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Parker family. Papers, 1680-1936.

Title: Papers, 1680-1936.

Correspondence, diaries, land surveys and transactions, wills, deeds, indentures, and other legal papers, poetry, and architectural drawings. Family members include James Parker (1725-1797), lawyer and agent for East Jersey Proprietors, and for Hunterdon and Sussex County, N.J., properties of Sir Robert Barker, absentee British landlord; James Parker (1776-1868), a director of Delaware and Raritan Canal Company; and Cortlandt Parker (1818-1907), Newark lawyer active in Whig and Republican politics. Persons represented include James Alexander, William Alexander (Lord Stirling), Robert Allen, John Barberie, Robert Barclay, Andrew Bell, Ryneir Blanchard, Elisha Boudinot, Gilbert Budd, John Cochran, James Duane, Azariah Dunham, William Dunlap, Hamilton Fish, 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, Elisha Parker, William Paterson, John Penn, Richard Penn, Thomas Penn, John Reade. John Rutherfurd, David A. Ryerson, John Stevens, Richard Stevens, Richard Stockton, Peter D. Vroom, and Peter Young.

ArchivalResource: 7 ft.

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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

New Jersey Historical Society. Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1664-1956

Title: Manuscript Group 25, Miscellaneous Manuscripts, 1664-1956

Correspondence and other documents of the following persons, many prominent in New Jersey history: Samuel Aaron, A.J. Auten, Frank Bergen, Elias Boudinot, Joseph P. Bradley, Benjamin Brewster, Viscount James Bryce, James Buchanan, William Burnet, John Calvert, Frederick A. Canfield, Philip Carteret, Joseph R. Chandler, Abraham Clark (1726-1794), Grover Cleveland, William Colgate, Silas Condict (1766-1848), Franklin Conklin, Henry Cothreal, Philemon Dickerson, Amzi Dodd (1793-1838), Zephaniah Drake, Alfred E. Driscoll, William Duer, Thomas Alva Edison, Lucius Q.C. Elmer, Edward Everett, Cyrus W. Field, Frederick Frelinghuysen, Philip Freneau, Jay Gould, Charles J. Guiteau, Edward Everett Hale, Alexander Hamilton, Francis Hopkinson, Josiah Hornblower, Richard Howell, Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury), J.N. Joralemon, Philip Livingston, William Livingston, John D. Long, Seth Low, George B. McClellan (1826-1885), Alexander Macwhorter, James Monroe, Robert Morris (ca. 1745-1815), and William A. Newell, Charles S. Olden, Cortlandt Parker, James Parker (1725-1797), William Paterson, (1745-1806), William Pennington, Mahlon Pitney, Rodman M. Price, William Rankin, Henry Remsen, and John D. Rockefeller. Other persons represented include Caesar Rodney, John Rutherford (1760-1840), Winfield Scott, Jared Sparks, James Speed, Richard Stockton (1764-1828), Edward C. Stokes, Charles C. Stratton, J.S. Sutter, Daniel D. Tompkins, Joseph Trumbull, Samuel Tucker, George Vail, Elias Van Arsdale, Ralph Voorhees, Peter Dumont Vroom, Theodore Dwight Weld, William A. Whitehead, William Carlos Williams, John Wood, George Wurts, George Wythe, and Isaac Young.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet

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Parker, James, 1725-1797. New York and New Jersey boundary dispute collection 1663-1872.

Title: New York and New Jersey boundary dispute collection 1663-1872.

Abstract of documentary evidence (1663-1748); application for the royal approval act of assembly for running the line (1753); correspondence and other documents of James Parker (1725-1797), relating to proceedings before a commission appointed to settle the boundary between New York and New Jersey in 1769 (arranged by William A. Whitehead in 1860 and 1872); interrogatives and cross-interrogatives by agents from New York and New Jersey in 1769; letters and documents relating to boundary negotiations of 1827-1828, including letters of Lucius Q.C. Elmer, Theodore Frelinghuysen, John Rutherfurd (1760-1840), Richard Stockton (1764-1828), and Isaac H. Williamson; and material on the controversy respecting the eastern boundary of New Jersey between John Cochran, H.B. Dawson, and William A. Whitehead (1865).

ArchivalResource: 8 v.

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Stuyvesant family. Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd papers, 1775-1917 (bulk 1840-1917).

Title: Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd papers, 1775-1917 (bulk 1840-1917).

