Judge John Throckmorton, Jr

• Son of John Throckmorton, I and Rebecca Farrand
• Birth: ABT 1650/1652 in of Providence, Providence Co., RI 1 2
• THROCKMORTON LISTED IN THE VISITATIONS OF NORFOLK, 1568, 1589, AND 1613.
• John Throckmorton Listed in The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants.
• Throckmorton Line of Descent From Charlemagne
• Son of John, Sr. & Rebecca. Sailed from England to Massachusetts aboard the ship 'Lyon' arriving on February 5, 1631. Married Alice Stout whose father (richard) was a Monmouth patentee and whose mother (Penelope) survived an Indian attack and bore 10 children. He was elected to the General Assembly, serving from 1675 to 1688. He also served as Judge in the County Courts, a position he held until his death in the summer of 1690.
• John Jr. was very active in this community. He was elected a Deputy to the General Assembly and served from 1675 to 1688. John was appointed with the sheriff to build the first Monmouth County jail in 1684. For many years he served as a Judge in the County courts and held that position until the time of his death. From Throckmorton burying ground website
• Between the years 1688 and 1695 a strip of land reaching nearly across the county was taken by men from * Middletown and was known as the "Middletown Men's Lots." It reached from the fifteen hundred acres of Peter Sonmans along the northwest side of Burlington path to the Pines and was divided as follows: In equal divisions of 480 acres to Joseph Throckmorton, James Bowne, James Ashton, Philip Smith; also 300 acres to John Stout, 270 acres to Job Throckmorton, and 240 acres to Benjamin Borden. The tract below the Burlington pate, consisting of 480 acres, belonged to John Throckmorton and extended southerly to Lahaway creek.
• Picture of Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey Old First Baptist Church
• John Throckmorton Land Record Monmouth, New Jersey, 1698-1701
• 120 Acres, Monmouth, John Frogmorton (Throckmorton) Jr, 2 November 1675, 'in Right of Himself and his wife', New Jersey Land Records.
• Death: BEF 22 Aug 1690 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ 2
• Burial: Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ 2 in the family burial ground.
• Judge John Throckmorton, Jr Find A Grave Memorial

Married

• Married: Alice Deliverance Stout on 12 Dec 1670 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ.

Children

• Rebecca Throckmorton b: 1671/1672 in Monmouth Co., NJ
• Deliverance Throckmorton b: ABT 1676 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ
• Joseph Throckmorton b: ABT 1672 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ
• Sarah Throckmorton b: ABT 1674 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ. Sarah married Moses Lippett on 08 DEC 1697 in Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States.
• Patience Throckmorton b: 1679 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ
• Alice Throckmorton b: ABT 1682 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ
• Susannah Throckmorton b: 1692 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., NJ

John Throgmorton, Death Date: Abt 1690, Will Date: 17 Jul 1690

Job Throgmorton. Proved August 22, 1690.; 1690, Aug. 22. Administration granted to Alice, his widow.; E. J. D., Lib. D, pp. 221, 222.

Land Transfers and Will of John Throckmorton, Jr.

John was among the first settlers in New Jersey under the NichollsPatent and was awarded town lots in Middletown at the original division in 1667

1685, July 20. For £375, Pennsylvania currency, he bought of Robert Turner, one of the twelve Proprietors, of East Jersey, 1/48 undivided part of the Province of East Jersey, it being 1/2 of said Turner 's 1/2 of Thomas Rudyard 's undivided 1/2 of the Province conveyed by Rudyard to Turner in 1682.

From John E. Stillwell, in his "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany" (1902), "1685, Dec. 4. John Throckmorton conveyed to James Bowne, Job Throckmorton, Joseph Throckmorton, James Ashton, Joseph Grover, Lidia Bowne, and Edward Smith, each, 1/10 of his 1/48; and to Benjamin Borden, John Smith, John Stout and Jonathan Holmes, each, 1/20 of his 1/48, of East Jersey. In consideration of the forgoing purchase and claim, the Proprietors on June 25, 1688, granted and released to the said John Throckmorton four hundred and eighty acres at Crosswicks, in Monmouth County, 'beginning at a Walnut tree standing on the South side of the Burlington path.'

