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Persoonlijke gegevens Col. Jacob Ford Jr. 

• Hij is geboren op 19 februari 1738 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten.
• Hij is overleden op 10 januari 1777 in Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 38 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven op 13 januari 1777 in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten.

  Find-A-Grave#: 5797983

• Testament op 1 juli 1776.

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• Een kind van Jacob Ford en Hannah Baldwin
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 28 oktober 2017.

Gezin van Col. Jacob Ford Jr.

Hij is getrouwd met Theodosia Johnes.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 27 januari 1762 te Morristown, Morris Co., New Jersey, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 23 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Timothy Ford  1762-1830 
2. Gabriel Hogarth Ford  1765-1849 
3. Elizabeth Ford  1767-1821
4. Jacob Ford  1772-1834 
5. Phebe Ford  1775-1777

Notities over Col. Jacob Ford Jr.

Wikitree ID: Ford-1632

Birth: Feb. 19, 1738, USA
Death: Jan. 10, 1777
Morristown
Morris County
New Jersey, USA

American Revolutionary Militia Officer. Second son and sixth child of eight born to Jacob and Hannah Ford of Morristown, New Jersey. In 1762, he married Theodosia Johnes, the daughter of the local Presbyterian minister. They would have five children. Ford's father gifted the couple a 200 acre tract in Morristown upon which they built what was at the time the largest house in town. He also owned two iron forges at Long Meadow and Middle Forge, as well as grist and hemp mills, and an iron furnace at Mount Hope, which he leased to Swiss iron master, John Jacob Faesh. In 1765 he was elected sheriff and served for three years. In January of 1775, Ford was commissioned First Colonel of Militia of the Eastern Battalion of the Morris County Militia. In April he submitted plans to the New Jersey Committee of Safety for a gunpowder mill to be built near Morristown. He, in partnership with his father, are granted a loan for construction and the mill was in production by June. By September, his militia unit is on duty at Bergen Neck (present day Jersey City) during the battles for New York. Form there, they were ordered to Elizabethtown (present day Elizabeth) and by November he was named commander of Bergen, Essex, and Morris County militias. By December, General Williamson, the overall commander of New Jersey State Militia, asked to resign his post, and recommended Ford as his replacement. In December, Ford led an attack against a larger British force at Springfield with 500 militia and routed them, taking only three casualties. The militia then returned to Morristown in order to recruit and began marching his new recruits to Chatham. On January 4 he collapsed, ill with pneumonia, and was carried to his home. He died less than a week later at the age of 39. General George Washington, quartering in Morristown that winter, ordered a funeral with military honors for the militia colonel. Delaware troops served as an honor guard. In a letter from Samuel to John Adams, he was referred to as "a leader…brave Colonel Ford, they followed him with alacrity." (bio by: Iola)

Family links:
Parents:
Jacob Ford (1704 - 1777)
Hannah Baldwin Ford (1701 - 1777)

Spouse:
Theodosia Johnes Ford (1741 - 1824)*

Siblings:
Elizabeth Ford (____ - 1746)*
John Ford (1728 - 1767)*
Phebe Ford Phillips (1729 - 1819)*
Sarah Ford Tuthill (1732 - 1811)*
Mary Ford Dunham (1734 - 1802)*
Jacob Ford (1738 - 1777)

*Calculated relationship

Burial:
First Presbyterian Churchyard
Morristown
Morris County
New Jersey, USA

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Originally Created by: Peggy Spengler-Moser
Record added: Sep 24, 2001
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