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Family: Preserve Brown, Jr. / Mary Sykes (F2147)

• Father | Male Preserve Brown, Jr.

  
  

  Born	Abt 1699	Chesterfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, British Colonial America
  Died	22 Jul 1760
  Buried
  Married	21 Oct 1747  [1, 2]	Burlington County, New Jersey, British Colonial America  [1, 2]
  Other Spouse	Mary French | F2146
  Married	15 Oct 1724	Burlington County, New Jersey, British Colonial America
  Father	Preserve Brown, Sr. | F733 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary _____ | F733 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Mary Sykes

  
  

  Born	1707
  Died	8 Jan 1783
  Buried
  Father
  Mother

  
  

• Notes

  Married: p278 Sykes Family. John Sykes, of English extraction, emigrated to America at an early date. Soon after his arrival here he took up a large tract of land where the present village of Sykesville, Burlington County, is situated, and engaged in farming, which occupation he followed for several years. He had children, among whom was Samuel; he married and had a son John, who in 1704 married Joanna Murin, a sober, religious woman, with whom he lived with great harmony and concord sixty-seven years. The had children, Hannah, Mary, Ann, Samuel, John Anthony, Katharine, /Rebecca, Elizabeth, Joanna, Joseph, and Benjamin, Hannah married John Kirkbride, of Bucks County; Mary married Preserve Brown in 1747; Samuel married Elizabeth Thorn; John died unmarried; Anthony married Mary, widow of Empson Wright; Rebecca married a man by the name of Garrot, and resided at Darby, near Philadelphia; Elizabeth and Joseph died young. [21da 8mo 1747]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2040] Book: Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, vol 22, Chesterfield (Burlington County) Friends' Monthly Meeting Marriage Records, 1686-1800. p651 - Brown, Preserve of Philadelphia, Penna., and Mary Sykes of Chesterfield, dau. of John and Joanna, at Upper Springfield.... 21st 8th Mo. 1747 p652 - Brown, Preserve, Jr., of Mansfield, and Mary French, of Mansfield, dau. of Richard and _____, at Chesterfield... 15th 8th mo. 1724 p658 - French, Richard, of Mansfield Township, and Mary King, of Nottingham Township, dau. of Harmenus King, at the house of Harmenus King... 13th 11th mo. 1701 p 665 - Ogborn, John, of Burlington county, and Sarah Shreve, dau. of Caleb, at Chestrfield.... 19th 1st mo. 1723-24 [S2177] Book: History of Burlington and Mercer Counties New Jersey, p278. Mary married Preserve Brown in 1747.