Nicolaus BARNHART

  General Notes:

Document: "Nicklus" Barnhart appears on a list of "Rateables" in Knowlton Township, Sussex County, New Jersey in September, 1773

Document from Margaret Smith Brennan


1740 BIRTH of Nicholaus Barnhart - Bernhardt - Bernhard - Bernard

The given name "Nicolaus" is spelled in a variety of ways in early records, as is the surname "Barnhart." --DeeAnna

1740 BAPTISM, New York, (present-day Columbia County), Ancram

"Nicolaus was baptized in Ancram, New York on March 25, 1740. In the Loonenburg Lutheran church book, his father's name is 'Hannes Rauw.'
--Margaret Smith Brennan

1773 RATEABLES list, New Jersey, Sussex County, Knowlton Township (later in Warren County, New Jersey)




Margaret Smith Brennan:

"We don't know when our families first arrived in New Jersey, but censuses show Nicolaus Barnhart was there in 1773 and during the Revolution. Nicholas was a German Lutheran Chaplain during the Revolutionary War."





BOOKS: The following books include references to Barnhart in Knowlton Township, Sussex County, Jersey:

EARLY AMERICAN SERIES, Early New Jersey, Volume 1, Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson (et al), Accelerated Indexing Systems International, Salt Lake City, Utah

EARLY AMERICAN SERIES, Early New Jersey, Volume 2, Edited by Ronald Vern Jackson, Accelerated Indexing Systems International, Salt Lake City, Utah




CONTRIBUTOR:

Margaret Smith Brennan

Nicolaus married Hannah IRVING.