Duncan OLIPHANT

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The dates and associations listed are the 'most likely' although not all proven, as data is collected from many conflicting sources. Doug Goodman lists birthplace as Pentcaitland, Lothian, Scotland and date as either 1682 or 1685. James A. Willhite lists birth as 1668 in Perthsire. Willhite also lists marriage in about 1690 and immigration to US in about 1700. Gail Budda lists birth date in 1682 in Perthshire and immigration via Staten Island in about 1706.
Listed in census of Staten Island NY in 1706, Stillwell's vol. no. 1, aged 24 yrs. Will dated Feb. 12, 1732, proved Aug. 7th, 1734 (Sect. of States Office, Trenton N.J., xxxt104 Book H.H. Page 34.
Per: http://terisha4.tripod.com/kingreed/id9.html Duncan Oliphant was a member of the Anglican Church, and an active supporter of it even after he came to this country. He was well thought of enough to be appointed Constable of Staten Island. This indicates he was not in the same dire straits as John and Janet Gilchrist Oliphant (unproven and unlikely parents as speculated by some). He had the money to buy the property in New Jersey, though admittedly this could have come from the dowry of his wife. He named his eldest son David. Naming patterns followed in Scotland in that time period dictated that the eldest son be named after the father's father. This supports the other prevalent theory that he was the son of David Oliphant, born abt 1648 in Perthshire, Scotland, son of Sir Laurence Oliphant and his wife, Lillias Oliphant. Sir Laurence and his cousin, Lillias, married in 1634. She was the daughter of Patrick Oliphant his wife, Elizabeth. David died in 02 Feb 1717 in Edinburgh and is buried at Greyfriars Abby. I have been unable to find the name of his wife or any record of his children.
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol. II 1730-1750, Part II: Abstract of the Will of Duncan Oliphant - Written 12 Feb 1732 Proved August 7, 1734 -Amwell Township, Hunterdon Co. NJ Eldest son, David, the long gun, large Bible, and a book called the Conductor Generalis. Wife, Mary, entire estate to bring up children. Four sons--David, John, Ephraim and James. Three daughters--Margaret (wife of Thomas Gordon), Mary and Ann, the plantation where William Allen lived, when youngest daughter is aged 18. Executors - son, David, brother-in-law John Garrison,and friend Peter Praul. Friend, John Reading, trustee. Witnesses - Thomas Lake, William Job, Jacob Reeder.
e-mail from Evylene A. Canup, 15 Dec 2001; Descendants of Walter Oliphant ; The Oliphant family can be traced back to David Oliford who came to England with his brother Stephen. He was a good son of King David I of Scotland and Secretary to the King after the rout of the forces of Matilda at Winchester in 1141. He became the earliest Judge of record in Scotland. David Oliford, died between 1190 and 1200, whose son Sir Walter Oliphant (changed spelling of name) was Lord Justice General of Scotland and Justice of Lothian, died in 1249. He married a daughter of the Earl of Strathorn, etc. etc.
The first Oliphant I have a record of who came to the Colonies was William Oliphant who was a passenger on the "Henry & Francis" in 1685. It is generally believed that he was Duncan's brother. The "Henry & Francis" was a prison ship from Scotland. Our Colonial ancestor, Duncan Oliphant who was born 1682 in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of David Oliphant. Duncan came to New York around 1695 to 1700 and married in 1705; to Mary Garrison who was born 1686 in Scotland, the daughter of Lambert Garrison. They worshiped at the Old Dutch Church on Staten Island and the church records show that some of their children were baptized at this church. In the Census of Staten Island, New York, 1706, Stilwell's Vol. I list, Duncan Oliphant named as age 24 years. He was constable for the North Precinct, Richmond County, Staten Island, New York in 1709. Duncan moved his family in 1721-24 to East Amwell, New Jersey, where he had purchased a large tract of land in Hopewell Township, Burlington County, New Jersey (now Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey) where he was chosen Freeholder of Amwell Township. Until 1725 the Anglicans had heard services in their own houses. Then on January 22, 1725 William Lummox granted eleven acres of land to John Knowles and Duncan Oliphant in trust for an Anglican Church. Organized under Crown Charter as St. Andrew's the first church on this site was built. Today nothing remains of the original St. Andrew's but a fragment of the graveyard that may be seen next to the Old Yorke Inn in the village of Ringoes. It is said that Duncan Oliphant was buried in this graveyard.

