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Risdon family. Papers, 1794-1920.

Title: Papers, 1794-1920.

The bulk of the material relates to the settlement of Isaac N. Risdon's estate from 1860 to 1870, including his will, obituary, legal documents, household accounts, bills, deed, and records of income. Expenses accrued by Isaac's widow, Matilda, are included with the estate papers. Also included with Isaac Risdon's papers are his indenture as a tailor (1816) and bills for carpentry work (1838), repairs to a carriage (1843), and surveying lots (1858). Isaac's association with the Mount Holly Cemetery is recorded in the original deed for the property. Also relating to the cemetery are a hand drawn and colored diagram by the surveyor, Isaiah Wells, 1840; a notebook containing a list of tools at the cemetery in 1882 and what appears to be a list of burials in 1900; and letters written in the 1900s about the upkeep of the property and lots. Papers relating to Henry Risdon's Civil War activities feature information about the military affairs of Company C, 23rd regiment of the New Jersey Volunteers, ca. 1862-1865. They include muster rolls, pay vouchers, clothing inventories and returns, receipts for ordnance abstracts of expenditures, and other material on Civil War clothing and personal equipment. Many of the items contain the signatures of Risdon and other commanding officers. Risdon's military commissions are also included. Bills and receipts for purchases made by and services rendered to the Risdon Mutual Building and Loan Association document Henry Risdon's involvement with the association. It primarily purchased items to maintain buildings. Costs associated with advertising the sale of real estate in local newspapers are also noted. Several tax bills for Lumberton Twp. and water bills from the Mount Holly Water Company are included. The collection also contains checks and a receipt for the estate of Seth Batchelder (Henry Risdon was the executor), property deeds, a certificate issued to John Barras by the masons, the marriage certificate of Samuel Risdon and Elizabeth Nightingale, a pen and charcoal portrait of Henry C. Risdon, and a family Bible with birth, marriage, and death dates for several generations of Risdons.

ArchivalResource: ca. 400 items.

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