1674 Mary Stokes, spinster, of Stepney, Middlesex, daughter of Elizabeth, married Samuel Lovett, tallow chandler of Martins Legrand, on 6th day of the first Month [March] in the yeare 1673/4. They were married at Devonshire House without Bishoppsgate London. Witnessed by John Stoakes, Mary Stoakes, and others. [1] [2] [3]
1676 Samuel Lovett was one of the inhabitants of New Jersey signing the concessions and agreements. [4] [5]
1677 "Towards the last of October, 1677, some of the heads of families that came in a ship [the Kent] to Wickaco (near the Old Swedes' Church, Philadeli)hia) arrived at and settled in the neighborhood of Burlington. Their names were" ... Samuel Lovett ... "These passengers having arrived late in the fall but few were able to build themselves log houses before the winter was much spent. During the interim they lived in wigwams built after the manner of the Indians. Indian corn and venison, traded for with the Indians, was their chief food. [6] [7]
1677 Samuel Lovett witnessed a deed, on September 27, by which American Indian chiefs granted land to the New Jersey settlers. [8]
1757 A library was established in Burlington, New Jersey. "Mary Lovett (a daughter of Samuel Lovett, one of the earliest settlers, per the ship Kent in 1677) donated to the library the sum of twenty pounds." [9] [10]
[1] England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, Piece 1437: Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex: Marriages (1658-1690), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837, Piece 0974: Monthly Meeting of Devonshire House, Houndsditch, London: Marriages (1666-1764), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Gilbert Cope, English Friends records, Quarterly Meeting of London and Middlesex: marriages, 1657-1719, births, 1644-1719, burials, 1661-1719, [FHL_Film_Detail].
[4] Samuel Smith, The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jersey (1890), 539, [InternetArchive], [Google].
[5] Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, The Grants, Concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New Jersey (1881), 408, of 408-10, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[6] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 10, [HathiTrust].
[7] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 112, [HathiTrust].
[8] Isaac Mickle, Reminiscences of Old Gloucester (1845), 33, [InternetArchive].
[9] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 10, [HathiTrust].
[10] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 132, [HathiTrust].