Other Events:

• Immigration: Bef 1676, New Jersey
• Residence: 1676, Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; Received an additional 240 acres.
• Residence: 1677, Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; Was granted by the Proprietors 202 acres of land in the vicinity of Middletown.
• Occupation: 1688, Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; Constable
• Residence: 1690, Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; Received another 100 acres.

Notes:

Full text of "Historical and genealogical miscellany: data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey" https://archive.org/details/historicalgeneal03instil
Page 214 DORSET Of MONMOUTH COUNTY
JAMES DORSET came from Bermuda to New Jersey. He located in the vicinity of Middletown, where he was granted by the Proprietors, June 20, 1677, two hundred and two acres of land [elsewhere, May, 1677].
1676, November. He received an additional two hundred and forty acres, and finally, March 26, 1690, one hundred acres, both in Middletown. He may have been rich in lands, but in purse he was poor.
In 1687, when called upon for the Quit rent of his two hundred and two acres, amounting to £8-8-4, he paid nothing and the tax collector was constrained to enter "Received Nothing he is poor." His joint properties, amounting to five hundred acres, lay about four miles west of Middletown, and two miles south east of Keyport.
1688. James Dorset was Constable.
A little north of the center of what was his property, stood the Bethany Meeting House for many years. It has however since been moved a mile and more toward Keyport. The first dwelling on this property was built directly south of the old Dorset burying-ground; the later structure stands today, with the graveyard lying about one hundred yards to the south west of it, and on the east side of the road running south from the site of the Old Bethany Meeting House.
The origin of James Dorset is unknown. He died in or prior to 1721.
It is thought he married after his arrival in this vicinity.
Issue
2 Joseph Dorset
3 A Daughter; who married Mr. Cheeseman.
4 A Daughter; who married Mr. Wilson.
5 A Daughter; who married Mr. Bassett.
6 A Daughter; who married Mr. Modison. [There was an Aaron Modison, an early settler in Middletown.]
7 A Daughter [?]; married Jobs.


Possible first wife: Elizabeth 1644-1675 BIRTH 1644, Devonshire, Bermuda DEATH 1675, Devonshire, Bermuda


Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9624760/james-dorset

Settled in Hazlet/Holmdel in 1676. Buried here on his farm, part of which became a cemetery, descendants occupied the farm until 1840.

James married Ann Pew about 1680 in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ. Ann was born about 1660 in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; died after 1761. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph Dorset was born on 21 Apr 1681 in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; died on 12 Oct 1741 in Middletown, Monmouth County, NJ; was buried in Dorsett Town Historic Cemetery, Morrell Corners, Monmouth County, NJ.

James married Anne Harriot in 1629 in Bermuda. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]