John Stokes tracts in Wellingborough Twp [43]
1643 Thomas Stokes, son of Henry Stokes baker, was baptized on February 14, 1642/43 at St Olave, Bermondsey, Surrey, England. [1] [Photocopy, 1642 baptism of Thomas Stokes.]
1664 Thomas Stokes attended an "unlawful" Quaker meeting. [2]
On 25 December, 16 Charles II. True Bills on four several parchments against Thomas Clarke late of St. Olave's Southwarke co. Surrey dyer alias &c. late of Stepney co. Midd. dyer, Thomas Burbanck apprentice of Samuell Windmill of the Minories London gun-maker alias Thomas Burbranck late of Stepney co. Midd. gun-maker, Bartholomew Hall late of Whitechappell silke-thrower alias &c. late of Stepney co. Midd. silke-thrower, and Thomas Stoakes late of Stepney co. Midd. baker, for being present on the said day in the dwelling-house of William Beanes, in the company of twenty persons besides the persons of the said William Beanes's family, at an unlawful conventicle under colour of exercising religion otherwise than is allowed by the liturgy and practice of the Church of England ; each of the said four culprits having on two former occasions been convicted of being present at a similar unlawful assembly. Each of the four culprits put himself 'Not Guilty' on a jury of the country, and on being found 'Guilty' by a jury at G. Q. S. P. was sentenced to be transported to the island of Jamaica, there to remain for seven years. S. P. R., 20 Jan., 16 Charles II.
1665 Thomas Stokes was taken prisoner on January 1, because of his adherence to Quaker doctrines. He was imprisoned at Newgate Prison, London, England. [3]
1665 On 11 January, 16 Charles II - The Register of the proceedings at this G. Q. S. P. exhibits records of the arraignment and trial of four persons for attending an unlawful religious assembly after two previous convictions before Justices of the Peace for the same offence, with verdict of 'Guilty' against each culprit, and sentence of transportation to Jamaica for seven years ; the culprits so convicted and sentenced being (i) Thomas Stoakes late of Stepney baker, (2) Bartholomew Hall late of Stepney silke-thrower, (3) Thomas Burbanck alias Burbranck late of Stepney gun-maker, and (4) Thomas Clarke late of Stepney dyer. Followed by the copy of the Warrant for the transportation of the same culprits, addressed to the Sheriff of Middlesex, and concluding thus, "These are therefore in his Majesties name to will and command you accordingly to convey the said Thomas Stoakes, Bartholomew Hall, Thomas Burbanck alias Burbranck and Thomas Clarke and every of them to the Port of London and from thence to imbarque them and every of them, to be safely transported to the Island of Jamaica being one of his Majesties forraigne plantacions there to remaine for seaven yeares. And hereof you may not faile at your perrill. Given under our handes and scales at Hicks Hall aforesaid this eleaventh day of January in the sixteenth yeare of King Charles the Second." S. P. Reg. [4]
1665 Thomas Stokes, Thomas Clark, Thomas Burbuke, and Bartholomew Hearne were among 36 people sentenced, on January 15, to banishment to Jamaica. [5] [6]
1665 Amidst noisy protest by friends and relatives, Thomas Stokes and his fellow-prisoners were sent down the Thames on a barge from the Tower of London towards exile in Jamaica in the West Indies. They were put on the ship Black Spread-Eagle which sailed from Plymouth on 23 February 1665/66. The ship was captured by a Dutch man-of-war, then at war with England, and taken to Hoorn in North Holland, where the convicts of England were held by their national foes to be exchanged as prisoners of war. He was provided with a passport by the Dutch and returned home to England. [7] [8] [9]
1666 Tho: Stokes witnessed the Quaker marriage of John Staples a grocer in Goswell Street London, and Grace Russell, daughter of William Russell. The marriage took place on 25th day of the 8th month, at the meeting house in Westberry Street in Wheeler Street near Spittlefields London. [10]
1667 Records of the Bakers Company show that Thomas Stokes was the son of Henry Stokes and was admitted a member on July 3, 1667 "upon sight of his father's copy". [11]
