Bartholomew Horner (1700)

Born 1700 in Burlington, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Wills) Horner — married 5 Feb 1721 in Northampton Township, Burlington County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

Bartholomew was a Friend (Quaker)

Bartholomew Horner was born about 1700, in Burlington, New Jersey, a son of Isaac C. Horner and Lydia Wright, married March 17, 1683, in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. The Friends Meeting in Northhampton Township, Burlington County, reported the 5 day of the 12th month (February, Julian Calendar) 1721 that Bartholomew married Elizabeth Wills, daughter of John.^[1][2] born circa 1703, in Burlington, a daughter of John Wills and Elizabeth Frampton, married April 2, 1701. Elizabeth was a descendant of the immigrant, Daniel Wills, who was born in England, in 1633. ^[3]

From "Genealogical Notes Collected by Asa Matlack" [1783-1851], transcribed in 1896 by Asa Matlack Stackhouse. This manuscript is bound in one of the many volumes of the Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. A microfilm of it, filmed by the LDS Church, is at the Gloucester County Historical Society in Woodbury, New Jersey:

"On first day evening the 8th day of 2 mo. 1824, Isaac Horner staid with me all night. He told me his grandfather Bartholomew Horner [b. 1700] was a weaver by trade. [Here Matlack notes that this Bartholomew in 1723 probably bought 50 acres of land on the north side of the south branch of Pennsauken Creek, Chester Township.]"

"Bartholomew, after leaving Cooper's Creek, went to live near Obadiah Borton's in Evesham (Bartholomew thought a great deal of Obadiah); my informant thinks his grandfather went 4 or 5 miles from "near Obadiah's" towards the pines; then comes to live at his daughter's (Hannah, the wife of Richard Fenimore) where he died and was buried at Chester (Moorestown) in 1751, and his wife Elizabeth [Wills] was also buried from there (as Isaac thinks), 1757." Children of Bartholomew Horner and Elizabeth Wills are:

• Jacob Horner, born 1721/22, died in May, 1749, in Waterford Works, Gloucester, New Jersey, married Asubeth Wright

• Isaac Horner, born 1724, in Burlington

• Hannah Horner, born circa 1730, in Burlington, married Richard Fenimore, settled on the N. side of Rancocas near the mouth thereof [i.e., the location of Delanco]

• David Horner, born circa 1733, in Burlington, married Mary Merritt on June 2, 1762

• Joshua Horner, who died at his nephew David Horner in the 4 mo. 1823, about 88 of age, buried at Westfield

• Job Horner, born circa 1736, died in 1758 and could not have been much over 30

• Rebecca Horner, to Jonathan Burden [or Borden], they settled about 5 miles down Rancocas on the N. side, owned a farm near the Wills land

Sources

1. ↑ Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Hinshaw, William Wade, et al., compilers. Vol 2, Pg 233 and Vol. 2, Pg 273
2. ↑ Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography article: "Marriages in Burlington Monthly Meeting up to 1750," by Amelia Mott Gummere, p. 89, digitized here: https://archive.org/details/friendsinburling00gumm/page/89/mode/1up
3. ↑ Wills ancestry in America : from England to New Jersey ...., by Peggy Wills NewKirk, January 1, 1997, page 122

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Horner-156 created through the import of Cogan Moore Stiles Wiley_2011-07-09.ged on Jul 9, 2011 by Eileen Cogan

• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NJBURLIN/2005-01/1106093921
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LC72-DM8