Rachael Read and Jacob Lanterman had at 3 children, who born betweeen 1825 and 1829, 5 grandchildren born between 1858 and 1871 and 15 great-grandchildren born between 1889 and 1916. I have also identified 15 second great-grandchildren. Total identified descendants equals 38.

Children of Rachael Read and Jacob Lanterman
Children of Jacob Lanterman and Margaret Ann Snyder (step-children of Rachael Read)
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Rachael Read was the fourth daughter and sixth child of the nine children of John Read and Elizabeth Ogden. She was probably named after her Aunt Rachael Ogden Diltz, her mother's younger sister. Rachael was born 30 January 1804 in Sussex (now Warren) County, New Jersey (Kern 1938). Her father's farm was supposed to have been in Hardwick Township (Sussex County Surrogate Court Records, hereinafter SCSCR, File 8032).

Rachael's father, John Read, died on 20 April 1814 when Rachael was 10 years old. Her father died intestate and was deeply in debt at the time of this death. The family was forced to sell much of his personal estate to cover the debts. Some of his farm in Hardwick was also sold (SCSCR, File 8032; SCSCR Inventories Book B, page 264). Elizabeth Read was left with seven minor children to raise: Mary (age 20), John Ogden (about 18 years of age), Isaac (who was almost 16), Lydia (who was almost 13), Rachael (age 10), David (age 7) and Hannah (who was 5 or 6 years old). Elizabeth remaried shortly after John's death. Her second husband was William Wintersteen, a widower with five children (Armstrong 1979:211). However, it was several years before John Read's estate was completely settled.

In mid-1819, Rachael's brother Isaac Read, III submitted a petition to the Orphan's Court of Sussex County. The petition asked the court to divide the remaining real estate of John Read, which was owned jointly by his survivng children. Only Mary Read Konkle, John Ogden Read and Isaac Read III were of age (over 21 years of age) in 1819, all the other children were minors, they were: Lydia, Rachael, David and Hannah Read. The petition was dated 19 August 1819 (SCSCR File 8032). Isaac had just married Catherine Matthews on 31 July 1819, and the couple were expecting their first child (Kern 1938; Lorenz n.d.). The court divided the land and each child received a portion of it.

When Elizabeth Ogden married William Wintersteen, none of her seven surviving children were married. Over the next several years Rachael's older siblings married: Mary in 1816 to John B. Konkle and Isaac in 1819 to Catherine Matthews. Her sister Lydia was married to Jonathan Martin in 1819 or 1820. Rachael was married shortly after her twentieth birthday, on 17 April 1824 to her first cousin, Jacob Lanterman. Jacob was the son of Abraham Lanterman and Sarah Ogden. Sarah Ogden Lanterman was Elizabeth Ogden Read Wintersteen's eldest sibling. Jacob was born 10 May 1789 in Sussex County (now Warren). Rachael was his second wife. His first wife was Margaret Ann Snider (or Snyder), daughter of Henry and Scharlotta Scheinder. Jacob married Margaret on 17 October 1812. His marriage to "Peggy" Snider is recorded in the diary of Isaac Crisman, a neighbor of the Lantermans, Sniders and Reads (Reuther n.d.). Jacob and Peggy had at least four children between 1814 and 1823: Abram (born 1814), Charlotte (born 1815), Sarah Ann (or Sally, born about 1818) and Henry (born 1820). In September 1823, Peggy was expecting another child. Little Henry Lanterman died on the third of September. About a month later (on 6 October) Peggy had her baby, a boy named Peter who probably lived only a few short hours. Peggy lived another 20 days after Peter's birth. She was not quite 36 years old when she died. The family buried her with Henry and Peter in the Knowlton Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Reuther n.d.).

Jacob was left with three children to raise, Abram who was 9, Charlotte who was almost 8, and Sally Ann who was 5 years old. Men of this era were not trained in how to manage a household or raise children. Within six months of Margaret's death, Jacob married his cousin Rachael. Over the next five years, Jacob and Rachael had three children of their own: Mary Margaret (born 1825), William Darius (born 1826) and Martha Elizabeth (born 1829). Martha died at the age of 11 in 1841. The first census which shows the household of Jacob and Rachael Lanterman is the 1840 census. Abram had maried Jane Craig LaRue by this date and had two children of his own. His home was listed adjacent to that of this father's on the census. Table 1 presents the residents of Jacob and Rachael's household in 1840:

Table 1: Household of Jacob and Rachael (Read) Lanterman in 1840
1840 United States Federal Census
Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 368

Census Individual	Census Age As of 1 June 1840	Probable Individual	Birth Date
one male	50 to 59 (1781-1790)	Jacob Lanterman	10 May 1789
one female	30 to 39 (1801-1810)	Rachael Read Lanterman	30 January 1804
two females	20 to 29 (1811-1820)	Charlotte Lanterman Sally Ann Lanterman	6 November 1815 8 June 1818
one female	15 to 19 (1821-1825)	Mary Margaret Lanterman	16 January 1825
one male	10 to 14 (1826-1830)	William Darius Lanterman	19 August 1826
one female	10 to 14 (1826-1830)	Martha Elizabeth Lanterman	1 September 1829

The 1840 census states that two of the seven residents of Jacob's household were involved in agriculture. This was probably Jacob and his son 14 year old son William. One person in the household was involved in manufactures and trades.

