Notes for: John Bodine

The Schultz site at www.my-ged.com lists this John and a Tina as two more children of John and Vemmete. I only had Ariaente, Abraham, and Lena at first. I'm not sure where these two names come from. Sue Schultz at reschultz at jps.com is the contact person. I later found out that these names come from the Voorhees Family in America book. The book says this John married a Styne/Stine.

It's just a wild guess right now, but I wonder if this is not the John Bodine who married Jane Marlatt and whose descendants ended up in Fountain County, Indiana. This idea came to me after reading the following:

From: IDGAS51 at aol.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Hello Dave,

I have found something that may be of some interest to you!!! I have found a family tree for Schuyler La Tourette - I am still checking this out, but had to share this with you right away - I believe it would have been Schuyler's Uncle (brother to his Father, John L. La Tourette): Abraham La Tourette (b. 4 NOV 1794 Somerville, New Jersey d. 9 JUNE 1875 in Seneca, New York) who married a Phoebe Bodine (b. 21 MARCH 1793 d. 1881). But what makes this so exciting is that they were married in, and lived their entire lives in Seneca, New York - Abraham died in New York, and Phoebe probably did as well because Abraham was remarried there in 1849 to Mary E. Johnson. I wonder if perhaps some of the other Bodines of Phoebe's family may have come with the La Tourettes when they moved into Fountain County? I will look into that timing for both families.

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=7832595

Best Wishes, Jan Bodine

Later, Jan sent me this message below. She had, on her own, come to the same conclusion that I had. This John could be her John Bodine from Fountain County, Indiana.

From: IDGAS51 at aol.com
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008

Hello Dave,

As I mentioned previously, I have numerous CIRCUMSTANTIAL connections between the Fountain County, IN Bodines and the line of Bodines containing Phoebe Bodine (born March 21, 1793) who married Abraham La Tourette (born Nov 4, 1794 - died before 1879 in Somerset, NJ.).

In desperation, I recently tried a different tactic - I took your newly revised data for the oldest known John Bodine (1765 - 1834) the husband of Jane Marlatt (both decidedly connected with the Fountain County Bodines) and I went back through your other Bodine records to try to connect this individual with someone who may have "fallen out of their family tree". The ONLY likely suspect with that birth date data that I could identify was a John Bodine (born about 1760 in Somerset Co., NJ) - and this John just happens to be the Uncle of the previously mentioned Phoebe Bodine. It also states in your records that he was married to an Unknown Stine or Styne. Abraham Marlatt referred to his granddaughter "Polly" ? as the "natural daughter" of his daughter Jane - then it may very possibly fit that this is indeed the same John and that Jane Marlatt was indeed his second wife, with Polly having been born prior to their wedding date (maybe they had to wait for the traveling Minister to perform the ceremony?)? It always confused me how Polly could have been a "natural daughter" to Jane if she was right in the middle of the birth order of about 10 children. Maybe, Polly was in fact Jane's first child? That John's previous children may have been born to this Unknown Stine mother?

It also states in your records, that this John Bodine had a sister by the name of Tina Bodine (maybe "Catrina" after an Aunt by that name?) and that she also married an Unknown Stine or Styne. I did find some data on a Stine family that could very possibly be this Tina (or Catrina) Bodine as the birth date data and location seem to be a reasonable fit??? There is a Cathrin Unknown (born April 25, 1761 died Sept. 13, 1831) who married a Jacob Stine (1756-1786) located in New Jersey. His parents were Jacob Stine and Phoebe Bodine (but there was no additional data was available for either of the parents other than they had at least two children: Jacob and Abraham --- but marriages back and forth between the same families was not totally uncommon, so there is at least another very remote possibility that this Cathrin may in fact have been a Bodine??? ----- maybe they married back and forth between known families just to be very certain their children never married any Tories?). Jacob and Cathrin had the following children: John born Jan. 30, 1781, Jacob born Jan. 5, 1784, and William born 1786.

But, now I am stumped. I believed if I could find Tina's Stine husband (for certain) then I should also be able to find John's Stine wife, as I assume these Stines may very well be siblings or at least cousins. But, there are no sisters listed for this Jacob Stine. I am trying to look through pretty much any marriage files for that time, but I am hard pressed to know what title book or the names of other records to look for.

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Best Wishes,
Jan Bodine