Morris Arca Gcncaloff &clay Newletter

Vol. 3 No. 4 December, 1990

RECENT PROGRAMS

by Sharon Holley

September 11, 1990

The 1990-1991 season began with a very en-joyable program by Carol Post. Her talk, "Researching Your English Ancestors," was ac-companied by slides illustrating the use of manorial, census, and vital records to locate and identify ancestors. She also explained some techniques for identifying the parents of illegimate children.

October 9, 1990

At October's meeting the New Jersey Bell Speakers Bureau presented a program timed to coincide with the opening of the restored Ellis Island. This very interesting talk and slide program was titled, "Ellis Island: Restor-ing the Promise" and included pictures of the restoration effort and old photographs of immigrants being "processed" through Ellis Is-land. Poignant pictures showed fearful new arrivals being examined by doctors and offi-cials, who had the authority to return them to their native countries. Even those members whose ancestors immigrated at other times and places gained a better understanding of the feelings and problems of immigrants.

November 13, 1990

"Quakers: The Quiet Meeting" was the topic of a talk by Richard T. Irwin. He explained and demonstrated some Quaker customs and discussed the growth of the Society of Friends in the Morris County area. Mr. Irwin also showed slides of the beautiful and simple Friends Meeting House in Randolph Township, which was built in 1758 and is still in use today.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS

December 11, 1990

December's meeting will feature our tradi-tional Holiday Party. The evening's festivities will include a slide presentation on Morristown's own Thomas Nast and his "Image of Santa Claus." There are also a few surprises planned.

January 8, 1991

The topic for this meeting is "New Directions in Computer Genealogy," a program presented by Sharon Holley. Part of the program will be devoted to changing technol-ogy that affects even genealogists who don't own computers.

February 12, 1991

February's program will focus on "Penn-sylvania German Research. Janet Harman, the Society's Corresponding Secretary, will offer advice on getting started on researching your Pennsylvania German ancestry.

In This Issue

Recent Programs Page 1 Upcoming Programs 1 Logo Contest 2 The Budd Family 3 New Acquisitions 4 Computer Genealogy - Quinsept 6 Beers Atlas Index - Rockaway 11 Bulletin Board 14 New Jersey Settlers 14 Newsletter Volunteers 14 Queries 15

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Morris Area Genealogy Society P.O. Box 105

Convent 'Ration, New Jersey 07961-0105

Officers

President - Diane Dellicker Vice President/Program Chair - Joan Armour Treasurer - Eugene Caprio Corresponding Secretary - Janet Harman Recording Secretary - Judy Weinstein Trustee - Linnea B. Foster Trustee - John Ware Trustee - Melda Shippey

Committee Chairmen

Historian - Jan Huth Hospitality - Constance Lane Interest Group Coordinator - Deborah Adamus Newsletter - Sharon Holley Publicity - Betsy Robinson Research - Betty Culbertson

Membership Dues for 1990-1991

Individual - $10.00 Family - $15.00 Institution (Newsletter only) - $5.00

Meetings

Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month, September through May, at the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown and Morris Township, 1 Miller Road, Morristown, New Jersey. Coffee is served at 7:00 p.m.; meetings begin at 7:30 p.m. Usually a brief business meeting is held first, fol-lowed by the evening's special program.

Newsletter

The Newsletter is published four times a year: March, June, September and December. Back issues are available at $2.50 each. Members are welcome to submit ideas or articles for the Newsletter. Dead-lines for articles for each issue are as follows:

Issue

March June September December

Newsletter Committee

Sharon Holley, Editor Deborah Adamus Joan Armour Ann Briziarelli Cathy Douma

Deadline

February 1 May 1

August 1 November 1

LOGO CONTEST

by Diane Dellicker

The Board of the Morris Area Genealogy Society is running a logo design contest, which is open to Al members of the Society. The purpose is to attract designs for a logo that will appropriately reflect our organiza-tion.

The top three (3) acceptable designs will be chosen by the members of the Board, who retain the right to reject any and all designs not deemed appropriate. The decision of the judges (Board members) will be final.

The three designs chosen will be presented to the general membership, for a vote to determine the final winner, at the annual meeting on 9 April 1991. The winner will be announced, and the logo reproduced, in the June 1991 Newsletter. There will only be one prize. It is a FREE Five (5) Year Membership in the Morris Area Genealogy Society.

The following rules apply:

1) Entrants must be paid-up members of the Morris Area Genealogy Society for the 1990-1991 membership year. (Check with the treasurer if you are not sure if your dues are paid.)

2) The logo must be in black and white on 8 1/2" by 11" paper. The design should be simple, so it will reproduce well when it is reduced in size.

3) The words "Morris Area Genealogy Society" must appear somewhere in the design, which (as stated above) must be appropriate to the Society.

4) The deadline for entries is 15 March 1991. All entries will become the property of the Morris Area Genealogy Society.

Good luck to all!

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THE BUDD FAMILY

by Joan Armour

In the early records of Chatham you will find the Days, Lums, Carters, Bonnells and the Budds among others as the first settlers of the town. The Budds have been in the Chatham area for at least 200 years and were undoubtedly its most prominent family.

Thomas Budd was the first of this family to come from England to America. Later his brothers James, William and John came to New Jersey. He was born 19 May 1645 in Somersetshire, England and died 15 February 1697-8. He married Suzanna Senior and had John, born about 1670 and who married 1st Rebecca Baynton and 2nd Sarah Cozens; Thomas, born about 1672 and died 19 Sep-tember 1699 and married Martha; Sarah, who married John Morrey in 1689 at Philadelphia Friends' Meeting; Susanna, who married Wil-liam Paschall; Mary, born 2 July 1679 and married William Allen; and Rose, born 13 January 1680/81 and married 1st Charles Plumley, 2nd John Williams, and 3rd Joseph Shippen; Thomas was the son of a minister who was also named Thomas Budd. He emigrated America in 1668.

