Dr John Stites - Simon Parker Galbreath Family Tree

OUR STITES FAMILY

Generation one
DR. JOHN STITES (mar. Alice Stotes)
Generation 2
RICHARD STITES (mar. Mary Underhill Naylor)

Generation iii
WILLIAM STITES (mar. Mary Hall)

Generation 4
JOHN STITES (mar. Abigail Rushmore)

Generation five
MARY STITES (mar. Dr. Hezekiah Woodruff)

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DR. JOHN STITES
Generation 1

JOHN STITES was born in 1595 in London, England. His father was also named John Stites and he died after 1607 at Southward Moreton, Buckinghamshire, Engand.

John Stites Jr. was married about 1621 to ALICE STOTES. She may have been from Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England, and the marriage performed in that location. About her I know zilch more.

Dr. Stites was the surgeon in Col. John Hampden�s Regiment of Foote* in the Revolution of 1640. This according to Frederick A. Virkus, the author of The Compendium of American Genealogy (see pg. 63). He is said to accept been i of the physicians designated to certify to the beheading death of Charles I and was excepted from the immunity proclamation of Charles Ii, and had to flee for his life to The netherlands, coming to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1633.

* Col. John Hampden was built-in in 1694, a cousin of Oliver Cromwell. Hampden�s Regiment were as well known as �Hampden�south Greencoats�. His motto was: �Against my king I did non fight � just for my king and kingdoms correct� which was inscribed on a jewel that he wore. It is now to be seen in The Bodleian Library at Oxford.

See Teddie Ann Steuber�s �Long Island Genealogy� where she reiterates the aforementioned information. She suggests that looking at the proclamation itself might exist informative toward those facts.

The Amnesty Proclamation has to do with Charles 2, coming back to the throne, and dealing with leftover issues subsequently his father�s execution, and many other matters. I did await upwardly the �Immunity Declaration� and constitute the following.

Charles 2, rex of England, lived in exile, in Breda, Kingdom of the netherlands, during the English Revolution (1640-1660). In April 1660, before the Restoration, Charles issued the amnesty proclamation known as the Declaration of Breda 1660. It was a manifesto issued in April 1660 by Charles II in exile, in which he outlined his initial terms for the Restoration of the monarchy. The Annunciation was drawn up by Charles himself and his three chief advisors. With the exception of the �regicides�, Charles offered a general pardon and an amnesty for all offences committed during the Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate. He expressed his personal want for liberty of conscience in faith and an equitable settlement of state disputes.

It is possible that the data exists, somewhere else, as to whether Dr. Stites was an official certifier of the death of Male monarch Charles I, but I saw no physicians at all named in the Declaration of Breda.

Col. John Hampden�s Regiment of Foote
Reenactment Groups

Virkus also states that Dr. John Stites arrived at Plymouth, Mass. in 1633. If he did arrive at Plymouth, I believe that �1633� in Virkus was a typographical mistake for �1653� � which would brand more sense, since if he had been active during the Revolution (1640) he would not have been in Plymouth in 1633. Virkus continued that he settled in Hempstead, Long Island, in 1657, and that he was a surgeon and physician to the colonist.

Some other source states that he sailed from London to New England on the ship �James� and subsequently eight weeks of passage, he arrived at Salem, Massachusetts, on the 10th of October 1633, coming equally a surveyor to a ring of colonists.

Firstly, surveyor is a lot different than surgeon. Was he a surgeon or a surveyor? I have no problem with him being a surveyor or a surgeon. And I accept no problem with him coming to America in 1633 or 1653. But, if he did immigrate in 1633, where was he between 1633 and 1657? I tend to believe he came here in 1657. In between all of the above, the truth resides, somewhere, about our Dr. John Stites.

Co-ordinate to family unit tradition, John Stites was a man of powerful physique and wonderful concrete endurance. When well-nigh one hundred years sometime, he walked twoscore miles in one day to visit some relatives.

What an interesting life he must have led. As a relative myself, I would love to have him walk through time to visit me. He lived to exist 122 years quondam, being laid to residuum at Hempstead, Long Island, New York in 1717.

We know nothing more about his progeny except that he brought with him to America, one of his sons, RICHARD STITES.

RICHARD STITES
Generation 2

RICHARD STITES was built-in in 1640 at Yorkshire, Due north Riding, England. He was in Hempstead, Long Island, Suffolk Co, New York as early as 1657, where his name is in the list of those having cattle in Rocaway Neck Pasture.

