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THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHANN TOBIAS STOCKMANN

Generation No. 2

2. JUSTUS CHRISTIAN² STOCKMANN, M.D. (JOHANN TOBIAS¹) was born 1771 in Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt (now the Land [State] of Hesse), Germany ², and died Bef. 1830 in (probably) Albany or Renssaeler County, New York ^3,⁴. He married CAROLINA FRIEDERICA REICHE ⁵ 7 October 1794 in St Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church, German Town, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania ⁶, daughter of CHARLES REICHE and FREDERICA BUDDEE. She was born 1778 in Brandenburg, Prussia, Germany, probably at Rheinsberg-Ruppin ^7,^8,⁹, and died 8 November 1853 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio ¹⁰.

Notes for JUSTUS CHRISTIAN STOCKMANN, M.D.:
[The compiler's third great-grandfather.]
[NOTE: Based upon the uncontradicted circumstantial evidence, our Justus Christian Stockmann appears almost certain to have been the Justus Christian Stockmann who was the son of Johann Tobias Stockmann (b. c.1735/45] of Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, and his wife Maria Juliana (b. c.1745). Primary evidence, however, has not yet been found to confirm this relationship.]
On 28 May 1771, in the third year of the reign of LOUIS IX (1719-1790), the Landgrave (a German count) of Hesse-Darmstadt, Justus Christian Stockmann was baptised in the Lutheran parish church at Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, in Hesse-Darmstadt (now the German "Land" [State] of Hesse [Ger.: Hessen]).[a] The "Kirchenbuch, 1614-1985" (i.e., church book or register) of the Gräfenhause Evangelisch Kirche, Gräfenhausen, Starkenburg, Hessen, records that Justus Christian was the son of Johann Tobias Stockmann and Maria Juliana. The same parish register also records the christenings of other children of Johann Tobias and Maria Juliana: Christina, Eleonora, and Philippina in 1765, Catharina Elisabetha in 1766, Johann Philip in 1768, and Eleonora Dorothea in 1773. The village of Gräfenhausen is located about one mile north-northeast of Darmstadt, fifteen miles south of Frankfurt-am-Maine, and one hundred miles southeast of Cologne.
It seems certain that the Justus Christian Stockmann christened in Gräfenhausen in 1771 was in fact our Justus Christian Stockmann: The former was born in 1771, and our Justus's birth year is estimated to have been about 1770. It is fortunate for our search that the Christian name "Justus" appears to have been very unusual in 17th- to 19th-century Germany. In a list over 2,000 Christian names taken from German parish registers covering that period, the name "Justus" is not even listed. Also, the combination of "Justus" and "Christian" is a further indication that our Justus and the Gräfenhausen Justus were one and the same. As to birthplace, the 1880 U.S. Census schedule that enumerated Justus's son, Charles, gives Germany as the birthplace of his father.[b] Furthermore, Justus's great-great-grandson, Ira Stockman, told the writer that "my grandmother was a full-blooded Englishwoman but my grandfather [Edward D. Stockman] was a full-blooded German".
Family Christian names in the 18th century customarily were repeated from generation to generation, a practice that one would expect Justus to have been even more likely to observe, since he had left his family behind in Europe. Significantly, then, we find that the Christian names of the Hessian Justus's mother, "Maria" and "Juliana", were the names our Justus gave to two of his daughters --- Juliana and Mariana (a variation of Maria). Also, Justus gave his daughter Juliana the second name of Johanna, the feminine form of Johann, which was the Christian name of the Hessian Justus's father.
All things considered, the writer believes that the circumstantial evidence is sufficiently compelling to accept, subject to contrary evidence, that the Justus baptised in 1771 in Germany was our Justus Christian Stockmann.
There are some data, to be sure, that suggest a possible Dutch (i.e., Low German) origin for Justus. The family was resident in the Dutch-populated town of Albany, Albany County, New York, from at least 1795 to 1803, and in Albany County until at least 1807. Further, the 1880 Census schedule that enumerated Justus's grandson, Edward D. Stockman, states that the family originated in Holland.[b] However, it is probable that the informant, presumably Edward's wife Amanda Stockman, confused the terms "Deutsch" (High German) and "Dutch" (Low German], and mistakenly assumed that "Deutsch" described a native of Holland. It is possible, of course, that Justus had resided in The Netherlands sometime between his birth in Germany and his coming to America twenty-three years later, for when he began his voyage to America, he sailed from the Dutch port of Amsterdam.
While not a very common name, "Stockman" can be found today in several European countries. Its occurrence is by far the greatest in both Germany and Great Britain, followed by Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. One Dutch Stockman who was born into the same generation as Justus is identified in a Dutch baptismal record:

