1766 Marriage record Samuel Ivins-Sarah Platt
1872 New Hanover township in Burlington County, New Jersey
1766 Sarah Platt and Samuel Ivins were married on December 20. [1] The license reports "Samuel Ivins and Barzillah [Barzillia - his mark, likely Samuel's brother] Ivins, both of the County of Burlington, township of New Hanover ... [bound to]...William Franklin, Governor... 500 pounds... 20 Dec 1766. ... Sam'l Ivins & Berzillah Ivins...obtained license of marriage for the said Samuel Ivins... and Sarah Platt, spinster... [w] Jos Borden, Jos Potts". [2] [3] [4]
1768-72 Children Samuel, Mary, and Sarah Ivins were born.
1771 "Samuel Ivins Jr laid before this meeting an acknowledgement condemning his marriage contrary to good order to a woman not of our society which was read and refer'd to our next meeting" on 7 of month 2, at the Chesterfield meeting. [5]
1771 "Samuel Ivins Ju'r's acknowledgement was read again at this meeting and received" on 3 of month 7, at the Chesterfield meeting. [6]
1772 Samuel Ivins, wife Sarah and children Samuel, Mary, and Sarah were granted a certificate to transfer to Little Egg Harbor Quaker meeting from the Chesterfield meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey, on 5th of 3 month. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
1773 Samuel Ivins of Stafford Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey died intestate and his estate was dated April 2 with inventory dated April 1 valued at £299.3.11, made by Empson Kirby and Joseph Randolph. Administered by Sarah Ivins. Bondsman Isaac Ivins of Chesterfield [perhaps Samuel's father]. [18] [Map] Little Egg Harbor, Stafford Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1781.
1773 Sarah Ivins, widow of Samuel, and her children Mary, Samuel, and Sarah, had a certificate of transfer from Little Egg Meeting to Chesterfield meeting, on 2 of month 8. [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
1777 Sarah Platt Ivins then married Samuel Wardell, himself already a widower with children Phoebe and Rebecca Wardell. [25] [26] [27] [28]
c 1777 Thomas Wardell was born to Sarah and Samuel Wardell.
1777 Samuel Wardell was named as a brother in the will of John Wardell, of New Hanover, Burlington County, New Jersey. [29]
1778 Sarah and children moved to 'Sandy Farm' near Recklesstown and stayed there for 5 years.
1779 Samuel Wardell was taxed in Shrewsbury Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [30]
1780 Samuel Wardell, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth Co. dated his will in May. Wife, Sarah, goods. Sons have had land, except Eliakem. Son, Joseph, 5 shilling's. Son, Eliakem, the land I rented to Danel Covert. Mention is made of William Wardell. Grandson, Samuel, son of Solomon, a lot. Daughter, Margaret Arney, a meadow. Daughter, Hannah Lovel, land. Daughter, Elizabeth Emley, 5 shillings. John Slocum's 4 daughters, bonds. Executors: son, Eliakem, and son, Samuel. Witnesses: Adam Woolley, William Woolley, Levy Woolley. Proved May 13, 1783. 1783, May 8. Renunciation by Eliacam Wardell. Witnesses: Solomon Wardell and John Lovell. [31] [32] [33][34]
1781 Eliza Wardell, daughter of Sarah and Samuel Wardell, was born.
Anthony Wardell, son of Sarah and Samuel Wardell, was born.
1783 Sarah Wardel and children Samuel Ivins, Mary Ivins, and Sarah Ivins were on a list of members of the Upper Freehold particular meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey, on 7 of month 5. [35] [36] [37] [38]
1784 John Platt, son of Thomas Platt, married Alice Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson, at Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, on September 23. Witnessed by Sarah and Phebe Wardell, Mary Ivins, and many others. [39]
1784 Samuel Wardell died. Samuel's oldest daughters, by his first marriage, Phoebe and Rebecca Wardell, were adopted by two of their aunts and never rejoined the family. Sarah Platt-Ivins-Wardell and her brother John Platt were named executors to Samuel Wardell's estate, which had both substantial land and substantial debt. They managed to avoid having to sell the estate, which they named "Rural Retreat".
1784-85 Son Samuel Ivins was adopted by his grandfather Isaac Ivins.
1786 Grandfather Isaac Ivins died and left a valuable plantation, near Recklesstown [40], to grandson Samuel Ivins, which he inherited upon reaching age 21.
1786 A deed was made, dated September 18, related to the estate of Samuel Wardell, which was administered by [Sarah's brother] John Platt and Sarah Wardell. The settlement involved sale of a lot to Sarah's sister, Charity Platt. [41]
1787 Samuel Ivins, of Burlington County, ward, son of Samuel Ivins, of Burlington County, deceased, having real and personal estate, makes choice of John Platt [perhaps his uncle John Platt] as his guardian. John Platt was appointed guardian; fellowbondsman Gervas Pharo. Dated February 27.[42] [43]
1787 Charles Jones and Mary Ivins, daughter of Samuel Ivins, deceased, of Chesterfield, Burlington County, were married on November 2, at Upper Freehold, Monmouth County. Witnessed by Sarah Wardell, and many others. [44] [45]
1787 Sarah Platt-Ivins-Wardell and her children moved to (her son) Samuel Ivin's plantation to help him manage the household affairs. [Map, Rural Retreat in Upper Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1815(below "E" in Makefield).] Eliza Wardell (Samuel Ivins' half-sister) wrote an account of the situation [46] and a poem:
Samuel shortly fell in with an artful girl (Rickey) in Pennsylvania who, dependent on an old Aunt, readily conceived a passion for his property and the were married, of which Eliza (Wardell) thus speaks -
Two jarring souls of angry mould
The rugged and the Keen
Sampson's young foxes might as well
In bonds of sacred wedlock dwell
With fire brands tied between.
