Manuscript Group 13, Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853) and Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862) Papers, 1774-1922 (Bulk dates: 1830-1850)
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Manuscript Group 13, Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853) and Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862)
Papers, 1774-1922 (Bulk dates: 1830-1850),
3.0 linear feet / 7 boxes
Call Number: MG 13 + box and
folder number
Diary, 1782-1809, 1832-1852;
correspondence, 1794-1848, indexed in the manuscript card catalog; invitations,
legal documents, commonplace books, and other documents of Mahlon Dickerson.
Dickerson was a Governor of New Jersey, U.S. Senator, and Secretary of the Navy.
Letter received and copy letters, indexed
in the manuscript card catalog; legal papers; certificates; and petitions,
including some from the Camden and Amboy Railroad, of Philemon Dickerson.
Dickerson was a U.S. Congressman, Governor of New Jersey, and a federal court
judge for the district of New Jersey. He and his brother Mahlon were both
important Whig Party leaders in New Jersey.
The inventory contains a complete list of
correspondents.
Bequest of Frederick A. Canfield, 1926;
additions by exhange and purchase, 1956-1975.
Mahlon Dickerson, the son of Mary Coe (1752-1827) and Jonathan Dickerson (1747-1805),
was born on April 17, 1770 in Hanover Neck, New Jersey. Jonathan Dickerson was primarily a
farmer, though also known as a carpenter, millwright, iron mine owner, and holder of a
patent for an improved water wheel. Of the Dickersons eleven children, Mahlon was
the eldest.
Mahlon Dickerson graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in
1789, studied law in Morristown, New Jersey, and was admitted to the bar in 1793.
The
following year, however, he joined the force that journeyed into western Pennsylvania to
stamp out the Whisky Rebellion. After this adventure, he returned to New Jersey to
practice law before moving to Philadelphia in 1797. He joined John Milnors law
practice and soon entered into local politics where he was a strong supporter of Thomas
Jefferson and later a Jacksonian Democrat. He was elected a common councilman in 1799 and
was appointed by President Jefferson as the commissioner of bankruptcy in 1802.
In 1805,
he was appointed adjutant general of Philadelphia, a position from which he resigned in
1808 to become the recorder of Philadelphia for two years.
In 1805, Mahlons father died, and two years later his brother Silas (1771-1807)
was killed in an accident. At this time, Mahlon took control of his fathers holdings
in Morris County, New Jersey, paying particular attention to a mine in Succasunna,
Randolph Township called Suckasunny and later Dickerson Mine. He bought the few shares of
the mine that he had not inherited, and in 1810, moved back to Morris County.
He built his
home, which he named Ferromonte (Iron Mountain), near the mine and saw to the
management of both. Dickerson Mine was very rich, produced good quality iron, and was
profitable for the remainder of Mahlons lifetime.
Soon after his return to New Jersey, Mahlon Dickerson once again entered politics.
From
1811-1813 he served in the New Jersey State Assembly, from 1812-1815 he was a New Jersey
Supreme Court justice, from 1815-1817 he was the governor of New Jersey, and from
1817-1833 he was a United States senator. During his time in the Senate, he served as the
chairman of the Committee on Manufacturers and was a strong supporter of the protective
tariff.
In 1834, Dickerson accepted the nomination as
minister to Russia, but was instead
appointed the secretary of the Navy by President Andrew Jackson. Dickerson served in the
presidential cabinet for the final two years of Jacksons second term and for the
first two years of Martin Van Burens. He resigned in 1838 due to health problems.
He
served briefly as a U.S. district judge for the State of New Jersey in 1840-1841, but
resigned and was succeeded by his brother Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862).
Although no longer politically active, Mahlon attended New Jerseys Constitutional
Convention in 1844 and from 1846-1847 was president of the American Institute.
In the late
1840s he finally retired from public life and spent his final days at Ferromonte,
where his nephew, Frederick Canfield (1810-1867), also resided with his young family.
Mahlon Dickerson never married and died at his home on October 5, 1853.
Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862)
Philemon Dickerson, the youngest son of Mary and Jonathan Dickerson, was born in
Succasunna, New Jersey on June 6, 1788. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1808, was admitted to the bar in 1813, and opened a law office in Philadelphia.
On April 13, 1816, Philemon Dickerson married Sydney Maria Stotesbury, the daughter of
Captain John Stotesbury, a veteran of the Revolution. The couple settled in Paterson, New
Jersey where their four children, John Henry (1818-1855), Mary (b.1829), Edward Nicoll
(1824-1889), and Philemon, Jr. (1829-1862), were born.
Dickerson was admitted as a counselor-at-law in 1817 and as a sergeant-at-law in 1834,
and in that time period also entered politics. Like his brother Mahlon, Philemon was a
Jacksonian Democrat who believed in limited government but a strong protective tariff.
He
served as a member of New Jerseys State Assembly from 1821-1822 and as a member of
the U.S. House of Representatives from 1833-1836. He resigned the latter position to
become New Jerseys governor from 1836-1837, after which he once again ran for
Congress. In what became known as the “Great Seal War,” the election results,
which placed five Democrats (including Dickerson) and one Whig in the House, were
challenged and then overturned by New Jerseys Whig governor, William Pennington.
After a vote in Congress, the original election results were reinstated and Dickerson
returned to the House of Representatives from 1839-1841. At the end of his term in office,
Dickerson accepted the nomination as a District Court judge from President Martin Van
Buren, replacing his brother Mahlon Dickerson.
Philemon Dickerson remained a District Court
judge until his death twenty years later. During this time period he was instrumental in attaining Patersons city charter
(1851) and authored a book, The City of Paterson, Its Past, Present, and Future
(1856). He died in Paterson on December 10, 1862.
Sources:
American National Biography.
Baker, Wesley L. Dickerson & Dickinson Descendants of Philemon Dickerson of
Southold, Long Island, N.Y. Also Descendants of Captain John Dickinson of Oyster Bay
(Adams Press: Chicago, 1978), pgs. 407-419.
Dictionary of American Biography.
Near the time of Mahlon Dickersons death in 1853, Philemon Dickerson donated
genealogy charts that Mahlon had compiled of the sovereigns of Europe. The majority of the
Mahlon and Philemon Dickerson Papers, however, were later donated by Frederick A.
Canfield, their great-nephew. Continual additions have been made to the papers, starting
with the donation of three of Mahlon Dickersons diaries and a bound letter book, by
the estate of Frederick A. Canfield in 1926 (M2206-M2209). Additional Mahlon and Philemon
Dickerson letters were purchased by The Society from 1971-1981 (see Index A for accession
numbers), and the typed copy of Mahlon Dickersons 1832-1845 diary was placed on loan
by Rutgers University Library in 1956. Four letters were also transferred from
The New
Jersey Historical Societys Manuscript Group 1, Alphabetical Series, in July of 1984
(A 84-18). The original source of these documents is unknown.
The papers consist of the correspondence, diaries, and professional papers of Mahlon
Dickerson (1770-1853) and Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862), with additional correspondence
and business papers of extended family members, including Edward Nicoll Dickerson
(1824-1889), John M. Gould, Jonathan Dickerson (1747-1805), Silas Dickerson (1771-1807),
Mahlon Ford Dickerson (1794-1823), and Mary Dickerson Canfield (1778-1830).
The papers
date from 1774-1922, with bulk dates of 1830-1850, and have been arranged into three
series: Mahlon Dickerson, Philemon Dickerson, and Dickerson Family.
Series I – Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853)
Series I dates from 1782-1922, with bulk dates of 1830-1840, and consists of the
correspondence, diaries, professional papers, financial documents, contracts, maps, study
notes, and poetry of Mahlon Dickerson.
The majority of the correspondence in this series consists of letters received by
Mahlon Dickerson, and highlights his time as Secretary of the Navy and to a lesser extent,
his time as governor of New Jersey and as a U.S. Senator. The correspondence is arranged
alphabetically by author and then by date, and also includes a smaller number of letters
written or saved by Dickerson. New Jersey politics, along with national election campaigns
and Jacksonian and Van Buren politics are discussed throughout the correspondence.
As a
result, Dickersons support of the Democratic Party and of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van
Buren, and Lewis Cass for president are all documented. Specific political issues of the
time, such as the Second Bank of America, the Bankruptcy Bill of 1841, the Protective
Tariffs of 1828 and 1832, and Southern nullification are highlighted, as is
Dickersons strong support of protective tariffs and the iron industry.
There are
also a large number of letters to Dickerson both as senator and as secretary of the Navy
requesting recommendations and/or military or political appointments. Correspondents on
these topics include John Quincy Adams, Joseph Anderson, William Ashbridge, Samuel J.
