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From: "Mary Jo C. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] family migrations patterns and DNA?
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 08:09:58 +1100
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Wow, Rita!

What a valuable resourse.

Thank you!

Mary Jo C. Martin
Melbourne, Australia


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rita Chesterton" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] family migrations patterns and DNA?


> 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 lan
d.
> > > 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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