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Persoonlijke gegevens HENRY Ringo 

• Hij is geboren op 14 december 1724 in Hopewell Twp., Hunterdon Co., NJ.
• Beroep: in Blacksmith, Farmer, Overseer of Roads in NJ &, VA.
• (Genealogy-Ringo #1) in RG #1D2B "Ringo Family History".
• Hij is overleden op 12 mei 1803 in Montgomery Co., KY, Will Date: 12 May 1802, Probate Date: 22 Aug. 1803, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Een kind van PHILIP Ringo en Jane Cook
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van HENRY Ringo

Hij is getrouwd met MARGARET Major.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 21 maart 1749 te probably Hunterdon Co., NJ, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. PHILIP Ringo  1750-1785 
2. Peter Ringo  1751-1829
3. Cornelius Ringo  1753-1836 
4. Major Ringo  1755-1838 
5. John Ringo  1758-< 1830 
6. Samuel H. ("Hart" ?) Ringo  1761-± 1827 
7. Joseph Ringo  1763-1852 
8. Frances Ringo  1766-1796

Notities over HENRY Ringo

"Ringo Family History"
"Henry Ringo, son of Philip Ringo and Jane Cook, was born December 14th, 1724 in Hopewell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  He moved with his parents in the early 1730's to the Crossroads in Amwell Township, where his father kept the tavern.

"As with the other Ringo boys, he learned a trade, that of a blacksmith, this he seems to have fitted in very well with the running of a farm, which he did all of his life.

"At the age of 24, he was married on March 21st, 1749, probably in Hunterdon County, New Jersey to Margaret Major.  No record of the marriage is to be found other than in the Ringo Family Bible but there were Majors in Hunterdon County, particularly in Maidenhead Township and further research may reveal the names of her parents.  We do know that she was born June 21st, 1732.

"When his father, Philip, died in 1757, Henry Ringo was to receive "That tract or lott of land on which he now lives in Hopewell (Township), bought of John Cox Esquire." ; A family record says that Henry's children born before this date were born "at" or near "Pennington."  There is no record that his home during those days was at or near Pennington, nearly the only village in the Hopewell township, and perhaps this reference is in that context, rather than as an exact location.  No deed has yet been found for his property.

"In any event, it would appear that within about five years, Henry Ringo had disposed of the place in Hopewell Township inherited from his father, and had installed his growing family on two hundred and twenty acres in Amwell township on the Trenton Road and just a few hundred yards form the Hopewell Line.  (The area of his farm includes the crossroads presently known as "Syndertown" approximately four miles south of the village of Ringoes).

"Henry was there March 8th, 1763 when at a meeting of the citizens of Amwell at Ringo's Tavern, he was selected to be the Overseer for Rock Road.  (That part of the Trenton road which ran south from the village through Rocktown to the Hopewell line).

"This would seem to indicate that the children of Henry Ringo and Margaret Major born before that date, Philip 1750, Peter 1751, Cornelius 1753, Major 1755, John 1758 and Samuel H. 1761, were born in Hopewell Township.  Joseph, born only a few days later than when Henry became Road Overseer, must have been born in Amwell in 1763 and also their only daughter, Frances in 1766.

"Henry Ringo and his brothers lived in a period of American history when "hard money" (Metal) was scarce.  People unable to pay even a small debt could be thrown into prison, or perhaps even worse, their lands, house, livestock and household belongings seized for any debt and auctioned off by the County Sheriff at public sale.

"The records of those years are replete with advertisements of this nature.  One appeared in the July 31st, 1766 edition of the Pennsylvania Gazette and reads as follows:

     'By virtue of his Majesty's Writ of Fieri Facias (which commands a sheriff to levy and sell as much of the debtor's property as neccessary to satisfy a creditor's claim), to me directed, will be exposed to sale, at public vendue, at the house of Henry Ringo in Amwell on Monday 8th day of September, next between the hours of 12:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon a valuable plantation containing 220 acres, bounded by lands of Richard Reed, George Corwine, Joseph Hickson, Henry Wanbough, Jacob Snyder, Moses Reed and the King's Highway about 14 miles from Trenton, on which is a good stone dwelling house, barn, large orchard and excellent meadows which may be watered by living springs running thro the farm, late the property and now in the possession of Henry Ringo: seized and taken in execution at the suit of William Cubberly and John Barbarie (holders of numeerous notes in Hunterdon County) and to be sold by Samuel Tucker, late Sheriff.'

