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Excerpt from Colonial and Old Houses, of Greenwich, New JerseyThe great interest in later years to everything pertain ing to the early history of our country has been an incentive to write the history of the colonial and old houses of Greenwich.The old town having been the place of my nativity, and home for many years, it has been my privilege to cross the threshold of many of the ancient houses, some of them the homes of valued friends, from ...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of GreenwichA half century ago my father's shop stood a few rods east of our home in old Historic Greenwich. It was a large two-story building, with an attic, having sheds and low build ings attached to it The first ¿oor was the wheelwright shop, where were six benches with a vise attachment, a workman or an apprentice at every bench. The music of saw and plane and stroke of hammer was heard every day during working ...

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Excerpt from Colonial and Old Houses, of Greenwich, New Jersey The great interest in later years to everything pertain ing to the early history of our country has been an incentive to write the history of the colonial and old houses of Greenwich. The old town having been the place of my nativity, and home for many years, it has been my privilege to cross the threshold of many of the ancient houses, some of them the homes of valued friends, f...

Excerpt from Benjamin An, Avars: His Ancestry and Descendants "The glory of children is their Fathers." My sister, Elizabeth A. Ayars gathered a record of the Ayars family, descendants of Robert Ayars the first settler of that name in South Jersey. From her manuscript, I have traced the line of Benjamin A. Ayars, our father, and have added a biographical sketch. I trust the information contained in the following pages may be of service to th...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Greenwich A half century ago my father's shop stood a few rods east of our home in old Historic Greenwich. It was a large two-story building, with an attic, having sheds and low build ings attached to it The first ¿oor was the wheelwright shop, where were six benches with a vise attachment, a workman or an apprentice at every bench. The music of saw and plane and stroke of hammer was heard every day during workin...

Excerpt from Vineland: A Narrative PoemFifty years ago: Charles K. Landis, then a young man of twenty-eight, having had some experience in settling Hammonton, and desirous of establishing a new town on a much larger scale contracted with the owner, Richard D. Wood of Philadelphia, for a tract of acres of wild land along the line of the recently opened Glass' boro and Millville Railroad. It was at the junc tion of this railroad and Landis Avenu...

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