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1665 - 1954

Unknown

Typed document

Title: Listing of all New Jersey Governors from 1665-1954

GLC03769.048

8 March 1712

Cooper, Elizabeth (fl. 1712-)

Autograph document signed

Title: [certifying David Shaw's right to a particular piece of land]

GLC03769.198

7 September 1734

Unknown

Autograph document signed

Title: Philadelphia County Court case description

GLC03769.136

16 June 1791

Hite, John (fl. 1735-)

Autograph document signed

Title: [Conditions of money owed]

GLC03769.153

1 May 1739 - 28 May 1739

Unknown

Typed document

Title: Account of a surveyer report on the Pennyslvania and Maryland boundary

photographs on back with biography

GLC03769.026.03

7 October 1742

Unknown

Autograph document signed

Title: [affidavit]

difficult to read but probably a legal document

GLC03769.038

31 January 1759

Unknown

Object

Title: letter seal, separated

for William Denny

GLC03769.033.01

December 1759

Galloway, Joshua (fl. 1759-)

Autograph document signed

Title: last will and testament of Adam Andres

GLC03769.086

21 September 1762

Cruger, John, 1709 - 1791

Autograph document signed

Title: [acknoweldgement of a statement received before him as mayor]

GLC03769.186

14 March 1763

Lewis, Morgan, 1754 - 1844

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Dudley Walsh

GLC03769.169.02

8 July

Nesbitt, James (fl. ?_)

Autograph document signed

Title: Meeting notes

lawyer advises them to settle any accounts they have against Rev. johnston

GLC03769.137

14 July 1763

Herrick, Myron T., 1854 - 1929

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

GLC03769.162.03

15 July 1763

Unknown

Newspaper clipping

Title: Children's bill becomes law

GLC03769.159.01

5 August 1763

Kefson, William (fl. ?-)

Autograph document signed

Title: supreme court ruling to take Charles Duryee into custody

GLC03769.027

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: list of items purchased from goodspeed's bookshop

includes official documents signed by former governors of New Jersey

GLC03769.035.01

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record of Frederick Frelinghuysen

GLC03769.041

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record of Frederick Frelinghuysen and his three sons

GLC03769.042

1763-1783

Unknown

Autograph document

Title: [planning school districts]

on the back, a tirade against liqour

GLC03769.043

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record of Francis B. Ogden

GLC03769.045

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record of Richard J. Hughes

GLC03769.046

1763-1783

Parker, Joel, 1816-1888

Signature

Title: signatures of three New Jersey governors: Joel Parker, William Pennington, and Joseph Bloomfield.

GLC03769.049

1763-1783

Unknown

Newspaper clipping

Title: Cover design of illustrated booklet containing the program of the annual governor's conference

GLC03769.050

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record for Robert B. Meyner

GLC03769.051

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record for Walter Evans Edge

GLC03769.052

1763-1783

Unknown

Typed document

Title: biographical record for George S. Silzer

GLC03769.053

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