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From: "Pam Bush" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Hoagland - Cray - Durling
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 19:42:12 -0500
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I apologize for making such a broad generalization and should have stated
that the families I was researching had some older adults in the 1880
federal census who could not read or write but their children and
grandchildren attended school. And they were not tenant farmers; they owned
their property. The particular Wyckoff family I examined was Henry Alexander
Wyckoff and Catherine Cray Wyckoff whose daughter Rebecca married Martin
Eugene Bush in 1900. The compiler of the Wyckoff genealogy made this comment
about that Wyckoff family:
"This family, due to the poor land on which they lived and its
isolation, were very poor, lacked education, and had kept no records." [The
Wyckoff Family in America: a genealogy, published by the Wyckoff Association
in America, Summit, NJ. Printed by the Tuttle Publishing Co., Rutland, VT,
1978, page 170.]
He also stated that this small farm was a parcel of the original
Wyckoff homestead of over 200 acres. The recent publication "New Jersey's
Sourland Mountain" by T. J. Luce [Sourland Planning Council, 2001] has a
chapter entitled "Shady Characters" which describes the poverty, ignorance,
and mental imbalace due to inbreeding of some of the families living in the
Sourland area. But these families were unusual. One of the most literate
woman, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, also lived there. The farms of these people I
was researching were adjacent to the Lindbergh property.
Pam


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From: "SML" <>
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Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 4:41 PM
Subject: RE: [NJHUNTER] Hoagland - Cray - Durling
> I am related to the Sourland Mountain areaWyckoff line of whom you
> speak....they were woodsman and farmers and there was plenty of work.
> Many of them owned farmland that was listed in Federal Census forms as
> worth thousands back then (my dad still lives in the area and I wish the
> land was still in the family...beautiful land!) Also...from my research
> using the US Federal Census...they could all read and write and they all
> sent their children and the children of their laborers to school.


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