Bøger af F Edward Wright

This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records. Many of the early settlers in these counties were Quakers.

This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records. Many of the early settlers in these counties were Quakers.

These records are the very earliest available for each church through 1800 and include: Tabor First Reformed, baptisms; Heidelberg Congregation in Schafferstown, baptisms, marriages, and burials; St. Paul's (or Klopp's), baptisms; St. Jacob's Kimmerling's Reformed, baptisms; Trinity Tulpehocken, baptisms and marriages; Swatara Reformed Congregation, Jonestown, baptisms; St. John's Union, Fredericksburg, baptisms; Millbach Reformed Congregation, Millbach Township, baptisms and a few marriages; Quitopahilla (Hill) Lutheran, baptisms, marriages, and burials; and Quitopahilla (Hill) Reformed, baptisms; Zion Evangelical Lutheran, Jonestown, baptisms; Trinity Evangelical Lutheran (Colebrook, Londonberry Township), baptisms and confirmations; Zoar Evangelical Lutheran, baptisms and burials; Bindnagel Evangelical Lutheran, baptisms, marriages, and burials; and some baptisms and marriages performed by John Casper Stoever. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records. Many of the early settlers in these counties were Quakers. Chapters are included for descendants of the following families: Thomas Anderson, Ashford, Baucomb, Blacksheare, Bowers, Owen Cain, Francis Cain, Caton, John Clark, Maschal Clark, William Clark, William Clark (brickmaker), Daniel Corbit, Mathew Corbet, Craig/Crage of Kent County (Delaware), Edward Craig, Crippen, Cuff, Jacob Emerson/Emmerson, Vincent Emerson, Adam Fisher, John Fisher of Sussex County, William Fisher of Sussex County, Fitzjarrell/Fitzgerald, Fleetwood, Fleming, Moses Freeman, Samuel Freeman, William Freeman, Futcher/Footcher, James Gordon, John Gordon, George Green, William Green, Hart, Kollock, Marim, Molleston, Paynter, (N) Paynter (sons Rees, Richard and Samuel), Parker, John Robinson/Robison, George Robbison, William Robinson, Samuel Rowland, Thomas Rowland, Sap, Standly, Stanton, Steel, Tarrant, Tilton, John Tomlin, Nathaniel Tomlin, Townsend, Train, Tybout, Vanderford, Vanwinckle, Waples, James Wells, Richard Wells, West, James Williams, John Williams, Reynear Williams, Thomas Williams, John Willson, Winsmore, Worral, John Wright, Jonathan Wright, and Wynne. A list of sources, additions and corrections to the first volume, and an index to full-names and places add to the value of this work.

In order to reconstruct the history of pre-Cape May County families, the author has organized past research and performed additional research when necessary to fill the gaps. Using a number of sources: wills, church records, land records, and published material, including early issues of _The Cape May County Magazine of History and Genealogy,_ the author has reconstructed lineages for the following families: Badcock, Bancroft, Bennett, Bishop, Brandreth, Briggs, Buck, Carman, Champion, Chester, Church, Corson, Crandall, Crawford, Cresse, Crowell, Daniels, Dennis, Dole, Downes, Edmonds, Edwards, Eldredge, English, Evans, Fish, Flower, Foreman, Foster, Gandy, Garlick, Garretson (Garrison), Godfrey, Goff, Golding, Griffing, Hamilton, Hand, Hathorn, Hedges, Hewett, Hildreth, Holden, Hughes, Ingersul, Ireland, Iszard, Jeacocks, Jenkins, Johnson, Kent, Laughton, Lawrence, Leaming, Lee, Ludlam, Lupton, Mackey, Mason, Mathews, Mulford, Newton, Norton, Osborne, Page, Parsons, Pierson, Pine, Pratten (Pratt), Raney, Reeves, Richardson, Robinson, Ross, Savage, Sayre, Schellenger, Scull, Searle, Shaw, Simkins, Smith, Somers, Spicer, Steelman, Stevens, Stewart, Stillwell, Stites, Storer, Stubbs, Swain, Taylor, Thompson, Townsend, Van Gelder, Wells, Weston, Wheaton, Whilldin, Willits, Woolson, Yates. Whenever possible, the family has been traced up to the time of the Revolutionary War.This edition contains additional information in the appendix based on the Bible records of Cape May County. A full name index adds to the value of this work.

