The column that is looking for recommendations for next book club suggestions
The column that is looking for recommendations for next book club suggestions
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Good morning!
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Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is continuing to keep watch over at Higbee's Bait and Tackle.
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"OK Spider-Man fans!
"Spiderman #3 was retired today after his three-year run in the meadow. This is the end of Spiderman's ninth year of roaming the Fortescue marsh keeping a close eye on you as you enter Fortescue. Don't worry, Spiderman #4 is now on patrol and has moved again for you to find. He will be out on patrol for year #Ten. Look for him on your way in town.
"You're Welcome."
- Friends of Spiderman.
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I think the BEN Book Club, where we looked at "Early Settlement and Progress of Cumberland County, New Jersey; and of the Currency of this and the Adjoining Colonies" by Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer was a success. I had a lot of fun reading it and hearing your thoughts about it. Here were some more interesting things people said about the book and the history of Cumberland County.
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"Just stumbled upon your series of articles. I'm familiar with the book and it has been very helpful in my genealogical research. I am a direct descendant of Reverend Timothy Brooks Jr., he is my 8th Great-Grandfather. Brooks and Brooks Sr. (my ninth great-grandfather), their families, along with three other families, the Bowens, Barretts, and Swinneys were Welsh Baptists and Sabbath-Keepers left Concord Massachusetts and headed to Greenwich in 1690.
"The Bowens and the Brooks moved more inland up the Cohansey towards Roadstown and called their settlement Bowentown. The Barretts located on property that is still called Barretts Run.
"Rev. Daniel Elmer (page 97) was my eighth great-grandfather.
"Theophilus Elmer, (page 98) was my seventh great-grandfather.
"My great-grandfather moved away from Cumberland County in 1900. In the last few years I have rediscovered it (and my own family history), and try to visit more and more (I live in Northern Virginia now).
"I spent several hours at the Cumberland County Historical Society last year, scouring the 'Brooks' family folder.
"I also found an interesting collection of photos and civil war letters from my 8th-great-uncle Enoch Brooks at the Rutgers library.
"Lots of interesting stuff out there about Cumberland County and the families who settled there."
- Joe Bartling
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Bartling sent this too.
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"The settlers moved to the Fenwick Colony precisely BECAUSE the territory was open and tolerant regarding faith (although they all seem to get a bit perturbed with the Deists).
"The differences between the protestant faiths were profound in the early settlement days. The issue of Sabbath being observed on the Seventh Day and disagreement over the pre-destination doctrine of Calvinism/Presbyterianism were biggies."
- Joe Bartling
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