"WILLEM STOKMAN: born 1783; baptised 23 Mar 1783 in Domburg, Zeeland Province, The Netherlands; died 12 Mar 1842 in Serooskerke, Zeeland Province, The Netherlands; married 29 Jan 1810 in Gapinge, The Netherlands, MAATJE BACK."[c]

Another Stockman family whose mother tongue was Dutch did, in fact, come to this country from Holland in 1916 or 1917. The family, that settled in Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York, within fifteen miles of Albany, included Ira Stockman, his wife Wilhelmina, two sons, Nickolaus and John Stockman, and three daughters, Johanna, Mary, and Catharina Stockman.
The Christian name "Justus" (pronounced "Eustace" in Germany) has been borne by at least four canonized saints: St Justus, who with his Companion, Pastor, was put to death in Spain in 304; St Justus of Lyons, Bishop (d. c.390); St Justus of Urgel, Bishop (d. in the sixth century); and St Justus of Canterbury, 4th Archbishop of that See (c.567-627). It was ostensibly after one of these saints that our Justus was named.
Sometime early in the year 1794, probably in early March, our twenty-three-year-old Justus embarked on a ship at the port of Amsterdam in The Netherlands, sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, and arrived on 31 May 1794 at Philadelphia in the United States of America, the new English country that had won its independence from Great Britain only eleven years before. In a "List of Passengers on board the Ship Columbia, Capt. Wm. Maley, Bound to Philadelphia. May 31, 1794", Justus was listed as "Justuz Christ. Stockman". The list was officially registered the following year, the Registrar endorsing the list as follows:

"List of German Passengers on Board Ship Columbia, William Maley, Master, from Amsterdam. Arrived May 31st 1794. Received August 25th 1795, a List of German Passengers from 9th of February 1793 to 7th of July 1795. s/Lewis Farmer, Regr."[d]

In Philadelphia, Justus appears to have wasted no time in finding a wife, for on 7 October 1794, four months after his arrival, he married his sixteen-year-old bride, Carolina Reiche, in St Michael's and Zion Church, German Town,[e] a community that later was incorporated into the City of Philadelphia. (It is presumed that the Church was St Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germantown Avenue in present-day Philadelphia.) The entry in the church's marriage register reads:

"1794, October 7, Justus Christian Stockmann and Carolina Fried. Reiche".[e]

