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.
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.
genealogy
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