Nancy Hankinson

Notes:

Her husband's surname was found in her mother's will.

Family/Spouse: Wallace. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The following information on the family of John Hankinson is taken from the files of Judy Hankinson Smith (rsmith@ptdprolog.net) http://home.ptd.net/~rsmith/genealogy/hankinsons/



Jane/Jean Hankinson, matriarch



Jane/Jean Hankinson emigrated from England to Perth Amboy, NJ on March 3-31, 1683. She was indentured to Thomas Warne, one of the 24 proprietors of East New Jersey at that time. She brought with her three sons, Thomas (b. 1672), Richard (b.
1674), and Peter (b. 1676).



Joseph, son of Thomas and grandson of Jane/Jean



Joseph Hankinson (son of Thomas) was born 3/27/1712 in Freehold, NJ, and died 9/12/1783 in Readington Township, Hunterdon County, NJ. Joseph married Rachel Mattison, daughter of Aaron and Elizabeth Mattison of Monmouth County. Rachel was
born in 1707 and died 3/28/1784 in Readington Township. They are both buried in Voorhees Cemetery, Readington Township.



Joseph and Rachel's 7 children:

Thomas, b. 12/8/1733;

Aaron, b. 2/7/1735;

William, b. 10/2/1737;

Ann, b. 1/1/1739;

John, b. 12/7/1743;

Joseph, b. 4/15/1745;

Elizabeth, b. 11/27/1748.

Thomas, son of Joseph and Rachel



Thomas married Jemima Stout, the daughter of James and Joanna (Johnson) Stout (Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, Stillwell). There is no date for Jemima's birth, but she died before Feb. 1794. Thomas died August 1786 in Amwell
Township, Hunterdon County, NJ.



Thomas and Jemima's children:

a) Sarah b. 1/8/1764;

b) Nancy b. 2/18/1765;

c) John b. 2/25/1769;

d) Elizabeth b. 7/8/1773;

e) William b. 8/18/1780.



Aaron, son of Joseph and Rachel



Aaron married Mary Snyder of Kingwood Township., Hunterdon County on 2/9/1764 (NJ Colonial Documents). Mary, the daughter of Hendrick and Sarah (Lake) Snyder of Kingwood Township., was born 11/27/1747 and died 5/3/1796. Aaron died
10/9/1806 near Stillwater, Sussex County, NJ. They are both buried in Yellow Frame Presbyterian Cemetery, Frelinghuysen Township, Warren County, NJ.



Aaron and Mary's children:

a) Capt. Joseph, b. circa 1763, d. in 1838 Capt. Joseph married Margaret Goble and had 7 children. They are buried in Marksboro Presbyterian Cemetery, Marksboro, Warren County, NJ.

b) Henry Hankinson, b. 8/27/1767, d. 5/5/1848. He married on 8/14/1800, Mary (Polly) McCullough, daughter of Col. William McCullough. They had three daughters, one of whom died in infancy. Mary died 10/6/1805. Henry and Mary are
buried in Asbury M.E. Church Cemetery with their infant daughter.

c) Sarah, born 1770, died 2/10/1815. She married first David Linn and seond John Smalley (the latter on 6/10/1806).

Sarah and David's children:

1) Aaron, married Eliza Hankinson, daughter of James.

d) John, b. 11/25/1771, died 8/3/1845. He married Elizabeth Hunt. They are buried in Yellow Frame. They had 5 children.

e) Rachel, b. 1774, d. 1847. She married Sydney Herriott, and moved to western Pennsylvania in 1797.

f) Thomas, b. 12/20/1775, d. 4/27/1796 (buried in Yellow Frame).

g) William, b. 10/30/1779, d. 10/17/1830. He married on 3/14/1805 Margaret Crisman,

b. 12/10/1781 and died 2/26/1857. William was a prosperous merchant in Blairstown and

a justice of the peace.

h) Nancy, b. 1781, who married Aaron Southard on 1/6/1799.

i) Daniel Thatcher, b. 1781, d. 1840's, a bachelor.

j) Elizabeth, b. 1783, d. 1834. She married Nathan Armstrong on 1/18/1807. He was the son of George and Sarah (Hunt) Armstrong.

k) Hannah, b. 1784, d. 1842, married Henry Cooper Kelsey on 5/14/1808. Elizabeth and Nathan had a number of children.

l) Aaron Jr., b. 4/22/1786, d. 2/23/1850. He married Sarah Kelsey on 4/12/1804 and moved to Wyoming County. Sarah was born 3/7/1785. Possibly a sister to Henry Cooper Kelsey.

m) Samuel K., b. 1/30/1792, d. 4/21/1793.



