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Notes for John Middleton and Esther Gilberthorpe

Research Notes:

1683/84 On 21 of month 11, Esther Gilberthorpe, daughter of Thomas and Ester Gilberthorpe, was born at Burlington. [1]

Esther Gilberthorpe, daughter of Thomas and Esther Gilberthorpe, inherited her father's property on both sides of Crosswicks Creek and married John Middleton. Names 9 children and spouses. [2]

1759 On 27 of month 4, Esther Middleton, widow of John Middleton Senr died. [3]

"John Middleton, son of Thomas, born 1686, was living in Evesham township, August 7, 1702, when he purchased land there. He died March 25, 1741, aged fifty-five years. John Middleton married, March 14, 1709-10, Esther Gilberthorpe, born February 3, 1684-5, died April 2j, 1759, daughter of Thomas Gilberthorpe, one of the Proprietors of West Jersey, a landowner there prior to 1685, who died 171 1, and his wife Esther, cousin of Francis Davenport, who died 1712. John and Esther (Gilberthorpe) Middleton had eight children, Thomas, John, Nathan, Bridget, Naomi, Jonathan, George and Abel, the last two twins." Other children are named. [4]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 4, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Chesterfield Township Tercentenary Committee, Chesterfield Township Heritage: Burlington County, New Jersey (1964), 21, [GoogleBooks].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 4A, [AncestryImage].

[4] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 811, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].