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From: Gordon Bonnet <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Fonner/Fonger/Hunt family
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:38:20 -0500
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If you do find the marriage record, it would be very valuable to me!
Thanks for checking...

If I find that I _am_ connected to the Fonners (which at the moment is
possible but unproven) I'll get back in touch.

cheers,

Gordon

Randy Fonner wrote:

> I believe I have a source for Elzabeth Fonner and Daniel Hunt marriage.
>
> I will have to check and get back to you.
>
> I am unsure why it is not listed in the notes on my website.
>
> Please remember that any possible connection between Fonger and Fonner is
> pure speculation at this time. I have not had a chance to try and
> look deeper into it.
> Seeemed like they were in the same area of NJ about same time and many
> similar names.
>
> Stay in touch and good luck.
>
>
> At 08:04 PM 3/8/2006, you wrote:
>
>> Interesting stuff! I haven't been able to find anything on Christian
>> Fonner other than her will (including what her maiden name may have
>> been); and nothing at all on her husband, William Fonner. I haven't
>> had time to follow all the links you sent -- does anything you have
>> refer to this family?
>>
>> You're the first person I have found who is researching this family...
>>
>> One more question: did Elizabeth Fonner marry Daniel Hunt in 1774?
>> I'm trying to track down an alleged marriage record of a Daniel Hunt
>> to "Elesebet" ___ on 4 Dec. 1774. This is from unsourced LDS
>> records, alleged to be of Somerset Co. NJ, but I'm yet to find the
>> original record it came from.
>>
>> I'll keep looking in to what you sent!
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Gordon
>>
>> Randy Fonner wrote:
>>
>>> Below are some notes I have about what would appear to be several
>>> Elizabeth Fonner's.
>>>
>>> One apparently married a George Taylor, another (or same one)
>>> married Daniel Hunt.
>>>
>>> I have no other info on Daniel Hunt and very little on Elizabeth
>>> Fonner, except what is on my Fonner
>>> family history rootsweb website, but I too would love to learn more.
>>>
>>> An Elizabeth Founer married George Taylor 3-10-1788 in Pompton
>>> Plains, Morris, NJ
>>>
>>> In the records of the Lebanon Reformed Church, there is a record of
>>> a Fonner baptism that is too difficult to read. The baptism is for
>>> Elizabeth Fonner on July 28, 1791 - daughter of Abraham [?!] and Mary.
>>>
>>> In the vital records of Readington, there is a record of an
>>> Elizabeth Fonner who died on December 22, 1857 age 62 of
>>> consumption. She was listed as being the daughter of Oliver and
>>> Elizabeth. She was born circa 1795.
>>>
>>> For those interested in pure speculation.............and a different
>>> Hunt marriage
>>> FONGER FAMILY CONNECTIONS
>>>
>>> F1. UNKNOWN FONGER1 the father of this family is unknown. He had at
>>> least two sons who settled in Knowlton Township in what was then
>>> Sussex County, New Jersey during the late eighteenth century. The
>>> area where his sons settled is now in the vicinity of Hainesburg,
>>> Knowlton Township, Warren County, New Jersey. There were at least
>>> two other Fongers living in Sussex County in the late eighteenth
>>> century. The first was William Fonger, who married Polly Hunt on 14
>>> March 1798. She was the daugther of Ralph Hunt, who was known as
>>> "Honet Ralph." The second was George Fonger, who married Elizabeth
>>> Low on 8 November 1800 in Sussex County (Reuther n.d.).
>>>
>>> The surname Fonger has several different spellings. The
>>> nineteenth-century historian, James P. Snell (Snell 1881:601), in
>>> his history of Warren County gives the surname as Funger. Randy
>>> Fonner in his web site
>>> <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Erefonner/index2.htm>Fonner Family
>>> History speculates that "maybe" the name Fonger was later changed to
>>> Fonner by some families. This was part of the anglicization of
>>> German immigrants. Many German families changed their surname
>>> spelling after they had been in the American colonies for a
>>> generation or so. For instance, the Titman family of Warren and
>>> Sussex Counties were actually descendants of Ludwig Dittman. The
>>> Fonger/Funger/Fonner connection is a clue for family researchers to
>>> keep in mind while searching through records.
>>>
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/index.htm>Return to Main
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/F1fam.htm#CHILDREN>Children
>>> of Unknown Fonger
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/F1fam.htm#REFERENCES>References
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/a.htm>Surname Index
>>>
>>>
>>> CHILDREN OF UNKNOWN FONGER:
>>> F2. (i.) PHILIP FONGER, Sr.2, was born unknown and died by 6
>>> September 1808 probably in Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren)
>>> County, New Jersey. There are no Fongers listed in the 1773-1774 or
>>> 1774 rateables list for Sussex County. The Fongers either lived in
>>> the County before 1774 but did not own land; or they did not settle
>>> in the county until after 1774 (Stryker-Rodda 1972). Philip married
>>> Unknown. She is not mentioned in his will, which was written on 12
>>> March 1798. She probably died before 1798. The will was written in
>>> 1798, but not admitted for probate in the Sussex County Surrogate
>>> Court until 6 September 1808. In the will Philip named five
>>> children: son Philip Fonger, Jr. and daughters Jane, Sarah, Charity
>>> and Elizabeth Fonger. He appointed his brother John Fonger as his
