Susannah GROVER

Female 1686 - 1774  (88 years)


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  1. 1.  Susannah GROVER was born in 1686 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died on 11 Mar 1774 in Lyme, New London Co., Connecticut; was buried in Old Borden Cemetery.

    Notes:

    . Susannah married 1717 in NJ, Joseph Borden. b 12 May 1687, Middletown, NJ.
    Ref: Boston Transcript 1906-1941.

    . Verify: Their children:
    Amy Borden.1, born 1723, Bordertown, Shrewsbury, NJ
    Joseph, 1 Aug 1719.

    . Hannah, b 1711 Bordertown, Burlington Co., NJ who married John Lawrence born Monmouth & died 1767, Chesterfield Twp., Burlington Co., NJ.

    . Rebecca, b 1717 Middletown, NJ
    Abigail, b 1727 Farnsworth Landing (Bordertown), NJ
    Amy.2, born 1723, Bordentown
    Ann Borden, b 1718, Middletown.

    . Children of Joseph Borden & Susannah Grover are:
    Jonathan Borden, born Apr. 14, 1690.
    David Borden, born Mar. 8, 1692.
    Samuel Borden, born Apr. 8, 1696.

    . SUSANNAH GROVER , daughter of Joseph Grover , 2, married Joseph, son of Benjamin & Abigail (Grover) Borden, born May 12, 1687; died Sep. 22, 1765.

    . 1787, Mch. 16. "Silvanus Grover, of Middletown, a Quaker, affirms that he is well acquainted with the state of Joseph Grover his grandfather's family. That his grandfather had 6 daughters, legatees to the said Joseph Grover by his last will & testament, to whom he bequeathed all his proprietary rights, of whom Susannah & Hannah were two.

    . Susannah intermarried with Joseph Borden, by whom she had issue one daughter, Rebecca, who married Joseph Brown, reputed heir of Susannah Borden, & thereby inherited her mother's share of her grandfather's rights.

    . Hannah married James Seabrook, & had a son, Daniel, reputed heir of James & Hannah,
    & the said Daniel had issue, with others, Thomas Seabrook, who is the reputed heir of Daniel his father." - - -

    Birth:
    Resided Bordentown, NJ

    Died:

    Family/Spouse: Joseph BORDEN. Joseph was born on 12 May 1687 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 22 Sep 1765 in Bordentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey; was buried in Borden Hopkinston Burial Ground. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Safety BORDEN  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 6 Sep 1682 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died in Nov 1757 in Bordentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey.
    2. 3. Rebecca BORDEN  Descendancy chart to this point was born est 1684 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Safety BORDEN Descendancy chart to this point (1.Susannah1) was born on 6 Sep 1682 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey; died in Nov 1757 in Bordentown, Burlington Co., New Jersey.

    Notes:

    . Safety Borden, born Sept. 6, 1682; died, November, 1757, in Bordentown, N. J.
    married Martha. He is supposed to have married his first cousin, a daughter of Capt. Safety Grover, whose name is unknown. She may have been this Martha, or perhaps be married twice.

    . 1683 - He was appointed Ensign in the local militia.
    . 1686, July 21 - The Proprietors, of East Jersey, granted to Safety Grover, of Middletown, 68 acres, in said town, South of his father's land; 32 acres of land, S. W. of his father's land, on the Navesink River and another piece, of 20 acres, on the East side of Shoal Harbor , West of his father's land.
    . 1687/8, January - Safety Grover was one of the bondsmen of Hanna Gardiner of Middletown, administratrix of her late husband, Richard Gardiner.
    . 1688 - In deeds of this date, he is called Capt. Safety Grover.
    . 1691, Mar 8 or 28 - Safety Grover bought of Richard Hartshorne, 20 acres, which, with two hundred acres of upland adjoining, was patented, Nov. 23, 1676, to Charles Haynes.
    . 1692, Mar. 5 - He was commissioned Lieutenant, of a Foot Company, in Middletown.
    Book C., Commissions, p. 180, Trenton, N. J.
    . 1701 - He was mentioned as Capt. Safety Grover. in the uprising against the Court, sitting at Middletown.
    . 1711 - Elisha Lawrence of Freehold, late of Middletown yeoman, sold to Safety Grover of Middletown, yeoman, for £3, three acres, lying at the East side of Shoal Harbor.

    . 1711, Feb. 19 - WILL of Edward Taylor of Freehold, yeoman, son and heir to Edward Taylor late of Middletown, deceased, sold to Safety Grover, of Middletown, gentleman, for £3, one acre, of meadow, at Shoal Harbor adjacent to the above mentioned land.
    . 1720, Dec. 5 - Gawin Drummond of Lochaber, in Shrewsbury, Gent., sold, for £5, to Safety Grover, Gent., and William Winter, yeoman, both of Middletown, ten acres of his seven hundred and five acres, to be taken up in right of his Propriety, formerly Thomas Cooper 's and which, he, Drummond, bought from Obadiah Bowne, Aug. 21, 1714.
    . 1721, Feb. 27 - He was a Juryman.
    . 1724 - He was appointed, by the Court, an Overseer of the Highways, for Middletown.
    . 1726 - He was a bondsman for James Grover, apparently his son.
    . 1727 - He appeared, as Capt. Grover, in an old account book.
    There was a Mercy Grover, one of the witnesses to the will of Thomas Applegate Sr., of Middletown, Feb. 1, 1698-9.
    Note: Was she the wife of Safety Grover?

    Issue:
    1. HANNAH GROVER, daughter of Safety Grover, 4, married William, son of Edward Taylor, the first, of Middletown, N.J. William Taylor and his wife, resided at Freehold, N. J. He was born 1688, and died 1767, leaving a will proved Oct. 12, of that year, in which he set forth that he was a resident of Upper Freehold, and mentioned among others, his wife, Hannah, and his brother-in-law, James Grover.

    2. James Grover, resided Middletown, NJ.
    . 1733 - James Grover was indicted for fornication; pleaded not guilty. Bonds signed by himself and Safety Grover .
    . 1737 - James Grover, Jr., was prominent in local politics. Holmes ' Journal.
    . 1740, Dec. 9 - James Grover, Jr., recorded his cattle-mark, formerly Walter Wall 's.
    . 1748 - James Grover was a deacon in the Baptist Church, Middletown .
    . 1754 - James Grover was appointed a Justice, in Monmouth County, N. J.
    . 1769 - James Grover was prominent in Baptist Church affairs, in Middletown .
    . 1774, July 19 - He was one of the Committee sent, from Monmouth County, to the Provincial Convention held at New Brunswick .
    . 1777 - Justice James Grover was suspected of being a Tory, and because of his supposed sentiments, was rebuked by the church, which he bluntly told was rudely trespassing upon his individual rights, and was lodged in jail, at Bordentown, pending an examination before the Governor and Council of Safety.

    3. Two, Daughters
    5. Mordecai Grover [?]
    And perhaps other children; among them, supposed, Elizabeth, wife of John Bowne, cordwainer.

    . Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - -

    Birth:
    / resided.


  2. 3.  Rebecca BORDEN Descendancy chart to this point (1.Susannah1) was born est 1684 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., New Jersey.

    Notes:

    Rebecca Borden married Joseph Brown.