"As did many other inhabitants of the County, Henry Ringo had a serious problem!

"As was the case on many occasions, Henry Ringo's farm was probably not sold on that date "for want of a buyer," but on September 8th, 1767, when it was again offered for sale, the buyer was his brother, John, the tavernkeeper, who had had many similar scrapes with the same problem.  Since John kept title to the property until May 3rd, 1770, it is probable that Henry did not leave the county right away.  It is quite possible that Henry continued to remain on the farm, now in John's name, until the Fall of 1768, when his younger brother, Cornelius Ringo, found himself caught up in a similar situation, and that they left Amwell, Hunterdon and New Jersey forever, at about that time, traveling south along the road toward Trenton in Caravan with their wives, children, livestock and prized possessions, looking for a new home and fortune."

Research indicates that the Henry Ringo family left New Jersey in 1768 and a year later Henry was the overseer for the Mountain Road near Piney Creek of Bull Run in Loudoun Co., Virginia.

"In that county, on November 13th of 1769, Henry Ringo was appointed overseer of "The Road", where William Stanhope was formerly surveyor."  By the year 1770, both brothers Henry and Cornelius, from whom present descendants of the Ringo name came, are to be found living in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the Northern Neck area, which touches on the present-day District of Columbia.  By 1772 he had moved again, this time to a farm of 130 acres in Prince William Co., VA, located on Young's Road.

"Now the surviving Ringos were living in a new colony, where nearly evryone was of British extraction with only a handful of settlers of Huguenot and German origin, plus some, like the Ringo family, who had drifted there from other colonies.  There the movement of people had already begun from the Tidewater areas west, toward the mountains beyond the foothills, near where Henry and his brother had settled.

"On June 10th, 1771 Henry Ringo in Loudoun was again appointed an Overseer of the lower part of The Road between Piney Creek and Little Creek.  The road repairs were to be divided up between him and Samuel Wyckoff.  (Perhaps another immigrant from New Jersey).  On November 19th, of the same year Henry made a long term lease on 175 acres of land on Piney Branch of Bull Run, Cameron Parish, Loudoun County, Virginia, thus better locating their new home.

"However, on May 4th, 1772 Henry Ringo left his leased in Loudon County in the hands of his eldest son, Philip, then 22 and took up residence in Prince William County to the east and somewhat closer to civilization.  There he bought 130 acres from Anthony Seale and his wife.  The farm was located on Young's road about 30 miles by road from Manassas, then the county seat.

"Henry and his wife, Margaret, and their family made this their headquarters for some years, but the big subject for conversation and conjecture, even before war broke out with the mother country, was of the Western Lands beyond the mountains, called 'Kentucke.'

"When the war with Great Britain came, the Ringos were on the side of the Revolt; and of Henry's sons, Cornelius is recorded as having served in the Virginia Militia and Peter carted supplies for the military in their fight for our country's freedom.

"Talk of Kentucky and the cheap and fruitful land there continued to dominate the thoughts of the Ringos.  Peter, Henry's next to oldest son, actually made a trip there in the summer of 1776 and stayed long enough to raise a crop of corn and attempt to establish a land claim.  Evidence of trips made there by Cornelius, the third son, appear as soon as peace was declared.

"With the death of their first born son, Philip, in 1785 the die seems to have been cast, and it was simply a matter of when the time was propitious for the move west.  On April 16th, 1788 'Henry Ringoe and Margit, his wife,' of the county of Prince William in the Commonwealth of Virginia sold their 130 acres, house and outbuildings for 'one hundred and forty two pounds current money of Virginia' to Moses Cocke of Westtown Township in the County and State of Pennsylvania.

"While there is indication that son, Cornelius, was already in Kentucky to make preparations for their arrival, Henry Ringo, his wife, and all the rest of their children except son John, took off 'lock, stock and barrel' from Virginia in the summer of 1789.  Accompanying them on the long, arduous and still dangerous trip were the orphaned children of their son, Philip."