"1688, Mch. 28. John Throgmorton sold to James Bowne 1/20 of his 1/24. Later, Sept. 22, 1699, James Bowne, as heir, conveyed this conveyance to his brother John Bowne who sold the 1/20 of 1/24 to James Alexander.

Stillwell also records various legal transactions of John's: "John Throckmorton drew in the first division of lands in Middletown: lot No. 24, Dec. 30, 1667, and lot No. 18, Dec. 31, 1667.... 1668. He recorded his cattle-mark.... 1668, June. John Throckmorton, Jr., engaged allegiance in Providence.... 1670, Aug. 31. He was a fence viewer.... 1671, Nov. 18. He was elected a Deputy to the General Assembly.... 1672, June. He was appointed Ensign. 1673, July 7. He was chosen Constable. 1673, September. He was appointed by the Dutch, a Justice. 1675, Jan. 1. He was a Grand Juryman for the year. 1675, June 29. He, with others, was appointed to determine the town boundaries. 1675, Nov. 2. He was elected a Deputy to the General Assembly, at Elizabethtown . 1677, Jan. 1. He was appointed one of the Deputies to meet the Governor, at Elizabethtown . Records, Middletown, N. J. , Vol. I. 1688, May 14. He was appointed one of two Deputies from Middletown , to the Assembly. Records of the Governor and Council of East Jersey, p. 146."

Stillwell adds, as if there were any doubt, "John Throckmorton was a man of eminence. He served as a representative in the Assembly 1675 to 1688; was the Town's representative to meet the Governor in 1677; was long a Judge in the County courts, and was one of the Committee, who, with the sheriff, was appointed to build the first Monmouth County jail in 1684. His lands amounted to several thousand acres and his purchases are too numerous to mention in their entirety.

"He died after an active and useful life, in the Summer of 1690, leaving a will recorded in New York and Trenton, N. J. , which mentioned the following persons: his wife Alice, who received his dwelling and orchard at Garret's Hill, in Middletown, and one hundred acres adjoining, and twenty acres of meadow; his son Joseph and daughter Rebecca, who received the balance of his uplands and meadow, lying within ten miles of his residence, at Garret's Hill, and to them likewise, upon his wife's demise, the bequest made to her. The rest of his lands and proprietorship he willed, equally, to his four other children, who are likewise to have one-half of the estate 'that doth by right belong to me by reason of my brother Joseph 's will.' Finally, he reserved for burial purposes, a one-quarter acre lot 'where my father is buried in Middletown.' The will was written July 17, 1690; proved Aug. 22, 1690. Witnesses: Richard Hartshorne and Job Throckmorton." On 8/22/1690 Administration of the estate was granted to Alice, the widow of John. N.J. Archives XXL, pg 179.

He was a member of the provincial assembly in 1675 and a justice in 1683.

John Throckmorton (settler), by Wikipedia

John Throckmorton, Gent.[1] (1601–1684) was an early settler of Providence Plantation in what became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and he was one of the 12 original proprietors of that settlement. He emigrated from Norfolk, England to settle in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but religious tensions brought about his removal to Providence.

In 1643, Throckmorton made a land purchase in New Netherland and settled there with several dozen others. However, an Indian attack during Kieft's War caused him and others to return to Providence. He became active in civil affairs, serving as moderator, deputy, and treasurer. He died in 1684 in Middletown, New Jersey, where he went to visit his children, and was buried there. Throggs Neck in The Bronx, New York City is named for him.

Life

John Throckmorton was almost certainly baptised in Norwich, county Norfolk, England on 9 May 1601, the son of grocer and Alderman Bassingburn Throckmorton.[2] On 20 March 1621, he was apprenticed to a scrivener, but his whereabouts by 1638 had become unknown to his father, and the executors of his father's estate in 1640 could not find him.[2] Several writers suggest that he was the "George Throckmorton" who arrived in New England aboard the Lyon and was made a freeman in May 1631.[2][3] In 1995, Robert Charles Anderson argued that this was highly unlikely because a person of his stature would not be absent from the colonial records from 1631 to 1638, suggesting that George Throckmorton either died soon after his arrival or else returned to England, and John Throckmorton did not arrive in the colonies until closer to 1638.[4] Twenty years later, however, Anderson had evidently changed his view, stating that John Throckmorton of Salem and Providence was in fact the 1631 passenger on the Lyon and listing his own 1995 remarks as "incorrect."

