"Bartholomew West (Matthew1), purchased of William Baulston seventy acres of land in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 23 February, 1651. Like his brother Robert, he was one of the original purchasers of land in Monmouth County, East Jersey, in 1665, and he was one of the deputies from Shrewsbury to the General Assembly of East Jersey, 14 December, 1667. (Old Times in Monmouth, 109). He is also named in the list of patentees and associates of East Jersey, 8 July, 1670. He lived in Shrewsbury on the corner opposite Christ Church. He married Catharine, daughter of William and Audry Almy, (Colonial Records of Rhode Island, Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island) and died before 1675, in which year his widow was the wife of Nicholas Brown, of Shrewsbury. Catharine Almy was born probably at Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1636, and died at Shrewsbury, East Jersey, later than 25 March, 1688. In the year 1675 she received one hundred and eighty acres of land as the widow of Bartholomew West, and, with her then husband, Nicholas Brown, two hundred and ten acres." [1] [2]
"Katherine Brown, the widow of Bartholomew West, of Shrewsbury, in right of herself and deceased husband, from 1666, 90 acres each - 180 acres; and for her two sons and daughter Stephen, William, and Audry West, 60 each - 180 acres." [3]
[1] Mary Elizabeth Sinnott and Josiah Granville Leach, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied Families (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1905), 227, [GoogleBooks].
[2] William S. Hornor, This Old Monmouth of Ours (1932, reprint 1974), 208, [FHLBook].
[3] Edwin Salter, A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties (1890), 28, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].