Manuscript Group 18, Parker Family (Perth Amboy, NJ) Papers, 1676-1946

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

Letters
and Documents

1764-1796

1

1

James
Parker: letters, drafts, documents

1766-1786

1

2

Documents
regarding Springfield lands

ca.
1770-1789

1

3

Manuscripts
relating to Gov. John Penn

ca.
1764-1770

1

4

Manuscripts
relating to Gov. John Penn

1764-1770

1

5

James
Parker, letter to Mr. John Cooley (?)

August
20, 1794

1

6

“Papers
in the matter of the sale of Undrawn lots in Sussex Allotments, John
Rutherford and James Parker Properties” (folder 1 of 2)

1818-1846

1

7

“Papers
in the matter of the sale of Undrawn lots in Sussex Allotments, John
Rutherford and James Parker Properties” (folder 2 of 2)

1818-1846

1

8

Papers
relating to Walter Livingston’s rights to 2/5 of the estate of the late
Andrew Herriot

1789-1796

1

9

Philip
Kearny Skinner: Papers relating to his Estate in New Jersey (folder 1 of
2)

1731-1792

1

10

“
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(folder 2 of 2)

1

11

Documents
regarding the sale of Undrawn lots in Sussex

1818-1848

1

12

“
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(folder 2 of 2)

1

13

Saddle
River Ejectment Case

1754-1766

Surveys,
Estates, Deeds and Patents

1824-1796

2

1

Documents
Confiscated Estates

ca.
1784-1796

2

2

Robert
Barker, lands in Hunterdon County   (folder 1 of 2)

ca.
1765-1785

2

3

“
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2

4

Documents
re: Proprietary Surveys in Passaic, Bergen, and Morris Counties.

ca.
1785-1796

2

5

Sussex
County leases   (folder 1 of 3)

ca.
1765-1795

2

6

“
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2

7

“
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2

8

John
Johnstone lease to James Silver

ca.
1724-1732

2

9

Documents:
proprietary lands- James Parker and William Throckmorton

ca.
1754-1768

2

10

Letters,
John Barberie and Andrew Johnston to James Parker

ca.
1757-1761

2

11

Documents:
Peapack Patent, Part I (folder 1of 2)

1768-1787

2

12

“
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2

13

Documents:
Romopock Tract, Franklin Township, Bergen County

ca.1795

2

14

Peapack
Agreements, Part I    (folder 1 of 3)

ca.
1794-1798

2

15

“
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2

16

“

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Tracts,
Estates, Allotments, Business Papers and Leases

3

1

Peapack
Leases

ca.
1765

3

2

Sussex
Allotments (Rutherford Powers of Atty.)

ca.
1793-1835

3

3

James
Parker, memoranda, business papers.  “New Brunswick Period”

1784-1795

3

4

John
Parker & James Parker: statements of Account

ca.
1751-1759

3

5

Dr.
Johnston’s Estate, Toms River and Manasquan

1763-1820

3

6

Documents:
Samuel Hake vs. Lord Stirling (1 of 2)

ca.
1789-1792

3

7

“
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(folder 2 of 2)

3

8

Documents
regarding Philip French Estate, Part I (1 of 2)

1783-1790

3

9

“
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“         , Part II (2 of 2)

1783-1790

3

10

New
Brunswick Lots

1790-1795

3

11

Parker
deed (loaned by Estate of the late Cortlandt Parker)

3

12

Receipts

1794-1795

3

13

Sharon
Plantation Dispute, Part I

1737-1793

3

14

“
“
, Part II

“
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3

15

Real
Estate Memoranda, Part I

ca.
1780-1820

3

16

ca.
1780-1820

3

17

Documents:
Society Tract

1794-1795

Land
Surveys

1698-1894

4

1

Jacob
Smyth property, Perth Amboy

1787-1789

4

2

Middlesex
County Lands

1790

4

3

“Transactions
with Oliver Barberie”

1793

4

4

John
Johnston’s Estate (land in Cumberland Co.)

