Name of Author
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Dates
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MG #
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Atterbury, Catharine Boudinot (1781-1877) |
1801-1803 |
633 |
- Journal entries are religious in tone.
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Baldwin, Samuel (1754-1850) |
1780 |
540 |
- Kept as a civilian during the American Revolution
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Barry, Lyman, Captain |
1941-1947 |
1543 |
- Contains diaries and photographs of Lyman F. Barry, a Budd Lake, N.J. native who served as a Captain in World War II.
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Barton, William (fl. 1776-1779) |
1779 |
232 |
- Kept by a soldier during Major General John Sullivan’s expedition against the Iroquois Nation during the Revolutionary War.
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Baseball Team Travel Journal |
1890 |
1555 |
- Consists of a single small travel journal written by a member of the Brooklyn Bridegrooms baseball team, dated 1890.
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Beekman (Cortelyou), Julia Ann (1804-1872) |
n.d. |
594 |
- Entries are heavily religious in tone.
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Bell, Andrew (1757-1843) |
1778 |
45 |
- Kept by a loyalist clerk in the office of the British Commander in New York during the American Revolution. Describes the march across New Jersey and the Battle of Monmouth
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Bloomfield, Joseph (1753-1823) |
1776 |
377 |
- Journal kept by Captain Joseph Bloomfield of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment during the American Revolution. Bloomfield was later Governor of New Jersey
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Boyce, Thomas Jefferson (d. 1853) |
1829-1852 |
55 |
- Journal kept by a sail maker in the United States Navy.
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Bradley, Joseph C. (fl. 1869-1923) |
1869-1923 |
26 |
Bradley, Joseph P. (1813-1892) |
1843-1891 |
26 |
- Kept by a lawyer and later Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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Campfield, Jabez (1737-1821) |
1779 |
233 |
- Journal kept from May-October 1779 during Major General John Sullivan’s expedition against the American Indians
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Canfield, Frederick Alexander (1849-1926) |
1865-1926 |
249 |
- Canfield’s daily activities and notes on the weather
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Canfield, Louisa Halsey (1839-1863) |
1861-1862 |
883 |
- Details the daily life of a young girl in Morris County, includes her time at a “water cure” spa for treatment for tuberculosis
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Clark, Joseph (1751-1813) |
1777-1783 |
256 |
- Kept by a member of the Hunterdon County Militia during the Revolutionary War.
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Condict, Jemima (1754-1779) |
1772-1779 |
123 |
- Kept by a young woman during the Revolutionary War
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Condict, Lewis (1773-1862) |
1795 |
348 |
- Travel diary kept on a trip from Morristown, New Jersey to Greenfield, Kentucky
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Condict, Ruth W. (1798-1815) |
1815 |
324 |
- Diary kept by a young New Jersey girl before her death
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Condit, Caroline W. (b. 1830) |
1844-1847 |
675 |
- Young girl’s daily school journal
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Congar, Horace N. (1817-1893) ??? |
??? |
408 |
Congleton, John A. (b. 1825) |
1870-1890 |
1093 |
- Kept by a Newark salesman who spent much of his free time doing lay missionary work among prison inmates and factory workers
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Cory, James (1801-1880) |
1833-1858 |
19 |
- Kept by a Hanover Neck, Morris County farmer
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Curtin, Daniel M. (fl. 1775-1776) |
1775-1776 |
341 |
- Journal kept by a soldier during the Revolutionary War.
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Cutbush, Ann |
1797 |
800 |
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Davey-Dodd Family |
??? |
1340 |
Dayton, Elias (1737-1807) |
1764 |
94 |
- Journal kept an the expedition against the Indians near Detroit, Michigan
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Dickerson, Mahlon (1770-1853) |
1782-1809, 1832-1852 |
13 |
- Daily entries, documents life as U.S. senator, secretary of the Navy, and an iron mine owner; includes service during the Whiskey Rebellion
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Dickerson, Mahlon Ford (1794-1823) |
1816-1822 |
13 |
- Journal tracking mostly monetary events in Dickerson’s life
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Disbrow, Florence M. (1892-1918) |
1908-1909 |
1531 |
- Kept by a student at the Washington Street School in Newark
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Elmer, Ebenezer (fl. 1776-1785) |
1776-1779 |
38 |
- Journal kept by an officer of the 3rd New Jersey Regiment of the Continental Army.
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Endicott, George |
1836 |
800 |
- Ship log kept by Endicott
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Evans, Jeremiah G. |
1894 |
1515 |
- Daily journal of an African American resident of Newark
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Evans (Lynch), Sarah Viola O’Fake (d. 1901) |
1871 |
1515 |
- Daily diary of a young African American woman living in Newark
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Fewsmith, Joseph Jr. (fl. 1837-1895) |
1837-1895 |
765 |
- Kept by a student at Yale University and later as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church of Newark
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Fish, Henry Clay (fl. 1841-1873) |
1841-1851, 1857-1873 |
255 |
- Kept by a Baptist minister
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Flaherty, Stephen (fl. 1898) |
1898 |
1314 |
- Kept by a soldier during the Spanish-American War
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Gould, William (fl. 1794) |
1794 |
343 |
- Kept by an officer during the expedition to put down the Whiskey Rebellion.
