Listers, Please consider helping with the following project. As you may know, the histories of Holland and Alexandria have been difficult due to shifting borders over the early years. Also, many of the early settlers of the area were "tenant farmers" along large tracts of land. Please read on... What was it like here in the early days? Publication of THE EARLY SETTLERS OF HOLLAND TOWNSHIP moves a giant step closer with the receipt of a $1,000 grant from the Hunterdon Cultural and Heritage Commission. Authored by Holland Township Committiee-man, Robert Peabody, the work is based on the writings of JESSE SINCLAIR (1818 - 1896) in the Milford Leader, predecessor of the Del-Val News. Supported by other members of the Holland Historic Preservation Commission, Mr. Peabody has also intensively researched original deeds and land conveyances. If anyone has information about or photographs of the early SINCLAIR family, please contact Mr. Peabody by email at pagprolog@aol.com Early Settlers is expected to be completed and published in 2005. [***Posted to this list with the permission of Mr. Peabody.***] Thanks for any help you can offer to this project! Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough Holland Township