1751 John Stokes married widow Ann Champion on July 8, both of Gloucester. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
1753 The estate of John Stokes of Waterford, Gloucester County, perhaps this one, was administered with a bond of Ann Stokes, widow and executrix with bondsman John Cox, innholder of Chester Twp, Burlington County. Inventory by Josiah Shivers and Aaron Aronson. [6]
The Stokes genealogy reports: John Stokes, son of Thomas Stokes and Rachel Wright, was born on January 9, 1724. John Stokes and Ann Champion were married in 1751. [7]
A Champion genealogy reports: 1761 Ann Ellis was married to John Stokes, Samuel Murrell, and Peter Champion. They had a child named Joseph. [8]
[1] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 419, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[2] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 15, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[3] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 22. (Marriage Records, 1665-1800) (1900), 361, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1683-1802, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[5] 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].
[6] 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 Lib. 7, p. 423, [InternetArchive].
[7] Richard Haines, Genealogy of the Stokes Family : Descended From Thomas and Mary Stokes Who Settled in Burlington County, N.J. (2015), [AncestryRecord].
[8] Francis Bacon Trowbridge, History of the Descendants of Henry Champion 1891, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].