1668 "Thomas Stokes, of Lower Shadwell, in the County of Middlesex Baker, tooke Mary Bernard the daughter of John Bernard of Stepney in the same county to be his wife, and shee tooke him to bee her husband at our publicke Meeting house in Westberry Street near Spittlefields in the presence of these witnesses the 30th of the 10th month, 1668. Gilbert Hutton, Henry Clarke, Thomas Kemble, John Wrenn, Hen: Napton, Fran: Harrison, Geo: Barr, Will'm Hutchings, Rich: Richardson, James Pearer". (A Registry of the Marriages of the People of God called Quakers belonging to the Monthly Meeting in Westberry Street near Wheeler Street by Spittlefields: London) [12] [13] [14] [15] One report lists Thomas Hooten, also named in a 1678 New Jersey deed with Stokes, as a witness to the wedding [16]
Thomas and Mary Stokes were members of the Devonshire House Meeting, the Ratcliff Meeting and the Barking Meeting of Quakers at various times. [17]
Daughters Sarah and Mary were born. [18]
1674 "Henry the sonn of Thomas Stokes of Shadwell died the 30th of ye 9th mo. (74) about twenty months old of the Dropsy and wase interred at Ratclife [Ratcliff]." [19] [20]
1676 John Stokes [brother of Thomas], of Wentworth Street, Spittlefields, London, married Ann Barber of the same place, on 1 March (month 1), at an Assembly of the people of God (Quakers) at Devonshire House, without Bishops Gate, London. Witnessed by Tho: Stoakes, [future step-father?] John Miller, John Cotes, and others. [21] [22]
1675 Son John was born. [23]
1676 Thomas Stokes and other "proprieters, freeholders, and inhabitants of the said Province of West New Jersey", signed, on March 3, "In Testimony and Witness of our consent to and affirmation of these present laws, concessions and agreements" [for the government in New Jersey] [24] [25] [26]
1677 The ship Kent carried colonists to West New Jersey with Gregory Marlow as master and loaded in London for New Jersey 19 March to 31 March 1677. There followed loadings for other ports, but she sailed before May. The Kent sailed first to New York, arriving either the 4th, 12th or 16th August. Then after a short stay, the Kent sailed across the bay to Perth Amboy, after which she headed south to the Delaware, landing first at the mouth of Raccoon Creek where she is said to have disembarked some 230 passengers of a total of 270. She then moved on to Chygoes Island, now Burlington. Other histories state that she landed at Raccoon Creek after an early June halt at New Castle, then to Burlington on 23 June. However, the arrival time in New York is known from the minutes of the New York government, with which the Commissioners (aboard the Kent) met during their stay there. The Yorkshire purchasers settled the 1st tenth, from Assinpink to Rancocas. The London purchasers settled the 2nd tenth, from Rancocas to Timber Creek.
1677 Thomas Stokes and his family have been reported to have arrived in America on the Kent. [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] However, Thomas Stokes was not listed among the Kent arrivals.
Son Joseph Stokes was born. [33]
1678 John Stokes, the brother of Thomas Stokes, purchased 1/32nd of a share in New Jersey from Thomas Hooton. [34] [35] [Photocopy, 1678 deed to John Stokes from Thomas Hooton.]
1680 Records of the Bakers Company show Thomas' brother, John Stokes, being the son of Henry and Elizabeth Stokes. [36] An entry made on March 7, 1680 reported:
This day a certificate was presented to this Court by John Stoake, a member of this Company the reputed son of Henry Stoake late citizen and Baker of London deceased which being read in open and at a full Court was as followeth.
Wee whose names are underwritten doth acknowledge certify and declare that John Stoake ye reputed son of Henry Stoake by Elizabeth his wife did live with his said father and mother after he was of the age of fifteen years in the exercise of the craft and mystery of a baker and that he was from thence withe and by his said Father and Mother well and carefully brought in and educated in the same Trade for the period of seven years onwards and by reason of which said educacon the said Jno. Stoake became an able efficient workman in the said craft and mystery of a Baker. And accordingly hath been approved by the Master and Wardens of the Company of Bakers London as by the book of the said Company (relacon being thereunto had) more fully.
