Records, 1732-1773.

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Records, 1732-1773.

Correspondence, land surveys, lists of land sales, and deeds. Correspondents include William Coxe, Daniel Elmer, John Hunt, David Johnston, Lewis Johnston, Henry Lane, John Lane, Joseph Mico, James Parker (1725-1797), John Smyth, Jacob Spicer, and Henry Young.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8050759

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Lane, Henry, active 18th century

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Hunt, John, active 1768-1770

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Mico, Joseph

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Parker, James, 1725-1797

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James Parker (1725-1797), the son of Janet Johnstone (d.1741) and John Parker (1693-1732), served on the northern frontier during the French and Indian War as a young man. Sometime after 1746, he left the army and partnered with Beverly Robinson and Andrew Johnston in a mercantile business. The company traded with the West Indies and in 1750-1751, Parker traveled to Jamaica for business reasons. Soon after this trip he settled in Perth Amboy, New Jersey to manage the family estate, which include...

West New Jersey Society

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Johnston, David, active 1769-1770

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Elmer, Daniel, -1755

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Smyth, John, 1722-1786

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Loyalist lawyer and treasurer of East Jersey, and later, New York City; register to the Council of Proprietors of East Jersey; clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Middlesex County; examiner in Chancery; taken prisoner early in Revolutionary War by order of General Heard; released on parole; fled to New York when British evacuated New Jersey. Born in New Jersey in 1722, died in London, 1786. From the description of Accounts, 1778-1783. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldC...

Coxe, William, 1762-1831

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William Coxe (1762-1831), a pomologist, was one of the foremost fruit growers in America who experimented with new varieties of fruits at his home in Burlington, New Jersey. He collected specimens from the United States and abroad. A view of the cultivation of fruit trees in America is classic of American pomological literature. It is considered by many specialists as the illustrative evidence of fruit culture during the colonial and revolutionary period of the new American nation. William A. Ta...

Johnston, Lewis, 1704-1773

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Young, Henry, active 18th century

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Spicer, Jacob, 1716-1765

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Merchant, farmer, and landowner, of Cape May County, N.J.; member of the New Jersey Provincial Assembly, (1744-1765). From the description of Will, 1762 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70975895 Jacob Spicer, the only child of Sarah and Jacob Spicer, was born in Cold Spring Inlet, Cape May County, New Jersey in 1717. Jacob married Judith Hughes, the daughter of Humphrey Hughes, and together they had four children: Jacob, Sylvia, Sarah, and Judith. After his wife's death...

Lane, John, of New Jersey

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