8/28/2023 0 Comments Derry township historical society![]() ![]() ![]() Of the children of the youngest, Henry Kitchen, Jr. The next oldest in the Amwell family, Joseph Kitchen had four grandsons who settled in Upper Canada- Joseph of Charlotteville and James, Richard, and Edward of South Dumfries. Wheeler Kitchen, the second eldest son of Henry had several children who moved to Canada- Henry of Ancaster, Andrew of Ancaster, Richard of Townsend, and John of Kent County. Samuel Kitchen, Henry’s eldest son, had two sons: Henry of New Brunswick, a loyalist and William of Grimsby. Henry married Anne Wheeler, daughter of Gilbert Wheeler, whose ferry at “The Falls” of the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania carried passengers to the New Jersey side where present Trenton is located.īefore another century passed, many of the New Jersey pioneer couple’s grandchildren migrated north to the Canadian colonies and their descendants constitute most of Ontario’s Kitchen families today. A carpenter from England who settled firstly at neighbouring Amwell Township before 1720, Henry purchased a 600 acre tract at Greenwich. ![]() Richard Kitchen was born around 1765 on his father Wheeler Kitchen’s farm in Greenwich Township, Sussex County, New Jersey, land which originally belonged to his grandfather Henry Kitchen. ![]()
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