He, naturally choleric, and she fond of nothing but dress and parade kept a fair face for company and one foul enough for her husband, whom she despised as illiterate and rustick, whilst her tongue thundered confusion and her eyes flashed the most frantic rage on the most trivial occasion. In Autumn he (Samuel Ivins) brought his blazing charmer (Ann Rickey) home and my Mother (Sarah Platt-Ivins-Wardell) fled with her remaining children (five in number) before the Comet to 'Rural Retreat' for Winter Quarters.
1788 Samuel Ivins of Chesterfield, New Jersey, son of Samuel of Stafford Twp, Monmouth County, married Ann Rickey of Falls, daughter of James Rickey, deceased of Philadelphia, on November 18. Witnessed by Sarah Ivins and Aaron Ivins Jr; it is not clear which Sarah and Aaron. [47]
1788 Sarah Wardel requested that her daughter Elisabeth be received into Friends care at the Upper Springfield meeting. [48]
1789 A daughter of Sarah Wardel was received into membership at the Upper Springfield meeting. [49]
1789 Sarah Wardall and her children Thomas, Antony, and Elizabeth were received into membership at Upper Springfield meeting.
1790 Sarah Ivins, daughter of Samuel (deceased) and Sarah Ivins, married William Chapman at Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey on December 16. Witnessed by Sarah Wardell, and many others. [50] [51]
1790 Daughter Sarah Ivins married William Chapman, who purchased the mills at Crosswick's Landing.
1792 Sarah's brother John Platt purchased land, on December 12, in Upper Freehold Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey, from John Bullock Jr and Rebecca Bullock [Samuel Wardell's daughter] of New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. The land had previously belonged to Samuel Wardell, deceased. [52]
1793 Sarah's brother John Platt purchased land, on January 6, in Upper Freehold Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey, that had previously belonged to Samuel Wardell, deceased, from Richard Sexton and [Samuel Wardell's daughter] Phebe Sexton of Upper Freehold Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [53]
1793 The family moved to "Rural Retreat'.
c 1793 Son Thomas Wardell, who was "inclined to learning", studied at Trenton Academy.
1790-1795 Anthony Wardell moved out of the house to live with brother-in-law William Chapman.
before 1795 Daughter Mary Ivins married Charles Jones.
1795 The family moved to another house they owned at Jacobstown. Eliza Wardell studied arithmetic with her brother-in-law Charles Jones for a bit but returned home to study with her brother Thomas.
1797 Thomas Wardall got a certificate from Upper Springfield meeting to Chesterfield meeting on 7th month, 5th day. Sarah and daughter Elizabeth got a certificate on the same day. [54]
1797 Thomas became the overseer of the Crosswick's Crossing school when the prior overseer, Jacob Brown, was made Commander-in-Chief of the American Army. Thomas, Eliza, and Sarah Platt-Ivins-Wardell rented the house on the brow of the hill across from the Quaker Meeting House.
1800 Sarah Wardel and Elizabeth Wardel requested certificates to Upper Springfield from the Chesterfield meeting. [55] [56]
1800 Anthony returned home and Thomas resigned charge of the school at Crosswicks and the family removed to "Rural Retreat".
1802 The family seemed to be in intellectual and emotional turmoil. Thomas and Anthony were spending time away from home and returning morose. Eliza was falling in love (via exchanged letters) with Looe Baker. Sarah Ivins Chapman gave her the book written by Fox, concerning Quakerism. [57]
1803 Eliza Wardell was writing essays, from a feminine perspective, for local newspapers. [58]
1805 The account of the estate of Isaac Ivins [father of Samuel Ivins] named grandchildren (children of Samuel) as Samuel, Mary (wife of Chas Jones), and Sarah (wife of Wm Chapman). [59]
1805 Sarah, Thomas, Anthony, and Elizabeth Wardell, all of New Hanover Twp conveyed land to John Wardell. Dated 6 March and recorded 25 March, 1805. [60]
1805 Eliza Wardell and Looe Baker were married and set out on a trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Natchez.
1824 "Sarah Wardell, died Nov 14, 1824" from the Notes of Franklin Platt. The will (C-492) of Sarah Wardell of Nottingham was dated 3 of month 8, 1823 and was proved on November 29, 1824. The will named son Samuel Ivins, daughter Sarah Chapman, daughter Mary Jones, daughter in law Rebecca Bullock, son Thomas Wardell, deceased daughter Elizabeth Baker's children George William Mary Philemon Clement and Eliza Baker, and son Anthony's children Maria Wardell and Anthony Wardell. Looe Baker was named executor. [61]
1826 The will of Sarah's spinster sister Charity Platt had a bequest to "Samuel Ivins, son of my deceased sister Sarah Wardle [sic]". [62] [63] [64]
1826 Charity Platt, of New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey, named Samuel Ivins, son of her deceased sister Sarah Wardle, in her will, dated May 22. [65]
1828 Charity Platt (sister of Sarah Platt) bequeathed a legacy to Samuel Platt, perhaps the son of this couple. [66]
Research Notes:
c 1747 Samuel Ivins and Sarah Platt were reportedly born the same year. [67] [68]
Sarah Wardell Ivins died 11-14-1824 at age 77. [69]
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