The Folwell Family of Mullica Hill: History and Memories

This revealing family story traces the history of the Folwell family from their Quaker roots in England to their arrival in America where they settled in the colony of West Jersey in 1678. Later in the 1750s, when the southern Jersey wilderness opened up, the Folwell family moved to Mullica Hill, where the heart of the story lies. As a family memoir, the book presents a detailed account of eight generations of Quaker Folwells in America among them a Quaker 49’er, a Civil War veteran, the prosperous owners of large Philadelphia woolen mills and a famous football coach. The story covers not only the Folwell family and their farms, but the Mullica Hill community from the early family farming days, through the author’s boyhood, when plows were still pulled by horses, through Depression-era struggles to keep the family estate and farms to the challenges presented to the author, a pacifist by WWII and his life beyond. This narrative, as charmingly told by Robert Cook Folwell III, is filled with anecdotes and personal reminiscences about a way of life that has all but disappeared. It is a colorful history of one family’s American experience which will be of interest to many who are discovering their family stories.