This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wkQBAIB/2458 Message Board Post: Abraham was undoubtedly the descendant of John Ward who came from CT and moved in 1666 to Newark, NJ, leaving many descendants. But I cannot connect Abraham to the correct set of parents. He married Maria Van Giesson who was from an old Dutch family in NJ. They married in 1814 in what was then West Bloomfield, NJ. Who were Abraham's parents? The records in Caldwell were supposedly burned in the church fire in 1800 so I cannot trace him that way. Nor could I find his marriage record which might have listed his parents.