As written in the "Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jer sey" Vol. I
Bartholomew and Katherine, with most of their family, came to Monmouth County, New Jersey, about the year 1666, and were among the founders of the new settlements that took the name of Shrewsbury and other well known names . Bartholomew was a member of the first Assembly of East New Jersey, which met December 14, 1667.
He was buried on his land in Shrewbury township in a half acre not far from a branch of the Shrewsbury River, and several of the family were also buried there, and it is highly probable that at least two generations of the Wests were also buried there. Near this burial plot was the burial plot of Robert West, Sr., another of the Wests who came from Rhode Island. In deeds executed in 1697 and 1703, these burial plots were "reserved forever,"but all traces of them are now lost.
These early Wests of East Jersey were probably of the faith and Persuasion of the Puritans. After the death of Barthlolmew his widow Katherine married Nicholas Brown, of Shrewsbury, the same who gave the lot at Shrewsbury in 1706 on which the Episcopal church there was first built, a nd on which the present edifice stands.
More About Bartholomew West and Catherine Almy: Marriage: Abt. 1653, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island.1917
Children of Bartholomew West and Catherine Almy are:
Bartholomew West (b. 1627, d. 1703)
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