Obadiah Force
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Ray Stewart Lobb ← Gladys Myrtle Kipp ← Edgar Allen Kipp ← Isaac Kipp ← Elizabeth Force ← Reziah Force ← Noah Force ← Manning Force ← Obadiah Force
In brief
Born about 1691 in Gravesend, Long Island, New York. He married about 1724. He died about 1789, in Essex County, New Jersey, USA.
Family
Children
- Thomas Forceb. Abt. 1724d. April 27, 1775
- Elizabeth Forceb. Abt. 1725
- Manning Force · in this lineb. Abt. 1730 in Morristown, Morris County, New Jerseym. Lucretia Winchell, May 10, 1753, at the 1st Presbyterian Church in Hanover, Morris County, New Jerseyd. April 8, 1789, in Acquackanonk, Essex County, New Jersey
- Rosanna Forceb. Abt. 1735
- Rachel Forceb. Abt. 1743
- Squire/Squier Forceb. Abt. 1745 in New Jerseyd. April 24, 1829, in Bottle Hill, Morris County, New Jersey
- Joanna Forceb. Abt. 1746
- Sarah Force
- Benjamin Forced. Abt. 1787
Siblings
- Isaac Forceb. Abt. 1700d. Abt. 1740
- William Force
- John Force
Life story
A Newark Highway Overseer
Obadiah Force was born around 1691 in Gravesend, Long Island, New York, and settled in New Jersey, where he was twice chosen as a highway overseer for Newark, in 1765 and 1767. He appeared in court on several occasions over the years — sued over a debt in 1735, charged for unpaid wheat in 1751, and facing a misdemeanor charge before the crown in 1755 — and in 1750 accompanied a hunting party in which one of his companions was fatally injured. Obadiah died around 1789 in Essex County, New Jersey.
Sources (1)
- Estate of Edward Burnice Kipp, “Ancestors of Edward Burnice Kipp”; 2024; pdf publication (http://www.kipp-blake-families.ca/publications/Ancestors%20of%20Edward%20Burnice%20Kipp.pdf : accessed 17 January 2025).