I received the following messages from Joan Best about this Jacob:
From: "Joan Best" (joanbest1 at earthlink.net)
Subject: Bodines of Elgin Co. Ontario
Date: Friday, January 25, 2002
In looking over your material, I think the most likely candidate for the father of the Canadian brood of Bodines is Jacob, son of Jacob (1719-1748) and Catherine Bogart (How do we know what her maiden name was?). This is my reasoning:
Jacob and Catherine had only two sons: Jacob, b. abt 1744 and Nicholas, b. abt. 1746.
There are only two Nicholas Bodines, one in the Canadian family, and one here. You speculate that Nicholas Shipman may be related to Catherine, as he is named with Catherine and John Bodine as guarantors for Jacob's estate.
The children became wards of their uncle, Cornelius Bodine. There is a Cornelius Bodine who married Mary Cadman on 1 Jan 1811 in Willimsburg, Dundas Co., Ontario who may be a sibling of my Elgin Co. Bodines.
Nicholas took over the Hunterdon estate of the father and we don't know where Jacob went, but he is the right age, and the right name and the right place to be the father of Catherine, Abraham, Elizabeth, Amy, [Mary], Nicholas, and Rachel Bodine (all born in late 1700's).
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Regards, Joan Best
We later learned that a Jacob and Catherine Bodine were the parents of the Columbia Co., PA and Canadian Bodines. However, we do not know who that Jacob was. The best candidate so far is still this Jacob, son of Jacob Bodine and Catherine Bogart.
Posted By: Joan Best
Subject: Jacob Bodine, cousin of Hendershot move to PA
Post Date: March 08, 2002 at 11:53:09
Message URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hendershot/messages/729.html
Forum: Hendershot Family Genealogy Forum
Forum URL: http://genforum.genealogy.com/hendershot/
From what I can tell, Catherine Bodine married John Hendershot, mid 1700s in Morris Co. New Jersey. Her brother, Jacob Bodine, married Catherine (Bogart or Shipman - some discussion of her maiden name). Jacob died leaving widow Catherine Bodine and two small children, Jacob and Nicholas. Widow Catherine remarried Roelof Ruloffson (spellings vary, but you get the picture). Catherine and Roelof also had children. Catherine and Roelof Fuloffson lived in Morris Co. This makes Jacob and Nicholas Bodine cousins with the children of Catherine and John Hendershot, and psudo cousins with Catherine's step-children. When these children grew up, Nicholas took over his father, Jacob Bodine's lands in Hunterdon Co. NJ. It is unknown what happened to Jacob. Now we skip to Northumberland Co. PA prior to 1790 in that area near Bloomburg/Dansville/Jerseytown. We find a Jacob Bodine and a whole slew of Hendershots. These Hendershots appear to be some of the children of John Hendershot (above), cousins of the Jacob Bodine discussed above. Both Jacobs were born in early 1750s. I suspect that Jacob, neighbor of Hendershots in PA is their cousin, nephew of Catherine Bodine Hendershot. Does anyone out there have any information that will help me prove or disprove this theory? About half of Jacob and Nancy (maiden name unknown) Bodine's children moved to the Elgin Co. Ontario area abt. 1811.
Joan Best