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Ancestors of Emily A. Burd

Generation No. 7

      70. Christopher Huffman, born 02 May 1746 (Source: Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vol 49 Numger 3 Sep 1974 page 100 and Sussex County Wills, Book A, p. 26); died 20 Sep 1804 (Source: Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey Vol 49 Numger 3 Sep 1974 page 100 and Sussex County Wills, Book A, p. 26). He married 71. Amey Abt. 1784 in Sussex County, New Jersey.

      71. Amey, died Unknown.

Notes for Christopher Huffman:
      Will Book A Will of Christopher Huffman of Mansfield Woodhouse Twp., Sussex Co., dated 21 Mar 1801 probated 6 Oct 1804. Mentioned in his will were "my" wife Amey, daughters, Else Flock, Elizabeth Shiner, Mary Airs (Ayres), granddaughter, Mary Shiner, grandsons, Christopher Huffman Eirs and Christopher Shiner, sons-in-law, John Flock, Andrew Shiner, and Aron Airs. Executors were "my wife," Ammey Huffman and Nicholas Neighbor. Witnesses were Elisha Bird, John Bird, and Jacob Andrews.
      In an e-mail dated 24 Jan 2002 Margorie Erlebach wrote in reference to Christopher:
I did find in the N.J. Genealogical Magazine that he is buried in the German Valley Union Churchyard
died 20 Sep 1804 aged 58 years, 4 months, 18 days. I believe this is in Morris County. I also have
information that he had a farm in Beattystown, in Sussex (Warren) County. A few years before his death he bought 800 acres across the river in Morris County (Hollingshead Tract).

In the 1773-1774 Knowlton Twp. Tax List there is a Henery Huffman and a Philip Huffman. In 1774 Newton Twnp. Tax List, Sussex County there is a Jacob and a Philip Huffman. I also searched the Knowlton Presbyterian church records and found a Henry Hoffman and wife Gertauta as sponsors for several children. (This was spelled "Hoffman".)

I have also been searching in German records. In a book written by Henry Jones "Westerwald to America" he lists a Johannes Henrich Hoffmann who emigrated to U.S. on ship Two Brothers 1749 with wife Anna Gertraud (same names as in Knowlton records). He had two children Anna Maria b. 1743 and Johann Matthias born 1744. There was a blank year for 1746 that our Christopher could have been born. I had a researcher read the German records from Hochstenbach, but she did not find our Christopher born in 1746.

      In an email dated 2 May 2002 Marjorie Erlebach wrote:
I am still trying to find out the source of the information being spread all over that Christopher
Huffman, born 2 May 1746 is the son of Henry Huffman and Charity. I never did find a source. I
found a Heinrich Huffman and Gertrude Charity, his wife in the Knowlton, Sussex County Luthern
and Reformed church records as witnesses to several children's baptisms. Did not find birth of
any of their children in these records. I found a record of a Henrich and Gertrude in Henry Jones
book who gave their birth place. I looked at a German film from this place and found where he left to come to America with 2 children, but Christopher was not listed.

More About Christopher Huffman and Amey:
Marriage: Abt. 1784, Sussex County, New Jersey

Children of Christopher Huffman and Amey are:

35	i.	Elizabeth Huffman, born Abt. 1784; died 20 Sep 1804 in New Jersey; married Andrew Shriner.
	ii.	Else Huffman, died Unknown; married John Flock; died Unknown.
	iii.	Mary Huffman, died Unknown; married Aaron Ayers; born 01 Aug 1767; died 1829.

Notes for Aaron Ayers:
Ayers family descendants from Donna Witczak.

      106. Eliab Byram, born 04 Dec 1718 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts; died Abt. 09 Apr 1754 in Amwell Township, New Jersey. He was the son of 212. Ebenezer Byram and 213. Hannah Hayward. He married 107. Phebe Leonard 03 Dec 1741 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

      107. Phebe Leonard, born 22 Aug 1723 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts; died 08 Feb 1748/49 in Mendham, New Jersey. She was the daughter of 214. Ephraim Leonard and 215. Martha Perkins.

