Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Baldwin's Candee Genealogy suggests that all Candee/Candy in North America come from Zaccehus Cande in Connecticut, New Haven colony minted into the West Haven parish to be more exact, and that this Cande came from Conde most likely in Holland and most likely French Huguenot.  But that doesn't exactly add up in the cousin book.  Following our direct ancestors back from ourselves we get to Dutch back somewhere in the 1700's and possibly just a little before the 18th century in the Jersey area.

Perhaps Baldwin got lost somewhere in the Hackensack River Valley too, not unlike the non-Catholic Christians pre-New Milford.  For it was in there that Jersey's Dutch stronghold had a blow out with a permanent settler (perhaps "the first" which is what a lot of history vies to be) who happened to be a French Huguenot who objected to helping support the Dutch Reformed Church in New York.

David Des Marest took his dutchness UP the Hackensack River in 1677 and claimed about five thousand acres at New Milford.  1677...that was before Frelinghuysen came from Germany in 1720 to serve four congregations of mostly Dutch church members in the Raritan Valley between Somerville and New Brunswick.  He had some "new ideas" which most of the Dutch people on the other side of the sermon were unwilling to accept.  Theodore was accused of being an impassioned revivalist because he called for an "understandable faith."  The same kind of evangelicalism that influenced the founding of both now-Princeton and now-Rutgers.  Jersey had two of the only nine colleges founded in the colonies before the Revolution.

It wasn't the Reverend Theodore Frelinghuysen who got all caught up in the tooth for tooth between the Lenni Lenape (united with other mostly non-woodland tribes) and the Stuyvesant led stronghold.  That seems to have come to ahead some sixty-some years before Frelinghuysen was preaching reforms like...a little less revenge on the heart might help one get to heaven.

In 1971, Cunningham reported that the long road from Esopus was "destined soon to disappear beneath the waters of the proposed Tocks Island Reservoir" (32).  That was the old mining road connecting the coppah to Holland with not much informing Stuyvesant of the cargo.  Same road old John Adams used as a short cut between Philadelphia and his home in Massachusetts.  I bet the shade there was a matter of some degrees difference in heat.

In 1971 the Boy Scouts owned some camping land that was said to sport the entrance to the ancient-for-America Pahaquarry mine.  But don't tell Old Peg Leg.

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