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From: Marshall Lake <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Dilss/Dils/Dilts/Diltz/Kase/Case/ Hoffman
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:28:41 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <OE25DiKBsuZ2K4xDh9v0001b77d@hotmail.com>



> You mentioned a story on Peter Kase. I would be very interested to
> see anything you have on the Kase family.

I'll include two KAES/KASE/CASE stories at the end of this posting. I
also have a jpg of part of the inside of a CASE homestead. I hesitate to
send a jpg to the list. If anyone is interested let me know and I will
email the pic directly to you.

> My line is: John Philip Kase/William Kase/Peter Kase/William Kase/John
> Kase/John Dewitt Clinton Kase/Simon G Kase/Dora Kase Moyer/Reta Moyer
> Edmundson/Franklin Edmundson/ (me)Marilyn Edmundson Frieda.
>
> Thank you for sharing! If there is any information I can provide for you, I
> will be happy to do so.

I have nothing on down from William KASE (son of John Philip KASE). I'd
like to see what you have if it's not too much to ask. Thanks.


From "Union Township, Rural Recollections" by Andrew C. Herdan in 1988

Page 221 ...

Heading out of Pattenburg, and on the north side of the Little York
Road, stands the Case Farmstead, now owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Delaney.
This tract of land was originally carved from the huge holdings of the
Penn & Cox interests, Quaker proprietors who owned thousands of acres in
this part of New Jersey, in 1733. The original owner, Francis Locke,
sold the land to Peter Cougle and his wife Charity, and in 1800 it
became the property of Daniel Case. As a gift to his new wife Sarah,
Daniel built a sturdy stone house that still stands today in its original
state, and which is preserved as a National Historic Building. A most
fascinating story surrounds the pioneer members of the Kase (now Case)
family. John Phillip Kase arrived in Hunterdon County, from Germany,
about 240 years ago. Not far from the cabin that Kase built alongside
the Tuccaminjah Creek, now Mine Brook, lay the encampment of Chief
Tuccamirgan, a man of peace.
According to family tradition, the chief had his tribesmen help
cut logs for the Kase dwelling, and he scooped out a gum log to make
a cradle for the white man's babies. Childless herself, the Chief's
wife often took care of the young ones as though they were her own.
The friendship endured beyond life. Upon his death in 1750, Chief
Tuccamirgan was buried in the Kase family graveyard. His resting place
is marked today by a stone monument at the burial ground along Bonnell
Street, Flemington, inscribed "In memory of the Delaware Indian Chief,
Tuccamirgan." This lasting memorial was erected by patriotic and
historical organizations in 1925.
John Phillip Kase had a son, Phillip, who started a tannery in
Flemington. Daniel Case was a son of the younger Phillip, and after
marrying Sarah Clark in 1799 he moved out to the section of Bethlehem
Township that is now Union. After building the stone house and a
large farm barn, he took up sheep farming. His farm was a simple 2
1/2 story fieldstone "I" structure, rectangular in form, with a four
bay front facade and an offset center door. As was often the case in
early farmhouses. the front door opened directly into the living room.
The windows are deep-set 9/6 sash, the roof is gabled, and there are
two brick chimneys, one on each gable end. The east chimney is so broad
that it actually acommodates three flues. On the east gable end is a
two-story, full-length, three-bay portico built upon stone foundations.
This porch projects over the basement kitchen facade and the first floor
gable end facade. There is a small side door entrance to this porch
on the elevated first floor and doors on each side of the fireplace
base entering into the basement. The basement has two simple rooms,
each about 22' X 16', with a half-turn winder stairway in the northwest
corner and a large walk-in kitchen fireplace with associated bread ovens.
The first floor is almost identical in design to the basement.
The east room has a large kitchen fireplace that is still used
for open-hearth cooking. It is fully equipped with the original iron
fittings and anyone fortunate enough to catch Mrs. Delaney on one of her
baking days would be drawn like a magnet to the delicious cooking aromas
emerging from this cozy kitchen. The west room is now functioning as a
living room and has a small fireplace offset against the gable end wall
and adjoining cupboards. There is again a winding stairway, as in the
basement, leading from the east room. The second floor has three rooms,
one identical to the kitchen below, though with a smaller fireplace,
and the other two smaller rooms functioning as bedrooms.
Several outbuildings exist on the property, to the northeast of the
house. The southern-most structure is a large frame dairy barn with
vertical board siding. At right angles to this is an English form three
pen frame barn which appears to have been built at about the same time
as the stone house. It is interesting to note that a stone foundation
lies on the property, reputed to be the site of an earlier farmstead
erected by the second owners of the land, the Cougle family.
We should diverge for a moment, to look at the illustrious career of
Sarah Clark Case, for whom this house was built. She was born in 1776,
died in 1859, and was probably the first recognized woman medical doctor
in Hunterdon County, and one of the earliest in New Jersey.
During the eighteenth century there were no restrictions placed upon
those who wanted to practice medicine in New Jersey. They learned the
trade through an active apprenticeship, and any man or woman who had
either the inclination or imprudence to "put up a shingle" could become a
practitioner without even the help of pseudo-professional medical books.
Before 1800 New Jersey had less than 50 practitioners, out of a total of
about three hundred, who could boast of training beyond apprenticeship.
That was even a high figure compared to most other parts of the country!
The New Jersey Medical Society, established in 1766, directed a good
portion of its efforts to the licensing of physicians. In 1772 New Jersey
was the first colonial government to establish a provincial system of
examination and licensing of physicians. Without these qualifications,
physicians could no longer practice as professionals. The issuing of
licenses was transferred from the courts to the medical organization in
1816, in order to make the process more effective.
Sarah Clark Case was caught up in all this legislation. Described as a
woman with good common sense, she gained a wide reputation in the early
19th century as a nurse and a midwife. As a nurse she could hardly be
equalled, and when Daniel Case brought her to this area, medical help
was scarce and widely dispursed. She was so successful that she was
soon being called on to prescribe medicines rather than just provide
nursing care. She started devoting her whole time to this new-found skill
and by 1816 she had garnered such a wide and loyal following among her
patients and fellow physicians that she was granted a medical license.
This made made her the first licensed woman physician in Hunterdon
County, and maybe even in the State. She practiced until old age,
when increased professional medical facilities compelled her to retire.
Sarah's grandson, Nathan Case, followed in her footsteps and became a
licensed physician, but sadly she did not live to see this continuation
of her pioneering work. She died in 1859, at the age of 83, having
lived a life dedicated to the health and happiness of others. One of
Union Township's "greatest"!


