Hello Connie, You are probably talking about the town of PAPAKATING in WANTAGE TWP. in SUSSEX County. Here is a great link for finding a town in NJ: <http://www.state.nj.us/infobank/locality.htm> This is for the county of Essex: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/towns/sections.htm> The URL for the Sussex County USGenWeb Site is: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~njsussex/> This is the URL that will get you any NJ County: <http://www.cyberenet.net/~gsteiner/njgenweb/> This is the URL for the Sussex County RootsWeb Resources Site: <http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/NJ/Sussex/> And this is for any NJ County RootsWeb Resource Site: <http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/NJ/index.html> Good Luck, >Can someone tell me what Church would have been called the Papakating Church, >was near the Drowned Lands and 20 miles from the NY border? > >I have a letter wrote before 30 Oct 1857 by my GG Grandfather James Harden >telling that his sister -in-law Hannah Rogers (Harden) had died and he had >went back to NJ to see. Hannah had been sick for weeks and had gotten well >and went to her sons place, Matthias Harden, in York state way down by the >drowned lands (Near Ridgeberry, NY, Orange Co) there is where she died. They >brought her up to pepercoton Church 20 miles. I now whars it is that on my >old in my old native place whear I hav ben many a time to church. > >Any help appreciated. > >Connie Soresnes >Csoren@aol.com > > >==== NJESSEX Mailing List ==== >Read the NJESSEX mailing list FAQ: ><http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/faq/mailinglist.htm> > ------------ Glenn G. Geisheimer, Iselin, New Jersey: glenng@castle.net NJESSEX Mailing List Administrator Essex County, NJ Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/ Virtual Newark, NJ: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geishome/ Essex Co Resources: http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/NJ/Essex/