Carolina was also born in Germany, and had come to America with her father, The Reverend Charles Reiche, in 1788.
"Justiz Christin Stockman" was enumerated in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, in a local census taken in the year 1794, the same year he arrived there.[f] Another record (probably a fuller rendering of the same source) finds him listed, again under the spelling of "Justiz Christin Stockman", in the Pennsylvania Sugar Censuses and Tax Lists during the period 1791 to 1808, but the year in which he is listed is unknown to the writer.[g] In any event, Justus and Carolina did not remain long in German Town, Philadelphia. By 1795, within a year after their marriage, they had moved to the Albany/Rensselaer County region of New York, where they settled and were to live for at least the next twelve years, and ostensibly for thirty-two years (their son Charles was married in the town of Albany in 1827). Justus and Carolina's first child, Juliana Johanna Stockman, was born in Albany, Albany County, in 1795 and baptised on 1 January 1796 in the First Lutheran Church of Albany County.
It may be that Justus's move from Philadelphia to Albany County, New York, was for the purpose of being closer to a brother or other relative who had preceded him to America. According to the 1790 U.S. Census, one William Stockman, born before 1774, was listed as a resident of Coxsackie Town, Albany County, New York,[h] and "William" was one of the Christian names given by Justus to his son Charles William Stockman. (Alternatively, the William Stockman of Coxsackie Town may instead have been a descendant of the ancient Stockman family of Whiteparish, Downton, Wiltshire, England, whose John Stockman left England in the 1660s and settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts.)
In Albany, Justus and Carolina's second and third daughters were baptised in the First Lutheran Church of Albany: Louisa Charlotte Stockman on 10 December 1797, and Eva Mariana Stockman on 13 February 1803. The couple may later have moved from Albany County to adjacent Rensselaer County, for on 2 September 1808 their son Charles William Stockman, born in December 1807, was christened in the Gilead Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Renssalaer County village of Brunswick Centre in the township of Brunswick (located about nine miles north north-east of Albany). The township of Brunswick was formed on 20 March 1807 from the town of Troy, the County Seat of Rensselaer County. In 1855 Brunswick consisted of the villages of Brunswick Centre, East Brunswick, Millville and Cropseyville.[p]
The Holy Communion register of the First Lutheran Church, Albany, New York, that records the reception of Holy Communion on major feast days by each parishioner, identifies Justus as a Medical Doctor and shows him to have been living in Albany to at least 1804:[i]

---"12 May 1799 Pfingst Fest Aben Mal Justus C. Stockman". ("Pfingst Fest" is German for Feast of Pentecost, and "Abend Mahl" is the term for Holy Communion.)
---"Christmas 1801 Justus Christian Stockman D. Medicinae [M.D.] and wife".
---"Easter 1804 Christian Stockman D.M."

In the Easter entry, the name "Caroline" was written below Justus's name but then crossed out, probably indicating that she had not in fact received Communion on that occasion.
The 1800 U.S. Census enumerated only one head of household named Stockman living in the State of New York, "John C. Stockman", and he was living in Albany, Albany County.[j] It seems almost certain that he was our Justus C. Stockman. He was listed as being twenty-six to forty-five years of age (born 1755 to 1774), and his wife's age was given as sixteen to twenty-six years of age (born 1774 to 1784). Living in the household were one son and two daughters, all under five years of age. In 1810 the Federal Census listed in Oneida County, New York, a "C. Stockman" (our Justus Christian?), and gave his age as between twenty-six and forty-five years (born between 1765 and 1784).[k] The schedule shows three boys living in the household --- one born between 1800 and 1810, and two born between 1794 and 1800. If this was Justus's household, the identity of two of the boys is unknown.
The 1820 Federal Census again recorded the same(?) "Christian Stockman", found him still living in Oneida County, New York, in Utica Township, and showed him born before 1775.[l] Strangely, however, the schedule shows him to be living alone and engaged in commerce. Was this our Justus Christian? No Stockmans were enumerated in Oneida County in the 1830 Census, but the 1840 Census found a Calvin Stockman, born 1810 to 1820, living in Utica's 4th Ward in Oneida County[m] (one of Justus's unidentified sons?) One "J.C. Stockman" was enumerated in the 1840 Federal Census as being resident in Elyria Township, Lorain County, Ohio, which is located on the shores of Lake Erie.[q] However, if we have correctly identified Justus's wife Carolina as the "Caroline Stockman, widow" listed in the Newark city directory in 1835-36,[s] it would appear that Justus had died before 1835. But again, as sometimes happened, Carolina may have identified herself as a widow to avoid the embarrassment of not being resident with her husband. Was the "J.C. Stockman" living in Ohio at the 1840 Census our "Justus Christian"? We may never know.
The 1830 U.S. Census found "Caroline Stockman" (born 1771 to 1780) to be the head of a household in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, with a male born 1816 to 1820.[t] The 1830 Census for New Jersey also enumerated one "Charles Stockman" as the head of a household in Piscataway, Middlesex County. This would appear to be our Charles, Justus's son. Listed in the household were the following:[u]

