Histories of New Jersey residents whose ancestors were Quakers and their union with "outcasts from other religious communities" who fled to the area to escape punishment for crimes are described. A state of "guerrilla warfare" existed between the Pineys' criminalistic tendencies and their moral neighbors. The contrast is also drawn between the lazy characteristics of the Pineys and the immigrants who worked hard, became rich, and maintained the patriarchal family structure. The study conclusion, vague but eugenic in implication, is that the Pineys constitute a separate species, distinct in morals and manners and that sexual immorality makes the human degenerate a profound menace to social order. 1 figure.