Research Notes:
Is Elizabeth Moore, who married John Collins, the same person as Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Benjamin Moore?
1737 John Collins and Elizabeth Moore were married on February 27 at Burlington [1] [2] [3] [4] Then who was the Elizabeth More Jr who witnessed Joseph Moore's wedding in 1738?
Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Benjamin Moore and Sarah Stokes, married John Collins (third wife). John Collins was the son of Francis Collins. [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
1738 Joseph Moore, son of Benjamin Moore of Evesham, and Patience Woolman were married on 17th day of 3rd month, 1738 (perhaps 17 May 1739) in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Elizabeth More Junior and others (but not John Collins). [10]
1760 John Collins dated his will on May 23 in Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey. The will named daughters SybilaGaskill, Susannah Garwood, Sarah Bates, Charity Cane, Lize Hugg, Mary Budd, and Prisilla Evens, and son Joseph Collins and the legacy given to his mother by his grandfather, Samuel Kimble. The will was proved on March 16, 1761. [11] [12]
1761 John Collins died. [13]
[1] Edmund Evans Moore, The Benjamin Moore Family of Burlington County New Jersey (1982), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 108.
[3] New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965, [AncestryRecord].
[4] New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1683-1802, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 146, 380, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[6] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 11, 17, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[7] Barclay White, "Early Settlements in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1870), 83-92, at 49, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[8] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 81, 415, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[9] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 646, after John Bates, died 1754, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 85, [InternetArchive].
[12] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[13] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 81, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].