Bayard, Jonathan Dayton, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Albert Gallatin, Thomas Hart Benton,
James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Lewis Cass, Lewis Condict, William H. Crawford, George
Mifflin Dallas, James Iredell, Louis McLane, Robert Lee, James Madison, James Monroe,
William S. Pennington, John Randolph, Philip Reed, Samuel L. Southard, Martin Van Buren,
and Gideon Wells.
Dickersons role as secretary of the Navy is also documented in such topics as the
building and maintaining of dry docks, ports, and navy yards in New Jersey and New York;
the organization of an exploring expedition to Antarctica; naval pensions; mechanics
rights to a shorter workday; naval contracts; and the decapitation of a figure head of
Andrew Jackson on the U.S. Constitution in July of 1834. Correspondents on these
topics include Jesse Duncan Elliott, B. Franklin, Andrew Jackson, Jeromus Johnson,
Laurence Kearny, Amos Kendall, George McDonald, William S. Osborn, James Kirke Paulding,
Samuel Swartwout, Martin Van Buren, Jacob Treadwell Walden, Garret Wall, and Samuel
Welles.
Other professional topics in Dickersons correspondence include the iron industry
of New Jersey, Dickerson Mine, the manufacturing of Colt guns in New Jersey, and patent
infringements, particularly that of Oliver Evans steam engine for mills, and Robert
Fulton and John R. Livingstons steamboat engine. These topics are covered in the
letters of William Ashbridge, Frederick Canfield, Roswell L. Colt, Oliver Evans, Thomas R.
Lacey, and John R. Livingston.
The correspondence also contains one bound volume of letters between Mahlon Dickerson
and his brother Silas, dating from 1794-1806 when Mahlon was in Philadelphia and Silas was
in Stanhope, New Jersey. The brothers discuss their professional careers – the law
career of one and the manufacturing business of the other; their political careers, for
both are early Democrats and involved in local and state government; their concerns over
their younger siblings; and general family matters such as health updates and daily news.
The letter book strongly documents the close relationship between the two brothers.
The papers also contain four hand-written volumes of Mahlon Dickersons diary,
dating from 1782-1809 and 1832-1852. The diaries give an almost daily account of
Dickersons life from his education as a boy to his retirement from public office.
Early entries discuss his legal education and career, his participation in the suppression
of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, and his move back to New Jersey. His various professions
are detailed, including his work at the Dickerson Mine and his numerous public offices,
including his sixteen years as a senator and his service as secretary of the Navy.
The
diary includes an account of the duel to the death between Congressmen William J. Graves
and Jonathan Cilley in 1838 and an eyewitness account of the attempt on President Andrew
Jacksons life in 1835. The papers contain typescript copies of three of these four
volumes, and a typescript copy of excerpts from Dickersons 1809-1819 diary, which is
located at Rutgers University.
Series I also includes a small number of professional and financial documents of Mahlon
Dickerson. There are two dockets dating from 1795-1801 and 1800-1809 documenting
Dickersons career as a lawyer, and a folder of notes on commerce and manufacture
documenting his interest and involvement with the Senatorial Committee on Manufacturers.
There are also a small number of professional certificates, receipts, accounts, bank
notes, contracts, maps of Morris County, study notes, poems, newspaper clippings, and
genealogy charts of the sovereigns of Europe.
Series II – Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862)
Series II dates from 1803-1860, with bulk dates of 1835-1845, and consists of the
correspondence, professional papers, financial documents, and contracts of Philemon
Dickerson.
As in Series I, the majority of the correspondence consists of letters received by
Philemon Dickerson documenting his careers as a lawyer and statesman. The letters have
been arranged alphabetically by author and then by date, and largely discuss New Jersey
politics. There are also letters regarding Dickersons legal cases, and numerous
requests for recommendations or political appointments for such offices as
postmaster and steam boat inspector during his time as governor of New Jersey. Other issues brought to
Dickersons attention include the Bankruptcy Bill of 1841, miners rights to
mineral property in New Jersey, protection of the land rights of Louisiana residents
during the switch from French to American rule, the Camden and Woodbury Railroad, and the
relocation of various regiments along the southwestern frontier. Correspondents of
Philemon Dickerson include Pruden Alling, Samuel Beardsley, F.W. Brinley, Joseph Wheeler
Camp, Lewis Cass, Roswell L. Colt, John L. Daniel, Richard Dennis, Mahlon Dickerson,
Samuel Doughty, John F. Ellis, William Gale, George Griswold, Robert William Harris,
Wanton R. Hazard, Joseph C. Hornblower, H.J. James, Louis McLane, Henry Nicoll, Ephraim F.
Ogden, Aaron Peck, J.A. Phillips, Joseph C. Potts, Stacy G. Potts, Martin Rouen, B.
Livingston Ship, Silas Stilwell, Elias Van Arsdale, Levi Woodbury, and Joseph A. Yard.
The professional papers in the series largely document Dickersons legal career.
The series contains Dickersons docket from 1815-1826; U.S. District Court documents,
which include court calendars, marshal bonds and oaths of office, and juror summons; and
case files from Dickersons time both as a lawyer and a judge. The latter files
include cases argued by Aaron S. Pennington (1800-1869), another Paterson lawyer and
possibly Philemon Dickersons partner or co-counsel. This group of documents also
contains a list of deputy marshals for the 1840 census in New Jersey and notes and
pamphlets on Congressional legislation dealing with the repeal of a pilot law (1837),
pensions for widows (1838), naval pensions (1840), protective tariffs (1840), and a
general bankruptcy law (1841).
Lastly, Series II contains a smaller number of financial documents, largely receipts,
bills, notes, and bonds, and a number of contracts. While the contracts are mostly
miscellaneous, possibly dealing with Dickersons legal cases, there is a deed for the
sale of land in Paterson, New Jersey to Philemon Dickerson and Aaron S. Pennington.
Series III – Dickerson Family
The final series dates from 1774-1859, with bulk dates of 1845-1855, and consists of
the correspondence and professional papers of various members of the Dickerson Family,
particularly Edward Nicoll Dickerson and his brother-in-law, and probably law partner,
John M. Gould.
Series III contains letters written to Augustus Canfield (1801-1854), David Sealy
Canfield (1774-1830), Frederick Canfield (1810-1869), Mary “Polly” Dickerson
Canfield (1778-1830), Edward Nicoll Dickerson (1824-1889), John B. Dickerson (1786-1822),
Jonathan Dickerson (1747-1805), Silas Dickerson (1771-1807), and John M. Gould. The
majority of this correspondence is between family members and deals with family updates,
worries over money, upcoming marriages, deaths, and illnesses. The correspondence of
Edward N. Dickerson and John M. Gould, however, deal with their professional lives and
consist of discussion of various law suits and requests to the court clerk, a capacity in
which both served.
The professional papers in this series also document the legal careers of Edward N.
Dickerson and John M. Gould. The papers contain case files of the two lawyers, which
largely consist of patent infringement suits, and include documents from Goodyear vs. Day
(Fed. Cas. No. 5569), one of Dickersons most important cases.
Lastly, this series contains two contracts of John M. Gould dealing with property
transfers and a “private memorandum book” kept by Mahlon Ford Dickerson from
1816-1822. The latter is a journal tracking mostly monetary events in Dickersons
life, such as the dissolution of his partnership with his uncle Mahlon Dickerson in M.F.
Dickerson and Company, a general store in Succasunna, New Jersey.
Manuscript Group 97, Edward Nicoll Dickerson (1824-1889) Papers
Manuscript Group 98,
M.F. Dickerson & Company Records
Manuscript Group 101, Dickerson Mine Records
Manuscript Group 249, Canfield-Dickerson Family
(Morris County, NJ) Papers
Manuscript Group 883,
Louisa Halsey Canfield (1839-1863) Diary
Manuscript Map 1049, Ferro Mont, Morris County, NJ, by F.H. McDowell, E.M.
