I recently got a phone call from a local co-researcher asking me about my
Great Great Grandfather, Jacob Andrew. She wanted to know if he owned or just
operated a cannery at New Bridge just across the line in Caroline County. I was
always told he owned it but had not taken the time to research the land records
to see if that was really so. She didn't think he owned it but just operated
it. So, I decided to drop everything and see if I could find something - right
then - of course late in the evening. Ahhh, the Denton Journal. Well, there the
answer was along with a complete insight into a large part of his life. All
through the newspapers.
1875
1887
1892
1894
I found numerous things, but these
few indicate that he and his family were running a store at Doane's Landing or
Coward Point on the Tuckahoe, after the fire he was over in American Corner's
and by 1892 he was building the cannery at New Bridge and in 1894 expanding the
business.
We know that after giving up the
cannery business he crossed the Tuckahoe and lived on a farm near Matthewstown
in Kingston where he was living when his health began to fail. I'm so glad a
inspired me to FINALLY look into all of this.
