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Stevens family. Papers, 1663-1959.

Title: Papers, 1663-1959.

Correspondence, estate papers, genealogy, photos, and other papers. Correspondents include James Alexander, William Alexander, Lord Stirling, John Jacob Astor, Goldsbrow Banyar, Thomas Bartow, Clement Biddle, Horace Binney, Joseph Bloomfield, Elias Boudinot, David Bearley, Aaron Burr, Philip Carteret, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Cadwallader David Colden, John Colt, John Redman Coxe, William Coxe, Mahlon Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, Jonathan Elmer, Lewis Evans, Theodosius Fowler, William Franklin, Robert Fulton, Moore Furman, Alexander Hamilton, William Churchill Houston, Peter Augustus Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James G. King, Rufus King, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, John Lawrence, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, James Madison, Robert Hunter Morris, David Ogden, Ferdinand John Paris, Elisha Parker, James Parker (1725-1792), William Paterson (1745-1806), Charles Read, Moses Rogers, Nicholas Roosevelt, Perez Rowley, Richard Rush, Walter Rutherfurd, John Smyth, William Thornton, Robert Treat, and John Waddell.

ArchivalResource: 60 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600781 View

Poems and songs about New York under Governor William Cosby, 1734-1776

Title: Poems and songs about New York under Governor William Cosby 1734-1776

Collection consists of five satirical songs and poems, some likely in the hand of James Alexander, relating to affairs in New York under the administration of Governor William Cosby, 1732-1736

ArchivalResource: .1 linear foot (1 folder)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/15701 View

Bradley, Richard, d. 1751. Draft of bill in chancery, [1732].

Title: Draft of bill in chancery, [1732].

Draft of bill in chancery, the attorney general of the Province of New York Richard Bradley against Thomas Hanley (Hawley?), et al., 1732, in which the attorney general seeks to have vacated the grant of the contested Oblong Tract or Equivalent Lands to Hanley, Nathan St. John, Samuel Smith, Benjamin Benedict, et al., in favor of the more recent grant made in England.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (43 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58772559 View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. Records and accounts, 1719-1747.

Title: Records and accounts, 1719-1747.

A volume containing letters, copies of letters, receipts, accounts, and misc. memoranda relating to Alexander's work in behalf of the children of Gov. Robert Hunter and Gov. William Burnet, including minutes kept by Alexander which record travels, meetings, and various transactions relating to the same matter, and some personal affairs. Most entries are dated in the 1740s.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (200 p.) ; 9 x 13 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658532 View

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776. Cadwallader Colden Papers, 1677-1832 (bulk 1711-1775).

Title: Cadwallader Colden Papers, 1677-1832 (bulk 1711-1775).

Correspondence and papers (1692-1825) of Cadwallader Colden and other members of the Colden family. Many pertain to his activities and interests as Surveyor General of the Province of New York, Master in Chancery, Lieutenant Governor, moral philosopher, and scientist covering such topics as politics and government, Indian relations, physics, botany, etc.

ArchivalResource: 9.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476912237 View

Alexander family. Alexander papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786).

Title: Alexander papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786).

