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Vroom, Peter Dumont, 1791-1873. Peter D. Vroom papers, 1783-1891.

Title: Peter D. Vroom papers, 1783-1891.

This collection consists of general correspondence from 1783-1869, individual legal case files from 1813-1891, letter books from 1840-1857, personal financial records from 1813-1861, diaries from 1850-1874, subscription and nominations lists from 1832-1868, and written personal opinions from 1822-1870. The collection also contains record books from various New Jersey churches, organizations, and individuals from 1821-1856 and Supreme Court cases from 1840-1894. Included in this collection are materials from prominent people in New Jersey history, including: Robert Adrain, Andrew Allen, William T. Anderson, Augustus W. Bell, John S. Blauvelt, Joseph P. Bradley, Lewis Cass, Salmon P. Chase, Cadwallader Colden, John S. Darcy, Edward Nicoll Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, Amzi Dodd, Andrew Dutcher, Alphonse L. Eakin, Lucius Q.C. Elmer, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Daniel Haines, William Halsey, Joseph C. Hornblower, Richard W. Howell, John P. Jackson, P.B. Kennedy, James S. Nevius, Charles Parker, James Parker, Joel Parker, William Pennington, Stacy G. Potts, Joseph F. Randolph, Theodore F. Randolph, George M. Robeson, John M. Sherrerd, Samuel L. Southard, Robert Field Stockton, Elias Van Arsdale, Martin Van Buren, James Vroom, John P. Vroom, Garret D. Wall, Marcus L. Ward, Asa Whitehead, and Isaac H. Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 20 linear ft. (42 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54025984 View

Vroom, Peter Dumont, 1791-1873. Papers, 1820-1893.

Title: Papers, 1820-1893.

Correspondence, diaries, case files, and other papers, reflecting Vroom's career as a lawyer in Schooleys Mountain, Hackettstown, Flemington, Somerville, and Trenton, N.J., state legislator, governor, congressman, U.S. minister to the court of Prussia (1854-1857), and law reporter for the New Jersey Supreme Court (1865-1873), and his activities in the Whig Party and Dutch Reformed Church.

ArchivalResource: 20 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955084 View

Frelinghuysen family. Papers, 1815-1924.

Title: Papers, 1815-1924.

Correspondence and other documents, relating to politics, temperance, and reform. Correspondents include Benjamin F. Butler, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, George C. Frelinghuysen, Theodore Frelinghuysen, William Nelson, Edmund Perry, Jacob S. Thomson, William A. Whitehead, and Isaac H. Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 23 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954670 View

Williamson, Isaac H. (Isaac Halsted), 1767-1844. Isaac H. Williamson and Benjamin Williamson papers, 1772-1904.

Title: Isaac H. Williamson and Benjamin Williamson papers, 1772-1904.

This collection consists mostly of legal documents and case records. Also included in this collection are incoming letters, newspaper clippings, survey maps, and financial receipts. The correspondence consists of letters from Enoch Abel, James W. Arrowsmith, Ezra Baker, John Colt, Roswell L. Colt, Silas Condit, Charles David, Smith Scudder, Samuel Shotwell, Charles Sitgreaves, Elias Van Arsdale, Asa Whitehead, Thomas R. Wood and A.B. Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft. (7 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54028828 View

Alexander, Archibald, 1772-1851. Alexander family collection, 1855-1914.

Title: Alexander family collection, 1855-1914.

Consists of family correspondence, autobiographies, biographies, genealogical records, manuscripts, poems, sermons, a map, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, a scrapbook of letters, resolutions, and other documents relating to the death of the Reverend Henry Carrington Alexander; and a photocopy of a picture of Mrs. Isaac Halsted Williamson (grandmother of James Waddel Alexander, 1839-1915); all relating to the Alexander family.

ArchivalResource: 0.40 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/609703250 View

Williamson, Isaac H. (Isaac Halsted), 1767-1844. Papers of Isaac and Benjamin Williamson, 1782-1904.

Title: Papers of Isaac and Benjamin Williamson, 1782-1904.

Legal correspondence and documents; and casebook (1794). Correspondents include Enoch Abel, James W. Arrowsmith, Ezra Baker, John Colt, Roswell L. Colt, Silas Condit (1778-1861), Charles David, Smith Scudder, Samuel Shotwell, Charles Sitgreaves, Elias Van Arsdale, Asa Whitehead, Thomas R. Wood, and A.D. Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 4 ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70955103 View

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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70954919 View

Jackson, John Peter, 1805-1861. Correspondence, 1828-1860.

Title: Correspondence, 1828-1860.

Chiefly letters received by Jackson; together with one from him to his daughter, Mary (Jackson) Henry. Correspondents include Henry Clay, Philemon Dickerson, Edward Everett, Cyrus W. Field, Hamilton Fish, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Charles G. McChesney, Senator James Alfred Pearce, William Pennington, Samuel L. Southard, and Governor Isaac H. Williamson.

