Research Notes:
1749 Jacob Stokes married Pricilla Ellis, daughter of Joseph Ellis. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
1774 Jacob Stokes was among signers, from Newton Twp, Gloucester County, New Jersey, of a document about the Secretary of State of New Jersey. [6]
1793 Jacob Stokes was named as a freeholder in Newton Twp, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [7]
[1] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 397, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 304, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 15, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[4] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 25, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[5] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 433, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[6] Alfred Miller Heston, South Jersey: a History, 1664-1924 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1924), 347, [AncestryImage].
[7] Alfred Miller Heston, South Jersey: a History, 1664-1924 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1924), 434, [AncestryImage].