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From: Marietta Pickell <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Clossen
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 05:21:46 -0700
In-Reply-To: <005201c24aee$6a05c4b0$821ff243@Compaq>


Hi,

I was checking the Calendar of Wills 1751-1760, Vol. III and found the
following:

1758, Aug. 18, Clawson, Cornelious, Sr., of Piscataway, Middlesex Co.; will
of. Wife Mary, children - Cornelious, William, Zachariah, Mary Shaver,
Sarah Potter, Jane Sutton, Catharine Campbell and Hanna
Long. Grandchildren - Benjamin -------, Susannah Drake and Elizebeth
Potter. Real and personal estate. Executors - son, Cornelious, and
son-in-law, Joseph Campbell. Witnesses - Elisha Whitehead, John Campbell
and Daniel Barto. Proved Sept. 11, 1758 Lib. F. PP. 551
I1758, Aug. 29, Inventory 429.6.1 pounds, inclul. bills, bonds, book debits
and cash, 192.12.8 pounds made by John Hepburn and Reune Runyon.


At 05:45 PM 8/23/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Folks,
> I'm looking for information on Zachariah Clossen
>(Clawson/Clousen/Closen). In his revolutionary war pension papers he says
>he was born in 1753 in Maidenhead, N.J. (now Mercer, then Hunterdon Co.).
>He goes on to say his parents carried him across the Delaware River to Bucks
>County, Pa. He doesn't give his parents names.
> In her will in Bucks County Susanna Clayton Edwards names her "cousin"
>Mary Closon and her children Zachariah and William. I'm assuming that the
>Father had died by 1760 (the date of the will). Zacharaiah shows up later
>in Hatfield Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa. during the revolution. His brother
>William may be the William Closen who married a Stout at the Dutch Reformed
>Church in Bucks County.
> Is anyone aware of any tax lists for Hunterdon County in the 1753 time
>frame ?
> Does anyone know anything more about Susanna Clayton Edwards, her
>parents name ?
>I've been through the printed N.J. Archives and while there are lots of
>Clasons and variants I can't seem to find anyone in the timeframe of
>Zachariahs birth, there seem to be some just a few years later.
>The Cornealius Clawson who died about 1760 seems to be a good canidate for
>his grandfather but none of his kids appeared to have married a Mary.
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>Jim
>
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Marietta PicKell


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