1758 Thomas Curtis was guilty of military training, 1st day, 6th month. [1]
1767 Thomas Curtis of Mansfield Twp, Burlington County, perhaps this one, was bondsman for the estate of Zephaniah Harris [relationship unknown]. [2]
1772 Thomas Curtis Jr, possibly this one, served in Shreve's Battalion in Burlington, New Jersey. [National Archives microfilm, microcopy 881, roll 642, page 271-84]
1773 Thomas Curtis, perhaps this one, was the collector in Mansfield Twp. [3]
c 1776 Thomas Curtis of Burlington served in the Continental Line in New Jersey. [4]
1794 Thomas Curtis of Mansfield Twp, Burlington County died without a will. Alice Curtis, Thomas Curtis and Asa Curtis were appointed as administrators on March 10 with fellowbondsmen Caleb Shreve and Joel Gibbs; all of Burlington County. [5]
1794 The inventory of the estate of Thomas Curtis was valued at £1025.5.2. The inventory was made by Caleb Shreve and Benjamin Shreve on March 13. [6]
1795 Alice, Thomas, and Asa Curtis, executors of the estate of Thomas Curtis, deceased, of Mansfield Twp, Burlington County do hereby set free a Negro woman named Philis Selsey, on January 26. [7]
1796 At the February term of the Burlington County Orphans Court, Thomas Curtis, Asa Curtis, and Alice Curtis, administrators of Thomas Curtis deceased petitioned for sale of the plantation to pay debts. The 228 acre plantation in Mansfield Twp was purchased from Joseph Pancoast by deed dated 3 April 1782. [8]
1796 Alice Curtis, Thomas Curtis, Asa Curtis, administrators for the estate of Thomas Curtis deceased, sold land to Benjamin Harker. [9]
1796 Thomas Curtis, Asa Curtis, Robert Sherrod and wife Ann (late Curtis), Joel Gibbs and wife Elizabeth (late Curtis), Sarah Curtis, and Mary Curtis, heirs at law of Thomas Curtis, sold a plantation to John Curtis. [10]
1811 Asa Curtis, surviving administrator of the will of Thomas Curtis, deceased, presented an account to the Burlington County Orphans Court, on February 12. [11]
Research Notes:
1819 A war pension was paid to Thomas Curtis in New Jersey. [12]
[1] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 72.
[2] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 180, [InternetArchive].
[3] Alfred Miller Heston, South Jersey: a History, 1664-1924 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1924), 679, [AncestryImage].
[4] William S. Stryker, Official Register of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War (1872), 564, [InternetArchive].
[5] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 37. (Wills and Administrations 8, 1791-1795) (1942), 101, citing Lib. 33, p. 479, [InternetArchive].
[6] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 37. (Wills and Administrations 8, 1791-1795) (1942), 101, citing File 11543C, [InternetArchive].
[7] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), B-236, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[8] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Orphans Court Minutes 1-184, [FamilySearchImage].
[9] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), Y4-364, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[10] Burlington County, New Jersey Deeds (1785-1901), O-517, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].
[11] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Orphans Court Minutes 2-462, [FamilySearchImage].
[12] U.S. Pensioners, 1818-1872, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].