Have you searched the ED BALL ROOM on the internet ? It is an extensive database for the Newark NJ area ( Essex County) Cranes and Balls. Jane R> Elliott Researching Burnett, Gardner, Ball, French, Smith of Newark, Irvington, Clifton, Maplewood, NJ >------------------------------ >Content-Type: text/plain > >NJESSEX-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 114 > >Today's Topics: > #1 New Providence Presbyterian -BALL [HFAGLEY@aol.com] > #2 3,000,000 acres sw Ohio to NJ spec [HFAGLEY@aol.com] > #3 BARNETT; NJ, MA [rpfamily@concentric.net] > >Administrivia: >Please read the entire digest before answering any postings. >Someone may have already answered the question. > >When replying from the Digest Mode, please change the Subject Line >from "Digest ...." to whatever the subject of the post is. > > >To unsubscribe from NJESSEX-D, send a message to > > NJESSEX-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ >------------------------------ >X-Message: #1 >Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 01:36:35 EDT >From: HFAGLEY@aol.com >To: NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <bb155282.245fe163@aol.com> >Subject: New Providence Presbyterian -BALL >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Marriage records exsidt til 1800? This Bethel,Ohio was founded 201 years ago >by OBED DENHAM.m MARY BALL Her sister m BENJ CRANE >A PHEOBE BALL M - BONNELL,and then JACOB JENNINGS- desc LEVI TINGLEY here at >BETHEL,sw Ohio; >Did,1750-55 a THOMAS BROWN M A MARY BALL or MARY OSBORN,or anybody > >______________________________ >------------------------------ >X-Message: #2 >Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 07:06:24 EDT >From: HFAGLEY@aol.com >To: NJESSEX-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <3d4861d4.24602eb0@aol.com> >Subject: 3,000,000 acres sw Ohio to NJ speculators 1788 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Lose a ne NJ line 1790's+? Look here in the Cincinnati -Dayton Oh area. >Scotch Plains>se Pa Benj Stites told Morris Co NJ Rev War big shot JOHN >CLEVES SYMMeS of rich lands Va had just ceded the Contential Congress. >Congress ceded a big tract to Symmes,who advertized it heavily in NJ. 1789-95 >was a continuation of Indian wars,and settlements around Cincinnati was >mostly in forts. Falling behind in his payments to Congress,the Symmes >Grant's n boundriy was reduced from Dayton to Lebanon. > This Bethel,SW Ohio was outside the SYMMES grant, but was settled,1797, >by Obed and MARY BALL DENHAM,et al. Her bro-in-law,BENJ CRANE; his >bro,JOHN,.many more. Will post later surnames > >______________________________ >------------------------------ >X-Message: #3 >Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:20:10 -0400 (EDT) >From: rpfamily@concentric.net >To: NJ-L@rootsweb.com, BARNETT-L@rootsweb.com, NJESSEX-D@rootsweb.com, > ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Message-Id: <199905050020.UAA28368@cliff.concentric.net> >Subject: BARNETT; NJ, MA >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >My BARNETTs start with David BARNETT and sons, John and William, living in >Newark, NJ in the early 1820s. William went to MA and married Nancy Wheeler >in 1826 in Medway. Daughter Matilda was born 1833, and William in 1837, both >in MA. By 1840, the family was back in NJ with a 3rd child, George AC, born >1839 in Rahway, NJ. Matilda returned to Boston and never married. William >and George served together in the Civil War in Hawkin's Zouaves. William was >killed in action, but George survived and had a long life as an attorney in >New York City. He died in 1914, and was my great-grandfather. > >Also seeking other relatives, Oliver and Eddie Barnett, who lived in NY and >NJ around 1890-1910. > >Anyone connect? Any suggestions? Please reply to rpfamily@concentric.net. >Thanks. > >George Pierce >George T (Ted) Pierce >rpfamily@concentric.net > >--------------------------------