John Woodruffe, 1574-1611 was born in Fordwick, Kent, England and moved to Northgate, England. He married Elizabeth Cartright, and as a widow, she married John Gosmer. The Gosmers immigrated in 1640 to Southampton, New Jersey, along with her son, John Woodruffe, 1604- 1670.

Woodruff Family

Excerpt from The Woodruffs of New Jersey: Who Came From Fordwich, Kent, England, by Way of Lynn, Massachusetts, and Southampton, Long Island These papers were originally intended for the Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, and Sketch I appeared in no. 1 of Part III, Third Series, September, 1898, page 36; but the issue of the Proceedings having been temporarily suspended, the writer, to keep rash promises of sending copies, with the Society's consent, published them in leaflet form. 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.

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Issues for Oct. 1927 and Oct. 1930 contain sections of a serial article by John C. Honeyman on the history of Zion, St. Paul and other early Lutheran churches in New Jersey.