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From: "Rita Chesterton" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] BRAY, EMANS, RITTENHOUSE, HUNTZINGER, WOOLVERTON: Wayne Co OHIO?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:48:18 -0500
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I lived in Stockton, Hunterdon Co. NJ for many years and there's a beautiful
Woolverton Inn Bed & Breakfast in a very substantial old house on the hill.
I believe they have a website which you can find on Google.

-Rita in NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marfy Goodspeed" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:44 AM
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] BRAY, EMANS, RITTENHOUSE, HUNTZINGER, WOOLVERTON:
Wayne Co OHIO?


> Dear Roz,
> These are interesting deeds. I share what I know:
>
> Daniel Bray bought 100 acres from his father-in-law Dennis Woolverton in
> 1774 in Kingwood on what is today Co. Rte 519. He built a log house there
> which burned down and was replaced by a more substantial house. I found
> this
> info in the Saxton Papers at the County Historical Society. You do not
> mention how much land Bray sold to Job Emans; I presume it was not the
> entire 100 acres since Bray stayed there until he died in 1819. In his
> will
> of 1813 he mentions "the residue of the farm given or devised to me by
> Dennis Woolverton (my wife's father)." He divided his property equally
> among
> his ten sons & daughters.
> Some of the names in the deed should be corrected. Jonathan Doan is Dean.
> Francis Tomlin is Tomlinson, Peter Embrey in Emley.
> The Job Emans who bought the property was almost certainly Job Emmons who
> was takec in Kingwood in 1780. He was a trustee of the Kingwood Baptist
> Church until 1792 when Daniel Bray was elected to replace Job Emmons "who
> has moved" according to church minutes. But He returned to the the church
> the following year. When he wrote his will in 1812, he was living in
> Freehold NJ and left all his real estate to his sons Amos and Job. He made
> no mention of land in Ohio.
>
> The note in the church minutes that Job Emans/Emmons had moved by July
> 1792
> accords with his selling his Kingwood land in 1791.
>
> Technicalities: You probably know it is the Court of Common Pleas, not
> Please, although people appearing before Judge Reading probably said
> 'please' a lot. And the land was surveyed for William Biddle, not by him.
>
> The John Woolverton who bought the land already owned lots of land, so I
> am
> not surprised he sold it only 8 years later. The Isaac Rittenhouse who
> bought the land from Woolverton in 1799 was probably the Isaac who owned
> the
> Crosskeys Tavern in Rosemont. He wrote his will in 1805 and mentioned
> owning
> "a meadow lot in Kingwood." You did not say anything about how many acres
> or
> any other description of the property being sold, so I don't know if this
> is
> the lot in question. The other Isaac Rittenhouses I have in my database
> don't seem right for this. By the way, Isaac Rittenhouse's son in law was
> John Bray, son of Daniel.
>
> As to the second deed you cite, Isaac Rittenhouse had a son William, but
> his
> wife was Catharine Ely, and he died in Hunterdon Co. in 1834. He also had
> a
> brother William (as well as a father William). The father died in Kingwood
> in 1799. The brother, however, moved to Fayette County, PA, according to
> Lequear's Traditions of Hunterdon.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Marfy
>
>
> On 11/8/05, mcalaman <> wrote:
>>
>> 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----
>> Original Message -----
>> From: "Bellis Genealogy" <>
>> To: <>
>> 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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