Prior to, and until around 1904, this community was originally known as Centerville since it was almost equidistant from the surrounding towns of: Monroe, Social Circle, Covington, and Loganville. But, when the town decided to establish a US Post Office of its own, rather than have to travel to the county seat to collect mail, a problem arose. Federal Postal Regulations (logically) prohibited two towns in the same State having the same name. This prompted an extended and hot debate in the community that lasted most of the winter. At the time, this area was primarily agricultural and was very well known for its high quality in dairy farming and production of high quality milk.. Only a couple of months prior to this event, Old Man H. D. Ambercrombie (a quite prominent businessman, and early settler in that area) had just taken possession of his newly imported—at great expense—full b…
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A history of the Willis family of New England and New Jersey and their ancestors1917 · page 17Read the page →
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As many people know but little of the early history of New Jersey, as the records of the first settlement are not readily available, and then only by research among the libraries of the historical societies and elsewhere, we believe a short sketch will be of interest to the mem bers of the family, as so many of our ancestors were amongthe founders of the City of Newark and the first settlers afterward, of Morris County. We will
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A history of the Willis family of New England and New Jersey and their ancestors1917 · page 198Read the page →
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populated and takingtheir civil and ecclesiastical records with them, followed by many from New Haven, Milford and Guilford, and led by Mr. Pierson they migrated to Newark, New Jersey, in the summer of 1667 and there established a fresh church." Newark was named in honor of Mr, Pierson 's English home and there he died on Aug. 9, 1678. As Mr. Pierson had been a leader in Massachusetts, on
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