Box | Folder | Title | Dates |
Series I – Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853) | |||
Correspondence – | |||
1 | Letters Received from: | ||
1 | 1 | – Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) (2 letters) | 1829, 1835 |
1 | 1 | – Adams, Louisa Catherine | 1838 |
1 | 1 | – Albuquerque, Cava( ) | n.d. |
1 | 1 | – Alling, Pruden | 1834 |
1 | 1 | – Anderson, Joseph (1757-1837) (with enclosures) | 1830 |
1 | 1 | – Anonymous (“A Friend to My Country”) | 1835 |
1 | 1 | – Anonymous (“A Lover of a True Soldier”) | 1835 |
1 | 1 | – Anonymous (“Homo”) | 1819 |
1 | 1 | – Anonymous (“Multitude”) | n.d. |
1 | 1 | – Ash, ( ) | 1836 |
1 | 1 | – Ashbridge, William (6 letters) | 1813-1816 |
1 | 2 | – Bache, Alexander Dallas (1806-1867) | 1834 |
1 | 2 | – Bankhead, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 2 | – Barron, James (1769-1851) | 1834 |
1 | 2 | – Bayard, Samuel John (1801-1878) (4 letters) | 1830-1839 |
1 | 2 | – Beckett, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 2 | – Behr, Charles de (4 letters) | 1834-1837 |
1 | 2 | – Benton, Thomas Hart (1782-1858) | 1839 |
1 | 2 | – Biddle, James (1783-1848) (3 letters – 1 is a copy in Biddle’s hand) |
1834-1837 |
1 | 2 | – Biddle, Thomas | 1835 |
1 | 2 | – Bockee, Abraham | 1835 |
1 | 2 | – Boisaubin, Edward (2 letters) | 1834 |
1 | 2 | – Borras, Joseph | 1836 |
1 | 2 | – Boudinot, Tobias (ca.1775-1845) | 1815 |
1 | 2 | – Bradford, Alden (1765-1843) | 1834 |
1 | 2 | – Brees, Sidney | 1835 |
1 | 2 | – Buchanan, James (1791-1868) (2 letters) | 1834, n.d. |
1 | 2 | – Buchanan, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 2 | – Buckingham, ( ) | 1838 |
1 | 2 | – Burrough, M. | 1834 |
1 | 2 | – Burrow, Silas E. | 1834 |
1 | 2 | – Butler, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 3 | – Calhoun, John C. (1782-1850) (2 letters) | 1818, 1827 |
1 | 3 | – Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom (1786-1862) | 1825 |
1 | 3 | – Canfield, Frederick (1810-1867) (4 letters) | 1834-1838 |
1 | 3 | – Canfield, Israel (1759-1841) (2 letters) | 1809, 1816 |
1 | 3 | – Carnahan, James (1775-1859) | 1834 |
1 | 3 | – Carusi, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 3 | – Cass, Lewis (1782-1866) (11 letters) | 1821-1838 |
1 | 3 | – Cassedy, Samuel (1790-1862) (2 letters) | 1835 |
1 | 3 | – Chandler, John (1762-1841) | 1834 |
1 | 3 | – Channing, Henry (3 letters) | 1820, 1823, 1835 |
1 | 3 | – Chauncey, Isaac (1772-1840) (2 letters) | n.d. |
1 | 3 | – Chroostoff (?), A. (?) | n.d. |
1 | 3 | – Citizens of New York, signed Cornelius W. Lawrence, Enos T. Throop, John J. Morgan, John S. Crary, J. Oakley, Jacob Harvey, William Leggett, Theodore Sedgwick, Jr., William Van Wyck, Morgan L. Smith, William M. Price, F. Depeyster, and Prosper M. Wetmore |
1835 |
1 | 4 | – Clark, Peter I. (1790-1863) | 1816 |
1 | 4 | – Coleman, David | 1835 |
1 | 4 | – Colt, Roswell Lyman (1786-1856) (3 letters) | 1836, 1847, n.d. |
1 | 4 | – Committee appointed by the Democratic Citizens of Princeton, signed Robert F. Stockton, James S. Green, John R. Thomson, David N. Bogart, John A. Perrine, John S. Van Dyke, and William Cruser |
1837 |
1 | 4 | – Condict, Lewis (1771-1862) | 1815 |
1 | 4 | – Cooper, Thomas (1759-1839) (5 letters) | 1829-1836 |
1 | 4 | – Coxe, John Redman (1773-1864) | 1835 |
1 | 4 | – Crane, Isaac Watts (1773-1856) | 1833 |
1 | 4 | – Crawford, William Harris (1772-1834) (9 letters) | 1820-1834 |
1 | 4 | – Crowell, Timothy B. | 1838 |
1 | 4 | – Cumming, Robert H. | 1834 |
1 | 4 | – Custis, George Washington Parke (1781-1857) | 1837 |
1 | 5 | – Dallas, Alexander James, Jr. | 1838 |
1 | 5 | – Dallas, George Mifflin (1792-1864) (3 letters) | 1817, 1834 |
1 | 5 | – Dallas, Arabella Maria (Smith) (2 letters) | 1835 |
1 | 5 | – Dayton, Jonathan (1760-1824) | 1824 |
1 | 5 | – DeCamp, John | 1834 |
1 | 5 | – Decatur, S. (2 letters) | 1835 |
1 | 5 | – Democratic Citizens of the First Congressional District of Pennsylvania, signed by William W. Chew, George C. Stevenson, Joseph M. Doran, and Pierce Butler |
1836 |
1 | 5 | – Democratic Committee of Invitation, City & County of Philadelphia, signed by Henry Simpson, Henry Horn, H.D. Gilpin, Benjamin E. Carpenter, John Thompson, Peter Hay, and A.L. ( ) |
1836 |
1 | 5 | – Democratic Republican Citizens of New-York, signed Charles A. Jackson, Thomas N. Carr, Joseph Dreyfous, George S. Mann, Robert H. Morris, James Ballagh, Alfred A. Smith, Erastus Barnes, John Alwaise, Samuel J. Willis, Jeremiah Dodge, Benson Milledoler, Benjamin Ringgold, Prosper M. Wetmore, and John J. Morgan |
1835 |
1 | 5 | – Dickerson, Aaron (1783-1824) (9 letters) | 1813-1823 |
1 | 5 | – Dickerson, Joseph Jr. | 1834 |
1 | 6 | – Dickerson (Vanatta), Julia Maria (1815-1881) (4 letters) |
1834-1837 |
1 | 6 | – Dickerson, M.L. | 1838 |
1 | 6 | – Dickerson, Mahlon Ford (1794-1823) | 1817 |
1 | 6 | – Dickerson, Mary (Coe) (1752-1827) | 1803 |
1 | 6 | – Dickerson, Philemon (1788-1862) (7 letters) | 1836-1837 |
1 | 6 | – Dickins, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 6 | – Dickinson, John D. (2 letters) | 1835, 1837 |
1 | 6 | – Dickinson, Samuel S. | 1837 |
1 | 6 | – Dix, John Adams (1798-1879) | 1835 |
1 | 6 | – Donelson, Andrew Jackson (1799-1871) | 1836 |
1 | 6 | – Duncan, S. | 1827 |
1 | 6 | – Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen (1760-1844) | 1815 |
1 | 6 | – Duryea & Heyer | 1820 |
1 | 6 | – Earl, ( ) (3 letters) | 1835-1837 |
1 | 7 | – Eckford, Henry (1775-1832) | 1824 |
1 | 7 | – Edwards, Henry Waggaman (1779-1847) | 1837 |
1 | 7 | – Ellicott, N. | 1828 |
1 | 7 | – Elliott, Jesse Duncan (1782-1845) (14 letters) | 1834-1835, n.d. |
1 | 7 | – Elliott, William (1788-1863) | 1836 |
1 | 7 | – Erkridge, Thomas P. | 1834 |
1 | 7 | – Etting, Henry (2 letters) | 1834, 1835 |
1 | 7 | – Evans, Oliver (1755-1819) | 1814 |
1 | 7 | – Eyre, Manuel | 1834 |
1 | 8 | – Fairchild, Ebenezer | ca. 1815 |
1 | 8 | – Felder, John M. | 1834 |
1 | 8 | – Ferguson, James | 1834 |
1 | 8 | – Findley, William (2 letters, 1 is a facsimile) | 1817, 1834 |
1 | 8 | – Fischer, ( ) | 1820 |
1 | 8 | – Forsyth, John (1780-1841) (3 letters) | 1824, n.d. |
1 | 8 | – Forsyth, John Jr. | 1835 |
1 | 8 | – Fox, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 8 | – Franklin, B. | 1838 |
1 | 8 | – Frelinghuysen, John (1776-1833) | 1815 |
1 | 8 | – Frelinghuysen, Theodore (1787-1862) | 1833 |
1 | 9 | – Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849) | 1804 |
1 | 9 | – Gambon, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 9 | – Gentlemen of Morris-Town, signed by David Ford, Sylvester D. Russell, and George K. Drake |
1814 |
1 | 9 | – Gibbs, George (1776-1833) (5 letters) | 1817-1824 |
1 | 9 | – Glover, Jacob | 1815 |
1 | 9 | – Godon, ( ) (in French) | 1834 |
1 | 9 | – Graham, George | 1815 |
