Benjamin Strawn

Benjamin married Sally Ann Dean on 23 Jun 1846 in Boone County, Illinois. Sally was born on 15 Jan 1819 in Maine; died on 9 Apr 1888 in DeKalb County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charlotte Strawn was born in 1847; died in 1930.
2. Theodore Strawn was born on 17 Mar 1849 in DeKalb County, Illinois; died on 11 Jun 1919 in Kirkland, Illinois.
3. George Strawn was born on 30 Aug 1853 in Flora Township, Boone County, Illinois; died on 20 Jan 1945.
4. Willard Strawn was born on 11 Oct 1855 in DeKalb County, Illinois; died in 1934 in Kirkland, DeKalb County, Illinois.
5. Ellen Strawn was born in 1858; died in 1931.
6. Jr. Benjamin Strawn was born in 1861; died in 1925.
7. Violetta "Let" Strawn was born on 15 Sep 1863 in Franklin Township, DeKalb County, Illinois.
8. Mary Strawn was born in 1865; died in 1879.

Notes:

Order-in Council for land was dated 25 Feb 1812

Joab lived for some years in Humberstone Township and later London District Ref Ontario Register), likely Yarmouth Township Elgin County

He was listed as a member of the Fifth Company of the Third Regiment of the Middlesex Militia in 1828-9 (Company from the Talbot Road area of Yarmouth Township) (also in same Company John, Asel, Benjamin,

John (again) and William Strawn)

Joab married Eve Wintemute. Eve (daughter of John\Johannes Wintemute and Mary Decker \ Windecker) was born in 1779 in Ontario, Canada; died on 2 Feb 1852 in Roscoe, IL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Named as Eve Strawn in the will of her father. An Order in Council dated 25 February 1812 names her as wife of Joab Strawn of Humberstone and daughter of John Wintemute. I am indebted to Dr George E. McCracken of Des Moines, Iowa, Editor of
"The American Genealogist" for the following information. Joab was a son of John Strawn (Jacob Lancelot) by his wife Kezia Dennis. John and Kezia were married in April 1770 at the Richland Meeting of Friends, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and
they subsequently settled in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Several of their children moved to Welland County, Ontario. Joab and later his family lived in Humberstone for some years but later moved to the London District. They subsequently
moved to Roscoe, Illinois, where Eve died 11 February 1852 and Joab died 30 September 1854.



Bob Moore says that she is a child of Mary Sipes.

Notes:

Information from Bob Moore.



Much more informaton on the Strawn family is available on Bonnie Strawn-Miller's website at http://pages.prodigy.com/Strawn/hstrawn.htm

John married Kezia Dennis. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Education: sold farm & moved to Humberston. Dtrs

Maiden Name: married men named Strawn (2), Moses Done,

TEXT: Stoffer, & Dennis.







He was baptized 25 October 1747. It is stated in "The Wintermute Family History" that John married in New Jersey a Miss Decker or Windecker and that she died there. Both names were common in the northern part of Sussex County. It should be
noted, however, that a family of Windecker's, also tory, lived in the Wyoming Valley before the Revolution not far from where the Wintermute's lived. John's name appears on the tax lists for the Exeter District of that Valley for 1776 and
1777. He served in Butler's Rangers, and at the reduction of that Corps he settled in Bertie. His household is listed in a return of the Loyalists in Captain Bernard Frey's Company of the Rangers at Niagara 30 November 1783. [Haldimand
Papers B105-A:381] The list names Corporal John Wintmot aged 27 and Mary Wintmot 24 followed by three entries with the name Wintmot written, but for which no first names or ages are given. If the age given for John was 37, it would be more in
accordance with his baptismal record.



A land petition from him dated 9 July 1795 [W3:137] states that he served in Butler's Rangers as a corporal and that he has a family consisting of five children. No mention was made of a wife. The following certificate of J. Ball, J.P., on
file with the petition, indicates a second marriage for John. "Newark, 20 March 1797. I do hereby certify that corporal John Wintermute served in Butler's Rangers during the was; that he had a family before the year 1789 consisting of a wife
and eight children; that his wife is the daughter of a Loyalist Hannah Lybs who came in the year 1778".



The "Loyalist Hannah Lybs" can only mean Hannah Sypes, or Sipes, who did enter Niagara in 1778. This would mean that John had married a sister of the wife of his brother Peter, but additional evidence should be found to corroborate such a
marriage. It is noted, however, that two of John's daughters were Hannah and Eve, names which were used in the Sipes family.



