Name: Richard Stockton
Born: 1665
Place: Flushing, Long Island, NY
Died: 1709
Place: Princeton, NJ
Buried:
Married: 8 Nov 1691
Place: Chesterfield, Burlington Co., NJ
This note regarding Richard's will is found at Glen Swartz's rootsweb page:
In his will, dated 25 Jun 1709, Richard Stockton divided his estate in the
following manner: to his eldest son, Richard, 300 acres of land; to his
second son, Samuel, 500 acres; to the third son,
Joseph, 500 acres; to the fourth son, Robert, 500 acres; to the fifth son,
John, 500 acres, and to the sixth son, Thomas, 600 acres at Oneanickon which
had been left to him by his father, and 140 acres be sides. The meadows
were to be divided equally among the five elder sons. After providing
generously for his mother, Abigail, and his wife, Susanna, he devised the
family seat, later named "Morven" , to his fifth son, John.
From Genealogical and family history of western New York, by
William Richard Cutter, Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1912. I have the
entire article transcribed in the page for his father, Richard Stockton.
Richard (2), son of Richard (1) Stockton, was born about 1650 or 1660, died
in Piscataway, Middlesex county. New Jersey, between June 25 and August 15,
1709. His father took him with him to Springfield township, Burlington
county, New Jersey, where he remained until after his marriage, when he
removed to Piscataway. Later he bought from William Penn the famous
fifty-five hundred acres on which the town and university of Princeton now
stand, making his residence on a part of it. In 1705 he was commissioned by
Lord Cornbury, ensign of the militia company of Springfield and Northampton
townships, under Captain Richard Ellison, and in June, 1709, he became one
of the trustees of the Stony Brook Friends meeting house. He married, at
Chesterfield monthly meeting, November 8, 1691, Susanna (Witham) Robinson,
born in Whitby, November 29, 1668. died April 30, 1749, daughter of Robert
and Ann Witham, of Whitby, Yorkshire, England, and widow of Thomas Robinson,
of Crosswicks. After her second husbandis death she married (third) Judge
Thomas Leonard, of Princeton. Children, all born in Piscataway: 1.
Richard, April 2, 1693, died March. 1760; married Hester Smith, of Jamaica,
Long Island; children: John and Ruth. 2. Samuel (of whom further). 3.
Joseph, May 5, 1697, died 1770; married Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob and Amy
(Whitehead) Doughty; children: Daniel, Joseph, Doughty, Samuel, John, Amy,
Elizabeth, Mary, Sarah, married Richard, son of Joseph and Mary (Farnsworth)
Stockton. 4. Robert, April 3, 1699, died in 1744-45; married (first)
;(second) Rebecca Phillips, of Maidenhead; children: Robert, Thomas, Job,
Susanna, Eunice, Elizabeth, Sarah. 5. John, father of Richard Stockton,
signer of the Declaration of Independence; he married, February 21, 1729,
Abigail, daughter of Philip and Rebecca (Stockton) Phillips, of Maidenhead,
who was born October 9, 1708. 6. Thomas, born 1703.
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