Notes for: Francis Bodine

He is probably the Francis Bodine listed on the 1850 Census of Burlington County, Mt. Holly Township (roll 444, p. 397). His wife is Mary Ann and his children (or grandchildren?) are John (age 14) and Mary (age 9). Francis is listed as being 72 and Mary Ann is 52.

His wife, Elizabeth Throp (not Thorp) was the daughter of Thomas THROP and Elizabeth Ellis. Below is the will of Thomas THROP of New Hanover Township, Burlington County, dated December 27, 1807:

Wife, Elizabeth, desk, best bed and furniture: also 3 3/4 acres of land north of my land joining land of Jonathan Budd to include the cooper's shop. After wife's decease or marriage, said land and shop to my sons, Stacy and Samuel, each 2 shares and daughters, Elizabeth Bodine and Mary Throp, each one share. Daughter, Mary Throp, bed and bureau. Wife, daughter, Mary, and son, Samuel, all pork, lard and grain and corn: also a cow. Son, Samuel, allsheep and wearing apparel. Residue of real and personal estate to be sold: my wife and sons, Stacy and Samuel, each 2 shares of proceeds and daughters, Elizabeth and Mary, each one share. Executors-William Keeler and son-in-law, Francis Bodine.

Witnesses- Samuel Keeler, John Robbins, Moses Bateman, Jr.

His will was proved April 27, 1808. This comes from the book, "Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey, volume XI, 1806-1809," Trenton, NJ: 1947.

The following comes from the December 18, 1860 issue of the "Indiana Register," in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

DIED. At his residence in Mount Holly, New Jersey, on the 5th inst., FRANCIS BODINE, father-in-law of MR. WILLIAM MOORHEAD, of this place, in the 84th year of his age.

Mr. B. has been an exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for over 65 yeras. The church will miss him, for no more will his fervid and
heart-touching prayers be heard within its sacred walls, pleading for poor sinful man. Well may all exclaim--"Let me die the death of the righteous, and
let my latter end be like his." He died with the assurance of meeting his Heavenly Father, in the mansions above, with the welcome of "Well done, good and faithful servant--enter thou into the joy of the Lord."

From Ronny Bodine:

New Mills (Pemberton) Circuit Records 1787-1815 (Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey, vol. 73, 1998, p. 53)
24 Feb 1803--Was joined together in holy Matrimony Francis Bodine of Newhanover [and] Elizabeth Throp of the Same Boath of the County of Burlington By Solomon Sharp Elder.

From Records of the First United Methodist Church of Mount Holly.
Baptized on 15 March 1840: Adeline Lavina Bodine (adult), John Charles Bodine (child), Ellen Rogers Bodine (child), Catherine Amanda Bodine (child), children of Francis & Margt. Bodine.

The censuses of 1850 and 1860 noted his occupation as that of a shoemaker. Francis Bodine was buried in a now unmarked grave in the Pemberton Methodist Episcopal Cemetery in Burlington County. His 1st wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Throp. Francis served as executor of his father-in-law's will of 27 Dec 1807 (proved 27 April 1808, New Jersey Wills, File 12383C). Francis Bodine's 2nd wife, Margaret, recorded as "Maryareh P." in the 1850 census, was living 1870 with her daughter and son-in-law, Amanda and Clark Pierson in Hunterdon County and 1880 with her daughter, Adaline Rogers, in Bordentown, Burlington County and died at her home. See their obituaries in the "New Jersey Mirror" of 13 Dec 1860 and the Bordentown "Register" of 21 Sept 1888. See also Mary Elizabeth Sinnott's "Annals..." p. 170-171 which presents all of their children.