A History of Cape May County - Do The Shore
WEBRevolutionary War. Cape May County had two militias (one that fought in the Battle of Germantown) and kept a lookout in Cape May to observe British naval movements. A naval battle occurred at Turtle Gut Inlet near Wildwood in June 1776 between the Nancy and a …
History of Cape May County
WEBCape May County was formally created on November 12, 1692 by an Act of the General Assembly of the Province of West New Jersey. It was among the four counties formally created with their initial boundaries defined by that legislative act: Burlington, Gloucester, Salem and Cape May.
The history of Cape May County, New Jersey - Archive.org
WEBSep 9, 2008 · by. "Embracing an account of the aborigines, the Dutch in Delaware Bay, the settlements of the county, the whaling, the growth of the villages, the Revolution and patriots, the establishment of the new government, the War of 1812, the progress of the county, and the soldiers of the Civil War."
Earliest Cape May County History
WEBPrimarily coming from the eastern end of Long Island and New England, they came to Cape May County for two primary reasons. The first was economic. The proceeds from one whale would buy a...
History of Cape May - The Shore Blog
WEBAug 30, 2017 · By the 1690s, a whaling village had been established. Roads were created in the late 1700’s, and two railroads provided service to the Cape. In 1761, Cape Island officially became the first seashore resort in America.
Cape May County, New Jersey - Wikipedia
WEBA 1777 map depicting Cape May County, the scene of the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet on June 29, 1776, in the American Revolutionary War. Before Cape May County was settled by Europeans, the indigenous Kechemeche tribe of the Lenape people inhabited South Jersey, and traveled to the barrier islands during the summer to hunt and fish.
Mayflower Pilgrim descendants in Cape May County, New …
WEBSep 9, 2008 · Mayflower Pilgrim descendants in Cape May County, New Jersey; memorial of the three hundredth anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, 1620-1920; a record of the Pilgrim descendants who early in its history settled in Cape May County, and some of their children throughout the several states of the union at the present time.
Cape May Before Victoria - High Tide
WEBMar 1, 2004 · Well, way before the city folk of overcrowded Philadelphia conceived of the resort notion in the late 1700s, the Kechemeches (Kech-ah-mech-ees), a sub-tribe of the Lenni-Lenape, made New Jersey and Cape May …
- Early Land Records, 1650-1900s - New Jersey Land Records, …
WEBDates range from 1650 through 1996, but the vast majority of records date between 1675 and 1900. Please keep in mind that most deeds executed after 1785 were recorded at the county level, not with the State. County land records are not included in this database.
Whalers: The Link to our Past - High Tide
WEBNov 16, 2009 · Recent architectural studies reveal there are more First Period (1690 – 1730) homes in Cape May County than any one ever realized. Most of the surviving houses are located in the Cape May countryside and in the past, no one really bothered to look at them as historically significant.