Doug, Many of these same families - Stouts, Runyans, Andersons (my ancestors), Corwines & Harts as well as others Parkes (mine), Smiths (mine), Vannoys, Merrills, Mershoms, Hunts (mine), Lannings, Palmers, Heatons (Eaton), Moores, Greens and many more left Hopewell, Hunterdon Co. area much earlier than the Rev. War - in the mid 1700s - 1757 or so because of unhappiness left over from the "Coxe Incident" when Col. Coxe one of the West Jersey Proprietors charged people to pay for their land again after their original purchase. Many of these folks came to NC to an area in what was then Rowan Co. called the Jersey Settlement - including many of my own early Hopewell ancestors. Some of these folks also went "west" to the area around Fayette Co. PA, Monongalia Co. WV, Frederick Co. VA, Hampshire Co. VA/WV as well and from both of these locations after several years moved further west to KY. - those that I know of that followed this route NJ>NC>KY specifically were the Runyans & Park(e)s and I'm sure there were many others, who did reside in KY by the 1790/1800s. I don't know of those that went directly from NJ to KY or what motivated them at that time - although those that went from NC/Jersey settlement did get lured there by the Rev. War land grants I'm sure. There is a good article about the Coxe incident and the migration from Hopewell NJ to the Jersey Settlement which also lists many of the family names found in both places at: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/mckstmerjersey.htm written by Ethel Stroupe. I highly recommend it for a good history of what happened during the early years for the Hopewell, Hunterdon Co. folks. Susan Gall Descendant of Dr. Roger Parke, Andrew Smith, Major Phillip Phillips, Ralph Hunt, Cornelius Anderson, Richard Stockton, & Johannes Opdyke early residents of Hopewell NJ On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:10:01 EST DieselDis@aol.com writes: > In a message dated 11/2/04 4:44:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, > doug@wdgordon.com writes: > > > My ancestors and a number of related families moved from Hunterdon > Co. to > > the northern Kentucky area (mostly Mason Co.) in the 1790's to > early 1800's. I > > believe they were mostly from the Hopewell area, and the surnames > include > > Gordon, Stout, Runyan, Anderson, Donovan, Corwine, and Hart. I > would really > > like to know something about their actual journey: why they left, > how many went > > at a time, what route they took, etc. Does anyone have anything > like this? > > I've looked in a number of places for this information in both KY > and NJ, but > > no luck so far. > > > > Doug Gordon > > > > Hi Doug. Can't be of any help to you, but would love to know why > some of my > family also removed to Ky. around the same time. Could it be they > were given > land for serving in the Rev War? If you find out anything off the > list and would > like to share, I would appreciate it. Thanks Walt Disbrow > > > ==== NJHUNTER Mailing List ==== > Visit the Updated Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter > > ============================== > Expand your family tree. Search more than 200 million names in > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > >