John Laing

john Laing and Sarah Smith. Marriage reported to Woodbridge Monthly Meeting, 4"’ month, 18"', 1741.

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BIRTH :
John Laing, son of John Laing & Elizabeth, his wife, was born att Plainfield the. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2 1709 (Quaker Date) being the ·second day of the week. Present, Ann Blackford, Midwife, Elizabeth Shottwell & her daughter Sarah.

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Together, running from south to north, the houses illustrate the growth of the Laing family and the subdivision of the plantation among descendants of the first John Laing. However, their relationship has been obscured due to the interspersal of new construction. John Laing, III was 22 and unmarried at the time of his father f s death in 1731. The elder Laing's will indicates his intent to let the plantation support his minor children until they were old enough to become apprentices and to then confer most of the farm on John III and his heirs. He instructed that parts of the plantation could be sold to provide enumerated legacies for his eleven children, and he left 157 acres, animals, and farming equipment to his second son, David. During the American Revolution the house belonged to a John Laing. (F. Detwiller, M7) However, apparently John III did not marry (Leonard, 2) and the owner, if not John III, may have been John (b. 1743), the son of John III T s younger brother David. David's will supports the theory that he may have resided in his father's house, for he indicated in it that his plantation was not the 157 acres mentioned in his father's will. Since it was not, and since his brother John did not marry, David may have been living in their father's house. In that case, the owner at the time of the Revolution may have been his son John.

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