1730-1755

4

5

Miscellaneous
Documents, Part I (folder 1 of 2)

ca.
1702-1841

4

6

“V.
D.”   Miscellaneous Documents, Part II  (folder 2 of
2)

1702-1841

4

7

Paterson’s
Land

1738-1792

4

8

Correspondence: James
Parker, W. Smith, and J. Plenderleath

1789-1793

4

9

Account
of paper currency, Pennsylvania letter of James Tilghman to John Penn

ca.
1750-1772

4

10

Indenture
between John Cochran and Walter Livingston

1792

4

11

New
Jersey Land Surveys , Part I

1686-1791

4

12

1686-1791

4

13

1676-1791

4

14

New
Jersey Land Surveys,  Part I

1792-1801

4

15

“
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4

16

New
Jersey Land Surveys

1802-1832

4

17

1790-?

4

18

1850-1894

4

19

“
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N.
D.

Correspondence

1718-1906

5

1

Letters
(sent, filed, and posted)  (folder 1 of 4)

1793

5

2

1794-1799

5

3

1750-1786

5

4

1787-1789

5

5

Letters

1790

5

6

1791-1792

5

7

Correspondence

1800-1824

5

8

1826

5

9

Parker
Family correspondence

1829-1837

5

10

1838-1847

5

11

1848-1906

5

12

Letters
received

1716/17-1764

5

13

1765-1783

5

14

Letters,
received (Filed and Posted)

1784-1786

5

15

“
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“
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1787-1790

5

16

Miscellaneous
letters

N.
D.

6

1

Letters
received

1791-1792

6

2

Letters
received (Filed and posted)

1793

6

3

Letters
received (Filed and posted)

1794-1799

6

4

Correspondence
between James Parker and his son Cortlandt

1865-1867

6

5

New
Jersey Historical Society, Correspondence

1925-1930

6

6

1930-1931

6

7

1932

6

8

1935-1946

6

9

Parker
family materials relating to Northampton Co., Virginia and to the Hog
Island Swindle of 1764-1804

1711-1804

6

10

Materials
relating to Northampton Co., Virginia and to the Hog Island Swindle of
1764-1804

1711-1804

6

11

Correspondence
between James Parker II and Peter D. Vroom

1836-1837

6

12

Correspondence
of Charles W. Parker

ca.
1920-1930s

6

13

Correspondence
of Cortlandt Parker (folder 1 of 3)

1835-1837

6

14

1838-1867

6

15

1875-1900

6

16

Correspondence
of Cortlandt Parker including a letter to William A. Whitehead, Collector
of the Customs,  Key West, Fla. (1838) and copy letters.

1838-1852

Deeds
and Indentures

1763-1860

7

1

Transcriptions
(incomplete) of land indentures and deeds (in oversize location)

1682-1725

7

2

Transcriptions
of indentures and deeds (incomplete) (transferred to oversized location)

1726-1730

7

3

1731-1763

7

4

Transcriptions
(incomplete set) of indentures of deeds of Elisha Parker (transferred to
oversize location)

1680-1717

7

5

Typescript
of indenture (original transferred to oversize)

June
8th, 1764

7

6

Land,
indentures, and deeds

March-October
1788

7

7

“
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October
1788

7

8

Indentures
and deeds

1789

7

9

Land,
indentures, and deeds (folder 1 of 3)

1790-1880

7

10

“
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7

11

“
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7

12

Land
Advertisements

1719-1790

7

13

Mary
Cox, deposition on Chestnut Brook and Spotswoods

Beginning
November 1, 1753

7

14

Note
pertaining to James Parker

April
12, 1776

7

15

Calculation
of Agreement

1773-1796

7

16

Correspondence:
James Parker and John Rutherfurd (also, letter from James Johnston)

1764-1786

Land
Transactions

8

1

East
and West Jersey Society Records (folder 1 of 2)

1708-1794

8

2

“
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“       (photo stats)  (2 of 2)

“
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8

3

James
Parker, articles of agreement  (folder 1 of 2)

1773-1796,
1860

8

4

8

5

Memoranda
re:  Land Transaction (folder 1 of 2)

1717-1799

8

6

“
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8

7

Letters,
re: patents ?

