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 PRESENTED BY 
 
 \AjAXilLc\Aw TV,tJLMrY\ 
 
FIFTY YEARS 
 
 OF 
 
 HISTORICAL WORK 
 
 IN 
 
 NEW JERSEY. 
 
 All A.Mi-ess delivered before the New Jersey Historical Society, at its 
 Seini-Centennial Celebration, at Newark, May i6, 1895.' 
 
 By WILLIAM NELSON, 
 
 With a Bibliography of the Society. 
 
 PATERSOX. N. .1.: 
 
 The Phkss Pkin-'ii.ng and Pubmshinc; Co.. -.'(iit M.m.\ .s-i 
 
 1898. 
 
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With compliments of 
 
 WILLIAM NELSON. 
 
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In the latter part of the year 1S93 the writer suggested to 
 the Rev. Dr. George S. Mott, then one of the Vice Presidents 
 of the Society, that some notice ought to he taken of the ap- 
 proaching semi-centennial anniversary of the New Jersey His- 
 torical Society, but he did not care to agitate the subject him- 
 self, as it would naturally bring to him, as Corresponding Sec- 
 retary, an unwelcome addition to his already onerous labors. 
 Dr. Mott, however, with characteristic enthusiasm, took up 
 the idea, and brought the subject to the attention of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee, which body at once perceived the import- 
 ance of commemorating the coming event on a large scale. 
 The scope of the celebration gradually widened. A large 
 committee of members was appointed to arrange all the de- 
 tails, and was thus organized : 
 
 Chairman — Franklin Murphy. 
 
 On Arrangements — William R. Weeks, Charles Brad- 
 ley, John Whitehead, Theodore Coe, Francis M. Tich- 
 enor, John F. Dryden. 
 
 On Speakers — Samuel H. Pennington, M. D., LL. D., 
 Frederick W. Ricord, David A. Depue, LL. D,, Gar- 
 ret D. \\'. Vroom, F. \Volcott Jackson. 
 
 On Lwited Guests — Nathaniel Niles, Gen. William S. 
 Stryker, Rev. George S. ^lott, D. D. 
 
 Secretary and Treasurer — Ernest E. Coe. 
 
 In connection with the celebration of the centennial of the 
 inauguration of George Washington as the first Piesident of 
 the United States, April 30th, i 7S9, the Society had ordered a 
 medal to be struck, and a copy in gold to be presented to Ben- 
 jamin Harrison, who was inaugurated President in 18S9. It 
 was decided to make this presentation a feature of the semi- 
 centennial of the Society, if Gen. Harrison's presence could be 
 secured. 
 
 The exercises were held at two o'clock in the afternoon of 
 May i6th, 1S95, in the Essex Lyceum in Clinton street. New- 
 
ark, the Society tlien having no building of its own, and its 
 rooms being entirely unfitted for a large meeting. The spacious 
 hall was filled by a very large and representative audience, from 
 all parts of the State, and included many distinguished guests 
 from beyond New Jersey. 
 
 The programme was very simple, consisting of an address 
 by the writer, an address by Prof. Woodrow Wilson, Ph. D., 
 LL. D., of Princeton University, on " The Course of Amer- 
 ican History ;" presentation of the Gold Medal referred to 
 above, to Gen. Benjamin Harrison, President of the United 
 States, 18S9-1S93, the medal being presented in a ringing his- 
 torical address by Austin Scott, Ph. D., LL. D., President of 
 Rutgers College, recounting some striking passages in New 
 Jersey's annals, whereby this State had become " A Highway 
 of the Nation;" and a felicitous reply by Gen. Harrison. 
 
 When the writer was invited to deliver the historical ad- 
 dress on the occasion, he accepted, with the condition on his 
 part that he should not l)e expected to occupy more than fifteen 
 minutes in its delivery, being allowed to expand the address at 
 his discretion in the printing. When published it was inten- 
 tionally made very fuli , in order that it should present a (de- 
 tailed historv of the Society, even at the risk of being tedious. 
 In the present form the 1 19 pages given in the Proceedings and 
 Collections of the Society are expanded to 133 pages. A few 
 additional illustrations are also given. 
 
 This semi-centennial celebration aroused a great revival of 
 interest in the Society, and was in a large measure the means 
 of giving a marked impetus to the movement for acquiring the 
 property of the Newark Library Association on West Park 
 street, which was ultimately accomplished, whereby the Soci- 
 ety was enabled in 1900 to move from the overgrown quarters 
 where it had languished for forty years, into the splendid and 
 spacious building it now occupies. 
 
SYNOPSIS. 
 
 Faut I. — Iloir the W(iy was Prepared. 
 
 First Works ou New Jersey Histor}', 4. — Foreign historiaus, 
 5.— The Swedish Settlements in New Jersey, 6.— Gordon's 
 History and Gazetteer, 7. — Bancroft's thrilling eloquence, 8. 
 —Nicholas Murray— William A. Whitehead, 8.— Fenwick's 
 Colony, 10.— A Fascinating Puzzle, 10.— Barber and Howe's 
 Historical Collections, II.— Trenton.- Old Gloucester, 12.— 
 The First Dutch Settlers of New Jersey, and their fair dealings 
 with the Indians, 13.— Failures Culminating in a Larger Suc- 
 cess, 15. 
 
 Paet IL — Organization of the Xew Jersey Historical ,Societi/. 
 Efforts to induce the Legislature to procure from foreign offices 
 documents relating to New Jersey, 15-16.— First meeting to or- 
 ganize the Society, 16.— Names of those present, 17.— Bio- 
 graphical sketch^'s of the Presidents of the Societj', 1845-1895: 
 Chief Justice Joseph Coerten Hornblower, 18; James Parker, 
 19; Richard Stockton Field, 20; John Rutherfurd, 21; Rev. 
 Ravaud Kearny Rodgers, 22; Chancellor Henry W. Green. 23; 
 Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D. D., 25; John Clement, 26; Sam- 
 uel H. Pennington, M. D., LL. D., 28.— Some Vice Presidents 
 of the Society : Richard Gibbon Johnson, 30; Gov. Peter D. 
 Yroom, 31; Stacy Gardiner Potts, 32; James Gore King, 32; 
 William Alexander Duer, 32; William Lewis Day ton, 33 ; Wil- 
 liam Burnet Kinney, 34; Peter S. Duryee, 35; John T. Nixon, 
 36.— The Corresponding Secretaries: William Adee Whitehead, 
 37; Stephen Wickes, M. D., 41.— Deceased Recording Secreta- 
 ries: Joseph P. Bradley, 43; Dr. John S. Condit, 45; David Ab- 
 bott Hayes, 47 ; Adolphus Pennington Young, 47. The 
 
 Treasurers and Librarians: Thomas J. Stryker, 48; James 
 Ross, 49; Solomon Alofsen, 49; Col. Robert Smith Swords, 50; 
 Thomas Gordon, 51; Samuel H. Cougar, .">2; Martin R, Den- 
 nis, 53; Frederick William Ricord, 54. — Some members of 
 the Executive Committee: Rev. Daniel Veach McLean, D. D., 
 55; Rev. Nicholas Murra\-, D. D., 56; Archer Gifford, 57 
 
 Page 
 
SYNOPSIS. 
 
 Page 
 Bev. Eli Field Cooley, 58; Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, 58; 
 Et. Rev. George Washington Doane, D. D., LL. D., 59; Elias 
 Biilej' Dayton Ogdeu, 59; Rev. John Maclean, D. D., 60; 
 Littleton Kiikpatrick, 60; Gov. Daniel Haines, 61; Other 
 members of the Committee, 61-62. — Other Friends of Promi- 
 nence, 63-64. 
 
 Part III. — The Society's Lihrary. 
 The gathering of the Library, 67.— Some of its treasures, 69.— 
 Contests over the Location of the Library, 70-73. —The Libra- 
 ry is finally located at Mewark, in Upper Library Hall, in 1849, 
 72.— Growth and Management of the Library, 74-77.— Support- 
 ed by private subscriptions, 77. —The Library removed in 1860 
 to the Newark Banking Company's building, where it remained 
 forty years, 74.— Temporary Librarians employed, 77-80.— A 
 permanent Librarian appointed, in 1881, 80. — Statistics of 
 the Library's growth, 82.— Effoits to secure a permanent 
 home for the Society, in 1852, 83.— A site purchased, in 
 1854, 84. — Subscribers therefor, 85. — Resolutions to build, 
 adopted in 1859, 1867, 1871, 1887, 1889, 85-95.— Propositions 
 looking toward the removal of the Library from Mewark, 90, 
 92, 94, 98. — Movement to secure the Newark Library Associa- 
 tion's building, 96-97. 
 
 Part IV. — The Society's PiiUicntions. 
 The "Proceedings" of the Society, character and terms of pub- 
 lication, 99.— The "Collections:" I. East Jersey under the Pro- 
 prietary Governments, 103 ; II. Life of William Alexander, Earl 
 of Stirling, 103; III. Provincial Courts of New Jer.sey, 104; IV. 
 Papers of Gov. Lewis Morris, 104; V. Analytical Index to Docu- 
 ments relating to New Jersey, 110-114; VI. Records of the 
 Town of Newark, 105; Newark Bi-Centennial, 1C7; VII. History 
 of New Jersey under the Constitution of 1776, 107.— The New 
 Jersey Archives, 110-120. —The Committee on Colonial Docu- 
 ments, 121. 
 
 Part Y. — Other Work of the Society. 
 
 Local Historical Societies, 122. —Extended Census Statistics, 124. 
 — The Centennial Celebration of 1889, 124. —The Centennial 
 Medal, 127. — Importance of Permanent Funds for carrying on 
 the Society's Work, 131. 
 
 Notes.— Manuscript Collections, 133. — Donations of special inter- 
 est, 134.— Portraits, 135.1— Abstract cf the Society's title to the 
 
 1 The bust of the Princess Pauline Bonaparte, referred to on page 136, proved 
 on examination to be merely a metal casting, painted white, and which was set 
 up in the gardens of the ex-King of Spain at Bordentown. The marble bust by 
 Canova was sold at the auction sale of Joseph Bonaparte's effects, at Bordentown, 
 Sept. 18. 1845, for $260. to Mr. Flnndin. according to a priced copy of the sale cata- 
 logue in the writer's possession. 
 
SYNOPSIS. 
 
 West Park street lot, Newark, 136. i— List of the Society's invited 
 guests, iu the Naval Parade, April 29, 1889, li2.— Details as to 
 the Ceuteanial Me.lal, size, weight, cost, contributors to, and 
 subscribers for, 148-150. 
 Bibliography OF THE Society. I. Constitution and bj--laws, 151. 
 II. Proceedings, 151. III. Collections, 157. IV. New Jersey 
 Archives, 158. V. Separate addresses, 160-165. 
 
 Page 
 
 Index to the Bibliography lf,9 
 
 General Index . . . . , 275 
 
 1 This abstract also includes the early history of the title to the Newark Li- 
 brary Associations property adjoining the Society's lot. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 ^ Joseph P. Bradley, Recording Secretary, 1845-1847 Opposite page 43 
 
 v' Aaron Burk, Vice President of the United States, from the portrait 
 
 by Stuart, iu the Society's Library, l 135 
 
 Ernest E. Coe, Recording Secretary, 1894-1897 97 
 
 4 John Clement, Eighth President of the Society, 1890-1894 32 
 
 ■i John S. Condit, M. D., Recording Secretary, 1847-1848 45 
 
 n' Samuel H. Congar, Librarian, 1852-1872 53 
 
 J Richard S. Field, Third President of the Society, 1869-1870 20 
 
 Henry W. Green, Sixth President of the Society, 1875 108 
 
 Edmund D. Halsey, member of the Committee on Colonial Docu- 
 ments, 1894-1896 122 
 
 ■• Rev. Samuel McClintock Hamill, D. D., Seventh President of the 
 
 Society, 1876-1889 26 
 
 ' Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States, 1889-1893.2 . . 125 
 
 / David Abbott Hayes, Recording Secretary, 1848-1875 47 
 
 ••'Joseph C. Hornblower, First President of the Society, 1845-1864. Title 
 
 /Rev. George S. Mott, D. D., Vice President, 1890-1897 144 
 
 \' Franklin Murphy. Chairman of the Committee on Semi-Cent en- 
 
 nial Celebration . . 9 
 
 J William Nelson, Recording Secretary, 1880-1890; Corresponding 
 
 Secretary, 1890-1902 3 
 
 -i Nathaniel Niles, the author of the original appropriation for the 
 New Jersey Archive.s, and the originator of the Society's Wash- 
 ington Centennial Medal 116 
 
 V CoRTLANDT Parker, solc survivor of the original members of the 
 
 . Society 17 
 
 ■J James Parker, Second President of the Societj', 1865-1868 12 
 
 J Samuel H. Pennington, M. D., LL. D., Ninth President of the So- 
 ciety, 1894-1896 29 
 
 •J Frederick William RicoRD, Treasurer and Librarian, 1881-1897.. 54 
 ■■I Rev. Ravaud Kearny Rodgers, D. D., Fifth President of the 
 
 Society, 1872-1875 72 
 
 John Rutherford, Fourth President of the Society, 1871 23, 61 
 
 >i Austin Scott, Ph. D., LL. D., Vice President of the Society 121 
 
 1 By the courtesy of Small, Maynard & Company, of Boston. 
 
 2 By the courtesy of D. A. Appleton & Company, of New York. 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 ^ Thomas J. Strykek, Treasurer, 1845-1848 Opposite page 48 
 
 , William S. Stryker, LL. D., Tenth Presitleut of the Society, 1896- 
 
 1900 80 
 
 ■ Peter D. Vroom, Vice President of the Society, 1845-1851 88 
 
 , William C. Wallace, the oldest member of the Society at the Semi- 
 centennial Celebration (see page 28, note) C4 
 
 William E. Weeks, Kecordiug Secretary, 1891-1894 150 
 
 Stephen Wickes, M. D., Correspoudins; Secretarj', 1885-1889 41 
 
 . Prof. WooDROw Wilson, Ph. D. , LL. D 128 
 
 V William A. Whitehead, Corresponding Secretary, 1845-1884 37 
 
 Index to Bibliography 169 
 
 General Index . 175 
 
WILLIAM NELSON 
 
Mr. President, and Friends, of the Nciv Jersey IJistorieat 
 Society : 
 When the invitation was extended to me two or three 
 weeks ago, to prepare for this occasion an address review- 
 ing the work of the Historical Society in the past fifty 
 years, I confess that it staggered me. Visions immedi- 
 ately arose in my mind of statistical tables, giving the num- 
 ber of books, of pamphlets, of newspapers, of portraits, 
 pictures and manuscripts in the collections of the Society; 
 of the number of volumes of Proceedings, of the pages in 
 each volume, of the long lists of papers read at the hun- 
 dred or more meetings during the last half century; of the 
 men who had been instrumental in founding and carrying 
 on its work — noniina venerabilia — and among them how 
 difficult to select those deserving special mention without 
 doing injustice to others. All these and countless other 
 details going to make up the visible evidence of the work 
 of the New Jersey Historical Society, came into my mind. 
 And with them came the thought that while many would 
 linger tenderly over the names of those men who have 
 passed away, and would recall with pleasure the voice, the 
 smile, the inspiring word of many a one who has long since 
 gone over to the majority ; while the younger students of 
 history might be pleased to have pointed out to them the 
 treasures of information buried in our printed Proceedings, 
 such details as these are apt to be tiresome upon an occa- 
 sion like this. And so, submitting these ideas to your 
 committee, I accepted their invitation with the express 
 
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 proviso that I should be excused from dwelling upon these 
 minuticX, and instead be indulged in speaking somewhat 
 informally regarding the origin, the progress, and the work 
 of the New Jersey Historical Society. 
 
 In these latter days of persistent investigation regard- 
 ing the origin of things, it is proper to recognize the fact 
 that if this Society, like Minerva, sprang into being full 
 grown, it nevertheless had its germinal period, during which 
 attention was gradually directed to the fact that the early 
 settlement and government of New Jersey presented many 
 phases of peculiar interest, and hence arose a desire for 
 fuller knowledge. 
 
 PART I. 
 How the Way was Prepared. 
 
 " what's past is prologue." 
 
 Industrious Persons, by an exact and scrupulous Dilis<ence and Observations, 
 out of Monuments. Names, Words. Proverbs, Traditions, Private Records and 
 Evidences. Fragments of Stories, Passages of BooIjs that concern not Story, and 
 the like, do save and recover Somewhat from the Deluge of Time.— Bnco/i,Aif7'n/iri- 
 tiient of Learning., Book II. 
 
 The first work lo present the original sources of infor- 
 mation on these topics was the invaluable compilation of 
 Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, published in 1758, and 
 embracing the Grants and Concessions of the first English 
 Lords Proprietaries, with other documents, legislative enact- 
 ments, and miscellaneous records, covering the period 
 from the Grant of King Charles I., in 1664, to the surren- 
 der by the Proprietaries to Queen Anne, in 1702. It is 
 not unlikely that the publication of this collection induced 
 Samuel Smith, of Burlington, to undertake a history of 
 New Jersey and Pennsylvania, of which the portion relat- 
 ing to our State was printed at Burlington, by James 
 
Parker,' in 1765, with the title, " History of the Colony of 
 Nova Cresaria, or New Jersey." This admirable work sets 
 forth many previously unpublished documents and letters, 
 particularly in relation to the settlement of West Jersey, 
 chiefly by Friends.'- It is to be regretted that the author 
 onl)' brought the narrative down to 1721. 
 
 FOREIGN IIISTORI.VNS. 
 
 An additional contribution to our early history appeared 
 in Chalmers's "Political Annals, "'Mn 1780, followed two 
 years later by the same author's " Introduction to the Re- 
 volt of the Colonies." The former work, however, was 
 costly and ponderous, and the latter was immediately sup- 
 pressed by the writer,^ so that neither was readily available 
 to the student. More philosophical in character, and writ- 
 ten in a spirit of sympathetic appreciation, was Grahame's 
 History,'' the first two volumes of which appeared in 1827; 
 the second volume gave a concise but clear view of the 
 complexities attending the first twenty years of English 
 
 1 It was NtaU'd by Isaiah Thomas, in his History of Printinjr. issued in 1810. that 
 Parker removed his press from Woodbrld-re to Biirlin.>rt()n. to aei'omniodate Mr. 
 Smith, and that when the History was completed the press was returned to U'ood- 
 brid^e. The story was such a fjood one. as illustrative of the primitive days of 
 printing in New Jersey, that it has been repeated innumerable times since. A'on 
 c' vera, e ben trovnto ! But it is not true. Parker had a press at Woodbridfi'e and an- 
 other at Burlington at the same time, and continued printinir at both places until 
 1770. 
 
 2 The original MS. of Samuel Smith is in the library of the Society. Robert 
 Proud evidently drew lartrely from it for his History of Pennsylvania, allhoujrh he 
 fails to make acknowledgments. See Proceedings N. J. Hist. Soc. VIII.. 40. rit!. 
 
 " Political Annals of the Present United Colonies, from their Settlement to the 
 Peace of 17(33: Compiled chiefly from Records, and authorized often by the Inser- 
 tion of State-Papers. By George Cnulmers. Esq. Book I. For the Author, by J. 
 Bowen. M.i)cc.r,.\.\.v. -Ito. Pp. (H). li'Vi. A ■•Continuation." by the author, was 
 printed from his MS. in the N. Y. Hist. Society's Collections. IHliS. 
 
 4 It was ri'i)rinted. with a second volume, from the authors MS., in 1X4.'\ at 
 Boston. 
 
 J The History of the Rise and Progress of the United States of North America, 
 till the British Revolution in 1()8«. By James Grahame". Esq. In two volumes. 
 London. lH-i7. 8vo. Pp. xvi. 531 : viii. o-28. The complete work in four volumes 
 (the tirst two volumes revised) appeared in 183(5. It was reprinted, enlarged and 
 amended, at Boston, in 1815. with a prefatory memoirof the author. 
 
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 rule in New Jersey, and was the best presentation of the 
 subject which had yet appeared. 
 
 In 1822 William Griffith, the eminent lawyer, of Bur- 
 lington, in his Annual Lazv Register of the United States, 
 Vol. IV., gave the first succinct account of the origin, his- 
 tory, jurisdiction and practice of the Courts of New Jersey, 
 a work that is becoming more appreciated in these later 
 years than it was at first. 
 
 A revival of patriotic zeal in New Jersey's splendid Rev- 
 olutionary record attended the appearance in 1833 of 
 Theodore Sedgwick's valuable though sadly inadequate 
 Memoir of the Life of William Livingston,^ the vigorous 
 and efficient Governor through the trying epoch, 1776- 
 1790. It was perhaps due to this that the Legislature was 
 led, in 1835, to order the reprinting of the Journals of the 
 Provincial Congress of 1775— 1776. 
 
 THE SWEDISH SETTLEMENTS IN NEW JERSEY. 
 
 The subject of the Swedish settlements on the Delaware 
 was still a sealed book to the American historian. The 
 New York Historical Society, in the second volume of its 
 collections, in 18 14, had given fourteen pages of a quaint 
 " Extract of a Translation of the History of New Svveed 
 Land in America, written in Sweed by Thomas Campanius 
 Holm, late of New Sweed Land Al's Delaware." Its third 
 volume of Collections, in 1821, contained some extracts 
 from Maryland records relative to the assertion of Dutch 
 control over New Sweden; but it Vv^as not until 1834 that 
 scholars were given a full translation of Holm's invaluable 
 work (published at Stockholm in 1702), by Peter S. Du- 
 
 1 A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston, member of Congress in 1774, 
 1775, and 177(5: delegate to the Federal Convention in 1787. and Governor of the 
 State of New-Jersey from 1776 to 1790. With extracts from his correspondence, 
 and notices of various members of his family. By Theodore Sedgwick, jun. New- 
 York, 1833. 8vo. Pp.449, (2), 7. A few years after Livingston's death it was an- 
 nounced in Mew Jersey newspapers of the day that a collection of his writings, 
 with a memoir, was about to be published, and Sedgwick says the proposition was 
 favorably received. Who was collecting this material, and what became of it? 
 
ponceau, and which appeared in Vol. Ill of the Memoirs 
 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania ' This work, the 
 account by Acrelius, and some unpublished manuscript 
 notes by the Rev. Andreas Rudman, furnished the mate- 
 rials for a little book, " Annals of the Swedes on the Dela- 
 ware," by the Rev. Jehu Curtis Clay, issued in 1835."' 
 
 gordon's history and gazetteer. 
 While attention had been thus bestowed upon special 
 features of New Jersey history, no attempt was made to 
 supplement or supersede Samuel Smith's work until 1834, 
 when Thomas F. Gordon published his " History of New 
 Jersey from its discovery by Europeans, to the adoption of 
 the Federal Constitution." It was accompanied by a 
 
 '• 8vo. Pp. ItJU. The sumt' Socifty addt'd to our oblijj-alions in this direction by 
 publishing, in 1874. in handsome style, as Vol. XI. of its Memoirs, an excellent 
 translation, by William M. Reynolds. D. D.. of the hir^e work of Israel Acrelius, 
 "A History of New Sweden: or. the Settlements on the Delaware." with a valua- 
 ble Introduction and Notes. 8yo. Pp. 1. 17-4o8. The orifrinal was wretchedly 
 printed at Stockholm, in 1759. in a square octavo, lar^e type. pp. (20). 533. (1). For 
 various papers relating to the Swedes in New Jersey see •• A Brief Account of 
 the Swedish Mission in Raccoon and Penn"s Neck. Nevv Jersey." by Rev. Nicholas 
 Collin. D. D.. in N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. III.. 105 122: •• History and Location of Fort 
 Nassau on the Delaware," by Edward Armstrong, in N, J, Hist, Soc. Proc. VI.. 
 187-207: 'Scandinavian Settlements in New Jersey."' in N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc IX.. 
 141-2: •■ Swedish Settlements in Gloucester County prior to 1684." by John Clem- 
 ent, in Penn. Matr. of Hist, and Biog.. XVII.. 83. Vol. XII.. of N. Y. Col. Docs., 
 is entirely made up of documents relating to the Swedes and the Dutch on the Del- 
 aware. Vol. v.. 2d Penn. Archives, consists of Papers relating to the Swedish 
 Colonies on the Delaware, and Vol. VII,, of the same series, is largely made up 
 from Vol. XII,, N. Y. Col. Docs. The "• Annals of Pennsylvania."" by Samuel Haz- 
 ard, Philadelphia, 1850, contains much on the same subject, Benjamin Ferris, in 
 his History of the Original Settlements on the Delaware. Wilmington, 1846. de- 
 plored the lack of translations of the Swedish authors, apparently appreciating 
 the importance and interest of this theme. But the subject of the local govern- 
 ment, system of land tenure, and details of the times and places of the Swedish 
 settlements in New Jersey, is still virgin field for the patient investigator. The 
 Dissertatio Gradualis de Plantatione Ecclesia; Svecana; in America, by Tobias E. 
 Biorck. Upsal. 1731, is worthy of a translation and proper annotation. In his Eng- 
 lish (':) dedication he makes allusion to 
 
 How .Swedish Church is planted there. 
 Of Swedish Priests and Sheeps, 
 
 On both they Sides of <ft- la Ware. 
 Among great many Heaps, 
 
 Of diverse Sects and Indians. 
 2 Philadelphia. Small 12mo. Pp. 180. A second edition, "corrcclcii and en- 
 larged,"' was published in 1858, t2mo,, pp, 179,- 
 
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 Gazetteer, the first and only one ever attempted for our 
 State. The History is merely a compilation, with little 
 effort at originality, and none at literary embellishment, 
 but with all its deficiencies is a meritorious work. 
 
 BANCROFT'S THRILLING ELOQUENCE. 
 
 This same year was signalized by the appearance of the 
 first volume of Bancroft's History of the United States, 
 wherein the remotely scattered events that led to the dis- 
 covery and settlement of the American Colonies were 
 marshaled in stately order, and related with a glowing elo- 
 quence that lent to his pages all the charm of romance. 
 The second volume, issued in 1837, clothed the dry annals 
 of Chalmers, and the terse narrative of Grahame, relative 
 to New Jersey, with the flesh and blood of reality, as the 
 fiendish persecutions of Claverhouse, the butcheries of 
 Jefferies, and the glorious sturdihood of the Scotch Cove- 
 nanters were all made to throw a lurid light upon the cir- 
 cumstances attending the Scottish settlements in East Jer- 
 sey. Bancroft created a new school of historians in Amer- 
 ica, and did inestimable service in making history attrac- 
 tive, while disdaining to sacrifice accuracy to rhetorical 
 effect. 
 
 There are who doubtless deem It justly said 
 That fact with poesy should never wed: . . . 
 'Tis just — when Fancy, passing lawful bounds, 
 The fair proportions of the truth confounds: 
 Not, when she simply to the li^ht would hold. 
 And crown the picture with her frame of gold. 
 And reasons throng me why the Muses twain. 
 That o"er the realms of fact, and fancy, reign. 
 Would search the heart more surely hand in hand, 
 And rule more widely with a twin command. 
 
 Who can doubt that Bancroft's early volumes aroused a 
 special interest among many Jerseymen in all that per- 
 tained to their early annals? 
 
 NICHOLAS MURRAY — WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD. 
 About this time (1833-1834) a young clergyman at 
 Elizabethtown began gathering materials concerning the 
 
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 history of his church and town, which he presented to his 
 people in a series of New Year's sermons, until in 1844 he 
 was induced, at the request of his congre^^ation, to publish 
 the results of his researciies, in what was at that time the 
 best local history yet issued in New Jersey.' This was an 
 account of the first of the New England colonies in our 
 State, and it had peculiar interest from the fact that it 
 described the origin and progress of a settlement inde- 
 pendent of and hostile to the claims of the East Jersey 
 Proprietaries and their Government — an iiiiperium in iin- 
 pcrior 
 
 Shortly before Mr. Murray had his attention drawn 
 to historical subjects, another }'oung man — William A. 
 Whitehead — became interested in the annals of the ancient 
 town of Perth Amboy, where he had spent his adolescent 
 years, and while paying his attention at another shrine, was 
 likewise a devotee of the Muse of History. To his skilful 
 pencil we are indebted for accurate drawings depictincj 
 buildings and scenes in and about Perth Amboy as far back 
 as 1832, "copying fair what time had blurred." Hav- 
 ing special facilities for access to the records of the East 
 Jersey Proprietaries, in the office at Perth Amboy, and to 
 the extensive accumulations of his prospective father-in- 
 law, James Parker, he was able to glean in an unexplored 
 field. Like Chaucer's Clerk, 
 
 Gladly wolde he lerne, and gladly teche. 
 
 1 Notes. Historical and Biographical, concerning Elizabeth-Town, its eminent 
 men. churches and ministers. By Nicholas Murray. Elizabeth-Town. 1844. \i mo. 
 Pp. 166. In the preface he relates the origin of the work. 
 
 2 The Proprietaries" side had been set forth with prodigious research and great 
 legal acumen in the Elizabeth-Town Bill in Chancery, printed in 1747— a mine of 
 information regarding the title of the Proprietaries and their grantees, and the 
 original settlement of the present Essex. Union. Middlesex and Somerset counties. 
 The original Bill, beautifully engrossed on parchment, was discovered by Joseph 
 P. Bradley, in his younger days as a practitioner, lying scattered on the floor of a 
 room in the Chancery clerk"s ofHce. where his assistants were utilizing it by cut- 
 ting off strips for writs and other purposes. He identified it. and had it rescued 
 from further mutilation. It is now carefully preserved in the ofl1;'e of the Clerk in 
 Chancery, in the State House. 
 
 2 
 
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 and hence there appeared in the Newark Daily Advertiser, 
 about 1840, a series of articles, " Glimpses of the Past," in 
 which were narrated with a graceful style that added to the 
 charm of an interesting theme, accounts of the early settle- 
 ments, the governmental difficulties, the prominent men, 
 the manners and customs of by-gone days in East Jersey. 
 These were afterwards gathered together, with additions, 
 and published in works hereafter mentioned.^ 
 
 FENWICK'S COLONY. 
 In 1839 Col. Robert G. Johnson, a lineal descendant of 
 John Fenwick, and the inheritor of his papers, published 
 "An Historical Account of the First Settlement of Salem, 
 in West Jersey." This gave a much fuller and more accu- 
 rate narration than had previously appeared, of the 
 settlement of that part of the State south of Burlington, 
 and made available to the student a number of valuable 
 original documents. 
 
 A FASCINATING PUZZLE. 
 One of the fascinating puzzles of New Jersey history 
 has long been that excessively rare little tract, by "Beau- 
 champ P.'antagenet" : "A Description of the Province of 
 New Albion. And a Direction for Adventurers with small 
 stock to get two for one, and good land freely. And for 
 Gentlemen, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers, to 
 live Plentifully. And a former Description Reprinted of 
 the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest Plantation of New 
 Albion in North Virginia, proved by thirteen Witnesses," 
 and so on and so on — a ponderous title, surely, for a pamph- 
 let of thirty-eight pages, to say nothing of the further 
 weight of three woodcuts of the "Ploydenes Armes," "Al- 
 
 1 It is a curious fact that New Jersey history is so greatly indebted to these two 
 men— Nicholas Murray and William A. Whitehead~the one an Irishman, and the 
 other the son of an Englishman. A parallel is found in New York, whose dis- 
 tinguished historiographer, the translator of most of her Dutch documents, and 
 the ablest chronicler of the Dutch sway in New Netherland— not even barring 
 Diedrich Knickerbocker!— was Dr. Edmund B. O'CallaKhan, an Irishman, 
 
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 bions Armes," and "The Order, Medall and Riban of the 
 Albion Knights." So far as the vague and bombastic de- 
 scriptions enlighten us, this "Province of Xcw Albion" in- 
 cluded Xew Jersey, which the tract, published in 1650, as- 
 serts was occupied by Sir lulmund Plo}'den in 1648, under 
 a patent from King Charles I. An ingenious "Exam- 
 ination" of this work was published in 1840 by John Pen- 
 ington,' in which some of the improbabilities and absurd 
 ities of the author are cleverly exposed. Curiously enough, 
 so far as the writer is aware no adequate attempt has been 
 made thoroughly to cover this ground, although it is clear 
 that Mr. Penington by no means settled the question.'^' 
 
 BARBER AND HOWE's "HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS." 
 
 Thus far West Jersey had produced most of the histo- 
 ries and historians of our State. Now a more ambitious 
 enterprise was undertaken. Encouraged by success along 
 the same line in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New 
 York, two young men came to New Jersey in the spring of 
 1842, and with much industry accumulated a large amount 
 of material relating to the history of the several counties 
 and minor subdivisions of the State, which they published 
 in 1844, under the modest title, " Historical Collections of 
 the State of New Jersey" — by John \V. Barber and Henry 
 Howe. It was a stout octavo, of 512 pages, bound in 
 mottled sheep, and was adorned with scores of rude wood- 
 
 1 Philiidolphiii. 8vo. Pp. '.iX Keprintt'd from Memoirs of tlie Historical Society 
 ol Pennsylvania, Vol. IV.. pp. 133-16.5. 
 
 2 The Rev. Garret C. Schenek in "An Inquiry into the location of Mount Ploy- 
 den, the seat of the Raritan Kin;,'." a paper read before this Society. Sept. 11. 18.tI. 
 applied his knowledtre of the topofrraphy and peopraphy of Central New Jersey to 
 the tentative solution of sonie of the problems presented by Plantapenefs loose 
 descriptions.— -V. J. Hist. Hoc. I'roc, VI.. 25. Many facts concerning Plowden are 
 piven in "Sir Edmund Plowden, Lord Earl Palatinate. Governor and Captain 
 General of New Albion in North America," a paper by the Rev. Edward D. Neill. 
 in the Penn. Map.. V.. 203. Additional particulars of his stormy experiences in New 
 Jersey are piven in the same Mapazine. VII.. .50. topether with a certified copy of 
 his Patent, dated 21 June. lOth Charles I. See also N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll.. 1869. 
 213-20, for contemporary allusions to I'loyden, 
 
cuts, marked by a direct simplicity and a rough fidelity to 
 nature that have made them the delight of two generations 
 of children since their first appearance. The work was 
 roughly thrown together. Gordon's Gazetteer furnished 
 most of the geographical, topographical and statistical 
 data. A few well known diaries and biographies supplied 
 the details of Revolutionary events in the various localities, 
 and frequently old newspapers, ancient records, tomb- 
 stones, or the "oldest inhabitant" were drawn upon for 
 local chronicles of a more or less trustworthy character. 
 Imperfect as it was, probably no book has done as much 
 to arouse an interest in New Jersey history as " Barber and 
 Howe."' 
 
 TRENTON. — OLD GLOUCESTER. 
 
 A series of articles in a Trenton newspaper in 184c, by 
 the Rev. Eli F. Cooley, brought to light much valuable in- 
 formation concerning that neighborhood, of more than 
 local interest, because of Washington's famous strategic 
 move in recrossing the Delaware on Christmas night, in 
 1776, and on account of the location of the State capital, 
 so near to the line between East Jersey and West Jersey. 
 
 Shortly after, Isaac Mickle, a prominent lawyer of 
 Camden, began publishing in a local journal a number of 
 papers on the early history of that region, which were 
 issued in book form in the beginning of 1845, under the 
 title, " Reminiscences of Old Gloucester; or incidents in 
 the history of the Counties of Gloucester, Atlantic and 
 Camden."'* These "Reminiscences" comprised copious 
 extracts from ancient local records, and contained a mass 
 of information about the early settlements, the whole set 
 
 1 other editions were printed from tlie same plates in 1845. in ISriH. and in 1868. 
 Of the introductory chapter, pp. 35-5:2. 59-63. were drawn from William A. White- 
 head's "Glimpses of the Past," previously published in the Ncivark Daily Adver- 
 
 iisfr. 
 
 2 Printed at Camden (in double columns, from newspaper type), but ijublished 
 in Philadelphia. 8vo. Pp. (4), 98. (1). A second edition (a reprint) was issued, 
 in similar form, at Camden, in 1877. 8vo. Pp. (:i). 106. 
 
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 forth in elegant diction and with a wealth of erudition and 
 classic allusion that make the book to this day one of the 
 most readable contributions to our local history.' 
 
 THE FIRST DUTCH SETfLERS OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 Those who have followed me thus far may have noticed 
 with surprise that no mention has been made of any his- 
 tory of the Dutch settlements of New Jersey. Simply be- 
 cause there was none. The first settlers of our State, the 
 sturdy pioneers who here planted the original banners of 
 civilization, of religious and political liberty ; who offered 
 a free asylum to all men and all women, without question- 
 ing their views as to kings, potentates or forms of govern- 
 ment ; who respected every man's religious faith as a mat- 
 ter between himself and his God ; those brave, simple Hol- 
 landers who first established in New Netherland (including 
 New Jersey) the principles of free self-government which 
 they had brought with them from their native land — these 
 splendid patriots and founders of a genuine Republic in 
 America, and here in our own State, forty years before the 
 English dreamed of settling in New Jersey — had found no 
 historian to chronicle these beginnings of home rule, des- 
 tined to leaven the whole body politic of America, until the 
 principle here quietly asserted and practiced on the Hud- 
 son and the Delaware, should be established throughout 
 this land, this continent, and this hemisphere, and even in 
 
 1 The tinale is worth quotin;,': 
 
 •■Of the ninety-six men whose writin<fs. gentle reader, we have carefully ran- 
 sacked for thy amusement, or it may be, thy instruction, of [a] few we have 
 thought it best to make special mention. For. as in writing the history of Glou- 
 cester county, we have sought to give thee not those facts which any school-book 
 or newspaper could tell thee, but rather those which are curious, and by the ignor-- 
 ant. incredible; so in speaking of the historians of our good County, we introduce 
 to thee not thorough acciuaintances, such as Smith and Gordon, but those ancient 
 worthies who hide themselves in the corners of libraries and the lofts of houses. 
 It is these whom we have invoked to tell thee stories of thy native land. Question 
 them soundly; for they can give thee much that we have not even hinted. Re- 
 member them well; for it is at home that true knowledge ever begins." 
 
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 the Old World, that " all men are created free and equal. "^ 
 Strangely enough, the very names of these early heroes, 
 soldiers and statesmen were known to the men of this cen- 
 tury only through Washington Irving's absurd travesty, 
 characterized by inaccuracy, gross caricature, and a total 
 lack of perception of the truths so strangely distorted.- But 
 at last New York awoke to the partial realization of the in- 
 justice which had been done her early history by the pseu- 
 donymous " Diedrich Knickerbocker." In 1841 the New 
 York Historical Society began a new series of its valu- 
 able Collections, in a volume embracing the earliest ac- 
 counts of New Netherland.'^ In the same year the State 
 of New York sent John Romeyn Brodhead abroad^ to 
 glean from the archives of England, Holland and France 
 whatever he could find relating to that State. The result 
 subsequently appeared in O'Callaghan's History of New 
 Netherland,'"' in Brodhead's History of New York,'^ 1609- 
 
 1 It may be said that the Dvitch set the commendable example of buying the lands 
 of the Indians. Manhattan Island having been so purchased and paid for in 1626. 
 In 1629 the Dutch West India Company, in the charter of liberties, provided that 
 '• whoever shall settle any colony out of the limits of the Manhattan Island, shall 
 be obliged to satisfy the Indians for the land they shall settle upon." This was 
 fifteen years before William Penn was born, and more than half a century before 
 he adopted the honest Dutch custom, in his famous treaty with the Indians of 
 Pennsylvania. 
 
 2 In 1846 David T. Valentine began the publication, in his Manual of the Corpor- 
 ation of the City of New York, of extracts from the Proceedings of the Director 
 General and Councillors of New Netherland. and of the Bui-gomaster and Schepens 
 of New Amsterdam. This historical department of his Manual proved so popular 
 that in subsequent issues he greatly expanded it. so that the series of Corporation 
 Manuals from 1846 to 1870 contain a vast amount of information relating to the 
 government and the families of New Netherland. including the west side of the 
 Hudson river. 
 
 3 8vo. Pp. 486. About 360 pages relate to the Dutch settlement of the country. 
 i The New York Historical Society had memorialized the Legislature of that 
 
 State in 1814 and again in 1838 on the importance of procuring from the archives of 
 foreign governments the documents absolutely necessary to throw light on her his- 
 tory. The second effort was successful in securing the legislation under which Mr. 
 Brodhead was commissioned as the agent of the State for the purpose. 
 
 <; History of New Netherland; or. New York under the Dutch. By E. B. OCal- 
 laghan. M. D. Vol. I. was issued in New York in 1845, and a second edition in 1855. 
 8vo. Pp. 493. Vol. II. in 1848. 8vo. Pp. 608. 
 
 6 History of the State of New York. By John Romeyn Brodhead. First Peri- 
 od, 1609-1664. 8vo. Pp. xv, 801. 
 
1664, but, most important, in that splendid series of quarto 
 volumes known as the New York Colonial Documents' — a 
 ma_c;nificcnt monument to an intelligent pride in her annals 
 by the Empire State. 
 
 FAILURES CULMINATING IN A LARGER SUCCESS. 
 
 The example thus set by New York led to an effort in 
 the same direction in New Jersey, where an appeal was 
 made to the Legislature to avail itself of the opportunit}^ to 
 ascertain through Mr. Brodhead, then in Europe, what there 
 was in foreign archives throwing light upon the history of 
 our own State. In 1844 Governor Daniel Haines was in- 
 duced to commend this subject to the Legislature in his 
 annual message, and the matter was referred to a commit- 
 tee, which subsequently made an admirable and compre- 
 hensive report. This document'- was drawn up by William 
 A. Whitehead, who was deeply interested in the project. 
 A significant passage occurs in the report : "// is, perhaps, 
 a matter of regret that an association similar to the Histor- 
 ical Society of Neiu York, has not been formed in Neiv Jer- 
 sey, to collect materials and obtain information on this sub- 
 ject." The measure was again lost in the Assembly. But 
 like many more momentous movements in the world's on- 
 
 1 Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York : pro- 
 cured in Holland. England and France, by John Romcyn Brodhead. Agent. . . . 
 Edited by E. B. O'Callaghan. Albany. 1858-18B1. 4to. 10 vols, and index. The vol- 
 umes covering the Dutch era of course relate largely to New Jersey, but the whole 
 series is indispensable to him who would know the history of the men and events 
 of our State prior to the Revolution. The publication was resumed in 1877. when 
 Vol. XII. was issued, relating to the Dutch and the Swedes on the Delaware. Ad- 
 ditional volumes are XIII.. in 1881. relating to the History and Settlement of the 
 towns along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. UWO-KiSJ: XIV.. in 188:i. relating to 
 the history of the early Colonial Settlements, particularly in Long Island. Ui:}()- 
 1684: XV.. in 1887, New York in the Revolution. Companion volumes (like the last 
 four, from records in the Secretary of State's office, Albany) are the Documentary 
 History of New York. 4 vols, quarto. 18r>0-18r>l : Calendar of Historical Manuscripts. 
 ir)30-177t;. 2 vols, quarto. 18o5-18(;(i: Calendar of Historical Manuscripts relating to 
 the war of the Revolution. :i vols, quarto. 18(58. All of these volumes are full of in- 
 formation relating to New Jersey or to its early settlers or later soldiers. 
 
 2 Printed in the preface to N. J. Hist. See. Collections, V., vii-xii. 
 
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 ward and upward progress, the failure led to a larger suc- 
 cess, which we celebrate to-day. 
 
 PART II. 
 Or§:anization of the New Jersey Historical Society. 
 
 The repeated agitation of the subject of our lacking 
 archives before the Legislature, the interesting and valua- 
 ble reports by Mr. Whitehead, and the consequent discus- 
 sion of the matter in the newspapers, all served to arouse 
 and stimulate an interest in our early history, while it be- 
 came apparent, also, that if anything was to be done by the 
 State there must be an organized movement to achieve the 
 desired result. When the Legislature convened in Janu- 
 ary, 1845, Gov. Haines again called their attention to the 
 importance of completing our records from the originals 
 deposited in England and America.^ On January 13, 18/^5, 
 a number of gentlemen met in Trenton with the purpose of 
 organizing an Historical Society, and thus to lend support 
 to the Governor's recommendation. A severe snow storm 
 prevailed, and but few attended. E.x-Governor Peter D. 
 Vroom was appointed Chairman, and the Rev. Eli F. Cool- 
 ey Secretary. A committee was appointed to draft a con- 
 stitution and by-laws, and the meeting then adjourned to 
 meet at Trenton, on February 27th, 1845. On that day a 
 number of gentlemen from different parts of the State met, 
 pursuant to adjournment, at the City Hall, in Trenton. 
 Stacy G Potts was chosen Chairman (in the absence of 
 ex Governor Vroom), and Joseph P. l^radley was made 
 
 1 The needed appropriation was again voted down. In January. 1846, the His- 
 torical Society presented a memorial to the Legislature. It was x-eferred to a spe- 
 cial committee in the Assembly, which on Feb. 19, 1846, presented another com- 
 prehensive report, full of information on the subject,— iV. J. HM. Coll.. V., xiii — 
 xvii. The desired appropriation was again defeated, and a like fate met renewed 
 applications in i847, 1848, 1849 and ISSO. 
 
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 Secretai'}'. The committee on constitution and by-laws 
 reported, through the Rev. D. V. McLean, chairman; the 
 constitution was adopted, and TiiE NEW Jerskv Histori- 
 cal Society was formally organized, and elected its first 
 officers.' At the meeting when this result was accom- 
 plished, twenty of those present were enrolled as the pio- 
 neer members of the Society ' 
 
 It will interest many to repeat their names here : Jo- 
 seph r. Bradley, Newark; George Clinton JUish, Tren- 
 ton; Rev. Jonathan Cogswell, D. D., New Brunswick- 
 Rev. Eli F. Cooley, Trenton ; Richard S. I-'ield, Princeton 
 Henry VV. Green, Trenton ; Archer Gififord, Newark 
 Thomas Gordon, Trenton ; Edward Harris, Trenton 
 Samuel R. Hamilton, Trenton ; William B. Kinney, New- 
 ark; Rev. Aaron A. Marcellus, Freehold; Rev. Daniel V. 
 McLean, Freehold ; Rev. Nicholas Murray. D. D., FLIiza- 
 beth ; Cortlandt Parker, Newark; Charles L. Pearson, 
 Trenton ; Stacy G. Potts, Trenton ; William P. Robeson, 
 Belvidere ; Jonathan J. Spencer, M. D., Moorestown ; 
 William A. Whitehead, Newark." 
 
 Of these original twenty members of the Society, the 
 Hon. Cortlandt Parker, of Newark, is the sole surviv- 
 or. Altho4jgh he is to-day basking in the Italian sun- 
 shine which irradiates Rome, that mother of history, we 
 are sure that his heart is with us on this memorable occa- 
 sion. At a meeting of the Society held May 7, 1845, it 
 was resolved that all desiring to join, should be enrolled 
 as original members, and sixty-eight were added. Of 
 these the only survivors at the present time are Cortlandt 
 Parker, Newark ; William Paterson, Perth Amboy ; Sam 
 uel H. Pennington, M. D , Newark, our venerable Presi- 
 dent, whom we are so glad to have with us to-day; and 
 John Whitehead, of Morristown, who has been one of the 
 
 1 N. J. Hist. Prof.. I.. 1-J. 
 ^ Ibid., 20. 
 
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 most active of the committee arranging for this celebra- 
 tion. 
 
 Although the youngest of your executive officers, 
 so many have been the changes wrought by death in the 
 last few years, that he who stands before you is now, 
 with the exception of our President, the senior officer in 
 point of service in your Society, and having been a mem- 
 ber since 1874, I have been associated with most of the 
 men who have officered the Society from its beginning. 
 
 FORMER PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
 
 My recollection as a boy in Newark goes back to the time 
 of the venerated ex-Chief Justice Joseph C. Hornblower, 
 the first President of this Society, who continued in office 
 for nearly twenty years, or until his death, on June 11, 
 1864. His father, Josiah Hornblower, brought to this 
 country and set up the first steam engine in America, and 
 during the Revolution was at one time Speaker of the 
 Assembly, which made him peculiarly obnoxious to the 
 British and their Tory allies. He himself, born May 6, 
 1777, the son of a Revolutionary sire, lived nearly through 
 the period of our late War. As he walked the streets in 
 those exciting days, men would look upon his feeble but 
 venerable frame and say, with a thrill of admiring awe, 
 " There goes a man who is older than the Flag." Coming 
 from an historic ancestry, reaching back to the early gov- 
 erning families of New Netherland and New Jersey, and 
 being himself an epitome, as it were, of the history of our 
 country during its first century, it seemed most natural 
 that he should have taken the deep interest he always 
 manifested in this Society, and that in his annual addresses 
 as President the members were regularly favored with 
 reminiscences from the rich stores of his experience. 
 
 The eternal landscape of the past 
 
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 had for him a great attraction, and he loved to depict some 
 of its more striking features to his hearers.' 
 
 I can recollect his successor, the patriarchal James 
 Parker, of Perth Amboy, who, although nearly ninety 
 years old, served us as President from January, 1865, until 
 April I, 1868. He, too, was from a long line of ances- 
 tors closely identified with the history of New Jersey, from 
 the time that Elisha Parker came, probably from Barnsta- 
 ble, Mass., by way of Staten Island to Woodbridge, about 
 1675, and subsequently (1694) was High Sheriff of Mid- 
 dlesex, member of the Assembly (1707-9), and one of the 
 Governor's Council. Elisha's son John was a Colonel of 
 the Provincial forces, and was a member of the Council, 
 1719-32. The latter also had a son John, who served v>^ith 
 great distinction in the French wars, 1756-59. His broth- 
 er James, grandson of Elisha, was a member of Governor 
 Franklin's Council, 1764-75, so that three generations of 
 the family in succession furnished Councillors for the Prov- 
 ince. James was the father of James, born March 3, 1776, 
 who was the second President of this Society. The sec- 
 ond James was a member of the Legislature, 1806-14, 
 181 5-19, 1827-8, and of the National House of Represen- 
 tatives, 1833-37. For more than twenty years he agitated 
 the subject of the eastern boundary of New Jersey, and at 
 last, as one of the commissioners appointed for the pur- 
 pose, had the satisfaction of aiding in the adjustment of 
 that vexatious controversy with New York, in 1833.'- By 
 descent and purchase he was one of the largest of the 
 East Jersey Proprietors, and carefully preserving the mu- 
 
 1 See Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Joseph C. Hornblower, I.L. 
 D.. by the Hon. Richard S. Field, in N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. X.. 25-1.5. 
 
 Joseph Coerten Hornblower. 1777-18(3-1. Chief Justice of New Jersey. IK^-IK-KJ. 
 A Biotfraphical Sketch. By William Nelson. Cambridge. Mass.. 1894. 8vo. Pp. 
 29. Reprinted from Vol. V. of the "Memorial Biojrraphies " of the Ne\v-En;rland 
 Historic Genealojjical Society. 
 
 2 See "A Brief History of the Boundary Disputes between New York and Now 
 Jersey." by Hon. James Parker. N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. VIII.. 10(5-109. 
 
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 niments of his title, as well as other papers that came to 
 his hands as a public man, concerned in extensive and va- 
 ried interests, he acquired a collection of historic material 
 of priceless value. He was elected a Vice President of 
 this Society at its formation, was a regular attendant upon 
 its meetings, and frequently contributed to the discussions 
 from his remarkable knowledge of the early days of our 
 State. 1 
 
 Then came the courtly and dignified Richard S. Field, 
 Judge of the United States District Court of New Jersey, 
 who occupied the chair as President from January, 1869, 
 until May 25, 1870. On his father's side he traced his an- 
 cestry back to Robert Field, who in 1644 came from Eng- 
 land to Massachusetts, and in 1645 removed to Flushing, 
 L. L, whence his grandson, John, migrated to New Jersey. 
 John's great-grandson Robert, born April 5, 1775, mar- 
 ried Abby, daughter of Richard Stockton, signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence, and Annis Boudinot, his wife, 
 sister of Elias Boudinot, the eminent statesman and phi- 
 lanthropist, and of Elisha Boudinot, a Justice of the 
 Supreme Court of New Jersey. Robert Field's son, born 
 Dec. 31, 1803, was named Richard Stockton Field, after 
 his famous maternal grandfather. He began the practice 
 of the law at Salem, whence he removed in 1832 to Prince- 
 ton, where he subsequently resided. He was elected to 
 the Assembly in 1833 and 1834, and in 1838 was appointed 
 Attorney General of the State, when only thirty-five years 
 of age, holding the office until 1841, in which year he re- 
 signed. He was one of the most influential members of 
 the Constitutional Convention of 1844. In November, 
 1862, he was appointed United States Senator, to fill a va- 
 cancy for a few weeks, and on January 2 1, 1863, President 
 Lincoln appointed him Judge of the United States District 
 
 1 See Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. James Parker, by the Hon. 
 Richard S. Field, in N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. 2d Series. I.. 109-139 (January, 1869). 
 
