"John West (Bartholomew2, Matthew1), was born probably at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, about 1660, and died at Shrewsbury, New Jersey, circa January, 1728. He obtained a patent for fifty acres in Shrewsbury, in the right of his brother, William West, 1 May, 1688,* which small tract he subsequently increased by various purchases until he became a considerable land-holder.
He lived near Christ Church in Shrewsbury, and owned the " Great House," at which place the first election for freeholders of the township took place in March, 1710. The lot on which the first Episcopal church was built, and on which the present church now stands, was deeded 20 May, 1706, by Nicholas Brown, his step-father to " ye Revd & Honorable Society for ye propogation of ye Gospel in Foreign Parts for ye service & worship of God according to ye way & manner of ye church of England, as is now by law established, being in ye town of Shrewsbury, beginning at Nicholas Brown's northwest corner at a walnut stump, bearing southwesterly twelve degrees, westerly from ye Quaker's Meeting-House Chimbley, and from John West's great house chimbley north fifty-eight degrees easterly." The deed was executed in the presence of Thomas Bills, John West, Samuel Dennis, and Joanna Gaunt.
Mr. West was married at Shrewsbury, 15 October, 16944 by Lewis Morris, Esqr, to Jane, daughter of Joseph Wing, deceased, by his wife Jerusha Mayhew. (See Wing Family, No. 6.) She is not named in his will, and was probably deceased at its execution. She witnessed, 29 September, 1692, as Jane Wing, the marriage of Abraham Brown and Leah Clayton, and on 2 July, 1701, that of her brother Joseph Wing to Ann Lippincott." [1].
[1] Mary Elizabeth Sinnott and Josiah Granville Leach, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied Families (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1905), 231, [GoogleBooks].