Thomas WorrellThomas Worrell is a descendant of the Jones ironmaster family of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, whose holdings once encompassed over 44,000 acres spanning Burlington and Ocean Counties. In 2005, his grandmother - the last surviving heir of the Jones lie - handed him a bundle of family documents that included deeds, letters, and a nineteenth-century survey map of the Jones Tract. That afternoon launched twenty years of archival research through the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Stockton University's Special Collections, and the online Pine Barrens research community, as well as connections with living cousins scattered across the country. What began as a family genealogy became The Line of the Black Water, a six-novel historical fiction series tracing the Jones family from 1680s Wales through twenty-first-century New Jersey. The series draws on over five hundred primary source documents - census records, Civil War letters, land deeds, pharmacy ledgers, and personal correspondence - to reconstruct the lives of the people behind the papers. Worrell is a member of the Florence Township Historical Society and the Pemberton Township Historical Society. He is the owner of Indoor Air Services, LLC, and lives in Florence, New Jersey - the same town where his ancestors operated the Florence Iron Works in the nineteenth century. Read More Read Less