Timothy Hancock (1653 - 1714)

Born 1 Dec 1653 in Brailes, Warwickshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Rachel Firman — married 16 Nov 1684 in Evesham M.M., Burlington Co., New Jersey

Husband of Susannah (Eves) Hancock — married 1 May 1690 in Burlington Co., New Jersey

Descendants

Died 4 Dec 1714 at age 61 in Burlington, New Jersey

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Biography

Timothy was a Friend (Quaker)

Timothy Hancock migrated from Brailes, Warwickshire, England to New Jersey Colony, British America.

TIMOTHY HANCOCK, son of John "Hancoke," was baptized on December 1, 1653 in the parish of Brailes in southern Warwickshire, in central England.^[1]

According to Richard Haines, Timothy Hancock and his sister Mary, age 15, came from Brayles, Warwickshire, England, in the ship "Paradise" in 1681.^[2][3]

Timothy settled on Pensauken creek in the township of Chester in Burlington county, New Jersey. His sister Mary, married William Matlack whose land adjoined the tract purchased by Timothy.^[4][5]

On 6 Nov 1684, Timothy married RACHEL FIRMAN in Burlington County, New Jersey.^[6][7]

Burlington Monthly Meetings^[8]

9th day of the 9th mo: 1685: "...Friends desired a meeting to be held at Pimsakin Creek alias Esom one First day at Timothy Hancocks & the next at Jn^o Keys & so in Course [illegible] Granted by the monthly meetings. . . It is agreed that there be a General Collection throughout all the meetings belonging to this Monthly Meeting and the persons appointed for Bton meeting are James Budd & Wm Peache For Birch Creek Tho Barton Jno Day for Northampton River Jno Bourton & Daniel Wills for Pimsaken Creek Jno Roberts & Timothy Hancock & that an account be brought in to the next Meeting & what is collected to be brought in to the Tho. Budd to Dispose of to the Service of truth by order of this Monthly Meeting for the use of the Poor."

Timothy and Rachel had three daughters:^[4][9]

1. Elizabeth Hancock; b. 16 Mar 1686/87; m. 10 Nov 1709, Robert Braddock.
2. Mary Hancock; b. 18 Mar, 1688/89.
3. Sarah Hancock; b. 23 Jan 1689/90; m. 4 Apr 1711, in Newton Township, Woodbury, NJ, Thomas Smith.^[10][11][12]

Patents & Deeds^[13]

1682 Nov. 14 Do. Do. for Timothy Hancock, of 100 a. at Pemisoakin, adjoining John Roberts. [Revel's Book of Surveys, Liber A. p. 29.]

1690 1st d. 3d m. (May). Do. Deed. Daniel Wills of Northampton River, Burlington Co., yeoman, to Timothy Hancock on Cropwell Creek said Co., and wife Susannah, formerly Susannah Ives, for 80 acres to be taken up in W. J. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Pt. 2. p. 529.]

1690 1st d. 3d m. (May). Do. Walter Humphries alias Powell of Painswick Co. of Gloucester, England, by his attorney and son Joshua Humphries alias Powell, of Northampton River, to Timothy Hancock on Cropwell Cr. and his daughter Elizabeth by his former wife Rachell Surman, for 40 acres of the land bought of Joan Cames, Mary Parker and Ellenor Baston July 31, 1682. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Pt. 2. p. 529.]

1691 Sept. 10. Do. Samuel Coles of Gloucester Co., W. J., yeoman, to Mathias Beyllis of W. J., planter, for 82 acres on the North Branch of Pimsaquin Creek, between Samuel Borroughs, Timothy Hancock and Tho. Roadman. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, Pt. 2. p. 466.]

1693-4 Feb. 20. Do. Thomas and Johan Penford of Leicester, England, by their attorney George Hutcheson, to Timothy Hancock of Pemisawkin Creek, Burlington Co., yeoman, for 250 acres to be surveyed in W. J. [West Jersey Records, Liber B, pt. 2. 529.]

Rachel Firman Hancock died before May 1690, according to the deed above.

Timothy was married next SUSANNA IVES/EVES. [While Stokes gives Rachel Firman as the mother of Ann Hancock the dates do not support this; her mother was Susanna Ives.]

In 1695 Timothy sold his home and 100 acres in the fork of Pennsauken Creek to his brother-in-law William Matlack, with Thomas Eves witnessing the deed^[14] and moved up the North Branch of Pennsauken Creek and established a farm on his 320 acres in Evesham Township. The Evesham Friends Meeting had just recently (1694) been formed. Meetings were held at the home of William and Elizabeth Evans until their meetinghouse was completed in 1698.^[15] In 1725, probably in his early 70s, he deeded the home­stead to his only son John.^[16]

Timothy and Susanna had three children:^[4][9]

1. Ann Hancock; b. 13 Sep 1691; m. 8 Oct 1713, Mark Stratton.^[17]
2. John Hancock; b. 30 Jun 1693; d. Feb 1728, Evesham, Burlington, NJ;^[18] m. 1719, Mary Gurnell. They made their second intention on 9 May 1719 at the Haddonfield Monthly Meeting.^[19]
3. Hannah Hancock; b. 14 Jun 1695; m. 25 Nov 1713, Emanuel Stratton, brother of her sister Ann's husband Mark Stratton.^[10][20]

Timothy died sometime between 1725 when he deeded his land to his son and 1728^[21] when his son wrote his will in which he made provision for the maintenance of his "dear mother.” Timothy probably died in his early 70s. He left no will, and there is no record of an inventory being taken of his estate.