William, son of Joseph and Rachel



William Hankinson married Susannah DeWitt, b. 1735, d. 5/12/1798. William died 4/26/1796 and both are buried in Yellow Frame Cemetery. They possibly lived on what is now Kohlbocher Road in Stillwater Township, on the east bank of the Paulins
Kill River.

William and Susannah's children:



a) Joseph b. 4/2/1762;

b) James, b. 4/2/1762 (twin to Joseph). He married Elizabeth Hazen circa 1785. She was born 6/11/1765 and died 5/18/1813/18. She was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Giles) Hazen. They had 8 children. James's second wife was
Mrs. Joanna Shay; they married on 8/24/1819. James and Joanna had 2 children.

c) Rachel, b. 1765/6 who married Joseph Huff and had 12 children;

4) Elizabeth, b. circa 1768 and married Isaac Van Neste;

d) John, b. 5/25/1771 and married on 4/13/1797 Elizabeth Wintermute (have a lot of material on this family from a book on the Wintermute Family);

e) Ann, b. circa 1773/6;

f) Mary (Polly) b. circa 1779. She married 6/6/1797, Levi Rosenkranz and had 4 children; her second husband was Cyrus Egbbert.

*George Watson Roy also mentions an Aaron born to William and Susannah. Aaron was not mentioned in William's will and it is thought, by one Hankinson genealogist, that William and Susannah did not have a son Aaron.



Nancy Ann, daughter of Joseph and Rachel



Nancy Ann Hankinson married a Van Buscark/Buskirk. Nancy Ann died before 1783.

Nancy and Van Buscark/Buskirk's children:



1) Lydia;

2) Aaron.



John, son of Joseph and Rachel



John was unmarried. He died 5/20/1823 and is buried in Voorhees Cemetery, Readington Township. He left much of his estate to his nieces and nephews, three of whom were named after him.



Joseph Jr., son of Joseph and Rachel



Joseph Jr. married on 4/3/1770 Hannah Atkinson, b. 6/20/1748, d. 2/7/1833. Both are buried in Voorhees Cemetery. Joseph was an assemblyman and a County Freeholder (circa 1797).

Joseph Jr. and Hannah's children:

a) Nancy, b. 11/3/1770, d. 1815, who married Jacob Coryell;

b) Thomas, b. 4/14/1773, d. 5/7/1833, who married Hannah Hoagland, b. 3/20/1773, d. 5/4/1833. They had 4 children. Have a lot of information on their family which will be written at a later date.

c) Joseph, b. 11/2/1778, d. 8/10/1800, buried in Flemington Presbyterian Churchyard. He was single.



Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Rachel



Elizabeth married John Reading, b. 1751, d. 11/30/1820. They lived in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, NJ. She died 6/19/1817. They are buriedIn the Pleasant Ridge cemetery near Ringoes, NJ.

Elizabeth and John's children:

a) Mary, b. 1772, d. 5/4/1825 (single);

b) William, b. 1773, d. 12/10/1793 (single);

c) John, b. 1775, d. 5/9/1821 (single)

d) Ann, b. 1/29/1777, d. 4/17/1861 (single);

e) Joseph, b. 8/12/1778, d. 10/2/1853. He married on 11/6/1804 Eleanor Grandin, b. 9/15/1786, the daughter of Dr. John Grandin of Hamden, Hunterdon County, NJ. She died 12/2/1873 and both are buried in Flemington Presbyterian
Churchyard.



Information gathered by Betty Hankinson Rose of Newark, Ohio, and Judy Hankinson Smith of Holland Township, New Jersey. Please e-mail Judy (rsmith@ptdprolog.net) if you have anything to add or any questions.