RICHARD S. FIHLD 
 
Court for New Jersey, an office he retained until his death. 
 Judge Field was one of the very (e\v members of the New 
 Jersey bar who have contributed to literature.' He was a 
 man of scholarly tastes, chaste in diction and eloquent in 
 delivery. He gave numerous addresses on legal topics, 
 and upon various themes of a literary, historical or polit- 
 ical nature, many of which have been published. He was 
 elected one of the members of the Executive Committee 
 of this Society, at its organization, serving as such 1845-46, 
 1851-59, and Vice President, 1859-1869, or until his elec- 
 tion as President. - 
 
 In John Rutherfurd, the fourth President of the Societ3% 
 there was a commingling of the blood of many families of 
 distinction and influence in New Jersey. His paternal 
 great-grandfather, Walter Rutherfurd, son of Sir John 
 Rutherfurd, of Edgerston, Roxburghshire, Scotland, came 
 to America in 1756, and was a Captain in the British ar- 
 my in the French war, in 1758-1759. He married Catha- 
 rine Alexander, daughter of James Alexander, and widow 
 of Elisha Parker, of Perth Amboy, the uncle of James 
 Parker, our second President. His son, John Rutherfurd, 
 born Sept. 20, 1760, married Helena Morris, a great-grand- 
 daughter of Gov. Lewis Morris, of New Jersey. He was 
 elected to the United States Senate from New Jersey in 
 1790, several months before he was constitutionally eligi- 
 ble to take his seat. He resigned in 1798, devoting him- 
 self thereafter to the care of his extensive landed estates 
 
 1 The work by which he is hrst liiiowii is ■•The Provincial (.,'uurls of New .Icr- 
 sey. with Sketi'hes of the Beiu'li and Bar. a Discourse read before the New Jersey 
 Historical Society."' a part at the annual meetintr. January 20. 184K. and the residue 
 at the meelintr on May i"). 18-18. With Appendices embracing the Instructions to 
 Lord Cornbury, Nov. 16. 17(V3: and several Ordinances establishintr and rejrulatinvr 
 Courts of Judicature. 1702-17:>8. the whole formintf an octavo of pp. xii. 311. known 
 as ••Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society," Volume III., printed In 
 181i». 
 
 -' An admirable menioii' of Jud^:■e Field, by Anthony Q. Keasbey. was read he- 
 fore the Society. January I'.i. 18T1, and is published in the Proceedintrs. •^'d Series, 
 XL, 111-132. 
 
In Warren, Sussex and the upper part of the present Pas- 
 saic counties. He lived at Bellville, near Trenton, for some 
 time, but subsequently built a spacious residence at a place 
 which he called Edgerston, now the thriving borough of 
 Rutherfurd, on the Erie Railroad, and there he died in 1840. 
 After his death two of his daughters erected a mansion some 
 distance south of Edgerston, on the east bank of the Pas- 
 saic river, which is now the site of the New Jersey State 
 Soldiers' Home. His only son, Robert Walter Rutherfurd, 
 married Sabina Morris, whose grandfather, Col. Lewis 
 Morris, was a grandson of Gov. Lewis Morris. Robert 
 Walter Rutherfurd's son John was born July 21, 1810, at 
 the residence of his maternal grandfather, Lewis Morris, 
 at Morrisania, New York. His life was spent in the man- 
 agement of his grandfather's estate, and his own large bus- 
 iness concerns. He was President of the Board of East 
 Jersey Proprietors for many years. By heredity and asso- 
 ciation he was deeply interested in all that pertained to the 
 history and the welfare of New Jersey. Many of our most 
 valuable manuscripts relating to our earliest Colonial times, 
 were presented by him or by his aunts, the Misses Mary 
 and Louisa Rutherfurd. He joined this Society Novem- 
 ber 6, 1845, ^^^ w^s elected one of the Vice Presidents, 
 January 19, 1865. On the death of Judge Field he was 
 elected President, in January, 1871, but died on November 
 2 1st, following.^ 
 
 Another honored New Jersey family was represented in 
 the President's chair by the Rev. Ravaud Kearny Rod- 
 gers, D. D., who, elected in January, 1872, continued in 
 office for three years, when he declined a re-election, be- 
 ing about to remove to Georgia, where he died January 12, 
 
 1 Memoir of the Life and Character of John Rutherfurd, late President of the 
 New Jersey Historical Society, by Robert S. Swords, in N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. 2d 
 Series, II. (January. 1872). 197-204. 
 
 Family Records and Events, compiled principally from the original manuscripts 
 in the Rutherfurd Collection, by Livingston Rutherfurd. New York, 1894. 
 
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1 879- He was born in New York city, November 3, 1797, 
 the grandson of the Rev. John Rodgers, the noted and elo- 
 quent patriot preacher of the Revolution. His mother was 
 Susannah Ravaud Kearny, of Perth Amboy, Her father, 
 Ravaud Kearny, a lawyer, married Ann, daughter of James 
 Hude, a prominent citizen of New Brunswick. Her grand- 
 father, Philip Kearny, an eminent lawyer, who died in 
 1775, married Lady Barney Dexter, nee Ravaud. Philip 
 was the son of Michael Kearny and Sarah Morris, said to 
 have been a kinswoman' of Governor Lewis Morris. Dr. 
 Rodgers was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bound 
 Brook in this State, from 1830 until October, 1874, when 
 he resigned. He became a member of this Society in 
 1846, served on the Executive Committee, 1852-69, and 
 was Vice President. 1869-1872. He was scholarly, eloquent 
 and interesting in his frequent occasional remarks at the 
 Society's meetings.^ 
 
 In the selection of the si.xth President there was a return 
 to the judiciary, and it was felt that the Society was hon- 
 ored when the choice fell upon Henry VV. Green, the form- 
 er Chief Justice, and then Chancellor of the State. He 
 was descended from William Green, who came from Eng- 
 land at the age of twenty, and settled in Ewing township, 
 now part of Trenton, about 1700. He bought a tract of 
 three hundred and forty-five acres, and erected a brick 
 house, still standing, with the date, 1717, plainly visible on 
 the west end. His grandson, George Green, married a 
 daughter of the Rev. Caleb Smith, a prominent Presby- 
 terian divine, and died in 1777, at the early age of thirty- 
 
 1 Mr. Whitehead says she was a daufjhter. She was perhaps Sarah Morris, born 
 16th of 12th month. 1693. daufjhter of Redroe Morris and Jael Baty, of Elsinboro. 
 Redroe Morris was born about 16.58. in Wales, son of Lewis Morris, and emigrated 
 to America, landintrat Philadelphia in the 9lh month. 1683. The grandfather of 
 Gov. Lewis Morris was from Monmouthshire, and it is quite probable that the 
 Governor was a near kinsman of Redroe Morris. 
 
 2 Memoir of Rev. Ravau:l K. Rodtrers. D. D.. by Georfre Sheldon. D. D.. in N. J. 
 Hist. Soc. Proe., 3J Series, VI., 17-25 (May, 1880) ; Whiteheads Perth Amboy. 90. 
 
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 nine years. Caleb Smith Green was the father of John 
 Cleve Green, one of New York's merchant princes, whose 
 benefactions have done so much for Princeton University, 
 and of Henry Woodhull Green, born at Lavvrenceville, 
 September 20, 1804. The latter was Chief Justice of New 
 Jersey, 1 846-1 860, and was then appointed Chancellor. 
 He filled both positions with distinguished ability. It was 
 a source of profound regret to bench and bar when ill 
 health compelled his retirement in i865. He married a 
 daughter of Chief Justice Evving. He was a trustee of 
 Princeton College, 1 850-1876, and a generous benefactor 
 of his alma mater, as have been all his family. He was 
 one of the original members of this Society; served as a 
 member of the Executive Committee, 185 i — 1862, as Vice 
 President, 1862— 1875, and in January, 1875, was elected 
 President. He was a frequent attendant upon the meet- 
 ings, and in his discussions of the topics presented, showed 
 not only his interest, but that he had diligently searched 
 our original records for knowledge. His infirm health con- 
 strained him to decline a re-election in 1876. He died at 
 Trenton, December 19, 1876. The Executive Committee, 
 in announcing his death to the Society, remarked: 
 
 By birth a Jerseyman. Mr. Green received his early training in the educational 
 institutions of his native State, and spent his whole life, professional and official, in 
 her service; and it may be affirmed with justice that none of her sons has more 
 worthily or with greater distinction, advanced her annals, or labored more assid- 
 uously to promote the enterprises that have served to advance her prosperity and 
 elevate the moral condition of her population. Her noble works of philanthroj)y 
 found in him a friend and advocate ; and her higher institutions of learning will 
 cherish in grateful remembrance his counsels and efforts, as among the most ef- 
 fective agencies to which are due their enlarged facilities and their present de- 
 .servedly high reputation. 
 
 Of the bench and bar of New Jersey he was a distinguished ornament. To an 
 intellect of rare capacity, a temperament that prompted to the intent application 
 of his mental powers to the work before him, a conscientious sense of the require- 
 ments of duty to his clients and the public, he added the results of careful culture, 
 exhaustive research and profound thought; qualities which, united with a fluent 
 and impressive diction, made him eminently successful in his earlier forensic ef- 
 forts, and were even more conspicuous in those opinions and decisions from the 
 seats of judicial authority— models of righteous judgment, varied learning and 
 stern logic, expi-essed in language pure, terse and forcible — that have secured him 
 an exalted rank among the jurists of the State and country. 1 
 
 1 Proceedings N. J. Hist. Soc. 26. Series, IV., 166. (January, 1877). 
 
The Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D. D., was elected Presi- 
 dent in January, 1876. He was born at Norristown, Pa., 
 July 6, 1S12, the son of Robert Hamill, who came from 
 Ireland in 1797, and married a daughter of Andrew Todd, 
 a soldier in the Revolution. Graduating from Jefferson 
 College in 1834, Dr. Hamill became a teacher in the Law- 
 renceville school the same year. A few years later the 
 school came under his exclusive control, and was devel- 
 oped into one of the most famous preparatory institutions 
 in the country. He was deeply interested in the cause of 
 popular education, sparing neither time, nor pen, nor voice 
 in the effort toward improving the public school system of 
 the State. At an educational convention held in Trenton 
 in January, 1845, the suggestion was made that a State 
 Historical Society should be formed, and Dr. Hamill was 
 one of the leading spirits at the meeting held for that pur- 
 pose in Trenton on January 18, 1845, and was subsequent- 
 ly enrolled as one of the original members. He was elect- 
 ed to the Executive Committee in 1863, serving thereon 
 until his promotion to the Vice Presidency, in 1871, which 
 ofifice he filled for five years. For thirteen years he pre- 
 sided with distinguished ability, and his courtly and urbane 
 manner did much to make our meetings popular and in- 
 teresting. His sudden and unexpected death, on Septem- 
 ber 21, 1889, was a profound shock to his wide circle of 
 friends.^ It was his custom at the opening of each meeting 
 of the Society to make a few remarks, alluding to some 
 topic of historic interest, frequently from his own experi- 
 ence, or which he had heard from those of an earlier gener- 
 ation, and these informal "talks" were aUva)'S a pleasant 
 feature of the Society's gatherings. "With a rare combi- 
 nation of dignity and suavity, an unfailing urbanity, the 
 faculty of always saying and doing the right thing at the 
 
 1 Rev. Samuel MjClintock Hamill. D. D. Memoir prepareil and read by the Rev. 
 Samuel M. Studdiford. D. D.. before the New Jersey Historical Society. January 
 38, 1890.— /^roc, 2d Series. XI.. 27-38. 
 4 
 
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 right time, with a remarkably graceful art of * putting 
 things,' with an enthusiastic love for New Jersey, and a 
 pride in her history, he was a great help to the Society."^ 
 
 It has been the custom of this Society, from the begin- 
 ning, to promote the senior Vice President whenever a va- 
 cancy occurs in the Presidential chair. It thus happened 
 that James Parker, the third President, and John Ruther- 
 furd, the fifth President of this Society, were very strongly 
 identified with the East Jersey Proprietary interest. Upon 
 the death of Dr. Hamill the senior Vice President, the 
 Hon. John Clement, was elected President, in January, 1890, 
 and for the first time the Society had as its presiding offi- 
 cer one who was closely identified with West Jersey history. 
 Gregory Clement, his ancestor, was returned to Parliament 
 about 1646, was one of the commissioners who tried and 
 condemned Charles I., in January, 1648-9, and was one of 
 the six regicides who were executed at the restoration, in 
 1660. His son James emigrated to America in 1670, set- 
 tling at Flushing, L. I., where he died in 1724. Five of 
 James's children removed to Gloucester county. New Jer- 
 sey, about 1700, one of them, Jacob, a shoemaker, locating 
 at Gloucester. His son, Jacob, a tanner, settled in Had- 
 donfield in 1743, where he purchased a tract of land on 
 which our late President, his descendant, resided. He was 
 the father of Nathaniel Clement, whose son John, born 
 Sept. 10, 1769, was a surveyor and conveyancer, a militia 
 officer, 1 798- 1 844, rising to the rank of Brigadier General, 
 and serving in the War of 18 12. He was a member of the 
 Council of West Jersey Proprietors, and was President of 
 that body, 1832-51, when he resigned. He died July 4, 
 1855. His son, John Clement, was born at Haddonfield, 
 November 8, 1818. He succeeded his father in 185 i as a 
 member of the Council of Proprietors of West Jersey, be- 
 coming President in 1885. The West Jersey Surveyors' 
 
 1 Rex^ort of tlic Executive Committee. Proceedinti's, :M Series, XI., 7, 
 
Rev. SAA'iUEL M. HA.MILL, D D. 
 
Association, organized in 1864, found in him one of its 
 warmest originators and friends, and ho contributed to its 
 meetings a number of papers on West Jersey histor>', partic- 
 ularly on the complicated land titles of that division. Join- 
 ing this Society in 1864, his value as a member was immedi- 
 ately recognized b}' his election to the ILxecutive Committee 
 in 1865, from which he was transferred in 1876 to the Vice 
 Presidency, and thence, in January, 1893, to the Presiden- 
 cy. This position he held until January, 1894, when he 
 declined a re-election, owing to advancing years, and the 
 inconvenience of regularly attending the meetings. He had 
 been one of the Common Pleas Judges of Camden County, 
 1854-64, and in the latter year was appointed one of the 
 Lay Judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals, where his 
 familiarity with West Jersey land titles made him so useful a 
 member that he was regularly re-appointed, holding the 
 office for thirty years. He was the author of many valu- 
 able contributions to the history of the State, the most 
 notable being his " Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers 
 in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West Jer- 
 sey," compiled almost entirely from original sources, and 
 displaying much literary ability. Judge Clement was 
 modest almost to shyness, and in his intercourse with 
 others manifested much of the characteristic simplicity of 
 manner of his remoter ancestors of the Friends' persuasion. 
 He presided with grace and dignity over such of the So- 
 ciety's meetings as he was able to attend. He died at Had- 
 donfield, August 15, 1894.' 
 
 Although the Society has had its library and cabinet in 
 the city of Newark from the beginning of its existence, it 
 
 1 Pi-intod at Camden. 1S77. 8vo. Pp. Al-l. (■'.). 
 
 2 For notices of his ani-estry. see his "First Settlers of Newton Township." 
 267-276: and History of Camden County. Philadelphia. 18815.213. An obituary no- 
 tice of Judfre Clement was published in the Penn. Majr. of History and Bio^rra- 
 phy. XVIII.. 382. He was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 
 and a freiiuent contributor to its Majrazino and to its library. 
 
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 was not until January, 1894, on the retirement of judge 
 Clement from the Presidency, that a native of Newark was 
 called to the chair, when Samuel H. Pennington, M. D., 
 LL. D., the senior Vice President, was elected President. 
 He is a descendant of Ephraim Pennington, one of the 
 freemen of New Haven in 1643, whose sons, Ephraim and 
 Judah, were among the original settlers of Newark, in 1666. 
 One of Judah's descendants, also named Judah, married 
 Mary Sandford, who was a great-granddaughter of Major 
 William Sandford, and of Major John Berry, the former 
 being one of the settlers of New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen 
 county, a member of the Governor's Council, 1683-6, At- 
 torney-General, Judge, etc., and the latter being also of 
 the Governor's Council, and Deputy Governor during Gov- 
 ernor Philip Carteret's absence in England. From this 
 marriage there came Samuel, born 1765, died 1835, who 
 was the father of Dr. Pennington ; and William S. Pen- 
 nington, a Lieutenant of Artillery in the Revolution, after- 
 wards Governor and Chancellor of New Jersey, and who 
 was the father of Governor William Pennington. Dr. Pen- 
 nington, son of Samuel Pennington, was born in Newark, 
 October 16, 1806, and graduated at Princeton College in 
 the Class of 1825. It is a pleasant circumstance that 
 Princeton's two oldest graduates are to-day on this plat- 
 form, expressing their deep interest in the welfare of this 
 kindred institution.^ Dr. Pennington received his diploma 
 as M. D. in 1829, and practiced his profession for many 
 years in the city of Newark, but gradually withdrew from 
 active practice, and for more than thirty years has devoted 
 his energies to the Newark City National Bank, as Presi- 
 
 1 William C. WalUice. born July 4. 1^04. Kvaduated from Princeton in 18r.i3. He 
 has been a resident of Newark for ninety years, and at the urjient special request 
 of the Committee on Invitations, came to the semi-centennial celebration of the 
 Society, and occupied a seat on the platform. He has been one of the warmest and 
 most generous friends of the Society. There is a sug-srestion of humor in Mr. Wal- 
 lace's statement that he retired from active business more than sixty years ago, 
 on account of his health! 
 
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 dent, lie has been one of the Trustees of the ColIec;c and 
 of the Theological Seminar)- at Princeton for forty years, 
 being Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Col- 
 lege most of that period. For seventeen years he served 
 as a member of the Board of P3ducation of Newark, being 
 repeatedly elected by the people, and during several years 
 was President of the Board. Identified by birth and an- 
 cestry with the history of our State, and of its metropolis, 
 it was but natural that he should have become a member 
 of this Society at its inception, and that his abilities and 
 influence should have been recognized by his election to 
 serve on the Executive Committee in 1862, whence he was 
 transferred, in 1871, to the Vice Presidency. Those who 
 have had the pleasure of hearing or reading Dr. Penning- 
 ton's occasional addresses have often regretted that he has 
 not favored this Society with more frequent contributions 
 from his pen, his style being pure, forcible and eloquent. 
 Although partially disabled by an accident two or three 
 years ago, which few would have survived, as he sits here 
 to-day, presiding over this great gathering, who wouM im- 
 agine for a moment that almost eighty-nine years have 
 passed over that stalwart, rugged frame, that leonine head, 
 crowned with masses of iron grey — not white — hair, that 
 keen eye, that nervous manner, betokening a quick percep- 
 tion of everything that is passing, that commanding, ma- 
 jestic mien? Long may he be spared to this Society, to this 
 community and to this State, to each of which he has been 
 such an honor !' 
 
 SOME VICE PRESIDENTS OF THE SOCIETY. 
 Some mention should be made of those \^ice Presidents 
 
 1 Since the tlelivery of this address. Dr. Pennintrton. on account of the physical 
 disability referred to. declined a re-election to the Presidency at the annual meet- 
 ing of the Society, in January, 18%. and General William S. Stryker was elected to 
 succeed him. At this writins^r (January. IS'.IS). Dr. Penninjrton continues active in 
 the performance of his duties as President of the bank with which he has been 
 identified for so many years, although he passed his ninety-first birthday several 
 months avro. 
 
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 of the Society who did not succeed to the Presidency, for 
 among them were a number of our most eminent citizens, 
 and several of the most generous contributors to the ob- 
 jects which we have in view. 
 
 Robert Gibbon Johnson was a great-grandson of Rich- 
 ard Johnson, who came from Surrey, in England, in the 
 ship "Joseph and Benjamin," and landed at Elsinboro, 
 March 13, 1675. He acquired a large tract of land at Salem 
 from John Fenvvick, and married there, 25th of 6th month, 
 1682, Mary Grover. He died first month, 17 19, aged sev- 
 enty years. His grandson, Robert, married for his second 
 wife Jane, daughter of Nicholas and Ann (Grant) Gibbon. 
 She was a granddaughter of Richard Johnson, and was the 
 widow of Samuel Fenwick Hedge, a great-grandson of 
 John Fenwick, Chief Proprietor of Salem. Robert Gibbon 
 Johnson, their son, was born near Salem, July 23, 1771. 
 He graduated from Princeton in 1790. In 1794 he was 
 appointed paymaster of New Jersey troops under Gen. Jo- 
 seph Bloomfield, who were sent to Pennsylvania to crush 
 the Whiskey Rebellion. In 1796 he was commissioned 
 Captain of a troop of horse ; was appointed Major in 1798, 
 Lieutenant Colonel of cavalry in 1809, and Colonel in 18 17. 
 He was elected to the Legislature in 1825, and in 1833 
 was appointed Judge of the Salem County Courts. Re- 
 ligion and education found in him a constant friend, not 
 only in his own community but in broader spheres of ac- 
 tion. The history of Salem and of West Jersey had a fas- 
 cination for him, which it never lost. His valuable little 
 book on Salem, published in 1839, was supplemented by 
 various contributions which he made to the Proceedings of 
 this Society, and we are especially indebted to him for a 
 number of manuscripts of priceless value, among them a 
 contemporaneous copy of the Grants and Concessions of 
 Berkeley and Carteret to the inhabitants of New Jersey, in 
 February, 1664-5, engrossed on a parchment roll eight or 
 
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 nine feet Ion-,' a number of papers of John Fenwick, sev- 
 eral deeds for an interest in West Jersey, extracts from Sa- 
 lem records, and translations of Swedish papers. Col. 
 Johnson was elected Vice President of this Society in 1845, 
 and was still in office when he died, October 2, 1850. 
 
 The second of the three Vice Presidents elected at the 
 organization of the Society, in 1845, was Peter D. Vroom, 
 of Somerset county. He was of Dutch stock, tracing his 
 ancestry back to Cornelis Pieterse Vroom, of New Am'^ter- 
 dam, who died prior to 1657. His son, Hendrick Corsen 
 Vroom, baptized Nov. 30. 1653, in New Amsterdam, was 
 of Brooklyn in 16S3 and 1693. but later settled on the Rar^ 
 itan, near New Brunswick. One of his descendants, Peter 
 D. Vroom, born Jan. 27, 1745, was appointed Lieutenant 
 Colonel of State troops by the Provincial Congress of New 
 Jersey, and subsequently was one of the most honored and 
 influential men in the county. He died in November, 183 i. 
 His son, Peter D. Vroom, was born Dec. 12. 1791 ; grad- 
 uated at Columbia College in 1808, and was admitted to 
 the New Jersey bar in 1813. He was elected to the As- 
 sembly from Somerset county in 1826, 1827 and 1829; 
 was chosen Governor in 1829, 1830, 1831, 1833, 1834 and 
 1835, but in the last-named year declined on account of 
 impaired health. In 1838 he was elected to Congress. 
 He was appointed Chief Justice of New Jersey in 1853, but 
 declined the office, accepting instead the mission to' the 
 Court of Prussia, where he represented this country until 
 1857. He was a gentleman of the highest character, of 
 marked ability, and exerted a great influence in the St'ate. 
 He served us as Vice President from 1845 until 185 i, when 
 he declined a re-election. Governor Vroom died Novem- 
 ber 18, 1874. 
 
 1 TlK,. ori.Mnal w..s destroyed by lire at Perth Amboy. on Saturday. April 10. 
 lOHt). See N. J. Arc-hives. XIII.. l.-v>. 
 
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 Stacy Gardiner Potts was a descendant of some of the 
 first settlers of Trenton, but his grandfather having re- 
 moved to Harrisburg, Pa., the son was born there, in No- 
 vember, 1799. He returned to Trenton with his father in 
 i8c8, became interested in local journalism, and then in the 
 law. He was Clerk in Chancery, 1831-1841^ and a Justice 
 of the Supreme Court, 1852-1859. He presided at the 
 meeting at which this Society was formed, was a member 
 of the Executive Committee, 1847— 1850, and one of the 
 Vice Presidents, 1851-1857. He died at Trenton, April 
 9, 1865. 
 
 James Gore King, third son of Rufus King, New York's 
 eminent statesman, was born in New York city. May 8, 
 1791 ; he graduated at Harvard in 1810, and five years later 
 established the banking house of James G. King & Co., 
 subsequently James G. King & Sons. Having been a resi- 
 dent of VVeehawken many years, he joined this Society May 
 7, 1845, and took an active, intelligent interest in its affairs. 
 It was largely through his generosity that the Society was 
 able to procure the material for and to publish the third 
 and fifth volumes of its Collections, and he took the lead 
 in 1852 in advocating and contributing toward the pur- 
 chase of a site for a fire-proof building for the Society's 
 library. He was a Vice President in 1851-2-3. He was 
 elected to Congress in 1848. His death occurred at Wee- 
 hawken, October 3, 1853. 
 
 When William Alexander Duer removed from New York 
 city, on retiring from the Presidency of Columbia College, 
 in 1842, and took up his residence at Morristown, the 
 
 1 At the January Term. 1841. the Chancellor appointed Henry W. Green. James 
 Ewins and Staey G. Potts a committee to revise the rules of the Court, which they 
 did, and at the April Term the revised i-ules were reported, approved and adopted. 
 They were printed, with copious notes and citations, together with "Precedents 
 and Notes of Practice in the Court of Chancery of New Jersey," Trenton. 1841. 
 12mo. Pp. 240. A revised edition was issued in 1873. "Potts' s Precedents" was a 
 standard hand-book for every New Jersey lawyer for nearly forty years— a signg,! 
 evidence of the thoroughness with which it was prepared, 
 

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 State of New Jersey felt that it had made a distinct acqui- 
 sition. Judge Duer was connected with New Jersey histo- 
 ry and progress by many ties. His father, William Duer, 
 a prominent financier and statesman in the eighteenth cen- 
 tur)-, married " Lady Kilty," the charming daughter of 
 William Alexander, the Earl of Stirling, who was a Major 
 General in the American army in the Revolution, and 
 whose hospitable home at Baskinridge, New Jersey, was the 
 resort of the most distinguished and delightful people of 
 the day. Lord Stirling was the son of James Alexander, 
 one of the most influential men of his time in the political 
 affairs of New Jersey and New York. William Duer was 
 the first Governor of the Society for Establishing Useful 
 Manufactures, which founded the town of Paterson in this 
 State. His son, William Alexander, was born Sept. 8, 
 1780, at Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was admitted to the bar of 
 that State in 1802, and was a Judge of the Supreme Court, 
 1822-1829, and President of Columbia College, 1829-1842. 
 His lectures on " Outlines of the Constitutional Jurispru- 
 dence of the United States," published in 1833, and in a 
 second edition in 1856, are still regarded with favor. His 
 membership in this Society dated back to May 7, 1845. 
 He was constant in his attendance, frequently presided at 
 its meetings, took a lively interest in all that pertained to 
 its welfare, and prepared for publication the second volume 
 of our Collections, the Life of Lord Stirling, his grand- 
 father. He was Vice President from 1854 until his death, 
 in New York, May 30, 1858. 
 
 Another eminent Jerseyman of National reputation who 
 gave us of his time and his eminent abilities, was William 
 Lewis Dayton, who joined this Society November 5, 1845, 
 served on the Executive Committee, 1852-1857, and as 
 Vice President, 1 858-1 864. He was born in Somerset 
 county, February 17, 1807, the great-grandson of Jonathan 
 Dayton, one of the early settlers of Elizabethtown, and on 
 
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 his mother's side was a great-grandson of William Lewis, 
 of Baskinridge, who served as commissary through the 
 Revolutionary War. Mr. Dayton graduated from Prince- 
 ton in 1825, and being admitted to the bar began practice 
 at Freehold, Monmouth county. He was elected to the 
 Legislative Council from that county in 1837, ^^^ i^i the 
 succeeding February was elected by the Legislature to the 
 office of Justice of the Supreme Court, but resigned three 
 years later. In 1842 he was appointed United States Sen- 
 ator, and continued in the Senate until 185 i. The newly- 
 formed Republican party nominated him for Vice Presi- 
 dent with Gen. John C. Fremont, in 1856. In 1857 Gov- 
 ernor Olden appointed him Attorney General, which office 
 he retained until President Lincoln sent him to France as 
 United States Minister to that country. He died at Paris, 
 December i, 1864. Senator Dayton was one of the most 
 popular men in the State, and filled the numerous positions 
 for which he was selected with signal ability.^ 
 
 William Burnet Kinney, who joined this Society the day 
 it was organized, was a descendant of Sir Thomas Kinney, 
 an English baronet. His father, Abraham Kinney, became 
 interested in some mining property, and settled at Speed- 
 well, Morris county, where his son was born, Sept. 4, 1799. 
 His mother was a daughter of Dr. William Burnet, of New- 
 ark, a descendant of Dan Burnet, one of the early settlers of 
 Elizabethtown. The Doctor was a Surgeon in the Continen- 
 tal army during the Revolution ; one of his grand-daughters 
 married Chief Justice Hornblower, and another was the wife 
 of Gov. William Pennington. Mr. Kinney studied law with 
 the Chief Justice, his kinsman, but in 1820 drifted into jour- 
 nalism, and after various experiences became editor of the 
 
 1 See -'A Memorial of the Life and Character of Hon. "William L. Dayton, Late 
 U. S. Minister to France,"' by Joseph P. Bradley, prepared at the request of the 
 Society, and partially read at the meeting of May 18, 1865. It was published sev- 
 eral years later in the proceedings, 2d Series, IV.. 70-118. Judge Elmer, in his 
 ■Reminiscences" (N. J. Hist. Soc. Coll., VII.), gives some interesting glimpses of 
 Payton as a Judge. 
 
Neivark Daily Advertiser, in 1833, it being then the only 
 daily newspaper in the State. He was a writer of much force 
 and purity of style, and soon made his paper the leading 
 journal of New Jersey. In 1851 he was appointed United 
 States Minister to Sardinia, and upon the expiration of his 
 term removed from Turin to Florence, where he remained 
 until 1864 or 1865, when he returned to America, taking 
 up his residence at Morristown, and afterwards at Summit. 
 He was a member of the Executive Committee of this So- 
 ciety, 1S47-185 r, bnd again, after his return to America, 
 during the years 1866-1871. He was elected Vice Presi- 
 dent in 1872, but declined a re-election in 1877, on ac- 
 count of ill health, and was again placed on the Executive 
 Committee in that year, where he remained until his death, 
 October 21. 1880. He read a paper " On the establish- 
 ment and progress of Printing and the Periodical Press of 
 New Jersey," at the meeting of the Society at Salem, in 
 1846, and again at Trenton, in 1849, and delivered the 
 commemorative oration at the l^i-Centennial of Newark, 
 May 17, 1866. He was for several }'ears a valued mem- 
 ber of the Committees on Publications, and on Library.' 
 
 The value of business men in such an organization as 
 this, was illustrated in the case of Peter S. Duryee, one of 
 Newark's most successful and prominent manufacturers. 
 Coming himself from an historic ancestry — Joost Durie, 
 who came to America about 1675, and whose descendants 
 intermarried with the Dutch and Huguenot families of New 
 York and Long Island — he was an enthusiastic friend of 
 this Society, which he joined in 1847. He was born in 
 New York city, December 23, 1807, but in 1821 removed 
 to Newark, with whose every interest — economic, social, 
 moral, religious and educational — he was thenceforth 
 warmly identified. By precept and by example he strongly 
 
 1 For iin obituary tribute to Mr. Kimicy. by llic l-;xocutive ('oininittee, soo Pro- 
 ceedings, 2d Series, VI., 114-11(3. 
 
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 urged his fellow citizens of Newark to furnish the means to 
 secure a fire-proof building for the Society. He was a 
 member of the committee appointed for that purpose,^ was 
 also on the Executive Committee, 1858-1863, 1869-1874, 
 and was a Vice President, 1875-1877. He had a delight- 
 fully enthusiastic and breezy way of expressing his views 
 on the various subjects that came up for consideration, and 
 it was felt that the Society had sustained a serious loss 
 when he was taken from us, on September 23, 1877.^ 
 
 Another of the Vice Presidents whom it was my privi- 
 lege to know very well was the Hon. John T. Nixon, Judge 
 of the United States District Court of New Jersey. He 
 was born at Fairton, Cumberland county, August 3, 1820, 
 practiced law there for several years, was elected to the 
 Legislature in 1849 and 1850, and in 185 1 married a 
 daughter of the Hon. Lucius O. C. Elmer, for some years 
 a Justice of the Supreme Court of this State, In 1855 
 Mr. Nixon published a new edition of that work so indis- 
 pensable in its day to every lawyer of New Jersey — known 
 thenceforth as Nixon's Digest, based on a similar work 
 published by Judge Elmer in 1838.'^ Mr. Nixon's work 
 was so excellent that it passed through three editions,"* its 
 
 1 It is an interestinfj' coincidence that one of his sons — Edward H. Duryee— is 
 (January. 1898) a Life Member of this Society, is a Trustee of the Free Public Li- 
 brary of Newark, and is a Director of the Newark Library Association, and in the 
 latter capacity is on a joint committee of that Association and of this Society, 
 having for its purpose the promotion of the object for which his father worked so 
 energetically in his lifetime. 
 
 2 A notice of the death of Mr. Duryee is printed in the Proceedings, 2d Series, 
 v., 47-48. 
 
 3 A Digest of the Laws of New Jersey. Containing also the Constitutions of the 
 United States, and of this State, and the Rules and Decisions of the Courts. By 
 Lucius Q. C. Elmer. Bridgeton: Published by James H. Newell, 1838. 8vo. Pp. 
 XXIV, 728. 
 
 4 The same. Second edition, containing all the laws of general application, now 
 in force, from 1709 to 185.5, inclusive, with the rules and decisions of the courts. By 
 John T. Nixon. Published under the patronage of the Legislatui'e. Philadelphia: 
 18.5.5. 8vo. Pp. XXXII, 984. 
 
 The same. Third edition. Bridgeton: Elmer & Nixon. 1861. 8vo. Pp. x.xxii, 
 1000. 
 
 The same. Fourth edition. Newark: 1868. 8vo. Pp. xxxii, 11.52. 
 
WILLIAM A. WHITEHEAD 
 
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 vogue continuing until it was supplanted by the Revision 
 of 1877. In 1858 he was elected to Congress, where he 
 was largely instrumental in bringing about the election of 
 ex-Governor William Pennington, of Xew Jersey, to the 
 Speakership, the peculiarly complicated circumstances at- 
 tending which event he subsequently related in a paper of 
 absorbing interest, which he read before this Society in 
 1873.' He was appointed Judge of the United States Dis- 
 trict Court in May, 1870. Becoming a member of this 
 Society, May 15, 1873, he was elected Vice President in 
 1877, and thereafter was a regular attendant upon its ses- 
 sions, and always had an appropriate word to say. He 
 was a Trustee of Princeton College from 1864 "Amidst 
 the burdens of official duty he was ever ready to render 
 service in the church, the college and other institutions of 
 the State, and his zeal in these good works was all accord- 
 ing to knowledge.""- He died September 28, 1889. 
 
 THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES. 
 
 What can I say of William Adee Whitehead, who, for 
 nearly forty years, was regarded as practically tJie Society? 
 His father, W^illiam W'hitehead, was cashier of the Newark 
 Banking and Insurance Company, which in his day occu- 
 pied a brick building on the northwest corner of Broad and 
 Bank streets, Mr. Whitehead living upstairs, and here, on 
 February 19, 18 10, his son was born. His mother was 
 Abby, daughter of Benjamin Coe, a descendant of Robert 
 Coe, who came from P2ngland in 1634, and after living in 
 New England took up his residence at Jamaica, L. I , 
 whence one of his descendants, Benjamin Coe, removed to 
 Newark, some time before 1732. In April, 1823, Mr. 
 Whitehead went to Perth Amboy to take charge of a bank 
 
 1 Proceed iii;,'s. :3d Series. II.. :.'or)--.':u. 
 
 2 John T. Nixon. Memoir prepared and read by A Q. Keasbey. before the New- 
 Jersey Historical Society, at its annual meetlnfr in Trenton, January 28th, 1880. 
 8vo. Pp. 13. Reprinted from Proceedings, id Series, XI.. 39-.5I. 
 
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 there. His son's schooling was ended when he left New- 
 ark, but the boy of thirteen went on with his studies, in 
 literature, mathematics, surveying, drawing and other con- 
 genial lines, until his mind became a well-filled storehouse 
 of knowledge. In 1828 he went to Key West, Fla., where 
 he spent most of the ensuing ten years, made a survey and 
 map of the town, was appointed Collector of the Port before 
 he was twenty-one, was elected Alderman and then Mayor. 
 He was in business in New York, 1838-1843, but I fancy 
 that the treasures in the Historical Society's library had 
 for him greater attractions than the more material wealth 
 usually sought for in Wall street, for after — and I suspect 
 occasionally during— business hours he pored over the old 
 newspaper files and manuscripts there, and made those 
 copious notes which he drew upon for forty years as fronn 
 a never-failing spring of information. At Perth Amboy he 
 had married, August ii, 1834, Margaret Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of James Parker, and he had long been familiar with the 
 records of the East Jersey Proprietors there, as well as 
 with Mr. Parker's extensive collection of manuscripts and 
 other historical material, and had also diligently collected 
 whatever information could be gleaned from church and 
 family records, and by personal interviews with the oldest 
 residents of that former capital of East Jersey. And thus 
 there was no one so well equipped as he to write accurately, 
 intelligently and minutely regarding " the days of old " in 
 New Jersey, and especially in the Eastern Division. His 
 familiarity with the official records of our State also gave 
 him knowledge of the woful gaps therein. At the same 
 time his connection with the New York Historical Society 
 caused him to be informed as to the steps taken by that 
 Society in 1838 to secure for our sister State what it re- 
 quired from foreign archives to complete its own records. 
 Hence the persistence with which he repeatedly urged upon 
 our Legislature the importance of cooperating with New 
 
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 York in this movement, as I have already related. Who 
 that read those articles in the Neiuark Daily Advertiser. 
 about 1842, could have ima.ii^incd that the curtain raised 
 upon the "Glimpses of the Past" was drawn by a young 
 man of thirty-two, who by his extraordinary knowledge of 
 the men and events of nearly two centuries before was able 
 to make them all like living realities? From the time that 
 he took up his residence again in Newark, in 1843, he was 
 engaged in business until 1879, when he permanently re- 
 tired. There is no doubt that even while in New York he 
 had been impressed with the desirability of a New Jersey 
 Historical Society, and when this Society was formed he 
 seemed, by common consent, just the man for Correspond- 
 ing Secretary. Examine the first twenty volumes of our 
 Proceedings, and you cannot but be impressed with the 
 gentle but strong personality of Mr. Whitehead through 
 them all. The numerous papers which he read, the enor- 
 mous correspondence conducted by him. the reports and 
 the resolutions which bear traces of his suggestion and 
 nearly always of his pen, the plans he was continually mak- 
 ing for the Society's welfare— all go to show now near to 
 his heart was this institution which he had nursed from its 
 birth into a vigorous maturity. The tact and assiduity 
 with which he collected money, manuscripts, books, por- 
 traits and relics for its library can never be told, for he was 
 the last person to speak of them. But our priceless col- 
 lection of rarities, so largely the result of his efforts, speaks 
 for him. Although he quit school at thirteen, he never 
 "finished his education." That went on while he lived. 
 He was an ardent, unceasing student. The history of "East 
 Jersey under the Proprietary Governments," which he per 
 mitted the Society to publish (in 1846) as the first volume 
 of its Collections, gave him an established reputation as a 
 painstaking, accurate historian, and there is a perennial 
 charm in the delightful pictures he gives us of the old-time 
 
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 social life in New Jersey, in his "Contributions to the Early 
 History of Perth Amboy and Adjoining Country, with 
 Sketches of Men and Events in New Jersey, during the 
 Provincial Era."^ While his fame will rest mainly upon 
 these tvvo works, he himself attached more importance to 
 the project of securing the material for and publishing the 
 series of volumes known as the " New Jersey Archives." 
 When at last, after nearly forty years of endeavor on his 
 part, the manuscript was in hand and the funds (appropri- 
 ated by the Legislature) were available for the printing, 
 his happiness knew no bounds. The dream of a lifetime 
 was at last to be realized. It is pleasant to know that he 
 lived to see seven volumes of the Archives published, and 
 that he had arranged the material for printing three more 
 volumes, ere he was called away. Mr. Whitehead's zeal 
 in the collection and dissemination of knowledge was not 
 confined to this Society. He was one of the founders of 
 the Newark Library Association, in 1847, and was at first 
 its Secretary, and then, for thirty-three years, its President, 
 until his death. He served as a member of the Board of 
 Education of Newark, 1861-1871, and was a Trustee of 
 the State Normal School, 1 862-1 884. It was an interest- 
 ing coincidence that during the last twenty years of his life 
 his leisure hours were passed in congenial pursuits in the 
 rooms of the Society, on the site of the building in which 
 he was born. His health failed gradually for several years, 
 and at last, on August 8, 1884, at Perth Amboy, which 
 was so endeared to him by youthful memories, he passed 
 away, and three days later, on what would have been his 
 "golden wedding day," he was buried in the beautiful 
 churchyard of St. Peter's, where he had so often wandered, 
 with note-book or sketch-book, in his boyhood. My ear- 
 liest recollection of Mr. Whitehead dates back to my 
 
 1 New York, 18.56. 8vo. Pp. viii, 4-^8. 
 
STEPHEN WICKES, M. D. 
 
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 school days in Newark, when he, as a member of the Board 
 of Education, visited the High School. It was upon his 
 nomination that I was elected a member of this Society, in 
 1872, and was made Recording Secretary in 1 880. He 
 honored me with frequent consultations regarding the af- 
 fairs of the Society. The more I saw of him the more did 
 he grow in my regard, and his death came to me with the 
 sense of a personal bereavement. "He was one of the 
 finest looking men in the city. More than si.K feet high 
 and well proportioned, he was a model of physical and 
 manly beauty. . . Without the appearance of an ath- 
 lete, he filled the eye as perfect in stature, development, 
 dignity and power. . . If his bearing had more of dig- 
 nity than was suited to a character so unaffected as his, 
 the impression passed away when he gave his opinion or 
 joined in common conversation. Levity was cut of place 
 in his intercourse with his friends. But cheerfulness was 
 habitual — it adorned his character, and gave a charm to his 
 life. Genius has been neatly defined as an infinite capacity 
 for taking pains. In this he was a genius, a great genius. 
 We may search the world as with lighted candles, and live to 
 the age of the oldest man of the ages, but we shall die 
 without the sight of another whose virtues, public and pri- 
 vate, whose usefulness in the community, whose excellence 
 in the several branches of literary labor which he so faith- 
 fully performed, whose sterling integrity, manly dignity, 
 true nobility, and high Christian character are more worthy 
 of our admiration and imitation than those which add lus- 
 tre to the name and give fragrance to the memory of our 
 departed and beloved friend, William A. Whitehead."' 
 
 His successor, Stephen Wickes, M. D., elected in Janu- 
 ar)-, 1885, had already acquired a reputation as an histori- 
 
 1 Sketch of the Life iind Charaeter of William A. Whitehead, by Samuel Irena^ 
 us Prime. Read before the New Jersey Historical Society. May :il, \»»'x |.\ew 
 ark. J 8vo. Pp. 22. Reprinted from the Proceedings, 2d Series, VIII., 181-202. 
 
 
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 an of industrious research, by his valuable " History of 
 Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men, From the 
 Settlement of the Province to A. D. i8oo," published in 
 1879. He was born at Jamaica, L. I., March 17, 1813; 
 graduated from Union College, Schenectady, and having 
 been licensed as a physician, practiced his profession for 
 fifteen years at Troy, N. Y., whence he removed, in 1852, 
 to Orange, in this State, which was thereafter his home. 
 He became a member of this Society in 1863, but being 
 engaged in active practice, and in collecting material for 
 the work mentioned, as well as for a history of Orange, he 
 took no active part in the Society's affairs until 1879, when 
 he was appointed on the Committee on Library. In May, 
 1884, he was added to the Executive Committee, to fill a 
 vacancy. As a member of the two committees named, he 
 soon made a point of visiting the rooms of the Society reg- 
 ularly. When Mr. Whitehead died, the Society deemed 
 itself fortunate in finding Dr. Wickes ready and willing to 
 attempt the difficult task of filling the place so honored by 
 such a predecessor, and the choice was vindicated by the 
 character of his service, until death deprived us of his 
 abilities, on July 8, 1889, at Orange. He introduced 
 the custom of embodying in the reports of the Executive 
 Committee, to be published in the Proceedings, notices of 
 deceased members of the Society. A favorite project of 
 his, which he pressed with zeal and energy, was the forma- 
 tion of local historical societies in affiliation with this So- 
 ciety. He was precise, methodical and painstaking in his 
 work, was at his desk in the library two or three mornings 
 a week, and devoted much thought to the Society's inter- 
 ests. His courtly elegance of manner, his habit of always 
 wearing a dress-suit, and his white hair and long, snow-white 
 beard, gave him a venerable and striking appearance, while 
 his bright eye and elastic step betokened a vigorous frame 
 and alert mind. Dr. Wickes read two papers before the 
 
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 Society, both from his long-contemplated History of Or- 
 ange.' One was presented at the meeting in Newark, May 
 15, 1879, on "The Newark Mountains in the Last Century ;" 
 the second was read at Princeton, September 28, 1888, on 
 "The First Minister of Orange, N. J., 1718," in which he 
 rescued from obscurity some records of the Rev. Jedidiah 
 Buckingham.- An appreciative Memoir of Dr. Wickes was 
 read to this Society, at the meeting in Newark, May 15, 
 1890, by his friend. Dr. Joseph Parrish, of Burlington.'' 
 
 DECEASED RECORDING SECRETARIES. 
 
 I have been well acquainted with all our Recording Sec- 
 retaries, with one exception. 
 
 The first was Joseph P. Bradley. He took an active part 
 in the organization of the Society, on February 27, 1845, 
 and was elected Recording Secretary on that day. He 
 discharged the duties of the place most acceptably for two 
 years, but thereafter declined to hold any office. His in- 
 terest in the Society, and in its work, however, continued 
 through his long life, being manifested in his service on 
 various committees, until his removal to Washington ; by 
 his constant donations to the library, including on one oc- 
 casion a large number of rare Legislative Journals and 
 Acts; his frequent attendance on the meetings, so late as 
 May 16, 1889, when he made some interesting remarks 
 about the great value of our collections, and added the 
 significant suggestion: "If those interested in history 
 would occasionally give an hour to the subject they would 
 accomplish a good work." Himself one of the busiest ot 
 men, he nevertheless found — or took — a great deal of time 
 for historical research. He told me that during his vaca- 
 tion one Summer, when he was past seventy-five, he had 
 
 1 His ■■History of the Oran^res in Essex County, N. J., from Itititi to Ksoti," was 
 posthumously published, in elegant form, in 189:i. 
 
 2 Proceedings. 2d Series. X.. 103-112. 
 
 3 Ibid., XL, 11-19 
 
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 spent several weeks in poring over musty town records in 
 Connecticut, devoting a whole day at one time to decipher- 
 ing an almost illegible document. On another occasion 
 he related how he had traced out the lines of the original 
 town-lots in Newark. Again, speaking of the Elizabeth- 
 town Bill in Chancery, he expressed the opinion that the 
 East Jersey Proprietors were in error in that controversy. 
 He gave me most generous assistance in the preparation of 
 a memoir of Josiah Hornblower, which I had undertaken 
 before learning that he had accumulated much material 
 with the same object in view, and spent many evenings in 
 going over my manuscript and proofs. Later, he warmly 
 encouraged me to write a paper on Chief Justice Hornblow- 
 er. Only a few months before his death he passed an hour 
 or two one afternoon in my library, conversing on historic 
 themes relating to New Jersey, in which he manifested as 
 keen an interest and as fresh a recollection as if he had not 
 been for more than twenty years a resident of Washington. 
 A paper which he read to us at Trenton, on January 23, 
 185 I, on "The American Union, and the Perils to which it 
 it has been Exposed," is an able and philosophical analysis 
 of the moving causes which impelled the Colonies to form 
 that Union, and of the influences which up to 1850 had 
 threatened its continuance. It also voiced in unmistakable 
 language the writer's conception of the paramount sover- 
 eignty of the National power, vested in the Union — a con- 
 ception to which he was destined within forty years to 
 give the force of law, in the famous Legal Tender decision. 
 His "Memorial of the Life and Character of Hon. William 
 L. Dayton," to which I have already alluded, was not com- 
 pleted by him until 1875, when it was published in our 
 Proceedings. It is an admirable presentation of the salient 
 features in the career of Judge Dayton, and of his charac 
 teristics. It is only two years ago — in January, 1893 — since 
 we had the melancholy pleasure of listening to that splen- 
 
JOHN S. GONDII, M. D. 
 
did and most scholarly address upon Judge Bradley, by his 
 surviving classmate, the Hon. Cortlandt Parker.' The prin- 
 cipal facts in his career are familiar to all. How he was 
 born March 14, 18 13, the son of a modest farmer in the 
 Helderberg, New York ; how, amid the relentless drudgery 
 of the farm he prepared himself for coMege ; how he en- 
 tered Rutgers, in our own State, and by unstinted toil, aid- 
 ed by a marvellously tenacious memory, he speedily forged 
 ahead, and graduated in 1836;- how he studied law, was 
 iidmitted to the bar, and steadily worked his way to the 
 front rank of his profession, until his superiority was rec- 
 ognized by his appointment, March 21, 1870, to the Su- 
 preme Court of the United States, where his abilities shone 
 with increasing lustre until his death, on January 22, 
 1892. His wife was the daughter of Chief Justice Horn- 
 blower, the first President of the Society, and his surviv- 
 ing son has been for several years a member of our Exec- 
 utive Committee. The figure of Justice Bradley as an 
 able lawyer of solid acquirements, and as a most distin- 
 guished jurist, is destined to loom larger as the years go 
 by, and it will be ever a cause of congratulation to this So- 
 ciety that it was honored by his active membership for 
 nearly half a century. 
 
 Our second Recording Secretary, Dr. John S. Condit, 
 was a descendant of John Conditt, weaver, who came from 
 England or Wales, and purchased lands in the bounds of 
 Newark, in 1689 and 1691, where he died in 1713. His 
 grandson, Sanmel (son of Peter), born Dec. 6, 1696, set- 
 tled in what is now West Orange, and married Mary Dodd, 
 in I 722. One of Samuel's grandsons was Dr. John Condit, 
 of Orange ; he was a Surgeon in the Revolutionary War, 
 
 1 Mr. Justice Bradley, of Uie United States Supreiuc Court, by Corthuidt I'ark- 
 er. Read before the Historical Society of New Jersey. January -Zi. 1«I3.— Proceed- 
 ings. -M Series, XII.. 14:M77. 
 
 'i He was a Trustee of Rutgers CoUet^e. 1850-1893. 
 
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 tnember of Congress from New Jersey, 1799-1803, United 
 States Senator, 1803-1817, and Member of Congress again, 
 1819-20. His son, Silas Condit, born August 18, 1778, 
 was a member of the Assembly, 1812, 1816, and of the 
 Council, 1819-1822, Representative in Congress, 1831- 
 1833, and a member of the Constitutional Convention of 
 1844. He was a resident of Newark, being President of 
 the "Old Bank" (the Newark Banking and Insurance Com- 
 pany) for several years. His first child was John Smith 
 Condit, born November 16, 1801. He graduated at Prince- 
 ton College, in 1817, studied law and then medicine, gradu- 
 ating in 1822 from the New York College of Phj-sicians and 
 Surgeons. He resided on the east side of the Passaic riv- 
 er, opposite Newark, and was elected to the Assembly from 
 Hudson county in 1840, and to the Legislative Council, 
 1841-1842. He joined this Society. May 7, 1845, and was 
 elected Recording Secretary, January 21, 1847. The de- 
 scendants of the old Newark families should always remem- 
 ber him with gratitude for the work he did in carefully 
 transcribing all the tombstone inscriptions in the Old Bury- 
 ing Ground, and of those prior to 1800 in the other bury- 
 ing grounds in and near Newark, which record he present- 
 ed to the Society in a handsomely-engrossed volume, at 
 the meeting on November 5, 1846. He died April 5, 1848. 
 In announcing his death to the Society, on May 25, 1848, 
 Mr. William B. Kinney remarked: "This severe bereave- 
 ment not only deprives us of the services of a faithful of- 
 ficer, ever prompt and cheerful in the discharge of official 
 duties, but removes from amongst us an associate i>nd coun- 
 sellor whose pure and upright mind, mature judgment, 
 sound learning and rare acquaintance with the history of 
 our native State, gave an inappreciable value to his exam- 
 ple and influence."' 
 
