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Excerpt from A Retrospect of Colonial Times in Burlington County: An Address Delivered Before the Young Friends Association, 2nd Mo, 9, 1906, at Moorestown, New Jersey
The early settlers in Burlington County were almost to a man English. There were some Swedes and a few Dutch here when our Quaker ancestors came. A few Welsh and Scotch names occur but very few. The name De Cou (decow as it is often spelled in the old annals)has a French twang but Isuspect it is after all English. A careful search through Revel's Book of Surveys and other old records to whichi have'had access fails to disclose any Mac's or O's, any Mur phys, Donohoes, Raffertys, or any other distinctively Irish names, excepting Bryan and Sullivan. It is true that Camden County was included in the Irish Tenth, as it was called, and settled by immigrants from Ireland, among them the Sharps and Huggs, but these names are not distinctively Irish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