He appears twice as plaintiff in lawsuits, Jan 21, 1660 and February 3, 1675.

Richard married the widow, MARY UNDERHILL NAYLOR, born 15 Nov 1640 at Hempstead, Nassau, New York or at Clifford, Chamber, G., England, the daughter of Humphrey Underhill. Mary married Thomas Naylor in February 1665. The Underhill lineage goes dorsum to William the Conqueror, beingness listed in the book, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the U.s.a., by Gary Boyd Roberts (2004).

He appeared in 1685 among those who paid a tax to defray the expenses of obtaining a patent for lands in Hempstead. The corporeality of the tax was �2-one/ii per acre, and he was assessed for 152 acres.

Richard Stites died in 1702 at Hempstead, Long Island, New York Colony.

CHILDREN OF RICHARD & MARY (NAYLOR) STITES

Henry Stites, born at Hemstead, Long Isle. He removed nigh 1680 to Cape May County, New Jersey. He mar. virtually 1692, Hannah Garlick, of East Hampton, LI, NY.
Benjamin Stites.
WILLIAM STITES, born 1676; mar. Mary Hall.

WILLIAM STITES
Generation 3

WILLIAM STITES was built-in in 3 Apr 1676 at Hempstead, Long Island, Nassau County, New York Colony.

In 1705, he married MARY HALL, who was born 7 August 1677 at Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. The daughter of Isaac Hall and Lydia Knapp.

William and his family unit moved from Long Island probably between 1715-17 to New Bailiwick of jersey near the present Springfield, and purchased 700 acres of land on the due south side of the road and westward of the Rahway River, where he congenital a log house, there being only few dwellings in the town at that time. In fact, the earliest engagement of a white family in the area was in 1717.

Three groups of the Lenape Tribe called this area dwelling house. Groups of Unamis, �People Downward the River,� were often seen in the vicinity by the early settlers. Dense forests covered the land 250 years ago. Just a primitive road continued Morristown and Elizabethtown until 1801, when a turnpike road was constructed between Elizabethtown Indicate and the Delaware River in Sussex County. To avert paying a toll on the Morris & Sussex Turnpike, the citizens built a parallel road and, appropriately, named it �Shunpike Road�. Today, the Baltusrol Golf and Country Social club is located hither. Mills and lumbering provided livelihoods in the area; and of course, nearly everyone farmed.

William Stites died at Springfield, Union Canton, New Jersey, on May 13, 1727, at historic period 51.

Mary died 21 April 1728 at age 51. She and William share a tombstone in the Springfield Quondam Burying Ground on Mountain Avenue. According to the Springfield, New Jersey, website, William Stites'southward tombstone is dated 1729.

STITES Burying SITE

William Stites and his married woman were buried in their own private burying ground. It became Springfield�s �Sometime Burying Ground�, and was on the Mathias Denman farm at Springfield. There is ane rock for him and his wife Mary, who died the next yr. Theirs is the oldest recorded tombstone in the cemetery.

At least in 1905 the cemetery was known as the �Revoutionary State of war Cemetery� where some soldiers who brutal in the 1780 Battle of Springfield are buried. The New Bailiwick of jersey Society of the Sons of the American Revolution acquired title to this plot October 19, 1896.

The Onetime Springfield Burying Basis

Celebrated Springfield

THE Volition OF WILLIAM STITES

Dated May 5, 1727, Hempsted, Long Island, New York Colony, but residing in Elizabeth Boondocks, New Jersey.

His wife Mary, and son John, were heirs and executors of real and personal estate.

Witnesses were John Blanchard Jr., William Denman, Simon Searing.

The will was proved on September 14, 1727.

Above data appears on pg. 442 of Calendar of Wills (New Jersey Colonial Documents). Source is Lib. B, pg. seventy, and Essex Wills.