Henry, wife, and all the children except John, left Virginia in the summer of 1789.  By 1792, Henry Ringo was listed in the Tax List of Fayette Co., KY as a resident. ; Fayette Co., became Clark Co., which later became Montgomery Co., KY.  (CJH)

Henry, & wife, Margaret and family settled in Montgomery Co., KY, close to present day Mount Sterling.  Margaret "Peggy", wife of their son Philip, may have married again; all of Philip's children went to Kentucky with their grandparents.  Henry's surname was at times spelled "Ringoe."

"Kentucky had been made a district of Virginia in 1776 and by 1780 this had been divided into three counties, one of which, Fayette, contained the claims made earlier by son Peter for land on Hingston Creek.  While the early trips to the west were usually made via the Wilderness Road and Cumberland Gap, the family's exodus made when Henry was 64, probably was by drift boat from Pennsylvania on the Ohio River.  This new route coming into vogue was easier and more calculated for the safe arrival of, not only the family but the several slaves, eleven horses and cattle, Henry is recorded as owning at that time.

"In early fall of 1789 several of the Ringo sons showed up as witnesses to documents in Mason County, Kentucky, which was the destination point for travelers arriving at the port of Limestone."  (Peter, Joseph, Major, 7 Sept 1789 for John Fristoe whose 2nd wife was named Jemima (nee Ringo, sister of Peter, Joseph, & Major).  She remarried after John's death, 25 August 1817 to James Mattocks, Bondsman was Reuban Ringo.  CJH]).  "The continuing journey to their new home lay inland through rolling country by way of Indian trails, widened by use, to accommodate animals and carts.

"When, on June 1st, 1792 Kentucky was admitted to the Union, as a commonwealth similar to its mother state, Henry Ringo was included as a resident in the Tax List of Fayette County.

"There must have been a period of regrouping and of settling in for the Henry Ringo family on their new home tract in Kentucky (not far from present-day Mount Sterling) looking for a place of their own.  Henry continues to be listed on the Fayette County Tax List until 1794, when Clark County was formed, and the Ringo land fell in it.  Montgomery County, Kentucky was formed in 1796 from Clark County, and the home property was in the new county and remained a part of it.

"Meanwhile though, tragedy struck the family.  Henry Ringo's wife, Margaret, was taken ill and on January 20th, 1795 she "departed this Life about brake of day," according to Henry's Bible.  She was 62 years of age and had been married for 46 years.  Only weeks afterward on March 8th, John, sixth child of Samuel and Catherine Ringo, who was less than a year old, died.  In 1796, on June 16th, Frances Ringo, eighth child and only daughter of Henry Ringo and Margaret Major, died at the age of 29.  She had never married.  They must all have been buried in a newly prepared grave plot, where Henry would join them a few years later.

"Henry Ringo continued on the Tax List of the new county from 1797 through 1801.  On May 12th, 1802 he made his will at the age of 77.  He must have been feeling the weight of his years and the state of his health because he signed it with his mark: two vertical lines connected by an upside-down chevron for the capital letter "H," despite the  fact that he was a good scribe in his earlier years.

"He provided in it for the payment of his debts, his burial and other matters, then makes bequests as follows:

1.   He gives to his son Peter, all his blacksmith tools and one sorrel mare.
2.   He gives to his son, Cornelius, one feather bed and bedding
3.   To son John, he gave 'one hundred dollars to be levied out of money due me, that is
      provided that he should ever come to the Kentucky County.'  (At this point in time
      John Ringo was living in Wilker County, Georgia).
4.   The balance of his estate was to be divided between his other surviving sons, Peter,
      Cornelius, Major, Samuel and Joseph.
5.   He appointed his son, Peter and a neighbor, John McIntire, to be his Executors.

