1659 On 8 of month 10, Peter Fretwell, son of John Fretwell, was born, as registered in the Derbyshire Quaker records. [1]
1680 On 31 August, Mary Scholey married John Rogers at the home of Thomas Lambert, Nottingham. Witnessed by Robert Scholey Junior, Mahlon Stacy, Robert Murfin, John Lambert, Thomas Lambert, William Wood, Willi Billes, Richard Ridgway, Joshua Wright, Peter Frettwell, John Murfine, Katharine Beard, Jo Cooke, and Ann Stancie. [2]
1684 Peter Fretwell was named on the assessment list for Burlington County, New Jersey as owning 100 acres. [3]
1684 Peter Fretwell witnessed the marriage of Mary Foulkes and Samuel Bunting, both of Chesterfield.
1685 On May 13, Peter Fretwell was elected to be a justice in Burlington County, New Jersey. [4]
1688 On 6 September, Elizabeth Wright and Peter Fretwell made their second declaration of intention to marry, as recorded in the Chesterfield, Burlington County, monthly meeting minutes. [5] [6] [7] Peter Fretwell produced a certificate from Burlington. [8]
1688/89 On 21February, Thomas Foulke, son of Thomas Foulke, of Chesterfield, married Elizabeth Curtis, daughter of John Curtis, of Ogston, at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Peter Fretwell and others. [9]
1693 Peter Fretwell inherited a great bible from the estate of Alice Carter of Hopewell, Burlington County, New Jersey. [10]
1695 Peter Frettwell witnessed the will and made the inventory for the estate of Henry Grubb of Burlington County. [11]
1696-99 Peter Fretwell was elected to the West Jersey Council of Proprieters, which represented the proprieter's land interests. [12] [13]
c 1700 Peter Frettwell, perhaps this one, and other Quaker members of the House of Representatives of West Jersey, signed a letter to uphold the interests of the King of England (in response to an apparent plot against King William). [14]
1700 In a dispute between Quakers and Governor Basse, who represented the interests of the king, "Peter Fretwell, former treasurer of the province (West Jersey), was committed to prison for not surrendering his accounts and for not acknowledging the government." [15]
1702 Peter ffretwell was paid 8s 6p for "hare" by St Marys Church of England in Burlington. [16]
1704 Peter Frettwell, among others, was appointed guardian for minor children of William Hackney of Chester Twp, Burlington County, at the time of his death. [17]
1711 On 20 December, Robert Wright and Elizabeth Hyerton were married in Burlington. Witnessed by Duglis Hyarton, Susanna Tayler, Joshua Wright, Joseph Wright, Elizabeth Wright, Samuel Wright, Rebeckah Wright, Mary Wright, Samuel Taylor, Elizabeth Fretwell, Benjamin Wright, Sarah Wright, Rachel Curtis, Frances Scholey, John Scholey, and others. [18] [19]
1712 'The land of Warren county was obtained from the Indians by what is known as "The last purchase made by the Council of Proprietors above the branches of Rarington between the River Delaware and the bounds of the Eastern Division of the said Province." For this purpose, Governor Robert Hunter, on December 5, 1712, "Lycensed and authorized . . Daniel Coxe, Thomas Gardner, Joseph Kirkbride, Thomas Stevenson, Peter Fretwell and John Wills, to call togeather the Indians or native inhabitants that profess to be or call themselves owners of any tract or tracts of Land in the Western Division of the said province and to treet with, bye, purchase and accept of a deed or deeds of sale from said Indians or natives in behalf of themselves and of such others of the proprietors of the said western division as they shall associate to themselves before the making of such purchase eranging of such deed or deeds such quantity or number of ackers of land or lands yet unpurchased as they by virtue of those proprietyes are entitled to take up or to make further purchase of, provided the said purchase be made and entered in the proprietors' office of this province within two years after the date hereof and for soedoing this shall be a sufficient warrant." In accordance with this warrant, the Commissioners called together the Indians of what is now Warren and part of Sussex counties, and on August 18, 1713, secured four deeds from the Indian owners of that territory. The deeds were recorded on December 4, 17 14, on the last day allowable by the commission from Governor Hunter. The following is an abstract from the Indian deed for the Southern part of Warren County. It Is recorded In book BBB of deeds, page 144, in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton: "On August 18, 1713, Sasakamon, Wowapekoshot and Wenaccikoman, Indian Sachemas and owners of land in the western division of New Jersey sold to Daniel Coxe, Matthew Gardner, Thomas Stevenson, Joseph Kirkbride, John Budd, John Wills, and .Peter Fretwell all of them proprietors and commissioners empowered by his excellency. Col. Robert Hunter, Governor of the province of New Jersey to purchase lands of the Indians, for and In consideration of ten guns, fiveteen blankets, fiveteen kettles, twenty matchcoats, twenty shirts, eight strouds, ten paire of stockings, three paire of shoes and buckles, ten pound of powder, twenty-five barrs of lead, ten hatchets, twenty knives, rive pounds in silver money, three coates, ten hilling hoes, ten pounds of red lead, ten looking glasses, fivety awles, one hundred botls, fiveteen paire of tobacco tongs, five gallons of rum, ten tobacco boxes, and one hundred needles, all that tract of land bounded with the River Delaware on the south and southwestwardly sides on the north with the land late Matamyska's now sold to the proprietors, on the eastward by the land purchased of the Indians by Col. Loursmans and the last purchase made by the proprietors on the lower side of the Musconetcong river. ...' [20] [21]
