His birth day and month came via Our Family History (member #47719401) without a source; it is used here without any documentation.
He married first to Joanna Hudson on 2 May 1751. He married second to Sarah Raynor on 4 December 1755. During the Revolutionary War, he served as Captain of the Morris County Militia's Eastern Battalion. He wrote a will on 7 September 1784 in Morris County, New Jersey, which was probated on 29 September 1784. He supported Princeton University when it was just starting with a gift of 3 pounds and he was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church for 15 years. His later descendants used the spelling of Lindley for their surname. For more information about him refer to: Scott Sherpherd's "Who's Who in the Graveyard, The Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Interments of Record Dating From 1731", Morristown NJ, @2002, in which the author made use of church records and two earlier complications of inscriptions, one from 1931 and another from 1851.
He married first to Joanna Hudson on 2 May 1751. He married second to Sarah Raynor on 4 December 1755. During the Revolutionary War, he served as Captain of the Morris County Militia's Eastern Battalion. He wrote a will on 7 September 1784 in Morris County, New Jersey, which was probated on 29 September 1784. He supported Princeton University when it was just starting with a gift of 3 pounds and he was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church for 15 years. His later descendants used the spelling of Lindley for their surname. For more information about him refer to: Scott Sherpherd's "Who's Who in the Graveyard, The Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Interments of Record Dating From 1731", Morristown NJ, @2002, in which the author made use of church records and two earlier complications of inscriptions, one from 1931 and another from 1851.
His birth day and month came via Our Family History (member #47719401) without a source; it is used here without any documentation.
He married first to Joanna Hudson on 2 May 1751. He married second to Sarah Raynor on 4 December 1755. During the Revolutionary War, he served as Captain of the Morris County Militia's Eastern Battalion. He wrote a will on 7 September 1784 in Morris County, New Jersey, which was probated on 29 September 1784. He supported Princeton University when it was just starting with a gift of 3 pounds and he was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church for 15 years. His later descendants used the spelling of Lindley for their surname. For more information about him refer to: Scott Sherpherd's "Who's Who in the Graveyard, The Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Interments of Record Dating From 1731", Morristown NJ, @2002, in which the author made use of church records and two earlier complications of inscriptions, one from 1931 and another from 1851.
He married first to Joanna Hudson on 2 May 1751. He married second to Sarah Raynor on 4 December 1755. During the Revolutionary War, he served as Captain of the Morris County Militia's Eastern Battalion. He wrote a will on 7 September 1784 in Morris County, New Jersey, which was probated on 29 September 1784. He supported Princeton University when it was just starting with a gift of 3 pounds and he was an elder of the First Presbyterian Church for 15 years. His later descendants used the spelling of Lindley for their surname. For more information about him refer to: Scott Sherpherd's "Who's Who in the Graveyard, The Presbyterian Church of Morristown, Interments of Record Dating From 1731", Morristown NJ, @2002, in which the author made use of church records and two earlier complications of inscriptions, one from 1931 and another from 1851.
Inscription
Here lies the
Body of Captain
John Lindsley
who died Sept
ye 10th 1784 in ye
56th Year of his Age
His war marker reads:
John Lindsley
New Jersey
Captain Morris Co Militia
1728 1784
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