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manner of fishing, oyster culture and a glass works were also part of these emerging communities. The 1800 county census records 3,066 souls. The pastoral quiet of each area was disrupted by three wars — the Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. There were nb notable battles fought on the Cape but there were many serious incidents relating to 'coastal defense. ^Lookouts continually scanned H the waters for British warships and-a "pony express" operation relayed information to the appropriie military headquarters, usua\y in Philadelphia. POLITICALLY, THE Civil War was a somewhat different story. In Cape May, which lies just below that'latitude of the MasonDixon line, there Was slavery and Southern sympahty. Also significant, the state of New Jersey was

that Cape May County “Yankees" volunteered in any numbers. The history of Cape May County is rich with exciting tales of storms and shipwrecks, pirates and buried treasure, Indians and sGttlers, politics and -personalities, wars, and little known heroes, la.nd development schemes and period architecture, auto racing, sailboat racing, even horse racing, fashionable society,, railroads, steamboats and stage coaches — and much more.

There is probably no aspect of the county’s past that, upon investigation, wouldn't prove fascinating — in some cases, unique! Significantly, the Indians were peaceful and welcomed the white settlers. As fpr as can be determined, all the land-transac-tions with them were legitimate and fair. The people themselves were a prime resource as they were industrious and accustomed to the hard 'life. They were fa'miliar with, and understood the principles of community government and the importance of landjownership. , y In studying the history of the Cape one can easily conclude that, for the post pari! these early settlers we«\ a pious a nd thrifty group who managed to get along quite well with each other. ’ * .* s* Editor's N.ot*: Author .Timfnons suggests that readers Interested'in learning . more about the*early history of the Jersey Cape can find “a veritable treasure house of information” in the library of -the Cape May County Historical ,& Genealogical Society, at the County Museum. Rt. 9. north of Cape. May Court'House. The author has also made available a selected bibliography' of suggested reading material; for a copy send a stamp addressed envelope c/o Jean Timmons. Cape May County Herald. P.O. Box 484 Cape May. NJ

08204.

Jean T. Timmons of West Cape May, is the author of ’This Is Cape May. A Visitor’s Guide, ’ now in its fourth printing.

THE CEMETERY SURROUNDING Old Brick Church — this Sunday marking its 267th anniversary — is the resting place for some of the county’s earliest settlers, including many Pilgrim descendants. Pifgrim Names on4he Jersey Cape The records of the Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mass, show that late in the 1630s and during the )640s many of the original Mayflower families left that area to seek better lands further south along the coast

— or to follow the whaling trade.

The proven Ijnkagd for the Cape May County descendants involves' the marriage of Hannah Gorham of Plymouth to Joseph Weelding, or Whilldin, of Yarmouth, Mass. She was Pilgrim John Howland’s granddaughter. Thev moved to Cape May County sometime before 1690. Another family^om Yarmouth arriving with that early migration was

the Eldredges.

Foilwing are some of the Cape May County names that are

associated with this early Pilgrim stock:

Abbott Doming" Jackson Oakley Ashcroft Dolby Jaycox Ogden

Austin Douglass Jenkins

Duke Johnson

Barns

Barrows

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Edmunds

Edwards

Beesley Forman Benezet Foster

Bennett

Bernhouse Gaskill Bockius Gilbert Burd Goldfrey

Hall

Caldwell Hand Carman Harris Cassedy Hemingway Cherry Hewitt Church Hildreth Cerati.De Caldry Hof man Cook Holmes Corson Howell, Crawford Hughes Cressee Crowell - Inskeep Cummings isard

Kershaw King Learning Lee Lengert Ludlum M^ftiall Matthews McKnight Mears Mecray Meigs Melvin Merritt Miller Montgomery Moore Newhall Newton Norbury Norton

Page Paige Panon Parsons Perkins Phillips' Price Pyk^ Reed Reeves Richardson Ritter Roberts Rose Fosk Rutherford

Sapp Sayre Schilling Schetfinger Schenk Scott Shaw

Smith

Smyth Souder Sparks

Spences

Spicer

Springer Steelman

Stevens

Stillwell

Stites

Swain Taylor throckmorton

Town

Townsend

Wales

Walter

Ware

Willets Williams . Williamson

Wood

Woolson

York

Young

VAUGOV 12. 1981