John Budd was the oldest son of Thomas and Susannah Budd of Philadelphia and Bur-lington, New Jersey. John Budd was the first of the family to actually live in Chatham. He came from Philadelphia where he was a weal-thy business man. He was a justice of the peace of Hanover Township and a judge of the Hunterdon County courts. Some ac-counts say he owned a forge in Whippany with John Ford and purchased 1200 acres of land near Chatham in 1715 and 847 acres later in what is now the very center of Chatham. The original homestead was built about 1728 on what was called Budd Lane and is now Passaic Avenue. It was burned down in 1883 and rebuilt on the same loca-tion and was then torn down in 1954. After leaving Philadelphia John Budd renounced the Society of Friends and became a member of the Presbyterian Church of Hanover. He married first, Rebecca Baynton and second,

Sarah Cozens. His children by his first wife were John; another John; Sarah; Susannah; and Rebecca who all died young; Mary, born about 1704 and married 25 July 1723 Peter Baynton and died 1743/4; James born about 1706 and died 1 September 1719; Thomas; and William, born about 1712. Rebecca died 29 December 1723. By his second wife, Sarah Cozens, John Budd had the following children; Rebecca, born 13 January 1728/29; John, born about 1730 and married Rosana Shivers and died in 1791 and was a surgeon; Thomas, born about 1731 died unmarried and was a surgeon; William, born about 1732 and died 23 January 1777; Susanna who married Lewis Stewart and died in 1798; and Katherine, who married Dr. David Gould.

Dr. Barnabas (Barne) Budd was a physican in Chatham and held a very high social position in the community. There is a story in Munsell's History of Morris County that tells about the time he was convicted of counter-feiting and sentenced to be hung along with four other men of high social standing. One man who had no connections was hanged but Dr. Budd and the other three men were given a stay of execution and eventually pardoned. Later he helped organize the New Jersey Medical Association. He served as a surgeon in Wind's Brigade of Morris County Militia and died of putrid fever on December 14, 1777 after only serving three months. Berne married Pheobe Wheeler and their children were; John C., baptized 30 January 1763 and died 1845; Sarah, married Cornelius Ball; David, born 28 July 1771 and died 1834; Wil-liam, baptized 2 August, 1772 and died 1820, unmarried; and Mary, born 13 May 1775 and married Caleb Crane.

John C. Budd was also a physican. In fact the Budd family can boast about having an un-usual amount of physicians in it. John C. was born 26 May 1762 and died 12 January 1845. He married first Mary Lum daughter of Moses Lum and second Betsey Covert. We learn from The History of Chatham by Vanderpoel that John C. was quite a prankster and liked to play practical jokes on people. It almost backfired once when he paid a young man to come down the chimney in a tavern and act

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like the devil to scare the men who were play-ing cards at a late hour and could not be per-suaded by the innkeeper to quit for the eve-ning. When the young man came tumbling down though the chimney all covered with ashes and soot even Dr. Budd was frighted and thought he had seen the devil. Needless to say, that broke up the card game.

John C. and Mary Lum had the following children; Bern W., a physican of New York, married Catherine, daughter of David Reynolds of Madison; John S., married Char-lotte, daughter of Aaron M. Ward; Mary C., married John Meeker; Joanna Vashti, married (1) Parrot Reynolds, (2) Noble Barry; Jane Caroline, married Israel Dickinson; Vincent B., married (1) Nancy, daughter of John Ward, (2) Jane, daughter of Rev. John Han-cock; Phebe, married (1) Edwin Tryon, (2) ? Lounsbury ; Susan A., married Ambrose Bruen of Madison; and by second wife, Bet-sey Covert, the following children; Eliza, married Stewart Marsh; and Sarah, married George Severn.

The Budd family is probably related to the Budds whose name was given to Budd Lake. They were probably cousins. There have been Budd reunions held and at one there were more than 1000 people present.

There are still descendants of Thomas Budd who live in Chatham now. You can see that this is one family that certainly helped shape Morris County in it's early days.

Sources:

Budd Family Vertical File, Morristown and Morris Township Library.

History of Morris County, New Jersey. W.W. Munsell and Co. New York City, New York. 1882.

The Budd Family. 3 Centuries of Budds in America. Published by Budd Family Association. 1981.

Chatham-At the Crossing of the Fishawack by John T. Cunningham. Published by Chatham Historical Society. Chatham, N.J. 1967.

History of Chatham, N.J. by Ambrose Ely Vanderpoel. Copyright 1959 by Chatham Historical Society. Printed by Edward Brother, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan.

NEW ACQUISITIONS AT THE LIBRARY

by Catby Douma

Before I get into the new acquisitions, here's a tidbit you might not know about. The Mor-ris County Library has recently set up a num-ber of computer terminals so that you, John or Jane Q. Public, can access their card catalog via computer. This is useful because the catalog contains the holdings of 37 libraries in the network as well as the Morris County Library. The Local History and Genealogy Department at the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown & Morris Township told me that the majority of their collection is so catalogued.

Just like a regular card catalog, you can access holdings by title, subject, and author. One nice feature is the ability to access partial names. For example, if you say S= GENEALOG, you will get a list of items whose subject contains the word genealogical as well as items whose subject is genealogy. The information that you get back via com-puter includes a code telling you which library contains the item; MMT indicates the Joint Free Public Library of Morristown & Morris Township. Brochures, printers, and library staff are all available to make this sys-tem easy for you to use.

On to the new acquisitions! (All are available at The Local History and Genealogy Depart-ment at the Joint Free Public Library of Mor-ristown & Morris Township):

French in America, 1488-1974, by James S. Pula. H 973.04 Pul. Subtitled A Chronology and Fact Book, this book contains dates and events which relate to French emigration to America, for example under 1683 it states "Between 1683 and 1702, New Paltz, New York, was so heavily French that the church records were kept in the French language." Another section contains relevant documents, such as the initiation of "The Order of Good Cheer" in 1609 which was formed "to provide varied menu and cooperative social function"

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(each member took a turn hunting and cook-ing for a special meal). Book also contains a bibliography.

