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John (Jan) Ringo, b 1652 in Fort Beversreede, on the Schuylkill River southeast of the Walt Whitman Bridge. d. 1725 in Hunderton Co, NJ. Like his father, Philip Janszen Ringo, he became a sea captain. in 1684, after a run in with some pirates off the Spanish Coast in which John Ringo managed to capture the Pirates vessel with their loot. John Ringo discovered a chest of gold on board the pirates ship. After this incident, John Ringo settled at the Crossing of Indian Trails (now known as Ringoes, NJ) John Ringo considered the pirate gold as Blood Money and it's probably still in Ringes somewhere. Shortly after John Ringo's death in 1725 a license to operate an inn and "tap" was granted to Theophilis Ketchum. Mr Ketchum died shortly after being granted the license. Another John Ringo, b. 1736 in Amwell Township, son of Judge Philip Ringo and Jane Cook, set up a tavern at the cross roads. This John Ringo, the second, gave up a lucrative Grist milling business in Hopewell to open the tavern. John Ringo (2nd) married Martha Henson in 1757. They operated the tavern until John Ringo's death in 1779. I discovered Ringoes in 1981 when I came to NJ as a bank vp. I bought a house on John Ringo Road in 1982 and have been doing Ringo genealogy ever since.
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