Danny Don KITTEN/Marion Jo KNIGHT

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Mathew Howard, son of Gideon Howard by his first wife, Hannah, was born about 1727 in Anne Arundel County. As early as the year 1748 he had married his kinswoman, Catherine, the daughter of Benjamin and Catherine (Buck) Howard. Her father, Captain Benjamin Howard, had died intestate in 1737, leaving two proved children. In 1748 "Mathew Howard who had intermarried with Catherine one of the daughters of Benjamin Howard, deceased", requested that citation be issued against John Howard, the administrator of Catherine Howard, widow of Benjamin, to show cause why he had not filed an inventory of her estate. One was ultimately submitted on March 14, 1748, with the signatures of her brothers uterine, Edward Kitten and Theophilus Kitten, as the kinsmen.

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History of Washington County, Pennsylvania*
AMWELL was one of the thirteen original townships erected in 1781, and at that time embraced its present territory and the present townships of Morris and Franklin. On the 13th of March, 1788, the township of Morris was erected, comprising the southwest quarter of this township. On the 23rd of April, 1792, the township of Canton was erected, taking from Amwell that part of its territory that lay north of Morris. Since that time its territory has remained the same, with the exception of a slight change in the boundary line between it and Strabane township in October, 1830.

Thomas Kitten came from Virginia to the present township of Amwell. The tract of land he took up was called "Fox Hill." His three sons were George, Dorsey, and Daniel. George moved to Ohio, where he died at the advanced age of ninety-five years. Daniel died a bachelor, and Dorsey, who married, lived and died upon the Kitten homestead.

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mariage 08.07.1795

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Wedding 2 Oct 1786
Baltimore

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Wedings?
Rachel Jameson 12 Jul 1791
and
Rachel Towson 7 Nov 1799

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DISTRICT: Orange Township PAGE: 113A
CENSUS YR: 1820 STATE: Ohio COUNTY: Meigs REEL NO: M33-88 DISTRICT: Olive Township PAGE: 113B

|Free White Males |Free White Females |For. Occupations |Male # of |Free Black Males |Free Black Females | |to 10- 16- 16- 26- 45 |to 10- 16- 26- 45 |not |>16 >16 Each |to 14- 26- 45 |to 14- 26- 45 |LN# LAST NAME First Name |10 16 18 26 44 up |10 16 26 45 up |Nat Agr Com Mfg |Mfg Agr Family |14 26 45 up |14 26 45 up |Remarks |

224 Kitten Noble 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 U 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Copy was very faint. Accuracy Doubtful.

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Christening: 30 Jul 1848
Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, Berks, Pennsylvania

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wedding ab. 1881 in St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan

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wedding: 19 Dec 1867
in Warren, Tennessee

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http://c-23.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/archives/la/stjohn/census/1870/ward5.txt
(in 1870)
Dwelling #Family #Name of each person on 1 Jun 1870AgeSexColorOccupationValue of Real EstateValue of Personal EstatePlace of BirthFather ForeignMother Foreign Month if born this yrMonth if married this yrSchool this yrCan't ReadCan't Write Deaf, blind, idiotic, etcMale CitizenCan't Vote

60 96 Kitten, George 43 M W Farmer 1K Louisiana l l l l (foreign father, cannot read and write)
60 96 Kitten, Clementine 35 F W Keeping house Louisiana l l (cannot read and write
60 96 Kitten, Gervais 13 M W Louisiana l l (cannot read and write
60 96 Kitten, Marie 7 F W Louisiana 60 96
Kitten, Adele 5 F W Louisiana 60 96
Kitten, Douglas 21 M W Louisiana

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married 23 Aug 1825

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1998 20:19:20 -0600From: Ray Einig <reinig@siu.edu>To: gen-de-l@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <34D52D27.EFDFA2F6@siu.edu>Subject: Double baptisms and marriages – Westfalen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bitBetween 1752 and 1799 many of my husband's KITTEN ancestors in Ibbenbueren were baptized twice, once Lutheran and once Catholic. If both took place on the same day I cannot tell which was first, but if they happened a day or two apart the Lutheran one was always first and the Catholic second. That leads me to believe the first was mandatory and the second was by choice, especially since the family was and is Catholic. In families with ten children, some of whom were born before1752 and others later, the early children are all baptized Catholic, and the later ones twice. Conversely, in families who had their kids between1785 and 1805, the early ones are baptized twice and the later ones only Catholic. The family there has told me there was a connection between a local noble and a Lutheran bishop, but my German wasn't good enough to get the whole thing straight. Besides, I thought "cujus regio, cujus religio" went out with the Peace of Westphalia. What was going on? Also, the double marriages often took place months apart. Any special significance to that? Any help would be most appreciated. GinaEinig

Gina,no cujus regio was made legal for all rulers of the land at the peace treaty. The earlier arrangement from the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 was really only legal for the 'reichsunmittelbaren' territories. That is, only those under direct protection of the empire. What you have stumbled into above is some very interesting historical background which I can't really cover here in detail, but it involves the Grafschaft Tecklenburg and the various smaller pieces of the Grafschaft Lingen and the conflict between Münster and Osnabrueck. Ibbenbüren was in the Grafschaft Oberlingen. It took up the NW corner of what used to be part of the Grafschaft Tecklenburg. The law of the land was that all subjects had to be Lutherans because that was the religion of the Count. People were not really free to do as they pleased so they followed the law and then went to Catholic church on their own for what they considered the real baptism. In some areas there was no RC church and the people travelled to some distant city to get their sacraments. You'll notice that once the Prussians took over Tecklenburg and the Münster Bishopric all these silly things stopped. The Prussians allowed religious freedom and individual choice. It is quite a bit of history which you might want to dig into in some detail. FredW. Fred Rump fred@k2nesoft.com 26 Warren St. fred@compu.com Beverly, NJ 609-386-6846 http://www.k2nesoft.com/~fred

I suspect that what was happening was a double registration of thebaptisms and marriages, not an actual repeated ceremony. I don't knowthe specific situation for your time and location, but in many placesone church was the "official" state church responsible for the"official" registration of such events. If a family belonged to one ofthe non-state churches, they would be required to register such eventsin the state church as well. Since in your case, the Lutheran event was always first, I would thinkthat the family was Lutheran, and that after the Lutheran event, theywould take evidence of the event to the Catholic church to have itofficially registered.I know the teaching of the Roman Catholic church is that baptism,properly administered, is "indelible" and is not to be repeated. Certainly a Lutheran baptism would be considered to be a proper baptismby the Catholic church and not be repeated.Merritt