Adam Kuhn and Eve [Unk]

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Husband Adam Kuhn ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1700 2
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           Died:  - ? West Virginia
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       Marriage: Abt 1740 - Holland

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Eve [Unk] ²

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Children

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1 M Nicholas Kuhn ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - New Jersey
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2 M Mansfield Kuhn ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - New Jersey
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           Died: Abt 1776-1782
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3 M Michael Kuhn ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 5 Apr 1747 - New Jersey 4 5
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           Died: 30 Jan 1820 - ? Plum Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 4 5
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         Spouse: Catharine McClarty (1743-1823) 1 4 5
           Marr: New Jersey

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General Notes: Husband - Adam Kuhn

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He was born in the city of Amsterdam. At the age of forty he married a lady in Holland, and immigrated to America, settling in New Jersey. [HWC 1906 II, 418]

His father was coming with other emigrants from Germany to America, but the vessel they were coming in was taken by a British privateer into the port of Derry, and he was born during their stay there. After awhile the emigrant vessel was allowed to proceed on its voyage to America, and landed at New Holland-now New York city. There the family remained until he was grown to manhood and was married to a young lady who shortly before had come from Holland. Her Christian name was Eve, her surname is not known. This couple had three sons, and after these were grown to manhood and two of them were married he came to western Pennsylvania, about 1768, to what is now Patton township, Allegheny County, made an improvement and planted an orchard. After remaining there a few years he sold out and moved to what is now West Virginia, where Eve, his wife, was killed by the Indians, and where he remained during the rest of his life. [HAC 1889 II, 451]

This family is of German origin, and its name appears in the form of Coon, as well as Kuhn. The branch of the family resident in and about Pittsburgh is descended from one Kuhn, who with his wife were among a party from Germany destined for New Amsterdam (New York ) near the close of the sixteenth or early in the seventeenth century. Their vessel was captured by a British privateer, and taken into the port of Derry, Ireland, being subsequently released and permitted to proceed upon its voyage. It would appear that the Kuhns did not go with the ship, however, as a son, Adam, was born to them in Ireland.
He dealt and traded in wines from his youth until he was forty years of age. He then married a Low Dutch lady in Holland, whose name was Eve, and emigrated to the English Colonies and settled in New Jersey about the year 1740, where he resided until his three children were grown up\emdash and two of them married\emdash then he moved to Juniata County, Pennsylvania, with his youngest son, Michael. He spoke fluently the French, Low Dutch and English languages as well as the German. He is said to have traveled in and to have been acquainted with almost all parts of Europe, more especially England and Ireland.
After living in Juniata County, Pennsylvania, for some time the Kuhns went to Wyoming Valley settlement (now Luzerne County), and Adam Kuhn here suffered serious misfortune in the burning of his house with nearly all its contents. After his escape with his family from the terrible massacre, he settled near Harrisburg, at Middletown, Pennsylvania, till the close of the Revolutionary war. Then Adam Kuhn and his son Michael settled in what is now known as Patton township, Allegheny County, where they made improvements on a tract of land supposed to be vacant, building a house and planting an orchard. A claimant to the land appeared, however, who was given possession, agreeing to make payment for the improvements. Adam Kuhn then went down the Ohio river into West Virginia, near Fishing Creek, some distance below Wheeling, and not far from Mound City, where his son Nicholas then lived. Here he established a new home, and here came to him the great sorrow of his life in the cruel death of his wife, who was killed by Indians as she was driving the cows homeward. Adam Kuhn married a second time, and of this union a daughter, Mary, was born. It is not known when he died, but he must have been quite aged, for he was seventy years old when he left western Pennsylvania. Just before his death he was visited by his son Michael, to whom he gave the title papers to the tract of land upon which Michael was living, saying that that would be his share of the estate after his (the father's) death. Michael, in turn, gave these papers, for a like purpose, to his son John, who was so unfortunate as to lose them, this misfortune entailing the loss of the property.
In religious faith he was a Baptist. Driven from Germany by persecution of the Baptists he took refuge in Holland and there wooed and won his first wife, Eve.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 451.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 418.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 464.

4 Helen Kuhn (Jackson) Black, The Kuhn (Coon) Family of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (Wichita, KS: Self-published, 1956), Pg 9.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 465.