John Coward Jr. (1728 - 1777)

Born 26 Aug 1728 in Middletown, Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Cox) Coward — married 10 Dec 1748 in New Jersey

Descendants

Died 13 Apr 1777 at age 48 in Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey

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Biography

August 26, 1728 -- John Coward, Jr., was born at Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey. ^[1]

December 10, 1748. ^{[2] [3]} -- John Coward, Jr., and Mary Cox married at Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey. Mary Cox was from a prominent Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey family. ^{[4] [5]}

John and Mary Cox Coward, Jr., had four known children: two daughters (Rebecca and Alice) and two sons (John and Samuel). ^{[6] [7]}

1758 -- John Coward, Jr., was taxed at Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey. ^[8]

Circa 1760 -- brothers-in-law John Coward, Jr., and James Fitz Randolph united in buying land around Tom's River, Monmouth County, Province of New Jersey (now in Ocean County). John Coward, Jr., was an extensive owner of timberland in what is now Ocean County. ^[9]

Will

April 3, 1777 -- date of John Coward, Jr.'s will at Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey. ^[10]

Will of John Coward, yeoman:

1. Wife, Mary, household goods, and to have a room in my house where Ezekiel FOREMAN did live.
2. Daughter, Rebeckah POLHEMUS, the land that is by Tobias HENDRICKSON, John LAWRENCE, John COWARD, deceased, Thomas SMITH and John HOLMES.
3. My son and heir, John, my plantation, and also 100 acres taken from the east end of the land called Burtch Meadow, which I had by deed from Daniel BRAY; and he is to pay to his sister, Ellis, L500, and support his mother.
4. Daughter, Ellis [daughter Alice] a bed.
5. Son, Samuel, my grist mill and land, and also the land which I bought of my brother, Thomas COWARD, on Laway Creek.
6. My other lands and cedar swamps and sawmills, and my part of the vessels that I have, to be sold, with the priviledge of Samuel HERBERTS and his wife living on the place where he now lives, all their life.
7. Executors - friends, James RANDOLPH and Tobias HENDRICKSON.
8. Witnesses - Richard HERBERT, James HERBERT, Nehemiah TILTON. ^{[11] [12]}

Death

April 13, 1777 -- John Coward, Jr., died at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey. ^[13]

April 23. 1777 -- Inventory of John Coward, Jr.'s estate, L983.12.9, made by William HENDRICKSON and Richard HERBERT. ^[14]

April 28, 1777 -- date John Coward, Jr.'s will probated at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey. ^[15]

January 5, 1780 -- Seventy acres of land belonging to the late John Coward was listed to be sold at auction. ^[16]

1813 -- Mary Cox Coward, Jr., died at Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA. ^[17][18]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S3160. Cox Family in America, Page 163.
2. ↑ Source: #S3160. Cox Family in America, Page 163.
3. ↑ Source: #S2750. Calendar of New Jersey Wills
4. ↑ Family of Longstreet. Page 77.
5. ↑ Source: #S2750. New Jersey Archives Calendar of Wills 1771-1780, page 113.
6. ↑ Source: #S3160. Cox Family in America, Page 163.
7. ↑ Source: #S2750. New Jersey Archives Calendar of Wills 1771-1780, page 113.
8. ↑ Source: #S3225. A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, page xxi.
9. ↑ Source: #S3225. A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties, page xxi.
10. ↑ Source: #S2750. Calendar of New Jersey Wills. Page 113.
11. ↑ Source: #S3160 Cox Family in America, Page 163.
12. ↑ Source: #S2750 New Jersey Archives Calendar of Wills 1771-1780, page 113.
13. ↑ Source: #S2750. Calendar of New Jersey Wills. Page 113.
14. ↑ L983.12.9. Lib. 18. Page 245.
15. ↑ Source: #S2750. Calendar of New Jersey Wills. Page 113.
16. ↑ Source: #S3442 Page 3.
17. ↑ Source: #S3160. Page 163.
18. ↑ Source: #S3567. Page 136.

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• Source: 3598 William S. Hornor. This Old Monmouth [New Jersey] of Ours. Moreau Brothers: Freehold, New Jersey. 1932. Reprinted by Clearfield Company Inc. Genealogical Publishing Company: Baltimore, Maryland. June 1, 2009. Accessed by Michael Boynton on February 11, 2017 at 9:57 PM. Available for sale at https://books.google.com/books?id=Cy88CpankH8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s

• L983.12.9. Lib. 18. Page 245. Record ID Number MH:I494. Family Search.org Pedigree Resource File Submission ID D9607FFE-6D17-421C-BE5C-199C44911A8D.

• Source: 3225 Edwin Salter. A History of Monmouth and Ocean Counties: Embracing a Genealogical Record of 1890. Accessed by Michael Boynton on January 12, 2017 at 2:40 AM. Also available at [1]

• Source: 3160 Henry Miller Cox, compiler. The Cox family in America: a history and genealogy of the older branches of the family from the appearance of its first representative in this country in 1610. New York, New York: Printed for the author by the Unionist-Gazette Association. 1912. Page 163.

• Source: 2750 New Jersey Historical Society, compiler, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. Newark, New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society. 1901. New Jersey Archives, Volume 34. Calendar of Wills 1771-1780. Page 113.

• Source: S3159 John E. Stillwell, compiler, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Data Relating to the Settlement and Settlers of New York and New Jersey. New York, New York. 1903. Volume 3. Page 475.

• Source: S3442 New Jersey Gazette, New Jersey. January 5, 1780. Page 3.

• Source: S3567 A church book : giving an account of ye first settlement : progress of the Baptists at Croswicks or Upper Freehold (n.p.: typescript, 1911)

Acknowledgements

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