Title: New Jersey correspondence, 1773-1954.
Description: 39 items and 1 envelope.
Notes: Chiefly letters received or written by New Jersey residents. Persons, places, and dates represented include Elias Boudinot, Elisha Boudinot (1790-1803), Mahlon Dickerson, Lena Drinkhouse (Hackettstown, 1912-1914), William Halsted (Washington, D.C., 1838), Harold G. Hoffman (1932-1954), William Churchill Houston (Hunterdon County, 1785), Joyce Kilmer (1916), Joseph Kirkbride (Suckasunny Plains, 1812-1813), J.W. Lapsley (1847), Nevius family (1773), Simon Newcomb (1902), Samuel Osgood (1748-1813) (New York, 1786), Robert Woodworth Prentiss, John Vredenburgh Voorhees, Mrs. Keziah L. Welsh (Frenchtown, 1859-1879), Samuel Ross Winans (professor, Princeton University, 1904-1905), Peter Wyckoff (Morristown and Crosswicks, 1779), and S. R. Wynkoop (agent for Maryland Colonization Society, 1836).

Acquired from various sources. Additions expected. A composite collection consisting of small groups of papers or single items listed separately by the repository. Some are described in: A Guide to the Manuscript Collection of the Rutgers University Library / compiled by Herbert F. Smith (1964), entries 310, 349, 413, 459.

Afro-Americans -- Colonization -- Societies, etc.
Slavery -- Anti-slavery movements.
Crosswicks (N.J.)
Frenchtown (N.J.)
Hackettstown (N.J.)
Hunterdon County (N.J.)
Morristown (N.J.)
New York (State)
Succasunna Plains (N.J.)
Washington (D.C.)
New Jersey -- Family and personal papers.
Princeton (N.J.) -- Education -- Universities and colleges.
Maryland -- Societies, etc.
Maryland State Colonization Society.
Princeton University -- Faculty -- Personal and professional papers.

Voorhees, John Vredenburgh, 1819-1899.
Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821.
Boudinot, Elisha, 1749-1819.
Dickerson, Mahlon, 1770-1853.
Drinkhouse, Lena.
Halsted, William, 1794-1878.
Hoffman, Harold Giles, 1896-1954.
Houston, William Churchill, ca. 1746-1788.
Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918.
Kirkbride, Joseph, b. 1761.
Lapsley, John W.
Nevius family.
Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909.
Osgood, Samuel, 1748-1813.
Prentiss, Robert Woodworth.
Welsh, Keziah L., Mrs.
Winans, Samuel Ross, 1855-1910.
Wyckoff, Peter, fl. 1778-1779.
Wynkoop, S. R. (Stephen Ross), 1806-1876.

Source:

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)

Rutgers University Libraries
New Brunswick, New Jersey.