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Notes for Shreve

Research Notes:

There are different reports about the father of Caleb Shreve, husband of Sarah Areson.

The parents of Caleb Shreve have been named as Thomas Sherrif and Martha. [1] [2]

1641 Caleb Shreve was a resident of Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was reported to be the father of Caleb Shreve, married to Sarah Areson. [3]

Benjamin Shreve reportedly came from Rhode Island to New Jersey and settled at Shrewsbury in 1680. He had son Caleb and grand-son Benjamin. [4]


Footnotes:

[1] L. P. Allen, The Genealogy and History of the Shreve Family from 1641 (1901), 17, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[2] John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Comprising Three Generations of Settlers (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), 177, [GoogleBooks].

[3] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 223, [HathiTrust].

[4] Biographical review Volume XIX, containing life sketches of leading citizens of Burlington and Camden counties, New Jersey (Boston 1897), 87, [InternetArchive].