Details

Subject(s)

• Fourth of July orations—19th century [Browse]
• Newspaper publishing—New Jersey—History [Browse]
• New Jersey—History [Browse]
• Perth Amboy (N.J.)—History—19th century—Sources [Browse]
• Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Correspondence [Browse]
• Genealogies [Browse]
• Speeches [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

1809-1939

Restrictions note

Open for research/.

Summary note

• Consists of historical papers of New Jersey collected by New Jersey historian Harold E. Pickersgill and related correspondence and newspaper clippings.
• The collection consists of Pickersgill's correspondence, historical papers of New Jersey collected by him, and newspaper clippings. Included are correspondence with historical societies and individuals interested in New Jersey history; 19th-century speeches, including two Fourth of July orations given in Perth Amboy by Mayor Solomon Andrews; a description of deeds in the Henry Reeves estate; an unpublished, typed manuscript (carbon) of a history of newspaper publishing in New Jersey; and a typed transcript of board meeting minutes entitled "East New Jersey's Proprietors Journal, 1685-1705." There are also genealogical notes on the Jennings family of New Jersey and the Vroomans of New York.

OCLC

1407928690

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