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Title: An historical narrative of the Ely, Revell and Stacye families who were among the founders of Trenton and Burlington in the province of West Jersey 1678-1683, with the genealogy of the Ely descendants in America
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Ely, Reuben Pownall, 1815-1899, comp Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855, joint comp Ely, Daniel Brittain, b. 1861, joint comp
Subjects: Ely family Revell family Stacy family Ely, Joshua, d. 1702
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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REAR ADMIRAL JOHN J. READ, U. S. NAVYSeventh in line frcim Malilcm Stacye and Rebecca Ely THE SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA CHAPTER I. The Settlement in Amekica. In October, 1678, the ship Shield from the port ofHull on Humber, Yorkshire, England, dropped anchorin the Delaware river before the present site of the cityof Burlington, New Jersey, the first trans-Atlantic shipto go so far up-stream. Smith, in his History of NewJersey, published in 1765, states that the vessel in tack-ing up the river before an adverse breeze, in turning onthe Pennsylvania side, became entangled in the over-hanging trees, at a point where the city of Philadelphiais located, and that some one on board made the propheticremark that the place would make a fine site for a city.Could they have foretold that the great Quaker Citywas to spring up at this spot, to become famous as thecradle of American Independence one hundred yearslater, they would undoubtedly have landed and estab-lished a settlement. These far-seeing v

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