My ancestor, John Brown, was among the group of 50 or so families that
settled Newark, NJ in 1666-67, and I am familiar in general with many of
the families. There is indeed a Brown-Tichenor marriage, but it is not,
it appears in your direct line.
Morris, NJ. is a county, created in the 1730s from Hunterdon County.
It lies to the west of Essex County (where Newark is), separated by the
Passaic River. Its county seat is Morristown, where George Washington
headquarterted in the early and late years of the Revolution. It would
appear that the town you want is Mendham, west of Morristown on Rt. 24,
an east-west route following an old Indian trail. A query on the Morris
County Rootsweb site generally brings a quick and accurate response.
I did a quick-and-dirty search on
Ancestry.com and found about 45
references to a Peter Tichenor. As usual, some of these are just copied
from other people's genealogies, some are fanciful and some appear quite
good. Check to see which ones have references (little icons show what
they have). The one that rings most true, is one by Patrick Harrington
that turned up on the second page of references. That one takes the
line back to Martin Tichenor as I would suspect. Interestingly, Peter's
mother was a Byram (a line that has also been traced). The first NJ
Byram was a minister (Peter, I think) and settled at Mendham. Many
Newark families moved to Morris County after about 1750. The county had
(and has) better farm land than Newark, and was higher and less mosquito
ridden. Find the Harrington genealogy and work through his references.
Then query the Morris County website.
Interestingly, the Hull family, some of whom also settled briefly in
Vigo county, were also from Mendham, although via Ohio, not Kentucky.
What do you have on the Barcus family? That is my daughter-in-law's
family line, through her son Alex Montgomery?
Wilson