Francis Lindley

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• Residence: Essex, New Jersey, USA
• Immigration: Jul 1639, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America; Sailed on the ship St. John
• Arrival: 1644, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Francis came to this country from England in the ship, Arabella, with Robert Kitchell. This vessel is said to have been the first to anchor in New Haven bay.
• Destination: 1666, Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA; Moved to and became one of the founders of Newark, N. J.
• Residence: 1667, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1667, Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Residence: 1670, Essex, New Jersey, USA
• Residence: 1696, Essex, New Jersey, USA

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Buried:
First Presbyterian Churchyard,The Memorial Garden

Francis married Susanna Culpeper on 24 Jun 1655 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, New England. Susanna (daughter of John Culpepper and Sarah Mayo) was born about 1634 in Branford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; died on 2 Feb 1699 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Feb 1699 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John Lindsley was born in 1668 in Newark, NJ, son of Francis and Susannah Cullpepper Lindsley, and died at Morristown, NJ, October 27, 1749. He wasa carpenter and Wheelwright. In 1699 he was put in peaceable possession of his father's land and meadow by delivering to him, "...a coyned piece of silver money called a nine penny bitt in the name of the premises." John and his brother, Ebenezer, were appointed fence viewers in 1697; on April 15, 1700, John was appointed constable; and in August 10, 1715, overseer of the poor. His first wife's name is not known, but all of his children were by her. His second wife, Elizabeth Freeman Ford (widow ofJohn Ford), was born in Oxford, England, and died in Morristown April 21, 1772, aged ninety-one years. She came to Philadelphia when there was only one house there and moved to New Jersey when she was but 11/2 years old. Her father was drowned in 1681 as he left the vessel in which the family had arrived. Her first husband, John Ford, was born in 1659 at Duxbury, MA, and died in 1724 in Virginia while there on business. John and Elizabeth were married on December 31, 1701, and had three children.

John married Elizabeth Freeman before 1742 in Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of John Freeman and Ann ?) was born about 1681 in Axford, Hampshire; died on 21 Apr 1772 in Hanover, Morris, New Jersey, USA; was buried in Presbyt Ch Cem, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Occupation: Elder, Judge, Justice of the Peace
• Residence: 1749, Morris, New Jersey, USA
• Occupation: Bef 1750, Hunterdon, New Jersey, USA; justice of the peace in Hunterdon County

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John Lindsley was one of the first judges of Hunterdon County, serving from March 25, 1740, until his death. He was also a Justice of the Peace. He married Sarah Plum, daughter of John and Hannah (Crane) Plum. Hannah was the daughter of Deacon Azariah Crane and granddaughter of GovernorRobert Treat. John Plum was one of the emigrants from Branford to Newark along with Francis Lindsley.

John married Sarah Plumb about 1717 in Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA. Sarah (daughter of John Plumb and Hanna or Mary Crane) was born in 1700 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA; died on 3 Jan 1750 in Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA; was buried in 1st Presby Ch, Morristown, Morris, New Jersey, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• LifeSketch: See Findagrave.com Memorial # 15161533 - includes his history. Lindley\'s Fort was built on his property for protection against the Indians. During 2015 historical sources for all of the descendants of Demas Lindley were attached to their person pages. All ancestors who were presumed deceased by that year (born before 1915) were added. The 1920, 1930 and 1940 census records and obituaries that are attached may contain the names of children who were presumed still living when the sources were attached and so were not added. They will need to be added as time goes by. Of course new sources will continue to be added as more indexing is done, but all available sources were added and dates standardized, and relationships corrected as much as possible at that time. Contact me with questions.
• Christening: 3 Jun 1733, Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, USA
• Residence: 1800, Morris, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA

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In 1760 Demas Lindsley left Mendham, Morris Co., NJ and led a band of pioneers to Washington County, PA, where they settled in 1763 and built the Lindsley Fort near Upper Ten Mile, now called Prosperity. Demas was a church elder, miller, county commissioner, and land owner.
Demas Lindley, built a very strong fort eight miles south of Washington,later Prosperity, Penn. about 1770. He moved there with his family from Mendham, N.J. in 1773. (In 1928, there was a momument erected marking the location of this fort.) He was buried in the graveyard at the Upper Then Mile Presbyterian Church. His tombstone states in the "60th. year of his Eldership in the Church."
Notes from "History of Washington Co.
PAP 1882, Boyd Cumrine, Records of First Chruch, Morristown, N.J., Combined Registers, 1742-1885, P.197.

Notes ,"The History of the Lindley, Lindsley-Linsley Families in America"1639- 1930, by John M. Lindly, Page 177.

Demas married Joanna Prudden on 25 Jan 1755 in Mendham, Morris, New Jersey, USA. Joanna (daughter of Joseph Prudden and Joanna Lyon) was born on 4 Nov 1735 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA; died on 11 Nov 1808 in Prosperity, Washington, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 1808 in Presbyterian Ch, Prosperity, Washington, PA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]