Signed by Ralph Harnor John Sutton Valentine Waite Citizens and Bakers of London with several other persons of good credit and condition as also under the hand of Eliz. Stoake mother of the said Jno. Stoake ratifying and averring the statements contained in the said certificate.
1682 Son Thomas Jr was born. [37]
1682 Thomas Stokes was a witness to the court in Burlington County, New Jersey. [38]
1682 Thomas Stokes was a defendant in a case brought by Thomas Wright. [39]
1683 Land was surveyed for John Stokes, a baker of London (Thomas Stokes' brother) [40] [41]. It included 162 acres of land on the Rancokus River, between Bernard Devonish and Thomas Garnder, including 12 ½ acres on the point of the river forks. This plantation was surveyed for John Stokes on Tenth month 2d, 1683 and was part of the tract purchased by him from Thomas Hooton in 1678. The land was subsequently conveyed to Thomas Stokes, in 1701. [42]
John Stokes tracts in Wellingborough Twp [43]
1684 Thomas Stokes served on the grand jury in Burlington County, New Jersey. [44]
1685 Thomas Stokes located on a plantation on the north bank of the Northampton River, now called Rancocas Creek. [45]
1685 Land on Rancokus Creek purchased by Thomas Gardiner Jr was between land of Anthony Elton and of Thomas Stokes along the mill creek. [46]
1687 Thomas Stokes served on the jury in Burlington County, New Jersey. [47]
1689 John Hilliard purchased land on the fork of Northampton River, on December 19, which was bounded on the east by Thomas Olive's millbrook and Thomas Stokes. [48]
1689 Thomas Stokes served on the jury in Burlington County, New Jersey. [49]
1693 William Hollinshead, of Northampton, married Elizabeth Adames Junior, daughter of John and Elizabeth Adams, of Burlington, on 23 of month 1, 1692/93, at the house of John Adams. Witnessed by Thomas and Mary Stokes, and others. [50]
1693 Daughter Sarah married Benjamin Moore. [51]
1693 A survey [West Jersey] was made on July 5, to John Kay, in right of Joshua Smith (152 acres), and in his own right (52 acres). Bordering lands of Thomas Stokes; and Isaac Sharp (See second survey of 52 acres: 10 Mar. 1702). 204 Acres. Northerly branch of Cooper's Creek; [Gloucester County]. [52]
1696 Mary Stokes married John Hudson at the house of Thomas Stoakes, on 30 day, 5 month. Witnessed by Thomas and Mary Stokes. [53]
1696 Thomas Stokes served on the jury in Burlington County, New Jersey. [54]
1698 Son John Stokes built a home named Stokingham down the Rancocas. [55]
1698 Anthony Elton, of Northampton Twp, Burlington County, purchased land on Rancokus Creek, which was between land of Thomas Gardiner and of Thomas Stokes. [56]
Thomas Stokes served on the first grand jury in Burlington county. [57]
1699 Mary (Barnard) Stokes died. [58] [59]
1700 Thomas Stookes was an overseer in Northampton Twp, Burlington County, on February 20, 1699-1700. [60] [61]
1701 John Stokes, of Wentworth Street, London, conveyed land [see survey of 1683] to his brother, Thomas Stokes, of Burlington County, New Jersey, by deed dated May 22, 1701. [62]
John Stokes of Wentworth Street in the Parish of Stepney alias Stebbenheath in the County of Middlesex … five shillings of lawful money of England … the naturell love and affection which I have and doe beare unto my loveing and naturell brother Thomas Stokes liveing at or neare burlington in West New Jersey.
