Squire Force

b. about 1748, d. 24 April 1829
Squire Force|b. abt. 1748\nd. 24 Apr 1829|p115.htm|Obadiah Force|b. 1691\nd. 1789|p125.htm|Joanna Manning||p126.htm|Thomas Force|b. 1670\nd. aft. 1722|p135.htm|Hannah (---)||p136.htm|||||||
Father*Obadiah Force1,2 b. 1691, d. 1789
Mother*Joanna Manning1,2
ChartsAncestors of Adele (La Force) Cooke
Squire Force was born about 1748.3 He married Margaret Johnson 6 March 1770 at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey.4,3,1 He died 24 April 1829 at Madison, Morris Co., New Jersey.3,1

He was a private in the Morris Co., New Jersey militia in the Revolution.

In a 1778 list of New Jersey Ratables, he is shown as a householder with one horse, 2 horned cattle, and 3 hogs.

"16 Jun 1793, Squire Force, an interloper and intruder, took forcible possession of my lot of ground called the parsonage, at the meeting house." From Records of the Presbyterian Church at New Providence, New Jersey kept by the Rev. Jonathan Elder, 1763-1793.3,1,5

Family

Margaret Johnson d. 7 Dec 1836
Marriage*He married Margaret Johnson 6 March 1770 at Hanover .4,3,1 
Children

Citations

  1. [S283] "Force Manuscript Collection", 11 Mar 1980, Charles T. Galbraith (New York, New York). Research Report to Gregory Cooke (Vandenberg AFB, California); copy in the Compiler's genealogy files West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah.
  2. [S282] "Force", 17 Jul 1989, Rosemary F. Lovell (Picayne, Mississippi). Research Report to Gregory Cooke (Vandenberg AFB, California), 18; copy in the Compiler's genealogy files West Jordan, Salt Lake, Utah.
  3. [S282] Lovell, "Force", 44.
  4. [S216] William Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, "Marriages Performed at Hanover, Morris County, N.J. During Pastorate of Rev. Jacob Green 1746 to 1790," The New Jersey Genesis 11 (January 1964): 458. Hereafter cited as Wheeler and Halsey, "Hanover Marriages."
  5. [S284] Kenn Stryker-Rodda, "New Jersey Ratables, 1778-80," Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 45 (Jan 1970): 14. Hereafter cited as "New Jersey Ratables."
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