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c — — ' i if AY)Q Htf Pri ~ 1220 Are Descendants of Band AnTvin^Hflj Years Ago it Plymouth Rock— Dt P. S. Howe, Historical Expert, Hwjjfl •* Traced Families and Examin- ,1 ed Recordh " 1

Cape May, N. J., Nov. 27. — Cape j May County may be accepted as the ( home of the descendants of the little • band at pilgrims which arrived three'] centuries ago at Plymouth Sock. In < all the country there is not another section where so many persons reside t who can trace their ancestry back to < the fotmders of New England ae live t within the confines at this county. \ This will be news to hundreds of stu- \ dents of American history, who natur- j ally look for such a condition in the j vicinity of Plymouth, Mass. c Months ago Rev. Paul Sturtevant < Howe, LL. B., Ph. D„ a member of the < Pennsylvania Historical Society and of the Pennsylvania Society of Mayflow- j er Descendants, began the work of f tracing out the families of the country iy who could claim descent from the Pil- \ grims. Weeks and months were de- i voted by him to the examination of t such records as have been kept in the < oourrty having any bearing on its early f settlers. Old family documents were « examined by the hundreds, visits made \ to hundreds of localities where it was y suggested that information bearing on J the subject might bo found, and the , result of the investigation has been to c establish the rather startling and in- <j tere sting fact that Cape May county f can claim to be a little closer in its'r connections with the founders of the a country than any other section of the seaboard. ( As a preparatory step to the local i investigations, Dr. Howe spent several r years in preliminary research. The (j net result of the efforts has been to c establish among the residents of the a county some twelve hundred Individ- r ual Mayflower descendants. The ddta v comes down to include the children a born in the present year whose an- 1; cestry traces back to the Pilgrims. a The total result of his research is that the information accumulated comprises t nothing less than complete genealogi- a cal history of the Mayflower descend- t ants, covering the whole of the past v : three hundred years. « In tracing out the connection be- p i tween Cape May county and Plymouth a it has been found that it was formed v I through the early whalemen who dur- B 5 ing the first settling period of the 0 country were frequently here. r One of the interesting facts devel- e oped by the investigation into the Pil- s grim ancestry of Cape May county families has been the establishing of ' u

SI Cold Spring Cemetery as the burial * place of many descendants of the Pilgrims in the early generations. J Of course, the presence in the coun-1 1 ty 6f approximately 1200 descendants ■ i of the Pilgrims make it the center of ' L the largest settlement of Mayflower 1 descendants in the world. Here after i this fact will be made to play an im- ' i portant part in the fortunes of the ] i county, for it is believed that it will attract thousands of student visitors ' who otherwise would never visit this section. A complete roster of the Mayflower descendants has been prepared and preparations are being made to get out in suitable form the results of Dr. j Howe's researches. It is conceded by all students ot American history that the investigations nave added one of the most interesting chapters connecting up the earliest and the latest per- j iodp in the Nation's existence which has so far been prepared. More Than in Any Locality Residents of Cape May have long known that it had an early history closely connecting it with the very earliest period of the New England settle- , ment But even to residents of the ■ county the information came as a great . surprise that within the district so in- , dicaled resided more persons who • could claim the distinction of being the , descendants of the historic little band ■ that is generally accepted as the , founders of the country than could be ] claimed by any other locality. For scone reason there has always ■ existed the behef that between the 1 Virginias and the New England settle- , ments lay the earlier connections be- , tween the north-east and the central j Atlantic section. It is true that httle j study had been given the subject ] none by local residents , seeking to connect up Cape May coun- . in any such interesting way. It is also true that while no such efforts had , been made before that produced any , such startling results, rinrtkBim, 4 there has always prevails d the «pte-

that some day it would devsispfl tint Cape May county hed a jjhlh^S and that it would prove jurt ! m antic and piatuneque sa that district on the coast. This was insisted upon tar one rmP- .g in particular. Cape May Will early days was an important the coast. In fact, at one tinte.lt visited by a steady stream of tzafrnteB^ who rarely sailed into the DefawaatiMM route to PfaQadelphia without mdlan|H landing. In this way it had beoanl^fl one of the best known points on the coast during the very «o!Bji£8afiHfl of American history. i ™ Qute naturally it was assumed tha* the going and the coming St the 3 navigators some would be fodni l who would eventually settle at p point ' 2 which they had learned wan pnpalji j with the sea ravers "and where geear^^'H ally speaking, everything quired could be had in abundance at a price or lessor cost than in aMr h other districts. Among these man would be those who belonged to (he whaling outfits, far in thoee days tite sea-game was sometimee' and captured even as far- down MV>j| coast as this point Then l»1H con- a ditions were desirable. Qape' May* became known. Ite Kttie fartaa / praised the finest of vegetables giowA^ any where along the coast Its poultry was well flavored end in the woodland could be shot a greet variety of game, in fact everything from rabbits to bear and deer. It would be - with its water advantages fa J connection with those to ,*j a locality more likely to appeal to the retiring whaler or the seafaring « 'J who had spent a lifetime off the ooeet and wnose ancestors were among Ae a little band of (pilgrims that slipped -a ashore at Plymouth. One thing which would influence them in selecting such a locality Cape May County for a far home was that the severe ' . winters of the New states unknowi^ while far aU practical purposes it was so close to of the localities in which they '> interested as the New England^? sections. This was particularly true of its proximity to New York. To reach that port was as simple as tr*r- . eling down a garden path. It was a ' straight sail up the coast. With their I light draft schooners and sloops they little inconvenienced by the shal- i • "ere uuue jnconvemencea oy uie snai- .1

1 lows along the route. Then anotiier -«j ■ factor endorsed Cape May and the surJ rounding country.. In heavy, stormy ■ j weather it was fairly well protected. i Gales might sweep the coast to the i ^ north. The heavy surfs could batter r its head and to pieces, but far soma r | reason they were always less furious " | off Cape May. s I It is quite true that many craft have . .j ' come to grief in its vicinity, but as , ' compared with similar records north '.and south it establishes it as one of | the safest sections of the coast. Naturally this appealed to the skippers a ' of three hundred years ago as much as u : to those of today. ■ J Other reasons might be given far -a the settling here of descendants of the ; Pilgrims in the first generations. Ia fact there seems to have been so many of them that to undertake to enumerate them w*ould mean listing almost every conceivable consideration which j governs in making choices of that I kind. There was probably a strong j reason found in the character of the i earliest settlers. They appear to have been of a substantial class, industrious, sober, hard workers, who rtf took life seriously and did everyti&g as well as they knew how. It was a I steady, conservative community that was built up in this way, the kind that appears to men with broad experiences when the time comes to make a final decision on a location far the future of the family. But whatever the causes were, the fact has been historically estabUrtwd that in Cape May county today tMere living nearly 1200 men and kuumb whose ancestry traces bade, in asm on both sides, to the Pilgrim , whose landing at Plymuotk i three centuries ago ia being con- ' memoratod all over the country tide Hence it asay be expected that hereafter Cape May couaty will acoamc A torn* ***** IC ■ I l«p»> .