Person:Richard Stockton (4)

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Sources

1. "The Stockton Genealogy" by Rev. Elias Bovdinot Stockton, pub. The Genealogical Compiling and Publishing Co., NY, 1909. Found un the NY (City) Public Library. Abigail was probably the mother of all his children below but possibly also his second wife. She was living 14 Ap. 1714. Richard, John, Job, Abigail, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth. To Massachussets 1635. To Long Island by 1645.

2. New Jersey Historical Society. New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes from the Volumes of the New Jersey Archives. Trenton, NJ, USA: New Jersey Historical Society, 1916. (Available from the Ancestry (portions taken from Stockton 1909, but some additional information about family) New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800

Transcript:Will of Richard Stockton

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Biography

From Stockton, 1909

Descended from an English family of Stockton, in Durham, on the river Tees, England. The first of the family to immigrate to America, he settled at Flushing, Long Island and then to Burlington Co., New Jersey where he bought 2000 acres, March 10, 1692. He arrived at Flushing, from England some time prior to Nov 8, 1656 when his name appears in a petition of some of the inhabitants of that town requesting the release of William Wickenden who had been fined and imprisioned for preaching without a license. After the discovery of the North (Hudson) River by Hudson in 1609 the contiguous country was colonized by Holland and called the Provice of New Netherlands. King Charles II sent a fleet over from England to New Amsterdam (New York City), in command of Colonel Richard Nicolls, to demand its surender, and it was surrendered accordingly, in 1664, by Peter Stuyvesant, the Governor of the colony. King Charles executed a charter to his brother James, Duke of York (afterward James II) for this land, and it was then called New York in honor of the Duke of York. Colonel Nicolls, as governor of the colony, after the conquest, commissioned Richard Stockton a Lieutenant of Horse in 1665; (Leutenant of the Company of foot soldier and then Horse soldier). In 1675 his estate at Flushing consisted of twelve acres of land, one negro slave, five horses, five cows, and five swine; and in 1683 of ten acres of upland, the same slave, two horses, four oxen, seven cows, four swine, and twenty sheep. This did not however, represent the full amount of his landed estate, as will be seen from the following proposal entered in an account book kept by John Browne, of Flushing, who acted as his agent in the matter. "10 mo. (Dec.), 1690, Richard Stockton's proposal for the sale of all his housing, lands and conveniences belonging there unto, being about seventy acres or more at home and two ten-acre lotts and two twenty acre lotts at a mile or two distance, with so much medow as may yield 20 or 25 loads of hay a year; price L300." In 1685 Richard Stockton was one of the freeholders of Flushing, as appears by a deed made in that year confirming the old Dutch patent of 1645. He must have been in easy circumstances at that time, because on the 30th day of January, 1690 (old style), he purchased George Hutchinson his plantation called Oneanickon, or Annanicken, as it was first called in West Jersey, consisting of about two thousand acres, although he did not succeed in disposing of his property until March 12, 1694. The tract of land purchased in West Jersey was originally known by the Indian name of An-na-nicken; that it was over two miles in length and one in width, and that the mansion house of the late James Shreve is on the site of the house built and occupied by Mr. Stockton until his death.

from New Jersey Historical Soc 1916.

He died in 1707, leaving children Richard, John, Job, Abigail (Ridgeway), Sarah (Jones), Mary, Hannah and Elizabeth. His son Richard removed from Flushing to Piscataway, and thence (in 1696) to Princeton, buying 400 acres, and in 1701 bought of William Penn 4,450 acres more, in and about the present Princeton. He died in 1709, leaving six sons--Richard, Samuel, Joseph, Robert, John, Thomas. His estate being divided soon after, the homestead, now known as "Morven," fell to John, who became an influential man in the community.

This child list does not match the child list based on Richards Will of 1707

Child list

From Will

Richard

Job

John

Abigail

Mary

Sarah

Hannah

Elizabeth

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} One Great Family Web Site.