Males Females
1 b. 1801-1810 [Charles William?] 1 b. 1811-1815 [Jane Ten Eycke?]
1 b. 1825-1830

The 1850 U.S. Census schedule enumerated in Newark the same "Carolina Stockman" as listed in the 1830 Census. She was aged 73, born in Germany in 1777 (our Carolina was born in 1778), and was then living in the household of Derrick and Julia Lynch, the latter aged 53, born in New York in 1797.[r] The assumption can be made, subject to contrary evidence, that this was our Carolina and her eldest daughter, Juliana Johanna Stockman, born in New York in 1795 and now married, living together in New Jersey, the state where Carolina's daughter-in-law, Jane (Ten Eycke) Stockman, had been born. The 1830 Census also found one Charles Stockman (b.1801-1810), a female (b.1811-1815), and a male child (b.1825-1830) living in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Presumably, this was our Charles (b.1807) and his wife Jane (b. c1810).[u]
Thus, Carolina, Charles, and Jane, and perhaps others of Carolina's children, moved from New York to New Jersey before 1830 and after Justus's death, or else Justus moved west from Albany County by himself before that year.
Between the 1850 Census 1853, Justus's wife Carolina (and one or more of her children?) had moved west to Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, for that is where we find Carolina at the time of her death on 8 November 1853. Carolina's son, Charles William, and his wife, Jane Ten Eycke, either moved to Toledo with Carolina or would later move there.
No record has been found to indicate that Justus, if he was still alive, moved to Toledo with the family. He is not found in the 1850 U.S. Census, either in New York, Ohio, New Jersey, or Pennsylvania, and it is probable that Carolina was, in fact, a widow as of the 1830 Census. It is curious that Justus and Carolina's son and daughter-in-law, Charles and Jane, are missing from the 1860, and 1870 U.S. Census schedules for all the eastern, southern, mid-western, and western states as far west as Colorado, Wyoming, Texas, and Oklahoma. It is even more curious that Charles and Jane's son, Edward, has not been found in the Censuses from 1850 through 1870. However, Edward, as well as Charles and Jane, reappear in Denver at the 1880 Census.
Enumerated in the 1860 U.S. Census, and living in the Third Ward of Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, were two men who likely were relatives of Justus and Carolina's: The first was Theodore Stockman, aged 44, born (1816) in New York, Cabinet Maker, with $10,000 in real estate, with his wife Jane, 37, born (1823) in Pennsylvania; their son Richard, 17, born (1843) in Michigan; and their daughter Ellin, 7, born (1853) in Ohio.[n] Theodore could well have been one of Justus's sons; Justus would have been aged forty-five at his birth, and Carolina aged thirty-eight.
The second Stockman listed in Toledo at the 1860 Census was August Stockman, aged 40, born (1820) in New York, Silver Maker, with $500 in real estate, with his wife Delem (sp?), 25, born (1835) in New York; and children, all born in Ohio --- James, 8 (born 1852), William, 6 (born 1854), and Jane, 1 (born 1859).[o] It is perhaps significant that August was a "silver maker" by occupation, for the reason that Oneida County, New York, the apparent home of Justus (August's father?) for some time, was later to become the home of the Oneida Community that, following its establishment in 1847, became renowned for its silver-smithing crafts. Also possibly significant is the fact that Justus's great-grandson was named Walter August Stockman --- after his granduncle August? Again, even though Carolina would have been aged forty-two at his birth, it is probable that August was a son of her's and Justus's.
