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Sendee with other lands in Wiltshire, and Roger, his second son, the manors of Wolshall, Sanarnargritt and Hungerford in the same county. Roger and his father, Sir Adam, were interred in the church of Great Bedwin to which they had been benefactors, and their effigies and monuments are still to be seen there. John, a descendant of Thomas, rep- resented the county in parliament in the reign of Charles II, and in the reign of Elizabeth, we find the Stockeys (the first change in the spelling of the name) erected the church or chapel of Sendee and lie interred there. In the fifteenth century, Christopher Stokes held the manors of Stanhawes with other lands in Gloucestershire, and Edward Stokes held part of the manor of Fetherton at a later period together with lands at Langley Burrell, county Gloucester. About 1700 John Stokes held the manor of Stanhawes Court, Cardington, with other lands in the same county. In the coun- ties of Gloucester and Bucks Richard Stokes, of Caln Castle, Wilts, held considerable pos- sessions. Some of the family also held lands in Sussex and Kent, and within the last fifty years possessed considerable property in the counties of Wilts, Gloucester and Warwick. The arms of the family are: gules a lion ram- pant, double gnewed erm; Crest : a dove with wings expanded, in the mouth an olive branch, all proper ; Motto: Fertis qui insons.
(I) Thomas Stokes, founder of the fam- ily in America, was the contemporary of George Fox, the reformer and founder of the Society of Friends, and of William Penn, who was associated with the trustees of Ed- ward Byllinge, one of the original proprietors of New Jersey, and the founder of the Prov- ince of Pennsylvania. He was sixteen years younger than the former and four years older than the latter, a convert to their religious doc- trines and toleration, with the largest liberty for individual belief, but like all pioneers and propagandises desiring to avoid persecution and seeking new fields of labor, he concluded to remove himself to the New American colo- nies and seek his fortune in the new world. His brother, John Stokes, of London, having large proprietary interests in West Jersey, bor- dering on the Northampton river, Thomas settled on a part of the tract conveyed to him by his brother. This conveyance of John is said to be the only portion of his interest ever disposed of by him and was doubtless the dis- posal of the whole of his interest. Thomas Stokes located three hundred acres of land fronting on the northerly side of the North-
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ampton river, and a portion of the tract still remains in the possession of the family hav- ing come down from father to son by will. Thomas Stokes was a man of influence, and very active in the affairs of the colony, serving on the first grand jury ever held in Burlington county. His wife dying in 1699, he removed to Waterford township, Gloucester county, and resided there with his son Thomas, until his death, II of Seventh month 1720. Janu- ary 21, 1719, he conveyed his Northampton township lands to Abraham Hewlings, Jr., and October 13, 1719, he wrote his will.
The 30th of Tenth month, 1668, Thomas Stokes, of Lower Shadwell, married Mary Bernard, of Stepney, at the Westbury street Friends Meeting in London. They belonged to the Devonshire House Meeting. With his wife and young children he set sail for the new world in the ship "Kent" and arriving at New Castle, in the Sixth month, 1677, pro- ceeded to Burlington and settled on a tract of one hundred and sixty-two and one-half acres which he called Stokington. He was one of the signers of the concessions and agreements. The children of Thomas and Mary ( Bernard ) Stokes were : I. Sarah, married, in 1693, Ben- jamin Moore, the emigrant from Birmingham, county Lincoln, England, said to have been the largest landholder in New Jersey, and the one after whom Moorestown is named. 2. Mary, married, in 1696, John, son of Robert and Mary Hudson, of Burlington. 3. John, who is referred to below. 4. Joseph, who died in 1760; married (first) Judith, daughter of Freedom and Mary (Curtis) Lippincott, and (second) Ann ( Ashard) Haines, the widow of John Haines and the daughter of John Ashard. 5. Thomas.