1701-1795

8

8

Land,
indentures, deeds

1769-1787

8

9

Lewis
Morris, Warrant to T. Gardiner, West Jersey Surveyor General [3 copies]

September
10th, 1708

8

10

James
Parker, Warrant for 1200 acres[positive and negative photo stats]

September
15th, 1761

8

11

James
Stevens, acknowledgment of the receipt of money for the place sold to
Benjamin Wright.

November
16, 1789

8

12

Sir
Robert Barker, title searchers

N.
D.

8

13

May
27, 1792-July 3,1794

8

14

Philip
Skinner, title search

ca.
August 1760

8

15

Virginia
Lands Papers [mss., copies, US Congressional docs.]

1779-1835

8

16

James
Parker, New Valuation of Lots no. 3 & 4

September
3rd, 1794

8

17

Statement
& proposals of sale of the estate of Sir Robert Barker

March
3rd, 1789

8

18

Hunterdon
Co., N. J. warrant of distress against Jonas Parker and David Drake

July
10th, 1790

8

19

Warrants

1692-1766

8

20

Parker
Family, misc. legal papers (includes some typescripts)

1703-1849

Parker
family Financial Papers

1686-1790’s

9

1

Leases
and Releases

1680-1789

9

2

September
10, 1795

9

3

James
Parker II, conditions of sale

1825-1834

9

4

James
Parker, title to 1000 acres of unappropriated land

N.
D.

9

5

Robert
Barker, power of attorney for Thomas Byerleg (copy)

July
29,1706

9

6

Title
searchers

1725-1819

9

7

Robert
Barker, last will and testament [Extracted from the registry of the
prerogative court of Canterbury] & codicils

1788,
1789, 1793

9

8

Sir
Robert Barker, Last Will and Testament

May
7th, 1789

9

9

Will
of James Parker (and Register’s office copy, 1823)

1797

9

10

Photo
stats and typescripts of last will and testament of Frederick Smyth,
probated (1815)

February
14th, 1815

9

11

Philip
Kearny, power of attorney for James Parker

September
1, 1783

9

12

1786

9

13

Power
of attorney to James Parker II

May
1, 1847

9

14

John
Fenton, bond to Benjamin Johnston

May
30, 1719

9

15

Legal
memorandum, N. Y. State Supreme Court

1733

9

16

W.
P. Kearny, petition

April
10, 1771

9

17

June
7, 1775

9

18

1709-1797

9

19

NJ
Supreme  Court, Executions Returnable at the September term 1776

1776

9

20

NJ
Supreme Court, minutes of September term at Perth Amboy

September
3-7, 1776

9

21

Debt
of Jacob Gearhart to Jerimiah Slaght

August
13, 1787

9

22

James
and Cortlandt Parker, insurance policies on merchant ships

1784-1805

9

23

James
Kinsey, “The Case of Barker and Pemberton”

N.
D.

9

24

Acts
of the NJ Legislature

1738-1861

9

25

James
Parker II, papers on the Coats’ Estate

1828-1846

9

26

James
Parker, account books (2)

1753,
1754-1757

9

27

List
of rents

ca.
1765-1793

9

28

Account
book from sloop “Eliza”

1785-1786

9

29

William
Robison, Jr., account

1686-1713

9

30

New
Brunswick, N. J., account book

1784-1785

9

31

James
Parker I, accounts

ca.
1770-1797

10

1

Cortlandt
Parker, accounts current with West Indies

1798-1801

10

2

James
Parker II, accounts

ca.
1800-1830

10

3

Elisha
Parker II, account book pertaining to the estates of John Parker and
Jennet Parker.

1744-1751

10

4

Misc.
accounts

10

5

Construction
costs for Parker House

1764

10

6

Receipt
of the Earl of Stirling

December
29th, 1775

10

7

James
Parker II (1776-1868), account book

1862-1867

10

8

James
Parker II, newspaper account book

1864-1867

10

9

Receipts
and promissory notes

1746-1912

10

10

Various
receipts of James Parker I

ca.
1780-1790s

10

11

Parker
“Castle”

1701-1938

10

12

James
Parker II, notes on the state of New Jersey (2 drafts)

ca.
1820

10

13

1710,
1754

10

14

James
Parker (1725-97), “Minutes of transactions….”

