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1864réf. 3721N.p. but most likely Newark N.J. 1864. Good plus. Letterpress broadside printed in two columns 16.5 x 10 inches. Old folds small chip to top outer margin two tiny holes affecting just a few letters. A very rare Unionist broadside supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln in the critical presidential contest of 1864. The present broadside was authored in early June 1864 by New Jersey Republican Party stalwart Horace N. Congar an editor diplomat and politician who was at that time serving as U.S. consul to Hong Kong. In this rather stirring broadside which Congar writes from his position in Hong Kong he lauds "the thousands of earnest faithful men who are giving freely of their blood and treasure to the suppression of this infamous rebellion" and "the noble daring the undaunted courage and the determined valour of our brave soldiers of Freedom" and urges that "in November New Jersey will stand in the unbroken rank of States giving their verdict for the Party of Union." He also spends considerable space discussing the clear role of "the social moral and political evil" of slavery as the precipitating event of the Civil War. Congar writes that "the evil it has wrought was as natural as the poisoned breath of the Upas tree." Stated clearly Congar writes "I heartily rejoice at the destruction of slavery" and looks forward to the time when "I shall tread my native land with a newer life if within its boundless domain there shall not be heard the clanking chain or the cry of the suffering and the oppressed." "Horace Newton Congar 1817-1893 was a radical republican politician during the midnineteenth century and served on both the state and national levels. Mr. Congar had a great love for his party and hope for its success which is reflected in his writing . Horace Newton Congar was born in Newark on July 31 1817. He married Isabell Reeves and had two children; a daughter Ella and a son Horace Junior. Horace Congar taught school for a while and he studied law in his leisure time. He was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar in 1847 and later Cornelius Boice of Plainfield and Lewis Grove of Newark were his law partners. Congar was a friend of the abolitionist cause and he was one of the founders of the antislavery Free Soil Party in New Jersey. The party slogan 'Free Soil Free Speech Free Labor and Free Men' basically described the party platform. Congar later became a delegate from New Jersey to the Republican National Convention in 1848 which was held in Buffalo. He supported the nomination of Van Buren for president and Adams for vice-president" - New Jersey Historical Society. A rare and unusual Lincoln campaign broadside with just two physical copies in OCLC at AAS and Middlebury College. unknown books
1804réf. 151171804. MOORE JOSHUA J. and THOMAS W. JONES. The Traveller's Directory: or a Pocket Companion Shewing the Course of the Main Road from Philadelphia to New York; and from Philadelphia to Washington: With Descriptions of the Places through which it Passes and the Intersections of the Cross Roads . By S. S. sic Moore and T. W. Jones. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey 1804. 8vo. 4 37 1 19 i.e. 17 p. 38 engraved strip maps on 22 plates. Modern full calf correctly done in perfect period style with original spine label slightly chipped at edges remounted and original endsheets relaid. Front free endsheet chipped at fore-edge name clipped from top blank margin of title page intermittant light browning of text and foxing of maps as is usual with this book. A very good copy of a book never found in fine condition. Second edition of the second American book of road maps following Christopher Colles' exceedingly rare Survey of the Roads of the United States 1789 and the first road map book to provide detailed maps of the road from Philadelphia north through New Jersey to New York and from Philadelphia south through Delaware Maryland and Virginia to Washington. Joshua John Moore and Thomas W. Jones were young surveyors in the employ of the Philadelphia publisher Mathew Carey. From several letters they wrote to Carey during the course of the survey Lea & Febiger papers PHi a clear picture emerges of the extremely difficult task they had undertaken. On June 29 1801 they wrote from New York: "We should have written to you before this had not fatigue of our daily Journies rendered repose indispensable after the finishing of our Notes and Traverses. After twelve days driving our way through an immense multitude of Questioners Observers laughters & Critics who generally thronged around us at every place to our great discomposure at first . we are at length arrived here. If astonishment would ensure success to a work we may entertain strong hopes indeed of ours; but it has nearly exhausted our health as every violent effort naturally must." Upon completion of the surveys the maps were drawn by the surveyors. They locate crossroads streams taverns churches and other public buildings and occasionally private houses. The text describes the various towns through which the roads pass. In this second edition published two years after the first edition of 1802 the descriptive text has been extensively corrected and expanded. The maps are identical to those in the earlier edition and are printed from the same plates. unknown books
1865réf. 300583Mercer County NJ 1865. Edward Hicks Green 1840-1924 entered the Civil War with Company I 9th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry in 1861 - known as sharpshooters. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1862 then 1st Sergeant in 1864 when his service expired and he reenlisted. Green spent most of the war with this regiment known as the "Jersey Muskrats" due to their successful service sloshing through mud and deep water in the 1862 Battle of Roanoke Island. ~~Green was transferred to Company C in 1865 and was mustered out on July 19 1865 as this document records. He attestsed to having returned all equipment and signed his name and rank on July 28 1865. The outside reversed repeats the same and states the document is a "Certificate of Non-Indebtedness". After the war he returned to farming married and had 3 children. He later became a solicitor for a railroad company.~~Folded into quarters and beginning to tear at top and center fold otherwise very good with no foxing or water damage. unknown books
