Page 160. Sussex County. Chapter IV. Sussex County Civil List. Members of the Legislature.

...1834.--...Assembly,...Joshua Shay..
. ...1835.--...Assembly,...Joshua Shay...

Page 161. Sussex County. Chapter IV. Sussex County Civil List. Appointments by Joint Meeting.

Feb. 6, 1817.--...Walter L. Shea,...
...Nov. 21, 1821.--...Walter L. Shea...
...October 27, 1826.--Walter L. Shea.
...Jan. 21. 1833.--Wlater L. Shea...
Jan. 18, 1838.--...Walter L. Shea,...
...Jan. 3, 1843.--...November 15th, Joshua Shay.

Page 177. Sussex County. Chapter VII. Bench and Bar of Sussex County. II.--List of Members of the Sussex Bar.

...Allen R. Shay,[symbol] February term, 1877; June term, 1880... [symbol] Present members.

Page 198. Sussex County. Chapter VII. Bench and Bar of Sussex County. III.--Biographies and Brief Notices of Lawyers and Judges.

ALLEN R. SHAY studied law partly with Hon. Thomas Kays and in part with Charles J. Roe; was admitted to practice as an attorney in February, 1877, and advanced to the rank of counselor in June, 1880. His is a son of Timothy E. Shay, and was born in the township of Sandyston; is in practice at Newton.

Page 233. Sussex County. Chapter XI. Sussex Centennial Celebration. I.--The Preliminary Arrangements.

After the adoption of the resolutions, the following named gentlemen were selected to act upon the committees:

...Sandyston, John D. Everitt, David Depue, Timothey E. Shay;...

Page 321-322. Sussex County. Walpack (township). II.--Early Settlements. Grants Under the West Jersey Proprietors.

...Dayton Cole, son of Abraham Cole, deceased, married Eveline, daughter of Hon. Timothy E. Shay, of Sandyston, and resides on the old homestead...

Page 329-330. Sussex County. Walpack (township).VII.--Churches. Walpack Centre Methodist Episcopal Church.

May 6, 1834, a notice issued to Joseph E. Edsall, Esq., clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, to the effect that on July 10, 1833, a meeting of “relibious society and congregation of Christians” was held at the youse of Joseph Fuller in Walpack, and that Timothy E. Shay, Isaac Losey, Ira Fuller, Robert Bell, and Joseph Fuller were chosen trustees. May 17, 1834, Robert Bell conveyed to the society a deed for two lots of ground to be occupied for church and churchyard.

The church thus organized was known as the Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church, having a location in the neighborhood of what is now known as Walpack Centre. Services had been held for some time previous to 1833 in the houses of Methodists thereabout, and until 1837 such convenient places continued to be used. In the year named a house of worship, built of stone and completely mainly by volunteered labor, occupied the property set apart for that purpose by Robert Bell. Previous to 1837 the graveyard was laid out. It is still used, but the old church has been replaced by a more imposing edifice, set upon high ground, nearer the village. The first person buried in that graveyard was the wife of Isaac Losey, who died in 1834.

The congregation was not very numerous in 1837, but it held some earnest and active members. Among these were Ira Fuller and Isaac Losey; the latter was exhorter and class-leader for nearly forty years. Aong the earleist preachers were Revs. Shaw, McDougal, Bloomer (the two latter conductted a great revival), Baker, Dandy, Long. and Pearson.

In 1871 a new church was built, upon land donated by Jacob Roe. It cost $7000, and was dedicated in March, 1872. At tha ttime the name of the organization was changed from “The Pleasant Valley Methodist Episcopal Church” to “The Walpack Centre Methodist Episcopal Church.” It is now on the Walpack charge, which includes two points. Timothy E. Shay is class-leader and exhorter at Walpack. He was one of the first board of trustees chosen in 1833, and has now passed the forty-eighth year of his service with this church. The assistant class-leader is I. S. Rundle. The trustees are Timothy E. Shay, Isaac S. Rundle, Bartley D. Fuller, Benjamin Cole, Nicholas S. Tillman, Peter P. Petty, Alfred Bevans, Cornelius D. Gunn, Joseph A. Hull. The Sunday-school superintendent is Bartley D. Fuller. The church membership is about 50.

Page 333. Sussex County. Hardyston (township). III.--Early Settlement.

Walter Louis Shea resided at Oxford until 1814, when he removed to Hamburg. He was made post-master in 1814, and judge of the Common Pleas of Sussex in 1817. His death occurred in 1856. He left no descendants in the township.

Page 335. Sussex County. Hardyston (township). VI.--Early Highways.

During 1817, a highway was projected called the “Pochunck turnpike,” to be buitl by subscription, the amount of $25 having entitled the individuals to one share of the capital stock. For some reason the road was never completed, though the following subscription-list indicates the favor with which the project was received:

We whose names are hereby subscribed do, for ourselves and our legal representatives, promise to pay to the President and Directors of the ‘Pochunck Turnpike Company’ the sum of twenty-five dollars for every share of stock in the said company set opposite to our names respectively, in such manner and proportions, and at such times and places, as shall be determined by the said President and Directors:

April the 22nd, 1817.

...W. Shea, three shares $ 75...

John Langwell to work through his land from where some sacefras bushes was this day cut until it corners in the road near the wry-field where it has been chained this day, 5th June, 1823.

Peter Ryerson will pay one hundred dollars in addition to his former assessment, payable in labor on the road, provide dit runs where or near the ground that it was chained this day, 5th June, 1823, if it comes to the same point at the old barn.

Peter Ryerson.

Page 356. Sussex County. Vernon (township). XI.--Religious. St. Thomas’ Protestant Episcopal Church.

The first wardens were Walter L. Shee [sic] and Thomas B. De Kay;...

Page 391. Sussex County. Frankford (township). III.--Early Settlements, Etc.

The oldest survivor in the township among the early settlers is the venerable Tobias Haines, who was born in 1792, in the northwest portion of the township, on land at present owned by Nelson Phillips and occupied by James M. Shay. Mr. Haines has for fifty years resided on a farm near the centre of the township, but finds his home at present with a daughter, Mrs. Jacob R. Roe. He is of German descent, and, having been for years identified with the interests of Frankford, has his memory stored with valuable reminiscences.

Page 482. Warren County. Chapter IV. Civil History of Warren (Continued). Justices of the Peace.

1844.--...March 16th, Robert Shay;...

Page 534. Warren County. Town of Belvidere. III.--Early Settlement and Pioneer Incidents.

John Shay, another of Belvidere’s early residents, was born in Easton, Pa., Aug. 10, 1812, and came with his parents to this place in 1816, where he still resides.

Page 535. Warren County. Town of Belvidere. III.--Early Settlement and Pioneer Incidents. Taverns, Early and Later.

The old “Franklin House,” on Market Street, was built in sections. The old tavern part, or upper end, was built first, and Samuel Loder, a tailor by trade, built the next section, and in 1833 the now venerable John Shay built the lower end, and finally the upper end absorbed the rest, and the whole became the “Franklin House,” kept in 1834 by Daniel Winters, who was subsequently sheriff of Warren County.

Page 536. Warren County. Town of Belvidere. III.--Early Settlement and Pioneer Incidents. Miscellaneous.

...The frame block on the north side of the Pequest, at north end of the bridge, west side of Market Street, was built about 1837-38 by John Shay, Anthony Robeson, and Mr. Emery.