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Manuscript Group 1193, Dr. George Wyckoff Cummins Collection, 1762 - 1893

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Manuscript Group 1193, Dr. George Wyckoff Cummins

Collection, 1762 - 1893. 6 linear feet

Call Number: MG 1193

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A large collection of Pennsylvania and New Jersey legal documents and correspondence. Included are letters received by Mercer County, Pennsylvania, attorney Samuel Holstein, 1832-1888; surveys, maps and legal documents concerning Belvidere Estate in the Township of Oxford, Sussex County (later Warren County); deeds and legal papers concerning the Croxall family of Sussex County, 1762-1893; letters received by Garret D. Wall of Trenton, N.J., 1823-1849; receipts and accounts of Philadelphia merchant Stephen Dutilh with masters and captains of various ships, 1780-1831; summonses, summaries of decisions and other papers of the Warren County Circuit Court, 1842-1863; and lists of cases brought before the Warren County Court, 1820s-1860s. Also included is material relative to Peter Vroom and Dr. Robert Bond and miscellaneous legal papers pertaining to the New Jersey courts of chancery, appeals, and supreme court.

Gift of the Hackettstown Historical Society, 1983.

Collection, 1762-1863, of Dr. George Wyckoff Cummins (1865-1942) of Belvidere, N.J. (Warren County). A graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (1890), he was also granted a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale (1887), where he served as a physiological chemistry and mathematics instructor. Dr. Cummins practiced medicine in Belvidere for nearly fifty years and played an active role in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Medical Association of New Jersey. He is known for inventing improved methods of annealing copper, iron, and copper wire, and in addition, he is the author of The History of Warren County, Indian Relics around Belvidere, and The Annealing of Copper.

The collection consists of Pennsylvania and New Jersey legal documents and correspondence organized in three groups. The records of Warren County Circuit Court and the New Jersey Supreme Court comprise the bulk of the collection, and include cases, subpoenas, summonses, summaries of decisions, and other legal documents (1820s-1860s). The second group consists of papers of Warren County residents, including deeds, subpoenas, court records, wills, letters, receipts, and other items, arranged alphabetically by surname. Of note is an account book (1857-1863) from a saw mill in Vienna, N.J; a photograph of a lynching (n.d.); and letters (1824-1888) addressed to Samuel Holstein, a Mercer County, Pennsylvania, lawyer.

The third group contains legal documents and correspondence of prominent men from Warren County, N.J., including deeds, letters, petitions, and maps (1762-1893) of the Croxall family concerning their property in the township of Oxford, the Belvidere estate. Also, papers of Garret D. Wall (1783-1850), a U.S. Senator and lawyer based in Trenton, N.J., who handled the affairs of the Croxall family, and who eventually gained ownership of Belvidere estate; letters and documents of Peter D. Vroom (1791-1873), a New Jersey Governor; his son, Garret D.W. Vroom (1843-1914); and Dr. Robert Bond (1853-1891), as well as public records from other New Jersey counties. Of interest are letters and receipts (1780-1831) of Stephen and John Dutilh, a merchant and shipping firm located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gift of the Hackettstown Historical Society, 1983.

Container List:

Box	Folder	Title	Date

SERIES 1: Warren County and New Jersey Supreme Court Records:
Warren Circuit Court:
1	1	Warren Circuit Court (11 items)	1830-1834
"	2	Warren Court lists (13 Items)	1820s
"	3	Warren Circuit Court (30 items)	1835-1839
"	4	Warren Circuit Court (16 items) (Folder 1 of 2)	1840
"	5	Warren Circuit Court (25 Items) (Folder 2 of 2)	"
"	6	Warren Circuit Court (26 items) (Folder 1 of 4)	1841
"	7	Warren Circuit Court (33 items) (Folder 2 of 4)	"
8	"	Warren Circuit Court (29 items) (Folder 3 of 4)	"
"	9	Warren Circuit Court (20 items) (Folder 4 of 4)	"
"	10	Warren Circuit Court Lists (13 items)	1842-1844
"	11	Warren Circuit Court Lists (18 items)	1845-1849
"	12	Warren Circuit Court Lists (17 items)	1850-1855
"	13	Warren Circuit Court Lists (20 items)	1856-1859
"	14	Warren Circuit Court Lists (4 items)	1860