 1 Proceedings. III., 61. 
 
^«"S?%I.; 
 
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 David Abbott Hayes, of Newark, was elected, May 25, 
 1S48, to succeed Dr. Condit as Recording Secretary, and 
 was re-elected annually for twenty-seven years. He was 
 born in Newark, May 29, 18 10, being a descendant of 
 Thomas Hayes, of Milford, Conn , 1645, whose son Robert, 
 born at Milford, Sept. 30, 1679, removed to Newark about 
 1692, where he died October 28, 1759. Mr. Hayes studied 
 law with Gov. William Pennington, and on being admitted 
 to the bar, in 1834, opened an office in Newark, where he 
 practiced the rest of his life. He was deeply and intelli- 
 gently interested in every enterprise calculated to advance 
 the welfare of Newark, and hence this Society, which he 
 jomed May 7, 1845, found in him a constant friend. I may 
 not dwell upon the personal relations between him and 
 myself, which began as teacher and pupil in the old First 
 Presbyterian Sunday School of Newark, but it is proper to 
 recall the zeal with which he performed his duties as an 
 officer of this Society, and the enthusiasm with which he 
 entered into every movement which bade fair to promote 
 its interests. He vigorously pressed the printing of the 
 Newark Town Records; it is to him that we are indebted 
 for the narrative of the singular discovery in an attic at 
 Short Hills, of Gilbert Stuart's beautiful portrait of Aaron 
 Burr, which is one of our most highly prized treasures ; 
 and it was he who offered the resolution, January 19, 1871, 
 urging the State to have the New Jersey Regimental flags 
 deposited in a suitable receptacle in the State House, which 
 has since been done. He made many valuable donations 
 to our Library, and contributed liberally toward providing 
 a permanent home for the Society. His was a genial 
 presence in our rooms, and he was greatly missed when we 
 were deprived of his companionship, on November 11, 
 1875. 
 
 His successor was Adolphus Pennington Young, elected 
 January 20, 1876. He was born in Newark, in September, 
 
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 1 844) the son of Captain Aaron Young, who died in his 
 country's service in the war of the Rebeihon. His moth- 
 er, P. Louisa, was a daughter of James W. Pennington, son 
 of Gov. VVilHam S. Pennington. He was admitted to the 
 bar in 1868, and practiced in Newark. His father's expe- 
 riences in the War led the son to attempt a history of the 
 campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley, and at the meeting of 
 the Society in Trenton, in January, 1 873 , he read a paper on 
 "Events in the Shenandoah Valley, particularly with refer- 
 ence to the battle at New Market, on the 14th May, 1864." 
 The minutes kept by him are models of chirography, and all 
 his papers showed the same love of neatness. His charac- 
 ter was singularly pure and transparent, he was sincerity 
 itself, in manner very winning, and his youthful earnestness 
 drew us all closely to him. He died at his residence at 
 East Orange, October 6, 1879, having just completed his 
 thirty-fifth year.^ He had been a member of the Society 
 since January 18, 1872. 
 
 THE TREASURERS AND LIBRARIANS. 
 
 Thomas J. Stryker, the first Treasurer, elected in 1845, 
 was descended from Jan Strijcker, who was born in Hol- 
 land, in 1615, and came to New Amsterdam in 1652, 
 whence he removed in 1654 to Midwout (now Flatbush), 
 L. I., where he was elected Schepen and Chief Magistrate 
 for twenty years, and held many other offices of trust and 
 honor. His grandson, Jan Strijcker (son of Gerrit), 
 bought, Feb. 18, 1714, three hundred acres of land at Mid- 
 dlebush, Somerset county, and soon after removed thither. 
 Jan's great-great-grandson, Thomas J. Stryker, was born at 
 Princeton, June 23, 1800. He engaged in business in Tren- 
 ton at an early age, and was identified with most of the in- 
 stitutions — religious, moral, educational and financial — of 
 the town. He was a Manager of the State Lunatic Asy- 
 
 l See Proceedings, 'id Series, III., 57-58; VI., 68-70, 77, 
 
THOMAS J. STRYKER. 
 
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 lum at Trenton from its organization, and was cashier of 
 the Trenton Banking Company Horn 1842 for thirty years. 
 He served this Society as Treasurer until 1848, when he 
 decHned a re-election. He died at Trenton, September 28, 
 1872. Said one of his business associates: "In the rela- 
 tions of a Christian gentleman and a man of business, the 
 name of Mr. Stryker will live as long in this community as 
 the name of any other man who has left us. The confi- 
 dence he held among the people was unsurpassed."' 
 
 I did not know Mr. Stryker, but I do very well remi-m- 
 ber James Ross, of Newark, who was elected in 1848, and 
 although he retired at the close of 1855, long before my 
 recollection, he retained his interest in the Society for 
 many years thereafter. 
 
 In 1856 the offices of Librarian and Treasurer were 
 merged in the person of Samuel H. Congar, but in i860 
 they were separated, and Solomon Alofsen was chosen 
 Treasurer. He was born in Amsterdam, Holland, Novem- 
 ber 22, 1808, of a good Dutch family, and coming to 
 America in early manhood as Secretary of the Netherlands 
 legation, he concluded to stay here, and settled in Jersey 
 City. He dealt largely in railroad and other investments. 
 He was enrolled in this Society, May "] , 1845, and was a 
 generous contributor to its treasury and to its library, pre- 
 senting more than six hundred separate publications rela- 
 ting to the Rebellion, and frequently giving us the benefit 
 of his knowledge of Dutch to translate ancient records in 
 that language. To his familiarity with the language of 
 heraldry, also, we are indebted for the technical description 
 of the seal of the Society.'' He resigned the office of 
 Treasurer, May 16, 1867, when about to make a prolonged 
 visit to his native country. In accepting his resignation a 
 
 1 Mr. Stryker was the father of Adjutiuit iJeneral Williiim S. StryUer, now 
 [January. 1898] President of the Society. 
 
 2 Proceedings. II., 3; 2d Series, XIII.. 8. 
 
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 resolution was adopted expressing in behalf of the mem- 
 bers "their high appreciation of the efficient manner in 
 which his gratuitous services had been rendered for more 
 than seven years, and the obligations they are under for 
 the generous contributions which at different times he has 
 made to their funds. "^ In 1871 he left this country to take 
 up his permanent residence abroad. He had a large and 
 very valuable library, chiefly of Americana, which he took 
 with him, but having no settled place of abode was obliged, 
 much to his regret, to sell the collection, at auction, in June, 
 1876, at Utrecht.- He died suddenly at Arnhem, October 
 19, 1876.'^ 
 
 Col. Robert Smith Swords, of Newark, was elected Treas- 
 urer May 16, 1867, to succeed Mr. Alofsen. He was a native 
 of New York city, where he was born July 12. 18 16. Grad- 
 uating at Columbia College in 1834, he practiced law, 1837— 
 1847, but in 1849 retired from practice and settled near 
 Rutherford, New Jersey. In 1850 he made an extensive 
 trip through Europe, acquiring a thorough knowledge of 
 French and Spanish. He was commissioned Lieutenant 
 Colonel of the Thirteenth New Jersey Regiment, August 
 8, 1862, and participated in the battles of South Mountain 
 and Antietam in the following month, being wounded in 
 the former engagement. He resigned, February 3, 1863, 
 and took up his residence in Newark, where he acted as 
 secretary of the Board of Trade and treasurer of various 
 other organizations. He became a member of this Soci- 
 
 1 Pi-oceedinys. 3cl Series, I.. 23. 
 
 2 The catalogue of this sale made 287 closely-printed octavo pages, and con- 
 tained 4.584 lots. It was well remarked in the preface that Mr. Alofsen was a bib- 
 liophile, and not a bibliomaniac; that he usid his books, all of them, as attested 
 by his numerous remarks, corrections and additions scattered throughout their 
 pages. I have Mr. Alofsen's copy of Taylor's --Annals of the Classis of Bergen." 
 enriched in this manner by Mr. A. ; moreover, he has laid in a dozen or more pa- 
 ges of notes in his fine, clerkly handwriting, containing most interesting informa- 
 tion, together with hi.s correspondence with the Rev. Benjamin C. Taylor, the au- 
 thor, relating to some of the statements in the book. 
 
 3 For a brief notice of Mr. Alofsen, see Proceedings. 3d Series, IV., 168. 
 
ety, January 19, i860, making thereafter numerous dona- 
 tions to the library. For two or three years before his 
 death, he spent his whole time in the gratuitous service of 
 the Society, acting as Librarian, and keeping up the cata- 
 logue of books and manuscripts. He read a Memoir of 
 John Rutherfurd, already mentioned, in 1872, and in 1879 
 a paper on "The Bones of Columbus," discovered in the 
 Cathedral of San Domingo two years previously. It was 
 on the motion of Col. Swords that the Society took action, 
 May 20, 1880, to secure full records of the deaths of its 
 members.^ At the next meeting his own decease was the 
 first announced,'- he having died at Newark on January 15, 
 1881. Warm-hearted, energetic, and impulsive in temper- 
 ament, positive in manner, at times irascible from attacks 
 of the gout, always scholarly and industrious, for nearly 
 fourteen years he was a valuable officer. 
 
 Of the first Librarian, Thomas Gordon, of Trenton, I 
 have no recollection. He was doubtless a descendant of 
 Thomas Gordon, one of the early settlers of Perth Amboy, 
 and who for many years was one of the leading men in the 
 Province, occupying numerous important positions — as At- 
 torney General of East Jersey, 1698, Judge, member of the 
 Assembly, 1703-1709, member of the Council, 1709-1722, 
 Receiver-General and Treasurer, 1710-1719. He died at 
 Perth Amboy, April 28, 1722, in his seventieth year. His 
 son Thomas removed to Hunterdon county, where he was 
 living in 1738. It was perhaps the latter's son Thomas 
 who in his will, dated January 9, 1779, describes himself as 
 a yeoman, of Amwcll, Hunterdon county. His will was 
 proved April 29, 1785. He left much of his property to 
 his son Franklin (who died at Amweil in July, 1793), and 
 to Franklin's grandsons, Othneil and Thomas. The last- 
 named (Thomas) was born about 1775, at Amweil. He 
 
 1 Proceedings. 2d Series, VI., 93. 
 
 2 Ibid., 116. 
 
removed early in life to Trenton, where he was a surveyor 
 and conveyancer. Many of his maps were admirably 
 drawn and colored. His interest in matters literary appears 
 from his election in 1822 among the first Board of Mana- 
 gers of the Apprentices' Library, of Trenton, of which he 
 was chosen Clerk. He was elected Librarian of this Soci- 
 ety in 1845 and again in 1846, but as the library was loca- 
 ted in Newark, and as he was advanced in years, he could 
 give the duties of the office little or no personal attention, 
 and he retired in 1847. He is supposed to have died in 
 October, 1848, at Trenton.' 
 
 The functions of Librarian devolved upon the Corres- 
 ponding Secretary during the next two years, until he was 
 relieved, at his own request. May 25, 1848, when Dr. Sam- 
 uel H. Pennington was appointed to the vacant position, 
 devoting to it such time as he could occasionally spare 
 from his practice. He was succeeded, January 15, 1852, 
 by Samuel H. Congar, of Newark, who gave twenty years 
 to the Society's service in this capacity. John Conger, his 
 ancestor, was among those New England colonists who 
 settled at Woodbridge prior to 1668, whence some of his 
 posterity came in the ensuing century to Newark, where 
 Samuel Hayes Congar was born, December 10, 1796. His 
 mother, Hannah, was a daughter of Major Samuel Hayes, 
 a Revolutionary soldier, and Sarah Bruen, both the Hayes 
 and Bruen families being among the early founders of 
 Nevvark. It having been proposed, about 1845, ^o utilize 
 the Old Burying Ground in Newark for some other pur- 
 pose, Mr. Congar was aroused in opposition, and he pro- 
 ceeded to make extensive historical and genealogical in- 
 quiries regarding the old settlers there interred, until he 
 became possessed of a greater store of antiquarian lore re- 
 garding Newark and vicinity than any other person. 
 Much of this he gave to the public in a series of articles 
 
 I His will, dated Oct. 20, 1847, was proved Oct. 31, 1848. 
 
SAMUEL H. CONGAR 
 
5 J 
 
 in the Newark Daily Advertiser ; more was published by 
 him in the volume containing a report of the Newark Bi- 
 Centennial Celebration;' and still more is deposited in our 
 library, he having joined this Society May 25, 1848. He 
 explored the musty recesses in the Essex count}'- court 
 house and brought to light many forgotten records of 
 great interest and value, to which he added others discov- 
 ered in old attics.'- He was a veritable " Old Mortality," 
 and as he moved briskly but noiselessly about the rooms 
 of the Society, I always looked upon him with a sort of 
 awe, for the knowledge of the dead and fast hidden under 
 that dry old grey-haired pate. Such a man as Mr. Con- 
 gar is invaluable in a Society like this. While he lived no 
 one ever thought of attempting to trace the genealogy of 
 any Newark family without consulting him. When he 
 died, July 29, 1872, in the house in which he was born, it 
 was recognized that the Society had sustained an irrepar- 
 able loss. It is simple truth to say that no one has ever 
 attempted to take up the Vv'ork in which he was so pecu- 
 liarly an adept. '^ 
 
 The Rev. Samuel Hutchings, an elderly retired clergy- 
 mar,, was engaged to take charge of the library and rooms 
 of the Society, as assistant and acting Librarian, after Mr. 
 Congar's death, no Librarian being chosen until January 
 2 1. 1875, when Martin R. Dennis was elected to fill the 
 vacancy. Mr. Dennis was in active business, and could 
 not give much time to the work, but he employed assist- 
 ance, largely at his own expense, so that the rooms were 
 kept open regularly. He was born at Newton, Sussex 
 county, in 1823, the son of Ezekiel Dennis and Mary (Bald- 
 win) Dennis, came to Newark when young, studied medi- 
 cine and graduated from the New York Medical College, 
 
 1 Supplement to N. J. Hist. Soc. Coll., VI. 
 
 2 See N. J. Hist. Soc. Coll., V., .501 -5Ui. 
 
 8 For an obituary notice of Mr. Congar, see Proceedings, 2cl Series, III., 50 53. 
 
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 but instead of practicing engaged in the drug business in 
 New York for some years. About 1849 he was taken into 
 partnership by his brother, Alfred L. Dennis, in the book 
 and stationery business, which the latter had bought many 
 years before from WilHam Tuttle. In 1861 he succeeded 
 to the business, and continued it at the old stand, on the 
 southwest corner of Broad and Academy streets. He was 
 elected a member of this Society, May 16, 1867. At the 
 meeting in January, 1868, he was appointed on the Com- 
 mittee on Library, of which he was chairman from 1871, 
 and in that capacity was highly efficient in adding to the 
 Society's resources. He died February i, 1881.' 
 
 On January 20, 1881, Frederick William Ricord was 
 elected Treasurer and Librarian, under an arrangement by 
 which he agreed to spend the greater part of every day in 
 the Society's rooms, for a nominal compensation. Judge 
 Ricord has been continued in the dual office by annual 
 elections ever since, and the wisdom of having an accom- 
 plished gentleman of extensive literary, historical and bib- 
 liographical acquirements in constant charge of the rooms 
 has been proved beyond all question by this action."' 
 
 1 See Proceedings. 2ci Series, VI., 134. 
 
 2 At the time of the delivery of this address .ludye Ricord occupied a seat on 
 the platform, though in a very feeble state of health. He failed steadily until Au- 
 gust 12. 1807. when he was taken from us. A few facts in his life may be noted 
 briefly here. He was the son of Dr. Jean Baptiste Ricord. who married Elizabeth, 
 a dau.-Thter of the Rev. Peter Stryker. of Belleville. Mr. Ricord was born October 
 7, 1819. studied at Geneva CoUetje. and subsequently at Rutgers College, after which 
 he began the study of the law. but soon ensayed in teaching, which he followed 
 twelve years, in Newark. In 1849 he became librarian of the Newark Library As- 
 sociation, where the writer was employed under him for a few weeks in the sum- 
 mer of 1858. He was a member of the Board of Education. 1853-1860; was State 
 School .Superintendent four years; Sheriff of Essex County. 1865-6-7; Mayor of 
 Newark. 1860-1873. a service made memorable by his stubborn and ultimately suc- 
 cessful fight against a patent wooden pavement: subsequently he was a City Po- 
 lice Justice, and one of the Lay Judges of Essex County. But to him his real life 
 was that sijent among his books. He was the author of many school-books, of 
 translations from the French, and published two volumes of metrical versions 
 of "English Songs from Foreign Tongues." He was an accomplished litterateur 
 and a delightful social companion. 
 
FREDERICK WILLIAM RICORD. 
 
33 
 
 SOME MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 The Rev. Daniel Veach McLean, D. D , was the first 
 Chairman of the Executive Committee, elected at the or- 
 ganization of the Society, February 27, i8_i5. This was a 
 fitting recognition of his important part in urging the 
 formation of the Society, which he suggested in the sum- 
 mer of 1844, and it was at his instance that the first meet- 
 ing was held for the purpose. He was born in Fayette 
 county, Penn., November 24, 1801, and after graduating 
 from the State University in Ross county, Ohio, in 1824, 
 and teaching for about three years, he studied two years 
 in Princeton Theological Seminary, when he was licensed 
 to preach by the Presbytery of Carlisle, and occupied the 
 pulpit of the First Church of Lebanon, Ohio, for two 
 years. He was then called to the Old Tennent Church, in 
 Monmouth county. New Jersey, where he spent four years, 
 followed by fifteen years in charge of the Freehold Presby- 
 terian church, which he left in 1850 to assume the Presi- 
 dency of Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa., where he 
 labored with great success for six years. He then spent 
 four years in Europe, and on his return filled pastorates at 
 Plainfield, and at Red Bank, dying at the latter place. De- 
 cember 23, 1869.^ Dr. McLean was genial yet dignified in 
 his intercourse with his fellows, of strong natural force of 
 character, deeply interested in educational work in every 
 phase. He was intensely positive in his convictions, ready 
 to assert his views at all times and places, yet submitting 
 gracefully when defeated. He thought the records of the 
 Society ought to have set out more particularly just how it 
 came to be formed, and he made a strenuous eff"ort to have 
 the library located at Trenton, but when he failed to have 
 his ideas adopted, he seemed as interested as ever, served 
 as Chairman of the Executive Committee, 1845-6-7-8, and 
 second on the Committee in 1 849-1 S50, besides render- 
 
 1 Proceediugs, 3 J Series, II., 3. 74-75. 
 
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 \ng valuable service on other committees, until his removal 
 from the State, in 1850, and made important donations 
 through a long series of years. On returning to the State 
 he resumed his associations with the Society, attending the 
 last meeting before his death. 
 
 The Rev. Nicholas Murray, D. D.,of Elizabeth, was another 
 original member of the same Committee, of which he was 
 Chairman from January, 1849, until his death, February 4, 
 1 86 1. Dr. Murray was born at Balynaskea, County VVest- 
 meath, Ireland, Dec. 25, 1802, of a well-to do, prominent 
 Roman Catholic family. He came to America in 1818, vvith 
 but $12, and found employment in Harper & Brothers' print- 
 ing and publishing house. Having joined the Brick Pres- 
 byterian church, his remarkable abilities induced a num- 
 ber of influential friends to urge him to prepare for the 
 ministry, which he did, graduating at Williams College, at 
 Amherst, Mass., in 1826, and at the Princeton Theological 
 Seminary in 1829. After four years in the pastorate at 
 Wilkesbarre and Kingston, Penn., he was called in 1833 to 
 the First Presbyterian church at Elizabeth, N. J., where he 
 continued the rest of his life, despite constant and most 
 tempting offers from other fields of labor. He ranked 
 among the ablest and most influential men in his denom- 
 ination. As a pastor and as a Christian gentleman he had 
 no superior. In literature he attained a wide reputation as 
 a graceful writer, while in controversy his pen was a most 
 trenchant weapon — powerful as Richard Coeur de Lion's 
 mighty sword, keen as the scimetar of Saladin.' I have 
 mentioned his valuable " Notes, historical and biographical, 
 
 1 Memoirs of the Rev. NichoUis Murray. D. D. (■■ Kirvvan "). by Samuel Ireiiieus 
 Prime | D. D. |. Harper & Brothers. New York. 18(53. 12mo. Pp. 448. 
 
 A Discourse addressed to the First Presbyterian church in Elizabetli. N. J.. 
 February 10. 1861. the Sunday morninK immediately succeeding the death of the 
 Rev. Nicholas Murra.y. D. D.. their pastor. By William B. Sprague, D. D. Albany, 
 N. Y.. 1861. 8vo. Pp. 51. 
 
 Hatfield's History of Elizabeth. 1868. pp. 669-6*3. 
 
 A brief notice of Dr. Murray's death is given in the Proc. N. J. Hist. Soc, 
 IX., ?7. 
 
— 57 — 
 
 concerning Elizabethtown," published in 1844. At the 
 meeting of the Society at Newark, May 25, 1848, he read 
 a " Memoir of Rev. James Caldwell," the' " Fighting Par- 
 son " of the Revolution, whose wife was shot by the British 
 at Connecticut Farms in 1780, and who was himself killed 
 by an American sentinel, at Elizabethtown, Nov, 24, 
 1 78 1.' Dr. Murray was an earnest and most useful friend 
 of the Society for the first sixteen years of its existence. 
 
 Archer Gifford was a member of the Executive Commit- 
 tee, 1 845-1 859, being Chairman, 18J4-1859. He was 
 born in Newark in 1796, son of Capt.-John Gifford; grad- 
 uated from Princeton in 1814, and was licensed as an at- 
 torney in 1818. President Jackson appointed him Collec- 
 tor of the Port of Newark in f8^6, an office he retained for 
 twelve years. He was a man of literary tastes and diversi- 
 fied scholarship, publishing a "Digest of Statutory and 
 Constitutional Constructions," with " An Index of the 
 Statutes at Large;"' a work on the "Unison of the Lit- 
 urgy,"^ and read before this Society, at Trenton, January 
 17, 1850, a paper on "The Aborigines of New Jersey,"^ 
 which givts an excellent summary of the history of the 
 New Jersey tribes. Mr. Gifford had also collected consid 
 erable original material for a Biograph)^ of Peter Wilson, 
 LL. D., of Hackensack, afterwards of Columbia College, 
 
 1 Proceedin^rs, III.. 77-89. The sentinel was han^'ed for ihe murder: it was sus- 
 pected that he was a British sympathizer. 
 
 2 A Difjest of the Statutory and Constitutional Construi'tions delivered in the Su- 
 preme Court, and Court of Errors and Apj^eals, of the State of New Jersey. 
 Alphabetically arranjred. 13y Archer Gifford. Counsellor at law. Newark. N. J. 
 1852 8vo. Pp. xii. .^^9. (1). Synopsis of the Constitution of New Jersey. Adopted 
 June 2;l. 1844. Alphabetically arran<-fed. Pp. (2), 41. An Inde.x to the Statutes at 
 Larj^e of the State of New Jersey 1 1776-18501. Pp. (4). 391. (1). These works ex- 
 hibit an immense amount of industry. 
 
 3 Unison of the Ijitur^.v: beinj,' an exhibition of Tlie li:iniii)iiy of the .Subject 
 contained in the collect for each of the Sundays and Holydays in the year, with the 
 epistle, the gospel, and the lessons for that day. and of its accordance with a cor- 
 resiDondiny topic in the church's catechism, and in her articles of religion. By 
 Archer Gilford. A. M. ... From Advent to Ash- Wednesday. New York, 1856. 
 12mo. Pp. 327, (1). 
 
 4 Proceedings, IV., 16J-198. 
 
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 and the compiler of Wilson's Laws, 1702— 1784, but it was 
 unfinished when he died suddenly, May 13, 1859,^ 
 
 The R'ev. Eli Field Cooley, a member of the Committee, 
 I 845-1846, was born in Sutherland, Mass., Oct. 15, 1781 ; 
 graduated from Princeton College in 1806, and was pastor 
 of the Presbyterian churches at Cherry Valley, N. Y., 
 1 809-1 820; at Matawan, N. J., 1 820-1 823, and in the 
 First Church of Trenton, now Ewing, 1823-1857. He 
 was a man of great and varied industry; was one of the 
 founders of the American Bible Society, in 18 16; induced 
 the New Jersey Legislature to provide for the support of 
 the blind, and of deaf mutes; was one of the building 
 committee of the State Lunatic Asylum at Trenton, and an 
 active member of the committee which built East and West 
 Colleges at Princeton. I have already mentioned that in 
 1842 he wrote a series of papers on the early history of 
 Hopewell and Trenton, which were published in the Tren- 
 ton State Gazette. The account of Mercer county, in 
 Barber and Howe's " Historical Collections," was also from 
 his pen. He compiled a large amount of material relating 
 to the " Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and 
 Ewing," which was posthumously published in 1883.'- He 
 died April 22, i860. 
 
 Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, LL. D., the honored Presi- 
 dent of Rutgers College, gave us the prestige of his name 
 on the E.xecutive Committee during the first two years of 
 the Society's existence. He was born in Kingston, N. Y., 
 November 29, 1791; graduated from Yale College in 
 I 810; began the practice of law at Kingston in 18 14; and 
 was President of Rutgers College, 1840— 1850. "By his 
 Lectures on Constitutional Law, his genial manners, his 
 generous hospitality, and his happy influence exerted on 
 
 1 Ibid., VIII., 08, 1.33. 
 
 3 Trenton, ^vo. Pp. 336. Only riou copies were printed, and the work is now 
 
— 59 — 
 
 manifold public occasions, he contributed greatly to the 
 prosperity of that venerable institution." He died at 
 Kingston, N. Y., February 23, 1879. 
 
 One of the most valued of the original members of this 
 Society was that " prince of l^ishops," as he has been 
 called — the Rt. Rev. George Washington Doane, D. D., 
 LL.D, He was the son of Jonathan Doan, a builder, of 
 Trenton, where he was born May 27, 1799. Graduating at 
 Union College in 181 8, he entered the General Theological 
 Seminary in New York, was ordained a deacon in 1821 and 
 a priest in 1823, and after a successful ministry in Boston 
 was elected Bishop of New Jersey in 1832. A man of 
 tremendous energy, fascinating personality and splendid 
 eloquence, he speedily became a great power in New Jer- 
 sey. His address at the first annual meeting of this Soci- 
 ety, at Trenton, January 15, 1846, felicitously entitled 
 " The Goodly Heritage of Jerseymen," will be always de- 
 lightful reading to every patriotic citizen of our State, He 
 served on the Executive Committee, 1845-1855, during 
 which period he was seldom absent from the Society's 
 meetings. He died April 27, 1859. 
 
 Elias Bailey Dayton Ogden, the last on the list of the 
 original members of this Committee, was born at Eliza- 
 beth, May 22, 1800, son of Col. Aaron Ogden, distin- 
 guished in the Revolution, and United States Senator from 
 New Jersey, 1801-1803. Young Dayton was admitted to 
 the bar in 1824, and began practice at Paterson, where he 
 resided until appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court, in 
 184S, when he removed to Elizabeth. He continued on 
 the bench, by successive appointments, until his death, 
 February 24, 1865. He was a member of the Executive 
 Committee, 1845-1854. He may have concluded that 
 there was a preponderance of lawyers in the official man- 
 agement of the Society, for in 1854 four of the officers and 
 six of the nine members of the Executive Committee be- 
 
— 6o — 
 
 longed to that profession, the Chief Justice and two Asso- 
 ciate Justices of the Supreme Court being on that Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 In 1847 the Rev. John Maclean, D. D., then one of the 
 Professors in Princeton College, and from 1854 to 1868 the 
 honored and beloved President of that institution, was 
 elected a member of our Executive Committee, and served 
 until 185 I. He attended the meetings of the Society as 
 late as 1859, frequently contributing to their interest by 
 adding to the information of those present on historic 
 themes. He was a member of the Society until his death, 
 August 10, 1886, at Princeton. He was a native of that 
 place, having been born there March 3, 1800, the son of 
 Prof. John Maclean. He graduated from the College in 
 1 8 16, and became a member of the faculty in 1822. After 
 retiring from the Presidency he wrote a " History of the 
 College of New Jersey, from its origin in 1746 to the com- 
 mencement of 1854.''' 
 
 Littleton Kirkpatrick, of New Brunswick, was added to 
 the Committee in 1847, ^^^ continued thereon until Janu 
 ary, 1852. His great grandfather, Alexander Kirkpatrick, 
 a native of Watties Neach, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, came 
 to America in 1736, and settled at Mine Brook, near Bask- 
 ingridge, Somerset county, where he died, June 3, 1758. 
 His grandson, Andrew (son of David, who was born at 
 Watties Neach, February 17, 1724, and married Mary Mc- 
 Eowen, of Somerset county), was born Feb. 17, 1756, and 
 married Jane, daughter of Col. John Bayard, of New 
 Brunswick. He was Chief Justice of New Jersey, 1803- 
 1824. His son, Littleton Kirkpatrick, graduated at Prince- 
 ton College in 1815, was licensed as an attorney in 1821, 
 and practiced in New Brunswick, where he died suddenly, 
 August 15, 1859. He was a Trustee of Rutgers College, 
 
 1 Phihidelphia. 1877. -2 vols. 8vo. Pp. 4U, 450. 
 
JOHN RUTHERFURD 
 
— 6i — 
 
 1841-1859, and was distinguished for ability and gen- 
 erosity. 
 
 In January, 1851, Daniel Haines was elected a member 
 of the Committee, serving until January, 1855. He was 
 born in New York city, January 6, 1801, son of Elias 
 Haines, a native of Elizabeth, and descendant of the early 
 settlers of that ancient town. His mother was Mary, 
 daughter of Robert Ogden, of Sussex, and niece of Col. 
 Aaron Ogden, of Elizabeth. Daniel Haines graduated 
 from Princeton College in 1820, and having been ad- 
 mitted to the bar in 1823, began practice at Hamburg, 
 Sussex county, which was thereafter his place of residence. 
 He was elected Governor of New Jersey, in 1843, for one 
 year, and again in 1847, for three years. In 1852 he was 
 appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court, which ofifice he 
 held for fourteen years. While he was Governor he re- 
 peatedly urged upon the Legislature the importance of se- 
 curing from England copies of the archives relating to 
 New Jersey, and all his life evinced an intelligent interest in 
 the objects of this Society. It was my good fortune to be- 
 come very well acquainted with Governor Haines in 1875, 
 and I learned to esteem him as an upright official, a con- 
 scientious citizen, a true friend and a Christian gentleman. 
 He died at Hamburg, January 26, 1877. 
 
 Of later members of the Committee I need only to re- 
 mind you of the Rev. Andrew Bell Paterson, D. D., 1855- 
 1857, of Princeton, afterwards of Salem, and then of St. 
 Paul, Minn.; Dudley S. Gregory, of Jersey City, for so 
 many years identified with the railroad and ferry interests 
 of that city, and who served on this Committee, 1855- 
 1862; William P. Robeson, the distinguished lawyer of 
 Warren county, a member of the Committee, 1 856-1 862; 
 ex-Governor and Speaker William Pennington, of Newark, 
 ( 1 858-1 860), whose kindly greetings are among the pleas- 
 antest of my childhood's recollections; John P. Jackson, 
 
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 one of Newark's most valued citizens, who was on the 
 Committee, 1860-1861 ;' the Rev. Dr. John Hall, of Tren- 
 ton, who gave us twenty-one years of service on the same 
 Committee (1861-1881), besides still further duty on the 
 Committee on Publications;'' ex-Governor Charles S. 
 Olden, of Princeton, 1862-1870; Charles C. Haven, of 
 Trenton, 1 862-1 874, who was so enthusiastic in his re- 
 searches regarding the battles at Trenton and at Prince- 
 ton ;'^ Gen. N. Norris Halsted, of Hudson county, 1864- 
 1884, who was a generous friend and zealous worker ;■* 
 Samuel Allinson, of Yardville, 1871-1883, the "Philan- 
 thropist of New Jersey," that good Friend, who in his walk 
 and conversation continually exemplified the principles of 
 the Society of which he was so worthy and conspicuous a 
 member;"' Theodore F. Randolph, of Morristown, 1871- 
 1876, Governor of New Jersey, 1869-1872, United States 
 Senator, 1875-1881, and one of the founders of our kin- 
 dred society, the Washington Association of New Jersey ;'' 
 Hugh H. Bowne, of Rahway, 1 872-1 876; Joel Parker, of 
 Freehold, 1875-1887, Governor of New Jersey, 1863- 
 1866, 1872-1875, and Justice of the Supreme Court, 1880- 
 1887 ;' Joseph N. Tuttle, 1875-1886, one of Newark's most 
 upright and honored business men ;'^ Marcus L. Ward, 
 of Newark, 1 876-1 884, Governor of New Jersey, 1866- 
 1869, member of Congress, 1873-1875;'' the Rev. Dr. 
 George Sheldon, of Princeton, 1877-188 i ;'"John F, Hage- 
 
 1 Appropriate notice of Mr. Jael^son's deatli was talten at tlie meeting of the 
 Society, January 1(5. 186,2. See Proceedings, IX.. 80. 
 
 2 See Proceedings, May 17. 1894, 2a Series, XIII.. 65. 
 
 3 Ibid., Jan. 21. 1875, 2d Series, IV., 3. 
 
 4 Ibid., May 14, 1884, 2d Series, VIII.. 51. 
 
 5 Ibid., Jan. 17, 1884. 2d Series, VIII.. 5. 69-89. 
 
 6 Ibid., Jan. 17, 1884, 2d Series, VIII., 6. 
 
 7 Ibid., January 24, 1888, 2d Series, X.. 8, .'57-92. 
 
 8 Ibid.. January 25, 1887, 2d Series, IX., 117. 
 
 9 Ibid., May 14. 1884, 2d Serie.s, VIII. , 49; IX., 13(5-147. 
 10 Ibid., January 21, 1882, 2d Series, VII., 4. 
 
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 man, of Princeton, 1882— 1892, who favored us with several 
 papers, and was an efficient member of the Committee;' 
 George A. Pialsey," of Newark, 1885-1894;' 
 
 OTHER EARLY KRIKNDS. 
 
 And in this review how can I fail to mention those other 
 early friends of the Society who contributed in various 
 ways towards its success? The Rev. Jonathan Cogswell, 
 D. D., of New Brunswick, the gif:ed and popular clergy- 
 man, who for several years aided the Committee on Pub- 
 lications in its work ; the venerable James Carnahan, D. D., 
 LL D., President of I'rinceton College, 1 823-1 854 ; ' Charles 
 King, of P^lizabeth, for several years President of Columbia 
 College, and whose address at the meeting of the Society, 
 May 7, 1845, is a most valuable contribution to the history 
 of New Jersey;'' the Rev. Abraham Messier, D. I),, of 
 Somerville, Trustee of Rutgers College, 1845-1882, who 
 was a life-long friend of this Society, which he favored 
 
 1 Ibid.. JaiuiiU-y U. mxi. -M Series. XII., i:{0-i:i:!. 
 
 2 Ibid.. May 17, 1894. 2d Serie.s, XIII.. GO. i)."> KIS. 
 
 8 It will be observed that amonK the ofllcersof tlic Soi'iety. and nienibi'is of tlie 
 Executive Committee, have been Governors Peter D. Vroom, William I'ennintr- 
 ton. Daniel Haines. Charles S. Olden. Joel Parker, Mari-us L. Ward and Theodore 
 F. Randolph; Chief Jusiii-es of the Supreme Court Joseph C. Hornl)lo\ver and 
 Henry W. (ireen. to whom should be added (January. IHUH). WMIliam J. Ma^ie; As- 
 sociate Justices of the .Supreme Court WMlliam L. Dayton. Elias Bailey Dayton 
 Otrden. Daniel Haines. David A. Depue (whose wise and sajjacious counsels we 
 enjoyed in the E.\ecutive Committee. 1878 18it()): United States Supreme Court 
 Justice Joseph P. Bradley; United States District Court Judges Richard S. Field 
 and John T. Nixon. As this address is trointr through the press (January. 18!I8). 
 there are on the Board of Trustees Grover Cleveland, of Princeton. ex-President of 
 the United States; Garret A. Hobart. of Paterson. now Vice President of tie 
 United States; and Alexander T. McGill, Chancellor of New Jer.sey. 
 
 ■* Dr. Carnahan made an extremely interestinK statement to the Society, a I its 
 meeting at Princeton. Sejit. 27. 1848. relative to President Samuel Daviess trip to 
 Europe in 17.Vi. in behalf of the Collej^'e. and his journal of that trip. See Proceed- 
 inj-'s. III.. 127 i:W. He read before the Society in 18.'i2 a paper on "The Pennsylva- 
 nia Insurrection of 17SI4, commonly called the ' WMiisUey Insurrection.' " in which 
 he described the causes of and the circumstances allendintr that danj^erous revolt. 
 See Proceedings. V.. .">:{. 101, 113-1.52. 
 
 5 Proceedings, I.. 21-62. At a meeting' of Uic Smicty al I'liclmld. S.-pi. I.i. IX)!', 
 President Kint; read a paper on •The Hattlrnf MdUMinnili ('(i\ui House." See 
 Proceedings, IV.. 100, 125-141, 
 
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 with several very readable and instructive papers;^ that 
 learned and eminent divine, the Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., 
 of Princeton, to whom we are indebted for many gifts, and 
 for an inspiring address delivered before the Society at 
 Princeton, September 4, 1845;- ^^^^ Hon. Garret Dorset 
 Wall, of Burlington, United States Senator from 'New Jer- 
 sey, 1835-1841, and who was a member of this Society 
 from 1846 until his death, Nov. 22, 1850;^ his son, the 
 Hon. James Walter Wall, United States Senator in 1863, 
 was another deeply interested member of the Society for 
 many years; and so was the Hon. Jacob Welsh Miller, of 
 Morristown, United States Senator, 1840-1853, who gave 
 us an able address, at the meeting in Trenton, January 19, 
 1854, showing the great importance of Nevv Jersey as " The 
 Iron State: its Natural Position, Power and Wealth."^ 
 
 Such were some of the men most active in the formation 
 and subsequent management of our Society. To us of a 
 later generation, who recollect these men as they were in 
 our day, the idea of a venerable antiquity attaches itself 
 to most if not to all of them. Indeed, I think it is the 
 popular idea that grey, or at least scanty, locks are indis- 
 solubly associated with historical research — an idea, how- 
 ever, that fortunately is rapidly disappearing in view of the 
 fact that to-day there are no more enthusiastic students of 
 history than the youthful, vivacious and altogether charming 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Colonial 
 Dames, who haunt our Historical Societies, and make life 
 more or less of a burden to Librarians and Corresponding 
 Secretaries with their persistent and not-to-be-denied quests 
 
 1 Notably one on " The Hollanders in New Jersey, with Notices of some of their 
 Descendants." read at the meeting at Morristown. Sept. 1:3, 18.50. See Proceedings, 
 v., 43, 67-89. 
 
 2 Proceedings. I.. 65, 81-96. The address contains many valuable suggestions re- 
 garding the work of such a Society, and how the members can contribute towai-d 
 its success. 
 
 3 For resolutions on his death, see Proceedings. V., 93-96, 
 •* Proceedings. VII., 67-84. 
 
S>>ai. 
 
 ^ i>yAjf.Putchie. 
 
 ^>:?r?<? 
 
 ^^^^:^^^^2^^i^^ 
 
 ^^/ 
 
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 for information about dead and gone ancestors and the pos- 
 sibility of establishing their relationship to Anneke Jans, or 
 to Matilda, consort of William the Conqueror. No, as a mat- 
 ter of fact, most of the men I have named, so far from be- 
 ing aged, with grey or white hair, and venerable aspect, 
 were in their very prime ; most of them were under forty 
 years, and many of them less than thirty, and their best 
 work for the Society was done ere they had attained to as 
 many years as the Society has to-day. I mention this for 
 the encouragement of the young men and the young wo- 
 men who have been deterred from joining this Society, 
 and becoming active workers within its ranks, because of 
 the impression that they must wait until they have donned 
 grey hair and spectacles. The Society welcomes the 
 young to its membership, and rejoices to have them enter 
 upon the work which shall fit them to take up the tasks 
 that their elders must in time lay down. 
 
 Mr. President, fain would I linger longer in loving rem- 
 iniscence of those who have gone before us. Surely, me- 
 thinks, do their spirits hover over us as we thus proudly 
 celebrate what they so ably began. Broad and deep did 
 they lay the foundations of this Society, so that as one 
 after another of the founders was taken away, the fair fabric 
 stood safe and strong, rising ever to still loftier and fairer 
 proportions, as new men were found to take the places of 
 the old, until to-day the Society constitutes a splendid 
 monument to its founders. 
 
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 PART III. 
 
 The Society's Library— its Location, its Growth, 
 and its Manag:ement. 
 
 Knowledcre is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where 
 we can get information upon it.— Dr. Saiaurl Johnson. 
 
 The function of an Historical Society is two-fold: the 
 collection and the dissemination of knowledge. Obvious- 
 ly, the gathering of materials for history comes first. This 
 was the view rightly taken by our predecessors, and to this 
 end their earliest efforts were directed. 
 
 THE LIBRARY OF THE SOCIETY. 
 At the meeting when this Society was organized, meas- 
 ures were taken toward securing from the State, sets of the 
 laws and Legislative journals, so far as practicable, and the 
 proceedings and collections of other Historical Societies. 
 The Legislature promptly passed a joint resolution in com- 
 pliance with the request,^ and from other Societies came 
 cordial and gratifying responses. Gifts were received of 
 original manuscripts of the greatest value, relating to the 
 early history of New Jersey, some of which I have already 
 mentioned. On May 7, 1846, a standing committee was 
 appointed, to procure, " by purchase or exchange, such 
 rare books, pamphlets or other publications referring to 
 the history of the State, as cannot be otherwise obtained," 
 and this first " Committee on Purchases," as it was styled, 
 consisted of Messrs. William B. Kinney, John J. Chetwood, 
 the Rev. Daniel V. McLean, D. D., the Rt. Rev. George 
 
 1 Pamphlet Laws, 1845. p. 280. By an act approved April 16, 1846, it is provided 
 that the New Jersey Historical Society shall receive from the State one copy of 
 the laws and Legislative proceedings, and a set of the laws of the United States 
 apportioned to this State by Congress. By a supplement approved Feb. 15, 1888. it 
 was enacted that the Society shall receive from the State fifty copies of the Leg - 
 islative proceedings and documents, '-for distribution by said society and ex- 
 change with other historical societies."— GMterai Statutes, 3190. 3191. 3196. 
 
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 VVashincrton Doane and Isaac Mickle. Through the well- 
 directed efforts of this Committee and its successors (later 
 called the "Committee on Library") funds were sub- 
 scribed from time to time by generous friends,' wherewith 
 hundreds of valuable historical works were purchased, 
 while at the same time such an interest was stimulated in 
 the Society's work that donations of rare volumes, manu- 
 scripts, portraits and other objects of interest were added 
 to the collections. 
 
 If I may be permitted to change the metaphor used a 
 moment ago, the New Jersey Historical Society has been like 
 the central sun in a planetary system. It has shed its reful- 
 gent rays into the obscurest corners of the history of our 
 State. Moreover, it has exercised both a centripetal and a 
 centrifugal force. It has drawn to itself a vast accumulation 
 of priceless treasures of historical material, stored away in 
 its Library, and printed in its various publications. It has 
 attracted pilgrims from all parts of our State, from other 
 States and even from foreign lands, in quest of light on ab 
 struse points in history, genealogy, biography, bibliogra- 
 phy. No history of the State can be written, nor the his- 
 tory of any county or town in our State, nor scarcely the 
 account of any prominent man or of any striking event in 
 New Jersey, without recourse to the rooms or to the print- 
 ed works of this Society. It has exerted a centripetal 
 force, likewise. Many who have come to our rooms, and 
 have seen what has there been gathered together, have ob- 
 served the work that has been accomplished by this Societ)', 
 have gone back to their homes, inspired by a zeal to emulate 
 this work, and have induced their neighbors to form local 
 historical societies, which have done good service in their 
 own towns or counties, and have been the means of saving 
 from destruction many valuable manuscripts, books and 
 
 1 Many subscribed certain suras to lie paid aiuiually, durin? a period of five 
 years. 
 
relics, besides fostering the spirit of historical research 
 among their members by that personal contact which is 
 so important a factor in such a cause. 
 
 I have suggested that the New Jersey Historical Society 
 is a noble monument to the men who founded it. The vis- 
 itor to St. Paul's cathedral in London beholds the inscrip- 
 tion above one of the great transepts, which the architect 
 modestly appropriated : St viomnnentum quceris, circinn- 
 spice. True it was, two centuries ago, that if you sought 
 Sir Christopher Wren's monument, you had but to look 
 about you on the magnificent temple which he had de- 
 signed and seen built. But to-day, that grand cathedral 
 is the English Valhalla. Beneath its dome lies all that is 
 mortal of her immortal naval hero; under its nave rests 
 the conqueror of Napoleon ; elsewhere is the statue of 
 Napier, besides the tombs and effigies of countless other 
 of England's heroes. And so as the visiter looks around 
 him, in obedience to the command of the Latin inscription, 
 he sees not only the vast and harmonious marble pile 
 reared by the architect, but he sees also visions of knight- 
 ly endeavor, of dauntless courage, of grandest achievement 
 by field and fiood, and he receives a new inspiration for 
 life's battle in gazing upon the monuments of those great 
 heroes whom England has thus grandly honored by sepul- 
 ture within her noble cathedral; and this inspiration is hal- 
 lowed by the sweet and sacred influence of Him for whose 
 worship this temple was reared. And so within these holy 
 walls there has grown up a greater monument than ever 
 dreamed of by the architect, and one whose influence goes 
 out through all the world. 
 
 Would you seek the monument of — the evidence of work 
 accomplished by — the New Jersey Historical Society? Go 
 to its rooms and look about you. Look upon the walls, 
 lined from floor to ceiling with books — fifteen thousand of 
 them, besides thousands of pamphlets of greatest value. 
 
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 Examine the hundreds of volumes of newspaper files — 
 those mines of kno\vled<^e of contemporary events. Go 
 through the cases of manuscripts — the Papers of Ferdi- 
 nand John Paris, written like copperplate, and giving the 
 minutest information on public affairs relating to New Jer- 
 sey a century before this Society had its beginning; the 
 Papers of John Fenwick, of Lewis Morris, of Robert 
 Hunter Morris, of Jonathan Belcher, of Samuel Smith, 
 of Robert Erskine, the Rutherfurd Manuscripts, the 
 Whitehead Manuscripts, the Stirling Manuscripts, the orig- 
 inal Journals of the Convention which framed the first Con- 
 stitution of New Jersey — one of the earliest written Con- 
 stitutions ever formed ; the original Journals of the Pro- 
 vincial Congress in the troubled times of the Revolution ; 
 the scores of Orderly Books during the same period ; the 
 Diaries, Journals and Letters of the last century, with their 
 precise details of life and living; the Papers and Draw- 
 ings of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the first practical 
 steamboat; the bundles of correspondence, with their reve- 
 lations of the workings of the human heart a hundred 
 years ago. P"ail not to examine with care Canova's mag- 
 nificent marble bust of the Princess Pauline, sister of Na- 
 poleon ; the rare and beautiful portraits — Capt. James 
 Lawrence, the Jersey hero who cried with his last breath, 
 "Don't give up the ship!" Gilbert Stuart's portrait of 
 Aaron Burr, which has as strange a history as its subject ; 
 the Rev. Dr. Edward Dorr Griffin ; the Rev. Dr. Alexan- 
 der Macwhorter, Newark's patriot preacher during the 
 Revolution; Governor Daniel Haines; Col. Peter Schuy- 
 ler ; Senator Richard Stockton (the "Duke"); the Rev. 
 Dr. Nicholas Murray; William A. Whitehead; the Rev. 
 Dr. Irenaeus Prime, and that exquisite portrait on ivory of 
 Mrs. Francis Barber Ogden. In various cabinets the curi- 
 ous may find the naval uniform of Capt. James Lawrence, 
 which he wore at the time of his death, and innumerable 
 
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 relics of bygone days, to say nothing of the enormous 
 beaver hat, too big to go into any cabinet. 
 
 Surely, these constitute a proud monument for the New 
 Jersey Historical Society. 
 
 THE LOCATION OF THE LIBRARY. 
 
 From the beginning of the Society there was a decided 
 difference of opinion among its friends as to whether its 
 home should be in Newark or in Trenton. In behalf of 
 the latter place it was argued that as it was the Neiv Jer- 
 sey Historical Society, its headquarters should be in the 
 capital of the State, and, in fact, in the State Capitol. For 
 Newark, it was held that a majority of the members resided 
 in or near that city, and it was confidently promised that 
 they would promptly provide accommodations fitting for 
 the Society's needs and its dignity. At a meeting held at 
 Princeton, on September 4, 1845, the Rev. Dr. Murray of- 
 fered an amendment to the constitution, providing that 
 "the Library and Deposites of the Society shall be located 
 at Newark." This was laid over until the next meeting, 
 which was held at New Brunswick, November 6, 1845, 
 when the amendment was discussed, amended to read "that 
 for t/ie present the Library and Deposits of the Society shall 
 be located at Newark," and thus amended was adopted.^ 
 The Society met again at Trenton, January 15, 1846, when 
 a resolution was offered by Stacy G. Potts, for the appoint- 
 ment of a committee to ask the Legislature for the use of 
 a suitable room in the public buildings in the city of Tren- 
 ton, for the accommodation of the library of the Society. 
 The friends of Newark ineffectually sought to defeat the 
 resolution, but eventually secured a compromise in the 
 shape of a proviso at the end of the resolution, in the 
 words, "should the Society eventually conclude to locate 
 in Trenton." Messrs. Stacy G. Potts, Henry W. Green 
 
 1 Proceedings, I. , 68, 90. 
 
and Thomas J. Stryker were named as the committee, and 
 secured the passage of a joint resolution by the Legisla- 
 ture, offering accommodations in the State House for the 
 Society's library, " provided the said society shall deter- 
 mine at their next annual meeting to locate their library at 
 the seat of government, and elect to use and occupy the 
 same," and the committee so reported. May 7, 1846.' Up 
 to this time nothing had been done in Newark toward pro- 
 viding a home for the Society, but at the meeting held at 
 Salem, September 3, 1846, an offer was received from the 
 ]-5oard of Chosen Freeholders of Essex County, "tendering 
 to the Society the use of a room, &c., in the Court House 
 at Newark," which "on motion of Rev. D. V. McLean, was 
 laid on the table to be acted on at the January meeting, 
 when the location of the Library, &c., will be determined 
 on" — as the minutes put it But when the annual meeting 
 was held, on January 21, 1847, after what was evidently an 
 ardent contest the subject was again postponed, 21 yeas to 
 19 nays, until the ensuing meeting, to be held at Newark. "-' 
 The victory was with the friends of the latter place. On 
 May 27, 1847, the question of the final location of the li- 
 brary was again deferred, being made the special order for 
 an adjourned meeting, to be held at New Brunswick on 
 June 25 ensuing.'' At this adjourned meeting (June 25, 
 1847) 3^1 offer was received from the Newark Library As- 
 sociation, tendering the free use of the library and lecture 
 rooms in their new edifice, about to be erected, for the So- 
 ciety's permanent occupancy, and on motion of the Rev. 
 Dr. Murray, the offer was accepted. The Board of Chosen 
 Freeholders of Essex County having again offered the So- 
 ciety accommodations in the Court House at Newark, it 
 
 I Ibid.. I., lir-118. 139. The Joint Kesohilion was approved March 18, 18-10. 
 Pamphlet Lmcs. 18J6. p. -iS.i. 
 - Profeodinsrs. I.. 17-1: II.. .')."j-.5(). 
 3 Ibid.. II.. 73-73. 
 
