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Otto Wolgast, according to the Delaware Historian J. Thomas Scharf, is the ancestor of the Wilgus family of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and Salisbury, Maryland. [8]The Wilgus Site, named after the descendants of Otto Wolgast, is a prehistoric Native American camp site in coastal Sussex County, Delaware, near Bethany Beach.
The society provides free access to a research library with unique special collections. The collection includes work on Delaware genealogy, maps, and Underground Railroad as well as a letter from George Washington to Caesar Rodney. [4] Senator William V. Roth's widow donated all of his papers to the library. [5]
This is a list of notable hereditary and lineage organizations, and is informed by the database of the Hereditary Society Community of the United States of America.It includes societies that limit their membership to those who meet group inclusion criteria, such as descendants of a particular person or group of people of historical importance.
The Delaware Finns, or The First Permanent Settlements In Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey And Eastern Part of Maryland. (New York : The Humanity Press. 1925) Benson, Adolph B. and Naboth Hedin, eds. Swedes in America, 1638-1938 (The Swedish American Tercentenary Association. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 1938) ISBN 978-0-8383-0326-9
Mickley, Joseph J. (1881) Some Account of William Usselinx and Peter Minuit: Two individuals who were instrumental in establishing the first permanent colony in Delaware. The Historical Society of Delaware. Myers, Albert Cook, ed. (1912). Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey, and Delaware, 1630–1707. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
Interested in history, Grubb was a director of the Delaware Historical Society and in 1896 delivered a paper on history of the Delaware Judiciary from Colonial times. He also compiled an extensive family genealogy and met with his distant cousin, Civil War General Edward Burd Grubb to share research. Both the General and the Judge believed that ...