(II) John, third child and eldest son of Thomas and Mary (Bernard) Stokes, was born, probably in London, in 1675, and was brought to the new world by his father when he was about two years old. In 1719 his father made him the sole executor of his will. In his "First Emigrant Settlers of Newton Township" Judge Clement says, "Nothing is known of John Stokes save what may be gathered from the records in the office of the secretary of state at Trenton." In 1716, an inventory of his estate was made, upon which is the following endorsement: "Came to his end by an unnatural death, in ye lower end of Gloucester county." This inventory and en- dorsement, however, must refer to some other John Stokes as it is hardly possible that Thomas Stokes would make a man his sole
executor three years after his death. It may possibly mean that John, the brother of Thomas, came also to this country. In 1712, John Stokes married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Green. She was known as Lady Green, and was the grand- daughter of Arthur Green, of Bug Brook parish, county Northampton, England. She came to America it is said in the household of Dr. Daniel Wills, in whose care she had been placed by her father. Being displeased by her marriage to John Stokes, her father disin- herited her, and sent her brother John to the colony to look after his interests and invest- ments in New Jersey. The children of John and Elizabeth (Green) Stokes were: I. John, who is referred to below. 2. Mary, married in 1734, Edward Mullen, and had a grand- daughter, Keziah Burr, who married Richard Howell, afterwards governor of New Jersey, whose granddaughter married Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America. 3. Elizabeth, married Richard Blackham. 4. Sarah, married Isaac Rogers. (III) John (2) eldest child and only son of John (I) and Elizabeth (Green) Stokes, was born in Gloucester county, New Jersey, July 16, 1713, died August 24, 1798. In 1740 he married Hannah, daughter of Jervis and Mary (Sharp) Stogdelle, of Evesham town- ship, Burlington county. Her mother was the daughter of Hugh Sharp, possibly the brother of William of Gloucester county, and John of Burlington county, and if so the son of Fran- cis Sharp, of Oak Lane, in the parish of St. Ann, Limehouse county, Middlesex, England. She was born in 1718, died June 16, 1790. The children of John and Hannah (Stogdelle ) Stokes were: I. Mary, born October 16, 1745, married Isaac Newton. 2. John, August 22, 1747, married Susanna Newton. 3. David who is referred to below. 4. Jarvis, Novem- ber 10, 1753, died December 14, 1804; mar- ried, November 27, 1773, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Martha ( Esturgans) Rogers. 5. Hannah, October 12, 1756, became the sec- ond wife of Joseph Haines and married (sec- ond) George Browning. 6. Elizabeth, May 31, 1759, married George French. 7. Rachel, married Joseph Hackney.
(IV) David, third child and second son of John (2) and Hannah (Stogdelle) Stokes, was born in Burlington county, January 12, 1752, died there September 27, 1830. He married, April 15, 1784, Ann, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Barlow) Lancaster, of Gwynedd Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and the
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granddaughter of Thomas and Phebe (Wor- dell) Lancaster. Her grandfather had emi- grated from England to America about June, 17II, and was married in the Wrightstown Meet- ing, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in October, 1725. His wife, Phebe, was the daughter of John Wordell, a minister among Friends who had emigrated from Wales, settled first in Boston, and later on in Wrightstown. His daughter, Phebe (Wordell) Lancaster, died at the residence of her son, John, at Richland, Pennsylvania, aged over ninety-five years. Her husband, Thomas Lancaster, was a member of the Richland Meeting and became a distin- guished minister in that society. The Meet- ing granted him a certificate to travel and preach in Barbadoes and the West Indies, and having fulfilled his mission, he was returning home when he was taken sick and died, being buried at sea, about 1750. Ann (Lancaster ) Stokes died September 25, 1835. The children of David and Ann (Lancaster) Stokes were : I. Israel, born November 7, 1785, married Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth N. (Woolman) Borton; their daughter Elizabeth married Henry C. Deacon. 2. John Lancaster, February 24, 1788, died in September, 1822; married Rachel, daughter of Caleb and Martha Burr, and their daughter Martha married Gen- eral George H. Stokes. 3. Charles, who is referred to below. 4. David, February 25, 1794, died January 22, 1817, unmarried.
