A member of the Cuntze family, Joseph, came in 1714. If I understand B. C. Holtzclaw correctly, a nephew of this Joseph, who was another Joseph, came in 1737 and took up land in the Little Fork. The younger Joseph was 25 and unmarried when he arrived. He married an Elizabeth, surname uncertain. In 1747 he had a grant of 127 acres in the Little Fork. This land was given to Joseph Coons, Jr., in 1783 by Joseph, Sr., and Elizabeth. Whether there was an earlier record in which Elizabeth appears is unknown to me. Joseph, Sr., disappears from the records in 1793.
If you stand in Jeffersonton in Culpeper County, you are standing on the land of Joseph. First, the land was deeded to a son, Joseph, and the town was laid out in 1798. The Coons sold lots to others.
The tithables list shows five sons of Joseph, Sr.:
Joseph , son of Joseph, Sr., and Elizabeth, did not move to Kentucky. He remained in Culpeper County until he died in 1819. He married Catherine Hopper.
Jacob married Elizabeth Hanback (Heimbach). He was born perhaps as early as 1740, for a daughter of his, Mary, is mentioned in a 1767 deed.
John died in Kentucky. John, perhaps born about 1745, also married an Elizabeth, but her surname is not known. John probably moved to Kentucky at the same as his brother, Jacob, that is, about 1793.
Henry , another son of Joseph, Sr., also moved to Kentucky, and again at about the same time as his brothers. He married Mary Hanback, the sister of Elizabeth Hanback who married Jacob Coons. His will, dated 1821 was not probated until 1823.
The youngest son, the fifth, of Joseph, Sr., and Elizabeth, was Frederick , who was not born until 1762. He married Mary Ann Mathews. He too moved to Kentucky, and appears in the census there.
One daughter is known, Anne Elizabeth , who married Joseph Wayman, son of George Wayman.
Five Coons appear in the Culpeper Classes in 1781:
(These are the five sons above.)
In the 1787 tax lists, the father and all five of the sons appear as independent persons. In these records, two spellings are used, Coons and Coones.
(09 Dec 02)
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