Notes for: John (Jan) Bodine

Sinnott says he died young, but she made the mistake of thinking this John's sibling, Jaentien, was a boy and also named John. However, Jaentien was actually a girl's name. So it is possible this John Bodine survived and had a family.

Ronny Bodine said that it was impossible to tell if this John Bodine was married from the inventory of his estate, but it is quite possible he wasn't since his brother was the administrator of his estate (John having died with no will) and there was no indication that his wife gave up her right to administer the estate. We are assuming that all the court records below apply to this Joihn Bodine.

From Ronny Bodine (Nov 16, 2018):

Baptisms at the Dutch Reformed Church of Raritan (now Somerville), Somerset County, New Jersey.:
9 Oct 1714: Jan, child of Jacob Bodyn & wife. Witnesses Isack Bodeyn & wife

From Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol. 33.
The Janeway Account Books 1735-1746. (A store in Bridgewater, Somerset County.)
JOHN BODINE, son to Jacob: (purchases) June 1735--Jan 1736.

On 23 May 1748, JOHN BODINE and Nicholas Shipman were bondsmen for Catherine Bodine, widow, administratrix of the estate of her late husband Jacob Bodine. (NJ Archives, 1st Series, XXX: 50)

From Hunterdon County, NJ Court of Pleas and Sessions, Book VIII (1756-1761)
1757, March. Peter Wier v. John Bodine for debt.
1757, April. David Cox v. John Bodine.
1757, Aug. David Cox v. John Bodine. Jury finds for plaintiff. £7.19.7 & court costs.
1758, Jan. Cornelius Bodine admn. of John Bodine.

From New Jersey Archives, 1st Series, XXXII: 34.
On 9 Sept 1757, an inventory was made of the estate of John Bodine of Lebanon, Hunterdon County, decd., who died intestate, made by John Hall and John Hinderhit and appraised at £40.5.8. On 19 Sept 1759, bond of Cornelius Bodine as administrator of the estate with John Hall as fellow bondsman, both of Lebanon.