Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III is a Lutheran pastor and family historian tracing the descendants of Edward Colver through the Rev. Jabez Collver, his fifth great-grandfather—preserving the records, documents, and stories of the Collver family.
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Nathaniel Pettit, Jabez Collver, and the price of a signature For Kathy Hall UE Listen to this post 0:0025:12 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore 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 hopeful
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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
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.
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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.
Family History
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.
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Listen to this post 0:0015:37 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyMore apps In the summer of 1774, a Connecticut-born minister named Jabez Colver laid out £545 in proclamation money and became the owner of 163.98 acres on the east side of the Minisink Mountain, at the northeast end of
Listen to this post 0:009:46 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
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