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"Samuel Stokes, son of Joseph and Judith, when a young man, purchased 300 acres in Chester Township upon which he built his first home. He married Hannah Hinchman in 1741 and settled on this plantation. In 1753 he purchased 130 acres on the road leading from Moorestown to Riverton near the former village upon which he erected a fine house which he named Harmony Hall ... John Hinchman Stokes, son of Samuel and Hannah Stokes was born in Harmony Hall in 1764." [1]

1734 Samuel Stokes purchased land in Chester Twp from James and Elizabeth Dunlap on May 21. [2]

1739 Samuel Stokes voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [3]

1741 On 7 of month 3, Samuel Stokes son of Joseph Stokes of Burlington County married Hannah Hinchman, daughter of John Hinchman of Gloucester County, New Jersey at Haddonfield. Witnessed by Jos Stokes, Jo Hinchman, Thos Cole, Hannah Cole, Matt Allen, Martha Allen, Rebeca Stokes, Judith Stokes, Jo Hinchman, Wm Hinchman, Jos Stokes Jr, Bathsheba Stokes, and others. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] John Hinchman Stokes born 19th day, 8th month, 1764 was named as the son of Hannah Stokes, born 21st day, 1st month, 1723, widow of Samuel [11]. Samuel Stokes and Hannah Hinchman were named as the parents of Elizabeth Stokes [12].

1742 Hannah Stokes, perhaps this one, was named as a grand-daughter of Sarah Bull Harrison of Gloucester. [13]

1745 Bathsheba Stokes and Isaac Evans were married on December 5, in Chester Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Samuel and Hannah Stokes and others. [14]

1745 Samuel Stokes, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Chester Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated April 15. [15]

1748 Benjamin Clammans of Burlington petitioned Samuel Stokes of Chester, perhaps this one, to be his guardian. [16] [17]

1754 Samuel Stokes was named executor for the estate of John Buzby of "Willingburrough". [18](John Buzby operated the New Ferry in 1749 from his land in Willingboro to Chester Twp, 1765 advertisement)

1754 Thomas Folkes and Samuel Stokes, executors for the estate of Joshua Wright, deceased, took John Sands to court in Burlington County concerning a debt. [19]

1760 Samuel Stokes was executor for the will of Nathan Middleton of Chester Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [20]

1765 The New Ferry on Rancokas Creek, Chester Twp, Burlington County was advertized for sale by Samuel Stokes and John Lippincott, executors. [21]

1774 Samuel Stokes was taxed in Chester Twp, Burlington County, for 300 acres of land, 23 cattle and horses, and 2 tenants or slaves. [22]

1774 Thomas Hooton, son of William and Ann Hooton, married Atlantic Stokes, widow, daughter of Joshua and Mary Bispham, on December 4. They were all of Evesham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Samuel and Hannah Stokes, and many other relatives from the Bispham, Stokes, and Hooton families. [23]

1784 In his will, Samuel Stokes granted land to son Joseph Stokes. Samuel had purchased land in Chester Twp from James and Elizabeth Dunlap on May 21. [24]

1793 Samuel Stokes was named as a freeholder in Waterford Twp, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [25]

Research Notes:

Haines reports that "Hannah Hinchman, the wife of Samuel Stokes, was the dau. of John Hinchman, Jr., and Sarah, his first wife. (All of his children were by the first wife.)" [26] Some researchers insert another generation between Hannah and John Hinchman Jr.


Footnotes:

[1] George Decou, Moorestown and Her Neighbors, Historical Sketches (1973), 132, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), I-334, mentions this transaction, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[3] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 190, columns 3 and 4, [GoogleBooks].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Certificates of Removal Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 84, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[6] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 432, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[7] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1907), 207, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[8] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 396, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[9] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 244, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[10] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 250, [HathiTrust].

[11] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 143.

[12] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 293, [HathiTrust].

[13] 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), 74, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[14] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, 12, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[15] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 425, [InternetArchive].

[16] 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), 94, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[17] 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), 99, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[18] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 50, [InternetArchive].

[19] Court of Common Pleas, 1730-1789, Burlington County, New Jersey, 153, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[20] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 221, [InternetArchive].

[21] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 24. (Newspapers 5, 1762-1765) (1902), 480, of 480-81, The Pennsylvania Gazette, 14 February, 1765, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].

[22] Burlington County Ratables 1778-1822 (Viewable only at FamilySearch libraries), [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[23] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[24] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), I-334, mentions this transaction, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[25] Alfred Miller Heston, South Jersey: a History, 1664-1924 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1924), 434, [AncestryImage].

[26] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 13, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].