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Village of Friendship

I have found almost no information about this tiny village aside from learning of it's existence from three censuses: In 1905, only three families lived at the site, apparently involved in the production of cranberries. By 1920, there were six families at Friendship; evidently all that was there at that time was a sawmill and the families of the workers who ran it. In 1930, there were only five residences occupied at Friendship. Below are described the families of Friendship of which I am aware. Alloways Family: Mark Alloways was born somewhere in New Jersey in October of 1858; his wife Carrie in March of 1864. By 1905 they were living in Friendship with their four children. Mark owned his home there, while the other two families in 1905 rented their's, presumably from him. The children of Mark and Carrie Alloways were: Garfield Alloways, born in September 1880. Fifteen years later, he would be married to a woman named Anna and laboring in the Friendship sawmill. He had