1672 John Murfin, posssibly brother of Robert, Katharine and Ann, preceded them to New Jersey.
1678 Robert Murfin, "with his wife, two children and two sisters, Ann Farrow, her husband and son, and Katharine Murfin....took their passage in a good ship called the Shield ... arrived at the island now called Burlington". [1]
1679 Katherine Murfin at liberty to marry William Beard from notes of the Burlington Monthly Meeting 1679,5,2. [2]
1679 William Beard of ye falls upon ye River Deleway Bucks & Katherine Murfin of Burlington proposed their intentions of marriage. Dated 3 of month 4. [3]
1690 William Beard of aneanockan departed this life ye 18 of ye 9 month and was buried at Burlington. [4]
1691 Mathew Champion and Katheren Beard [widow Katherine Murfin?] were married on September 7, in John Shinn's Home, Burlington, New Jersey [5] [6]. "Katharine Murfin, a sister of Robert's was married very early even before the construction of the great meeting tent, and with even more than the usual idyllic simplicity of the 'Friends', to Matthew Champion. This was the first marriage of the colony. The preliminaries being settled, they soon after assembled a few friends, proceded to the nearest public place-- -- the first cross-way they came to - - and they solemnly declared that they took each other for man and wife with mutual promises of faith and love, until death should separate them. After the ceremony they returned home to dinner and 'made good cheer' on some fresh fish which they purchased of a party of Indians whom they met on the path."
1695 Daniel Smith, of Burlington, and Mary Murfin, of Nottingham Township, were married on July 2, at Francis Davenport's house, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Matt. Champion and others. [7]
1697 Mathew yeoman and Katherine (formerly widow Katherine Murfin Beard) Champion of Burlington County sold a plantation to Gervas Pharo. [8]
1704 On 8 August, nephew William Murfin and Sarah Bunting were married at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Matthew and Katherine Champion and others. [9].
1704 John Sykes and Joanna Murfin were married on October 19, at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Matthew and Katharine Champion and others [10]
1716 Matthew Champion, and other members of the New Jersey Assembly, signed a letter to the King of England congratulating him on the defeat of the Scotch rebellion. Dated May 25. [11]
1733 Mathew Champion, of the Town and County of Burlington, yeoman, dated his will on the 18th day 10'th mo (December). Cousins James Dent, of Thorne Co of York Great Britain; Hannah Knight of Winteringham near Thelby in Lincolnshire and Rachel wife of Mathew Mayor living in Yorkshire. Legacies to Friends of Quarterly and Monthly Meetings of Burlington viz Martha Dickson, Sarah Plowman, Elishab Allison, Duglis Hireton, Sarah Dawson, Elizabeth Guest, Ann Cowgill, Sarah (wife of Abraham Marriott), and William White. Whereas in my former will I left considerable estate to my wife to dispose of and she is since deceased, I give the same to her friends and relatives viz Garvis Pharo and his son James, kinsman John Scholey and his children, kinsman Thomas Ridgway's children by his first wife, kinsman William Murfin's children, kinsman James Pharo and his sister Mary Hollwell's children, John Butcher Ju'r's wife and their children, Mary wife of Daniel Smith and their children, viz, Robert, John, Benjamin, and Catherine Calinder, brother in law John Murfin and John Syke's children. Real and personal estate. Executors friends and kinsmen John Sykes and Daniel Smith Ju'r. Witnesses Thomas Wetherill, Joshua Raper, Is. DeCow. Proved Oct 21 1735. [12]
1735 Matthew Champion, an Elder of the Quakers, died on the 12th of 6th mo, 1735. [13]
1735 Inventory of personal estate £1619.1.4 made by Is DeCow and Joshua Raper. Dated September 1. [14]
[1] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 30 (1857), 229, quotes the biographical sketch of Mary (Murfin) Smith, [InternetArchive].
[2] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 244, [HathiTrust].
[3] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 197, [HathiTrust].
[6] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 207, [HathiTrust].
[7] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 49, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] John David Davis, West Jersey New Jersey Deed records 1676-1721 (2005), 120, [FHLBook].
[9] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 62, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 62, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] William A. Whitehead, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 4. (Administration 1709-1720) (1882), 252, of 252-53, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[12] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 90, citing Lib 4 p 38, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[13] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 90, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].