Manuscript Group 10, Hornblower Family Papers, 1760-1900

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Manuscript Group 10, Hornblower Family

Papers, 1760-1900, 5 linear feet

Call Number: MG 10 + box & folder number

Processed as part of the “Farm to City” project funded by
a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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Summary:

Correspondence; legal papers; court records, sermons, and genealogical data.
Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809) was a British engineer who constructed the first
steam-engine in America at John Schuyler’s copper mine in Belleville; he also served as a
member of the New Jersey Legislature, 1779-1780, and the New Jersey Council, 1781-1784.
Joseph C. Hornblower (1777-1864) was a Newark lawyer who served as Chief Justics of
the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1832-1846. He was also active in home and foreign
missionary societies, and was the first president of The New Jersey Historical Society.
His son, William H. Hornblower (1820-1883), was pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Paterson, 1844-1871, and professor of Sacred Rhetoric, Pastoral Theology, and
Church Government in the Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian Church at
Allegheny, Pennsylvania, 1871-1883. Included are letters of:

D.S. Baldwin	John Kinney, Jr.
John Beatty	Charles Kip
John L. Blake	Nicholas Longworth (1869-1931)
Joseph P. Bradley	Joseph Mico
Abraham Brittin	James S. Nevius
Peter Carter	William C. Noyes
Salmon P. Chase	David Bayard Ogden
Samuel H. Cox	William Pennington
William L. Dayton	Henry W. Pickering
Benjamin Drew	Caleb S. Riggs
Richard Stockton Field	Sylvester D. Russell
Charles Hodge	Gerrit Smith
William Holmes	Henry I. Van Dyke, Jr.
C. W. Hornblower	L. A. Ward
Jonathan Hornblower	Ira C. Whitehead
William Churchill Houston	William A. Whitehead
Thomas D. Hoxsey	Philip Williams

Gift (in part) of William B. Hornblower, 1949.

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Manuscript
Group 1508, Stoudinger-Alofsen-Fulton Drawings

Separated Collections:

Broadside 151, Protestant Episcopal Church of America. At a Convention…1784

Container
List:

Box

Folder

Contents

Dates

Josiah Hornblower. Correspondence

1753-1785

Josiah Hornblower. Correspondence

1786-1807

Josiah Hornblower. Indenture, leasing mine
property of John Schuyler

October 30, 1766

Josiah Hornblower. Docket, kept as a justice
of the peace for Essex County

1791-1792

Letter to Peggy Hornblower

August 31, 1775

Josiah Hornblower. Poem

Elizabeth (?) Hornblower letter

June 30, 1796

Receipt, (John) Hornblower for bay horse

1800

Surveys regarding Housestead of Second River

Deeds, indentures, legal documents

1762-1809

Deeds, indentures, legal documents

1762-1809

Deeds, indentures, legal documents

1762-1809

Deeds and indentures related to the title of
Homestead at Second River

Historical Review of Improvements in the
Steam-Engine in the Eighteenth Century, by Jabez Carter Hornblower

1880

Josiah Hornblower. Silhouette

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letters sent

1812-1863

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letters received

1805-1839

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letters received

1843-1846

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letters received

1847-1860

Joseph C. Hornblower. Legal opinions &
circuits

Joseph C. Hornblower. News clippings

1846-1851

Joseph C. Hornblower. News clippings

1846

Joseph C. Hornblower. Land & financial
records

Joseph C. Hornblower. Printed material

Joseph C. Hornblower. Clippings regarding
the death of Hornblowers & miscellaneous printed material

Joseph
C. Hornblower. Certificates & awards, diploma (?)

1803

Joseph C. Hornblower. Papers re: his death

Joseph C. Hornblower. Commissions,
certificates, etc.

William H. Hornblower. Family data,
Cincinnati Society/Burnett

William H. Hornblower. Miscellany &
clippings on 2 anonymous books

William H. Hornblower. Family data

William H. Hornblower. Memorial biographical
scrapbook

William H. Hornblower.
Miscellany/funeral-related obituaries

William H. Hornblower. First Presbyterian
Church of Paterson

William H. Hornblower. Correspondence

1845-1856

William H. Hornblower. Correspondence

1858-1876

William H. Hornblower. Manuscript writings

William H. Hornblower. Sermons

William H. Hornblower. Sermon
Debate the Divine

William Burnet, letter to his daughter Polly

1872

Miscellany concerning history of steam
engine

Miscellaneous
correspondence/writings: Jemima Hornblower, and four captions

1789

Family histories/Data

Genealogical data concerning Hornblower
family

Hornblower and allied families genealogical
data

Data
concerning the Ancestry of Josiah Hornblower and Concerning the
Hornblowers in England. Collected by P. Wharton Dickinson, from
Herald and Genealogist

1915-1917

Copy of Page from Notebook of Jonathan
Hornblower

Photo:
Richard Mc Cormick, great great grandson of Josiah Hornblower, at
Hornblowers grave

September 9, 1953

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letters received

1803-1827

D. B. Ogden to Joseph C. Hornblower

1804

Joseph
C. Hornblower. Letters received concerning legal matters

1804

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letters received
concerning legal matters

1805

Joseph
C. Hornblower. Correspondence / legal matters

1806

Joseph
C. Hornblower. Correspondence concerning legal matters

1806

Joseph C. Hornblower. Correspondence
concerning legal matters

January-July 1807

Joseph C. Hornblower. Correspondence
concerning legal matters

August-December 1807

Joseph C. Hornblower. Correspondence
concerning legal matters

1808

Joseph C. Hornblower. Correspondence
concerning legal matters

1809

Joseph C. Hornblower. Correspondence
concerning legal matters

1810

Joseph C. Hornblower. Letter from Natchez,
from G. Tichenor referring to the Aaron Burr expedition

1807

Description of Newark home belonging to

N. D. (1803 ?)