Born ‎25 Jul 1677 England, died ‎1724 Tuckertown, NJ‎, 46 or 47 years
Thomas Ridgway, eldest son of Richard and Elizabeth Ridgway, born in England, July 25, 1677, removed with his father to New Jersey, and married at Springfield Meeting House, in 1699, Ann Pharo, their second declaration of intention of marriage being made at Burlington Monthly Meeting, Qmo. (Nov.) 19, 1699. Ann Pharo was born February 21, 1677-8, and arrived in the Delaware river in the "Shield" with her father James Pharo, in October of the year of her birth. On January 18, 1699- 1700, Richard Ridgway conveyed to his son Thomas, 190 acres in Springfield township, Burlington county, the whole of his first purchase of 90 acres of the widow Ogborne in 1697, and lOO acres of the tract purchased of John Hollingshead. Thomas purchased other lands in Burlington county, and continued to reside there for about ten years after his marriage, and then removed to Little Egg Harbor, where he accumulated a large estate. Thomas Ridgway was for many years an Elder of the Friends Meeting at Little Egg Harbor, and was inuch esteemed in the community. He died in 1724 at the age of forty-seven years. His first wife Ann Pharo, who was the mother of five children, died some years before him, and he married (second) Elizabeth, daughter of Edward and Sara Andrews, who survived him, by whom he had eight children. Her will dated imo. i, 1725, proved June 2, 1725, mentions her children, Edward, Richard, Job, Joseph, Jacob and Elizabeth, daughters-in-law (step-daughters), Ann Ridgway, Katrin Gardiner; sons-in-law, Thomas and John Ridgway.