réf. 15776NEW JERSEY. SUPREME COURT. Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New-Jersey. By William S. Pennington. Newark: W. Tuttle & Co. 1806-1814. 2 vols. various paginations. Late 19th-century full calf red and black spine labels. A fresh clean beautiful set with extensive marginal and interleaved notes largely in the hand of Alphonso L. Eakin 1799-1866 a Salem lawyer with some notes in the hand of the set's earlier owner Daniel Garrison 1782-1851. The first published reports of a New Jersey court. Pennington's reports were issued in nine separate stitched pamphlets from 1806 to 1814. When bound up at the time the multiple title pages and lists of justices were superfluous and were invariably cancelled as they are in this set and in every other set I have seen. The reports are complete. Laid in is a detailed account of the make-up of this set. For a detailed bibliographical study of Pennington and his nine individual reports see J.J. Felcone New Jersey Books 1694-1900: A Descriptive Catalogue 2023 entries 1611-1619. unknown books
1840réf. 115141840. NEW JERSEY. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. Description of the Geology of the State of New Jersey being a Final Report by Henry D. Rogers. Philadelphia 1840. 301 p. Folding colored geological section folding colored geological map. Original printed stiff paper covers. Covers detached spine stitching loose heavy foxing in some areas label residue on inside front cover but withal a respectable complete copy with both maps present. The second and final publication of the first New Jersey geological survey. This first survey was authorized by the state legislature in 1835 and a preliminary report by Rogers was published in 1836. By 1838 Rogers had largely completed his work and the legislature ceased its appropriation for the survey. It took two more years for the report to be published. Copies are very scarce and are seldom found with both colored maps and in good condition. See Felcone New Jersey Books 1694-1900 1204. unknown books
1752réf. 34751752. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey from the Time of the Surrender of the Government . to this Present Time . By Samuel Nevill. Philadelphia: William Bradford 1752. Sm. fol. 4 507 p. with: The Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey from the Year 1753 . where the first volume ends to the Year 1761 . By Samuel Nevill . Volume the Second. Woodbridge: James Parker 1761. Sm. fol. 4 x 2 368 4 369-401 1 56 64 p. Contemporary sheep v.1 and contemporary reversed sheep v.2 both very skillfully rebacked in period style. First two leaves of v.1 neatly guarded in the blank margins the usual foxing and browning common to early American paper else an unusually nice set in contemporary bindings. The second compilation of the laws of New Jersey following that of John Kinsey in 1732 assembled by Samuel Nevill with the assistance in the first volume of Philip Kearny. The second volume is the first law compilation to be printed in New Jersey James Parker having set up the colony's first permanent printing press at Woodbridge in 1754. For a detailed study of the evolution and printing of Nevill's Laws see Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1421 and 1423 and Printing in New Jersey 1754-1800 59. Evans 6893 8680 8947; ESTC W14077 W14078. unknown books
1800réf. 35311800. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Laws of the State of New Jersey Revised . by William Paterson. New Brunswick: Abraham Blauvelt 1800. Lg. folio. 2 xxi 1 455 33 p. Modern calf-backed marbled boards very skillfully executed in period antique style. The usual minor foxing and spotting but a fine copy in a correct period-style binding. A complete revision and compilation of the laws of New Jersey begun in 1792 while Paterson was governor of the state and completed while he was associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. Consolidating the existing statutory law with the Common Law of England Paterson essentially re-wrote much of the state's law. The work is a monument both to Paterson's extraordinary legal mind and to his remarkable abilty to produce and complete such a complex undertaking while serving successively as governor and Supreme Court justice. See Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1427 for a detailed study of the evolution of this landmark New Jersey book and Felcone Printing in New Jersey 1754-1800 1112 for additional bibliographical information. Evans 38064; ESTC W7003. unknown books
1776réf. 35321776. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New-Jersey from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne on the 17th Day of April in the Year of Our Lord 1702 to the 14th Day of January 1776 . By Samuel Allinson. Burlington: Isaac Collins 1776. Folio. viii 493 1 6 6 4 4 3 1 15 p. Modern calf-backed marbled boards very skillfully executed in period style. The usual foxing and browning present in all copies occasional minor spotting else a very good desirable copy in a handsome and correct period-style binding. A compilation of all the laws in force in New Jersey in 1776. Though begun several years earlier publication was delayed by Governor William Franklin's constant quarrels with the assembly the outbreak of hostilities and finally as Allinson notes in his preface the inability to obtain sufficient paper ". the Want of which stop'd the Press several Weeks at sundry Times until more could be manufactured." The quality of the paper varied considerably and all copies exhibit differing degrees of foxing and browning from gathering to gathering. There are several contemporary manuscript corrections also present in all copies and probably done in the printer's shop. For a detailed account of the evolution and printing history of Allinson's Laws see Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1424 and Felcone Printing in New Jersey 1754-1800 214. Evans 14911; ESTC W6511. unknown books
