jrentions By t'ornen Attract j much Attention Len's New Inventive j tis Shown By Increas. j patents Issued Them ] i Many New Devicei

tnrre»*c tn the num j MtenU granted to womet I tanleal inventions in re j U diaclOBcd In nn [o. Patent Office record* | nUons cover the whole j hur.ian acUvitv. They I conceivable device , • collars tn windshield I that ••necessity l* j j of invention" is striknle<i as truth n women * 1 Thus, u Texas farm med the Patent Oftlce j detested ork of strippins sugar j ■lasses, she In- | device which did the , and stripped In an < could be 1 four perf w oman Informed the s that the window designed was the P**two weeks' illness in f and three week* In P during a hot. rainy ly July. “When I those hot. stuffy Olred how badly the s needed i garden rake was ft woman golf teacher. . "had l>een incongolf hall* getUng

at of

• She demised I simply to recover golt bails, but the the device bent that she ob-

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Jkts a year now poen. The number id to men Is many as to liking fact in It the percentaatenU to woi to decade has

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The scene above is a reproduction from a paintinp, inspired by descriptions in an old diary, showinR Town Bank, the first settlement in Cape May County, N. as it was said to look in 1690 Lyflower Descendants How an Entire Community of “First Americans” Grew Up in a Village in Southern New Jersey, and for Two Centuries Their Illustrious Ancestry Was Unknown to Them

per cent, la .„r the patents It numbered less _ _... i a year. During ggd the years following _Jpr >of patents to worn'a bees .more than 100. The 1 i~ 1867 ssw an inp,,f per cent, over the* | decade in number of d to women, where-1 e in patent* granted er "enu „ sufficiently i determine the per- ■ efiect of the world war. ■ yearly average of number ™ b granted to women in X 19S0 and 19:1 was t per cent, higher than —^rage (or six pre-war ■Uore than 5.000 patents 1 women during ten • from 1905 to 1911. I than ,he ,0,,,l nuralM ‘ r % during a si>an of >5 years ended in

By Lawrence H. Ddredge

T HREE HUNDRED AND SIX year* ago ■ little band of pilgrims whose hearts were fired with a quenchless love for liberty set foot on American soil and founded what became the Pilgrim ^olony of New Plymouth. The s'^ry of their early hardships is common knowledge. Every schoolboy know* the significance of the word Mayflower. _ And every year the thoughts of the Nation turn back in reverent homage to the Pilgrims. But thr.«v* another strry which the world decs no: know. It j* a romance of Ametican history: awry of how an entire community of Mayflower descendant* grew up on a tiny peninsula where their ancestor* had founded a whaling village, and for 200 years were ignorant of their illustrious ancestrya lost colony of Mayflower descendants. It i* a story which constitutes an important contribution to American history. It is a story which wa* unraveled only after years of patient research by a man himself descended from fourteen of the Mayflower passenger.-. Now this lost colony ha* been found. : constitutes a large portion of the lopulation of Cape May County, N. J. The man who discovered it is the Rev. Dr. Paul Sturtevant Howe, lector of the Episcopal Church of the Advent at Cape May and a member of six historical and genealogical societies.

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<<T»HERE are mure descendants of the 1 Mayflower in Cape May County today than in any other place in the world, raid Dr. Howe. "1 suppose more than one-third of the population of Cape May City is of Mayflower stock. Along the main street you will fin ! house after house in which the families have this distinction. In many other localities there has been ar. infusion of new names . and new families- But thus 1ms rat hapi pened in Cape May kou will stiR find i most of the county made up of the old ! names and old families. . . "People often speak loosely of being descended from Mayflower stock, conI !inue d Dr. Howe. "But we must remem-

ber that of the M.yflow-er

l 0U r records show only fifty who left | descendants. Ail j>er«oA claimmg de-

I scent from a Mayflower

! trace it back to one of :hese fifty. The Entire numbe r of descendants now living

n ot large, comparatively.

