Family History
Vanita Johnson Engelbrecht died in the small hours between Saturday and Sunday, the twenty-ninth and thirtieth of August. She was my father's eighth cousin — the two of them the same number of generations down from a couple who lie in unmarked ground on a New Jersey mountainside
Family History
In 1832 an old soldier swore he had seen his birth on the family register of his father's family — and could not say what had become of it. On the registers this family lost, refused, and should not have trusted.
Family History
There is a small lake in Mount Arlington, New Jersey, that the modern map calls Lake Rogerene. Listen to this post 0:0018:42 ▶ Listen to this post read aloud (MP3, 19 min) ▶ Listen to this episode Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps Almost nobody who drives past it could tell
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