THE EARLY GERMANS OF NEW JERSEY: THEIR HISTORY, CHURCHES AND GENEALOGIES
By Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers

Preface

This work is the result of an attempt to discover the exact time of the first settlement of New Jersey by people of the German race. It is believed that this fact has been ascertained with sufficient certainty. Between 1710 and 1713 nearly all palatines, who have left any trace of their presence, began to arrive in the State and to fulfill their important part in the upbuilding of this commonwealth.

In the course of this investigation extending, as it needs must do, in so many directions and having to do with so many records, a large amount of valuable material would naturally accumulate. This has appeared to the author to be worth preserving, even though the labor and expense and risk of so large a book would be required for that purpose.

In tracing the families of the early settlers resort has been had to the records at Newton, Belvidere, Flemington, Somerville and Morristown. Every one of the 62 books of wills at Trenton was examined separately. The church records of Stillwater, German Valley, New Germantown, Lebanon and Mount Pleasant, were carefully compiled. To gather additional data the inscriptions in 31 cemeteries from Newton to Flemington, including those of Lamington, Bedminster and Somerville, were copied. Every county, church and family history procurable was consulted, and on this account the writer feels warranted in saying that the genealogies are as complete and accurate as they can be made. . .

Contents

PART I.
I. The Celebration
II. Our German Forefathers
III. The Moravians
IV. The German Emigration
V. The German Immigrants
VI. Early Church History
VII. Rev. Carl Rudolph
VIII. Rev. John Albert Weygand
IX. Rev. Ludolph Heinrich Schrenck
X. The Muhlenbergs
XI. New Germantown and German Valley
XII. The German Reformed
XIII. Fairmount Presbyterian Church
XIV. Reformed Church of Lebanon
XV. Settlers of Upper German Valley
XVI. Settlers of German Valley
XVII. Settlers of Lower Valley
XVIII. Settlers of Unionville
XIX. Settlers of Schooley's Mountain
XX. Schooley's Mountain Presbyterian Church
XXI. Presbyterian Church of Pleasant Grove
XXII. Settlers of Tewksbury Township
XXIII. Settlers from Southold and Southampton
XXIV. Chester Congregational Church
XXV. Chester Presbyterian Church
XXVI. Spruce Run--"Swake"--Clarksville Lutheran Churches

PART II.
Genealogies

Abel 227; Adams 229; Aller 230; Alpock 231; Ammerman 234; Anthony 235; Apgar 236; Appelman 243; Aree 243; Ayres 244; Axford 248. . .

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