Family History
On the twenty-eighth of August, 1813, in the second summer of the war, Captain Nesbitt Collver of Townsend township sat down and made his will. Listen to this post 0:0015:20 ▶ Listen to this post read aloud (MP3, 15 min) Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps He was thirty-
genealogy
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.
Jabez Collver
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
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
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