— 72 — 
 
 was decided to empower the officers and the Newark mem- 
 bers of the Executive Committee to arrange for the tem- 
 porary location of the library and cabinet in the rooms 
 thus generously offered, and this was done. At the same 
 meeting the constitution was amended to provide: "The 
 Library and Cabinet of the Society shall be located in the 
 city of Newark, in the county of Essex. "^ The friends of 
 Trenton as the home of the Society were not yet willing to 
 yield, and at the next meeting, held at Freehold, Septem- 
 ber i6, 1847, Gen. Garret Dorset Wall gave notice of an 
 amendment to the constitution substituting "Trenton" for 
 "Newark," as the place of deposit for the library, which 
 was laid over under the rules until the ensuing meeting, at 
 Trenton, on January 20, 1848. At this latter meeting the 
 Corresponding Secretary reported that he had caused the 
 Society's books to be removed to a room in the Court 
 House at Newark, "where for the first time they were ac- 
 cessible." The library contained about 650 volumes (126 
 bought, and 524 given), 300 pamphlets, 800 manuscripts 
 and some maps. An animated discussion was had on 
 Gen. Wall's proposed transfer of the library to Trenton, 
 and it was defeated : Yeas — 33, Nays — 36."- At the next 
 meeting, at Newark, May 25, 1848, it was announced that 
 the hall in the Newark Library Association's new building 
 on Market street (north side, between Broad and Washing- 
 ton streets) was prepared for the meetings of the Society, 
 and that the room proffered for the Society's library would 
 be ready in a few weeks. Accordingly, the library and 
 cabinet were removed thither during the summer of 1848, 
 and the next Newark meeting of the Society was held in 
 the new quarters, May 17, 1849,^ in what was known as 
 the "Upper Library Hall'" — a spacious and pleasant assem- 
 
 1 Ibid.,II.,9L'-93; III., 2. 
 
 2 Ibid., II., 147; III., 2. 5-6. 
 
 .3 Iliid.. III., 59, 123-124; IV., 1. 
 
Rev. RAVAUD K. RODCiERS. D. D. 
 
— /o — 
 
 bly room in the rear of the public Hbrary, and over the 
 main audience room, known as "Library Hall." A small 
 room belween the Library and the "Upper Library Hall" 
 was occupied by the librar}' and cabinet of the Society, 
 and at a later date by the glass cases of the Newark Nat- 
 ural History Society. This same room was the scene of 
 many a forensic debate by members of other literary so- 
 cieties, so that the collections of the Historical Society 
 came to be widely known by the members of kindred asso- 
 ciations, in whom, moreover, an interest in its work was 
 naturally aroused. 
 
 An unfortunate outcome of this decision in favor of 
 Newark for the location of the library was the alienation of 
 many of the Society's warmest and most prominent friends 
 from the central and southern sections of the State, and 
 although some of them — the Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Hamill 
 and John F. Hageman, among others — inany years later 
 admitted that the conclusion was wise under all the cir- 
 cumstances, in the meantime the Society lacked the sym- 
 pathy and support of some of the most influential gentle- 
 men in the State, who had been cordially interested in our 
 behalf at the outset.' This undoubtedly militated against 
 the efforts of the Society to secure the cooperation of the 
 Legislature in various projects for facilitating historical 
 research.- 
 
 The Newark friends of the Society were very confident 
 that the rooms in the Newark Library Association's build- 
 ing were to be occupied but a short time ere we should se- 
 cure a stately and commodious building of our own. As 
 
 1 At the meelin,' of the Sueiety. iit Newark, May t). 1S8!). Justice Bradley refer- 
 red to this eontroversy. He ihoujrht the aecumulations and the history of the So- 
 ciety durin-,' the past forty years had justified that deeision. See Prooeedinys. M 
 Series. X., 176. At the same meetint; the Rev. Dr. Hamill. the President, said he 
 had voted to locate the library at Trenton, but retrarded the decision made by the 
 Society as final. John F. Hageman stated that he had not accepted that decision 
 at the time, but was "a convert now to the idea that the library ou'j-ht to be loca- 
 ted at Newark." /md.. VTII,. SM. X.. 177. 
 
 -' See pp. 115 IT. ante. 
 10 
 
— 74 — 
 
 the years rolled on, however, and that desirable consum- 
 mation was still far distant, the continued increase in our 
 collections necessitated a removal to more spacious quar- 
 ters. This was authorized, May 20, 1858, and again, May 
 19, 1859, the result being that on May 17, i860, the Soci- 
 ety met for the first time in its present rooms, on the 
 third floor of the Newark National Banking Company's 
 building, on the northwest corner of Broad and Bank 
 streets,^ which was then one of the most substantial, 
 as it was one of the first, fireproof structures in Newark. 
 The rooms were leased for five years, at $400 per year. 
 The lease has been renewed from time to time, the present 
 rental being $600. There are three rooms, with shelving 
 (including stacks) for fifteen oi' twenty thousand volumes. 
 Prior to 1890, the May meetings of the Society were held 
 in the room fronting on Broad street. In that year this 
 room was filled with book-stacks, to accommodate the large 
 additions to the library, and by the kindness of St. John's 
 Lodge, No. I, of New Jersey Freemasons, occupying the 
 fourth floor of the building, the Society has met in May of 
 each year (1890-94) in the Lodge room.- 
 
 I have been thus minute in giving the history of the lo- 
 cation of the library in Newark, partly as pertaining to 
 the annals of the Society, and partly because of the peren- 
 nial interest which has always been attached to the subject. 
 When other themes failed to attract a large attendance at 
 our meetings, it has but needed the announcement that a 
 removal of the library from Newark was mooted to secure 
 a crowded audience. 
 
 GROWTH AND MANAGEMENT OF THE LIBRARY. 
 The rapid and steady increase in the library and collec- 
 
 1 Proceedings, VIII. , 116; IX., 3, 22. 
 
 2 Later meetings of the Society in Newark have been held in Dryden Hall, on 
 the tenth floor of the Prudential Insurance building, on the southwest corner of 
 Broad and Bank streets, that hall— accessible by spacious and convenient eleva- 
 tors—having been generously placed at our dispt)sa,l by the Insurance Company. 
 
— 75 — 
 
 tions of the Society, and along the most important h'nes, 
 evinced wise management on the part of the founders, and 
 a gratifying cooperation by the citizens of this State. 
 From the beginning, no pains were spared to secure col- 
 lections of manuscripts from families by whom they had 
 been treasured in some cases for a century or two. Rare 
 books and pamphlets were sought, and special efforts were 
 made to obtain early New Jersey newspaper files. The 
 Rev. Dr. Murray, for the Executive Committee, happily 
 summed up the achievements of four years, at the meeting 
 on January i8, 1849: "We have made a noble commence- 
 ment as to a library ... we have collected around 
 us the intelligence of New Jersey, and excited many 
 minds to the investigation of the past, and to the preserva- 
 tion of the present, for the benefit of the future. VVc are 
 in the full tide of successful experiment."' When the Soci- 
 ety was ten years old, the Executive Committee, on Janu- 
 ary 18, 1855, stated: "Scarcely a week passes without a 
 donation of some work to enrich our archives ; while our 
 interchanges with kindred associations are continually flow- 
 ing in upon us. Purchases of rare and appropriate books 
 have been made, and various periodicals and records of 
 events and their localities, and of private biography, have 
 been placed where they will become more valuable as time 
 advances, and may as profitably be resorted to by future 
 chroniclers as are now the Harleian miscellanies, or the 
 quaint memoirs of English pastimes and occurrences by 
 Sir Samuel Pepys."'- A year later, again, the Committee 
 took an encouraging view of the progress and prospects of 
 the Society, and invited donations for a Library P\ind, or 
 for a Binding Fund.'^ A happy thought of Mr. Walter 
 Rutherfurd was embodied in a resolution. May 15, 1856, to 
 
 1 Ibid. III.. 16ri. 
 
 2 Ibid.. VII . 118. 
 
 3 Ibid., VIII..-'. 
 
have the library " thrown open to members of the Society 
 and their friends on the second Wednesday evening of each 
 month, with a view to consultation and conversation upon 
 topics connected with the operations of the Society " — 
 taking up the counties in turn as special themes for the 
 meetings. At least one such conversazione was held, when 
 Hudson County was on the programme, and it seems to 
 have been a pleasant and profitable occasion.' No ar- 
 rangement had yet been made to have the rooms open reg- 
 ularly in the daytime. If a member wished to consult any 
 works in the library he borrowed the key from the custo- 
 dian and reveled alone and undisturbed among the treas- 
 ures, and if he so minded borrowed them for greater con- 
 venience of examination, sometimes forgetting to return 
 them — a circumstance that led to the adoption of a rule, 
 September 25, 1856, that nothing should be taken from the 
 rooms " without the consent of the Librarian and the Chair- 
 man of the Executive Committee, and having the same re- 
 ceipted for in the Library."'- At the meeting on May 17, 
 i860, it was announced that "through the liberality of a 
 warm friend of the Society, and . additional subscriptions 
 from a few of the members, a fund had been provided 
 ... to meet the charge for the rent, and allow of a small 
 appropriation annually toward the incidental expenses of 
 the library."'^ The removal of the library in i860 to the 
 new rooms^ calling for a change in the management, it was 
 decided at this meeting to replace the Committee on Fire 
 
 1 Ibid.. VIII.. 3.^. 44. 
 
 2 Ibid., 36, 3.5 (43). 
 
 3 Ibid., IX., 25. Miss Rutherfurd. of Eastrid^'C. Hudson county, contributed for 
 several years one-half of the rent of the library, besides giving to the fund for the 
 purchase of books.— /0(C?.. IX., 164. The Society has always had equally liberal 
 friends. In recent years one of the present (1898) officers gave i^.500 annually for 
 two or three years toward the salary of the librarian, besides even more generous 
 contributions for the Society's work in other directions. It would be a great pleas- 
 ure to me, as well as to the members generally, were I at liberty to mention the 
 names of this and other of our benefactors. 
 
 4 Still Occupied in 1898. 
 
— 17 — 
 
 Proof Building, and the Committee on Purchases, by a new 
 Standing Committee on Library, and Messrs. Walter Ruth- 
 erford, Peter S. Duryee, John P. Jackson, Jr., and Ezra A. 
 Carman were appointed.' The members of the Committee 
 gave a great deal of personal attention and labor to the 
 work of arranging and cataloguing the books, pamphlets, 
 newspapers and manuscripts, besides contributing largely 
 to the expenses of the library, but the work increased so 
 rapidly that on January i8, 1866. they reported that they 
 were unable longer to attend to it in person, and asked for 
 authority — which was given — to employ from time to time 
 a competent person to complete the cataloguing and ar- 
 ranging of the pamphlets and manuscripts."- During the 
 ensuing July, August, September and October the rooms 
 were kept open daily, in charge of two competent assist- 
 ants, who carried on the needed library work. In the fol- 
 lowing winter — 1 866-1 867 — the rooms were opened for 
 weekly evening receptions, a feature that proved pleasant 
 and profitable.'^ Again in the summer of 1867 an assistant 
 librarian was employed, and the rooms were kept open six 
 hours each week to the members and to strangers properly 
 introduced. A like arrangement was made in the follow- 
 ing year, the rooms being open until October i, after 
 which Col. Swords, the Treasurer, made a point of being 
 present certain hours each day, so that the collections were 
 accessible to the members and visitors. In reporting this 
 fact, May 20, 1869, the Committee on Library again ad- 
 verted to the importance of a permanent librarian in con- 
 stant charge of the rooms. The expenses were still borne 
 by private subscriptions from a few of the members. 
 '• Located as the library was in Newark by the vote of the 
 Newark members, they should feel bound," the Committee 
 
 1 Ibid.. IX.. 29. 
 
 2 Ibid.. IX.. .')8. T(>. i:!i;. I.'):i: X.. 70-71 : -.'d .SenVs, I.. -.M. 
 
 3 Ibid., rM Series. I.. 4. 
 
~7S- 
 
 urged, " to prove the propriety of the measure by fully 
 supporting it, now that it is here and attained to a magni- 
 tude that renders it not only creditable to the Society, but 
 also a feature of the city, of which as citizens they should 
 be proud."' In 1870 one of the rooms was leased to the 
 Newark Board of Trade, for joint occupancy with the Soci- 
 ety, and as Col. Swords was Secretary of that body this 
 ensured his regular attendance in the rooms, which were 
 therefore regularly open while this arrangement continued, 
 or until the summer of 1875."- An excellent suggestion 
 was embodied in the Committee's report, January 16, 1873. 
 " It is difficult," they say, " to imagine anything of a docu- 
 mentary character not included within the scope of the So- 
 ciety's operations, organized, as it is, ' to discover, procure 
 and preserve ' whatever may serve to illustrate our history. 
 The pamphlet, the circular, the handbill, the advertisement, 
 issued for private ends or to promulgate the views and do- 
 ings of parties or associations : the newspaper of the day 
 with its countless references to persons, things and events, 
 the transactions of the market or the exchange, all consti- 
 tute links in that wondrous chain upon which the future 
 hangs. Every merrber, therefore, is called upon to add to 
 our collections things new as well as old."'^ The plan of 
 depending upon special subscriptions for the library was 
 discontinued in 1874, it having been found impracticable 
 to renew them Since then the General Fund has been 
 charged with all expenditures connected with the library.^ 
 As means and opportunity offered, the work of cataloguing 
 was carried on; in 1874 the large and valuable collection 
 of maps (many of them original drawings) was arranged, 
 numbered and indexed, and a new catalogue of the library 
 
 1 Ibid., 2cl Sei-ies. I.. 24. ,51. 63, 143. 
 
 2 Ibid.. II,, 102 : III., 99 : IV., 52, 128, 
 
 3 Ibid,, III,, f>2-o3. See also IV,, 125, 
 
 ■1 Ibid,, III.. 162: see also VI,. 4, 6, 67. 70. 88-90. 113, 118, 123, 
 
— 79 — 
 
 was begun, which was completed during the winter of 
 1874-5, as to the bound volumes on the shelves, and con- 
 siderably advanced with regard to the pamphlets.' The 
 great importance of some of our historical documents led 
 to their exhibition at the Centennial Exposition at Phila- 
 delphia in 1876, where they attracted deserved attention.- 
 The hope was expressed by the Committee on Library, 
 January 18, 1877, that the catalogue, then nearly finished, 
 would be printed — a desire still unsatisfied •' The unwise 
 plan had been adopted in the early years of the Society of 
 binding pamphlets in volumes, mostly under the conven- 
 ient but meaningless title of " Miscellaneous," and it was 
 principally for this purpose that the Committee renewed 
 the suggestion, May 17, 1877, that a Binding Fund would 
 be desirable.^ Such a Fund is certainly needed for the 
 binding of newspapers, books and valuable pamphlets. 
 Some years ago Judge Ricord adopted the plan of arrang- 
 ing the pamphlets in neat cloth covered cases, with appro- 
 priately lettered paper labels on the back, which is a much 
 more satisfactory method than that of binding them in vol- 
 umes. Daniel T. Clark, who had been employed as assist- 
 ant librarian for some time, having completed the catalogue 
 of books and pamphlets, now compiled an index to the 
 manuscripts,^ giving every name mentioned in them, the 
 index being arranged in the form of large scrap-books. 
 This index may be of value to the genealogist when the 
 day comes that the manuscripts are readily accessible. Its 
 use otherwise is not apparent, but it represents a vast 
 amount of painstaking labor on the part of Mr. Clark, who 
 followed closely in the footsteps of Samuel H. Congar in 
 his zealous investigations concerning the history of old 
 
 1 Ibid.. IV.. 4.8. 51. 
 
 2 Ibid.. IV.. l.iti. iCA: v.. 3. 
 
 3 Ibid., IV.. H);i. 
 
 4 Ibid. v.. (■). 
 
 5 Ibid., v.. 48. li:>. Hif). 
 
— So — 
 
 Newark families. His services were dispensed with in 
 1879, the duties being gratuitously discharged by Col. 
 Swords, the Treasurer.^ At the meeting at Newark, May 
 20, 1880, the Committee reported "with very great satis- 
 faction the prospering condition of the library and collec- 
 tions. Never in the history of the Society have its attrac- 
 tions, in this regard, met with greater appreciation, or its 
 rooms been so much resorted to as at present. These 
 rooms being so constantly open and accessible to the tnem- 
 bers, and others who seek for information in our wealth of 
 historic lore, are daily resorted to, in a greater degree per- 
 haps than ever before. . . . In the department of 
 biographical and genealogical research, the acquisitions of 
 the Society have been unusually successful, and it is in this 
 department that most of those who visit the rooms of the 
 Library find their interest and occupation. ""- The great in- 
 crease in the growth of the library at length made it im- 
 peratively necessary to have the rooms in charge of a per- 
 manent Librarian, and, as already stated, Judge Frederick 
 W. Ricord was elected to that ofifice at the annual meeting 
 at Trenton, January 20, 1881.'^ This step was made prac- 
 ticable by the liberal responses made to a new appeal for 
 special contributions toward the support of the library, and 
 the result was immediatel)' apparent in a marked improve- 
 ment wrought by the new Librarian, in " the arrangement 
 and appearance of the books in the different apartments."^ 
 The rooms were now opened daily, from 10 a. m. to 
 
 1 Ibid.. VI., 70. 
 
 ^Ibid., VI., 87. 
 
 3 Ibid.. VI., V22. 
 
 i Ibid., VI., 135. At the next annual meeting, at Trent<5n, January -1. 18K2, the 
 Committee on Library reported having received from twenty seven members sub- 
 scriptions amounting to $855 towards the Library Fund.— /^/^Z. , /'//., 4. On May 18. 
 1882. the Committee reported that in response to a circular sent out in February, 
 inviting subscriptions to the same fund, six contributions had been received, 
 amounting to $235. It was desired to raise $l,.50t) annually for this purpose.— /^/V/., 
 AY/., 64. The circular is printed in full, in co.moction with the report. See also 
 VIII . 8. 
 
Gen. WILLIAM S. STRYKER. 
 
— 81 
 
 5 p. m., and visitors invariably found in Judge Ricord a 
 courteous and accomplished gentleman, studiously atten- 
 tive to respond to their wishes for instruction or to gratify 
 their curiosity by displaying the varied treasures on the 
 shelves or walls or in the cabinets. Under his fostering 
 care the library grew apace. He made an entirely new 
 card catalogue of the pamphlets, and began one on the 
 same plan for the bound volumes. Said the Committee on 
 Library, in their report at Trenton, January 25, 1887: 
 
 It is a gratifyiug fact that the value of onr collections of books, pamph- 
 lets and manuscripts is daily becoming more widely known. Visitors to our 
 rooms for the purpose of making historical researches are more numerous, 
 and information relative to titles, genealogies au<l boundary lines, which our 
 Archives alone can fuiuish, is now constantly sought from all parts of the 
 State. This information is always promptly and cheerfully furnished with- 
 out any expense, to everyone who seeks it. Our rules forbid access to our 
 collections to no one, and it is the belief of your Committee that the exercise 
 of this kind of liberality not only meets with the approval of each member 
 of the Society, but is most productive of good to our people and best calcu- 
 lated to enhance the value of our institution in the estimation of every citi- 
 zen of the State. 1 
 
 The increase in the library occasioned an embarrasse- 
 ment du riches, as the Committee was obliged to report at 
 the next meeting (May 19, 1887, at Newark) : "The suc- 
 cess which has attended the work of our Society finds us, 
 at last, in a position when much of our treasure is com- 
 paratively useless, and most of that portion of it which 
 should meet our eyes upon occasions like this, must be 
 packed away in closets or otherwise almost entirely out of 
 view. _. . . The flattering prospect of soon possessing 
 a building of our own has induced your Committee to 
 postpone the erection of the shelving so much needed 
 for the accommodation of at least one thousand vol- 
 umes, which are at present almost inaccessible."- The 
 postponement of the new building, however, led the 
 Com mittee to fill the floor of the assembly room, facing 
 
 1 Ibid., IX., no. 
 
 '•i Ibid.. IX., 131-:i. 
 11 
 
— 82 — 
 
 Broad street, with book-shelves before the end of the 
 year, to accommodate the ever-increasing stock of books 
 and pamphlets.' Judge Ricord also introduced a new 
 feature, in gathering from the members of the Society 
 autobiographical material and photographs, which now 
 form an interesting department in our collections.- 
 
 SOME STATISTICS. 
 The growth of the library is shown by the following sta- 
 tistics reported to the Society from time to time: 
 
 Total Total. 
 
 Pamphlets. Manuscripts. 
 
 3UU 800 
 
 50 vols. 950 
 
 509 
 2265 
 3420 
 5499 
 
 1674 additioDS, 1880-84 
 11660 " 1885-90 
 
 5603 " 1891-95 
 
 A PERMANENT HOME FOR THE SOCIETY. 
 Although the Society was pleasantly and commodiously 
 situated in the rooms first provided in 1848, in the Newark 
 Library Association's building, it was felt to be of the 
 greatest importance for its future and permanent welfare 
 that it should, at the earliest practicable date, secure a 
 fire-proof home of its own. Moreover, the Newark friends 
 of the Societ)' considered themselves morally bound to do 
 what in them lay to that end, in view of the assurances 
 which had been given when a majority of the members 
 had voted in favor of locating the library in Newark.-^ The 
 subject was first formally broached at the meeting on May 
 
 3 Ibid., X.. 11. 
 
 4 Ibid.. X., 14; XIII.. 73. The accumulations of books so overwhelmed our lim- 
 ited quarters that in the winter of 1897-98 several waffon-loads were carried away 
 and stored until such time as a new building should be provided for the libi-arj'. 
 
 I See Proceedinf-'s. -Id. Series. I.. 143. 
 
 
 Total 
 
 
 Bound Volumes. 
 
 1848 
 
 650 
 
 1849 
 
 1000 
 
 1850 
 
 1163 
 
 1855 
 
 2000 
 
 1860 
 
 2514 
 
 1865 
 
 3354 
 
 1881 
 
 5,700 
 
 1885 
 
 7,491 
 
 1890 
 
 13,486 
 
 1895 
 
 15,615 
 
-83- 
 
 20, 1852— four years after the question of location had 
 been finally settled— when Mr. Lucius D. Baldwin sug- 
 gested that " it was manifest from the constantly increas- 
 ing value of the library, manuscripts and other property, a 
 fire proof building should be secured at as early a day as 
 practicable." Mr. James Gore King ofifered a resolution : 
 " That a special committee be appointed to enquire into the 
 expediency and the cost of erecting a suitable fire-proof 
 edifice for the reception of the library and other property 
 of the Society, and that they be authorized to confer with 
 the municipal authorities on the subject." He spoke ear- 
 nestly in favor of the project, and said " he stood ready to 
 perform whatever might be his duty in the premises." Presi- 
 dent Charles King, of Columbia College, remarked that 
 " the Historical Society of New Jersey had found a home 
 —an agreeable home, in Newark, and such a building as 
 that proposed would render its sojourn here still pleasa'nter 
 and more productive of beneficial results. It could not be 
 doubted that a city so lenowned for its intelligence and en- 
 terprise would promptly cooperate with the members of 
 the Society in rearing an edifice that would redound to its 
 honor." Chief Justice Green. Richard S. Field and the 
 President, ex-Chief Justice Hornblower, supported the 
 resolution, which was adopted, and Messrs. Lucius D 
 Baldwin, Peter S. Duryee and John P. Jackson were ap- 
 pomted the committee.' At the next meeting, September 
 8, 1852, they reported that a suitable lot and edifice could 
 be secured for about $8,000. The President and John R 
 Weeks were added to the Committee, which were authorized 
 to procure subscriptions, and, when a sufficient sum should 
 be subscribed, to purchase a site and report a plan of the 
 proposed building, at the next meeting.- Nothing having 
 been accomplished in the ensuing four months, the Soci- 
 
 1 Proceedins,'s VI.. 68. 70 71 (-.'0. 2i-2S). 
 - Ibid.. 9i>, |0<J. 
 
^84 — 
 
 ety, on January 20, 1853, requested the Committee "to 
 proceed immediately to raise the necessary funds, by sub- 
 scription."^ Mr. L. D. Baldwin reported at the next meet- 
 ing, May 19, 1853, that the Committee " was originally ap- 
 pointed merely to report on the propriety and feasibility of 
 the plan, a duty which they had performed," and he 
 thought it better that the collection of funds should be as- 
 signed to a new committee — which was done, Messrs. 
 James G. King, Mahlon Dickerson, Peter S. Duryee, VVm. 
 Nelson Wood, Richard S. Field, Stacy G. Potts and the 
 Rev. A. B. Paterson being appointed.^ The Committee 
 immediately addressed circulars to the members and others 
 interested; the chairman subscribed $500, and agreed to 
 double it if necessary, and three other subscriptions were 
 received, amounting to $350, when the Committee report- 
 ed to the Society, January 19, 1854. A severe loss had 
 been sustained, in the interval, by the deaths of James 
 Gore King and Mahlon Dickerson ; William P. Robeson 
 and Dudley S. Gregory were appointed to succeed them. 
 It was voted, at the same time, that measures be taken to 
 collect the unpaid dues of members, and that the amount 
 collected be added to the subscriptions for the purchase of 
 a site for a fire proof building.'^ At the next meeting, held 
 at Newark. May 18, 1854, Mr. Peter S. Duryee reported 
 that the Committee, after consultation with the officers of 
 the Society, and others, had purchased a lot, 30x113 feet, 
 on the north side of Park Church Place (now West Park 
 street), one hundred feet west of Broad street, for $2,5CO, 
 and that the subscriptions to the fund were already suffi- 
 cient to pay for it.^ The original subscription list contains 
 the following names and amounts: 
 
 1 Ibid., 163. 
 
 2 Ibid.. VII. , 4. 
 
 3 Ibid., 52-53. 
 
 4 The lot is part of a large tract purchased by the Trustees of the Park Presby- 
 terian Congregation in Newark, in 1849. This lot was conveyed by said Trustees, 
 
Caleb 0. Halsted, New York f 100 
 
 James G. Kiug, Hiulsou comity 500 
 
 David A. Hajes, Newark 250 
 
 Helen Stiij'vesaut, New York. . 50 
 
 Lewis M. llutherfnrd, New York 25 
 
 Jacob D. Vermilyae, Newark 50 
 
 Richard T. Haines, Elizabethtown 50 
 
 Marcus L. Ward, Newaik '<0 
 
 John Kennedy, Belleville 25 
 
 John E. Weeks, Newark 250 
 
 Frederick T. Freliugbnysen, Newark 50 
 
 James B. Pinueo, Newark. 50 
 
 Joseph N. Tattle, Newark. 50 
 
 Matthias W. Day, Newark 50 
 
 Solomon Alofsen, Jersey City 250 
 
 Henry G. Darcj', Newark 50 
 
 Nehemiah Perry, Newark 50 
 
 John Eutherfurd, Hudson county 50 
 
 Caleb H. Shipman, Newark lUO 
 
 Peter S. Duryee, Newark 250 
 
 William Rankin, Newark 100 
 
 Thos. H. Stephens, Newark. 50 
 
 The Committee reported January i8, 1855, that the sub- 
 scriptions amounted to $2,535. The purchase price, with 
 interest, was $2,565.49, but the owner accepted $2,535 ^^ 
 full satisfaction. Arrearages of dues subsequently collect- 
 ed, $166, had been added to the fund, but as this sum was 
 never increased, it was transferred to the Library Fund, by 
 vote of the Society, May 17, 1860.^ No further progress 
 having made with the Building Fund, on motion of Mr. Pe- 
 ter S. Duryee the Society resolved. May 15, 1856, 
 
 That "a Special Committee be appointed by the Chair, and authorized 
 to make such disposition of the lot of ground belonging to the Society on 
 Park Church Place, by sale, exchange or otherwise, as they may think most 
 
 by deed dated Sept. 30. 18.^1, to Matthew Ely. for sflSOO : and by Ely to William 
 Rankin, by deed dated May 21, 18.53. for $3000; and by William Rankin and wife to 
 New Jersey Historical Society, by deed dated January 16. 1855, for#3500. Sec Essex 
 County Deeds, X 7, p. 24 ; Z 7. p. 361 ; 207, p. .5.5. These conveyances are in fee, with- 
 out limitations, restrictions or conditions of any kind. 
 
 1 Proceedings. VII.. 87-88. 121; IX.. 23; 2d Series. III.. 5-6. 
 
— 86 — 
 
 aclvantfigeous for the Society, and likely to facilitate aud promote the erection 
 of a suitable bailiiing for its occupation; it being understood that no sale is 
 to be made of the property unless the amount realized is at once invested iu 
 another site equally desirable for the purposes of the Society." 
 
 The opinion was expressed that the lot was worth $3,000 
 at this time, and that an exchange might be advantageous- 
 ly made for a lot elsewhere (presumably less valuable). 
 Messrs. Duryee, Henry G. Darcy, Lucius D. Baldwin, 
 David A. Hayes and William A. Whitehead were appoint- 
 ed the Committee.^ Nothing having been done in the 
 meantime, at the next meeting, held at Trenton, Mr. C. C. 
 Haven suggested the transfer of the library to Trenton,'- 
 but no heed was taken of this. At the following meeting, 
 at Newark, May 21, 1857, the Special Committee was au- 
 thorized to negotiate with the Park Presbyterian Church 
 for the joint construction of a building suitable for the pur- 
 poses of the Society, and for a lecture room for the 
 Church.'^ When the Society met at Trenton, January 20, 
 1859, nothing had yet been accomplished toward securing 
 a fire-proof building, and in the absence of practical assist- 
 ance at home it was voted to memorialize Congress — at the 
 suggestion of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin — 
 to appropriate public lands " to the several States, for the 
 benefit of their respective Historical and Antiquarian Soci- 
 eties."^ At the ensuing meeting, May 19, 1859, another 
 plan was mooted — to raise sufficient funds by subscription 
 and by mortgage, to erect a building upon the lot owned 
 by the Society.''' This came to nought, and a year later 
 the Committee on Library was authorized to lease the lot, 
 for not more than five years.*' The Committee reported, 
 January 17, 1861, that no lessee had been found, and ex- 
 
 1 Ibid.. First Series, VIII. , 3.5. 
 
 2 Ibid., VIII., 54. 
 » Ibid., VIII.. 62. 
 
 4 Ibid , VIII.. 137, 141. 
 
 5 Ibid.. VIII.. 150. 
 I! Ibid.. IX.. 29. 
 
 I 
 
-87- 
 
 pressed the hope that it would be still found practicable to 
 erect a fire-proof building upon the site.' It was resolved, 
 at the meeting of the Society in Newark, May 21, 1863, to 
 make another appeal to the members and to the citizens of 
 the State at large for means to erect a suitable building 
 on the West Park street lot, and the project was also re*^ 
 vived of asking Congress to grant public lands in aid of 
 Historical Societies.' The E.xecutive Committee, however, 
 reported at the next meeting, January 21, 1864, that "al- 
 though approving cordially of both measures, they had not 
 deemed it advisable for several reasons to engage, as yet, 
 in the work" proposed, but intended doing so at an early 
 day.-^ This excellent intention having slept for three years, 
 the Committee recommended, January 17, 1867, that the 
 subject be devolved upon the Committee on Library, who 
 should be "authorized and empowered to make such dis- 
 position of the lot belonging to the Society, in the City of 
 Newark, either by leasing the same for a term of years or 
 by absolute sale thereof, as they may deem most for the 
 interest of the Society; it being understood that the rent 
 realized, should it be leased, shall be considered part of 
 the Library Fund, and that the proceeds arising from its 
 sale, shall be invested in Uniied States or other satisfac- 
 tory securities and the interest thereon be appropriated to 
 the same Fund, to be expended for the preservation, im- 
 provement and extension of the library."^ At the next 
 meeting of the Society the Committee on Library reported 
 that they did " not think it advisable to sell the property 
 before another effort is made to erect thereon a fire-proof 
 building for the occupancy of the Society; and as a will- 
 ingness has been manifested by some gentlemen to contrib- 
 
 i Ibid., 60. 
 2 Ibid., 1.53. 
 •■5 Ibid.. 163. 
 ■i Ibid., X., 3. 
 
— 88 — 
 
 ute liberally to a fund for the purpose, the Committee hope 
 that the project may receive the attention it merits from all 
 interested in the Society's success." No opportunity had 
 offered for leasing the site.' At the same meeting a sub- 
 scription was commenced for a building fund,~ but nothing 
 caine of it, and a year and a half later, or on January 21, 
 1869, on the recommendation of the Executive Committee, 
 a resolution was adopted looking toward the erection of a 
 building on the site in conjunction with the Newark 
 Librar}' Association, or any other of the literary institu- 
 tions of Newark ^ Like its predecessors, this project also 
 came to nought, and as other Committees had not suc- 
 ceeded, it was referred to the Finance Committee, January 
 19, 1871, to consider the propriety of leasing or otherwise 
 occupying the building site,^ Mr. Whitehead never lost 
 sight of the project so dear to his heart, and on May 16, 
 1872, he reminded the Society that it had owned a site for 
 seventeen years, which had increased four-fold in value, 
 and it was time a building was erected upon it. He 
 thought it would be well to obtain information as to the 
 probable cost of such a structure, in case any of the mem- 
 bers should be disposed to combine and subscribe the 
 requisite amount. On his motion, therefore, the Society 
 with cheerful unanimity voted "that the Committee on the 
 Library be authorized and requested to obtain plans and 
 estimates for a suitable building for the occupancy of the 
 Society, to be erected on the lot in West Park street, and 
 report at the next meeting."-^ It was not until a year later 
 that the Committee reported having " obtained a rough 
 p'an for the improvement of the lot in West Park street, 
 designed to exhibit its capacity and how it may best be 
 
 1 Ibid., 25. 
 
 2 Ibid.. 28. 
 
 3 Ibid., 93, 95. 
 
 •4 Ibid., 1-J2; II., lOU, 104 
 .' Ibid.. III., 5. 
 
-89 — 
 
 utilized for our purposes."' In the meantime, however, an 
 offer was received for leasini^ the lot, and on January 3, 
 1874, the Committee on I'inance reported having leased 
 the site for five years from April i, 1S74, at $400 per an- 
 num, a neat brick buildini^ to be erected by the lessee.- 
 
 The subject of securing a suitable home of its own for 
 the Society, was apparently regarded as having been 
 finally disposed of by this action in leasing the lot which 
 had been bought for the purpose nineteen years before, 
 and it was nine years later ere the theme was again 
 broached. At the annual meeting at Trenton, on January 
 18, 1883, Mr. Samuel H. Hunt, of Newton, made some 
 impromptu remarks upon " the advantages likely to be 
 gained by the erection of a building for the Society," in 
 which he was supported by the Rev. Dr. Mott and the 
 Corresponding Secretary, William A. Whitehead, after 
 which the subject was referred to the Executive Commit- 
 tee for consideration '^ A year later, " a communication 
 from Mr. Leonard Gray, of Newark, offering $12,000 for 
 the Society's lot on W'est Park street, in that city, was, 
 after some debate, referred to the Executive Committee, 
 with power."' The Committee reported. May 14, 18S4, that 
 the offer had been declined, and the lease renewed, on 
 favorable terms " Certain plans were in contemplation, 
 looking to the erection of a permanent home for the Soci- 
 ety's valuable collections, but they had not as yet taken 
 definite shape."'' When the Society met again at Trenton, 
 on January 15, 1885, and nothing was heard about the pro- 
 posed new building, Mr. Hunt, who was familiar with the 
 work of historical societies, and who had traversed the 
 
 1 Ibid., yy. 
 
 iilbid.. III.. 141. 
 
 •'i Proceedinsfs. 2d Series, \'I1.. 134. 
 * Ibid.. VIII.. 9. 
 5 Ibid.. 49. 
 ■ 12 
 
— 90 — 
 
 State repeatedly, revived the subject he had presented two 
 years before, and oftered a preamble and resolution, set- 
 ting forth the necessity of a building for the safe keeping 
 of the Society's manuscripts and valuable books, suggest- 
 ing that either Newark, New Brunswick, Princeton or 
 Trenton would be suitable for the location of the library, 
 and asking " offers from those cities, with reference to the 
 erection ol a suitable building, detached and fire-proof, 
 and the establishment of the Society in the city chosen."' 
 There was some discussion, in the course of which regret 
 was expressed that the long-promised building had not 
 been erected in Newark, and the suggestion was made that 
 possibly this action might stimulate the Newark friends to 
 positive action. The resolution was then adopted. The 
 printed Proceedings do not disclose any action in the direc- 
 tion indicated, but when the Society met at Trenton two 
 years later (January 25, 1887), Mr. James Neilson, of New 
 Brunswick, suggested that perhaps rooms could be se- 
 cured in the new State House, then in process of construc- 
 tion, at Trenton.^' At the same meeting the Executive 
 Committee was empowered to sell or improve (with a view 
 to leasing) the real estate on West Park street.^ At the 
 ensuing meeting, at Newark, May 19, 1887, the Committee 
 reported having carefully considered the subject, and that 
 the sale of the lot would be a damage to the well being 
 of the Society. 
 
 The prospect of erecting upon it a suital)le building was carefully con- 
 sidered. . . . The Committee i)elieve that it is expedient to erect a fire- 
 jiroof building on the lot ownetl Ijy the Society. They lielieve that it is 
 practicable to liuild a structure, commodious, easy and inviting of access, 
 and worthily expressive of the classic name of the New Jersey Historical 
 Society. The plan proposed for the building will also furnish apartments, 
 the rent of which will yield a revenue to the Society sufficient to meet its 
 expenses, and an annual surplus to be expended for books much needed 
 
 1 Ibid.. VIII.. KM). 
 li Ibid.. IX.. 111. 
 3 Ibid.. 12:1 
 
— 91 — 
 
 for the library, which cannot ])e had except by purchase. They are en- 
 couraged also to believe that the funds now in its treasury, supplemented 
 by amounts, some of which are already pledged, will be found to be suffi- 
 cient for the purpose. In now reporting progress they commend this im- 
 portant matter, so vital to the welfare of the Society, to the aid and sym- 
 [lalhy of its menil)ers, in the hope and expectation that at the annual meet- 
 ing in January next tliey may report a liuiKiing in progress of construction 
 and approaching com))lelion. 1 
 
 A plan was submitted at this meeting, which was exam- 
 ined with interest and positive enthtisiasm, as giving defi- 
 nite promise of the reah'zation of the hope, which had been 
 entertained ever since the library had been fixed in New- 
 ark, forty years before. This design contemplated the 
 erection of a fire-proof btiilding, with cellar, basement (for 
 storing public documents and other books little used) ; first 
 floor (for library, cabinets and pictures), and second floor 
 (for assembly room, or to be leased for lodge rooms, etc.). 
 A new plan was prepared in January, 1888, and exhibited 
 at the meeting that month in Trenton, when the Executive 
 Committee reported that " the hope is cherished by the 
 Committee that the measures now in progress will result 
 in the construction of a building of approved construction 
 which will meet the wants of the Society, and at the same 
 time aff'crd a revenue sufficient to meet its financial needs." 
 The Committee on Library, however, was less sanguine, 
 and in its report the same day remarked : " Your Commit- 
 tee greeted with delight the resolutions of the Society, at 
 its last annual meeting, to erect for its use a fire-proof 
 building, and believed that the action then taken would 
 ere this have produced some results. Thus far no very de- 
 cisive action has been taken, beyond that of soliciting sub- 
 
 1 Ibid., IX.. 13:5. At a meeting' of the Committee. March 30. I8H7, Messrs. 
 Geortje A. Halsey, Predericl{ W. Ricord. Nathaniel Niles. Josiah Collins Pum- 
 pelly and James Neilson were appointed a sub-committee to raise funds, and 
 Messrs. Ricord. Georfre A. Halsey and Dr. Stei^hen Wickes a sub-committee on 
 plans for the new buildinfr. Franklin Murphy was added to the latter committee, 
 January 13. 1888. The Executive Committee voted. February 13. 1888. " that the 
 Librarian be authorized to raise the money."— .1/6'. Minutes Executive, Conwultee, 
 
■—92 — 
 
 scriptions for the erection of the building." To hasten ac- 
 tion, if possible, the Committee adopted another resolu- 
 tion urging that " efficient action should no longer be de- 
 layed in this important matter."' Nothing having been 
 accomplished during the following year, when the Society 
 next met at Trenton, January 22, 1889, Mr. Nathaniel 
 Niles offered a resolution requesting the Executive Com- 
 mittee " to consider the expediency of securing a room in 
 the new State House Extension for the accommodation of 
 the New Jersey Historical Society, and its collections," 
 which was adopted, after an animated discussion."- Mr. 
 Niles offered this resolution not of his own motion, but as 
 an act of courtesy to a member who wished the subject 
 considered. The Committee felt that the suggestion pos- 
 sibly presaged definite action toward the end intimated, 
 and promptly met (a week later) to give the movement 
 its quietus. At this meeting of the Committee it was re- 
 solved to be inexpedient and unwise to remove the library 
 to the State House at Trenton, because: ist, the constitu- 
 tion said the library should be located in Newark; 2d, it 
 was not certain but that in a few years the Society might 
 be crowded out of the State House; 3d, a removal from 
 Newark, " whose citizens have watched over the institution 
 with fostering care, would be, in our opinion, disastrous to 
 the future growth and development, if not to the very ex- 
 istence of the Society;" 4th, "the removal would be a 
 breach of faith with those numerous benefactors, including 
 the honored founders of the Society, who have made 
 special subscriptions and gifts of money and a lot of land, 
 with a view of erecting a suitable Library building in New- 
 ark for the institution, and upon that condition, . . . and 
 which we cannot legally or honorably hold, but must for- 
 feit, if the Library and its rich treasures should be re- 
 
 1 Ibid , X., 3. l::. 16. 
 
 a Ibid.. 44, 97, 121. Hi. 131. 
 
— 93 — 
 
 moved to Trenton or any other place. "^ The Committee, 
 in reporting these resohitions to the Society, May i6, 
 1889, also stated: "Plans are already made for the erec- 
 tion of a suitable building on our own ground. . . . The 
 Committee feels assured that it is practicable to erect a 
 permanent building for our use on the lot held for so many 
 years'- on West Park street. . . The Committee is en- 
 couraged to believe that the funds in the hands of the So- 
 ciety, together with subscriptions conditionally pledged, 
 are nearly sufficient for this. This Committee presented 
 these considerations two years since, May 19, 1887. A 
 deep sense of our needs impelled them to do so. It is a 
 measure vital to the welfare and the perpetuity of the in- 
 stitution."^ To expedite the long-desired consummation, 
 another resolution was thereupon adopted, " That the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee of the Society be empowered and urged 
 to proceed without further delay, in the work of securing 
 the necessary funds and in the erection of such an edi- 
 fice.""' Nothing further was done by the Committee, but 
 it reported, January 28, 1890: "If we had a fireproof 
 building of our own we have the assurance that very many 
 important collections of papers would be placed in our 
 
 1 So far as the records of the Society show, the subscriptions for the purchase 
 of the West Park street lot were not conditional in any way. Nor is there any 
 condition in the deed. The statement above was founded on a misapprehension in 
 this retrard. which has been (juite treneral. The extracts which have been cited 
 from the Proceedings show, moreover, that in the lifetime and upon the motion of 
 many of the contributors toward the purchase, the yuestiOn was repeatedly mooted 
 of selling the lot and applying the proceeds to the purposes of the .Society. 
 
 ^ -Since January. 18.55. 
 
 3 Proceedintrs. 2d Series. X.. 1?::-}. .\i a mceiiny of the Executive Committee. 
 Feb. 23. 1889. the sub-committee appointed March 30, 1887. reported ■• plans for a 
 structure which would be adequate to meet the needs of the Society and at a cost 
 which the funds on hand and the subscriptions pledged will warrant. It was 
 agreed to take measures for the construction of a library building on or about 
 April 1. 1889. or as soon thereafter as practicable." Messrs. Robert F. Ballantine. 
 F. W. Ricord. Franklin Murphy, Dr. Stephen Wickes and George A. Halsey were 
 appointed a committee to "revise the plans, contract for the building, and to take 
 all necessary measures in forwarding the construction of the building during the 
 coming summer."— Jfii. Minuies Kj'ccuttve CominiUee. 
 
 ■» Ibid.. 177. 
 
— 94 — 
 
 custody. With such a building the scope of the Society 
 could be greatly extended ; its opportunities for doing 
 more work be greatly increased. Nearly seven thousand 
 dollars has been pledged toward the erection of such a 
 building in Newark; and we have strong hopes that the 
 whole of the required sum will be secured during the com- 
 ing year."^ This report elicited an animated discussion, 
 and several propositions looking toward the desired end. 
 Mr. Jonathan W. Roberts, of Morris Plains, the President 
 of the Washington Association, owning the Washington 
 Headquarters, at Morristown, remarked that the charter of 
 that Association provided that a site might be given to the 
 New Jersey Historical Society, on the grounds at Morris- 
 town. He suggested that the Society should sell its lot in 
 Newark and invest the proceeds, with such other funds as 
 might be available, in the erection of a fire proof building 
 adjoining the Headquarters. If this were agreed to by 
 the Society, he and Mr. Edmund D. Halsey (an influential 
 officer of the Washington Association, and one of the 
 most zealous and efficient members this Society ever had) 
 would guarantee the additional sum needed for the pur- 
 pose — fire proof rooms for the exclusive use of the Histor- 
 ical Society's collections, and rooms for the joint use of 
 the Society and the Association for business and social 
 purposes. The proposition provoked so much objection 
 on the part of the Newark friends of the Society that Mr. 
 Roberts, observing "that it evidently was not acceptable," 
 
 1 Ibid., XI., 7. This movement was mainly the result of the efforts of Judge 
 Ricord, the Treasurer and Librarian, who labored' zealously and for a time with 
 a sanguine spirit. At a meeting of the Executive Committee, January 14, 1893, 
 Mr. Ballantine reported that the sub-committee had not met, but had subscrip- 
 tions amounting to J513.000, from nine persons, all contingent, besides $2,000 be- 
 queathed by William A. Whitehead, payable when needed to make the final pay- 
 ment on- the building. On May 2. 1894. Mr. Jonathan W. Roberts was added to the 
 sub-committee on building, in place of George A. Halsey, deceased. — J/S. Minuies 
 Executive Committee. Most of the $13,000 subscribed was pledged by Messrs. Rob- 
 ert F. Ballantine. Franklin Murphy. William C. Wallace and George A. Halsey. 
 All the subscriptions were contingent on $25,000 being raised. 
 
— 95 — 
 
 promptly withdrew it.' In connection with the Executive 
 Committee's report on the subject of building on the West 
 Park street lot, in Newark, it having been suggested that 
 it would be desirable to have a vacant space on the west 
 side, the Committee was empowered. May 15, 1S90, to 
 purchase the additional land. It was intimated at the same 
 meeting that possibly the triangular plot immediately north 
 of Trinity Church, on Broad street, Newark, might be giv- 
 en by the city for the erection of an Historical Society 
 
 1 The following proceedings of the Executive Committee, never before report- 
 ed to the Society, or published, are of interest in this connection: 
 
 "At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the N. J. Historical Society held 
 in the Society's Library Room on Wednesday, 16th July, 187;^. at 1 o'clock P. M.. 
 such meeting being duly called under authority of the Chairman. Present— Dr. 
 S. H. Pennington in the chair, Messrs. Theodore F. Randolph, Hugh Bovvne, Dr. 
 R. K. Rodgers. Peter .S. Duryee. N. N. Halsted. R. S Swords. L. Spencer Goble. of 
 Finance Committee. Mr. George A. Halsey, Mr Lidgerwood. On motion of Mr. 
 N. N. Halsted. Mr. Swords was appointed Secretary pro tempore. 
 
 ■Mr. Randolph stated the object of the meeting, being to communicate the fact 
 that himself with Messrs. George A. Halsey, N. N. Halsted and W. V. Lidgerwood 
 had purchased at public sale the house at Morristown known as the Head Quar- 
 ters of General Washington in 1777— for the sum of Twenty-live Thousand Dol- 
 lars, which they were desirous of preventing falling into hands that may change 
 its character and pervert it to base uses such as a Lager Beer Saloon, and to have 
 the building preserved as an Historical Memento, and become the property of the 
 N. J. Historical Society, and add much to its material interests. He was followed 
 by Messrs. Lidgerwood and Halsted who gave their reasons for their movement in 
 the matter. 
 
 "Mr. Randolph proposed that the Society should make a State matter of it. and 
 issue 500 shares of one hundred dollars each and endeavor to dispose of the same, 
 and purchase the property at Twenty-tive Thousand Dollars, holding the balance 
 as a fund to keep the property in repair and good condition. 
 
 "After some discussion, Mr. L. Spencer Goble, of the Finance Committee, 
 moved the following: 
 
 "WHEKE.4S. the property known as the Washington Head Quarters, located at 
 Morristown. N. J., has been recently purchased by Messrs. Randoljjh. Halsey. 
 Lidgerwood and Halsted, for the sum of Twenty-five Thousand Dollars: and 
 ••Where.\s. the purchasers express their willingness to transfer their property 
 to the New Jersey Historical Society, at its cost to them, thus carrying out 
 their purpose in the purchase; 
 
 •■Be it Reaulvecl. That the Executive and Finance Committees of the New Jer- 
 sey Historical Society be authorized to issue 500 shares of stock of !i*100 each in 
 the name of the "Washington Association of the New Jersey Historical Society.' 
 and that the proceeds of subscription, as rapidly as received, shall be applied as 
 follows: first, to payment upon the property; and second, to providing a fund 
 for its maintenance in perpetuation.'' 
 ••Which was carried unanimously. Col. Swords moved that the Correspt)nding 
 Secretary be authorized to give notice of a meeting of the .Society to be held at 
 Morristown for the third Thursday of September next in his discretion. Carried. 
 On motion the meeting then adjourned." 
 
-96- 
 
 building, and a special committee was appointed to look 
 into the matter. Both of these propositions proved futile.' 
 From the beginning of both institutions there had been 
 a close intimacy between the Historical Society and the 
 Newark Library Association, nearly all the officers and di- 
 rectors of the latter being more or less active in the former. 
 When the Free Public Library of Newark, supported by 
 public taxation, was established, the old Library Associa- 
 tion found itself without a raisoii cf ctre. It had acquired 
 at a large expense the property formerly of the Park 
 Presbyterian Church, on West Park street, and had a libra- 
 ry of about 30,000 volumes. The Free Public Library 
 leased the property, and acquired the books as a nucleus 
 for its collection. There was some negotiation relative to 
 the purchase of the property by the city, but this ultimate- 
 ly fell through. In the meantime, the Library Associa- 
 tion having practically ceased its functions, many of its 
 more active members thoughtfully considered its future. 
 Mr. L. Spencer Goble was a director in the Association, 
 and for many years had been a member of the Finance and 
 other Committees of the Historical Society. He suggest- 
 ed that an effort be made to acquire by donation or pur- 
 chase the stock of the Library Association, for the Mistor- 
 ical Society. In this way the original objects of the found- 
 ers of the former would be carried out, and the Society 
 would acquire at nominal cost a creditable and permanent 
 home.'- P"or some reason the project was never broached 
 publicly, and in fact was practically dropped by Mr. Goble 
 and the other gentlemen whom he had consulted on the sub- 
 ject. At the annual meeting of the Society, at Trenton, Jan- 
 uary 23, 1894, it was for the first time formally presented to 
 the Society by Mr. Charles Bradley, who (through Mr. Wil- 
 liam R. Weeks) offered a resolution calling for the appoiiit- 
 
 1 Ibid.. May. 1890. pp. 8-4; XI.. 115. 
 
 'i Mr. Goble explained the plan very fully to the writer, on February :i:i. 189:i. 
 
ERNEST E. COE. 
 
