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Notes for Caleb Shreve and Grace Pancoast

1734 On 7 of month 3, Grace Pancoast, daughter of Thomas Pancoast, was born. [1] [2]

1755 Caleb Shreve son of Thomas, married Grace Pancoast daughter of Thomas and Ann on 11th month, 19th day, 1755. They had 9 children. [3]

Caleb and Grace Shreve had children Rebecca, Reuben, Thomas, and Grace. [4] [5]

1806 On May 23, Grace Shreve, widow of Caleb Shreve and daughter of Thomas Pancoast, died. [6] [7]

A biosketch reports [8]:

Caleb Shreve, the third child and second son of Benjamin Shreve and Rebecca French, was born Aug. 25th, 1734, in Burlington County, New Jersey; married Grace Pancoast, dau. of Thomas Pancoast, Nov. 19th, 1755. She was b. Mar. 7th, 1734, and died May 23d, 1806. He died Apr. 21st, 1792. Caleb Shreve was a member of the New Jersey Assembly in 1776 and 1777, also a member of the assembly meeting at Trenton, 1778 and 1779, and 1783 and 1784. Sept. 14th, 1777, he and eight others were appointed a committee to join with a committee of council to district the State and appoint persons to recruit men for the Continental service (Votes and Proceedings of the General Assembly of New Jersey, Vol, V.) During the Revolutionary War he held two offices under the United States Government. While in the service he was pursued by Mr. Bacon, the British officer. Each held his loaded musket aimed at the other—both muskets snapped—they then turned away and both of their firearms fired off. It was he that the same Mr. Bacon shot at when the ball entered the wall of Crosswit Meeting House in New Jersey, the ball remaining there many years.


Footnotes:

[1] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 7, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 10.

[3] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 222, 296, [HathiTrust].

[4] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 10.

[6] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 7, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 10.

[8] L. P. Allen, The Genealogy and History of the Shreve Family from 1641 (1901), 236, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].