Correspondence, account books, deeds, commissions, bills & receipts, misc. papers, photographs, and printed material, 1647-1909, of various members of the related Stuyvesant, Rutherfurd, and allied families, particularly Gerardus Stuyvesant (d.1777), Nicholas William Stuyvesant (d.1780), Peter Stuyvesant (d.1805), Nicholas William Stuyvesant (1769-1833), Peter Gerard Stuyvesant (1778-1847), Walter Rutherfurd (1723-1804), John Rutherfurd (1760-1840), Robert Walter Rutherfurd (1788-1852), Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816-1892), and Rutherfurd Stuyvesant (18431̲909). --The following is included: correspondence & papers, 50 items 1647-1700, and almost entirely in Dutch, concerning Govert Loockermans (d.1671), a N.Y. official; business papers, 1740's, and fabric samples of Mary Alexander; 78 p. log book of several voyages between Perth Amboy, N.J. and the West Indies, 1750-52; 14 letters, 1781-85, to Peter Stuyvesant from Loyalist Myles Cooper (1737-1785) in London and Edinburgh; 2 family account books, 1789-99, of Walter and Catherine Rutherfurd; 2 account books, 1797-1829, concerning Peter Stuyvesant and his estate; 5 letters, 1812-13, from John Jay to his son, Peter Augustus Jay; much correspondence, 1840's-60's, between Lewis Morris Rutherfurd and his son, Rutherfurd Stuyvesant; 18 pocket diaries of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1869-89; and in the later period, correspondence & papers of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant relating to the operation of his Tranquillity Farm in Warren Co., N.J., his interest in arms and armor, and yacht "Arcturus".

ArchivalResource: ca.2,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/476439914 View

White, Anthony Walton, 1750-1803. Papers, 1752-1841.

Title: Papers, 1752-1841.

Correspondence and legal documents of White and members of the White and Evans families, of New Brunswick, N.J., and vicinity.

ArchivalResource: 35 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955097 View

Rutherfurd, John, 1760-1840. John Rutherfurd papers, 1726-1835 (bulk 1775-1835).

Title: John Rutherfurd papers, 1726-1835 (bulk 1775-1835).

Papers, 1775-1835, consisting principally of material relating to John Rutherfurd and his father, Walter Rutherfurd. The collection also contains small amounts of material concerning John Duncan, Alexander Hamilton, General John Reid, and Alexander McDonald, as well as material related to two institutions with which John Rutherfurd was affiliated, the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures, and the Corporation for the Relief of Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Protestant Episcopal Church. It consists of business correspondence, legal papers, and accounts, mainly concerning the Rutherfurds' landholdings in New York and New Jersey. The legal papers include powers of attorney from British officers and other people living outside the United States, leases, and deeds. There are also some field notes and surveys of tracts in various counties in New Jersey. Subjects include legal disputes; sale and lease of lands; tenants and rent collection; sheep farming and wool (the collection includes some samples of wool); roads and bridges in New Jersey, including some drawings of a proposed bridge between New Jersey and Pennsylvania; and the estate of General John Reid. A group of letters from the Rev. John Frederick Ernst inquires about settling members of his congregation in the Chenango Tract. There are also some abstracts of legislation about the New Jersey - New York boundary, and a map of a turnpike route through New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58776374 View

Nelson, William, 1847-1914. Manuscript collection, 1690-1875

Title: Manuscript Group 23 William Nelson (1847-1914), Lawyer and historian Manuscript Collection, 1690-1875

Letters and documents purchased at the auction of the William Nelson manuscript collection; typescripts of interviews with residents of Paterson, New Jersey and its environs, made and transcribed between 1873 and 1885.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 linear feet

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Van Blarcom, John. Papers, 1772-1822.

Title: Papers, 1772-1822.

Letters and other documents, some signed by Azariah Dunham, John Stevens (1716-1792), John Rutherfurd (1760-1840), and Walter Rutherfurd.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955079 View

Political papers, 1755-1972.

Title: Political papers, 1755-1972.

Correspondence, chiefly of 19th century political figures, including letters received by Aaron Ogden Dayton (1796-1858), lawyer and public official; Henry Dearborn (1751-1829), U.S. secretary of war and U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (1783-1851), lawyer and U.S. representative from Massachusetts; Ebenezer Elmer (1752-1843), New Jersey state legislator, U.S. representative, and adjutant-general of New Jersey Militia; John Lambert, New Jersey state legislator from Hunterdon County; and Enos Thompson Throop, lawyer, judge, U.S. representative, and governor of New York; letters of Frederick and Frederick T. Frelinghuysen; letter (1799) to John Rutherfurd from Gouverneur Morris; business letters (1797-1798) to Abraham Watson from William Gray, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts; drafts of letters (1831) and letter (1828) to James Fenimore Cooper by Samuel Lewis Southard (1787-1842), jurist, U.S. secretary of the navy, U.S. senator, and governor of New Jersey; investigation of the accounts (1755-1756) of William Shirley (1694-1771), governor of Massachusetts; cartoons (1915-1958), chiefly political, of Archibald D. Chapin; Victor A. Sapio's computer printouts (1972) of roll call votes of lower house of New Jersey Legislature (1800-1812); reports, resolutions, convention proceedings, propaganda, and other papers (1937-1939), of Communist Party of New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 80 items, 1 quarter box, and 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28412620 View

Rutherfurd Family Papers, 1721-1879

Title: Rutherfurd Family Papers 1721-1879

The Rutherfurd Family Papers is one of four discrete but closely related collections, known together as the Alexander-Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd Collections. The Rutherfurd Family Papers contain material created by or pertaining to members of the Rutherfurd and Alexander families of New York City and New Jersey, and the Reid family of New York City and Great Britain. The collection is arranged into series for each of the members of the respective families represented in the collection. The principal subseries within each of these series are: Correspondence; Legal Papers; Accounts, Bills, Receipts; and Surveys.

