1729 Joshua Quicksall witnessed the will of John Bunting of Chesterfield, Burlington County. [1]
1732 Joshua Quicksall and Thomas Potts sold land to Thomas Potts Jr. on July 20, 1732. [2]
1734 Joshua Quicksall and Mary Moore were married on December 13, in Burlington, New Jersey. [3] [4] [5] Mary was a sister of Joseph Church and a daughter of Deacon Edward Church and Mary Tillbraum. [6] [7] [8] [9]
1735-1743 The names and birthdates of six children of Joshua and Mary Quicksall were written on two blank leaves in the beginning of a copy of The Whole Duty of Man (London, 1676). [10]
Sarah 23 AUG 1735
Joshua 13 JAN 1738
Jacob 13 MAR 1740
Israel 3 MAR 1741
Rebecca 25 NOV 1743
Samuel 25 NOV 1743
1738 Joshua Quicksall was granted a mortgage on a plantation of 52.5 acres in Mansfield Township, Burlington County on April 19, 1738. [11]
1739 Jos'a Quicksall voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [12]
1745 Joshua Quicksell, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated April 15. [13]
1750 Joshua Quicksall was listed among customers at Imlay's Store in Bordentown, New Jersey. [14]
1751-57 Joshua Quicksall was a resident of Bordentown, Chesterfield Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [15]
1754 Joshua Quicksall, of Mansfield, Burlington County, yeoman, dated his will on December 7. Wife, Mary. Children: Joshua, Samuel, Sary and Rebeckah, all under age. Home farm of 125 acres of upland, and 7 ac. of marsh, on Cross Weeks Creek; land in Bristow Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.; 6 ac. of marsh near Bordentown, on the Point of Crossweek. Personal property. Executors: the wife and her brother, Joseph Church. Witnesses: Mary Church, Jacob Swain, James Rockett. Proved Dec. 26, 1754. Inventory on 1754, Dec. 16, £236.7.11, incl. a looking glass, 43s.; books, 3s.; made by Joseph English and Thomas Biddel. [16] [17] [18] [19]
Research Notes:
1771 Joshua Quicksall (perhaps a son) owned land near or adjacent to lands of Robert Field, William Black, Preserve Brown, Isaac Horner, John Lawrence, and Stacy Potts. The land was by the Delaware River at the head of a hollow, in Mansfield Township, Burlington County. [20]
Crosswicks Creek defines the northwest boundary of Chesterfield Twp and joins the Delaware River near the boudary with Mansfield Twp, at Bordentown.
1848 J Quicksall, J Quicksall, and S Quicksall lived southeast of Bordentown. [21]
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[10] John Insley Coddington, "The Quicksall Family," The American Genealogist 50 (1974), 184-185, at 184, [AmericanAncestors].
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[17] George E McCracken, "The Church and Grant Families of Philadelphia and Vicinity," The American Genealogist 30 (1953), 217-231, at 226, [AmericanAncestors].
[18] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[19] New Jersey, U.S., Calendar of Wills, 1670-1760, [AncestryRecord].
[20] New Jersey State Archives Colonial Deed [Fill in search form], Burlington County Mortgage book A-143, Mary Field to William Heysham, [NJ Archives Deed Search].
[21] J.W. Otley & R. Whiteford; on stone by G. Kramm & G. Worley, Map of Burlington County, mostly from original surveys (Philadelphia : Published by Smith & Wistar, 1849), [LibraryOfCongress Map], [LibraryOfCongress].