1751-1754

10

15

James
Parker (1725-97), Diary fragment

April
14-19, 1771

10

16

James
Parker (1776-1868), Diary

1863-1866

10

17

William
A. Whitehead, biography of James Parker (24pp)

1868

10

18

Cortlandt
Parker, speeches  (folder 1 of 2)

1865-1898

10

19

“
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11

1

James
Parker II and Cortlandt Parker, receipt book

March
25, 1805 -October 9, 1812

11

2

William
Paterson, opinion

December
14, 1786

11

3

James
Parker II, tax collector’s statement

1843-1844

11

4

Cortlandt
Parker, stock transfer to Howard Savings Institution

December
9th, 1858

11

5

Philip
French, division of estate and mortgage calculations for William
Livingston, et al.

July
31, 1791 [3 items],    N. D.

11

6

James
Parker and Walter Rutherfurd, promissory note for William Livingston (5
copies)

N.
D.

11

7

Parker
family genealogy

1880-1928

11

8

John
Keese, public declaration relative to Cortlandt Parker

November
23, 1798

11

9

Register
of the electors of the city of Perth Amboy

October
16, 1866

11

10

Newspaper
clipping of address of Cortlandt Parker on Garfield’ s assassination
& misc. clippings

1881

11

11

W.
Boudinot, Sir Robert Barker’s genealogy

N.
D.

11

12

Erie
Railroad Co., survey field book no. 10

1893-1894

11

13

Perth
Amboy Building Loan, record book

1862-1863

11

14

Joseph
P. Bradley and John Cortlandt Parker, “Albany Regency Essay”

1835

11

15

Memorial
resolution on the death of James Parker II passed by the Vestry of St.
Peter’s Church, Perth Amboy

April
6th, 1868

11

16

Lewis
Morris (1618-1762), genealogy

N.
D.

11

17

James
Parker (1776-1868), “List of deaths of members of the New Jersey State
Convention of 1844”

1865

11

18

Thomas
Byerley’s license to purchase Indian lands

1709-1712

11

19

Samuel
Swackhammer, will

February
1st, 1780

11

20

Papers
relating to the New Jersey Historical Society (1 of 2)

1927-1931

11

21

“
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“          (2 of 2)

“
“

11

22

“For
the journal of religious education”

N.
D.

11

23

To
Gov. Horatio Sharpe of Maryland

11

24

Recipe
for making White Wash and for a “Pectoral Decoction”

N.
D.

11

25

Wedding
Invitations

N.
D.

11

26

Parker
Miscellaneous

N.
D.

11

27

Architectural
Drawings

11

28

Poetry

N.
D.

11

29

Cortlandt
Parker: Regarding the New Jersey Historical Society (folder 1 of 2)

1930s

11

30

12

1

Delaware
and Raritan Canal

1840-1860

12

2

Miscellaneous
papers, Part I   (folder 1 of 3)

1787-1850

12

3

“
“       “    , Part II
(folder 2 of 3)

1787-1850

12

4

“
“       “    , Part III
(folder 3 of 3)

1787-1850

12

5

James
Parker: Bonds and indentures, Part I (folder 1of 2)

1768-1799

12

6

“
“
“      , Part II (folder 2 of 2)

1768-1799

12

7

Cortlandt
and James Parker, assorted checks, receipts, and I. O. U.’ s  (3
letters)

1846-1872

12

8

James
Parker distress warrant

August
15th, 1791

12

9

James
Parker papers relating to membership in the New York Historical Society

1865-1866

12

10

James
Parker II: diaries  (3)

1848-1850

12

11

“
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(3)

1851-1853

12

12

“
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(3)

1854-1857

12

13

“
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(3)

1858-1860

13

Bound
Volume–  James Parker II: daybook and journal

1839-?