Irish in America, 550-1972, by William D. Grif-fin. H 973.04 Gri. Similar to the book above, this book has less chronology and lots of documents. It also has some interesting statis-tical tables, e.g., "Emigrants from Ireland to U.S., 1820-1901." (1851 had the most at 219,000). Bibliography.

There are two more books by the same pub-lisher as the previous two, British in America, 1578-1970 by Howard B. Furer (H 973.04 Fur), and Dutch in America, 1609-1970 by Pamela Smit (H 973.04 Smit). Since each of the books was compiled by a dif-ferent author, there are differences in style and emphasis, but each can add to your knowledge of the forces behind and caused by emigration.

American Militia in the Frontier Wars, 1790-1796, by Murtie June Clark. H 973.4 Cla. List-ings of muster rolls and payrolls organized by company within state. Contains name, rank, and remarks such as discharge date. In-dexed. Has a chronology of frontier, national and international events, 1783-1796.

Bibliography of New York State Com-munities, by Harold Nestler. H 974.7 Nes 1990. Gives you towns and townships within counties.

Complete Book of Emigrants, 1661-1699, by Peter Wilson Coldham. H 929.3 Cold. An extension to a previous book covering 1607-1660. Chronological list-ing of those who emigrated from England to America; the sources are in English public ar-chives. Indexed by ship and by person.

Mayflower Marriages, by Susan E. Roser. H 929.1744 Roser. From the files of George Er-nest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. An index to 229 microfiche cards of marriage information for Mayflower passengers and their descendants.

Scottish-American Heirs, 1683-1883, by David Dobson. H 929.14411 Dob. Lists heirs for deceased landowners. Includes names of heirs, occupation, residence in America, relationship to deceased. Arranged alphabeti-cally by the deceased, contains an index for everyone else mentioned. Could be a useful book for bridging to Scotland from America.

Geographic Dictionary of Connecticut and Rhode Island, by Henry Gannett. H 974.5 Gan. From 1894. Contains suggested read-ings.

Although not a new book at the library, The Ellis Island Source Book (H 974.71) might be of interest now that the historic site has reopened. It was written by August C. Bolino, Vice-President of the Ellis Island Res-toration Commission. Chapters include infor-mation on the immigration story, decline and deterioration, and the beginning of the res-toration process. (The book was published in 1985, so obviously it cannot contain the en-tire restoration tale.) It also has information on Ellis Island documents and an extensive bibliography.

Here are the titles of some newly acquired audio cassettes. Although there is no written material available on the contents, there are lots of interesting titles, such as:

American Naturalization Processes and Pro-cedures: 1790-1940

Land Records/Maps/Tax Ratables and Re-lated Materials in NJ

Locating People and Information in Homes-tead Records

Pennsylvania Land Records of the Proprietary and Commonwealth (1682-1985)

Russian Consular Records in the National Archives

Social and Emotional Issues in Adoptee Genealogical Research

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COMPUTER GENEALOGY

by Sharon Holley

O000pps!

First, we must apologize for an error in last issue's review of PAF (September 1990, Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 3.) Somewhere along the line our fearless typist (me) typed the version number of the program as "2.1," rather than "2.2." My tenacious computer preserved this error faith-fully through drafts, revisions, and final print-ing. The correct number for the current ver-sion of PAF is 2.2. This version was released last winter and is the version clients receive when ordering PAF. We are sorry for any con-fusion this error may have caused.

Review of Quinsept Programs - Family Roots, Family Connections, Tree Charts

Quinsept, Inc., P.O. Box 216, Lexington, MA 02173 (phone: 1-800-637-7668) publishes and sells several programs for genealogists. In addition to programs designed to record data and print charts, they also offer programs for word processing, indexing, utilities, and printing historical events and calendars. Three major programs are described below. Some of Quinsept's programs are available for a variety of com-puters: IBM (MS-DOS), Apple, Macintosh, Commodore (64 and 128), TRS-80, and several computers we haven't even heard of in five years. We suggest you contact Quin-sept to see if they have a version for your machine.

FAMILY ROOTS

Family Roots is a program that handles stan-dard genealogy tasks: entering and editing data for proven ancestors/relatives and print-ing many types of group charts, pedigree charts, descendant charts, and lists.

There are two types of automobile drivers in this world: 1) those who want to get into the car and drive, and 2) those who enjoy under-standing and fiddling with the car's com-ponents in order to get the best performance.

Family Roots is best suited for Group 2 people: the tinkerers. The very qualities that performance experts would most enjoy about this program (countless options, parameters, and settings that allow you to customize data and reports) may be a bit overwhelming to computer neophytes. But life is full of little trade-offs. What the reader must decide is whether he is willing to get his fingernails dirty in order to fine-tune Family Roots to his specifications.

The original version of Family Roots was writ-ten some years ago, when most computers had limited memory and used floppy disks exclusively. These constraints forced programmers to use system resources effi-ciently. Programs had to use as little memory as possible; data had to be stored in small spaces. Although Family Roots has been up-dated several times since its origination, this programming philosophy is still evident today: one routine handles printing of freeform pedigree charts, another prints stan-dard pedigree charts. Messages appear on the computer screen explaining that programs are being loaded. Although the programs themselves operate quite quickly, it takes some practice to figure out how you can get there from here.

