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From: "Terri Rucker" <>
Subject: Re: [YOUNT] John Yount
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:36:18 -0500
References: <1203962082.371879@rootsweb.com>
In-Reply-To: <1203962082.371879@rootsweb.com>


Hello,
My name is Terri Yonts Rucker. My great great grandfather was William
Yount. The earliest info I can find for him is that he married Margaret
Bentley in 1794 in Lincoln Co Nc. I have been researching the Jundt family
with no success. After reading your posting, maybe I am on the wrong track
and his family could have come from Switzerland. We think he was either
born in Pa or left there at a very young age for North Carolina. Could you
tell me how I can learn more about the family from Switzerland? You can
email me directly at . I am looking forward to hearing
from you with any information you might have.

Terri

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Author: ladybaltimore
Surnames: Jundt, Yount, Yundt
Classification: queries

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http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.yount/33.35.73.78.81.1/mb.ashx

Message Board Post:

If you are talking about The Yount Family of Europe and America by Edith
Warren Huggins, I believe you should take it with a grain of salt. A
family, Hans George Jundt, wife
Anna Maria and four children (Jacob, Hans George, Maria Elizabeth and
Johannes) arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Britannia in 1731. The name
on the ship's manifest is copied as Gunt, Gundt, or Jundt by most
researchers. As to the brother Andrew as mentioned in Huggins's book, I
would question that. The record of baptisms in the Lutheran church in
Niederbronn list the family that travelled as well as 3 children that died.
There is, however, no mention of an Andrew as belonging to this family. The
likelyhood of an ironmonger's child staying in Alsace to study music and
when arriving in America, became a farmer seems not plausible to me.
Much research has been done in the last 20 years, so it is possible that
Huggins's work has been superceded. Also there were a large number of
Jundts in Switzerland. My line is Hans George, Hans George, John, John
Jacob Simone, John Simone, Martin Victor, Arnold Joseph and our branch
spells it Yundt. I believe, if I remember correctly, the other two brothers
became Yount.

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