1689 Judith Lippincott was born on August 22. [1] [2] [3]
1704 Thomas Stokes Jr married Deliverance Horner on October 3, in the Burlington Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Joseph Stokes and by Joseph and Elizabeth Stokes and by others [4].
1708 Joseph Stokes purchased land in Chester Twp from Samuel Jennings. [5]
1708 John Matlack and Hannah Horner were married on May 20, at the house of Isaac Horner. Witnessed by Joseph Stokes and others. [6]
1709 John Simons and Hannah Mayo [relationship unknown] were married on October 20. Witnessed by Joseph Stoakes and Judith Lippincott others. [7]
1710 Mary Hudson and John Eves, both of Willingboro Twp, Burlington County, were married on August 17, in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Joseph Stoakes and others. [8]
1710 Joseph Stokes and Judith Lippincott expressed, on 9 of month 8, their intention to marry at the Newton meeting. [9]
1710 Joseph Stokes and Judith Lippincott, both of Burlington County, were married on 9 of month 9, in Evesham Twp. Thomas Stoks, Elizabeth Stoks, Deliverance [Horner] Stoks, Sarah [Stokes] More, and others witnessed the wedding. [10] [11]. They had 10 children. Judith died 6,22,1745 and Joseph married Ann Haines, widow of John Haines and daughter of John Ashard. They had 3 children. Joseph Stokes died in 1760. Ann died 4,10,1796. [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Joseph Stokes and Judith Lippincott declared their intentions to marry in 7th month 1710 at Newton/Haddonfield Meetings [17]. The names and birthdates of their children have been reported [18].
1711 Son Samuel Stokes was born. [19]
1715 Freedom Lippincott, of Evesham, and Elizabeth Wills, daughter of John Wills of Northampton, were married on 17 of month 9 (November), at Northampton meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Thomas Stoaks and Thomas Stoaks Jr and Josep Stoaks and others. [20]
1717 Joseph Stokes was overseer of the highways in Chester Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [21]
c 1720 Joseph Stokes purchased 400 acres in Evesham Twp from John Inskeep. Joseph left most of this land to son Joseph. [22]
1724 Mary Stokes, daughter of John Stokes, and Edward Mullen, all of Wellingboro, Burlington County, were married on April 16, at Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Joseph and Judith Stoaks, and others. [23] [24] [25] [26]
1727 Joseph Stokes was collector in Chester Twp, Burlington County. [27]
1728 The Quaker members of the grand jury of West New Jersey, held at Burlington, including Joseph Stokes, signed a letter to the King of England expressing support, especially with regard to the conflict against Spain. Dated May 7. [28]
1732-43 Joseph Stokes was elected freeholder in Chester Twp, Burlington County. [29]
1736 Joseph Stokes made the inventory for the estate of Daniel Camron of Chester. [30]
1738 Joseph Stokes made the inventory for the estate of John Eves of Evesham. [31]
1738 Joseph Moore [nephew], son of Benjamin Moore of Evesham, and Patience Woolman were married on May 17, in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by John and Joseph Stokes and others. [32]
1739 Joseph Stokes voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [33]
1739 Joseph Stokes, perhaps this one, and Thomas Lippincott inventoried the estate of Joseph Comron of Chester Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey.
1739 Joseph Stokes, perhaps this one, and Samuel Lippincott, inventoried the estate of John Eves of Evesham, Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey.
1745 Joseph Stokes, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Chester Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated April 15. [34]
1745 Judith Stokes died. [35] [36]
1746 Joseph Stokes married widow Ann Haines, daughter of John Ashard, at Chester meeting, Burlington County. [37] [38] [39] [40] [41]
1757 The will of Joseph Stokes, Sr., "advanced in age", date: 28 Dec 1757 at Chester, Burlington County names Wife, Anne. Children--Mary, Elisabeth (under age), Samuel, Joseph, John (under age), Hannah Gosling, Martha Allin, Rebecca Roberts, Judith (wife of William Allin), and Bersheba Evins. Grandchildren--John Coles and Joseph Coles. Homefarm and other land in Chester Township; farm at Cocxing, Evesham Township. Personal estate. Executors--the wife and son-in-law, Joshua Roberts; they also made Guardians of the two minor children. Witnesses--Joshua Raper, Samuel Allinson, Gabriel Blond. Proved June 28, 1759. [42]
1759 Inventory, on June 18, of the personal estate, £1241.6.11, incl. bills, bonds and notes, £807.1.8; 2 looking glasses at £2; a small do. 7s.6d.; a black walnut desk, £8; 6 silver spoons, £6. Additional inventory, made June 27, £71.2, incl. the "History of Josephus", 45s.; a large Bible, 35s.; both made by Samuel Coles, Joshua Ballinger and Enoch Roberts. [43]
1768 Account, on Jan. 15, of the estate by Anna Stokes, acting Executrix, who reports on hand £147.18.1. [44]
