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From: "mcalaman" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] BRAY, EMANS, RITTENHOUSE, HUNTZINGER, WOOLVERTON: Wayne Co OHIO?
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 19:52:17 -0500
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This won't go very far in shedding light upon your question, but Daniel Bray
, a son of James Bray, was my ancestor, Andrew Bray,'s nephew. Daniel
married a Woolverton,and other Bray family members married into the
Rittenhouse family. I have checked through my notes but haven't found
anything on Isaac Rittenhouse.
I certainly would go along with your speculation that he could have gone to
Ohio, had the deed recorded as a precaution and then even may have returned
to New Jersey.
Have you seen Traditions of Hunterdon (Early History and Legends of
Hunterdon,NJ) by John LeQuear (Edited and Published by D.H. Moreau,
Flemington,NJ 1957) ? Along with being entertaining, it contains a lot of
material on early families in Hunterdon County, a lot of it firsthand from
Mr. Lequear .However, there's nothing on the Hunzinger family. But, on page
149,there is this : Adam Bellis Jr. married Mary Rockafellow who lived with
her brother Jacob on the old Rockafellow farm, where Gershom Sergeant now
lives. William, who took the homestead, married Mary Housel; John married
Nelly Williamson and Andrew married Lizzie Servis from Amwell.The old
Williamson homestead was near the Dutch Church at Larison's Corner. Then, on
the page prior, there is a history of your Bellis family from about 1740.
Have you seen it? If not, let me know-and I'll send it.Melva Calaman----
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From: "Bellis Genealogy" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 12:20 PM
Subject: [NJHUNTER] BRAY, EMANS, RITTENHOUSE, HUNTZINGER, WOOLVERTON: Wayne
Co OHIO?


> I have come across some information which perplexes me. Perhaps some of
you
> on the list might be able to decipher this.
>
> I was flipping through a book of "Miscellaneous Abstracts of Deeds" for
> Wayne Co OH, in search of a deed of sale for John BELLESFELT, circa
> 1780-1800. BELLESFELT, whose wife was Nellie WILLIAMSON of Amwell,
> Hunterdon Co NJ, was apparently buried in Trumbull (now Mahoning) Co OH.
> The only reason I was looking in Wayne Co was because of my uncertainty of
> the county formation timelines. (Trumbull/Mahoning County was in the
> Connecticut Western Reserve portion of the NWT.)
>
> Quite by accident, I came across the recording of three Hunterdon Co NJ
> deeds! Here are the details:
>
> Type of Deed: Conveyance
> Date: 1 June 1787
> Names of Sellers: Daniel BRAY, Kingwood, Hunterdon Co West New Jersey,
Mary
> his wife
> Names of Buyer: Job EMANS, same address
> Location of Land: Hunterdon Co NJ
> Name and Title of Official executing deed: Jos Reading, Judge oc Common
> Please Court, Hunterdon Co.
> Witnesses: Jonathan Doan, Elizabeth Reading
> Owners of land previously: Dennis Woolverton, deed 15 Apr 1774; Francis
> Tomlin, deed 1 May 1760; Daniel Howell, deed 6 Mar 1754; Christian
> Cornelius, deed 13 Jun 1750; Peter Embrey, Burlington Co NJ, no date of
> deed; Wm Biddle, 6 Nov 1732. Record of Survey, done by William Biddle,
> recorded in Surveyor General's Office, Burlington Co New Jersey.
>
> Type of Deed: not noted
> Date: not readable 1790
> Name of Sellers: William RITTENHOUSE, Catawissa Twp, Northumberland Co
PA,
> Ann, his wife
> Names of Buyers: Barnette HUNTZINGER
> Location of Land: Situated on NE Branch of Susquehannah River, Catawissa
> Twp N'umberland County, City Mifflinburg
> Name and Title of Official: not readable
> Witnesses: not readable
>
> Type of Deed: Conveyance
> Date: 1 May 1799
> Names of Sellers: John WOOLVERTON, Amwell Twp, Hunterdon Co NJ, Rachel,
his
> wife
> Names of Buyers: Isaac RITTENHOUSE, Amwell of Kingwood
> Location of Land: Kingwood Twp, Hunterdon Co NJ
> Name and Title of official executing deed: Jos Reading, Judge, Court of
> Common Please, Hunterdon Co NJ
> Witnesses: John Stockton, Garret Lake
> Owners of adjacent land: William Hoagland, Doughty Stockton, John Henn
> Previous owners of land: Daniel Bray, deceased, Amwell, deed, 15 Apr
1774;
> Francis Tomlison, deed 1 May 1760; Daniel Howell, deed, 6 Mar 1760;
> Christopher Cornelius, deed 13 June 1750; Peter Emley, deed, no date, of
> Burlington Co NJ; William Biddle, Burlington, deed, 6 Nov 1732, land
> surveyed by William Biddle.
> Job Emans -- Indenture deed, dated 6 June 1791, conveyed property to John
> Woolverton.
>
> NOTE: Deeds one and three appear to concern the same piece of property.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> - Why would these deeds have been recorded in Wayne Co OH?
> - Who would have had these deeds recorded? Can one safely assume it was
the
> current landowner? (i.e., Isaac Rittenhouse would have recorded both his
own
> deed as well as John Woolverton's just for safe measure.)
>
> I am wondering if perhaps Isaac RITTENHOUSE and Barnette HUNTZINGER had
> ventured to this frontier area to seek new land, and took their deeds with
> them to facilitate any future sale of their NJ land. I don't know the
> details of either of these two men, but based on a superficial search on
> online databases I think they died back east...not in OH.
>
> Thanks for any light you might be able to shed.
>
> Roz BELLIS
> Alexandria VA
>
>
>
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