Manuscript Group 1055, Johnson Family Papers, 1790 – 1904
Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs
MG
1055
Johnson
Family
Papers,
1790-1904
FOLDER
LIST
Folder 1
Dr. John Johnson: Letters, 1864-1899.
[5 items]
Dr.
John Johnson to Henry W. Johnson. News of Blairstown, N.J.
including religious and community affairs, railroad subscriptions
(1867); an Academy; regarding the death of Miss
Stillwell (1899) matters; family matters; Matawan, N.J.
Folder
2
Dr. John Johnson: Letters, 1900. [4 items]
John
Johnson to Henry W. Johnson. Family matters; news of death
of Mrs. A.M. Walton; servants; Atlantic City; Sallies
illness; work-related stress; politics.
Folder
3
Dr. John Johnson: Letters, 1901. [17 items]
John
Johnson/Samuel Johnson to Henry W. Johnson. Family matters;
operation on Samuel; letter from Anna M. Johnson to
Uncle Henry re: her fathers death
(Samuel); Samuels illness/death and his estate; some
discussion of Johns patients and friends; Blairstown
church renovations.
Folder
4
Dr. John Johnson: Letters, 1902. [6 items]
John
Johnson to Henry W. Johnson. Blair Hall/Blair Academy; Sussex
Sesquicentennial; winter storms and sick patients;
inappropriate investments in beer bonds; investments;
family matters and trips to Belmar, the Shore, and Pennsylvania;
Matawan, Blairstown, and Newton.
Folder
5
Dr. John Johnson: Letters, 1903. [12 items]
John
Johnson to Henry W. Johnson. Trains to Jersey City and New
York; stocks and investments; the Newton doctors;
family matters (sister Kate); local businesses; Blairstown.
Folder
6
Dr. John Johnson: Letters, 1904. [8 items]
John
Johnson to Henry W. Johnson. Family matters; Blairstown;
miscellaneous.
Folder
7
Samuel Johnson/Henry W. Johnson: Letters, 1858,
1865-1901.
[20 Items]
Financial
matters, dry-goods trade, Fourth of July celebration, Matawan
fire (1900), County Hotel Stables fire, church renovations,
family wedding, Woodward family.
Folder
8
William H. Johnson documents, 1820-1845. [22 items]
4th
Sargeant commission 1st regiment of
MilitiaNewton Ranger Co. (1821); 2nd Independent
Battalion of Sussex Brigade court of appeals (1827); estate of
John Couse (?); indenture, 1831; misc. receipts, accounts, etc.
Folder
9
Henry Johnson documents, 1797-1804, [1896]. [5
items]
Accounts with Manuel Hover (1797-1801); receipts and IOUs.
Folder
10
Widows documents: Anna, Rachel, & Rebecca
Johnson,
1815-1878.
[7 items]
Mainly
receipts: tuition paid, balance due on shoes, et al.;
Stillwater (1814); Rachel Johnsons
accounts with A. Shaver & Sons (1815); pension for Anna
M. Johnson.
Folder
11
Samuel and Johnathan Johnson documents, 1790, 1901.
[2 items]
Folder
12
Genealogical notes, ca. 1820. [2 items]
MG
1055
Johnson
Family
Papers,
1790-1904, bulk 1864-1904
0.25
linear ft. (110 items)
Correspondence,
financial records, and genealogical data concerning the Johnson
family of Monmouth, Sussex, and Warren counties. The bulk of the
collection is comprised of letters (1864-1904) written to Henry
W. Johnson of Long Branch and Matawan by his brother, Dr. John
Johnson, a Blairstown physician. Some letters in this
series were written to Henry Johnson by his other brother Samuel,
a Sussex County surrogate of Newton. Subjects covered in
letters include: religious and community affairs of
Blairstown, Newton and Matawan, N.J.; local fires; dry-goods
trade; and family health, travel and finance. Also includes
records retained by William Henry Johnson from 1821 to 1828 as an
officer in the Sussex County Militia; miscellaneous papers of the
widows Anna, Rachel, and Rebecca Johnson consisting primarily of
receipts and documents concerning widows pensions
(1815-1878); and accounts and miscellaneous documents (1797-1804)
of Henry Johnson.
Additional
Johnson Family related records at the Monmouth County Historical
Association.
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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