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This folder contains miscellaneous items including source materials used to create the PD Family Tree website as well as other items of interest connected with some of the individuals and families. Many of the documents are PDF files created from original writings. Researchers are welcome to browse through whatever may seem to be of possible use.

Please note that some material may have been removed from certain documents due to content referring to living or recently deceased persons. When this has been done, there is a note to that effect at the appropriate location in the document. Any removed material that was in any way deemed signficant has been retained privately by the webmaster.

Small set of documents containing source material for several members of the Baldwin family, particularly Henry ("Harry") Welling BALDWIN (1859-1921) and Frank BALDWIN (1880-1959). Details about the contents on the first page.

Pictures, description, and links concerning the photo of the high school class of
Catherine Julia BALDWIN "Kay" PITT (1916-2016) taken in Washington D.C. on May 3, 1934.

Records related to Elmwood Cemetery in New Brunswick, New Jersey where a number of generations of the Pitt, Lawrence, Slayback, and French families are buried.

Information, with links, concerning houses built and/or owned by persons listed in this website that are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Details regarding handwritten version of one of the letters of Andrew Hardie, executed for his role in the 1820 Radical War in Scotland, found among the papers of John Lawrence (1839-1912).

Census records from New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1860 and 1870 listing members of the Lawrence family.

Summary of the Military History of John Lawrence (1839-1912) and
James LAWRENCE (1837-1885).

Information about the writing a speaking concerning the Civil War done by John Lawrence (1839-1912) during the latter stages of his life.

Extensive handwritten notes with details about Leigh and other family lines including, but not limited to Morrell, Packer, Bellis, and Quick. The notes were compiled some years ago by Leigh descendants closely connected with the family lines covered in this P D Family Tree website.

Family members serving in or associated with the military during wartime.

Information about and history of a number of military artifacts passed down by 'PD Family Tree' ancestors.

Extensive handwritten notes with details about Morrell and other related family lines. The notes consist of a combination of documents compiled some years ago by a Morrell descendent know to someone described in this P D Family Tree website together with notes by Morrell descendants directly connected with the family lines covered in this website.

Extensive gallery encompassing selected photos depicting members of the Morrell family and other related families including but not limited to Clement, Gulick, Leigh, Packer, and Savidge.

Pictures and notes regarding the Buddy L Outdoor Railroad, made in approximatedly 1926, that belonged to Larry Pitt when he was a child.

Resolutions adopted by the New Jersey Conference of the Epworth Leage following the death of and in tribute to Sherman Grant PITT (1864-1928.

Census records and other discussions detailing the early members of the Pitt family in the United States who are covered in this website. The information has a considerable amount of detail about the family of William PITT (1788-1873).

See also Pitt/Walters Article from Approximately 1921.

Links to locations significant in the career of John Lawrence PITT (1894-1962).

Copies of Diplomas Earned by Lawrence Walters PITT (1918-2002).

Copies of diplomas earned by Sherman Grant PITT (1864-1928).

Miscellaneous copies of original documents relating to Sherman Grant PITT (1864-1928).

Married couple and engaged in a number of ventures over the years including the following:

          Performing as a musical duo known as The Wrinkled Ramblers

          Publishing of a youth ice hockey magazine known as Hockey's Kids

          Owners and operators of Maine Motel and Cabins

Article about John Lawrence PITT (1894-1962) discussing, amount other things, the Pitt ancestry and the Pitt and Walters connection. The article was orginally published in a History of Monmouth County, New Jersy [sic], 1664-1920, Volume 2 as republished by Google Books.

Description of the events of December 28, 1928 when John Lawrence PITT (1894-1962) and
Gladys Walters PITT (1895-1965) discovered the body of a murdered state police officer.

Rough outline representing the beginnings of a Ryan family tree compiled by a Ryan relative. Contains some dates and other details concerning ancestors from the Ryan family as well as Leigh, Morrell, Packer, Quick, and others.

Semi-fictional narrative describing the Slayback (Schlabbach) family's migration to the New World for religious freedom.

Some material has been removed due to content referring to living or recently deceased persons. None of this material was considered significant enough to retain since all details are already reflected in the P D Family Tree website.

Record of marriage of Britton SLAYBACK (1818-1881) and Sarah Ann BOGUE (1827-1893)
on July 2, 1845. (Please Click 'Slayback-Bogue Marriage' Link Above to View the Document.)

Thomas-Brant-Athy (Athey) and Others

Many members of the Spence family and other families related to them are noted in this website as having been interred in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Greenwood-Cemetery, founded in 1838, is a National Historic Landmark. You may click HERE for an article about it which was published April 22, 2021 by Find a Grave. You may also click HERE to view the article if you have a problem with the link to the Newsletter page.

Detailed information from the census records concerning William Spence (1832-1908).

Rough family tree chart concerning the Jones Family, depicting, among other things, the relationship to the Spence Family.

Miscellanous documents relating to the indicated families and others. Included are the wedding certificate for the wedding of William Frederick Spence and Mary Louise Thomas; the wedding certificate and announcement for the wedding of Florence Victoria Spence and George Staples Jones; pictures of the engraving plates for and the New York Times announcement of the wedding of William Lloyd Spence and Dorothy Gertrude Tighe; and a confirmation record for George Lodge Tighe.

Landmarks Preservation Commission 1990 letter concerning the designation of the stables buildings at 130 and 132 West 18th Street in Manhattan where William Spence (1832-1908) was employed by Gibbs Family.

Discussion of the current status of the research into the Stone and Rollins ancestry of Gertrude Stone.

Partial family tree chart depicting the relationship of selected early members of the indicated families and others.

           Ancestry Records for Joseph N. WALTERS (1859-1936)