Entering and Editing Information

Data storage, too, is designed to use disk space as efficiently as possible. But, again, there are trade-offs. Each record takes up only the space it really needs to store informa-tion you have entered, it does not reserve a lot of room for data you don't know yet. Thus, the more information you have about a person (name, birth date, birth place, etc.), the more space the record takes on your disk. So what? So, the trade-off is that this type of efficient data keeping complicates the process of entering data for ancestors. In-stead of a nice looking, fill-in-the-blanks data entry screen, you have to select each part (or parts) of a person's record for editing. For example, to enter the name of a mother's third child, you need to look at the list of fields (items) displayed for the mother and find the number of the field for child number

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3, then type the field number, press "return" and enter the record number for the child. Now, let's say you just found out the child's birth date. Now you have to go to the child's record to enter that information. If this sounds cumbersome, it is. Note also that in-formation is maintained by record number, as it is in most systems. The difference is that with Family Roots you must add children by record number, although you can modify records by name. So if you don't know the record number of the third child, you'll have to find it out before you proceed. The sys-tem prints lists for this purpose. If you make a mistake in assigning a child to the wrong family, you may be in for some surprises. The editing program does very little check-ing. You could add a child born in 1750 to a mother born in 1850 and get no error mes-sage. When you go to undo this mess, you'll find out that children's record numbers are maintained in both the mother's and father's records, but correcting the child in one record might not correct it in the other.

On the plus side, Family Roots allows you to enter data for up to nine of your own special fields for your family. Thus, you may keep occupation, burial date or some other such data for your ancestors. This capability is in addition to "notes," which you probably would use for free-form comments. Family Roots also allows you to record a woman's married name, which can be used in various search capabilities, or printed on charts if you wish. This is a nice feature as it allows you to locate women under both their maiden and married names. We have not yet figured out, however, how to handle women who married more than once. Another bonus is the ability to differentiate between people who never married and people who may have married but you don't have the information yet. The number of marriages and number of children is also kept, even if you haven't yet identified spouses and children. You can also identify people who are still living and enter their cur-rent address for mailing labels.

Charts

Family Roots produces standard pedigree charts, group charts (two styles) and "free-form" pedigree and descendants charts. The best part of the charts is not their beauty, but the ability to control what is printed and where it appears. You may print charts with notes or without, design your own titles, con-trol date styles and type sizes, margins, etc., etc., etc. We did encounter a problem with the standard pedigree chart: place names may be truncated if they are too long for the space available. As Family Roots cannot deter-mine what is the most important part of a place name, it just chops off whatever will not fit. This can result in showing the name of a town, but not the state -- a real puzzler if the town name is something like Springfield (New Jersey? Massachusetts?). By using the smal-lest type size and printing the chart sideways (if possible), you can improve this situation, but perhaps not eliminate it. The descen-dants charts are better than most; lines and titles make the generations clearer. If you want to print really nice descendants charts, use "Tree Charts" described below.

FAMILY CONNECTIONS

According to the user's manual, this program is intended to allow the transfer of data from GEDCOM files to other formats including Roots III, dBase, Lotus 1-2-3, PAF and Word-star. (GEDCOM is the "Esperanto" of genea-logy programs. Most genealogy programs al-low you to convert your data to GEDCOM for-mat, which can then be converted into the correct format for another program.) Family Connections also includes a time-line, calen-dar program, and various reports.

We had some trouble trying to install this program, so we called Quinsept. They deter-mined that somehow we had received an older version of this program and shipped us a new diskette promptly. Unfortunately, the Newsletter deadline forces us to go to press before we can take the time to test-drive this program. We will present a review of Family Connections in a future issue.

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TREE CHARTS

Now this is a nifty program. Its primary pur-pose is to print beautiful box charts for an ancestor and his descendants. This format is so much more useful than the descendants chart printed by most genealogy programs, that descendants charts alone make the program valuable. But Tree Charts is not limited to descendants charts. You can also print group charts in box format, or you can print box charts for any collection of relatives and ancestors that your heart desires. Theoretically at least, you could print a chart of everybody, although you would probably wind up with enough printouts to wallpaper your house. The charts look very nice and provide a good deal of information, but if you're a real perfectionist, you can customize them in countless ways. Make the boxes big-ger, smaller; print more information, less in-formation; change the placement of the infor-mation, etc. Customizing can be done on a one-time basis, or you can make your new style permanent -- or some of each.

Tree Charts uses data in Family Roots format. That means that you either have to use Family Roots to enter family records, or con-vert the data from your present system for use with Tree Charts. Conversion is done by outputting records from your present system to GEDCOM format; then converting from GEDCOM to Family Roots format by using Family Connections (described above). (Note: we have not tried this.)

Tree Charts automatically "grows" trees from a person you specify. The program shows a mini-chart on the screen; record numbers only are shown in the boxes, people's names are shown on the bottom of the display. You can save the trees to disk for future use and update them as new information becomes available.

Preparing a chart for a small group of people takes only a few minutes. "Growing" a chart for a large number of ancestors over many generations can be a more time consuming project, but the results are even more impres-sive. The biggest problem with drawing

charts of this nature is determining how many boxes will be needed and where to put them. (If you have ever tried this by hand, you know what we mean.) Sometimes the program just can't find the space to fit in all of grandfather's 17 children. There is a cure for this however. A "test tree" program checks the chart and lets you know who won't fit. Then, you can edit the tree to widen up the space where the missing people should be shown. A few simple commands add all the missing people.

The basics of Tree Charts are pretty easy to understand. We do recommend, however, that you save your charts to disk frequently as you work on a large tree. One mistake in typing a command can remove large chunks of the chart (the voice of experience here). In general, however, we were very pleased with this program. The charts are very help-ful as a research tool, but also make it easier to share information with others.

