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Subject: [OHHAMILT] COVALT's Station and Mary COVALT JONES
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 22:06:47 EST

A huge THANK YOU to "Susan in Milwaukee" for her marathon transcriptions
earlier this year. I just learned of them yesterday, and joined this list
tonight specifically to thank her publicly. Mary COVALT JONES and husband
Joseph are my direct ancestors, so I have a double interest in her
transcriptions as well as all the other information out there regarding
COVALT's Station. According to the 1881 Hamilton Co., OH, history, p.400,
Mary died Dec. 8, 1851.

Mary gives the year as 1788 that they made the trip from PA to OH. However,
it was 2 years after this (1790) that their flatboats found their way down
the Ohio River. The following 2 records can be found in the Greene Co., PA,
Archives --

1784, Dec. 25, "Received Bro Abraham COULT (?COVALT) and his wife Lois by
letter." --Selected Goshen Baptist Church Minutes, 1773-1857, Greene
[formerly Washington] Co., PA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/greene/church.htm

1789, Nov. 28, "Met at Whitely according to appointment and proceeded to
business viz Gave letters of dismission to Abraham COVALT and Lois, his
wife, Lydia Hinkle, Rhoda Huchans, Jemima Wellington." [the Hinkle and
Hutchins families went to Ohio with the COVALT family] --Selected Goshen
Baptist Church Minutes, 1773-1857, Greene [formerly Washington] Co., PA
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/greene/church.htm

Gregg Kinney's COVALT page <http://greggkinney.com/covalt.htm>; gives a
detailed history of Abraham's lineage. Gregg's work is quite impressive.

Susan, do you happen to have a specific reference to the location of Mary's
memoir in the Draper Collection? Without that reference, it's nigh on to
impossible to locate it, and I would love to get a copy of the original if at
all possible.

Once again, THANK YOU, Susan, for transcribing that wonderful history for us.
--Wilene Smith in KS

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