> > WILLIAM COUNTRYMAN /CONTERMAN, 1755 > > Sussex Co., NJ Listers, > > Again, still, I find myself against the infamous "Brick Wall". > Can anyone help me? > > > > In Lower Smithfield, Northampton Co., PA area there was a family by the > name of COUNTRYMAN/CONTERMAN who were involved with the Moravians and the > Indian troubles of the 1750's. > > > > Names I have found in Moravian and other records of the time include > WILLIAM, FREDERICK, HENRY, ARRIAENTJE, ANDRES, MARGARET, CATHERINE, EVA > MARIA, PETER, RACHEL, ELIZABETH, JOHN. > > > > Has anyone ever run across any of these names in their research of the > area, especially WILLIAM COUNTRYMAN? > > WILLIAM was in the area in 1755 and then dissappears. He may have crossed > the Delaware into northwestern New Jersey after Indians burned down his house. Was that > a popular decision among the Blue Mountain inhabitants who had been > harrassed by Indian troubles in the area? > > > > My ancestor, CONRAD GONTTERMAN/COUNTRYMAN, shows up in Sussex County, NJ > by 1764. I am hoping to connect him to the Lower Smithfield group. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Sheryl Gunderman Robinson > > Horseheads, NY

Dear Sheryl, There were a few Countrymans in the Minisink area in the 1750s. In the Walpack Dutch Reformed Church in Sussex Co., NJ, on 4 Oct 1747 "Rachel", the daughter of Hendrick Countryman and Arriaentje Keyser, was baptized. On 7 May 1750 in the Machackemack Dutch Reformed CHurch in Port Jervis, Orange County, NY, Joseph, the son of John Hoeper and Maria Bishoff, was baptized. The godparents were Martin Feber and his wife, Anna Maria Conterman. In the Walpack CHurch on 19 Jul 1752 Jacobus, the son of Adam Dingeman and Maritje Van Garden, was baptized. The witnesses were Jacobus Van Garden and Maria Elisabeth Contryman. At Walpack on 26 Dec 1753 were married Pieter Conterman, young man born in Germany and living at Palmyskill, and Catharina Hover, young woman, born in Germany and living at Walpeck. You are probably aware that Hank Z. Jones, Jr. writes up an immigrant GONDERMAN family on pages 294-297 of his volume I of "The Palatine Families of New York". Dorothy On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Butch & Sher wrote: > > > > WILLIAM COUNTRYMAN /CONTERMAN, 1755 > > > > Sussex Co., NJ Listers, > > > > Again, still, I find myself against the infamous "Brick Wall". > > Can anyone help me? > > > > > > > In Lower Smithfield, Northampton Co., PA area there was a family by the > > name of COUNTRYMAN/CONTERMAN who were involved with the Moravians and the > > Indian troubles of the 1750's. > > > > > > Names I have found in Moravian and other records of the time include > > WILLIAM, FREDERICK, HENRY, ARRIAENTJE, ANDRES, MARGARET, CATHERINE, EVA > > MARIA, PETER, RACHEL, ELIZABETH, JOHN. > > > > > > Has anyone ever run across any of these names in their research of the > > area, especially WILLIAM COUNTRYMAN? > > > WILLIAM was in the area in 1755 and then dissappears. He may have > crossed > > the Delaware into northwestern New Jersey after Indians burned down his > house. Was that > > a popular decision among the Blue Mountain inhabitants who had been > > harrassed by Indian troubles in the area? > > > > > > My ancestor, CONRAD GONTTERMAN/COUNTRYMAN, shows up in Sussex County, NJ > > by 1764. I am hoping to connect him to the Lower Smithfield group. > > > > > > Thank you, > > > > > > Sheryl Gunderman Robinson > > > Horseheads, NY > > >