I'm a new sign-up, so don't know what sources have been discussed in the past, but where families were early Woodbridge Quakers, a lot of information may be available in Rahway and Plainfield, Union Co. The Plainfield Friends Meeting has a nice web site which has a lot of historical information on the development of the Quaker Meetings at Woodbridge, Rahway and Plainfield. Genealogical information on some early families is included. They are at: http://members.tripod.com/PlainfieldFriends/ My principal Middlesex/Union Co focus is the HARNED/HARNETT family at Woodbridge ca. 1700, and the families with which they intermarried, including DEAN, FITZ RANDOLPH, BLOODGOOD, ALLWARD (ALWOOD), LAING, VAIL, POTTER, BISHOP, WINANCE, VAN COURT, BROWN, POTTER, CROW, TOWNSEND, JOHNSON, ACRES, DRAKE, GILES, DALLEY, and DALLY. Our Harned web site, which has data on 24,000 descendants of Edward Harnett (at Salem 1637), is at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~harned/ Many spouses of Harneds in Middlesex/Union/Somerset Co's remain unidentified, so if any of you stumble across Harned connections to your lines, I would appreciate you passing them along... John Harned Tucson, AZ harneds@compuserve.com

Surnames I am researching are: TUNISON, McMICKEN, TERHUNE, VAN DUYNE, HOAGLAND, McDOWELL, WALKER, PALMER, SOFIELD, SLATER, & HEATH. Would very much like to find the ancestors of William Tunison, born 1771, married Elizabeth McMicken, in 1794. Don Tunison dtunison@worldnet.att.net

Any of these people show up in your data? rlh Robert L. Harris rlhjr@bellsouth.net NAME BORN DIED ------------------------------ ------------- ------------- ALLEN, Sadie E __ Mar 1863 a __ ___ 1901 CASTNER, Annie E 18 Dec 1865 a __ ___ 1905 CASTNER, Annie Royer 03 Dec 1885 a __ ___ 1901 CASTNER, Cornelius Wyckoff 28 Apr 1832 12 Dec 1904 CASTNER, Georgianna 03 May 1863 19 Jan 1925 CASTNER, James Isaac 08 Jan 1828 01 Nov 1887 CASTNER, James W 28 Sep 1883 a __ ___ 1901 CASTNER, John I 30 Aug 1855 a __ ___ 1901 CASTNER, Joseph 19 Apr 1802 11 May 1874 CASTNER, Joseph Compton 18 Nov 1869 08 Jul 1946 CASTNER, Joseph W 05 Sep 1857 a __ ___ 1901 CASTNER, Mary J. 22 Oct 1863 a __ ___ 1905 CASTNER, Sadie E __ Jun 1887 a __ ___ 1901 COSGROVE, Catherine C c __ ___ 1832 23 Nov 1869 DONNELLY, Margaret c __ ___ 1835 b __ ___ 1897 FRENCH, Zadock May 1769 30 Dec 1830 GENSLER, Charles E. 18 Oct 1878 05 Jun 1955 HALE, Sarah Humphrey 18 Apr 1827 07 Dec 1905 HAMPTON, Elizabeth 01 Jul 1743 28 Jul 1779 LEONARD, Ann 06 Mar 1860 20 Dec 1909 LEONARD, Elmer E 10 May 1896 __ Sep 1979 LEONARD, Elmer Ellsworth 16 Mar 1863 21 Jun 1917 LEONARD, Julia Stout 09 Sep 1886 LEONARD, Walter 14 May 1855 __ ___ 1926 LOTT, Sarah 22 Nov 1746 03 Apr 1804 NATCHER, Margaret Brough 06 Jul 1847 19 Sep 1909 STEWART, Edwin __ ___ 1827 STEWART, Otis __ Oct 1859 STOUT, John (sr) b __ ___ 1780 c __ Jul 1833 STOUT, Mary Jane 29 Sep 1834 b __ ___ 1899 VREELAND, Edith May 11 Mar 1886 a __ ___ 1900 VREELAND, Elmer Leonard 09 Sep 1883 __ Dec 1970 WARREN, Edward E. 13 Nov 1855 WYCKOFF, Jane 30 Mar 1802 10 Jul 1861 WYCKOFF, Peter 21 Mar 1741 13 Apr 1803

