Family of John ROSS and Sarah JACKSON

Husband:	John ROSS (1733-1806)
Wife:	Sarah JACKSON (1740- )
Children:	Jackson ROSS ( - )
	James ROSS ( - )
	Phineas ROSS ( - )
	Richard ROSS ( - )
	John ROSS ( - )
	Mary ROSS ( - )
	Catharine ROSS ( - )
	Sarah ROSS ( - )
	Margaret ROSS ( - )
Marriage	29 Jun 1759	New Jersey, USA 1

Husband: John ROSS

	John ROSS, "JerseyBlue"

Name:	John ROSS 1
Sex:	Male
Name Prefix:	Patriot Captain
Father:	-
Mother:	-
Birth	1733	Bound Brook, Somerset, New Jersey, USA 1
Civil	1775 (age 41-42)	Member of the Committee of Correspondence and Observance; Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 2
Military (1)	1775 (age 41-42)	Captain 3rd Co., The Jersey Blues - 3rd Battalion, Continental Troops; New Jersey
Military (2)	frm Feb 1778 to Jun 1778 (age 44-45)	On command at Valley Forge; Valley Forge, Pennsylvania 3
Death	Sep 1806 (age 72-73)	Bonham Town, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA 1,4

Wife: Sarah JACKSON

Name:	Sarah JACKSON 1
Sex:	Female
Father:	James JACKSON (1704-1750)
Mother:	Mary FITZ RANDOLPH (1710-aft1759)
Birth	11 Nov 1740	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey 1,5

Child 1: Jackson ROSS

	Jackson ROSS, "USAFLASH"

Name:	Jackson ROSS
Sex:	Male
Name Prefix:	Patriot
Birth	"abt 1766"
Military	1780	Private in Continental Army; Middlesex County
Military Service	1793 (age 27)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Child 2: James ROSS

Name:	James ROSS
Sex:	Male
Birth	"abt 1772"
Military Service	1793 (age 21)	Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA

Child 3: Phineas ROSS

Name:	Phineas ROSS
Sex:	Male

Child 4: Richard ROSS

Name:	Richard ROSS
Sex:	Male

Child 5: John ROSS

Name:	John ROSS
Sex:	Male

Child 6: Mary ROSS

Name:	Mary ROSS
Sex:	Female

Child 7: Catharine ROSS

Name:	Catharine ROSS
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Nathaniel MARTIN ( - )

Child 8: Sarah ROSS

Name:	Sarah ROSS
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	William FORD ( - )

Child 9: Margaret ROSS

Name:	Margaret ROSS
Sex:	Female

Note on Marriage

from http://files.usgwarchives.org/nj/statewide/history/family/ford.txt

 

FORD Family in New Jersey State Archives

 

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Archives of the State of New Jersey, First Series; Documents Relating to the

Colonial, Revolutionary & Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New

Jersey, Volume XL; Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, Etc., Volume XI, 1806-1809; Edited and Indexed by Elmer T. Hutchinson; Trenton, NJ, 1947. p. 287, as follows:

 

1805, May 6. Ross, John, of Bonham Town, Middlesex Co.; will of. Wife,

Sarah, $250; also income from monies to be invested from sale of estate, while my widow; should she marry, $100. After wife's decease or marriage monies to be collected and divided in 14 parts, sons, Jackson, James, Phineas, Richard and John, each 2 parts, and daughters Mary, Catharine (wife of Nathaniel Martin), Sarah (wife of William Foord), and Margaret, each one part.

Executors--sons, James Ross and Richard Ross and son-in-law Nathaniel Martin.

Witnesses--David Dunham Jr., David Dunham, Nathan Mundy.

Proved Sept. 29, 1806.

1806, Sept. 30. Inventory, $1,014.96; made by Isaac Cotheal and William

F. Manning. File 10118 L.

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Name: --- Ross

Spouse's Name: Sarah Jackson

Marriage Date: out 1760

Comment: Her ack 8-5-1760 was left for consideration & apparently forgotten until 3-20-1788, Dis 3-19-1789

 

Quaker Records: Rahway & Plainfield Monthly Meetings Essex County, New Jersey

Sources

1	Ancestry.com, "One World Tree (sm)" (Name: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., n.d.;). Text From Source: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
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2

W. Woodward Clayton, "History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey" (Everts & Peck, Philadelphia, 1882). p. 559. Text From Source: "Accordingly, the several districts in the county have had meetings, and have chosen Committees of Observation as follows, to wit; "*For Woodbridge—Ebenezer Foster, Henry Freeman (1), Nathaniel Heard (2), Reuben Potter, William Smith, Jeremiah Jlanning (3), Matthias Baker (4), Charles Jackson (61, Samuel Force (6), John Pain (7), James lilanning (8), John Heard, Daniel Moures (9), John Ross (10), Elli? Barron, William Cutter (11), Reuben Evans, James HauUolph, Timothy Bloomfield (12), John Noe (13), and John Conway ^14).

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"Valley Forge Legacy - The Muster Roll Project" (http://valleyforgemusterroll.org/index.asp). ID: NJ27801. Text From Source: Captain John Ross Commissioned Officer State: New Jersey Ethnicity: Division: Support Brigade: Maxwell's Regiment: 3rd New Jersey Company: Company Comander DEC 1777 JAN 1778 FEB 1778 On Command MAR 1778 On Command APR 1778 On Command MAY 1778 On Command JUN 1778 Notes: In a letter dated 14 June 1778, BG William Maxwell wrote: "I receieved intillgence from Capt. Ross yesterdaye evning. He says he is informed that about 4 or 5 o'clock in afternoon of the 12th that his informant saw a great number of Waggons landed at Saml. Coopers ferry and several hundreds of troops but I know there is no horses over for them unless they came this last trip…." Wasington Papers, Roll 49 June 14, 1778

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5	"New England Historic Genealogical Society Register" (Name: Boston, MA;). vol 9, p 177.