Samuel Stockton Esq

Samuel Stockton Esq. was born on 12 February 1694 and died on 29 October 1739. He is identified in the supplied family account as one of the sons of Richard Stockton of the Princeton area and as having acquired 500 acres of land.

Samuel Stockton Esq. was born on 12 February 1694. He is the user’s seventh great-grandfather.

According to the cited account in Thomas Allen Glenn’s Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them, Samuel was a son of the second Richard Stockton, who had moved from Piscataway in Middlesex County to the site of Princeton. Richard Stockton acquired extensive land near Stony Brook, including 400 acres purchased from the Proprietors of East Jersey in August 1696 and 5,500 acres granted by patent from William Penn in 1701.

Richard Stockton died in 1709. The cited account states that he left a widow and six sons and identifies Samuel among them. It further states that Samuel acquired 500 acres. Samuel Stockton died on 29 October 1739.

Historical context

Samuel’s recorded family was associated with landholding in the Stony Brook and Princeton area during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The cited account describes the family’s property as subject in part to a quit rent and notes Richard Stockton’s 1701 patent from William Penn for 5,500 acres on Stony Brook, on part of which the town of Princeton was later erected.

Sources & research

Family Recorded, in Glenn, Thomas Allen. Some colonial mansions and those who lived in them: with genealogies of the various families mentioned. Philadelphia: H.T. Coates and Co., 1889, c1897. Vol. 1, p. 71.