— 97 — 
 
 ment of a committee of five to ascertain and report on what 
 terms, if any, the spacious and handsome building of the 
 Newark Library Association could be bought for the Soci- 
 ety. This was adopted, and Messrs. Charles Bradley, L. 
 Spencer Goble, William R. Weeks, William Nelson and 
 Garret D. W Vroom were appointed the Committee.' Un- 
 der the earnest leadership of the energetic chairman, the 
 Committee lost no time in getting to work. It was ascer- 
 tained that there were about 1300 shares of stock of the 
 Library Association outstanding, held by about 400 per- 
 sons, the par value being $25. Through personal solicita- 
 tion 34 stockholders agreed to donate 147 shares to the 
 Societ}', and 39 stockholders sold 105 shares at par. Cir- 
 culars were sent to all the stockholders, explaining the ob- 
 ject of the Committee, and a prompt and favorable response 
 was elicited. To promote the success of the project it 
 was voted, May 17, 1894, to give a Life Membership in the 
 Society for every share of the stock mentioned donated to 
 the Society. At this meeting Messrs. Ernest E. Coe and 
 Erancis M. Tichenor were added to the Committee,'- By 
 the following January the Society had acquired 113 shares 
 of the stock, and in recognition of its interest Mr. Ernest 
 E. Coe was elected a member of the Board of Directors, as 
 a representative of this Society.'' It is confidently believed 
 
 1 Proceedinf-'s, 2d Series. XIII.. rJ. 
 
 -' Ibid.. XIII.. nn-m. 
 
 ;i Ibid.. 130 131. Ill Jiinuary. 181M5. Mr. Charles Bradley was elected one of the 
 Directors. When the annual meeting' of stockholders of the Newark Library As- 
 sociation was about to be held, in January, 1898. the New Jersey Historical Soci- 
 ety owned more than one-third of the stock, and asked for a proportional repre- 
 sentation in the Board of Directors, by the election of four members on the Board. 
 There were some conferences to that end. but the ^'enllemen who h^.d controlled 
 the Jloard for many years declared that it would be indelicate for them to sutrtrest 
 to any two of their associates to retire, but if this Society could secure two vacan- 
 cies they would be perfectly willing to elect four representatives of the Society on 
 the Board: otherwise, they would vote to re-elect the old Board. The Society's 
 representatives thereupon decided to nominate nine members of the Board of 
 Directors. When the stockholders" meetinu was held, the ticket nominated by 
 the Society received a small majority of all the votes cast. The Directors' ticket 
 contained thirteen names (including.' Messrs. Bradley and Coe, who were also on 
 13 
 
— 98 — 
 
 by the gentlemen in charge of the movement that it will 
 result in securing for this Society the property of the New- 
 ark Library Association, 
 
 The magnificent temple erected by Sir Christopher 
 Wren makes a fitting setting to the other monuments en- 
 shrined within its walls. They have been drawn thither 
 because the home was worthy of them, and so architect 
 and sculptor have been instrumental in creating the atmos- 
 phere of hero worship, of Divine worship, which affects 
 every visitor within those sacred walls. The priceless 
 treasures bestowed upon the New Jersey Historical Soci- 
 ety during the last half century are worthy of a home of 
 their own, where they will be secure from loss, will be ac- 
 cessible to every student, and where there will be ample 
 room not only for what we have, but for what we hope to 
 receive hereafter. Such a home, provided by the generos- 
 ity of one man, of a doz^n men, or of a hundred, would be 
 a worthy and enduring monument to their liberality. It 
 
 the other ticket), and these all received an equal number of votes. The result was 
 that only the nine memhers nominated in behalf of this Society received a major- 
 ity of all the votes, and they alone were elected, leaving four vacancies. The 
 Directors elected were: Charles Bradley, Ernest E. Coe, Theodore Coe. William 
 H. Corbin. John R. Hardin, James E. Howell, Cyrus Peck, Chandler W. Riker, 
 Francis M. Tichenor. At this writing (July. 1898). the Historical Society owns 
 .5.50 of the l'i89 shares of stock in the Newark Library Association, acquired large- 
 ly by gift, and partly by purchase at par. 9ii>. 
 
 Mention may be made here of the munificent and most tempting offer received 
 in May, 1896. from the Trustees of Princeton University. This was to give the 
 Society ample quarters for all its collections, and rooms for its meetings, in the 
 magnlticent new library building then in contemplation and since erected on the 
 campus at Princeton, together with the services of an expert librarian to cata- 
 logue and properly care for the library and other collections, this arrangement to 
 be continued during the pleasure of the Society, the entire e.xpense to be assumed 
 by the University. The Executive Committee of the Society was so impressed 
 with the unparalleled generosity of the offer, coupled as it was with assurances of 
 large pecuniary aid toward the increase of the library, that it unanimously re- 
 solved to recommend its acceptance, unless a more favorable proposition should 
 be made by Newark. A special meeting of the Society was held at Newark Oc- 
 tober. 14. 1896, to consider the terms offered by Princeton. In the meantime postal 
 cards were mailed to all the members, stating the offer, and asking for a yea and 
 nay vote. In response, about -125 members sent in replies, of whom a considerable 
 majority voted to accept. About 1.50 members attended the meeting in Newark, 
 and the Princeton offer was rejected by a large majority. 
 
— 99 -" 
 
 would vastly increase the capacit}' of the Society for its 
 chosen work. And what a strand consummation it would 
 be for this semi-centennial celebration of the New Jersey 
 Historical Society.' 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 The Society's Publications. 
 
 For oiil of old lielik's. as men suitlic. 
 
 Cometh all this new eorne fro yere to yere. 
 And out of old l)ookes, in sjood faithe. 
 
 Cometh all this new science that men lere. 
 
 — The Axstinbly of Foules. 
 
 I. THE "proceedings" OF 'IIIE SOCIETY. 
 The great importance of keeping before the public the 
 work and aims of the Society was fully recognized by the 
 founders. Accordingly, at the meeting held at Burling- 
 ton, May 7, 1846, the Rev. Dr. Murray, from the Commit- 
 tee on Publications, presented the following resolutions, 
 which w'ere adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That it is expedient a quarterly publication of the proceedings of the 
 Society should be made under the direction of the Committee on Publication.s, 
 comprising such letters and papers read before the Society, or extracts from 
 them, as may be deemed of permanent interest— acknowledgments of donations 
 received. &c. 
 
 liesolved. That the said publication be commenced forthwith with the proceed- 
 ings and papers of the last year— and that it be furnished to subscribers at $1. or 
 non-subscribers at ST-zi cents per number.2 
 
 The title of the first number of the publication thus 
 modestly ushered into the world was 
 
 PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 
 
 Vol. I. 1845. No. 1. 
 
 1 The interest in the welfare of the Society, aroused by this celebration, im- 
 doubtedly secured large contributions to its treasury, particularly for the Huild- 
 ing or T.,ibrary Fund. 
 
 •■i Proceedings. I.. I-,'H. 
 
 L.oPC. 
 
=—100 — 
 
 It was an octavo pamphlet of 62 pages, containing the 
 substance of the proceedings of the meetings held at Tren- 
 ton January 13 and February 27, and at Newark May 7, 
 together with selections from the correspondence, list of 
 donations and donors, and a Discourse delivered before 
 the Society May 7, 1845, by Charles King. Appended to 
 this first number was a Prospectus, describing the plan of 
 the publication. Each number was to contain from thirty 
 to fifty pages, octavo, forming a volume each year of from 
 150 to 200 pages; . . . "and it being the object of the 
 Society to make the publication the means of diffusing in- 
 teresting and valuable information and not a source of profit, 
 it is intended that the quantity of matter in each number shall 
 increase with the increase of patronage without any addi- 
 tion to the price." The first number was issued during the 
 summer of 1846, but in announcing the fact, at the meet- 
 ing held at Salem, September 3, 1846, the Committee on 
 Publication expressed the hope " that the members gener- 
 ally will use their exertions to enlarge the subscription list; 
 at present there are not a sufficient number of subscribers 
 to warrant its continuance."^ On May 27, 1847, ^he Com- 
 mittee on Publication reported that the first volume of the 
 Proceedings, down to and including the meeting held at 
 Salem Sept. 3, 1846, had been issued, 2CO pages, "but a 
 great increase of subscribers is actually necessary to sus- 
 tain it."~ It \v3Li resolved to continue the publication, and 
 " that the members generally are invited and expected to 
 act as Agents in extending its circulation.""^ At the meet- 
 ing held January 20, 1848, the Committee reported that 
 three numbers of the second volume had been issued (em- 
 bracing the transactions down to and including June 25, 
 1847), and that the fourth number, completing the volume, 
 
 : Ibid., I., 175. 
 
 2 MS. Minutes. 
 
 8 Proceedinffs, II.. 71. 
 
— ioi ^ 
 
 was in the press. The Committee regretted, however, 
 " that this important publication is not sufficienily support- 
 ed. They deem its continuance greatly desirable. It is a 
 medium of communication with other Societies, and with 
 all our donors throughout the country." The Committee 
 was thereupon "authorized and directed to send a copy of 
 our quarterly publication to each member of the Society; 
 and that all such as do not return the same shall be con- 
 sidered as subscribers to it."' This plan worked very well, 
 so far as the circulation was concerned, but pecuniarily was 
 by no means successful, the Committee reporting, January 
 1 8, 1849, that " $350 was due from those v*'ho had received 
 the last two volumes."'- A year later the arrears amounted 
 to $5C0, although the interest and value of the publication 
 were generally recognized.** In speaking of the unfavor- 
 able financial conditions attending the publication, the 
 Hon. William A. Duer remarked, in behalf of the Com- 
 mittee, May 16, 1850, that "its continuation seemed actu- 
 ally necessary to the welfare of the Society, and it was 
 proper to consider whether it should become a tax upon 
 the general treasury, and be gratuitously distributed to the 
 paying members, or continue to be issued under existing 
 regulations."^ Although the indebtedness continued to in- 
 crease on this account, the original plan was pursued for 
 several years longer.'' " It would seem to be the duty of 
 the Society," said the Committee in a report September 
 12, 1850, "to disseminate as widely as possible the his- 
 torical information it may gather through the agency of its 
 members. . . . The collection of rare works for its 
 library . . . was in reality less likel)^ to promote a knowl- 
 
 1 Ibid.. III., 4. A printed slip containiny this resolution was inserted in the 
 next number of the Proeeedinj^s sent to members. 
 -' Ibid.. III.. .")S. r.':!. Ki:!. 
 :; Ibid.. IV.. :!. !0I. 1 li. 
 •t Ibid.. V , ■.'. 
 •"' Ibid., v.. ■.■)H: VI.. •.'. M. I)?. 
 
— [02 — ^ 
 
 edge of the history of the State than the publication of" 
 the material it accumulated.^ At the meeting May 19, 
 1853, the Committee reported $400 due on account of 
 copies of the Proceedings sent out and not paid for, and 
 recommended that thereafter the " Periodical " should 
 not be "sent to any person unless previously paid for, 
 and that resident paying members, not in arrears, and 
 those that shall hereafter be elected, shall on the payment 
 of their annual dues receive the numbers for the year 
 without charge; and to such members, the back volumes, 
 and to the Honorary, Corresponding, and Life Members, 
 the future volumes, shall be furnished at their cost price." 
 The Committee was also authorized to direct the number 
 of copies to be printed, and to prescribe the frequency of 
 the publication." The Society decided. May 18, 1854, to 
 pay out of its treasury $309.55 to meet the deficiency so 
 far incurred by the Committee, and that thereafter the ex- 
 pense of printing the Proceedings should be charged to the 
 general fund of the Society, and credit given that fund for 
 all proceeds of sales. ^ Such has been the system pursued 
 ever since. 
 
 From the beginning, the " Proceedings " of the New Jer- 
 sey Historical Society were extremely interesting and val- 
 uable. As is the rule with similar publications, the " Pro- 
 ceedings " were by no means a transcript of the minutes of 
 the Society. Instead, merely the substance was given of 
 the actual routine business, interspersed with the extem- 
 poraneous remarks frequently made at the meetings, giving 
 information of a most varied character; the reports, reso- 
 lutions and discussions; the more important letters re- 
 ceived ; lists of donors and donations, and selections from 
 the ever-accumulating store of documents, diaries, journals 
 
 1 Ibid., v.. 40. 
 
 2 Ibid.. VII.. 3. 
 
 3 Ibid.. VII.. H6. 
 
— 1 03 — 
 
 and other manuscripts acquired by the Society. A set of 
 these Proceedings is indispensable to the student who 
 would become familiar with the history of New Jersey, and 
 with the lives of many of its public men. This publication 
 now comprises ten volumes in the First Series, 1845— 1866, 
 and thirteen volumes in the Second Series, 1 867-1 895, 
 making about five thousand pages in all.' 
 
 II. THE " COLLECTIONS." 
 
 The work prepared by Mr. William A. Whitehead even 
 before the Society was organized, wherein he traced the 
 history of " East Jersey under the Proprietary Govern- 
 ments," was brought to the attention of the Society at its 
 meeting May 7, 1845, and the author was requested to 
 permit it to be published under the sanction of the Soci- 
 ety.'- This was done, the work being issued in January, 
 1846, and by May was nearly all disposed of, the treasury 
 being refunded the entire amount advanced for its publica- 
 tion."^ 
 
 The Hon. William A. Duer having stated. May 7, 1845, 
 that he had in his possession valuable original papers of 
 Lord Stirling, copies of which he would furnish to the So- 
 ciety, did his engagements allow, Mr. James Gore King 
 caused copies to be made at his own expense, and pre- 
 sented them at the meeting September 4, 1845, in a large 
 volume containing transcripts of more than three hundred 
 letters and papers of dates between 1 754-1 783.' This 
 material was promptly utilized by Mr. Duer in the prepar- 
 ation of a " Life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling," 
 which was published early in 1847, ^^ Vol. IL of the So- 
 
 1 Of all our contemporuries the Miissufhusetts Historical Society alone issues 
 •• Froceeilin(.'s " at all comparable with those of this Society. The New York His- 
 torical Society disconlinucd a similar ])uhlicatii)ii iliirty years or more atro. 
 
 - Proceedinf,'s. I.. i(i-ii. 
 
 3 Ibid.. I., 98. 116. 128. A second edition was issued in IHTl. without expense to 
 the Society.— /Ota.. 2d Sei-ics. IV.. .il. 
 
 ^ Itiid.. I.. 1(1. r>i), 
 
— 104 — 
 
 ciety's Collections.' Unfortunately, the work was compiled 
 without due diligence in searching for additional material. 
 After it was issued Judge Duer learned that several hun- 
 dred more letters and documents of Lord Stirling were in 
 the New York Historical Society. He caused copies to be 
 made, and deposited with this Society.' Some of them 
 were subsequently given in the Proceedings.'^ 
 
 The Society was entertained and instructed by Richard 
 S. Field, who read a paper, January 20. 1848, on "The es- 
 tablishment and progress of Courts, and the peculiarities 
 of the administration of Justice in the provinces of East 
 and West Jersey." At the next meeting, May 25, 1848, he 
 pursued the subject with a " Paper on the Bench and Bar of 
 New Jersey previous to the Revolution." By request, Mr. 
 Field placed his MS. at the disposal of the Society, which 
 authorized its publication as a third volume of Collections. 
 It appeared early in 1849, under the title "The Provincial 
 Courts of New Jersey, with Sketches of the Bench and 
 Bar."^ 
 
 A Letter-Book of Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jer- 
 sey, 1 738-1 746, containing copies of official and private 
 letters written by him, from May, 1739, to February, 1744, 
 while holding that office, was presented to the Society, 
 November 6, 1845, by the Rev. Robert Davidson, D. D., of 
 New Brunswick. At the same meeting the Society was 
 made the recipient, through Lieut. Charles S. Boggs, U. S. 
 N.,'' of a collection of about 100 MSS. of Gov. Morris, 
 1730— 1746; of one of the Governor's Letter Books, Jan- 
 uary, 1744, to March, 1746; and of a collection of about 
 
 1 Mr. Whitehead's letter (in my possession) to the Clerk of the U. S. District 
 Court for New Jersey, transmittinf< the title pase. for copyright, is dated Janu- 
 ary 4, 1847. 
 
 2 Ibid., ir.. 65, 76 ; III.. 161, 164, 170. 
 
 3 Ibid., v., 17.1-196 : VI., 41-4«, 56-61, S13-96. 
 
 4 Ibid., III., 11. &. VlS-4. 163. 
 
 .-. Afterwards distinguished in the Rebellion as one of the most gallant of the 
 Union officers. He was made Rear Admiral in 1870, 
 
— I05 — 
 
 100 MSS. of Robert Hunter Morris, 1750-1756.^ These 
 papers were placed in the hands of Mr. Whitehead, who 
 arranged them for pubhcation, with a prehminary memoir 
 of Gov. Morris, and the Society on September 11, 185 i, 
 authorized their issue in another volume of the Collec- 
 tions, which was published in the spring of 1S52, under the 
 title, " The Papers of Lewis Morris, Governor of the 
 Province of New Jersey, from 1738 to 1746.'"- 
 
 Of X'olume V. of the Collections I shall speak later. 
 
 The sixth volume had its origin in the following resolu- 
 tion, offered by David A. Hayes, and adopted at the meet- 
 ing of the Society at Newark, May 20, 1852 : 
 
 Resolved. That the Committee on Publications be authorized to apply to the 
 Common Council of the City of Newark for permission to publish such of the early 
 manuscript Records and other documents in their possession, illustrating the 
 history of the City and State, which may be of interest: and should the request 
 be granted, that they proceed to publish the same as one of the volumes of the 
 Society's Collections, whenever placed in funds for the purpose, by private sub- 
 scription or otherwise. 
 
 " Mr. Hayes stated that these records were of great 
 value, and that measures should be taken to preserve them 
 from destruction. They were already to some extent de- 
 faced, and as only one copy existed, some accident might 
 forever destroy the sources of most of our knowledge re- 
 specting the settlement and early history of this portion of 
 the State. He felt authorized to say that there were indi- 
 viduals ready to relieve the Society of the expense of pub- 
 lishing the work."'^ The Newark Common Council promptly 
 acquiesced in the Society's suggestion, and caused the 
 transcribing to be undertaken at the city s expense.^ The 
 work proceeded in so leisurely a fashion that it was not 
 until May 15, 1856, that the Committee on Publications 
 were able to report that the copy had been completed, and 
 " placed in the hands of Mr. Samuel H. Congar, the Libra- 
 
 1 Ibid.. I., (til. \]-i. IKi; IV.. -21. 
 
 •■i Ibid., v., 40-41, 1.58: VI., 2, 3. 50. 10 (07). 
 
 ■" Proceedings. VI., 21 (69). 
 
 ■» Ibid. VII.. .-)!. 
 1-i 
 
— io6 — 
 
 rian, whose thorough acquaintance with the locaHties and 
 genealogies of this portion ot" the State, particularly qual- 
 ifies him for the task of preparing the records for the press. 
 Such notes and explanations will be appended as might be 
 necessary for their proper elucidation."^ No progress hav- 
 ing been made in the meantime toward the publication, 
 Mr. Hayes brought up the subject at the meeting of the 
 Society on May 19, 1859, and on his motion Messrs. 
 Hayes, Staats S. Morris, Peter S. Duryee, Henry G. Darcy 
 and Silas Merchant were appointed a committee to procure 
 funds wherewith to publish the volume.- The committee 
 failed to act, however, although gently reminded of its 
 duty from time to time, but on January 15, 1863, in re- 
 sponse to a hint of the kind, Mr. Hayes said that "so soon 
 as estimates of cost could be obtained they would be pre- 
 pared to go forward and collect the funds for publishing 
 the Records."^ At the next meeting, May 21, 1863, it was 
 reported that the special committee was receiving subscrip- 
 tions for the proposed volume, at $2 per copy.^ It was a 
 year later — May 19, 1864 — ere the book was actually in 
 the press,'^ and several months elapsed before it appeared — 
 more than twelve years after its publication had been de- 
 cided upon. For some reason, Mr, Congar's contemplated 
 notes were omitted, and his work was limited to the proof- 
 reading, the actual preparation of the volume for the print- 
 er devolving on Mr. Whitehead, who prefixed an introduc- 
 tion, and added a table of town officers. The Newark city 
 authorities, who had several years before made appropria- 
 tions for printing the volume, now subscribed for one hun- 
 dred copies ; private citizens contributed toward the cost, 
 and thus the Society was practically relieved from all ex- 
 
 1 Ibid., VII. , 8G; VIII., 34. 
 
 2 Ibid., VIII., \bX 
 
 y Ibid., IX., 25. lOJ, 136 
 
 4 Ibid., 152. 
 
 5 Ibid., 196. 
 
— 107 — 
 
 pense in the publication.' It would be well if other cities 
 and counties would imitate the example set by Newark, in 
 publishing their early official records. - 
 
 When the Society met at Newark, on May iS, 1865, 
 Mr. Whitehead reminded the members that the two hun- 
 dredth anniversary of the foundini^ of that city would occur 
 a year hence, and on his motion the Executive Committee, 
 in conjunction with the officers of the Society, was re- 
 quested to adopt such measures as might be necessary to 
 celebrate that event in a proper manner. The celebration 
 occurred May 17, 1866, the city authorities co-operating 
 with the Society. The exercises included a historical 
 memoir by William A. Whitehead ; a commemoration 
 oration, by William B. Kinney, and a poem by Dr. Thomas 
 Ward. These were published, together with Genealogical 
 Notes of the First Settlers, by Samuel H. Congar, in a 
 Supplement to Vol. VI. of the Collections.'^ 
 
 The late Judge L. Q. C. Elmer favored the Society upon 
 January 20 and May 19, 1870, with portions of a work 
 which he had prepared, embodying his personal views of 
 men and things, particularly in relation to the bench and 
 bar of New Jersey. The paper read by him at the latter 
 meeting was published under the title of " History of the 
 Constitution of New Jersey, adopted 1776, and the Gov- 
 
 1 Ibid., IX.. )06: X., 2. 
 
 2 The minutes of the Hoard of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Passaic, 
 1837-1870. were published in 1875. The official "Records of the Township of Pater- 
 son. 1831-1851. ■■ were published in 1895. with the laws relating to the township, ex- 
 tracts from contemporary newspapers, and notes, forming an octavo volume of 
 'IXi page"*, including index. 
 
 The old Middletown (Monmouth County) Town Hook, containing the records 
 from December 30, 1667. to Augustus, 16i>4. was printed about 1886 by Major James 
 S. Yard, of Freehold, in his paper, the Moiiinoittli Democrat, and afterwards in 
 pamphlet form. This book contains the records of the lirst popular government 
 in Monmouth County, and in many respects is a most valuable contribution to the 
 early history of New Jersey. 
 
 The substance of the Woodbridge Town Records is given in Daily's History of 
 ■Woodbridge. 
 
 3 Ibid., X., -19, 69. 162-3, 165; Second Series. I., 3. 
 
— io8 — 
 
 ernment Under It."^ He intimated his willingness to have 
 his work published as one of the volumes of the Collec- 
 tions of the Society. Some months later, however, the 
 Committee on Publications announced that Judge Elmer 
 had relinquished his intention of furnishing the Society 
 with his work. He subsequently changed his determina- 
 tion not to proceed with the preparations of his reminis- 
 cences, and it was reported to the Society, May i8, 1871, 
 that the work would probably be completed in the course 
 of two or three months. The Committee was thereupon 
 authorized and requested to take immediate steps for its 
 publication as a volume of the Society's Collections. A 
 year later the Committee reported that a favorable arrange- 
 ment had been made with Martin R. Dennis, of Newark, 
 for the publication of the work without expense to the 
 Society, and at the following meeting, May 16, 1872, it 
 was stated that the book had been published and had met 
 with a very satisfactory reception from the public."- It is 
 an extremely interesting and gossipy account of times 
 familiar to Judge Elmer, and there is a refreshing candor 
 in his expression of his personal opinions of men and 
 events. 
 
 Referring to the publishing work of the Society, the 
 Committee on Publications, in their report made January 
 19, 1871, said: "The Historical Society is only half per- 
 forming its functions if it is satisfied with merely collecting 
 materials for history. It should consider it equally ob- 
 ligatory to disseminate to as great an extent as possible, 
 through the agency of the press, the knowledge that it has 
 collected. While we can point with satisfaction to what 
 we have done in fulfillment of both these obligations, it is 
 to be hoped that there will be no disposition evinced to 
 
 1 Proceedintrs, id Series. II., 6. 59. 133-153. 
 ^ Ibid., II., 58. 101, 1513-7, 170; III.. 2. 
 
HENRY W. GREEN. 
 
— 109 — 
 
 abate our endeavor to increase the number of printed 
 pages "^ 
 
 Unfortunately, the very excellent advice given by the 
 Committee has not been followed with the assiduity that 
 characterized the Society in its earlier days, when a vol- 
 ume of Collections was issued every year or twc. For 
 twenty-three years no additions have been made to this 
 valuable series. 
 
 At the meeting in Newark, May 20, 1880, a resolution 
 was adopted, offered by Martin J. Ryerson, of Blooming- 
 dale, that the Rev. Garret C. Schenck, of Marlboro, be re- 
 quested to furnish the Society with a copy of his History 
 of Pompton Plains."- Dr. Schenck had been for many years 
 pastor of the Reformed (Dutch) Church at Pompton 
 Plains, and had gathered a large amount of material relat- 
 ing to the history of that locality, part of which was em- 
 bodied, through his kindness, in a sermon by the Rev. 
 George J. Van Neste, of Little Falls, in 1866. At the 
 meeting of the Society, January 20, 1881, a letter was pre- 
 sented from Dr. Schenck promising compliance with the 
 request for his history.^ More than two years later — May 
 18, 1882 — a letter was received from him regretting that 
 he had been unable to complete his paper on the History 
 of Pompton Plains.^ 
 
 The Committee on Library reported to the Society, 
 January 25, 1887, that the " manuscript history of the 
 ' Early Settlement and Settlers of Pompton Plains,' by the 
 Rev. Garret C. Schenck, had been presented by the author 
 to the Society. A strong desire to have it published was 
 manifested, and offers to take from six to twenty-five 
 copies were made by several. The Committee recom- 
 
 1 Proceeding's. M .Series. II.. 103. 
 
 2 Ibid.. VI.. 92. 
 
 3 Ibid., VI.. 111. 
 i Ibid., VII.. 63. 
 
— no — 
 
 mended that some action be taken in the matter." The 
 manuscript was referred to the Committee on Publications 
 with power to publish it on such terms as might be mu- 
 tually agreeable to the Society and the author, without in- 
 curring any debt on the part of the Society The Com- 
 mittee on Publications reported, May 17, 1888, having ar- 
 ranged with Joel Munsell's Sons at Albany to print the 
 book, the publishers agreeing to print it and to give the 
 Society one hundred copies without cost, provided one 
 hundred subscriptions at $4 per copy were obtained. The 
 Committee issued a circular soliciting subscriptions, but 
 up to the present time not more than fifty or sixty copies 
 of the work have been subscribed for.^ In the meantime, 
 the venerable author passed away, shortly after having 
 presented his valuable v/ork, upon which he had spent 
 thirty years of his life, to the Society.- 
 
 III. THE "NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES." 
 
 I have already intimated that the effort to secure copies 
 of the documents in European archives relating to New 
 Jersey history had an important influence in leading u[ to 
 the organization of the Historical Society. At one of the 
 earliest meetings of the Society, November 6, 1845, 
 Messrs. William A. Whitehead, Stacy G. Potts and Rich- 
 ard S. Field were appointed a committee " to present a 
 memorial to the Legislature, in behalf of the Society, ask- 
 ing for the adoption of such measures as may be necessary 
 to secure to the State copies of all historical documents of 
 importance for the full illustration of our past history, that 
 may be in the possession of the other States of the Union, 
 — and also the requisite measures for obtaining accurate 
 information regarding the character, number, and place of 
 
 1 Ibia., IX.. 111. l-)6; X., 50. 123. 
 
 2 In 1898 the Committee on Printing was authorized by the Board of Trustees to 
 solicit new bids for the printing of this work, and there is reason to hope that it 
 may be published within the next year, forminjf Volume VIII. of the •■Collections." 
 
I 1 1 
 
 deposit of the documents in the Enghsh archives referring 
 to our Colonial History; and also of the probable expense 
 of obtaining copies thereof for the use of the State. "^ Such 
 was the origin of the Committee on Colonial Documents, 
 which has accomplished so much for the Society and the 
 State, in procuring the printing of our Archives. This 
 Committee presented to the Legislature a memorial calling 
 attention to the similar work which had been undertaken 
 by the State of New York, and secured the reference of the 
 document to a special committee of the Legislature, which 
 on February 19, 1846, made a very elaborate and extreme- 
 ly interesting report, but without effect. At the meeting 
 of the Society on May 27, 1847, ^^'^^ Committee on Colon- 
 ial Records submitted a resolution for the appointment of 
 "a committee of seven to obtain subscriptions to procure an 
 analytical index to documents in English archives relating 
 to New Jersey, and when the funds should be obtained, 
 that the committee adopt means to secure said list or in- 
 dex and such other information in relation to the papers 
 as may be of service to the Society and individuals." 
 Messrs. William A. Whitehead, Charles King, Prof. John 
 Maclean of Princeton, the Right Rev. George W. Doane of 
 Burlington, the Rev. Daniel V. McLean of Freehold, Isaac 
 Mickle of Camden and R. B. Thompson of Salem, were 
 appointed the committee."- They reported two years later 
 — May 17, 1849 — that they had solicited subscriptions, and 
 James Gore Kmg, William A. Whitehead and Peter S. 
 Duryee were appointed a committee to take charge of the 
 work.'* Mr. King reported, Sept. 13, 1849, that $600 
 would be necessary to carry into effect the purposes of the 
 committee; of this sum, $535 had been subscribed and 
 $485 collected. The committee had engaged the services 
 
 1 Proceeding's. I., 99. 
 
 2 ProceedinfTs. II.. 74. 
 ••i Ihid.. IV.. 3. 
 
— 112 
 
 of Mr. Henry Stevens, United States Despatch Agent in Lon- 
 don, who had made considerable progress in obtaining ab- 
 stracts of about seven hundred papers relating to New Jer- 
 sey in the English Public Record Office, of dates between 
 1664 and 1714-' Mr. Duryee reported in behalf of the 
 committee, January 17, 1850, that excellent progress had 
 been made by Mr. Stevens. Messrs. Richard S. Field, 
 the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Murray, William A. Whitehead and 
 Stacy G Potts were appointed a committee to draw up a 
 memorial to the Legislature, urging prompt attention to 
 the matter, but this effort also failed of success.' Mr. 
 James Gore King, from the committee charged with the 
 management of the Colonial Document Fund, stated at the 
 meeting of the Society, September 11, 1851, that "there 
 had been received fronv. Mr. Henry Stevens nine volumes 
 of a historical index of New Jersey Colonial Documents, 
 embracing the period from March 12, 1664, to December 
 23, 1775, each volume containing two hundred manuscript 
 cards, or 1800 in all. On each card was a reference to 
 the particular place where each document was to be found, 
 together with its date."'^ The "volumes" referred to were 
 portfolios or cases, in shape and size resembling small 
 quarto volumes, bound in blue morocco, appropriately let- 
 tered on the back, each portfolio having a lock and key. 
 They were greatly admired by the members then,"* as they 
 have been since. Mr. King again reported, May 20, 1852, 
 that "the whole amount to be paid Mr, Stevens for procuring 
 the Analytical Lidex had been remitted to hiin, and it was 
 expected that the supplementary matter and the preface to 
 be prepared by him would be completed by the middle of 
 June." The Legislature had made an appropriation for 
 the purchase of a number of the volumes. The Society 
 thereupon authorized the Committee on Publications to 
 
 1 Ibid., IV., 1()2. 2 Ibid., IV., 14.5 (5. 
 
 3 Ibid., VI.. 3-5. •* Ibid., VI.. 51. 
 
— I 13 — 
 
 have the work printed, and to fix a subscription price for 
 it.' It was nearl}' two years later before Mr. Stevens com- 
 pleted his transcripts, on presenting which to the Society, 
 January 19, 1854, the Committee on Colonial Docu- 
 ments was discharged, at its own recjucst, having com- 
 pleted its work.'- The editing and preparation of the com- 
 pilation having been entrusted to Mr. William A. White- 
 head, he sent out a circular to numerous public officials 
 and private citizens, soliciting information as to the 
 nature and contents of historical documents in their custody 
 or possession, with a view to incorporating the same in the 
 proposed volumes, but this meeting with little or no re- 
 sponse he personally analyzed and indexed such collections 
 as were readily accessible, thus adding summaries of about 
 500 documents •' To facilitate his work, an appeal was 
 made to the (lovernor, who recommended to the Legis- 
 lature (in 1856) the appointment of committees in the 
 several counties, to examine and report on the condition 
 of the public records. A joint resolution for the purpose, 
 after passmg the Assembly unanimously, received but three 
 votes in the Senate."* At the Society's meeting at Newark, 
 May 21, 1S57, the Rev. Dr. Nicholas Murray, from the 
 Committee on Publications, reported that " the fifth 
 volume of the ' Collections ' of the Society, the publication 
 of which has been so long delayed by various causes, will 
 
 1 Ihid.. VI., tiS. 
 
 '.; Ibid.. VII.. .51-.r2. 
 
 ■■! Ibid.. VII.. i:{l. 
 
 ■4 Ibid.. VIII.. (). 34. :»*. fiO. The I.e^rishil ure of IHitS ctiafted ;i law (dratted by the 
 author of this addres.s) authorizing,' the Governor to appoint a Public Records Com- 
 mission, to consist of three members, to in veslitrate and report to the Governor 
 from time to time on the character and condition of the public records in the 
 archives of the .State and Counties, (iovernor John W. Griyys appointed William 
 Nelson of Palerson, General William S. Strykerof Trenton, and Henry S. Hiiines 
 of HurlintJton as the Commission. They made their first report to (iovernor Foster 
 M. \'oorhees in April. 1898. This report embraced a description of the records in 
 the Secretary of State's office, at Trenton, with some e.\cerpts indicating their con 
 tents: a bibliotrraphy of the laws and Leji-islative journals prior to 1801. and an ac- 
 count of the laws ;nid Lc^Msbitivc iniirnnls in the Stale !>ibrarv and elsewhere. 
 15 
 
— 114 — 
 
 soon be ready for the press, and prove, it is thought, a 
 welcome and valuable addition to the historical literature 
 of the State and country ; for although only an Index to the 
 Colonial Documents of New Jersey, it will be found to 
 furnish a large amount of information to which access has 
 not before been had, and materially assist the historical 
 student in his researches " The Society thereupon au- 
 thorized the Committee to proceed w ith the publication of 
 the work as soon as a sufficient number of subscriptions 
 should be obtained to warrant the expense.' The Com- 
 mittee reported, January 21, 1858, that the volume "was 
 about being put to press," and at the meeting of the 
 Society, May 20, 1858, it was announced that the work 
 was about to be published, and a few copies were sub- 
 mitted for the examination of the members ' The Hon. 
 William L. Dayton announced, in behalf of the Committee, 
 January 20, 1859, that " the Fifth Volume of the Collections 
 of the Society, which was on the eve of publication when 
 the last meeting was held, had been since distributed to the 
 subscribers and placed for sale in the usual depositories for 
 such works. It had received a very general commenda- 
 tion." The sales " had enabled the Committee to meet the 
 expense of the publication without encroaching materially 
 upon the limited sum in the treasury."^ 
 
 Such was the history of Volume V. of our Collections — 
 " An Analytical Index to the Colonial Documents of New 
 Jersey," a stout octavo, published in 1858. In the preface 
 Mr. Whitehead detailed the efforts to secure Legislative sup- 
 port for the procurement of records from England bear- 
 ing on our history, or even to complete the laws and Legis- 
 lative journals, and the efforts which finally secured, mainly 
 by private generosity, this work. He added an account 
 
 1 Ibid., VIII.. (;0-61. 
 ■■i Ibid.. VIII.. ito, 11 -I 
 y Ibid.. VIII.. i:W. 
 
— 115 — 
 
 by Mr. Henry Stevens, of the nature and location of the 
 records in question. In an appendix was ^iven a rough- 
 list of printed books, compiled by Mr. Stevens, relating to 
 the early history of New Jersey, to which Mr. Whitehead 
 annexed a partial list of New Jersey newspapers prior to 
 1800, and notices of the public records in Essex county. 
 The volume was and still is a highly creditable work, and 
 possesses a permanent value. 
 
 Its main interest, in the present connection, lies in the 
 fact that it prepared the way for that stately series of 
 volumes known as the " New Jersey Archives." It was 
 fourteen years from the time Mr. Whitehead first attempted 
 to enlist public interest in the importance of securing from 
 the English State Paper offices the documents relating to 
 our early history, until he saw through the press this Ana- 
 lytical Index to those documents. He never lost sight of 
 the matter, but it was fourteen years later ere his heart was 
 gladdened by an act of the Legislature appropriating $3,000. 
 for the desired end. 
 
 In 1870 the original manuscript Journal of the Governor 
 and Council of New Jersey, 1682- 1703, which had been 
 missing for many years, was restored to the State Library.' 
 A bright young newspaper man, F, L. Lundy, of Morris- 
 town, wrote up graphic accounts of the quaint and most val- 
 uable old volume, which were widely published. He also 
 described the oldest volume of minutes of the House of 
 Assembly, 1703-1709, and a manuscript volume containing 
 the Journal of the Council of Safety, 1 777- 1778, which 
 came to light at the same time. The Hon. Nathaniel 
 Niles, member of the Assembly from Morris county, in- 
 stantly perceived the interest of these precious manu- 
 scripts, and as they had once been lost and might be 
 again, he conceived the idea that they ought to be printed, 
 both to preserve their contents for all time, and to make 
 
 1 See N. .1. .\i-cliiv('s. XIH., I'lefuee. 
 
— ii6 — 
 
 them more generally available for the use of historical 
 students. Accordingly, he secured the passage of an act 
 entitled " An act for the better preservation of the early 
 records of the State of New Jersey," which was approved 
 by Governor Theodore F. Randolph, April 6, 1871.' This 
 act authorized the Commissioners of the State Library to 
 print and distribute the three manuscripts above described. 
 This was done in 1872. 
 
 About this time Mr. Niles accidentally met with one of 
 the messages of Governor Haines sent to the Legislature 
 in 1844 or 1845, in which he recommended an appropria- 
 tion of three hundred dollars for the purpose of obtaining 
 some account of the documents in the English Public 
 Record Offices, relating to the history of our State. Mr. 
 Niles was now Speaker of the Assembly. His quick fancy 
 caught at the Governor's suggestion ; his youthful enthu- 
 siasm — which he has always retained — was so contagious 
 as to be irresistible ; and with his winning manner and 
 the prestige of his position he succeeded in accom- 
 plishing what had been vainly attempted at a score 
 of previous sessions of the Legislature. He drafted, 
 and through his efforts there was passed a Supple- 
 ment to the " Act for the better preservation of the 
 early records of the State of New Jersey," which had been 
 enacted in 1871. This Supplement, approved March 29, 
 1S72 (Pamphlet Laws, 1872, p. 59), appropriated three 
 thousand dollars " to procure copies of colonial documents, 
 papers, and minutes of council, directly referring to the 
 history of East and West Jersey and of New Jersey, now 
 on file in the State Paper Office in London, England, the 
 said documents, papers and pamphlets to be procured and 
 said sum to be expended under the direction of the New 
 Jersey Historical Society, and paid to them by the 
 Treasurer of this State, on their order, for that purpose, 
 
 ' Pamphlet, r^aws, IHTl.p. lou. 
 
NATHANIEL NILES 
 
— I I ; — 
 
 the same to be placed in the State Library." The Societ)' 
 at once appointed Speaker Nathaniel Nilcs, ex Governor 
 Daniel Haines, Governor Joel l^arker and William A. 
 Whitehead a Committee to procure the documents referred 
 to. The selection of these papers was greatly simplified 
 and facilitated by the Analytical Index, printed by the 
 Societ}' in 1858. 
 
 Mr. Henry Stevens, of London, was promptly engaged 
 to secure the desired transcripts, which he forwarded to 
 the Society from time to time in handsome and durable 
 portfolios. By a supplement, approved March 5, 1874 
 (Pamphlet Laws, 1874, p. 29), an additional appropriation 
 of $3,COO was made to procure copies of such documents 
 and papers which might b2 found in the record offices or 
 elsezvhcrc. Another supplement, approved March 27, 
 1878 (Pamphlet Laws, 1878, p. 191), appropriated one 
 thousand dollars " to procure copies of all papers now in 
 the Public Record Offices of England, or elsewhere, refer- 
 ring to the history of New Jersey, and which are not now 
 in the possession of this State; the said sum hereby ap- 
 propriated, and any sum heretofore appropriated for this 
 purpose, to be expended under the direction of the 
 Historical Society of New Jersey, in obtaining, arranging, 
 collating and printing the said papers.'" This was the 
 first authority that had been given to the Society to print 
 these records. When at last, after more than thirty jears 
 of persistent effort on AL*. Whitehead's part, the material 
 was in hand and the fund available for printing a volume of 
 original records relating to the early history of the State, 
 he was gratified beyond expression. 
 
 The duty of editing and preparing the documents for 
 the press was, at the request of the Society, assigned to 
 Mr. Whitehead — a fitting recognition of his pre-eminent 
 fitness for the task. Then came the serious question, How 
 should the series be entitled? After the " Pennsylvania 
 
— ii8 — 
 
 Colonial Records?" or the " Documents relative to the 
 Colonial History of the State of New York ?" or the " Penn- 
 sylvania Archives?" I recollect well the grave solicitude 
 he expressed as he appealed to me for my opinion on this 
 problem — an appeal that was flattering to one so much 
 younger in years and wisdom — and the pleasure with which 
 he caught at the suggestion to combine the titles used by 
 both our sister states, labeling the volumes on the outside, 
 " New Jersey Archives," with the fuller title page, " Docu- 
 ments relating to the Colonial History of the State of New 
 Jersey," used also as a sub-title on the back. Then there 
 was another question : Should his name appear on the title 
 page as editor, without any indication of his qualifications? 
 or, should there be appended a list of some of his works, 
 to indicate to the world of letters that he had some pre- 
 paratory fitness to undertake the editing of a work of this 
 magnitude? My own judgment was that his fame was al- 
 ready sufficient to justify his selection, but his modesty led 
 him to doubt this, and to vindicate his choice by the 
 State and the Society he added to his name the titles of 
 his principal historical publications. 
 
 Volume I. of the New Jersey Archives, First Series, 
 1636-1687, was issued in 1880. It was evident that 
 more money would be needed at an early day, to con- 
 tinue the work, and the writer, after consultation with 
 Mr. Whitehead, drafted a further Supplement to the 
 Act of 1 87 1, and saw it through the Legislature (ap- 
 proved March 24, 1881, Pamphlet Laws, 1881, p. 206), 
 appropriating $3, coo annually for three years, to be 
 expended in procuring copies of all papers relating to the 
 early history of New Jersey, " and for arranging, collating, 
 editing and printing the same." The latter clause was in- 
 serted to set at rest any question as to the authority, under 
 the previous acts, to allow compensation to the editor.' 
 
 1 Since 1893 no payments have been made for editorial services, the work hciuti 
 done trratuitously by one of the ofticers of the Society. 
 
— 1 19 — 
 
 With the funds thus made available the following volumes 
 were printed : 
 
 Vol. II. 1687-1703, in 188 1. 
 
 Vol. III. 1703-1709, in 1881. 
 
 Vol. IV. 1709-1720, in 1882. 
 
 Vol. V. 1720-1737, in 1882. 
 
 Vol. VI. 1738-1747, in 1882. 
 
 Vol. VII. 1746-175 I, in 1883. 
 
 The funds having been e.xhausted, another appeal was 
 made to the Legislature, which by a Supplement to the 
 Act of 1871, approved May 13, 1884 (Pamphlet Laws, 
 1884, p 340), appropriated $3,000 annually for three years, 
 to continue the work. 
 
 Owing to the failing health of Mr. Whitehead, Volume 
 VIII. was not printed until after his death, in 1885. It 
 was issued under the supervision of Judge Frederick W. 
 Ricord, the Librarian of the Society. Mr. Whitehead had 
 prepared the copy, but the portion beginning in 1751 had 
 got misplaced and was overlooked by Judge Ricord until 
 considerable progress was made with the printing. This 
 accounts for the division of the volume into two Parts, the 
 material for Part I. having been discovered after Part II. 
 was nearly through the press. The subsequent volumes 
 appeared thus : 
 
 Vol. IX. 1757-1767, in 1886. 
 
 Vol. X. i-jG-j-x-j-j^, in 1886. 
 
 General Index, Vols. I.-X , in 1888. 
 
 In 1888 the Legislature appropriated $3,000 annually 
 for five years " to enable the New Jersey Historical Society 
 to complete the work of procuring material for, arranging, 
 collating, editing and printing the Journals of the Governor 
 and Council during the Colonial Period, and for arranging, 
 collating, editing and printing papers and documents re- 
 lating to the history of New Jersey during the period of 
 the Revolution." (Act approved March 26, 1888, Pamph- 
 
I20 — 
 
 let Laws. 1888, p. 252). Under this Act the Journal of 
 the Governor and Council, 1682-1 776, was printed, com- 
 prising Vols. XIII. -XVIII., in 1890-1893. 
 
 A series of V^olumes consisting of Extracts from Ameri- 
 can Newspapers, relating to New Jersey, was undertaken 
 by the writer in 1 890, but the magnitude of the work in- 
 volved exceeded all anticipations, so that the printing has 
 been greatly delayed. In this connection it was deemed 
 advisable to incorporate a History of American Newspapers 
 and Printers, prior to 1801, and a list of files of such news- 
 papers, and the libraries in which they are preserved. 
 This last was necessary in order to secure the fullest set of 
 extracts relating to our State. For variety, and the depict- 
 ing of life and manners in the eighteenth century, it is be- 
 lieved this series of volumes will be of surpassing interest.' 
 
 1 Vol. XI.. N. J. Archives, comprising Newspaper Extracts. 1704-1730. and 
 History of American Newspapers, Alabama-Maryland, appeared in 189-4. 
 
 Vol. XII.— Newspaper Extracts. 1740-17ri(). and History of Massachusetts 
 Newspapers, was issued in 1895. 
 
 Vol. XIX.— Newspaper Extracts. 17."il-l7.V), and History of American News- 
 papers. Minnesota-New Hampshire, was published in 1897. 
 
 Vol. XX. —Newspaper Extracts, 1756-1761, and History of New Jersey News- 
 papers, is expected to be issued before the close of 1898, or early in 1899. 
 
 Vol. XXI.— Index to New Jer.sey Marriage Bonds, in the Secretary of .State's 
 \/ office, will probably be published before the end of 1898. 
 
 The material is in hand for further volumes of Newspaper Extracts to the 
 close of 1775, which will be issued from time to time. 
 
 A Second Series of Archives. relatinK to the period of the Revolution, has been 
 determined upon. Vol. I., comprising Newspaper Extracts. 1776. is about half 
 printed, under the editorship of GJen. William S. Stryker. 
 
 It may be added that in 1893 the Legislature appropriated SF3.000 for continuing 
 the work. The moneys previously voted had been paid in bulk to the Treasurer of 
 the Society. By this Act it was provided that the money should be paid on 
 vouchers presented to the Comptroller, approved by the Committee on Colonial 
 Documents of the Society. This act was approved March 17, 1893 (Pamphlet Laws. 
 1893. p. 399). In 1897 the Legislature appropriated !?1. 300. and in 1898 the sum of 
 !f?..=iOO for the same purpose. This makes a total of *I7.800 that has been appro- 
 priated by the Legislature for procuring material for and printing the New Jersey 
 Archives. With the exception of the first *7.000. appropriated by the Acts of 
 I87-.'. 1874 and 1878. the several appropriation ai'ts have been drafted by the present 
 chairman of the Committee, who has given his personal attention to urging their 
 pas ;age. In this he has been materially assisted by other members of the Com- 
 mittee. In these efforts he has met with cordial and intelligent co-operation on 
 the part of many members of the Legislature who have readily appreciated the 
 importance of the Archives, when the sub.iect has been brought to their notice. 
 
 Fifteen linndrt^l copies of the Archives are printed: 1,1)1)0 copies are deposited 
 
AUSTIN SCOTT. Ph. D., LL. D. 
 
— 121 
 
 The New Jersc}' Archives form one of the most valuable 
 contributions extant to the history of our country, and con- 
 stitute a splendid monument to the intelligent liberality of 
 our Legislature, which has thus preserved for all time the 
 priceless records of and relating to our State.' 
 
 Of the Committee on Colonial Documents originally ap- 
 pointed in 1872, and under whose supervision these vol- 
 umes have been issued, there is but one survivor — Na- 
 thaniel Xiles, who established the invaluable precedent of 
 the first appropriation, of $3,000, in the year just named. 
 Ex-Governor Marcus L. Ward, of Newark, was placed on 
 the Committee, January 17, 1878, to succeed ex-Governor 
 Daniel Haines, of Hamburg, deceased.'- When Governor 
 Ward died, April 24, 1884, your speaker was appointed 
 (May 14, 1884) to fill the vacancy.*^ Garret D. W. Vroom, 
 of Trenton, was named, January 15, i8S5,to take the place 
 of William A. Whitehead, deceased,^ and on May 21, 1885, 
 the Committee was enlarged from four members to five, by 
 the addition of Frederick W. Ricord.' Upon the death of 
 ex-Governor Joel Parker, in 1887, Gen. William S. Stryker 
 was named in his place (January 24, 1888).'' At the 
 meeting of the Society on January 26, 1892, the Hon. 
 Nathaniel Niles, the Chairman of the Committee since 
 1872, tendered his resignation, but it was referred 
 to the Committee, who prevailed upon him to continue 
 
 in the State Library, and 500 copies are given to the Historical Society, in con- 
 sideration of its labors in the premises, and its contributions from its collections 
 of original documents. 
 
 1 A comprehensive report of the I'ommittce on I'olonial and Revolutionary 
 Documents, embracing most of the foregoing details, with many additional par- 
 ticulars, was presented to the Society in January. 1895. and is printed in the Pro- 
 ceedings. Second Series. XIII.. 132-l:^8. 
 
 - Proceedings, id Series. V.. 50. 
 
 a Ibid.. VIII.. 49. 54. 
 
 4 Ibid.. VIII.. 106. 
 
 •' Ibid., Vllt.. 15(). 
 
 •i Ibid.. X., 1.5. 
 16 
 
122 
 
 his service two years longer. As he then insisted on 
 withdrawing, his resignation was reluctantly accepted, 
 and Edmund D. Malsey, of Rockaway, Morris county, was 
 chosen as his successor,' and William Nelson, the senior 
 member of the Committee in point of service, was elected 
 Chairman. The Committee now consists of: William 
 Nelson, Garret D. W. Vroom, Frederick W. Ricord, Wil- 
 liam S. Stryker, Edmund D. Halsey."- 
 
 PART V. 
 Other Work of the Society. 
 
 Lerne nur das Gliick ergreifen. 
 
 Denn das Gliick ist immer Aa.—GoeUie. 
 
 The New Jersey Historical Society has always sought 
 to keep in touch with the best sentiment in our State and 
 country, interested in gleaning and preserving the annals 
 of the past and present. Let me speak briefly of some 
 directions in which its efforts have been felt. 
 LOCAL HL^TORICAL SOCIETIES. 
 
 In the early days of our Society the project was mooted 
 of encouraging local historical societies in the various 
 cities and counties of the State. Dr. Lewis Condict offered 
 a series of resolutions, November 5, 1846, recommending 
 the organization of a historical association in each county, 
 "for the purpose of obtaining correct information of the 
 
 1 lliid., XII.. 3: XIII., 137. 
 
 2 Mr. Halse.v died OL-tober 17. 180(3. and Fram-is B. Lee. of Trenton, was appoint- 
 ed to succeed him. in January, 1897. 
 
