Gene, This is good wisdom. It should be taken to heart by all. Thanks for sharing it! C. -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Hubbard <hubfam@earthlink.net> Date: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 12:49 PM Subject: Must reading >The following link is a SHORT article that is must reading for >all who are looking for their ancestors on the Internet. > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/cook.htm > >Howard Hunt Curran Oviedo, FL >

----- Original Message ----- From: Joann L. Gustke <jgustke@wyoming.com> To: <Genealogy6@aol.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Coddingtons >I am a desc. of WILLIAM CODDINGTON who along with his brothers, > left New Jersey and settled in Maryland after the Rev. War. Apparently > there were three brothers William, Samuel and Benjamin Coddington. I had >believed they were born in Essex, New Jersey, however this recent info is > too close to home not to be connected. Is there anyone out there who is >researching the CODDINGTON family of NEW JERSEY? I have 2 CODDINGTON'S in my tree, although not in my direct line. 1. William CODDINGTON, Esq. of Bound Brook, NJ m. 28 Dec 1849 Sarah Ann STELLE 2. Moses CODDINGTON m. Caroline RUNYON d/o Clarkson RUNYON & Matilda MUNDY Could this be the William? If so, I would love some more information to fill in the blanks. William married my 2C5R. Joann IBSSG

I am looking for help finding a connection and information on Archibald CODDINGTON,who had a daughter Catherine Coddington from Somerset Co. Catherine Coddington married an Edward CAMPBELL.Their son David Campbell married Margaret CAIN in Bridgewater Twp. 1853. I need help in locating my CAIN"s and the Campbell's.Margaret parents were Joseph CAIN,b.1791 and Mary SAYRE CAIN.They had owned property first in Mt.Horeb and in 1852 they puchased the Doty Farm,located in Bridgewater Twp. David and Margaret Campbell also had a farm in Bridgewater Twp. David Campbell,died 1911 and is buried with his wife Margaret in the Compton-Castner Cemetery,Bridgewater Twp. Children of David Campbell were, Augustus Campbell,Chandler Campbell and a son and daughter that died as infants. Thank you for any assistance with these ancestors. Barbara Cain

Hi, I am very grateful to have been forwarded the message about "Villages at the Crossroad". There was much info in it about my CODDINGTONS, BIRDS AND GIDDES of the Mt. Horeb, Warren area. I would love to know where this booklet might be available. I would be grateful to anyone who has the booklet if they could check on a few of my mysteries: 1) parents of Charity Smith Bird (1809-1999) - wife of Isaiah Coddington (1781-1862). Also can't figure out the "Smith" connection. 2) parents of Sarah Frances "Fannie" Smith (18446-c1891) - wife of Manning Force Coddington (1838-1913) son of Isaiah & Charity above. 3) parents of Prudence Marshall (1703- ??) - wife of John Giddes (c1700 - ??) of Woodbridge, NJ I was very interested to see mention of Lora & Lester Codington's farm at Mt. Horeb. I have visited Lora (relative of my wife) and she is doing well at age 90 and a member of the Mt. Horeb Methodist church for 80 years! Thanks for any help or suggestions. Bob Foran - Connecticut

I was so excited when someone forwarded me the info on the CODDINGTON, Birds and Giddes Book. Do you know if their are any copies of it available for purchase? I am a desc. of WILLIAM CODDINGTON who along with his brothers, left New Jersey and settled in Maryland after the Rev. War. Apparently there were three brothers William, Samuel and Benjamin Coddington. I had believed they were born in Essex, New Jersey, however this recent info is too close to home not to be connected. Is there anyone out there who is researching the CODDINGTON family of NEW JERSEY?

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I am researching my ancestor, Samuel Cleavenger who is said to have migrated from New Jersey to Loudoun County, Virginia. Would like to know if anyone has connections to the Clevenger family of New Jersey? Candee Hoff

Hello Somerset Co. Listers, I am forwarding a request from a Michael Wade Martin. If you read the request it is self explanatory. If you have information that can help this young man, please email him privately. I would like to know if anybody could do a look up for me this may sound funny but I am looking for some Somerville High School year books. The person I am looking for is David James Sloben he would have been in Somerville High School during these following years: the ages are from 13 - 17 1973-1974, 1974-1975, 1975-1976,1976-1977, 1977-1978, and My mother and father was married in Dunnellen, New Jersey on July 6, 1979 six days after her 16th birthday. they were married by the mayor of Dunnellen. in the park in Dunnellen on the gazebo. Her name was Margaret Louise Martin she was called Maggie May David and his mom lived at 154 Davenport St. Somerville but I sent a letter there and it came back so I don't know if they moved or what. All I am asking for, is the pictures for these years that he was in the school year books. I am willing to pay you for your information and time please let me know how much this will cost. His mother's name is Marie Smith Sloben Gathy his father's name is William James Sloben Jr. See I am 16 yr. old and I would like to see if I look like him because I have never seen him and there is no way I would be able to come up there for a long time. I thank you for any help that you may have provided to me. Oh they were divorce in Somerville New Jersey in Feb 1983 the same year I was born June 1983. by Judge Leahey don't know the correct spelling. Thank you Michael Wade Martin mmcloy@telepak.net this is my mom's email address my address is Michael Wade Martin P.O.Box 327 Roxie, Mississippi 39661-0327 Voice/Fax 601-322-9949 Fax/Computer line 601-322-7813