>>> executor. Garret Albertson and Jacob Weltz were the witnesses to the
>>> will (Sussex County Surrogate Court Records, Wills 1167S). Children
>>> of Philip Fonger, Sr.
>>> F4. (i.)
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/M1fam.htm#PHILIP%20FONGER,%20JR.>PHILIP
>>> FONGER, Jr.3, was born and died unknown. He married (M2.)
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/M1fam.htm#PRUDENCE%20MATTHEWS>Prudence
>>> Matthews2, (Unknown Matthews1) the sister of John Matthews. John
>>> married Philip's sister, Elizabeth Fonger (Kern 1938; Sussex County
>>> Surrogate Court Records, Wills 1167S). Prudence was born in 1758 and
>>> died 2 January 1818 in the vicinity of the village of Sodom (now
>>> Hainesburg), Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren) County, New
>>> Jersey (Kern 1938). Philip Fonger was her second husband. A clue to
>>> the location of the Fonger farm is contained in the works of
>>> Armstrong (1979) and Snell (1881). Armstrong (1979:228) writes that
>>> Gershom Bartow traded for the farm of John Walker at Hainesburg. He
>>> goes on to say that "The Walker farm was the old farm of Philip
>>> Fonger and lies along Yards Creek." As Prudence Fonger was married
>>> to Sir Isaac Walker before her marriage to Philip Fonger, it is
>>> possible that John Walker was her son or grandson and that he had
>>> the farm through his mother's marriage to Philip Fonger. Snell
>>> (1881:624) picks up the thread of ownership for the old Fonger farm.
>>> He states that "The farm now owned by Benjamin Bartow, near the
>>> village of Hainesburg, was originally owned by a man named Funger, a
>>> German, as the name readily implies."
>>> F5. (ii.) JANE FONGER3, was born and died unknown (Sussex
>>> County Surrogate Court Records, Wills 1167S).
>>> F6. (iii.) SARAH FONGER3, was born and died unknown (Sussex County
>>> Surrogate Court Records, Wills 1167S).
>>> F7. (iv.) CHARITY FONGER3, was born and died unknown (Sussex County
>>> Surrogate Court Records, Wills 1167S).
>>>
>>> F8. (v.)
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/M3fam.htm#ELIZABETH%20FONGER>ELIZABETH
>>> FONGER3, was born unknown and died circa 1810 in the vicinity of
>>> Hainesburg, Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren County), New
>>> Jersey. She married (M3.)
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/M3fam.htm#JOHN%20MATTHEWS>John
>>> Matthews2 (Unknown Matthews1). He died in circa 1799 in the vicinity
>>> of Hainesburg, Knowlton Township, Sussex (now Warren County), New
>>> Jersey. His sister Prudence Matthews married Elizabeth's brother
>>> Philip Fonger, Jr. (Kern 1938; Sussex County Surrogate Court
>>> Records, Wills 1167S).
>>> F3. (ii.) JOHN FONGER2, was born unknown and died after 12 March
>>> 1798. He is named as the executor of his brother Philip's estate.
>>> Philip's will was dated 12 March 1798 and was admitted to probate on
>>> 6 September 1808 (Sussex County Surrogate Court Records, Wills
>>> 1167S). A John Fonger was a member of the church in Stillwater,
>>> Sussex County, New Jersey. He appears on the list of parents whose
>>> children were baptized between 1773 and 1800. This church was
>>> originally built by 1771 and stood in the bounds of the cemetery
>>> currently in Stillwater. At first it was used by both German
>>> Lutherns and German Calvinists. By 1816, the Dutch Reformed/German
>>> Calvinists constituted the majority of the congregation. They
>>> applied to the Presbytery of New Brunswick to come under the care of
>>> the Presbyterian church. From that date forward, the church has been
>>> a Presbyterian church and is known as Stillwater Presbyterian Church
>>> (Snell 1880:381).
>>>
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/F1fam.htm#Top>Go to Top of Page
>>> <http://www.charm.net/%7Eedrtjd/readgen/a-c.htm>Surname Index
>>>
>>> REFERENCES
>>>
>>> PRIMARY
>>>
>>> New Jersey State Archives, Trenton New Jersey (NJSA)
>>> Sussex County, Surrogate Court Records
>>> File 1164S.
>>> SECONDARY
>>>
>>> Armstrong, William C.
>>> 1979 Pioneer Families of Northwestern New Jersey. Hunterdon House,
>>> Lambertville, N.J.
>>>
>>> Kern, William MacKellar
>>> 1938 Kern and Ogden ancestors. Also allied families of Lanterman,
>>> Read, Crisman, etc. Manuscript
>>> on file, New York City Public Library.
>>>
>>> Snell, James P. (Compiler)
>>> 1881 History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey, With
>>> Illustrations and Biographical
>>> Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Howard E. Case, Sussex.
>>> Everts and Peck, Philadelphia.
>>>
>>> Stryker-Rodda, Kenn
>>> 1972 Revolutionary Census of New Jersey: An Index Based on Rateables
>>> of the Inhabitants of
>>> New Jersey During the Period of the American Revolution. Polyanthos,
>>> Cottonport, LA.
>>> WEB SITES
>>>
>>> Fonner, Randy
>>> n.d. <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Erefonner/index2.htm>Fonner
>>> Family History see Surname Index for Unattached Fonners.
>>>
>>> Reuther, Jan
>>> n.d. <http://www.raub-and-more.com/default.html>My Raub (and more)
>>> Ancestry, see Marriages.
>>>
>>> At 11:43 AM 3/4/2006, you wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone know anything further about the Fonner family,
>>>> specifically the family of Christian Fonner (widow of William)
>>>> whose will was dated 14 Sep 1798 (Readington Twp, Hunterdon Co.
>>>> NJ)? Her will mentions a daughter Elizabeth who m. Daniel Hunt,
>>>> and I suspect this might be a direct line for me.
>>>>
>>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Gordon Bonnet
>>>> Trumansburg NY
>>>>
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