Elizabeth Mercy (Allen) Jeffrey (1725 - 1790)

Born 1725 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey

Ancestors

Wife of John Jeffrey — married 25 Apr 1751 (to 1790) in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey Colony

Descendants

Died 8 May 1790 at about age 65 in Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States

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Biography

Daughter of Ralph Allen and Mary Bond, Elizabeth was born in 1725. She married John Jefferies on 30 April 1750 in Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.^[1]

In the 1781 census, Elizabeth was in Burlington County, NJ.^[2]

Elizabeth died in 1790 and was buried in Thomas Allen Family Burying Ground, Wall Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Marriage: "New Jersey, U.S., Marriage Records, 1670-1965"
   New Jersey State Archives; Trenton, New Jersey; New Jersey, U.s., Marriage Records, 1670-1965
   Ancestry Record 61376 #900004729 (accessed 28 March 2024)
   Mercy Allen marriage to Thomas Jefferies on 30 Apr 1750 in Monmouth, New Jersey, USA.
2. ↑ 1781 Census: "New Jersey, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1643-1890"
   Original data: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp.. New Jersey Census, 1643-1890. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes
   Ancestry Record 3562 #18115765 (accessed 28 March 2024)
   Elizabeth Allen in Burlington County, NJ.
3. ↑ Burial: "U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current"
   Find A Grave: Memorial #123724764
   Ancestry Record 60525 #86402491 (accessed 28 March 2024)
   E M Allen burial in Thomas Allen Family Burying Ground, Wall Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States of America.

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• "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980," , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q283-3N6H : 22 July 2021), John Jeffery and Elizabeth Allen, 25 Apr 1751; citing Marriage, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton; FHL microfilm 007719783.

• Birth Registration of child Asa Jeffries: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
  Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 2189 #99360534 (accessed 28 March 2024)
  Asa Jeffries born to Marcy Jeffries in Camden, New Jersey.

• Jeffrey, Jr., Frank. A Jeffrey and Lloyd Jones Family Genealogy. Name: The Anundsen Publishing Co.; Location: 108 Washington St., Decorah, Iowa, USA; Date: 1993; Library of Congress Card: #92-74443. With Allied Families Including Crosfield, Davis, Lloyd, Jones, May and Hurd. Jeffrey/Allen page 5.

• Nicholson, Susie Davis; Davis Settlers of Salem, West Virginia (Name: Gordon Printing, Inc.; Location: Strausburg, Ohio; Date: 1979;), Susan Rose Marx, Resource for Davis and Jeffrey, Elizabeth Allen, page 237; marriage to John Jeffrey (3).

• The Will of Ralph Allen. New Jersey Published Archives Series, First Series; John L. Murphy Publishing Company; New a Jersey State Archives. Collection Title: Volume XXX, Abstracts of Wills, 1730-1750. Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2011.