ArchivalResource: ca. 29 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28415905 View

Williamson, Isaac H. (Isaac Halsted), 1767-1844. [Commissions, 1821-1824 in the New Jersey militia] / [issued by] Isaac H. Williamson.

Title: [Commissions, 1821-1824 in the New Jersey militia] / [issued by] Isaac H. Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 21 x 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8713805 View

Jackson, John P. (John Peter), 1805-1861. Letters received, 1828-1860 (inclusive).

Title: Letters received, 1828-1860 (inclusive).

Letters, 1828-1860, received from various correspondents, and letter, 1846, sent to his daughter Mary.

ArchivalResource: ca. 29 items (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122570692 View

Elizabethtown Library Company (N.J.). Elizabethtown Library Company records, 1792-1812.

Title: Elizabethtown Library Company records, 1792-1812.

This collection consists of invoices and receipts for the acquisition of books. It also consists of book acquisition and missing book lists, an autograph collection of members, and record sheets of member's subscription payment history. Most of the invoices and receipts were signed by Elias B. Dayton, treasurer, and Jonathan Dayton. Later receipts were signed by W.R. Williamson, treasurer. Subscribers of record on the subscription lists include John Chetwood, David Austin, Jeremiah Ballard, Caleb Halsted, Shepard Kollock, Jonathan H. Lawrence, Isaac Morse, Robert Munn, Aaron Ogden, John C. Rudd, Samuel Smith, Isaac Williamson, and Lewis Woodruff.

ArchivalResource: 46 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53872928 View

Wall, Garret D. (Garret Dorset), 1783-1850. Garret D. Wall papers, 1809-1841.

Title: Garret D. Wall papers, 1809-1841.

This collection consists of handwritten letters, ten outgoing letters from Garret D. Wall and two incoming letters. The correspondence dates are from 1809 until 1841. Most of the letters discuss issues pertaining to Wall's legal practice and profession, with comments regarding financial and legal matters. Two of the letters are from Wall, as U.S. Senator, to J.K. Paulding, Secretary of the Navy, recommending individuals for appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy. One letter is from Senator Wall to Secretary of the Navy Mahlon Dickerson recommending an individual's appointment to Navy Surgeon.

ArchivalResource: 12 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53141597 View

Wall, Garret D. (Garret Dorset), 1783-1850. Papers, 1785-1870 (bulk 1807-1850).

Title: Papers, 1785-1870 (bulk 1807-1850).

Letters received, 1799-1850; legal documents, 1805-1850, pertaining to cases handled by Wall; financial documents, including vouchers, 1816-1819, as treasurer of the Trenton Township Committee; papers, 1811-1835, concerning estates (of George Holcombe and Barnes I. Smock) settled by Wall; and miscellaneous other papers. Also letters received, 1847-1867, by son James W. Wall and miscellaneous papers lacking an obvious Wall family connection.

ArchivalResource: .8 cubic ft. (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122374185 View

Lane, Wheaton J.,. Collection of historical correspondence, 1796-1897.

Title: Collection of historical correspondence, 1796-1897.

Artificial collection of handwritten correspondence, much of which pertains to legal matters, including numerous letters sent to or written by persons in New Jersey (e.g., several letters sent to residents of Trenton). The largest quantity of letters is addressed to Peter D. Vroom (13 letters: January 1846-July 1852), including an 1851 letter from Bennington F. Randolph. Others of the letters are addressed to Thomas Fletcher of Philadelphia (7 letters: 1814-1841), Jonathan Rhea (3 letters: 1796-1811), Garret D. Wall (2 letters: 1845-1846) or Mrs. Jane Snyder of Ulster County, New York (5 letters and 2 other items: 1841-1868). Among the other recipients are Nicholas Belleville (1 letter: 1827), Charles Ewing (1 letter: 1825), James S. Nevius (1 letter: 1847), Ebenezer Tucker (1 letter: 1834) and Isaac H. Williamson (1 letter from Garret D. Wall: 1828?). Additional letters include three (1828-1831) written by a Mr. W. Dewees (?) of Washington, D.C., to different individuals. Many of the remaining letters are truly miscellaneous, such as the single examples written by Basil Hall (1836), Samuel Adams Drake (1890, concerning copyright legislation) and James Ford Rhodes (1897). Two or three unrelated envelopes are also present.

ArchivalResource: .2 cubic ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122374178 View

Williamson, Isaac H. (Isaac Halsted), 1767-1844. Papers, 1817-1846 (inclusive).

Title: Papers, 1817-1846 (inclusive).

Letters received, 1817-1844, relating to legal matters and Wiliamson's service as governor; bill of sale, 1826, for four slaves purchased by Williamson; and receipts, 1844, 1846, including one for advertising in, and a subscription to, the New-Jersey Journal.

ArchivalResource: 26 items (1 folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122566750 View