Bob, I have to ask, do you have BENNETT family from Monmouth Co also? Yvonne Bennett Robert Bennett wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Anita Clayton <rclaytonsr@juno.com> > To: NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com <NJMONMOU-L@rootsweb.com> > Date: Sunday, June 04, 2000 12:53 AM > Subject: Re: [NJMONMOU] ROBBINS families of Upper Freehold > > >Donna wrote: > >>.... I am not certain, but the IGI, usually a bit more reliable than > >the Ancestral File.... > > > >Donna, > >Whether the IGI is more reliable depends on how the info was put into the > >index. There are two main ways, either by extraction, where volunteers > >extract all info from an original source, such as a film of birth > >records in NJ Vital Statistics, or a person compiles information from > >many sources, and then sends in the information. So it can be very > >reliable or subject to the skill of the submitter depending on which way > >it was sumbitted.. The Ancestral File is of course all compiled and > >about as reliable/unreliable as other compiled pedigrees on the internet. > > > >Anita > > > > Anita, > > My grandmother was Blanche Clayton, b. 29MAY1878, d. 02MAY1930, m. Joseph > Whitman Chadwick, b. 11JUN1872, d. 04FEB1911. Joseph was the son of Elijah > Robbins Chadwick, b. 18DEC1837, d. 21NOV1911. All were from Bay Head, NJ > area. Blanche's father was John Henry Clayton, b. 1844, d. 1924, m. > 01JAN1866 to Susan Ann Hankins b. 1848, d. 1920, also of Point Pleasant /Bay > Head area and are all buried at White Lawn in Point Pleasant. John was > apparently the son of John Henry Clayton b, 18JAN1811, d. 06DEC1899. Elijah > Robbins Chadwick was the son of John P. Chadwick and Anna Longstreet. John > P. Chadwick may have been a "junior", and his grandfather was William > Chadwick of Shrewsbury/Dover twp., and Peaceable Tabor (Chadwick). William > Chadwick's father, John Chadwick, Jr., was a "privateer", and a "private" in > the Patriot militia during the Revolution; and was allegedly killed at age > 70 in a firefight with Hessians and refugees at Black Point on the Navesink > River, seven days after the War officially ended. This is the stuff of > historical fiction, but it is apparently true. > > I'm interested in developing my understanding of John Clayton's family ties. > Also, the connection between the well-known Elijah Robbins of Toms River, > and the Chadwick family of now-Ocean County, NJ. > > Bob Bennett in SC