(V) Charles, third child and son of David and Ann (Lancaster) Stokes, was born in Beverly township, Burlington county, August 12, 1791. In his early manhood he taught school and engaged in farming, and then studied surveying and was one of the head surveyors of the Camden and Amboy railroad. He was for some time a member of the state legislature and was one of the framers of the state constitution. He was also very active in promoting and was one of the most influ- ential directors of the Mount Holly Insurance Company. "This is Charles Stokes' peculiar- ity," said a man who knew him well in 1903, "He, like the patriarchs of old, is a descendant of a long line of cherished and honored an- cestry. And as his portion he has inherited that little spark; that certain something; that invisible yet ever present and all pervading power, that raises up and throws down who it will. That makes honored or dishonored, whoever and whenever suits its strange fancy, without which none are great, and with which none are mean. View him as you will, there cannot be found in him any one art ; any fac-
ulty ; and ability to do a particular thing in a peculiar way, whereby those who rise in the world usually climb into a place above their fellows. And yet, without wealth, without office, and without title he has risen to that place of prominence where he is one of the foremost citizens of his country and state. As Abram became Abraham, so is he the honored Charles Stokes." He married, October 18, 1816, Tacy, daughter of William and Ann (Lukins) Jarrett. Her great-grandfather, John Jarrett, the name is also spelt Garrit, is said by some to have come from Holland, and by others from the Scottish Highlands. About January, 1712, he married Mary, daughter of John Lukens, who emigrated in 1684 from Criffilt, Germany. Their son, John, who mar- ried Alice Conard, was the father of William Jarrett, the father of Tacy, the wife of Charles Stokes. The children of Charles and Tacy (Jarrett) Stokes were: I. David, born Sep- tember 18, 1817, died in infancy. 2. Hannah, April 30, 1819, married, April 27, 1837, Charles Williams. 3. Alice, August 25, 1821, married, in 1843, William, son of John R. and Letitia Penn (Smith) Parry. 4. Jarrett, April 29, 1823, died September 18, 1870; married Martha, daughter of William and Hannah (Rowland ) Hilliard. 5. Anna, April 24, 1825, married, 1850, Chalkley Albertson. 6. William, who is referred to below.
(VI) William, sixth and youngest child of Charles and Tacy (Jarrett) Stokes, was born in Wellingborough township, Burlington county, September 10, 1827, and is now living in Mount Holly. For his preparatory edu- cation he was sent to the Friends school and then he went to Alexandria, Virginia, in order to finish his education. Returning to Burl- ington county, New Jersey, he engaged in farming. He is one of the stockholders of the Union National Bank of Mount Holly, and a member of the Society of Friends. He mar- ried, in 1863, Anna, daughter of James and Rebecca (Spirling) McIlvaine, of Philadel- phia. Their children are : 1. James McIlvaine, born September 27, 1865, married Eveline Bartlett, and was a farmer and supplied sand to Philadelphia. 2. William J., married Mar- garet, daughter of Dr. Perkins, and is engaged in the hardware business in New York city.
(For first generation see preceding sketch).
