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Notes for Samuel Rogers and Mary Kirkbride

Research Notes:

1770 "This is to give Notice, to those whom it may concern, That the Subscribers intend to petition the Assembly of New-Jersey, at their next Sessions, to pass an Act, for making the Bridge over Crosswick's Creek, below Richard Brown's Mill, a County Charge. Samuel Rogers, Isaac Rogers, Richard Brown. Allen Town, in New-Jersey, February 12, 1770." Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 2149, March 1, 1770. [1]

1773 On 24 December, Samuel Rogers and Mary Kirkbridge were married. [2]

1774 Mary Rogers (formerly Kirkbride) was disowned for marrying out of unity at Falls Monthly meeting. [3]

1778 Samuel Rogers of Bordentown, perhaps this one, advertised to sell a house and lot in Bordentown; a house and lot in Upper Freehold, and a plantation of 200 acres near Allens-town in Middlesex County, New Jersey. [4]

1780 Samuel Rogers of Bordentown, perhaps this one, advertised about a lost or stolen sorrel horse. [5]

1783 On 7 of month 5, Mary Rogers, wife of Samuel Rogers, was on a list of members of the Upper Freehold particular meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. [6]

Mary Kirkbride, born 18 Jan 1728-29, daughter of Joseph married Samuel Rogers. No other evidence is known to me linking to this Samuel Rogers. [7]


Footnotes:

[1] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 27. (Newspapers 8, 1770-1771) (1905), 70, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[2] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 2. (Marriages and Naturalizations) (1876), 251, [GoogleBooks].

[3] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1024, [HathiTrust].

[4] Francis B. Lee, Documents relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Extracts from American Newspapers, Vol. 2 1778 (Trenton, New Jersey: 1903), 27, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [HathiTrust].

[5] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Extracts from American Newspapers relating to New Jersey (Trenton, New Jersey: 1914), 410, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[6] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Minutes, 1707-1842, 9, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 550, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].