STAPLES BIBLE RECORDS, SOMERSET, NEW JERSEY

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                                                   Births
"John Morris Staples                18 May 1754 Islington, England -  2 Feb
1843
m. New Germantown, Somerset County, N.J. 2 May 1779 d/o Jury Teeples
Margaret (Teeples) Staples    10 Jul 1760 , Bridgewater, Somerset Co. N.J.
d. 17 Aug 1848
Rachel Staples                          19 Dec 1779
        m. 1798  Dyrick, called Richard VanVliet
John Staples                              15 Dec 1780
        m. 1st: Catharina d/o Peter and Veronica (Heller) Conrad
        m. 2nd: after 1829 Mary ---
Mary Staples                              25 Aug 1782 - 1856
       m. David Smiley  1777-1865
Rebecca Staples                        8 Jul 1784
        m. Thomas Heaton
William Staples                          31 Jan 1786
         m. Elizabeth Long
Jacob S. Staples                          2 Mar 1787 - 1865
      m.  1809 Anna Catharina DeHaven   1789 - 1854
Francis Staples                          11 Feb 1790 - 1865
      m. 1810 Hanna, called Anna  Middlesworth 17 Aug 1789 - 1848
Luke  Staples                               13 Nov 1791 - 1884
        m. Mary Margaret Leonard
Elizabeth Staples                          25 Jan 1794
        m. William Sayers
George M. Staples                       31 Oct 1795 - 1884
        m. 1815 Elizabeth Wagner  - d. 1859
        m. 2nd: Susan Croner
James Staples                              1 Nov 1797
Richard Staples                           22 Jan 1799
        m. Elizabeth Blanchar(d?)
Horatio Staples                             8 Aug 1801 - 22 Jan 1824 bur.
Danbury Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Pa.

    John Staples came to America in Dec 1773.  (Supposedly he was serving on
a ship that sunk off the coast of Maryland?)

    He went to Annapolis, Maryland in June 1775 and enlisted in the
Continental  Army.  In June 1777, he was attached to the Maryland and
Virginia Ar tillery, commanded by Col. Charles Harrison, for a term of three
years or more, and was discharged at Philadelphia, Pa. in December 1780.  He
himself stated that he enlisted in the first regiment of Maryland at
Annapolis.

    John Staples was in the battle of Long Island August 27, 1776, at
Trenton December 26, 1776 when nine hundred Hessians were captured, and at
Brandywine where he was severly wounded.

    After his discharge from the army, he resided in that part of
Norhampton, now Monroe County, Pa. and died in Smithfield Township, now a
part of Stroud Township, in said Monroe County, February 2, 1843 (Pa.
Archives 3:xix listed him named Steeples in tax records)

    Mrs. John M. Staples, mother of the foregoing named children applied for
a pension in May 1843.  The statements above made are based upon information
found in papers on file in the Pnsion Department, Washington, D.C."

    They are both buried in the Stroudsburg Cemetery.

    The majority of this record was taken from Bible Records and church
records of the Hamilton Township Union Church of Northampton, now Monroe
County, Pa. microfilm #132 Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society, 555
West James St. Lancaster, Pa. 17603