Throckmorton may have been in Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony as early as 1635,[6] but the first definitive record of his presence in New England is in 1638 when he was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence Plantation, being named in the deed signed by Roger Williams in October of that year.[3] Nevertheless, it is certain that he was in Salem at some point because the Reverend Hugh Peters of Salem alluded to him and his wife in July 1639 as having "the great censure passed upon them in this our church." Rev. Peters also complained that they and certain others "wholly refused to hear the church, denying it and all the churches in the Bay to be true churches."

On 27 July 1640, Throckmorton was one of 39 settlers who signed an agreement for a form of government in Providence.[3] Three years later, he obtained a grant of land for himself and 35 others from Governor Willem Kieft in New Netherland. The land was named after him and is called Throggs Neck, now a part of The Bronx in New York City.[3] Other nearby English settlers included Thomas Cornell and Anne Hutchinson, who may have purchased her land from Throckmorton.[7] The settlement was short-lived, however, and its fate was summed up by Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop in September 1643, who said that the Indians set upon the English who dwelt under the Dutch and killed "such of Mr. Throckmorton's and Mr. Cornhill's families as were at home."[3] He further added that these settlers "had cast off ordinances and churches, and now at last their own people, and for larger accommodation had subjected themselves to the Dutch, and dwelt scatteringly near a mile assunder."[3]

Some of those who escaped the Indian attack returned to Providence. Throckmorton was in Providence on 27 February 1647 when he was granted a house and land once belonging to Edward Cope.[3] Soon he became active in civil affairs; he was a Providence Moderator in 1652 and from 1664 to 1675, and he served for eight years as Deputy to the General Assembly. He was also on the Providence Town Council in 1667, and ten years later he was the town treasurer.[3] In July 1672, Throckmorton wrote one of three letters to Roger Williams critical of Williams' unfavorable opinions of the Quakers.[3]

Throckmorton died in March or April 1684[6] in Middletown, New Jersey where he had gone to visit his children, and he was also buried there.[3] He had owned land in Middletown but never resided there permanently.

Family

Gary Boyd Roberts has published a genealogy of John Throckmorton, showing him to be descended in the 15th generation from King Edward I of England and his wife Eleanor of Castile.[8] Throckmorton's wife was named Rebecca Farrand,[8] and the couple had six known children, the oldest named Freegift, a son[9][10] who died unmarried in Jamaica by 1669.[6] John married a daughter of Richard and Penelope Stout of Gravesend, New York, and resided in Monmouth County, New Jersey. Daughter Deliverance married Reverend James Ashton of Middletown, New Jersey, had seven known children, and was widowed by 1705.[6] Job was born about 1651 and became a Deputy in Middletown; his estate was administered by his widow Sarah in 1711.[6] Joseph was a mariner and landowner, who died unmarried on a voyage[11] to Barbados in 1690.[12] Patience married John Coggeshall and died in 1676.

Throckmorton descends from nine of the twenty-five Magna Carta Surety Barons: William d'Aubigny, Lord of Belvoir Castle; Hugh Bigod, heir to the earldoms of Norfolk and Suffolk; Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and Suffolk; Gilbert de Clare, heir to the earldom of Hertford; Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford; John de Lacy, Lord of Pontefract Castle; Saer de Quincy, 1st Earl of Winchester; Robert de Ros (died 1227), Lord of Hamlake Castle; and Robert de Vere, heir to the earldom of Oxford.[13]

Notable descendants of Throckmorton include Susan B. Anthony; Ellen Louise (Axson) Wilson, first lady of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson; Confederate General James Longstreet; Marilyn Monroe; and Richard Scudder, co-founder of the MediaNews Group, the second-largest newspaper company in the U.S.

John Throckmorton III, Judge, 1642-1690

John "Throgmorton" led a band of English colonists from the Massachusetts colony to Dutch New Netherland to escape the religious theocracy of Massachusetts. John was among the first settlers in New Jersey under the Nicholls. The First Town Book of Middletown states that home lots were laid out and the settlers
drew for their lots in Middletown on December 30th and the 31st, 1667. John Jr. received lot #24 in the village and outlot #18, outside of the village. Poricy Park is on part of John's property, outlot # 18.