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a. KIRCHENBUCH, 1614-1985, EVANGELISCHE KIRCHE GRÄFENHAUSEN (Kr. DARMSTADT) (Darmstadt: Zentralarchiv der Ev. Kirche in Hessen und Nassau, [19--]); Taufen 1743-1779; Heiraten 1614-1627, 1651-1779; Notizen 1785-1786; Kirchenbußen 1669-1777, item 2; Pfarrliste 16. Jahrh.-1971; Taufen, Konfirmationen, Heiraten, Toten 1780-1807, items 3-4; Taufen 1808-1842; LDS FHL INTL Film
1195072; as cited in FamilySearchTM International Genealogical Index v. 4.02, (c) 1999-20__ by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. (Website http://www.familysearch.org/).
b. 1880 U.S. Census (Denver), National Archives pub. no. T-9, roll 87, E.D. 3, sheet 32, line 37.
c. LDS Ancestral File (Internet); Website: FamilySearch[TM] Ancestral File v4.19. © 1999-2001 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved; data submitted by I.P. Back, J. Van Woenselkooijlaan 30, 1411 JZ Naarden, The Netherlands.
d. Ralph Beaver Strassburger, PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN PIONEERS: A PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL LISTS OF ARRIVALS IN THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA FROM 1727 TO 1808, 2 vols. (1934; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992) vol. 2 (1785-1808) pp. 69-70.
Also see William Henry Egle, M.D., ed., NAMES OF FOREIGNERS WHO TOOK THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE PROVINCE AND STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1727-1775, WITH THE FOREIGN ARRIVALS, 1786-1808 (1890; reprint Baltimore: Clearfield Co., Inc., 1994) p. 546; originally published as PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, vol. XVII, Second Series, Harrisburg, 1890.
e. "Marriage Record of St. Michael's and Zion Church, Philadelphia, 1745-1800" in John B. Linn and Wm. H. Egle, M.D., ed., PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES, SECOND SERIES, Vol IX: RECORD OF PENNSYLVANIA MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1810 (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, State Printer, 1880) vol. II, p. 435. This record can be accessed at Website: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/philadelphia/church/stmikeandzion06.txt. This church was apparently the present-day St Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 6671 Germantown Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19119, Phone: 1 215 848 2124.
f. "Pennsylvania Early Census Index" in PENNSYLVANIA CENSUS, 1772-1890; Ancestry.com Website (http://search.ancestry.com) Copyright © 1998-2001, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries. Also see Surname Index; LDS Family History Centre.
g. Family Finder Index and Viewer, ver 3.0; CD-ROM; Broderbund Software, Inc.; from The Everton Publishers, Inc., Logan, Ut.
h. 1790 U.S. Census (New York), National Archives pub. no. M637, printed schedules.
i. Research report from Florence Christoph, Selkirk, New York, to J.E. Stockman, 12 June 1997.
j. 1800 U.S. Census (New York), National Archives pub. no. M32, roll 22, p. 250.
k. 1810 U.S. Census (New York), National Archives pub. no. M252, roll 33, p. 70.
l. 1820 U.S. Census (New York), National Archives pub. no. M33, roll 73, p. 201.
m. 1840 U.S. Census (New York), National Archives pub. no. M704, roll 312, p. 259.
n. 1860 U.S. Census (Ohio) National Archives pub. no. M653, roll 1003, p. 175, line 37.
o. Ibid., roll 1003, p. 198, line 6.
p. BRUNSWICK, RENSSELAER COUNTY, NEW YORK, 1855 CENSUS; Website of Janet H. (Rouse) Derbyshire (gderbys1@nycap.rr.com):
http://members.tripod.com/~DERBYSHIRE_2/BRUNSWICK1855-2.html.
q. 1840 U.S. Census (Ohio), National Archives pub. no. M704, roll 409, p. 92; CD: 1840 U.S. Federal Census Index (AIS); Ancestry.com © 2000 MyFamily.com, Inc.
r. 1850 U.S. Census; National Archives publication M432, roll 447, p. 109.
s. NEWARK [N.J.] DIRECTORY, 1835-6, p. 84; DistantCousin.com; URL: http://distantcousin.com/directories/nj/newark/1835_36/Page/084.jpg; © 1998-2004, DistantCousin.com.
t. 1830 U.S. Census; National Archives pub. no. M19, roll 79, p. 299.
u. 1830 U.S. Census; National Archives pub. no. M19, roll 83, p. 178.

