Anyone working with the WADE line in Essex County? After James White died, Elizabeth Tompkins married John Wade, a shoemaker. This was probably about 1857. He was a widower with two children. Together they had a daughter Sarah. I am particularly interested in Elizabeth Tompkins White Wade, because I believe she helped raise her brother my great grandfather, Isaac Hubert Tompkins, whose mother, Nancy Condit Tompkins, died in childbirth. Thanks. Beverly Fearn Porter, Columbia, MD

The Wade family is an old Essex family. They had land in the South Orange area in the 1690s. Are you any connection to Frank Porter who married Mabel Ashby in Livingston? Wilson Brown