To all of you New Jersey Researchers! Did your Ancestors, born in New Jersey, remove to Tazewell County, Illinois? I have the Tazewell County Cemetery Book, Volume 6 and the History of Tazewell County Illinois (1879). I will gladly help my fellow "genies" and do look-ups for you. If you are requesting a look-up, please write "Look-up/your surname request" in the Subject. I am currently researching the following connecting families. If you have any connections or information, I would appreciate hearing from you. Ancestor, Lawler, Michael b: 10 Dec 1761, d: Dec 1829 Somerset, m: (1) Mary Mathney, (2) Jane Stansbury: Lawler/Winans Lawler/Ruckman Lawler/Van Riper Lawler/Moor(Moore) Ancestor, Moor(Moore), Benjamin b:22 Mar 1754 Bernards, d: 04 Feb 1836 buried Mt. Horeb: m: (1) Keziah Frazee, (2) Mary Smalley, (3) Eunice Tingley Ancestor, French, David Jr., b: 30 Jan 1786 Somerset, d: 20 Jul 1879, m: Margaret Noe: Looking for info on the families of their children: Huma N. French and William Drake Phineas Mundy French and (1) Mary Emeline Oswald and (2) Sarah Lees Phebe French and David Coulter Harriet French and Benjamin Moore Lawler Margaret French and Frederick H. Bryan/Bryant Maria French and David D. Smalley Sarah Anne French Hetty Jane French and Ira R. Lawler Wishing all of you luck in you researching as we begin to make our own history in this new millenium! Lee Anne Lawler rclaw@mc.net

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I am researching the following named families of Passaic County, Essex County, Bergen County, Somerset County, Monmouth County, Union County. If anyone researching these same names would care to share information, I have much of it. Please respond. The following are my families: BROWER - GAUGHAN - HUBER - HULBERT - LALLY - REYNOLDS - ROBINSON - GEIER - ROSE MILLER/MULLER of Paterson/Littlel Falls, NJ (wife of CHARLES HUBER m: c 1885) - HASKELL - LITTELL - BEDELL - SMALLEY - RUTH MOORE of Somerset County (wife of WILLIAM or GARY BROWER of Little Falls/Acquackanock or New Providence/Bernard Township area - M: c 1900) Also searching BILLIAN, WASHINGTON and SANDFORD (of Plainfield), ST.GEORGE, GILMORE, SEIBERLIN, BRANIN, JESS/GIESE/GEISE? - CLARKSON. Quite a list, I know. However, there may be some small piece of information that could prove valuable to you and me. Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response (responses). If you don't have anything to offer at this time, please feel free to send a note with a bonafide family name you might be interested in and I can forward you what I have. Thanks again . . . .Best of luck in your research. RUTH JOAN GILMORE ARC@webspan.net -----Original Message----- From: NJSOMERS-D-request@rootsweb.com <NJSOMERS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: NJSOMERS-D@rootsweb.com <NJSOMERS-D@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 5:01 PM Subject: NJSOMERS-D Digest V00 #10

