Benjamin (Maple) Mapel III (abt. 1725 - aft. 1785)

Born about 1725 in New Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Isabella (UNKNOWN) Maple — married about 1754 in Middlesex County, New Jersey

Descendants

Died after 1785 after about age 60 in New Jersey, United States

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This profile is part of the Maple Name Study.

If you are a male descendant of Benjamin Maple III (bearing the Maple surname), the Maple Surname Y-DNA Project at Family Tree DNA^[1] needs your help! There are uncertainties about the ancestry of many American MAPLEs, and testing the Y-DNA of a descendant of Benjamin Maple III would help to resolve these issues. The Maple Y-DNA Project has some funds available for free testing, and participation would not require you to divulge any personal information. If you are interested, please contact Bruce Maple. ( You can send a private message to Bruce by clicking here.)

Biography

Notes of T. Grant Maple:^[2]

11. BENJAMIN MAPLE III b. ca. 1725-30, Middlesex Co., NJ; d. after 1800. m. Isabella _____.

No complete list of the children of Benjamin Maple III is known. Benjamin Maple IV was definitely the son of Benjamin Maple III as shown by the will of Thomas Reynolds, 1782, in which Benjamin Maple was named as executor and Benjamin Maple Sr. signed as a witness. Further evidence is a mortgage of May 23, 1783 which concerns "Land in Mid­dlesex County where on his father Benjamin Maple lived at the time of his death, who died intestate, where by Benjamin became seized of same as heir at law" (Middlesex County Clerk's Office, Vol. 3 of Mort­gages, page 51. See also Middlesex County Clerk's Office, Vol. 2 of Mortgages, page 169, Mar. 7, 1785, and Vol. 2 of Deeds, page 259, Dec. 16, 1785, both signed by Benjamin Maple and his wife Isabella).

The Trenton Federalist, Mar. 10, 1806, p. 3, notes that an Isabelle Maple m. Andrew Card, Mar. 1, 1806. She may have been the widow of Benjamin Maple III, or possibly a dau.

The pension application of Benjamin Maple IV states that he had a bible with record of his birth­date, and this bible may contain a record of the other children of Benjamin Maple III. The location of this bible, if it still exists is unknown.

In 1997 a Hoagland Family Genealogy printed in 1891 came to this author's attention. It states that Thomas Maple Sr. and his wife Elinor were bur. on the family farm in Middlesex Co., NJ. As Thomas Maple Sr. disappears from the NJ tax lists in 1782, it had been assumed he left NJ at that time when four of his brothers are known to have left NJ. If the Hoagland book is correct, then Thomas Maple Sr. may have died between 1782 and 1790. Thomas may thus have been father of one or more, such as 113. Mary Maple, attributed to Benjamin Maple III.

Upon Benjamin Maple Jr's death in 1777, his oldest son, Benjamin Maple III, inherited Benjamin's farm of 100 acres. On 16 December 1785, Benjamin Mapel and his wife, Isabella sold this farm (with the exception of 2 acres previously conveyed to Benjamin Mapel IV) to Thomas Blackwell.^[3]

in the deed for this sale, Benjamin signed his name using the Mapel spelling.

Sources

1. ↑ Maple Surname Y-DNA Project at Family Tree DNA: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/maple-surname-dna-project/about
2. ↑ Telford Grant Maple, "Genealogical History of the Maple/Mapel Family in America", Penobscot Press, (1993), page 11.
3. ↑ MIddlesex County, New Jersey Deeds, Volume 2, page 259: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4T-MD83?i=575&cat=219248 Benjamin Mapel and wife Isabella sold 98 acres in Middlesex County to Thomas Blackwell:

   "Beginning at the northwest corner of Josiah Davison now William Skudders at a fording place across Millstone River then down the said river to a birch tree standing at the mouth of a small run that falls in the said river marked on the east side with T. M. north seventy five degrees east to Henry Davises line now Thomas Blackwells, thence East South East forty five chains to a stake and stone for a corner, thence South twenty seven degrees and thirty minutes West twenty five chains and sixty one links to Josiah Davison now Abraham Crasees Land, thence west north west twenty one chains to the South east corner of said Davison now said Skudders 33 acre lot, thence north north East ten chains to a stake and stone for a corner, thence West north west twenty nine chains to the place of beginning at Millstone River containing one hundred acres of land be the same more or less. Bounded west by the River, North by Blackwell, East by land lately Thomas Raynold, South by Crasee and Skudder. To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises (except two acres near the northwest corner conveyed to Benjamin Maple Junr as by his deed more at large may appear) ..."