 Frederick W. Ricord died in August. 1897. and Austin Scott, Ph. D., LL. D., 
 President of Rutgers College, was appointed to fill the vacancy. The original 
 Committee wa* named by the Society, and vacancies were filled in the same man- 
 ner. By the new Constitution, adopted in 1897, it is provided that the Committee 
 shall be appointed anniially, by the President of the Society. The Committee is 
 now (September, 1898.) thus constituted: William Nelson, Garret D. W. Vroom; 
 William S. Stryker. Francis B. Lee. Austin Scott, 
 
EDMUND DRAKE HALSEY. 
 
early history and settlement of the different sections of our 
 State," and formulating a plan of co-operation with this 
 Society. The resolutions were referred to the Executive 
 Committee, who reported, January 21, 1847, expressing 
 doubts as to the expediency of the scheme, and giving 
 their reasons plainly and forcibly, the main argument in 
 opposition being the belief that such local societies would 
 divide the interest that ought to be concentrated in the 
 State Society. The Committee's report was concurred 
 in.' Mr. Whitehead's successor in the office of Corres- 
 ponding Secretary, the late Dr. Stephen VVickes, was an 
 ardent believer in local societies as adjuncts to this Soci- 
 ety, and securing the endorsement of the Executive Com- 
 mittee vigorously pushed the project during his incum- 
 bency of that office, issuing circulars and corresponding 
 with gentlemen in all parts of the State. He reported, 
 January 26, 1886, as a result of his efforts that two Coun- 
 ty Historical Societies had been formed — one in Salem 
 county and one in Hunterdon county, and that the Middle- 
 sex County Historical Society, formed in 1870, which had 
 partially lapsed, had been recently revived. Also, that 
 there were similar societies in Somerset and in Burlington. 
 At the same meeting he presented a carefully formulated 
 basis of co-operation with such societies, providing for 
 their representation in this Society, etc.- The subject was 
 again reported on at the meetings held January 25, 1887, 
 January 24, 1888, January 28, 1890, and January 27, 
 i89i.'^ Although the results hardly came up to his expec- 
 tions, Dr. Wickes always had great faith in the advantages 
 
 1 ProceediiiKs. First Scries. II.. 4. rrj. The kite Williiim A. Wliileliead alwiiys 
 adhered to the views e.\pressed by the Executive Committee in this report, which 
 he probably drafted. The writer, about 187.5, su^tfested to Mr. Whitehead that 
 perhaps such local societies might serve as feeders to the parent Society. Inil Mr. 
 W. thoutrht experience had shown that it was difficult enough to support one .So- 
 ciety in New Jersey. 
 
 2 Proceedin^js. 2d Series. IX.. 2. :{(). 
 
 ••! Ibid.. IX.. n-J: X.. 10: XI.. lH-21. 11. 
 
— 124 — 
 
 sure to accrue to this Society from the multiph'cation of 
 local societies.' 
 
 EXTENDED CENSUS STATISTICS. 
 
 Under the laws as they existed prior to 1875, the State 
 decennial census, taken intermediately of the United 
 States census, was limited to statistics of the population. 
 The Standing Committee on Statistics, of this Society, 
 made a somewhat elaborate report at the meeting held 
 January 21, 1875, recommending that provision be made 
 in the law for gathering data as to the agricultural, manu- 
 facturing, mining and commercial interests of the State. 
 The Society approved the idea, and as a result a bill drafted 
 by a member of the Committee became a law, making it 
 the duty of the local assessors to compile such statistics at 
 the same time as the data as to population. - 
 
 THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF I 889. 
 When the project took shape of celebrating in 1889 the 
 centennial of the inauguration of George Washington as 
 the first President of the United States, and the institution 
 of our Federal Government, on April 30, 1789, this Soci- 
 ety, in view of the significant and most important part 
 taken by New Jersey in the formation of the National Con- 
 stitution, was among the first of kindred organizations to 
 manifest a zeal for participating in the proposed demon- 
 stration. At the meeting at Newark, May 20, 1886, reso- 
 lutions to this end were adopted, and Messrs. Nathaniel 
 
 1 Dr. Henry K. Baldwin, a member of the new Board of Trustees of the Society. 
 revived the project at the tirst meetintt of the Board. November 6. 1897. and on 
 motion his resolutions were referred to a committee of three— Dr. Henry R. Bald- 
 Vifin, William Nelson and G. D. W. Vroom.— who reported at the December meet- 
 ing' of the Board, favorably. The Committee has been continued until this time 
 (October, 1898). Dr. Baldwin, the Chairman, has been very active in pressing 
 this scheme, and has met with considerable encouragement in his efforts. 
 
 - Proceedinirs, 2d Series, IV.. 9. 5-^. The Act in question was approved April 9, 
 1875 (Pamphlet Laws. 187.5, p. 97). The Hon. Henry C. Kelsey. the Secretary of 
 State, under whose supervision the census was to be taken, conferred with me re- 
 peatedly in preparina- the blanks for the additional statistics, thus recofrnizinK 
 the part taken by the Society in securing' this legislation. 
 
ng-'byHB.HolljL-NY 
 
 D APPLETOBr & C? 
 
— 125 — 
 
 Niles, John T. Nixon, William S. Stryker, Joel Parker and 
 William Nelson were appointed a committee to represent 
 the Society in the celebration exercises.' The Committee 
 immediately put itself in communication with similar bodies 
 elsewhere. It reported May 17, 1S8S, "that the celebra- 
 tion bids fair to rival any held since that of 1876. As the 
 New Jersey Historical Society was the first organized body 
 to take action in this State in the matter, and as the affair 
 is likely to be on a grand scale, it seems wise to your 
 Committee that this Committee should be enlarged, and 
 that the participation of other New Jersey organizations 
 should be invited." Accordingly, on the Committee's rec- 
 ommendation, the President, the Vice Presidents, the offi- 
 cers and the Executive Committee of the Society were 
 added, and the Committee was authorized to increase its 
 numbers from other members of the Society.- Governor 
 Robert S. Green, of New Jersey, himself a member of the 
 Society, and a descendant of historic families of our State, 
 took a warm interest in the contemplated ceremonies, and 
 to him the Committee presented an address, embodying 
 some suggestions as to the proper proceedings on our soil, 
 namely : that President Benjamin Harrison, in coming from 
 Washington to New York, to take part in the great display 
 there, should, as far as practicable, follow across New Jer- 
 sey the route taken by General Washington in 1789, hav- 
 ing public receptions at Trenton, Princeton and Elizabeth. 
 Further details were carefully outlined in the programme 
 proposed by the Committee. The report was received by 
 
 1 Proeeediiif-'s. -Zd Series, IX., 3i. The resolutions were offered l)y Mr. Nelson, 
 but the suff^estion c-ame from Mr. Niles, who was unavoiilahly absent. It was Mr. 
 Niles who offered the resolutions adopted by the Chamber of Commerce of New 
 York, which prepared the way for the National celebration. 
 
 '■i Proceeding's. 2d Series, X,. 51. The additions made were: President, the Rev. 
 Samuel M. Hamill. D. D, : Vice Presidents— Jud^re John Clement. Samuel H. Pen- 
 nintrton. M, D. : Corresponding .Secretary. Stephen Wickes. M. D. : Treasurer and 
 Librarian, Frederick W. Ricord: Executive Committee -Georfre A. Halsey. Rev. 
 Geortfe S. Mott, D. D.. John P. Hafreman. Justice David A. Depue. John I. Blair, 
 Franklin Murphy. Robert F. Ballantine.— ^'Jid., 15. 127. Practically, the arran^re- 
 ments were left with the Committee as originally constituted. 
 
126 — 
 
 the Society at its meeting at Trenton, January 22, 1889, 
 with much enthusiasm, and was cordially approved by in- 
 telligent historical students everywhere.^ Eclat was lent to 
 the participation of this Society in the demonstration by 
 the generosity of Mr. Nathaniel Niles, the Chairman of the 
 Special Committee, who placed at our disposal the steamer 
 "City of Hudson," for the accommodation of the Society 
 and its friends, in the great Naval Parade of April 29.'- In- 
 vitations were sent to the Governor, State ot^cers — Legis- 
 lative, Executive, Judicial and Military — faculties of the 
 principal educational institutions and various organizations 
 to become our guests on this occasion. The Local Com- 
 mittee of Elizabeth set apart two carriages for eight mem- 
 bers of this Society, to act as part of the special escort of 
 the President, in the parade at that place, namely : Samuel 
 H. Pennington, M. D., of Newark; the Hon. John Hop- 
 per, of Paterson ; John F. Hageman. Esq , of Princeton; 
 the Hon. John L Blair, of Blairstown; the Hon. Nathaniel 
 Niles, of Madison; ex-Mayor Garret D. W. Vroom, of 
 Trenton ; the Hon. George A. Halsey, of Newark, and 
 William Nelson, of Paterson. The Presidential train ar- 
 rived at Elizabeth at eight o'clock, and at the subsequent 
 reception many members of this Society were among those 
 presented to the President. Then the procession marched 
 to Elizabethport, where the President and his party em- 
 barked on a Government vessel awaiting them, and the 
 
 1 Proceeclinj?s. 2d Series, X., 127-130. Unfortunately, President Harrison's offi- 
 cial engagements were such, attendant upon his recent inauguration, that he was 
 unable to spare the time requisite for carrying out fully the above programme, 
 which would have occupied two days, and he was obliged to hasten by train 
 through the State, pausing only for brief receptions on the morning of April 29, 
 1889, at the .State House, at Trenton, and at the residence of Governor Green, at 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 2 The cost of chartering the steamer for the day was $800. But one other mem- 
 ber of the Committee was aware that Mr. Niles furnished this vessel at his own 
 expense, and the fact has never been divulged until now. Mr. Erastus Wiman 
 generously offered to bear half the expense of the steamer, but Mr. Niles would 
 not consent. Mr. Wiman then insisted on providing the collation for the guests 
 on board, at a cost of 4<12.'>. 
 
guests of the Historical Society took possession of the 
 "City of Hudson," which was assigned an exceHcnt posi- 
 tion in the parade, so that her passengers saw all that was 
 to be seen from the decks of the most favored vessels in 
 the line. The whole affair gave no little prestige to our 
 Society, and has left a delightful memory in the recollec- 
 tion of all who had the good fortune to participate in its 
 pleasures.' 
 
 THE CENTENNIAL MEDAL. 
 
 Out of this notable event grew another movement, which 
 in the end furnished the special feature of to-day's cele- 
 bration. Mr. Nathaniel Niles was so enthusiastically in- 
 terested in the Federal Centennial that he was full of the 
 subject. On his motion the Society, on January 22, 1889, 
 
 ResoUed, That a medal be struck by this Society, cominemorative of the 
 Centenuial of the Inauguration of Washington as the first President of the 
 Uriited States, and of the adoption of the Federal Coustitutiou, and that a 
 committee of three, together with the President, be appointed by this Soci- 
 ety, to select designs for the die and to arrange for the striking of such a 
 medal, in gold, silver and bronze. 
 
 Messrs. Nathaniel Niles, Clifford Stanley Sims and Gar- 
 ret D. W. Vroom, and the President, the Rev. Dr Samuel 
 M. Hamill, were appointed the Committee.'- They report- 
 ed, January 28, 1890, having substantially agreed upon a 
 medal similar in design to that distributed at the Paris Ex- 
 position ot 1889, a fine specimen of which was presented 
 by Mr. Niles. That gentleman at the same time offered a 
 resolution, which was adopted, looking to the award of the 
 Centennial Medal as a prize in the public schools of the 
 State, "to the youth sustaining the best examination upon 
 the history of New Jersey."-' At the meeting in Newark, 
 
 1 For a detailed report of the Committee, see Proceedings. 2d Series. X.. 18.5- 
 11)7. See also ibid.. 171-2. 179. The writer's pleasurable sensations on this occa- 
 sion were somewhat modified by his responsibilities. Mr. Niles havintr placed the 
 steamer "City of Hudson" under his orders for the day -his tirst and last experi- 
 ence as commander of such a vessel. 
 
 2 Proceedings. 2d Series. X., 131. 
 ■1 Ibid.. XL. 17. 
 
— 128 — 
 
 May 19, 1892, the Committee submitted "for the inspec- 
 tion of the members and friends of the Society present, the 
 die and two specimens of the medal, one in silver and one 
 in bronze. They were greatly admired as of the most ex- 
 quisite workmanship, and Mr. Niles was warmly compli- 
 mented on the success which had crowned his efforts to se- 
 cure the production of a medal which would be creditable 
 to the Society."' At the next meeting, at Trenton, Janu- 
 ary 24, 1893, it was stated by the committee that "the dies 
 cost $560, of which $400 had been privately contributed, 
 and the Committee hoped to obtain Irom private sources, 
 an amount sufficient to enable them to present the dies to 
 the Society without expense."'- This expectation was 
 realized a few weeks later, when the dies were presented to 
 the Society, together with a specimen of the medal in sil- 
 ver and one in bronze, in a letter dated Newark, June 14, 
 
 1893, addressed to the Hon. John Clement, President of 
 the Society, the donors being Robert F. Ballantine, Abram 
 S. Hewitt, John I. Blair, Nathaniel Niles, John H. Ballan- 
 tine, G. D. W. Vroom, and William Nelson.-^ The Com- 
 mittee made its final report to the Society January 23, 
 
 1894, when the foregoing letter was submitted also, to- 
 gether with a detailed description of the medal. The de- 
 sign was by Tiffany & Co., and the dies were executed by 
 Tardier, who engraved the present seal of the United 
 States. The obverse bears the head of Washington, after 
 the Houdon bust, surrounded by the legend, "Washington 
 Centennial Medal, New Jersey Historical Society, 1789 
 April 1889." On the reverse appears the seal of the Soci- 
 ety, and the motto, from the writings of Washington, 
 "Above all things hold dear your National Union," all sur- 
 rounded by a wreath of leaves of the laurel and the oak.^ 
 On motion of Mr. Niles it was resolved to "hold one medal 
 
 1 Ibid., XI., 164; XII. (54. -' Ibid.. XII., liO. 
 
 •i Ibid,, XIII.. (i. 4 Ibid.. (j-K 
 
Pr.jt. WOODROW WILSON, I'll. D., LL, D. 
 
129 — 
 
 in reserve once in five years for each county in the State, 
 and that such medals may be donated annually by mem- 
 bers of the Society in their respective counties, and offered 
 as a prize in the free public schools of the State, at a com- 
 petitive examination on the history of New Jersey."' Reg- 
 ulations were provided for the disposal of other copies, and 
 for a register of the same, and it was further 
 
 Resolved, That in carrying out the resohition of this Society, passed the 
 twenty-second day of Jauuiirj', 1889, Number 1, now being struck in gold, 
 be presented to ex-President Benjamin Harrison, President of the United 
 States during the Centennial year of the Constitution, at such time and place 
 as the Executive Committee may arrange. That medal No. 2 be in silver, 
 and that it be presented to the Hon. IJobert S. Green, who was the Governor 
 of New Jersey during said Centennial year. That such presentation be made 
 at a time and place to be fixed by the Executive Cmnmittee of this Society.- 
 
 By a most happy combination of circumstances, it has 
 been arranged that the presentation of this gold medal 
 shall be made to-day, whereby the Semi-Centennial cele- 
 bration of the New Jersey Historical Society has been 
 given, in a measure, a National character. •' 
 
 1 The followinff tjentlemen immediately volunteered U> assume the expense of 
 furnishing the medals for their respective counties: 
 
 Bergen— William M. Johnson, of Hackensack. 
 
 Burlington— Clifford Stanley Sims, of Mt. Holly. 
 
 Cape May— Francis B. Lee. of Trenton. 
 
 Essex— Charles Bradley, of Newark. 
 
 Mercer- Garret D. VV. Vroom, of Trenton. 
 
 Morris— Henry C. Pitney, of Morristown. 
 
 Passaic— William Nelson, of Paterson. 
 
 Warren— George M. Robeson, of Ciimden.—P rocreainr/s. 2d Series. XIII.. m. 
 
 2 Proceedings. 2d Series. XIII.. fl. At the same meeting it was resolved 'ihal 
 the net proceeds of the Centennial medals be reserved and set apart as a Medal 
 Fund, to be devoted solely to the purposes mentioned in the report of the Com 
 mittee on Centennial Medals." The thanks of the Society were also voted to the 
 members of the Committee, and one of the silver medals was ordered to be pre- 
 sented to each of them.—ItJid.. !i- 10. On May 17. 1894. a copy in bronze was voted 
 to -each of the contributors to the cost of cutting the dies for said medal, the cost 
 thereof to be charged to the Medal Fund."— /&(ci.. (')?. 
 
 3 The exercises were held in the Essex Lyceum, in Newark, in the presence of 
 an audience of more than one thousand specially.invited guests, including many of 
 the most distinguished people in the State. Ex-President Hari-ison arrived about 
 three oclo -k. being escorted from the station by Messrs. Franklin Murphy. Na- 
 thaniel Niles and F. Wolcott Jackson. The gold medal was presented to him by 
 Austin Scott. Ph. D.. LL. D.. President of Rutgers College, in an eloquent ad 
 dress, entitled -'A Highway of the Nation," replete with allusions tr) New Jersey's 
 
 17 
 
— 130 — 
 
 Standing here to-day, after a career of fifty years, and 
 welcoming, as we do, the distinguished ex-President of the 
 United States, and a host of the most noted men and 
 women of our State, besides many from neighboring Com- 
 monwealths, we feel that the New Jersey Historical Society 
 has a record of work done which it can confidently spread 
 before its guests, sure of their interest, their approval, their 
 sympathy. Its beginnings were small. Its first efforts were 
 feeble. Its pace has sometimes halted. Yet its progress 
 has been steadily onward and upward. Its objects appeal 
 to the few, rather than to the many. Still fewer are those 
 who can give or take the time needed to further its inter- 
 ests, in these days when the world is ever increasing its 
 demands upon us to fill the duties of to-day, and to pre- 
 pare for the morrow. The multitude have neither time 
 nor inclination to learn the lessons taught by the experi- 
 ence of others. They must needs learn from their own. 
 Too seldom, indeed, do they hearken to the teachings thus 
 acquired, at oh, so great a cost! To the philosopher, the 
 historian, the statesman is relegated the task of delving in 
 the musty lore of the past to gather up the lessons taught 
 by the days of yore. Not all unheeded are these lessons. 
 There come times when the voice of some one rises above 
 the din of the madding crowd, even like the prophets of 
 old, and men are compelled to pause, to listen, to heed, as 
 they are reminded of what their forefathers did or suffered 
 in times gone by, under circumstances that are forever be- 
 ing paralleled in the world's history; and so at times they 
 are led to imitate the wisdom and to avoid the errors of 
 the men of the olden days. 
 
 The Historical Society gathers and preserves the annals 
 of the past, and of To-day, which in a few hours will be 
 
 part in the fornuitlon of the Niitiotuil Constitution ;ind Government. General 
 Harrison made a felicitous response, after which he held an informal reception on 
 the platform, before leaving for New York city. The occasion was vei-y j<enerally 
 reported in the newsij-.ipers throu'-rhoul the country. 
 
— 131 — 
 
 numbered vvitli the Yesterdays. This material is and will 
 be the inspiration for those warning voices that here, there, 
 everywhere, are upliftinf]^ men to higher planes of action, 
 to loftier vistas of human life and endeavor. "Teach noth- 
 ing in the schools," said Erasmus, "but what bears on life 
 and duty." Pope declares that 
 
 Tlic pr<i]H'r study of niwiikiml is iii;iii. 
 
 Where can you pursue that fascinating study better than 
 among the books, nay, among the manuscripts,' in our col- 
 lections? Here are the inedited journals, the diaries, the 
 letters of men and women in every walk of life, since the 
 first settlement of New Jersey, revealing the loves, the 
 hates, the jealousies, the stern endurance, the sturdy patri- 
 otism, the religious fervor, the noblest yearnings of hun- 
 dreds who have long since passed away, but who have left 
 behind them these pages traced by their own hands. How 
 near it brings them to us ! How real history becomes under 
 such associations ! It seems easier to heed what these peo- 
 ple tell us, whose identity, whose individuality thus stands 
 out in the words they have penned. 
 
 But how can these treasures be preserved — nay, how 
 can they be gathered in full measure — without a proper 
 home for our Society? 
 
 How can they be properly cared for without funds for 
 the support of the Society? 
 
 How is it possible to publish what we have, and what 
 we hope to get, unless there is an adequate Publication 
 Fund? 
 
 Is not a Library Fund essential for the proper custody, 
 the cataloguing and the increase of our noble collection of 
 books? 
 
 Our gallery of portraits is small, but of great value, and 
 would be largely extended if we had proper accommoda- 
 tions for them.- 
 
 1 A list of the principal collections of manuscripts is appended. 
 
 2 For a catalojrue of the Portraits, see appended Notes. 
 
— 132 — 
 
 The rare and curious articles that often throw strange 
 light on the manners and customs of former times ; the 
 objects that are closely associated with historic personages 
 and events — these need cabinets, and the cabinets need 
 room. 
 
 Surely it is not too much to hope that this semi-centen- 
 nial anniversary, auspicious and altogether delightful in its 
 beginning, may be the harbinger of even brighter and 
 more prosperous days in the future for our New Jersey 
 Historical Society, and that the people of the whole State 
 may feel and manifest a sympathy in its aims that at no 
 distant day will result in giving it the home it so sorely 
 needs, and the generous maintenance merited by its noble 
 scope and aspirations. 
 
NOTES 
 
 Manuscript Collections. 
 
 The followiug are some of the luore importaut collections of manuscripts 
 in OUT library', with ilates of presentation, and references to further de- 
 scriptions of them : 
 
 Papers of John Feuwick, relating to his personal affairs and to his Colony 
 ill Salem Tenth. :\Iay 7th, 1845; September 3, iSiG.—Proceedinr/s, I., 9, 19, 
 80, 198. 
 
 Life of the Eev. William Tenuent, by Thomas Henderson, ^[. D. Sep- 
 tember 4, ISio.—Ib., L, 73. 
 
 Copies of the Stirling Papers. September 4, 18-15. — lb., I., G5. 
 
 Papers of Lewis ^lorris and Robert Hunter Morris. November 6, 1845: 
 May 19, 18G4.— 76., L, 99, 112, 113; IX., 197. 
 
 Journal of Dr. Ebenezer Elmer, January, 1776, to March, 1777, and June- 
 August, 1779. January 15, 1846.— 7i., I., 125. 
 
 Extr.acts from the diary of Col. Jacob Spicer, of Cape May, 1756-1762, a 
 bound volume of 300 pages. September 3, 184.6.— lb., I., 141, 200. 
 
 Original Draft of the Fundamental Constitutions, 1683. May 27, 1847. — 
 lb., II., 89. 
 
 Letter-book of William Peartree Smith. 1781-83, containing also Laws and 
 Ordinances of the Borough of Elizabeth, 1760, and Charter of the Borough, 
 1730. May 27, 1847.-/6., II., 89. 
 
 Manuscripts of Samuel Smith. September 13, 1849. — lb , IV., 102, 
 117; VIII., 40, 126. 
 
 Manuscripts of Gen. Elias Dayton. May 16, 1850.-76., V., 5. 
 
 Copies of Papers of Gov. Jonathan Belcher. May 20, 1852.— 76., VI., 
 65, 68, 75, 155, 157; VII., ], 49. 
 
 Original instructions of surrender by the Proprietors to the Crown in 1702. 
 May 19, 18.^)3.-/6, VII., 12. 
 
 Original memorials, letters and communications presented to the Xew 
 Jersey Provincial Congress, 1775-1776. May 18, 1854.— /6., VII., 85, 88. 
 
 Original instructions of William Peua and others to the commissioners 
 sent by them in 1676 to arrange their financial differences with John Feu- 
 wick. May 18, 1854.— 76., VH., 89. 
 
 Papers of Robert Fulton, relating to steam navigation, torpedoes, etc. 
 January 17, 1856.— 76., VIII., 4. 
 
 Papers of Ferdinand John Paris. May 17, I860.— /6., IX , 27. 
 
 Rutherfurd Manuscripts. .May 15, 1862; May 16, 1867.-76., IX, 107; 
 Second Series, I., 26. 
 
— 134 — 
 
 Papers of llobert Erskine, of Ringwcod. September 25, 1856; January 
 15, 1863.— iZ»., VIII., 41; IX., 146; Peroral Series, I.. 148. 
 
 Papers relating to the boundaries between East and West Jersey, and be- 
 tween New Jersey and New York. May 15, 1862.— /6., IX , 107. 
 
 Original Minutes of the Provincial Congress on June 22, 1776. January 
 18, 1^11.— Proceedings, Second Series, I., 173. 
 
 Whitehead Manuscripts. May 21, 1885.— ii., VIII., 154, 176-177. 
 
 Papers relating to location of lands in Cape May, by Dr. Daniel Coxe. 
 January 26, 1886.— i/x, IX., 9. 
 
 Lindsley Manuscripts. January 27, 1891.— 7/>., XI., 103. 
 
 Edwin Salter Manuscripts. January 27, 1891.— /6., XL, 114. 
 
 In addition to the foregoing, in our collections, may be mentioned : 
 
 List of the Kutherfurd Manuscripts. — Proceedings, I., 75. 
 
 Some account of the Papers of Governor William Livingston. — lb., VIII., 
 115; IX., 2, 5, 24; Second Series, XIIL, 136. 
 
 Manuscripts of Alfred Vail, relating to the invention of the electric tele- 
 graph —lb.. Second Series, V., 4-6; XL, 103. 
 
 The Tuttle Manuscripts, as they might be termed, comprise a large 
 amount of manuscript notes gathered by the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Tuttle, re- 
 lating to the Revolutionary history of Morris county, being principally the 
 recollections of aged inhabitants of that county. They are neatly written, 
 labeled, numbered and tied up in bandies. 
 
 Allusion has been made to the numerous Order Books, Diaries and Journ- 
 als of officers and soldiers relating to the Revolution. 
 
 Donations of Special Interest. 
 
 The Society has from time to time been made the recipient of gifts to its 
 Library, of great interest. A few of the more notable are here set down : 
 
 1852, May 20— From the Rev. Stephen Dod, of East Haven, Conn., but 
 formerly of Bloomfield, N. J., a perfect file of the Sentinel of Freedom, a 
 weekly newspaper of Newark, 1796-1852, a period of fifty-five and a half 
 years, bound in volumes. — Proceedings, VI., 63. 
 
 1852, May 20 —From the Rev. Dr. Murray, a lot of early New Jersey 
 newspaper tiles. — lb., 83. 
 
 1859, May 19— From his widow, the uniform and chapeau of Cnpt. James 
 Lawrence, U. S. N., presumed to have been worn by him in his fatal engage- 
 ment on the Chesapeake, June 2, 1813.— 26., VIIL, 151; IX., 9. 
 
 1860, May 17— From E. T. Hillyer, son of the Rev. Dr. Hillyer, of 
 Orange, the study chair of the Rev. Dr. Alexander Macwhorter, pastor of 
 the First Presbyterian church of Newark for many years prior to 1809. — lb., 
 IX., 27. 
 
 1863, January 15— From the Rev. Dr. J. F. Tuttle, of Morris county, 140 
 bound volumes and nearly 1,000 pamphlets, principally relating to New Jer- 
 sey, presented by Dr. Tuttle when about removing to Crawfordsville, Indi- 
 ana, to assume the Presidency of Wabash College.- /6., IX., 136. 
 
■,y,^„^/,/ ,V'>i/-y .'.>>.^^':. I'^,yn»',/ '-':-^r.,/,^«.y 
 
' J3 
 
 1S77, May 17 — From the estate of ilurcus Williams, deceased, a collec- 
 tion of Indian feather ornaments, etc., obtained by Mr. Williams while on au 
 expedition up the Amazon river. — Ih., Second Series, V., 6. 
 
 1878, January 17 — A collection of nearly 500 specimens of Confederate 
 currency. — lb., V., -18. 
 
 1887. January 25 — From Sainael H. Hnot, of Newton, a set of Niles's 
 Weekly Kegister, in 59 volumes. — lb , IX., 109. 
 
 1890, May 15 — From Dr. M. H. C. Vail, a file of the Newark Morning 
 Ilegister, iS volumes.— i//., XI., 2 (CG). 
 
 1893, May 18— Photographs of ancient tombstones in the Old Burying 
 Ground, Newark.— /^<., XII., 180. 
 
 This list might be indefinitely extended. 
 
 Portraits. 
 
 Our collection of portraits is small, but includes some of interest and 
 value. Among them are the following: 
 
 Andrus, Isaac, of Newark, Major in the War of 1812, and Brigadier Gen- 
 eral of Militia at the time of his death. He was born in Newark, Feb. 4, 
 1774, and died there, Feb. 27, 1850. 
 
 Barron, Thomas, formerly of Woodbridge, N. J., painted b\" Durand. 
 See Proceedings, 2d Series, IV., 121. 
 
 Burr, Aaron, Vice President of the United States, jiaiuted by Gilbert 
 Stuart. This portrait has a remarkable history, which was related to the 
 Society, May 18, 18G5. -ProceeiUi);/g, 1st Series, X.. 50, 170. 
 
 Clay, Henry, painted by Cafferty, of New York, in 1847. Presented to 
 the Society by S. Alofsen, May 16, 1867.-76., 2d Series, I., 48. 
 
 Crowell, Edward, formerly of Newark. — Jb., X., 123. 
 
 Cumming, the liev. Hooper, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, 
 Newark, 1811-1815; afterwards at Schenectady, at Albany, and in the Van- 
 dewater street church. New York. Presented by his daughter, Mrs. Jacob 
 Van Arsdale, of Princeton, Jan. 21, 1875.-//)., 2d Series, IV., 17. 
 
 Day, Matthias W. , Cashier for mauy years of the Mechanics' Bank. Newark. 
 
 Drummoud, Kobert, a merchant at Acquackanonk (uow Passaic), before 
 the Revolution; he joined the British in 1776, and was commissioned Major 
 of the Second Battalion, New Jersej' Volunteers (Loyalists); he died in Lou- 
 don, 1783. (See History of Paterson, I., 453.) Also portrait of his wife, 
 -lannetje Vreeland, of Acquackanonk These are pastels, and were be- 
 queathed to the Society by Allan Cluss. of Paterson, a great-grandson of Ma- 
 jor Drummond. They were received October 7, 1898. See Proceedings for 
 October 26, 1898, 3d Series, II., — . 
 
 Frelinghuysen, Theodore, the eminent statesman ; Chancellor of the Uni- 
 versity of New York, 1839-1850; President of Rutgers College. 1850-1861. 
 
 Haines, Daniel, Governor of New Jersey.— 76., 2d Series, XL, 17; XII., 3. 
 
 Holden, Captain Levi, of Newark, and of his wife. — Jb., 1st Series, X., 13. 
 (Mrs. Holden was Hannah Flympton, born at Sudbury, Mass., July 27, 1730.) 
 
— 136 — 
 
 Horublower, Joseph Coerten, Chief Justice of New Jersey, 1832-1846, aud 
 President of the Society, 1845-1865. 
 
 Joy, Colonel Edmund L., of Newark.— i/^, 2d Series, XII., 180. 
 
 Lawrence, Captain James, of the U. S. Navy, paiuted by Gilbert Stnart, 
 and presented to tbe Society January 24, 1888. — lb., 2d Series, X., 13. 
 
 McDowell, the Rev. John, pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Eliz- 
 abeth, 1804-1833; Central Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, 1833-1845; 
 Spring Garden Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, 1845-1863. 
 
 Murray, the Eev. Dr. Nicholas, of Elizabeth.— //*., X., 123. 
 
 Ogden, Mrs. Frances Barber, and child, painted in water colors, on ivory, 
 by Sir William Newton, painter to Queen Adelaide of England. Presented 
 January 22, 1889.— /6., X., 123. 
 
 Prime, the Rev. Irenaus, distinguished editor and writer. A pastel. 
 
 Schuyler, Colonel Peter, the famous hero of the French and Indian War, 
 in 1756-1759. Presented in 1847. -lb., 1st Series, II., 71. 
 
 Stockton, Richard, United States Senator from New Jersey; a pistel. 
 
 Whitehead, William A. — apparently uutiuished 
 
 There is a curious old painting of a Dutch family— husband and wife, 
 five sons and two daughters — which was bought about 1830 in New York by 
 Matthias W. Day, of Newark, who supposed that it was intended to represent 
 Henry Hudson aud his family, though that is obviously improbable. — lb., X., 
 155. 
 
 To this list may be added mention of 
 
 Bust of the Princess Pauline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, 
 exquisitely wrought by Canova, in Cararra marble; it formerly adorned the 
 residence of her brother, Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain, at B )rden- 
 town. Presented January 22, 1889.-76., 2d Series, X , 122. 
 
 Bust of ex-Governor William A. Newell. — lb., XL, 103. 
 
 Abstract of Title 
 
 Of the New Jersey Historical Society to Lot on the north side of West Park 
 street, Newark. [This also covers the adjacent plot of the Newark Libra- 
 ry Association, which that corporation purchased from the Trustees of the 
 Park Presbyterian Congregation in Newark.] Furnished by the Fidelity 
 Title aud Deposit Company, Newark, N. J. 
 
 (No. 1.) 
 
 Warranty Deed, dated May 23, 
 Samuel March, and Sarah, 1796. Ack'd Aug. 2, 1797. 
 
 his wife, Recorded Aug 16, 1797, in Essex 
 
 to County Clerk's office, in Book C of 
 
 James Murray. Deeds, p. 326. 
 
 Consideration, £800. 
 Conveys premises in Newai-k, being a dwelling house and lot on Main 
 Street, bounded south by Caleb Baldwin's house lot; Beginning at eastern- 
 
J/ 
 
 most corner of said Balil win's lot on Broad Street; thence along line of 
 said Baldwin's lot to Samuel Ball; thence— along Ball's line to lot of Miss 
 Hatfield 6G Iks. ; thence— along said Hatfield's East to Broad Street ; thence 
 — along Broad 81 Iks. to the place of Beginning. Containing 41-100 acres 
 more or less. 
 
 (No. 2.) 
 James Marry, 
 to 
 Archer Gifford, in trust to pay out 
 
 of the rents and profits of said i)rcm- 
 
 ^nr, rn 1 * T I 11 AT Deed, dated July 18, 1801. Ack'd 
 
 ises .'fiG2.50 yearly to Isabella Murray, *' 
 
 ■f f . f ., « . , 1 ■ July 19, 1802. 
 wife of party of the first part during 
 
 ,., f . , M « , , wi Bec'd Aug. 11, 1802, in Book C, 
 
 life of party of the first part and the o > > 
 
 remainder of the rents and profits of ' ' 
 
 ., . . 11 ^ TT Consideration, $1. 
 
 said premises to pay equallj' to Han- 
 nah Blackford, Jane T. Darning, 
 James Murray and William Murray, 
 children of party of the first part. 
 
 Conveys premises in the Town of Newark, (No. 1) on the Main Street and 
 bounded on the South bj' Caleb Baldwin's house lot. Beginning at the East 
 corner of said Baldwin's lot ou the Broad Street ; thence along line of said 
 Baldwin's lot to land of Samuel Ball; thence along Ball's line to land of Mrs. 
 Hatfiekls 66 Iks. ; thence along line of said Hatfields lot East to Broad Street; 
 thence along Broad Street to the Beginning, 81 Iks. Containing •41-100 acres 
 more or less. 
 
 (No. 3.) 
 
 Sheriif's Deed, dated Jan nary Gtli, 
 Nathan Squire, Shfif. 1812. Ack'd Jan. 31st, 1S12. 
 
 to Recorded Apl. 4th, 1821, in Book 
 
 Caleb Sayres. L 2, pp. 170-5. 
 
 Cons., $3. 
 Conveys premises in Newark: On the West side of Broad Street, belong- 
 ing to children of James Murray and at present occupied by Joseph Teu 
 Brook. Containing 41-100 Acres Bounded ou the East l)y Broad Street; on 
 the West by Back Streetl ; on the North by laud late of ]\Ir. Hatfield, now of 
 George Hobdys; on the South bj' Richard Leaycraft. 
 
 Recites:— James Murray to Archer Gifford, in trust for children of stiid 
 James Murray. 
 
 Sheriff seized ou all the right, title and interest of above laml, but grant 
 conveys all Real Estate whereof Defendant was seized on Augast 7tb, 1811. 
 
 Sold by virtue of a Writ of issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, 
 
 dated 4th Tuesday of Jane, 1811, in a certain Action wherein William Mur- 
 ray was Plaintiff or Complainant and Edward Blackford, brother in law of 
 Complt. was Defendant. 
 
 1 Now Halsev street. 
 18 
 
— 138 — 
 
 (No. 4.) 
 
 ^,. , , ^ Bargain aud sale deed, Gov. vs. 
 
 John Ars, aud Ehzabetn G. _ , 
 
 °'" Grtr. 
 
 nis wiie, ])j^ted Nov. 1st, 1821. Ack'd 
 
 dauehter of Hannah Blackford, ^, ,„, ,„^, 
 
 ° Nov. 13th, 1821- 
 
 ,J'° ,, , Kec'd Nov. 14th, 1821, in Book K 
 
 Edward D. Black ord, 3^^_3^3 
 
 also written Edwd. E. "^i; . .^^ 
 
 Cons., $500. 
 
 Conveys undivided 1-fi part of same premises as in No. 3. 
 
 Recites Nathan Sqnier, Sheriff, to Caleb Sayre, January 6th, 1812. 
 
 Will of William Murray, January 9th, 1813. 
 
 Said lands bought by said Sayre at Sheriff's Sile (L 2-170) at request of 
 William Murray for his iise and under an Agreement made with William 
 Miirraj', that whenever William Murray his heirs, executors, administrators, 
 should pay to said Sayre, the consideration mentioned in said deed, together 
 with other money etc., then said Sayre would convey to such person or per- 
 sons in fee simple etc. as said William Murray would direct in recited Will. 
 
 (No. 5.) 
 
 Bargain and sale deed, dated 
 Edward D. Blackford, May 2d, 1827. Ack'd May 16th, 1827. 
 
 to Rec'd May 16th, 1827, in Book W 
 
 Francis G. Blackford. 2, pp. 391-2. 
 
 Cons., $750. 
 Conveys undivided 2-G part of premises same as in No. 3. 
 
 (No. 6.) 
 
 Elias A. Van Arsdale 
 
 and 
 
 Josiah James 
 
 Exrs. of Caleb Sayrs, 
 
 parties of the first part, 
 
 *° Deed, dated May 28, 1833. Ack'd 
 
 Luther Goble, party of the second _ „ -.ono 
 
 June 6 1833. 
 
 part, Frances G. Blackford, Elizabeth ^ ,j ^ c, -,ooa ■ -o t r\ o 
 
 ' ' . , „. Kecd June 21, 1834, in Book Q 3, 
 
 G. Agg, wife of John, William B. „„-. 
 
 "" p. 392. 
 
 Blackford, George D. Blackford, sur- ^ ., ^. ^j.. , 
 
 ,.',, °^- T -n, 1 r I Consideration, $1. 
 vivmg children of Edward Blackford, 
 
 and Hannah, his wife, parties of the 
 third part, and Edward Blackford and 
 Hannah, his wife, Executors of Wil- 
 liam Murray, parties of the fourth 
 part. 
 
 Parties of the first part release to parties of the third part premises in 
 Newark. (No. 3). 
 
— 139 — 
 
 (No. 7.) 
 
 Edward Blackford, and Hannah, ^^'-''•" ^°'' -^'^^^ ^^^'^' '^''^^^ '^^^y 
 
 his wife '^1- 1^'^^- ^^'^'^^ J"'y 2^^ 1«27. 
 
 ' (.g Rec'd July 2i, 1827, in Book W 2, 
 
 Francis G. Blackford. p. 512. 
 
 Consideration, f 920. 
 
 Conveys all parts or shares of parties of the first part to premises in Town 
 of Newark. (No. 3.) 
 
 (No. 8.) 
 Hannah Blackford, 
 widow of Edward Blackford, and Warranty deed, dated March 27, 
 
 daughter of James Murray, deceased, ^^^^- ^^^''^ ^^'"'^^ -7, 1849. 
 
 ^Q Kec'd Jan. 11, 18.j0, in Book D 7, 
 
 Trustees of the Park Presbyterian P" 
 Congregation in Newark. Consideration, $9,000. 
 
 Conveys premises in Newark, Beginning on the West side of Broad Street 
 extending therefrom to the East side of Halsey Street, being about 54 feet 
 front on Broad Street and 45 feet front on line of Halsey Street. Bounded 
 South by formerly Caleb Baldwin, now Ephraim Bolles; North by Mrs. Mary 
 Hetfield, deceased. 
 
 Recites No. 1, to James Murray. James Murray died. 
 
 Being same that belonged to James Murray, father of party of the first 
 part and occupied by him in his lifetime and after his death by his widow 
 until her death. 
 
 (No. 9.) 
 
 The Trustees of the Park Presby- Warranty deed, dated Oct. 1, 1849. 
 
 terian Congregation in Newark, ^^'^^'^^^ ''^^"- ^' l^^O. 
 
 ^Q Rec'd Jan. 11, 1850, in Book D 7, 
 
 Enoch Bolles. ^' „ 
 
 Consideration, $9,000. 
 
 Conveys same premises described in No. 8. 
 
 Recites:— Same conveyed by Mrs. Hannah Blackford to party of the first 
 
 part, March 27, 1849 (D 7-94). 
 
 Note:— Proof not signed by Secretary. 
 
 (No. 10.) 
 
 AlvanHedden, and Elizabeth, his ,,??Ti^.'l7^' '^'*"^ ^'"'"^ ^^• 
 wife, and Samuel Utter. ^'f " ^''''' ^^^'^ ^^ 18^9- 
 
 ^^ Rec'd June 25, 1849, in Book A 7, 
 
 Enoch Bolles. ^' ^'^'^' 
 
 Consideration, $10,0u0. 
 
 Conveys premisss in Newark, Bagiuniug at the Northeast corner thereof in 
 line of Broad Street on the West side of the large Military Common and at 
 the South-east corner of laud belonging to the Estate of Jesse B. Pitt or for- 
 
— 1 40 ^ 
 
 merly so, dow to Isaac Meeker; thence South 25 deg. West 55 feet 4 inches; 
 thence North 59 deg. West 380 feet 9 inches to Halsey Street; thence North 
 27 deg. 30 min. East 42 feet 10 inches; thence South 61 deg. East 344 feet; 
 thence South 62 deg. East 3G feet to Broad Street and place of Beginning. 
 Bounded North by hinds formerly belonging to Estate of Jesse B. Pitt, de- 
 ceased, now to Isaac Meeker, and lauds late of General Thomas Ward, now of 
 party of the first part. 
 
 Recites:— Book P 3, p. 176. 
 
 (No. 11.) 
 
 Isaac Meeker, and Jane M., his Deed, dated April 4, 1849. Ack'd 
 wife, April 4, 1849. 
 
 to Ree'd April 7, 1849, in Book Z 6, 
 
 The Trustees of the Park Presby- p. 256. 
 terian Congregation. Consideration, $400. 
 
 Conveys premises in Newark, Beginning in the South line of lands owned 
 by John Morrisi 100 feet from the West line of Broad Street opposite Military 
 Common as said line of Broad Street has been established by authorities of 
 the City of Newark; thence South parallel with said established line of said 
 Street 39 feet more or less to land of Alvan Hedden and Samuel Utter; 
 thence West along line of said Hedden and Utter 87 feet more or less to land 
 of Alvan Hedden; thence North along Hedden's line 3S feet 8 inches to land 
 of John Morris; thence along line of said Morris 87 feet more or less to the 
 place of Begiuniug. Bnng rear part of lot conveyed in recited deed after, 
 reserving a lot 100 feet running back from the line of Broad Street as estab- 
 lished by public authorities of the City of Newark. 
 Recites:- Book N 6, p. 215. 
 
 (No. 12.) 
 
 Deed, dated Oct. 1, 1849. Ack'd 
 Enoch Bolles, ^ „ .,„.^ 
 
 Jan. 3, IboO. 
 
 ,^°, ,, , „ , Rec'd Jan. 11, 1850, in Book D 7, 
 
 The Trustees of the Park Presby- 
 
 terian Congregation in Newark. ' ' . c.,. ocn 
 
 ° Consideration, f6,250. 
 
 Conveys premises in Newark, Beginuing in the North line of a new street- 
 now or about to be laid through Ephraim Bolles and James Murray and to 
 run from Broad to Halsey Street 100 feet 3 inches from the corner of said 
 new street and Broad Street, also intended to be 100 feet at right angles from 
 
 1 John Morris and Betsey his wife conveyed a small lot to Samuel Morris, by 
 deed dated Aug. 15, 1806; ackn"d Feb. 38. 1809; recorded March 6, 1809. in Book O. 
 p. 464. Cons., %0. 
 
 John Morris also conve.ved a tract ad.ioining the above to Thoma.s Morris, son 
 of John Morris, by deed dated Oct. 12, 1807: acknowiedtred Feb. r'8. 1809; recorded 
 March 9, 1809, in Book O, p. 474. Cons., $100. 
 
 2 Now West Park street. 
 
— 141 — 
 
 the West line of Broad Street as same is or may be established by the public 
 authorities of the City of Newark; thence parallel with Broad Street North 27 
 deg. 55 min. East 74 feet 9 iuches more or less to the South Hue of party of 
 the secoul part as iu Z 6- 256; theace West along same 87 feet more or less 
 to the Southwest corner of said conveyed lands; thence North along the 
 West line of snme 38 feet 8 iuches to John Morris; thence West along same 
 87 fest more or less to a point ex,\ctly 100 feet Exst at right augles from the 
 East line of Halsey Street; thenca South parallel with Hulsey Street 108 feet 
 8 inches to said new street; thence South 57 deg. 55 min. East along said 
 new street 176 feet 11 inches more or less to the place of Beginning. 
 
 Also so much of land embraced in said new street as lies between East 
 and West line of lot above described until same stinkes North line of Ephraim 
 Bolles. 
 
 (No. 13.) 
 
 rri rr , f .1 T^ 1 T. 1 '^^^'^' '^^ted Sept. 30, 1851. Ack'd 
 
 The Trustees ot the Park Presby- 
 
 terian Congregation in Newark, t^ ,-,\t i -r^ ^c.r-^ ■ r. , ^- „ 
 
 ^ Eec d Mch. 19, 1852, m Book X 7, 
 
 *° p 24 
 
 Matthew Ely. 'consideration, $1,800. 
 
 Conveys premises iu Newark, Beginning in the North line of Park Church 
 Placel at corner of land conveyed by Enoch Bolles to P. W. and A. D. Smith ; 
 thence along said street North 57 deg. 55 min. West 30 feet; thence North- 
 east parallel with the Eist wall of Church of party of the first part 113 feet 
 more or less to line of land late of John Morris; thence along above line 
 Southeast to the Northwest corner of Isaac Meeker; thence along said 
 Meeker and said Smith's lines South 27 deg. 55 min. West 113 feet 9 inches 
 more or less to the place of Beginning. 
 
 (No. 14.) 
 
 Deed, dated May 21, 1852. Ack'd 
 Matthew Ely, and Calista, his wife, May 29, 1852. 
 
 to Kec'd June 4, 1852, iu Book Z 7, 
 
 William Kankiu. p. 361. 
 
 Consideration, $2,000. 
 Conveys premises in Newark, being same as described in No. 13. 
 
 (No. 15.) 
 
 wii- i>„ 1 ■ 1 ti- -1 1 • Deed, dated Jan. 16, 1855. Ack'd 
 
 William llankm, and Abigail, his ^ ,„ „ 
 
 ' " Jan. 17, 1855. 
 
 wife, 
 
 to 
 New Jersey Historical Society 
 
 Rec'd Jan. 17, 1855, iu Book 207, 
 p. 55. 
 
 Consideration, $2,500. 
 Conveys premises in Newark, being same as described iu No. 13. 
 
 1 Now West Park street. 
 
142 — 
 
 The New Jersey Historical Society in the Centen- 
 nial Naval Parade, April 29, 1889. 
 
 List of invited guests of the New Jersey Historical Society, on Steamer 
 "City of Hudson," from Elizabethport. 
 
 Hon. Robert S. Green, Governor, 
 
 Roberts. Green, Jr., Private Secretary, 
 
 Hon. Henry C. Kelsey, Secretary of State, 
 " Joseph D. Hall, Assistant Secretary of State, 
 ' ' John J. Toff ey. Treasurer, - - . 
 
 " Edward J. Anderson, Comptroller, 
 " John P. Stockton, Attorney General, 
 
 General William S. Str^'ker, Adjutant Gsueral, 
 ■' Lewis Perriue, Quarter Master General, 
 
 Hon. Alexander T. McGiU, Chancellor, 
 " John T. Bird, Vice Chancellor, - - - 
 
 " Abraham V. Van Fleet, Vice Chancellor, 
 " Henry C. Pitney, Vice Chancellor, 
 " Benjamin F. Lee, Clerk Supreme Court, 
 " Allan L. McDermott, Clerk in Chancery, 
 " John H. Stewart, Chancery Reporter, 
 " Garret D. W. Vroom, Law Reporter, 
 " Morris Hamilton, State Librarian, 
 " E. O. Chapman, Supt. Public Instruction, 
 " John H, Patterson, Keeper N. J. State Prison, 
 " George H. Cook, State Geologist, 
 " James Bishop, Chief of Labor Bureau, 
 ' ' Lawrence T. Fell, Factory Inspector, 
 
 Dr. E. M. Hunt, Chief of Bureau of Vital Statistics, 
 
 Hon. Mercer Beasley, Chief Justice Supreme Court, 
 " Manning M. Kuapp, Associate Justice, 
 " Edward W. Scudder, Associate Justice, 
 " Bennet Van Syckel, Associate Justice, 
 " David A. Depue, Associate Justice, 
 " Alfred Reed, Associate Justice, 
 " Jonathan Dixon, Associate Justice, 
 " William J. Magie, Associate Justice, 
 " Charles G. Garrison, Associate Justice, 
 " Hendrick H. Brown, Lay Judge, 
 " John Clement, Lay Judge, . . - 
 
 '• Jonathan S. Whittaker, Lay Judge, 
 " Martin Cole, Lay Judge, . . . 
 
 " John McGregor, Lay Judge, 
 " Edward Burrough, Pres. State Board Agriculture, 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Jersey City 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Flemington 
 
 Morristown 
 
 Trenton 
 
 New Brunswick 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Orange 
 
 Trenton 
 
 <( 
 
 Hackensack 
 Trenton 
 
 Newark 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Jersey City 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Camden 
 
 Old Bridge 
 
 - Haddonlield 
 
 Millville 
 
 Montague 
 
 Newark 
 
 - Merchantville 
 
— 143 — 
 
 Hon. George A. Hiilsey, Pres. Board Morristown Asylum, 
 
 James L. Hays, Pres. Board Trustees State Noi-mal School, 
 
 Newark 
 
 John R. McPherson, U. S. Senator, 
 
 Ruf US Blodgett, U. S. Senator, 
 
 Christoi:)her A. Bergen, M. C , 
 
 James Buchanan. M. C, 
 
 Jacob A. Geisseuhaiuer, M. C, 
 
 Samuel Fowler, M. C, 
 
 Charles D. Beckwith, M. C, 
 
 Herman Lchlbach, M. C, 
 
 William :\[oAdoo, M. C, 
 
 Robert Adraiu, 
 
 Philip P. Baker, 
 
 John W. Bogert, 
 
 William H. Carter, 
 
 George T. Cranmer, 
 
 William D. Edwards, 
 
 Moses K. Everitt, 
 
 John J. Gardner, 
 
 Walter S. Learning. - 
 
 John Mallou, - . . 
 
 Augustus F. R. Martin, 
 
 James L. Miller, - - . 
 
 Henry M. Nevius, 
 
 William Newell, 
 
 George Pfeiffer, 
 
 Joseph B. Roe, - - . 
 
 John D. Rue, 
 
 Peter D. Smith, - - - 
 
 Lewis A. Thompson, 
 
 George T. Werts, 
 
 ]\Iartin Wyckoff, 
 
 John Carpenter, Jr., 
 John P. Flynn, 
 John McCormick, 
 Hon. Andrew J. Bale, 
 " Moses Bigelow, 
 " Richard Brown, 
 " Thomas S. Chambers, 
 " Reuben Cheeseman, 
 " Eugene C. Cole, 
 " Ephraim Cutter, 
 " George C. Davis, 
 " Abram De Ronde. 
 " Peter T. Donnelly, 
 
 Belle Mead 
 Long Branch 
 Camden 
 - Washington, D. C. 
 Freehold, N. J. 
 Newton, N. J. 
 Paterson, N. J. 
 Newark, N. J. 
 Jersey City 
 New Brtinswick, N. J. Senate 
 Vineland, " 
 
 Hohokus, ' ' 
 
 Bordentown, " 
 
 Barnegat, 
 
 Jersey City, ' ■ 
 
 Flemingtou, " 
 
 Atlantic City, " 
 
 Cape May City, •' 
 
 Paterson, ' ' 
 
 Newark, " 
 
 Westfield, 
 
 Red Bank, " 
 
 Salem, " 
 
 Camden, " 
 
 Woodbury, '• 
 
 Trenton, " 
 
 Waterloo, ' ' 
 
 Sonierville, N. J. 
 
