1730 Hananiah Gaunt and Ann Ridgway published their marriage intentions on September 10 in Ocean County, New Jersey. [1]
1792 A FindaGrave memorial reports that Hananiah Gaunt died in 1792 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Hananiah Gaunt was buried at Friends Burial Ground, Tuckerton, Ocean County, New Jersey. He was born in 1707 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [2]
1792 The will of Hananiah Gaunt of New Jersey was dated December 6, 1762. The administration took place on April 21, 1792 in Little Egg Harbor, Burlington County, New Jersey. The will named wife Ann. [3]
1794 A FindaGrave memorial reports that Ann Gaunt died on February 6 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Ann Gaunt was buried at Friends Burial Ground, Tuckerton, Ocean County, New Jersey. She was born on October 10, 1710 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [4]
A biosketch reports [5]:
Ann, daughter of Thomas Ridgway, Sr., in the year 1730, married Hannaniah Gauntt of Burlington city, son of Zebulon Gauntt, of that place. The children of this marriage were John, Joseph, Ann and Elizabeth. John Gauntt married Jane Satterthwaite, of upper Burlington county. John Gauntt was one of the prominent men of Tuckerton, and an official member of the Society of Friends in that place. He finally removed to Haddonfield, N. J. His children were Samuel, Daniel, John, Elizabeth, Mary and Phebe.
Joseph Gauntt married Elizabeth, of Upper Burlington county. After Joseph Ganntt's death his widow and children removed to Warrington, York county, Pennsylvania. Ann and Elizabeth, daughters of Hannaniah and Ann Gauntt, married in the upper section of Burlington county. One of them married a Forsyth.
A biosketch reports [6]
Ann Gauntt, a most distinguished female minister, was a daughter of Thomas Ridgway, Sr., her mother being a daughter of James Pharo. Ann Willits, another minister, was the daughter of Thomas Ridgway, Jr., and his wife, Mary Ong. Ann Gauntt made many trips, riding horseback through Pennsylvania and as far as Rhode Island in her capacity as minister.
1694 Thomas Curtis and Elizabeth Ellis were married on November 21, in Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Hananiah Gaunt [perhaps a father of this Hananiah] and others. [7]
[1] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Little Egg Harbor Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1730-1884, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].
[3] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[4] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [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].
[6] George C. Ridgway, Descent of the Ridgway-Ridgeway family in England and America (1875), 98, [HathiTrust].
[7] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 45, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].