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From: "carimirj" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Bellis, Van Sickle, Van Syckle
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 00:03:23 -0400


Hi. I've been away from genealogy for a little while, but am so impressed
with all the information that Deborah has been supplying to everyone. Can't
believe all the effort she's put into this. Anyway, have the names Bellis,
Van Sickle or Van Syckle come up? Hope so, I'm having a problem finding my
late mother-in-law's connections to Hunterdon Co. Supposedly, her
grandfather was the sheriff of that county? And supposedly, she was named
after Jennie Bellis, who was John Philip Sousa's wife. I would appreciate
any help with this that I can find. Thanks zillions.
----- Original Message -----
From: Deborah B Naylor/Farhar <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Sand Brook Cemetery, BESSON, BODINE, BREWER,
BUCHANAN, CLOSSON, FAUSS, HORNE, MOORE, TROUT


> 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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