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Welcome to Cumberland
County New Jersey Genealogy Research
Bridgeton circa 1910
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Cumberland County New Jersey
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Cumberland
County Data
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Brief
History:
Cumberland, county,
southwestern New Jersey, U.S. It consists
of a coastal lowland bounded by the
Delaware River and Bay
to the south, Stow Creek to
the west, the Maurice River to the north,
the Tuckahoe River to the northeast, and
West Creek to
the southeast. Algonquian-speaking
Delaware Indians inhabited the region when
European settlers arrived in the 17th
century.
In December 1774, before the
outbreak of the American Revolution,
protesters burned shipments of tea in
Greenwich.
Millville contains Wheaton Village,
a restored 19th-century glassmaking
community. Bridgeton, the county seat, has
one of
the largest historic districts in
New Jersey. In the 19th century T.B. Welch
developed a method of preserving grape
juice
without fermentation, and John L.
Mason perfected the manufacture of glass
jars for the home canning of foods; both
were
residents of Vineland, which has the
largest area of any city in the state.
Cumberland county was created in
1748 and named for William Augustus, Duke
of Cumberland.
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