Notes for CAROLINA FRIEDERICA REICHE:
[The writer's third great-grandmother.]
Carolina was born in Brandenburg, Germany, in 1778,[a] the fourth child and third daughter of Charles Christopher Reiche and Frederica Catherine Elizabeth Buddee.[b] In 1788, when Carolina was ten years of age, her father traveled to the United States to see whether it would seem likely that the family would fare better there than in Germany. Carolina, her eight-year-old sister Louisa, and her five-year-old brother Frederic accompanied their father on the trip. Left behind to await either Charles's return, or his summons for them to join him in America, were Carolina's mother, Frederica, who, with her daughter Wilhelmina, aged thirteen, went to live with Madam Wiesel in Berlin; Carolina's brother Charles, aged nineteen, who was a student at the University of Jena in Germany; and Carolina's sister Johanna, who was aged sixteen and living at Dresden.[b]
In Philadelphia, Carolina's father, an ordained minister with a Master of Arts degree, took a house on the south side of Cherry Street between Third and Fourth Streets where he opened school in January 1789. In November of the following year, however, Charles became terminally ill and died in late November or early December 1790. At the time of his death, Carolina and Frederic were living at their father's house, but their sister, Louisa, was living with the Reverend Mr Melzheimer at McCallisters Town (now McAlisterville[?], a village about 115 miles west of Philadelphia).[b]
It is not known where or with whom Carolina lived following her father's death, whether or not her mother came to America, or whether her siblings Louisa and Frederic returned to Germany. No persons with the Reiche surname were enumerated in the Federal Censuses between 1790, when Carolina's father was documented, and 1850, when a young recent immigrant of that name was listed. In any event, Carolina appears not to have returned to Germany, for we next find her four years later at the age of sixteen in Germantown, Philadelphia, where on 7 October 1794 she married Justus Christian Stockman, Medicinæ Doctor, in St Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church. Dr Stockman, also a newcomer to the United States, had just arrived from Germany earlier that year.
Following their marriage, Carolina and Justus moved on to the Albany region of New York, where they lived from 1795 to at least 1808, during which time their first four children were born: Juliana Johanna Stockman in 1795; Louisa Charlotte Stockman in 1797; Eva Mariana Stockman in 1802; and Charles William Stockman in 1807. Carolina and Justus probably continued to live in the Albany area until 1827, the year their son Charles was married there to Jane Ten Eycke. However, two years later the 1830 U.S. Census enumerated two Stockman families in New Jersey, where Jane Ten Eycke had been born. The head-of-household of the first family was one Charles Stockman, enumerated in Piscataway, Middlesex County. This would appear to be our Charles, Carolina's son. Listed in the household were the following:[c]

Males Females
1 b. 1801-1810 [Charles William?] 1 b. 1811-1815 [Jane Ten Eycke?]
1 b. 1825-1830

The second Stockman family, found by the 1830 Census to be living in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, was headed by one Caroline Stockman and included the following family members:[d]

Males Females
1 b. 1816-1820 1 born 1771-1780 [Caroline]

Assuming that this was our Carolina, her position as head of the household indicates that her husband, Justus, had died before the 1830 Census was taken.
The Newark, New Jersey, city directory for 1835-36 listed "Caroline Stockman, widow 17 Green".[g] Carolina cannot be found in the 1840 Federal Census. However, the 1850 Federal Census for Newark enumerated "Caroline Stockman", aged 73, born (1777) in Germany, living with the family of Derrick Lynch and his wife Julia, aged 53, born (1797) in New York. The dates and birthplaces are consistent with those of our Carolina and her daughter Juliana. The schedule reads:[e]

