Manuscript Group 282, Holmes Family (Middletown, NJ) Papers, 1680-1905 (Bulk dates: 1770-1850)

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Manuscript Group 282,
Holmes Family (Middletown, NJ)

Papers, 1680-1905 (Bulk
dates: 1770-1850), 3.0 linear feet / 7 manuscript boxes

Call Number: MG 282 + Box and folder number

Summary:

Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, land records, military records, and other manuscripts of various
members of the Holmes family and related families of Monmouth County, New Jersey.  The collection includes: diary of Jonathan Holmes, 1836/37-1738;
manuscript copy of a declaration of “the Deputies of the Shrewsbury Association” as submitted to “the County Committee for Monmouth,” May 15, 1775; muster rolls, court martial records, and other military documents from the Revolution and Early National period; Monmouth County sheriff’s records, 1787-1831, retained by Daniel Hendrickson and Daniel Holmes; documents from the Monmouth County Court of Common Pleas and the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1787-1831, retained by Hendrickson and Holmes; voting statistics for 1802 Congressional election in Monmouth County; undated return for a county election in Monmouth; letters and documents relating to horse breeding and racing in New Jersey, 1770-1843; documents relating to Middletown Academy, 1793-1808. Included are letters of:

Samuel Breese Aaron Ogden
Richard Cox William Paterson (1745-1806)
Richard S. Hartshorne (1765-1833) Samuel Quay
Robert Hartshorne Jonathan Rhea
Daniel Hendrickson John Saltar
John Henry Garret Schank
John S. Holmes Joseph Scudder
Joseph C. Hornblower Richard Stockton (1764-1828)
John Kinsey John Taylor
James Lake Garret D. Wall
John Lawrence

Parts of the Jonathan Holmes diary were
printed in: John E. Stillwell, Historical and Genealogical Miscellany: Early
Settlers of New Jersey and Their Descendants
, 5 vols. (New York, 1903-1932),
3: 362-375.

Exchange, 1956.

Biographical
Note:

The Holmes family of Middletown, Monmouth
County, New Jersey is descended from two brothers, Jonathan (1633-1713) and
Obadiah Holmes (b. 1644).  The Holmes brothers along with their
brother-in-law, John Bowne (ca. 1630-1684), settled on land given to them by
their father, Reverend Obadiah Holmes (1606-1682).  This land was part of
the 1666 Nicoll’s patent and was named Middletown.  The Holmes tract was
later known as Freehold and then Baptistown and is now called Holmdel after the
family that first settled there.

Jonathan Holmes’ son, also named Jonathan
Holmes (1682-1766)
, settled on his father’s Monmouth County land and
married first Deliverance Ashton and later Rebecca Throckmorton (d. 1761), who
together gave him seven children.

John Holmes (1730-1804),
the third son of Jonathan Holmes (1682-1766) was born on July 27, 1730 to
Rebecca Throckmorton Holmes, and was sometimes referred to as John Holmes minor
or John Holmes Jr.  As an adult, he was a yeoman; an overseer of the poor
for Monmouth County (1773); a Monmouth County delegate to the 1775 Provincial
Congress; a member of the Congress’ second session; and a deputy for Monmouth
County (1776).  During the Revolutionary War he joined the Continental Army
eventually earning the rank of captain of the First Regiment – for which he
was forever after referred to as Captain John Holmes.  Captain Holmes never
married and died in Monmouth County on March 26, 1804.  His nephews,
Jonathan Holmes (d. 1814), John S. Holmes (1762-1821), and Joseph Holmes, acted
as the executors of his estate.

Samuel Holmes (1726-1769),
the youngest son of Rebecca Throckmorton and Jonathan Holmes (1682-1766) was
born on October 4, 1726.  He was also a yeoman, and in 1745 married Mary
Stout, with whom he had nine children.  He died on August 26, 1769.

Samuel and Mary Holmes’ youngest son, John
S. Holmes (1762-1821)
, was a merchant in Middletown, New Jersey.  He
seems to have been involved with two firms, Holmes & Schenk from around
1795-1798, and John S. Holmes & Son with his son Daniel from around
1818-1820.  John S. Holmes was also a trustee of nearby Middletown Academy
and possibly partners with his father-in-law Daniel Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797)
in grist, saw, and fulling mills located in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.  He
was also one of the executors of his father-in-law’s estate.  John S.
Holmes married Sarah Hendrickson (1767-1824) and with her had at five
children.  He died on August 15, 1821

Daniel Holmes (1792-1851),
the eldest son of Sarah Hendrickson and John S. Holmes, was, like his father, a
merchant in Middletown, New Jersey.  He entered into partnership with his
father in the firm John S. Holmes & Son and later was partners with Holmes
Van Mater (b. 1789) in the firm Van Mater & Holmes.  Daniel Holmes was
postmaster at Tinton Falls, and sheriff of Monmouth County from 1828-1831.
He married Rhoda Van Mater and with her had seven children.  Daniel Holmes
died in 1851.