John Jr. was very active in this community. He was elected a Deputy to New Jersey's General Assembly and served from 1675 to 1688. John was appointed with the sheriff to build the first Monmouth County jail in 1684. For many years, he served as a judge in the Monmouth County courts and held that position until the time of his death.

1685, July 20. For £375, Pennsylvania currency, he bought of Robert Turner, one of the twelve Proprietors, of East Jersey, 1/48 undivided part of the Province of East Jersey, it being 1/2 of said Turner 's 1/2 of Thomas Rudyard 's undivided 1/2 of the Province conveyed by Rudyard to Turner in 1682.

From John E. Stillwell's "Historical and Genealogical Miscellany" (1902):1685, Dec. 4. John Throckmorton conveyed to James Bowne, Job Throckmorton, Joseph Throckmorton, James Ashton, Joseph Grover, Lidia Bowne, and Edward Smith, each, 1/10 of his 1/48; and to Benjamin Borden, John Smith, John Stout and Jonathan Holmes, each, 1/20 of his 1/48, of East Jersey. In consideration of the forgoing purchase and claim, the Proprietors on June 25, 1688, granted and released to the said John Throckmorton four hundred and eighty acres at Crosswicks, in Monmouth County, 'beginning at a Walnut tree standing on the South side of the Burlington path.'1688, Mch. 28. John Throgmorton sold to James Bowne 1/20 of his 1/24. Later, Sept. 22, 1699, James Bowne, as heir, conveyed this conveyance to his brother John Bowne who sold the 1/20 of 1/24 to James Alexander.

Stillwell also records various legal transactions of John's: "John Throckmorton drew in the first division of lands in Middletown: lot No. 24, Dec. 30, 1667, and lot No. 18, Dec. 31, 1667..... 1668. He recorded his cattle-mark.... 1668, June. John Throckmorton, Jr., engaged allegiance in Providence... 1670, Aug. 31. He was a fence viewer... 1671, Nov. 18. He was elected a Deputy to the General Assembly... 1672, June. He was appointed Ensign. 1673, July 7. He was chosen Constable. 1673, September. He was appointed by the Dutch, a Justice. 1675, Jan. 1. He was a Grand Juryman for the year. 1675, June 29. He, with others, was appointed to determine the town boundaries. 1675, Nov. 2. He was elected a Deputy to the General Assembly, at Elizabethtown . 1677, Jan. 1. He was appointed one of the Deputies to meet the Governor, at Elizabethtown . Records, Middletown, N. J., Vol. I. 1688, May 14. He was appointed one of two Deputies from Middletown, to the Assembly. Records of the Governor and Council of East Jersey, p. 146."

Stillwell adds, as if there were any doubt, "John Throckmorton was a man of eminence. He served as a representative in the Assembly 1675 to 1688; was the Town's representative to meet the Governor in 1677; was long a Judge in the County courts, and was one of the Committee, who, with the sheriff, was appointed to build the first Monmouth County jail in 1684. His lands amounted to several thousand acres and his purchases are too numerous to mention in their entirety."

Will

Date: 17 JUL 1690 Place: Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey Will Proved on 22 AUG 1690 in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey.

He died after an active and useful life, in the Summer of 1690, leaving a will recorded in New York and Trenton, N. J., which mentioned the following persons: his wife Alice, who received his dwelling and orchard at Garret's Hill, in Middletown, and one hundred acres adjoining, and twenty acres of meadow; his son Joseph and daughter Rebecca, who received the balance of his uplands and meadow, lying within ten miles of his residence, at Garret's Hill, and to them likewise, upon his wife's demise, the bequest made to her. The rest of his lands and proprietorship he willed, equally, to his four other children, who are likewise to have one-half of the estate 'that doth by right belong to me by reason of my brother Joseph 's will.' John Throckmorton's will stated, "This one Quarter of an Acre of land where my father was buried in Middletown shall not be sold but To Remain a burying place for me and my posterity and all my children forever."

This burial site was left to his daughter, Sarah, who was married to Moses Lippit. It became known as the Throckmorton-Lippit-Taylor Burying Ground and is on Penelope Lane near Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey.
Witnesses: Richard Hartshorne and Job Throckmorton. On 8/22/1690 Administration of the estate was granted to Alice, the widow of John. - N.J. Archives XXL, pg 179.

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