1730 - 1781 (50 years)
Has 15 ancestors and 10 descendants in this family tree.
1730 - 1781 (50 years)
Birth |
1 Oct 1730 |
Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Died |
28 Feb 1781 |
Princeton |
Buried |
Quaker Meeting House Cemetery, Stony Brook |
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Father |
John Stockton, b. 1701 |
Mother |
Abigail Phillips |
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Family |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
Children |
+ | 1. Julia Stockton |
| 2. Mary Stockton |
| 3. Susan Stockton |
+ | 4. Richard Stockton, b. 17 Apr 1764 |
| 5. Lucius Horatio Stockton, b. 1765 |
| 6. Abigail Stockton |
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1736 - 1801 (64 years)
Birth |
1 Jul 1736 |
Died |
6 Feb 1801 |
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Father |
Elias Boudinot |
Mother |
Catherine Williams |
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Family |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Children |
+ | 1. Julia Stockton |
| 2. Mary Stockton |
| 3. Susan Stockton |
+ | 4. Richard Stockton, b. 17 Apr 1764 |
| 5. Lucius Horatio Stockton, b. 1765 |
| 6. Abigail Stockton |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
John Stockton, b. 1701 |
Mother |
Abigail Phillips |
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Family |
Elias Boudinot, b. 2 May 1740 |
Children |
| 1. Maria Boudinot |
| 2. Susan Vergereau Boudinot |
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1740 - 1821 (81 years)
Birth |
2 May 1740 |
Died |
24 Oct 1821 |
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Father |
Elias Boudinot |
Mother |
Catherine Williams |
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Family |
Hannah Stockton |
Children |
| 1. Maria Boudinot |
| 2. Susan Vergereau Boudinot |
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1751 - 1795 (44 years)
Birth |
4 Feb 1751 |
Died |
27 Jun 1795 |
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Father |
John Stockton, b. 1701 |
Mother |
Abigail Phillips |
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1701 - 1758 (57 years)
Birth |
1701 |
Died |
1758 |
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Father |
Richard Stockton |
Mother |
Susanna Witham |
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Family |
Abigail Phillips |
Children |
+ | 1. Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
+ | 2. Hannah Stockton |
| 3. Samuel Witham Stockton, b. 4 Feb 1751 |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Philip Phillips |
Mother |
Hannah Stockton |
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Family |
John Stockton, b. 1701 |
Children |
+ | 1. Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
+ | 2. Hannah Stockton |
| 3. Samuel Witham Stockton, b. 4 Feb 1751 |
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1736 - 1801 (64 years)
Birth |
1 Jul 1736 |
Died |
6 Feb 1801 |
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Father |
Elias Boudinot |
Mother |
Catherine Williams |
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Family |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Children |
+ | 1. Julia Stockton |
| 2. Mary Stockton |
| 3. Susan Stockton |
+ | 4. Richard Stockton, b. 17 Apr 1764 |
| 5. Lucius Horatio Stockton, b. 1765 |
| 6. Abigail Stockton |
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- Yes, date unknown
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
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Family |
Benjamin Rush, b. 4 Jan 1746, Byberry Township, Pennsylvania, USA |
Children |
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Father |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
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Father |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
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1764 - 1828 (63 years)
Birth |
17 Apr 1764 |
Died |
7 Mar 1828 |
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Father |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
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Children |
+ | 1. Commodore Robert Field Stockton, b. 20 Aug 1795 |
| 2. Annie Stockton |
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1765 - 1835 (70 years)
Birth |
1765 |
Died |
May 26, 1835 |
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Father |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
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Father |
Richard Stockton, b. 1 Oct 1730, Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
Mother |
Annis Boudinot, b. 1 Jul 1736 |
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Name |
Richard Stockton |
Birth |
1 Oct 1730 |
Morven, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
- the family estate and his lifelong home
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Gender |
Male |
Prominent People |
Founding Father USA |
Death |
28 Feb 1781 |
Princeton |
Burial |
Quaker Meeting House Cemetery, Stony Brook |
Siblings |
2 Siblings |
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Person ID |
I363605 |
Geneagraphie |
Links To |
This person is also Richard Stockton (Continental Congressman) at Wikipedia |
Last Modified |
23 Nov 2016 |
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Notes |
- After a preparatory education at West Nottingham Academy, in Rising Sun, Maryland, he graduated in 1748 from the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), then in Newark but relocated eight years later at Princeton. In 1754 he completed an apprenticeship with a Newark lawyer and joined the bar. The next year, he wed poetess Annis Boudinot, by whom he had two sons and four daughters. By the mid-1760's he was recognized as one of the ablest lawyers in the Middle Colonies.
Like his father a patron of the College of New Jersey, in 1766 Stockton sailed on its behalf to Scotland to recruit the Reverend John Witherspoon for the presidency. Aiding in this endeavor, complicated by the opposition to Witherspoon's wife, was Benjamin Rush, a fellow alumnus then enrolled at the University of Edinburgh. In 1768, the year after Stockton's departure, Witherspoon finally accepted.
Stockton resumed his law practice, spending his spare hours at Morven breeding choice cattle and horses, collecting art objects, and expanding his library. Yet, though he had some time before expressed disinterest in public life, in 1768 he began a 6-year term on the Executive Council of New Jersey and then sat on the Provincial Supreme Court (1774-1776).
Stockton became associated with the Revolutionary movement during its initial stages. In 1764 he advocated American representation in Parliament, but during the Stamp Act crisis the next year questioned its right to control the Colonies at all. By 1774, though dreading the possibility of war, he was espousing colonial self-rule under the Crown. Elected to Congress two years later, he voted for independence and signed the Declaration of Independence. That same year he met with defeat in a bid for the New Jersey Governorship, but rejected the chance to become first Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court to remain in Congress.
Late in 1776 fate turned against Stockton. In November, while inspecting the northern Continental Army in upper New York State with fellow Congressman George Clymer, Stockton hurried home when he learned of the British invasion of New Jersey and removed his family to a friend's home in Monmouth County. While he was there, Loyalists informed the British who captured and imprisoned him under harsh conditions at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and later in New York. A formal remonstrance from Congress and other efforts to obtain his exchange resulted in his release, in poor physical condition, sometime in 1777. To add to his woes, he found that the British had pillaged and partially burned Morven. Still and invalid, he died.
Ferris, Robert G. Signers of the Declaration. Washington: U.S. Government Printing, 1973. 133-135.
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