Joseph Bacon (1673 - 1719)

Born 7 Feb 1673 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Pancoast) Bacon — married 11 Aug 1693 in Salem County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 3 Apr 1719 at age 46 in Salem, Salem, New Jersey

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Biography

Birth

Joseph Bacon was born 7 Feb 1672/3 at Woodbridge, New Jersey, to Samuel and Martha (Foxwell) Bacon. ^{[1] [2]} Samuel and Martha married at Barnstable, Massachusetts, and moved to Woodbridge for more land in 1669. ^[1] Samuel's five acres in Barnstable became 170 acres in a new land patent at the Woodbridge.

Journey from Woodbridge to Bacon's Neck - 1682

Joseph was ten years old when his family left Woodbridge, and sailed the passage between New Jersey and Staten Island, around to the Delaware Bay and up the Delaware River, then up the Cohansey River to the high ground known as Bacon's Neck in Salem County, New Jersey. ^[1] Samuel Bacon claimed 270 acres bordered by the Cohansey River ^[1] to the south, and Pine Mountain Creek to the north and the west. The plantation was called Bacon's Neck and later, Bacon's Adventure. ^[1] There is to this day a road there named Bacon's Neck Road. ^[3]

Marriage

Joseph Bacon, "of Cesaria River" [aka Cohansey] son of Samuel Bacon and his wife Martha Foxwell, married Elizabeth Pancoast, daughter of John Pancoast and his wife Elizabeth Pancoast (1640-1680), at Salem County, New Jersey, by license dated 11 August, 1693. ^{[4] [5]}

Elizabeth Pancoast is the daughter of John Pancoast (aka Pankhurst) and his first wife whose name is unknown. John Pancoast's wife died in England before 1682, when John brought his children to New Jersey, landing at Burlington.

Military Service

Joseph Bacon served as Sergeant in the Colonial Militia 1715 on the North side of the Cohansey River at Greenwich.^[6] His nephew Seth Smith, private, was in the same Company.^[6]

Research Notes

Were Joseph and Elizabeth Bacon Methodists?

No. They were Quakers.

Joseph Bacon's father, Samuel Bacon, was a Quaker, whose records are found in the Salem Quaker Monthly Meeting. Joseph's wife Elizabeth, was a Quaker, and her father John Pancoast, left England in 1682 because of persecution - he was also a Quaker. Their son and Joseph's namesake, Joseph Bacon, was a Quaker whose records are found in the Quaker Monthly Meeting for Rahway and Plainfield, Salem County, New Jersey.

In the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Commission on Archives and History; Madison, New Jersey; Description: Methodist Church Records, digitized copy at Ancestry .com, the marriage of Joseph Bacon and Elizabeth Pancost was transcribed.

Do not infer from the transcribed and digitized marriage record at Ancestry that they were married in the United Methodist Church, or that Joseph Bacon was not a Quaker. Ancestry.com has put together a conglomeration of records, including Quaker transcriptions, and published all of them under the deceptive and erroneous title: Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Commission on Archives and History; Madison, New Jersey; Description: Methodist Church Records.

Joseph Bacon's records are found in the section from the State of New Jersey Archives, not The Methodist Church Records.

See the second line on the search page, p. 4 in the digitized records forSalem County Marriage Records.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Elizabeth, Nathaniel, and Samuel Bacon of Barnstable, Mass., T.A.G. Vol. 57 (Jan 1981), page 106-107
2. ↑ Woodbridge and vicinity: the story of a New Jersey township ; embracing the history of Woodbridge, Piscataway, Metuchen, etc., by Dally, Joseph W., pp 318, 22, 28
3. ↑ Pancoast
4. ↑ New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1665 - 1800, page 17
5. ↑ Salem county, N.J. Marriages 1682-1703
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} The Pancoast Family in America (1981), by Bennet S. Pancoast, Vol 1, page 16

• Elizabeth, Nathaniel, and Samuel Bacon of Barnstable, Mass., by Jane Fletcher Fiske, T.A.G. Vol. 57 (Jan 1981), page 106-107
• Repository: The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)

• Pancoast, Bennet S., The Pancoast Family in America, Vol 1, (Woodbury, New Jersey, The Gloucester County Historical Society, 1981) [available as pdf download for $7.50] pages 15 - 16

• Woodbridge and vicinity: the story of a New Jersey township ; embracing the history of Woodbridge, Piscataway, Metuchen, etc, by Dally, Joseph W., (New Brunswick, N.J. : A.E. Gordon, 1873), database online, Internet Archive. Page 28=170 acres, page 22 = Bacon's Landing, page 318 = Children

• Salem county, N.J. Marriages 1682-1703, T.A.G. Vol. 30 (1954), page 183, pub. 1953 NEHGS. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)

• New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1665 - 1800, from "Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol XXII", database online at Archive.org, Editor: William Nelson, (Patterson, new Jersey, 1900), record for Joseph and Elizabeth (Pancoast) Bacon page 17

• Greater New Jersey Annual Conference Commission on Archives and History; Madison, New Jersey; Description: Methodist Church Records, Source Information: Ancestry.com. New Jersey, United Methodist Church Records, 1800-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Error Warning - Ancestry.com published a conglomeration of records under the Methodist Church Title, but not all records in the digitized batch were Methodist.

• Source: S-2052921884 Repository: #R-2139398877 Family Data Collection - Individual Records, Edmund West, comp. Online publication - (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000).