Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Glossary of Place Names
Chapters
1. Founding a Community of Whaler Yeomen, 1609-1699
2. Whaler Yeoman Ascendancy, 1700-1765
3. Revolution and the New Nation, 1764-1800
4. Cape Island and Dennus Creek, 1801-1849
5. The Railroad and the Civil War, 1850-1878
6. Settlement of the Barrier Islands, 1879-1900
7. Progress and World War, 1901-1919
8. Prohibition, Depression, and the New Deal, 1920-1938
9. A Wartime and Postwar Resort Community, 1939-1961
10. A Resort Community in Transition, 1962-1992
Appendix A. The Thirty-Five Whaler Yeoman Families
Appendix B. Intermarriage among the Whaler Yeoman Families, 1700-1799
Appendix C. Manumissions of Slaves, 1802-1834
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
Photographs follow Chapter 5
Maps, pages 22, 67, 124, 220

About the Author

JEFFERY M. DORWART is a professor of history and former chair of the history department at Rutgers University, Camden. He has written a number of books including Camden County, New Jersey: The Making of a Metropolitan Community (Rutgers University Press) and, most recently, The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age.