Five Herbert brothers settled along the Manasquan River in northern Ocean County, New Jersey in the early 1800's. The area, though without defined boundaries, is still called the "Herbertsville" section of the county, and now lies within Brick Township about ten miles north of the town of Toms River. In the mid-nineteenth century, the Herberts had their trading center and postal address at Toms River, though they lived north of the town. A portrait of two Herbert children (it is uncertain which), now in the NGA, was painted in 1857 by the German-born "naive" artist Lambert Sachs, then working in New Jersey. It passed through the family until c. 1945.