1723 On 14 of month 9, Thomas Ridgway Jr and Mary Ong, published their intentions of marriage. at the Little Egg Harbor meeting, Ocean County, New Jersey. [1]
1723 On 12 of month 10, Thomas Ridgway Jr and Mary Ong, published their intentions of marriage.for the second time at the Little Egg Harbor meeting, Ocean County, New Jersey. They were left to accomplish their marriage. [2]
1723 On 9 of month 11, Jacob Ong and Richard Osborne reported that Thomas Ridgway's was accomplish in good order. [3] [4] [5]
A biosketch of Thomas Ridgway and Mary Ong reports [6]:
Thomas, son of' Thomas Ridgway, Sr., in the year 1723, married Mary, daughter of Jacob Ong, Sr., of Little Egg Harbor. This Thomas Ridgway resided on the Oliver Parker farm, and this farm was owned and occupied by Ridgways for four generations in succession.
Thomas Ridgway's children were Job, John, Jeremiah, Ann and Sarah.
Thomas Ridgway, b. 1 mo. 14, 1701, son of Thomas and Anne (Pharo), married, in the year 1723, Mary, b. 1 mo. 14, 1704, daughter of Jacob and Elizabeth Ong. Thomas and Mary (Ong) Ridgway were the parents of Ann Ridgway, b. 2 mo. 5, 1725, who married James Willits, at the Little Egg Harbor Monthly meeting, in the year 1741. She was an eminent Quaker minister, and died 1 mo. 24, 1815, aged eighty-nine years." [7]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 75, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 75, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1715-1762, 75, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 339, [HathiTrust].
[5] Leah Blackman, "History of Little Egg Harbor Township," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), Appendix: 171-420, 427-468, at 201, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] Leah Blackman, "History of Little Egg Harbor Township," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), Appendix: 171-420, 427-468, at 273, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[7] Alfred C. Willits, James and Ann Willits of Little Egg Harbor, N. J. (1898), 9, [FHLCatalog].