Family Tree Project

Eugene Angie Sweeney, My Great Grandfather

I am working on a huge project that will never be completed, but is very interesting. Check out the family tree page--if you are part of the family, click on your name and start looking around. If you have any more information or something to correct, or if something published is too personal--let me know and I will fix it.

This information will eventually be made into a book, so if you want to be remembered for something e-mail me! I love getting new/old pictures or stories or little pieces of history that my kids', kids' kids will look at and imagine what kind of world we lived in.

Here is a little tidbit of history about my great great....(keep repeating great 10 times) Grandfather and Grandmother Richard and Mary:

"Richard must have been an unsavory character. On several occasions he was brought to court on various charges from stealing chickens to stealing hogs. He also was fined for fighting. Richard Hudson became familiar with the courts of Virginia. In May of 1636, Richard was accused by Barbary Hill of breaking into her house and stealing her poultry. The outcome of this case was not found. In August of 1637, Richard was ordered to pay John Holloway one bushel of corn to satisfy a debt.

In 1638, Richard Hudson and wife, Mary Hayes, were given twelve lashes for slandering Sampson and Alice Robins. The Robins were also given twelve lashes each for calling Mary Hayes "badd as salt bitch."

There are some good stories too:
"James Board was a Welshman. He came from Wales with his parents in 1730 when he was ten years old. James and Jane Ann lived in Franklin Township, New Jersey. He managed his father's Iron Works. He served inthe Revolutionary War, and was Commissioner of forfeited states in Bergen County in 1778 and 1779. He signed an Article including an "Abjuration of the Papacy" May 23, 1755. His house was known as a welcome and hospitable stopping-place for officers and soldiers of the Continental Army."