1 | 9 | – Green, Ashbel (1762-1848) | 1823 |
1 | 9 | – Green, Jacob (1790-1841) | 1824 |
1 | 9 | – Green, James Sproat (1792-1862) (5 letters) | 1834-1836 |
1 | 9 | – Green, Nathaniel | 1835 |
1 | 9 | – Greenleaf, Jonathan | 1835 |
1 | 9 | – Grinnell, George Jr. | 1837 |
1 | 10 | – Hagerty, Uzal C. | 1834 |
1 | 10 | – Haines & Broderick | n.d. |
1 | 10 | – Haines, Sidney P. (3 letters) | 1834, 1837, n.d. |
1 | 10 | – Halsted, Job Stockton (1774-1844) (2 letters) | 1834 |
1 | 10 | – Hardenbergh, Jacob Rutsen (d.1841) | n.d. |
1 | 10 | – Hassler, Ferdinand Rudolph (1770-1843) (6 letters) |
1818-1834 |
1 | 10 | – Hayne, A.P. (2 letters) | 1835 |
1 | 10 | – Hazard, A.G. & Co. | 1834 |
1 | 10 | – Herring, James (1794-1867) | 1835 |
1 | 10 | – Hersant, ( ) (2 letters) | 1837 |
1 | 10 | – Howell, Wilmot (2 letters) | 1834, 1835 |
1 | 10 | – Hubbard, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 10 | – Hull, Isaac (1773-1843) (2 letters) | 1835, n.d. |
1 | 10 | – Hull, Samuel P. | 1834 |
1 | 10 | – Hunter, Alexander | n.d. |
1 | 10 | – Hunter, William (1774-1849) | 1834 |
1 | 10 | – Hunting, Stephen Darby (1798-1880) | 1836 |
1 | 10 | – Hurd, Pierson | 1848 |
1 | 11 | – Ingersoll, I.R. | n.d. |
1 | 11 | – Iredell, James | 1835 |
1 | 11 | – Iron Proprietors in the States of Maryland and Pennsylvania, signed C. Ridgely, Holker Hughes, H.Y. Slaymaker & Co., J.W.& E. Patterson, John McPherson Brien, Henry B. Chew, Samuel Royer, Hugh Boyle, and Jonathan Creery |
1828 |
1 | 11 | – Israel, Israel | 1835 |
1 | 11 | – Jackson, Andrew (1773-1843) (6 letters) | 1834-1837, n.d. |
1 | 11 | – Jackson, Andrew Jr. | |
1 | 11 | – Jackson, Charles Jr. | 1853 |
1 | 11 | – Jackson, George (2 letters) | 1800, 1801 |
1 | 11 | – Jackson, Joseph (1774-1855) (9 letters) | 1834-1836 |
1 | 11 | – Jarvis, R. | n.d. |
1 | 11 | – Johnson, Jeromus | 1834 |
1 | 11 | – Johnson, Richard Mentor (1780-1850) | 1838 |
1 | 11 | – Johnston, Robert | 1838 |
1 | 11 | – Jones, John Pringle |
1834 |
1 | 11 | – Kane, John Kintzing (1795-1858) | 1836 |
1 | 11 | – Kearny, Lawrence (1789-1868) | 1834 |
1 | 11 | – Kendall, Amos (1789-1869) (2 letters, one is actually to Andrew Jackson, who then forwarded it to Dickerson) |
1836 |
1 | 11 | – King, Rufus (1755-1827) | 1819 |
1 | 11 | – Kirkbride, Joseph | 1813 |
1 | 11 | – Kissam, Harriet | 1834 |
1 | 11 | – Kittera, John Wilkes | 1834 |
1 | 11 | – Krehmer, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 11 | – Krudener, ( ) | 1836 |
1 | 12 | – Lacey, John (1755-1814) | 1813 |
1 | 12 | – Lacey, Thomas R. (2 letters) | 1814, 1815 |
1 | 12 | – Lamson, Daniel | 1836 |
1 | 12 | – Lawrence, Mary | ca. 1834-1838 |
1 | 12 | – Lederer, L. | 1828 |
1 | 12 | – Lee, Emund Jennings (1772-1843) | 1838 |
1 | 12 | – Lee, Robert (d.1842) (2 letters) | 1815, 1837 |
1 | 12 | – Leib, John L. | 1829 |
1 | 12 | – Lindsley, William M. (2 letters) | 1834, 1835 |
1 | 12 | – Livingston, E. Ridley (2 letters) | 1834 |
1 | 12 | – Livingston, John R. (1755-1851) (2 letters) | 1813, 1834 |
1 | 12 | – Livingston, John R. Jr. | 1834 |
1 | 12 | – Logan, George W. (1753-1821) | 1819 |
1 | 12 | – Logan, William | 1834 |
1 | 12 | – Losey, Israel C. | 1834 |
1 | 12 | – Losey, Jacob | 1815 |
1 | 12 | – Losey, John M. | 1834 |
1 | 12 | – Ludlow, Benjamin (2 letters) | 1813, 1814 |
1 | 12 | – Lyon, A.W. | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – Macculloch, George P. (1775-1858) (2 letters) | 1834, 1835 |
1 | 13 | – McDonald, Alexander L. | 1835 |
1 | 13 | – McDonald, George (ca.1771-1820) | 1819 |
1 | 13 | – McIlvaine, Joseph (1769-1826) | 1816 |
1 | 13 | – McKain, Alexander | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – McKean, Elizabeth | 1835 |
1 | 13 | – McKeon, John (2 letters) | 1837, 1838 |
1 | 13 | – McKim, Isaac (1775-1838) | 1837 |
1 | 13 | – McLane, Louis (1786-1857) | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – Macomb, Harriet Balch (Wilson) | 1834, 1838 |
1 | 13 | – McWilliams, Alexander | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – Madison, James (1751-1836) | 1817 |
1 | 13 | – Martin, William Jr. | 1835 |
1 | 13 | – Martini, ( ) | 1836 |
1 | 13 | – May, C. (envelope only) | 1837 |
1 | 13 | – Mease, James (1771-1846) | 1836 |
1 | 13 | – Monroe, James (1758-1831) | 1816 |
1 | 13 | – Moore, Loammi | 1816 |
1 | 13 | – Morris, Charles (1784-1856) | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – Mott, Edward T. | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – Munson, Josiah | 1834 |
1 | 13 | – Musgrave, Joseph P. (2 letters) | 1835 |
1 | 13 | – Newell, James | 1837 |
1 | 13 | – Niles, Hezekiah (1777-1839) (2 letters) | 1835 |
1 | 14 | – Ogden, Stephen J. | 1813 |
1 | 14 | – Osborn, William S. | 1836 |
1 | 14 | – Otto, William Tod (1816-1905) | 1837 |
1 | 14 | – Palmer, Marin | 1835 |
1 | 14 | – Pampillo, ( ) | 1836 |
1 | 14 | – Parker, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 14 | – Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860) (2 letters) | 1834, 1838 |
1 | 14 | – Pendergast, John G. | 1834 |
1 | 14 | – Pennington, William Sanford (1757-1826) (2 letters) |
1815 |
1 | 14 | – Percival, John (1779-1862) | 1837 |
1 | 14 | – Perrico, Luigi | 1834 |
1 | 14 | – Philippart, John | 1818 |
1 | 14 | – Phillips, ( ) | n.d. |
1 | 14 | – Phoenix, J.P. | 1812 |
1 | 14 | – Phoenix, P. | 1809 |
1 | 14 | – Poinsett, Joel Roberts (1779-1851) (4 letters) | 1837, 1839, 1840 |
1 | 14 | – Polk, James Knox (1795-1849) | 1836 |
2 | 1 | – Porter, David (1780-1843) (12 letters) | 1829-1838 |
2 | 1 | – Porter, Eveline (Anderson) | 1835 |
2 | 1 | – Potestad (?), ( ) | n.d. |
2 | 1 | – Pratt, Caroline | 1827 |
2 | 1 | – Pratt, Edmond | 1823 |
2 | 2 | – Randolph, John (1773-1833) | 1804 |
2 | 2 | – Randolph, Robert B. | 1834 |
2 | 2 | – Randolph, Thomas Jefferson (1792-1875) | 1834 |
2 | 2 | – Reed, John | 1838 |
2 | 2 | – Reed, Philip | 1826 |
2 | 2 | – Renwick, James (1792-1863) (2 letters) | 1824, 1834 |
2 | 2 | – Renwick, William | 1834 |
2 | 2 | – Reynolds, Robert | 1804 |
2 | 2 | – Richards, Mark | 1815 |
2 | 2 | – Rodgers, ( ) | n.d. |
2 | 2 | – Rodney, Caesar Augustus (1772-1824) (3 letters) | 1799, 1820, 1823 |
2 | 2 | – Ruschenberger, William S.W. (b.1807) | 1834 |
2 | 2 | – Rutherfurd, John (1760-1840) (3 letters) | 1816, 1837 |
2 | 2 | – Ryerson, Thomas C. (1788-1838) | 1814 |
2 | 3 | – Sailer, Joseph | 1836 |
2 | 3 | – Sartori, John B. | 1835 |
2 | 3 | – Schneeman, Ellen (Ulrich) | 1838 |
2 | 3 | – Segur, Thomas B. (d.1854) | 1834 |
2 | 3 | – Shute, William | 1835 |
2 | 3 | – Sickler, John Rowan (1800-1886) | 1835 |
2 | 3 | – Silliman, Benjamin (1779-1864) (2 letters) | 1818, 1834 |
2 | 3 | – Simms, J.D. | 1835 |
2 | 3 | – Slidell, Alexander (2 letters) | 1836, 1837 |
2 | 3 | – Smith, Samuel (1752-1839) (2 letters) | 1834, 1835 |
