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1713 On 16 of month 5 [July], John Stokes was born. [1] [2] [3]

1718 Hannah Stockdell was born [4] to Jervis and Mary Stogdelle. [5] [6] [7]

1740 John Stokes, perhaps this one, witnessed the will of John Kay of Waterford, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [8]

1740 On 10 of month 9 (November) John Stoakes Jr and Hannah Stockdell stated their intent to marry at the Burlington meeting. [9]

1740 On 11th month, 5th day [5 January 1741?] John Stokes Jr was married to Hannah Stogdon [10]. John Stokes married Hannah Stogdelle [11] [12] [13]

c 1743 John Stokes and Hannah moved from New Jersey to Haycock, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [14]

c 1743 John Stokes was one of the original purchasers immediately around Applesbachville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [15]

1743 On 3rd month, 2nd day, John Stokes Jr and wife Hannah were granted a certificate by the Burlington MM to the Great Swamp MM, [Bucks County], Pennsylvania. [16] [17] "the northwest corner of the county [Bucks], including Richland and Milford, with Quakertown for the centre, was known as the Great swamp." [18]

1745-1765 The birthdates of 7 children of John and Hannah Stokes were reported in the Burlington meeting records. [19]

1745 On 15 April, John Stokes, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Wellingborough Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. [20]

1745 In December, John Stokes signed a petition to make a township in the area of Applesbachville and Haycock, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. [21]

1749 John Stokes, perhaps this one, witnessed the will of Henry Jones of Waterford, Gloucester County, New Jersey. [22]

1750 Son John Stokes and grandchildren Mary and John Stokes were named in the will of Elizabeth Stokes, mother of John Stokes. [23]

1751 On 1st month, 4th day, John Stokes and wife Hannah were received by the Burlington MM on certificate from the Richland MM, Pennsylvania. [24] "the northwest corner of the county [Bucks], including Richland and Milford, with Quakertown for the centre, was known as the Great swamp." [25]

1771 On 1st month, 7th day, John Stokes Jr and wife Hannah and son William were granted a certificate by the Burlington MM for the Richland MM, Pennsylvania. [26]

1776 John Stokes and wife Hannah and children David, Hannah, Elizabeth, and Rachel were listed as members of the Ancocus Meeting. Jarvis, perhaps their son, was listed on the next page. [27]

1786 The will of John Stokes, Sr, of Willingborough Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey was dated March 7 and named wife Hannah and sons John, David, and Gervas and daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, both unmarried. Daughters also included Mary Newton, Hannah Stokes, Elizabeth Stokes, and Rachel Thackery. [28] [29]

1786 John Stokes died in New Jersey at age 73. [30]

1790 On 16 of month 6, Hannah Stockdell Stokes died. [31] [32]

1791 A codicil to the will, dated Aug 17, stated that wife Hannah had died. Witnessed by Jonah Woolman, Edith Peddle, and Mary Stokes. [33] "Land purchased of Exrs. of Thomas Green, Vincent Leeds, Revel Elton, adj. Jonathan Borden, bought of Exrs. of John Stockton. Do. in Haycock Twp., Bucks County, where son John lives. Aaron Wiles" [34]

1797 On Dec 7, John Haines and Gershom Penquite were fellowbondsmen for the estate of Hannah Stokes of Burlington County. [35]

1798 On 24 of month 8, John Stokes died. [36]

1798 Jacob Haines and others filed a petition claiming that errors were in the account of the estate of John Stokes, made by David Stokes and Jarvis Stokes. They complained that no account had been made of the debts owed to the estate by David and Jarvis Stokes; and that no account was made of the interest paid to the estate by Jacob Haines, Isaac Newton, Joseph Hackney, Isaac Haines, William Rackney, Richard Heaton, John Evans, William Evans, Granville Woolman, Asa Rogers, Asa Eyres, and others; and that the estate had not been appraised. [37]

1798 On September 13, the inventory for the estate of John Stokes was valued at £2,074.3.1, made by William Deacon and Samuel Haines. [38]

1800 On 4 November, David Stokes and Jarvis Stokes presented their account of the estate of John Stokes. The account listed legacy payments to Joseph Hackney, Jacob Haines, Isaac Newton, Joseph Hackney, Elizabeth Stokes, Isaac Newton. Other payees included John H Stokes, William Stokes, John Stokes. A brass kettle was given to David Stokes. [39]