 Morristown, (President) N. J. Senate 
 
 Asburj', ' ' 
 
 Clinton, (Secretary) " 
 
 Salem, (Assistant Secretary) " 
 
 Camden, (Serg't-at-Arms) •' 
 
 - Pleasant Valley, N. J. Assembly 
 Newark, ' ' 
 
 - Jersey City, " 
 Trenton, " 
 
 - Millville, " 
 Seaville, ' ' 
 
 - Woodbridge, " 
 Wrightstown, " 
 
 - Englewood, ' ' 
 Jersey City, " 
 
— 144 — 
 
 Hon. William H. Darou, 
 
 ' ■ Lawrence Fagan, 
 
 " Edward P. Farrell, - 
 
 '■■ John P. Feeney, 
 
 " Judson C. Francois, 
 
 " John Gill, 
 
 '' Jonathan Goble, Burrsville, 
 
 ' ' Albert Hausell, 
 
 " Chas. F. Harrington, 
 
 " John Harris, 
 
 '' Wm. C. Heppenheimer, 
 
 •' Ohas. B. Herbert, 
 
 " Archibald A, Higgins, 
 
 " Geo. H. Higgins, 
 
 " John I. Holt, 
 
 '■ Eliphalet Hoover, 
 
 " Shepperd S. Hudson, 
 
 " Robert S. Hadspeth, 
 
 " Leonard Kalisch, 
 
 " Daniel M. Kane, 
 
 " James Keys, 
 
 " Jacob Klotz, 
 
 '■ Fred'k C. Marsh, 
 
 " Wm. H. Martin, - 
 
 •' Frank M. McDermitt, 
 
 " Thomas McGowaa, 
 
 ' ' Carnot B. Meeker, 
 
 '' Samuel B. Mutchler, 
 
 " Wm. S. Naughright, 
 
 " John Norris, 
 
 " James F. Norton, 
 
 " Patrick H. O'Neill, 
 
 " William F. Paterson, 
 
 " Edward B. Potts, - 
 
 " Richard A. Price, 
 
 " Adrian Riker, 
 
 " Joseph Schmelz, 
 
 " John Schroth, 
 
 " Ariel T. Scudder, 
 
 " Adam C. Smith, - 
 
 " Thomas W. Trenchard, 
 
 " Reuben Trier^ 
 
 " Lawrence H. Trimmer, 
 
 " John Ulrich, 
 
 " Foster M. Voorhees, -' 
 
 Vincentown, N. J. Assembly 
 
 Hoboken, " 
 
 East Newark, " 
 
 Jersey City, " 
 
 West Hoboken, " 
 
 Orange, '' 
 
 Burrsville, " 
 
 Rancocas, " 
 
 Lyndhurst, " 
 
 Camden, " 
 
 Jersey City, " 
 New Bruuswick, " 
 Manasquan, 
 
 Clementon, '' 
 
 Paterson, " 
 
 Washington, " 
 
 Mays Lauding, " 
 
 Jersey City, " 
 
 Newark, " 
 New Bruuswick, " 
 
 Paterson, " 
 Belle Mead, 
 
 Elizabeth, " 
 
 Frenchtown, " 
 
 Newark, ' ' 
 
 Bloomfield, " 
 
 Madison, " 
 
 Phillipsburgh, " 
 Middle Valley, 
 
 Rockawfvy 
 Jersey City 
 Jersey City, N. J. Assembly 
 Chapel Hill, 
 
 Imlaystown, " ' 
 
 Newark, ' ' 
 
 Newark, ' ' 
 
 Newark, " 
 
 Trenton, " 
 
 Trenton, " 
 
 Camden, " 
 
 Bridgeton, " 
 
 Newark, " 
 Middle Valley, 
 
 Plainfield, " 
 
 Elizabeth. '' 
 
Rev. GEORGE S. MOTT, D. D. 
 
— f45 — 
 
 Hon John C. Wood, - 
 
 " Wm. W. Welch, 
 
 " James West, 
 
 " Geoi-oe W. Wiedenmayer, 
 
 " Cliiirles T. Woodward, 
 Johu J. Miittbews, - 
 James E. Connelly, 
 P. H. Cornisb, 
 
 Mnj. General Josejjh W. Plume, aud ten Staff Officers, 
 Briu. Geu. Dudley S. Steele and nine Staff Officers, - 
 
 Ceutretou, N. J. Assembly 
 
 Paterson, 
 
 Bridgetou, 
 
 Newark, 
 
 Patersun, 
 
 Elizabetb, (Clerk), 
 
 Jersey City, (Ass. Ck). " 
 
 Newark, (Sergt.-at-Arms). 
 
 Newark 
 Jersey City 
 
 Brig. Gen. William J. Sewell aud nine Staff Officers, - Camden 
 
 Rev. Dr. S. M. H imill, Pres. N. J. Hist. Soc. and seven members, Trenton 
 
 Mr. J. C. Pampelly, Sec. Soc. Sons of the KevohUiou aud seven 
 
 ii^ember?, Morristown 
 
 Mr. Frauds Birber Ogden, Sec. Soc. Ciucinuati and fifteen mem- 
 
 'J-?'*- - - - - . 113 Broadway. N. Y. City 
 
 :SIr. Jonathan W. Koberts, Washington Headquarters Ass'n and 
 
 seven members, Morristown 
 
 Col. Edmund L. Joj', Military Order Loyal Legion aud twenty- 
 three members, - - - . . 
 
 J. Frauk Jennings, Grand Master I. O. O. F. an 1 seven Grand 
 Officers, ---... 
 
 Charles M. Mann, Graud Master F. & A. M. aud seven Graud 
 
 <^ffic""-'' Haddouheld 
 
 Capt. William B. E. xMiller, Dept. Commander G. A. R. aud .seven 
 
 Dept. Officers, - - . . . Camden 
 
 Gen. E. Biird Grubb, Philadelphia City Troop aud forty-four 
 
 members of the Troop (local address. Edgewater Park, 
 
 Newark 
 
 Newark 
 
 N. J. ), 
 
 Hon. Rodman M. Price, ex-Governor, 
 " Joseph D. Bedle, ex-Governor, 
 " George C. Ludlow, ex-Governor, 
 •' Leon Abbett, ex-Governor, - - - . 
 
 '• E. A. Wilkmson, Pres. State Agricultural Soc, 
 " N. S. Rne, Pres. Reform School, - 
 •• Rudolphus Bingham, Pres. Industrial School, 
 Col. Henry M. Sawyer, Commissioner of Siukiug Fund, 
 Hon. John H. Laird, Commi.ssiouer of Siukiug Fund, 
 
 Bennington F. Ranlolpb, Pre.s. Riparian Commission 
 " Edward Bettle, Pres. State Board of Assessors, 
 Rt. Rev. Bishop Scarborough, - - . . 
 
 " " Starkey, - . . . 
 
 OFarrell, - . . . 
 
 Wigger, - - . . 
 
 President of Princeton College, - - . . 
 
 19 
 
 Philadelphia, Pa 
 Ramapo 
 
 - Jersej' City 
 New Brunswick 
 
 - Jersey City 
 
 Newark 
 
 Cream Ri-^ge 
 
 Camden 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Camden 
 
 Trenton 
 
 - Orange 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Newark 
 
 Princeton 
 
146 — 
 
 President of Rutgers College, - - - 
 
 Seton Hall College, 
 " Drew Theological Seminary, 
 
 " Princeton Theological Seminary, 
 
 " Peddie Institute, - - - 
 
 " Pennington Seminary, 
 
 Wm. Nelson, ----- 
 Maj. H. W. Adams, 
 
 Dr. S. H. Pennington, - - - 
 
 Dr. Stephen Wickes, . - - 
 
 Hon. F. W. Ricord, - - - - 
 
 '■ Joseph E. Haynes, - - . 
 
 " Mayor Grier, . . - - 
 
 " Nathan Barnert, 
 
 " G. A. Hobart, - - - . 
 
 " J. B. Cleveland, . . - 
 
 " Thos. T. Kinney, - . . 
 
 '' John F. Hageman, . - - 
 
 " John I. Blair, - - - - 
 
 Rev. Geo. S. Molt, D. D., 
 Dr. Henry Race, . - - - 
 
 A. A. Vance, _ - . . 
 
 Hon. George Wurts, . - - - 
 
 " John Hopper, - - - 
 
 Wm. M. Hunt, Press Register, 
 Noah Brooks, Advertiser, - - - 
 
 Maj. Z. K. Pangborn, 
 Col. J. Madison Drake, 
 
 Howard W. Hnyes, - . - - 
 
 Robert F. Ballantine, - - - 
 
 Wm. Clark, ----- 
 Hon. John T. Nixon, Judge U. S. District Court, 
 Prof. Austin Scott, - . - . 
 
 " Henry C. Cameron, - - - 
 
 " Alexander N. Johnson, - - - 
 
 Rev. Geo. S. Bishop, ... 
 
 " Aaron Lloyd, - . . - 
 
 Ernest E. Coe, - - - _ 
 
 Hon. Joseph Coult, 
 
 Geo. G. Halstead, - - - - 
 
 Rev. Wm. M. Hughes, 
 Charles C. McBride, Joiirnal, 
 John Y. Foster, - - . . 
 
 John L. Murphy, - - - - 
 
 C. M. Herrick, .... 
 
 New Brunswick 
 
 Grange 
 
 Madison 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Hightstown 
 
 Pennington 
 
 Paterson 
 
 - Elizabeth 
 
 Newark 
 
 Orange 
 
 Newark 
 
 Newark 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Paterson 
 
 Paterson 
 
 - Jersey City 
 
 Newark 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Blairstown 
 
 Flemington 
 
 Pittstown 
 
 - Morristown 
 
 Paterson 
 
 Paterson 
 
 Newark 
 
 Newark 
 
 Jersey City 
 
 - Elizabeth 
 
 Newark 
 
 Newark 
 
 Newark 
 
 Trenton 
 
 New Brunswick 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Orange 
 
 Belleville 
 
 Newark 
 
 - Newark 
 
 Paterson 
 
 Morristown 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Newark 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Paterson 
 
— 147 — 
 
 E. K. Bird, 
 
 Siunicksou Chew, 
 
 Geo. F. Spinuey, Times, 
 
 A. L. Briil<^man, Press Ass'u, - 
 
 E. L. (loclkiu, Eveuiuf^ Post, 
 
 J. M. Buuily, Mail aud Express, 
 
 Henry Loweutbal, Times, 
 
 Kev. John Hall, D. D., 
 
 Rev. T. A. NelsoD, D. D., 
 
 Hon. Thomas Nelson, 
 
 William Nelson Johnston, 
 
 Sayres (). Nichols, 
 
 William Cloke, 
 
 Hon. K. Wayne Parker, 
 
 Wm. Strange, 
 
 President Board of Trade, 
 
 E. L. Dobbins, 
 
 Cbas. (Jr. Eockwood, 
 
 Albert Baldwin, 
 
 J. Hart Bruere, 
 
 Joseph H. Bruere, 
 
 Edward M. Douglass, 
 
 L. H. Roberts, 
 
 Rev. Geo. H. Whitney, D. D., 
 
 Hon. W. W. Marsh, - 
 
 Gen. James F. Rusliug, 
 
 Henry A. Potter, 
 
 Rev. John H. Butterworth, 
 
 Wm. John Potts, 
 
 Rev. Edwin E. Butler, 
 
 Robert A. Grannis, 
 
 Hon. F. H. Lum, - 
 
 Rev. Robert Aikman, - 
 
 Hon. Mr. Coursen, 
 
 Rev. Otis G. Glazebrook, 
 
 Edward J. Hall, Jr., 
 
 Jeremiah Baker, 
 
 B. Williamson, Jr., 
 
 Rev. G. R. Crooks, D. D., 
 " John Miley, D. D., 
 " James Strong, D. D., 
 " Henry A. Buttz, D. D., 
 " F. S. Upham, D. D., 
 John M. Young, 
 
 Hackensack 
 Camden 
 
 - New York 
 New York 
 
 - New York 
 New Y'^ork 
 
 - New York 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Indianapolis 
 
 Indianapolis 
 
 Newark 
 
 Trenton 
 
 Newark 
 
 Paterson 
 
 Jersey City 
 
 Trenton 
 
 - Newark 
 Newark 
 
 - Newark 
 Trenton 
 Trenton 
 Newark 
 
 Madison 
 
 Hackettstown 
 
 Schooleys Mountain 
 
 Trenton 
 
 - Orange 
 Summit 
 Camden 
 Madison 
 
 Morris Plains 
 
 Chatham 
 
 Madison 
 
 Morristown 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Morristown 
 
 Madison 
 
 - Elizabeth 
 
 Madison 
 
— 148 — 
 
 Enos Wilder, ...... Madison 
 
 Hon. Alfred Mills. . _ . . . Morristown 
 
 Dr. Calvin Anderson, ------ Madison 
 
 Rev. John McNaugbtou, - - . . Morristown 
 
 General Greene, - . . - - . " 
 
 Hon. Nathaniel Niles, ----- Madison 
 
 Erastiis Wiman, - - - _ . - Staten Island 
 
 Rev. Dr. Merritt, ------ Morristown 
 
 James Nelson, .-_-.. Montreal 
 
 Charles H. A. Nelson, - - - - - - " 
 
 The Centennial Medal. 
 
 The test or "strike," being the first medal struck bj' Tiffany & Co., from 
 the die, was of the following dimensions : 
 
 Diameter, ------ 60 mm. 
 
 Thickness, wide edge, ----- .075 mm. 
 
 Weight, silver, ----- 89f dwts. 
 " bronze, about the same. 1 
 
 After the first medal was struck it was discovered that there was an error 
 in the quotation from Washington, which read: "Above all things hold fast 
 your National Union," whereas it should have read "Above all thiugs hold 
 dear your National Union." The mistake was corrected in the die. 
 
 On December 16, 1893, there were struck for the Society, from the same 
 die, at the United States mint, in Philadelphia, twenty silver and fifty bronze 
 medals, the dimensions being as follows :'- 
 
 Diameter, - - - - - - 2 0-16 in. 
 
 Thickness, ------- 3-16 in. 
 
 Weight when struck in fine gold, - - - 4.95 oz. 
 
 " *' " silver, - - - - 3. 16oz. 
 
 " " " copper bronze, - - 3.55 oz. 
 
 The cost of the dies was as follows: 
 Paid Tiffany & Co., for designing aud iengraving, - - f!456.00 
 
 ". " " " changiug the w-ord ''fast" to "dear, " - 40.00 
 
 Total cost of dies, ----- $496.00 
 
 The cost of the medals struck was as follows: 
 
 One gold medal, ------- $131.60 
 
 Paid U. S. Mint, for silver and bronze medals, - $189.00 
 
 express charges, - - - - - 1.25 ■ 
 
 for blank book for record of medals, - - 5.00 
 
 for printed receipts, - - - - 2.00 
 
 for numbering medals, - - - - 4. 75 
 
 $202.00 
 
 $829.60 
 
 1 These data were given me by Tiffany & Co., in a letter of August 24, 1898. 
 
 2 These details were furnished b.v Henry K. Boyer, Superintendent of the Mint, 
 in letters of August 33, 1898. and Sept. -29. 1898. 
 
149 — 
 
 The Committee received the foUowiuj,' coutributious toward the cost of 
 the dies : 
 
 llobert F. Ballautine, Newark, - - - $100.00 
 
 Johu I. Ulrtir, IJlairstowu, ----- 100.00 
 
 John H. ]>alliiutiue, Newark, - - - - lOO.OO 
 
 Nathaniel Niles, Madison, ----- 100.00 
 
 Abram S. Hewitt, New York, - - - - 25.00 
 
 Garret D. W. Vroom, Treutou, - - . - 25.00 
 
 William Nelson, Taterson, - - . - 25.00 
 
 $475.00 
 Contributions toward cost of gohl medal: 
 
 L. Spencer Goble, Newark, - - - $10.00 
 
 Garret A. Hobart, Patersou, - - - - lo.dO 
 
 William Nelson, Patersou, - - - 10.00 
 
 Nathaniel Nile?, Madison, - - - - 10.00 
 
 William 11. Weeks, Newark, - - . 10.00 
 
 Received from sale of medals, - - - - 
 
 Excess of cost over receipts, i 
 
 50.00 
 134.50 
 
 $Go9.50 
 170.10 
 
 $829.60 
 of their 
 
 2 copies 
 copy 
 
 copies 
 copy 
 
 The following is a list of subscribers to the medals,- in the order 
 subscriptions : 
 
 William Nelson, Paterson, 1 silver, 1 bronze, 
 
 William A. Eighter, Newark, - - - . 
 
 Samuel A. Farrand, Newark, . . - . 
 
 William R. Weeks, Newark, 1 silver, 2 bronze, 
 
 Elias Vosseller, Flemiugton, - . - . 
 
 Josiah Collins Pnmpelly, Union League Club, N. Y., 
 
 Mrs B. Williamson, Jr., Elizabeth, 
 
 C. L. Traver, Trenton, - - - - 
 
 Franklin B. Levis, Mt. Holly, - - . - 
 
 Dr. James B. Burnet, Newark, - - . 
 
 Edmund D. Halsey, Morristown, - - - - 
 
 Garret D. W. Vroom, Trenton, - - - 
 
 Frank O. Briggs, Trenton, - - - - 
 
 Edwin A. Ely, 103 Gold street. New York, 
 
 John P. Hutchinson, Bordeutowu, silver, 
 
 Hiram E. Deats, Flemiugton, 1 silver, 1 bronze, - 2 copies 
 
 Henry R. Cannon, M. D , Elizabeth, - - - l copy 
 
 1 This deficiency has been assumed by Mr. Nilc> 
 toward the Centennial Medal Fund. $280.10. 
 - Proceedintrs. -.'d Series. XIII.. -lo. 
 
 makiiisf his total contribuiion 
 
— 150 — 
 
 Edward B. Sterliug, Trentou, ... 1 copy 
 
 Clifford Stanley Sims, Mt. Holly, silver, - - - 1 " 
 
 Bradford Historical Society, England, silver, - 1 " 
 
 Braintree (Mass.) Historical Society, silver, - - 1 " 
 
 A silver medal (No. 2) was voted by the Society to Gov. Eobert S. Green, 
 of New Jersey, and was presented to his family after his death. A silver 
 medal was also voted to each member of the Committee on Centennial Medal, 
 and a copy in bronze to each contributor toward the cost of the dies. The 
 following is an approximately correct list of the medals subscribed for and of 
 those ordered to be presented, alphabetically arranged : 
 
 Harrison, Benjamin, 
 
 - 
 
 Gold 
 
 Green, Eobert S., 
 
 - 
 
 Silver 
 
 
 Silver 
 
 Bronze 
 
 Ballantine, John H. , 
 
 1 
 
 
 Ballantine, Robert F., - - - - 
 
 1 
 
 
 Blair, John I., - 
 
 1 
 
 
 Bradford (England) Historical Society, 
 
 1 
 
 
 Braintree (Mass.) Historical Society, 
 
 1 
 
 
 Briggs, Frank 0., 
 
 
 
 Burnet, Dr. James B., . - - 
 
 - 
 
 
 Cannon, Dr. Henry E,., 
 
 
 
 Deats, Hiram E., - 
 
 1 
 
 
 Ely, Edwin A., - - - - ■ 
 
 
 
 Farrand, Samuel A., 
 
 - 
 
 
 Halsey, Edmund D., - 
 
 - 
 
 
 Hamill, the Eev. Dr. Samuel M., - 
 
 1 
 
 
 Hewitt, Abram S., - 
 
 1 
 
 
 Hutchinson, John P., 
 
 1 
 
 
 Levis, Franklin B., . - - . 
 
 - 
 
 
 Nelson, William, i - - - - 
 
 2 
 
 
 Niles, Nathaniel, 2 . . - . 
 
 1 
 
 
 Pampelly, Josiah Collins, 
 
 - 
 
 
 Eighter, William A., - - - ■ 
 
 
 
 Sims, Clifford Stanley, ... 
 
 1 
 
 
 Sterling, Edward B., - 
 
 
 
 Traver, C. L., 
 
 - 
 
 
 Vosseller, Elias, . . . . 
 
 
 
 Vroom, Garret D. W,, 
 
 2 
 
 
 Weeks, William E., 
 
 1 
 
 2 
 
 Williamson, Mrs. B., Jr., - 
 
 - 
 
 1 
 
 16 20 
 
 1 Also the silver test or " strike." 
 -' Also the bronze test or " strike.' 
 
WILLIAM RAYMOND WEEKS. 
 
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— 152 — 
 
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 Vol. VL Proceedings, 1851-1853: Letter from Robert Morris, 1781; 
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— 153 — 
 
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 Marriages of Friends in Philadelphia, 1682-1714; Origin of the name 
 "Pavonia," by S. Alofseu; Memoir of Samuel J. Smith, with some reminis- 
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 20 
 
— 154 — 
 
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 Second Seeies. 
 
 Vol. I. Proceedings, 1867-1869: Pedigree of Governor Carteret; Staten 
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 of Daniel V. McLean; Memoir of Andrew Kirkpatriek, by J. G. Wilson; 
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 New Jersey, by L. Q. C. Elmer; Letter from Morgan L. Smith on David G. 
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 Why New Jersey is called a foreign country; Communication fiom C. C. 
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 by Miss Sarah Smith Stafford; Memoir of the life and character of John Euth- 
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 Vol. III. Proceedings, 1872-1874: Monmouth County during the provin- 
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 Vol. IV. Proceedings, 1875-1877: Origin and signification of geo- 
 graphical names in Monmouth and Ocean counties, by Edwin Salter; 
 An interesting memento of Major Andre, by William Nelson; Fragmentary 
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— 155 — 
 
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 Vol. Y. Proceedings, 1877-1879: Centennial celebrations in the .State; 
 Life and public services of John Cleves Symuies, by C. H. Winfield; First 
 century of Hunterdon County, by G. S. Mott; Letter of Mrs. William 
 Franklin, Februarys, 1776; Resting place of the remains of Columbus, by 
 W. A. Whitehead; JMemorial of Cal. John Bayard, by J. G. Wilson; Letter 
 on Brothertou Indian Lands in Burlington, by Robert Gilchrist; Names of 
 families of Little Egg Harbor of whom the genealogy has been published; 
 The bones of Columbus, by R. S. Swords; Memoir of Joseph Henry, by J. 
 C. Moffat. Newark, 1879. 8vo., pp. (4), '2U8. 
 
 Vol. VL Proceedings, 1879-1881: Memoir of Hev. R. K. Rodgers, by 
 Rev. George Sheldon ; Character and employments of the early settlers on 
 the seacoast of New Jersey, by A. H. Brown; Letter from archbishop of 
 Santo Domingo, relating to the remains of Columbus; Origin of the pension 
 laws; Account of two maps of America, published in 1550 and 1555, by 
 Henry Phillips, jr. ; Letters on the old forest that once stood in the marsh be- 
 tween Newark and Bergen Hill; Hiberuia furnace and the surrounding 
 country in the Revolutionary war, by J. F. Tuttle. Newark, 1881. 8vo., 
 pp. (4), 182. 
 
 Vol. VIL Proceedings, 1882-83: The bi-centeunial of the purchase of 
 East New Jersey by the proprietors, by A. Q. Keasbey; Memoir of Capt. 
 Eliakim Littell, of Essex County, N. J., by S. Littell; Memoir of Brig. Gen. 
 Aifthony Walton White, by Anna M. W. Woodhull; Taxes and money in 
 New Jersey before the Revolution, by R. Wayne Parker; Josiah Hornblower 
 and the first steam engine in America, with some notices of the Schuyler cop- 
 per mines at Second River, and a Genealogy of the Hornblower Familj', by 
 William Nelson; Sketch of the life of Gen. William Irvine, by G. W. 
 Howell; Memoir of the Gardiner family of West Jersej-, by S. Littell. New- 
 ark, 1883. 8vo., pp. (4), 276. Portrait. 
 
 Vol. VIIL Proceedings, 1884-85: Sketch of the life of L. Q C. 
 Elmer, by William E. Potter; Memorial of Samuel Allinson, "the phi- 
 lanthroi>ist of New Jersey," by John F. Hageman; the strategic relations 
 of New Jersey to the war for American independence, by H. B. Carringtou ; 
 Sketch of the life and character of William A. Whitehead, by S. L Prime; 
 Judge Bayard, of New Jersey, and his London diary of 1795 96, by J. G. 
 Wilson. Newark, 1885. 8vo., pp. (4), 226. 
 
 Vol. IX. Proceedings, 1886-87: Life, character and services of Fred- 
 erick T. Frelinghuysen, LL. D., by J. F. Hageman; Some notices of Gov- 
 ernor Joseph Bloomfield, by William Nelson; Jonathan Pitney, tifjy years of 
 
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 progress in Soutli Jersey, by Allen H. Brown; A historical sketch of Miss 
 Jennie McCrea, by Henry Eace; Marcus Lawrence Ward, by F. W. Ricord; 
 The early cities of New Jersej', by Austin Scott; The founding of Patersou, as 
 the intended manufacturing metropolis of the United States, by W. Nelson ; 
 Contributions to the early history of the Reformed Dutch Church of Second 
 River, by Aaron Lloyd; Historic Old Tennent, by R. C. Hallock; Sketch 
 of the Schooley family, by B. White; Sketch of Col. Oliver Spencer. New- 
 ark, 1887. 8vo., pp. (4), 260, xi. Two portraits and map. 
 
 Vol. X. Proceedings, 1888-89. The Hessians in New Jersey, by A. D. 
 Mellick, jr.; Joel Parker, "The war governor of New Jer.sey," by J. S. 
 Yard; The first minister of Orange, N. J., 1718, by Stephen Wickes; 
 Martha J. Lamb, the historian, by Mrs. F. H. Pier.sou; Our French allies in 
 the Revolution, by J. C. Pumpelly; Report on the centennial of the Federal 
 government. Newark, 1890. Svo., pp. (4), 208. 
 
 Vol. Xr, Proceedings, 1890-1891: Report of executive committee on the 
 origin of the Society, with list of officers, 1845-1890; Rev. Samuel McClin- 
 tock Hamill, D. D., a memoir, by Rev. Samuel M. Studdiford, D. D. ; 
 John T. Nixon, memoir, by A. Q. Keasbey: George H. Cook, memoir, by 
 James Neilson; Dr. Stephen Wickes, a memoir, by Joseph Parrish, M. D. ; 
 August Hermann. Bohemian, 1605-1080, by James Grant Wilson; Mahlou 
 Dickerson, industrial pioneer and old-time patriot, by J. C. Pumpelly; Con- 
 tributions to Hunterdon County history, by Henry Eace, M. D. ; Memoir of 
 Joseph Parrish, M. D., by Samuel H. Pennington, M. D. ; Greenland in 
 New Jersey, a historical sketch of the Moravian settlement in Sussex Coun- 
 ty, 1768 to 1808, by Henry Race, M. D. Newark, 1892. 8vo., pp. (4), 205, 
 xiv. Portraits. 
 
 Vol. XII. Proceedings, 1892-1893: Donations to the Library in 1891, of 
 books relating to New Jersey; Rev. Alanson A. Haiues, by Edmund D. Hal- 
 sey; Autobiography of Cob Aaron Ogden, of Elizabethtown; Sir George Car- 
 teret, lord proprietor of New Jersey, with a notice of the isle of Jersey, and 
 a 'brief sketch of Lord John Berkley, by William Nelson; The first pottery 
 in New Jersey (1085); The early days of the Newark Academy, extracts from 
 old newspapers, gleaned by Wm. Nelson; Abraham Coles, a character sketch, 
 by F. W. Ricord; List of resident members of the Society, Jan. 1, 1893; 
 Books relating to New Jersey, published in 1892; Mr. Justice Bradley, of the 
 United States Supreme Court, by Cortlandt Parker; The Rev. Jacob Green, 
 of Hanover, N. J., as an author, statesman and patriot, by Joseph F. Tuttle, 
 D. D. Newark, 1894. 8vo., pp. (4), 250. Two portraits. 
 
 Vol. XIII. Proceedings, 18S4-1895: Report of Executive Committee; 
 Necrology; Report on Centennial Medal; Extension of Society's charter; 
 Notes, Queries and Replies; Some Unpublished Revolutionary Manuscripts; 
 List of freeholders of the County of Essex, 1755 ; Books relating to the his- 
 tory of New Jersey, published in 1892-1893; Extracts from Trinity Church 
 Records, Newark, 1746-1815; Subscribers to the Centennial Medal; Samuel 
 
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 Spicer aud his desceudants, with some notices of the early settlements of Cam- 
 deu and Cape May Counties, by John R. Stevenson :\I. D. ; The Great Seal of 
 New Jersey, by Francis Bazley Lee; lieport of Executive Connnittee, arrau|^e- 
 ments for the Society's semi-centennial; Necrology; Notes, Queries aud Re- 
 plies; Some Unpublished Revolutionary Manuscripts; List of the freeholders 
 of :M'iddlesex, aboiat 1750; memoir of George A. Halsey, by William T. Hunt; 
 William Maxwell, of New Jersey, brigadier general in the Revolution, by J. 
 H. Griffith. M. D. ; Necrology; Report of Committee on Colonial and Revo- 
 lutionary Documents; Notes, Queries and Replies; Books relating to New 
 Jersey History and Biography, published in 1894 ; Some Uupublished Revo- 
 lutionary Manuscripts; Some records of the French in Elizabethtowu, by 
 Mrs. EmeliueG. Pierson; Notes, Queries and Replies; Proceedings at Semi- 
 centennial Celebration of the Society; Fifty Years of Historical Work m 
 New Jersey, address by William Nelson, with bibliography of the Society ; 
 A Hi-hway of the Nation, address by Austin Scott, in presoiting gold cen- 
 tennial medal to ex-President Benjamin Harrison; Response, by ex-President 
 Harrison; The Course of American History, by Woodrow Wilson. Paterson, 
 
 1898. 8vo., pp. (4), • 
 
 III. COLLECTIONS. 
 Vol. I. East Jersey under the proprietary governments; a narrative of 
 events connected with the settlement aud progress of the province, until the 
 surrender of the government to the crown, in 1702. Drawn principally from 
 original sources. ^ By William A. Whitehead. With an appendix, containing 
 "The model of the government of East New-Jersey, in America/' by George 
 Scot, of Pitlochie. Now tirst reprinted from the original edition of iGSo. 
 [Newark.] l846. 8vo., pp. viii, (2), 341. Maps. 
 
 Same. Second edition, revised aud enlarged. Newark, 1875. 8vo., 
 
 pp. viii. (2). 486. Maps. 
 
 Vol. IL The life of William Alexander, Earl of Stirling; major general 
 
 in the army of the United States, during the Revolution : with selections from 
 
 his correspondenes. By his grandson, William Alexander Duer, LL. D. 
 
 New York, 1817. 8vo., pp. xvi, 272. Portrait. Plans of Battles. 
 
 Vol. III. The provincial courts of New Jersey, with sketches of the 
 bench and bar. A Discourse, read before the New Jersey Historical Socie- 
 ty, by Richard S. Field. [With appendix, containing instructions to Lord 
 Cornbury; Lord Cornbury's Commission; Lord Cornbury's Ordinance for es- 
 tablishing courts of Judicature; Gov. Robert Hunter's Ordinance for estab- 
 lishing courts of Judic'iture within the Province of New Jersey, April 17, 
 1714;°Governor William Burnet's Ordinance for regulating the courts of Ju- 
 dicature in the Province of New Jersey, April 23, 1724; other Ordinances 
 by Governor Burnet, August 21, 1725, and Feb. 10, 1728.J New York, 1849. 
 8vo., pp. xi, (1), 311, (1). 
 
 Vol. IV. The papers of Lewis Morris, governor of the province of New 
 Jersey, from 1738 to 174G. [Edited, with introductory memoir, and connect- 
 
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 icg narrative, by William A. Whitehead.] New York, 1852. 8vo., pp. xxxii, 
 333. Publications of the Society, pp. 334-5. Portrait of | Col. —uot Gov. — ] 
 Lewis Morris. 
 
 Vol. V. An analytical index to the colonial documents of Kew Jersey, in 
 the state paper ofBces of England. Compiled by Henry Stevens. Edited, 
 with notes, and references to printed works and manuscripts in other depos- 
 itories. By William A. Whitehead. New York, 1858. 8vo., pp. xxix, (3), 
 504. 
 
 The appendices contain: A — List of Council minutes in the State Pa- 
 per OtHce, London; B — Catalogue of Books, Pamphlets, and other Publica- 
 tions referring in whole, or in part, to New Jersey during the Colonial Period, 
 exclusive of the public documents of the State; C — Titles of the several edi- 
 tions of the Laws of New Jersey, including Revisions, Compilations, and Di- 
 gests; D— List of Newspapers in New Jersey prior to 1800, with the date of 
 their first publication; E — Notices of some of the Public Records, &c. 
 
 Vol. VI. Records of the town of Newark, New Jersey, from its settle- 
 ment in 1666, toils incorporation as a city in 1836. Newark, 1864. 8vo., 
 pp. X, 294. Folded plan. [Appendix: Officeholders, 1666-1713; Indian 
 bill of sale to the Newarke men, July 11, 1667; Deed from the East Jersey 
 Proprietors, Dec. 10, 1696; Town Patent or Charter, April 7, 17i3.] 
 
 Vol. VI. Supplement. Proceedings commemorative of the settlement 
 of Newark, New Jersey, on its two hundredth anniversarj'. May 17, 1866. 
 Newark, 1866. 8vo., pp. 182. Plan. 
 
 Contents: Historical memoir of the circumstauces leading to and con- 
 nected with the settlement of Newark, May, 1666, by W. A. Whitehead; Lyr- 
 ical poem, by Thomas Ward; Oration, by William B. Kinney; Genealogical 
 notices of the first settlers of Newark, by S. H. Cougar; Notes; Appendix: 
 Preliminary and attendant circumstances; Synopsis of letters received; Pro- 
 ceedings of the city authorities. 
 
 Vol. VII. The constitution and government of the province and State of 
 New Jersey, with biographical sketches of the governors from 1776 to 1845, 
 and reminiscences of the bench and bar, during more than half a century, 
 by Lucius Q. C. Elmer, LL. D. Newark, 1872. 8vo., pp. (2), viii, 6, 495. 
 
 IV. THE NEW JERSEY ARCHIVES. 
 
 [Half-title:] Archives of the State of New Jersey. First Series. [Full 
 title:] Documents relating to the colonial history of the State of New Jer- 
 sey. 
 
 Contents. 
 
 Vol. I. 1631-1687. Edited by William A. Whitehead. Newark, 1880. 
 8vo.. pp. xxiii, 556. 
 
 Vol. II. 1687-1703. Edited by William A. Whitehead. Newark, 18S1. 
 8vo. , pp. xxi, 559. 
 
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 Vol III. Adiuiuisti-atious of LorcU Corabiu y aud Lovolace, aud of Lien- 
 teDaut-Goveruor Ingoklsby, 1703-171)".). Eilitcl by William A. Whitehead. 
 Newark, ISSl. Svc, pp. xiii, oTi. 
 
 Vol. IV. Adiniuistvatious of Govoiuov Robert Huuter aud rrci-ideut 
 Lewis Morris. 1709-1720. Edited by William A Whitehead. Newark iSS'i. 
 iSvo., pp. XV, 4G1. 
 
 Vol. V. Admiuistratious of Gove'nioi- Bnruet, Governor Moutt^ouierie, 
 President Lewis Morris, Governor Cosby, President Anderson, and President 
 Hamilton. 1720-1737. Edited by William A. Whitehead. Newark, 1^82. 
 8vo., pp. xvi, 520. 
 
 Vol. Vi. Administratio ;s of Governor Lewis Morris, President John 
 Hamilton and President John Keadiu-. 1738-1747. Edited by William A. 
 Whitehead. Newark, 1882. &vo.. pp. [v]-xvi, 482. 
 
 Vol. VII. Part of administration of Governor Jonathan Belcher. 174tj- 
 17.31. Edited by William A. Whitehead. Newark, 1883. 8vo., pp. xvi. C.dS. 
 Vol. VIII. Completing the administration of Governor Jonathan Bel- 
 cher. 1751-1757. Edited by William A. Whitehead. Newark, 1885. 8vo., 
 pp. (2), xix, (3\ 299, (3), 285. 
 
 Vol. IX. Administrations of President John Reading, Lieutenant-Gov- 
 ernor Thomas Pownall, Governor Francis Bernard, Governor Thomas Boone, 
 Governor Josiah Hardy, and part of the administration of Governor William 
 Frauklin. 1757-1767. Edited by Frederick W. Eicord aud William Nelsc^n. 
 Newark. 1885. 8vo., pp. (2), xxi, 050. [After title, inset of "Corrections 
 aud Additions.'"] 
 
 Vol. X. Administration of Governor William Frauklin. 17G7-177(!. 
 Edited by Frederick W. Eicord and William Nelson. Newark, 1880. 8vo , 
 pp. (2), XX, 748. [After title, inset of "Corrections and Additions."] 
 
 General Index to the Documents relating to the Colonial History of the 
 State of New Jersey. First Series, in ten volumes. Published under aud by 
 virtue of An Act entitled "An Act for the better preservation of the early 
 records of the State of New Jersey," passed March twenty-ninth, one thous- 
 and eight hundred and seventy-two. 1 Prepared by Frederick W. Eicord. 
 Newark, 1888. 8vo., pp. (4), 198. 
 
 Vol. XI. Some account of American newspapers, particularly of the 
 eighteenth ceutury, and libraries in which they may be found. I. Alabama- 
 Maryland. II. Extracts from American newspapers, relating to New Jersey. 
 Vol. L 1704-1739. Edited by William Nelson. Paterson, N. J., 1891. 8vo., 
 pp. cxxvi, (2), 623. 
 
 Vol. XII. I. Some account of American newspaper.s, etc. Part II. Mass- 
 achusetts. II. Extracts from American newspapers, relating to New Jersey. 
 
 1 The title of the act cited is 'Supplement to an act entitled 'An Act for the 
 better preservation of the Early Records of the State of New Jersey."" It was 
 approved (not passed) March ii>. 187:'. 
 
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 Vo1.il 1740-1750. Edited by William Nelson. Patersou, 1895. 8vo., pp. 
 (12), cxxvii-cclxviii, (2), 729. Facsimile frontispiece. 
 
 Vol. XIII. Journal of the governor and council. Edited by Frederick 
 W. Ricord and William Nelson. Vol.1. 1682-1711. Trenton, 1890. 8vo., 
 pp. xi, 580. Facsimile frontispiece. 
 
 Vol. XtV. Journal of the governor and council. Vol. II. 1715-1738. 
 Edited by Frederick W. Kicord and William Nelson. Trenton, 1890. 
 8vo., pp. ix, 567. 
 
 Vol. XV. Journal of the governor and council. Vol. III. 1738-1748. 
 Edited by Frederick W. Eicord and William Nelson. Trenton. 1891. 8vo., 
 pp. vii, 65 G. Facsimile frontispiece. 
 
 Vol. XVI. Journal of the goveruor and council. Vol. IV. 1748-1755 
 Edited by Frederick W. Eicord. Trenton, 1891. 8vo., pp. (4), 596. 
 
 Vol. XVII. Journal of the goveruor and council Vol. V. 175(5-1768. 
 Edited by Frederick W. Eicord. Trenton, 1892. 8vo., pp. (4), 538. 
 
 Vol. XVIII. Journal of the governor and council Vol. VI. 1768-1775. 
 Edited by Frederick W. Eicord. Trenton, 1893. Svo., pp. (4), 581. 
 
 Vol. XIX. I. Some account of early American Newspapers, and Libraries 
 in which they may be found. Part III. Michigan-New Hampshire. II. 
 Extracts from American Newspapers, relating to New Jersey. Vol. III. 
 1751-1755. Edited by WiUiarn Nelson. Patersou, 1897. 8vo., pp. Ixxviii, 
 (2), 614. 
 
 V. SEPAFIATE ADDRESSES 
 
 The goodly heritage of Jerseymen. The first annual address before the 
 Society, January .15, 1846. By G. W. Doane. Burlington, 1846. Svo, 
 pp. 32. 
 
 Same. Second edition. Burlington, 1848. 8vo, pjx 32. 
 
 Biographical sketch of William Franklin. By William A. Whitehead. 
 Eead before the Society, September 27, 1818. [Newark.] 1848. 8vo, 
 pp. 23. 
 
 The robbery of the treasury of East Jersey in 1768, and contemporaneous 
 events; A paper read before the Society, September 12, 1850. By Wil- 
 liam A. Whitehead. [Newark, 1850.] Svo, pp. 17. 
 
 A historical sketch of the First Presbyterian church in the city of New 
 Brunswick. Eead before the Historical Society of New Jersey, Septem- 
 ber 8, 1852, by Eobert Davidson, D. D., pastor of said church. New 
 Bruuswiek, N. J., 1852. Svo, pp. 52. Portrait. 
 
 Biograjihical sketch of Gen. William Winds, of Morris County, N. J,, by 
 Joseph F. Tuttle Eead before the Society, May 19, 1853. Svo, \}[). 25. 
 
 The history and location of Fort Nassau upon the Delaware. Paper read 
 before the Society, January 20, 1853, by Edward Armstrong. Newark, 
 1853. Svo, pp. 21. 
 
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 The iron state — Its natural position, power, and wealth. Address before 
 the Society at its ninth annual meeting, Januarj' 19, 1854. By Jacob W. 
 Miller. Newark, 1854. 8vo, pp. IG. 
 
 Journal of an expedition made in the autumn of 1794, with a detachment 
 of New Jersey troops, into western Pennsylvania, to aid in suppressing 
 the "whiskey rebellion." By Capt. David Ford. Communicated by 
 Franklin S. (B.) Hough. (Newark, .856.] 8vo, pp. 1-4. No title-page. 
 
 Northern boundary line. The circumstances leading to the establishment, 
 in 1769, of the northern boundary line between New Jersey and New 
 York. Paper read before the Society May 19, 1859, by William A. 
 Whitehead. [Newark, 1859.] 8vo, pp. 30. Map. 
 
 A brief memoir of one of New Jersey's neglected sons, Samuel J. Smith, 
 "a lost poet;" with some reminiscences of Burlington. By a sexagenar- 
 ian. Bead before the Society at Newark, May 17, 1860. By John Jay 
 Smith. [Newark, I860.] 8vo, pp. 18. 
 
 Address on the life and character of the Hon. Joseph C. Hornblower, 
 LL. D., by the Hon. Richard S. Field. Read before the Society Janu- 
 ary 16, 1865. Newark, 1865. 8vo, pp. 23. 
 The Eastern Boundary of New Jersey. A Review of a paper on the waters 
 of New Jersey, read by the Hon. John Cochrane, attorney general of New 
 York, before the Historical Society of that State, on the 6th of June, 
 1865; by William A. Whitehead. Yonkers, 1865. 8vo, pp. (4), 43-74. 
 From the types of the Yonkers (N. Y.) Gazette, edited by Henry B- 
 Dawson. 
 
 The Eastern Boundary of New Jersey. A Review of the Hon. John 
 Cochrane's paper on the waters of New Jersey, read before the Histor- 
 ical Society of New York; and a rejoinder to the reply of "A member of 
 the New York Historical Society:" by William A. Whitehead. Reprinted 
 at the request of the N. J. Historical Society. Newark, 1866. Svo, pp. 
 70. Map. 
 
 The former paper is here reprinted, with numerous alterations. 
 The "Rejoinder"" is added. The whole is from the Proa-edings. X., 89- 
 158. The papers of Mr. Whitehead. Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Dawson were 
 all printed in the Yonkers Gazette, and afterwards in a sing-le volume, in 
 The Gazette Series. Vol. III.. Yonkers. 18(56. Svo, pp. 3!)3, forming a most 
 valuable history of the Eastern Boundary of New Jersey. 
 
 Proceedings commemorative of the settlement of Newark, N. J., on its two 
 hundredth anniversary. May 17, 1866. Newark, 1866. Svo, pp. 182. 
 Plate. 
 
 (Also forms supplement to Vol. VI. of the Collections.) 
 
 Philip Kearny : soldier and patriot. Address before the Society, January 
 17, 1867, by Cortlandt Parker. Newark, 1868. Svo, pp. 49. 
 
 Address on the life and character of the Hon. James Parker, late presi- 
 dent of the Society. By Richard S. Field. Read before the Society 
 January 21, 1869. Newark, 1869. Svo. pp. 32. 
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 Review of some of the circumstances connected with settlement of Eliza- 
 beth, N. J. By William A.. Whitehead. Read before the Society May 
 20, 1869. Newark, 18G9. Bvo, pp. 24. 
 
 The early history of Morris County, N. J. By the Rev. Joseph F. Tuttle, 
 D. D. Read before the Society May 20, 1869. Newark, 18fi9. 8vo, 
 pp. 39. 
 
 History of the constitution of New Jersey, adojoted in 1776, and of the 
 government under it. By L. Q. C. Elmer. Read before the Society 
 May 19, 187'.). [Newark, 1870.] 8vo, pp. 20. 
 
 Memoir of the Hon. Richard S. Field, late president of the Society. By 
 Anthony Q. Keasbej'. Read before the Society, January 19, 1871. [New- 
 ark, 1871.] 8vo, pp. 23. 
 
 Memoir of the life and character of John Rutherfurd. Read before the 
 Society January, 1872. By R. S. Swords. Newark, 1872. 8vo, pp. 8. 
 
 Diary of Dr. Jabez Campfield, surgeon in "Spencer's Regiment," while at- 
 tached to Sullivan's expedition against the Indians, May 23-Oct. 2, 1779. 
 From the original, presented to the Society by Edmund D. Halsey. 
 [Newark, 1873.] 8vo, pp. 115-136. 
 
 An interesting memento of Major Andre. Read January, 1875, by 
 William Nelson. Newark, 1875. Svo, pp. 27-29. 
 
 A memorial of the life and character of William L. Dayton. By Joseph 
 P. Bradlej'. Prepared in conformity with a resolution of the Society. 
 Newark, 1875. 8vo, pp. 50. 
 
 Biographical Sketch of William Colfax, Captain of Washington's Body 
 Guard. By William Nelson. Read before the Society, Jan. 10th, 1876. 
 [Newark.] Svo, pp. 145-152. 
 
 Sketch of the life of Richard Stockton, by William A. Whitehead. Read 
 before the Society January 18, 1877. [Newark, 1877.] 8vo, pp. 5- 
 (No title page.) 
 
 Life and public services of .John Cleves Symmes. Read before the Soci- 
 ety May 17, 1877, by C. H. Winfield. [Newark, 1877.] 8vo, pp. 24. 
 
 The first century of Hunterdon County, N. J. By the Rev. G. S. Mott, 
 D. D. Read January 17, 1878. Flemiugtou, N. J., 1878. Svo, pp. 54. 
 
 A Memorial of Col. John Bayard, by Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson. Read be- 
 fore the Society at Newark, May IC, 1878. [Newark.] 8vo, jip. 139-160. 
 
 Memoir of Professor Joseph Henry, LL.D. By Rev. James C, Moffat. 
 Read before the Society at Trenton, Jan. 23, 1879. [Newark, 1879.] 
 8vo, pp. 191-203. 
 
 The massacre near Old Tappan. By W. S. Stryker. Read before the So- 
 ciety January 23, 1879. Trenton, 1882. 8vo, pp. 12. 
 
 The old barracks at Trenton, N. J. Read before the Society January 20, 
 1831. By William S. Stryker. Trenton, 1885. Svo, pp. 14. 
 
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 [Circular of the Executive Committee, announciug the death of Adolphus 
 Peuuingtou Young, llecording Secretary of the Society, aud giving a 
 sketch of his life and character. Newark, 1879.] 8vo, pp. 2. 
 
 Memoir of Brig. Gen. Anthony Walton White, of the Continental Army. 
 Compiled by Anna M. W. WooiUmli, of Freehold, N. J. Presented to 
 the Society May 18, 1882. 8vo, pp. 11. Portrait. 
 
 [Circular, ccnimunicating resolution adopted by the Society, January 22, 
 1883, favoring the erection of monuments to commemorate the battles of 
 the Kevolution. Newark, 1883.] 8vo, p. 1. 
 
 Capture of the Block House at Toms River, N. J., March 2i, 1782. Read 
 at the Memorial service at Toms River May 30, 1883. By William S. 
 Stryker. Trenton, 1883. 8vo, pp. 32. 
 
 Josiah Horublower, aud the first steam-engine in America, with some no- 
 tices of the Schuyler coiDper mines at Second River, N. J. , and a gene- 
 alogy of the Hornblower family. By William Nelson. Read before the 
 Society May 17, 1883. Newark, 1883. 8vo, pp. (2), 80. 
 
 General Maxwell's brigade of the New Jersey continental line in the expe- 
 dition against the Indians in 1779. By William S. Stryker. Read be- 
 fore the Society January 17, 188i. Trenton, 1885. 8vo, jjp. 6(5. 
 
 Memorial of Samuel AUiuson, "The Philanthropist of New Jersey. " By 
 John F. Hageman. Read before the Society at Newark, May 14, 1884. 
 [Newark, 1884.] 8vo, pp. 21. 
 
 The strategic relations of New Jersey to the war for American independ- 
 ence. By Henry B. Carriugton, LL.D. Read before the Society Janu- 
 ary 15, 1885. Newark, N. J. 1885. 8vo, pp. (2), 29. 
 
 Sketch of the life and character of William A. Whitehead, by Samuel 
 Irena3us Prime. Read before the Society May 21, 1885. [Newark, 1885.] 
 8vo, pp. 22. Portrait. 
 
 Some notices of Governor Joseph Bloomfield. Read January 26, 1886, by 
 William Nelson. Newark, 1886. 8vo, pp. 3. 
 
 Life, Character and Services of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, LL. D., of New 
 Jersey, late Secretary of Stale in President Arthur's cabinet. By John 
 F. Hageman. Read before the Society at Newark, May 20, 1886. New- 
 ark, 18i;6. 8vo, pp. 31. Portrait. 
 
 Jonathan Pitney, M. D. Fifty years of jirogress on the coast of New Jer- 
 sey. By Rev. Allen H. Brown. Read before the Society at Newark, 
 May 20, 1886. Newark, 1886. 8vo, pp. 14. 
 
 A historical sketch of Miss Jane ^McCrea. By Henry Race, M. D. Read 
 before the Society at Newark May 20, 1886. [Newark, N. J., 1886.] 
 8vo, pp. 14. 
 
 The founding of Paterson as the intended manufacturing metropolis of the 
 United States. By William Nelson. A paper read before the Society 
 May 19, 1887. Newark, 1887. 8vo, pp. 17. 
 
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 The Hessians in New Jersey; just a little in their favor. By A. D. Mellick, 
 
 Jr. Read before the Society at Trenton, January 24, 1888. [Newark, 
 
 1888. J 8vo, pp. 22. 
 Joel Parker: ''The War Governor of New Jersey." A biographical sketch. 
 
 By James S. Yard. [Read before the Society at Newark, May 17, 188S.J 
 
 Freehold, 1889. 8vo, pp. 39. Portrait. 
 Printed for private circulation. 
 Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, the historian. By Mrs. Frederick H. Pierson. 
 
 Read before the Society at Princeton, September 28, 1888. [New York, 
 
 1888.] Sm. 4to, pp. 4. 
 Rev. Samuel McClintock Hamill, D. D. Memoir prepared and read by 
 
 the Rev. Samitel M. Studdiford, D. D. , before the Society, at Trenton, 
 
 January 28, 1890. [Newark, 1890.] 8vo, pp. 12. Portrait. 
 
 Memoir of George H. Cook, State Geologist of New Jersey, director of the 
 agricultural experiment station of New Jersey, professor of geology and 
 agriculture in Rutgers College. By James Neilson. Newark, 1890. 
 8vo, pp. 15. Portrait. 
 
 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. Addresses commemorative of 
 George Hammell Cook, professor of geology and agriculture; delivered 
 before the trustees, faculty, alumni, students, and friends of the college, 
 June 17, 1890. With a biographical sketch read before the New Jersey 
 Historical Society at Trenton, January 28, 1890. Newark, N. J., 1891. 
 8vo, pp. 63. Portrait. 
 
 John T. Nixon. Memoir prepared and read by A. Q. Keasbey, before the 
 Society at Trenton, January 2S, 1890. [Newark, 1890.] 8vo, pp. 13. 
 
 Mahlon Dickerson, industrial pioneer and old-time patriot. By Josiah C. 
 Pumpelly. Read before the Society, at Trenton, January 27, 1891. 
 Paterson. 8vo, pp. 26. 
 
 Contributions to Hunterdon County History. By Henry Race, M. D. 
 [Read before the Society, January 27, 1891.] Newark, 1892. 8vo, pp. 7. 
 
