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From: "Walker, Linda" <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 11:18:48 -0500


Hello Doug,

My 6th gen. grandfather, Absolom Smith (son of John and Mary Houghton Smith and nephew of Col. Joab Houghton) received his land in Clermont County Ohio from a Rev. War grant as did his brother John Jr., a former minuteman from Amwell, who settled in Butler County. Because Absolom didn't get a written discharge at the end of the war, when it came time to collect his pension, he had to testify in front of a judge and retell his war service. I bought copies of those papers from the National Archives many years ago - I'm sure documents such as these are still available. They are fascinating and tell in his own words, not only about his service--enlisting at Ringoes Tavern, being at the Battle of Monmouth, the surrender at Yorktown, his work as a wagoneer taking baggage back to NY for a French general whose name he couldn't recall etc.--and also how he came to Ohio. He and his wife Susan stopped at Redstone Old Fort Pennsylvania before coming down the Ohio River. He settled for t!
hree years in Columbia, one of southern Ohio's earliest settlements just due east of Cincinnati on the river (site of present day Lunken airport). From there he went to Williamsburg, OH (my guess is up the Little Miami River) where he farmed until the Depression of @1832 when he lost his land. One of the interesting things in my family history is that my uncle Ray Smith, who had grown up in the city of Cincinnati, moved up to Williamsburg as a young married man and bought a farm. When I began to do my genealogy, we found out that his land was very, very near the site of Absolom's - he almost "re-bought" his 5th generation grandfather's land. Supposedly Absolom's log cabin had stood in Williamsburg up until the 1950's.

Apples really do not fall far from the tree--sometimes they just don't know it : )

Linda Walker
Editor - Writer's Digest Book Club
F + W Publications, Inc.
4700 E. Galbraith Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45236



-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Lynne Bernhardt [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:15 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky


Having just moved from KY, I know there are many families there who did
receive their land as Rev. War grants.
betty lynne
----- Original Message -----
From: <>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky


> In a message dated 11/2/04 4:44:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> > My ancestors and a number of related families moved from Hunterdon Co.
to
> > the northern Kentucky area (mostly Mason Co.) in the 1790's to early
1800's. I
> > believe they were mostly from the Hopewell area, and the surnames
include
> > Gordon, Stout, Runyan, Anderson, Donovan, Corwine, and Hart. I would
really
> > like to know something about their actual journey: why they left, how
many went
> > at a time, what route they took, etc. Does anyone have anything like
this?
> > I've looked in a number of places for this information in both KY and
NJ, but
> > no luck so far.
> >
> > Doug Gordon
> >
>
> Hi Doug. Can't be of any help to you, but would love to know why some of
my
> family also removed to Ky. around the same time. Could it be they were
given
> land for serving in the Rev War? If you find out anything off the list and
would
> like to share, I would appreciate it. Thanks Walt Disbrow
>
>
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