I 24 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 21 May '86

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r— Jersey Cape Historically I By John Merrill ^

x It is most interesting to * undertake the study of local history when using oral traditions and legends that have been passed from generation to generation. One such tradition involves the Manlove-Stevens descendancy and their contributions to county history. An oral tradition that can be verified through the use of U.S. military records begins as the War of 1812 saw patriotic activity increase as the British once again attempted to subjugate the peoples of the Atlantic Coastline. DAVID MANLOVE (related to Henry Stevens, who settled Cape May County around the year 1720) was placed in the position of Sailing Master of the Delaware Flotilla, equivalent of today's rank of Admiral. It was his responsibility to keep the British fleet out of our waters. Of this duty, he was moderately successful considering the size of the British fleet and the fledgling American Navy. He had help in protecting our shores from the local residents, some of whom constructed mock cannons (called Quaker Cannons locally) to bluff the British, keeping them from landing on the Delaware Bay coastline of Cape May County. OTHER individuals removed their cattle to Hickory Island, thus depriving the British of a possible source of fresh food supplies. There were even such radical measures taken as the digging of a canal allowing salt water to enter Lily Pond ( Lily Lake) creating a brackish water source unfit I to drink by either side; of I course, local residents knew I of other fresh water sources. Admiral Manlove's duties also included the protection of area shipping from pirates or privateers (governmentally licensed pirates). ALAS, IN 1831, Admiral Manlove perished at sea in what was considered a new pirate-proof vessel. We will never know if the pirates got to the vessel or if the unpredictable sea claimed another victim. Whatever the cause, his wife, Francis Amelia Manlove. kept a candle burning in the front windowhoping for his return until her death in 1841 . THOSE OF Manlove ancestory have a family tradition rich in oral and written history. Henry Stevens' son Henry, was a captain in the Revolutionary Army. Rebecca Manlove ( "Aunt Becky Manlove" born March 9. 1800, and dying in December of 1892) was forced to bake bread, at gunpoint. for the invading Brown Is Now Specialist 4 SOUTH SEAVILLE - Philip F. Brown, son of William J. and Inez B. Brown of this community, has been promoted in the U S Army to the rank of specialist Iqjir. Brown is a military police specialist in West Germany, with the 556th I Military Police Co. He is a I 1984 graduate of Middle 1 Township High School.

British forces after they had landed on the Cape during the Second War for Independence. Abraham Lincoln Manlove (born Sept. 9, 1865) named in honor of Abraham Lincoln and born during the year of Lincoln's assassination, was still spry at the age of 92 when he managed to see the World Series in Philadelphia. THAT FACT, alone, is not noteworthy. However, he was asked by a then aspiring local historian and relative. Louis Stevens, if he had any information he would like to relate about his family history. Stevens was amazed when A.L. Manlove responded by saying, "Louis Stevens, you'll never write a book!" Louis Stevens, of course, wrote his book on Cape May history. The Manloves were never mentioned in retaliation for Abe's curt comment. UNTIL 1962, the StevensManlove House stood in West Cape May on Fourth Avenue until a disastrous fire destroyed the original two-room structure and the later additions along with many items of historical and family importance. According to Mrs. Magonicle, descendant of

the Manlove-Stevens geneological aancestry, the Stevens Street of West Cape May today is not the same Stevens Street of history. THE ORIGINAL street went straight down today's hedgerow and did not bend as it does today. An 1852 map of Cape May County verifies this statement. In 1875, the house was moved (as were many houses in the 'older days' ) to the Fourth Avenue West Cape May site until its destruction by fire. The descendants of the Stevens-Manlove family, like the descendants of any other family, have an oral tradition worth saving. yFX)Jt THOSE interested in preserving family history and those interested in the history of the past, ask questions of parents and grandparents, for it is the history of people that constitute the history of the county and of the United States. (ED NOTE: Merrill teaches social studies at Lower Cape May Regional High School and has lived in the county since 1975. If you're interested in a particular historiccal item, write him care of this newspaper. P.O. Box 430. Cape May Court House. N.J. 08210).

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