Noah Conover

Noah Conover was born in Gloucester, New Jersey about 1745, a son of Peter John Conover and Jemima Smith.

Noah Conover was born February 8, 1802 in Galloway Township, Gloucester, New Jersey1, and died January 26, 1877 in Hamilton Township, Warren, Ohio2. He was the son of Peter John Conover and Jemima Smith. He married Ann String December 25, 1823 in Clermont, Ohio3,4. She was born 18055, and died September 22, 1840 in Clermont, Ohio5. She was the daughter of Thomas String and Hannah Albertson.

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Noah Conover was born February 8, 1802 near Woodbury, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. His parents were Peter Conover and Jemima Smith, Jemima being the second or third wife of Peter. Peter died in 1814 leaving his land, boat, and horse to his wife and oldest sons John and Peter. Noah was about 12 or 13 then, and Peter's will asked John to give Noah ten dollars when Noah turned 21. In 1816 or 1817, Jemima and her sons moved to Ohio and settled in the Bantam, Clermont County, Ohio area.
A valuable resource for the history of the Conovers in Ohio is Elizabeth Conover Kelly's book, Conover Pioneers and Pilgrims (1982; Kelley.) Her motivation in writing this hook was telling the story of Noah's brother John and his descendants; her information on Noah is limited, and quite sketchy concerning his brother Peter.
The Conovers moved from New Jersey to Ohio with many of their relatives and neighbors to a settlement on the East Fork of the Little Miami River founded in 1803 by Rev. John Collins, a Methodist minister. The "Jersey Settlement", as it was known, became quite successfully settled with other families from Gloucester County, New Jersey, as they sought more land to farm. Little exists of the original settlement today, as damming the river flooded the favored bottom lands chosen by Rev. Collins, and construction of a state park on the new lake's shores destroyed other remnants of the pioneers' community.
Noah's family settled along with his first cousin Eliakim Conover, who was one of the sons of his father's brother David, and with his third cousin Somers Conover. Eliakim and Somers relocated to Pike township of Brown county (not far from the original settlement), and when Noah later moves to Brown county, he chooses a location not far from them.
Noah's eldest brother, John, bought about 100 acres of land on the East Fork of the Little Miami River in 1817, supposedly building and operating a mill there. In 1820, Jemima bought a small parcel nearby, but she sold it to Amasa Higbee in 1825. That same year, Noah's brother Peter acquired seven acres in Columbia Township in Hamilton County. In 1828 John had purchased and presumably relocated to a small parcel in Cincinnati, on Plum Street between First and Second.

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• Residence: Sterling, Brown, Ohio, United StatesSterling, Brown, Ohio, United States - 1850
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