1708 Robert Ridgway, child of Thomas Ridgway and Ann Ridgway, was born on June 5 in Ocean County, New Jersey. [1] [2]
1736 Robert Ridgway and Hannah Gaunt were married on September 15 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [3]
1789 The estate of Robert Ridgway of New Jersey, USA was administered. The will was dated September 21. The administration took place on November 4 in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington County, New Jersey. The will named Robert Ridgway and Joseph (Son). [4]
A biosketch reports [5]:
Robert, son of Thomas Ridgway, Sr., in the year 1735, married (it is said) Hannah, daughter of Zebulon Gauntt, of Burlington city. Robert had but two children who lived to grow up. These were Joseph, and Hannah, who married Timothy Pharo, Sr., and was the mother of the late Timothy Pharo, of Tuckerton.
Joseph, son of Robert, died a bachelor.
Samuel Pharo's family, Robert Pharo's family, Timothy Pharo's family, James Collins, Jr's family, Japhet Leeds' family, are all of them the descendants of Robert Ridgway. Robert Ridgway's homestead was the J. B. Sapp farm in the confines of Tuckerton.
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Births, Burials, and Marriage Certificates, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Marriages, Births in Burlington Monthly Meeting (Rancocas and Burlington Monthly Meeting), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[4] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] Leah Blackman, "History of Little Egg Harbor Township," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1880), Appendix: 171-420, 427-468, at 275, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].