These records include Paramus Reformed Dutch Church (baptisms, list of members for 1799), 1740-1800; a few records from the Waldwick Methodist Church (baptisms, Ministers 1791-99); and Ramapo Lutheran Church (baptisms 1750-1800). A full-name index adds to the value of this work.

This volume continues to focus on families living in Kent County and Sussex County, tracing lineages of early settlers into the early 1800s. The primary sources of information are court records (probate and orphans' court), land records, and church records. Notable families of Sussex County include: Atkins, Bagwell, Bedwell, Burton, Carey, Draper, Hazzard, Lofland, Marriner, Manlove, Marsh, Nutter, Parker, Pettyjohn, Prettyman, Spencer, Staton, Stockley, and Warrington. Many of the early settlers in these counties were Quakers. Chapters are included for descendants of the following families: John Avery, John Cade, Robert Cade, Cale, Campbell, Chambers, Clendaniel, Clendenning, Jonathan Clifton, Robert Clifton (Kent County), Thomas Clifton (Sussex County), (N) Coulter, James Coulter, John Coulter, Samuel Coulter, Enoch Cummings (Sussex County), Robert Cumming (Kent County), Timothy Cummins, Thomas Davis, Dobson, Fenwick, Field, Godwin, Goldsmith, Granger, John Hall, Nathaniel Hall, Thomas Hall, William Hickman, Nathaniel Hickman, Hill (Sussex County), Hinds, Hinman, Ingram, Inlose, Albertus Jacobs, Richard Jacobs, Adam Johnson, Humphry Johnson, Job Johnson, Purnal Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Kipshaven, Peter Lewis, Simeon Lewis, McIlvaine, Piles, Phillip Russell, William Russell, Archibald Smith, David Smith, Elizabeth Smith, George Smith, Henry Smith, John Smith, Job Smith, Mark Smith, Thomas Smith, Stretcher, Walker Family (Sussex County), West (revised from earlier work), and Wynkoop. A list of sources, additions and corrections to previous volumes, and an index to full-names and places add to the value of this work.

This work includes three alphabetically arranged lists and a petition for a road. The first list provides the names of persons that reported stray livestock on their property (1765-1775). The following two lists give the names of persons for which rent wa

Items relating to individuals living in Talbot, Dorchester, Worcester, Somerset, Caroline, Queen Anne's and Kent Counties. Vital records, legal cases, property sales and rentals, lists of letters left at post offices, runaway wives, fugitive slaves, absconding apprentices and amusing stories.

This is the eighteenth in a series of volumes of family histories pertaining to the colonial families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Members of nearly all the families described in this volume lived in Old Somerset, now the counties of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester. The following families are covered: Boardman, John Nelson (1), John Nelson (2) of Wicomico Hundred, William Nelson of Wicomico Hundred, William Nelson of Mattapony/Pocomoke Hundred, James Nicholson (1), James Nicholson (2), William Nicholson, Henry Phillips, Roger Phillips, John Phillips, Pitt of Talbot County, Pitt of Dorchester County, Pitt of Northampton and Isle of Wight Counties (Virginia), John Pitt of Somerset County, Pitt of Isle of Wight and Accomack Counties (Va.) and Somerset County (Md.), Edward Price, James Price, Thomas Price of Annamessex Hundred, David Price of Mattapony Hundred, Jenkin Price of Pocomoke Hundred, William Price of Pocomoke Hundred, Somerset County and Cecil County, Alexander Price, John Price of Wicomico Hundred, Thomas Ralph, Shiles, William Stevens of Rehoboth on the Pocomoke River, Stevens of (N) and Florence Stevens of Pocomoke Hundred, John Stevens of Ledbourn (England) and Wicomico Hundred, John Stevens of Wicomico Hundred, Thomas Stevens of Nanticoke Hundred, William Stevenson of Worcester County, Hugh Stevenson, James Stevenson, Summers of Somerset County, Thomas Summers of Dorchester County, John Summers of Dorchester County, John Wallace, William Wallace, Richard Wallace of Monie Hundred, William Wallace of Monie Hundred, Thomas Wallace, Catherine Wallace, Jane Wallis, James Willis and Nathaniel Willis. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