1800réf. 34661800. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. Laws of the State of New-Jersey; Revised and Published under the Authority of the Legislature by William Paterson. Newark: Matthias Day 1800. Lg. 8vo. 2 455 1 xxi 1 2 46 1 p. Modern full calf in antique style red and black spine labels. Minor marginal spotting at rear of text else a fine copy. The octavo edition of Paterson's Laws printed by Matthias Day from sheets of the folio edition as they came from Abraham Blauvelt's press. Blauvelt's folio was an essential but expensive book and Day saw a market for a less costly edition printed on super royal paper in octavo format. The text on each page was nearly identical to that in the folio edition so that a citation to one edition was also a citation to the other. For a detailed description of the evolution and printing of this edition see Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1428-1430 and Felcone Printing in New Jersey 1754-1800 1113. This copy contains the original title page with the horse's head in the state arms facing to the left. When the remainder of the edition was purchased from Day by Newark printer and bookseller William Tuttle in 1814 Tuttle printed a new title page dated 1800 but most easily identified by a right-facing horse's head. Evans 38063; ESTC W7002. unknown books
1758réf. 133091758. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey. The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments and other Material Transactions . By Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Philadelphia: W. Bradford Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province of New-Jersey 1758. Sm. fol. 4 3-763 p. Lacks A1 section half title. Bound in mid-nineteenth century full law calf red leather spine labels front hinge broken rather scuffed. Stain on title page sporatic spots and stains throughout chiefly marginal faint old blindstamp of a now defunct law library on a few pages. Aside from the missing half title a complete and very respectable--but not beautiful--copy very reasonably priced. Joseph J. Ely's copy. The classic compilation of the foundation documents of New Jersey from 1664 to 1702 accompanied by the session laws from 1668 to 1701. Authorized by the legislature in 1752 the work was assembled over the next six years chiefly by Samuel Nevill and Samuel Smith and was seem through the press by Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Of all the compilations of New Jersey laws from the 1752 Nevill volume onward the "Grants and Concessions" is the scarcest. See Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1422 for a detailed five-page study of this highly important colonial New Jersey book. Evans 8205. unknown books
1758réf. 67541758. NEW JERSEY. LAWS. The Grants Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New-Jersey. The Acts Passed During the Proprietary Governments and other Material Transactions . By Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Philadelphia: W. Bradford Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty for the Province of New-Jersey 1758. Sm. fol. 4 763 p. Neatly rebound in modern legal-style reversed calf red and black spine labels. First several leaves dampstained occasional marginal dampstaining elsewhere in text otherwise a very clean tight copy. With the signature of Hugh Hartshorne Bowne. The classic compilation of the foundation documents of New Jersey from 1664 to 1702 accompanied by the session laws from 1668 to 1701. Authorized by the legislature in 1752 the work was assembled over the next six years chiefly by Samuel Nevill and Samuel Smith and was seem through the press by Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer. Of all the compilations of New Jersey laws from the 1752 Nevill volume onward the "Grants and Concessions" is the scarcest. See Felcone New Jersey Books 2nd edn. 1422 for a detailed five-page study of this highly important colonial New Jersey book. Evans 8205. unknown books
réf. 009528Dayton OH: Dayton Spice Mills Book. Good. Cardstock. 2 5/8" x 5 3/4". No date circa1888 which was the year the Bryson Bonebreak Block was built in Los Angeles and the date in ink at bottom margin below photo that someone has added. From the verso: " Handsome Historical Instructive. Photo-Lithographic View Cards. One card in each package of Jersey Coffee! . Jersey Coffee is pure clean strong and fine flavored and is the best package coffee on the market. Sold only in 1-lb. packages. Dayton Spice Mills Co. sole manufacturers Dayton Ohio U.S.A." A Good complete card several creases and small tears at edges. SCARCE not listed at OCLC which does list 9 of the 100 views that were issued to advertise Jersey Coffee by The Dayton Spice Mills Co. in the late 1800s. Dayton Spice Mills unknown books