John subsequently married Nancy Leopard (leppard, etc) but whether this was before or after he moved to Humberstone is not known. Documents on file with Nancy's land petition [L:3:35] indicate that she was married to John after 9 May 1797 and
more likely after 1800. A power of attorney dated at Humberstone, 22 October 1832 states that "I, Nancy Wintemute of Humberstone, widow of John Wintemute late of same place, yeoman, deceased, and daughter of William Leopard, at his birth of
Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania, known before marriage as Nancy Leopard, do appoint Andrew Mercer of the town of York as my attorney to receive for me title to the south part of Lot 23 Concession 4 of Scarboro' containing 100 acres".
Witnesses were John Wintemute (Jr) and Aaron Doan.

John\Johannes married Mary Decker \ Windecker before 1772 in New Jersey. Mary died in 1774 in New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Kelsey Jones mentions that in a list of Butlers Rangers that naturally included the Wintermute boys, Hendrick "Henry" Windecker was also on the list.



Besides the notorious Windecker at the Battle of Wyoming, I would like to know more about this family.

Notes:

Christened Sept 1,1707 in Pfungstadt, Starkenburg, Hessen, Germany



Oklahoma Genealogical Quarterly, V. 14, #1, March 1969 - name was Jury Philip, m. Maria Julianna Houghtaling (Hoogeling, Huber, Hoverin). Philip came to America 11 Aug 1732 from Rotterdam to Phila. on Ship "Samuel." By 1745 he was in Sussex Co.
NJ. In 1772 he moved with most of his family to Wyoming Valley in Pa. where he build Wintermute Fort. In Jun1 1778, the Fort was burned by the British. Most of the Wintermute family and several other families living in the Fort went to Canada
with Butler's Army. Philip died in 1779 in Lincoln Co., Ontario, Canada

1732 Census he is in Phila.



"Pa. German Pioneers from 1727-1808" by R. B. Strassburger, Gen. Pub. Co. 1980 - List 19A Ship Samuel, Hugh Percy, from Rotterdam. Qualified Aug. 11, 1732.

Georg married Maria Juliana Huber. Maria was born in 1715. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

I am trying to determine the identity of Maria Julia Huber (Hover, Hoover) wife of George Philip Wintermute.



A Johannes Hendricus Hover b. 1705 came to Philadelphia n 1735 and settled in Smithfield, PA before 1742. This was on the west side of the Delaware River in present Monroe County, Pennsylvania and only a few miles from the

Stillwater area. He was admitted a member of the Reformed Dutch Church at Smithfield on 22 June 1745 and on 6 June 1746 Susana Holeyson his wife was admitted, having formerly been a Lutheran.



Five known children:

John b. 1738 killed in Indian raid. The raid was perhaps in 1756 when the Indian disturbances along the Delaware became severe.

Henry b. 4 Apr 1740.

Susanna bpt 14 Mar 1742 Smithfield.

Samuel bpt 30 Dec 1744 Smithfield.

Emanuel bpt 20 Sept 1747 Smithfield taken prisoner in same raid that brother John was killed in. Emanuel later served in American Revolution as a Captain. On 18 Apr 1797 Manuel Hover and Mary his wife of Northampton

County, Pennsylvania conveyed 150 acres in Walpack to Jonas Smith and wife Mary, excepting one half acre, it being the common burying ground of Walpack.



It is believed that a Johan Michael Huber who married Elizabeth Mennes, Catharian Huber who married Peter Conterman (Countryman, Gunderman, etc.), and Maria Juliana Huber Wintermute were perhaps siblings to Johan Hendricus (Henry). A Johan
Michael Huber came on the ship "Snow Catherine" 28 May 1742. In the "Memorials of the Moravian Church" it is related that the brethern (Moravians) kept and preached a school in the upper valley of the Delaware on the Jersey shore in 1746 and
1747 and were ministered to by a Joseph Shaw who came on the same ship as Johan Michael Huber and were the

first colonists who arrived at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in June 1742. On page 75 in speaking of Johan Michael Huber it says "lost at sea in a hurricane on the passage to St. Thomas in Oct 1747 along with the missionaries Joseph and Mary Shaw.
There was another Johan Michael Huber

who arrived 21 Aug 1750 on the ship "Anderson." He is perhaps the one who married Elizabeth Mennes and had a son Johannes baptised Feb 1753 Walpack sponsored by Peter Counterman and Catharine Huber.



The Hubers are mentioned in the parish registers of Trippstadt situated at or near Holzwald, six miles south of Kaiserslautern. Several Hubers came to Philadelphia in 1740's and 1750's.



J. Kelsey Jones

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