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From: "Rita Chesterton" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] family migrations patterns and DNA?
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:24:14 -0500
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A wonderful series of small pictorial/historical books which focus on NJ
town can be found at http://www.faithfabric.com/books4.htm
I've seen them in various shops and historical societies. They are very
well done and mention many family names.

-Rita in Hunterdon Co.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Johnson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 11:57 AM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] family migrations patterns and DNA?


> 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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