Benjamin Meeker b. 13 Oct 1677 Elizabeth Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America Elizabeth Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America: Oswald Family History

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Name	Benjamin Meeker [1, 7]
Birth	13 Oct 1677	Elizabeth Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Gender	Male
Death	Elizabeth Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Burial	Elizabeth Township, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America
Person ID	I312684224482	Oswald Genealogy
Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

Family	Phoebe Clark, b. 17 Aug 1680, Southampton, Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America d. 11 Nov 1755, Elizabeth, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America (Age 75 years)
Marriage	1698	Suffolk, New York Colony, British Colonial America
Family ID	F2050	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

Notes

will recorded 1751

History states that they had 7 sons. tm
History states that they had 7 sons. tm

!PARENTS-BIRTH: MEEKER FAMILY, by Michae
!PARENTS-BIRTH: MEEKER FAMILY, by Michael Allen Meeker, P.O. Box 8683, Madison, Wisconsin 53708; 1989; p. 4.

BIRTH: New Haven, New Haven County, Con
BIRTH: New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut, Births, Marriages, and Deaths (1649-1750), Volume 1, page 1. The names and times of these borne at New haven. Benjamin Meaker the Sonn of Willm Meaker was Borne the 17th of March 1649 [1649-1650]

Benjamin Maker, Meaker, will of. Wife Elizabeth. Sons, William, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Joseph. Real and personal estate. Executors - the wife and William Meaker. Witnesses - William Looker Junior, John Meekar, John Harriman. Proved 6/10/1707. Lib. 1, p. 181
To his wife, Elizabeth, all movable estate; also house and lot so long as she remains his widow.
To son, William, twenty acres where his house now stands joining Jonas Wood. (Old Meeker Homestead)
To son, Jonathan, seventeen acres, the rest of the land joining William's twenty acres.
To son, Thomas, one hundred acres, joining John Meeker and bought of Samuel Hopkins.
To sons, William, Jonathan and Daniel one hundred and fifty acres "lying near the Ash Swamp."
To son, Daniel, forty acres lying near to "Daniel Sayre farm."
To son, Samuel, the home lot bought of Samuel Hopkins, also nine acres in new field; also thirteen acres of land called "Barbers Ridge."
To son, Joseph, all of house and land lying in old field joining Joseph Ogden.
To sons, William, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel and Joseph, all the meadow ground that is all ready surveyed to Benjamin.
To sons, William, Benjamin, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Thomas and Joseph Meaker "all the rights of land and meadow (supposedly the undivided land owned by the associates from the Indian Purchases of 1664.)
Inventory of personal estate 23 June 1707 total 94 pounds and 8 shillings. Live stock: 20 head of cattle, 41 sheep, two sows and six pigs. "A parcel of old books, 6 shillings."Lib. 1, pg 181

Benjamin Maker, Meaker, will of. Wife El
Benjamin Maker, Meaker, will of. Wife Elizabeth. Sons, William, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Joseph. Real and personal estate. Executors - the wife and William Meaker. Witnesses - William Looker Junior, John Meekar, John Harriman. Proved 6/10/1707. Lib. 1, p. 181
To his wife, Elizabeth, all movable estate; also house and lot so long as she remains his widow.
To son, William, twenty acres where his house now stands joining Jonas Wood. (Old Meeker Homestead)
To son, Jonathan, seventeen acres, the rest of the land joining William's twenty acres.
To son, Thomas, one hundred acres, joining John Meeker and bought of Samuel Hopkins.
To sons, William, Jonathan and Daniel one hundred and fifty acres "lying near the Ash Swamp."
To son, Daniel, forty acres lying near to "Daniel Sayre farm."
To son, Samuel, the home lot bought of Samuel Hopkins, also nine acres in new field; also thirteen acres of land called "Barbers Ridge."
To son, Joseph, all of house and land lying in old field joining Joseph Ogden.
To sons, William, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel and Joseph, all the meadow ground that is all ready surveyed to Benjamin.
To sons, William, Benjamin, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Thomas and Joseph Meaker "all the rights of land and meadow (supposedly the undivided land owned by the associates from the Indian Purchases of 1664.)
Inventory of personal estate 23 June 1707 total 94 pounds and 8 shillings. Live stock: 20 head of cattle, 41 sheep, two sows and six pigs. "A parcel of old books, 6 shillings."Lib. 1, pg 181

Lyons Farms

Carpenter, landowner & planter; built the house known as the Meeker homestead at Lyons Farms, about 1677.

Sources

[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree.
[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Research: Grindstaff-Meeker-Tritt-Stapp, Betty M. (Grandstaff) Moses , Tulsa, OK: B.M. Moses, ~2002 Files.
[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, History of Union County, New Jersey, Frederick William Ricord, Newark, NJ: East Jersey History Company, ©1897; FHL film #1425605.
[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, * The Cameron and Paige Report *, Patricia A. (Wren-Simon) LaPlante , Everett, WA: Compiled 2001-2006; <http://wc.rootsweb.com/~laplante>.
[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Court Record.
[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, The Meeker Family of Early New Jersey : as revealed in the correspondence of Charles H. Meeker, Junior, Leroy J. Meeker, Charleston, WV: Capitol Printing Co., ©1973; FHL film #1317115.
[S1173462465] FamilySearch.org, FamilySearch FamilyTree, Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data: New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murp.

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