DNA Testing Yields More Garrison Descendants in New Jersey & New York; with further records of Johannes3 Gerritsen (Jan2 Gerrits, Gerrit1 Jansen) of Staten Island & Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey as the heretofore unknown father of John4 Garrison (say 1701? 1774) of Amwell Township, New Jersey & Staten Island, New York and the ancestor of the Garrison family of Amwell and Bethlehem Townships in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, probably including Jane (Garrison) Krusen, wife of Derrick/Richard6 Krusen (Francis5, Derrick4, Francis3, Derrick2, Garret1 Croesen) of Greenwood, NY and with insights on the brother-in-law of Johannes3 Gerritsen, Duncan Oliphant (ca. 1682? 1734) of Staten Island & Amwell Township, New Jersey," (January, February, March 2010; Volume 15, Number 1 and April, May, June 2010; Volume 15; Number 2).
http://www.perrystreeter.com/garrison.pdf

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In (Duncan Oliphant's) will? witnessed by Thomas Lake, William Job and Jacob Reeder? Duncan
Oliphant explicitly identified John Garrison as his brother-in-law:
I, Duncan Oliphant of the Township of Amwell? yeoman? give to my oldest son, David? in right of his primogeniture or
birthright. My loving wife, Mary, shall have the use and sole management of all my estate, both real and personal? during her
widowhood for the maintenance of my family and the bringing up of my children in their minority, and at her marriage or death,
which happens first to be, my will is that the tract of land, farm or plantation where I now dwell be equally divided amongst my
four sons, namely David, John Ephraim and James....I give and bequeath unto my three daughters, namely Margaret,10 the
wife of Thomas Gordon, Mary and Ann, the plantation or farm wherein William Allen now dwells, to be sold when youngest
daughter is 18, and price equally divided? As soon after decease as possible a true inventory to be taken, and the sum thereof on
my wife's decease or marriage equally divided among my sons as above. My son, David, my brother-in-law John Garrison and
my loving friend Peter Praull [Prall] executors, and my loving friend John Reading Trustee....in Testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this twelfth day of February 1732.11

Taken from: http://www.perrystreeter.com/garrison.pdf (Page 3)

The Oliphant family can be traced back back to David Oliford who came to England with his brother Stephen. He was a good son of King David I of Scotland and Secretary to the King after the rout of the forces of Matilda at Winchester in 1141. He became the earliest Judge of record in Scotland. David Oliford, died between 1190 and 1200, whose son Sir Walter Oliphant (changed spelling of name) was Lord Justice General of Scotland and Justice of Lothian, died in 1249. He married a daughter of the Earl of Strathorn, etc. etc.

Our Colonial ancestor, Duncan Oliphant who was born 1682 in Perthshire, Scotland. They worshiped at the Old Dutch Church on Staten Island and the church records show that some of their children were baptized at this church.
In the Census of Staten Island, New York, 1706, Stilwell's Vol. I list, Duncan Oliphant named as age 24 years. He was constable for the North Precinct, Richmond County, Staten Island, New York in 1709.
Duncan moved his family in 1721-24 to East Amwell, New Jersey, where he had purchased a large tract of land in Hopewell Township, Burlington County, New Jersey (now Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey) where he was chosen Freeholder of Amwell Township.
Until 1725 the Anglicans had heard services in their own houses. Then on January 22, 1725 William Lummox granted eleven acres of land to John Knowles and Duncan Oliphant in trust for an Anglican Church. Organized under Crown Charter as St. Andrew's the first church on this site was built . Today nothing remains of the original St. Andrew's but a fragment of the graveyard which may be seen next to the Old Yorke Inn in the village of Ringoes. It is said that Duncan Oliphant was buried in this graveyard.
Duncan Oliphant made his will February 12, 1732 and is found in New Jersey Colonial Documents, Calender of Wills 1730-1750, pp. 360-361. The Will Abstract of Duncan Oliphant states:
1732, Feb 12. OLIPHANT DUNCAN, of Amwell Township, Hunterdon Co.: will of. Wife, Mary. Eldest son, David, the long gun, large Bible and a book called the Conductor Generalis. Wife, entire estate to bring up children. Four sons-David, John, Ephraim and James. Three daughters-Margaret (wife of Thomas Gordon), Mary and Ann, the plantation where William Allen lived, when youngest daughter is aged 18.
Executors-son, David, brother-in-law John Garrison, and friend Peter Praul. Friend, John Reading, trustee. Witnesses-Thomas Lake, William Job, Jacob Reeder. Proved August 7, 1734. Lib 3, p.425.
Inventory (L152.14.0) included gun, books, Bibles and Testaments. Made by Thomas Lake and Daniel Seaburn. New Jersey Abstract of Wills, v. II 1730-1750, pp. 360.1.
The old Bible he speaks of in his will was presented to the Colonial Dames Chapter in 1936 and is found in vault of New Jersey Historical Society Library, in Newark, New Jersey.
(Records of Richmond County, NY; "A History of East Amwell, 1700-1800" pg 187-8;
Will found Calender of Wills 1730-1750, pp.360-1; Deeds of Amwell Twp., Hunterton
County, New Jersey and Vault of NJ History Society Library, Newark, New Jersey.)
Children of DUNCAN OLIPHANT and MARY are:
13.i.MARGARET13 OLIPHANT, b. April 19, 1709, Staten Island, Richmond County, New York.
14.ii.DAVID OLIPHANT, b. March 01, 1712/13, STATEN ISLAND, RICHMOND, NEW YORK; d. September 03, 1774, OLIPHANT MILLS, BURLINGTON, NEW JERSEY.
15.iii.JOHN OLIPHANT, b. 1715, Staten Island, New York; d. Aft. 1765, Rowan County, North Carolina.
16.iv.EPHRIAM OLIPHANT, b. 1717, STATEN ISLAND, RICHMOND, NEW YORK; d. 1794, LOUDON COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
17.v.JAMES OLIPHANT, b. Bet. 1719 - 1724; d. June 17, 1816.
vi.MARY OLIPHANT, b. 1721.
vii.ANN OLIPHANT, b. 1723.

