1717 On day 7 of month 9, John Rickey, child of Alexander and Ann Rickey, was born, according to records of the Quaker Falls monthly meeting in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5].
1729/30 On 18 of month 1 (March), Mary Hutchinson, daughter of John and Sarah Hutchinson, was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania. [6]
1737 On 25 of month 8 (October), Catharine Rickey, Thomas Rickey, and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of Samuel Mead and Mary Downey. [7]
1738 On 24 of month 3 (May), John Rickey, among others, witnessed the marriage of John Headley and Hannah Bidgood. [8]
1741 On 1 of month 10 (December), Catharine Rickey and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of Randall Hutchinson and Elizabeth Harvey. [9]
1742 On 27 of month 8 (October), Catharine Rickey, Thomas Rickey, and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of Samuel Woolston and Hannah Palmer. [10]
1746 On June 8, 1746, the inhabitants living on the "north branch" of the Delaware, embracing the Hunter settlement, and other immigrants who had settled there subsequently, namely: (about 30 names including a Jonathan Rickey)... petitioned the court of Quarter Sessions, to lay off their settlement into a township. [11]
1746 On 7 of month 8 (October), Hannah Rickey, Katharine Rickey, Rachel Rickey, Alex Rickey, Hannah Rickey Jr, and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of John Millnor, late of Burlington and Hannah Harvey, daughter of Thomas of Makefield. [12]
1747 On May 5, Katherine, Thomas, and John Rickey witnessed the marriage of George Brown (son of Samuel Brown of Falls Twp) and Martha Worall. [13]
1748 Mary Hutchinson was named as the daughter of widow Sarah Hutchinson of Falls Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [14] [15]
1749 John Rickey married Mary Hutchinson (1749,8,4) [16], daughter of John and Sarah [Burges] Hutchinson, of Falls, born February 28, 1728. Her father, John Hutchinson, was for many years and up to his death in 1745 an overseer of Falls Meeting of Friends. He married first Phebe Kirkbride and had children: John, married Ann Stanaland; Thomas, married Elizabeth Higgs; Joseph, married Esther Stanaland; Michael, married Ann Lucas; Randal, married Katherine Rickey as his second wife, his first being Elizabeth Harvey; Hannah, married a Murphy. John Hutchinson married [second] 3 month 24, 1726, Sarah Burges, daughter of Samuel and Eleanor Burges, of Falls, who died in 1748. They were the parents of four children - Samuel, Priscilla, Mary, above mentioned, and Phebe. Thomas Hutchinson married Dorothy STORR, at Beverly, Yorkshire, England, and came to New Jersey in the ship "Kent" in 1677, and was one of the proprietors of West Jersey. He and his wife Dorothy lived and died at Hutchinson Manor, on the eastern bank of the Delaware, above Trenton, New Jersey. He died about 1698, leaving a large landed estate to his son John, whom Miss Rickey claims as the John Hutchinson, before mentioned, who settled in Bucks county.
1752 John Rickey witnessed a power of attorney in Bucks County for William Whitaker of London to Charles Willing of Philadelphia. [17]
1752 "John Rickey had a house and hardware-store about where Chief Justice Beasley now resides. It was a double one story hipped-roof stone building, and built in 1752.". This is the house in Trenton where the fight occurred with the Hessians (see entry for 1776). The apple orchard may have been at the current site of the corner of Hanover and Montgomery Streets. [18] [19] [20]
1755 John Rickey moved from Bucks county, Pennsylvania, to Trenton, New Jersey, where he was engaged as a merchant in the hardware business. John and wife Mary were granted certificate to Chesterfield MM from Falls MM. [21]
1755 John Rikkie brought a certificate for himself and mary his wife from the fals monthly meeting to this which was read and received. Dated 3 of 4m 1755 at Chesterfield. [22]
1755 "To be sold, A Tract of land, situated in Quohocken township, West New Jersey, containing 577 acres, well waterand timber, with a considerable quantity of good meadow ground, bounded by the lands of Robert Strettell, and Bilesland. For title and terms of sale, enquire of John Rickey, in Trenton, or Moses Coates, junior, in Charlestown, Chester county. ". [23]
John Rickey became a land owner to a considerable extent, owning all the tract lying between Livingston street and Turner's Hall, and also that between the Broad Street Bank Building and Association Hall on East State street. He married Mary Hutchinson, daughter of John and Mary (Burgess) Hutchinson, and had children: Joseph, John, Randal and Ann Smith. [24]
1757 Ann Rickey Jr, daughter of Alexander Rickey, married Mahlon Kirkbride, son of Mahlon Kirkbride, both of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on day 30 of month 11, at the Falls Meeting. Witnessed by Alexander and Ann Rickey, Mahlon and Ann Kirkbride, Tho and Hannah Rickey, John and Mary Rickey, James Rickey, Alex Jr Rickey, Rachel Rickey, Keirll Rickey, Randle (not Catherine) Hutchinson, and many others. [25] [26]
