Documents relating to lawsuits, 1844-1847.

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Documents relating to lawsuits, 1844-1847.

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The records consist of two legal documents from the suit of William Van Hook against the company, which resulted in its liquidation. The first is a deposition filed in the original trial before the Court of Chancery (1844) and the second is the final decree from the court of Errors and Appeals (1847).

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New Jersey. Court of Errors and Appeals

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New Jersey. Court of Chancery

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The State Bank at Trenton (N.J.) was incorporated in 1812 and operated until May 16, 1825, when it suspended payment. From the description of Complaint in the case of State Bank at Trenton vs. Abner Reeder, et al., 1826. (Hagley Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122458725 The Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad Company was chartered March 3, 1854, with authority to construct a railroad from some point on Raritan Bay and through the countie...

Somerville Manufacturing Company.

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The Somerville Manufacturing Company was incorporated in New Jersey in 1837 with the power to engage in any of a number of branches of textile and metal manufacture. The object was to utilize the water power of the Raritan River at what is now Raritan, N.J., just west of Somerville. The company was able to attract the screw-making factory of Thomas William Harvey, inventor of the gimlet-headed screw, which was relocated from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. The company failed in the depression of 1839-1843 an...