This volume primarily covers families of Dorchester County, including: Andrew/Andrews, Bowdle, Connerly, Covey, Dagg, Dail, Denwood, Dorsey, Geoghegan, Hackett, Henry, Hicks, Magee/Mcghee, McNemara, Medford, Merchant, Mowbray, Muir, Navey, Nowell/Noel, Skinner, Slacombe, Stanford, Steele, Swiggett, Thomas (Talbot Co.), Trippe, Tubman, Tunis. An index to full-names adds to the value of this work.

This is a superb body of knowledge on the lineages of settlers of this region, following their descendants through the 18th century and sometimes into the early 1800s. By networking the multi-faceted talents of these authors we have greatly advanced the research of these families. Our authors draw on a wide range of published and unpublished sources including: probate, land, and court records; tax lists; church records; Bible records; cemetery records; and, published and unpublished family histories (sometimes obscure). This volume covers Kent County and includes the following surnames: Ackland, Allaby, Allibone, Arnold, Barnes, Bathershall, Bordley, Bowdy (Boudy, Bowday, Bowdie), Bowers, Bowles, Boyer, Breward (Brewer, Broord, Broward), Briscoe, Brown, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Carty (Cartey, Carthy), Carville, Chancellor, Chandler, Chrisfield, Christian, Church, Clark, Clark (Glazier), Clark (Planter), Cleaver, Codd, Cole/Coles, Conner/Connor, Cooley/Coley/Colley, Coppedge (Coping), Copper, Corse, Coursey, Cousins (Cousans/Cozens), Covington, Cowarding, Crouch, Crow, Crump, Dawes, Day, Deere, Doran/Deoran/Dorin, Dulany, Ellenor, Fanning, Fiddis, Fields, Flintham, Ford, Foreman, Forrester, Foxon, Freeman, French, Fulston, Gambell, Garland, George, Giant/Gyant, Gibbs, Gilbert, Glassford, Goodhand, Gooding, Graham, Granger, Grant, Hailes, Haislip, Hazel, Henley, Hill, Hynson, Ivy, Jervis, Jerome, Jobson, Johnson, Jones, Kelly, Kendall, Kennard, Kenslaugh, Knight, Knowlman, Lassell/Lazzell, Leatherbury, Linegar, Lowder, MacCatee, Mann, Mansfield, McCan, Monk, Morgan, Murphy, Murphey, Nash, Neale, Newell, Nicholson, Norris, Perkins, Rasin, Ricaud (Richaux-Ricand), Ringgold, Rolph/Ralph, Shawn, Shield/Sheild, Smith, Tilden, Wilson, and Young. An index to full-names and places adds to the value of this work.

This book is excerpted from First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, published in the 1930s by Orra Eugene Monnette. It includes information from: Piscataway Town Register (marriages, births and deaths); Woodbridge Town Records (marriages, births and deaths); Quaker marriages (1686-1744); births of Quakers in and around Woodbridge; Births, Marriages and Deaths in Woodbridge by H. R. Stiles, M.D.; Piscataway Marriages by Rev. Dunham; and, marriages in the Presbyterian Church in Westfield, New Jersey. A lengthy list of cemetery records in the 18th and 19th centuries includes entries from: Piscataway, Samptown, Stelton Baptist Church, New Market, Woodbridge, Presbyterian Church yard at Springfield, Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Rahway Cemetery, Rahway Old Cemetery and many other locations. A full-name index adds to the value of this work.