Personal, professional, legal, and financial papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786), of James Alexander, merchant, lawyer, and public official of colonial New York and New Jersey, James' wife, Mary Alexander, and their son, William Alexander, also known as Lord Stirling. Materials include correspondence, land surveys, mostly of properties in New Jersey, wills, deeds, conveyances, accounts, bills, receipts, invoices, sight drafts, time drafts, promissory notes, memoranda, writs, warrants, depositions, affidavits, briefs, legal opinions, legal arguments, judgements, minutes, and petitions. Series of court papers contains writs, warrants, motions, statements of case, pleas, dockets, indictments, etc., pertaining to court cases prosecuted during James Alexander's time as attorney-general of New Jersey or cases with which he was involved as part of his private practice. Also included in this series are the findings of Coroner's Juries. Court cases documented here include both civil and criminal cases heard before courts in New York and New Jersey, including the New Jersey Court of Chancery, the New Jersey Court of Vice-Admiralty, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the New York Court of Admiralty, and the New York Supreme Court. Papers relating to the New Jersey Proprietors principally concern the Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, for whom James Alexander served as agent. Material includes minutes of the Proprietor's meetings, reports, accounts, and memoranda; and relate to various aspects of the administration of the proprietorship, including the advertising, surveying, and sale of lands, and the distribution of dividends. Other material concerns the dispute between the Eastern and Western Proprietors over the exact location of the boundary between East and West New Jersey. Also included in this series is the diary, 1752-1775, of George Ryerse, who acted as the Eastern Proprietor's agent in Bergen County. Papers relating to the administration of the colony/state of New Jersey include drafts of legislation, instructions to the personnel of the Surveyor general's office, and copies of commissions issued to colony/state officials. Similar series of documents pertaining to the colony/state of New York include drafts of legislation, petitions, material regarding the establishment of the New York-Connecticut boundary, and material regarding the establishment of the New York-New Jersey boundary. Final series of business papers contains documents relating to the business affairs of individuals other than James, William, and Mary Alexander; including bills, accounts, receipts memoranda, etc. of a wide variety of persons. Included in this series is material created by or pertaining to a group of New York landowners collectively called the Second Nine Partners, Cortlandt Skinner, the merchant house of McVicker & Hill, New York Merchant Robert Snell, and merchants Andrew Bell and Peter Smitzer, both of Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 28 linear ft. (60 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475961269 View

Alexander Papers, 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786)

Title: Alexander Papers 1668-1818 (bulk 1717-1786)

The Alexander Papers is one of four discrete but closely related collections, known together as the Alexander - Stuyvesant - Rutherfurd Collections. The Alexander Papers consists of the papers of James Alexander, James' wife, Mary Alexander, and their son, William Alexander (Lord Stirling). Material includes correspondence, surveys of tracts of land, mostly in New Jersey, contracts, wills, deeds, conveyances, accounts, bills, receipts, invoices, sight drafts, time drafts, promissory notes, memoranda, writs, warrants, depositions, affidavits, briefs, legal opinions, legal arguments, judgments, minutes, and petitions.

ArchivalResource: 28.0 Linear feet; (60 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/alexander/alexander.html View

Miller, George Julius, 1895-1974. Papers, 1724-1960.

Title: Papers, 1724-1960.

Scrapbooks concerning Perth Amboy, Jewish life, and the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey; card files, notes, and writings on New Jersey colonial history and law; page proofs with marginal notes and corrections; bills, petitions, dockets, and other original court records of the Chancery of New Jersey (1724-1748), and of Middlesex County Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace (1744); documents signed by James Alexander, William Burnet, Fenwick Lyell, and Lewis Morris (1691-1746); and material on court cases pertaining to John Bowne, Daniel Coxe, Richard Salter, James Seabrook, and others.

ArchivalResource: 6 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954798 View

John Peter Zenger trial collection, 1733-1734

Title: John Peter Zenger trial collection 1733-1734

James Alexander (1691-1756) was counsel for John Peter Zenger during his trial for libel, 1734-1735, in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N.Y. Collection consists of papers relating to the trial of John Peter Zenger, written or collected by Alexander. Papers contain letters, notes, articles, legal documents, drafts written by William Smith, Zenger's second counsel, and related papers.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/37 View

Rutherfurd family. Rutherfurd family papers, 1721-1879.

Title: Rutherfurd family papers, 1721-1879.