1796 The will of Anna Stokes, of Chester Twp, Burlington County; widow; was dated Feb. 11. Son, Thomas Stokes, lands in said Twsp., that is, a plantation on the River Delaware which I purchased of Isaac Rogers, one tract of woodland adjoining land late John Stokes, dec'd, and a tract containing 42 acres which I purchased of Thomas Lippincott, one house and lot in Moorestown purchased of Eastwod Allen and ½ of my cedar Swamp. Granddaughter, Mariam Cooper, my silver tankard marked, I. H. A.; also 1 gold Johanas and £94. Nephew, Amos Ashead, of Waterford, large Bible and £200. To relation, Samuel Ashead, £50. Grandson, Joshua Stokes (son of son Joseph, dec'd), ½ of cedar swamp. Grandson, Joseph Stokes, surveyor, £20. Granddaughter, Sibeliah French (wife of Charles French), £50. To Friends belonging to Lower Evesham Meeting, £5; and to Friends of Chester Meeting, £5, for repairing the graveyard. To little girl (living with Charles French) named Priscilla Mullock, 6 silver tea spoons marked R. H. Debt due from estate of my son John Stokes, dec'd, to be disposed of as follows: his son, Joseph Stokes, and his daughter, Elizabeth Stokes, £300, divided between them when 21 and 18; the remainder of said debt to be divided between my son, Thomas, and my daughter-in-law, Mary (widow of son John). Granddaughter, Elizabeth Stokes (daughter of son John, dec'd), 6 silver tablespoons lettered A. H.; also £50, when 18. To friend, Jerusia Borradaill (widow of William Borradaill), wearing apparel. To Mary Enoch (wife of Thomas Enoch), set of homespun curtains, given me by my mother, Mary Morgan. Grandson, Joseph Stokes (son of son John, dec'd), large clothes press and clock (his grandfather's) and £50, when 21. To Charles French, £50, in lieu of commission as executor. To friend, Sarah Johnson, low case of drawers. Son, Thomas Stokes, the residue. Executors - son, Thomas Stokes, and friend, Charles French. Witnesses - John Bispham, Jerusey Borradaill, John Cox and William Cox. Proved April 25, 1796. [45]
1796 Ann Ashard Stokes died on 10 of month 4. [46]
1796, April 18. Inventory, £2,389.19.2; made by John Bispham and William Cox. [47]
Research Notes:
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), 32 or 53, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), 34 or 55, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 538, bottom right, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Samuel Evans Stokes, Letters of Nancy Stokes of Harmony Hall (1916), 9, [HathiTrust].
[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), 1710, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Quaker Meeting Records, Newton Women's Minutes, 1698-1737, Call number MR-PH 243, 12, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 44, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Certificates of Removal Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 44, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[13] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 9, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[14] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 394, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
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[17] Frank H. Stewart, Stewart's Genealogical and Historical Miscellany, Vol. 1 (1918), 18, [InternetArchive].
[18] Samuel Evans Stokes, Letters of Nancy Stokes of Harmony Hall (1916), 9, [HathiTrust].
[19] Samuel Evans Stokes, Letters of Nancy Stokes of Harmony Hall (1916), 9, [HathiTrust].
[20] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[21] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 253, [HathiTrust].
[22] Samuel Evans Stokes, Letters of Nancy Stokes of Harmony Hall (1916), 9, [HathiTrust].
[23] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[24] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 265, [HathiTrust].
[25] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[26] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 250, [HathiTrust].
[27] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 254, [HathiTrust].
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[33] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 187, columns 3 and 4, [GoogleBooks].
[34] 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 425, [InternetArchive].
[35] Samuel Evans Stokes, Letters of Nancy Stokes of Harmony Hall (1916), 9, [HathiTrust].
[36] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 538, bottom right, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[37] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 404, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[38] Samuel Evans Stokes, Letters of Nancy Stokes of Harmony Hall (1916), 9, [HathiTrust].
[39] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[40] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 57, 426, 447, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[41] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1907), 206, bottom right, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[42] 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), 311, citing Burlington Wills, 6467 C, [InternetArchive].
[43] 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), 311, [InternetArchive].
[44] 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), 311, citing Burlington Wills, 6467 C, [InternetArchive].
[45] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 38. (Wills and Administrations 9, 1796-1800) (1944), 349, citing Lib. 35, p 476, [GoogleBooks], [FHLBook].
[46] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[47] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 38. (Wills and Administrations 9, 1796-1800) (1944), 349, citing inventory File 11696C, [GoogleBooks], [FHLBook].
[48] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert suggests a lineage to this sibling of Robert's ancestor. The lineage is through a descendant shown on our website, [Link].
[49] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert suggests a lineage to this sibling of Robert's ancestor. The lineage is through a descendant shown on our website, [Link].