In a message dated 01/28/2000 2:50:23 AM Pacific Standard Time, NJSOMERS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << 'm looking for info on the family of Isaac BIRD of Warren Twp, Somerset Co. He was born abt 1780 and died in 1832; he married ELizabeth ? and had children Elias, m. Mary Trimmer; Phoebe, m Jacob Trimmer; Jane, m John Giddis; Fanny, m John Smith; Simeon, who died before 1832 but left children; and Clarkson, m Mary Coddington. These families all lived in Warren Twp for generations. Would really like to know Elizabeth's maiden name and Isaac's parents. >> Hi--I have the booklet "Villages at the Crossroads" which is a history of Warren Twp 1806-1976. There is a good deal of information on the Bird Family, the Giddes and Coddington families too. Here's what is in my booklet. I do not know if it is possible to obtain copies of this booklet anymore. I got mine in 1989 when they were still selling them. I lived in Warren at the time. There is quite a bit more on the Coddington's but I was not sure if you would be interested in that and my typing isn't so great! While I didn't have anything specifically on Isaac and Elizabeth, I think the ones I have here are likely to be their children. Hope you find this helpful! Debbie in California Pg.15 "Mt. Bethel Baptist Church's largest revival took place in the mid-nineteenth century under Rev. Edward C. Ambler. One of the 107 converts was David Bird, owner of the hotel across the road. It is said he and a number of others rolled barrels of whiskey out of the hotel, broke them open, and let the contents run down the street." Pg. 16 They were duly baptised in Elias Bird's sawmill pond that winter after the ice was broken. (referring to the King George Inn--oldest inn standing in Warren) Mrs. Mary Ralph recalled that during the 1850's David Bird owned the inn and built a house on the hill later owned by a Mr. Barnhart. Bird died in 1884 having sold the inn some ten years previously. Page 14 Thomas(Coddington) married Julia Mundy. He was known as Sheriff Coddington having been elected Somereset County sheriff in 1863. The Coddington's daughter married Thomas Bird and when he died in 1903 Marietta and her brother Lewis ran the dairy farm. Giddes Pg 24 "North of Perley's on the other side of the road is the home of Doris Penek which was once owned by Jacob Giddes, grandson of John Giddes the first of that name in Warren. Jacob died in 1863 and left his extensive landholdings to his sons Amos and Samuel and the ridge farm of his father Jeremiah, to his daughter Caroline Spencer. Amos Giddes lived in a house now owned by the Hurds on Partridge Run Rd. and ran a store at 36 Mt. Horeb Rd. where the Frank Salvatos live now. Frank Sr. bought the 51 acres in 1908 and added an upstairs to the house which is built with old barn beams. The Coddington family in Warren was descended from Isaac who was born about 1720 in Woodbridge. He married Sarah Giddes and they had John, Benjamin, Archibald, and Abby. John settled on a 122 acre farm on the corner of Liberty Corner and Mt. Horeb Roads and left the property to his sons George W. , Reuben, John, and Bartholemew when he died in 1844. Reuben it is said built the present house in 1873 which is now owned by the Egans. Next door to the farm owned by Lester and Lora Coddingtron lived Archibald "Corrington" or Coddington, son of Isaac, who was born in 1756 and served as a priivate in the militia. When he died his sons Ben and William stayed on to farm the 100 acre property. The plce came to Lester and Lora from their fathere John Wesley Coddington who bought it from his Uncle William A. John Wesley's father was Isaiah Coddington (a son of Archibald) who acquired patches of peoperty on both sides of Mt. Horeb Rd. and built the house recently owned by John and Barbara Evans. The house is one room deep and two rooms wide and some of the beams appear to be from another structure: one is even charred. Isaiah was a blacksmith and his brother Archibald, Jr. learned this trade from him before buyying the Green Valley Mill in 1861 in Watchung. Their brother David, born Nov 30, 1797at Mt. Horeb, was "converted while praying alone in a barn" at age twenty and became an enthusiastic Methodist and a licensed exhorter. The Methodists were an active group in the Mt. Horeb area and it is said the first class met in a house a mile southeast of Martinsville as early as 1770. By 1820 services were being held in the homes of John Smith, David Ruckman, Rachel Adams, and Benjamin Coddington. That same year Rev. Bartholomew Weed organized a a class of eight persons who met in Ben Coddington's home 1 1/2 miles east of the present church. Pg 29 Many of the houses in Dead River are still standing. ONe at 5 Mountainview Lane, now owned by G.F. Kennedy, was owned in 1850 by John Moore who bought his 56 acres from the estate of Ben Moore in 1843. Jacob Giddes bought the farm in 1875 and more recently John Betzhold owned it. (Ben Moore)....His 131 acre farm was sold in 1839 to William A. Coddington for $2484, a handsome sum in those days. To his wife he willed "two cows of her choice, all the furniture she brought to me when we married and the use of two east rooms of the house." The house is quite possibly the same one today owned by the Langmacks. His farm was bought from Archibald Coddington 1862 by John Zeglio, later Zergabiles, and is today known as Hillcrest Horse Farm. Page 35 Another old school house is on Mountainview Road and is now the home of Miss Eleanor Nissley. It was built on land acquired in 1874 from Jacob J Gides and Jonathan Moore. The school was built near the site of an old stone schoolhouse called the Back Road School which was built on ta small tract of land given by Isaac B. Moore in 1840. Around 1910 the pupils oaf Dead River School decided to call it by a more chreerful name and chose the name Mountainview School. About this time the teacher was Miss Imogene Coddington who lived with her two sisters in a house on the corner of Roundtop and Mountainview Roads, now owned by the Wallaces. Students at the school used to walk down to the Coddington's well to fetch their water.

