Mike, Can you re-check your source for the accuracy of the transcription of your quote? A date of 1689 or thereabouts for the settlement of the DeCamp family in Westfield is much earlier than anything I have seen. The oldest DeCamp birth that I can find in Westfield is 1735. All the other information I have found suggests that the family lived on Staten Island until about 1720, and then went to various parts of NJ. Wilson DeCamp Vienna, VA In a message dated 5/12/2003 5:03:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mmiller@pcsia.net writes: > pg. 468 History of Union County New Jersey 1664-1923 by Abraham Van Doren > Honeyman; Volume II, Chapter XL; Township of Scotch Plains and Borough of > Fanwood > > "The hotel now standing on the corner of Park Avenue and Front Street was > built in 1737. John Sutton, one of the early settlers, was the first inn > keeper. The following were his successors: Samuel Ropes, John Frazee, John > > Stanbery, James Miller, Stanford Hicks, Thomas Burlochs, Jonathan Hetfield, > > P. B. Davis, W. H. Cleaver, Thomas T. Barr, Abraham Nelson, Antone DeBou > and > Thomas Paff. ...." > > My interest is whether the J. Miller or James Miller who had the stand in > 1818 was one and the same with the Jeames Miller listed in the list of > families of early settlers of Scotch Plains. I am beginning to think > FAMILIES is the operative word in this quote: > > "In or about the year 1689 the families of William Darby, Recompense > Stanbery, John Lambert, John Dennis, John Stanbery, Henry Crosby, Michael > Parse or Pierce, John Sutton Jr. Isaac Manning, Mary Bodwell, Sarah > DeCamp, > Samuel Doty or Doughty, Joseph Drake, Jeames Miller, Abraham Hampton, John > Blackford, Joseph Randoph, William Cole, Peter Willcoxsie or Willcox, and a > > few others who came afterwards, whose names are now known in this township > at > the present time (1882): Mash or Marsh, Dolbear, Terry, Terrill, Squires, > Hunter, Miller, Pearson, Roll, Frazer or Frazee and Maxwells." > > This seems to imply there may be two groups of Millers who came to the > area. > > Thanks for any insights. Mike Miller >