, “When we talk of the Pilgrims this term should be Hmited £

properly speak ng. w

i oT d-». r of the crew does not entitle 1 from cne hj in General j Descendant*. To ! prove direst descent from a - a> o cc

"The mo.s:

tiers brought with the Pilgrim Father.- of P’y' Rev. Daniel Lawrenc- H

e °fart that the « ri >'

v all

public came to an end in 169: and Plymouth Colony became merged into the colony of Massachusetts Bay. and while several of the Pilgrims were still living, Hannah Gorham, the granddaughter *of John Howland, had gone with her family to Cape May and settled "These first settlers were too busy developing their homes and making a living to record their ancestry or to trace it. Within two or three generations they had completely forgotten their New England forbears. Thus for more than 200'years no trace is found in hi tory of the lost colony of Mayflower descendants at Cape May. The descendant.- themselves did not have the slightest inkling of their famous and now mueh-envu-d ancestrv. Yet by intermarriage most of the families became connected with the

Mayflower stock.”

Some of the most ar..locratie Phila-

delphia families were unaware of their Pilgrim ancestry unn! they were informed by Dr. Howe. Since he has made his researches people have become tremendously interested m the work and now whenever he is invited to such Dhmes a* the Philadelphia Union League or University Club he is certain to be slopped and questioned concerning hi* discoveries. The ancestiy of Cape Mqy families was known partially to a very few People before Dr. Howe commenced hi* work, but it so chanced they Kept

what they knew to themselves. It was a strange clue which fir*t

aroused the interest of Dr Howe and nut him on the trail which he so assiduously followed. During his early veai-s he had lived in Plymouth County, Mass While there lie became interested tn genealogical research and spent five

The Rev. Dr. Paul Sturtevant Howe, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advent. Cape May. N. J- says there are more descendants of the Mayflower Pilgrims in Cape May County, whither they came in 1690, than in any other place in the

world

between the two localities, and he began to investigate in earnest. He soon learned there was a Yarmouth (Mass.) strain in Cape May. The next four years were b’.sy ones, filled With pain-taking labor worked in as he found time for it. Dr. Howe first read everything he could find ever written about Tape May County. After that he read every will, deed, diary, family Bible, tombstone inscription and other document or record in the county on which he could lay his hands. Gradually the

of them having moved from Plymouth present Cape May City, was the first Colony to Cepe May, a* stated in the settlement of families in Cape May •Wast Book.’ County, regardless of what anybody "The Whilldin family and their de- else may say. An occasional isolated scendants immediately became prom- Scanu>avian fisherman may have built ment in the County of Cape May a shack sou.-where before. out there had and in Philadelphia. Hannah Whilldin, been no permanent sottlement. The their first daughter, married Thomas names in that first village are still perLeamir.g, ancestor of the Learnings of petuated and those famliK have given Philadelphia. By this marriage there Cape May its character. The name Cape was a daughter. Mercy, who married May comes from tho euphonic spelling Samuel Etdredgc. Hannah WhiUdin’s of thi name of Captain Cornelius Jasecond husband was Philip Syng, of cobese M y, who explored Delaware Bay Philadelphia. i n 1623 and charted the cape. But he “The first intermarriages of the did not make a settlement.”

Plymouth stock from whom descendants

are traced," continued Dr. Howe, “were pAPF. MAY traditions abound in stories v ith the Learning, Eldrodge and Hughes of these old whalers. And they tell, families. The F.ldredges as well as the too, of pirate craft with rakish lines that W’hilldins came from Yarmouth, Mass., used to dart out from coves a'nd inlet* both names being found frequently in upon unfortunate ships. The vessels used the early Yarmouth records. Barnstable for whaling were not whaling vessels was the original home of the Gorhams. as they are known today. Small boats “Other early intermarriages with the were used, says Dr. Howe, which would Crowell, Foster, Doubleday and Garlick go out from shore to meet the whales, families have not been traced out or the These boats would work up and down the families have become extinct. In the coast, close to shore. When a whale generations succeeding the first inter- was killed it was brought ashore before marriages of the Mayflower stock with ths blubber was stripped off. the Learnings, Eldredges and Hugheses The importance of the industry is erathe names of the following families be- phasired in the documents of the period, come connected with the Pilgrim stock: Wiliam Penn, writing to the CommisStites, Rutherford, Bennett, Church, sioners of the Free Society of Traders, Foster. Caldwell, Edmunds, Holmes, says: “Of the product of our waters Throcknjorton, Meigs, Fo.man. Me- mighty whale* roll upon the coast near Knight. Lee, Abbott, Cerati de Caldry, the mouth of the bay of Delaware; Panon, Inskeep, Austin, Pyke, Woolson, eleven caught and worked into oyl one Ritter, Taylor, Price, Miller, Johnson, season. We justly hope a considerable Parsons. Town. King. Mecray, Crowell, profit by a whalery, they being so nuBemhouse, Burd, Lengert, Spence, Har- merous and the shore so suitable.” In ris, Cresse, Walter. Stevens, Dolby, a later letter he said: “I doe underSmith, Hoffman, Morton, Townsend. Hil- stand three companies for catch : ng dreth, Bate, Cummings, Jaycox, Rose, whales are designed to fish in the river’s Jackson, Merritt, Gaskil, Benezct, Gil- mouth this season, and find through the bert, Scheliinger. Sapp, Hemingway, great plenty of fish they may begin

fleet of -100 New England vessels and Hand. Oakley, Bassett. Roberts, Her- early.”

