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Author: dominusvobiscum
Surnames: Carnine, Conyn, Conine
Classification: queries
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CARNINE in Pleasant Twp, Switzerland Co, IN:
Pleasent (sic) Township First settlers [Switzerland Co, IN]
As stated in a previous chapter, the settlement of Pleasent Township, known as Dutch
settlement, began about 1817. The little colony was chiefly made up of people from
Kentucky, of Hollandese descent, and brought with them their peculiar characteristics of
industry, sobriety, and frugality.
Prominent among families who first settled here were:
Bantas
Vanosdo;s
Vannuys
Shucks
Voris
Carnines
Demarees
Vandevers
Harmons
Emigrants were constantly being added to their colony from Kentucky.
History of Switzerland County, Indiana From their earliest settlement.
Chicago: Weakley, Harrman & Co., Publishers
Minor Padgett Post # 180 G.A.R. Bennington was granted a charter May 30, 1885, by James B.
Caranahan, Department Commander;
Benjamin D House, Asst. Adjt. Gen.
The names of the charter members are:
John Neal
William P. Edis
Charles M Newkirk
Peter Voris
Charles H. Padgett
J.M. Osborn
Dennis C Valentine
F.W. Cole
P.C. Holland
William Twinham
P.S. Riley
James P. Cole
Martin C Shaddy
John O Martin
William Whitlau
Joseph P Marsh
Daniel Lock
James Pally
Joseph M. Pierce
William Walden
R.L. Kinnear
J W Jaynes
E S Henry
J H Smith
George S Dillman
T N Carnine
John S Cole
George W. Turner
History of Switzerland County, Indiana From their earliest settlement.
Chicago: Weakley, Harrman & Co., Publishers
Pleasent Township Presbyterian Church.
This organization was first known as the Jefferson Church, from which it was formed in
1829, as appears from the following entry made in the clerk's record in the above
year:
In Madison Presbytery, convened at Pisgah Church, Oct. 3, 1829, a request was presented
from several members of Jefferson Church that they be stricken off from the same and be
formed into a new church, to be called Pleasent Township Church; and that Wilson's
Fork of Indian Kentucky Creek be the division line between the two churches.
Resolved, that this request be granted and that the said church thus formed continue under
the pastoral care of Rev. Sammuel Gregg.
Attest, James H. Johnston Stated clerk of the Presbytery.
The names of the original members set off to this new division of the church at the date
above given are as follows:
Samuel Gregg
Charles Dawson
Mary Dawson
Richard Carnine
Dennis Carnine
John Bandy
Christopher Bergen
Issac Vannice
Cornelius R. Voris
Henery P Banta
Daniel H. Demaree
John Blunk
John D. List
Cornelius A. Voris
Others who joined the church immediately after the division was made were as follows:
Agnes Vannice
Polly Bandy
Nancy List
Mary Carnine
Mary Banta
Tiney Carnine
Mary Voris
Cynthia Demaree
Rachel Blunk
Susana Blunk
History of Switzerland County, Indiana From their earliest settlement.
Chicago: Weakley, Harrman & Co., Publishers
Looks like the Carnines were Dutch?? Here is an excerpt:
The Dutch settlement began to be formed. Cornelius A. Voris, the Carnines, Demarees,
Vandevers and Harmons, and other of the old settlers came from Kentucky principally, and
in a few years that part of the county commenced increasing in population quite rapidly.
It was but a few years after until the farmers from the locality began to supply the
citizens of Vevay with butter, eggs, and chickens furing the summer, and pork, venison,
oats, wheat, flax, etc., in fall and winter.
They soon organized a church, and built a log meeting house near the crossroads near David
Henry's, which has since been replaced with a neat and comfortable frame building. It
is of the Presbyterian Church.
History of Switzerland County, Indiana From their earliest settlement.
Chicago: Weakley, Harrman & Co., Publishers
From what I read, the township of where your ancestors came from was
Dutch and Scottish. The Scots came after the Dutch. The Dutch were Presbyterian and the
Scots were Presbyterian, but they formed their own churches and each group stayed in their
area of the township.
From:
http://groups.msn.com/AncestorChroniclesOurKinAndTheirTimes/indiana.msnw?...
Interesting. Hope this helps. It suggests the folks may have still had Dutch accents,
hence the variations in the name when the census takers tried to record them. What does
Conyn (Conine) [the original name] sound like in Dutch? How did the "r" creep
in?
Cheers,
Charles Walthall
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