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From: "Bob Johnson" <>
Subject: family migrations patterns and DNA?
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:57:48 -0800
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You are so right in 'apples don't fall far from the tree'. In doing our
Pieterse/Peterson Dutch migrations across this country, particularly
studying the sons of Tomas and Anntje Lammers Pieterse/Peterson of Hunterdon
Co., NJ. Two of their sons, Peter and my line, Harpert traveled together to
WV, Harp went into the Ohio River Valley, Peter and descendants into Oh and
some into Kentucky...this was 8 generations ago. Recently I had lunch with
an 8th cousin, a male Peterson, direct descendant of Peter and I, a direct
descendant of Harpert. It is amazing the parallel lines these families
took...some generations down...both lines of Petersons migrating on into
South Dakota around 1890...living within 100 miles of each other...same time
frame. But the most uncanny of all...9th cousins, both direct descendants,
male Petersons...living in China, both marrying Chinese women in the same
time period of the year 2002-3. They say the Male DNA is almost replicated
in each male off-spring exactly as the father back thousands of
years...makes you wonder!
Annie Peterson Johnson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walker, Linda" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 8:18 AM
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky


> 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: <>
> To: <>
> 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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