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From: "Runyan, Fuller" <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon.Migrants.
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:41:04 -0500


Hello list,

My RUNYAN ancestors migrated from Hunterdon County (Kingwood) to the Spruce Run Valley in what is now Columbia County, PA. The village there is called "Jerseytown", so-named because many of the early settlers there were from New Jersey.

The Runyan's arrived around 1796 and were preceded by the following New Jersey families:

FUNSTON
BARBER
PEGG
WHITMOYER
BILLHIME
WELLIVER
BRUGLER
WATSON
HODGE
DEMOTT
SCHUYLER

Other families settling there in the late 1700's include:

LAIRD
SMITH
KITCHEN/KETCHUM
MCCOLLUM

Early families whose origins are unclear to me include SWISHER (probably VA) and EVES.

Fuller Runyan
Harrisburg, PA



-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Gordon [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 5:16 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon.Migrants.


My Hunterdon ancestors (Lewis Gordon family) migrated to Mason Co., KY in
about 1798. I think there were a number of NJ families that went about that
time, including some Stouts that I know of. It was interesting to me that
the local area where my ancestor lived was (and still is) known as "Jersey
Ridge" -- probably some connection there with the naming, but its history is
long since lost.

Doug Gordon




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