Warren County Public Records:
2	1	Warren Court (5 items)	1842

2 “ (2 items) 1844

3 Warren Circuit Court (24 items) 1845

4 “ , Jan-March (27 items) 1846

5 “ , Apr-June (21 items) “

6 “ , Jul-Sept (20 items) “

7 “ , Oct-Dec (13 items) “

8 Warren Court (19 items) 1847

9 “ (3 items) 1848

10 Warren Circuit Court (5 items) 1849

11 “ (4 items) 1851

12 Warren Court (3 items) 1852

13 Warren Circuit Court, Feb-June (18 items) 1858

14 “ , Jul-Dec (17 items) “

15 Warren Court (3 items) 1859

16 “ (2 items) 1863

Miscellaneous public records:

3 1 Deeds (15 items) 1738-1849

2 Warren Court of Small Causes (16 items) 1837-1849

3 Warren County Subpoenas (67 items) 1835, 1849

4 New Jersey Chancery (5 items) 1804,1810, 1817

Box Folder Title Date

3 5 New Jersey Court of Appeals (1 item) 1809

6 New Jersey Chancery Court (12 items) 1816-1881

7 New Jersey Supreme Court (6 items) 1789-1829

8 “ (22 items) 1791-1829

9 “ (3 items) 1823-1828

10 Mercer County Court of Oyer & Terminer,

“Jail Deliveries” (1 item)

SERIES 2: Residents of Warren County:

Public documents, indentures, deeds, wills, and receipts,

alphabetized by surname:

4 1 Photograph of a lynching, n.p. n.d.

2 A (12 items) 1782-1879

3 B (21 items) 1762-1849

4 C (21 items) 1824-1903

5 D (14 items) 1829-1874

6 E-F (10 items) 1772-1835

7 G (10 items) 1805-1828

8 H (25 items) 1734-1848

9 I-J-K-L (23 items) 1814-1902

10 M-N (19 items) 1815-1871

11 O-P (18 items) 1746 (copy) ,1815-1851 12 R (9 items) 1713-1842 13 S (18 items) (Folder 1 of 2) 1815-1863

14 S-T (21 items) (Folder 2 of 2) 1784-1835

15 V-W (14 items) 1809-1901

16 Misc. (25 items) (Folder 1 of 2) 1807-1863

17 “ (33 items) (Folder 2 of 2) 1760-1835

Family files, alphabetized (but arranged by either sender‘s name

or receiver‘s name, or with deeds, by grantor or grantee):

5 1 Albertson (7 items)

2 Angle (10 items)

3 Applegate (1 item)

4 Ayer (10 items)

5 Bud (Bird) (3 items)

6 Blair (12 items)

7 Bowne (5 items)

8 Coxe (29 items)

9 Cramer (2 items)

10 Cummins, G.W. (9 items)

11 Dahlke (5 items)

Box Folder Title Date

5 12 Dallas (2 items)

13 Dayton, A.O. (1 item)

14 Dickerson, Philemon (5 items)

15 Dils (1 item)

16 Engel (26 items)

17 Everitt, Zenas (25 items)

18 Frazee (1 items)

19 Gibbon vs. Ogden (5 items)

20 Gordon, Thomas (1 item)

21 Green, Ashbel, Jr. (1 item)

22 Gross, George J. (16 items)

23 Hagerman (3 items)

24 Hall (4 items)

25 Hampton (3 items)

26 Hays (4 items)

27 Hoff (2 items)

28 Horn (2 items)

29 Houston, Williams Chamberlain (1 item)

30 Jones (2 items)

31 Kern, John (39 items)

32 Kitchen (4 items)

33 McDonald (4 items)

34 McMurtrie (2 items)

35 McWhorten, A. (1 item)

36 Morton, Levi P. (1 item)

37 Polhemin, Peter (3 items)

38 Polly, Hart etal. (11 items)

39 Quick (1 item)

40 Randle (14 items)

41 Raub (44 items)

6 1 Rhea (24 items) 1770-1816

2 Ribble (5 items) 1845-1865

3 Rickey (4 items) 1823-1829

4 Saxton, Nathaniel (22 items) 1806-1833

5 Sowthard, Samuel (16 items) 1813-1824

6 Stevens, John C., etc. (1 item) 1825

7 Stockton, Elizabeth (8 items) 1817-1824

8 Stockton, Richard (1 item) n.d.

9 Swayze (1 item) 1830

10 TenEyck (3 items) 1809-1829

11 VanAulen (2 items) n.d.

12 Vanderveer, Jeremiah (33 items) 1803-1823

Box Folder Title Date

6 13 VanPelt (2 items) n.d.

