John Culver
John Culver was born in 1670, by a genealogy of the region's families published in 1895, a son of John Culver, who had been christened at Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1640. He lived at Quakertown, in Groton, Connecticut, on land given him by his father and on a gift of land from Major John Pynchon of Springfield, in thanks for his father's "care, pains and service" in dividing Pynchon's lands. He was a panel maker by trade.
He and his family were Rogerenes, followers of John Rogers of New London. The sect held that no day was holier than another and that the magistrates had no authority over worship, and its members walked into Congregational meetings to protest when their own meetings were broken up. They were fined, jailed and whipped for it. His wife was Sarah, called Sara Winthrop in the 1895 genealogy.
About 1735 he led a party of Rogerenes from Groton to New Jersey, by one account twenty-one people, with his wife and his sons and their families. They settled first on Schooley's Mountain in Morris County, then moved south near Waretown on the shore, and about eleven years later came back to the mountain. His daughter Esther stayed behind in Groton as the wife of John Waterhouse. His sons Robert and Thomas bought land on and near the mountain in 1748 and 1749.
He died in December 1760, aged ninety, and was buried in the family graves on Schooley's Mountain, on land that was later the Martenis farm.
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Cite: Heirology, "John Culver (1670-1760)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-culver-1670-1760-4f4b2c.