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From: Lorretta Sinclair <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Re: BEST
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:33:58 -0500


Joan,

I looked up BEST in the Index to Minor Estates and found the following:
BEST, Catharine Ann, file #82
BEST, Cornelius and Harriet, file #83
BEST, Margaret, file #169
BEST, Ellen, file #106
BEST, Jane, file #145
BEST, James, file #146

I know that these records have been filmed and are available to rent
through any family history center. Hope there is something useful here for
you.

Sincerely, Lorretta Sinclair

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>Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 06:57:33 -1000
>From: "joan best" <>
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>Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Orphan's Court
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>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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