1802 On 9 February, at the Burlington County Orphan's Court, an account of the estate of John Stokes, dated August 30, 1798, was presented by David Stokes and Jarvis Stokes. The account listed a kettle given to David Stokes, a horse given to Elizabeth Stokes, 6 sheep and 2 cows given to Hannah and Elizabeth [no last name recorded, perhaps daughters]. A legacy payment to Mary Newton due her from her grandmothers estate, dated June 1800. [40]

Research Notes:

1735 A preliminary "walking survey" was made in the area of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The survey party passed through "Stokes's Meadow". [41] "These facts prove that this route was laid out through Bedminster Township near the present village of Strawntown, keeping west of the Haycock, or it would not have passed over the head of Perkiomen and through Stokes' Meadow, which is the place lately owned and occupied by General Paul Applebach." [42] Did this John Stokes, or his father, own the Stokes meadow referred to in this survey?

Biosketches report:

"David [Stokes] was the son of John Stokes and Hannah, daughter of Jervis and Mary Stogdelle, and the grandson of John and Elizabeth (Green) Stokes." [43]

"John (2) eldest child and only son of John (1) and Elizabeth (Green) Stokes, was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, July 16, 1713, died August 24, 1798. In 1740 he married Hannah, daughter of Jervis and Mary (Sharp) Stogdelle, of Evesham township, Burlington county. Her mother was the daughter of Hugh Sharp, possibly the brother of William of Gloucester county, and John of Burlington county, and if so the son of Francis Sharp, of Oak Lane, in the parish of St. Ann, Limehouse county, Middlesex, England. She was born in 1718, died June 16, 1790. The children of John and Hannah (Stogdelle) Stokes were: 1. Mary, born October 16, 1745, married Isaac Newton. 2. John, August 22, 1747, married Susanna Newton. 3. David who is referred to below. 4. Jarvis, November 10, 1753, died December 14, 1804; married, November 27, 1773, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Martha (Esturgans) Rogers. 5. Hannah, October 12, 1756, became the second wife of Joseph Haines and married (second) George Browning. 6. Elizabeth, May 31, 1759, married George French. 7. Rachel, married Joseph Hackney." [44]


Footnotes:

[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[3] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 288, [HathiTrust].

[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, names Hannah, wife of John Stokes, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

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

[6] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 18, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[7] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 198, [HathiTrust].

[8] 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), 276, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[9] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 265, [HathiTrust].

[11] Joseph Stokes, Notes on my Ancestry (1937), 34, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].

[12] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 198, [HathiTrust].

[13] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 18, names children.

[14] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. II (1905), 108, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[15] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. II (1905), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[16] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 265, [HathiTrust].

[17] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 288, [HathiTrust].

[18] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed,. Vol. I (1905), 439, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[19] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Marriages, Births and Deaths, 1677-1765, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[20] 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].

[21] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. II (1905), 109, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[22] 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), 272, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[23] 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, 4085 C, [InternetArchive].

[24] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 265, [HathiTrust].

[25] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed,. Vol. I (1905), 439, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[26] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 265, [HathiTrust].

[27] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[28] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 7-73, #3356, [FamilySearchImage].

[29] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 39. (Wills and Administrations 10, 1801-1805) (1946), 350, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].

[30] Joseph Stokes, Notes on my Ancestry (1937), 34, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].

[31] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 288, [HathiTrust].

[32] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 27.

[33] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 39. (Wills and Administrations 10, 1801-1805) (1946), 350, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].

[34] Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994, Bucks, Will 7-73, #3356, [FamilySearchImage].

[35] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Miscellaneous Probate Records S, FHL film 841621, image 535, [FamilySearchImage].

[36] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 288, [HathiTrust].

[37] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Miscellaneous Probate Records S, FHL film 841621, image 655, [FamilySearchImage].

[38] Elmer T. Hutchinson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 39. (Wills and Administrations 10, 1801-1805) (1946), 350, [FHLBook], [GoogleBooks].

[39] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Miscellaneous Probate Records S, FHL film 841621, image 659, [FamilySearchImage].

[40] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Miscellaneous Probate Records S, FHL film 841621, image 664, [FamilySearchImage].

[41] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed,. Vol. I (1905), 472, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[42] J. H. Battle, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania (1887), 156, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive (page approximate)].

[43] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 485, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[44] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 580, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].