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Facts and Events
Notes
- From "Alderson Roots and Branches", June 1990:
- In 1685, a Thomas Curtis appeared as a landowner in Burlington Co., and in 1686, Thomas, "of Buggbrook, West Jersey", was named as recipient of land conveyed by Peter Harvey and his wife Sarah [Curtis]. He apparently died not long after, as his widow Jane was soon to remarry, only to be widowed again within three months. In January 1689, "John Chapman and Jane Curtis, widow with children declared their intention of marriage the second time."~ On Chapman's death, Jane was again faced with the burden of providing for herself and at least four small children. She soon found another husband, John Pancoast, the early settler, whom she married in September, 1689. This caused some consternation among her Quaker neighbors, as seen in the entry into the Burlington Monthly Minutes: "John Pancoast and Jane, his wife, joined together in a marriage contrary to good order, and before said Jane's husband, John Chapman, had been dead five months."
- Source: http://www.fridley.net/arb/arbv2n1.pdf
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