1707 On 27 of month 11, Benjamin Stokes was born. [1]
1737 Benjamin Stokes witnessed the will of Ann Sykes of Waterford, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [2]
1747-8 1st mo. (March). Benjamin Stokes, of Burlington County, husbandman, dated his will. Sisters: Lydia Haines and Deliverance Conro. Real and personal estate. Executor: Thomas Stokes, who is to have remainder of estate. Witnesses: Francis Robinson, Sam'l Atkinson. Proved April 12, 1748. [3]
1748 April 7. Inventory of the estate of Benjamin Stokes, £183.4.3; made by Joshua Bispham and Arthur Borrodaill. [4]
Research Notes:
Benjamin Stokes reportedly went to North Carolina. [5]
[1] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 14, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[2] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 469, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[3] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 461, citing Lib. 5, p. 407, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[4] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 30. (Wills and Administrations 2, 1730-1750) (1918), 461, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[5] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 14, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].