1651-1706
“The principal and leading inhabitants of the town of Salem, from 1675 to 1770 were James Nevell, Thomas Killingsworth, Hippolite Lefever, John Pledger, Edward Wade, Edward Bradway, Richard Johnson, William Hall, Alexander Grant, James Rolph, Benjamin Acton, Samuel Hedge, Jr., and his son, Samuel Hedge, 3d, Robert Rumsey, John Goodwin, Robert Conroe, Henry Wilkinson, James Champney, John Adams, John Fenwick, the proprietor, Edward Keasbey and John Test. The latter had a son, John Test, who resided in Pilesgrove; also a son, Francis Test, who married and settled on the sonth side of Cohansey; he had nine children. The present Joseph Test, of Salem, is a lineal descendant of Francis Test, Jr. Thomas Hill was a leading and influential man in the town of Salem in the fore part of the last century.”
Thomas Shourds, History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony (Bridgeton, N.J.: George F. Nixon, Publisher, 1876), pp. 455–456.