Served in American Revolutionary War
Married and had 7 children


Name Cemetery Location Reference
DILDINE, Abram Yellow Frame Cem Warren Co NJ 38
Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary
Patriots, Vol.1, p.257 —Serial:
10448; Volume: 2

The first of the Mains family to come to Stillwater was Jacob, grandfather to A.T. Mains, now of Stillwater. Jacob made his advent in Stillwater in 1794, coming from Warren County (or what is now Warren County), and purchased of John Puder (grandfather to Albert Puder, of Andover) a considerable tract of land that included the present farms of A.T. and H.S. Mains, and upon which John Puder had been living. Jacob Mains’ children numbered eight, and were named Peter, Frederick, Mary, Catharine, Abram, Christianne, Sophia, and Elizabeth. Of these, the only one living is Elizabeth Wintermute, of Newton, aged eighty-three. Peter, Frederick, and Abram became farmers in Stillwater. Abram and John F. Mains, of Stillwater, are sons of Peter Mains. Abram T., of Stillwater, is the only one living of Abram Mains’ eight children. Frederick’s living children are Henry S., Jesse T., Mrs. Alpheus Hibler, Mrs. Phineas Drake, Mrs. Electa La Barre, Mrs. Dorinda Cook, Mrs. Jane Hull.
When Jacob Mains made his settlement in Stillwater his neighbors were John Swartswelder, John Crouse, Henry Divers, Conrad Hammond, Andrew Robbins, Abram Dildine, Richard Allen, John Kimball, Peter Wintermute, Abram Shafer, Samuel Harker, John Hough.
In 1816, Tunis Tunison, a blacksmith, came to the neighborhood. His only son, Tunis, now lives on the farm owned a hundred years or more ago by Daniel Harker.
Living near the village of Swartswood is old Mary Pittinger, now in her ninety-fourth year. She was born in Hunterdon County, whence, in 1789, her father, William Snyder, came to Stillwater; he settled at the foot of the Blue Mountains, and made a bargain to clear for William Van Doren some land the latter had bought of a Mr. Opdyke. In that vicinity the residents were William Shotwell, Daniel South, Mark Hoey, Pipe Miller, a fiddler (upon the present Alanson Kay place), George Wintermute, and Jacob Snyder.

• Dildine, Abraham, d. March 7, 1817, aged 53.0.24.
• Dildine, Abram; wife Jemima d. March 2, 1822, in 61st yr.
• Dildine, Abram (Rev. War marker), d. Oct. 10, 1842, in 84th yr.
• Dildine, Mary. See William Dildine.
• Dildine, William, d. July 24, 1848 in 59th yr.; wife Mary, d. May 5, 1847, aged 55.3.28; daughter Mary, d. April 13, 1855, aged 29.2.16.
• Dildine, William; wife Mary; dau. Mar--ha (Martha?) H., d. Sept. 10, 1831, aged 11.8.2.
Yellow Frame Presbyterian Church
Frelinghuysen Township, Warren County, NJ
Route 94 at the border of Sussex and Warren Counties
From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Volumes 33 and 34, 1958 and 1959