| Name |
Alice Andrews |
| Birth |
1695/1696, Mansfield, Burlington, NJ |
| Death |
1784, Tuckerton, NJ, NJ |
| Burial |
Friends' Graveya, Tuckerton, NJ |
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BURI PLAC Friends' Graveyard,Tuckerton,NJ
In the year 1716 John Mathis married Mrs. Alice Higbee, widow of John Higbee of Long Island. John Mathis' wife brought him a valuable personal property. She had the reputation of being a strong-minded woman who possessed of unusual business talents, ordering and arranging her affairs with the utmost regularity and good judgment, and it is also affirmed that she was a greater speculator than her husband, and it was in a measure owning to her influence and speculative passion and forethought that he became such an extensive land holder. Taking into consideration the age in which she lived and also the meager opportunities she had for acquiring knowledge she had a fair education. She wrote a better hand than her husband. She is described as a large, tall and muscular woman, of a dark complexion with black eyes and black hair, which she inherited from her father, Edward Andrews. Alice had married John Higbee in about 1712, he died soon after leaving two children, Abigail and Edward.
John and Alice (Higbee) Mathis had six sons and one daughter: Micajah Mathis born September 9, 1717, died November 11, 1804,* Job Mathis, born May 13, 1719, died 1771,* Sarah Mathis, born July 19, 1721, died April 17, 1799,* Daniel Mathis, born September 7, 1723, died in 1764 or 1765,* Jeremiah Mathis, born March 14, 1726, died December 23, 1762,* Nehemiah Mathis, born June 13, 1728, Little Egg Harbor township, Gloucester County now Atlantic County,* and Eli Mathis, born June 4, 1730, died April 14, 1795.* |