1855réf. BK0035New Jersey 1855. Appx. 43 items: letterbook 26 documents related to properties in New Jersey and 15 images. Letterbook 9 x 7 ¼ inches 58 pp totaling appx. 17500 words. Front cover detached and covers generally quite worn though spine intact contents excellent; overall very good plus. Document conditions vary fair to excellent with some damaged or partial generally very good minus. A full inventory of the contents of the letterbook and legal documents is available on request. Very good. A multigenerational archive of the Woolman family and its allied Hunt Burr Haines and other families documenting nearly a century and a half of Quaker family life in southern New Jersey. The collection is highlighted by a letterbook preserving copies of letters from prominent Quaker minister and colonial-era abolitionist John Woolman 1729-1772 his cousin and fellow minister Wiliam Hunt 1733-1772 and several others written to John Woolman's brother Uriah. These include a number of unpublished letters from authors including Woolman Hunt and others. The collection also contains a number of legal documents relating to family land holdings including an illustrative 1769 document concerning the division of a tract of land inherited by the Woolman brothers on the death of patriarch Samuel Woolman in 1750. Besides several memorials poems and copies of letters of Mary Peisly the letterbook contains two letters from Woolman that have not been published in full eleven unpublished letters from Hunt and two unpublished letters from friends in England concerning Woolman and Hunt's deaths there from smallpox in 1772. The letterbook was likely maintained by Uriah Woolman's wife Susanna Burr Woolman as an inscription on the first page reads "Phebe Woolman 1st Mo. 10th 1823 / given by Susana Woolman"; Susana Woolman was Phebe Woolman's great aunt. A full inventory of the contents of the letterbook and the legal documents can be found at the end of this description. Unpublished Letters of William Hunt 1758-1771 The unpublished Hunt letters come from the late 1750s to early 1770s and trace the North Carolinian's path along the Quaker networks of the US's east coast up to New York and down to the "very pleasant" Delaware capes May 5 1771 and finally to Europe. Hunt John Woolman's cousin was born in Pennsylvania and emigrated to Virginia and eventually the Quaker settlement of New Garden now Greensboro North Carolina. He began his ministry before he turned fifteen and by twenty had begun traveling to minister; his Memoirs state that he visited meetings at every North American colony.1 Like his cousin John Woolman Hunt preached against enslavement. He reported feeling so disturbed by the practice while in Pennsylvania that he nearly abandoned food and drink entirely feeling that consuming goods made by enslaved people would be participating in their oppression.2 The first two letters from Hunt in the letterbook were likely sent from home in New Garden though they indicate that he had already made at least one journey north; in the first undated letter he writes: "The little contract of firm friendship Occasion'd by our small Acquaint's in this Remote Land Induces my hand to paper at this time to Lett thee know that tho' the distance is great and the days are many since I Saw thee we being depriv'd of personal and almost litteral Converse with each other yet that Spring of infinite love that first cemented our hearts together Remains with me unchangable in the hidden Life of our God .". N.d. He states that he feels drawn "in the Spring of Life towards your Land but the Time when as Yet I know not". The next letter is dated to 1758 and also seems to report on home affairs and a visit to New Garden by Uriah Woolman: "we are well in General at this time I also heard from Cousin Grantt not long since; they were then well and settled at the Watterrees Meeting Brother Clearor had the Misfortune to have his House and most of his Household Goods Burnt and allso a pretty Compleat New House that he built since thou wast here .". August 13 1758 He again comments on coming north stating that "I dont see my way quite Cleare in Coming to that province this fall tho' I have made some preparation for it and expect it to be my Lot ere long." In 1761 he traveled to Virginia Maryland Pennsylvania and New Jersey.3 There are two letters to Woolman in the letterbook sent from this journey the first reporting on meetings: "Dear cousin by this I may inform thee that I am favour'd with health through mercy I have visitted meetings as far as Maiden Creek likely Pennsylvania and this day am going to the forest through gracious help I am come thus far pretty safe having had some satisfactory meetings; Deare Cousin it is the desire of my mind that though and I stand in real obedience to our duty which brings true peace and perfect Liberty of mind not to be crampt or fetter'd with those things that suddenly end nor subject unto our own Passions we might become freeborn of that City which John Saw .". July 31 1761 The next reports on a planned visit to the Woolmans: "I hereby convey my dear love to thee as also to lett the know that through gracious favour I am as well as common and intend to be in Town on day come Week if the Lord permitt; if thou hast opportunity please to let Cousin Asher know the Time as he desired me I may further acquaint thee that my companion intends directly home from Town and if it should be agreeable I should be glad if thou or Cousin Asher could go with me into Buck's County". August 13 1761 The letterbook states that this letter was sent from "Willinstown". This is possibly the Willistown meeting Newtown Square Pennsylvania; though that meetinghouse was constructed in 1798 its website states that there was a history of Quaker worship there before its construction.4 It could also be from Williamstown New Jersey. Both locations are fairly close to the Woolmans' Mount Holly homestead. The next two letters dated to 1766 were likely both written from home with one identified as sent from New Garden. This would have been during one of the brief periods of Hunt's life wherein he did not feel called to travel instead spending the time with his young family. In the earlier letter dated April 11 Hunt tells Woolman "I conceive my spirit often united in a secret sympathy with thy deep trials and close besetments". In the later dated letter he weighs in on the value of some land owned by Woolman: "I understood by John Unthank that thou desired I with some others would view thy Land and send an account of our Judgment upon the price it is the mind of many that One hundred pounds is the Value but I think if thou would send Orders to sell it for One hundred and twenty pounds it would fetch it readilly". September 3 1766 The next letters date from 1771 NB: four letters are missing according to the letterbook's numbering meaning