M8. (i.) MATTHEW RIDGEWAY³, was born 20 October 1780 and died 25 October 1820. He married Elizabeth Ludlow. Matthew was a tailor in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania. He also served as the Pike County Sheriff and as a Justice of the Peace (Kern 1938).

M9. (ii.) JAMES RIDGEWAY³, was born unknown and died 2 September 1845 in Delaware, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey. He married Ann Barnes. James was a tavern operator (Kern 1938). His first tavern appears to have been in Blairstown which is currently in the township of Blairstown. The town was originally located in Knowlton Township and was first known as Smith's Mills. The Smith family operated grist and saw mills on the Paulinskill at that location during the 1770s. After a post office was established at Smith's Mills on 3 March 1819, the name of the hamlet was changed to Butts Bridge. The land belonged to Jacob Butts who had built a tavern there in 1815 and who owned a bridge over the Paulinskill near the tavern. According to Snell (1881:641) the tavern was a log structure. The post office was probably kept in the tavern. James Ridgeway took over Butt's tavern in 1824. How long he was in Butt's Bridge is unknown. The post office changed the name of the town to Gravel Hill on 25 August 1825. Gordon's 1834 Gazetteer of New Jersey describes Gravel Hill as a small village with six to eight dwellings, a tavern, a store, a tannery, and a grist mill (page 60). Ridgeway's tavern in Gravel Hill may have served as the local court house. This was not unusual during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as taverns were one of the few public buildings that could accomodate large crowds. As late as 1825 or 1830, a whipping post stood in front of the Gravel Hill tavern which was used to enforce punishments meted out by the court (Snell 1881:642). James Ridgeway also kept a tavern in the hamlet of Sodom in Knowlton Township (Kern 1938). Why the local inhabitants called the place Sodom is not known. However, one of the earliest structures in the hamlet was a tavern. The more religious locals may have likened the place to Sodom in the book of Genesis. The tavern in question was built by Andrew Smith. Smith owned most of land in the area between 1816 and 1843. His tavern was known as the "Mansion House." Whether Ridgeway bought the tavern from Smith, or rented it from him is not currently known. In 1834, the hamlet of Sodom contained about six dwellings, a tavern (the "Mansion House"), a store, a grist mill and saw mill and a post office (Gordon 1834:48). In 1843, Andrew Smith sold most of his real estate holdings to John I. Blair. Blair subdivided the property into village lots and began to sell it. By 1846, the village was still called Sodom. It contained only a few dwellings (Barber and Howe 1846:508). Ridgeway's final tavern was in Columbia in Knowlton Township. The village was begun in 1812 by Francis Meyerhoof and a colony of Germans who settled in the area and began a glass works. By 1817 there were four taverns/hotels in the town which serviced travelers crossing the Delaware River on the ferry at Columbia (Snell 1881:630). All of Ridgeway's taverns were located on the old post road which ran through Gravel Hill and Sodom to the ferry on the river. The current New Jersey route 94 more-or-less follows the course of the old post road. In 1834 the village was down to two taverns/hotels. It also had about 20 dwellings, a Presbyterian Church, a store, a saw mill, a post office and the glass works (Gordon 1843:33). Columbia was a much larger town than either Gravel Hill or Sodom. By 1846, the year after Ridgeway died, the village had 25 dwellings, a saw mill and several mechanic shops. The Methodists now occupied the local church and the glass works was gone (Barber and Howe 1846:507). Toward the end of his life, Ridgeway settled down on a farm outside the village of Warrington in Knowlton Township. Warrington is located south of Columbia. He died in the village of Delaware in Knowlton Township in 1845.

M10. (iii.) REBECCA RIDGEWAY³, was born unknown and died 26 March 1808. She married Jesse Finch. He ran a store in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania. Rebecca is supposed to be buried in Milford (Kern 1938).

M11. (iv.) CHARLES B. RIDGEWAY³, was born 4 December 1790 in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey and died 15 September 1851 in Kimballs, Pennsylvania. He married first, Elizabeth Barnes and second, Sarah Corsen. Charles was a shoemaker in Lackawaxen, Pike County, Pennsylvania (Kern 1938).

M12. (v.) GERTRUDE (or GIRTRUDE) RIDGEWAY³, was born 10 April 1792 and died 13 September 1864 (date from Kern (1938), Reuther (n.d.) has 11 September 1864). She married John Kern, Sr., who was born circa 1788 in New Jersey and died 28 November 1857, age 69 years. He farmed near Hainesburg, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey (Kern 1938). The 1850 United States Federal Census places the family in Knowlton Township. John owned a farm valued at $3,600. The household consisted of John and Gertrude, their son John, Jr. and three young women with the surname of Randell (in the order listed on the census): Catherine Randell (age 27), Caroline Randell (age 1) and Semantha Randell (age 14). Semantha attended school in 1850 (1850 United States Federal Census, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey, page 549, 31 July 1850). John's death was reported in the Warren Journal on 5 December 1857: "In Knowlton, on Saturday the 28th ult., John Kern, Esq., aged 69 years." Gertrude and John are buried in Hainesburg Cemetery, Hainesburg, Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey. Child of Gertrude Ridgeway and John Kern:

M13. (vi.) SARAH RIDGEWAY³, was born unkown and died 5 June 1820. She married William Cameron. He was the sheriff in Pike County, Pennsylvania. Sarah is buried in Milford, Pike County, Pennsylvania (Kern 1938).

M14. (vii.) PAMELIA RIDGEWAY³, was born and died unknown. She married Jacob Helms. He was a baker and a miller. The Helms family settled in Wisconsin (Kern 1938).

M15. (viii.) THOMAS JEFFERSON RIDGEWAY³, was born 29 November 1800 in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey and died 29 September 1896 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. He married first, Abbie Beebee and second Mrs. Lucinda Geer. Thomas ran a shoe store in Norwich (Kern 1938).