Antill family index [OCR source: The Antill Family by R.V. Pockley]

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possessions were very extensive.

On 10 September, 1686, he married Elizabeth Bowne.

By deed dated 20 November, 1686, Donald McQuirick of Murderer's Hill, Orange County, Gentleman, and David Toshack Esq of Monibaird conveyed to Edward Antill of the City of New York, Merchant, one fourth of the Propriety in East Jersey which had belonged to James, Earl of Perth. The following year Antill assigned 1000 acres of this purchase to Jacob Millbourne; it was described as "all that 1000 acres of land in the County of Bergen running in length north west from Hudson's river to Overpeck creek, and one mile in breadth north east from the line of lands conveyed to Samuel Edsall". In September he bought Lot 11 on the Raritan River from Thomas Matthews; in December the Proprietors of East Jersey conveyed to him a lot on the south side of the river containing 400 He assigned this "Matthew's Lot" to Richard James of New York for £25 New York money, on the day after he assigned the New Jersey land to Millbourne. The 400-acre "Matthew's Lot" was in or near the present city of New Brunswick, N.J.acres.

In the Revolution of 1688, when the over-zealous Leisler assumed the government of New York, he appointed Edward Antill a member of his Antill soon lost favour with the acting Governor, and siding Council. with his friends Anthony Brockholls and Nicholas Bayard, was obliged to flee the city to escape arrest; one of his ships was robbed of four guns by the Leisler government. He seems to have had a long memory for his losses, for in April, 1695, he appeared with others before the British House of Lords, in an action concerning Leisler and his associates.

Antill parted with another 500 acres on Hope River, Monmouth County, on 16 March, 1691. His intimacy with another prominent family is indicated by a further transaction, in which Lieut. Col. Richard Townley, of Elizabethtown, N.J., and Elizabeth his wife, conveyed to Antill lands, plantations, messuages and houses which had been left to Elizabeth by her Antill conveyed father, Philip Cartaret, former Governor of New Jersey; them to Lieut. Col. Richard Townley the same day.

Besides dealing in the legitimate objects of trade with the West Indies, Antill appears occasionally to have picked up an Indian woman or lad to sell into slavery. He and Joseph Smith bought from Samuel Bayard an Indian boy named Wainca. Wainca was afterwards taken in charge by the City authorities of New York, "he being free born and a subject of the States of Holland". On 28 December, 1700, the Mayor and Aldermen of the City again intervened, demanding "the release of a free-born Indian woman, native of Curacao, now held as a slave by Edward Antill".

On 5 April, 1699, he was threatened by John Marsh with a suit for false imprisonment. Marsh was an inventor, and in 1693 sought aid to Build "a small vessel that shall sail faster than all others", and asked ....