John Falkinburg

John FALKINBURG

   * BIRTH: 9 November 1739, presumably in  Little Egg Harbor.

   * MARRIAGE: To Mary Somers between 1 December 1760 and 5 January 1761.

   * ISSUE: 9 children -- Edmund, Samuel (see below), John, Joseph, Hannah, Tabitha (Talitha?), Susannah, Judith and Somers Falkinburg.

   * OCCUPATION: Farmer, land owner, mill owner and operator

   * RESIDENCE: On  1 January, 1775, his father conveyed to him 150 acres of farmland and two meadows at Little Egg Harbor, which included the original Down Shore homestead built by his grandfather.  John owned property in Burlington and in Gloucester County as well. In 1785 he sold his estate and moved to Rye Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where he operated a saw and grist mill, and farmed 385 acres of land..

   * DEATH: In Cumberland County, Pennsylvania before 13 February 1786, the date letters of administration were assigned to his son Samuel.

   John and his wife Mary where Quakers.  

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