Notes for Eliab Byram:
      Graduated from Harvard College in 1740. Preached at Rocksiticus, near Mendham, in October of 1743 when scarcely twenty- five years old. Rev. David Brainerd took Eliab with him on his trip to preach and work with the Indians of the Susquehanna Nations in 1744 Rev. Brainerd's Journals show the men were congenial:
(128-129) Monday October 1 (1744) " ...Towards night rode about four miles, and met brother Byram; who was come at my desire, to be my companion in travel to the Indians. I rejoiced to see him; and, I trust, God made his conversation profitable to me: I saw him, as I thought, more dead to the world, its anxious cares, and alluring objects than I was..."
In 1746 Rev. Eliab Byram journeyed to preach to the settlers in Augusta County, Virginia. Presbyterians in Falling Spring and Providence, Virginia called him to serve in 1747, but he remained in New Jersey.
In 1751 Rev Byram was made Clerk of the Presbyterian Synod and also in that year was installed as the settled pastor of the Presbyterian Church in "Old Amwell" now Raeville, New Jersey. Source: "The First Presbyterian Congregation Mendham, Morris County New Jersey History and Records 1738-1938" by Helen Martha Wright privately published 1939.
Morristown, NJ Library LH 2003
      Also see "The History of The First English Presbyterian Church in Amwell" by Rev John Backer Kugler published by The Unionist-Gazette Asso, Somerville, NJ in 1912.
Morristown, NJ library H 3 Hu5, East Amwell Pres.

More About Eliab Byram and Phebe Leonard:
Marriage: 03 Dec 1741, Bridgewater, Massachusetts

Child of Eliab Byram and Phebe Leonard is:

Martha Byram, born Abt. 1746 in Mendham, New Jersey; died Unknown in Sparta, Sussex County, New Jersey; married Benjamin Chamberlain Abt. 1770 in Sparta, Sussex County, New Jersey.

      112. Abraham Lozier I, born 08 Jan 1747/48 (Source: Descendants of Francois Le Sueur LDS Film 1321074 Copies in Library of Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc.); died 1802 in New Jersey (Source: Descendants of Francois Le Sueur LDS Film 1321074 Copies in Library of Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc.). He was the son of 224. Johannes Lozier and 225. Jannettie Banta. He married 113. Annatie Eckerson 30 Oct 1790 in Hackensack, New Jersey (Source: Descendants of Francois Le Sueur LDS Film 1321074 Copies in Library of Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc. cites First Reformed Church Hackensack, New Jersey).

      113. Annatie Eckerson, born 25 Aug 1764 (Source: Descendants of Francois Le Sueur LDS Film 1321074 Copies in Library of Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc.); died Unknown. She was the daughter of 226. David Eckerson and 227. Angenitie Vanderbeck.

More About Abraham Lozier and Annatie Eckerson:
Marriage: 30 Oct 1790, Hackensack, New Jersey (Source: Descendants of Francois Le Sueur LDS Film 1321074 Copies in Library of Congress, Allen County Library, and Bergen Co. Hist. Soc. cites First Reformed Church Hackensack, New Jersey)

Children of Abraham Lozier and Annatie Eckerson are:

	56	i.		David A. Lozier, born 06 Sep 1792 in Paramus, New Jersey; died Bef. 1864 in Morris County, New Jersey; married Elizabeth Masker 26 Jan 1811 in Paramus, New Jersey.
		ii.		Agnes Lozier, born 18 Jan 1796; died Unknown.

Notes for Agnes Lozier:
From Steve Wurster in an e-mail 19 Aug 2001:
Do you have any more information on Agnes Lozier, born 18 Jan 1796? I believe that this is the same Agnes Lozier that married Albert Polhemus.

		iii.		Maria Lozier, born 18 Jan 1796; died Unknown.
		iv.		Jannetje Lozier, born 15 Sep 1798; died Unknown.
		v.		Abraham A. Lozier, born 25 Sep 1800; died Unknown.
		vi.		Annatje Lozier, born 05 Sep 1802; died Unknown.

      114. Henry Masker, died Unknown. He married 115. Elizabeth ?.

      115. Elizabeth ?, died Unknown.

Child of Henry Masker and Elizabeth ? is:

Elizabeth Masker, born 25 Nov 1791 in New Jersey; died Bef. 1826 in New Jersey; married David A. Lozier 26 Jan 1811 in Paramus, New Jersey.

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