Joseph Borden

Biography

Joseph Borden was born on 12 May 1687 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey. He died on 22 Sep 1765 in Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey. He was buried in Old Borden Cemetery, Bordentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey. Bordentown was previously named Farnsworth Landing. He was an innkeeper and the founder of Bordentown, New Jersey.

He was married several times:

1. Susannah Grover — married after 1705 (to before 1711) in Middleton, Monmouth Co., New Jersey
2. Mary Anne Van Kouvenhoven — married about 1717
3. Elizabeth Pancoast Watson, widow of Marmaduke Watson - married 1750. “1750 On 4 October, Joseph Borden and Elizabeth Watson declared their intention to marry. Joseph Borden was not yet in full unity with the friends”

Joseph Borden of Burlington County, New Jersey, wrote his will on 16 July 1763, and it was proved 7 October 1765. He named these children:

• (1) daughter Rebecca [Borden] Brown and her husband Joseph Brown
• (2) daughter Hannah [Borden] Lawrence and her husband John Lawrence
• (3) daughter Elizabeth [Borden] and her children Joseph, Ann and John
• (4) daughter Ann [Borden] Potts
• (5) daughter Amy [Borden] Potts and her husband William Potts [Amy/23 Jul 1723 m. William Thomas Potts]
• (6) son Joseph Borden [II]
• (7) grandchildren Pernell Clayton, Joseph Clayton, and Mary How, children of his deceased daughter Abigail [Abigail/1727 m. Micajah How, Jr]
• (8) granddaughter Ann Beven (unknown relationship)

Joseph Borden said "the agreement between me and my present wife shall be performed," but he did not use her name.

Joseph's son, Joseph (1719-1791), was the father of Mary and Ann BORDEN, who respectively married Thomas McKEAN and Francis HOPKINSON, signers of the Declaration of Independence.

References

1. Updated from MyHeritage Match via brother Benjamin Borden by SmartCopy: Oct 4 2014, 21:45:02 UTC
2. Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Mar 5 2024, 0:55:55 UTC
3. Reference: FamilySearch Genealogy - SmartCopy: Mar 5 2024, 0:06:45 UTC
4. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123029789/susannah_borden
5. “Who were Col. Joseph Borden and Francis Hopkinson?” < link > The area was first settled by an English Quaker named Thomas Farnsworth and was initially known as Farnsworth’s Landing; however, by 1719 Joseph Borden (1687 to 1765) settled the area and effectively became the town’s new namesake. With its location along the Delaware River and its proximity to both Philadelphia and New York, “Borden’s Town” developed into a valuable trading hub during Colonial times, allowing the entrepreneurial Borden family to amass a fair amount of wealth transporting both mail and people across New Jersey. They successfully operated a “packet line” and “stage boat” service across the Delaware River from Philadelphia to Bordentown, with a stage coach service from Bordentown to Perth Amboy, N.J. (an early deportation point for travel to nearby New York).
6. WikiTree contributors, "Joseph Borden (1687-1765)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Borden-389 : accessed 25 March 2024). Cites
   1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordentown,_New_Jersey
   2. https://www.bordentown.k12.nj.us/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=44343...
   3. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Vol IV, 1761 - 1770, page 51, will of Joseph Borden
   4. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc. from Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey: First Series Volume XXX, database online at Archive.org, Editor: A. Van Doren Honeyman, (Somerville, New Jersey, 1928) Vol IV, 1761 - 1770, page 51, Will of Joseph Borden
   5. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
7. https://websites.umich.edu/~bobwolfe/gen/pn/p17727.htm Cites
   1. [11] Joseph R. Klett, ed., Genealogies of New Jersey Families: From the Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, Vol. 1 (Baltimore, MD : Genealogical Publishing Co., c 1996), 139, [GoogleBooks].
   2. [12] Lewis D. Cook, "Joseph Borden of Bordentown, Addenda," The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 55 (1980), 71-71, at 71.
   3. [13] Lewis D. Cook, "Descendants of Matthew Watson of Burlington County, New Jersey," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 59 (1971), 244, 252.