Mary (Borden) Cowperthwaite (1708 - 1771)

Born 1708 in Chester, Burlington, Province of New Jersey

Wife of Thomas Cowperthwaite Sr — married 19 Feb 1733 in Province of New Jersey

Descendants

Died 4 May 1771 at about age 63 in Chester, Burlington, Province of New Jersey

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Biography

Mary was a Friend (Quaker)

Mary Borden^[1]

Birth

1708 Chester, Burlington County, New Jersey ^{[citation needed]}

Parents? - ^{[citation needed]}

Marriage

Mary married Thomas Cowperthwaite on 19 February 1733 in Province of New Jersey.^[2]

In 1754 when their daughter Phebe married Samuel Andrews, Mary and Thomas were living in Chester Township, Burlington, Province of New Jersey.^[3]

On 8th March 1764, Mary Cowperthwait was among the women appointed to attend the Quarterly Meeting of Quakers.^[4]

Death

4 May 1771 Chester, Burlington, Province of New Jersey ^{[citation needed]}

Moorestown was incorporated as a township by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 11, 1922, from portions of Chester Township (now Maple Shade Township).^[5]

A Record by Asa Matlack

The following is a transcript of the Cowperthwaite Section, page 752 of St. Mary's Church [Protestant Episcopal], Colestown Church Book. This book is found in the Asa Matlack Collection at The Historical Society of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

"Thomas Cowperthwaite b. _____ d. 20 4 mo. 1781 s/o John and Sarah md. Mary Burden d/o of *Richard or Jonathan, settled on his father's plantation in Twp. of Chester where was born to them:

Thomas - Mary Willis and next a Salem woman
John- married and had 3 children - died smallpox
William- Hope Shreve and Hope Willis - Settled Mt. Holly
Hugh- Rebecca Roberts 22 of 10 mo. 1772
Job- Annie_________ she 92 yrs. old the 13 day 10 mo. 1846
Phebe- _________Basset (or Andrews?), David Brown"
Phebe Dewell md. 17-3-1789 Isaac Glover"^[6][7]

• Footnote: Richard Borden is ruled out as Mary (Borden) Cowperthwaite's father. Richard's daughter Mary, married James Toy, ^[8]

From Page 748 of the same source: “Seems to be Cowperthwaite notes....Thomas md. Mary Burden.”^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1683-1802 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011 Subscription -[1]
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1683-1802 [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011 Subscription -[2]
3. ↑ Genealogies of New Jersey Families: Families A-Z, pre-American notes on old New Netherland Families, Joseph R. Klett , Genealogical Dictionary of New Jersey, by Charles Carroll Gardner, (Andrews by John P. Dornan), pages 401-2
4. ↑ Evesham MM. Ancestry. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Index: New Jersey> Burlington> Chesterfield Monthly Meeting> Minutes, 1760-1788- Mislabeled, see first page of set, it is Evesham MM. Image Please see page 27 of 194 in this set.
5. ↑ Wikipedia Moorestown, New Jersey
6. ↑ The transcript was received by Carrie Lippincott from Kirk Sheilds, via email on 24 August 2020
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} The same transcript was found on an Ancestry Message Board, however this transcript is missing the line for Hugh and Rebecca. BORDEN/STITCHBURY MARRIAGE accessed 28 August 2020
8. ↑ Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Genealogies of the families of Chattin, Nicholson, Burroughs and Borden, page 60 of 63.

• "New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKX-DJ2 : 4 November 2017), Thomas Copperthwaite and Mary Borden, 19 February 1733; Citing , New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 888,710.

• This is another reference for Mary (Borden) Coperthwaite

Abbreviation: "Our Quaker Ancestry" by Rusha Wesley 1945

Title: "Our Quaker Ancestry" by Rusha Wesley 1945

Note: Source Media Type: Book

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