1729 Joshua Quicksall witnessed the will of John Bunting of Chesterfield, Burlington County. [1]
1734 Joshua Quicksall and Mary Moore were married on December 13, in Burlington, New Jersey. [2] [3] [4] Mary was a sister of Joseph Church and a daughter of Deacon Edward Church and Mary Tillbraum. [5] [6]
1735-1743 The names and birthdates of six children of Joshua and Mary Quicksall were written on two blank leaves in the beginning of a copy of The Whole Duty of Man (London, 1676). [7]
1739 Jos'a Quicksall voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [8]
1745 Joshua Quicksell, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated April 15. [9]
1750 Joshua Quicksall was listed among customers at Imlay's Store in Bordentown, New Jersey. [10]
1751-57 Joshua Quicksall was a resident of Bordentown, Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [11]
1754 Joshua Quicksall, of Mansfield, Burlington County, yeoman, dated his will on December 7. Wife, Mary. Children: Joshua, Samuel, Sary and Rebeckah, all under age. Home farm of 125 acres of upland, and 7 ac. of marsh, on Cross Weeks Creek; land in Bristow Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.; 6 ac. of marsh near Bordentown, on the Point of Crossweek. Personal property. Executors: the wife and her brother, Joseph Church. Witnesses: Mary Church, Jacob Swain, James Rockett. Proved Dec. 26, 1754. Inventory on 1754, Dec. 16, £236.7.11, incl. a looking glass, 43s.; books, 3s.; made by Joseph English and Thomas Biddel. [12] [13]
Research Notes:
Crosswicks Creek defines the northwest boundary of Chesterfield Twp and joins the Delaware River near the boudary with Mansfield Twp, at Bordentown.
1848 J Quicksall, J Quicksall, and S Quicksall lived southeast of Bordentown. [14]
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[2] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 281, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[3] New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, 1727-1734 (Licenses): 254.
[4] New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[5] John Insley Coddington, "The Quicksall Family," The American Genealogist 50 (1974), 184-185, at 185, [AmericanAncestors].
[6] George E McCracken, "The Church and Grant Families of Philadelphia and Vicinity," The American Genealogist 30 (1953), 217-231, at 220, 226, [AmericanAncestors].
[7] John Insley Coddington, "The Quicksall Family," The American Genealogist 50 (1974), 184-185, at 184, [AmericanAncestors].
[8] 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 189, columns 3 and 4, [GoogleBooks].
[9] 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 422, [InternetArchive].
[10] James D. Magee, Bordentown, 1682-1932: an illustrated story of a colonial town (1932), 145, left column, [HathiTrust].
[11] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 456, [HathiTrust].
[12] 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), 262, citing Lib. 7, p. 61, [InternetArchive].
[13] George E McCracken, "The Church and Grant Families of Philadelphia and Vicinity," The American Genealogist 30 (1953), 217-231, at 226, [AmericanAncestors].
[14] J.W. Otley & R. Whiteford; on stone by G. Kramm & G. Worley, Map of Burlington County, mostly from original surveys (Philadelphia : Published by Smith & Wistar, 1849), [LibraryOfCongress Map], [LibraryOfCongress].