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Descendants of John Space

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN¹ SPACE was born Abt. 1757 in Germany, and died 16 September 1813 in Kingston Township, Luzerne, PA ¹. He married ABIGAIL MOTT 07 March 1780 in Sussex, Sussex, NJ¹. She was born Abt. 1760 in Sussex, Sussex, NJ ², and died Abt. 1839 in Kingston Township, Luzerne, PA.

Notes for JOHN SPACE:
Source: "John Space, The Progenitor and The Zephaniah and Allen Space Lines in The Space Family of America". Authored by Ralph Stephen Space and Zeph Frederick Space. April 1935; "1790 Census Luzerne County, Pennsylvania shows John SPACE as head of household of eight. John Space is the only (male) head of a SPACE family in Luzerne County in 1790. The four children; John, Elsie, Ruth and Zeph with John and Abigail number six. Remaining two may have been children who died in infancy or other family members." This information has since been shown as incorrect. See below.

Pennsylvania Orphans Court document (dated May 6, 1831) lists heirs at large as:
Betsey Bird, Nancy Daley, Margert Jackson, Elsie Hoover, Sally Muscoe, John Space, Zephaniah Space, James R. Space and Abigail Shay.

Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Vol III N-Z, abstracted by Virgil D. White, Waynesboro, Tennessee: The National Historical Publishing Co., 1992, p. 3254:

SPACE, John, Abigail [wife] NJ Line W4516, sol m Abigail (--) 7 Mar 1780 & sol d 16 Sep 1813 & his wid appl 27 Feb 1837 Luzerne Co PA aged 77, sol had enl at Hackettstown NJ

SPACE, John, NJ Line, BLW #1738-100, sol's daughter Betsey Bird signed p.o.a. 6 May 1831 in Luzerne Co PA, it was stated sol had died leaving children who on 6 May 1831 were; Betsey Bird, Nancy Daley, Margaret Jackson, Elsie Hoover, Sally Miscoe, John Space, Zepheniah Space, James R. Space & Abigail Shay

Note: p.o.a. stands for power of attorney

Information from Della M. Shafer (181 Western; Haysville, KS 67060) received 15 Jan1999 states:
"According to Snell's History of Sussex & Warren Counties, New Jersey (1881), (Peter & John) were born near Berlin, Germany. The only areas in Germany according to the IGI in which we have been able to find a surname similar to SPACE were Bayern (Bavaria) and Westfalen (Westfalia) where there are some SPIESS families. The given names in these families were very similar to SPACE family names here. Tradition says the German spelling was SPIECE, but in the German language, 'C' is never used without a 'K' or an 'H' and is then pronounced differently, so if the name was ever spelled that way, it must have been changed after leaving Germany... Some sources say they spent time in England before coming to the United States, so this might explain the SPIECE spelling..."

"Encyclopedia of Continental Army Units, Battalions, Regiments and Independent Corps" by Fred Anderson Berg, published by Stackpole Books, copyright 1972, page 81; 1st New Jersey Regiment of 1777, This regiment was organized in the late 1776 and early 1777 and served until about June 12, 1783 when its remaining men were furloughed being ultimeately discharged November 5, 1783. Commanders: Colonel Silas Newcomb November 28, 1776 - January 1, 1777
Colonel Matthias Ogden January 1, 1777 - c. April 21, 1783

Notes for ABIGAIL MOTT:
Received 6 Nov 2000 from Elizabeth King Black <lizblack@worldnet.att.net>: "...I decided to follow up on a posting of Bill Garrison's on Adam Mott in which he mentions an Ebenezer Mott who lived in RI and NJ. On Gendex I found an Ebenezer Mott, b. 19 Aug 1735, in RI, who married Elizabeth Braman, b. 31 Dec 1739, in Westerly, RI, but who died on 23 Aug 1806 in Luzerne Co., PA! The dates would be right for them to have been Abigail's parents. Gendex gives only a son, Jonathan, b. 1772. It also gives a death date for Ebenezer (but no place of death) of 23 Mar 1829, which would have made him 96 when he died (seems a bit unlikely). I have no parents for him, but I do have for Elizabeth Braman. I can't imagine anyone named Mott from RI and NJ moving to Luzerne Co. unless he or she was related to Abigail..."

[Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Application Files; National Archives Microcopy 804, Roll 2249, No 1738 John Space]. Declaration Recorded to obtain the Benefits of the 3rd Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836, State of Pennsylvania, Luzerne County. "On the 27 day of February 1837 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County Abigail Space a resident of Fairview township in said county aged seventy seven years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 that she is a widow of John Space who was a private in the Continental Troops. That he enlisted in Hackettstown in the State of New Jersey for the space of three years in Captain Lewis' Company of Volunteers. In the commencement of the War the date she cannot precisely recollect but thinks it was 1776. He remained his tour of three years with the exception of the time he was at home on furlough. She presented she frequently saw him in the service during this time tho she was not then married. And after his first tour of three years he was returned during the War and kept in the service for a period of seven years and seven months. She cannot tell where he was principally but she recollects of his being in General Sullivan's Army on his tour through Wyoming [Wyoming Valley, PA]. And that he was some time gone to the south after her marriage. She cannot tell what battery he was in but recollects of his coming home on one occasion and stating he had a very narrow chance and exhibited a ball hole in his hat. This was discharged infantry and she frequently saw it and it was kept in the family a long time and was finally destroyed or lost. That she is now very poor, aged, feeble and infirm. She further declares that she was married to the said John Space on the 7th day of March 1780 and that her husband the aforesaid John Space died on the 16th day of September 1813, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will now fully appear by reference to the proof tests annexed."

[Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Application Files; National Archives Microcopy 804, Roll 2249, No 1738 John Space]. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Luzerne County. "Be it known that on the fifteenth day of April AD 1842, in open Court during the sittings of Common Pleas of said county personally came Rev. Benjamin Badlack aged eighty one years & upon being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he enlisted in the early part of the year 1776 in the Revolutionary Army & marched to Boston, and served one year, and after the expiration of that year he came to Luzerne County to visit his parents, and again enlisted in Carlisle, Penna in the Pennsylvania Line in 1778, and served at that time the period of his enlistment three years. And then started on a visit to the New England States, got as far as the Sussex Court House in New Jersey, and from a recruiting office and there enlisted in April 1781 during the War, and that during this service he first became acquainted with John Space who was a private in the same Company with him, under the command of Capt Helmes, in Col Dayton's regiment. That during the summer 17781; deponent was with said Space and from ~~~~ they on a recruiting party, and that one evening the party stopped at a tavern in Sussex County, near the residence of said Space, and he left the party to go and stay with his wife. And in the morning his wife returned with him. This was the first time deponent ever saw Abigail Space. And among the residents in and about the tavern the said Abigail was taken and reputed to be the lawful wife of the said John; and that in the evening when the said John left to go and stay with his wife, the said deponent and others of the said John's fellow soldiers asked him to bring his wife with him in the morning which he did. And this deponent verily believing that she was his lawful wife. And that the said John served in the Revolutionary Army in the same Company with this dep - was at the taking of Cornwallis - and served until the close of the War. And served in the Regular Army for upward of two years after deponent first saw the said John's wife. And the deponent did not again see the said Abigail until about the year 1786 or 1787 when the said John Space and his wife Abigail came to this county, where they lived together until the death of the said John, that they lived together as lawful man and wife, and were so reputed and taken to be by all those who knew them. The deponent served for upward of two years with the said John, and he was a good and fair Soldier..."

Children of JOHN SPACE and ABIGAIL MOTT are:

	i.	ABIGAIL² SPACE.
2.	ii.	ELIZABETH SPACE, b. Abt. 1792, Pennsylvania; d. 21 September 1884, Forty Fort, Luzerne, PA.
	iii.	ELSIE SPACE.
3.	iv.	JOHN SPACE, JR, b. 1783; d. Abt. 1870.
4.	v.	MARGARET SPACE, b. 19 September 1788.
	vi.	NANCY SPACE.
	vii.	RUTH SPACE.
	viii.	SALLY SPACE.
5.	ix.	ZEPHANIAH SPACE, b. Abt. 1789, Hackettstown, Warren, NJ; d. 02 April 1871, Redbank, Clarion, PA.
6.	x.	JAMES R. SPACE, b. 12 July 1802, Huntington Township, Luzerne, PA; d. 1884, Wyoming Valley, Luzerne, PA.

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