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From: "joan best" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Orphan's Court
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:17:39 -1000


We know quite a bit about the group that went from Jerseytown PA to the
"Talbot settlement" in Ontario. Michael and Anna BEST did not travel on
ahead as you suggested.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert H. Smith" <>
To: "joan best" <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Orphan's Court


> Sorry, Joan,
> My info came from the REEDER genealogy not from the Orphan's Court
> records.
> Maybe the HCHS has further info on it! Maybe Michael and Anna went
> directly to
> Ontario, Canada as Loyalist and the older children followed.
> Best, Bob Smith
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: joan best <>
> To: Robert H. Smith <>
> Cc: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Orphan's Court
>
>
> > Where do I get information on the Hunterdon County Orphans Court?
> > This is my problem:
> > Michael BEST, b. 1767, and wife Anna, b. 1758 had four children:
> Jain, b.
> > 1785, James, b. 1789, Mary, b. 1790, and Henry b. 1793. James, Mary
> and
> > Henry were christened in the Lebanon Dutch Reform Church, Hunterdon
> Co., NJ.
> > James and Mary's christening took place within three months of
> birth. Henry
> > was christened 15 months later. Michael and Anna BEST are never
> heard of
> > again, nor is Jain BEST. James, Mary and Henry surface in
> Jamestown,
> > Columbia Co. PA when James BEST marries Amy BODINE in 1809. This
> couple and
> > his sister Mary BEST travel with a group to Elgin Co., Ontario,
> Canada to
> > homestead. James is 22, Mary 20. Henry stays behind in PA. I have
> found
> > no trace of Michael or Anna BEST in Hunterdon or in the Columbia Co.
> PA
> > area. I know they only had these four children (information in the
> Bible of
> > son James BEST). Therefore, possible that Michael and Anna died,
> leaving
> > their children orphans. How do I find out ?
> > Joan Best
> >
> > Robert H. Smith said:
> > Hunterdon County Orphans Court on 6 May 1802 had appointed Andrew
> REEDER
> > guardian of Martha GREEN, daughter of Richard GREEN and his first
> wife
> > Martha HOWELL, daughter of Christopher HOWELL . Richard GREEN
> removed to a
> > place in Pennsylvania. Possibly he was the man of this name in the
> 1790
> > Federal Census of Bedford Co., PA as head of a family composed of
> himself,
> > one other male of 16 years and over, one
> > male under sixteen and three females.
> >
> >
> >
>

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