Joseph Thorne, 17011774 (aged 73 years)

Name
Joseph /Thorne/
Given names
Joseph
Surname
Thorne
Birth
about 1701 36 26
Death of a paternal grandfather
Burial of a paternal grandfather
Marriage
Birth of a son
Death of a father
Marriage of a son
Death of a mother
Death of a wife
Death
1774 (aged 73 years)
Family with parents
father
16651737
Birth: about 1665 22 20 Flushing, Long Island, NY
Death: June 14, 1737Bordentown or Chesterfield, NJ
mother
Marriage Marriage1689
13 years
himself
Family with Sarah Foulke
himself
wife
17021774
Birth: February 25, 1702Chesterfield, NJ
Death: 1774
Marriage MarriageJune 3, 1723Crosswick, NJ
7 years
son
17301807
Birth: March 4, 1730 29 28 Camden, NJ
Death: August 22, 1807Camden, NJ
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Joseph Thorne was born about 1701 in New Jersey. He died in 1774
in New Jersey. Joseph Thorne son of John Thorne, Jr. and Kathryn,
was a "weaver of cloth and clothing material" as well as a farmer.
He held public office at various times from 1727 to 1753. He was
an overseer of highways (Chesterfield Town Records) and he was a
faithful Quaker. During the Revolutionary War, in his later days,
tradition says that he was beaten with swords by wandering Hessians
when he tried to protect his home from them. It is said that he carried
the scars to his grave. Joseph inherited the family farm from his
father and later married Sarah Fowke.

Will executed 7/15/1774 and proved 3/25/1775.

He was married to Sarah Foulke (daughter of Thomas Foulke Jr. and
Elizabeth Curtis) on 3 Jun 1723 in Chesterfield MM, NJ. Sarah Foulke
was born on 25 Feb 1702 in Chesterfield, NJ. She died in 1774. Joseph
Thorne and Sarah Foulke had the following children:
child+386 i. Mary Thorn.
child+387 ii. Elizabeth Thorn.
child+388 iii. Joseph Thorne.
child+389 iv. John Thorn.
child390 v. Mickel Thorn was born on 2 Dec 1731. Never married
child+391 vi. Thomas Thorne.