A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lade of Gravesend, Long Island; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family.
This volume of nearly 400 pages includes a coat-of-arms in colors, two charts, and nearly fifty full page illustrations – portraits, old homes, samplers, etc. The coat-of-arms shown in the frontispiece is an unusually good example of the heraldic art!
Table of Contents:
- The Lake Family in England . . . 1
- Heraldic Note Concerning the Coat of Arms . . . 5
- John Lake of Gravesend . . . 8
- The Gravesend Family . . . 10
- The Staten Island Family . . . 18
- The United Empire Loyalist Lake Family of Canada . . . 25
- Three Daughters of John Lake of Gravesend . . . 31
- Lake Immigrants to America . . . 33
- The Descendants of William Lake of Great Egg Harbour . . . 35
- Ancestral register of Esther Steelman Adams: p. 254
- Appendix I, Three Lake Wills . . . 257
- Appendix II, Cumberland County Lake Bible Record . . . 262
- Appendix III, A War Time Letter of the Hon. Simon Lake . . . 266
- Appendix IV, Reminiscences of the Rev. James E. Lake, D.D . . . 273
- Appendix V, Miscellaneous Notes by Ezra A. Lake . . . 277
- Appendix VI, Daniel Lake Collins’s Diary . . .280
- Appendix VII, Some Unplaced Lake Marriages . . . 294
- Appendix VIII, Addenda . . . 295
- Index 297
- Charts
Source
Adams, Arthur and Risley, Sarah Anna. A genealogy of the Lake family of Great Egg Harbour in Old Gloucester County in New Jersey : descended from John Lade of Gravesend, Long Island ; with notes on the Gravesend and Staten Island branches of the family. Hartford, Conn. : Privately printed, 1915.