(II) Thomas (2) youngest STOKES child of Thomas ( 1) and Mary ( Bernard) Stokes, was born in 1682, died November 7, 1736. In 1709 he
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purchased from John Kay, of Springwell, three hundred acres of land in Waterford, now Delaware township, Camden county, New Jersey, bounded on the south side by the north branch of Cooper's creek, extending on both sides of a tributary of the same, and in- cluding what is now some of the best soil in the neighborhood. On this tract he settled, his house standing near what was about thirty years ago the home of Mark Ballinger. This settlement was in the midst of an Indian neigh- borhood, and it was not until after the middle of the nineteenth century that the last of the aboriginal dwellers passed away, and the re- n ains of their burying ground may still be seen near Tindall's run, east of the Haddon- field and Berlin road. In 1704 Thomas Stokes married (first) Deliverance, daughter of Isaac and Lydia Horner, of Northampton township, Burlington county, whose sister Hannah was the first wife of John, son of William Matlack, the emigrant. She died be- tween 1713 and 1715, and bore her husband six children : 1. Hannah, born July, 1705, died in childhood. 2. Joseph, July 12, 1706. 3. Benjamin, January 27, 1708, who went to North Carolina, and has sometimes been con- fused with his father. 4. Lydia, July 13, 1710, married (first) 1734, Samuel Haines, and (second) Jacob Lamb. 5. Thomas, Novem- ber 5, 1711, married, 1741, Abigail, daughter of John, son of William Matlack, the emi- grant, by his second wife Mary Lee. 6. De- liverance, September 18, 1713, married Darling Conrow. September 1, 1715, Thomas Stokes married (second) Rachel, daughter of Job and Rachel Wright, of Oyster Bay or Westbury, Long Island, who died February 18, 1742, having borne her husband eight children: 7. Joshua, referred to below. 8. Rachel, Octo- ber 15, 1717, married, September 7, 1734, John Cowperthwait. 9. Job, October 15, 1717, twin with Rachel. 10. Hannah, June 26, 1719, mar- ried Benjamin Pine. II. Jacob, March 21, 1721, married, 1749, Priscilla Ellis. 12. Keziah, January 25, 1724, married, 1750, Jo- seph Browning. 13. John, November I, 1724, married, 1751, Ann Champion, a widow, pos- sibly of Peter Champion and the daughter of William and Sarah (Collins) Ellis. 14. Rosanna, May 2, 1728, married, May 19, 1748, Samuel, son of Samuel and Abigail ( Ward) Collins.
(III) Joshua, eldest child of Thomas and Rachel (Wright) Stokes, was born in Water- ford township, Camden county, New Jersey, April 6, 1716, died there in 1779. After the
death of his father he occupied the homestead for the remainder of his own life. December IO, 1741, he married Amy, daughter of John and Sarah Hinchman, and the great-grand- daughter of a Huguenot of Flushing, Long Island, whose children had removed into New Jersey. Her grandparents were John Hinch- man and Sarah, daughter of Samuel Harrison, of Flushing, and her great-grandparents were John and Sarah Hinchman, of Flushing, who came from France. The surname is a very curious example of the racial group of names, it being really a corruption of the word "Frenchman" and the first instance of it oc- curring in the Flushing census of 1698, where the emigrant is listed among the Frenchmen in the town. The children of Joshua and Amy (Hinchman) Stokes were: I. John, re- ferred to below. 2. Rachel, married Nathaniel Barton. 3. Elizabeth, married Jacob, son of Charles and Ann French. 4. Hannah, married (first) Haddon, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Lord) Hopkins, and (second) Abraham, son of Abraham and Sarah Inskeep. 5. Thomas, born 1742, died 1831 ; married Sarah, daugh- ter of Abraham and Sarah Inskeep. 6. Sam- uel, married (first) 1774, Atlantic, daughter of William and Mary (Turner) Matlack, and (second) Hope, daughter of Robert and Mar- tha Hunt. 7. Jacob, married Esther Wilkins. 8. Joshua, married Syllania, daughter of Dan- iel and Rebecca ( Prickitt) Bishop.
(IV) John, eldest child of Joshua and Amy (Hinchman) Stokes, was born in Waterford township, Camden county, but removed into Burlington county, where he died. He mar- ried Beulah, daughter of John and Mary (Shreve) Haines, granddaughter of Nathan Haines and Sarah, daughter of Francis and Mary (Borton) Austin. Nathan was the son of William Haines and Sarah, daughter of John Paine, of Burlington, in 1695, the emi- grant. William was the son of Richard and Margaret Haines, the emigrants. The children of John and Beulah (Haines) Stokes were: I. Caleb, born 1782, mar- ried, 1803, Ruth, daughter of Levi and Hannah (Reeve) Shinn, and great-great- granddaughter of Thomas and Mary (Stock- ton) Shinn. 2. Samuel, 1784, married Mary H. Mathison. 3. Isaac, 1787, married (first) Lydia, daughter of Job and Elizabeth ( Ball- inger) Mason-Collins, and (second) Mary, daughter of Levi and Hannah Ballinger and widow of Job Collins. 4. William, referred to below. 5. Mary, 1792, married Job, son of Amaziah and Hannah ( Prickitt) Lippincott,
William Wilsonstokes.
