Captain Aaron Douglass

1753 - 1819  (66 years)

• Name	Aaron Douglass  [1]
  Prefix	Captain
  Birth	3 Mar 1753	Black River (Chester) Morris Co NJ   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Nov 1819	Morristown, New Jersey, USA   [1]
  	Previously recorded as 25 Jan 1830
  Person ID	I7651	First tree
  Last Modified	5 Jun 2017

  
  

  Family	Phoebe Lewis,   b. 2 Feb 1754   d. 20 Nov 1847, Knox Co., OH (Age 93 years)
  Marriage	1776  [1]
  Children	1. Mary Douglass,   b. 12 Jun 1777, Chester Twp. Morris Co., NJ d. 30 Oct 1862, Knox Co., OH (Age 85 years)   2. Levi Lewis Douglass,   b. 29 Sep 1781, Chester (Black River ), Morris Co, New Jersey, USA d. 20 Apr 1852, Woodhouse, Ontario, Canada (Age 70 years)   3. Aaron Lewis Douglass,   b. 16 Jul 1794, New Jersey, USA d. 11 Sep 1834, Knox County, Ohio, USA (Age 40 years)
  Family ID	F70875	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2013

  
  

• Notes

  source = Aaron Douglass Family Bible: Capt Aaron Douglass b March 3 1753 Black River (Chester) Morris Co NJ, d Nov 23 1819 Morristown, Morris Co NJ. Probate Dec 9 1819 Morris Co NJ. M Phoebe Lewis. DNA testing has proved this line back to William Douglas, b1610 New London (Research):Linda Hildebrand said… These Douglases are, indeed, inaccurate accounts (referring to suggestions that his father is sometines said to be Alexander, son of Moredecai). I found Alexander's will and he mentions no Aaron ... also passed through a totally unrelated area of NJ. I'm trying to find primary records for which William Douglas/s is father to Capt. Aaron b. 1753 m. Phebe Lewis. He died in Mendham, Morris County, NJ, and she moved with most of their kids to Knox County, Ohio. To do this, I'm tapping both NJ and CT sources to try to find record of his ancestral migration. I'm interested in one theory they came with Rogerenes. We've also established by maps and historical accounts another possibility: an ore/gold rush mid-1700s in Morris County, NJ. The sole Douglas Rogerene mention I found so far seems to have come to NJ about 50 years earlier, but was in the line of William b. 1708. I believe Aaron's father is William b. 1710, a first (?) cousin). Strong evidence from birth/name patterns show Aaron's father William came to NJ to marry his brother Joshua's widow, who had 3 kids under 10 in the small area called Comb's Hollow, exactly where we find Aaron's dad starting his family about a year after Joshua died, with a wife by the same first name as Joshua's Sarah (Foote). My William's wife has no formal record of a surname except Douglas, which makes sense if she was widow Sarah Foote Douglas. Perhaps a reference to Aaron being buried beside his brother(s) refers to his half-brothers, Joshua's two sons, if William 1710 married his brother's widow.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1644] MyFamily.com, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 175, Ed. 1, (Release date: April-2005 Customer pedigree.).