"From twelve to twenty persons make up the average caravan to-day, although in some cases the bands number fifty or sixty. A very large band is the famous one of which old Chivodine Lovel is the chief. Every year Lovel’s band comes North and camps between Newark and Elizabeth, N. J., in the woods by the Boulevard. These Lovels are over sixty in number. At one time they were suspected of having abducted Charley Ross, but the fair-haired boy found in their camp and supposed to be little Ross was proved a nephew of old Chivodine, and is now heir apparent to the chieftaincy."
Richard Veit. Historical Archaeology 55(3), July 2021, pp. 400-420.
"The study is based on visits to 950 New Jersey cemeteries (Veit and Nonestied 2008:267–274) over a 10-year period (1997–2007) and detailed fieldwork in four burial grounds associated with the Gypsy, or Romany, people. Cemeteries for study were identified based on either published references that referred to Gypsy burials in these cemeteries or from markers that made specific reference to Gypsy identity. Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, Hillside or Bottle Hill Cemetery in Madison, Rosedale Cemetery in Linden, and Evergreen Cemetery on the Hillside/Newark/Elizabeth border were examined in detail (Fig. 1). While all these burial grounds contain Romany burials, Rosedale and Evergreen have sections that are primarily devoted to Gypsy burial." Rutgers-restricted Access