2 | 3 | – Smith, Walter | 1835 |
2 | 3 | – Southard, Samuel Lewis (1787-1842) | 1817 |
2 | 3 | – Steedman, Charles John | 1834 |
2 | 3 | – Stevenson, Andrew (1784-1857) (2 letters) | 1834 |
2 | 3 | – Stiles, Henry | 1815 |
2 | 3 | – Stiles, John (d.ca.1815) | 1814 |
2 | 3 | – Stockton, Richard (1764-1828) | 1820 |
2 | 3 | – Stockton, Robert Field (1795-1866) (4 letters) | 1834-1836 |
2 | 3 | – Stopford (?), ( ) | n.d. |
2 | 3 | – Stanburrough, John H. | 1812 |
2 | 3 | – Stryker, Thomas Johnson (1800-1872) | 1832 |
2 | 3 | – Swartwout, Samuel (1783-1856) | 1835 |
2 | 4 | – Taliaferro, John | 1836 |
2 | 4 | – Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864) | 1834 |
2 | 4 | – Taylor, Virginia | n.d. |
2 | 4 | – Teackle, Littleton D. | 1834 |
2 | 4 | – Thompson, Benjamin F. | 1843 |
2 | 4 | – Throop, Enos Thompson (1784-1874) (2 letters) | 1834 |
2 | 4 | – Todd, John P. | 1836 |
2 | 4 | – Trumbull, John (1756-1843) | 1826 |
2 | 4 | – Ulrich, H. | 1836 |
2 | 4 | – Vail, Stephen | 1836 |
2 | 4 | – Van Buren, Martin (1782-1862) (10 letters) | 1833-1836, n.d. |
2 | 4 | – Van Buren, Martin Jr. | n.d. |
2 | 4 | – Van Buren, Smith Thompson | n.d. |
2 | 4 | – Voorhees, John Flagg (1805-1867) | 1834 |
2 | 4 | – Vroom, Peter Dumont (1791-1873) | 1832 |
2 | 5 | – Walden, Jacob Treadwell | 1841 |
2 | 5 | – Walker, Joseph Jr. (2 letters) | 1830 |
2 | 5 | – Wallace, William A. | 1813 |
2 | 5 | – Ward, A. | 1834 |
2 | 5 | – Warrington, Lewis (1782-1851) (3 letters) | 1835, 1837, 1838 |
2 | 5 | – Watterston, George (1783-1854) (2 letters) | 1826, 1834 |
2 | 5 | – Wayne, James Moore (ca.1790-1867) | n.d. |
2 | 5 | – Welles, Gideon (1802-1878) | 1832 |
2 | 5 | – Welles, Samuel (with note from Sampson Simson) |
1835 |
2 | 5 | – Werse, Neiser W. | 1836 |
2 | 5 | – Westcott, Richard D. | 1834 |
2 | 5 | – Wilkes, Charles (1798-1877) | n.d. |
2 | 5 | – Williamson, Frances H. (3 letters) | 1835 |
2 | 5 | – Williamson, Isaac Halsted (1767-1844) (2 letters) | 1820, 1823 |
2 | 5 | – Wiltbank, ( ) | 1834 |
2 | 5 | – Wood, Freeman | 1835 |
2 | 5 | – Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851) (2 letters) | 1838 |
2 | 5 | – Yard, Edward | 1814 |
2 | 5 | – Zabriskie, James C. (1804-1883) | 1835 |
2 | 5 | – ( ), Julia | 1824 |
2 | 5 | – ( ) | |
2 | 6 | Letters Sent to: | |
2 | 6 | – Alling, Pruden | 1835 |
2 | 6 | – Barton, William Paul Crillon (1786-1856) (11 letters) |
1835-1838 |
2 | 6 | – Bayard, Samuel John (1801-1878) | 1831 |
2 | 6 | – Bloomfield, Joseph (1753-1823) | 1802 |
2 | 6 | – Branch, John (1782-1863) | 1830 |
2 | 6 | – Calhoun, John C. (1782-1850) | 1835 |
2 | 6 | – Dayton, Jonathan (1760-1824) | 1817 |
2 | 6 | – Elliott, Jesse Duncan (1782-1845) (3 letters) | 1834, 1836 |
2 | 6 | – Fernald, Theodore | 1836 |
2 | 6 | – Fulton, Robert (1765-1815) | 1813 |
2 | 6 | – Garland, J. | 1836 |
2 | 7 | – Hallowell, John (2 letters) | 1813, 1815 |
2 | 7 | – Hunter, William (1774-1849) | 1834 |
2 | 7 | – Kane, John Kintzing (1795-1858) | 1836 |
2 | 7 | – Kirkbride, Joseph (5 letters) | 1811-1814 |
2 | 7 | – McDonald, Alexander L. | 1835 |
2 | 7 | – McLane, Louis (1786-1857) | 1834 |
2 | 7 | – Niles, Hezekiah (1777-1839) | 1832 |
2 | 7 | – Patton, John | 1834 |
2 | 7 | – Paulding, James Kirke (1778-1860) | 1839 |
2 | 7 | – Phillips, Benjamin | 1835 |
2 | 7 | – Porter, David (1780-1843) | 1835 |
2 | 7 | – Read, George | |
2 | 7 | – Smith, James M. (this letter is glued to the 1/25/1838 letter to William P.C. Barton) |
1835 |
2 | 7 | – Smith, Samuel (1752-1839) | 1834 |
2 | 7 | – Smith, Walter | 1835 |
2 | 7 | – Stevens, Thomas Holdup (1795-1841) (typescript copy) |
1836 |
2 | 7 | – Thompson, Smith (1768-1843) (4 letters) | 1819-1823 |
2 | 7 | – Throop, Enos Thompson (1784-1874) | 1834 |
2 | 7 | – Trenton Banking Company President | 1834 |
2 | 7 | – Williamson, Isaac Halsted (1767-1844) | 1829 |
2 | 7 | – Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851) (2 letters) | 1832 |
2 | 7 | – ( ) | 1837 |
3(os) | – | Bound Letters: Correspondence between Mahlon and Silas Dickerson |
1794-1806 |
2 | 8 | Miscellaneous Correspondence – To: | |
2 | 8 | – Clay, Henry (1777-1852) from M. (?) McKim | 1824 |
2 | 8 | – Currell, Joseph S. & William Ackerson from Jesse Duncan Elliott (1782-1845) |
1834 |
2 | 8 | – Elliott, Jesse Duncan (1782-1845) from Anonymous (“A Friend”) |
1834 |
2 | 8 | – Ewing, W.M. from Isaac Halsted Williamson (1767-1844) |
1829 |
2 | 8 | – Hull, Isaac (1773-1843) from Anonymous (“One of the Poor Mechanics”) (2 copies) |
1835 |
2 | 8 | – Jackson, Andrew (1773-1843) from Citizens of Brooklyn and New York, many signatures |
n.d. |
2 | 8 | – Jackson, Andrew (1773-1843) from Garret D. Wall |
1834 |
2 | 8 | – Jordan, Merit from John Boyle | 1834 |
2 | 8 | – McIlvaine, Joseph from Benjamin Jones | 1824 |
2 | 8 | – McKeon, ( ) from Alexander Heratio | n.d. |
2 | 8 | – Miller, Daniel H. from Mark Richards | 1828 |
2 | 8 | – Morris, Charles (1784-1856) from John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) |
1834 |
2 | 8 | – Southard, Samuel Lewis (1787-1842) from David Porter (1780-1843) |
1824 |
2 | 8 | – Stockton, Ebenezer from Ebenezer Bradford | 1794 |
2 | 8 | – Throop, Enos Thompson (1784-1874) from H. Davidson |
n.d. |
2 | 8 | – Voorhees, B.M. from James (?) Zabriskie | 1835 |
2 | 8 | – Watterston, George (1783-1854) from Clement C. Biddle |
1825 |
Diaries | |||
2 | 9 | Diary | 1782-1801 |
2 | 9 | Diary | 1801-1809 |
4 | 1 | Diary | 1832-1845 |
4 | 1 | Diary | 1845-1852 |
4 | 2 | Typescript copy of 1782-1801 Diary | 1919 |
4 | 3 | Typescript copy of 1809-1819 Diary: Extracts | n.d. |
4 | 4 | Typescript copy of 1832-1845 Diary | 1919 |
4 | 5 | Typescript copy of 1845-1852 Diary: Extracts | n.d. |
Professional Papers | |||
4 | 6 | Docket: Court of Common Pleas | 1800-1809 |
5 | 1 | Docket: Various Courts (also contains Canfield Family Accounts) |
1795-1801 (1867-1876) |
5 | 2 | Case Files | 1794-1816 |
5 | 3 | Notes on Commerce and Manufactures | 1820, n.d. |
5 | 4 | Certificates | 1813, 1833, 1835 |
Financial Documents | |||
5 | 5 | Receipts, Accounts, Notes | 1796-1853, n.d. |
5 | 6 | Accounts with Mahlon F. Dickerson | 1813-1819, n.d. |
Contracts | |||
5 | 7 | Dissolution of partnership with Mahlon F. Dickerson |
1817 |
5 | 7 | Land Deed, bought from John and Mary B. Sammis | 1848 |
Maps | |||
5 | 8 | Morris County, Succasunna – land owned by the Kirkbride Family, copy of a land survey taken ca. 1713-1716 |
ca. 1790s |
5 | 8 | Morris County, Lake Hopatcong area – with lake boundaries before and after the Morris canal, also shows roads, iron works, mines, and the Morris Canal |
n.d. |
Notes and Poetry | |||
5 | 9 | Notes on Russell’s Modern Europe | 1793 |
5 | 9 | Notes on Blackstone’s Commentaries | n.d. |
5 | 10 | Notebook: Legal notes | 1792 |
5 | 10 | Notebook: Various topics | n.d. |
