Wells Family Sketches


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History and genealogy of the author's parents, grandparents and earlier ancestors in the United States.







Hidden History of Monmouth County


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Monmouth County's past encompasses more than just sandy beaches and rural farm life. George Washington fought at the Battle of Monmouth as the region played a pivotal role in the birth of the republic. Henry Hudson anchored off Monmouth's shores in 1609 and was the first European to meet with the Lenape Native Americans there. A gun barrel of the USS New Jersey, the most decorated battleship in American history, was painstakingly transported to Battery Lewis, a fortification built along the county's highlands to protect New York Harbor during World War II. Bruce Springsteen elevated Asbury Park and the Stone Pony into a national music destination, and he remains the unofficial poet laureate of the Jersey Shore. Authors Rick Geffken and Muriel J. Smith highlight compelling stories of the seaside county's four-hundred-year history.







National Union Catalog


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Includes entries for maps and atlases.




New Jersey History


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Beginning at a Pine Tree


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Families with the name of Yearling/Earling/Earlins were found in New Jersey as early as 1691. However no specific connection has been made between these and the Burlington county families. Daniel Earling was born in 1790 in New Jersey. His parentage has not been established, but is the person upon which this history is based. He married Mary Sutvan 30 September 1815. Mary was born in 1794 and died before 1860. Daniel died before 1870. There are families by this surname found in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, Maryland, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia, Iowa and Georgia.




John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary, and the First Three Generations of Their Descendants, 2nd Edition


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John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary grew up in Laurens County, South Carolina. They married in 1807, then moved to Indiana. They later returned to the South, and settled in Lawrence County, Alabama. After Elizabeth's death, John Brown (who was an uncle of General Ambrose Burnside) moved to Warren County, Illinois, where he remarried, and spent the rest of his life. John and Elizabeth's descendants included doctors and lawyers, farmers and ranchers, soldiers, bankers, scientists, and engineers. Many bore other surnames-among them Dobbins, Cogdell, Wilson, Dandridge, Otwell, Davidson, and Glenn. They were a varied and mobile family, whose lives were intertwined with many major events of American history-the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the westward movement of the American population, and the nation's transformation from an agrarian and rural to a more industrialized and urban society. This book makes use of a variety of sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, to tell their story.