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Subject: Re: Hon
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:46:23 -0500

For a number of years I have been intrigued/perplexed by the
Hon/Han/Hawn/Ham family in N. Carolina and Kentucky...I have run into them
repeatedly in research... They began as "Dunkers" likely from Va.. were
involved perhaps with the Kern family... were involved in the Universalist
controvery without any doubt/ moved to Kentucky almost surely... to "Green
River country"

There was a family of Adam Hann, which belonged to the Ephrata settlement
during the 1740s but got into some conflict there and fled. It is recorded
that in March, 1773 George Han died at Ephrata Cloister.. (Sachse, German
Sectarians ) In N. Carolina a Joseph Ham made out a will on October 29,
1794 naming his wife Seth (sic), his five sons, Ezekiel, Daniel, Thomas,
John and Jacob and two daughters Milly Holbrook and Rachel Watson (Deed
Books, Raleigh) His son John was living in the Brethren settlement in the
Forks of the Yadkin on Nov. 18, 1794, Among his neighbors were Peter Beam
and Abraham Renshaw and a deed was witnessed by Joseph Rowland, the
Brethren minister. John Ham was himself a Brethren elder... first
identified by Don Durnbaugh, a Brethren historian in 1967..

I have just reread a contemporary article (1866) in a Brethren publication
talking about John Ham's activities... Is this the same family. Does
anyone have any information that would help resolve this issue?

Ferne Baldwin
Manchester College

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