1757 John Rickey and others signed a petition that recognized the protection from Indians offered by soldiers, noted the burden of having so many soldiers quartered in Trenton, and suggesting the value of building a barracks. [27] [28]
1758 Son, John Rickey, was named in the will of Alexander Rickey, of Lower Makefield Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, dated 1 October 1758. [29] [30]
1759 John Rickey was a captain in Peter Schuyler's regiment. [31]
1763 Hannah Rickey, daughter of [brother] Thomas Rickey of Bucks County, married Samuel White, son of Joseph White, at Falls meeting on 12 day, month 1. Witnessed by John and Mary Rickey and many others. [32]
1764 The will of uncle John Keirl [brother of mother Ann Keirl Rickey] of Bristol Twp, Bucks County, named Thomas Rickey, John Rickey, Alexander Rickey, James Rickey, Keirl Rickey, Rachel and Mary Rickey, Catharine Hutchinson, and Ann Kirkbride as children of Alexander and Ann Rickey and as kinsmen. [33] [34]
1768 On 16 of month 11, at Falls meeting, Simes Betts married Rachel Rickey, daughter of Alexander Rickey, late of Lower Makefield. Witnessed by John Rickey and others. [35]
1776 John Rickey was a dealer in hardware in Trenton. [36]
1776 Part of the Battle of Trenton on Dec. 26, when Washington crossed the DelawareRiver, was fought on the Rickey farm in Trenton. This was a major turning point of the Revolutionary War. The Rickey's lived in Trenton during its occupancy by the Hessians, and several of the Hessians quartered themselves in the Rickey house and drove the family out. A gun was planted in the hall of the house. Captain Washington, nephew of George Washington, advanced with a field piece to dislodge the Hessians from the house. Washington's men were exposed to merciless fire. Washington rushed into the house and siezed the officer in command of the gun in the house, claiming him as a prisoner. Washington's men followed and the whole company of intruders were made prisoners. [37] [38] [39]
"During all of this excitement, John Rickey, who is said to have been an irascible old man, had not been a passive spectator, and it is a tradition in his family that he and his son Michael, twenty years old, who was killed in battle three years later, threw aside their Quaker principles and fought bravely on the American side. After this, war was too near for John to sit idly by and look on, so on March 28, 1778 he joined the Pennsylvania Artillery, Second Regiment, under Colonel Lamb, and was proposed as corporal January 1, 1780." [40]
1776 Washington was the only American officer wounded in the battle, a ball passing through his hand. Only two American soldiers were killed. When the Hessians were attacked and defeated by Washington's army on the morning of December 26, 1776, a party of the Hessians surrendered to Washington's troops in John Rickey's orchard.
1777 John Rickey and others helped Daniel Craig write his will in Warrington Twp, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [41]
1778 John Rickey Joined 2nd Artillery Regiment of the PA Continental Line under Colonel Lamb.
1779 John and John Jr Rickey were listed in Trenton NJ in September.
1780 John Rickey was promoted to corporal January 1, 1780.
John Rickey was discharged at the end of the Revolutionary War as Sgt.
1786 John Rickey was listed as a householder in Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey in July-August.
1794 The will of John Rickey of Trenton, Hunterdon Co was dated March 11. Wife Mary to receive the best bed and furniture, chest of drawers, walnut dining table, walnut breakfast table, large looking glass and 6 bow backed windsor chairs; also house and lot and remainder of personal, during her life. Son, John, settee and iron stove. Son Randal, house and lot, after wife's decease. Sons, Joseph and John, and daughter, Ann Smith, residue divided between them, after wife's decease. Executors: wife Mary, and sons, Joseph and Randal. Witnesses: Joseph Brumley, Elli H Howell and James Ewing. Proved Sept 10, 1798. [42]
1795 John, Joseph, and Randal Rickey were listed in Trenton, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
1797 The British had destroyed many of the public records and books during the war, so the citizens of Trenton started a public lending library. The stockholders included John Rickey and son Randle Rickey. [43]
1798 John Rickey died in Trenton, New Jersey, September 3. [44]
1798 The inventory of John Rickey's estate was made on Sept £11, 544.4.5, by Joshua Newbold and Henry Pike. [45]
1812 "Died - suddenly, in this city, on the evening of the 24th inst. Mary Rickey, widow of John Rickey, in the 84th year of her age". [46]
"The house and farm were left to his widow at his death, who in turn left it to her two orphan grandchildren, John Rickey and Randal Hutchinson Rickey, whom she had brought up. The executor of the estate seems to have mismanaged it, for the whole farm, now comprising a large part of the City of Trenton, was allowed to be sold for taxes. The old house was torn down later and on its site stands the present State-house." [47]
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