14 Vanscote (7 items) 1824-1849

15 Vliet (2 items) 1834

16 Wildrich (4 items) 1842

17 Winans (4 items) 1803-1825

18 Wykoff (6 items) 1807-1849

Letters addressed to Samuel Holstein, a lawyer in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, 1824-1888:

7 1 Correspondence (23 items) 1824-1831

2 “ (35 items) 1832-1836

3 “ (24 items) 1837-1841

4 “ (26 items) 1842-1845

5 “ “ 1846-1848

6 “ (28 items) 1849-1888

SERIES 3: Papers of prominent men and their families from Warren County, N.J., as well as public records from other New Jersey counties, and a merchant firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

The Croxall family and the Belvidere estate:

8 1 Maps of Belvidere farm, “Belvidere & its Capabilities”

(re: Belvidere and Trenton R.R.) (3 items)

2 Maps of Belvidere estate (1818, 1836, n.d.), excerpts copied

from Sussex County road book (1836) of roads in

Belvidere survey points calculated for the building of a

millrace. (13 items)

3 Belvidere estate, receipts of debts paid to Human G. Rutgers,

certificate of value of Belvidere estate. (5 items) 1804-1821

4 Croxall family, correspondence related to land transfers and

mortgages (60 items) 1762-1893,n.d.

5 Croxall family, legal papers related to land transfers and

mortgages (56 items) 1805-1829, n.d.

6 Croxall family, petition to Joseph Bloomfield, Chancery

Court, regarding history and current disposition of

of the Belvidere estate. (6 items)

7 Croxall family, includes 3 petitions to Mahlon Dickerson,

one to G.H. Williamson (15 items)

8 Croxall family, includes letter from Joseph Bloomfield to

Isaac Williamson (8 items) 1793-1827, n.d.

Box Folder Title Date

8 9 Croxall family (6 items) 1816-1820, n.d.

10 petition to Joseph Bloomfield regarding history and

disposition of Belvidere estate. (1 item)

Garret D. Wall:

9 1 Letter to Mr. Wall from Gen‘l Joseph Bloomfield,

Sept. 30. (1 item) 1799

2 Letters (18 items) 1806-1812

3 Letters, letters from Charles and Thomas Croxall to

G.D. Wall (6 items) 1813

4 Letters, from Croxalls, Isaac Williamson (10 items) 1814

5 Letters, from Croxalls (19 items) 1815 6 Letters, from Croxalls (23 items) 1816

7 Letters, petition to Chancery Court, Charles Croxall and

wife vs. Joseph Macky & defendants (27 items) 1817

8 Letters, from Croxalls, from “Monmouth Furnace” (17 items) 1818

9 Letters, from Croxalls, including a letter (Aug. 10^th) from

Thomas, giving an account of an accident, and a letter

from Daniel requesting school financial aid (14 items) 1819

10 Letters, from Croxalls and others (24 items) 1820

11 Letters, from Croxalls, Wm. McIlvaine, James B. Caldwell,

Saxton, Thomas Bradford, Jr. (21 items) 1821

12 Letters, from Croxalls, George, Wood, A.A. Brown, Samuel

Park, Wm. Stockton. Includes a letter (Oct. 1) from

Thomas Croxall warning of the county being divided,

asking for Wall‘s assistance in passing a bill (19 items) 1822

Garrett D. Wall and James T. Wall:

10 1 Letters, from D. Croxall, G.W. Robertson, H. Hall, Wm.