DOCUMENTATION AND SUPPORT

The user's manuals for the three programs described above are very detailed. In fact they tell you everything you want to know about how the programs work. For tinkerers, this is a great boon; for less sophisticated users it is somewhat intimidating. The manuals are written in a personal and friendly style. We get the impression that the programmers really care that readers under-stand how to use the system. We think that Quinsept should consider breaking the Family Roots manual into two books: the first, a get-started-fast manual for the get-in-it-and-drive crowd; the second could contain all those fine points for more experienced and daring users. Two other minor points: we think the use of a wider variety of type styles and or sizes would make the manuals more readable; there were few visual clues to dif-ferentiate between critical and background information. Also, both Family Connections and Tree Charts came in Acco-type binders. The wide binding area obscured some infor-mation and the darned pages wouldn't lie flat unless you put a brick on them.

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As for support, we can't say enough about the nice folks at Quinsept. We called twice to ask questions. The 800 number was answered promptly by a real person. Both times Steve Vorenberg, president of Quinsept, diagnosed the situation in a flash and explained the solu-tion courteously.

DESCENDANTS OF Miriam Wilson (RN=70) 24 Nov 1990

GRAND

PERSON CHILDREN CHILDREN

Miriam Wilson (RN=70)

SEX: F

8: 24 Nov 1822

M: 03 Sep 1844 to John N James (RN=69)

D: 14 Mar 1879

5 Children

GREAT

GRAND

CHILDREN

GREAT

GREAT

GRAND

CHILDREN

Amanda Martha James (RN=71)

SEX: F

8: 17 Jun 1845

Single

0: 20 Nov 1848

No Children

FATHER: John tJ James (RN=69)

GREAT

GREAT

GREAT

GRAND

CHILDREN

Annie M C James (RN=65)

SEX: F

8: 02 Feb 1848 0 PA

2 Marriages

M: 26 Feb 1873 to John N Nelson (RN=64)

RM: to

0: 16 Jan 1906 2 PA

3 Children

FATHER: John W James (R11=69)

Harriet Blanche Nelson (RN=66)

SEX: F

8: 31 Jan 1876 a Braddock, PA

14: 05 Sep 1899 to

D: 03 Aug 1939 8 Clinton, NJ

1 Child

FATHER: John M Nelson (1214=64)

John Herbert Nelson (RN=67)

SEX:

8: 25 Mar 1879 a PA

Single

0: 05 Feb 1933 0 San Francisco, CA

No Children

FATHER: John 1,1 Nelson (RN=64)

GREAT

GREAT

GREAT

GREAT

GRAND

CHILDREN

GREAT

GREAT

GREAT

GREAT

GREAT

GRAND

CHILDREN

Nellie Gertrude Nelson (RN=61)

SEX: F

8: 05 Sep 1882 A Braddock, Allegheny, PA

2 Marriages

M: 30 Jun 1904 to Hugh J Boyle (RN=60) 8 Port Byron, Rock Island, IL

RM: to

D: 07 Jun 1954 A Plainfield, Union, NJ

Descendants Chart (reduced in size)

PRICING

The price for Family Roots varies, depending on the computer you have, from $149 to $225. Tree Charts (available for some com-puters) costs $60. Family Connections (available for MS-DOS hard disk only) costs $95. A trial disk for Family Roots is available for $9.50, which may be applied to the pur-chase price of the full program.

Miriam Wilson (RN=70)

(Last updated 21 Nov 1990)

1) BORN ON: 24 Nov 1822

2) BORN AT:

3) DEATH DATE OR 'LIVING.: 14 Mar 1879

4) DIED/LIVING AT:

5) SEX: F

6) FATHER: Thomas M Wilson (RN=77)

7) MOTHER: Sarah Risher Wilson (RN=78)

8) NUMBER OF MARRIAGES: 1

9) SPOUSE #1: John W James (RN.69)

10) MARRIED ON: 03 Sep 1844

11) MARRIED AT:

12) MARITAL STATUS: Married

13) NUMBER OF CHILDREN: 5

14) CHILD 1: Amanda Martha James (RN=71)

15) CHILD 2: Annie M C James Nelson (RN=65)

16) CHILD 3: Alva P M James (RN=72)

17) CHILD 4: Thomas Edgar Wilson James (RN=73)

18) CHILD 5: John Herbert W James (RN=74)

19) NUMBER OF NOTES:

ANY CHANGES TO BE MADE HERE (Yes/No/Step/Parameters/Display/Keys)?

Data entry screen for adding/modifying in-dividuals' records.

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Box chart from Tree Charts program (much One box of data from Tree Charts. Both reduced). This chart shows known children items shown and format are customized. and grandchildren of a marriage.

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BEERS ATLAS INDEX - ROCKAWAY

by Sharon Holley

The following is an index of property owners shown on the map of Town of Rockaway (page 24) in the 1868 Beers Atlas of Morris County, New Jersey. The number or letter shown to the right of the name indicates the section of the map in which the building or other feature is located. The letter D represents Denville, including the business directory; RB - Rockaway Business Direc-tory; the letter J in front of a district number indicates a Joint District; L6 - Lyonsville District 6; U6 - Union District 6.

Agan, P 3 Boonton Mining Co 19 Conrad, J J1 Allen Mine 1 Boonton Mining Co. J1 Cook, C 11 Allison, J 7 Bostedo, A 7 Cook, C 2 Andover Iron Co. 1 Bostedo, E 7 Cook, S B 11 Andrews, J 1 Boyd, Wm RB Cooper, D 11 Ayers, W M U6 Brady 18 Cooper, David U6 Ayres, D U6 Brady, P J8 Cooper,J 11 Ayres, J U6 Brown, J P J10 Cooper,J 11 Ayres, J J U6 Bruen, J H RB Cooper, S B D

