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    Cougars, yet again...

    I've seen Moose in Maine and Elk in Arkansas but the only place I"ve ever seen a cougar was in a maple tree in the Mullica River savannah below the old trestle back in 78
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    As I heard in a movie line once "Ha Ha Funny, Not Funny Funny"!:-)
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I am descended from Leeds.I think I may be cousins to the Devils dad but haven't researched it yet.The Devil was a Leeds.I don't believe in the jersey devil myself and I"ve spent many a night in the heart of the Barrens and have never saw it but yes the devil is a big deal around here.People...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I actually live almost an hour from Pleasant Mills and in the next county south so i don't have a phone book for that county. I was going to get married by the preacher of that church to the wife I have now 18 years ago.I wanted to get married on the banks of the Nescohague about a five minute...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    Now to figure out where plot 25 is.I noticed plot corner markers while there but the were letters and seemed to reflect the first letter of the surnames buried in said plot.Perhaps if i look closer I"ll find some kind of markers with numbers on them.?
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I wouldn't even know where to get cemetery plot records.We found my wifes great grandmother at a huge cemetery in Upper darby,PA by going to the office and having them pull the map and records out but these cemeteries have no office.The one at Pleasnat Mills has a used church there so maybe if...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    http://www.worldcat.org/title/french-and-american-history-of-michael-garoutte-and-his-descendants/oclc/13796571 If this chronolgy is true He may be buried in Pemberton? I think your family is as crazy as mine.
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    https://www.google.com/search?q=michael+antoine+garoutte&tbm=isch&imgil=mDn0mVcaU7ZpDM%253A%253BsSVLrY4YIltXyM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.geni.com%25252Fpeople%25252FMichael-Garoutte%25252F6000000003805437985&source=iu&pf=m&fir=mDn0mVcaU7ZpDM%253A%252CsSVLrY4YIltXyM%252C_&usg=__We2LJ-7Bm9Pb...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    Just found a record that states he lived in Pemberton in 1810.Not the kind I can download but I can screenshot it if you like?Actually I was mistaken.Says he lived in washington twp.Thats the Batsto area
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=157916768&ref=acom rereading this findagrave site all three places of interment are mentioned on the same page????? says he died in Pemberton,was buried in Pleasant Mills and further down He is in the Estellville Methodist...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I"m descended from many Quaker lines and the woman does take the mans name as is common with the rest of Christianity:-)
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    G.C. I have been looking on Ancestry again,I know your not fond of it but thats all I have to work with at the moment.Every thing I find on Him says he died in Pemberton in 1829.If this is true batsto would be quite a ways to haul a dead body in a wagon back then.It would be at least a two day...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I really don't understand why He would be from Pemberton and yet He lived in the Pleasant Mills area and is possibly buried there and yet He may have ended up in Estellville? All of these places are quite some distance from each other.Each is probably a good two maybe three day horse ride from...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    The furthest west any of my ancestors went is Kentucky.I do have cousins that were pioneers and went all the way to California on my Sparks Line at least. California is a big state,are you up north in Redneck Country or down south in the Blue Zone? Honestly let me give Estellville another try...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    Hey! There were plenty of Smiths in that graveyard! I didn't know we were looking for Smiths.Give me her name and dates and if I have to go back I will.Is she buried in the same cemetery as He was ? There were Smiths out the wazoo!
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    I know that often folks will have a dead end at a woman who is referred to as so and so's wife but no one knows her maiden name so if it's early enough some folks will assume she was an Indian but this is often not the case.On the other hand I have seen other people get right down nasty over...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    Even have four grandfathers that supposedly hooked up with Indian women.One Cherokee,One Shawnee a Wampanoag daughter and one I know not which.Problem with Indians is they had very poor documentation:-) The Cherokee seems to be the best chance at being legit.Problem is half of the geneaologists...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    Kind of like a person who says "What is Truth"? You ask them if they believe in absolutes and they respond No, Absolutely not:-)
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    No one descends from George Washington.He had no legitimate kids though his wife Martha Custis I believe had kids by an earlier marriage. I am apparently cousins too Him though since my 9th great grandfather was Augustine Warner and he was also Georges great grandfather. Also cousins to...
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    Garoutte Tavern in Historic Pleasant Mills, New Jersey

    The info I found states Garoutte was a fried of Lafayettes,could explain the name of the Inn.
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