 A Memoir of Joseph Parrish, M. D., of Burlington, N. J. By Samuel H. 
 Pennington, M. D. Read before the Society at Newark, May 21, 1891. 
 
 Newark, 1891. 8vo, pp. 23. 
 
 Greenland in New Jersey. A Historical Sketch of the Moravian Settle- 
 ment in Sussex County, 1768 to 1808. By Henry Race, M. D. Read 
 before the Society at Newark, May 21, 1891. [Newark, 1891.] 8vo, 
 pp. 11. 
 
 The early days of the Academy at Newark. Extracts from old newspa- 
 pers, gleaned by William Nelson. Newark, 1893. 8vo, pp. 8. 
 
 George Eyre, his ancestors and his descendents. By Franklin Eyre. Pat- 
 erson, 1893. 8vo, pp. 4. [Reprinted from N. J. Archives, Vol. XL, 
 pp. 495-6, note,] 
 
Autobiography of Col. Aarou Ogtleu, of Elizabethtowu. An oiigiual docu- 
 ment written for bis children. Patersou, 1893. 8vo, pp. 19. [Some 
 unpublished letters of Col. Ogden, 1785-1830, with biographical notes, 
 etc., pp. 19-33.] 
 
 Only 100 copies of the autobioKriiphy reprinted from the Proceedings, 
 with the unpuljlislied Idlers, etc.. added. 
 
 American newspaper files, 1701-1800, and where they may be found. Pre- 
 liminary list, for additions and correcti:ns. By William Nelson. Pat- 
 ersou, 1893. 8vo, pp. G. 
 
 Sketches of the New Jersey Historical Society, by Alonzo Church. Pub- 
 lished by the Society. Newark, 1894. 8vo, pp. 40. 
 
 Some account of the library, portraits and cin-ios. 
 
 The Indians of New Jersey: their origin and development; manners and 
 customs; language, religion and government. With some notices of 
 Indian place names. By William Nelson. Patersou, 1894. 8vo, pp. 
 (2), 168. 
 
 Joseph Coerten Hornblower, 1777-1864. Chief justice of New Jersey, 
 1832-1840. A biographical sketch. By William Nelson. Cambridge, 
 Mass., 1894. 8vo, pp. 29. Portrait. 
 
 Some records of the French in Elizabethtowu. By Mrs. Eraeline G. Pier- 
 son. Piead before the Society at Trenton, January 22, 1895. Paterson, 
 1897. Svo, pp. 10. 
 
 Members of the New Jersey Assembly, 1754. Biographical sketches. 
 [Reprinted, with additions and corrections, from N. J. Archives, Vol. 
 XIX.] Patersou, 1895. Svo, pp. 24. 
 
 An Ethnologist's View of History. An address before the Society at Tren- 
 ton, January 28, 1890. By Daniel G. Brintou, A. M.. M. D., LL. D., 
 D. So. Philadelphia, 1896. 8vo, pp. 24. 
 
 Clifford Stanley Sims: soldier, statesman, jin-ist. A biographical sketch. 
 By William Nelson, A. M. (Princeton.) Boston, 1896. Svo, pp. 10. 
 Portrait. 
 
 William Mnxwell, of New Jersey. Brigadier General in the lievolutiou. 
 By J. H. Grifhth, M. D. Bead before the Society at Newark May 17, 
 1894. Paterson, 1897. Svo, pp. 15. 
 
 Original documents relating to the life and administrations of William Bur- 
 net, Governor of New York and New Jersej', 1720-1728, and of Massa- 
 chusetts and New Hampshire, 1728-1729. Comj^iled by William Nelson. 
 Paterson, 1897. Svo, pp. (0), 217. 
 
GENERAL INDEX, 
 
 Note.— This Index does nol include the Bibliography of the Society, 
 pages 151-165. 
 
 Abbett. Leon. 145 
 
 '• Aborif^'ines of New Jersey, the" — 
 Archer Gifford. 57 
 
 Abstract of title to the Society's West 
 Park street lot, 136 
 
 Aerelius. Israel — History Of New 
 Sweden. 7 
 
 Adams. Maj. H. W., 146 
 
 Adrain Robert. 143 
 
 A^'■^^ Eliz:ibeth G., 138 
 John. 138 
 
 Aikman, Rev. Robert. 147 
 
 Alabama-Maryland, history of news- 
 papers in. 120 
 
 Albion Knights. 11 
 
 Alexander. Catharine, 21 
 James. 21. 33 
 William, 33 
 
 AUinson. Samuel. 62 
 
 Alofsen, Solomon, 49, 50, 85, 135 
 
 America, first steam engine in, 18 
 
 American Newspapers 1704-1800, His- 
 tory of —by Wm. Nelson, 120 
 
 Analytical Index to (Colonial Docu- 
 ments, 112, 114, 117; subscriptions 
 for, 1 1 1 
 
 Anderson. Dr. Calvin, 148 
 Edward J., 142 
 
 Andrus. Isaac, portrait of, 135 
 
 •• Annals of the Swedes on the Dela- 
 ware," 7 
 
 Anne, Queen, surrender by the New Jer- 
 sey Proprietaries to, 4 
 
 Annual Law Register of the United 
 States. Vol, IV.. 6 
 
 Apprentici's' library. Trenton. 52 
 
 Appropriations by the Legislature, 112, 
 117, 119. 120 
 
 Armstrong, Edward, 7 
 
 Baker, Jeremiah, 147 
 
 Philip P,, 143 
 
 Baldwin. Albert, 147 
 
 Caleb, 137, 139 
 
 Henry R, 124 
 
 Lucius D.. 83, 84 
 
 Bale, Andrew J.. 143 
 
 Ball, Samuel, 137 
 
 Ballantine, John H.. contributes toward 
 the cost of the Centennial Medal, 
 128, 149; is presented with a copy, 
 150 
 Robert F., pays half the Librarian's 
 salary, 73: on a Building Commit- 
 tee, 93, note ; subscribes toward the 
 erection of a building for the Soci- 
 23 
 
 ety. 94. note: member of the Cen- 
 tennial Committee of 18f9. 125: con- 
 tributes toward the cost of the 
 Centennial Medal, 128, 149; is pre- 
 sented with a copy of the medal, 
 150 
 Bancroft's History of the United States, 
 
 8 
 Barber and Howe's " Historical Collec- 
 tions," 11, .58 
 Barber, John W,, 11 
 Barnert. Nathan, 146 
 Barron, Thomas, portrait of, 135 
 Haskinridge, 60 
 Baty, Jael, 23 
 Bayard, Col, John, 60 
 
 Jane, 60 
 •Beachamp Plantagenet," 10 
 Beaslev. Mercer. 142 
 Beckvvith. Charles D,, 143 
 Bedle, Joseph D.. 145 
 Belcher. Governor, papers of. 1,33 
 Belleville, 54. 85 
 
 see Second River 
 Bergen, Christopher A,, 143 
 Berkley and Carteret, Grants and Con- 
 cessions of. 30 
 Berry. Major John, 28 
 Bettie. Edward, 145 
 
 Bibliography of New Jersey history, 115; 
 of laws and legislative journals, 
 113; of the Society, 151-165 
 Bi-Centennial Celebration of the set- 
 tlement of Newark. 53 
 Bigelow. Moses, 143 
 Binding Fund, need of a, 75, 79 
 Bingham, Rudolphus, 145 
 Bio(;kaphic'al .Skktche.s: 
 Alofsen, Solomon, 49 
 Bradley, Joseph P,, 43 
 Clement. John, 26 
 Condit, Dr, John S., 45 
 Congar, Samuel Hayes, 52 
 Cooley, Rev, Eli Field, 58 
 Dayton, William Lewis, 33 
 Dennis, Martin R. . .53 
 Doane. Rt, Rev, (Jeorge W., 59 
 Duer, William Alexander. 32 
 Durvee. Peter S,, 35 
 Field, Richard S,, 20 
 Giflord, Archer, 57 
 (iordon, Thomas, 5! 
 Green, Henry W., 23 
 Haines, Daniel, (il 
 Hamill, Rev, Dr. Samuel M,, 25 
 Hasbrouck, Abraham Bruyn, .58 
 
176 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Hayes. David Abbott. 47 
 Hornblovver, Josepli Coerten. 18 
 Johnson, Rit-hard Gibbon. 30 
 King. James Gore. 32 
 Kinney. William Burnet. 34 
 Kirkpa trick. Littleton. 60 
 Maclean. Rev Dr. John. (51) 
 McLean. Rev. Dr. Daniel V.. 55 
 Murray. Rev Dr. Nicholas. 10. 57 
 Nixon, John T.. 36 
 Garden. Elias Bailey Dayton. 59 
 Parker. James. U» 
 Paterson. Rev. Dr. Andrew Bell. 61 
 Pennington, Dr. Samuel Hayes. ;i8 
 Potts. Stacy Gardiner. 32 
 Ricord, Frederick William. 54 
 Rodgers, Rev. Dr. Ravaud Kearny. 
 
 22 
 Ross. James. 49 
 Rutherfurd. John. 21 
 Stryker, Thomas J.. 48 
 Swords, Robert Smith. 50 
 Vroom. Peter D.. 31 
 Whitehead. William Adee. 10. 37 
 Wickes. Dr. Stephen. 41 
 Biorek. Tobias E., 7 
 Bird. E. K . 147 
 Bird, John T.. 142 ■ 
 Bishop. Rev. Dr. Geo. S.. 146 
 
 James. 142 
 Blackford. Edward, 137,130; Francis G., 
 138. 139; George D.. 138; Hannah. 
 137. 138. 1.^9; William B.. 138 
 Blair. John I.. 125. 126, 128. 146. 149. 150 
 Blodgett. Rufus. 143 
 Bloomtleld. Gen. Joseph. 30 
 Bogert, John W., 143 
 Boggs, Lievit. Charles S.. 104 
 Bolles. Enoch. 139. 140, 141 
 
 Ephraim. 140. 141 
 Bonaparte. Napoleon, 136 
 
 bust of Princess Pauline, 69, 136 
 Bordentown, 136 
 Boudinot. Annis, 20 
 Elias, 20 
 Elisha, 20 
 Boundaries between East and West Jer- 
 se.v, 134; between New York and 
 New Jersey. 134 
 Bowne. Hugh H.. 62, 95 
 Boyer. Henry K.. 148 
 Bradford (England) Historical Society, 
 
 150 
 Bradley, Charles, presents a pro.iect for 
 ac(ivnring the property of the New- 
 ark fjibrary Association for this 
 Society. W; appointed chairman of 
 a committee for the purpose, 97; 
 elected a dii-ector in that Associa- 
 tion, 97. 98; agrees to provide a 
 copy of the Centennial Medal as a 
 school prize. 129 
 Joseph P., rescues the original Eliz- 
 abethtown Bill in Chancery, 9; sec- 
 retary of the meeting at which the 
 New Jersey Historical Society was 
 formed, 16; an original member of 
 the Society, 17; first Recording 
 Secretary of the Society, 43, 63; 
 sketch of. 43-45 
 Braintree (Mass.) Historical Society, 
 
 1.50 
 Bridgman, A. L., 147 
 Briggs, Frank O,, 149, liO 
 Brodhead, John Romeyn, 14 
 
 Brooks. Noah. 146 
 Brown. Hendrick H., 142 
 
 Richard. 143 
 Bruen. Sarah. 52 
 Bruere. J. Hart. 147 
 
 Joseph H.. 147 
 Buchanan. James. 143 
 Buckingham. Rev. Jedidiah, 43 
 Building Fund, need of a, 85, 99 
 Bundy, J. M.. 147 
 
 Burlington. 4. 5. 6, 7, 10. 99; county histor- 
 ical society. 123 
 Burnet. Dan. 34 
 
 Dr James B.. 149, 150 
 
 Dr. William. 34 
 Burr. Aaron. 47; portrait of, 69. 123 
 Burrough. Edward. 142 
 Bush. George Clinton, 17 
 Butler. Rev Edwin E.. 147 
 Butterworth. Rev. John H.. 147 
 Buttz. Rev. Henry A., 147 
 
 Cafferty, artist, 135 
 Caldwell. Rev. James. Memoir of. 57 
 Calendars of N. Y. Historical Manu- 
 scripts. 15 
 Cameron. Henry C 146 
 Cannon, Henry R . M D , 149, 1.50 
 Canova's bust of Princess Pauline, 69, 
 
 136 
 Carman, Ezra A.. 77 
 Carpenter. John, Jr . 143 
 Carter. William H . 143 
 Census statistics, extension of. 124 
 Centennial Celebration of 1889, 1;24 
 Centennial Medal ordered struck, 127; as 
 a school prize. 127; cost of dies, by 
 whom defrayed. 12->. 149; by whom 
 designed. 1;28; copy in gold for ex- 
 President Harrison. 129; in silver 
 for ex-Governor Green. 129; Medal 
 fund, 129; cost of, 14-5; dimensions 
 of, 148; proceeds of sales of, 149; 
 subscribers to, 149; motto on, 148 
 Chalmers, George, his "Political An- 
 nals," 5 
 Thomas S.. 143 
 Chapman. E. O.. 142 
 Cheeseman, Reuben. 143 
 Chetwood. John J., 66 
 Chew, Sinnickson, 147 
 " City of Hudson." by whom chartered, 
 
 '126 
 Clark, Daniel T., 79 
 
 William. 146 
 Clay. Henry, portrait of. 135 
 
 Rev. Jehu Curtis, 7 
 Clement, Gregory, ;26 
 
 John. 7. 26. 27. ;-'8. 125. 12S. 142 
 Nathaniel, 26 
 Cleveland. President Grover, G3 
 
 J. B.. 146 
 Cloke, William. 147 
 Cluss, Allan, 135 
 Coe. Benjamin, 37 
 
 Ernest E,, 97, 98. 146 
 Robert. 37 
 Theodore. 98 
 Cogswell. Rev. Jonathan, 17 
 Cole. Eugene C, 143 
 
 Martin, 142 
 Collections of the N, J, Historical Socie- 
 ty, 114; account of publication of, 
 103 
 College of New Jersey, History of, 60 
 
GENERAL INDKX. 
 
 177 
 
 Collin. Rev. Nic-holas. D. D.. T 
 
 Colonial and Rcvoliitionai-y Documents. 
 
 I'ommittee on. 111). 111. 113. IIT. l-.M. 
 
 V2-2 
 Analytical Index to. 114 
 subscriptions for procurintr. 111. 11- 
 Le^'islatiM' apijvopriations for pro- 
 curing' and priniint,'. ll"J. ll(i. 117. 
 
 118. 119. \-20 
 Colonial Dames. 6H 
 "Columbus, the bones of— Robert S. 
 
 Swords. .t1 
 Condict. Dr. Lewis. 1-J:2 
 Condit. Dr. John Smith. 4.5. 46. 47 
 
 Silas. 46 
 Conditt. John. 4.^ 
 Confederate currency. IS.") 
 Con^ar. Samuel Hayes. 49. ni. 79. 10."): 
 
 genealo^'ical notes of tlrst settlers 
 
 of Newark, by. 107 
 Conger. John, -ii 
 Connelly. James F.. 145 
 Constitutions of New Jersey. 168:1. ll« 
 Cook. George H.. 142 
 Coolev. Kev. Eli Field, 1-.'. 16. 17. 58 
 Cornish. P. H.. 14.5 
 Coult. Joseph. 146 
 Council of Safety. Minutes of, 11.5 
 Coursen. Hon. Mr., 147 
 Courts of New Jersey, History of. 6, 21 
 Coxe, Dr. Daniel. 134 
 Cranmer, George T.. 143 
 Crooks. Kev. G. R.. 147 
 Crowell, Edward, portrait of. 13.5 
 Cumming. the Rev. Hooper, portrait of, 
 
 135 
 Cutter, Ephraim, 143 
 
 Darcv. Henry G,, 85, 86. 106 
 
 Darou. William H.. 144 
 
 Daughters of the American Revolution. 
 
 63 
 Davidson. Rev. Robert. D. D., 104 
 Davis, George C 143 
 Day, Matthias W., 85. 136; portrait of, 
 
 135 
 Dayton, Gen. Elias, manuscrijats of , 133 
 
 Col. Jonathan, 33 
 
 William L,, 33. 34, 44. ,53, 63. 114 
 Deats. Hiram E., 149. 1.50 
 De Ronde. Abram. 143 
 Delaware. Dutch and Swedes on the. 15 
 
 early settlements on, 6. 15 
 Dennis, Alfred L., 54 
 
 Ezekiel. .53 
 ■ Martin R,. 53. 108 
 
 Mary Baldwin. .53 
 Depue. David A , 63. 135. 143 
 Dexter. Lady Barney. 33 
 Diekerson. Mahlon. 84 
 Dixon, Jonathan. 143 
 Doan. Jonathan. .59 
 Doane. Rt. Rev. George Washington. D. 
 
 D., .59,65. Ill 
 Dobbins. E. L., 147 
 Dod. Rev. Stephen, 134 
 Dodd. Mary. 45 
 
 Donations of special interest. 1.34 
 Donnellv. Peter T.. 143 
 Douglass. Edward M., 147 
 Drake. J. Madison. 146 
 Drummond. Robert, portrait of. 135 
 Dryden Hall. Newark, 74 
 Duer. William. 33 
 
 William Alexander, 33. 101. 103. loi 
 
 Duponccau. Peter S.. 6. 7 
 Durie. Joost, ;i5 
 Durning. Jane T.. 137 
 Duryee. Edward H., 36 
 
 Peter S.. 45, 77, 83. 84. 8.5. 86. 95, 106, 
 111. 113 
 Dutch settlements. 13 
 Dutch West India Company. 11 
 
 Edwards. William D.. 143 
 Elizabeth. Kli/.abethtown, 8. 9. .56. .57. .58. 
 .59. 61. h5. 13.5, 13u. 133: laws and or- 
 dinances of, i:i3: Murray's History 
 of, 9, .56: Bill in Chancery, 9 
 First Presbyterian Church of. .56 
 Elmer. Dr. Ebenezer, Journal of. 133 
 
 Judge L. Q. C, 34, 36, 107. 108 
 Elv. Calista, 141 
 " Edwin A.. 149, 150 
 Matthias, 85 
 Matthew. 141 
 English Public Record Office, 111, 113, 
 
 115. 116 
 Erskine. Robert, papers of. 69, 134 
 Essex county court house, 53; public 
 
 records. 115 
 Everitt Moses K., 143 
 Evving. Chief Justice James. 33. 30 
 Executive Committee, some members of 
 
 the, .55 
 Extracts from American Newspapers, 
 relating to New Jersey, 120 
 
 Fagan. Lawrence. 144 
 
 Farrand, Dr. Samuel A., 149, 150 
 
 Farrell, Edward P., 144 
 
 Fayette county, Pa., 55 
 
 Feenev, John P.. 144 
 
 Fell. Lawrence T.. 143 
 
 Fenwick, John. 10,30,1.33: papers of , 69, 
 
 133 
 Fenwick's Colony, 10 
 Ferris. Benjamin— History of Delaware, 
 
 Field Richard Stockton. 7, 20, 31,. 33, 63, 
 83, 84 104, no, 113 
 Robert. 30 
 Flynn. John P.. 145 
 Fo'ster, John Y., 146 
 Fowler. Samuel. 14 5 
 Francois, Judson C. 144 
 Freehold, founding of Presbyterian 
 
 church at. 55 
 Frelinghuysen. Frederick T., 85 
 
 Theodore. 135 
 Fremont. Gen. John C 34 
 Friends, English, West Jersey settled 
 
 by. 5 
 Fulton. Robert, papers and drawings of, 
 69, 133 
 
 Gardner, John J.. 143 
 Garrison. Charles G.. 143 
 Geissenhainer. Jacob A.. 143 
 Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton 
 
 and Ewing. .58 
 Geneva College, 5t 
 Gibbon. Mary. 40 
 
 Nicholas. 40 
 Gifford. Archer. 17, 137; writings of, 57 
 
 C!apl. John. 57 
 Gill. John. 144 
 
 Glazebrook. Kev. OtisG.. 147 
 •■ Glimpses of the Past." articles in New- 
 ark Daily Advertiser. 10 
 
178 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Gloucester. Old. Reminiscence.s of, 12 
 Goble, Jonathan. 144 
 
 L. Spencer. 95, 96, 97. 149 
 
 Lather. 138 
 Godkin. E. L.. 147 
 Gordon. Franklin, 51 
 
 Othneil. 5i 
 
 Thomas, 17. 51 
 
 Thomas F.. "History of New Jer- 
 sey." 7. Id 
 Grahanie, James, history by, 5 
 Grannis. Robert A. 147 
 Grants and Concessions of first English 
 
 Lords Proprietors. 4 
 Green, Caleb Smith. 24 
 
 George. 2^ 
 
 Chief Justice and Chancellor Henry 
 WoodhuU. 17. 23. 24, 32, 63, 83 
 
 John Cleve. 24 
 
 Robert S.. Governor and "Vice Chan- 
 cellor. 125. 126. 127. 142, 148 
 ■ Robert S., Jr., 142 
 
 William. 23 
 Greene, General George S., 148 
 Gregory, Dudley S., 61. 84 
 Grier. Mayor. 146 
 Griftin. Rev. Dr. Edward Dorr, portrait 
 
 of. 69 
 Griffith, William, 6 
 Griggs, Governor John W.. 113 
 Grover, Mary. 30 
 Grubb, Edward Burd, 145 
 Hackensack. 57 
 
 Hageman. John F., 62. 125, 126, 146 
 Haines. Governor Daniel. 15. 16 61. 63. 
 116. 117, 121; portrait of. 69. 135 
 
 Elias. 61 
 
 Henry S.. 113 
 
 Richard T.. 85 
 Hall, Edward J., Jr., 147 
 
 John. D. D.. 62. 147 
 
 Joseph D.. 142 
 Halsey. Edmund D.. subscriber to Cen- 
 tennial Medal. 149, 150: Committee 
 on Colonial Documents, l-^'^; guar- 
 antees a building for the Society at 
 Morristown. 94 
 
 George A., 63. 91. 93, 94, 95. 135, 126, 
 143 
 Halstead. George G.. 146 
 Halsted. Caleb O,, 85 
 
 Gen. N. Norris, 62. 95 
 Hamburg. Sussex county. 61 
 Hamill, Robert. 25 
 
 Samuel M..D. D., 25. 26. 73. 13.5. 127, 
 145, 150 
 Hamilton. Col. Morris R.. 142 
 
 Samuel R.. 17 
 Hansen, Albert. 144 
 Hardin. John R.. 98 
 Harrington. Chas F., 144 
 Harris. Edward, 17 
 
 John. 141 
 Harrison. Benjamin. 125. 139. 150 
 Hasbrouok, Abraham Bruvn, LL.D., 58 
 Hatlield, Rev. Dr. E. F.— History of 
 Elizabeth, 56 
 
 Miss. 137 
 Haven, Charles C. 62 
 Hayes. Uavid Abbott. 47,85.86. 105, 106; 
 biographical sketch of. 47 
 
 Hannah. .52 
 
 Howard W.. 146 
 
 Major Samuel. 53 
 
 Thomas, 47 
 
 Haynes. Joseph E.. 147 
 Hays. James L.. 143 
 Hazard, Samuel. 7 
 Hedden, Alvan, 139. 140 
 
 Elizabeth. 139 
 Hedge. Samuel Fenwick .SO 
 Heppenheimer. Wm. C, 144 
 Herbert. Chas. B.. 144 
 Herrick, C. M , 146 
 Hettield. Mrs. Mary. 1.39 
 Hewitt. Abram S., 138, 149, 1.50 
 Higgins, Archibald A., 144 
 
 Geo. H,. 144 
 Hillver. Rev. Dr. E. T., 134 
 Hobart. Garret A.. 63. 146. 149 
 Hobdys, George. 137 
 Holden. Captain Levi. 135 
 Holm. Thomas Campanius, 6 
 Holt. John I.. 144 
 Hoover. Eliphalet. 144 
 Hopewell. 58 
 Hopper. John. 126. 146 
 Hornblower. Chief Justice Joseph C. 18. 
 19. 34. 44. 45. 53; portrait of. 136 
 
 Josiah. 18, 44 
 Houdon, Jean Antoine. bust of Wash- 
 ington by, 128 
 Howe. Henrv. 11 
 Howell, Janies E., 98 
 Hude. James. 33 
 
 Hudson. Henrv, supposed portrait of. 
 i;36 
 
 Shepperd S.. 144 
 Hudspeth. Robert S.. 144 
 Hughes. Wm M.. 146 
 Hunt, E. M,. 142 
 
 Samuel H.. 89, 135 
 
 Wm. M., 146 
 Hunterdon county. 51 ; Historical Soci- 
 ety. 123 
 Hutchings. Rev. Samuel, .53 
 Hutchinson, John P., 149, 150 
 
 Indian feather ornaments from Amazon 
 
 river. 1H5 
 Indians of New Jersey. 14 
 Irving, Washington— his travesty on the 
 
 Dutch settlers, 14 
 
 Jackson. Andrew. .57 
 F. Wolcott, 139 
 John P.. 61. 83 
 John P.. Jr.. 77 
 James. Josiah. 138 
 Jans. Anneke. 65 
 Jennings, J. Frank. 145 
 Johnson. Alexander N.. 146 
 Richard. 30 
 Col. Robert Gibbons— history of 
 
 Salem. 10. 30. 31 
 William M.. 129 
 Johnston. William Nelson. 147 
 Journal of the Governor and Council of 
 New Jersey. 1682-1703. manuscript 
 of. discovered and ordered printed, 
 115 
 Journals of the Provincial Congress. 6. 69 
 Joy. Edmund L.. 145; portrait of, 136 
 
 Kalisch. Leonard. 144 
 Kane. Daniel M.. 144 
 Kearny. Michael. 23 
 
 Rev. Dr. RavaudK.. 93 
 
 Susannah Ravaud. 33 
 Keasbey, Anthony Q., 21. 37 
 
GENERAT. INDEX. 
 
 179 
 
 Kelsey. Henry C 124. 14-: 
 Kennedy, John. 85 
 Keys. James. 144 
 King. Charles. 68. 83. 100. Ill 
 
 James Gore. 32. 8i. 83. 84. 85. 103, 111, 
 
 Rufiis. 33 
 Kinney. Abraham. 34 
 
 Sir Thomas. 34 
 
 Thomas T.. lit) 
 
 William Bui net. 17. 31. 3."). Hi. 66: ora- 
 tion at l)i-cenlennial of Newark. 
 1U7 
 Kirkpairick. Alexander. 60 
 
 Andrew. 6u 
 
 David, 60 
 
 Littleton. 60 
 Kloiz. Jaeob. 144 
 Knapp. Manning' M.. 142 
 Knickerbocker, Uiedrich. 10 
 
 Laird. John H.. 14.t 
 
 Lawrence. Capt. James, jiortrait of. 6'.t. 
 136: uniform and chapeau of. 134 
 
 Laws prior to I8O1. bibliog-raphy of. 113 
 
 Learning'. Aaron. 4 
 Walter S.. 143 
 
 Leaycraft. Richard. 137 
 
 Lee, Benjamin P.. 142 
 
 Francis Bazley. 122. 129 
 
 Legislature, appropriations by. 112. 117. 
 1U». 120: memorial to. in 1846. Ill; 
 memorial to. in 18.50, 112: Journals 
 of. bibliography of. 113 
 
 Lehlbach. Herman. i43 
 
 Levis. Franklin B.. 149. 150 
 
 Lewis. William. 34 
 
 Library of the .Society. Committee on, 
 first appointment of, 67; reports 
 of. 81 
 
 Library, growth and management of. 
 74; statistics concerning growth 
 of. 82: location of. 70 
 
 Library Fund. •;.5, 80. 85, 99. 131 
 
 Library Hall. 73 
 
 Lidgerwood. W. V.. 95 
 
 Lincoln. Abraham. 20. 34 
 
 Lindslev Manuscripts. I'.U 
 
 Little Falls, 111 
 
 Livingston. William, memoir of, 6: pa- 
 pers of, 134 
 
 Lloyd. Aaron, 146 
 
 Local Historical Societies, 122: suggest- 
 ed. 12.': adverse report on. 123; 
 project for revived in 1886, 1:^3; in 
 1897, 124 
 
 Lowenthal, Henry, 147 
 
 Ludlow. George C.. 145 
 
 Lum, F. H., 147 
 
 Lundy, F. L.. 115 
 
 Maclean, Rev, Dr. John, 60, 111 
 
 McAdoo, William, 143 
 
 McBride, Charles C, 146 
 
 McCormick, John. 143 
 
 McDermitt. Frank M., 144 
 
 McDermolt, Allan L.. 139 
 
 McDowell, the Kev. John, portrait of, 136 
 
 McEowen, Mary. 60 
 
 McGill, Alexander T.. 63, 142 
 
 McGowan, Thomas, 144 
 
 McGregor. John, 142 
 
 McLean. Rev. Daniel Veach, 17, .55. 66, 71, 
 
 111 
 McNaughton, Rev. John, 148 
 
 McPhcrson, John R.. 143 
 
 Macwhorier, Rev. Dr. Alexander, his 
 
 siudv chair. 1.34; portrait of, 69 
 Magie, William J., 63, 142 
 Mallon, John, iAA 
 Manhattan Island. 14 
 Mann. Charles M.. 145 
 MarcfUus, Kev. Aaron A., 17 
 March. .Samuel, 131! 
 
 Sarah, l36 
 Marriage bonils, index to. 120 
 Marsh, Fredk C., 144 
 Marsh. W. W.. 147 
 Martin. Augustus F. R., 143 
 
 VVm. H.. 144 
 Maryland records relative to Dutch con- 
 trol over New Sweden. 6 
 Massachusetts Historic al Society. 103 
 Massachusetts Newspapers, history of, 
 
 120 
 Matawan. 58 
 Matthews. John J.. 145 
 MANI'SC'KIPT (X)LI,K(_'T1()NS IN THE So- 
 
 CIETY'S LlHH.^KV: 
 
 Alexander. James, i;i3 
 
 Belcher. Gov. Jonathan. 133 
 
 Boundary Papers. i;34 
 
 Coxe. Dr. Daniel. 134 
 
 Dayton, Gen. Elias, 133 
 
 Elmer, Dr. Ebeuezer, 133 
 
 Erskine, Robert. 134 
 
 Fenwick, John. 133 
 
 Fulton. Robert, 134 
 
 Henderson, Thomas, (Life of Wm. 
 
 Tennent). 133 
 Lindsley family, 134 
 Livingston. Gov. William. 134 
 Morris. Lewis, 133 
 
 Robert Hunter. 1.33 
 Paris. Ferdinand John. 133 
 Penn. William. 133 
 Provincial Congress. 133, 134 
 Rutherfurd family, 133, 134 
 Salter. Edwin. 134 
 
 Smith. Samuel. (History of New Jer- 
 sey). 133 
 William Peartree. 1.33 
 Spicer, Col. Jacob, 133 
 Stirling. William Alexander, Earl of. 
 
 133 
 Tuttle. Rev. Dr. J. F.. 134 
 Vail, Alfred, 134 
 Whitehead, Wm. A.. 134 
 Medal Fund, 129 
 Meeker. Carnot B., 144 
 Isaac. 140. 141 
 Jane M.. 140 
 Merchant. Silas. 106 
 Merritt. Rev. Dr., 148 
 Mickle. Isaac. 67. Ill; "■Reminiscences 
 
 of Old Gloucester." by, 12 
 Middlesex County Historical Societ.y, 
 
 123 
 Middletown (Monmouth Co,)Town Book, 
 
 107 
 Milev. Rev. John. 147 
 Miller. William B, E., 145 
 James L., 143 
 Jacob Welsh, 64 
 Rev. Dr. Samuel, 61 
 Mills, Alfred, 148 
 Minnesota-New Hamjjshire. history of 
 
 newspapers in, 120 
 Monmouth Democrat, historical articles 
 published in, 107 
 
i8o 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Morris, Betsey, 140 
 Helena. 21 
 John. 140. 141 
 
 Governor Lewis, 21, 22, 23; letter- 
 book of. 104; papers of, 69, 105, 133 
 Redroe. 23 
 Robert Hunter, papers of, 69. 105, 
 
 133 
 Sabina. 22 
 Samuel, 140 
 Sarah, 23 
 Staats S., 106 
 Thomas. 140 
 Morris county, Revoiutionary history of. 
 
 134 ' 
 Morristown, a permanent home for the 
 
 Society at. proposed. 94. 95 
 Mott, Rev. George S., D. D., 89, 125. 146 
 Mount Ployden. 11 
 Murphy, Franklin, 91, 93, 94. 125. 129 
 
 John L., 14a 
 Murray. Isabella. 137 
 
 Jaines. 136, 137, 139. 140 
 Rev. Dr. Nicholas. 17, 56. 70. 71, 75, 
 99.112. 113, 134; sketch of. 56: por- 
 trait of. 69, 136 
 William. 137. 138 
 Murry. James. 137 
 Mutchler. Samuel B., 144 
 
 Napier, statue of, 68 
 Nautrhriffht. Wm. S., 144 
 Naval Parade, at New York. 1889, 126 
 Neill, Rev. Edward D.. 11 
 Neilson. James. 90, 91 
 Nelson. Charles H. A., 148 
 Horatio Lord. 68 
 James, 148 
 
 Rev. Dr. T. A., 147 / 
 
 Thomas, 147 
 
 William. 19. 97, 113. 121,122, 124. 125, 
 126.128, 129, 146 149, 150; history of 
 American newspapers, 120 
 Nevius. Henry M., 143 
 New Albion 10, U 
 New Amsterdam. 14 
 
 Newark. 52, 54, 57, 70. 80. 81. 83. 84, 85, 86, 
 87. 88. 90, 91, 92. 95. 98, 1U6, 109; 
 Courthouse at. 71 ; two hundredth 
 anniversary of the founding of. 53. 
 107; Board of Trade. 78; Common 
 Council. 105; Daily Advertiser, 10, 
 12, 51; Library Association. 54. 71. 
 96; Library Association building, 
 82, 96, 97. 98 
 Morning Register, early volumes of 
 
 given to Society, 135 
 National Uankinig Company, rooms 
 
 of Society in building of. 74 
 Natural History Society, 73 
 Public High School, 7T" 
 New Barl)a,does Neck. 2S 
 New Brunswick. 60. 63. 70. 90. 104 
 Newell. ex-Governor William A.. 136 
 James H., 36 
 William, 143 
 New Jersey Archives. 118; editors of. 118 
 title of. 118; issue of Vol. I., 118 
 accoiuit of publication of, 110 
 first appropriation for. 116; addi- 
 tional ajipropriations for, li7; how 
 distributed. 120; how the way was 
 prepared for, 115; Revolutionary 
 series, 120 
 New Jersey, Provincial Courts of, 6 
 
 New Jersey Historical Society, abstract 
 of title to lot in West Park street. 
 Newark, 136; in the Centennial 
 Naval Parade, 142; list of invited 
 guests on the. 142; Proceedings, 7 
 
 New Jersey Newspapers in the Eigh- 
 teenth Century —William Nelson, 
 115 
 
 New Jersey Newspapers, files of, 134 
 
 New Netherland, 10 
 
 Newspaper Extracts relating to New 
 Jersey. i776. 120 
 
 Newspapers of New Jersey prior to 1800. 
 120 
 
 New Sweden, Dutch control over, 6; 
 history of. 7 
 
 Newton. Sir William. 136 
 
 New York Colonial Documents, 7, 15; 
 Documentary History of. 15 
 
 New York Historical Society, 14. 104: 
 Collections of, 5 
 
 Nichols. Sayres O., 147 
 
 Niles. Nathaniel, 91.92. 115.117,121,125, 
 126, l:iS, 129. 148. 149. 1,50 
 
 Niles's Weekly Register, set of. 135 
 
 Nixon. John T., 36, 37, 63, 125, 146 
 
 Norris, John, 144 
 
 Norton, James F., 144 
 
 Notes, historical and biographical, con- 
 cerning Elizabethtown, 9, 56 
 
 O'Callaghan, E. B.. M. D., 10. 14 
 
 O'Farrell. Rt. Rev. Michael J., 145 
 Ogden, Col. Aaron, .59, 61 
 
 Elias Bailey Dayton. 59, 63 
 
 Francis Barber, 145 
 
 Mrs. Francis Barber, 138; portrait of. 
 69 
 
 Mary. 61 
 
 Robert 61 
 Old Burying Ground, Newark. 52 
 
 photographs of ancient tombstones 
 in, 135 
 Old Gloucester, Reminiscences of. 12 
 Old Tennent Church, 55 
 Olden. Charles S.. 34, 62, 63 
 O" Neill, Patrick H., 144 
 
 Pangborn. Z. K.. 146 
 
 Paris. Ferdinand John, papers of, 69. 
 
 133 
 Park Presbyterian Church. Newark, 85, 
 8o; congregation, 84. 96. 139. 140. 141 
 Parker, Cortlandt. 17. 45 
 
 Elisha, 19, 21 
 
 James, 4. 5, 9, 19, 21. 38 
 
 Joel. 62. 63. 117, 121, 125 
 
 R. Wayne, 147 
 Parrish, Dr. Joseph, 43 
 Paterson, .59; Records of the Township 
 
 of. 107 
 Paterson. Rev. Andrew Bell. D. D.. 61, 84 
 
 William F., 144 
 Patterson, John H., 142 
 Pearson. Charles L., 17 
 Peck. Cyrus, 98 
 Peningtbn. John. 11 
 Penn. William, 14, K33 
 Pennington. Ephraim, 28 
 
 James W., 48 
 
 Judah. 28 
 
 Samuel. 28. 146 
 
 Samuel H.. M. D.. LL. D.. 95. 146; an 
 original member of the Society. 
 1845, 17; acting Librarian, 184S-1852, 
 
GENERAI, INDEX. 
 
 l8l 
 
 52: member of the Executive Com- 
 mittee. 18)2-1871. 2H; Vice Presi- 
 dent, 1871-1894.29: President. 1894- 
 1S9(). 29; on Centenniiil Committee 
 of 1889. 125. 126: biotrniphical sketch 
 of. 28-29 
 Gov. William. 28, 31. 37. 47. (il, (5:5 
 Gov. William S.. 28. 48 
 
 Pennintrton Seminary. 14(5 
 
 Penn's Neck. Swedisli mission at. 7 
 
 Pennsylvania. Smith's History of. 4. 5: 
 ''Annals. ■"7: Archives. 7: Magazine 
 of History and Biography. 7: Me- 
 moirs of the Historical Society of. 7 
 
 Pepys. Samuel. 7."> 
 
 Perrine. Lewis. 142 
 
 Perry. Nehemiah, 85 
 
 Perth Ambov. 51 : annals of. 9 
 
 Pfelfler. George. 143 
 
 Philadelphia. 7 
 
 Pinneo. James B.. 85 
 
 Pitnev Henrv C. 129. 142 
 
 Pitt. Jesse B.. 139, 140 
 
 Plantagenet. Beauchamp, tract by, 10 
 
 Ployden. Sir Edmund 11 
 
 Plume. Joseph W., 145 
 
 Plympton. Hannah, 135 
 
 Pompton Plains, History of.' 109 
 
 Portraits in the Society's Libra- 
 ry:— Isaac Andrus. Thomas Bar- 
 ron. Aaron Burr. Henry t'lay, Ed- 
 ward Crowell, Kev. Hooper Cum- 
 ming. Matthias W, Day. Robert 
 Drummond and wife (Jannetje 
 Vreeland). Theodore Frelinghuy- 
 sen. Daniel Haines. Capt. Levi 
 Holden and wife (Hannah Plymp- 
 ton). Joseph Coerten Hornblower. 
 Ccl Edmund L. Joy, Captain James 
 Lawrence, Rev. John McDowell, 
 Rev. Nicholas Murray. Mrs. Fran- 
 cis Barber Ogden, Rev. Irena3us 
 Prime. Col. Peter Schuyler. Rich- 
 ard Stockton, William' A. White- 
 head, 135-136 
 
 Potter. Henrv A., 147 
 
 Potts. Edward B., 144 
 
 Stacy Gardiner, 16, 17, 33. 70, 84, 110, 
 
 113 
 William John. 145 
 
 Price. Richard A.. 144 
 Rodman M.. 145 
 
 Prime. Rev. Dr. Samuel Irenaeus, 41. 
 .56; portrait of, 69. 136 
 
 Princeton. 57. 61. 90. 125 
 
 College. 58.60, 61.63; President of. 145 
 Theological Seminary, ,55. 5b, 146 
 University olTers the Society a per- 
 manent home. 98 
 
 Proceedings of the .Society, account of 
 publication of. 99-100 " 
 
 Proprietors' surrender to the Crown in 
 1702. original instructions of, 133 
 
 Proud, Robert. History of Pennsylvania. 
 5 
 
 Provincial (^ons-ie^s. ));i))ersof, 133 
 
 Courts of New .lelsrv. 101 
 
 Prudential Insurance ( 'ompany, meet- 
 ings held in building of. 74 
 Public Records in counties, jjroposed ex- 
 aminalion of. 1 13 
 Commission. 1898. 113 
 in I'lssex county, notice of. 115 
 orilce of England. 14. 16, 1 12. 115. 
 117 
 
 Publication Fund, need for a, 133 
 Publications of the .Society. 99 
 Public documents furnished to the So- 
 ciety bv law. ()•» 
 Pumpelly. Josiah Collins, 91, 14.5. 149, 1.50 
 
 Raccoon, Swedish mission in, 7 
 Race. Henry. M. U.. 146 
 Randolph. Bennington F.. 145 
 
 Theodore F., 62. 63. 95. 110 
 Rankin. Abigail, 141 
 
 William, 85. 141 
 Raritan King. 11 
 Reed. Alfred. 142 
 
 Revolutionary period, documents rela- 
 ting to New Jersey in. 119 
 
 Series of N. J. Archives. 120 
 Reynolds. William M.. I). 1).. 7 
 Ricord, Elizabeth Strvker. 54 
 
 Frederick W., 54.' 79. 80. 91. 93. 94, 
 119. 121. 124. 12.5. 146: elected Libra- 
 rian and Treasurer of the Society, 
 ,54: sketch of. .54 
 Ricord. Dr. Jean Baptiste. .54 
 Righter. William A., 149, 150 
 Riker. Adrian. 144 
 
 Chandler W., 98 
 Roberts. Jonathan W.. 145; offers to 
 guarantee the erection of a perma- 
 nent home for the Society at Mor- 
 ristovvn, 94 
 
 L. H.. 147 
 Robeson. George M., 129 
 
 William P.. 17. 61, 84 
 Rockwood. Charles G.. 147 
 Rodgers, Rev. John. 23 
 
 Rev. Ravaud K., D. D.. 2.'. 23. 95 
 Roe. Joseph B.. 143 
 Ross James. 49 
 Rudman. Rev. Andreas. 7 
 Rue. John D., 143 
 
 N. S.. 145 
 Rusling. Gen. James F.. 147 
 Rutgers College. .54. .58, 60. 63. 135. 146 
 Rutherfurd John. 21. 26. 51. 85: sketch 
 of. 21-22; memoir of. 51 
 
 Lewis M.. 85 
 
 Livingston, 22 
 
 Louisa. 22 
 
 Mary. 22 
 
 Miss . 76 
 
 Robert Walter. 22 
 
 Walter. 21. 75. 77 
 Rutherfurd Manuscripts, 69, 133, 134 
 Ryerson. Martin J.. 109 
 
 Salem. 61. 100: tlrst settlement of, 10 
 
 Salem county historical society. 133 
 Tenth, 133 
 
 Salter. Edwin. Manuscripts of. 131 
 
 San Domingo, (,'athedral of. liurial of 
 CJolumbus in. 51 
 
 Sandford. Major William, 38 
 
 Sandford. Mary. 38 
 
 Sawyer. Henry M.. 145 
 
 Sayres. Caleb! 137. 138 
 
 Scandinavian settlements in New Jer- 
 sey. 7 
 
 Scarborough. Rt. Rev. John. 145 
 
 Schenck. Rev. Garret ('.. D. D.. 11: 
 History of Pompton Plains by. lO.l 
 
 Schnielz. Joseph, 142 
 
 Sell roth. John. 1 12 
 
 Schuyler, Col. Peter, portrait of, 69, I3() 
 
lS2 
 
 GENERAL INDEX. 
 
 Scott, Austin, Ph, D., LL, D., President 
 
 of Rutsrers College. 122, 129, 146 
 Scudder Ariel T,,H4 
 
 Edward Wallace. LL,. D., 142 
 Sedgwick, Theodore, memoir of William 
 
 Livingston bv, 6 
 "Sentinel of Freedom," 1796-1852, file of, 
 
 134 
 Sewell. William J.. 145 
 Sheldon, Rev. Dr. George, 62 
 Shipman, Caleb H.. 85 
 Sims, Clifford Stanley, 128, 129. 150 
 Smith, A. D,, 141 
 Adam C. 144 
 Rev. Caleb. 23 
 Peter D.. 143 
 
 Samuel, 4. 5, 7; MSS. of. 69, 133; His- 
 tory of New Jer.sey and Pennsyl- 
 vania, by, 4 
 William Peartree. letter-book of. 133 
 Society's Library and Publications. 66, 
 
 99 
 Somerset County Historical Society, 123 
 Spencer. Jonathan J., 17 
 Spicer, Jacob, diary of, 133 
 Spinney, Geo. F.. 147 
 Spragu'e. William B.. D. D., 56 
 Squier. Nathan, 137. 138 
 Starkey. Rt. Rev. Thomas A.. 145 
 Statistics, Committee on, special work 
 
 of, 124 
 Steam Engine, first in America, 18 
 Steele. Dudley S.. 145 
 Stephens, Thomas H,. 85 
 Sterling. Edward B., 1.50 
 Stevens, Henry. 112. 113, 115, 117 
 Stewart, John H.. 142 
 Stirling. Lord, Life of, 33; papers of, 69. 
 
 103. 133 
 Stockholm. 6. 7 
 "Stockton. John P., 14 2 
 
 Richard. 20; portrait of, 69, 136 
 Strange. Wm , 147 
 Strijcker. Jan. 48 
 Strong, Rev. James, 147 
 Stryker, Elizabeth, 54 
 Rev. Peter, 54 
 Thomas J., 48. 49. 71 
 Adjutant General William S., 49, 
 125, 142: on Committee on Colonial 
 and Revolutionary Documents. 121 ; 
 President New jersey Historical 
 Society. 29; editor N. J. Archives, 
 122; member of Public Records 
 Commission, 113 
 Stuart. Gilbert. 69 
 
 Studdiford. Rev. Samuel M., D. D.. 25 
 Stuyvesant. Helen, 85 
 Sudbury, Mass.. 135 
 
 Swedish settlements in New Jersey. 67 
 Swords Col. Robert Smith, 23. 50, 51, 77, 
 78, 79, 80, 95 
 
 Tardier, 128 
 
 Taylor. Rev. Benjamin C, 50 
 
 Ten Brook. Joseph. 137 
 
 Tennent, Rev. William. Life of, by 
 
 Thomas Henderson, M. D., 133 
 Tennent Church. .55 
 Thompson. Lewis A., 143 
 
 R. B., Ill 
 Tichenor, Francis M., 97, 98 
 Tiffany & Company. Centennial Medal 
 
 made by. 128, 148 
 Todd, Andrew, 25 
 
 Toffey, John J., 144 
 Traver, C, L.. 149, 150 
 Trenchard, Thomas W., 144 
 Trenton, 51 .52, 53, 55, .58, 59, 70, 80, 86. 89 
 90, 9i, 126 
 
 Presbyterian church, 58 
 
 State Gazette, 58 
 Trier, Reuben, 144 
 Trimmer. Lawrence H.. 144 
 Trinity church, Newark. 95 
 Tuttle. Rev. Joseph F., D, D., 134; Man- 
 uscripts, 134 
 
 Joseph N.. 65, 82 
 
 William, 54 
 
 Ulrich, John, 144 
 Upham. Rev. F. S.. 147 
 Upper Librarv Hall, 72, 73 
 Utter, Samuel, 140 
 
 Vail. Alfred. Manuscripts of, 134 
 
 Dr. M. H. C 135 
 Valentine. David T., 14 
 Van Arsdale. Elias, 138 
 
 Mrs. Jacob. 135 
 Van Fleet, Abraham V.. 14J 
 Van Neste Rev. George J.. 109 
 Van Syckel. Bennet. 142 
 Vance", A. A.. 146 
 Vermilyea, Jacob D.. 85 
 Voorhees, Governor Foster M., 113, 144 
 Vosseller, Elias, 149. 150 
 Vreeland, Jannetje. portrait of, 135 
 Vroom. Cornells Pieterse, 31 
 
 Ex-Governor Peter D,, 16, 31, 63 
 
 Garret D. W., 97. 121, 122, 124, 126, 127, 
 US. 129. 142, 149, 1.50 
 
 Hendrick Corsen, 31 
 
 Wall. Gen. Garret Dorset. 64, 72 
 
 Wallace. William C 28 
 
 Ward. Marcus L., 62, 63, 85, 121 
 Thomas, 140 
 
 Washington. Gen. George, 124, 125, 128; 
 Irving's Life of, 14; medal in com- 
 memoration of inauguration of, 
 127-129; Houdon's bust of, 128 
 
 Washington Association, Morristown, 
 62, 94, 95; origin of, 95 
 
 Washington's Headquarters at Morris- 
 town, plan to purchase for the New 
 Jersey Historical Society, 95; offer 
 to provide a building for the Soci- 
 ety at, 94 
 
 Weeks, John R.. 8.3.85 
 
 William R. 96, 97. 149, 1.50 
 
 Welch, William W., 145 
 
 Wellington, the conqueror of Napoleon, 
 68 
 
 Werts. Governor George T., 143 
 
 West, James 145 
 
 West Jersey, settlement of, 5 
 
 Whitehead, William. 37 
 
 William Adee, 10. 23. 42. 86. 88, 89, 94. 
 111. 112. 118. 121; beginning of his 
 historical work. 9. 10, 12; furnishes 
 material for Barber and Howe's 
 "Historical Collections of New 
 Jersey," 12; his history of "East 
 Jersey under the Proprietary 
 Governments," :«», 103; an orig- 
 inal member of the Historical 
 Society, 17; its tlrst Correspond- 
 ing Secretary, 1845 188.5, 37; re- 
 ports on New Jersey records 
 
GENKKAI. INDKX. iSl 
 
 In EntrliUKl. l.i. Ki: on i-ommil- VVifiicnmayer, George W., 14S 
 
 tee to meinoriiilizc the Le^'ishi- VViu'^er. lit. Rev. Winand Michael H."i 
 
 ture. 184.1. lH.'>(i. 110. 11-.': on eonimil- Wilder. Knos. 146 
 
 tee to secure (iocnnients from Kntr Wilkinson. E. A.. 145 
 
 land, 111. 121: editor -Analvlical Williams. Marcus. Kr. 
 
 Index." 113. 1 U; editor New Jersey Williamson, B.. Jr. H7 
 
 Archives, ill. 117. llil. 1-.J1; liis Mrs. I}.. Jr.. 14!l. l.^o 
 
 ■(."oiUributions to East Jersey His- Wilson. Peter, bio^rraphy of. .57 
 
 torv." 4t); editor Morris Papers. Winian. Erastus. Irifi, 14H 
 
 1(1.5; Historical Address at hi cen- Wood. Jolui ('.. 14.5 
 
 tennial anni\ ei-sary of Newark. 107; William Nelson. H4 
 
 opposed to local tiistoric;il socie- Woodhridj-'e. 'ri; prinlint: press at. 
 
 ties. l-_'3: l)io;,'raphical sketch of. town records. 107 
 
 37-41; portrait of. t)l». K^fi; beiiueaths Woodward. Charles T.. 14.5 
 
 his manuscripts to the .Society. Gi», Wren, Sir Christopher, WS 
 
 i;^4 Wurts. (ieorKe. 14(5 
 
 Whitney. Rev. CJeo. H.. 147 Wyckoff. Martin, 14;t 
 
 Whittaker. Jonathan S., 14J 
 
 "Wickes. Dr. Stephen. 41. lli.5. 14t5: the Yard. Major James S.. 107 
 
 second Correspond intr Secretary of Yountr. Adolphus Pennin^'lon. 47 
 the .Society. 1885-1890. 42: favors Captain Aaron. 48 
 
 local historical societies, l:i3; bio- John M.. 147 
 
 graphical sketch of. 41-43 
 
iM 8 1903