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Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:53:44 -0500


You are right ....each step of the way folks remained "behind"....I grew
up in Flemington and I also recognize lots of these names....it is funny
really - I had no idea when I was growing up in Hunterdon Co. that I had
ancestors from that area. Now I live in Winston-Salem, NC just 25
minutes away from what was the Jersey Settlement where my ancestors came
to from Hopewell......somehow it seems no accident.......

Susan

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:30:51 -0800 (PST) Sharon and Harry
<> writes:
> It's always interesting when the list gets into these discussions
> about emigration. Please keep in mind that not all of the family
> moved away. There are still branches of many of these same families
> - alive and well in the Hopewell/Ringoes/Stockton/Fleminmgton area!
> I recognize lots of surnames from my high school class!
>
> Sharon
>
> Doug Gordon <> wrote:
> Susan:
> Thanks for your response. The article on the Jersey Settlement was
> very
> interesting. Also interesting is that the place near Maysville where
> many of
> my NJ relations lived is called "Jersey Ridge" to this very day,
> although
> the local residents don't seem to know how it got that name. Other
> names in
> your message are also familiar ones in that area, such as the
> Stocktons in
> Fleming Co.
>
> I know for sure that my direct ancestors, Lewis Gordon m. Keziah
> Stout, were
> in Hopewell in 1795 and in Mason Co. in 1799, so probably went
> directly
> there. However, other family members could have migrated from NC to
> KY and
> then encouraged others to come there. I doubt that Lewis's family
> travelled
> the Cumberland Gap route. From what I have learned about them, they
> are much
> more likely to have taken the route across Pennsylvania to Wheeling
> and then
> by the river down to Limestone Landing (Maysville). I would still
> like to
> find out more about this aspect of their history.
>
> Some other Hunterdon/Hopewell names that have shown up in my family
> history
> recently are Parke and Pullen, both of which are mentioned in the
> article
> that you directed me to
> (http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mckstmerjersey.htm
> for those who missed it). You can also look at my web site as shown
> below
> for any of these names (in the Family Tree section).
>
> Doug Gordon
> http://history.wdgordon.com
>
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> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky
>
>
> > Doug,
> >
> > Many of these same families - Stouts, Runyans, Andersons (my
> > ancestors), Corwines & Harts as well as others Parkes (mine),
> Smiths
> > (mine), Vannoys, Merrills, Mershoms, Hunts (mine), Lannings,
> Palmers,
> > Heatons (Eaton), Moores, Greens and many more left Hopewell,
> Hunterdon
> > Co. area much earlier than the Rev. War - in the mid 1700s - 1757
> or so
> > because of unhappiness left over from the "Coxe Incident" when
> Col. Coxe
> > one of the West Jersey Proprietors charged people to pay for their
> land
> > again after their original purchase. Many of these folks came to
> NC to
> > an area in what was then Rowan Co. called the Jersey Settlement -
> > including many of my own early Hopewell ancestors. Some of these
> folks
> > also went "west" to the area around Fayette Co. PA, Monongalia Co.
> WV,
> > Frederick Co. VA, Hampshire Co. VA/WV as well and from both of
> these
> > locations after several years moved further west to KY. - those
> that I
> > know of that followed this route NJ>NC>KY specifically were the
> Runyans &
> > Park(e)s and I'm sure there were many others, who did reside in KY
> by the
> > 1790/1800s. I don't know of those that went directly from NJ to KY
> or
> > what motivated them at that time - although those that went from
> > NC/Jersey settlement did get lured there by the Rev. War land
> grants I'm
> > sure.
>
>
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