Barnabas Day married Nancy Agens and took Jonas, aged 9, (Jonas is Nancy's younger brother) as an apprentice to she making. Mr. Day moved to Newark, N. J. and brought Jonas with him. When Jonas was 16, Mr. Day opened a store in New York with Jonas as clerk. At the end of two years Mr. Day sold out and Jonas went with John Field in Chatham Street with whom he remained until his health became impaired. He returned to Newark with his savings, about $250, and remained idle for a few months. Acting under the advice of Jonathan Cory, John Baldwin and Jesse Baldwin, he bought a horse and wagon, took in a stock of tea, coffee, powder and shot and set off On a trip into Pennsylvania. He traded for country produce and disposed of his wares in Newark. The enterprise was not entirely successful. He remained during the following fall and winter with his brother James, but early in the following spring rented a store on Broad Street, spent $15 for leather, borrowed a shoemakers seat, and with $5 in hand opened his shoe store. Being well known in Newark, he soon built up a profitable business and took on an apprentice. Newark at that time was somewhat of a community of shoemakers, there being 600 in a total population of 3600 to 3800. Soon after this the Overseers of the Poor had in their charge an orphan boy of 9 and he was bound over as an apprentice. Business increased and Jonas rented the entire building. About this time Mr. Parkhurst, father of Henry Parkhurst, urged Jonas to buy the place for $1,000, offering to accept ten notes for $100 each to be paid in ten annual payments, and to furnish enough business to pay the interest. Jonas occupied the building as a store and dwelling until the time of his death. The property was #150 and #603 Broad Street. His sons William and Thomas continued the shoe business until 1901 as W. A. & T. V. Agens. Obituaries referred to Jonas as one of the best known men in Newark, a prominent Mason, and one of the oldest and most zealous members of the Second Presbyterian Church. In 1888, the couple celebrated their sixty-second wedding anniversary with a big party, a cartload of flowers was sent by relatives and friends. Both are buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Newark, N. J. Ancestors of Eliza Price Agens are traced back to the 1500's in "Sayre Family - Lineage of Thomas Sayre, a Founder of Southhampton" by Banta