1751 On 12 of month 11, David Stokes was born. [1]
1759 Ann Lancaster, daughter of John Lancaster and Elizabeth Barlow, was born. [2] [3]
1784 On 15 of month 4, David Stokes and Ann Lancaster were married. [4] [5]
1803 On May 10, Robert French and sister Elizabeth Stokes were married at Chester meeting, Burlington County. David and Ann Stokes were witnesses. [6]
1810 On May 12, David Stokes and Isaac Newton of Northampton, request a division. Land conveyed to David Stokes and Isaac newton with William Spence by Enoch Haines, by deed 22 February 1776. William Spence having conveyed his one third part to "us". Recorded 12 May 1810. [7]
1820 On 1st of 1st month, David Stokes and wife Ann, of Wellingborough Twp, Burlington County, conveyed a tract of cedar swamp to sons Israel Stokes, John L Stokes, and Charles Stokes. David had inherited the land from his father John Stokes, by will, in [left blank]. John Stokes had purchased the land from the executors of John Stratton, whose will was dated 19d of 11m 1763. [8]
1829 On 9th day of 6th month, David Stokes dated his will and divided a pine land and cedar swamp among his heirs. Sons Isreal Stokes and Charles Stokes each received one third, and four children (Henry, Martha, David, and Lydia) of deceased son John received the other third of the pine land and cedar swamp. [9]
1830 On 27 of month 9, David Stokes died. [10]
1832 On 17 of 9th month, Israel Stokes and Charles Stokes of Wellingborough Twp, Burlington County, on the one part, and Granville Woolman of the other part, partitioned the tract described in the 1820 deed. [11]
1835 Ann (Lancaster) Stokes died on 25 of month 9. [12] another record reports he death on October 7, 1835. [13]
1843 On 1st of 21st month, Isreal Stokes and Charles Stokes and four children (Henry, Martha, David, and Lydia) of deceased son John, partitioned the pine land and cedar swamp mentioned in the 1829 will of David Stokes. Martha Stokes was married to George Stokes. [14]
The will of Ann Lancaster Stokes [15]:
I, Ann Stokes, of the Township of Willingborough, in the county of Burlington, and State of New Jersey, being of sound mind and memory, do make and publish this my last Will and Testament. 1st, I give and bequeath to my friend and kinswoman, Mary Stokes as a token of respect for her attention and kindness to me in sickness and other times, my best cloak also my silver pin and twenty dollars. 2nd, I give and bequeath the residue of my wearing apparel to my three daughters-in-law, Sarah, Rachel, and Tacy Stokes, to be divided between them equally. I also give to my daughter-in-law, Sarah Stokes, my large arm chair, the mahogany chairs and large looking glass, all of which are in her possession. To my daughter-in-law, Rachel Stokes, I give one of my mahogany chairs and bureaus, and to my daughter-in-law, Tacy Stokes, I give my high drawers and the articles on them, my small looking glass, carpet irons and two mahogany chairs. To my Grand-daughter, Martha Stokes, I give my high post bed stead, now at Rachel Stokes, and also the bed and bedding I now occupy and the curtains for high bed steads. To my grand-daughter, Lydla Stokes, I give my field curtains. To my grand-daughters, Hannah, Alice, and Ann Stokes, I give my large silver spoons, share and share alike. To my grand-daughter, Ann Stokes, aforesaid, I give my silver teaspoons. I give to my grand-daughter, Susan Stokes, my dressing table, and to my grandson, Jarret Stokes, my chest. And my mahogany breakfast table, I give to my friend Mariah (Stokes) Woolman, wife of John Woolman. I order my son Charles Stokes to pay to my grandson Henry Stokes forty dollars. All the residue of my Estate, after paying my just debts and funeral expenses, I give to my sons Israel and Charles Stokes, share and share alike. And in case either of my aforesaid sons should die before me, then in that case what would have been such son's share, had he survived me, I direct to go to his children, share and share alike. Lastly, I appoint my two sons, Israel Stokes and Charles Stokes, executors of this my Testament and last will. Ann Stokes. Seal. Witnesses: Joseph Lundy, William M Rogers.
A biosketch reports [16]:
David, third child and second son of John (2) and Hannah (Stogdelle) Stokes, was born in Burlington county, January 12, 1752, died there September 27, 1830. He married, April 15, 1784, Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Barlow) Lancaster, of Gwynedd Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and the granddaughter of Thomas and Phebe (Wordell) Lancaster. Her grandfather had emigrated from England to America about June, 1711,and was married in the Wrightstown Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in October, 1725. His wife, Phebe, was the daughter of John Wordell, a minister among Friends who had emigrated from Wales, settled first in Boston, and later on in Wrightstown. His daughter, Phebe (Wordell) Lancaster, died at the residence of her son, John, at Richland, Pennsylvania, aged over ninety-five years. Her husband, Thomas Lancaster, was a member of the Richland Meeting and became a distinguished minister in that society. The Meeting granted him a certificate to travel and preach in Barbadoes and the West Indies, and having fulfilled his mission, he was returning home when he was taken sick and died, being buried at sea, about 1750. Ann (Lancaster) Stokes died September 25, 1835.
"Israel [Stokes] was the son of David Stokes and Ann Lancaster, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Barlow) Lancaster, and the granddaughter of Thomas Lancaster, the emigrant, and Phebe, daughter of John Wardell, the emigrant." [17]
[1] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 444, [HathiTrust].
[2] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 19, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 444, [HathiTrust].
[4] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 444, [HathiTrust].
[5] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 29, 31, names children.
[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1779-1794, 53, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Virginia Alleman Brown, Abstracts of Partitions & Divisions of the New Jersey counties of Monmouth, Mercer, & Burlington (Baltimore: Clearfield, 1993), 54, citing A-282.
[8] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), M2-65, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[9] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Divisions of Land B-594, FHL film 848868, images 393-395, [FamilySearchImage].
[10] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 444, [HathiTrust].
[11] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Divisions of Land B-188, FHL film 848868, image 161, [FamilySearchImage].
[12] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 444, [HathiTrust].
[13] New Jersey, Deaths and Burials Index, 1798-1971, [AncestryRecord].
[14] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Divisions of Land B-594, FHL film 848868, images 393-395, [FamilySearchImage].
[15] Harry Fred Lancaster, The Lancaster family: A history of Thomas and Phebe Lancaster, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and their descendants, from 1711 to 1902 (1902), 281-282, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[16] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 580, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[17] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 485, left column, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].