Papers, 1721-1879 (bulk 1765-1840), consisting of correspondence, legal papers, deeds and land patents, record and account books, and miscellaneous papers. The material concerns members of the Rutherfurd, Alexander, and Reid families, who were related by marriage; the largest groups of material relate to James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), Walter Rutherfurd, and John Rutherfurd. There are also papers of mary Rutherfurd, in her capacity as executrix of John Rutherfurd's will. Much of the material has to do with the families' land holdings; members of all three families held shares in the Propriety of the Eastern Division of New Jersey, and in the Second Nine Partners Tract in New York. It includes surveys (including a volume of surveys of the Ramapo Tract in New Jersey dated 1767), rent rolls, memoranda about farms and tracts, legal papers, conveyances, and receipts (many for rents), as well as correspondence. There is a large group of letters relating to General John Reid's attempts to retain ownership of his American properties, which were under threat of confiscation because of his service in the British Army during the Revolution, including some from his daughter, Susanna Robertson; there is also material related to the settlement of his estate. There is another large group of letters from Judge Robert Morris, of New Jersey, and numerous letters from William Wilson of Clermont, which deal with Rutherfurd tenants in Little Nine Partners. Other people who wrote letters to members of the families include Cadwallader Colden, Lewis Morris, Robert Hunter Morris, and Thomas Penn. There is some material relating to the French and Indian War: Walter Rutherfurd's accounts for the 4th Battalion, 60th Royal American Regiment, and a list of provisions for the Niagara Expedition, probably created for William Alexander ca. 1759. Other papers include the will, dated July 28, 1715, of Governor Robert Hunter.

ArchivalResource: 20 boxes (ca. 1,500 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58776352 View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. Account book, 1773-1796.

Title: Account book, 1773-1796.

A volume containing legal notes by James Alexander; used as an account book in 1773 by his grandson, William Alexander Livingston; and as an account book by James Moore in 1774-1796.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658545 View

Parker, James, 1725-1797. New Jersey manuscripts, 1669-1840.

Title: New Jersey manuscripts, 1669-1840.

Correspondence, deeds, indentures, lottery tickets, certificates, and legislative documents, relating to royal government in colonial New Jersey, boundary dispute with New York, landed estates, and East and West Jersey Proprietors.

ArchivalResource: 399 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954903 View

Alexander papers. [Index to surveys in the area of Franklin, New Jersey].

Title: [Index to surveys in the area of Franklin, New Jersey]. [ca. 1757]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 49 x 70 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80197562 View

Burhans, Samuel. Kingston New York collection, 1671-1855.

Title: Kingston New York collection, 1671-1855.

Deeds, indentures, conveyances, account books, school records, church records, surveys, maps, correspondence, legal papers, etc., 1671-1855, pertaining to Kingston (formerly Esopus), New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58783346 View

Alexander papers. [Index to surveys in the area of Paterson, New Jersey].

Title: [Index to surveys in the area of Paterson, New Jersey]. [ca. 1757]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 49 x 70 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81936052 View

James Alexander letters, 1740-1750

Title: James Alexander letters 1740-1750

James Alexander (1691-1756) was counsel for John Peter Zenger during his trial for libel, 1734-1735, in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, N.Y.

ArchivalResource: 0.1; 1 folder

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/6570 View

Dalley, John. A map of the road from Trenton to Amboy / surveyed by Jno. Dalley.

Title: A map of the road from Trenton to Amboy / surveyed by Jno. Dalley. [between 1743 and 1756]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms., col. ; 41 x 98 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58657883 View

Gardiner, Richard. Wallkill survey papers, 1746-1754.

Title: Wallkill survey papers, 1746-1754.

Letters and land surveys (1746-1753), addressed to James Alexander, surveyor general of New Jersey, by Gardiner, who was ordered in 1746 to survey land at the Wallkill River and its branches to enable the Council of Proprietors to grant leases to settlers; and journal (1752-1754), kept by him during the survey, including map of lands near the New York boundary.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954672 View

Hunter, Robert, 1666-1734. Robert Hunter papers, 1699, 1710-1744.

Title: Robert Hunter papers, 1699, 1710-1744.

Correspondence and papers, 1699 and 1710-1744, of colonial governor Robert Hunter.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (ca. 200 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58782963 View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. Journal, 1718-1769.

Title: Journal, 1718-1769.

Journal kept at various times between 1718 and 1769 containing notes on astronomy and navigation, computations and observations at various places in New York and New Jersey, "memoranda preparatory to the transit of Venus, Baskenridge, June 1769," and a journal kept while running the division line between the provinces of New York and New Jersey, June-Aug., 1719 (29 p.). Also notes by his son, William Alexander on the transit of Venus, 1769 (p. 95-103). There are some illustrations and maps.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (ca. 140 p.) : ill. ; 8 x 13 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658531 View

Alexander papers. [Index to surveys in an unidentified area of 18th century New Jersey].

