EARLY HISTORT OF CAPE MAY COUNTY. 



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James Cresse 

 William Simpkins 

 Thomas Goodwin 

 Thomas Clifton 

 Joshua Carman 

 William Duboldy 

 James Marshall 

 John Baily 

 William Richardson 

 Thomas Foster 

 Thomas Hewit 

 George Taylor, Jr. 

 John Dennis 

 Isaac Hand 

 Daniel Hand 

 Jeremiah Hand 

 Joseph Hand 



Thomas Bancroft 

 Edward Summis 

 Henry Gray 

 Abraham Weston 

 Thomas Going 

 Jonathan Edmunds 

 Nicholas Martineau 

 John Garlick 

 Samuel Matthews, Jr. 

 William Shaw 

 Robert French 

 Jeremiah Miller 

 Zebulon Sharp 

 William Sharwood 

 John Story 

 Richard Townsend 

 Robert Townsend 



The following is from the manuscript of Thomas Leaming, one 

 of the early pioneers, who died in 1723, aged 49 years. 



"In July, 1674, I was born in Southampton on Long Island. 

 When I was eighteen years of age (1692) I came to Cape May, 

 and that winter had a sore fit of the fever and flux. The next summer 

 I went to Philadelphia with my father Christopher, who was lame 

 with a withered hand, which held him till his death. The winter 

 following, I went a whaling, and we got eight whales ; and five of 

 them we drove to the Hoarkills, and we went there to cut them up, 

 and staid a month. The 1st day of May we came home to Cape 

 May, and my father was very sick, and the third day, 1695, de- 

 parted this life at the house of Shamgar Hand. Then I went to 

 Long Island, staid that summer, and in the winter I went a whaling 

 again, and got an old cow and a calf. In 1696, I went to whaling 

 again, and made a great voyage ; and in 1697, I worked for John 

 Reeves all summer, and in the winter, went to whaling again. In 



