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Subject: [NJHUNTER] COTANCH-WILLIAMSON-RICHEY; NJ > Tompkins Co., NY
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:30:22 -0500

COTANCH-WILLIAMSON-RICHEY; NJ > Tompkins Co., NY

Q. Was Catherine (CONTANCH) RICHEY the dau. of William and Sarah
(WILLIAMSON) COTANCH and granddau. of Peter and Catherine
(GRIGGS) WILLIAMSON?

>From New Jersey Marriages:

#550; William COTAUNCH (COTANCH) and William WILLIAMSON, both
of the County of Sussex... [bound to]... William FRANKLIN,
Governor... 500 pounds... 8 Dec 1773. ... William COTAUNCH...
obtained license of marriage for himself and for Sarah
WILLIAMSON... [w] And'w LEDLIE and Tho's POTTS

Copyright (c) 1999 by Patricia m. Bergener ()

>From the September 1791 will of Peter WILLIAMSON (married Catherine
GRIGGs) of Greenwich Township (then Sussex, now) Warren Co., NJ:

... I Peter WILLIAMSON of the Township of Greenwich in the
County of Sussex ... do this day TwentyFirst of September and
in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and ninety
one 1791 do Publish and declare this to be my Last will and
Testament .... and the next place I do give and bequeth unto
my daughter Sarah CLAUNCH ... my Daughter mary LACY ... my
wife Catherine (35:41; File 513S, New Jersey State Archives,
Trenton, New Jersey)

THEORY: Sarah's married name appears as CLAUNCH in the abstract of
Peter WILLIAMSON's will but an examination of the original shows
that it is entirely possible that her married name was actually
COTAUNCH. Sarah (WILLIAMSON) CLAUNCH, dau. of Peter and Catherine
(GRIGGS) WILLIAMSON, and Sarah (WILLIAMSON) COTAUNCH, wife of
William COTAUNCH, are the same individual.

John WILLIAMSON (Peter, ...) son of Peter and Catherine
(GRIGGS) WILLIAMSON ("John and Charity WILLIAMSON Family
Record," GMNJ, 72:16; hereinafter JCWFR), was born, probably
in (then Greenwich Township, Sussex County now) Warren County,
New Jersey on 14 August 1762 (JCWFR). He died in Bethlehem
Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey before 12 February 1838
(Hunterdon County Inventory 4479J). John was married on __
December ____ by Thomas Bowsby Esq. to Charity-3 RICHEY
(Daniel-2, John-1), daughter of Daniel-2 and Jude/["Jerusha"]
(_____) RICHEY, born, probably in (then Sussex, now) Warren
County, New Jersey on 27 August 1770 (JCWFR); WILLIAMSON and
RICHEY family members migrated to Tompkins Co., NY.

Robert-3 RICHEY (Daniel-2, John-1), son of Daniel-2 and
Jude/["Jerush"] (____) RICHEY, b. 1766 (Between the Lakes
Cemeteries, hereinafter BLC); d. 31 July 1860 (BLC); m.
Catherine "Caty" CONTANCH (death record of son, Benjamin C.
RICHEY); bur. Old Log Meetinghouse Cemetery, Ulysses, Tompkins
Co., NY (BLC); children born 1801-1821.

THEORY: Based on the ages of her children, Catherine (CONTANCH)
RICHEY was probably born after 1771 and before 1790. Catherine was
the daughter of William and Sarah (WILLIAMSON) COTANCH/COTAUNCH.
Catherine was named after her maternal grandmother, Catherine
(GRIGGS) WILLIAMSON.

For more information, please refer to the WILLIAMSON and RICHEY
documents on my website. Any further information to confirm or
refute this speculation would be greatly appreciated!

Perry Streeter ()
Canandaigua, New York USA
http://www.perry.streeter.co

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