-----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