John West
of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co., New Jersey
Husband of Jane Wing

From the book; Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey Vol 1 John West, son of Bartholomew and Katherine (Almy) West, was married to Jane Wing, at Shrewsbury, October 15, 1694, by Lewis Morris. Jane Wing was a daughter of Joseph and Jerusha (Mayhew) Wing, of Massachusetts. The name of Mayhew (or Mahew) has been kept up in this line. The home of John West was at Shrewsbury, on the opposite side of the road west of the Episcopal church. He survived his wife, but died evidently rather suddenly, in March, 1728, and was probably buried in the family burial lot, and his issue, then living, was as follows: Bartholomew, Joseph, John, Stephen, Mayhew or Matthew, Jerusha, Catherine, Judidah, Audrey, Lavinia and Jane. The oldest son, Bartholomew West, married Susannah Shinn, of Burlington county, October 5, 1727, and in 1740 he bought of James Laing a farm northwest of Allentown, New Jersey, now in Washington township, Mercer county, where he died during the war of the revolution, according to a tradition, of small pox contracted of his son William, who had caught the disease of the British at New Brunswick, which developed after his escape from them, and he was probably buried on his farm.