Research Notes:
Is Elizabeth Moore, who married John Collins, the same person as Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Benjamin Moore?
1738 On May 17, Joseph Moore, son of Benjamin Moore of Evesham, and Patience Woolman were married in Northampton Twp, Burlington County. Witnessed by Elizabeth More Junior and others. [1]
1737 On 27 February, John Collins and Elizabeth Moore were married at Burlington [2] [3] Then who was the Elizabeth More Jr who witnessed her brother's wedding in 1738?
Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Benjamin Moore and Sarah Stokes, married John Collins (third wife). John Collins was the son of Francis Collins. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
1761 John Collins died. [9]
1760 On May 23, John Collins dated his will in Evesham, Burlington County, New Jersey. named son Joseph Collins and the legacy given to his mother by his grandfather, Samuel Kimble. [10]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Edmund Evans Moore, The Benjamin Moore Family of Burlington County New Jersey (1982), 16, [GoogleBooks].
[3] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 108.
[4] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 146, 380, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[5] Richard Haines, George Haines, Charles Stokes. Genealogy of the Stokes Family (1903), 11, 17, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[6] Barclay White, "Early Settlements in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey," Proceedings, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members, &c. of the Surveyors' Association of West New Jersey (1870), 83-92, at 49, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[7] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 81, 415, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[8] John W. Jordan, Colonial Families of Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (New York: Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), 646, after John Bates, died 1754, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[9] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 81, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[10] A. Van Doren Honeyman, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 33. (Wills and Administrations 4, 1761-1770) (1928), 85, [InternetArchive].