The 68th Name
The Dedham covenant of 1636, the sixty-eighth name on its roll, and the wheelwright grant that capitalized an ancestor - a family's American record verified, one counted column at a time.
The County's First Deed
Tioga County's land records open with a deed to Jabez Colver — a convicted Loyalist. The five vanished Chemung years, and one evening at Wynkoop's fireside.
Pull Down All Other Persuasions
At his 1777 sedition trial, Rev. Jabez Colver warned that a victorious America would let the Presbyterians “pull down all other Persuasions.” Who was in the room that day, what he meant, and why the fear still echoes.
The Captain of the Dove
A dove-named man, a ship called Dove, and the historian who caught them both before the tide went out.
The Ship That Never Was
Edward Colver's crossing, the ships he was not on, and what an honest family history does with an empty sea Listen to this post 0:0024:34 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps Every American family story wants to begin with a ship. It is the oldest scene in
The Judge, the Preacher, and the Log Gaol
Nathaniel Pettit, Jabez Collver, and the price of a signature For Kathy Hall UE Listen to this post 0:0025:12 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps There is a village in New Jersey that was named for its jail. Not for a founder, not for a church, not for some
The Archive Now Speaks
The Collver Family History Project is now a podcast Nearly everything on this site was written to be heard. Jabez Collver’s petitions were read aloud to a council; his sedition case turned on words spoken in a neighbor’s hearing; his trade was the sermon, which dies on paper
A House Divided: The Collvers in the American Revolution
Two hundred fifty years ago, the Revolution split this family into two houses — one for Congress, one for the King, both loyal to their cause. The story of the divide, and of the four weddings that mended it.
The Family Pamphlet: The Collver-Culver Genealogy, 1630 to 1916
A reader asked where to find the rarest book in the family. Here it is — all eleven pages — together with the 1976 obituary pasted inside that tells you exactly whose shelf it came from.
Why We're Collver, Not Culver
From Old English 'culfre' to a loyalist preacher's land grant on Lake Erie: the 750-year paper trail behind the Collver family's unusual spelling.
Set Up the King's Standard: The Land, the Treason, and the Flight of Jabez Colver
Listen to this post 0:0013:13 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps In the summer of 1774, a Connecticut-born minister named Jabez Colver laid out £245 in proclamation money and became the owner of 163.98 acres on the east side of the Minisink Mountain, at the northeast end
Echoes from the Frontier: The Petitions of Rev. Jabez Collver
Listen to this post 0:0010:37 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore apps Some voices from the past do not fade. They linger in the yellowed pages of old petitions, waiting to be read again. In the decades after the American Revolution, as the forests of Upper Canada slowly gave way to