Thomas Stokes was born on November 5, 1711 and married, in 1741, Abigail, daughter of John, son of William Matlack, the emigrant, by his second wife Mary Lee. [1]
1711 Thomas Stokes was born 9-5-1711. [2] [3]
1734 On 7 of month 9, Rachel Stokes, daughter of Thomas Stokes of Gloucester County, married John Cowperthwaite at the Haddonfield meeting house. Witnessed by Thomas and Rachel Stocks and Thomas Stocks and others. [4]
1741 Thomas Stokes married Abigail Matlack. [5] [6] [7] [8]
1741 Thomas Stokes witnessed the will of John Kay of Waterford, Gloucester County. [9]
1747 Thomas Stokes was named in the will of brother Benjamin Stokes. [10]
A Stokes genealogy reports: Thomas Stokes, son of Thomas Stokes and Rachel Wright, was born on May 9, 1711. Thomas Stokes and Abigail Matlack were married in 1741. [11]
[1] Francis Bazley Lee, ed., Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1910), 582, left column, middle, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[2] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 14, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 304, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 77, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 14, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 396, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[7] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 432, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[8] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1731-1761, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] 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].
[10] 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), 461, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[11] Richard Haines, Genealogy of the Stokes Family : Descended From Thomas and Mary Stokes Who Settled in Burlington County, N.J. (2015), [AncestryRecord].