I'm looking for info on the family of Isaac BIRD of Warren Twp, Somerset Co. He was born abt 1780 and died in 1832; he married ELizabeth ? and had children Elias, m. Mary Trimmer; Phoebe, m Jacob Trimmer; Jane, m John Giddis; Fanny, m John Smith; Simeon, who died before 1832 but left children; and Clarkson, m Mary Coddington. These families all lived in Warren Twp for generations. Would really like to know Elizabeth's maiden name and Isaac's parents. Judy

There are now photographes of the following churches available for viewing: Harlingen Dutch Reformed Church, Route 206, Belle Mead Griggstown Dutch Reformed Church, Canal Rd., Griggstown Millstone Dutch Reformed Church, River Rd., Hillsborough Twp Six Mile Run Dutch Reformed Church, Route 27, Franklin Park Rocky Hill Dutch Reformed Church, Main Street, Rocky Hill You can find the photos at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hscc/ Thanks. Sharon Moore Colquhoun Belle Mead

From: The Genealogy Pages <GenPages-owner@listbot.com> The Genealogy Pages - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneal/geneal.html#top Use the Surname Index to look at all the surnames in the files... too many to post!!! I have found a better way to handle the database, and hope the results are far more effective. After uploading nearly 6000 files that make up the Surname Index portion of the site, each individual now has their own page with links to all children, parents, and grandparents. There is a 4 generation display on each page, and several with pictures. I will be adding to this. Also, the Images index has had a facelift. I am adding a thumbnails page, but that is under construction still. The Medieval Page is up, under links when you scroll down the main page, or directly here:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneal/medieval_links.html#top Still looking for more links... so please let me know if you come accross something interesting. We've had a "boom" in Tannehill researchers of late, so there are sevear additional researchers listed on the Tannehill SRC page... anyone looking for connections should stop by to see the new researchers. Please feel free to let me know what you think of the site... I have a form for comments, or email me directly. I appreciate all of the input that allows me to create better site features. The search engine is being updated as well, so in a day or so, when the crawl is finished, we will be up to speed. Warm regards... Christine ______________________________________________________________________ Christine FAX (413) 451-7798 ============================================================ Artisan Studio http://www.crosswinds.net/~celain ============================================================ The Genealogy Pages: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~geneal/geneal.html#top Surname Resource Centers: Buie, Fulkerson, Gatlin, Goetz, Grayson, Heald, Hearne, Lennon, Matthews, Reel, Savage,Tannehill, Tooke, Welna & Worden Web Rings: Quest for Ancestors, Dutch Colonies, Hearne, Matthews, Goetz ============================================================ NEW SHORTCUT http://1st.to/GenPages ~THE GENEALOGY PAGES~ ============================================================

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Hi looking for more info on a Capt.Frederick Davis fought in the War of 1812 born in 1780 died Nov. 13 1824 he married a Margaret Hoagland she died in march 30 1866 .I know of one child a Richard H Davis he married a Sophia Suydam they got married in NJ then Richard&Sophia then went to fairview IL in 1838 abt. looking for other Children of Frederick an Margaret an the parents of Frederick an Margaret. Any help would be great. Later RC

Joseph and family were early settlers in Perry Co., Ohio and its county seat of Somerset. Thinking that there might be a connection between the names Somerset and knowing that there were early Petty members in your county, I thought I would send a query your way. I can find no link to this man's parentage . They lived in Sussex/Warren County area prior to their move to Ohio in 1808. Sons were John, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aaron. Daughters were Margaret, Mary Ann, Sarah, Susannah and Elizabeth. Did he have any roots in Somerset Co.? I suspect a link with the Long Island group of Pettys because of rarer Christian names for children and grandchildren, i.e. Ralph, Lucas, Moses. .Did any of the L. I.group pass through there? Any leads appreciated. Marjory A. Austen MAPPAusten@aol.com ----------------------- Headers -------------------------------- Return-Path: <NJSOMERS-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (rly-zd01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.225]) by air-zd04.mail.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Sun, 09 Jan 2000 11:57:25 -0500 Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by rly-zd01.mx.aol.com (v67.7) with ESMTP; Sun, 09 Jan 2000 11:57:17 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAB19423; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:55:52 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 08:55:52 -0800 (PST) From: MAPPAUSTEN@aol.com Message-ID: <b2.b232bb50.25aa1777@aol.com>

I am new to mailing lists and I don't know how to post. I am hoping this works. I am looking for information about Joseph Gilbert, who lived in Somerville, Somerset County. I know he was living there in the 1920's as I found him in the census. He was married to Cora and had a daughter Edith. Family "legend" says that he owned a farm there and was murdered in his barn. His daughter died of complications of diabetes. His parents, my direct ancestors, came from Canda to New York in the 1840's. I have been unable to find much information about them so I am trying to collect as much information about their children as I can. Any help would be appreciated. Barbara Rutz brutz59673@aol.com

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