Records, 1755-1828.

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Records, 1755-1828.

Correspondence with associated Baptist churches in New Jersey, as well as a few in Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. Includes letters from individual New Jersey congregations nominating their representatives to the annual meeting in Philadelphia and occasionally in New York; seven letters (1760-1764, 1790), of Rev. Isaac Eaton, founder of the public grammar school in Hopewell, N.J.; and resolution from a Baptist convention concerning the John Quincy Adams-Andrew Jackson presidential race (1828).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8050666

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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Philadelphia Baptist Association

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