Thomas Negus

4. Thomas Negus was born May 18, 1718 in Freetown, MA. He died April 12, 1754, in Shrewsbury, NJ. They must have been part of the Quaker migration from the New England area to NY and NJ. A sizable Quaker comunity was located in Shrewsbury, NJ. His widow, Lavina West, administered his estate in Shrewsbury, NJ (New Jersey Archives, Abstracts of Wills). Lavina West was descended from the first Quakers in America in the New England area, and is a direct descendant of Stephen Batchelor, non conformist minister, as well as several other ministers. See her ancestral lineage in the Wing-West Line below.

They had two sons as follows:

• 1. Shaidlock Negus, Sr See below.
• 2. John Negus, born July 13, 1753 at Shrewsbury, NJ. He died in Philadelphia, PA in March 1823. He married in Burlington, NJ on February 15 or 16, 1779 Mary Shreve, born October 13, 1760, died in Philadelphia, PA June 28, 1811. Burlington, NJ, was an important Quaker community, dating back to its origin in 1681. This Negus family continued for at least four more generations in Philadelphia into the latter part of the 20th century …

References

• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~pmcbride/james/f047.htm#I1632X2