Surname Origins
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.
Albert Bernard Collver, III
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.
Edward Colver
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
Jabez Collver
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
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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
American Revolution
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.
genealogy
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.
Family History
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.
genealogy
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
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