likely a single page has been lost and find Hunt on the journey of ministry that would take him to England Holland and his eventual death. In January he reports: "Much esteemed Relations by these you may understand how far we have got on our journey we have been at most of the meetings along shore up to Raway likely Rahway New Jersey where Last night at New York it looks rather likely to my present view we shall return to your City towards spring in order to Embark but leave it to the wise disposer who best knows his Secret purposes concerning us". January 11 The next was written from the Delaware capes where Hunt and his companion nephew Thomas Thornburgh were aboard the Mary and Elizabeth.5 Hunt writes: "After my very dear Love saluting thee and thy Wife these may inform that we are well had a good and Comfortable Night are likely to get past the Capes this Evening Divine regard extending his sweetning presence which seems to make this little habbitation likely to be very pleasant and easey beyond what I expected". May 5 The latest unpublished Hunt letter was sent from London in June of that year and appears to be the first written to Uriah Woolman upon Hunt's and Thornburgh's arrival. Hunt is less than impressed with the English Friends: "I have to Inform thee that we are safe arrived in London having had a short and very agreeable passage we Landed in this City the 28th day att 6 OClock in the morning after parting with thee which was little more than twenty Seven days I have been at a few meetings wherein there seems a number of well disciplin'd friends but these alass are every where but small in comparison of the great number who profess the Glorious Truth but being ignorant of its working are Dead weights and Burthens to those who are Baptis'd in and with the Seed . my dear companion was very Sick the first two Weeks at Sea but after got ; Our Capt. Treated us with great respect". June 4 1771 Unpublished Letters of John Woolman 1760 and 1763 Woolman's letters follow a similar tack to Hunt's though he is more scrupulous about including the full names of Friends he encounters making them promising material for further research into the northeast's Quaker networks. He writes from Nantucket in June 1760: "My companions & I are both middling well in health and expect if way open to go from this place tomorrow Ann Grant and Mercy Richman are here and both middling well. We Samuel & I expect if Providence permit to be at New Port Quarterly Meeting on the Tenth of Next Month and then Turn homewards by the way of Oblong in York Government We were in Company at Rhode Island with J. Storer E Shipley & Th Foster at their Yearly Meeting the 16th 6mo. who are all middling and are Gone toward Boston --" June 30 1760 In this same letter the former merchant Woolman makes a remark characteristic of his views on wealth and accumulation expressed to his merchant brother Uriah: "I have had renew'd occasion since I left home to consider the excellency of that Doctrine Of being Satisfied of the Trueness of Things or in Scripture phrase 'Having food and Raiment therewith to be content' the desire of Wealth and outward Greatness leads many into snares hard to get out of; for whose sake I have in their Journey been Often sorrowful". Fixated on the Quaker belief in plain living Woolman did not object to commerce per se but instead believed that the practice could only be "safe" if "we retain a single Eye to the Real usefulness of Trade And use it no further than it may be Beneficial to True Christians" May 3 17596. In a later letter he expands: "A Belief in the Allsufficiency of God and in his care in providing for those that fear him hath often afforded comfort to me not only in regard to my self but also with Relation to my fellow creatures whom I love and who have the same need of this Fatherly help as I have. They who dwell on Lands as their Inheritance who Eat the food which they raise and wear Garments of their Own Work and of many others appear to be the least exposd to Temptation; Even these stand dayly in need of Divine Assistance to support their Minds in Uprightness before the Lord. But when I think on the Various kinds of Trafic which are in some degree connected with that spirit which works in disobedient children and on the difficulties and Temptations which attends Trade in the present Condition of Countries I have often felt a particular tenderness towards and care for those who depend on Merchandize for a living And when my mind have been thus filled with care and affection mix'd with a feeling of the Manifold difficulties Attending Business A fresh sense of Gods goodness in guiding his People in Quallifying with sound Judgment to distinguish things which differ; and in preserving them from inward dangers hath felt very precious to me and thou hath often on this Account been the Object of my hearty desires". June 4 17637 This letter is quoted partially in Geoffrey Plank's John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom 2012 but to our knowledge has never been published in full. Woolman had had a successful retail business in Mount Holly but had mostly retired from business to devote his time to ministry. In his Journal he discusses how the experience during his merchant years of writing a bill of sale for an enslaved person belonging to a fellow Quaker had solidified his abolitionist beliefs.8 In addition he felt strongly that the drive to acquire wealth and land was in itself harmful and warned fellow Quakers against the practice including acquisition with the aim of distributing it through inheritance.9 Woolman Family Land Division Document 1769 In the context of John Woolman's beliefs the 1769 land document is especially interesting. Samuel Woolman had like many other Quakers in the area acquired significant land holdings specifically to distribute them to his sons-of which by the time John left home there were seven alongside six sisters.10 The document divides the land as follows: "Asher Uriah Jonah and Abraham Woolman Made