Thomas Stokes reportedly named his plantation Stockingham. [63] [64] Son John Stokes reportedly owned a plantation of the same name, which was purchased from Thomas Harding. [65]
1702 Thomas Stokes, with Thomas Revell and Ann White, witnessed the will of Anthony Elton of Northampton Twp, Burlington County, New Jesey. Thomas Stokes and John Wills made the inventory. [66]
1703 Samuel Loveit and Mary Giles were married in Burlington, on the teenth of August. Witnessed by Thomas Stokes, John Stokes, John Hudson, Mary Hudson, Thomas Stokes Jr, Joseph Stokes, Benjamin More, Sarah More, and many others. [67]
1704 Thomas Stokes Jr married Deliverance Horner on October 3, in the Burlington Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Thomas Stokes Senior, several siblings of Thomas Stokes Jr, and many others [68].
1707 Thomas Stokes (perhaps this one or his son), John Stokes, Benjamin Moore, and others signed a letter to New Jersey governor Lord Cornbury disagreeing with the governor's prohibition of warrants in West Jersey. [69]
1708 John Matlack and Hannah Horner were married, on May 20, at the house of Isaac Horner. Witnessed by Thomas Stoakes, Deliverance and Thomas Jr Stoakes and others. [70]
1709 Thomas Stokes, age 66, was listed with no other family on the census for Northampton Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [71]
after 1709 Thomas Stokes moved to live with his son Thomas Jr in Waterford Twp, Gloucester County, New Jersey. Thomas Jr had moved there in 1709. [72] [73] [74]
1709 John Simons and Hannah Mayo [relationship unknown] were married on October 20. Witnessed by Tho' Stoakes, several of his children, and others. [75]
1710 Daughter Mary Hudson, and John Eves, both of Willingboro Twp, Burlington County, were married on August 17, in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Thomas Stoakes and others. [76]
1715 Freedom Lippincott, of Evesham, and Elizabeth Wills, daughter of John Wills of Northampton, were married on 17 of month 9 (November), at Northampton meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Thomas Stoaks and Thomas Stoaks Jr and Josep Stoaks and others. [77]
1719 Will: "I, Thomas Stokes, of Waterford, in ye county of Gloster (sic, Gloucester) and Province of New Jersey, being weak of body but of sound mind, Praised be God, and being willing to settle in order all my concerns in this world, Do make and constitute this my Last Will and Testament ... I give and bequeath unto Lydia Stokes, the eldest daughter of my son, Thomas Stokes, my bed and beding and Furniture thereunto belonging, and if she happens to die before she be married, then this said legacie to go to Deliverance Stokes, daughter of my said son, Thomas Stokes." [78]
1719 Thomas Stoakes, of Waterford, Gloucester Co. dated his will on October 30, 1719. Children: John, who has daughter Mary, under 18, Thomas, who has Lydia, Deliverance and Joseph, Joseph, Sarah and Mary. Son John sole executor of personal estate. Witnesses-Hannah Wright, James Childs, John Kay. Proved April 9, 1720. [79]
"... the grave of Thomas Stokes in the well-kept graveyard on the banks of the Rancocas opposite Centreton ..." [80]
1719-20 Inventory, March 16, of the estate, £92.10.6, incl. books 14s., debts due £70.15, all Proclamation money; made by William Hunt and Thomas Eves. [81]
The Rubincam account of the arrest of Thomas Stokes is quoted here [82]:
… Much has been written about the immigrant founder of the line, Thomas Stokes, of Lower Shadwell, London. … [83] [84] None of the modern biographers, however, seem to have been aware of the fact that the original Thomas Stokes had a sea adventure, which threatened to alter his entire career. The tale is told by that indefatigable chronicler of the sufferings of the Friends, Joseph Besse. [An Abstract of the Sufferings of the People call'd Quakers for the Testimony of a Good Conscience, vol. II (1738), pp. 323-325.]
Early in the year 1665 Thomas Stokes was seized and cast into Newgate Prison, London, because of his adherence to Quaker doctrines. With one hundred and nineteen others he was sentenced to banishment. The Sheriffs were puzzled as to the best means of ridding themselves of those persons who had been doomed to life-long exile. The captains of ships about to sail for the West Indian plantations refused to transport the Friends overseas because, as Besse put it, they were "conscious of the Men's Innocence." Moreover, the plague regarded by some simple folk as "a Judgment on the Nation for thus persecuting the Innocent" - was rapidly depopulating the city.