CHILDREN OF WILLIAM & MARY (HALL) STITES

JOHN STITES, built-in 1706 at Hempstead, LI; mar. Abigail Rushmore. He d. at Springfield, New Jersey, 21 Apr 1782.
Hezekiah, born 1708; died at Springfield, NJ, on 10 Feb 1728. Tombstone all the same standing at the Springfield Erstwhile Burying Ground.
Richard, born 1715; died at Springfield, NJ, fifteen May 1727. Tombstone still standing at the Springfield Sometime Burying Ground (aforementioned stone as Hezekiah Stites).
Rebecca, born 1717; mar. Jacob Carle.
William, Jr., born 1719. He mar. 1st, Miss Searing; and 2d, Widow Sarah Butler. No children. He d. at Mt. Bethel in 1810 at age 91.
Elijah, built-in 1721; died 1765 (or �69) at Scotch Plains, NJ.
Benjamin, built-in in 1724; mar. Betsy Wilcox, dtr. of Peter Wilcox, Jr., whose father settled at Scotch Plains in 1689.

JOHN STITES
Generation 4

THE HON. JOHN STITES, antecedent of many honored citizens of New Jersey, was born at Hempstead, Long Island, on v May 1706. He came with his parents to Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

He married ABIGAIL RUSHMORE, of Long Island. [She possibly was the sis of the wife of Thomas Thompson.] She died on ii December 1734 at historic period 27, co-ordinate to her tombstone at the Old Burial Footing in Springfield, New Bailiwick of jersey.

John Stites lived nearly Scudder�s Mills, on the Rahway River, Connecticut Farms.

Mr. Stites was an Alderman of the borough of Elizabeth. He became a �Freeholder� and �Justice� in Elizabethtown, New Jersey.

In May of 1775, he was a member of the Provincial Congress of New Bailiwick of jersey, from Essex County. He was a prominent member of the Scotch Plains Baptist Church building.

He married secondly, Margaret Hampton (born 1715). She died xvi September 1784, at historic period 69, and her tombstone also stands in the Old Burying Ground at Springfield.

It wasn�t until 1793 that the township of Springfield was set off from the townships of Elizabeth and Newark in Essex County. So, while the Stites family lived in Elizabeth Township, they were actually of Springfield. And that is where Mr. Stites died 21 Apr 1782 at the age of 76. His tombstone at Springfield tells united states that �he lived dearest and died lamented past Church building and State.� He was buried at what was known as the One-time Burying Ground and his tombstone still stands.

His will was dated 13 February 1781 mentions his girl, Mary, as �Mary Woodruff, deceased�.

CHILDREN BY ABIGAIL RUSHMORE

Dr. Hezekiah Stites was built-in nigh 1730. He mar. a daughter of James Patten, who predeceased him, apparently without upshot. He died 17 Nov 1796.

In adulthood, Hezekiah settled at Cranbury, Middlesex Co New Bailiwick of jersey. He practiced medicine at Cranbury; joining the Medical Society of New Jersey a year later on its foundation, in 1766; was always an influential member, and in 1775, was elected its president. He donated the bong for the new Presbyterian Church in Cranbury, on its erection in 1785.
It should be recorded in his honor that he ancestral his negro male child Horace only �until he shall get in at the age of twenty-one, at which time my volition and want is that he be gear up free.�

Probably in 1776, the doctor adopted his nephew (Hezekiah Stites Woodruff), the son of his sister, Mary, and in so doing, made him his heir. One reason for his care of his nephew and namesake may have been that the uncle and mother were full brother and sis past Abigail Rushmore, while the others were children of the second wife, Margaret Hampton.
MARY STITES was born in 1724. She married Dr. Hezekiah Woodruff, and died July 21, 1772 at Westfield, New Jersey.
Abigail Stites, d. Jan thirteen, 1734 at age 0.2.0 (two months). This infant�s tombstone still stands at the Onetime Burying Ground.

CHILDREN BY MARGARET HAMPTON

Sarah Stites, married 1754 Rev. John Gano, pastor of First Baptist Church in New York; chaplain in Revolution; and trustee of Chocolate-brown Academy. She d. Frankfort, Kentucky 1804.
Margaret Stites, �to Rhode Isle�. She 1000. 23 Mar 1763, Rev. James Manning, who was the 1st president of Brown Academy, Rhode Island.
Abigail Stites, mar. at Westfield, NJ, on 18 Sep 1766, Isaac Woodruff, Esq. of Elizabethtown, New Bailiwick of jersey.
Dr. John Stites, built-in 25 April 1747. He married sixteen January 1764, Susannah Brasher (b. eight July 1739 at New York City). Merchant in New York City; returned to Elizabethtown; and then went West (Kentucky). He died John died in Georgetown, Scott Canton, Kentucky John Stites.
Richard Stites Two, b. 1747. He mar. Sarah Thompson, the girl of Thomas Thompson [come across Thompson, under Abigail Rushmore, above]. Richard graduated in the first class of Brown Academy. He served in the American Revolutionary War, as Captain, Starting time Battalion, Somerset, Feb nine, 1776. Again, he was Captain in Col. Hunt�s Battalion, �Heard�southward Brigade,� July v, 1776. He resigned in July 1776. After which, he was Captain, Col. Thompson�s Battalion of �Detached Militia�. He died of wounds received Baronial 27, 1776 at the Battle of Long Island.
He died on September 16th, 1776, from wounds received August 27th at the Boxing of Long Isle). His tombstone was removed from St. John�s Church in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, to Morristown, New Jersey. Having died prior, his father�s will (T. 23-426) does not name him; merely does mention his ain son, Richard Jr., as �my grandson Richard Stites�.
Chloe Stites.

MARY STITES
Generation iv

MARY STITES was born in 1724. She married Dr. Hezekiah Woodruff, and died July 21, 1772 at Westfield, New Jersey.

To dispel any doubt every bit to her lineage, the following is provided:

She was named posthumously as daughter �Mary Woodruff, deceased� in her father�s will.

Her brother, Dr. Hezekiah Stites, named one of her children (Dr. Hezekiah Stites Woodruff; 1754-1842) as a nephew in his volition (T. 35:512, dated 28 June 1796).

Her hubby, Hezekiah Woodruff, named in his will, as executor, his father-in-law, John Stites (1706-82), as his �Loving Father John Stites�. We know that in early on records �male parent� often meant �father-in-law�. Hezekiah�s mother had died too presently after his father�s expiry to take given him a stepfather, and so we know that his own father was, indeed, Joseph Woodruff.

PRIMARY REFERENCES

Francis E. Woodruff. The Woodruffs of New Jersey: Who Came from Fordwich, Kent, England, past way of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Southampton, Long Isle. New York: The Grafton Press, 1909. This volume is a revision and enlargement of the volume, �A Co-operative of the Woodruff Stock�.

Frederick A. Virkus. The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy: Showtime Families of America: A Genealogical Encyclopedia of the United States. (Chicago: F. A. Virkus & Co., 1925-42). Otherwise known as Virkus. Pg. 63.

Official Annals of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Revolutionary State of war William S. Stryker and James W.S. Campbell. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1967. SLC FHL Book 974.ix M23n 1967.

First Settlers of Piscataway & Woodbridge (NJ). Pg. 1040.

John Littell. An Index of Littell�due south Passaic Valley genealogies. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Academy Microfilms International, 1985. At SLC FHL The states/Tin can Fiche 6052239. His genealogies are of the first settlers of Passaic Valley and Vicinity, equally far every bit could be ascertained in 1851.

Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc.. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Social club, 1901.

SECONDARY REFERENCES

Henry Onderdonk. Annals of Hempstead, Fifty.I. 1643-1832. Hempstead, Due north.Y.: L. Van de H2o, 1878. SLC FHL Us/CAN Pic 962839 Item 5. Encounter pp. 24, 28, 38 (for John Stites).

Edmund J. James. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record for Apr 1898; connected from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Tape for October 1897. New York: J.J. Little, 1898. SLC FHL United states/Can Pic 1421449 Item viii.

The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey five/1 (July 1929) pg. 9.

Fellow researcher �NLS� tin can be emailed at lmnf@locl.net from which email she last posted 2005. She likewise is descended from Mary, the daughter of Abigail Rushmore.

Springfield Historical Society, 126 Morris Avenue, Springfield, New Bailiwick of jersey 07081

Stites, Lila Hyten, Stites genealogical data, 1640-1958. At Salt Lake Urban center, Family History Library, Film #1033561 Particular 20.

On Mary Underhill Naylor: Nancy Forsyth states she has the Underhill line traced dorsum to William the Conqueror. She states her data was from her family�s inquiry. She can exist emailed at hilltop@mikrotek.com, which accost was final used July 2006.

INTERESTING WEBSITES

MATERIALS STILL TO Become

Will � William Stites, dated 1727; Inventory �443-half dozen-0.
Will � John Stites, dated 13 Feb 1781 (T. 23 [or 28]:436). He died 21 April 1782 at Springfield, Union Co., NJ.
Will � Dr. Hezekiah Stites (brother of Mary Stites), dated 28 June 1796 (T. 35:512). He died 17 Nov 1796.

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