"The inventory of the estate of Henry Ringo was made September 18th, 1803 by Moses Bledsoe, John Martin and Joseph Long.  It included notes, bonds and book accounts totaling nearly 161 pounds, all of which was from various of his sons, except 15 pounds due on a note from William Warner.  One 'Big Bible" (in the possession of Lloyd Bryan Ringo, Upper Montclair, New Jersey in 1981), two books and a "sorrel horse colt, 1 year old past.' "

Other Items included:  1 coffee Mill and Salt Sellar, 1 Pewter Tea Pot and Funnel, 1 Shaving Apparatus, 3 Tin cups, 1 Cannister, 1 Candle, 2 Pipes, 1 Box, 1 Pair Pincers, 1 Snuffer, 1 Corkscrew and Small Case, 1 Tea Kettle, 1 Mustard Pot, 2 Slates, 1 Pair Hilyards, 1 Steep Trap, 1 Pewter Pot, 1 Tin Pot, 1 Lanthern, 1 Pocketbook. 1 Baker, 1 Oven, 1 Kettle, 1 Spade, 1 Wood Shovel, 1 Broadax, 1 Marrox Ax, 1 Cutting Knife, 1 Pot Rack, 18 Narrow Teath, 2 Pair Fire Tongs, 1 Hatchet, 1 Pair Wedges, 7 Files, 1 Pair Compas, 1 Drawing Knife, 1 Half Bushels, 1 Pad Lock, 1 Smythe Anvil, 1 Scribing Iron, 1 Old Brass, 6 Whitestones, 1 Old Iron, 2 Sives, 1 Pitch Fork, 1 Crosscut Saw, 1 Chest, 1 Box, 1 Old Saddle, 1 Kegg, 1 Bottle, 1 Ink Pot, 2 Bed Steds, 1 Arm Chair, 1 Set Knives and Forks.

"When Alburtis Ringo moved to Fleming County, Kentucky in 1806 and went to Montgomery County to get Power of Attorney so as to settle the estate of John Ringo and Albartes Ringo, he discovered that their brother (hi uncle) Henry Ringo had been dead nearly three years.

SOURCES: "Ringo Family History Series," Vol. 2 (1D2B), pp. 113-129, "The First Five Generations of the Ringo Family in America," & Vol. 3, pp. 3, the Fifth Generation, Henry Ringo & Margaret Major's son, Philip Ringo, and his Descendants; from  "The Ringo Family History Series", The Line of Descent from Philip Janszen Ringo, 1981. 13 Volumes, published by "The Freeborn Family Organization, Inc., 518 Alahmar Street, Alhambra, CA 91801.  Henry Ringo's "Ringo Family Bible."  John and Betty Sanford, 6223 Prospect Rd., San Jose, CA ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)

"Ringo Family History Series" Note:
Volume I, Part 1 & 2,  "The Ringo Family in Europe;" the early history and
          ;                          development of the "Ringo"  name - not genealogy).

Volume II      "The First Five Generations of the Ringo Family in America.
          ;            (Has a back section called "Early Collateral Lines" (unindexed
          ;            in Volume II, but indexed in Volume XIII).  This supplement
          ;            contains data on families of Oldenbarneveld, Stoutenburg,
          ;            Van Utrecht, de Marnix (Van Marnix, Cook, Klauw/Clauw, Major.

Descendants of Henry's children can be found in the following volumes:
Volume III     Philip Ringo (1D2B1), 1750, son of Henry Ringo
Volume IV     Cornelius Ringo (1D2B3), 1753, son of Henry Ringo
Volume V      Major Ringo (1D2B4), 1755 son of Henry Ringo
Volume VI     John Ringo (1D2B5), 1758, son of Henry Ringo
Volume VII    Samuel Ringo (1D2B6, 1761, son of Henry Ringo
Volume VIII   Joseph Ringo (1D2B7, 1763, son of Henry Ringo

Descendants of Cornelius' children can be found in the following volumes:
Volume IX     John Ringo (1D2E1), 1761, son of Cornelius Ringo
Volume X      Alburtis (Burtis) Ringo (1D2E2), 1763, son of Cornelius Ringo

Volume XI     "Documentary History of the Ringo Family"
Volume XII    "Ringo Family History Series Update;" Corrections & Additions,
          ;             data on sponsors for Ringo baptisms, later family data, pictures).
Volume XIII   "Master Name Index for all Volumes. (Each Volume has an index.)
          ;           Contains additional material on Van Tienhoven, Van de Water,
          ;           Van Marnix/de Marnix, and Cook.

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