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Excerpt from The Two Hundred and Fortieth Anniversary of the Pittsgrove Baptist Church: September 18th, 1921 Rev. Thomas Hatcham ministered at the Baptist Meeting House in 1680; settled in South Jersey in 1678; sold his farms October 1711 (see record and family his tory). In the early formative days of our Colonial history there were many little groups or companies of Christians scattered through the Wilderness, whose entire time was occupied in clearing their lands, and providing for theirwants. There were no Associational gatherings. They were unaffiliated and independent in that era. Elizabeth town was far removed. Travellers endured hardship and privation. Marriages were expensive, and bonds were re quired in proof of ability to support the wife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.