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Green, Calvin (1765-1847) |
1790-1844 |
221 |
- Daily journal reporting town and church events and farming and livestock reports
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Halsted, N. Norris (1816-1884) |
1869-1872 |
248 |
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Halsted, Nancy Marsh (1817-1891) |
1859, 1863, 1869-1870, 1889-1891 |
248 |
- Describes daily life, social visits, a trip to Europe. Her 1863 diary refers to the Civil War.
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Holmes, Jonathan (d. 1738) |
1736/37-1738 |
282 |
- Young man’s diary in colonial New Jersey
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Hunt, John (fl. 1770-1824) |
1770-1800 |
1245 |
- Kept by a farmer. Describes daily life, Friends meetings, and other events
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Ives, Milton J. (1840-1924) |
1862-1863 |
1162 |
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Kinney, Thomas Talmadge (1821-1900) |
1842-1846 |
785 |
- Discusses family matters and the social life of Newark’s young upper class.
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Larter, John A. (1840-1893) |
1862-1899 |
1686 |
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Leddel, William (1747-1827) |
1794, n.d. |
129 |
- Diary kept during the expedition to put down the Whiskey Rebellion
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Lynch, Sarah Viola O’Fake (Evans) (d. 1901) |
1871 |
1515 |
- Daily diary of a young African American woman living in Newark
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McDowell, William Anderson (1789-1851) |
1811-1812, 1839; 1837 |
866 |
- Journal of a Presbyterian minister; and a travel journal
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McDowell, William Osborne (1848-1927) |
1876-1923 |
866 |
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MacLaren, Isabella W. |
1890 |
824 |
Mills, Frank Barlow (b. 1871) |
1888 |
597 |
- Kept by a student at Centenary Collegiate Institute in Hackettstown, NJ
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Munn, Henry Benson (1826-1910) |
1850-1910 |
416 |
Morris, George Perry (1864-1921) |
1905-1905 |
472 |
- Notes on the Congregational protest against the solicitation of money from John D. Rockefeller
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- Daily diary kept by Benson, a patent lawyer and mayor of Portage, Wisconsin
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Munn, Silas (1786-1873) |
1854-1872 |
416 |
- Diary kept a New Jersey farmer
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Nettleship, Ichabod C. (fl. 1864-1882) |
ca. 1864-1882) |
208 |
- Diaries kept by a Newark justice of the peace and secret service investigator.
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Ogden, Jennie (1849-1880) |
1871 |
1211 |
Ogden, John Jr. (1743-1815) |
1787-1791 |
219 |
Parker Family (Perth Amboy, NJ) Collection |
1676-1946 |
18 |
- Correspondence, diaries, land surveys and transactions, legal papers, architectural drawings, wills, poetry, deeds, and indentures pertaining to the Parker family of Perth Amboy.
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Pennington, William S. (1757-1826) |
1780-1781 |
234 |
- Kept as a soldier during the American Revolution
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Price, Jeremiah (fl. 1835-1853) |
1850-1853 |
158 |
- Kept in Elizabeth, New Jersey by a deputy sheriff of Essex County
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Reynolds, James |
1772 |
800 |
- Journal kept during a sea voyage from Philadelphia to England and back.
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Rogers, Mary E. (fl. 1934-1953) |
1934-1953 |
806 |
- Diaries kept by an East Orange housewife.
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Smith, Isabella MacLaren (fl. 1889) |
1889 |
824 |
Smith, Mary L. (fl. 1865) |
1865 |
824 |
Smith, Philip Henry Waddell (1896-1946) |
1880-1893 |
824 |
Smith, S. Alice Waddell (fl. 1849-1919) |
1849-1851, 1898-1919 |
824 |
Smith, W. H. H. (fl. 1851-1886) |
1851-1886, with gaps |
824 |
Spicer, Jacob (1716-1765) |
1755-1756, 1756-1762 excerpts |
59 |
- Diary of a member of New Jersey’s Provincial Assembly
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Stevens, Basil M. |
1949, 1956, 1957 |
409 |
Stevens, John |
1767-1792 |
409 |
Stickel, Fred G., Jr. (1887-1969) |
1913 |
1081 |
- Journal containing observations on the Morris Canal.
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Unknown |
1808-1815 |
452 |
- Kept by an employee of Martha Furnace, an iron foundry in Washington Township, New Jersey.
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Unknown |
1821 |
49 |
- Journal kept on a voyage from Boston to Africa on board the schooner Alligator
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Unknown |
1937 |
1584 |
- Work-related diary kept by a New Jersey physician describing appointments and patients.
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Unknown |
1925-1974 |
1595 |
- Diary kept by a New Jersey lawyer, contains personal notes and records, and a printed Bar directory.
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Unknown |
1825-1829 |
455 |
- Daily life of a worker at the Perth Amboy Wharf
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Vail, Alfred (1807-1859) |
1826-1829, 1850-1858 |
50 |
- Diaries documenting the personal life and reflections of the co-inventor of the telegraph.
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Vroom, Peter D. (1791-1873) |
1850, 1862-1872, 1875 |
20 |
- Diaries of a New Jersey lawyer, assemblyman, governor, and U.S. congressman
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Waddell (Smith), S. Alice |
1849-1851, 1898-1919 |
824 |
Willets, Edmund (b. 1800) |
1820 |
1222 |
- Kept while traveling to Friends’ meetings in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland
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