July 13, 2014 by Kathy Michaels Peterson

Duncan married Mary GARRISON in Mar 1707 in Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York. Mary (daughter of Lambert GARRISON and Susanna MORGAN) was born in 1686 in Perthshire, Scotland; died on 7 Aug 1734 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Margaret OLIPHANT was born in 1709 in Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York; and died.
2. David OLIPHANT was born on 1 Mar 1712 in Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York; died on 3 Sep 1774 in Oliphant Mills, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
3. Jonathan OLIPHANT was born in 1715 in Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York; died in 1784 in Rowan County, North Carolina.
4. Ephraim OLIPHANT was born in 1717 in Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York; died in 1795 in Loudon County, Virginia.
5. James OLIPHANT was born in 1719 in Staten Island, Richmond Co., New York; died on 17 Jun 1816 in Loudon County, Virginia.
6. Mary OLIPHANT was born in 1721; and died.
7. Ann OLIPHANT was born in 1723; died after 1797.
8. Jonathan OLIPHANT was born in 1726 in Lived in Territory of New York; and died.
9. Samuel OLIPHANT was born on 28 Jul 1728 in Glenbucket, Aberdeen, Scotland; and died.

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Passed lands to cousin - Patrick Oliphant email from Evylene A. Canup, 15 Dec 2001; Descendants of Walter Oliphant ; The first Oliphant I have a record of who came to the Colonies was William Oliphant who was a passenger on the "Henry & Francis" in 1685. It is generally believed that he was Duncan's brother. The "Henry & Francis" was a prison ship from Scotland. Our Colonial ancestor, Duncan Oliphant who was born 1682 in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of David Oliphant. Duncan came to New York around 1695 and married in 1705 Mary Garrison; who was born 1686 in Scotland, the daughter of Lambert Garrison. They worshiped at the Old Dutch Church on Staten Island and the church records show that some of their children were baptized at this church. In the Census of Staten Island, New York, 1706, Stilwell's Vol. I list, Duncan Oliphant named as age 24 years. He was constable for the North Precinct, Richmond County, Staten Island, New York in 1709. Duncan moved his family in 1721-24 to East Amwell, New Jersey, where he had purchased a large tract of land in Hopewell Township, Burlington County, New Jersey (now Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey) where he was chosen Freeholder of Amwell Township. Until 1725 the Anglicans had heard services in their own houses. Then on January 22, 1725 William Lummox granted eleven acres of land to John Knowles and Duncan Oliphant in trust for an Anglican Church. Organized under Crown Charter as St. Andrew's the first church on this site was built. Today nothing remains of the original St. Andrew's but a fragment of the graveyard which may be seen next to the Old Yorke Inn in the village of Ringoes. It is said that Duncan Oliphant was buried in this graveyard.

David married Janet BARTON on 15 Feb 1663 in Falkland, Fife, Scotland. Janet (daughter of George Graham BARTON and Marjorie GRAEME) was born in 1655 in Brochellhirst, Scotland; died in 1685 in Tennent, Monmouth, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• LifeSketch: ; Laurence, the eldest son of Laurence and Lilias
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pg 414, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1883

Laurence, the eldest son of Laurence and Lilias
Oliphant, was established as second Laird of Gask in
August 1632. His Great Seal charter is dated 9th
March 1633. He married eighteen months after his
father's death Lilias, the eldest daughter of his cousin Patrick, sixth Lord Oliphant.

Laurence Oliphant was born about 1610 at Newton of Pitcains, Perthshire, Scotland to James and Marjorie Grahame Oliphant. He married Lilias Graham April 10, 1634 at Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland and their children were: Anna, Patrick, Lilias, Laurence, Andrew, Archibald, Charles, John, Andrew (again), David, Elizabeth and Charles (again). Laurence died July 20, 1679 at Scotland where he is presumed buried.

