were young, his son Isaac not being born, his Will dated 24 Dec. 1728 whereby he gave his land 425 acres to his sons Robert and Ephraim to be equally divided between them & to his other 2 sons 60 L a piece. John Inskeep & his wife Sarah Executors, & John Chambers, John Chambers Jr., & Joseph Heritage were the witnesses to sd. Will.
Robert died of the & his widow was delivered it in 3d of a 7 month Child (Isaac) being so small he was put into a Tankard (a vessel of 1 qt.) & the Lid shut down, his mother died soon after &c.
[7] Robert Stiles born Brought up at Thomas Coles' at Colestown, son of Robert & Sarah. Married Hannah Burrough daughter of Samuel & Ann. They accomplished their marriage in 12 m. 1743 at Haddonfield according to the order of Friends from which circumstance Robert became an acknowledged member of that People, (which I take to be the first of that name of Stiles that was a Quaker so called.) They settled on the (?) of the 425 acres as before related near the North branch of sd. Creek, where was born to them,
Hannah, to Samuel Roberts, See Book 5 page 26
Mary, to Thomas Glover, See p. 14
Isaac* to Rachel Glover, was born 14 of 2 mo. 1764
dghr. of John & Mary Glover & He settled on the Plantation formerly his fathers which was part of grandfathers, & great &c.
John, to Hannah Ballinger dght. of Levi & Hannah
on the 13 of 2 mo. 1812
Mary to Samuel Matlack on the 17 of 2 mo. 1814
Benjamin to Martha Matlack on 11 of 1 mo. 1816
Hannah to Reuben Matlack on 13 of 2 mo. 1817
Rachel to Stacy Matlack
Sarah to Jose Roberts
Lydia -
Note Isaac deceasd. on the 25 of 9 mo. 1823 See a copy of his will at page [End of Foot note WSL]
sd. Robert married in 5 mo. 1757 then to Mary Ellis wid. of Jonathan.
to Smallwood and also their family all lived together till the death of Robert Stiles in or about the year 1770.
Peter Slim rented & live on this Plantation a short time before he purchased the Plantation of Thomas (?)
[8]
Ephraim Stiles, He was bro't up with J. Rudrow. born son of Robert and Sarah, married Mercy Lippincott daug: of Thomas & Mercy. Ephraim settled himself on his (?) of the 425 acres, having come to a division thereof in 1742 and clearing a place thereon built a Log house wherein he kept "Batchelor's Hall" till he agreed with sd. Mercy Lippincott first as a housekeeper & then to be his wife as aforesd: their children
Sarah, to Reece Edwards
Thomas to Ann Brown see page 10
owner E. Roberts Place
Robert, lived till about 44 he was a carpenter, pleurisy died in Spring 1792
(Note from den- On early maps such as the 1849 Smith & Wistar Map of Burlington County, you will see two houses where the Nathan Perkins house is. In Nathan Perkins' book he states that the house was bought for him by his father and was not yet finished. Deeds show that Enoch Roberts owned land there and the Perkins purchased the land from Jonathan Roberts who then moved to Maryland. The old house there and perhaps the Levi Lippincott house were probably Thomas and Robert's houses. I THINK according to upcoming notes that Thomas owned the Levi Lippincott house and then bought his brother Robert's house which was near where Nathan Perkins' house was built, and then sold it to Enoch Roberts. If so then the Levi Lippincott house could be a log cabin. Or Thomas, son William etc... might have built a new house.)
William to Mary Bishop & lived in Salem county buried at WoodsTown.
Ephraim to Elizabeth Buck died of yellow fever in Philada.
Jesse, living now, to Mary Sheldren at Maurice River
Phebe, to Ephraim Deacon at Mount Holly now living 2 miles from Burlington.
Reuben, to ..... & removed to Western Territory with one child.
Samuel, to Mary McCurdy in Philadelphia
Ephraim, the father of this family was
[9]
interred in the ground appropriated as a burial place on the 15 of 9 mo. 1772 being the last corps of a white person ever put at said place; this Burying Place, was set out for that purpose some time before the year 1692 by the most respectable Inhabitants upon and about Penshawkin Creek: off the Land of Timothy Hancock at whose house in 1685 Friends held their Meetings for Public Religious Worship & without doubt divers of the first settlers & some of their children was buried at this Place;which appears to me to have been the only Public burying Ground any where near this Place in those days. I have little doubt but that my uncle Job Cole's Grand Parents & G. Grand Parents & his own brother Wm. Coles was buried at this Place long before he chose to have E. Stiles interred there.
[10]
Thomas Stiles born son of Ephraim & Mary. married to Ann Brown daughter of Henry & Elizabeth & lived in the house late his father.
Children
John to Elizabeth King
Elizabeth single now 1824 living with her Mother &c.
Wm. to Elizabeth Borden (see page Died 1849)
Thomas, Judith (widow of Arthur Roberts) daug; of Isaac & Sarah Ridgway Morgan
Amos to Deborah Githens
Enoch deceased
Thomas Stiles the Father of the above family died of a Pleurisy 17 of 2 mo 1793 he had bought his brother Robert's Plantation; but had to sell nearly all of it to Samuel Roberts.
[11] Isaac Stiles born son of Robert & Sarah
was brought up by his uncle Wm. Hollinshead & married to one Hannah Clark, removed about after his marriage to divers places & at last settled somewhere into the "Barrons." Their children as many as I have yet heard of are
Samuel
Nicholas
Sarah
Priscilla
Nicholas Stiles, Blacksmith, born son
Thats all the Stiles pages I got copies of. Names in red are Stiles that stayed in the Maple Shade area.
Robert the 2nd who married his cousin Sarah Rudderow we know settled on land. Asa says in above that Robert the 1st of "of Gloucester County" did as well. At Robert the 2nd's death the land, which ran from creek to creek across town, was divided right about where N. Forklanding Road is but at a slightly different angle. The eastward land was inherited by Robert the 3rd, the westerly land by Ephraim.
The Easterly land- Robert the 3rd died and that land was split between his sons John and Benjamin. John got the Mecray Lane house and Isaac the "Old Place of the Stiles." Keep in mind that John was already an adult living at that plantation. The house was NOT built in 1769 (At least not by Isaac Stiles) as mentioned in the Cutler book. Robert the 3rd died late in 1769 and Isaac was about 14 years old at that time and went to live with his Uncle Isaac Mickle. When Isaac's son John died his plantation was sold out of the Stiles family although years later it would return under Benjamin J. Stiles' father-in-law Thomas Wilson living there during the "Stiles Corners" period.
Benjamin Stiles, the son of Isaac who had Isaac, Joseph B., and Benjamin J. divided the homestead land he inherited into 2 halves at a line at Fellowship Road, the easterly half to Joseph B., and the westerly half to Benjamin J.- den