> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Butch & Sher <robinson@clarityconnect.com> > To: <COUNTRYMAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 9:44 AM > Subject: Re: [COUNTRYMAN-L] Confusing Information re:Stark/Keyser/Cass.... > > > > Dear Barb, Jack and Countryman researchers, > > > > The information listed below has no documentation as far as the > connections go. Yes, there was a HENRY COUNTRYMAN married to ARRIAENTJE > KEYSER who lived in Lower Smithfield, PA. (The Van DerMark information you > listed IS correct) In 1755 they had 5 children, 4 daughters and 1 son. The > son was killed and scalped by Indians in 1757. ARRIAENTJE died as result of > fleeing from the Indians (Dec., 1755) early in 1756 in Nazareth, PA. Later > we see a HENRY and a MARGARETHA BRENK (BRINK) baptizing a SUSANNAH in the > 1760's same area as where the original HENRY lived. > > There was also a HENRY who shows up on the other side of the Delaware River > into Sussex Co., NJ who is in possession of land both sides of the > Paulinskill in 1762. He is the HENRY who married CATHARINE (not Elizabeth) > COSS/GASS, dau. of PETER GASS from Sussex County. Many of his children > married into the STARK family. This HENRY had brothers CONRAD, (Marey > SIMMONS), PETER (Catharine HOVER, marriage recorded in Minisink Church > records in 1753) and sister, ELIZABETH who was the wife of HENRY BALE, first > settler of LaFayette, Sussex County, NJ, circa 1750 (she later married a > JACOB HUFFMAN). There were also many other GONTERMAN/COUNTRYMANs in the > PA/NJ Delaware River area....JOHN, SOPHIA (Zephaniah BELL), MARY (Adam > SNOOK), MARIA (Aert VERWEY), ANNA MARIA (Martin FEBER) {could be same > person}, MARGARET (David RIEL), MARIA ELIZABETH (Johann Christian JUNG), > FREDERICK, WILLIAM, ISAAC (?) (Mary Willems), and another PETER early on who > baptized a dau., EVA MARIA in Rapho, PA. (Lancaster area) in 1746 (Moravian > Records) > > Keep in mind that it was German custom to go by the middle name up to and > including the 1700's. > > Also one must remember that Kentucky was originally Virginia. The HENRY who > married CATHARINE COSS and PETER who married CATHARINE HOVER both moved to > KY by way of Washington Co., MD just after the Revolution. Both had sons > HENRY, which complicates matters even more. > > I can give you particulars, such as dates and locations. > > There is one major confusion about a HENRY who served in Virginia under > George Rogers Clark in the Illinois Champaign during July and August of > 1780. Descendants of the PETER GONTERMAN listed above (wife, C. HOVER) > believe this HENRY was PETER's son. In the same company was a JOHN and > CHARLES KENNADY, who would have been related through marriage to this > HENRY's sister, ELIZABETH KENNADY. The Virginia HENRY COUNTRYMAN > descendants claim this HENRY as well, which contributes to the confusion. > > Please let me know if I can better clarify the information I have written > above. > > Sheryl Gunderman Robinson > >