Title: [Index to surveys in an unidentified area of 18th century New Jersey]. [ca. 1757]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 49 x 99 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658388 View

Alexander, James. Records kept by James Alexander for the Corporation of monies received and paid out for soldiers' families, 1861.

Title: Records kept by James Alexander for the Corporation of monies received and paid out for soldiers' families, 1861.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (17 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29536381 View

Ulster County collection, 1666-1893 (bulk 1700-1800).

Title: Ulster County collection, 1666-1893 (bulk 1700-1800).

Compilation, 1666-1893 (bulk 1700-1800) of a number of miscellaneous manuscript collections relating to the early history of Ulster County (N.Y.). It consists mainly of land conveyances and material related to boundary disputes, but there are also other legal documents, maps, military papers, financial papers, and some correspondence. Some court documents include an appeal from Thomas Cumming to the court in Kingston, dated 1779, against a conviction of treason, and an indictment against an unmarried woman for the murder of her child. The collection includes material related to James Alexander, Sir Edmund Andros, Cadwallader Colden, Abraham De Peyster, John De Peyster, Peter Schuyler, William Smith, as well as material related to other members of these families and to the Harrison, Provoost, Beekman, and Van Cortlandt families.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 linear feet (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58781224 View

Stevens family. Stevens family papers, 1663-1959.

Title: Stevens family papers, 1663-1959.

This collection contains the papers of the Stevens Family, covering the years 1663 to 1959. The papers include business and financial records, legal records, as well as personal papers belonging to various members of the Stevens Family. The bulk of the papers mainly belong to Basil Stevens (fl.1818-1843), Edwin A. Stevens (1795-1868), Francis B. Stevens (d. 1908), Hon. John Stevens (1715-1792), Colonel John Stevens (1749-1838), Richard Stevens (1723-1802), and Robert L. Stevens (1787-1856). In addition to various members of the Stevens Family, documents by or pertaining to other prominent figures in New Jersey, and United States history are included in the papers. They include James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), John Jacob Astor, Goldsborow Banyor, Thomas Bartow, Clement Biddle, Horace Binney, Joseph Bloomfield, Elias Boudinot, David Brearley, Aaron Burr (1756-1836), Philip Carteret, DeWitt Clinton, George Clinton, Cadwallader David Colden, John Colt, John Redman Coxe, and William Coxe, Mahlon Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, Jonathan Elmer, Lewis Evans, Theodosius Fowler, William Franklin, Robert Fulton, and Moore Furman. Also: Alexander Hamilton, William Churchill Houston, Peter Augustus Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James G. King, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, John Lawrence, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, Robert R. Livingston, William Livingston, James Madison, Robert Hunter Morris, David Ogden, Ferdinand John Paris, Elisha Parker, James Parker, William Paterson (1745-1806), Charles Read, Moses Rogers, Nicholas Roosevelt, Perez Rowley, Richard Rush, Walter Rutherfurd, John Smyth, William Thornton, Robert Treat, and John Waddell.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54032219 View

Colden, Cadwallader, 1688-1776. Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to Peter Collinson, London, [Eng.], 1756 Apr. 23.

Title: Letter : New York, [N.Y.], to Peter Collinson, London, [Eng.], 1756 Apr. 23.

April 23, 1756, letter from Cadwallader Colden to his regular correspondent, Peter Collinson, a prominent London merchant and natural scientist, regarding Indian attacks and colonial defense during the initial stages of the French and Indian War, the death of a close friend, James Alexander, and revisions to his Principles of action in matter (published 1751).

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36646270 View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. Register of cases in New York Supreme Court, 1721-1742.

Title: Register of cases in New York Supreme Court, 1721-1742.

A volume described by Alexander as "A Doggett of all causes I have been concerned in defending in New York Supreme Court and whereof the costs have not been paid before January 1725-26 and continued after."

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (69 p.) ; 6 x 8 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58658534 View

Smith family. Papers, 1667-1960.

Title: Papers, 1667-1960.

