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From: "Bob Johnson" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] SCHARFENSTEIN, SCHARPENSTEIN, SHARP in Tewksbury and Reading
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:34:42 -0700
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Regarding the Benjamin Hart Peterson...I have a Will for him in Ohio...he
died there in 1849, but left an inventory in NJ also I am a Peterson
descending from Thomas Peterson's son, John Griggs Peterson who went with
his grandfather, Harpert to Wheeling, WV and then on into Richland County,
Ohio. Apparently Thomas stayed in New Jersey and he died in 1855. I also
have his will wherein he mentioned your gr. grandfather Benjamin, my gr.
grandfather, John G. Peterson and daughters: Sarah Tone, Eliza or Mary
Elizabeth who married William Woodhull, they also went to Ohio and lived
very near her brother, John G. Peterson, one daughter married Elias Mills.

Very much interested in this family as it is my direct line ancestor. I
descend like thus.
Annie Peterson Johnson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamelyn P. Bush" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] SCHARFENSTEIN, SCHARPENSTEIN, SHARP in Tewksbury and
Reading


> Hello Richard,
> I am also descended from this couple. Their daughter, Maria or Mary
> Welsch, d. 1826, married Morris Sharpenstein, d. 1823. Their daughter,
> Dorothy or Dorothea Sharp or Sharpenstein, was born 1 September 1800 and
> died 4 September 1848 at the age of 48 years 3 days, buried Rockaway
> Presbyterian Churchyard in Rockaway Twp, Morris Co. She married 5 March
> 1822
> Benjamin Hart Peterson, d. ca. 1849, son of Thomas Peterson and resided in
> Drakesville, Morris Co which is very near German Valley. Their daughter
> Margaret Peterson b. 14 August 1835 in Drakesville, married William Crane
> Burnett of Morristown. She was my father's great-grandmother. He is still
> alive at age 92 and remembers her very well since she did not die until
> 1921
> when he was 9.
> Thank you for the offer to share a picture of Dorothy Welsh's
> gravestone. I would love to have a copy.
> I suppose you have looked at Hank Jones' information. Most, if not all
> of what he wrote about the Tewksbury and Washington Twp Palatine
> descendants
> was information he received with the help of Norman Wittwer, the Zion
> Lutheran Church historian and former president of the Hunterdon Co
> Historical Society.
> There is other information on the William Welsh family I've collected,
> mostly for the William Garret Eick and Julia Ann Welsh (1808-1839) family.
> Her line is John Jacob, William, Johannes Wilhelm Welsch. (I collect all
> Eick information trying to sort them all out. My husband has Eick
> ancestors
> from both parents.)
> Pam Bush
>
>
>
>> I would like to hear from other descendants and share information. I am
> descended from Morris and Catherine's daughter, Dorothea (1751-1828), who
> married William Welsch, Jr. For those who are interested, I have a
> photograph of Dorothea's gravestone in the old cemetery in Long Valley
> that
> I will gladly share with other descendents. The stone is now gone.
>>
>> Richard Welch
>> Farmington, New Mexico
>
>
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