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Shourds, Thomas : History And Genealogy Of Fenwick's Colony

George F. Nixon, Bridgeton, 1876

553pp, illustrated with drawings and several portraits, including Thomas Shourds, Benjamin Acton, the Edward Bradway house at Salem, NJ, built in 1691, William Bassett, Clement Hall, Thomas Sinnickson, the Thomas Shourds residence, built in 1730, Edward Van Meter, William Carpenter, Thomas Jones Yorke, the Friends' Meeting House at Salem, NJ, built in 1772, the Friends' graveyard, and Jacob More's log residence, built in 1740, brown library buckram with gilt titles, ex-library copy with a bookplate at front pastedown, and a pocket at rear, and occasional perforation stamps at a few pages, contents generally clean and bright. John Fenwick immigrated with his family to America in 1675 and settled in West New Jersey on the land comprising Salem and Cumberland Counties. Many of those accompanying him on his journey were members of his religious faith, the Society of Friends. He and his company landed at a point of land that he named New Salem. After his arrival, he purchased land from the Indians who resided within the boundaries of his lands thus forming a treaty which allowed the Indians rights to trapping, fishing and rights to certain kinds of wood for making baskets, canoes and other things. He also issued a proclamation granting civil and religious liberty to all persons who should settle within his province. Volume includes the history of Fenwick's Colony, The History of the Religious Bodies of Fenwick's Colony Including Sketches of their Places of Worship and the Lives of their most Prominent Members, and genealogies of the prominent families of Fenwick's Colony, plus the following families: Abbott, Acton, Bassett, Bowen, Bradway, Brick, Carll, Cattell, Chambless, Clark, Coles, Davis, Darkin, Denn, Dubois, Elwell, Guy, Goodwin, Griscom, Hall, Hancock, Hillman, Holmes, Holme, Jennings, Johnson, Keasbey, Laning, Lawson, Lippincott, Locke, Maddox, Mason, Miller, More, Morris, Moss, Nicholson, Oakford, Ogden, Plummer, Preston, Reeve, Rocke, Rolph, Sayres, Scull, Sharp, Sheppard, Shourds, Sinnickson, Smith, Summerill, Stretch, Tindall, Thompson, Tyler, VanMeter, White, Ware, Wade, Waddington, Whitacar, Whittan, Woodnutt, Woodruff, Wyatt, and Yorke. See Howes S-437. Very scarce.. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Hardcover

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