Personal and business papers of Smith and allied families, collected by Philip Henry Waddell Smith. Correspondence with Woodrow Wilson and other papers (1902-1922) of Donald C. MacLaren, Presbyterian minister and educator; papers of John Waddell (1714-1762), New York merchant shipper and Loyalist; papers (1830-1881), of William Coventry H. Waddell, New York property owner and officeholder, relating to Board of General Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey and the New Jersey Harbor Company; freeholder list (1793) of Morris County, N.J.; and tax ratables (1798) and voting registers (1894-1903) of Hanover Township, N.J.

ArchivalResource: 60 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71013109 View

Chew family. Papers, 1735-1796.

Title: Papers, 1735-1796.

Correspondence and other documents of Benjamin, Joseph, and Beverly Chew, and of James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), William Duer, Nathanael Greene, Benjamin Lincoln, William Paterson, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and George Washington.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70956118 View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. John Peter Zenger trial collection, 1733-1734.

Title: John Peter Zenger trial collection, 1733-1734.

Collection consists of papers relating to the trial of John Peter Zenger, written or collected by Alexander.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122570817 View

Provoost family. Provoost family papers, 1736-1897.

Title: Provoost family papers, 1736-1897.

The Provoost family papers include a manuscript copy of David Provoost's genealogy of the Provoost family of New Amsterdam (compiled 1724), made by John Provoost in 1742, as well as two letters from John Provoost at Curacao to his parents dated 18 May 1736 and 21 June 1736, concerning shipment and prices of goods, addressed to his stepfather, James Alexander, in New York.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 39 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319638944 View

William L. Clements Library. George Clinton papers, 1697-1760, bulk 1745-1753.

Title: George Clinton papers, 1697-1760, bulk 1745-1753.

This collection contains the letters, documents, and accounts of George Clinton, colonial governor of New York. The bulk of the collection is comprised of drafts of Clinton's letters, incoming official letters, Clinton's letter book for 1752-1753, military memoranda, documents related to Indian affairs, and personal, government, and military accounts created during King George's War.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758450191 View

Alexander papers. [Index to surveys in the area of Ringwood, New Jersey].

Title: [Index to surveys in the area of Ringwood, New Jersey]. [ca. 1757]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 49 x 70 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79250340 View

Alexander, James, 1691-1756. James Alexander and William Alexander papers, 1711-1909 1711-1770.

Title: James Alexander and William Alexander papers, 1711-1909 1711-1770.

The Alexander Papers span the one hundred ninety-eight years between 1711 and 1909, and includes letters, letter copybooks, a journal, wills, deeds, newspaper clippings, account books, and wills. The journal series contains the earliest part of the collection. The single entry is a journal kept by James Alexander while on board H.M.S. Arundell from 1711 to 1713. The record books include listings for lands as early as 1664 and as late as 1764.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54092599 View

Alexander papers. [Index to surveys in the area of Port Jervis, New York, once claimed by New Jersey].

Title: [Index to surveys in the area of Port Jervis, New York, once claimed by New Jersey]. [ca. 1757]

ArchivalResource: 1 map : ms. ; 49 x 70 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83239061 View

Ulster County Collection, 1666-1893

Title: Ulster County Collection 1666-1893

A collection of 185 items relating to the history of Ulster County, New York. Materials mostly involve land conveyance and boundary issues, but there are also a number of legal papers, financial items and military documents.

ArchivalResource: 1.25 Linear feet; (9 boxes)

http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/nyhs/ulster/ulster.html View

Paris, Ferdinand John. Papers, 1686-1838.

Title: Papers, 1686-1838.

Correspondence, legal documents, and printed matter, relating to boundary disputes with New York, Elizabeth and Newark land riots, Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery, and both East and West Jersey Proprietors. Persons represented include James Alexander, Jonathan Belcher, Robert Hunter Morris, and John Pownall.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954946 View

Schuyler, Ann Elizabeth. Account book, 1737-1769.

Title: Account book, 1737-1769.

