Person:Richard Stockton (5)

YDNA

• Richard Stockton YDNA results

• Kit 8925 of the FTDNA Stockton YDNA project traces descent to Richard (4) ( - d.1707 Burlington, NJ), father of Richard Stockton (5). This kit tested at 67 markers. Currently (April 2014) there are at least 10 additional kits in the Stockton YDNA project testing at 37+ markers, which provide a close match to this kit. All are in the "G" Haplogroup.

Notes

• Married Susannah (Witham) Robinson November 8, 1691 - need proof of maiden name "Witham"
• built the family home, known as "Princeton Morven" or just "Morven." Morven is the name of the mythical north Scottish kindgom of Fingal in James MacPherson's romances. The earliest portion of the house - it is one of the first Georgian-style edifices in the Colonies - was erected in 1701 on land purchased by Richard Stockton from William Penn. The house was enlarged and, by the time of the Revolutionary War, had assumed much of its present look. (see The Redecorating of Morven, NY Times, 20 Feb 1983.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Grave Recorded, in Find A Grave.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Will Transcript of Richard Stockton, in Unknown Source.

   [posted to Find A Grave - verification and location needed]
   
   WILL OF RICHARD STOCKTON
   
   In the name of God, Amen:
   
   I, Richard Stockton, being sick and weak of body but sound of memory, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and forme following:
   
   First , I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God and my body to be buried at the discretion of my executors hereafter named, in hopes through the merrits of Jesus Christ to obtain a joyfull resurrection.
   
   Item, I give to my son Richard after the decease of my wife four hundred ackers of land to him and to his heirs and assignes forever.
   
   Item, I give to my son Job my plantation and all the improvements with four hundred ackers of land to him and to his heires and assignes forever, not to possess it till the decease of my wife; only in consideration of the said improvements my said son Job shall pay to Abigail the daughter of my son [son-in-law] Richard Ridgway the sum of ten pounds within a year after he enjoys the said plantation, and if uppon a resurvey of the whole twelve hundred ackers there happen to be any overplus, my will is that my son John shall have one-third part thereof joyning on his four hundred ackers which I formerly gave him, and the other two-thirds to be equally parted between my said sons Richard and Job.
   
   Item, I give to my dear wife Abigail all my personall estate with the use of my plantation during her life, and after her decease the said personall estate to be equally divided between my five daughters, Abigail, Mary, Sarah, Hannah and Elizabeth; and I do make and Constitute my said wife Abigail my sole Executrix of this my last will and testament, revokeing all other wills and testaments heretofore made, as witness my hand and seale this 25th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand and seven hundred and five.
   
   [SEAL] RICHARD (his R mark) STOCKTON.
   
   Signed, sealed, published and declared in the presence of us.
   WILLIAM EARLE (WE) his mark,
   THOMAS RIDGEWAY (T) his mark,
   DANIEL LEEDS.
   Burlington, 10th, 8 mo., 1707.
   
   Then appeared before Richard Inglesby, Esqr., Lieutenant Governor of her Majesties Provinces of New Jersey, New York, &c., Daniel Leeds, Esqr., one of the witnesses to the within written will, and made oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that he saw the Testator sign, seal, and publish the within instrument to be his last will and testament, and that at the time of the publishing thereof he was of sound and perfect understanding and memory to the best of this deponent's knowledge and beliefe, and that at the same time he saw Thomas Ridgeway and Wm. Earle sign the same as witness thereto in the presence of the Testator.
   
   RICHARD INGLESBY.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Family Recorded, in Glenn, Thomas Allen. Some colonial mansions and those who lived in them: with genealogies of the various families mentioned. (Philadelphia: H.T. Coates and Co., 1889, c1897).

   Vol 1, p 71 -
   
   ... The second Richard Stockton was born about the year 1645, probably in England, and was, it is believed, the eldest son. He removed with his father from old England, but did not afterward settle with him in Burlington County, but at Piscataway, in Middlesex County, going thence to the site of Princeton, where he purchased 400 acres of land from the Proprietors of East Jersey, by a deed dated August, 1696. This land was on the north side of Stony Brook, and was subject to a quit rent of £4 sterling per annum to the lords of the fee. In 1701 he had a patent from William Penn, in consideration of the sum of £900, lawful money of Pennsylvania, for 5500 acres of land on Stony Brook, upon a part of which the present town of Princeton is erected. It is supposed that he resided in the ancient stone house in Edgehill Street, afterward called "The Barracks," before he purchased the property now known as Morven. He married late in life (9th month 8th, 1691), at Chesterfield Meeting, Susanna Robinson, who survived him and became the wife of Thomas Leonard, Esq., of Princeton, by whom, however, she is said to have had no children. Richard Stockton died in 1709, leaving a widow and six sons
   - Richard, the eldest son, to whom he devised by will 300 acres out of his plantations ;
   - Samuel, who acquired 500 acres ;
   - Robert, who also got 500 acres ;
   - John, who inherited 500 acres ; and
   - Thomas, to whom he left the 400 acres at "Annanicken" which he had inherited from his father, the first Richard.
   All of his meadow lands were to be equally divided between his sons. He also willed that each son, when he arrived at the age of twenty-one years, was to have a negro slave. ...
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   [Note of Caution: Although Glenn claims 6 sons - he only listed 5, leaving out son Joseph.]