The following family trees for the Taylor families concerns the Taylors who settled near Mount Airy, the Taylors who settled on the Cook Tract in Amwell/Delaware Township, a short distance west of the village of Sand Brook, and the Taylor family of Bethlehem Township who were associated with the Taylor Iron Works.
Surnames of spouses are highlighted in green if they also have a published family tree on this website.
As suggested by the photo above, most 18th & 19th century Hunterdon families were farm families. On this blog, some families get more attention than others. As of the spring of 2018, I began publishing family trees for the first five or six generations. In the list below, the family names whose trees have been published are in caps and links to the family tree pages added.
Gradually more and more family trees will be published, and more family names will be added to the list.
One of the purposes of these family trees is to help readers understand the relationships between family members that I write about. It can get confusing at times. Another purpose is to provide a place for researchers of Hunterdon families to get in touch. If you are such a person, add your contact information in the comments sections to whatever family you are interested in. Perhaps you will find other family members there.
If you wish to see articles in which these families are featured, go to the Families section in the right-hand column. Clicking on the drop-down menu will reveal corresponding links and the number of articles in which each family is featured. If you search for the family name in the upper left-hand search space, you will get all of the articles in which that name is mentioned. Families with published trees are shown in caps and contain links to those trees.
The oak tree depicted here is by one of my favorite artists, Thomas Bewick. It will show up with every family tree.
A: Abbott, Akers, Alexander, Allen, ALLER, Amerman, ANDERSON, Armstrong, Apgar, ARNWINE
B: Bake, Baillie/Bailey, Baker, BARBER, Barcalow, Barcroft, Barnes, Bartles, Bartolette, Barton, Bateman, BEARDER, Beavers, BELLIS, BESSON, Biddle, Bilby, Bird, Bishop, Blackwell, BODINE, Bond, BONHAM, BONNELL, Bosenbury, Boss, Bowne, BRAY, Brewer, Britton, BUCHANAN, Bull, Burd, Burket, BUTTERFOSS
C: Cain, Capner, Carman, CARRELL, Carver, CASE [needs correction/updating], Chamberlin/Chamberlain, Cherry, Clark, Clifford, Cline, Closson, Coat/Coates, Colvin, Conklin/Conkling, Conover/Covenhoven, Cooley, Corle, Corson, Coxe, CORYELL, Cowin, Cramer, Crater, Cregar, Creveling, Cronce, Curtis
For some time, I have been writing articles about the early taverns in Hunterdon County, knowing how important they were to both travelers on Hunterdon’s earliest roads and the communities that built up around them. One of the taverns on my to-do list was Larason’s Tavern on the Old York Road north of Ringoes. Fortunately, Dave Harding, administrator of the Hunterdon County Historical Society, did the job for me. His history of the tavern appeared in the most recent issue of the Hunterdon Historical Record (vol. 59, no.1), the Historical Society’s regular newsletter.
With Dave’s permission, I am reprinting the article here along with some footnotes and additional information at the end. This has been a real treat for us both.
Part Two of my history of the Pittstown Inn ended with the death of Moore Furman in 1808. Part three will describe the Inn’s 19th century owners and its innkeepers—quite often not the same people.
In her excellent book All Roads Lead to Pittstown (2015),1 Stephanie Stevens called attention to the early roads that converged on the village of Pittstown. Roads were certainly important, but just as important were creeks in creating the locations of Hunterdon villages.
There was a time when the sleepy little village of Quakertown was a lively place, back when it had two taverns. I learned this from Egbert T. Bush, who wrote a couple articles about the village.
This is an article by Egbert T. Bush about the village of Cherryville in Franklin Township, Hunterdon County. It serves as a follow-up to my article on the earliest owners of the Cherryville Tavern, back when the village was known as Anderson Town, after the early tavern owner, James Anderson.
This article will be followed by one written by Egbert T. Bush titled “Cherryville, Once Called Dogtown, Has Long History.” He knew the Cherryville Tavern was an old tavern, but could only get back as far as Reuben McPherson, who owned it from 1827 until his death in 1831.
This article by Egbert T. Bush describes a particular neighborhood, not far northwest of Flemington, at the intersection of today’s Thatcher’s Hill Road and Sand Hill Road.
Today I am returning to the buildings on the east side of Flemington’s Main Street that feature an arch along the front of their roofs, in particular, the two buildings constructed by John C. Hopewell, one on either side of the bank building that he put up in 1866 (See Flemington’s First Bank).
