Swallow Family Tree

May 9, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Swallow Tags: family trees

First Generation:

(1) Johannes Swallow Sr. (c.1680 – 1749) & Agnes

I know little about this original Johannes and Agnes Swallow. With a name like Johannes, we can presume they were either German or Dutch. There is a record of March 25, 1737 when Johannes Swallow mortgaged 180 acres on “the road leading to Rarington,” which could be almost anywhere.¹ A complicating factor is that his son Johannes Swallow, Jr. died the same year he did. Both men wrote wills a short time apart, Johannes Sr. on December 27, 1748 and Johannes Jr. on December 30^th. Both were yeomen of Amwell.

A Train Through Sand Brook

April 18, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Fauss, Higgins, Holcombe, Moore, Sandbrook, Sine, Sutton Tags: railroads

part eight of The Route Not Taken

Proceeding along the proposed railroad route, we come to the village of Sandbrook. If the rail line had been laid out as planned it might have changed the village significantly.

Holcombe Family Tree

April 18, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Holcombe Tags: family trees

The Holcombe family is one of the most extensive early families in Hunterdon County. I have included a sixth generation for them, but perhaps I shouldn’t have—there are just so many of them.

Please, share any corrections or additions you might have. And remember, I list the children of daughters, but not their grandchildren.

Kitchen’s Mill

April 4, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Delaware Township, Kitchen, Rockafellar, Sandbrook Tags: mills

The Mill in Sand Brook

Original version published in “The Bridge,” Fall 2002

This article precedes the next episode in my series on the route of the Delaware Flemington Railroad, a rail line that was surveyed, but never built. It was planned to run right through the village of Sand Brook, very close to the old mill.

Rockafellar Tree

April 3, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Rockafellar Tags: family trees

The Rockafellar family is enormous, and not just in Hunterdon County. Like many of my trees, this one features branches of the family that I have come across in my research. But there are many others I know little about. They have been left out until I learn more about them.

The Kitchen Tree

April 3, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Families, Kitchen Tags: family trees

This Kitchen family arrived in Hunterdon County in the early 1720s, and quickly became established. I’ve published this tree to support “Kitchen’s Mill,” my article about property in Sand Brook, Hunterdon County, owned by Henry Kitchen and his son Samuel.

Hardscrabble

March 28, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Carrell, Case, Croton, Delaware Township, E. T. Bush, Historians Revisited, Hunterdon County, Raritan Township Tags: maps, roads

This article by Egbert T. Bush concerns a family who lived in the Croton neighborhood in the mid-19^th century. I thought it typical of Mr. Bush’s style of writing, which may seem a bit florid, but is full of empathy for the characters he described.

Between Sergeantsville & Sand Brook

March 20, 2020 By Marfy Goodspeed in Aller, Carrell, Delaware Township, Fauss, Moore, Sandbrook, Sergeant, Williamson Tags: railroads

part seven, Route Not Taken

The train continues on its way to Sand Brook. Having passed through the southern side of the Village of Sergeantsville, it now proceeds through the properties of James Carrell, Othniel Fauss, William Aller, Acker Moore and Mrs. Sergeant.

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