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and granddaughter of John and Elizabeth (Elkinton) Lippincott. t. 6. Atlantic, 1794, married Daniel Hurley. 7. Rachel, who died in childhood.
(V) William, fourth child and son of John and Beulah (Haines) Stokes, was born in 1790. He was a master shoemaker in Med- ford, Burlington county, New Jersey. He had a large establishment that employed a number of hands and supplied the Camden county towns of Winslow, Atco and Waterford with shoes. He followed this trade all his life, living and dying in Medford. He was a Whig in politics and in religion a Hicksite Friend. He married (first) Ann, daughter of Isaac Wilson and Phebe, daughter of Samuel and Ann Middleton, and granddaughter of John and Mary Wilson. Their nine children were: I. Barclay Wilson, born August 18, 1815, mar- ried Hannah Ann, daughter of Caleb and Hope (Lippincott) Haines, who after his death mar- ried (second) Andrew Griscom. 2. Phebe Middleton, March 2, 1817, married (first) Edward Brown, and ( second) James Roberts. 3. Wilson, referred to below. 4. Caspar, No- vember 25, 1821, died unmarried. 5. Whitall, October 10, 1823, married Almira Carman. 6. Alfred, March 28, 1826, died in childhood. 7. Isaac Wilson, May 15, 1828, married (first) Mary Ann, daughter of Job Lippincott and Mary, daughter of John and Beulah ( Haines) Stokes, referred to above, and (second) Annie, daughter of Charles and (Hoopes) Cooper. 8. Beulah, September 17, 1830, mar- ried Mark, son of Daniel and Dorothy ( Strat- ton) Zelley, grandson of Daniel and Bath- sheba ( Braddock) Zelley, and great-grand- son of Rehoboam and Jemima ( Darnell) Braddock. 9. Edwin H., married Matilda Kemble, and whose son, Edward Caspar, is an ex-governor of the state of New Jersey. William Stokes married (second) Hannah Livezey, who bore him no children.
(VI) Wilson, third child and second son of William and Ann (Wilson) Stokes, was born in Medford, Burlington county, September 1, 1819, died there May 22, 1896. He received his education in the Medford select school of the Hicksite Friends, but he afterwards joined the Methodist Episcopal church. For a num- ber of years he was deputy clerk in the Burl- ington county clerk's office, and then he took a position in the bank at Medford as teller and bookkeeper, becoming later assistant cashier, and eventually succeeding Jonathan Oliphant as cashier, which position he held until his own death. His connection with the bank thus ex-
tended over forty years. He was also a di- rector in the Burlington County Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Moorestown. At his death he was succeeded in his position as di- rector by his brother, Isaac Wilson Stokes, who in turn gave place to Henry P. Thorn, of Medford. Mr. Stokes was a Methodist local preacher for many years, preaching almost every Sunday in the town adjoining Medford. In politics he was a Republican. In 1843 Wilson Stokes married Eleanor, daughter of Samuel McKenney, who has borne him three children: I. William Wilson, referred to below. 2. Barclay Lippincott, proprietor and manager of the Damp-wash Laundry Com- pany of Trenton, New Jersey, who married Hannah Beatty. 3. Charles Wesley, living in Collinswood, New Jersey, is chief clerk of the West Jersey and Seashore railroad, with his office in Broad street station, Philadelphia, who married a Miss Getty.
(VII) William Wilson, eldest child of Wil- son and Eleanor (McKenney) Stokes, was born in Vincentown, Burlington county, New Jersey, in October, 1844, and is now living in Moorestown, New Jersey. He was edu- cated in the Medford select schools and the Pennington Seminary, Pennington, New Jer- sey. He then went into the drug store of Isaac Wilson Stokes, his uncle, the same store now occupied at Medford by Henry P. Thorn. Here he remained for six years, and then he went to New Egypt, New Jersey, in 1866, and started in the drug business for himself. Ten years later he returned to Medford, and in 1876 went into the Medford Bank to assist his father, becoming receiving teller, and book- keeper of the general ledger. Nine years later he removed to Moorestown and organized the Moorestown National Bank, which opened for business September 14, 1885, Mr. Stokes being appointed the cashier, which position he still holds, being the first and only cashier the in- stitution has ever had. In 1890 Mr. Stokes organized the Burlington County Safe De- posit and Trust Company in Moorestown, New Jersey, and was made its secretary and treasurer, which offices he held until 1902, when he was elected president and trust officer, which he still is. His place as secretary and treasurer was given to William R. Lippincott, who married Tacie, daughter of Chalkley and Anna (Stokes) Albertson, and granddaughter of Charles and Tacy (Jarrett) Stokes. Mr. Stokes is also a director in the Moorestown Water Company. In 1909 he was foreman of the reform grand jury of Burlington county.