This was in the sources with hos son's sources



(from Oliphants of Gask)

The years of the married life of Laurence and Lilias
Oliphant were certainly not without troubles. Laurence
Oliphant himself seems to have been of a fairly peaceable
disposition ; but he certainly was involved in the feud
which caused the killing of Gilbert Gray in 1605. Patrick
Gray of Bandirran includes him in the discharge he
granted to Lord Oliphant in 1617. The William and
Laurence Oliphant, styled of Gask, who were implicated
in the murder of the boy Toscheach, of Monzievaird, in
1618, were uncles of the fifth lord not to be confused
with Laurence of Ross and Lamberkin, and his brother,
William of Orchardmill. The charter of the barony of Cask
was on the old lines of that historic charter granted
two hundred and seventy years before to "our beloved
and faithful Walter Olyfaunt and his spouse, Elizabeth,
our beloved sister." Lord Oliphant now gave a charter
of Gask with all its woods and fishings, and special
liberty of fishing in the water Earn for three days in
forbidden time,
"to be held of the King in blench ferm fee, for yearly
rendering, if asked, at the feast of the Nativity of John
the Baptist, of a chaplet of White Roses."

When Laurence and Lilias are established in the
House of Gask there rises about the records of them a
sense of reality. They were in middle life. Jean and
Margaret, their daughters, were still with them. All their
sons were grown up. The days of their historical importance
were past ; they were settling down to quieter times,
to the serene life of country people, at a time when rights
and property were beginning to be more respected. Now
were formed those staunch friendships with other old
families of Strathearn, the Hurrays, the Drummonds, the
Graemes, the Robertsons, which were to outlast many
generations. Doubtless, too, the Oliphants would be
intimate with their neighbours and kinsmen across the
Strath, six miles away the family of Montrose at Kincardine,
where the seven children would be of about the
same age as some of the Gask sons and daughters.

All the married life of Laurence and Lilias Oliphant
was passed in a time of peace ; Lilias alone was to see
the "Great Troubles."
Laurence Oliphant, the first Laird of Gask, died 22nd
July 1632. He had been possessor of Gask only five
years. The following is an extract of his will :

"I, Laurence Oliphant of Gask, being seik in bodie,
haill alwayis in spirit and of perfyt memorie . . .
recommend my saull to God Almightie and ordeins my
bodie to be bureit in the earth within the Kirk of Gask,
reverently."

He left a legacy to Lilias Drummond of Pitkellony his
"oy" in remembrance of his love. His executors are to
"cause bild above my buriell plaice ane sufficient and
cumlie yle (aisle) with ane loft above the same."

Laurence married Lilias OLIPHANT on 19 Feb 1634 in Findo-Gask, Perth, Scotland. Lilias (daughter of Patrick OLIPHANT, 6th Lord and Elizabeth Isabel CHEYNE, of Esslemont) was born on 22 Nov 1620 in Perthshire, Scotland; was christened on 22 Nov 1620 in Errol, Perth, Scotland; died in Jan 1669 in Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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SIR LAURENCE OLIPHANT, of Gask, was knighted before 1651. He m. in 1634, Lilias, only child of Patrick, sixth Lord Oliphant, by Elizabeth his first wife, daughter of Sir Patrick Cheyne, knight, of Esselmont

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George married Marjorie GRAEME. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Laurence married Lillias (Graham) GRAEME, Of Inchrackie in 1606. Lillias (daughter of Laird George GRAHAM, 2nd Laird of Inchbrakie and Margery ROLLO) was born in 1570 in Perthshire, Scotland; died on 23 Jan 1656 in Perthshire, Scotland; was buried in Auchterarder, , Perth and Kinross, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Lilias Graham
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• TitleOfNobility: Scotland, United Kingdom; 6th Lord Oliphant of Aberdalgie
• Name: Patrick Oliphant
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Patrick, sixth Lord Oliphant, was three
times married, first to Elizabeth Cheyne of Esslemont,
who died 1616 the only child of this marriage was
Lilias ; secondly, to Margaret, only daughter of Menzies
of Pitfoddel, by whom he had one daughter, Margaret ;
thirdly, about 1643, to Mary, third daughter of James
Crichton of Fendraught. The children of this marriage
were four sons and two daughters : Charles, seventh
Lord Oliphant, Laurence, William, ninth lord, Francis,
the father of the tenth lord, Elizabeth, and Anna.

Patrick married Elizabeth Isabel CHEYNE, of Esslemont. Elizabeth (daughter of Patrick Of Esslemont CHEYNE and Christian HEPBURNE) was born before 1572 in Esslemont Castle, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died on 16 Feb 1634 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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