Jacob Caywood was born about 1793 in England. He married a Katherine Headley, who was born in New Gretna. They were the parents of Joshua Caywood (1849-1921), and James Willet Caywood, b. 27 Oct 1842 in New Gretna, d. 24 Sep 1930 in Woodbury, NJ.

Josuah Caywood is buried in Weymouth. Jacob's other children were, in addition to Joshua:

• Mary J. Caywood, b. 1 Nov 1852, d. 1919
• Sarah Caywood, b. 23 Oct 1855
• Jacob Caywood, b. abt 1846

James Willet Caywood married Phoebe Eliza Mick ( b. 28 July 1849 at Martha Furnace; d. 16 Oct 1924 at Weymouth) on 10 Jan 1869 in Bass River. He was the son of Jacob Caywood and Katherine Headley and was born at New Gretna on 27 Oct 1842, died 24 Sep 1930 in Woodbury. Phoebe is buried in Weymouth. James may be the man listed as operating a sawmill at Sim Place in 1872. The children of Phoebe Mick and James Caywood were:

• Willett Hemingways Caywood, b. 31 May 1869 in Sim Place and died 10 Feb 1957, Somers Point Hosptial. He was a sawyer by occupation; later he worked making paper at Weymouth. His first wife was Mary Jane Perry; she died giving birth. Then Willett married Bessie Hoffman Pomelear abt 1907. (She was the daughter of John Pomelear and Annie Foster, b. 28 Jan 1885 in either Mays Landing or Double Trouble.) She died 11 Nov 1959 in Somers Point. His children by his first marriage were:
  • Eliza Caywood, b. 12 Oct 1893, d. 16 Sep 1981.
  • Sarah "Sadie" Elizabeth Caywood, b. 28 Dec 1891, d. 1965.
  • Mabel Caywood, b. 14 May 1896, married to John Brown (11 Feb 1893-14 May 1946)
  • Helen Caywood, b. 10 July 1898
  • Mary Hazel Bell Caywood, b. 29 Sep 1900
  Children from the second marriage were:
  • Rosana Caywood, b. 29 Apr 1920, Belleplain, NJ
  • Margaret Caywood, b. 23 May 1908
  • Willett Hemingway Caywood,jr., b. 18 Jan 1910; d. 24 June 1994, Hammonton. He married Thelma Gaskill (she died abt 11 Mar 1992 in Hammonton). He was in the Army Infantry in WWII, and he served in the Aleutian Islands. He is buried in Pleasant Mills, as his his wife. They had no children, but I have been contacted by a niece of his who remembers visiting him when he lived in Batsto. This was in the 1950s.
  • Pearl Caywood, b. 17 May 1911
  • Paul Caywood, b. 23 Dec 1914, Chatsworth, d. 3 Mar 1990 in Weymouth.
  • Almeda Caywood, b. 23 Sep 1916
  • Ruth Hester Caywood, b. 26 Feb 1923, Belleplain, NJ, d. 1 Nov 1988, Philadelphia.
  • Harvey Caywood, b. 1 Jan 1913, d. 15 Nov 1943. He did not marry.
• Harvey Caywood.
• Myrtle Caywood, who married a Mr. Gibson and died in New York State.
• Phoebe Anna Caywood, born in 1874. She married Fountain Gale and had:
  • Margaret Gale, married James Clifford Warburton
  • James Gale, married Pauline Hess
  • Myrtle Gale, married Leon Abbott Brown
  • Adelade Gale, who married Fred Langbein
  • Sarah Jane Gale, who married Albert Maurice Dougherty
  • George Gale, who married Esther Murphy
  • Pearl Maude Gale, who married Harry Gant
  • Hazel Idella Gale, died in infancy
  The family of Fountain Gale is also mentioned on the Weymouth page.
• Arabella Caywood, b. 1889, who married George Redfield.
• Jacob Caywood, b. 4 Apr 1871 and died in infancy
• James W. Caywood, b. 20 Jan 1877 and died in infancy