Charles Sexton Jr (1719 - 1812)

Born 1719 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Brush) Sexton — married 10 Dec 1744 in Huntington, Suffolk, New York Colony

Husband of Margaret (Stuart) Sexton — married 1745 in Loudoun, Virginia

Husband of Elizabeth (Pelton) Sexton — married 24 Apr 1775 in Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey

Descendants

Died 1812 at about age 93 in Northumberland, Northumberland, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Charles Sexton Jr, son of Charles Sr, was born about 1719 in Huntington, Long Island, New York and died about 1812 in Shimoken, Pennsylvania. He married (1) Elizabeth Brush, his step sister, about 1744 (2) Margaret "Peggy" Stuart about 1745 in Louden, Virginia (3) Elizabeth Pelton, daughter of Benjamin Pelton, April 24 1775 in Hopewell, Hunterdon, New Jersey.^[1]

He bought property adjacent to his father-in-law in Hopewell and set up a blacksmith business in 1775. That year the Revolutionary War began and he served in Captain Henry Phillips' Company and Capt Carle's Light Horse Brigade. In 1780 after the war was over he built a home on the property and sold it October 10 1791. In the Spring of 1792 he migrated with a New Jersey caravan to Shimoken, Pennsylvania where he died.^[2][3]

Charles Jr and Elizabeth Brush Sexton were the parents of:

1. Bathsheba

Charles Jr and Margaret "Peggy" Stuart were the parents of:

1. Charles
2. Nathaniel.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Gehrke, Velma Odeal Early Sexton Roots in America. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - pp. 184-186 Archive.org
2. ↑ Gehrke, Velma Odeal Early Sexton Roots in America - p. 195 Archive.org
3. ↑ Ege, Ralph. Pioneers of Old Hopewell. Hopewell, N. J., Race & Savidge:1908 pp. 241-242 Archive.org
4. ↑ Gehrke, Velma Odeal Early Sexton Roots in America pp. 184, 185, 235 Archive.org