The Leeds Family of New Jersey:Information about Alice Andrews


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Alice Andrews (daughter of Mordecai Andrews) was born Abt. 1695 in Burlington Co. NJ, and died Abt. 1784 in Friend's Graveyard, Tuckerton, NJ.She married (1) John Higbee on 06 Sep 1712 in Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, son of Edward Higbee and Abigail Adams.She married (2) John Mathis on 1716 in NJ.
 Includes NotesNotes for Alice Andrews:
She herself is said to have been possessed of unusual business talents, ordering and arranging her affairs with utmost regularity and good judgement. It is also affired that she was a greater speculator than her husband, and it was in a measure owing to her influence and speculative passion and forethought that he became such an extensive land holder.Taking in 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 dark complexion, with black hair and eyes which she inherited from her father.
Alice Andrews-Higbee-Mathis was the mother in law of 2 Leedses (brothers being sons of Japheth and Deborah Leeds)through two separate marriages.
As the wife of John Higbee her daughter Abigail married our Robert Leeds.As the wife of the Great John Mathis her daughter Sarah married John Leeds.
There seems to be some argument as to Alice's father:Based on a Will of Mordecai Andrews, it is said he was Alice's father.Do we take the word of the Bible record? Bible Records from the Bible of John Leeds, Leeds Point, NJ lists Alice Andrews-Higbee dau of Edward & Sarah (Ong) Andrews, granddau of Samuel & Mary Wright) Andrewsmarried John Mathis 1716
or Mordecai's Will? There are 3 daughters in Edward Andrews' Will, but only one mentioned by name, Elizabeth.Mordecai was Edward's brother
Page: 20
Name: Mordecal Andrews
Date: 13 Jun 1721
Location: "Littel Eggharbour,"
yeoman, will of. Children--Mordecai, Alice Mathews, Edith Allen and Mary Cramer. Real and personal estate. Executors--wife Mary and son Mordecai. Witnesses--Elizabeth Willitts, Jonathan Taler, Richard Willitts. Proved Nov. 4, 1736.
1736, ---. Letters testamentary granted unto Mary Andrew, widow, in absence of Morcecai Andrews, the son.
Lib. 4, p. 74.
1736, June 19. Inventory of personal estate, £103.6.6; made by Jacob Andrews.
To make it further purplexing is she named one of her children, Edward, not Mordecai.
More About Alice Andrews and John Higbee:
Marriage: 06 Sep 1712, Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey.
More About Alice Andrews and John Mathis:
Marriage: 1716, NJ.
Children of Alice Andrews and John Higbee are:
  1. +Abigail Higbee, b. 05 May 1713, Little Egg Harbor, NJ, d. 1759, Gloucester NJ.
  2. Edward Higbee, b. 04 Jun 1714, Great Egg Harbor, Gloucester Co., NJ, d. Mar 1793, Galloway, Gloucester Co., NJ.

Children of Alice Andrews and John Mathis are:
  1. +Micajah Mathis, b. 09 Nov 1717, NJ, d. 11 Nov 1804, Tukerton Friends Meeting House, Burlington Co., NJ.
  2. Job Mathis, b. 13 Jul 1719, NJ, d. Aug 1771, Little Egg Harbor, NJ.
  3. +Sarah Mathis, b. 19 Sep 1721, NJ, d. 17 Apr 1799, Galloway, Atlantic Co., NJ.
  4. Daniel Mathis, b. 07 Nov 1723, Burlington, NJ, d. Bet. 1764 - 1765, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington, NJ.
  5. Jeremiah Sr. Mathis, b. 14 May 1726, Burlington Co. NJ, d. 23 Dec 1762, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington Co., NJ.
  6. Nehemiah Mathis, b. 13 Aug 1728, Little Egg Harbor, Burlington,NJ, d. Abt. 1780, Burlington Co., NJ.
  7. +Eli Mathis, b. 04 Aug 1730, NJ, d. 14 Apr 1795, Little Egg Harbour Twp., Burlington Co. NJ.