Bryant, J U6 Cooper, W 11 B M Co. J1 Burk, J 18 Copperas Mountains 3 B S Sh 7 Copperas Mountains 7 B S Sh 11 C,AB 7 Copperas Mountains J10 B S Sh L6 C,AB L6 Corigan, J 18 B S Sh U6 C,AB 1.6 Crampton, C 2 B S Sh 8&9 C,AB 1,6 Cranberry Pond 11 B S Sh C,ABD 1,6 Crane, H L6 B, C 5 C,AB 1.6 Crane, J W L6 B, C 5 C,AB L6 Crane, W L6 B, C 19 C,AB L6 Crushing Mill L6 B, Dr C 19 C, B 18 Curtis, S 2 B, H 1 C, C J8 B, H 1 C, C J8 D, J 18 B,H&WH 1 C, H L6 D, L P 18 B, N 11 C, H L6 D, Mrs S 1 B, SC 5 C, J 11 D, P H 7 B, SC 5 Canfield 8&9 D, W M 8&9 B, SS 5 Carbon Iron Co. 1 Davenport J10 Bach, S S 2 Carrol, E 2 Davenport, J L 7 Baker Mine 1 Casterline, A A U6 Davy, W 18 Baker, H & W H 1 Casterline, C D U6 Decken, Miss L6 Baker, W H 1 Casterline, J 2 Decker, F 8&9 Bald Hill 11 Casterline, W U6 Decker, Jno 8&9 Bancroft 12 Cem U6 Decker, W 8&9 Barrens, Mrs. M 3 Charlottenburg 12 Degraw, M 7 Barton, E 7 Charlottenburg Pond 12 Degrow, J 7 Barton, W J 4 Clark U6 Degrow, P 7 Bassinger, J B 11 Clark, J 11 Dehart, C C 2 Bassinger, J B D Clark, J 11 DeHart, C C RB Beach, D C 5 Clark, M 2 Dehart, C C J1 Beach, Dr C 19 Clifford Pond 3 Demark 3 Beachglen 5 Co 19 Demark Pond 3 Beam, Mrs D Coal Ho 3 Den Brook D Beaver Brook 5 Coatworth L6 Denville P 0 11 Beaver Brook 8&9 Cobb, A B 7 Depot 11 Bench, A 8&9 Cobb, A B L6 Depot 2 Blakely, Mrs 3 Cobb, A B L6 Depot D Blanchard 2 Cobb, E J10 Dickerson, A J1 Blanchard, A 11 Cobb, J C J10 Dickerson, C 11 Blanchard, Jno 2 Cogswell 3 Dickerson, D 11 Blanchard, M 8&9 Collins, J 2 Dickerson, L S 2 Boonton Br 11 Conrad, A 2 Dickerson, N 11 Boonton Br (M&E RR) D Conrad, F J1 Dickerson, W H 11

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Dixon, G 18 H, P D 7 Lago, H 2 Dixson, J F M 8&9 Hall, Jno D Lampson, C U6 Dixson, J F M 8&9 Hamilton, D 2 Langdon, A C 1 Dixson, Mrs E 8&9 Hartzough, A 1 Langdon, J S 1 Dixson, W M 8&9 Hathaway, J L U6 Lash, J 11 Dixsons Pond 8&9 Hawke, N 1 Lathrop, W G 2 Dobbins, Mrs 7 Hawke, N 1 Lee & Dickerson D Doland, M 3 Hawsey, S 7 Lee, J W D Doland, Miss 3 Henderson, P D 7 Lee, J W D Doland, Mrs 1 Henderson, W 7 Lindsley Mine 2 Dougherty 2 Hesler, C 4 Lindsley, F (oc) D Dover, E 7 Hibernia 19 Lock 11

Hickory Hill 3 Locker, A P L6 E, W 2 Hiler, C P L6 Losee, F U6 Earles, E L6 Hiler, D L6 Loser, J L6 Earles, J W 8&9 Hiler, P L6 Lyon, D L6 Earles, Mrs L6 Hill, J 0 U6 Lyon, E L6 Earles, Mrs B L6 Hill, J 0 U6 Lyon, J H U6 Egbert, J 7 Hill, J P U6 Lyon, J S U6 Elliot Co 3 Hiller, A B L6 Lyonsville L6 Elliot, A 3 Hilon 18 Engine Ho 4 Hinchman, J D M E Ch D Engine Ho 19 Hoagland, M 2 M E Ch 18 Engine Ho 1 Hoagland, M RB M, D D Eshle, W 2 Hoff Mine 1 M, Mrs 18 Estler, D J8 Hoff, J T 1 M, S 8&9 Estler, J J8 Hogencamp, C 7 M, S 18 Eston, J 2 Hoosen, P 4 Maran, J 18

Hopler, C 11 Martin, C 1 F, E 3 Hotel D Mattox & Brown RB Farrind, S 7 Howell, M L6 Mc Donough, P 18 Feedler, E 3 Hull, J 11 Mc Kay, E 18 Feehn, J J8 Husk, J H 11 McC, C A 2 First Brook 1 McCarty, C A 2 Fitcher, J L RB Iron Hill 1 Menagh, D D Flanagan, T 18 Menagh, J V RB Flanagin 18 J, J 11 Meriden L6 Forge 3 Jackson, J H & Co RB Merritt, S 18 Forge 3 Jackson, J W RB Miller, D& M 7 Forge L6 Jenkins, J 1 Miller, Geo R RB Fredericks, W 3 Jennings, B J1 Miller, J H 2 Freeman, J 5 Johnson Mine 1 Minagh, D 11 Freeman, P 11 Minard, J J 8&9 Fuller & Lord 1 K, A F 5 Mine 3 Furnace L6 K, A F 5 Mine 4

