The book below tells the story of the 7th Day Baptists ,from Shrewsbury, N.J to New Salem WV this group first members were out Rev Holmes Newport RI First Baptist Church about 1660s ,Rev Holmes was not happy about then braking off from his church The 1905 book A History of the Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia: at http://books.google.com/books?id=ThpNXY8ZoEsC&pg=RA1-PA406&dq=7TH+DAY+BAPTIST&lr=&as_brr=1#PPA25,M1 at http://books.google.com/ search "7TH DAY BAPTIST" if you used "Full view " you see a list of book that you can read and search. Richard Brandstetter brandstetter.photo@verizon.net www.weddings-nj.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. Kathleen Felsted" <mkfelsted@gmail.com> To: <clark-champaign@rootsweb.com>; <njcumber@rootsweb.com>; <wvharris@rootsweb.com>; <husted@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:35 PM Subject: [WVHARRIS] New Jersey to Clark County, OH by way of VA? > Hi Marilyn, > > There does seem to be a couple of different migrations to Clark > County/Champaign County from NJ and other points going on. And I hope > someone can jump in and correct this if my surmises are wrong!!! > > 1.) In the middle 1700s, groups left NJ to go to Virginia (a Baptist > group, > Quakers, who else?) > > *A. from Virginia Frontier Defenses, 1719-1795 by Roy Bird Cook* > > *Forts in the Virginia (now West Virginia) area: * > > *http://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/journal_wvh/wvh1-2-4.html* > > *SALEM - A blockhouse situated on the site of New Salem, now Salem, > erected > by a group of settlers of Salem, New Jersey. * > > *B. http://www.maxson2000.net/janehm2.htm* > > *The Seventh Day Baptists joined the westward migration. A group of > Sabbatarians, which included Joseph, 1692- 1747 and Bethiah, 1693-1747 > (Maxson) Maxson and some of their children sailed to Shrewsbury, N.J. > where > a church had been established. Later members traveled to New York, > settling > first in Madison County, then, as the trails opened, moving to Allegany > County.* > > *In each town that these Seventh Day Baptists settled, they established a > church. In some towns academies were begun, several of them turning into > colleges and universities. Of the latter, Salem (now Salem-Teikyo) College > in West Virginia, Alfred University in New York and Albion College in > Wisconsin were all founded by Sabbatarian congregations.* > > *The Hopkinton Seventh Day Baptist Church still holds services each > Saturday > in the village of Ashaway, R.I. If you have a Hiscox, Burdick, Coon or > Stillman in your family tree, chances are that your ancestors ministered > in > this congregation along with the early Maxson men. *(Coon married into my > Husted line in Iowa...) > ** > 2) In the 1770s I have recently found out that some Indian treaties with > Virginia opened up lands beyond the ridge of the Appalachians, which > "broke" > the Kings Proclamation Line and some people moved then. Lord Dunsmore's > War > of 1774 also exposed large group of men to the Ohio/Kentucky areas. > > 3) About 1805ish there seems to be another group that left NJ and came to > Champaign County area. I believe that is the time that Joseph Newcomb > Husted's family came there - directly from NJ. My John Husted (some > relation to Joseph, but how exactly is unclear at the time to me) came > about > the same time - by way of Virginia. It is entirely possible he also was > born in the NJ area.... > > Kathie > > Some family names that married into the Husteds: Bacon, Feris/Faris, > McDaniel/McDonald, Greathouse, Davis, Ford, Ferguson, Hawk, Taylor, > Harris, > Stanley, Haneline/Hanley, etc.... > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM, <GNEOLOG@aol.com> wrote: > >> >> In a message dated 3/5/2008 10:53:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, >> w420@earthlink.net writes: >> >> Whatever the story, these families did settle in what became Bethel >> Township. >> >> >> >> So there is no telling where my Joseph Allen was between his birth in >> 1800 >> and his marriage in 1822. UGH. Take care all, Marilyn >> >> >> >> **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & >> Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- > M. Kathleen Felsted > mkfelsted@gmail.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WVHARRIS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message