5 | 11 | Addresses and Poetry | 1800, 1834, n.d. |
Miscellaneous | |||
5 | 12 | Newspaper Clippings | |
5 | 12 | – “To the Citizens of New Jersey,” written by Silas Dickerson as Speaker of the House of Assembly |
1802 |
5 | 12 | – Silas Dickerson’s Obituary | 1807 |
5 | 12 | – Merriwether Lewis, Notice of his death | 1809 |
5 | 12 | – “Short Speeches of the People in reply to Senatorial Harangues” |
1834 |
5 | 12 | Extract from the New York Historical Society Minutes – asking for Mahlon Dickerson’s papers |
1816 |
5 | 12 | Notes taken by Frederick A. Canfield on the Figure Head of Andrew Jackson that was mutilated on the U.S. Ship Constitution |
1922 |
5 | 12 | Stationary with a small drawing | n.d. |
mc | – | Genealogies of the Sovereigns of Europe, compiled by Mahlon Dickerson (Oversize-Mapcase) |
n.d. |
Series II – Philemon Dickerson (1788-1862) |
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Correspondence | |||
5 | 13 | Letters Received from: | |
5 | 13 | – Alling, Pruden (2 letters) | 1840 |
5 | 13 | – American Whig Society at Princeton | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Armstrong, Robert L. (ca.1785-1839) | 1837 |
5 | 13 | – Babbitt, William M. (1821-1875) | 1857 |
5 | 13 | – Baker, L. | 1838 |
5 | 13 | – Barney, Joshua | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Barry, M.O. | 1840 |
5 | 13 | – Beardsley, Samuel (1790-1860) | 1843 |
5 | 13 | – Bentley, Peter (1805-1875) | 1840 |
5 | 13 | – Berdan, J. Jr. | 1840 |
5 | 13 | – Bogart, David Nevius (ca.1809-1844) | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Boswell, H.C. | 1844 |
5 | 13 | – Bowne, C. | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Bradley, Theodore | 1858 |
5 | 13 | – Bradley, William A. | 1838 |
5 | 13 | – Brinley, F.W. (2 letters) | 1839, 1840 |
5 | 13 | – Bruen, Herman | 1837 |
5 | 13 | – Burnet, J.B. | 1841 |
5 | 13 | – Camp, Joseph Wheeler (1784-1838) | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Campbell, Robert | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Cannon, Garret Schenck (1815-1886) | 1845 |
5 | 13 | – Cass, Lewis (1782-1866) (3 letters) | 1837, 1838, n.d. |
5 | 13 | – Cassedy, Samuel (1790-1862) | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Chamber of Commerce of New Orleans | 1841 |
5 | 13 | – Colt, John | 1843 |
5 | 13 | – Colt, Roswell Lyman (1786-1856) | n.d. |
5 | 13 | – Condit & Smith | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Cook, William | 1845 |
5 | 13 | – Cornelison, John Mesier (1802-1875) | 1836 |
5 | 13 | – Coxe, D.W. | 1837 |
5 | 13 | – Daniel, John L. | 1841 |
5 | 13 | – DeCamp, John | 1837 |
5 | 13 | – Democratic Workingmen of the District of Columbia, signed James A. Payne, William Morgan, William King, R. Jones, Amos Kendall, Edmund Hairly, C.P. Sengstuck |
1840 |
5 | 13 | – Dennis, Richard (2 letters) | 1836, 1838 |
5 | 13 | – Dickerson, Mahlon (1770-1853) | 1839 |
5 | 13 | – Doremus, Albert G. | 1840 |
5 | 13 | – Dougherty, Alexander N. | 1840 |
5 | 13 | – Doughty, Samuel (5 letters) | 1845-1850 |
5 | 14 | – Earl, ( ) | 1837 |
5 | 14 | – Edwards, J.L. | 1838 |
5 | 14 | – Edwards. John H. | 1859 |
5 | 14 | – Ellis, John F. (3 letters) | 1837, 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Foote, Rensselaer W. | 1838 |
5 | 14 | – Franklin, W.S. | 1836 |
5 | 14 | – Gale, William (2 letters) | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Gamble, R.H. | 1842 |
5 | 14 | – Gassner, Peter | 1837 |
5 | 14 | – Gifford, Archer (1796-1859) | 1835 |
5 | 14 | – Gifford, George | 1854 |
5 | 14 | – Goodwin, J.M. | 1835 |
5 | 14 | – Griswold, George (2 letters) | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Guion, W.B. | 1836 |
5 | 14 | – Hagerty, Uzal C. | 1838 |
5 | 14 | – Halsey, Charles H. | 1836 |
5 | 14 | – Halsey, J.T. | 1839 |
5 | 14 | – Hamilton, Samuel Randolph (1790-1856) | 1837 |
5 | 14 | – Harris, Robert William (2 letters) | 1843 |
5 | 14 | – Hawkes, Wright | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Hazard, Wanton R. (2 letters) | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Hornblower, Joseph C. (1777-1864) | 1841 |
5 | 14 | – Hughes, Jasper W. | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Hughson, W.A. | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Hunderker, W. | 1838 |
5 | 14 | – Hunt, William J. | 1836 |
5 | 14 | – Jackson, Joseph (1774-1855) | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – James. H.J. | 1843 |
5 | 14 | – Jeffers, William N. (ca.1788-1853) | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Jennings, John W. | 1840 |
5 | 14 | – Kearney, Robert W. | 1835 |
5 | 14 | – Kennedy, Robert S. (1802-1879) | 1854 |
5 | 14 | – King, ( ) | 1836 |
5 | 14 | – Kline, Jacob | 1837 |
5 | 14 | – Lambert, J. | 1837 |
5 | 14 | – Lee, Robert (d.1842) | 1837 |
5 | 14 | – Lewis, John F. (?) | 1835 |
5 | 14 | – Lippincott, Grambo & Co. | 1854 |
5 | 14 | – Lum, R.A. | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – McCarter, Robert Harris (1793-1851) (2 letters) | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – McClurg, Samuel (1791-1855) | 1844 |
6 | 1 | – McKeon, John (4 letters) | 1836-1838, n.d. |
6 | 1 | – Macker (?), R. | 1846 |
6 | 1 | – McLane, Allen | 1835 |
6 | 1 | – McLane, Louis (1786-1857) | 1836 |
6 | 1 | – McNeill, William Gibbs (1801-1853) | n.d. |
6 | 1 | – Maynard & Hutchinson | 1851 |
6 | 1 | – Mead, J.K. | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Merchants of New York | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Morris, Anthony P. | 1837 |
6 | 1 | – Mott, Samuel F. | 1833 |
6 | 1 | – Mumford, John J. | 1843 |
6 | 1 | – Munn (?), J.B. | 1836 |
6 | 1 | – Munson (?), J. | 1859 |
6 | 1 | – Murphy, Seba | 1836 |
6 | 1 | – Nicoll, Edward H. | 1836 |
6 | 1 | – Nicoll, Henry (2 letters) | 1838, 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Ogden, Ephraim F. | 1835 |
6 | 1 | – Ogden, William | 1839 |
6 | 1 | – Owen, Samuel | 1843 |
6 | 1 | – Palmer, C. | 1837 |
6 | 1 | – Palmer, John J. | 1837 |
6 | 1 | – Parker, Charles (1787-1862) | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Parsons, A. | 1829 |
6 | 1 | – Patterson, William | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Peaslee, Reuben | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Peck, Aaron (1798-1865) (2 letters) | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Peters, Richard (with enclosure) | 1843 |
6 | 1 | – Phillips, J.A. (2 letters) | 1835, 1836 |
6 | 1 | – Plume, John J. | 1840 |
6 | 1 | – Potts, Joseph C. (d.1880) (4 letters) | 1840-1845 |
6 | 1 | – Potts, Stacy Gardner (1799-1865) (2 letters) | 1836, n.d. |
6 | 1 | – Purdy, Joseph H. | 1840 |
6 | 2 | – Randolph, Joseph Fitz (1803-1873) | 1837 |
6 | 2 | – Rogers, Edward N. | 1839 |
6 | 2 | – Roth, Fred | 1852 |
6 | 2 | – Rouen, Martin | 1840 |