Susannah undoubtedly continued to live on the family farm after her son John’s early death, for her son's widow remarried soon after and moved to Chester Township. The date of Susannah's death is not known. The farm passed from son John to his only son Joseph who sold it in 1755 to Richard Matlack of nearby Waterford Township NJ.^[22]

Family Members

Parents John Hancock 1619 – 1688

Anne Hancock 1619 – 1668

Spouse & Children

Rachel Firman 1663 – 1690

Mary Hancock 1668 –

Elizabeth Hancock 1686 – 1715

Research Notes

Following Timothy's Deed of 1682:
1682 Nov. 14. Wm. Hancock, 100 a. Pemisoakin, bet. Simissinck Cr., next to Timothy Hancock. Who is William Hancock? He must somehow relate to Timothy.

Maple Shade, a Brief History^[23]

"On November 14, 1682, land was surveyed between the two branches of Cimsissinck Creek at the Indian town of Pemisoakin for three families of the Society of Friends. They were the Roberts, the Hancocks, and the Matlacks. The area that is now Maple Shade was settled early because the Delaware River and the creeks along it were the routes of travel by boat. Today, Cimsissinck Creek is the two branches of the Pennsauken Creek which name comes from the Indian town of Pemisoakin."

"On November 6, 1688 the Burlington County Supreme Court formed the townships and the area now Maple Shade, Moorestown, Cinnaminson, Palmyra, Riverton, and Delran was called Chester Township. In Court records, June 5, 1690- February 22, 1699, Chester Township was called Cropwell, presumably after William Matlack's hometown of Cropwell Bishop, Nottinghamshire, England. The south branch of the Pennsauken Creek was also known as Cropwell River. On February 21, 1798 Chester Township was incorporated."

"The first graveyard of the area as well as an early place of Friends Meeting was at the home of Timothy Hancock."

1693 May 11. Deed. William Salway of Philadelphia Co., merchant, to Henry Burr of Burlington Co., planter, for 200a., bought of Godfrey Hancock1 Mar 1685/6, at the head of one of the branches of Birch Cr. Who is Godfrey Hancock? Surely he must somehow relate to Timothy and William, but how?

I descend from both Timothy Hancock and Godfrey Hancock (not the Godfrey mentioned directly above). ~K. Enzor

Hancock Connections

Sources

1. ↑ Brailes Parish Register, transcribed by J. Harvey Bloom [LDS mf #504445, Hem 2].
2. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration List Index, 1500s-1900s. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. (2010).
3. ↑ Clement, John. Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers, Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey. Camden, NJ: n.p., 1877. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 2002. https://archive.org/details/sketchesoffirst00clem/page/232
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Haines, Richard (1903). Genealogy of the Stokes Family: Descended from Thomas and Mary Stokes Who Settled in Burlington County, N. J. Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew & Sons Company, Printers. p. 20, 283.
5. ↑ Haines, Richard, comp. Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickitt, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton and Engle Families. Complied from Notes of the late George Haines, M.D. Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew & Sons Company, Printers (1902). Internet Archive.
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8. ↑ Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Minutes, 1678-1737 (Film); Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes; Call Number: MR-Ph 60. p. 53.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} "Births of Timothy Hancock's Children". Haddonfield Monthy Meeting, Marriage Certificates 1681-1741. Philidelphia, PA: Department of Friends' Records. p. 86. Hereafter referenced as Haddonfield Marriages.
10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} List of Children and birth dates. No marriages. Found with the Haddonield MM Marriage Records. Ancestry. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935. Image.
11. ↑ Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Marriage Records, 1670-1965 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Film no.: 001001864. Original data: Marriage Records. New Jersey Marriages. New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey.
12. ↑ Haddonfield Monthly Meeting. Certificates of Removal Marriage Certificates 1681-1741. Camden, NJ. p. (46) 59. The transcriber of this document mistakenly wrote the marriage year as 1733, the 1711 written in the margin looks slighty like "33", but the text clearly reads, "this fourth day of the second month in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred & Eleven". Ancestry Image.
13. ↑ Nelson, William, ed. (1982). Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey, 1664-1703. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. pp. 353-54, 461, 479.
14. ↑ Burlington Co. Deed Bk.S, p.127: recorded on Dec 15 1762.
15. ↑ Matlock,T. Chalkley, Brief Historical Sketches Concerning Friends Meetings. (1938), pp.411,412.
16. ↑ New Jersey Deed Bk.M, p.373.
17. ↑ Haddonfield Marriages. p. 49.
18. ↑ New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company. p. 206.
19. ↑ Haverford College; Haverford, Pennsylvania; Women's Minutes, 1687-1738; Collection: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Minutes. Ancestry Image.
20. ↑ Haddonfield Marriages. p. (50) 63.
21. ↑ West Jersey Will Bk.3, p.4; estate #1718C: of Evesham, yeoman.
22. ↑ Burlington Co. Deed Bk. M, p.372.
23. ↑ Weaver, Dennis L. Maple Shade Historical Society. Maple Shade: accessed Nov. 5, 2019.

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