OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. 



years, and departed this life in 1722. It will be seen by the county 

 records and list of oflScers, that his descendants have acted a promi- 

 nent part in the county, through the several generations that have 

 passed away since 1691. 



Henry Young came about the year 1713. He served the county 

 as Judge of the Court for many years, and was a member of the 

 Legislature ten years. Judge Young was an extensive landholder, 

 Deputy Surveyor, and was Judge of the Court from 1722 till his 

 death in 1767. He was Surrogate from 1743 to 1768. He was a 

 surveyor and scrivener ; and no one, of those times, was more highly 

 respected, or acted a more prominent and useful part. All of the 

 name now in the county have descended from him. 



Jonathan Swain and Richard Swain, of Long Island, were here 

 in 1706, and soon after their father, Ebenezer Swain, came to 

 Cape May, and followed whaling ; Jonathan being a cooper for 

 them. Their immediate descendants were Zebulon, 1721 ; Elemuel, 

 1724 ; Reuben, who died in the epidemic of 1713 ; and Silas, 1733. 

 There was a Capt. Silas Swain in 1778, from whom has descended 

 Joshua Swain, recently deceased, who held many important trusts 

 in the county, as sheriff, member of the Legislature nine years, 

 and a member of the convention to draft the new Constitution in 

 1844. 



Cape May has never had the honor of but one representative 

 in Congress, and he was the Hon. Thomas H. Hughes, from 1829 

 to 1833. He was likewise a member of the Legislature nine years. 



In the Upper Township, William Goldens, Sen. and Jr., Rem 

 Garretson, John and Peter Corson, John Willets, John Hubbard, 

 and soon after Henry Young, were the pioneers, and at a later day 

 John Mackey at Tuckahoe, and Abraham and John Vangilder at 

 Petersburgh. In Dennis, being a part of the old Upper precinct, 

 we find on the seaboard Joseph Ludlam, John Townsend, Robert 

 Richards and Sylvanus Townsend, sons of John, Benjamin God- 

 frey, and John Reeves, who were among the earliest settlers. 