6 | 2 | – Schunck, D.K. | 1840 |
6 | 2 | – Sexton, Edwin | 1844 |
6 | 2 | – Ship, B. Livingston (4 letters) | 1830-1836 |
6 | 2 | – Shippen, Richard | 1845 |
6 | 2 | – Smith, Jonathan B. (with note from John Willis) | n.d. |
6 | 2 | – Southwick, William | 1854 |
6 | 2 | – Spafford, Charles | 1854 |
6 | 2 | – Steamboat Operators and Owners of New Jersey (12 letters) |
1845-1860 |
6 | 2 | – Stephens, John H. (1789-1870) | 1840 |
6 | 2 | – Stevens, Edwin Augustus (1795-1868) (7 letters) | 1846-1852 |
6 | 2 | – Stevens, Robert Livingston (1787-1856) (9 letters) |
1845-1851 |
6 | 2 | – Stillwell, Silas Moore (1800-1881) | 1840 |
6 | 2 | – Sutton, Benjamin | 1849 |
6 | 3 | – Tallmadge, James (1778-1853) | 1837 |
6 | 3 | – Thompson, Richard Parrot (1805-1859) (2 letters) | 1836-1837 |
6 | 3 | – Townsend, Daniel J. (5 letters) | 1836-1840 |
6 | 3 | – Trist, Nicholas Philip (1800-1874) | 1847 |
6 | 3 | – Vail, George (1809-1875) | 1839 |
6 | 3 | – Van Arsdale, Elias (1801-1854) (2 letters) | 1837, 1840 |
6 | 3 | – Van Arsdale, Robert (1807-1873) | 1839 |
6 | 3 | – Wall, Garret Dorset (1783-1850) | 1836 |
6 | 3 | – Walton, M. (2 letters) | 1836 |
6 | 3 | – Ward, Ichabod B. | 1840 |
6 | 3 | – Westcott, George Clinton (d.1853) | 1838 |
6 | 3 | – Westcott, James D. (1775-1841) | 1840 |
6 | 3 | – Whistler, William | 1836 |
6 | 3 | – White, Campbell D. (2 letters) | 1840, 1841 |
6 | 3 | – Wilbur, Rodney | 1852 |
6 | 3 | – Williams, Thomas W. | 1840 |
6 | 3 | – Wills, Moses | 1836 |
6 | 3 | – Wilson, John | 1839 |
6 | 3 | – Woodbury, Levi (1789-1851) | 1841 |
6 | 3 | – Yard, Joseph Ashton (1802-1878) | 1844 |
6 | 4 | Letters Sent: | |
6 | 4 | – Blair, Francis Preston (1791-1876) | 1833 |
6 | 4 | – Hornblower, Joseph C. (1777-1864) | 1832 |
6 | 4 | – Lee, Robert (d.1842) | 1837 |
6 | 4 | – White, Campbell D. | 1840 |
6 | 4 | – Williamson, Isaac Halsted (1767-1844) | 1832 |
6 | 5 | Miscellaneous Correspondence: | |
6 | 5 | – Bradley, William A. from H.S. Weightman | 1838 |
6 | 5 | – Campbell, John from H.H. Bottom & Co. | 1851 |
6 | 5 | – Grier, R.C. from ( ) Hubbell (?) | 1859 |
6 | 5 | – Hazard, Wanton R. from John Collins | 1840 |
6 | 5 | – Laight, Edward W. from ( ) Williams | 1824 |
6 | 5 | – Potts, Joseph C. from William Cook | 1844 |
Professional Papers | |||
6 | 6 | Docket | 1815-1826 |
7 | 1 | U.S. District Court for New Jersey:- Court Calendars |
1843-1853 |
7 | 2 | – Marshall Bonds | 1823-1853 |
7 | 2 | – Marshall Oaths of Office | 1840-1861 |
7 | 3 | – Juror Summons | 1852-1861 |
7 | 4 | Case Files as a lawyer: | |
7 | 4 | – Charles A. Harper vs. William A. Imlay | 1820-1821 |
7 | 4 | – The Paterson Bank vs. Moses Smith | ca. 1826-1830 |
7 | 4 | – Joseph Stark, administrator of Jane Stark, deceased, et al. vs. George Hunton, et al. |
1830-1837 |
7 | 4 | Case Files, District Court: | |
7 | 4 | – United States vs. John Develin | 1857 |
7 | 4 | – The Trenton Iron Company vs. The Schooner George Barsol |
1857 |
7 | 4 | – United States vs. Wesley Smith | 1859 |
7 | 4 | – United States vs. James Ackerman and George Miller |
1860 |
7 | 5 | Miscellaneous Case Files: | |
7 | 5 | – Dennis McKiernan and Patrick Garret | 1832 |
7 | 5 | – Charles G. Ferris, et al. vs. David Bench, et al., Prerogative Court |
1836 |
7 | 5 | – Susannah B. Young vs. David Bruch and William H. Mead; Charles G. Ferris, et al. vs. David Bruch and William H. Mead |
1837 |
7 | 5 | – John Den, et al. vs. George Zabriskie | 1838 |
7 | 5 | – Myers and Morris vs. Clinton Manufacturing Company |
1838 |
7 | 5 | – John Kip vs. Elias Van Arsdale, et al. | 1840 |
7 | 5 | – William R. Van Blarcom vs. Samuel Burhaus | 1842 |
7 | 5 | – Sylvester Seely vs. Thomas Jaccobus | 1843 |
7 | 5 | – George Rundle, et al, trustees of the estate of John Savage, deceased vs. the Delaware and Raritan Canal |
1848-1853 |
7 | 5 | – Lewis Water vs. Imlah Moore, et al. | 1849 |
7 | 5 | – Albert G. Sloo vs. George Law, et al. | 1849 |
7 | 5 | – Philemon Dickerson, executor of Mahlon Dickerson vs. Mahlon D. Canfield, et al., |
1856 |
7 | 6 | Case/Court Notes | n.d. |
7 | 7 | List of deputy marshals for taking the 1840 Census in New Jersey |
ca.1840 |
7 | 8 | Notes and Pamphlets on Congressional Legislation | 1837-1841, n.d. |
Financial Documents | |||
7 | 9 | Receipts, Bills, and Notes | 1803-1855, n.d. |
7 | 9 | Miscellaneous Bonds | 1827-1850 |
Contracts | |||
7 | 10 | Contracts: | |
7 | 10 | Agreement for sale of property to Philemon Dickerson and Aaron S. Pennington from Samuel Burhaus |
1833 |
7 | 10 | Miscellaneous Contracts: | |
7 | 10 | – Articles of Agreement making John Brickhill a servant of Ralph Weldon |
1804 |
7 | 10 | – Articles of Agreement for the sale of land and property to John P. Voorhees by David Roe |
1843 |
7 | 10 | – Contract for Peter Vandyke to manage John Travers farm |
1849 |
7 | 10 | – Licenses of a Patent to Elijah C. Pierson and Cyrus Peck from Charles St. John, Henry A. Burr, and Alice B. Taylor |
1851 |
7 | 10 | – Lease to Valorous Lewis from John Graham | 1855 |
7 | 10 | – Statement to the Paterson Bank from J.J. Plume | n.d. |
Miscellaneous | |||
7 | 11 | Poem | 1812 |
7 | 11 | Announcement of city charter of Paterson | 1851 |
Series III – Dickerson Family |
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Correspondence | |||
7 | 12 | – To Augustus Canfield (1801-1854) from: | |
7 | 12 | Lewis, William | 1832 |
7 | 12 | ( ) | 1831 |
7 | 12 | – To David Sealy Canfield (1774-1830) from: | |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, Silas (1771-1807) | 1799 |
7 | 12 | – To Frederick Canfield (1810-1867) from: | |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, Mahlon (1770-1853) (9 letters) | 1831-1851 |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, Philemon (1788-1862) (2 letters) | 1855, 1857 |
7 | 12 | – To Mary “Polly” Dickerson Canfield (1778-1830) from: |
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7 | 12 | Dickerson, Aaron (1783-1824) (9 letters) | 1804-1811 |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, John B. (1786-1822) | 1806 |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, Mary (Coe) (1752-1827) | 1803 |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, Philemon (1788-1862) | 1808 |
7 | 12 | Dickerson, Silas (1771-1807) (4 letters) | 1794-1806, n.d. |
7 | 13 | – To Edward Nicoll Dickerson (1824-1889) from: | |
7 | 13 | Adrain, Robert | 1848 |
7 | 13 | Bradley, Joseph P. (1813-1892) | 1847 |
7 | 13 | Burr, Henry A. | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Campbell, John | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Campbell, ( ) | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Carey, Henry Charles (1793-1879) (2 letters) | 1848, 1849 |
7 | 13 | Collins, William | 1848 |
