Embracing a Genealogical Record of Earliest Settlers in Monmouth and Ocean Counties and Their Descendants
One of the standard historical and genealogical works on Monmouth and Ocean Counties. Contains such miscellany as a list of persons who contributed to the purchase of Monmouth from the Indians, mostly men from Rhode Island and Long Island; list of officers and soldiers from old Monmouth who served in the Revolutionary War. Also soldiers who fought in the Civil War. 80-page Genealogical Record section (alphabetical order by family name) of the first settlers of Monmouth and Ocean Counties.
The author was a well-regarded man of his time, a member of the New Jersey state legislature and a Speaker of the House. He was appointed to a position in the U.S. Treasury Department where he served for five years. His years in D.C. were well spent researching this book at the National Archives.
Edwin Salter
(1890), 2007, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, 550 pp.
ISBN: 9781585494385
101-S0438
