Over time, a few items appeared through research which tie Betsy Andrews to Edward Vaughn, and to her own Andrews family history.
The first piece of evidence that seemed to tie Betsy Andrews to Edward Vaughn was an ad in Philadelphia newspapers in 1810, announcing the sale at auction of his farm by his wife, Elizabeth Vaughn. Betsy is of course a nickname for Elizabeth.
A document unearthed by Steven Ward in the Gloucester Historical Society showed an Elizabeth Owen, widow of Edward Vaughn who had married Edward Owen of Philadelphia. They had sold the Vaughn farm in 1810.
A hand written church record from Trinity Church in Swedesboro, Woolwich Township, New Jersey noted the intention to marry and then the marriage of Elizabeth Andrews and Edward Vaughn in 1790.
Finally, on a Quaker record documenting the marriage of her older brother Benajah in 1798, her presence recorded, Elizabeth Vaughn, as she was at that time.
And in a history of the Edward Andrews family of Deptford, New Jersey, a note that he had a daughter named Elizabeth, who married Edward Owen. Of this Elizabeth little is known, except her place in the family has her being born about 1773 or ’74,
What is known about Elizabeth and Edward’s life is that they married in the village of Woolwich, in Gloucester County, in 1790, at Swedesboro Trinity Church.
There is a hand written record of this.
And that Edward Vaughn was apparently in the local Deptford Militia, as his name is listed second for the year 1793.
They owned about 74 acre farm in the village of Waterford--then in Gloucester County but today in Camden County to the North of Gloucester County. It isn't clear if they farmed on this land or simply held it. Waterford is not quite fifteen miles from Deptford. This farm they sold in May of 1800.
In July of 1800, Edward and Elizabeth Vaughn purchased one half of "The Lippincott Place", a plantation of