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

Summary:

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 CountyIndian
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.


Container List:




















  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
Historical Publications and Records Commission. 

Submit a request to copy part of this collection

back

Print Friendly, PDF & Email