Sources:

Hunterdon County Surrogates Office - wills of those who died in Hunterdon County

Information in Hunterdon County Historical Society

Federal Census Records

An Ancestral Chart and Handbook on the Sutton and Rittenhouse Families with Mattison, Bonham, Fuller and Fox Connections, by Olive Barrick Rowland

The Voorhees Burying Ground

information copied 5/21/1916 by Marian E. Deats and Charles T. Deats

John married Elizabeth Wintermute on 13 Apr 1797 in Sussex County, NJ. Elizabeth (daughter of George Wintermute and Nancy\Anna Arason) was born on 6 Feb 1778 in Sussex County, New Jersey; died on 14 May 1828; was buried in Merittstown, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married by Rev. Jacob Senn

Notes:

T. Michael Louden has written:

"I have found the grave of George Wintermute and check the tombstone against the book. George is buried between the graves of Mary Wintermute and Ashfordby Wintermute (his son). Who is Mary Wintermute? The stone is very faded marble but
looks like it says:

"Mary

wife of

?A? Wintermute

died

?1? Jan 181?4?

Aged 5????..."

rest is unreadable but is shaped like the rest of age and a quote of some sort in smaller print as was the style at the time. The are no grave markers either side of these three or in front or behind. I assume these are filled graves but
without current markers. If I assume that Mary is a previously undocumented wife of Ashfordby it raises the question of why they were not buried adjacent to one another instead of with a space between them where George is buried 10 years
later.



Any ideas on who Mary "wife of Wintermute" is?

Mike Louden

George married Nancy\Anna Arason on 27 May 1771. Nancy\Anna (daughter of Jeptha Arason) was born on 6 May 1750; died on 19 Feb 1809 in Stillwater, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

On May 11, 1711, Johann George Windemuth was born in the southwest region of the Rhineland-Palatinate just east of the Rhine River in Pfungstadt, Germany. Johann was the youngest son of Johann Christoph Windemuth, a wainwright, and Mary Marguerite Kleppinger, a tailor. It was a challenging time to grow up in the Palatinate region of Germany in those years. The many years of war with their French neighbors really took its toll. Other factors like severe winters crippled the local economy. The economy was directly affected by the weather dependent agricultural industry. It is no wonder why so many ?poor Palatines?, like Johann George Windemuth, decided to leave everything behind to take the treacherous journey to North America.

Johann?s journey to North America started in May of 1736. He took a small crowded scow up the Rhine River to the port city of Rotterdam, Holland. Confronted with an endless barrage of tolls, depleting all or most of your resources was inevitable. The feverish demand to get to North America fed the economic growth of the bustling Colonial City of Philadelphia. As the existing pool of laborers and craftsmen were running low, the influx of these Palatine Germans really filled that void. This new bond between Palatines and the growth of Philadelphia created a new trade that was no different than indentured servitude. The Palatines were the unintended architects of this new trade, where their debt was sold to the highest bidder. They were mandated to work off their debt, which in many cases lasted 3 or more years. It is debatable who ended up with the better part of this arrangement. Cheap labor or temporarily relinquishing your freedom to live free in a new fertile land. It was only around 30 years later that the bargain was tested as the Colonists were preparing to declare their independence from Great Britain.

The path to freedom starts in Rotterdam. It is there that brokers traded the freedom of these Germans in exchange for passage to Colonial North America . Fueled by the promise of a fresh start, Johann and thousands of others ended up trading their freedom in exchange for the cost of the trip. He quickly made arrangements with Captain Robert Harle whose ship was named ?Harle?. Harle had a decent reputation, but he, too, could not escape the pressure to maximize profit at the expense of the desperate Palatines. Once all this business was sorted out, it was off to London. While in London, the passengers were immedietaly expected to pledge their allegiance to the King of England in exchange for the right of way to the Colonies. The Crown was desperately hoping to flood the Colonies with presumed loyalists.