1712 Peter Frettwell made the inventory for the estate of Thomas Gardiner, treasurer of West Jersey, of Burlington County. [22]
1718-19 The will of Peter Frettwell tanner of Burlington County was dated in January. Only daughter Elizabeth and "her now husband" Jonathan Wright sole heirs and executors of real and personal estate, with legacies to granddaughter Elen Wright, grandson Frettwell Wright, both under 21. Robert Storke, Solomon Smith, John Careliele, to brother Joshua Frettwell "but 20 Shillings new money by reason of his ungratitude to mee both in word and Conduct by which said Legacie I do hereby debarre him the said Joshua Frettwell and his from any pretence of succession or heirship to any part of my estate"; to John, son of John and Rebeccah Warren (Rebeccah the sister of testator), Samuel Bunting, Edward Rockhill. Mansion house and land in Burlington between Bridge St., High St and Assisconck Creek, 650 acres "now surveyed in the Lotting Purchase" on Delaware River and Laocolon Creek, adjoining John Reading, 800 acres on the Lomeconck Branch of Rariton River, 300 acres on the Mansaloque Branch of said river, land next to John Antram, a tanyard, a silver tankard, 12 do [silver] spoons marked PF. Witnesses James Thomson, Gervas Hall, Robert Stork, Solomon Smith. Proved February 24 1718-19. [23] The will directs that he is to be "buried by my dear wife deceased." [24]
1718-19 March 6. Inventory of the personal estate £1125.16.1 incl a clock, a silver tankard, and 2 do spoons, £15.2 and Bibles, several bound books of Divinity and paper books, £10, bills, bonds, and book debts 390.16.4 pounds made by Joshua Humphris and Gervas Hall. [25]
Research Notes:
1670 At a Quaker meeting held at the house of Thomas Foulke [Fowkes], in Derbyshire, England, fines were levied on several people including £10 for John Fretwell. [26]
Elizabeth Wright, born in England on 9 of month 2, 1670; married Peter Frettwell. [27]
[1] England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, Piece 1034, RG 6, Monthly Meeting of Chesterfield, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, England (1641-1775), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] H. Clay Reed and George J. Miller, The Burlington Court Book. A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey 1680-1709, Vol. 5 (1944), 32.
[4] Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The Grants, Concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New Jersey (1881), 536, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1684-1738, 13, [AncestryImage].
[6] Lewis D. Cook, "Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730, Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 53 (1965), 129-32, at 129.
[7] "Marriages at Chesterfield, New Jersey, 1685-1730," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 9 (1885), 347-352, at 347, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 40.
[9] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 41, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 83, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[11] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 197, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
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[13] List of West Jersey Council of Proprieters, [URL].
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[17] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 199, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[18] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[19] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), 1711, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[20] George Wyckoff Cummins, History of Warren County New Jersey (1911), 10, [InternetArchive].
[21] Mrs Harry Rogers and Mrs Alexander H Lane, "Abstracts of New Jersey Commissions," Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Vol. 7 (1920), 62-9, 147-57, and 236-44, at 156, citing p 140, [GoogleBooks].
[22] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 178, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[23] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 175, citing Lib 2 p 108, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[24] Donald G. Armstrong, New Jersey Pioneers: Twenty-Four Families (Marco Island, Florida: Penobscot Press, 2014), 23.
[25] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 23. (Wills and Administrations 1, 1670-1730) (1901), 175, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[26] Joseph Besse, A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers, Vol. 1 (1753), 141, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[27] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 711, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].