Manuscript Group 1193, Dr. George Wyckoff Cummins Collection, 1762 – 1893
Archives Documents, Manuscripts, Maps, & Photographs
Manuscript Group 1193, Dr. George Wyckoff Cummins
Collection, 1762 – 1893. 6 linear feet
Call Number: MG 1193
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.
| 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. 10th)
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. 13th)
(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 18th
1824
3
Letter from David P. ____ to P.D. Vroom, Feb. 16th
1827
4
P.D. Vroom, letters received, including Delaware
Dam Report of Commissioners (Jan. 7th, 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. 14th
(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
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