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From: Evelyn Cataldi <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] George Casper Hise - family kidnapped?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 01:35:04 -0400 (EDT)


At 05:06 PM 10/30/1999 EDT, you wrote:
>I have a reference to the settlement of the estate of a George Casper Hise in
>1801, Amwell, Hunterdon Co., NJ and just received a note from a fellow
>researcher regarding the story of this George Hise having his family
>kidnapped by Indians (Native Americans). The narative re this event is in a
>book titled "Pioneer Families of the Mid-West" by Blanche L. Walden. Seems
>there are some inconsistancies here - one of them being that New Jersey is
>certainly not the mid-west. Would someone tell me where I should write to
>get a copy of the Settlement of this George Casper (Jasper?) Hise's estate in
>Hunterdon Co. One of his daughters married a Thaddeus Smith and they did
>migrate to Indiana but that would have been AFTER the supposed kidnapping.
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I found two interesting write-ups about Jasper HICE (HISE), Jacob HICE
(HISE), AND Thaddeus SMITH in "A History of East Amwell" published 1979 by
the Hunterdon County Historical Society.

Jasper HICE (HISE)

MARRIAGE : Charity
CHILDREN : Jacob, Andrew, Ann who married Mr. Smith, and Elizabeth who
married Mr. Barret.
RESIDENCE : 1780 Rateables list him as a house holder with 26 acres and
2 horned cattle.
DEATH : 1801 in Hunterdon County. Inventory of his estate was taken
August 5, 1801. Later his family moved near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
SERVICE RECORD : Served as a private in Capt. Tucker's Company of the
First Regiment of the Hunterdon County Militia.


Jacob HICE (HISE)

PARENTS : Possibly the oldest son of Jasper and Charity Hice.
SERVICE RECORD : September 14, in service as a Private in First Regiment
of the Hunterdon County Militia.


Thaddeous SMITH

BIRTH : May 6, 1742 in Amwell Township.
MARRIAGE : In 1781 or 1782 to Anne -- by William Abbott Esq. She states
in her pension application "that they neither obtained license nor were they
published, as neither Law nor Custom required either at that time".
CHILDREN : In her application she states that "she has a family record
of the births of her Children....in the handwrite of one Brown a
schoolteacher and a neighbor, that the names were recorded soon after their
births". Nancy, the oldest child, born July 20, 1783; Benjamin, born
January 1, 1787; Soph, born October 12, 1789; Samuel, born May 16, 1792;
Ely, born October 20, 1796; Elisa, born December 20, 1800; Ocy, born
December 10, 1802; who married Anthony Abels prior to 1843; and Jonathan
Walters, born October 21, 1804.
RESIDENCE: 1780 Rateables list his property as six houses and lots. In
1800 he moved to Shamokin settlements along the Susquehanna River in
Pennsylvania; In 1813 to Cheat River, Virginia and in 1822 to Mill Creek,
Virginia. During the spring of 1829, he moved to Rutland, May's County,
Ohio, where he died.

The Revolutionary War Records are confirmed in Snell's "History of Hunterdon
County" on Page 87 as :

HICE, Jacob, First Regiment, Capt. Henry Phillips' company.
HICE, Jasper, First Regiment, Capt. Tucker's company.

I hope that this will be useful for your research.

Evelyn

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