John Ford (1659 - 1693)

Born 14 Aug 1659 in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Unknown) Ford — married about 1683 (to 10 Oct 1693) in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1693 at age 34 in Marshfield, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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This is not the John Ford who lived in New Jersey and died 1721-1724.

Although, a secondary source has been found listing Hannah Sherman^[1] (no dates or parents mentioned) as wife of John Ford, corroborating evidence for her surname should be found. She should perhaps be listed as Hannah Unknown until then. The Mayflower Families "silver book" on the Hopkins family^[2] says Hannah Sherman, the daughter of William Sherman and Desire Doty, married only William Ring.

Biography

John was born 14 AUG 1659, in Marshfield, Plymouth Colony, the son of William Ford and Sarah Dingley. "John the sonne of william fford Juniour was Borne ye 14th of August 1659."^[3]

He married Hannah, whose maiden name is not certain, although Sherman is given by the Ford Family Notes.^[1][2] The couple had children born in Marshfield:^[3]

1. William, b. April 12, 1684;
2. Hannah, b. July 24, 1685;
3. Mercy, b. October 14, 1687;
4. Peleg, b. May 10, 1690;
5. Sarah, b. October 14, 1692.

In 1688, John Foord, boatman purchased three and a half land from Joseph Waterman.^[4]

His estate was inventoried Oct 10, 1693; his widow Hannah was appointed administratrix on Oct 18, 1693.^[5][1][6] His father William mentions in a couple of deeds from 1716, that his son John is deceased.

There has been different death information mistakenly listed for John Ford.

• MAY 1724 Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey; this is death of the NJ John, who is not the Marshfield John.
• Oct 18, 1663, Marshfield, Plymouth Colony. This date is before his marriage and children.
• 12 NOV 1749 Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Probably belongs to another John.

Disputed marriage

John Ford's estate^[5] was inventoried and sworn to by "Hannah fford relict and widdow of John fford" of Marshfield on 18 October 1693. Hannah Sherman married William Ring on 13 July 1693, and would have been named on this document as the "now wife of William Ring" if she were the same person.

John was born in 1659. He is the son of William Ford and Sarah Dingly. ^[7] He died May 1724 in Morris Co, New Jersey^[8]

Sources

• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74501623/john-foord

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Bamford, Eleanor M. "Ford Family Notes" The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 53 p 160- (Google eBook) New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1922. Cites:Plymouth County, Mass., Probate Records, Book II : 55.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Stephen Hopkins, Vol. 6 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition]), p. 28, says Hannah Sherman, daughter of William Sherman and Desire Doty, married only William Ring.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Vital Records of Marshfield, Mass., to 1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Vital Records of Marshfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Compiled by Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1970.) References Vol 1 p 3 & Vol 1 p 28.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Z7-5SN : 22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1664-1711 vol 1-5 > image 39 of 652; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Plymouth County Probate File Papers, file #7925.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-JDX6 : 20 March 2023), Probate records 1686-1702 and 1849-1867 vol 1-1F > image 92 of 490; State Archives, Boston.
7. ↑ "New Jersey, Births, 1670-1980," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SZ-G5MS: 16 March 2018), John Ford, 1659; citing, Marshfield, Massachusetts, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 820,015.
8. ↑ "New Jersey, Deaths, 1670-1988," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2S8-3QRR: 16 March 2018), John Ford, May 1724; citing, Morris Co, New Jersey, United States, Division of Archives and Record Management, New Jersey Department of State, Trenton.; FHL microfilm 543,519.

• John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations, Stephen Hopkins, Vol. 6 (Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition]), p. 28, says Hannah Sherman, daughter of William Sherman and Desire Doty, married only William Ring.

Acknowledgments

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Name John Ford

Gender Male

Birth Place Marshfield, Mass

Father William Ford

Mother Sarah Dingley Ford

FHL Film Number 820015

Col. Jacob Ford, senior, was a son of John Ford (son of William and Sarah Dingley Ford, b. at Duxbury or Marshfield, Mass., 1659; settled at Woodbridge, N. J., in 1700 or earlier; deacon of the Presbyterian church there in 1708, and elder in 1710; removed to Morris County; d. before May 1724. John Ford m. at Woodbridge, Dec. 13, 1701, Elizabeth Freeman, who was b. in March 1681, "in the city of Axford, Old England, came to Philadelphia when there was but one house in it--and into this province when she was but one year and a half old: deceased April 21, 1772, aged 91 years and one month." Jacob Ford, senior, the son of John Ford, was born at Woodbridge, April 13, 1704. He was one of the pioneers in the iron business of New Jersey, and for nearly half a century was interested in mines and forges in Morris County and vicinity. In 1738 he applied for a license to keep an inn at "New Hanover" (now Morristown). When Morris county was created, in 1739, the first courts were held at Jacob Ford's house, and in 1740 he was appointed a collector of Morris Township. In 1748 he located the land on both sides of the river at Rockaway, and the tract was said to include Job Allen's ironworks, which are believed to have been built-in 1730. He was Judge of the Morris county courts in 1740, and most of the time for the next forty years; was a ruling elder in the First Presbyterian church of Morristown from 1747. In 1755 he had command of a detachment of 300 men to protect the frontiers against threatened invasion "New Jersey Biographical Sketches, 1665-1800/ Ancestry.com