From "Hunterdon's Role in the Revolution" by Hunterdon County Democrat in 1976

Page 21 ...

Wilderness faced John Philip Kase when he came to Hunterdon from
Germany by way of New York almost 240 years ago. At least it was not
a savage wilderness.
Not far from the cabin that Kase built along Tuccaminjah Creek -
now Mine Brook - lay the encampment of Chief Tuccamirgan, a man of peace.
According to family tradition, the chief had his tribesmen help cut
logs for the dwelling, and he scooped out a gum log to make a cradle for
the white man's babies. Childless herself, the Chief's wife often took
care of the young ones.
The friendship endured beyond life. Upon his death in 1750, Chief
Tuccamirgan was buried in the Kase (now Case) family graveyard.
His resting place is marked today by a stone monument at the burial
ground along Bonnell Street, Flemington, inscribed "In memory of
the Delaware Indian Chief, Tuccamirgan." Patriotic and historical
organizations put up the monument in 1925.
The Case tract of land in 1733 was carved from huge holdings of the
Penn and Cox interests, Quaker proprietors who owned thousands of acres
in this part of Jersey.
The proprietors encouraged settlement, and the settlers in turn
subdivided their holdings as newcomers arrived. The chance to own land
and develop it, attracted emigrants from much of northern Europe and
the British Isles.
Some came because of religious persecution in their homelands, some
for the love of land, and some for both reasons.
The Cases soon became essential parts of the community and its economy.
John Philip Kase's son, Philip, was bound out to a tanner in Philadelphia,
and returned to Flemington to start a tannery which had a long and
prosperous history.
Farmers bought and sold there - not only hides, but also bark from
their woodlots for the tanning process.
During the Revolution, General John Sullivan and his army camped at
Flemington, on Case land.
After the Revolution, a new wave of English settlers arrived here and
prominent among them were the Capners.
Hugh Capner bought property from the Cases, and Jacob Case, a grandson
of the original settler, built a stone house for him in 1798. It still
stands, on the Route 12 traffic circle just out of town.
The Cases built for keeps. Their first log cabin was so sturdy that
it stood for more than a century, ending its days as a stable.
The Case family, and the Capners after them, found what this land of
liberty could mean.
They helped turn a wilderness into fine farms, sturdy homes and a
flourishing community.
They welcomed other newcomers who left the old world to enjoy the
opportunities of the new.
Not the least of these opportunities was the chance to have a home of
one's own. A man who had been a lowly tenant subject to the whims of
a lord and master in the old country could be "his own man" here.
The tradition lives on, where John Philip Kase with the help of the
only real "natives" of Hunterdon, the Indians, found the good life along
Tuccaminjah Creek.


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