an assay to divide their Cedar Swamp into Two Equal parts: One half to be held by Asher & Abraham. And the Other half by Uriah & Jonah. And in order thereto Run a Line though ye Swamp from the north Side about Thirteen Chains & half from ye Lower Corner of ye Upper fifty Acres: South thirty nine illegible to a post for a Corner of ye South side of ye Swamp. Which is agreed shall Stand at a Division Line between ye Two Lots; & the day following they all mett at Jonahs House; And there Unanimously agreed: that Assher & Abraham Should hold as their full part and Share of ye Swamp: That Lot which Lays on ye Easterly side of sade Line And that Uriah & Jonah shall have for their text missing Residence of sd. Swamp saying on ye text missing That part of ye lower fifty acre text missing sold. --- And also at ye Division Asher & Abraham Agrees that Uriah & Jonah shall have one half of ye part of ye money due from Jos. Moore for a Lot sold him by Company. In Consideration of ye parts being thought to be of Less Value yn-ye other. NB It is agreed yt ye above mentioned Line through ye Swamp shall be Esstablesh as it now stands & ye trees mark'd where the Line is open: without any alteration: whether ye Line should prove straight or not As a Confirmation of ye above the Parties have here unto set their hands & seals Sealed & Deliver'd Abner Woolman in the illegible of Uriah Woolman Sarah Mullen Jonah Woolman Aaron Wills Woolman" For his part John Woolman had already inherited his portion of his father's land in 1750 and it was this land that financially supported his ministry as he steered away from what he called "the road to large business."11 He turned to various vocations primarily with an eye not to accumulation but to the basic need to provide a living for his family and support his ministry mainly through small-scale agriculture and a business in tailoring. The document itself is possibly in Woolman's own hand; checking against attributed documents available online suggests a similarity between the handwritings though with differences in some letters. In fact research suggests that Woolman had drawn up a large number of legal documents in his life with seventy identified and suggesting the existence of many more.12 Moreover it is interesting to see a legal document from the family outlining the very process warned against by Woolman. Two Unpublished Accounts of Hunt's and Woolman's Deaths 1772 In 1771 Woolman would travel to England and Holland and join with Hunt and Thornburgh where like his cousin he would contract smallpox dying within a month of Hunt in the fall of 1772. Thornburgh would also die from smallpox after a visit to Europe in 1787.13 William Tuke's letter to Rubin Haines about Woolman's death included in the letterbook has been published.14 However the letterbook also contains two lengthy letters on their deaths which from our research do not seem to have been published. One was sent from James King of Newcastle to Thomas Smith of London and describes Hunt's final days and death in detail: "Wm Hunt came to my house on the 26th past from Holland with his Nephew Thomas Thornbrough. Accompanied by Morris Berbick of Settle North Yorkshire; they attended our week days meeting on the 27th Return'd to my house with several friends About a Mile from Town and dined and appear'd to be very well next day he complaind of his head and after dinner stepd into Town . And next morning he layed Longer than usual I stept into his room and found he was hott He told me he intended to go into the country to dine at my Brothers in a Carriage to prevent catching more cold; I said I could not give consent to that til my surgeon pronounced it safe for him to go; who upon paying of him a visit order'd him to keep close in bed all day being the 29th he grew worse on the 30th And then I call'd in a Physician to attend him; who discoverd the smallpox appearing on the 31st: for on the 29th & 30th he was extreamly sick and had a continual Braiding & Vomitting with a slow-fever they filled pretty well and appeard promising til Second day last the 7th Atho' they were of the confluent kind when he was first attack'd with the second feaver very smartly of the Putrid kind and indeed we almost lost hope then . The physitian attended twice a day and on the 7th three Times and staid with him from 5 till 10 OClock at Night and came next morning about 5 OClock discovering a great anxiety for the preservation of so valuable a Life And on the evening of the eighth instant I went to bed in good hopes of his getting through; but alass alass; I was call'd up before one this morning A Sudden alteration for the worse had taken place the fever run high and Just att 3 OClock he departed this Life; And make no doubt he is translated to his Eternal rest; to our deep concern and Sorrow for the Churches sake - and for the sake of his dear Wife and Eight Children but his Great Gain . Both Physician & Surgeon who constantly attended him remark'd the steady Calm and patient nammer wherein he bore his Affliction The former Saying this is a man of Men indeed the serenity of his countenance denoted the Tranquility of his mind Being rais'd from Earthly to contemplate on heavenly things - Saying about an hour before he departed on my hearing Friends Truth is over all - in a sweet frame of mind - being preserv'd sensible to the Last." September 9 1772 The second comes from Thomas Thornburgh himself. Thornburgh's letter also mentions the health of Sarah and Debbey Morris updates his recipient on the locations of Robert Willis Samuel Emlen and Samuel Neal and requests his letter be forwarded to John Pemberton Israel Pemberton John Parish and their families. He also opens with an account of Hunt's passing: "He was taken unwell the third day after our return from Holland where we spent about Nineteen days to Good satisfaction; as he express'd in his last illness on reflecting on our journey thereto; it seemed always to afford satisfaction; we thought when he was first taken ill it proceeded from a