Listers I have accumulated some GROVER History and information which I would like to post that might help others researching the Grover line. From Teunis G. Bergen: In 1654, the folks at Gravesend had some kind of disagreement with the Dutch. As result, the British Flag was raised over the community for a short time, until Peter Stuyvesant sent his troops to put down the rebellion. James Grover escaped to Boston where he set sail for Britain. He gained access to Cromwell, and asked that the British provide boats to take the settlers of Gravesend to Jamaica. Cromwell and his cabinet decided not to pursue this course, but "the right honorable John Thurlow, Esq., his highnesses principal Secretary of State," located James Grover fifty pounds to pay the expenses incurred in Britain and for his passage home. James signed an IOU to that effect which is on file in the PRO at Chew. By an agreement entered into at "Amersfoort" while Lady Moody and her associates were located there during the Indian War, as per Lib. 2 of Gd. rec., it was concluded that in the settlement of Gowanus each associate should be accommodated with a certain quantity of land within a certain fence to be erected, which said land should be divided into 28 shares or parts,, each to receive a part and also a building-plot. Under this 1646 plantation-lots were granted to: several names; Of the "certain fence" referred to, each to the above-named persons was required in Dec. 1646 to keep 20 poles, and in addition the following persons, who had plantation -lots assigned them, were also required to keep 20 poles of said fence, viz: James Grover, Ralph Cardell, Richard Stout, Thomas Applegate, Rodger Scott, Robert Pennoyer, Janes Ellice, Thomas Greedy, etc. GROVER, JAMES, (English), among the first settlers of Gravesend, per town rec., where he was granted Nov. 12, 1646, a plantation-lot. He with Baxter and Hubbard raised the standard of rebellion in Gravesend in 1655, proclaiming Cromwell as Lord Protector, but failed in their effort. Mar. 21, 1666-7, he sold to Thomas Delavall plantation plantation-lot No. 6 in Gravesend, as per town rec., and finally removed to N.J., where in 1669 he was one of the patentees or purchasers of Middletown, as per p. 73 of Vol. 1 of Raum's N.J. and in 1683 appointed a Justice of Peace for Middletown. Genie Giberson