Daniel Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797),
Daniel Holmes’ maternal grandfather, was the son of Mary Longstreet (b. 1702)
and William Hendrickson (1709-1783), and the grandson of Catharine Van Dyke and
Daniel Hendrickson (1673-1728).  This elder Daniel Hendrickson settled in
Monmouth County in 1700 and was the first Dutch sheriff of the county.
Daniel Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797), owned the grist, saw, and fulling mills at
Tinton Falls, which previously belonged to Lewis Morris.  In 1775, he was
one of Monmouth County’s delegates to the Provincial Congress and was a member
of its second session that same year.  In July of 1776, he was appointed
colonel of the Third Battalion of Foot of the Monmouth County Militia and in
1777 participated in the Battle of Monmouth.  He was possibly captured by
“Skinner’s Greens” in Tinton Falls around 1779.

Daniel Hendrickson also acted as the New
Jersey Gazette’s
distribution agent in Shrewsbury from 1777-1778, as a
member of New Jersey’s General Assembly from 1782-1785, and as sheriff of
Monmouth County from 1788-1790.  He married Catherine Van Brunt and with
her had six children: William, Elizabeth, William, Daniel (b. 1786), Mary, and
Sarah (1767-1824).  Hendrickson’s daughter Sarah married the merchant
John S. Holmes.

See Holmes
Family Tree
and Hendrickson Family Tree.

Sources:

Ellis, Franklin. History of Monmouth County, New Jersey (R. T. Peck & Co., Philadelphia, 1885).

Holmes Family File, The New Jersey Historical Society

Thornall, Jay W. The Holmes-Thornall Connection (Minute Press, Inc., Princeton, NJ: 1983).

Provenance
Note:

Some of the documents in this collection
were purchased in 1956 and accessioned under the number M3086.  The source
of the remainder of the items is unknown.

Scope
and Content Note:

The Holmes Family Papers consist of
correspondence, indentures, Monmouth County sheriff papers, and receipts of
primarily Captain John Holmes (1730-1804), John S. Holmes (1762-1821), Daniel
Holmes (1792-1851), and Daniel Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797).  In addition
the collection contains Revolutionary War and Monmouth County documents. The
papers date from 1680-1905 with bulk dates of 1770-1850, measure 3.0 linear
feet, and have been organized into the following series: Series I. Captain John
Holmes (1730-1804); Series II. John S. Holmes (1762-1821); Series III. Daniel
Holmes (1792-1851); Series IV. Colonel Daniel Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797);
Series V. Other Holmes Family Members; Series VI. Allied Families and Other
Individuals; Series VII. Revolutionary War Documents; and Series VIII. Monmouth
County Documents.  Within each series the documents are arranged by type
and then by date.  The exception to this is the correspondence and property
inventories which are arranged alphabetically.

Series Descriptions:

Series I. Captain John Holmes (1730-1804),
1750-1821

This series consists largely of the
receipts, accounts, and bills of Captain John Holmes, but also includes
correspondence, bonds, articles of agreement, estate papers, and a map of one of
Holmes’ meadows. This series dates from 1750-1821 though largely from the
eighteenth century.

Series II. John S. Holmes (1762-1821),
1787-1838

This series consists of the
correspondence; legal documents and contracts; and receipts, accounts, and bills
of John S. Holmes dating from 1787-1838 with bulk dates of 1795-1810. The
correspondence mostly deals with Holmes’ general stores and largely pertains
to supply orders and billing concerns with the New York City merchant firms of
O. & A. Bowne & Company, Snydam & Wyckoff, Duryee & Heyer, C.L.
Henderson, and James Hart & Company.  The receipts also document Holmes’
two mercantile businesses Holmes & Schenk and John S. Holmes & Son; his
support of the Middletown Academy; and the settlement of his estate.  There
are also receipts signed by Samuel L. Southard (July 23, 1822), Garret D. Wall
(September 24, 1821 and January 30, 1823), and Richard Stockton (June 28, 1801
and April 20, 1813).  Lastly, this series also contains a slave bill of
sale from 1806.

Series III. Daniel Holmes (1792-1851),
1818-1851

This series consists of the
correspondence, personal court papers, sheriff’s papers, land indentures, and
financial documents of Daniel Holmes dating from 1818-1851.  Of particular
interest are papers from Holmes’ time as sheriff (1828-1831), which include
two dockets, property inventories, and court orders.  Holmes’s receipts
document his mercantile business in the firm Van Mater & Holmes and his
involvement in New Jersey horse breeding and racing, the latter of which is also
discussed in a letter from William Hurley.