ArchivalResource: 8.6 Linear feet

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Rutherford family. Papers, 1723-1883 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1723-1883 (inclusive).

"Personal and business accounts, 1792-1803, and receipt book entries, 1796-1804, of Walter Rutherford (1723-1804). Accounts, lists, and notes, 1783(1792)-1798, of (Sussex County, New Jersey?) farms owned by John Rutherford (1760-1840), including rents, tenants' credits for produce and services, occupancy agreements, etc. Lists and notes, 1869-1870, of real estate (Sussex and Warren Counties, etc.) and securities holdings of John Rutherford (1810-1871), with additions to 1883 by his widow and executrix, Charlotte Rutherford (nee Livingston)."

ArchivalResource: 3 v.

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Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. Surveyor General. Surveyor General's Fee-Book, 1788-1798.

Title: Surveyor General's Fee-Book, 1788-1798.

Double-entry fee book, sums of returns are recorded as an "open-book" account. Entries include: Elisha Boudinot, William Burnet, Aaron Burr, John DeLancey, Azariah Dunham, James Drummond the Earl of Perth, Peter Knott, Peter Van Brugh Livingston, James Parker, the heirs of Richard Penn, "Ramopock Committee," Gen. John Reid, John Rutherfurd, Anthony Sharp and his heirs, Joseph Sharp, John Stevens, and others.

ArchivalResource: 40 leaves, 31 cm., stitched, paper covers.

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Erskine, D. Estate papers, 1759-1959.

Title: Estate papers, 1759-1959.

Correspondence and other papers (1759-1800) of D. Erskine, James Morris, and Walter Rutherfurd, relating to the estate of James Drumond, Earl of Perth, proprietor of lands in East Jersey; claims of Isaac and Philip Freeman and other papers (1812-1822), relating to the estate of John Journeay, of Staten Island, N.Y.; inventory, sale list, and accounts (1809-1818), pertaining to the estate of Aaron Melick (Malick), of Bedminster Township, N.J.; receipt book (1866-1871) kept by Alexander Nichols, of Newark, N.J., as administrator of a trust fund; journal (1789-1790) kept by James Parker (1725-1797) as administrator of the estates of Sir Robert Barker in Greenwich and Alexandria, N.J.; records (1854, 1958-1959) relating to the estate of John Rutherfurd (1760-1840), including reports and maps of Benjamin Roome, Horatio N. Gustin, and William Paterson, and correspondence of Benjamin Tuttle and Henry E. Pierrepont; and vendue book (1831), relating to the estate of Daniel Tichenor (1757-1831) for which Ashbel W. Corey was executor; account book (1864-1870) for the estate of John Whitehead, lawyer, of Essex County, N.J.; and accounts and receipts (1832-1836), pertaining to the estate of Johnson Ward, carpenter, of Newark, N.J.

ArchivalResource: 21 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954642 View

Rutherfurd family. Papers, 1760-1845.

Title: Papers, 1760-1845.

Correspondence, documents, and writings.

ArchivalResource: 75 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955007 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

Bell, Andrew, 1757-1843. Papers, 1742-1850.

Title: Papers, 1742-1850.

Diary (1778) kept during the march of the British Army through New Jersey and Battle of Monmouth; register (1788-1842) of East Jersey land surveys; cashbook (1801-1808); and financial records, land surveys, maps, and letters (1804-1842) addressed to Bell as surveyor general and to John Rutherfurd.

ArchivalResource: 3 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70956081 View

Bell, Andrew, 1757-1843. Letters received, 1797-1839 (inclusive).

Title: Letters received, 1797-1839 (inclusive).

Letters received, in part concerning the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 11 items (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122616573 View

Ide, John Jay, 1891-1962,. John Jay Ide collection, 1772-1984.

Title: John Jay Ide collection, 1772-1984.

Ide's collection of correspondence, articles, accounts, pamphlets, clippings, issues of periodicals, engravings, photographs, cabinet cards, essays, household expense books, a a manuscript, and other papers related to the Jay family (1772-1984). Correspondence is mainly of and between members of the family of Peter Augustus Jay; relations by marriage, including the Banyars, Rutherfurds, and Clarksons; and friends and business acquaintances.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (3 boxes and loose material)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58757972 View