Stillwell: "85 WILLIAM THROCKMORTON , son of Job Throckmorton , 27. 1754. William Throckmorton had a deed for fifty acres in Morris County, N. J. 1754, July 2. John Tice vs Wm Throckmorton . Debt £18-4-0, York money. Committment ordered Dec. 25, 1754. 1758, Sept. 6. William Throckmorton inventoried the estate of Thomas Langlee , of Morris County . 1759, Dec. 15. William Throckmorton , of Morris County , and Sarah , daughter of Elijah Giller or Gillet , of the same place, had a marriage license issued. They were married at the Morristown, N. J. , Presbyterian Church, Dec. 26, 1759. 1760. Wm Throckmorton was one of the largest creditors and administrators of John Lafollet , of Newtown, Sussex County . Wm Throckmorton was of Roxbury, Morris County . 1761, Mch. 11. Henry Johnson vs Wm Throckmorton . Debt £500; agreed. 1762, Mch. 10. Wm Throckmorton petitioned for a license to keep a public house. 1762, Sept. 1, Wm Throckmorton vs Henry Johnson . Debt £203. 1762, December. Samuel Grandin and Wm Throckmorton vs Wm Gest . 1763, March. Wm Throckmorton petitioned for a license to keep a public house and went surety for Peter Salman on an application for the same purpose. 1763, July 6. Wm Throckmorton was a member of the Grand Jury in General Quarter Sessions. 1763, September. Wm Throckmorton went surety for Aaron Sutphin on an application for a license to keep a public house. He also petitioned for a license for himself. 1763, September. Wm Throckmorton vs Elenor Johnson , Richard Johnson and John Vantyne . 1764, March. Samuel Kemble vs Wm Throckmorton . £140; and the former vs Aaron Gillett and Wm Throckmorton for £200, discontinued; and the former vs Samuel Grandin and Wm Throckmorton for £200, discontinued. 1764, September. Wm P. Smith vs Wm Throckmorton and Jos. Kitchell . Debt £360. 1765, March. James Parker , Esq., vs William Throckmorton , Confesses judgment. £1010-1-9. 1767, December. William Throckmorton vs Elinor Johnson , et al., executors of Henry Johnson . 1770, Sept. 2. Wm Throckmorton , of Roxbury Township, Morris Co. , was a witness to a will. Court Records, Morris County, N. J. The Jurors , in behalf of the State of New Jersey , for Middlesex County , on oath present that on 4th of May, 1782, at Spotswood, Middlesex County , a certain Horse Race was made "for money and the Lucre of Gain." William Throgmorton , Late of Spotswood , Yeoman, unlawfully did aid, promote, etc., the same, "by laying Money thereon, and riding one of the Horses, that run for the Purse." Wm Paterson , Atty. Genl. "I plead Guilty." Signed "William Throckmorton " Supreme Court Files, Trenton, N. J. 1797, November. He was sued by James Sirling (also Stirling ) Bondsman Bailey Stout (?); also spelled John B. Stout . 1797, November. Wm Throckmorton was sued on a plea of trespass and a bill for £200, by James Sirling (also Sterling ). Bondsman Bailey Stout (also signed John B. Stout ). Judgment against him and a levy on goods and land at Spotswood . Supreme Court Files, Trenton, N. J. 1807, November. Wm Throckmorton , of Spotswood , was sued by Samuel Norseworthy for $235., for a note signed by him and witnessed by Catharine Throckmorton . Defendant claimed he paid the note; judgment by default. Supreme Court Files, Trenton, N. J. Issue 161 James Throckmorton." ______________________________________ Barton: WILLIAM THROCKMORTON [FGS, 98-99; CWT, 222 & 226] was born 27 Jan./June 1730 in Freehold, N.J., married SARAH GILLETT 26 Dec. 1759 at the First Presbyterian Church, Morristown, N.J.,10 died Oct. 1796 in Berkeley Co., Va. (now W. Va.). Sarah was born 2 Apr. 1742 in Morris Co., N.J., daughter of Elijah & Jane Gillett (Figure 3 and Figure 4 ). William was a merchant and a soldier (a private) in Virginia.11 Note that Stillwell's article (Figure 4) apparently covers the lives of two William Throckmortons - the first until 1770 and the second starting in 