"But at length," Besse informs us, "a Man was found to answer their purpose; one Fudge, a Fellow so hardened as to say, That he would not stick to transport even his nearest Relations. With him the Sheriffs agreed to carry the Prisoners to Jamaica, and accordingly on the 20th of the 5th Month, 1665, fifty-five of them were taken out of Newgate, put in a Barge at Black-Fryars, and carried down the River to his Ship, called the Black Spread-Eagle, lying in Bugbey's Hole." But here the authorities ran into difficulties, for the seamen, in the master's absence, refused to permit the captives to be hauled aboard the vessel. A heated argument followed, during which only four of the prisoners were pushed aboard. Worn out by their exertions the jailers finally retreated to the prison with the rest of the Friends.
It is not certainly known that Thomas Stokes was in this first contingent, but he is named as one of the thirty-seven men who (together with eighteen women) figured in the second attempt at deportation, which occurred on the 4th of the 6th month, 1665. Placed on the barge once more, Stokes and his fellow-prisoners sailed down the Thames with an escort of troops from the Tower of London. They were accompanied in other boats by friends and relatives who made themselves so obnoxious that the soldiers threatened to sink them if they did not withdraw. Their real trouble began, however, when they reached the Black Spread+Eagle. To quote Besse again:
"So they went to work, the Soldiers in the Barge laying hold on the Prisoners, dragged some, kickt and puncht others and heaved up many by the Legs and Arms, and so tumbled them into the Ship, and in about an Hours time got them all on Board ...
"Being on Board, all the Men were thronged together between Decks, where they could not stand upright; and the Pestilence coming into the Ship which was long retarded in the River, (Fudge being arrested and imprisoned for Debt) it was about seven Months before she got to the Land's-End, in which time twenty+seven of the Prisoners on Board died.... "On the 23rd day of the 12th month (February, 1666) the ship with its cargo of hapless victims sailed from Plymouth. But the reigning powers had not reckoned on the fortunes of war. Our ancestral homeland was engaged at that period in a long struggle with Holland. Ships from The Netherlands made frequent and daring raids into English waters, and, indeed, the very day after the Black Spread-Eagle had left the port of Plymouth a Dutch Privateer hove in sight. Flight was useless; she was quickly overtaken, her crew's resistance, if any, was quashed, and she was taken to Hoorn in North Holland, where the convicts of England were held by their national foes to be exchanged as prisoners of war.
Stokes and his comrades entered the town and were conveyed to the local jail, while the authorities sought to exchange them for their compatriots in English hands. His Majesty's Government could hardly be expected, however, to return Dutch military captives to their Fatherland in order to recover the members of a despised sect, of whose presence they had sought to rid themselves. Care-free Charles II and his ministers must have been much amused at the thought.
At length, realizing the futility of their designs, the Dutch officials provided the Quakers with passports and shipped them home to England. "Thus eminently did the Hand of the Lord appear for them, and against their Persecutors," says Besse, with quaint but unconscious humor. The charges against them seem to have been dropped; they were not rearrested and within a short time Thomas Stokes set foot once more in London.
On the 30th day of the 10th month, 1668, in the Westbury Street Meeting House in London Thomas Stokes was united in marriage with Mary Barnard, daughter of John Barnard and Frances Munt, and granddaughter of Samuel Munt of Peldon Hall, County Essex, yeoman, who died about 1657. [citation to Genealogical Abstracts of Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Register of "Wooten," edited by William Bragg, B.A. Vol. IV (1909), p. 47]
Eleven years after his return to England as above described, we find Thomas Stokes and his wife on the high seas. This time he definitely turned his back on the land of his birth. His exile was self-chosen, not decreed by the police authorities. Early in the year 1677 he had attached his name to the document known as "The Concessions and Agreements of the Proprietors, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Province of West New Jersey, in America," thus endorsing a program that was destined to have far-reaching consequences in our colonial history. They settled on the Rancocas Creek, in Burlington County, where they and their sons after them acquired large Page 77 landed estates. His wife, Mary Barnard Stokes, died in 1699; Thomas Stokes survived her more than two decades, dying in the year 1720 at the residence of his son, Thomas Stokes, Jr., in Waterford Twp, Gloucester County, New Jersey. …
1697 or 1699 Mary died. The death of Mary Bernard Stokes has been reported in 1699 [85]. "Genealogical Records of John Wills", reports that Mary was buried on the 18th of the 3rd month (May), 1697 at Rancocas, Centerton, New Jersey.