The year 1840 was also important in terms of the family's religious life. Prior to 1840, Jacob Lanterman was a elder of the Presbyterian church in Knowlton. The church was some distance from Blairstown (then known as Gravel Hill) and it was difficult for some residents to regularly attend services. On 22 March 1839, a Saturday, a meeting was held in Blairstown (the village name was changed to this on 24 January 1839) "for the purpose of electing trustees of a Presbyterian Church contemplated to be built at that place" (as quoted in Snell 1881:64). Jacob was elected as one of the trustees. The whole board was headed by J.I. Blair. They were incorporated under the name of the First Presbyterian Church of Blairstown on 3 July 1839. A church building was erected between the summer of 1839 and the fall of 1840. This first building was of stone and measured 50 by 40 feet. It was used until 1870 (Presbytery of Newton 1917). The Presbytery of Newton, at a stated meeting in October 1840 voted on the following resolution:

This list does not include the children of the eight or nine families who transferred their membership. The children were, of course, not full communicant members of the church. Peter and William Lanterman were Jacob's first cousins, the children of his father's brother Jacob Lanterman and his wife Mercy Luse. Peter and William were married to two sisters, Rachel (Peter) and Isabella (William) Diltz, who were the step-daughters of Rachael Read Lanterman's Aunt Rachel Ogden Diltz (their parents were Samuel Diltz and Elizabeth Stinson) (Armstrong 1971:187). Mary Raub was Rachel's first cousin. Mary's father was Isaac Read, Sr., the oldest brother of John Read.

Jacob Lanterman and Philip Raub were the first elders of the church, which was dedicated on 10 December 1840. The Presbytery of Newton supplied the pulpit during the winter of 1840-1841 with Rev. Mr. Condict. He was installed as the first pastor of the church on 23 June 1841. He was also the pastor of the Knowlton Church, making a salary of $300 per year.

Over the next decade several changes took place in the composition of the Lanterman household. Jacob and Rachael's daughter Martha Elizabeth died in 1841. The following year, Jacob's daughter Sally married Alpheus Snover and moved to Wayne County Michigan. Sally's wedding was performed by the Rev. Mr. William C. McGee of Yellow Frame Presbyterian Church in Frelinghuysen Township. Rev. Condict had left the Blairstown Presbyterian Church in December 1841. He had been replaced by an interim minister named David Longmore, who was with the church for a little over the year. Sally was married on 18 June 1842, but for some reason the pastor of Yellow Frame did her wedding ceremony rather Rev. Longmore. Some time during this decade Jacob and Rachael's son William reached maturity and moved out of the house. Only two daughters were left at home. Jacob and Rachael's daughter Mary Margaret (given as Mary Ann on the census) was still at home and attended Blair Academy, which opened in 1848 (Anon 1898). Charlotte, Jacob's daughter by Margaret, was still single and resided with her father and step-mother (Table 2). Jacob continued to farm during the 1840s. According to the 1850 census, Jacob owned real estate valued at $4,000. His son Abram was again listed adjacent to his father on the census. It is likely that the father and son worked the land together.

Table 2: Household of Jacob and Rachael (Read) Lanterman in 1850
1850 United States Federal Census
Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 453A

By 1860, Jacob and Rachael's children had all left the house. The census shows them as living together on their farm in Blairstown Township (table 3). Jacob was a farmer. He owned real estate valued at $6,300 and had a personal estate valued at $4,500. Jacob's son Abram was listed adjacent to his father on the census. He did not own any real estate, so it is probable that he and his father were farming together.

Table 3: Household of Jacob and Rachael (Read) Lanterman in 1860
1860 United States Federal Census
Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 17

During the Civil War, Jacob and Rachael's son William served in the Union Army. By 1864, William had moved to Ohio. He joinned a National Guard Unit, the 144^th infantry, company H, was mustered in on 11 May 1864 and mustered out on 31 August 1864 (NPS). While William returned from the war, two of his first cousins did not: Sgt. David R. Martin of the 49th Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company K, who died 13 November 1861at Camp Nevin in Kentucky (Stevens 2004, Union Brick Cemtery) and Private John Ogden Martin of 15th Regiment, New Jersey Infantry, Company B who was killed in action 12 May 1864, during the march to Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia (Snell 1881; Union Brick Cemetery). These men were the sons of Rachael's sister Lydia Read Martin. Another cousin, Pvt. David R. Konkle (son of Rachael's sister Mary Read Konkle) served in the New Jersey 31st and 37th regiments. He returned from the war, but was wounded during some point in his service (National Archives Civil War Pension Index: 12 June 1880, application number 373192, certificate number 579200; NPS).

Table 4: Household of George Andress in 1870
1870 United States Federal Census
Blairstown Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 36B

It should be stated that the owner and editor of the paper was Jacob L. Bunnell, Rachael's grandson and a great-nephew of Mary Konkle and Lydia Martin. In addition, one of the printers working for the paper was Charles Edward Brugler, who was married to Rachael's granddaughter Rosa Bunnell and who was Mary Konkle's grandson. The gathering took place around the time of Rachael Lanterman's 73^rd birthday, which was on 31 January 1877.

Rachael died on 6 January 1890, less than a month before her 86^the birthday. She was buried with Jacob in the J.I. Blair Cemetery in Blairstown. Their graves were visited on 10 June 2000 and are inscribed as follows:

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