a British squadron under Commodore shaw, Schenck, Matthew-, Cherry, Crow- In his history of West Jersey, written Warren. Colonel John Gorham was on ell. Sayre, Reed, Mean, Hali, Rock. York, in 169$, Gabriel Thomas tells us: “The this expedition and while at Loaisburg Melvin. Beoslcy, Moore, Scott, Reeves, commodities of Cape May County are he wrote out the history of his family Sheppard, Wood. Montgomery. Ncwhall, oyl and whalebone, of which they make in the now famous "Wast Book." The Springer, Ware. Williamson, Bockius. prodigious quantities every year, having "Wast Book” has been published in the Duke, Smyth, Souder, Cassedy, Shaw, mightily advanced that great fishery, takNew York Genealogical and Biographical Ludlam, Barne-. Perkins, Ashcroft, ing great numbers of whales yearly. Record and in the New England Histor- Sparks. Marshall, Williams. Steelman, This county, for the general part of it, ical and Genealogical Register. It begins Phillips, Ogden, Cook, Wales, Deming, i extraordinary good and proper for th«

Barrows and Young.” r using of all sorts of catteD, very plen-

tiful here, as cows, horse*, sheep and

TYURING the seventeenth re.i-ury whal- hog*. Ac. Likewise, it is well *tored

The landing of the Pilgrims in America has furnished many artists with inspiration, and the above picture is reproduced from a painting showing the sea-weary little band at Plymouth Rock offering thanks for

their safe arrival

with the record of Colonel Gorham's first ancestor, who came from England,

and reads as follows:

My Great Great Grandfather and family came out of some part of England and lived at Marshfield and had one Son Nam'd af:r him John Gorum, alia* Gorham—Which Son aftr Having Marryed With an Howland and had Several! Children Went home to Eng-

industry of great im

tance in the colonies and these fir.-' ( May County settlers were drawn Delaware Bay by whaling expeditiol "The first whaling settlement wa Southampton, on Long Island, a g of land having been given Massachusetts

land and Returned Soone again to his V l ^ at purpote.” Dr. Howe

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Hi* Father Lived A Died att Marshfield ard whats Remarkable He wa* a Joiner and Made his Coffin himself for Several Year* before he Died and Used to Keep apples in It as a Chest

Until! He died A used it.

T HIS part of the record also mention* that the Howland was Desire Howland, w ho was the daughter of John Howdren of the John Gorham named in the record and ihe last line reads: "Hannah— maryd a Wheelding boa’h movd to Cape“This last line,” said Dr. Howe, ”i»

follov

Southampton whalerYarmouth slock and had County name-:. These mi

whbles down the coast and en

Delaware Bay.

“We don’t know the exa.-t their arrival nor do we know they sailed the SOO miles from with other families and their ch

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[ B. Fan, form' i r Interior as. be J ryhoto being taken |«W Mexico to defers-i jpv. Mr. Fall as hr fbeirg indicted on U. piracy todrm grant

'land emigrants to Cape May an t by 1690 the Whilldin* were settle ik and the diary of Thomas Leamsn 16k-. just above Town Bank, wa* th

rith frpits which make very pleasant In such manner these sturdy members of a liberty-loving people lived, worked and carved thei- history. When tho storms swept the bay they headed their tiny crafts fur the little inlet which was then at Town Bank and which has been eaten away since by the erosion of the waters. Ancestry meant little to them. Their life was a hard one. Nobody knows how many unsung hero tale* were enacted between the sea and the sky a* man’s intelligence struggled for mastery over the tremendous brute force of nature's greatest mammal. It was a desperate gamble, with life and death as .-takes. If the whales, with their valuable oil and bone, were not captured and sold, the whalers would be pinched with poverty; if they wore not killed after Ming captured, they would very probably Send their captor* to an endless

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under Colonel Willia