Samuel Burrough, a son of John, was born in 1650. On November 16, 1698 he purchased three hundred acres of land from Joseph Heritage, in Waterford township.
Samuel Burrough's second marriage was to Hannah Roberts, daughter of John and Sarah Roberts, on the 27th day of the Tenth Month, 1699.
In 1703 he purchased the farm of Richard Bromley, containing two hundred acres of land. He bought of John Walker in 1712 one hundred acres on the other side of the creek, now the Alden Park development in Maple Shade.
He bought much more land. The Burrough family would own the land where the Burrough Dover house is in Pennsauken off Haddonfield Road to where the Cherry Hill Mall now is, which was near the Cherry Hill Farm.
Asa Matlack in his collection of notes states: "Samuel Burrough and his son Benjamin set out from their landing place with a hogshead of cider for Philadelphia on the ice and both were drowned. He had by will settled all his lands and estate to his children."
The last will of Samuel Burrough names his son Isaac Burrough but fails to mention Jacob, who must have been born between 1725 and 1731.
The Boston Weekly News Letter for February 10-17, 1732 #1464 Philadelphia January 25, on Wednesday last one Samuell Burroughs and his son having been at our market in their way home to the Jersies, broke thro' the ice and were drowned, the father was taken up next day but the other is not yet found."
Samuel Burrough made a Will June 19, 1720, N. J. Arch, of Wills Vol. II. pg. 77. The will was proved 31 Mar 1732.- Burroughs, Samuel of Waterford, Gloucester Co., yeoman. Son, Samuel, to have 200 acres of land I live on, bought of Richard Bromley and 100 acres on the other side of the creek, bought of John Walker,...
Samuel Burrough was born Ninth Month 28, 1701. He was the first born of nine children of Samuel and Hannah Roberts Burrough.
In 1723 Samuel Burrough married Ann Gray, a daughter of Richard and Joanna Gray. It was upon the old Bromly farm and in the dwelling erected by Richard Bromly, that Samuel and Ann removed soon after their marriage. (Prowell, History of Camden County)
Samuel Burrough had a grist mill on the South branch of the Pennsauken Creek. It was there when the old Market (or Ferry) Road was made in the 1760s from Kings Highway at Schoolhouse Lane to Cooper's Ferry at the Delaware River.
Asa Matlack said in his notes that Joshua Humphries, old man a carpenter in the year 1759 came to live in Moorestown. He built the Smith Cadbury house first section and lived there and built Samuel Burrough's mill. (Information not a quote)
The Bromley farm was later owned by Charles Collins and the "Bromley house" above mentioned was torn down in 1845. The Colwick development in Cherry Hill along Maple Avenue was built on the land of the Collins and Wick farms.
Samuel Burrough, ninth child of Samuel and Ann (Gray) Burrough, owned the brick house on Maple Avenue and bought the "Collins Lane" house from Joseph Rudderow in what is now Maple Shade. Even though he owned these two plantations, he moved to Evesham. Samuel married Sarah Lamb, daughter of Jacob and Lydia Lamb.
Samuel Jr. is now referred to as Samuel Burrough of Evesham and in his will, which the New Jersey Archives abstract does not include is that part of the rents of the house in Waterford and the house in Chester Township should go "to a building of a Meeting House at or near Cropwell School."
Abstract from NJ Archives First Series XXXV11, pg. 61, Calendar of Wills 1791-1795, Recorded in Will Bk. 33, pg 19, microfilm 11482C
In 1793, Samuel Burrough Sr. of Evesham died. In his will he bequeathed a portion of the rents from the Waterford and Chester Township plantations should got to building Cropwell Meeting House. The plantations would be rented for 15 years, from 1793 until August 1808 when Samuel Burrough Jr, born Aug. 4, 1787, turned 21 years old and inherited them. The will states-
"I give and bequeath out of the Rents of my Plantations in Waterford and Chester the sum of fifty pounds of Gold or Silver money, for the purpose of Building a Meeting House for the Friends at or near Cropwell Schoolhouse, to be paid to the Managers of said Building when wanted or demanded."
Joseph Burrough, sixth child of Samuel and Ann (Gray) Burrough was born in 1735. Joseph erected a brick house in 1761 on a part of the Richard Bromley tract adjoining the homestead. Joseph had one son, William, by his first marriage to Mary Pine. He had two sons, Joseph and Reuben, by his second wife Keziah Parr. He married a third time to Lydia Strech.
Joseph's son Joseph would inherit his father's house in 1814 and son Reuben the Bromley house and Grist mill.
The 1761 Joseph Burrough's house would get the name the Woodland Farm because it was surrounded by woods used for timber. A later descendant Edward Burrough would live there. The house was in Colwick and burned down in the 1960s.
Joseph died in 1814. He a new schoolhouse on a lot on the new Moorestown Road in December of 1811 to the neighborhood families on both sides of the south branch of the Pennsauken Creek. It named the Chesterford School.
Joseph Burrough's will (my notes)-
Date of will January 22, 1810
Will Book A-514
Woodbury, Gloucester County Surrogates Office
He died June 9, 1814.
