Is "Swartwood" the same family as "Smartwood"? I see the latter family coming out of Tompkins/Chemung Cos down to Tioga Co,Pa. They are not mine but one I have often seen in my research of those areas and have even met a couple of Smartwoods. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Helen Graves" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:15 PM Subject: [NJSUSSEX-L] Shoemaker, Isaac - Elizabeth Brink - Swartwood connection? > Hi Kaye, > > There were other Minisink families who left the area not long after the Rev. > War and migrated to Tioga and Chemung Counties in NY -- some with a brief > stop of a few years at "Wyomee" (the Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., PA). > > My Swartwout families did, as did VanEttens, Shoemakers, Deckers, and > others. One who migrated was James Swartwood (in PA and NJ he was Jacobus > Swartwout, but after he arrived in Tioga Co., NY, he became James > Swartwood). > > James Swartwood's daughter Mary b 10 Jan 1774 in Delaware twp., Pike Co., > PA, married Isaac SHOEMAKER Jr., who was born about 1770. It appears they > married c. 1799-1800, so likely they married after they got to Tioga Co., > NY. A daughter Elizabeth was born in 1803 in VanEtten, Tioga Co., NY. > > Isaac and Mary (Swartwood) Shoemaker lived in Erin, Chemung Co., NY. When > Mary's father James Swartwood reached his 80s, he moved in with them in Erin > and died there at age 93+. Isaac Shoemaker was the executor of what was > left of his estate (not much). Isaac Shoemaker Jr. died 24 Feb 1850 in Erin > and was buried in the Scotchtown Cemetery. His widow Mary (Swartwood) > Shoemaker died 30 May 1855 and is also buried in Scotchtown Cemetery. > > I have not researched Isaac Shoemaker Jr. (1770-1850) so I do not know who > his parents were back in PA (or maybe Sussex Co., NJ). Is it possible that > he was the son of your Isaac Shoemaker and Elizabeth Brink? > > Are there others on the lists whose Minisink families made the same > migration to Tioga and Chemung Co's NY between 1785-1800? > > Helen Graves > > >