Kuhn Family Genealogy

Kuhn
   The Kuhn surname was first found in Austria, where the family gained a significant reputation for its contributions to the emerging mediaeval society. It's derived from the personal name Kuno, a short form of Kunrat. The German word kühn, meaning ‘bold’, may have influenced the popularity of this short form, but is not necessarily the immediate source of it. Spelling variations include: Kuhn, Kuehn, Kuehne, Kuehnel, Cuhn, Cuehn, Cuehne and many more. The Coat of Arms features a lion and a chevron on a silver and blue shield.
   Our lineage to the Kuhn family is German, and can be traced to a man named HANS KUHN, born about 1623 in Hüttengesäß, thirteen miles northeast of Hanau. He married a girl named CATHARINA in Hüttengesäß. Hans died and was buried in the same village on the 19th of March in 1693, at age 70. Catharina was buried 13 Nov 1679 in Hüttengesäß, at age 50. They had the following children:

CHILDREN OF HANS KUHN AND CATHERINA
  • ANNA KUHN, married Georg Brüning, then a second marriage on 25 Nov 1685 to Nicolaus Bellinger, and they sailed to America with our ancestors in 1709. Their descendant would be killed by Loyalist Hermanus Haus during the American Revolution.
  • ANNA MARGARETHA KUHN, was baptized 11 Aug 1661, and possibly married Henrich Kuhn Von Lüden (as "Anna Margaret").
  • SAMUEL KUHN was baptized on 11 Apr 1664 in Hüttengesäß, sponsor: Samuel Reichert. Family listed below.
  • JOHANNES KUHN was baptized on 7 Nov 1666 in Hüttengesäß (sponsors: Johann, son of Caspar Reydel).
  • CATHARINA KUHN was born in Hüttengesäß and was baptized on in 1668.
  • JOHANNES KUHN (another one) was baptized on 21 Aug 1670.
  • HERMANN KUHN was baptized 28 Jan 1672. His twin was...
  • JOHANN CYRIAX, baptized the same day.

    • Book Information
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    Name: Koon and Coons Families of Eastern New York
    Author: William Solyman Coons
    Publisher: Tuttle Publishing, Rutland, Vermont
    Year: 1937
    Early Settlers
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       Samuel, however, came to America in 1710 with the other German Palatines. According to the Koon and Coons Families of Eastern New York, published in 1937, "This Samuel is listed among the adult male Palatines of 1710, but as we do not find him mentioned in a census of about 1715, he may have died before that date. Possible he lived near Elizaville for a short time after September, 1712, and may have been buried in the ancient family burial lot on the old Kuhn farm near that place. Catharine, his widow, lived many years longer and was last mentioned in February 1736 as a baptismal sponsor with her son Veltin and wife, for a child of Veltin's daughter." (Note: in the book at right, Samuel is discussed in Chart Ten. Also included are Johannes Hause and Sarah Wheeler, listed as witnesses to baptisms in Chart 14, under Conrad Kuhn.)

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       Samuel Sr. or Jr. was a soldier in 1711 ("Palatine Volunteers to Canada") and CATHERINA MUELLER (1644 - 1736) had the following kids:

    CHILDREN OF SAMUEL KUHN AND CATHERINA MUELLER

  • JOHAN JACOB KUHN, b. 1665 - 1675. Married MARIAH ELISABETH, then emigrated to New York in 1710, accompanied by children Johann Wilhelm (m: Elisabeth Kilmer); and Heinrich (m: Anna Gertraut Falckenberg).
  • SAMUEL KUHN, JR., born in 1668 in Huttengesass, Hessen Nassau, Prussia. M. Elizabeth ___? about 1692. He was among the adult Palatines of 1710. In 1711, he was one of the Palatine soldiers from Annsberg Camp near the present village of Germantown, Columbia county, New York. He had a son, J. Marcus, born July 30, 1714. When the census of about 1716 was taken, he had a family of 5 children at home with him. In August, 1724, Samuel Jr. was among those Palatines who chose to remain in Livingston Manor, and accepted a farm there from the 6,000 acres in the Town of Germantown. This farm had probably already been occupied by some member of the family for 10 or 11 years.
  • ANNA MARIA KUHN was born @ 1670. Family listed below.
  • VELTIM VALENTIN KUHN @1677 . He married ANNA CATHARINA WIS.
  • CONRAD or COENRADT KUHN M. 1677. No further record.

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       Samuel Kuhn, Sr. died on the sixth of September in 1712 in Elizabethville, New York. He's buried at the Kuhn Burial Ground, in Elizabethville, New York, on the ancient Coon farm. Some years ago, the late "Eratus Coons" of Germantown, a descendant of Veltin Kuhn, claimed to have discovered evidence that this Coon farm had been occupied by members of his family since as early as 1715, a period of over 200 years. Samuel, Sr., Samuel, Jr., and Veltin, were all probably buried in the old family burial plot on this farm.
       Samuel's daughter ANNA MARIA KUHN (1670 - ?) was born before the great Palatine Emigration in what is now Germany. She married SEBASTIAN LOESCHER (1668 - 1750) in 1688 in Bayern, Pfaltz Hochspeyer, Germany. They sailed to America and had the following children:

    CHILDREN OF SEBASTIAN LOESCHER AND ANNA MARIA KUHN

  • JOHANN JACOB LOESCHER b: Abt. 1689 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany. He married SUSANNAH WHEELER (b: 1663-1715) between 1715 - 1718. They had at least three children: Anna Liesabet, Hendrick and Susanna.
  • ANNA MARGARETHA LOESCHER b: Bet. 1693 - 1694 in Hochspeyer, Germany. Married JAN WHEELER.
  • ANNA ELISABETHA LOESCHER b: Abt. 1695 in Hochspeyer, Germany.
  • SEBASTIAN LOESCHER, JR., b: Abt. 1696 in Bayern, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany.
  • JOHANN GEORG LOESCHER b: Bet. 1698 - 1699 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany. He married ELISABETH HEMMERN on 2 Feb 1725/1726. They had the following children:
    John Sebastian (b: 1727), Henrich (b: 1728), Anna Maria (b: before 1730), Elizabeth (b: 1732 - 1733), George , Jr. (b: 13 Feb 1734/1735), Veronica (b: 7 Jan 1738/1739), Angeline (b: 6 Oct 1740), and Conrad (b: 19 Feb 1745/1746)
  • JOHANN CONRAD LOESCHER b: 14 Sep 1699 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany. He married ENGELTIE or ANGELINE SESTIS (b: before 1714) and they had: Sebastian (b: 1724 - 1725), Johann (b: 22 Jun 1726), Johan Conrad (b: 7 Dec 1730), Johann Garrit (b: 29 Dec 1732), Anna Maria (b: before 1730) and George (b: 1 Jan 1738/1739).
  • ANNA MARIA LOESCHER b: 30 Jan 1701/02 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany. She married JOHAN MARCUS KUHN in May 1734 in New York. She died on 8 Nov 1793 in Manortown, Columbia County, New York.
  • JOHANNES LOESCHER b: Bet. 1702 - 1703 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany. He died @ 1796 in Columbia County, New York. He married ANNA MARIA KUHN\CLUM between 1734 - 1737. They had: Veronica (b: 5 Apr 1738), Lisabeth (b: 9 Nov 1739), Philip (b: Dec 1741), Anna Margreta (b: 15 Apr 1743), Anna Maria (b: 24 May 1746), Catharina (b: 28 Jul 1749), Johan Sebastian (b: 3 Oct 1752), and Peter (b: 2 May 1755).
  • ANNA BARBARA LOESCHER b: Abt. 1706 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany. She died on 9 Nov 1739 in Columbia County, New York. She married ANDREW WIEDERWACH or WEATHERWAX in 1724. They had: Johann Bastian (b: 17 Oct 1725), Anna Margaretha (b: BET. 1726 - 1728), Johann George (b: BET. 1726 - 1728), Anna Maria ( b: 1729), Barbara (b: 5 Apr 1730), Hennerich\Henry (b: 29 Oct 1732), Dorothea (b: BET. 1733 - 1734), Anna Elisabet (b: 21 FEB 1734/1735), Catharina (b: 1 Nov 1736), and Andries (b: 22 May 1739).
  • JOHANN MELCHIOR LOESCHER b: Abt. 1706 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany.
  • ANNA CATHARINA LOESCHER b: 15 Jun 1708 in Bayeren, Pfaltz, Hochspeyer, Germany.
  • MARIA ELISABETHA LOESCHER b: 1 Jun 1710 on board the ship, Midford, Atlantic Ocean. She married CORNELIS VAN BUREN on 8 Sep 1724. They had Pieter (b: 30 May 1725) and Zusannah (b: 14 MAY 1727).

    • GENEALOGY

    HANS KUHN (1623 - 1693) married CATHARINA and begat...

    SAMUEL KUHN (1650 - ?) who married CATHERINA MUELLER (1644 - 1736) and begat...

    ANNA MARIA KUHN (1670 - ?) who married SEBASTIAN LOESCHER (1668 - 1750) and begat...

    ANNA MARGARETHA LOESCHER (1693 - 1740) who married JAN WHEELER (c. 1692 d. - aft 1740) and begat...

    SARAH WHEELER (1727 - ?) who married JOHN HAUSE (1726-1795) and begat...

    WILLIAM HAUSE (1750 - 1818) who married MARTHA WOOD (1753 - 1822) and begat...

    JOHN HAUSE (1773 - 1844) who married ESTHER KETCHAM (1779 - 1853) and begat...

    AUGUSTUS HAUSE (1804 - 1875) who married JANE JONES (1802 - 1850) and begat...

    LABAN HAUSE (1831 - 1906) who married MELISSA SANDERSON (1839 - 1921) and begat...

    FRANK HAUSE (1867 - 1951) who married FLADELLA RAYMOND (1869 - 1961) and begat...

    CARLISLE HAUSE (1891 - 1972) who married MARJORIE MARCHANT (1892 - 1939) who begat...

    CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, SR. (1917 - 1983) who married JEANNE BRUNNER (1918 - 2000) and begat...

    CARLETON MARCHANT HAUSE, JR. (b. 1939) who married MARTHA WENK (b. 1940) and begat...

    JEFF (who married LORI ANN DOTSON), KATHY (who married HAL LARSEN), ERIC (who married MARY MOONSAMMY), and MICHELE HAUSE (who married JOHN SCOTT HOUSTON).

    Literature for the name Kuhn

  • Koon and Coons Families of Eastern New York, by William Solyman Coons, The Tuttle Publishing co., Rutland, Vermont. 1937. Page 280, A-1; page 294, B-2--
  • Coon-Cohn Descendants by Frances Davis McTeer, The Swiss Connections by Gwendolyn Pryor.