During the summer of 1736, Johann and others flirted with death across the Altantic on the ship Harle. Overcrowding, rancid provisions and sea sickness were only some of the dangers. This was certainly not a deterrent to Johann. After four harrowing months, Johann finally arrived in Philadelphia. Despite coming from a rural community, life in the city of Philadelphia was likely more comfortable and familiar than expected. By 1736, there were thousands of German speaking people residing in Philadelphia. Johann and his family became acquainted with Johan Peter Bernhardt and his family. Most likely Johann George?s father struck up a friendship with Johan Peter Berhardt. There is the possibility they were acquainted back in Germany. This relationship eventually led to Johann George marrying the daughter of Johan Peter Bernhardt, Margaret Elizabeth Bernhardten in 1739. Johann George was 25 and Margaret Elizabeth 18 at the time of their marriage. A few years later in 1741, Johan?s youngest daughter, Maria Catharine, ended up marrying a young Palatine man named Caspar Shaver (later to be known as Caspar Shafer).

This new alliance, the Wintermute-Shafer family, was now ready to build a new future together. They unleashed themselves from the shackles of debt and raised enough money to lease some land. While many German immigrants looked to settle in Pennsylvania. They decided to settle in the ?wilderness? of New Jersey. They made a deal with the London Company who were trading properties that were part of the William Penn tract. One of the members of the London Company was Dr. John Fothergill, a very close friend of Benjamin Franklin. Some of that unsold land ended up in Western New Jersey, in what is now called Sussex County. They chose to settle in a small village called Stillwater that was part of the town of Hardwick, New Jersey. The alluvial and limestone rich land they chose was along the Paulinskill River and across from a powerful spring called The Big Spring. Their risk was certainly paying off, but all they had to do was get there.

The not so easy path to Stillwater was following a trail north east along the ?Blue Mountain? ridge (now known as Kitattinny). This was a risky journey that required tenacity and the basic knowledge of survival. They would have had to negotiate with rough terrain and their new cohabitants, the Lenape Indians. They ended up in Stillwater sometime in 1742. They did not waste any time settling in. They quickly built a rudimentary log cabin and began clear cutting fields for farming. The Shafers and the Wintermutes evolved into a productive and successful family business enterprise. By 1755, Johann had four children - his oldest was Elizabeth Snook, the 2nd child was Margaret Kreter, his first son was George and the youngest was Peter. It was at that time he decided to build a stone house along the Paulinskill river. A few years later he built a fulling mill along the river, which is said to be the first or one of the first in Sussex county. Eventually, his son Peter operated the mill and was able to build his own stone house (now known as Bonnie Brook Farm) on the road with an eye shot of his father?s house. While history paints a picture that Johann was in his brother-in-law?s (Caspar Shafer?s) shadow, there is an untold story about how great this man really was. A man whose dreams came true and died free in a country that was built on courage, hope and the promise of prosperity. He remained in Stillwater the rest of his life and was buried in the Stillwater Cemetery on December 19, 1782. He was survived by his wife, 5 children and 15 grandchildren. Three of his grandchildren were born within just a few months prior to his passing. The Windemuth aka Wintermute family is alive and well today. They are very proud of their heritage and the Windemuth family organization has come to visit the home many times over the years. Stillwater would not be the community it is today without Johann George Wintermute.



You can find this article here:
https://thebonniebrookfarm.com/f/remembering-johann-george-wintermute

Johann married Johanna Margaretha Elizabetha Bernhardten in 1739 in Sussex County, New Jersey. Johanna (daughter of John Peter Bernhardt) was born on 5 Aug 1721 in Kezenheim, Grafschaft Bolander, Europa; died on 15 Feb 1800 in Stillwater, New Jersey; was buried in 1800 in Buried in Stillwater, N.J. Cemetery. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From her toombstone:



Here Rests in God

Margaret Elizabeth Windemuth, born 1721, (Aug. 5) in the Kezenheim in the Grafschaft Bolander Europa, Came to America with father, mother and two sisters in the year 1731. Died Febry 15 1800 aged 78 years 6 months and 10 days.

Notes:

--Other Fields

Education: King's American possessions & rec'd in pay

Maiden Name: a large tract of northern N.J. land.