John was born in 1728 at Bridgewater in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. He passed away in 1799 at Morristown, New Jersey.
John married Sarah Mahurin November 28, 1751 in Bridgewater.[1][2] They removed to Morristown, New Jersey around 1758.
Children of John Mitchell and Sarah Mahurin:[3]
(i) Lydia Mitchell, born December 14, 1752.
(ii) Thomas Mitchell, born June 17, 1754.
(iii) James Mitchell, born March 29, 1756.
(iv) Benjamin Mitchell, born November 22, 1758, New Jersey.
(v) Lucy Mitchell, born September 04, 1761, New Jersey.
(vi) John N. Mitchell, born October 12, 1763, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, d. Aft. 1836.
(vii) Sarah Mitchell, born April 06, 1766, New Jersey.
(viii) Solomon Mitchell, born April 15, 1768, Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey d. June 10, 1852.
(ix) Hezekiah Mitchell, born August 14, 1770, New Jersey.
(x) Joseph Mitchell, born January 29, 1774, New Jersey.
Children
All of the children above are listed in the baptismal register of the Presbyterian Church at Morristown. John is listed on a separate page, under "Michel", so he is easily missed.
This profile originally listed an additional child:
He is commonly listed among the children in online trees, unsourced. Considering that Morris was not born in New Jersey -- he was reputedly born in Maryland and he definitely joined the militia in Washington Co., Pennsylvania in 1781 -- it is highly unlikely that he was a child of John and Sarah. It seems he was a Mitchell born around 1762 in need of parents, and someone noticed the gap between the births of Lucy and Sarah on p.164 of the combined registers and tried to squeeze Morris in (not noticing that if you include John, this creates a very tight squeeze!). But the family made a point in 1770 of recording in the Morristown Presbyterian Church record the earlier baptisms of those of their children who had been born in Bridgewater. A family so concerned with making sure their children got in the record would not have allowed the record to omit Morris. Clearly he was not their son.
Emigration to New Jersey
The Morristown baptismal record shows son James born in 1756 in New England and then son Benjamin born in 1758 and baptised in January 1759 at Morristown. Some researchers have questioned whether this family truly arrived from Bridgewater, when this record only indicates an origin somewhere in New England.
The desired proof of origin comes from a statement recorded in the records of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island in 1787:[4]
This essentially perfect match with the timeline shown in the Morristown baptismal register makes an extremely compelling case that this James was the son of John and Sarah.
Ecclesiastical History of the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts
South Parish: A second precinct was incorporated June 1, 1716.
The original application was made in 1715, the petitioners calling themselves inhabitants of the easterly part of the town of Bridgewater. The dividing line began "at the brook, called the mile brook, where the road from Boston to Taunton crosseth the said brook, and from thence by a line running west and by south to the uttermost extent of the said township, and from the station first mentioned by a line running easterly in the midway between the dwelling house of Wm. Hudson, and the dwelling house of David Perkins, Jr., and from thence the said line to be continued in the midst between the dwelling house of Edward Mitchell and the dwelling house of Nathaniel Hayward ..."
The new parish was called the south, and the old one the north precinct. The new meeting-house was dedicated June 14, 1717. The south was settled very soon... Among those who came in from other towns and resided there before and soon after 1700, were Samuel Kinsley, Thomas Mitchell, ...
The first settlers in the east parish before 1700, who came in from abroad, were Robert Latham, Nicolas Byram, Jonathan Hill, Edward Mitchell, ...
Besides these territorial precincts there is an Episcopal church in the south parish, incorporated June 14, 1815, by the name of Trinity Church. It is of much longer standing, having originated in a grant of about fourteen acres of land, made January 23, 1747, by Samuel Edson, of Bridgewater, to the society in England ... Their house was erected in 1748.
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