1- debts & funeral
2- Wife Lydia Burrough, 2,670 dollars cash, choice occupancy room, sons cut her firewood provide hay for cow
3- Son William Burrough, house & land where he now dwells, 8,000 dollars after one year after my decease
4- Son Joseph Burrough, all tract & plantation whereof now I dwell excepting such part devised to my son Reuben Burrough, purchased from Joseph Plum, Samuel Baxter, Thomas Pond
5- Son Reuben Burrough, all the tract and premises whereon I now dwell, that I purchased from my cousin Samuel Burrough, a part of the plantation I hold by deed from my father, Lands in Burlington County that I purchased from my Brother Samuel Burrough, Thomas Thorne, Thomas Stiles, Hugh Cowperthwaite, & Joseph Plum & meadow I purchased of Thomas Morton
6- Remainder to sons William, Joseph, Reuben Burrough equal
Deed-
Samuel Burrough Jr. of Waterford from Samuel Burrough Sr. of Chester
April 1, 1774
Deed book A-1, page 232
Court Common Pleas November 16, 1775
Mentioned in the deed is the Alden Park land-
Robert Turner bearing date the 26th day of the fourth Month Anno Domini 1689 for the Consideration there in mentioned did grant bargain & sell unto John Walker One hundred Acres part thereof which sd. one hundred Acres he the said John Walker caused to be Surveyed and located within the Township of Chester in the County of Burlington and Province of and the sd. John Walker was possessed of the same and by Deed bearing date the first day of the ninth Month anno Domini 1712 and is Recorded in the Records of New Jersey within the County of Gloucester in Liber A folio 209 for the Consideration therein mentioned did grant bargain & sell unto Samuel Burrough Father to the above mentioned Samuel Burrough the whole of the afsd. One hundred Acres of Land situate in Chester afsd. whereby he the sd. Samuel Burrough Father to the first above mentioned Samuel Burrough the whole by the Several Conveyances to him.
In the above deed, on April 1, 1774, Samuel Burrough Jr. bought 398 acres and 2 roods of land from his father Samuel Burrough Sr. for the sum of 5 shillings.
In the will abstract below, it would seem that son Joseph gets all the land and son Samuel gets no land and further more son Samuel declined to be an executor. Look carefully at what is happening. In the will Samuel Burrough Sr. pays him back the 5 shillings he paid for the land earlier that month.
Will-
1774, April 28, Burrough, Samuel, of Waterford Township, Gloucester Co., yeoman; will of. Wife, Ann, use of my present dwelling house, that is 1/2 thereof, at the mill; also L20 yearly, to be paid by my sons, Joseph and Samuel. Daughter, Ann Tomlinson, during her widowhood, the use of the one room with her mother. Son, Joseph, all my lands. Son, Samuel, 5 shillings. Rest of personal estate to my wife and 5 daughters, Sarah, Ann, Abigail, Bathsheba, and Rachel.
Son Samuel Jr. (Who had also bought the Collins Lane house from Joseph Rudderow) moved to Evesham sometime after his father's death.
From "The History of Camden County, NJ" by George Reeser Prowell-
Joseph Coles, the grandfather of Charles B. Coles, was married to Sarah Heulings. Their son Charles was born July 7, 1807, and died February 25, 1837; married Rachel Burrough, daughter of Joseph and Martha (Davis) Burrough, and had two children, Joseph, who died in childhood, and Charles B. Coles, who was born on August 7, 1836, at the homestead now owned by himself, and known as the Coles Mill Farm, in Chester township, Burlington County, near the Camden line, to which place his father moved upon his marriage with Rachel Burrough, whose ancestors for six generations had owned the same property. His mother died in the Eleventh Month 29,1869, aged sixty-five years.
Charles B. Coles (Sr.)
took title on March 25, 1835
under deed book N 3 page 283
sold by the executors of Reuben Burrough
(William Burrough and Joseph Burrough)
containing 167 19/100 acres of land
for the sum of 9,028.26 dollars
Jan. 22 1810, Joseph Burrough formerly of Waterford Township willed to Reuben Burrough among other a certain Grist-Mill and plantation and all his lands situated partly in the County of Burlington and partly in the County of Gloucester with the Grist Mill, Mill Pond and appurtenances,
containing 167 19/100 acres for sale at public vendue on 28 day of January at the house of William Doughten Inn Keeper in Moorestown
at sale said Charles Coles was highest Bidder at 9,028.26 dollars, from William Burrough and Joseph Burrough, 167 19/100 acres at 54 dollars per acre.
Beginning at Walnut tree corner to land of Late Samuel Burrough, corner of Samuel Roberts, crossing Moorestown Road to Samuel Roberts and William Stiles line thence to the corner of Frisbys lot side of Cooper's Landing Road, in the Joseph Burrough line in the old saw mill pond, excepting out of this grant the School house lot, together also with all and singular the dwelling house, Grist Mill, Mill Pond, barns, buildings, improvements, etc...
Henry B. Coles
took title on March 30, 1905
under deed book 393 page 442
sold by Charles B. Coles of Moorestown
for the sum of 422 dollars
Beginning at the middle of the Moorestown Camden Turnpike Road, corner of other lands of Charles B. Coles, ditch and crossing near the westerly line of said Coles Avenue Bridge.
containing 2 16/100 acres of land
Being part of a tract of land conveyed to the said Charles Coles under hand of William Burrough and Joseph Burrough executors of Reuben Burrough deceased.
Note- There is more to say on the Burrough family's impact on the area now Maple Shade. The renting of the Collins Lane house to a school teacher Emmanuel Beagary who was probably the first teacher at the Chesterford School, the Chesterford School and the land of the Rynning development that was Thorne land up to Rose Ave. because William Thorne (offhand) married a Burrrough in the early 1700s. (Originally probably Stiles land) The old Market Road went along the edge of his property. These items will be discussed elsewhere to avoid "overload." -Den
Here are scans of old deeds from microfilm printouts from visits to the NJ State Archives in Trenton and map plottings I did. Also a few other items.- Old Deeds
Here is some sources for the above information.- Burrough excerpts at my OneDrive