Research Notes:
We show the ancestry discussed by Milton Rubincam in "A Critical Analysis of the Stokes Pedigree" [86] [87]
We are researching Thomas Stokes who married Mary Bernard in 1668 in London, with daughter Sarah Stokes, born in 1670, and came to New Jersey in 1677. We suspect that he was the same person as Thomas Stokes, baker, and son of Henry Stokes. However, there was another Thomas Stokes who witnessed the marriage of Joseph Stoakes of the Parish of Olaves Southwark, Goldsmith, son of Thomas Stoakes of the same place Baker, and Ruth Hall daughter of Peter Hall of the afores'd Parish Mealman deceased. Note that Thomas Stokes, son of Henry, was baptized at St. Olave, Southwark. We suspect that Thomas Stoakes, father of Joseph Stokes, was the same person as Thomas Stokes, who died at age 76 in 1700, suggesting that he was not Thomas, the son of Henry Stokes, born in 1643. We seek further clarification concerning the identities and relationships of the men named Thomas Stokes in these records.
1695 Joseph Stoakes of the Parish of Olaves, Southwark, Goldsmith, son of Thomas Stoakes of the same place Baker, and Ruth Hall daughter of Peter Hall of the afores'd Parish Mealman deceased were married on the 5th day of the 9th month called November, at the Horsleydown Quaker meeting place. Witnessed by Thomas Stokes and others [88] [89]
1700 Tho Stokes, of the Parish of Olaves, Southwark, died on August 15, 1700, at age about 76. Tho Stokes was buried on fifteenth of the sixth month, 1700, in Southwark, England. [90] [91]
1700 Ann and Thomas Stokes, daughter & son of Jos & Ruth Stokes, of the parish of Ollaves Southwarke, was born on October 22, 1700. [92] [93]
1701 Thomas Stokes, son of Joseph Stokes and Ruth Stokes, died on January 14, 1701, at age about 14 months. Thomas Stokes was buried on March 14, 1701, in New Burying Ground, Southwarke, England. [94]
1702 Thomas Stokes, son of Jose Stokes and Ruth Stokes, of Allhallows parish, Lombard Street, London, died on July 3, 1702, at age 19 weeks. Thomas Stokes was buried on 3rd day of fifth month, 1702, in Southwark, England. [95]
1705 Joseph Stokes, child of Joseph Stokes, gouldsmith, and Ruth, was born on December 1, 1705, at Whitehart Court, Gracech Street, in Allhallows parish, Lumbard Street, London, county of Middlesex, England. [96]
1705 Joseph Stokes, son of Joseph Stokes of Allhallows parish, Lombard Street, London, died on December 12, 1705, at age about 11 days. The burial of Joseph Stokes was recorded in Quaker records for Horsleydown, Southwark, England. [97]
1721 Joseph Stokes, late of Wansworth, in the County of Surry, Goldsmith, aged about fifty years, died the 31th day of the mo 6 called August 1721. He was buried in Longlane, Southwark on 5th day of ye month following. [98]
1731 Ruth Stokes, of Olaves parish, aged about 60 years, died of jaundies on 23 of 10 mo, 1731. [99]
Prior to the research of Rubincam, several genealogical studies were made of the family of Thomas Stokes of Burlington, New Jersey. Several included speculations about possible European origins. [100] [101] [102] [103] [104] [105]
A genealogical biosketch of decendants of Thomas Stokes in New Jersey was reported by Charles Stokes. [106]
See other secondary accounts. [107] [108] [109] [110]
1664 Thomas Stokes, perhaps this one, along with Frances Bugg, witnessed the will of John Vassall of London, Merchant. [111]
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