Notes for: Margaret Kitchen

Her first name comes from the DAR records of Mrs. Rose Ann (Bodine) Gilbert. Joan Best said that Abraham and Margaret Morse were married in Ontario. I first had her name as Margaret Morris. Other info at the Bodine forum at Ancestry.com said her name was "Margaret Kitchen Morse, widow of Israel Morse." I assume her maiden name, then, was Kitchen. She may have married a third time to a "Mann."

There is a reference to a Bodine Revolutionary War veteran whose family settled in the Columbia County area of Pennsylvania (although he himself did not necessarily end up there). The veteran is referred to as "Col. Bodine of Revolutionary War fame." Some sources say that his daughter married a William Kitchen. Their daughter, Mary Kitchen, married William Hendershot. (The Hendershot family originally came from New Jersey.) William Hendershot was the grandfather of an Erastus Hendershot who was born in Jerseytown on July 16, 1832 and was a farmer there. Erastus' parents were John Hendershot and Mary Welliver. John was a native of Madison Township in Columbia County. John was born March 18, 1802 (History of Columbia and Montour Counties Pennsylvania, Battle, 1887, p. 503). The identity of "Col. Bodine" is unknown. If this is learned, it could help find the Bodine family that moved to Columbia County. The only hint I have as to who he might be is that Catherine Bodine (b. 1721 in Somerset Co., NJ) married John George Hendershot (b. 1720 in the Raritan Valley, NJ). This is an early connection between Bodines and Hendershots. I would guess that Col. Bodine could be a nephew of Catherine Bodine. That would make him a son of either John, Jacob, Cornelius, or Peter Bodine. I can see no further hints from there. I have some info on the children of Jacob and Cornelius, but nothing on John and Peter.

I later looked at a Kitchen family web site and found this about Colonel Bodine: "There was a William KITCHEN, a Quaker, who came from NJ, to the Danville, PA. area. One account says he 'was m. to the d/o Colonel BODINE of Revolutionary fame.' Another account says he married Eliza BEAVERS. His dau. i. Mary BEAVERS Kitchen, (m. in Danville, 3/1/1799, Wm. Scholl HENDERSHOT, b. 12/16/1778), ii. Nancy, (Judge James DERR). Kitchen's Creek at Red Rock is supposedly named for him." If what was found at this Kitchen site is true, then we might not be able to put much stock in this story about a "Colonel Bodine."

Joan Best later wrote, "William Kitchen was a close neighbor of the Bodines. William Kitchen, Jr. acted as surety for James Bodine's estate. You would think, if there was a daughter that married William Kitchen and died before Jacob, that her children would be named, just as Jacob Jr.'s were."