Hi Everyone, Here are the names that I am researching and seem to have it a very very thick brick wall with each of these names. Nicholas Suydam/Sedam b. 27 April 1782 in NJ d. 28 July 1871 in Rock Island Co IL He married 25 Sept 1807 in Bernards, Somerset, NJto: Rachel Ann Runion/Runyon b. 26 June 1789 in NJ d. 19 Dec 1863 Rock Island Co IL On their marriage record their names are as follows: Nicholas Suydam and Rachel Runion. As Nicholas left NJ he was spelling his name Sedam. Nicholas and Rachel were married at the Presbyterian Church in Basking Ridge. I wrote this church and they said they have no other information about this family. I do know that the church did not start keeping records until about 2 or 3 years before they were married there. The Suydams were a religious family so I would think that Nicholas would have been baptised somewhere. Plus if they were so religious where is the baptismal records for his children that are being born in NJ? The children that were born in NJ are: 1. William Suydam/Sedam b. 13 Sept 1808 2. Maria ann Suydam/Sedam b. 30 april 1809 3. Henry H. Suydam/Sedam b. 13 June 1811 4. Elizabeth A. Suydam/Sedam b. 13 June 1813 5. Corneluis Suydam/Sedam b. 7 June 1816 6. Catherine Suydam/Sedam b. 14 June 1818 Any and all help would be appreciated with finding the parents of both Nicholas and Rachel Ann. Mary

Following is the family I an trying to find parents for. (Not just parents, but anything will be helpful.) Cornelius DRAKE (parents unknown) was born on 15 Mar 1781 in Piscataway Twp, Middlesex Co., NJ. He died on 14 Jun 1833 Brown Co., OH. He was buried in Drake-Lyon Family Cemetery, Pleasant Twp, Brown Co., OH. Records from Cornelius Drake's bible. This bible is in the hands of Gazella Naylor Drake, daughter-in-law of Levi Drake, the son of Henry Drake, 12th child of Cornelius Drake. He was married to Frances (Fanny) WITHERSPOON on 19 Oct 1803 in Mason Co., KY. Frances (Fanny) WITHERSPOON was born on 30 Sep 1785 in Culpeper, Culpeper Co, VA. She died on 28 Aug 1870 in Brown Co., OH. She was buried in Drake Cemetery, Russellville, Brown Co., OH. Cornelius DRAKE and Frances (Fanny) WITHERSPOON had the following children: i. Levina DRAKE. ii. James DRAKE. iii. Nancy DRAKE. iv. Mary DRAKE. v. Josiah DRAKE. vi. John DRAKE. vii. Cornelius DRAKE Jr.. viii. William W. DRAKE. ix. Robert DRAKE. x. Rachel Leforgee DRAKE.(My descendant married Nathan Glaze KINNETT) xi. Frances (Fannie) DRAKE. xii. Henry DRAKE. xiii. George Washington DRAKE. xiv. Joseph Morris DRAKE. xv. Perry DRAKE. Mark Cox <mkcox@bright.net)> Manchester, Adams, OH

to whom it may concern my middlesex co. names are Bebout, Molleson, Howell, Sutton, Conger, Trembly, Noe, EDDY and edwards. Any info on the EDDY family would be VERY greatly appriecated!! Sincerely RAY _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi Mark, Sorry to send this to the list but have tried several times to send it to just your address and it keeps getting sent back as undeliverable. Below is the copy I sent last week of info I had in my files on DRAKES in MIDDELSEX Midge Jasspro@aol.com ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 451 mkcox@brightnet.com... brightnet.com: Name server timeout Message could not be delivered for 3 days Message will be deleted from queue ----- Original message follows ----- Received: from Jasspro@aol.com by imo25.mx.aol.com (IMOv14_b1.1) id 6AZa003745 for <mkcox@brightnet.com>; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:45:41 -0400 (EDT) From: <Jasspro@aol.com> Return-path: <Jasspro@aol.com> Message-ID: <1c7a76d5.35ce34a6@aol.com> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 19:45:41 EDT To: mkcox@brightnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: DRAKES NJ 1700's Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 170 Hi Mark I Missed these DRAKES last week. >From NJ ARCHIVES 1st Ser. Vol XXX Abstract of Wills Vol 2, and page 234--- The will of Benjamin Huff, Esq. Mar 9, 1744-45 mentions the plantation joins land which DANIEL DRAKE and SAMUEL MACKFERSON bought of Thomas Brown. >From the book "Marriage Records of Hunterdon Co. 1795-1875" by Hiram DeatsFrom other counties: page 119 Drake, Catherine and Henry Molleson, Middlesex Co. 1749 Mar 2 page 281 Molleson, Ruth and Ephraim Runyon, Piscataway, 1757 Oct 12 Molleson, Sarah and John Juley, Middlesex 1780 Dec 30. >From the book "FIRST SETTLERS OF PISCATAWAY AND WOODBRIDGE-GENEALOGICAL AUTHORITIES" on Page 76-77, Piscataway Names Originating In Piscataqua, New Hampshire--the following Drakes included-- Captain Francis Drake, Robert Drake, Nathanial Drake, George Drake, John Drake, Mary Drake. On Page 78--The orginal pioneers to take up land in Piscataway, under the generous terms of "The Consessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of the Province of New Jersey" came in 1666 from the most northeasternly settlements in New England on a borderline between what is now the States of Maine and New Hampsire. Woodbridge NJ friends from Mass., bought a large tract of land lying between the Rahway and Raritan Rivers. These few were soon followed by other friends from New England--inclucing Francis Drake, John Drake and George Drake. Page 79---Prominent among the other citizens and freeholders of Piscataway at a date just previous to the close of the Proprietary period (1702) were the folowing property owners and residents, many who were sons of pioneer planters include Samuel Drake, Francis Drake, Jr., Joseph Drake, John Drake........ On Page 80--Earliest settlers who had died before the beginning of the Colonial Epoch, 1702, among those who originally settled the wilderness include Francis Drake, Sr. died 1687. Page 844----Under Children of JOHN MOLLESON and SARAH HOWELL CHRISTIAN (female) b. Dec 15, 1689 married ca. 1709 JACOB DRAKE b. May 10, 1710 a son of REV JOHN DRAKE and wife REBECCA TROTTER. They had 7 children. A second son named GILBERT b. March 21, 1706 (a first son name GILBERT b. Sept 10, 1697 d. before second was born). GILBERT-2 married SARAH DRAKE daughter of ANDREW DRAKE and wife HANNAH FitzRANDOLPH. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- There is more --if you do not have any of this let me know. I will get what I can find . Seems as though DRAKES were from the New England. I have more information to digest in a big packet from Walt Ayars whose family are also Pioneers and he is deeply into tracing all of this stuff. You may have already run across him or his family as they were also neighbors of the McPHERSONS in some places. Midge Haines Jasspro@aol.com

