Person:John Phares (3)

Information on John Phares I

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THE PHARES FAMILY OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA, with a few notes on the allied families of Johnson, Gragg, Reynolds, Hill, Wilmoth, Veneman, and others, by Warren Skidmore

All that we have to say here about the origin of John Phares of Rockingham County must be taken with considerable caution. Family tradition can be supported in large part by record evidence, but his identification with the New Jersey family falls just short of smoking gun proof. His father is said by his Virginia posterity to have been a brickmaker in Philadelphia and to have had a wife Mary.1 Tentatively he may be identified with the John Faris I (called a bricklayer) who died at Mansfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, probably a few days before 20 September 1736 when the administration on his estate was given to his widow Mary.2 An inventory of the estate (totaling £40 3sh 6d) was taken four days later by Thomas Newbold and Richard Gibbs. No other document was put on record about the estate and we do not have a list of his children or heirs. Burlington County was formed in 1694, but deeds were not recorded until 1785 and church records are sparse.