Benedictus Kuhn

Notes:

In the fall of 1752, after 9 September 1752, the ship "Upton", owned by Foster Cuncliffe Esquire & Sons of Liverpool, with a captain named Gardner, sailed into the port of Chas Town (Charleston), South Carolina, arriving from Rotterdam, Holland, carrying among it's passengers, Benedict (Benedictus) Kuhn, his wife and one son, George Adam, who was eight years old. Benedict came from the upper parts of Germany (parish Dielstorff) to join relatives who had settled in the forks of the Broad and Saluda rivers in Newberry County, South Carolina. The reason for his coming, as he states in his petition for land made 7 November 1752 was "hearing of the Benefits in Settling in his Britannie Majs' Dominions of America and that Great Encouragement was given by the Province to foreign protestants".

On 13 June 1753, Jno. Pearson certifies that on 7 November 1752 he measured and laid out unto Benedict Kuhn 150 acres (50 acres for each member of his family) "lying in the forks between Broad and Saludy rivers up the branches of Crims creek and is butting and bounding on the Southwestward part of land belonging to Johannes Kounts to the Northeastward part of land belonging to Hans Windle Hollman". It seems certain that Benedict's neighbor, Johannes Kounts (who received his grant 1 December 1749) was a relative of Benedict's since Johannes' last name is spelled as Couns, Kountz and Kounts. Benedict's grant for his land was entered as a Royal Grant Vol. 6, p. 197 under the date of 1 January 1755 in the county of Newberry, South Carolina. His closest neighbors were Johannes Kounts, Andreas Hollman, Michael Peteboy, Andrew Meyer, Hans Windle Hollman, John Hendrick Welcher, Margaret Kerner, Reverend Jno Gasserts, Michael Bohner, Jno Adam Esting and Peter Dipest ( ? ) (Elders of Dissenting Congregation), Nicholas Priester, John Adam Epting, Andrew Rista, Charles Leopold Schuber and Michael Bauch.
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Reference:
Wiley Emmett Koon, Jr., 1994.
"Benedict Kuhn (Coon, Koon, Koone) Immigrant & His Descendants", Roger L. Gardner, D.C., 1 March 1998, p 1.

Benedictus — . [Group Sheet]

1. George Adam Koon was born Abt 1744, , Germany; died 1821, , Newberry, South Carolina.
2. Nicholas Koon was born Abt 1753, Newberry County, South Carolina; died 26 Dec 1831, Rutherford County, North Carolina; was buried Koon Family Cemetery, Rutherford County, North Carolina.