Ebenezer Stockton (c.1790-c.1828), a son of James and Mary Stockton, and a descendant of Richard "The Emigrant" Stockton (c.1635-1707).

First Presbyterian Church, Cranbury, Middlesex County, New Jersey

Records of the Congregation of Cranberry From the Year 1744, Volume 1
A Record of Marriages by Symmes, C, Henry
No. 3, Ebenezer Stocton to Sarah Mesler, Nov. 15th 1820

Catalogue of Communicants for the year 1828
Names of Members Received May 16 & 17, 1828
No. 178, Sarah Stockton - Wid - of Ebenezer - Stockton - Suspend

The center of Cranbury (or Cranberry) Township in Middlesex County is only about 6 miles southeast of Princeton, New Jersey. 

So Ebenezer and Sarah married on 15 Nov 1820. Ebenezer died before May 16 or 17 of 1828 when Sarah is shown as a widow. Edward Stockton, brother of Ebenezer, appointed guardian of the three children.

Mercer County, Report of Sales, Book A

Orphans Court, Mercer County, New Jersey
Report of Sales of Real Estate, Volume A, 1838-1871, pp. 7-8
             
Edward Stockton, Guardian of James Stockton, Helen M Stockton and Edward Stockton, Minors, heirs at law of Ebenezer Stockton deceased, son of James Stockton, reports to the Judges of the Orphans Court of the county of Mercer
                              
That in pursuance of their order granted at the term of December last, he advertised the lands so ordered to be sold, in five of the most public places in the county of Mercer for the space of two months previous to the time appointed for the sale there of, and did cause the time and place of the sale of said lands to be published in the Princeton Whig and Mercer County Advertiser, being one of the newspapers published and printed in this state and circulating in the neighborhood of said lands at least four weeks successively, once a week next preceding the time appointed for selling the same, and afterward, at the time and place so advertised, viz. on the twenty ninth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty nine, at the house of Abraham C. Schanck, in the Borough of Princeton in said county, all the right and title of the said minors did sell the same at public vendue to John S. Hart, he being the highest bidder, for the sum of four hundred dollars
                            
Dated this seventeenth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty nine
[signed] Edward Stockton
reported Sept 20. 1839

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Richard "The Emigrant" Stockton c.1635-1707
Richard "The Builder" Stockton c.1665-1709
Robert Stockton c.1699-c.1744
Major Robert Stockton c.1730-1805
James Stockton c.1754-1807
Ebenezer Stockton c.1790-c.1828

Ebenezer is the father of Edward Stockton (1825-1905) who married Maria Updike in 1853. 

Ebenezer is also the father of Helen Mathilda Stockton (c.1824-1862) who married Samuel Montgomery Updike.

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Hello,

Your Ebenezer Stockton was actually married to Elizabeth and was a doctor. He had 3 children, Robert, Hellenah, and Mary.

Ebenezer Stockton, New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1739-1991

The Ebenezer Stockton married to Sarah Mesler was a different person, but the birth and death dates look similar.

Susan Stockton Gastrock

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Bio by Jerry Stockton