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Smith, Samuel, 1720-1776. Samuel Smith papers, 1748-1768.

Title: Samuel Smith papers, 1748-1768.

Consists of Samuel Smith's manuscript draft of The History of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and letters to Smith from Joseph Sherwood, New Jersey's Colonial Agent in England. There are also a few accounts and bills between Joseph Sherwood and the Colony of New Jersey, a power of attorney from Richard Partridge to Samuel Smith, and a copy made by Smith of Queen Anne's 1702 appointment of Edward Hyde (Lord Cornbury) as Governor of New Jersey with her instructions concerning the governing of that province. Sherwood's letters have been bound into one volume and are in loose chronological order dating from 1761-1768. They are addressed to Samuel Smith, and occasionally to New Jersey's Committee of Correspondence (made up of Samuel Smith, Robert Lawrence, John Wetherill, Charles Read, and Jacob Spicer), and report on political matters in England. The letters were written during the critical years before the American Revolution and refer to matters of possible concern to New Jersey, for example: the birth of George IV; various royal appointments; the death of Lord Egremont; the possible appointment of Lord William Pitt; resignations in Parliament; boundary disputes with the Colony of New York; Parliamentary grants; a cider tax; and the passing of various acts concerning trade, colonial-based troops, and the printing of paper money. The acts mentioned include the Currency Act and Revenue Act of 1764 and the Quartering Act and Stamp Act of 1765. Sherwood describes the tumultuous Colonial reaction to the Stamp Act and gladly informs Smith of its repeal. Sherwood also refers to Smith's History of the Colony of New Jersey, which was published in 1765.

ArchivalResource: 0.85 linear feet (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52360826 View

Forbes, W. Cameron (William Cameron), 1870-1959. Collection of family and historical documents, ca. 1680-1900

Title: W. Cameron Forbes collection of family and historical documents, circa 1680-1900

Forbes family materials and historical documents collected by the American businessman and ambassador W. Cameron Forbes.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01652/catalog View

New York colonial papers collection, 1664-1747.

Title: New York colonial papers collection, 1664-1747.

Miscellaneous minutes, speeches, letters, copies of oficial papers, and other material relating to various aspects of the history and administration of the colony of New York. Persons represented include Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon, George Clinton, Robert Hunter, John Montgomerie, and Henry Sloughter. Also includes papers concerning to New Jersey.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes.1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71132310 View

Philipse family. Philipse - Gouverneur family papers, [ca. 1653]-1874.

Title: Philipse - Gouverneur family papers, [ca. 1653]-1874.

Documents having to do with land holding in and around Yonkers and Westchester and Dutchess Counties, N.Y. The documents relate to the holdings of the Philipse, Gouverneur, Verplanck, Livingston, and other allied families. Included are grants, patents, deeds, indentures, transfers, wills, leases, accounts, maps, and records of civil and chancery court actions. Many of the documents bear the signature of Roger Morris, Sir Henry Clinton, General Sir William Howe, General William Tryon, Edward Viscount Cornbury (later, 3rd Earl of Clarendon), John Jacob Astor, and various members of the landholding families of the area. There is also a small group of reproductions of the Philipse and Gouverneur family portraits.

ArchivalResource: 174 items (3 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122514995 View

Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of, 1661-1723. Lord Cornbury collection, 1697-1709.

Title: Lord Cornbury collection, 1697-1709.

Collection of letters and official documents, 1697-1709, of Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (Lord Cornbury), chiefly pertaining to his activities as governor of the Province of New York.

ArchivalResource: 14 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58781791 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

https://jerseyhistory.org/0025-2 View

Seymour, Horatio, 1810-1886. Horatio Seymour papers, 1675-1915

Title: Horatio Seymour papers, 1675-1915

Papers contain business and other correspondence of the Bleecker, Abeel and Collins families of Albany, New York, from the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Also included are papers of General Jonathan Forman of New Jersey in the Revolutionary War and the Whiskey Insurrection; and papers relating to General John Godwin's estate. Two letters from Alexander Macomb and Alexander Hamilton to Rutger Bleecker are dated May 26, 1769 and April 5, 1797, respectively (Box 2).

ArchivalResource: 1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 large manuscript)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/496117550 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part I: The Revolution and the Administration, 1669-1958.

Autograph letters and documents of American political and military leaders collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 28 boxes (14 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01499/catalog View

Sunderland, Charles Spencer, Earl of, 1674-1722. Papers of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1704-1710 (bulk 1706-1710).

Title: Papers of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, 1704-1710 (bulk 1706-1710).

Selection of papers relating to the colonial affairs, accumulated by Sunderland during his tenure as secretary of state. Included are letters, communications, reports, etc. from the Board of Trade and colonial administration and legislative bodies, chiefly those of New Jersey and New York, with a few items from South Carolina, Virginia, and Massachusetts. Correspondents include Joseph Dudley, Lewis Morris, Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, and others.

ArchivalResource: 87 pieces.2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499707 View