I have that same info regarding Thomas Runyan marrying Martha Dunn in Piscataway, Middlesex, N.J. in 1698. Is this not true?????? Mark -----Original Message----- From: Carol Anne Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:16 PM To: njhunter@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] the Stout Discussion; The Problem with any Source that isn't Primary. Similar to the Penelope Stout problem is the matter of Martha, wife of the Thomas Runyon who died before 16 April 1753 at Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County. All over the internet you will see claims that she was the daughter of Hugh Dunn. It took me 2 years to track down the source of this information. Significantly, no emails to website owners and no message board post of mine requesting the source was ever answered. It was apparently the "invention?" of Orra Eugene Monnette. If he had any source, he certainly didn't cite it! It is a possibility though. Hugh Dunn did have a daughter named Martha, but there were a lot of other women named Martha around at that time! I can see how autosomal DNA testing might someday resolve this. If a significant number of descendants of Hugh Dunn matched a significant number of descendants of Thomas Runyon, one could assume Thomas's wife was Martha Dunn. I don't think one or two would do because colonial lines or so intertwined. I have other Hunterdon Co. mysteries that I hope will be solved by autosomal testing someday. I currently have some matches that could be through my Hunterdon unknowns but I think it's going to take development of better tools for the analyses of autosomal data plus many more Family Finder projects for comparing data in order to sort things out. I suggest a Hunterdon Co. Family Finder project if anyone has the necessary skills and the time to manage one. I'm still waiting for Calvin, Brittain (Britton) and Dilley matches! Carol Anne Visit the Hunterdon County GenWeb page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njhunter ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NJHUNTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message