Ancestry of
Richard Stockton

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Richard Stockton Jr.

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• • Grandfather of Richard Stockton — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4 
  • Father:
  • Richard Stockton 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1655 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 25 Jun 1709 to 15 Aug 1709 
  • Death Location:
  • Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susannah Witham
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Nov 1691 
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  • Child:

  John Stockton (Ahnentafel No:2 )

  • Notes: 

  • Richard Stockton's mother may have been his father's wife Abigail, but many believe Abigail was a second wife and not the mother of all his children.

• Sources for Richard Stockton Jr.

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1957, Vol. 33, pp. 45-46.
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 252.
  • ³ Cregar, William Francis, The Stockton Family in England and the United States, Philadelphia: Patterson and White (1888), 92-93.
  • ⁴ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1912), 526-527.
  • ⁵ Nelson, William, New Jersey Biographical and Genealogical Notes ... (originally Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society Vol. IX), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1973, originally published 1916), 197.