John PHARES I

c.1680-1736

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Wife: Mary LAWRIE (?-?)



Children:
Thomas PHARES (?-?)
William PHARES (c.1700-?)
Robert PHARES (1702-?)
Mary PHARES (1704-?)
Joseph PHARES (1706-?)
John PHARES II (1710-1787)
Pedigree: 
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John Phares(Faris) I, a brick maker, was the earliest Phares settler known in Pennsylvania. It is not known when he came to Philadelphia but it was before 1729. John's wife was named Mary and it is believed that her surname was Lawrie. There is no proof of this but the name turns up again in 1767 when Mary Phares and John Lawrie were the executors of the will of William Phares, grandson of John Phares I, who died in Burlington County, New Jersey. The first John Phares had at least 3 sons and 1 daughter: Joseph, William, John and Mary. In 1729 Joseph Phares married Elizabeth Hall in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and they had at least 2 children; Anne born in 1730 and Margaret born in 1733. There is no further record of Joseph in Pennsylvania and it is believed that his family may have gone into western Pennsylvania or the Carolinas. William Phares married Mary Hutchinson and settled in Burlington County, New Jersey where numerous descendants still live. The second John Phares, born about 1710, married Agnes Margaret Johnson and settled in Virginia and is the progenitor of the Virginia and West Virginia families. In 1732 Mary Phares married John Knight in the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia and disappeared from the pages of history. Tradition has it that there was a another son, Robert, born about 1707. There is no documentation to prove this but in Augusta County, Virginia about 1771 there was a Robert Phares who was said to be of full age. He could have been a son of either the first or second John Phares. However, there is no further indication that the second John Phares had a son named Robert. Some have speculated that the Thomas Phares of Talbot County, Maryland might be the son of the first John but there is nothing known to verify this. The first John Phares died in Burlington County, New Jersey in 1736.
The Phares Family in America, Ancestral Families of Robert Phares(1762-1823)
by Ken Rowan and Dick Phares

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