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Notes for Godfrey Beck and Mary Taylor

1718 On 17 of month 6, Mary Taylor, the daughter of Samuel and Anne Taylor, was born near 5 in the afternoon. [1]

1735 On 4 September, Godfrey Beck, son of Henry Beck, deceased, and Mary Taylor, daughter of Samuel Taylor, declared, at the Chesterfield meeting, their intentions to marry. [2] [3]

1735 On 2 of month 8, Godfrey Beck, son of Henry Beck, deceased, and Mary Taylor, daughter of Samuel Taylor, declared, at the Chesterfield meeting, their intentions to marry. [4] [5]

1735 Godfrey Beck, son of Henry Beck and Alice Roweth, married Mary Taylor, daughter of Samuel. [6] [7] [8] [9]

1743 Godfrey Beck witnessed the will of William Taylor Sr in Chesterfield, perhaps the uncle of wife Mary Taylor. [10]

1745 On 15 April, Godfrey Beck was a freeholder in Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. [11]

1749-55 Godfrey Beck was surveyor of the highways in Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, for several years. [12]

1750 Godfrey Beck was listed among customers at Imlay's Store in Bordentown, New Jersey. [13]

1755 On 15 of month 5, Richard Brown of Nottingham and Sarah Taylor of Chesterfield were married at Chesterfield Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Godfrey Beck (where was Mary?) and others. [14]

1757 On 11 January, an inventory of Godfrey Beck, innholder of Chesterfield, Burlington County, was made by Abraham Brown, Jr. and Samuel Farnsworth. Roweth Beck and Samuel Taylor Jr were administrators and John Taylor was fellowbondsman. [15]

1751 William Steward and Rebecca Taylor, daughter of Samuel and Anne Taylor, were married on 28 of month 9, at Chesterfield. Witnessed by Godfrey Beck, Mary Beakes, and others. [16]

1757 On 17 January, the intestate will of Mary Beck of Burlington County was administered by Samuel Taylor Jr with John Taylor fellowbondsman. [17]

1759 Godfrey Beek, perhaps this one, was named in the will of Mary's brother, Thomas. [18]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Untitled: Chesterfield Births and Deaths, 39, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Book of Records, 1684-1756, 294, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1688-1809, 172, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Men's Minutes, 1684-1738, 333, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Chesterfield Meeting, Minutes, 1688-1809, 173, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] Lewis D. Cook, Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Intentions of Marriage and Certificates of Removal 1685-1756 (NJ/B2F.3) (1970), 018, [AncestryImage].

[7] Chesterfield Township Tercentenary Committee, Chesterfield Township Heritage: Burlington County, New Jersey (1964), 22, [GoogleBooks].

[8] "Old records of the Foulke, Skirm, Taylor, Coalman, Wooley, and Gaskill families," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 11 (1887), 207-212, at 207, [InternetArchive].

[9] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 55.

[10] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 319, [InternetArchive].

[11] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 424, [InternetArchive].

[12] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 281, left column, [HathiTrust].

[13] James D. Magee, Bordentown, 1682-1932: an illustrated story of a colonial town (1932), 143, right column, [HathiTrust].

[14] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[15] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 25, [InternetArchive].

[16] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 80, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[17] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 25, [InternetArchive].

[18] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 32. (Wills and Administrations 3, 1751-1760) (1924), 318-319, [InternetArchive].