K, A F 5 Mine 2 G Mill 8&9 K, J& S 2 Mine 1 G, T D K, M D 2 Mine J1 Galligan, M D 18 K, M D 2 Mine 18 Galliger, B 18 Kanouse, A L6 Mine 18 Galliger, F 2 Keating, N 11 Mine 18 Gardner, J L D Keller, T 18 Mine 18 George, Rich'd RB Ketchel, F 3 Mines 4 Glendon Iron Co 4 Ketchell, A F 5 Mining Ho 3 Glendon Iron Co 4 Ketchell, N D 2 Mitchell, J 2 Glendon Iron Co 19 Kile, Mrs 18 Mitchell, Wm 2 Glendon Iron Co. 18 Kimble, J H 7 Moneyhan, W 18 Goodale, J 2 Kindred, Jno E 3 Morgan, J 18 Green Lake Ho 7 King, J J1 Morris & Essex 11 Green Pond 7 King, M 1 Morris & Essex R R 2 Green, T 11 King, W H J1 Morris & Essex R R U6 Green, T D Kintchler, J 1 Morris Canal 11 Greenville 7 Kirk, T 11 Morris Canal 2

Kitchel, M D RB Moshier, I 7 H, J D Klotz, J& S 2 Mott, Elisha RB H, M 2 Kynor, S 1 Mt Hope 3 H, M 2 Mt. Hope Mine Co. 18 H, P D 7 L& H D Mt. Pleasant 1 H, P D 7 l.„ E 8&9 Mt. Pleasant Mine 1

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Shauger, A 2 Van Winkle, J 8&9 P, S U6 Shauger, A 12 Vanderbilt, J 3 P, S S U6 Shauger, D 7 Vanderhoff, C 11 P, S S U6 Shauger, N H 11 Vanderhoof, C 11 Palmer, E L U6 Shaw, F L6 Vanderhoof, J 11 Palmer, S H U6 Shaw, G L6 Vanderhoof, R 11 Palmer, S S U6 Shaw, Jno 1,6 Vanderhoof, W 11 Peer, D L6 Shaw, Nellie L6 Vandrious, P 1,6 Peer, E C 11 Shaw, S L6 Peer, E C 11 Smith, B 11 W Sh 8&9 Peer, E C D Smith, C F U6 W, W 2 Peer, Francis RB Smith, H 7 Wadsworth, L F 11 Peer, G 11 Smith, H 7 Wadsworth, L F 11 Peer, I 11 Smith, I U6 Waer, A 11 Peer, J 11 Smith, J 7 Waer, W H 2 Peer, R B M 11 Smith, J 7 Walton, A 3 Peer, S 11 Smith, Jno U6 Wheeler, C U6 Peer, W H 11 Smith, Mrs R U6 White Meadow Mine 2 Pond 11 Snake Hill 11 Whitehead, W B 1 Post, P A 7 Snake Hill U6 Whitford, J 18 Pres Ch 1 Snyder, A 18 Whitford, Mrs 18

Soudon 18 Wiggins, D A 2 Quinn 18 Soute, C E H 12 Wiggins, V H 3

Spicer, J 1 Williams, W H 11 R C Ch 19 Split Rock L6 Winters, A 7 R, D 18 Split Rock Pond L6 Woodhull, S T U6 R, G 3 Stickle, H 2 Woodhull, T D R, G 3 Stickle, H S 2 Wright, A 7 Renchan, Mrs 18 Stickle, J P RB Wright, W U6 Reynolds, Mrs 18 Stickle, Mrs 5 Richard Mine 1 Stickle, S 2 Zeak, A 11 Richards & Tippett RB Stiles, J 11 Zeak, J L 2 Richards Beach & Co 19 Stone, D 2 Zeak, M 5 Righter, C 4 Store 11 Zeek, C 7 Righter, George A 3 Store 11 Zeek, I 7 Righter, J A D Store 19 Zindell 18 Rockaway P 0 2 Store 2 Zindle, L 18 Rockaway River 11 Store L6 Rockaway River U6 Store 8&9 Rockaway River J8 Store D Rockaway Valley 8&9 Store 18 Rockaway Valley M E Ch 8&9 Store & PO D Romine, H J8 Struble, H J1 Ross, A J1 Sturdevant, F J1 Ross, Edwin RB Sturdevant, Mrs E 2 Rourx, J 18 Rowe, J C RB Tebo Mine 1

Thomas Iron Co. 1 S Mill L6 Thomas Iron Co. 1 S, A 2 Timber Brook 12 S, C E H 7 Timber Brook Pond 7 S, Fl 2 Todd, Mrs 2 Salmon, L H J8 Toll Gate 1 Sanders, A 7 Tompkins, Mrs R U6 Saunders, A 7 Tone, Mrs 1 School No 11 11 Trenton Iron Co 19 School No 19 19 Try, V 18 School No 3 3 Tucker, C J8 School No 4 4 Tuers, W 11 School No 5 5 Tuers, W 2

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BULLETIN BOARD

by Sharon Holley

The Bulletin Board is a new feature of the Newsletter. Members may submit one brief item per issue. Members may use the Bul-letin Board to offer to exchange research with others; to ask for or offer specific materials (family Bible or records, manuscripts, pictures, etc.); to ask specific questions about Morris area research (where was/is Vealtown?); or to share tidbits of general interest to Society members. We can-not accept notices regarding products or serv-ices for sale.

Please submit Bulletin Board entries to the Newsletter Editor; include your name and address. Please print (or type) and spell out all words. We will edit as necessary. The deadline for submitting items for the March 1991 Newsletter is January 15, 1991.

Research Exchange

Will do research using the Wisconsin Histori-cal Library in Madison, Wisconsin and other local sources in exchange with someone who can research in Morris County. Primarily in-terested in Guerin and related families in Jockey Hollow and Whippany. Elsie H. Wilson, 7302 Ashwabay Lane, Madison, WI 53719

NEW JERSEY SETTLERS IN OHIO

by Marion Harris

This information is cited with thanks to The Franklintonian, the newsletter of the Franklin County (Ohio) Genealogy Society, for July-August, 1990, page 138. Their source is given as Ocha Moore, His.tory of Franklin County, Ohio, vol. 1, p. 497.