Cold he had got at Sea but in about three days it appear'd to be the smallpox; Then it was thought advisable for me to leave him which was a sore trial upon me but he would not allow me to be about him; tho' before he would always have me with him their was a skillful physician and Apothecary call'd in who did all they could but to no effect; there was two friends whom he lov'd much that attended him night and Day to the Last; He express'd much satisfaction in their Company and with their care over and for him; He was very full and continued about twelve Days in perfect resignation to the Lord's Will; And then Quietly departed this Life with these Expressions; Truth reins over all the 9th of the 9mo 1772." December 10 1772 At Hunt's funeral at the Newcastle Friends Burying Ground in September "there was a large and comfortable meeting upon the occasion in which there was several Living and Precious Testimonies born for the promotion of that Great cause for which he was engaged and did so faithfully labour to spread and propagate among the Children of Men". Thornbury then describes the final days of John Woolman: "Some time after the Burial of my Dear Uncle I came to York to their Quarterly meeting where I mett with our Aforesaid Friend he complaind a little but attended most of the sittings of the Meetings but grew worse And in a few days appear'd to be the smallpox. I was with him till after they began to come out upon which he was desireous I should leave him the perfect resignation and sweetness of his mind was truely comfortable I heard him say he did not know he had a Will in it either to Live or Die; he Continued 13 or 14 Days and then in A very sweet fame of Mind departed this Life without Sigh or Groan or Struggle; The 7th of the 10th Month and was deacently Buryd in Friends burying Ground at York the 9th of the Same; Some little time before his departure he Ask'd for Pen & Ink it being very difficult for him to speak Intelligibly And at several Times wrote thus I Believe my being here is in the Wisdom of Christ I know not as to Life or Death". Images The collection also includes thirteen images and one lock of hair held in a mother-of-pearl egg. Most are unidentified; the identified subjects belong to later generations of the Woolman family. A quarter-plate daguerreotype of Alan Wood Lukens 1836-1885 is captioned "grandfather of Rev. H.C. Lukens"; Alan Lukens's son Frank Lukens was married to Edith Starr Churchman the great-great-granddaughter of Jonah Woolman John Woolman's brother. Churchman and Lukens's child was the aforementioned H.C. Horace Churchman Lukens. A printed photograph of Edith Anna Woolman Jonah Woolman's great-granddaughter and Edith Starr Churchman's mother is captioned "grandmother of Rev. H.C. Lukens." Also identified is a framed photograph of Elizabeth M. Haines and her daughter Edith Anna Woolman. Haines was married to Thomas Burr Woolman Jonah Woolman's grandson. Unidentified are three ambrotypes four daguerreotypes three photographs one porcelain portrait and the lock of "Nana's" hair. 1 Memoirs of William and Nathan Hunt Taken Chiefly From Their Journals and Letters Uriah Hunt & Son 1858 19. 2 Memoirs 47-48. 3 Memoirs 37-38. 4 "History Of The Meeting House" Willistown Friends Meeting accessed September 7 2026 https://willistownfriendsmeeting.com/menu. 5 Memoirs 74. 6 From the letterbook; this letter appears in Friends' Review V no. 39 June 12 1852: 611. 7 From the letterbook; this letter is quoted in Geoffrey Plank John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 116 but to our knowledge has not been published in full. 8 John Woolman A Journal of the Life Gospel Labours and Christian Experiences of that Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ John Woolman Friends' Bookstore Philadelphia 1883 31. 9 Geoffrey Plank John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom University of Pennsylvania Press 2012 91. 10 Plank John Woolman's Path 11. 11 John Woolman Memoir of John Woolman Chiefly extracted from a journal of his life and travels Tract Association of the Society of Friends 1856 13. 12 "John Woolman's Testamentary Experiences" Friends Journal 1 no. 18 October 1955 274-282. 13 Memoirs 24-25. 14 William Tuke "Letter from William Tuke On the Death of John Woolman" Friends' Miscellany vol. VIII no. 5 April 1836: 229-239. 15 Ethel Stanwood Bolton and Eva Johnston Coe American Samplers The Massachusetts Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1921 325. . unknown books
1864réf. 40121Trenton 1864. Broadside 8-1/2" x 11-1/4." Addressed in ink at head of text to "Hon. Bowers Esq." Dated in typescript "Trenton September 8 1864." Signed in type at the end by W.S. Johnson S.S. Stryker Jr. and I.D. James members of the Committee on Campaign Documents. Some chipping at upper and lower blank edges. Light wear Good or so. The broadside lists 36 campaign pamphlets supporting the re-election of Abraham Lincoln and denouncing the "Copperhead Democrats." The stakes in the election could not be higher: "Hitherto parties have been divided upon questions of policy; but in the present contest the issue is boldly made up between the maintenance of our Constitutional Government on the one hand and on the other of its base and cowardly surrender to more than half vanquished treason armed in bloody array for its overthrow and the erection on its ruins of a despotism more odious than the world has tolerated in modern times." Not in Felcone. Not located on OCLC as of February 2025. unknown books
1906réf. 159097New York: New York Labor News 1906. Paperback. 80p. wraps chipped along the edges else good condition. From the stock of the New York Labor News hence the publisher attribution. Some discussion of whether to endorse the IWW ultimately supported with a few delegates opposing. [New York Labor News] paperback books
