Charles WOLVERTON

 

 

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ca1660 - 1746

 

 

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Family 1 : Mary LEET

 

 

1.  Charles WOLVERTON

2.  Roger WOLVERTON

3.  Mary WOLVERTON

4.  Daniel WOLVERTON

5.  Isaac WOLVERTON

6.  Dennis WOLVERTON

7.  Dinah WOLVERTON

8.  Joel WOLVERTON

9.+Thomas WOLVERTON

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PEDIGREE

 

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"Charles Woolverton, a Quaker (probably) from Staffordshire, sailed from Dorsetshire in 1682. He brought his two brothers Gabriel and John, but no records remain of either. This is a tradition of one authority. The family tree of Charles Woolverton, 1660, the Progenitor of all Woolvertons of the United States and Canada is as follows: A Quaker emigrant who sailed from England to America in 1682, on the Vessel "Welcome", as Gentleman, a man or means, 'traditions'. He landed at Newcastle on the Delaware River, province of West Jersey. He was overseer of a Quaker Colony, under George Fox and William Penn. George Fox was the founder of the Quakers or Friends and also organizer. The brothers with Charles, were Gabriel and John who are not mentioned again and the traditions are that they may have died of smallpox on the way over. In this convoy there were twenty boats and over 200 emigrants. The Flagship was the 'Welcome' William Penn's ship. Over one-third died of smallpox. All Woolverton's in the United States and Canada trace back to Charles and his seven sons and two daughters who were: Charles, Roger, Mary, Daniel, Isaac, Dennis, Dinah, Joel and Thomas. Charles Woolverton, the Progenitor of the Woolvertons of America, married Mary Chadwick, daughter of John and Elizabeth Chadwick of Virginia. He was married at Darby, Penn., 1697.

"Charles Woolverton after landing at Newcastle on the Delaware River, stayed but a short time, then went up the river to Burlington and later to Long Island. Then he returned to Burlington, West Jersey, 1693. He bought from William Biddle 100 acres of land. Many transactions are recorded from this time
on. In l714 he purchased 1665 acres of land near Rosemont, N.J. and there raised his family. He died in 1746 and is buried at the Rosemont Church Cemetery together with many of his children and grandchildren. Several of the family served in the Revolutionary War and there are records where they served in all wars of this country including the Indian Wars. Many were officers and many privates. Charles, 1742, served in the Revolutionary War. He served in New Jersey as Quartermaster, (then Wagon Master and Supply). Thonas Drake, his wife's father, was in the same company. They were direct descendents of the family of Sir Francis Drake.

"Charles Woolverton was Justice of the Supreme Court of West Jersey eleven years before George Washington was born. He reigned from 1721 to 1729. His son, Thomas was also a Justice of the Supreme Court of West Jersey. He lived at Newton in Sussex Co. General Daniel Bray who gathered the boats together for Washington to cross the Delaware River that Christmas Day 1776 for the battle of Trenton, was married to Mary Woolverton, who was the daughter of Dennis the son of Charles. The Brays and the Woolvertons were close friends of George Washington. It is said that avery time George Washington visited New York and Philadelphia, from his home in Virginia, he visited the Brays and Woolvertons and made their places his stopping place, usually paid an extended visit."

 

--from an anonymously type-written document dated 1937 and posted at the Wolverton genforum by William D. Gorman.

 

LINKS:  http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?chadwick::wolverton::297.html, http://www.hitt_genealogy.homestead.com/files/wol20001.htm

 

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