Wills, Micajah, -1797
English
Biographical notes:
Micajah Wills was a Justice of the Peace for Burlington County, New Jersey. Wills was the son of James Wills (1694-) and Elizabeth Woolston Wills, and was perhaps born around 1721. He married Rebecca Hewlings (or Heulings), daughter of Jacob Hewlings and Dorothy Eves Hewlings. In 1765 Wills and his wife and children were accepted into membership in the Society of Friends by Evesham Monthly Meeting. In 1767 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Burlington County. Wills's work administering oaths as a Justice of the Peace, or perhaps in some later office he held, put him at the odds with the Society of Friends, and he was disowned for it in 1775. In 1787 a committee from Evesham Monthly Meeting approached his family about freeing the people they enslaved, but Wills refused to comply. He died in 1797.
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Subjects:
- Oaths
- Quaker converts
- Society of Friends
- Quakers
Occupations:
- Justices of the peace
- Slaveholders
- Quakers
- Magistrates
Places:
- Burlington County, NJ, US
