Ladd, John (d. 1770)

Prominent West Jersey proprietor and politician.

Landowner, surveyor, and member of West Jersey Council of Proprietors. Justice of the Peace (1739). Assemblyman for Gloucester County (1754). Member of Governor’s Council (1763).

Quaker. Son of John and Elizabeth Ladd of Burlington, New Jersey. Married Hannah Mickle (1732); no children.