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From: Deborah B Naylor/Farhar <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Sand Brook Cemetery, BESSON, BODINE, BREWER, BUCHANAN, CLOSSON, FAUSS, HORNE, MOORE, TROUT
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 16:15:06 -0400


Message text written by Steven Blakely
>No I am not a descendant of any on the names at all !!!

I have been collecting info on Sand Brook and made the website to help
preserve
local history (of which there is little).<

This is my opinion, which may not count for awhole lot, but I think Sand
Brook, the
community of, was part of the 'German Settlement' as it has been called.
Except most
of the people may not have been German.

> I then decided to do the cemetery
transcription after looking into the genealogy lists and seeing the names
on
the cemetery stones fading away.<

To be sure we are on the same page, you are talking about the little
church,
way out in the middle of now where, with a little cemetery behind it sort
of on
a slant, surrounded by an old stone wall?

Okay, we're same page - went to the Web Page.

I can't tell you much about the Church, except it appears to have been
connected
to Amwell Brethren Church down the road, or to the east - if this is a true
east and west
road.

If the Web Site for the Church of the Brethren is 100% correct with it's
general history, they
imply that in or around 1850, when the churches went from preaching in
German only to
English only, alot of the congregations split.

However, for this little church and the Amwell Brethren Church up the road,
they already
had gone partial English speaking.

Rev. Israel Poulson, Sr. was the first English speaking pastor back in
1830. I'm not picking
on Rev. Poulson, Sr., but according to one of his descendants (who refers
to Israel Sr. as
a church elder), Israel Sr., may not have spoken alot of German since he
was an ophan
from Somerset County.

I think the Church records for both churches could tell the story better
than I could.

Sand Brook formed about 1848 and closed up as an active congregation about
1899 - I'll dig up those dates.

In 1995, the lady who lives west of the church did tell me about the
renovation project
going on and indicated she may have known somebody who had the church
records,
but I have never heard from anybody.

If this congregation did split because half wanted to keep the German or
what ever language
they spoke and the old ways and the other half wanted the English and go
slightly modern in
1850, both congregation may have gone total English by 1900.

Until I study the church records for both churches, I only have the
knowlege I gleemed
from the COB Web Site.

My interest in both churches comes from my belief that just about everyone
whom I
am searching for in Hunterdon County were members of original Amwell
Brethren Church.

Fauss, George and family buried at Sand Brook belong to me, and his son
and family
are up in Lower Amwell behind or beside the church.

George's mother and father are buried in the Moore Grave Yard and his
cousin or
nephew and his family are buried in the other Dunkard Grave Yard, which
might be
the cemetery across the street from Amwell Brethren Church.

If you wish the bits and pieces I have on the Fauss family, with the
documentation -
piece number one is this was not a German family.

"New Jersey Colonial Documents, Calendar of Wills 1806-1809, p. 125-125:
1805, Sept. 20. Fauss Jacob will of, Son, Samuel, ..., English Bible
Dictionary and
small Dutch hand bible; also my plantation; ... Son, John, Dutch Bible,
..."

I'm not a language expert, but I lived in Europe and Dutch and German are
not
the same language.

George Fauss' wife, Delilah was Delilah Rockefeller and if you read the
history
of this family, the Rockefeller's left France and show up in Germany in
1599, and her
mother Charity LaRue, is decended from a Norman family, which also left
France and
went to Germany before coming to New Amsterdam/New York.

And, for now I think you've heard enough.

> It has given me much thought about my own
personal genealogy, and our own history and how it will be remembered in
days
to come. In the meantime I keep an eye on the Hunterdon Cty mail list to
hopefully pick up extra info. for the website.<

It was probably going along just fine until I found it, but it would be
interesting to me
if someone could locate a copy of the Church Records.

With them, I could not only finish up almost all my families, but I might
have enough
information at hand to help some of these people finish most of their
families. Plus,
figure out some of the unwritten history of Sand Brook.


>By the way....I believe it was one of the Samuel Fauss' who built the home
I
live in... the General Store in Sand Brook.<

Depending what it looks like, Jacob Fauss probably built it, Samuel I, in-
herited it and since I don't have his will and inventory yet, I can't tell
you for sure.
The original deeds might, do you have them?

With what I have on hand, when was the house built?

Maybe you can tell me, to buy the house you had to do a title search
correct?
This is how you know the property originally belonged to the Fauss'.

I'm curious how that process works, and you might think it strange but did
the
Title Company used have the information in their files or did they go to
the
court house and start from scratch? Does the Title Company keep a copy of
the properties genealogy or did they give you the one and only copy?

With your subject title: Besson, Bodine, Brewer, Buchanan, Closson, Fauss,
Horne,
Moore, Trout is all I can read, but are these the names from your property
title?

If so, would you do me a favor? List these names in the order of who owned
it and when,
and alls depending I may have something on a few of the families or know
some-
body who does.

Bodine has been posted to NAROOTS on Compuserve, and until she determines
which
is her family, you had a set of Bodines come into New Amsterdam, and one
got naturalized
in Hunterdon in the 1700's.

Closson is quite possibly the Swiss guy who was in New Amsterdam/New York,
but until
those descendants figure out if the families were all the same line in
Europe and just
came to the colonies at separate times, or whether it was just common names
and
spelling ...

Fauss came into PA in 1665, on the "Polly".

Moore, I haven't found enough to determine if this was the New
Amsterdam/New York
family or if they came direct to Hunterdon, but there is a lady on the
mailing list who has
information on the New York Moore's.

Trout was a name early to Hopewell Twp., Hunterdon Co. Helped a guy in CA
who
was Trout descended, but I moved so I don't know how far back he and the
other
lady got with this one, but he was related to John Hart of Hopewell Twp.,
and the
Stout's of Hopewell and Amwell Twps, when both were Hunterdon County, and
the Stout families came in from Middlesex Co.

Are all these people also buried in Sand Brook Cemetery?


I will have to double check the notations in another family, but "the
General Store in Sand Brook" (if that is what the other says), may have
just given me a reference to another non-English family, whom alot of
people thought were English for the past 150 years.

Probably more than you wanted to know, but is a subject I know a little
about.

Deborah in OK

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