Ebenezer PETTY

                   Chilren from RW Pension App which was denied.

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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Petty, Bodine, Pickle, Slout, Wolverton, Lott,Conover &
Creveling


>I have been working on the family of Ebenezer Petty for several months. He
> married Mary Bodine 31 December 1805. I believe this was the second
> marriage
> for each.
>
> If my hypothesis is correct, Mary may be Mary Pickle was born about 1769,
> daughter of Johan Baltazar Pickle and his wife Anna Barbara and she
> married
> Jacob Bodine about 1787. They had 6 children and then John Bodine died in
> 1801.
>
> Last year I used the Hunterdon Gazette Index and the help of others on
> this
> list to find the death date of Ebenezer Petty which was 24 December 1836.
> I
> was able to find his probate file at the Family History Library in SLC
> when I
> was doing research there in November. Ebenezer Petty did not leave a
> will,
> and because some of his heirs were minors, his son Jonathan Petty applied
> to
> the court for a division of the real estate. Hunterdon County, Orphan's
> Court,
> Special Term, 19 September 1840, recorded in Vol. 8 p. 269-270.
>
> The probate file lists the following heirs, with no relationships
> provided:
>
> John Petty
> Jane Conover, widow of Wm. Conover
> Joseph Petty
> Jacob Petty
> the children of Margaret Wolverton, dec'd
> the children of Sarah, late wife of John Creveling
> Mary, the wife of Daniel Wolverton
> Rebecca Lott, wife of Bartholomew Lott
> Ann the wife of Thomas Queen or Green
> Matilda, wife of William Slout
> Catherine Petty
>
> I would love to hear from anyone on this list who has information about
> any
> of these families. I have a more detailed write up about this family in
> word
> which I can share with others who may be related.
>
> Yesterday on the Hunterdon Co. Historical Society web site, I found the
> following cemetery records:
>
> Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Alexandria Township
>
> Ebenezer Petty, d. 25 Dec 1856 [I believe this should be 1836] 84th year
>
> Mary Petty, d. 12 Feb 1851, 81.7.5
>
> Jonathan F. Petty, 1 Oct 1808 - 1 Apr 1880. Jonathan Petty's family is
> also
> buried with him and there are other Petty's buried in this cemetery as
> well.
>
> William Conover and wife Jane are also buried here.
>
> These cemetery records were copied from the GSNJ records at Rutgers. I
> realize it is winter, but if anyone plans to visit the library this
> winter, I
> would appreciate someone double checking this cemetery record and/or
> appreciate
> if someone could check the stone in the cemetery in the spring.
>
> Mary Petty, 81 was listed in the 1850 census living with William and
> Matilda
> Slaught [Slout], who I believe is her daughter.
>
>
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