Born abt 1710/1711 in Northern Ireland, m. to Anna Maria Woertman. Had a son, John Phoenix Jr., who died 1779 and is buried in the same cemetery.
"John Phoenix, who was born in 1710 in the North of Ireland, known as Scotch Irish, being of Scotch blood and Irish birth and residence. He was living as early as 1739 in the Valley of the Raritan, not many miles from Somerville, New Jersey, where his wife was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church, 23rd of August, 1739 as Maria Phoenix. Among the family traditions it is said that he was well educated, having been expected to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church but not liking the profession, left his home at Londonderry, Ireland about 1735 in the old ship Caledonia (but if he came then it must have been in some other ship as she made her last voyage in 1715).
"He is described as over 6 ft. tall, well proportioned and of fine presence, but in his later years so corpulent (fat) as to be unable to buckle his shoes. He was a farmer and innkeeper and the most definite tradition respecting his earliest home in New Jersey says he settled above Pluckamin, which indicaes a residence in the township of Bedminster in Somerset Co. From the year 1755 until his death he was a pew holder in the Presbyterian Church at Lamington -- a hamlet in the west part of Bedminster and there are indications during the time he dwelt in the district called Hacklebarney. It seems most likely his whole life was spent upon one farm containing 224 acres -- about 3/4 of a mile from Pottersville on the west bank of the Lamington River."
The above was taken from "Genealogy of the Phoenix Family from the Journal of Mr. Patterson, April 26th, 1880 to Mary Phoenix Sanders Daughter of Lydia Phoenix and William Phoenix and Mary Van Dorn from the files of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey".
"John Phoenix, who was born in 1710 in the North of Ireland, known as Scotch Irish, being of Scotch blood and Irish birth and residence. He was living as early as 1739 in the Valley of the Raritan, not many miles from Somerville, New Jersey, where his wife was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church, 23rd of August, 1739 as Maria Phoenix. Among the family traditions it is said that he was well educated, having been expected to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church but not liking the profession, left his home at Londonderry, Ireland about 1735 in the old ship Caledonia (but if he came then it must have been in some other ship as she made her last voyage in 1715).
"He is described as over 6 ft. tall, well proportioned and of fine presence, but in his later years so corpulent (fat) as to be unable to buckle his shoes. He was a farmer and innkeeper and the most definite tradition respecting his earliest home in New Jersey says he settled above Pluckamin, which indicaes a residence in the township of Bedminster in Somerset Co. From the year 1755 until his death he was a pew holder in the Presbyterian Church at Lamington -- a hamlet in the west part of Bedminster and there are indications during the time he dwelt in the district called Hacklebarney. It seems most likely his whole life was spent upon one farm containing 224 acres -- about 3/4 of a mile from Pottersville on the west bank of the Lamington River."
The above was taken from "Genealogy of the Phoenix Family from the Journal of Mr. Patterson, April 26th, 1880 to Mary Phoenix Sanders Daughter of Lydia Phoenix and William Phoenix and Mary Van Dorn from the files of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey".
Born abt 1710/1711 in Northern Ireland, m. to Anna Maria Woertman. Had a son, John Phoenix Jr., who died 1779 and is buried in the same cemetery.
"John Phoenix, who was born in 1710 in the North of Ireland, known as Scotch Irish, being of Scotch blood and Irish birth and residence. He was living as early as 1739 in the Valley of the Raritan, not many miles from Somerville, New Jersey, where his wife was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church, 23rd of August, 1739 as Maria Phoenix. Among the family traditions it is said that he was well educated, having been expected to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church but not liking the profession, left his home at Londonderry, Ireland about 1735 in the old ship Caledonia (but if he came then it must have been in some other ship as she made her last voyage in 1715).
"He is described as over 6 ft. tall, well proportioned and of fine presence, but in his later years so corpulent (fat) as to be unable to buckle his shoes. He was a farmer and innkeeper and the most definite tradition respecting his earliest home in New Jersey says he settled above Pluckamin, which indicaes a residence in the township of Bedminster in Somerset Co. From the year 1755 until his death he was a pew holder in the Presbyterian Church at Lamington -- a hamlet in the west part of Bedminster and there are indications during the time he dwelt in the district called Hacklebarney. It seems most likely his whole life was spent upon one farm containing 224 acres -- about 3/4 of a mile from Pottersville on the west bank of the Lamington River."
The above was taken from "Genealogy of the Phoenix Family from the Journal of Mr. Patterson, April 26th, 1880 to Mary Phoenix Sanders Daughter of Lydia Phoenix and William Phoenix and Mary Van Dorn from the files of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey".
"John Phoenix, who was born in 1710 in the North of Ireland, known as Scotch Irish, being of Scotch blood and Irish birth and residence. He was living as early as 1739 in the Valley of the Raritan, not many miles from Somerville, New Jersey, where his wife was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church, 23rd of August, 1739 as Maria Phoenix. Among the family traditions it is said that he was well educated, having been expected to enter the ministry of the Presbyterian Church but not liking the profession, left his home at Londonderry, Ireland about 1735 in the old ship Caledonia (but if he came then it must have been in some other ship as she made her last voyage in 1715).
"He is described as over 6 ft. tall, well proportioned and of fine presence, but in his later years so corpulent (fat) as to be unable to buckle his shoes. He was a farmer and innkeeper and the most definite tradition respecting his earliest home in New Jersey says he settled above Pluckamin, which indicaes a residence in the township of Bedminster in Somerset Co. From the year 1755 until his death he was a pew holder in the Presbyterian Church at Lamington -- a hamlet in the west part of Bedminster and there are indications during the time he dwelt in the district called Hacklebarney. It seems most likely his whole life was spent upon one farm containing 224 acres -- about 3/4 of a mile from Pottersville on the west bank of the Lamington River."
The above was taken from "Genealogy of the Phoenix Family from the Journal of Mr. Patterson, April 26th, 1880 to Mary Phoenix Sanders Daughter of Lydia Phoenix and William Phoenix and Mary Van Dorn from the files of the Genealogical Society of New Jersey".
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Here Lies the body of Mr. John Pnenex Senior
Who Departed this Life July 22 1777 in the 67th year
of his age
Christs honor is engag'd to save
The meanest of his sheep
All that his heavenly Father gave
His hands securely keep
Nor death nor hell shall o'er remove
His favorites from his breast
In the clear bosom of His love
They must forever rest
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