Transcript:Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 28 (Page 114)

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Source:Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 28, Number 1

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"The Three Joseph (Van) Gundys" by Mary K. Meyer

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...formed Church, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, 4 January 1771. In view of this, we must conclude that Margaret (Van Gundy) Agler who died in Franklin County, Ohio, was not the daughter of Joseph Van Gundy. Along the same line of reasoning we may also conclude that Joseph's first and only wife was Magdalena (Haldeman) Shonower.

In 1773 Joseph appears on the tax list of Stumpstown, (now) Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. On 22 December 1774 another deed, a settlement of the estate of Jacob Shonower - his son, John having attained the age of 14 years - shows Joseph still in Bethel Township.

On warrants dated 19 October to Joseph Van Gundy and 22 December 1774 to Joseph Gundy, he had two parcels of land surveyed called Parma and Palatine, containing in all 150 acres in Penns Township, Northumberland (now Snyder) County, Pennsylvania. These lands were patented to him 20 April 1776.

Joseph evidently moved his family to Penns Township, for we find a record of the baptism of his daughter Elizabeth in Rau's (Salem) Lutheran Church there. Elizabeth was born 16 October 1775. Her sponsors were Paul Gemberling and his wife.

On 9 March 1775, Joseph bought from Jacob Armbrister (Armbruster) two more tracts of land next to those he already owned, called Verona (42 acres) and Veroli (42 acres). These two tracts were patented to him in the survey of lands in what is now Chapman Township, Snyder County. This land was never patented to him but by "sundry conveyances and long possession" was finally patented to Abraham Zeigler in 1842.

Bartol in her list of Revolutionary Soldiers, makes the following statement: "Joseph Van Gundy, 1742-1795; Third Lieutenant in Capt. Benjamin Weiser's Company of Northumberland County (Pennsylvania) Militia, 1776. He commanded a company in Sullivan's expedition to guard supplies. He married Margaretta Haldeman (1748-1790)."

Mrs. Bartol gives no reference for any part of her statement. But on closer examination we find the birth dates of both Joseph and his wife impossible to accept as will be shown later in this work. In the course of all our research we have been unable to substantiate Joseph's date of death.

Without a doubt, this Joseph Van Gundy is the one who is listed on a muster roll of Banjamin Weiser's Company of Northumberland county Militia at Philadelphia 30 January 1777, as a Third Lieutenant. Of the other two Josephs with whom we are concerned, the second never seems to have lived in the Northumberland County area, and the third Joseph, who did live in the Northumberland county area at a later date, was too young to ...

Sources

• Image: American Ancestors: Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 28, Number 1, Page 114.
• Transcription: "Ancestors of Samuel J. Davis & Sherry L. Kirk: Information about Joseph Van Gundy" in Genealogy.com