Hi Don, What do you know about Cornelius & Mary Tunison who had a daughter, Aletta who married Johannes Van Nest Sr.? All I have about this family is the name. Also I have a Richard Heath & Sarah Wilson in my family. Their daughter Esther married Abraham Coryell/Coriell. I don't know to much about Richard just have a few of his children listed. Am willing to share what little I have. Thank you, Roberta Summers.

To ALarue3325@aol.com Hi Alice, I know next to nothing about my Giddes family since I have done very little research on them. Sarah Giddes married Isaac Coddington and I think she might have been the daughter of John Giddes & Prudence Marshall but as yet I have no proof of that. Sorry I can't help. Roberta Summers.

To KSum555@aol.com <<<My surnames for Middlesex county are: Coddington, Coon, Gardner, Giddes, Spencer, Coriell/Coryell, Runyon, Slecht, Van Court, Blackford.>> Do you have any information on a Mary Giddes who married William Bilyeu? Their daughter Sarah Giddes b. Jan 27, 1807 Mt. Horeb, N.J, d. August 23, 1887 Plainfield, NJ, married John Lewis Winans. Thank you,Alice Martin LaRue ALarue3325@aol.com

Thanks for this opportunity! I am new to Middlesex County research, have been chasing my elusive COOMBS ancestors through Mercer, Burlington, and Monmouth Counties. I have Harrison COOMBS born in 1816 in NJ, I am researching a family I believe to be his--Abner COMBS and wife Matilda HULIT(still working on proof of her name). Abner was born in Monmouth in 1780, but was in tax lists and selling off land in East Windsor in 1819 and 1821 at the time this was Middlesex Co. His father was listed as James COMBS. Matilda was born about 1795, her father was George HULIT of East Windsor. He died in 1815. One son(of Abner/Matilda) James COMBS was born in Hightstown in 1821-23. Any one familiar with these families? I would also welcome ANY advice on researching records in Middlesex. I live in Burlington County and there are very, very few resources for Middlesex in our libraries, the other counties are fairly well represented. Thank you for your suggestions! Kathy

I am researching the Dean family from Middlesex County, Deans NJ. Aaron, Jonathan, John, and the Selover family. I have a John Dean md to Lovina (Winet) Selover at the Cranbury Presbyterian Church. I live in Florida, and I have found all of the libaries and genealogical societys very helpful in checking and sending me information. If anyone has any information on these families I would appreicate hearing from them. Please contact me at bows@bellsouth.net Thanks, Sharon

I'm researching the surnames STORY and KERR/KARR/CARR in connection with Covenhoven of Middlesex Co. Thanks, Judy Tooman

