Author: Orville CorsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781391887111
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Excerpt from Three Hundred Years With the Corson Families in America, Vol. 1 of 2: Including the Staten Island-Pennsylvania Corsons, the Sussex County, New Jersey Corsons, the Cape May or South Jersey Corsons, the Corsons of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the Corsons of Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, the New England Families It was very obvious that a history entitled: three hundred years with the corson families IN america, would not be complete unless a history of this group was included. A first draft of the history of the Staten island-pennsylvania families had been completed when this work was started. It was soon evident that it was going to be a difficult undertaking; the New Jersey records were not nearly as complete as the New N etherland records; the early Cape May Corsons were Quakers and the birth or baptismal records found in the record of their meetings were few compared to those found in the Dutch Reformed Church records. The New Jersey wills were published only up to 1770 and it was very necessary that abstracts of all the Corson wills be secured. With the assistance of those interested this was done. Photostatic copies of several family trees of the male descendants of the immigrants, John and Peter Corson, of South Jersey were obtained, but it was soon evident that the compilers of these charts, even 40 or 50 years previously, had been handicapped by the same lack of authentic records, as a comparison of the lineage as given on these trees with the few authentic records that had by this time been secured, showed many impossible situations. Through the medium of the circular letters and questionnaires, names and addresses of others, who were interested in the history of the South Jersey Corson families' genealogy, were obtained, and many hun dreds of personal and circular letters were mailed to all parts of the country. Many replied and furnished the record of their line as far as possible. From those interested there were secured Bible records, also census records of the Corsons listed in the 1870, and 1885 census of Cape May County, and about three hundred marriage records, family traditions, copies of old letters and tomb stone records. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