1788réf. 42173Trenton: Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins 1788. 12mo. 40pp as issued. Stitched. Several crude repairs affecting portions of a few letters. Spotted. Good. This is one of two printings of this title by Collins. Ours is "Fitted to the latitude of forty degrees and a meridian of near five hours west from London." The other is "Carefully calculated for the latitude and meridian of Philadelphia by William Waring." FIRST EDITION. Felcone Printing in New Jersey 504. Evans 21569. Drake 5141. ESTC W22691. Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins unknown books
1784réf. 41949Trenton: Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins 1784. 12mo. 40pp as issued. Stitched. Untrimmed with chipping at blank edges and blank margins. Very Good. Anatomical illustration on page 2. With a four-line poem on the Air Balloon tables of roads and distances currency court schedules. FIRST EDITION. Felcone Printing in New Jersey 403. Evans 18811. Drake 5132. ESTC W29806. Printed and Sold by Isaac Collins unknown books
1848réf. 40142Trenton New Jersey 1848. 2-1/2 pages entirely in ink manuscript on pale blue stationery 8" x 10." At head of letter: a printed presidential sticker 1" x 2-1/2": "For President Zachary Taylor. For Vice President Millard Fillmore." Very Good. The Letter reflects Whigs' uncertainty about the direction of their Party. The most prominent Whigs Webster and Clay had failed to win the Presidency. Zachary Taylor a heroic general whose political opinions were a mystery seemed a better choice. "I have received the letter which you addressed to me on behalf of the Whig Executive Committee of the two Houses of Congress desiring information of the state of public opinion in this state in regard to the candidate for the Presidency & other political topics which now interest the Whig Party. I have shown it to my associates upon the Whig Central Committee of this state and conferred with them upon the subjects of your inquiry. "In regard to the Presidential candidate there is much division of opinion among the Whigs of New Jersey. Many of the most active and intelligent among them in every section of the state think that our candidate should be one whom we have never yet presented to the people. . . The minds of these persons are strongly turned towards Gen. Taylor. "Others equally active and intelligent and equally devoted to the Whig Party think otherwise and their entire hopes and affections centre in Mr. Clay whose nomination they ardently desire and with whom they feel assured of triumph. The minds of others rest on Gen. Scott tho this class is by no means as numerous as either of the others. "We confess ourselves unable to decide. . . Our State Convention to appoint delegates to the National Whig Convention will meet on 24th inst. and we await such further intelligence as the representations of the different counties in that body will bring us. . . The views which I have expressed are those of a majority of our Committee." Wilson's correspondent was Congressman Hugh White of New York State elected as a Whig to Congress 1845-1851. unknown books
1815réf. 32792Trenton: Printed by James J. Wilson 1815. Contemporary plain drab wrappers chipped stitched. 72pp. Light toning foxing and mild wear. Good. "John G. Duryee Owner" inscribed on title page. Felcone Collection 1053. AI 35442 1- Rutgers. OCLC locates five copies as of March 2016. Printed by James J. Wilson unknown books
1865réf. 18669Paterson N.J. 1865. 12pp stitched light soil and fox Good to Very Good. A campaign pamphlet favoring Ward's candidacy for Governor of New Jersey emphasizing his disinterested philanthropy especially his "generosity and self-sacrifice" toward Union soldiers. This pamphlet offers many examples of his patriotic War efforts and his benevolence. It offers "$1000 Reward!" for proof that he has accepted any money in exchange for his services in behalf of the Union and New Jersey soldiers. DAB sketches the life of Ward who won this election handily. Not in Sabin Bartlett. OCLC 29728681 3. unknown books
1841réf. 19688np 1841. Folded folio sheet. 3 1 address page in ink to Hon. D.B. Appleget pp. Several old folds spotted and moderately worn. Good. Expenses exceeded estimates. "The country through which the Road passes being densely populated and the lands especially in the neighborhood of the cities and towns highly cultivated and valuable great difficulty and expense were incurred in procuring the right of way." The document is signed at the end in type by J. Worthington Treasurer. Not located in Felcone American Imprints Sabin or on OCLC. unknown books
1852réf. 19687n 1852. Folded blue folio sheet. 3 1 blank pp. Horizontal fold resulting in one short closed margin tear no loss light wear. Good. The Company's balance sheet showing capital stock debt dividend payable value of equipment and other property data on passengers and freight carried. A report on accidents on the road is included. Not in Felcone whose bibliography includes reports printed in 1853 1854 1857 1858 1859. unknown books
1880réf. 119771880. JERSEY CITY. Wonderful late 19th century stiff paper stencil for "J. E. Burgess Teas & Coffees. 60 Montgomery St. Jersey City." Undated but probably late 1880s 18.5 x 19 cm. One very tiny defect in one letter of the address else very fine. A lovely stencil for a tea or coffee box label. unknown books
1866réf. 86291866. NEW JERSEY SILVER MINING CO. Engraved stock certificate. Ca. 1866. Unused. In excellent condition. Contains two handsome vignettes of ore mining operations. The New Jersey Silver Mining Company was incorporated in 1866 by J. Harris Cogell Andrew Dutcher and Joseph Tucker. unknown books
1855réf. 119721855. JERSEY CITY. Woodcut of the Jersey City waterfront ca. 1855. 5.5 x 10.5 cm. on a 12 x 17 cm. sheet. Foxing else very good. Most likely a proof impression and very possibly by Nathaniel Orr. Depicted are three paddle-wheel steamers sailboats and the huge N.J.R.R. building on the shore surrounded by factories and smokestacks. Similar engravings served as frontispieces of the annual New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company catalogues of the 1850s. unknown books
