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From: "Marilyn Boutwell" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Huffman/Hoffman
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:58:30 -0400
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Cinda: Posting the material you have would be wonderful. you never know
how much it would mean to the one person who might be looking for it.
Marilyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cinda Justice" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Huffman/Hoffman


> Dear Marilyn,
> That was so kind of you to look up all that information. I am very
> grateful to you. My John Anderson, I believe was Quaker and doubt he
> served in the war. Although there are many John Anderson's who did. :+)
> I am at a loss to figure out what happened to mine. He came to OH in 1799
> and was dead by 1815. His sons were Mahlon, Gershom, Jonathan, John and
> Levi and daughters were Rebekah, Abigail and Polly (likely - Mary) The
> only child who lived to the 1850 census was Rebekah who said she was born
> 1784 in NJ. I was hoping to find my John there at least for a little
> while. He was married to a Deborah Swart but I can not find where or if
> she was the first wife??? The first son born in 1772 and the second in
> 1780... So to eleminate one John Anderson is good because then I will look
> somewhere else.
> Again thanks for your kindness in going far beyond the call....
>
> One thing I did on the census records of Ross Co. (Chillicothe, OH) was
> to go to the 1850 census and write down the names of everyone I could find
> that was born in NJ. Do you think that would be helpful to the members of
> this list. I am new and do not know what has been done or what is
> desired. If this is a little too far out, I won't send them. Your
> oppinion is welcome.
> Thanks, Cinda
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marilyn Boutwell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Huffman/Hoffman
>
>
>> Cinda: No Vannoys or Swarts. Page 84, same list of moneys owed to
>> Joseph Reed's store is John Anderson and Benjamin Anderson; page 160
>> lists William Quick serving under Capt Anderson's Company of the New
>> Jersey Continental Line, 27 May 1778. On page 26, Isaac Anderson was
>> paid 15s.3d for a coffin for Joseph Furman. Page 40, John Swallow bought
>> a plantation from Seth Lowery and James Anderson near Rocktown. Page
>> 129, Ephraim Anderson, who lived near Trenton was the Major. He was
>> afterwards killed at the battle of the Short Hills, Essex County, New
>> Jersey. (Revolutionary War)
>>
>> The identity of John Anderson is provided by Erskine's map, circa 1778,
>> of the King's Road between Rocktown and Ringo's tavern. At the spot
>> where the tavern house stands, the mapmaker had noted "Capt Anderson'd"
>> JOhn Anderson was commissioned a captain in the Hunterdon County Militia
>> and served during the battle of Long Islanad, 27 Aug 1776 and White
>> Plains, 28 Oct 1886. He served several five month tours of duty before
>> resigning 5 Jun 1778. Capt. Anderson was a member of St. Andrews
>> Church in Ringoes and represented the church at conventions held at
>> Burlington in 1786 in 1786 and later at Perth Amboy. His signature
>> appears with those of other wardens and vestrymen on a document, dated
>> 1785, announcing the reopening of St. Andrews following a period, during
>> the Revolutionary War, when services had been suspended. Anderson and
>> Anne Van KIrk were arried by Rev. William Frazer, rector of St. Andrews
>> on 10 Apr 1783. She may have been Anderson's second wife as the eldest
>> of his four children, Joshua was born in 1773. Birth dates for the other
>> children, John, Nancy, and Sarah are not know. Although Anderson
>> remained in Amwell Township until his death, which occured 9 May 1799,
>> he gave up tenure in the tavern during the first six months of 1780. The
>> records of Amwell tax ratables show Anderson as the tavern keeper in Jan
>> 1780. However, by June of that year, Samuel Birdsall occupied 20 acres
>> with the tavern belong to Mathew Simcock.and John Anderson died 29 Apr
>> 1799.
>>
>> Page 96: Following names appear on the inventory as persons owning money
>> to Corshon. Listed Thomas Anderson..Corshon died intestate January 1798.
>>
>> Page 156: James Larew in June 1779 enreolled in troop of cavalry under
>> Capt. Henry Gulick and Lt. Anderson.
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Cinda Justice" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 7:43 AM
>> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Huffman/Hoffman
>>
>>
>>> Marilyn, are there any Anderson's, Vannoy's or Swart's in that book? Is
>>> it available on line?
>>> Thanks,
>>> cinda anderson justice
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Marilyn Boutwell" <>
>>> To: <>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Huffman/Hoffman
>>>
>>>
>>>> In the book, "A History of East Amwell, 1700-1800" : by the East
>>>> Amwell Bicentennial Committee of Ringoes, New Jersey, on page 85 is
>>>> listed names of persons owing money to Mr. Joseph Reed, owning a store,
>>>> books as of 23 Jul 1774. by appraisers. There is a John Huffmam, son
>>>> of William Huffman as one of the people owing money. Could this be the
>>>> same John?
>>>> .
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Bill Henderson" <>
>>>> To: <>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 8:54 AM
>>>> Subject: [NJHUNTER] Huffman/Hoffman
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any information on a John Huffman who had a daughter
>>>>> named Jemima born about 1809 in Readington? She married an unknown
>>>>> Smith and died in 1874 in Delaware, Hunterdon. I'm hot on the trail
>>>>> of my great-great grandmother and this Jemima might be her...fingers
>>>>> crossed.
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Carly Henderson
>>>>>
>>>>>
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