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Notes for Jarvis Stokes and Elizabeth Rogers

1753 Jarves Stokes was born on 10 of month 11, son of John Stokes (son of John and Elizabeth Green Stokes) and Hannah Stockdell [1] [2]

1773 Jarves Stokes, son of John and Hannah Stogdelle Stokes, and Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of William and Martha Esturgans Rogers, both of Burlington, were married on November 27. They had 15 children. [3] [4] [5]

1776 Jarves Stokes acknowledged marrying out [of unity with the Quakers], 2nd day, 12th month, Burlington. [6]

1788 Mary Stokes was born on 18th day, 11th month, daughter of Jarvis and Elizabeth Stokes. [7]

1804 Jarvis Stokes, of Wellingborough Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey, dated his will on February 7. He named wife Elizabeth, sons John, Jarvis, and Joseph (not yet age 21), Stockdell (minor), Samuel (minor), Mordecai (minor), William. Daughters Martha Hains, Hannah West?, Elizabeth Harris, Mary Stokes (under age 18), Esther Stokes (under age 18), Sarah Stokes (under age 18). John inherited the plantation. Jarvis inherited the northerly adjoining our Mill Creek. Joseph inherited the southerly land adjoining brother David Stokes. William inherited the land in Northampton purchased from the estate of William Rogers. Probate 29 December, 1804. [8] [9]

1867 Hannah Woolman, widow, daughter of Jarvs Stokes and Elizabeth Stokes, died on January (likely June) 21 in New Jersey. [10] [11]

"William Stokes was born in Burlington County, New Jersey, January 14, 1779, being the fourth child and the second of eight sons of a family of sixteen, his parents being Jarvis Stokes and Hannah (Rogers) Stokes." [12]

Jarvis Stokes, son of John Stokes and Hannah Elisabth Stokes Stogdell, was born in 1753. Jarvis Stokes and Elizabeth Rogers were married on 27 Nov 1773. They had a child named Martha Stokes. [13]

Jarvis Stokes, son of John Stokes and Hannah Stogdelle, was born in 1753. Jarvis Stokes was married to Elizabeth Rogers. They had children named Jarvis Stokes, Martha Stokes, Hannah Stokes, John Stokes, William Stokes, Jarvis Stokes, Elizabeth Stokes, Edith Stokes, Joseph Stokes, Mary Stokes, Esther Stokes, Stogdelle Stokes, Samuel Stokes, Mordecai Stokes, Sarah Stokes, Mordecai Stokes, Martha Stokes, and Elizabeth Stokes. [14]


Footnotes:

[1] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 288, [HathiTrust].

[2] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 445, [HathiTrust].

[3] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 37, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].

[4] 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].

[5] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 445, 288, [HathiTrust].

[6] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 86.

[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 27, 31.

[8] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Will A-44, [FamilySearchImage].

[9] New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[10] New Jersey, U.S., Birth, Marriage and Death Records, 1711-1878, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[11] Find A Grave Memorial at Ancestry.com, [AncestryRecord].

[12] William J. Worth Stokes, The Stokes' from the Rancocas (Dayton, Ohio: 1899), 1, [GoogleBooks].

[13] Mary Elizabeth Sinnott and Josiah Granville Leach, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied Families (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1905), [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].

[14] Richard Haines, Genealogy of the Stokes Family : Descended From Thomas and Mary Stokes Who Settled in Burlington County, N.J. (2015), [AncestryRecord].