1740 Joseph Curtis and Anne Watson declared their intention to marry for the second time. Dated on 3 of month 2, in minutes of the Chesterfield meeting. [1] [2] [3]
1740 The wedding was reported to have been orderly. Dated in the minutes on 1 of month 3. [4]
1746 The will of Marmaduke Watson, of Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, named daughter Ann Curtis and her daughters Diademe and Elizabeth. [5] [6]
1751 Joseph Curtis was appointed guardian for John Edwards, son of Owen Edwards and grandson of Daniel Farnsworth. Thomas Folkes was fellow bondsman. [7]
1751-57 Joseph Curtis was a resident of Bordentown Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [8]
1755 A son was born on May 15, to Joseph and Anne Cortis. [9]
1760 Joseph Curtis was executor for the will of Jacob Garwood of Mansfield Twp, Burlington County. [10]
1761 Joseph Curtis and Nathan and Rebekah Wright witnessed the will of John Hammell [relationship unknown] of Mansfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [11]
1765 The will of Joseph Curtis, miller of Mansfield Twp, Burlington County, was dated 26 Jan and proved 4 March. All real and personal to be sold, and proceeds divided among my widow and children. Executors my wife Ann, and her brother Marmaduke Watson. Witnesses Isaac Cowgill Jr, Samuel Harris, Adin Pancoast. [12]
1765 The inventory, February 18, was valued at 744.11.11 pounds; made by Joseph English and Samuel Farnsworth. [13]
1766 Ann Curtis witnessed the will of Joseph Woods of Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County. Marmaduke Watson was bondsman. [14]
1766 Ann Pancoast, sister, and children of John Curtis, brother, and children of Joseph Curtis, brother, were named in the will of Elizabeth Cooper of Burlington County. Dated October 20. [15]
1767 Jonathan Kirkbride and Elizabeth Curtis, daughter of Joseph Curtis, were married on November 18, at Bordentown. Witnessed by Ann and Joseph Curtis, and many others. [16]
1768 Anne Curtis placed an advertisement to sell about 30 acres in West-New-Jersey, in Burlington County, within about half a mile of Bordentown, formerly known as Black Creek Forge. The land was from the estate of Joseph Curtis, deceased, and Aaron Watson. Placed by Marmaduke Watson, Anne Curtis, and Aaron Watson, executors. [17]
1772 Account of Peter Ellis, Executor of Peter Harvey and Anne Ivins, late Anne Curtis, Executrix of her husband, Joseph Curtis which Peter Harvey and Joseph Curtis were Exexutors of Jacob Garwood. Lands sold for £637.10.0. Dated November 12. [18]
Research Notes:
"Joseph Curtis, father of Elizabeth (Curtis) Kirkbride, was a son of Thomas Curtis, of Ogston, Burlington county, and his wife, Elizabeth Ellis, married at Chesterfield, November 21, 1694 ; grandson of John Curtis, one of the earliest English settlers in West Jersey, owning one-fifteenth of a Proprietary right in the Province, and serving as a member of Assembly in 1682-83-84-85, and holding commission as a Justice in 1690, and until his death in 1695." [19]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1684-1738, 17, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 57.
[3] Lewis D. Cook, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 53 (1965), 129-32, at 245.
[4] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Meeting, Minutes, 1688-1809, 190, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 518, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[6] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 136, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
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[8] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 456, [HathiTrust].
[9] Frank H. Stewart, Stewart's Genealogical and Historical Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1918), 7, [InternetArchive].
[10] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 157-58, [InternetArchive].
[11] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 173, [InternetArchive].
[12] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 102, citing Lib. 12, p. 62, [InternetArchive].
[13] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 102, [InternetArchive].
[14] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 486, [InternetArchive].
[15] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 89, [InternetArchive].
[16] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 93, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[17] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 26. (Newspapers 7, 1768-1769) (1904), 55, citing Newspaper: Pennsylvania Chronicle, Feb 22-29, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[18] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 158, citing Lib. 14, p. 501, [InternetArchive].
[19] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 555, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].