Richard Ridgway and Abigail Stockton

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Husband Richard Ridgway ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Berkshire, England
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           Died: Bet 21 Sep 1722 and 5 Apr 1723 1
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         Father: [Ancestor] Ridgway (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage: Bef 1 Feb 1694 1

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Chamberlayne (      -1692) 1 - England

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Wife Abigail Stockton ¹

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           Died: Bet 8 Mar 1726 and 19 Dec 1726 1
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         Father: Richard Stockton (      -      ) 1 3 4
         Mother: Abigail [Unk] (      -      ) 1 3 4

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Children

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1 M Job Ridgway ¹

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           Died: 1761 1
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         Spouse: Rebecca Butcher (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 7 Dec 1719 1

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2 F Abigail Ridgway ¹

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         Spouse: Henry Clothier (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1717 1

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3 M John Ridgway ¹

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4 F Mary Ridgway ¹

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         Spouse: John Ballinger (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 11 Dec 1719 1

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5 F Jane Ridgway ¹

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         Spouse: Isaac Antrim (      -      ) 1
           Marr: 1721 1

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6 F Sarah Ridgway ¹

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7 M Joseph Ridgway ¹

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           Died: 1760 1
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         Spouse: Sarah Butcher (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 11 Nov 1727 1

         Spouse: Hannah Allen (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 15 Feb 1738 5

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Ridgway

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He was a native of Berkshire, England, where the name had been prominent for many generations. His great-grandfather, Thomas Ridgway, is said to have been held in high favor by both Queen Elizabeth and King James I, and to have been the intimate friend and companion of Robert Cecil, the son of Lord Burleigh, who became the first Earl of Salisbury and prime minister to both the sovereigns mentioned. It is said that at the baptism of Thomas Ridgway's eldest son his friend Robert Cecil was godfather, and gave the child his own name, Robert.

Shortly after his first marriage Richard Ridgway, with his wife and eldest child, left Wallingford, Berkshire, and sailed across the Atlantic in the ship "Jacob and Mary" of London, arriving in the Delaware River in September, 1679. On the 12th of that month he was in Burlington, but after a short stay there he removed to Crewcorn, in what is now Falls Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where on April 12, 1680, he signed the petition to the governor to suppress the sale of "brandy and strong liquors to ye Indians." On May 3, 1686, the governor's council recommended him as a "fit person for ye Keeping an Ordinary," and his petition for a license was therefore granted. On Oct. 7, 1690, he bought six hundred acres in Maidenhead, west of the Province line, and running from the Great Meadows at Port Mercer northward for about a mile. Here he lived several years. On Feb. 7, 1697, he purchased from John Hollingshead a farm in Springfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, where he afterward resided, giving an acre of this property to the Society of Friends for a meetinghouse and burying ground. The original building has disappeared, but the acre is still used for the purpose intended. On Aug. 8, 1700, he was appointed a judge or justice of Burlington County, holding the office until April, 1720.

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Notes: Marriage

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This marriage “not being to Friends order,” the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting appointed Mahlon Stacy and Robert Wilson to inquire and remonstrate with Richard and Abigail, and the result was that, April 25, 1694, the two sent a paper to the Monthly Meeting “condemning their outgoing in marriage.” From this it would seem that they had been married by a justice of the peace.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 509.

2 —, Memoirs of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Northwestern Historical Assosciation, 1904), Pg 61.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 362.

4 Frederic A. Godcharles, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 19 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1931), Pg 346.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 510.