The northeastern quarter of Jefferson Township, Franklin County, Ohio, originally belonged to General Jonathan Dayton. He sold most of it to residents of New Jersey. Among the early settlers were the following:

Daniel Dague William Headley Jacob Thorp Jonathan Whitehead John Kelso Michael Rhodes Joseph Compton Moses Ogden Michael Stagg Jacob Smith Isaac Baldwin

Michael Neiswanger Isaac Painter John Davenport William Armstrong Peter Francisco Abraham Stagg John H. Smith Joseph Edgar S. Mann John Inks William Havens

NEWSLEIILR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

by Sharon Holley

This is a plea for volunteers who are willing to contribute occasional short articles or regular columns for the Newsletter. We have some specific ideas in mind, but are always open to your suggestions.

As almost all of the communication between members of the Newsletter Committee is done by mail or phone (or fax), you don't have to live nearby to contribute to the Newsletter. "Long-distance" members are encouraged to help. So you folks out there in Nebraska, California, Ohio, or wherever, here is your chance to participate more fully in the Society. Right now we are especially interested in finding people to write "family" stories (such as the story on the Budd family in this issue). We would also like to hear about research hints and techniques, ex-periences with computer programs, and any other items of interest to members.

If you would like to write for the Newsletter, either occasionally or on a regular basis, please contact the editor, Sharon Holley, by writing to the Society, or in person at the next meeting.

Even if you don't want to "write" for the Newsletter, you can still contribute by send-ing us any especially interesting tidbits from your research: an unusual gravestone inscrip-tion, entries from an old diary, or something similar. So when you run across something really special, keep the Newsletter in mind.

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QUERIES

by Ann Briziarelli

Members may submit one query for publica-tion in each issue of the newsletter. Queries should be limited to 30 words, plus the name and address of the submitter. If your query is longer than 30 words, we will edit it or return it to you for editing, as we think best.

Please be sure to include dates and places in your query. Make sure your query is typed or printed legibly. Print your name, address and zip code on the same piece of paper as the query. Please spell out all words in your query; we will abbreviate as necessary.

Answers to queries should be sent directly to the submitter, whose name and address are shown at the end of the query. The deadline for queries for the next newsletter is January 15, 1991.

CASSERLY, MURTAUGH. Seek info on or de-scendants of Lawrence Casserly (1829-1919); m. Bridget Murtaugh 1856 Mendham, NJ. Ch; Mary, Katie, Annie, Margaret, Joseph, Ig-natius. Also Farrell Casserly (1818, b. Roscommon), bro. of Lawrence. Both moved to Minnesota. Beverly Casserly, 4611 Bruce Ave., Edina, MN 55424

GUERIN. Researching all Guerins. Seeking info about Thomas who lived on Whippany Creek before 1726, his wife's name, and property bounds. Also, Guerins who moved to NY and PA. Elsie H. Wilson, 7302 Ashwabay Ln., Madison, WI 53719

HOWELL. Seek parents: Lydia Howell (maiden name) m. 10 Sept. 1758 Southold, NY, Jacob Howell, living Roxbury, Morris Co., NJ, 1791. Children & stepchildren: Joshua, Seth, Jacob, Jonathan, Elizabeth, Sarah, Mar-garet, Azuba, Lydia, Mary, Dorothy, Patience, Unice, Johannah & Anna. Doris Hoover, P.O. Box 67, Faulkner, MD 20632

HUFFMAN, TAPPING/TAPPAN, MILLER. "Treena Huffman died February 7th 1833" is written in the old Tapping (Tappan) family Bible. How was she related to the families of Jacob Miller (ch: Henry J., Garrett J., Phillip, John J., Hester/Hettie, Anne & Elizabeth) and/or Moses Tapping (ch: Moses Q., Silas, Sally Ann, & Ira)? Marilyn B. Clay, 400 Providence Street, Delta, OH 43515

KIRCH, STEVINGER. Share info on family, ancestors, descendants of John Kirch and wife Kathryn (Stevinger?). He was born Hesse Darmstadt, Germany ca. 1816; lived in Meyersville, Morris Twp. in 1850; lived in Mount Bethel, Warren Twp., Somerset Co. ca. 1860 to death in 1894. Ch: John, Anna, Frederick, Catherine, George, Elizabeth, Apolona, William, Matilda, and one uniden-tified. Sharon Holley, PO Box 70, Budd Lake, NJ 07828

LOSEY/LOCEY, HOLMES, TROWBRIDGE, SHERWOOD, LAMBERT. Seek info of Joseph Trowbridge (son of David Trowbridge and Lydia Holmes) m. Mary Losey in Morristown 18 Nov. 1784. Any info on Locey/Losey, Holmes, Trowbridge and Sherwood or Lam-bert families. Barbara Hutton, 612 West Sixth, Bristow, OK 74010

VAN FLEET, KING. Seek info on family of Mary Elizabeth Van Fleet b. ca 1815, Morris Col. NJ, m. Charles King 1836. Who were her parents and siblings? Joyce King, 3063 So. Xanthia, Denver, CO 80231

WATER, CULVER. Need name and ancestry of the wife of Robert Wa(i)er/Ware b. ca 1775-80, d. ca 1840, Jefferson Twp., Morris Co., NJ. His f. was probably Robert who m. Ann(a) Colver/Culver, dau. of Robert and Ann Cul-ver. Robert Sr. was son of Thomas Waeir, who d. 1779 Washington Twp., Morris Co., NJ. Will exchange info. Frances Molsberry, 940 San Eduardo Ave., Henderson, NV 89015

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NEXT MEETING: December 11, 1990

Morristown and Morris Township Library 1 Miller Road, Morristown, New Jersey

Coffee at 7:00 p.m. - Meeting at 7:30 p.m.

HOLIDAY PARTY

SNOW NEWS

It's no news that winter brings inclement weather. If bad weather forces the closing of the library, any Society meeting scheduled for that evening will be cancelled. Call the library (538-6161) for closing information. If the library has already closed early, you will hear a recorded message.

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