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From: "Kathie Kirkpatrick" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 19:39:17 -0700
References: <20041103.215344.3020.0.galls@juno.com>


Do you know if the name Curtis appears among those who migrated. I am trying
to locate a ggguncle, George Washington Curtis who migrated "west".
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Emigration to Kentucky


> 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From:
> > To:
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:07 AM
> > 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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