Anthony Badgley

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1. [S403] Estelle Clark Watson, Loyalists, Clarks, Badgleys and Allied Families - Ancestors and Descendants of Matthias4
   and Rachel (Abbott) Badgley
   , pages 26-27 - a Badgley, presumably Anthony, was living in "Breucklyn" (Brooklyn) in 1687, when he took the oath of allegiance there. (rr) We do not know whether Anthony and Elizabeth were married in this country or abroad, nor whether Anthony was descended from one or none of the following: Tho. Baggelay, 24, who sailed from England on the "Amitie" in October 1635, bound for St. Christophers in the West Indies; Jo Baggley, 14, who sailed to Virginia in 1634 on the "Bonaventure"; Philip Bagley, 19, who came to Virginia in July 1635 on the "Paule"; Judith Bagley, 58, who sailed in September 1635 on the "Dorst.", "bound for ye Bermodos." (dj, pp. 135, 37, 104, 133) … In 1698 the Anthony Badgleys were living at Flushing, the family then consisting of Anthony, Elizabeth, and three children (Anthony, Jr., George, and Phebe). They also had one negro. In 1700 they are known to have had a plantation at Flushing. They are listed in the town census in the "Dutch" section, so perhaps Elizabeth Badgley was Dutch … In 1707 Anthony Badgley and a number of other men, among whom were Richard Townley, William Nickoll, Nathaniel Bonnell, Ebenezer Wilson, William Urquhart, Lancaster Symes, and Conningsby Norbury, purchased from the Indians for £200 in cash and goods, a large tract of land, about 170,000 acres, lying some thirty or forty miles northwest of Elizabethtown. The Badgley share was one-fourteenth, the Townley, one-twenty-eighth. In 1751 this land had still not been laid out and divided among its owners … In 1711 Anthony Badgley's tax was twenty-three pounds of bacon, six bushels of wheat, and one bushel of Indian corn. The last mention of his name which has been found was in 1715, when he was listed as a sergeant in Capt. Jonathan Wright's Company of Militia … In 1906 there was published in M. D. W. Thurston's "Jersey Genealogy" department of the Newark Evening News, a series of articles on the Badgley family and Littell's "Geneal. of First Settlers of the Passaic Valley" has many pages about the Badgleys. Mr. Russell B. Hedges of Madison, N. J., has done much original research on the Badgley family, as have also Mr. Murray D. Badgley of Boise, Idaho, (who has been most cooperative) and Mr. John G. Wood of Verona, N. J.; and Miss Eleanore Sheley of Kansas City is including some Badgley material in a book about to be published. Mr. Hedges has kindly given us permission to use his material, for which we are very grateful, as well as to Mr. Badgley and Mr. Wood for their help. Mr. Hedges said his Badgley manuscript was to be de-posited at the Institute of American Genealogy in Chicago, and Mr. Wood's is at the N. J. Genealogical Society, besides the earlier printed material mentioned above, so our main emphasis will be on our own particular line, which has not been already covered. ... Children: 1.     ANTHONY, b. ca. 1695, d. 1732; GEORGE, b. Flushing, 1696, d. 1759; PHEBE, b. 1696-8; d. 1776; SARAH, b. 1698-1700, d. 1785; JAMES, b. ca. 1700-1705, d. 1777; JoHN, b. after 1700, d. 1759; ELIZABETH, b. after 1700.
   
2. [S406] Wheeler Thurston, Badgley Family History, BADGLEY- Anthony (1) Badgley settled at Flushing, Long Island, toward the end of the seventeenth century. The destruction of all old town records of Flushing prevents our stating the exact date of Mr. Badgley's arrival there but we know that he had a plantation there in --- and in 1695 there was made "An exact list of all ye inhabitants names within ye Towne of fflushing and Points of Old and Young freeman and servants white and blacke etc." In this list we find the following entry: "Anthony Badgley, Elizabeth his wife. Anthony Georg. phebe: 1 negro 1." Under date of March 3, 1740, Anthony Badgley petitioned the authorities for a warrant to survey a lot in Flushing called "Hemp Lot," belonging to him in order to end the encroachments of Thomas Hedger and others. L20 He was evidently in comfortable circumstances, at least, for in 1707 he was one of a company composed chiefly of wealthy men which purchased through its agent, Peter Sonmans, a large tract of land in New Jersey for which it paid the Indians L3200 in cash and in goods. This tract contained about 170,000 acres called "New Britain" lay about thirty-three miles northwest of Elizabethtown. It had not been laid out and divided amont its owners in 1751. The early name for this tract was "Markasta Colinnge." Among the other "proprietors" were Nathaniel Bommell, Richard Townley, William Nickoll, William Urquhart, Ebeneser Wilson, Lancaster Symes and Conningsby Norbury. Badgley's share was one-fourteenth and that of Colonel Townley one-twenty-eighth. ... In July, 1711 there was compiled "An account of each inhabitant of flushing provisions as foloweth"-- being the tax rate for the year L20 ... Anthony Badgley's share was twenty-three pounds of bacon, six bushels of wheat and one bushel of "Indian" (corn). He was sergeant in Captain Jonathan Wright's Company of militia in 1715 and probably died within a few years as no further mention of his name appears.