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Notes for Joshua Roberts and Rebecca Stokes

1720 Rebecca Stokes was married 1,28,1720. [1] [2]

1736 On May 7, Samuel Stokes son of Joseph Stokes of Burlington County married Hannah Hinchman at Haddonfield. Witnessed by Rebecca Stokes. [3] [4]

1741 On 3 of month 10, Rebecca Stokes, daughter of Joseph and Judith Stokes of Chester Twp, Burlington County, married Joshua Roberts in Chester Twp, Burlington County. Joshua Roberts was the son of John Roberts and Mary Elkington. Witnessed by Joseph Stokes, John Stokes, Matthew Allen, Joseph Stokes Jr, Thomas Coles, Samuel Stokes, Bathsheba Stokes, Mary Stokes, Judith Stokes, and others. [5] [6] [7]

1745 On December 5, Bathsheba Stokes, daughter of Joseph Stokes and Judith, his wife dec'd, in Chester Twp, married Isaac Evans. Witnessed by Joseph Stokes, Hannah Coles (sister), John Stokes, Elizabeth (Green?) Stokes, Joshua and Rebecca (sister) Roberts, Samuel Stokes, Hannah Stokes, Judith Stokes, Joseph Stokes Jr, Martha (sister) and Mathew Allen, Jacob Stokes, Mary Stokes, and others. [8] [9] [10]

1757 Joshua Roberts was named as guardian of the minor children (John and Elizabeth Stokes) of Joseph Stokes, father of Rebecca, in the will of Joseph Stokes.

1774 On December 4, Thomas Hooton, son of William and Ann Hooton, married Atlantic Stokes, widow, daughter of Joshua and Mary Bispham, all of Evesham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Rebecah Roberts, John and Enoch Roberts, Joseph and Susannah Roberts, and many other relatives from the Bispham, Stokes, and Hooton families. [11]


Footnotes:

[1] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 12, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[2] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Personal Memorial of Mercer County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1907), 206, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Certificates of Removal Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 84, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1681-1741, 84, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[5] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1779-1794, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meetings, Births, 1749-1883, 13, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[7] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, 13, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1779-1794, 13, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[9] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington and Rancocas Monthly Meetings, Births, 1749-1883, 12, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, 12, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[11] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].