Notes for John CONGER

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Notes for John CONGER

One of the original settlers of Woodbridge.
Tradition holds that the Conger family came from Normandy to Holland and thence to England. Conger was apparently one of a group of 56 men who moved to the newly acquired province of New Jersey which King Charles had taken from the Dutch in
1664, where they founded the township of Woodbridge, his patent to 170 acres of land being dated 18 Nov 1669. He held various town offices and was one of the commissioners appointed to prosecute thieves who were cutting timber from the common land.
John Conger's ancestry is uncertain, and is still the subject of intensive search in England by The Conger Confab, a family association of Janesville, Iowa.
For references see: Kelly/Conger: Conger History, 1664-1941, by Ethel C. Heagler, Cooksville, Ill., 1941, p. 2; excerpts from the Pillsbury Ancestry, by Mary Lovering Holman, 1938, p. 165; The History of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury,
by Joshua Coffin, Boston, 1845, p. 306; Savage, v. I, p. 157; Vital Records of Newbury, Mass., v. II, pp. 45, 268; N.J.Archives 23:105.
See also The Conger Family in America, Maxine Crowell Leonard (1972), which, in addition to the 8 children listed, also gives him first born Mary b. 29 Dec 1666 in Newbury, Mass. See also Conger History 1664 - 1941, by Ethel C. Heagler
(Cooksville, IL 1941), a copy of which is available in Citizens Library, Washington, Pa. [copied portions in file of Harman R. Clark, Jr.].

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