Alexander WEISS, b. ~1872 in Hungary d. ~1915? m. Rose BROWN, b. ~1876 in America d. ~1902 in childbirth? * daughter, name N/A, institutionalized on LI at age 12-13, epilepsy (died in institution in her 30s?) * (Sarena) Sadie WEISS, b. June 29, 1902 in 1902 (my gm) m. Sidonia WEISS (they were cousins) (when Alexander died, Sidonia married Julius BOEHM) According to family legend, Alexander WEISS was the proprietor of a general store in Fords sometime between 1902-1915 or so. He was also (I am told) a beer salesman and a shirtwaistmaker at various times previously, and he traveled on business and played around quite a bit. His family was not enamoured of him. [How would I track down business licenses or other records? Is there somewhere in the area to write to?] Sarena Sadie WEISS attended school in the area. [Are there any school records available from pre-1915?] The WEISS family was Jewish; I don't know about the BROWN family. [Is there a Jewish cemetery in the area, esp one that was likely to be used by the Hungarian community?] My helpful hints haven't actually panned out for me yet, but they are interesting resources. Through InterLibrary Loan (at no charge) I obtained the following books: -- "Vital Records of Woodbridge New Jersey" by Joseph W Dally lists vital stats for (mostly) 1700s in Woodbridge -- Fords, Yesterday & Today 1664-1964 by Dorothy F. D. Ludewig collection of anecdotes and brief histories of aspects of Fords, with photos -- Timely Told Tales of Woodbridge Township by Dorothy F. D. Ludewig (1970) Woodbridge Board of Education Press Woodbridge, New Jersey 07095 collection of anecdotes and brief histories of aspects of Woodbridge, with photos //Corin Barsily Goodwin Cupertino, CA USA

Hi Bill -- In separate message I will send you an attached file with some data on Daniel Robbins. [Can't send attached files to message list]. I don't have anything on Daniel's ancestry. I assume you have the rather notorious ancestry of his wife, Hope Potter. I am descended from this couple as well. Harman Clark hclark@plainfield.bypass.com -----Original Message----- From: William A. Collins <WilliamCollins@unforgettable.com> To: NJMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com <NJMIDDLE-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 1:49 AM Subject: ROBBINS - ROBINS >Researching the ancestry & descendency of Daniel ROBINS (aka ROBINSON) and >his wife Hope POTTER, who came from New Haven Colony, CT, settling in >Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., NJ in 1669. Connecting families in 1st generation >are: PACK, MOORE, HOLMES, COX, SICKLES, SIDDEL/SIBBEL ?, plus more that are >still missing.. Later generations used ROBBINS or ROBINS. > >Bill > >WilliamCollins@unforgettable.com >

These are the surnames I am searching. I have yet to find anything on any of these people. The baptism of my mother, Mildren May Lott, was held at the Church of Christ in Old Bridge, Middlesex Co., NJ in 1928, the sponsor was Charles Latham and the the minister was Herbert Parrish. Her parents were Laura Giles and John Henry Lott. Sound familiar? Let me know. Cheryl ccline@erols.com

My surnames for Middlesex county are: Coddington, Coon, Gardner, Giddes, Spencer, Coriell/Coryell, Runyon, Slecht, Van Court, Blackford. My best luck for researching has been the Genealogical Society of The West Fields and Somerset County Genealogical Society. They have a large assortment of material. Thanks, Roberta.

Researching the ancestry & descendency of Daniel ROBINS (aka ROBINSON) and his wife Hope POTTER, who came from New Haven Colony, CT, settling in Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., NJ in 1669. Connecting families in 1st generation are: PACK, MOORE, HOLMES, COX, SICKLES, SIDDEL/SIBBEL ?, plus more that are still missing.. Later generations used ROBBINS or ROBINS. Bill WilliamCollins@unforgettable.com

Hello Middlesex County Researches, Since the mailing list has now hit 110 subscribers I would like to ask everyone to send to the list their Middlesex County Surnames (as well as post them on the Middlesex County Query Board). Also I would like everyone to send to the list a helpful hint about research in Middlesex County, such as who to contact at a specific church, municipality or what town history books are available at a library. This information could save a researcher much precious time. Please do this over the course of the next few days. In addition, I have posted a few Funeral Director on line directories on the Middlesex County Genealogy web site. I have also taken a few more photos of the cemetery at the First Presbyterian Church of Woodbridge. Hopefully, they will come out (I tried something different). Thank You & Good Luck Glenn G. Geisheimer: glenng@castle.net Owner: NJMiddle,NJEssex & Co-Sysop: Baden-Wuerttemberg Mailing Lists Essex County, NJ Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njessex/ Middlesex County, NJ Genealogy: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/ Personal Web Site: http://www.castle.net/~glenng/index.html Virtual Newark, NJ: http://www.castle.net/~glenng/newark/newark.htm

I have Samuel Perrine Griggs b 1839 probably Middlesex Co.(His sister Lucinda was born in Dayton 1852) Their parents were John W.Griggs b NJ and Harriet Bayles b.NJ. Family later found in Shrewsbury area. OTEE