1730 Joseph Stokes was born on 22 of month 1. [1]
1736 Samuel Stokes son of Joseph Stokes of Burlington County married Hannah Hinchman on May 7, at Haddonfield. Witnessed by Joseph Stokes Junior. [2]
1745 Bathsheba Stokes and Isaac Evans were married on December 5, in Chester Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Joseph Stokes Jr and others. [3]
1757 Joseph Stokes and Atlantic Bispham announced, at the Haddonfield meeting, on 9 of month 5, their intention to marry. [4] [5]
1757 Joseph Stokes married Atlantic Bispham. Atlantic Bispham was the daughter of Joshua Bispham and Martha and was born upon the Atlantic Ocean. She was named by the captain of the vessel. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
1757 The orderly marriage of Joseph Stokes and Atlantic Bispham was reported, on 13 of month 6, to the Haddonfield meeting. [15] [16]
The names of the children of Joseph and Atlantick Stokes were recorded with birthdates in Evesham Quaker meeting records. [17]
1755-59 Joseph Stokes, perhaps this one, was elected freeholder in Chester Twp, Burlington County. [18]
1759 Joseph Stokes Jr was executor for the will of Mary Bishop, widow, of Evesham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Atlantic Stokes was a witness. [19]
1774 Joseph Stokes Esq was taxed in Chester Twp, Burlington County, for 130 acres of land and 7 cattle and horses. [20]
1774 Thomas Hooton and Atlantica Stokes, on 10 of month 11, signified their intentions of marriage at the Evesham meeting. [21]
1774 Thomas Hooton, son of William and Ann Hooton, married Atlantic Stokes, widow, daughter of Joshua and Mary Bispham, all of Evesham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey, on December 4. Witnessed by many relatives from the Bispham, Stokes, and Hooton families. [22]
1774 The marriage of Thomas Hooton and Atlantica Stokes was reported orderly, at the Evesham meeting, on 8 of month 12. [23]
1786 The account of Joseph Stokes, late of Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey, was prepared by Joseph Stokes, Joseph Roberts, executors, on May 16. Records mentioned Thomas Shinn, the dower of Mary Shinn, legacy left by Payments were made to Samuel Stokes and Sebilla Stokes, among others. Payments were made to Sabilla French [crossed out], Atlantica Hooten, and Joseph Stokes accountant, among others. [24]
1799 Joshua Stokes, son of Joseph (deceased) and Atlantica Stokes, and Rebecca Matlack were married at the Evesham meeting, Burlington County, on 21 of fifth month, 1799. Witnessed by Thomas Hooton, Atlantica Hooton, Charles and Sabilla French, Atlantick Stokes. and others. [25]
1806 Charles French and John Matlack made the inventory, dated July 28, for the estate of Isaac Hooton, of Evesham Twp. Thomas Hooton was administrator. [26]
A biosketch of a descendant of Atlantic and Thomas Hooton reports [27]:
... Miss Elizabeth W. Hooton, who was born in Evesham, now Mount Laurel township, in 1819, July 16, and was a daughter of Joseph and Sarah Hooton. She is descended from Thomas Hooton, who came from England in 1667, and settled in Evesham, near Moorestown, Burlington County, N.J. He married in 1697 Mary Lippin Cott, of Shrewsbury, N.J. Their son, William, born September 2, 1698, was married at Friends' Meeting-house, Evesham, to Ann Sharp, November 21, 1730. Thomas, son of William and Ann Sharp Hooton, born March 17, 1734, married Bathsheba Braddock, January 21, 1760. They had three children - William, Deborah, and Thomas. Bathsheba Braddock Hooton died September 7, 1769; and Thomas Hooton married for his second wife, December I, 1774, Atlantic Bispham Stokes. She was the widow of Joseph Stokes; and she and her first husband were the parents of Joshua Stokes and Sabylla, wife of Charles French, of Moorestown. She was born on shipboard while on the Atlantic Ocean, and named Atlantic by the captain of the vessel. By her second husband, Thomas Hooton, she became the mother of three sons: Benjamin, born April 2, 1776; Joseph, born June 4, 1778; and William, born September 2, 1784.
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[4] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1731-1761, 366, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
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