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He is a Republican, and attends the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he is the president of the board of trustees. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows at New Egypt, New Jersey. In 1868 William Wilson Stokes married Mary Hartshorn, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Rogers, of New Egypt, who has borne him one son, Charles Wilson, referred to below.
(VIII) Charles Wilson, only child of Will- iam Wilson and Mary Hartshorn ( Rogers) Stokes, was born in New Egypt, in 1869, and is now living in Moorestown. He was edu- cated in the New Egypt select schools. He began his business career in the Moorestown National Bank upon its organization, became and now is its receiving teller and general ledger bookkeeper. He is a member of the F. and A. M., a charter member of the B. P. O. E., No. 848, of Mt. Holly, and is a Repub- lican in politics. He married Estella Dager, daughter of Samuel S. and Keturah G. ( Stock- ton) Dager, who has borne him one child, Keturah Gertrude, born March 31, 1893.
(For ancestry see Thomas Stokes 1).
(V) Israel, son of David and
STOKES Ann (Lancaster ) Stokes, was born the 7th day of the 11th month, 1785, and married Sarah, daughter of Joshua and Elizabeth N. ( Woolman) Borton. They had five children: I. Susan, married George Williams. 2. Benjamin R. (see post ). 3. Ann L., married William S. Emley. 4. Israel, married Caroline Green. 5. Elizabeth, married Henry C. Deacon.
(VI) Benjamin R., son of Israel and Sarah ( Borton) Stokes, married Sarah Zelley, and had four children: I. Abraham Z. (see post). 2. Howard, married Sarah Hendrickson. 3. Rebecca, married Amos Evans. 4. Sarah, married Henry Kelley.
(VII) Abraham Zelley, son of Benjamin R. and Sarah (Zelley) Stokes, was born in Jack- sonville, New Jersey, July 16, 1842, and died March 1, 1900. He was educated in the schools of his native town and also in Phila- delphia, and in business life was a farmer in Jacksonville, having succeeded to possession of the farm formerly owned and occupied by his father. During the years 1875-76 he was proprietor of a mercantile business at Colum- bus, New Jersey. He was a man of good business capacity, straightforward in all of his dealings, upright in his daily walk, a consist- ent member of the Society of Friends, and in politics an independent Democrat. He mar-
ried, in 1870, Hannah P. Haines, born in Jack- sonville, May 17, 1848, and by her had two children: I. Elwood H. (see post). 2. Cora D., born February 23, 1878.
(VIII) Elwood Haines, only son of Abra- ham Zelley and Hannah P. (Haines) Stokes, was born in Jacksonville, New Jersey, Novem- ber 24, 1873, and received a good early edu- cation in public schools and a business training in the College of Commerce, Philadelphia. He afterward for a time worked his father's farm, and in 1903 started in business on his own ac- count as a general coal dealer in Mt. Holly, where he has since lived. In politics Mr. Stokes is inclined to be independent with Dem- ocratic leanings, but does not take an active interest in public affairs. He is a member and past grand of Unity Lodge, No. 19, I. O. O. F. of Mt. Holly, and member of Mt. Holly Lodge, No. 848, B. P. O. E. He also is a member of the Society of Friends. Mr. Stokes mar- ried, June 14, 1900, Bessie, daughter of Joshua and Martha Matlack, and has two children : I. Bessie M., born February 8, 1901. 2. Elwood H. Jr., August 14, 1902.
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