This book contains research on the Snyder, Andruss, Nichols and Whitenack (Weydknecht) families of New Jersey. It specifically relates to John Snyder (son of Killian Snyder and Christina Herrick) and Almira Andruss and their offspring, William Wallace Snyder (1847-1915). It also describes the branch of the Whitenack family that settled in Somerset County, NJ, and the branch of the Nichols family from Newark, Essex County, NJ.