Hoskins, John, 1728?-1814

<p>HOSKINS, John, ca. 1728-1814</p>
<p>apprenticed and felt it was his duty to attend mid-week meetings. An elder. </p>
<p>2 daughters, one of whom married Thomas Scattergood and another of whom married John Griscom, teacher. </p>
<p>John Hoskins himself was a faithful attender at 60 sessions of Phila. Yearly Meeting. He was so punctual he was called "the regulator". His life was a pattern of gentleness and affection. </p>
<p>d.March 28, 1814 at Burlington, N.J., aged 86 years.</p>

p.107a. The children of John and Mary Hoskins said Mary is daughter to Joshua and Sarah Raper; Sarah; Raper; Ruth; Joseph; Lydia; John; Mary; Rachel; Thomas; Caleb; Abigail

p.490. 1814. <p>The testimony of the Monthly Meeting of Burlington concerning our friend John Hoskins deceased. </p>
<p>During a long course of years he stood acceptably in the station of an Elder, and was zealous in the support of our Christian testimonies... </p> <p> His last illness continued about four days, during which time, though he suffered much bodily pain, he was preserved in patience, and his mind appeared to be sustained in humble confidence... </p> <p>...he departed quietly in his own home in Burlington on the twenty seventh day of the third month eighteen hundred and fourteen in the eighty seventh year of his age... </p>

p.312. 1750. Whereas John Hoskins of the Town and County of Burlington and Mary Raper daughter of Joshua and Sara Raper having declared their intentions of marriage with each other... this twenty second day of the ninth month in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty