Jabez Maud Fisher (1750 - 1779)

Born 10 Sep 1750 in Sussex, Delaware [uncertain]

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Biography

Jabez was the son of Joshua Fisher and Sarah Rowland.

He became a merchant in Philadelphia.

In 1773, Jabez and two of his brothers purchased property from his cousin Elizabeth Fisher Rodney and her husband Thomas Rodney. The property was a large amount of marsh on Fishers Island that had belonged to Jabez's uncle and namesake Jabez Maud Fisher

Sources

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• Genealogy of the Fisher Family 1682 to 1896 by Anna Wharton Smith, Philadelphia, 1896, pg. 34

• Delaware, Land Records, 1677-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors. Original source: Delaware, Land Records, 1677–1947. Recorder of Deeds, Sussex County, RG 4555, Subgroup 000, Series 030. Delaware Public Archives, Dover, Delaware.

Sussex county: Roll 006: Image 35 [1]

purchasers: Thomas Fisher, Samuel Fisher, and Jabez Maud Fisher, of Philadelphia, merchants

sellers:Thomas Rodney and Elizabeth, his wife, of Philadelphia

Date: 30 June 1773

Price: £400 of Pennsylvania;Property: large tract called Fishers Island including 400 acres of marsh called Plumb Point Marsh.

Whereas Jabez Maud Fisher died 13 September 1772 and bequeathed property to his three daughters Margaret Fisher, Sarah Fisher, and Elizabeth Fisher (now the wife of the said Thomas Rodney and party hereto) ; Margaret and Sarah died and Elizabeth has survived them and has become seized of the whole 400 acres.