Account book, 1737-1769, of Ann Elizabeth (Staats) Schuyler, widow of Philip Schuyler, of New York City.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (512 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58775852 View

George Clinton papers 1697-1760 1745-1753 Clinton, George, papers

Title: George Clinton papers 1697-1760 1745-1753 Clinton, George, papers

This collection contains the letters, documents, and accounts of George Clinton, colonial governor of New York. The bulk of the collection is comprised of drafts of Clinton's letters, incoming official letters, Clinton's letter book for 1752-1753, military memoranda, documents related to Indian affairs, and personal, government, and military accounts during King George's War.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-333cli?rgn=main;view=text View

American Philosophical Society Library. Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection. 1668-1983.

Title: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection

Though the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection is composed of items that do not fall readily into any other existing collection, the two dominant intellectual areas represented in the collection are Early American History and History of Science.

ArchivalResource: 25.0 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml View

New York City deeds collection, 1642-1921.

Title: New York City deeds collection, 1642-1921.

A collection of deeds to properties in New York City, 1642-1921. One box contains 44 deeds related to the property of James Alexander in Broad Street; another box contains papers related to litigation by Derick Dey about some land on Broadway. The Dey material includes field notes, and notes on the costs of the case, 1731-1734,

ArchivalResource: 8.00 linear feet (20 boxes, 2 oversize)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58782941 View

Parker family (Perth Amboy, N.J.). Parker family papers, 1676-1946 1760-1820.

Title: Parker family papers, 1676-1946 1760-1820.

This collection documents the personal and business dealings of the Parker family of Perth Amboy and spans the years 1676-1946, with bulk dates of 1760-1820. Specific family members that are documented include James Parker (1725-1797), James Parker (1776-1868), and Cortlandt Parker (1818-1907).The collection consists of the family's correspondence, diaries, land surveys and transactions, legal papers, architectural drawings, wills, poetry, deeds, and indentures. Of special note are late eighteenth and early nineteenth century documents pertaining to trade with the West Indies, as well as petitions and counter-petitions concerning canal construction in Newark in 1837. Documents and correspondence of the following individuals are included in the papers: James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), Robert Allen, John Barberie, Robert Barclay, Andrew Bell, Ryneir Blanchard, Elisha Boudinot, Gilbert Budd, John Cochran, John Cooley, James Duane, Azariah Dunham, William Dunlap, Hamilton Fish, Nathan Ford, P.W. Freame, William Churchill Houston, Richard Howell, Robert Hunter, Andrew Johnston, Abraham Kitchel, Robert R. Livingston, Walter Livingston, William Livingston, Thomas Millidge, Samuel D. Morford, Lewis Morris, Richard R. Morris, Robert Hunter Morris, Cortlandt Parker, Elisha Parker, James Parker, William Paterson, John Penn, Richard Penn, Thomas Penn, John Reade, John Rutherford, David A. Ryerson, James Silver, John Stevens, Richard Stevens, Richard Stockton, Peter D. Vroom, and Peter Young.

ArchivalResource: 7 linear ft. (13 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54032516 View

Alexander papers. [Index to surveys in the area of Somerville, New Jersey].

Title: [Index to surveys in the area of Somerville, New Jersey]. [ca. 1757]

ArchivalResource: 1 map on 2 assembled sheets : ms. ; 49 x 99 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79385576 View

George I, King of Great Britain, 1660-1727. LS : London, to William Burnet, 1724 Feb. 7.

Title: LS : London, to William Burnet, 1724 Feb. 7.

Orders the preparation of letters patent for James Alexander as attorney general of New Jersey. Countersigned by John Carteret, secretary of state.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122633544 View

Stevens family. Papers, 1669-1959 [microform].

Title: Papers, 1669-1959 [microform].

ArchivalResource: 16 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122503452 View

Burnet, William, 1688-1729. William Burnet papers, 1720-1742 (bulk 1720-1729).

Title: William Burnet papers, 1720-1742 (bulk 1720-1729).

Three folders (62 items) of mostly official signed documents from Burnet's tenure as governor of New York and New Jersey, including land grants, warrants for letters patent, memorials, leases, receipts, bills, and lists of accounts. James Alexander is a frequent co-signer and correspondent, and the collection also includes several bonds from Alexander to Burnet for fairly large sums of money. A few later documents discuss the distribution of Barnet's estate.

ArchivalResource: 3 folders (62 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/706457818 View