1782. We are only interested in the first one. The above statements that William was married in a Presbyterian church and that he was a soldier may be at variance with Simeon Wilson Dixon's 22 Feb. 1919 letter to Dr. Tinsley Brown in which he states that William (and other Throckmortons living in Shrewsbury) were Quakers, having kept "the faith the entire family had brought from Rhode Island - Quaker."12 These Quakers, being non-resistant people, in the Revolutionary War were called Tories and some of them were. Simeon Dixon goes on to state that William and his sister Rebecca (see ¶9. below) were the first of the family to remove to Virginia. They were said to have left New Jersey partly because of their position on the Revolutionary War. William was believed to have carried into Virginia money and immovables belonging to other family members who feared confiscation at the hands of the Patriots in the old home. In the 1755 will of Sarah (Throckmorton) Nichols (William's aunt), William received his share of the £30 to be equally divided between John Throckmorton, William Throckmorton, Mary fouster wife of Reuben fouster, Daniel Throckmorton, Job Throckmorton, Rebacah Throckmorton, Lewis Throckmorton and Joseph Throckmorton. William received an additional £17.13 In her 1962 DAR Application #492567 Miss Ellen Douglass Bender, 1014 Florida Ave., Martinsburg, WV, obtained her membership on the basis that our William Throckmorton received warrant #4798 for 100 acres in the Virginia Military District of Ohio for 3 years' service as a private in the Virginia Continental Line. This warrant was issued 3 June 1797. A Robert Gibbons received the warrant for William. Ellen is descended through William & Sarah's son Thomas (see ¶4.vi, below). According to Federal Land Series, vol. 4, Part I, Grants in the Virginia Military District of Ohio by Clifford N. Smith (1982), p. 120, warrant #4798 for 100 acres was issued 3 June 1797 to a William Throckmorton. The patentee was John Harrison and the actual settlers in 1826 were heirs of Benjamin Houghs and A[llen] Latham. The land was located on the Scioto River in Franklin Twp., Franklin Co., Ohio (Survey #S-3356, 96 acres, Survey Book C, p. 279). In the 1787 Virginia census for Berkeley Co., William Throckmorton was charged with tax on his 4 horses, mares, colts & mules and 4 cattle. He also paid the taxes for his son William, Jr., who was listed separately (see ¶v. below).14 On 13 Dec. 1778 a William Throgmorton of Berkeley Co. bought from John Briscoe 350 acres alongside Thomas Throgmorton's land.15 On the same date John Briscoe sold to a Thomas Throgmorton of Frederick Co. 550 acres lying in Frederick and Berkeley counties.16 This Thomas Throgmorton doesn't appear to be our Thomas Throckmorton who died in 1763 (see ¶5. below). Thus the William Throgmorton who bought land from John Briscoe may not be our William. The 1794 Landbook for (West) Berkeley Co. listed William Throckmorton, Sr. with 50 acres.17 No will for William Throckmorton has been found. On 5 Nov. 1796 William Throckmorton's estate was appraised at £219/10/0 by Colbert Anderson, Richard Ridgeway and Robert Holyday.18 A transcription of the inventory of William's estate appears in Figure 5A and the certification of it in Figure 5B . (Note error in the date above the names of the three appraisers: 1791 should be 1796.) ... 10. The Record of the First Presbyterian Church of Morristown, N.J. (1885), 2:117 & 231. 11. RFT, BOIN #66-4; DAR Patriot Index, 1:678. 12. The Wilkinson Papers, copies kindly proveded the author by Neal C. Pitts, Maryland and Eldon E. Slaughter, Connecticut. 13. JES, 5:92. 14. Netti Schreiner-Yatis & Florence S. Love, "The Census of Virginia." 15. Berkely Co., Va., Deed Book 5:175. 16. Ibid., 5:171. 17. 24 Aug. 1992 letter to author from D. Wood, P. O. Box 885, Hedgesville, WV 25427. 18. Berkeley Co. Will Book, 3:67
