Mellick draws from family and other hitherto unpublished papers many pictures of social life to tell a story of the manners and customs and the political history of the Colonial and Revolutionary periods in East New Jersey.
The genealogy contains a full record of the Moelich-Malick-Melick-Mellick family, following five ancestral lines from five different emigrants, and in addition is given the posterity of Jacob Kline and Richard Field, of Hunterdon County, N. J., and Simon Himrod and Bethnel Vincent, of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.