Descendants of Thomas Stokes the Settler
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Thomas and Mary Stokes were London Quakers who came to New Jersey in 1677 on the ship "Kent".
Thomas is known in family tradition as "the Settler." He and Mary had five children. Two of them were Joseph and John.
He married Judith Lippincott and they had a son named Samuel.
Samuel built a house and he named it "Harmony Hall".
Still around today, it was with the family for 120 years. Sam married Hannah Hinchman and thier son John Hinchman Stokes became a doctor and married Ann Evans.
Ann Evans was his second cousin. But exactly how is still uncertain. Either her mom was Bathsheba Stokes, daughter of Joseph, Thomas the Settler's son. Or her dad was Nathaniel, who was the son of Joseph, jr., husband of Esther Newlin, brother to Samuel, and a son of Joseph (the Settler's son). The latter makes more sense since it explains how the name Newlin entered the family.
Either way, John Hinchman and Ann Evans had a son, John, jr., and he was a doctor too.
Then he and his wife Tabitha Jenkins had a son named Henry Newlin who became a chemist but quit his job to be an occultist.
H.N. and Wilhelmina van den Berg had a son, John Hinchman, and he became an important syphilologist.
And his son James, a doctor as well and a colonel in the U.S. Army, had me.
And my brothers.
Interesting Side Note: Henry Newlin's brother was Samuel Evans and his son Samuel, jr. ("Satyanand") was a really cool guy who went to India and became friends with Gandhi and helped in the struggle there.
Thomas and Mary's son John (brother to Joseph - who I directly descend from) married Elizabeth Green (called "Lady Green" in family tradition) and the two of them settled on a plantation they called "Stokingham". They had a son named named John, jr.
John, jr., married Hannah Stockdale. Their son David had a son named Charles who had a daughter named Alice. Now Alice Stokes married William Parry and their daughter Tacie (and her husband William Paul) decided to name their daughter Alice Stokes Paul after Tacie's mom.
Alice Stokes Paul is a famous women's rights leader! And I just discovered my relation to her.
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