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From: "Bellis Genealogy" <>
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] BRAY, EMANS, RITTENHOUSE, HUNTZINGER,WOOLVERTON: Wayne Co OHIO?
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 16:13:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: <4144a45e0511090344x266d9584rf30d2a40a0786b30@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Marfy,

Thanks for the input...lots of useful details. Makes me all the more
curious why these deeds were recorded in OHIO.

Re. BRAY to EMANS deed: "Boundary lines...contains 8.5 acres whereof Emans
is in actual possession."

Re. WOOLVERTON to RITTENHOUSE deed: "...14 acres more or less"

It seems to me Isaac RITTENHOUSE purchased EMANS's piece of land from
WOOLVERTON, plus maybe additional adjacent land already owned by WOOLVERTON.

Roz



-----Original Message-----
From: Marfy Goodspeed [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 6:45 AM
To:
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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