7 | 13 | Colt, Samuel (1814-1862) | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Ewing, Thomas (1789-1871) | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Haines, Daniel (1801-1877) | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Halsted, ( ) | 1848 |
7 | 13 | Hamilton, Samuel Randolph (1790-1856) | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Hornor, Robert Emley (1800-1851) | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Jeffers, William N. (ca.1788-1853) | 1845 |
7 | 13 | Jones, George H. | 1848 |
7 | 13 | Jordan, Thomas | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Judson, William | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Kanouse, Thomas H. | n.d. |
7 | 13 | Kennedy, Robert S. (1802-1879) | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Redmond, Jas. M. | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Rowan, Martin Jr. | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Sloo, A.G. | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Spafford, Charles | 1854 |
7 | 13 | Sullivan, George | 1847 |
7 | 13 | Townsend, Isaiah | 1849 |
7 | 13 | Townsend, Frank | 1851 |
7 | 13 | Vroom, Peter D. (1791-1873) (2 letters) | 1848 |
7 | 13 | Walker, Robert J. (1801-1869) | 1847 |
7 | 13 | Whitehead, Asa (1793-1860) | 1848 |
7 | 13 | Wilson, James G. | 1851 |
7 | 13 | ( ), P. (2 letters) | 1847, n.d. |
7 | 14 | – To John B. Dickerson (1786-1822) from: | |
7 | 14 | Dickerson, Aaron (1783-1824) (5 letters) | 1807-1813 |
7 | 14 | Dickerson, Mahlon (1770-1853) (2 letters) | 1808, 1819 |
7 | 14 | Dickerson, Mahlon Ford (1794-1823) (3 letters) | 1817-1818 |
7 | 14 | Dickerson, Philemon (1788-1862) (4 letters) | 1808-1809 |
7 | 14 | – To Jonathan Dickerson (1747-1805) from: | |
7 | 14 | Bradford, Ebenezer (1746-1801) | 1791 |
7 | 14 | Cook, Ellis (ca.1732-1797) | 1784 |
7 | 14 | Dickerson, Silas (1771-1807) | 1804 |
7 | 14 | Halsey, Daniel | 1791 |
7 | 14 | Harris, Ephraim (b.1731) | 1784 |
7 | 14 | Kirkbride, Mahlon | 1774 |
7 | 14 | – To Silas Dickerson (1771-1807) from: | |
7 | 14 | Bloomfield, Joseph (1753-1823) (2 letters) | 1800, 1803 |
7 | 15 | – To John M. Gould from: | |
7 | 15 | Bentley, Peter (1805-1875) | 1853 |
7 | 15 | Bowne, W.A. | 1854 |
7 | 15 | Bradley, Joseph P. (1813-1892) | 1845 |
7 | 15 | Clark, Edward | 1855 |
7 | 15 | Dickerson, Philemon (1788-1862) (7 letters) | 1840-1841 |
7 | 15 | Gilchrist, Robert (1825-1888) | 1855 |
7 | 15 | Gould, Robert S. | 1847 |
7 | 15 | Gummere, Samuel R. | 1847 |
7 | 15 | Hamilton, Robert (1809-1878) | 1854 |
7 | 15 | Husband, Charles | 1848 |
7 | 15 | Inslee, William R. | 1842 |
7 | 15 | Kanouse, J. Alfred (2 letters) | 1841 |
7 | 15 | Morris, William L. | 1841 |
7 | 15 | Priest, T. Abbot V. | 1855 |
7 | 15 | Ramsey, J.M. | 1854 |
7 | 15 | Sargeant, George D. (2 letters) | 1854 |
7 | 15 | Tolles, H.B. | 1849 |
7 | 15 | Whitehead, Asa (1793-1860) (2 letters) | 1854 |
7 | 15 | Zabriskie, Abraham Oothout (1807-1873) | 1847 |
7 | 15 | – John M. Gould to: | |
7 | 15 | Ramsey, J.M. | 1854 |
7 | 15 | Shepard, S.O. | 1847 |
7 | 15 | Tappan, Lewis | 1848 |
Diaries | |||
7 | 16 | Mahlon Ford Dickerson – “Private Memorandum Book” (Journal) |
1816-1822 |
Professional Papers | |||
7 | 17 | Case Files – Edward Nicoll Dickerson and John M. Gould: |
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7 | 17 | – Abraham Stevens, Jr. vs. Peter M. Ryerson | 1844-1846 |
7 | 17 | – Seth T. Barstow vs. Arnold St. John, et al. | 1848 |
7 | 17 | – Charles C. Alger vs. Joseph E. Edsell | 1849 |
7 | 17 | – Abraham Stevens vs. John J. Van Allen, et al. | 1850 |
7 | 17 | – Oliver H.P. Parker, assignee of Zebulon Parker, vs. James S. Hulme, Circuit Court |
1850 |
7 | 17 | – Jacob Wagoner, et al vs. The Morris and Essex Railroad Company |
1850 |
7 | 17 | – Samuel Hanna vs. William Reading | 1850-1851 |
7 | 18 | – Charles Goodyear vs. Horace H. Day | 1851-1853 |
7 | 18 | – Henry A. Burr, et al. vs. A. Peck et al. | 1852 |
7 | 18 | – John Den, et al. vs. John B. Coles, et al. | 1852-1853 |
7 | 18 | – Charles Goodyear and the New England Car Spring Company vs. The Central New Jersey Railroad of New Jersey |
1853-1859 |
7 | 18 | – Thomas Kearny, et al. vs. John J. Taylor, et al. | 1855 |
7 | 18 | – Moses Van Ness and Thomas Van Ness vs. Margaret Van Ness, et al. |
1857 |
7 | 19 | Certificates – Edward N. Dickerson and Philemon Dickerson, Jr. |
1850, 1851, 1855 |
Financial Documents | |||
7 | 20 | Receipts, Accounts, Notes | 1783-1814 |
Contracts | |||
7 | 21 | Acceptance of Warranty deed by Philip Rafferty and Peter Taggart for property of John M. Gould |
1846 |
7 | 21 | Agreement selling land of John M. Gould to John English |
1855 |
Accessions that were added to Manuscript Group 13:
M2206: Mahlon Dickerson Diary, 1782-1801
M2207: Mahlon Dickerson Diary, 1801-1809
M2208: Mahlon Dickerson Diary, 1832-1845
M2209: Bound Letters of Mahlon and Silas Dickerson
M3083: Copy letters, pages from a book
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 1/25/1835
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 12/31/1836
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 8/1/1937
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 8/24/1837
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 12/6/1837
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 12/23/1837
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 12/26/1837
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 3/12/1838
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 3/24/1838
-M.D. to William P.C. Barton, 5/8/1838
-M.D. to James M. Smith, 1/27/1835
P577 (Cat. No.742): Alexander N. Dougherty to P.D., 2/24/1840
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Smith Thompson, 4/13/1819
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Smith Thompson, 7/28/1820
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Smith Thompson, 11/14/1820
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Smith Thomson, 3/5/1823
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Levi Woodbury, 1/4/1832
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Levi Woodbury, 1/24/1832
A 5-24-71: M.D. to John Patton, 7/18/1834
A 5-24-71: M.D. to George Read, 10/11/1834
A 5-24-71: M.D. to Benjamin Phillips, 1/6/1835
A 11-13-72: M.D. to Theodore Fernald, 10/6/1836
A 10-9-74: Caesar Rodney to M.D., 5/2/1799
A 6-11-75: M.D. to John Branch, 4/3/1830
A 9-16-76: M.D. to James K. Paulding, 5/27/1839
A 10-12-77: M.D. to J. Garland, 2/23/1836
A 81-40: P.D. to Francis P. Blair, 12/12/1833
A 84-18: John M. Felder to M.D., 4/24/1834
A 84-18: Uzal C. Hagerty to M.D., 3/17/1834
A 84-18: Joseph P. Musgrave to M.D., 1/10/1835
A 84-18: John McIlvaine to M.D., 2/7/1816
Processed by Kim Charlton, April-May 2000 as part of the
“Farm to City” project funded by a grant from the National Historical
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