Ocean County , NJ History

Caywood Family This is taken from the website I used to maintain over at rootsweb.  I can't vouch for the accuracy of the below information, I'm sharing it here as it was provided to me by a visitor that site, probably 15 more years ago at this point.  Once again, a thanks to Rosanna M. for providing this information. Jacob Caywood was born about 1793 in England. He married a Katherine Headley, who was born in New Gretna. They were the parents of Joshua Caywood (1849-1921), and James Willet Caywood, b. 27 Oct 1842 in New Gretna, d. 24 Sep 1930 in Woodbury, NJ. Josuah Caywood is buried in Weymouth. Jacob's other children were, in addition to Joshua: Mary J. Caywood, b. 1 Nov 1852, d. 1919 Sarah Caywood, b. 23 Oct 1855 Jacob Caywood, b. abt 1846. James Willet Caywood married Phoebe Eliza Mick ( b. 28 July 1849 at Martha Furnace; d. 16 Oct 1924 at Weymouth) on 10 Jan 1869 in Bass River. He was the son of Jacob Caywood and Katherine Headley and was born at New Gretna on 27 Oct

New Egypt Press 10 Mar 1905 What was done with the right hand of James McMullan, who was murdered near his cabin in the woods at Weymouth Siding, near May's Landing, N.J., is a question that is puzzling the detectives. They are keeping up a diligent search for the hand, although they have the self confessed murderer safely in prison. Charles Burns, who has signed a confession of his guilt, remains stolidly silent about the missing hand, although he talks freely about the other details of the murder. Mrs. McMullan wrote yesterday to a son and daughter, who are at present in Scotland, telling them of their father's unfortunate death. She is a very religious woman, and is going to be beg the New Jersey authorities for permission to ask Mr. Burns one question. This is: Did he give her husband time to offer a few words of prayer before he slew him?