John Horner - Mary Pearson

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Married November 13, 1675 England (John's 3rd wife)

John was born in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England about 1630 and died "suddenly" at White Hill, West Jersey, Feb. 25, 1689. He was a man of substance and a Friend, who left his native land on account of persecutions of his fellow Christians. He reached Burlington, New Jersey in the ship, New Providence, Nov. 1, 1683 accompanied by his third wife and four children with ten servants. In 1684 he purchased from William Black the White Hill property of 200 acres on the Delaware (Bordentown), just south of the Farnsworth estate, where King Joseph Bonaparte afterwards made his home. The Hornor homestead is now the site of a closed State Industrial School.

John Horner

Born: ca. 1630 Tadcaster, England
Died: February 25, 1689 in Mansfield, Burlington co., NJ
Buried: ?
Parents:
Father: John Hornor and Isabel Nichols

Mary Pearson

Born: 1656 (Source) of Tiffenthwaite, Cumberland Co., England, said to be a descendant of the Percys (Earls of Northumberland).
Died: Before 1690 in Mansfield, Burlington co., NJ
Buried: ?
Parents: ?

Mary was his third wife. "He was a man of substance, and a Friend, who left England because of religious persecutions. He reached Burlington, [NJ] in the ship New Providence, 11-1-1683 accompanied by his 3rd wife and fource children, with ten servants." -- This Old Monmouth of Ours.

Children:

  1. John Horner (by 2nd wife Sarah Wilberforce)
  2. Mary Horner (by 2nd wife Sarah Wilberforce)
  3. Joshua Horner(by Mary Pearson)
  4. Isaac Horner (By Mary Pearson)