Free Inhabitants in North Ward, City of Newark in the County of Essex State of New Jersey enumerated by me, on the 9th day of October 1850. s/Stephen Congar, Ass't Marshal.
Name Age Sex Occupation R.E. Value Birthplace
* Derrick Lynch 56 [1794] M Stove Merchant $3,000 New York
* Julia " 53 [1797] F New York
* William " 28 [1822] M Stove Merchant New Jersey
* Joseph " 7 [1843] M New Jersey
* Carolina Stockman 73 [1777] F Germany
* William Jacobs 20 [1830] M Hatchet Maker New York (Married within year)
* Julia " 18 [1832] F New York (Married within year)

Justus may have died before the marriage in 1827 of his son, Charles, but it is clear from the above evidence that he died at least before 1830. It is likely that Justus's death was the reason for Carolina's move (apparently with the family of her son, Charles) from New York to Newark, New Jersey, sometime before 1830. Charle's wife, Jane, was born there, and Carolina's eldest daughter, Juliana, was living there with her husband and children.
Within a year or two after the 1850 Census, Carolina, Charles, and Jane packed up and moved to Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. It is there that Carolina is recorded as having died in November 1853 at the age of 75.[a] No Will or other death records have been found for Carolina.[f]
Most of the above evidence presents only a circumstantial identification of our Carolina, few primary records having been found. However, it is the writer's conclusion that the facts as set forth above, though based only upon circumstantial evidence, are most probably correct.
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a. TOLEDO [OHIO] OBITUARY INDEX, 1837-1969; photocopy of Stockman entries from Lucas Co. Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Soc., Toledo, Ohio.
b. "Will of Charles Christopher Reiche", 17 November 1790, Register of Wills, Room 180, City Hall, Philadelphia, Penn., 19107, Will Book W, p. 53, no. W25-1790; photocopy of original in possession of J.E. Stockman.
c. 1830 U.S. Census; National Archives pub. no. M19, roll 83, p. 178.
d. 1830 U.S. Census; National Archives pub. no. M19, roll 79, p. 299.
e. 1850 U.S. Census; National Archives publication M432, roll 447, p. 109.
f. Letter of Mrs Lee N. McLaird, Reference Archivist, Center for Archival Collections, 5th Floor, Jerome Library, 1001 E. Wooster St., Bowling Green, Ohio, 43403, to J.E. Stockman, 30 November 2001; the letter stated: "Births and deaths were not recorded in Ohio until 1867, so we were unable to locate a death record for Carolina Stockman (d. 1853)."
g. NEWARK [N.J.] DIRECTORY, 1835-6, p. 84; DistantCousin.com; URL: http://distantcousin.com/directories/nj/newark/1835_36/Page/084.jpg; © 1998-2004, DistantCousin.com.

Children of JUSTUS STOCKMANN and CAROLINA REICHE are:

3.	i.		JULIANA JOHANNA³ STOCKMAN, b. 1795, Albany, Albany County, New York; d. Aft. 1850.
	ii.		LOUISA CHARLOTTE STOCKMAN, b. 1797, Albany, Albany County, New York ¹¹; d. Unknown.

Notes for LOUISA CHARLOTTE STOCKMAN:
Louisse was christened on 10 December 1797 at the First Lutheran Church of Albany, Albany County, New York. [IGI (New York) as of March 1992, p. 47,564.]

iii.

EVA MARIANA STOCKMAN, b. 1802, Albany, Albany County, New York ¹²; d. Unknown.

Notes for EVA MARIANA STOCKMAN:
Eva was christened on 13 February 1803 at the First Lutheran Church of Albany, Albany County, New York. [IGI (New York) as of March 1922, p. 47,564.]

4.	iv.	CHARLES WILLIAM STOCKMAN, b. 4 December 1807, either Albany, Albany County, New York, or Brunswick Center, Rensselaer County, New York; d. 7 March 1893, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio.
5.	v.	IRA STOCKMAN, b. 1811, New Jersey; d. Unknown.
6.	vi.	THEODORE S. STOCKMAN, b. 1816, New York (or New Jersey?); d. 7 October 1881, Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio.
7.	vii.	AUGUST STOCKMAN, b. 1820, New York; d. Unknown.

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