Griffith, Buck Krumbhaar, John Greener (15 items) 1823

2 Letters, from T. Croxall, Wm. M. McIlvaine, Edw.
Hallowell, copy letter from G.D. Wall to Dr. George

Gillaspy, bill to foreclose: Matthias O. Halsted vs. Morris

Croxall and others (43 items) 1824

3 Letters, from Claudius F. LeGrand, list of encumbrances on

the Croxall property, letters from J. Kinney, Jr., articles

of agreement betw. C.F. LeGrand and wife and Morris

Croxall and Garrett D. Wall (Sept. 13^th) (29 items) 1825

4 Letters, and letter of introduction “to obtain aid from the

gov‘t for a “very important canal” (11 items) 1826

5 Letters, from Lucius Elmer, Thomas Day, Hugh Hamilton,

Geo. Wood, Sherrerd, cases of Sarah Coxe and Daniel

Coxe (29 items) 1827

Box Folder Title Date

10 6 Letters (9 items) 1828

7 Letters, from G.D. Wall to J. Quick & Son, deed for lands

of Zion Church in Belvidere, pension correspondence (14 items) 1829

8 Letters, and agreement betw. G.D. Wall and Abraham

Brown of Mt. Holly (20 item) 1840-1849

9 Letters (26 items)

10 Letters of James T. Wall (21 items) 1863-1888

11 “Plan of the Town of Belvidere” - logo design and

instructions for printer (16 items)

12 Letters of G.D. Wall, from Morris Croxall, Charles

Croxall, Protestant Episcopal Church vs Samuel

Stockton (6 items) n.d.

13 Letters, from Robt. Habersham, Wachsmuth (6 items) n.d.

14 Letters, indenture betw. G.D. Wall, his wife Anna M.,

and Abraham Brown (10 items) n.d.

Peter D. Vroom, Garret D.W. Vroom, and Dr. Robert Bond:

11 1 P.D. Vroom, a deed, public documents (7 items) pre-1829

2 Letter from Wm. B. Paterson to P.D. Vroom, April 18^th1824

3 Letter from David P. ____ to P.D. Vroom, Feb. 16^th 1827

4 P.D. Vroom, letters received, including Delaware

Dam Report of Commissioners (Jan. 7^th, 1832)

(9 items) 1830-1839

5 P.D. Vroom, letters rec‘d, letters from Belvidere (16 items) 1840-1849 6 “ , letters rec‘d (11 items) 1850-1859

7 “ , letters rec‘d, including discussion of

Croxall deeds, letters for James M. Wall, L.R.

Ransom (34 items) 1860-1869

8 P.D. Vroom, letters rec‘d, including letter from A.B.

Searles, Belvidere (8 items) 1870-1879

9 P.D. Vroom, letters (2 items) 10 Garret D.W. Vroom (1 item)

Dr. Robert Bond, Re: appointments, business and

finances, politics, family, household purchases, and

some pharmaceutical receipts:

11 Letters and receipts (19 items) 1884-1885

12 Receipts (22 items) 1886

13 Letters received (Jan-June) (38 items) 1886

14 Letters received (Jul-Dec) (74 items) “

15 Letters (2 items) 1882

Box Folder Title Date

11 16 Letters and receipts (58 items) 1889

17 Letter (1 item) 1890

18 Letters (44 items) 1891

19 Miscellaneous (12 items)

12 1 Hunterdon Inferior Court of Common Pleas (5 items) 1805,1824, 1825

2 Cancery Court of New Jersey (12 items) 1818, 1825, n.d.

3 Everitt papers, including indenture (4 items)

4 Deeds and indentures of Burlington, Hunterdon, and

Monmouth Counties, N.J.; also, Northampton

County, Pennsylvania (11 items) 1795-1825, n.d.

5 Dutilh; accounts and letters of a merchant firm,

Stephen and John Dutilh, based in Philadelphia.

Many letters are in French. Ship names include

Speedwell, Indiana, Lexington. (55 items) 1803-1831, n.d.

6 Dutilh; also includes another partner, Wachsmuth

(57 items) 1790-1802

7 Dutilh, correspondence (15 items) 1780-1789

8 Hunterdon County Petition against division of county,

dated Oct. 14^th (1 item) 1794

9 Miscellaneous papers (19 items) 1796-1886

Initial processing of this collection was provided as part of the "Farm to City" project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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