Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth County, New Jersey

By: George C. Beekman, Pub. 1901, reprinted 2025, 214 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-322-1.  Monmouth County was created in 1683 and sits in the Central eastern part of the state along the Atlantic Ocean.  Most of Monmouth’s early settlers were of Quaker, Scottish and Dutch descent along with many settlers from Rhode Island.  This book was compiled from a series of articles on the Early Dutch Settlers of Monmouth from The Freehold Transcript.  Serval of the articles written for the weekly issues of this newspaper appear fragmentary and disconnected. In order to round out these issues, a great deal of time and labor by more than one person has been devoted to gathering material from public records, family papers, tombstone inscriptions, and other original sources of information.  Much of this is compromised in short notes and small type, and by putting these compilations in book form they will be assessable for reference.  For there is much work to be done before a full genealogy can be written on either the Conover, Hendrickson or Schanck families.