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From: JanAlpert@aol.com
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Slought/Slout, Petty and Bodine Families
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:45 EST

I have been working on the family of Mary (Pickel) Bodine for over 20 years,
Her father was Johan Balthazar Pickel who b. 1731 and d. 1796 in Hunterdon
Co., NJ. Her mother was Anna Barbara Becker b. ? and who died in 1805. Mary's
mother left her a slave Rachel and the recent records posted by the NJ
Archives with birth certificates for slaves born after 1804, listed Mary Bodine,
widow, as the prior owner of a slave Rachel, who had a daughter Elizabeth in
1806.

Mary's husband was Jacob Bodine who died in 1801. Her brother Nicholas
Pickel was the administrator of the estate. Part of my problem in tracing the
family was their lack of assets. When Jacob died his inventory was $206.75. Mary
would have been between 30-35 years old with 6 minor children I have
identified: John b. 1788, Frederick b. 1791, Elizabeth b. 1794, Sarah b. 1796 (my
ancestor who married John Chamberlin and died in Champaign Co., Ohio in 1873),
William b. 1798, and Samuel b. by 1801.

I think widow Mary Bodine may have married (2) Ebenezer Petty 31 Dec. 1805.
This probably would have been a second marriage for both. I think Ebenezer
Petty died 24 Dec. 1836 in Hunterdon Co., NJ.

I have found a Mary Petty 81 living in Alexandria Twp, Hunterdon Co. with
the following family:

William Slought 40 b. NJ
Matilda 38 b. NJ
Deborah Ann 10 b. NH
possibly Anderson ? male 8 b. NJ
Mary Petty 81 b. NJ value of real estate $2,000.

Could Matilda be a daughter from Mary Petty's second marriage to Ebenezer
Petty? If so, Matilda would have been born when Mary was 42 or 43. Can anyone
tell me more about this Slought family? does anyone know when Mary Petty died?
Or where she is buried? I'd like to find her probate record, if one exists
to see if it mentions Bodine children. I believe the Sloughts were living in
Phillipsburg, Warren Co. by the 1880 census.