Series IV. Colonel Daniel Hendrickson
(1736-ca. 1797), 1753-1863

This series consists of the
correspondence, indentures, sheriff’s papers, and financial documents of
Daniel Hendrickson.  These materials date from 1753-1863, but largely come
from the time period when Hendrickson served as high sheriff of Monmouth County
(1788-1791).  The six folders of property inventories and vendue
(auction/sale) papers of various Monmouth County residents, as well as the five
folders of court orders, bills, and notices particularly detail Hendrickson’s
duties as sheriff, as does the majority of the correspondence.  The
property inventories also document the personal belongings of Monmouth County
residents, which often at that time included slaves.  The sheriff’s
orders are mostly written and signed by Jonathan Rhea (1758-1815), who acted as
attorney and clerk of the Monmouth County Court of Common Pleas.  The
orders from the Supreme Court of New Jersey were largely under the jurisdiction
of Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823), the attorney general at the time, and written
by Elisha Boudinot (1749-1819), the clerk of the circuit court.  This
series also contains receipts and bills from Daniel Hendrickson’s estate;
receipts which document Hendrickson’s involvement in horse breeding and
racing; indentures for the grist, saw, and fulling mills in Tinton Falls, New
Jersey; an indenture (1797) and promissory note (1822) of Hendrick Hendrickson;
and a true copy of General William Livingston’s orders on August 13, 1776
concerning Colonels Taylor, Brearly, and Hendrickson of the Monmouth County
Militia.

Series V. Other Holmes Family Members,
1736-1899

This series dates from 1736-1899 and
contains documents from Asher and Sarah Holmes, John H. Holmes (fl. 1827-1854),
John S. Holmes (b. 1851), John W. Holmes (fl. 1827), Jonathan Holmes
(1682-1766), Jonathan Holmes (d. 1738), Jonathan Holmes (d. 1814), Joseph Holmes
(fl. 1772-1790), Joseph H. Holmes (d. 1892), Mary Holmes (fl. 1789), Obadiah
Holmes (fl. 1797), Samuel Holmes (1726-1769), and Samuel Holmes (fl.
1770-1803).  The majority of the series consists of individual letters,
deeds, and receipts – of which a 1738 indenture of Jonathan Holmes (1682-1766)
for land in Middletown is the earliest.

Of particular interest in this series,
however, is the diary of Jonathan Holmes (d. 1738), Captain John Holmes’
brother and John S. Holmes’ uncle. The diary dates from the year 1736/37-1738
and records the events of Holmes’ life in Middletown, New Jersey.  Holmes
writes conversationally and often with a sense of humor.  A typical entry
reads, “February 9th 1736/7 – I was at home a doing I know not
what except reading and continued so untill (sic) the twelfth.”  While
Holmes passes many days reading history, he also notes such things as the
freeholders’ and justices’ meetings (for which he provides notes of the
actions passed), visits with family, and religious meetings.  Throughout
the year he also follows the trial, conviction, and execution of a man charged
with rape (January 3, February 1, and May 26, 1736/37) and on January 28, 1836/7
notes that he “heard of a fashion that was in these parts to whip the
women.”  On a lighter note, Holmes twice mentions his attendance at a
wedding and both times describes pranks played on the bridal couple on their
wedding night ending in the tradition of throwing the bride’s stocking (which
eventually led to today’s throwing of the garter) (April 25 and July 12,
1737).

The diary ends with a few entries from
Jonathan Holmes trip to Ireland and, on the return, his stop in Barbados.
The last entry, dated April 7, 1838, documents his landing in Barbados, where he
soon died.

Series VI. Allied Families and Other
Individuals, 1680-ca. 1905

This series consists of documents from the
allied Bowne, Crawford, Schenck, and Stillwell families, in addition to
miscellaneous letters, wills, legal documents, and financial documents from
individuals not immediately related to the Holmes family.  The documents
date from 1680-1905.  Of note in this series are the Bowne family papers.
These largely consist of John Bowne (1700-1774) documents, including a letter
from Jno. Lawrence, a court summons, a petition also signed by Garret Schenck
(1671-1745) to Governor William Burnet (1687-1729), two true copies of
indentures, and a bond.  There is also a 1680 letter to Captain Andrew
Bowne (1638-ca.1708) with sailing instructions, and a 1716 letter to Obadiah
Bowne (1666-1726) from John Saltar.  The Crawford family papers in this
series largely consist of land deeds and bonds of William Crawford (fl.
1771-1795), John Crawford (fl. 1794-1818), John B. Crawford (fl. 1808), and
William I. Crawford (fl. 1827-1830).

The documents of the people not directly
related to the Holmes family include correspondence, wills, slave deeds of sale,
indentures, and receipts.  The correspondence includes a series of letters
to Catherine Beers from James Lake (1847-1850); a letter from Josiah Hornblower
(1729-1809) to Mess. Blackwell and McFarlan (1805); and a letter from Hermann
Romünder to William H. Martin, the director of the Trenton, Lakewood, and
Atlantic Railway containing a printed advertisement for a convertible cable car
(ca. 1905).  The sub-series also includes the wills of James Paul (1730),
Thomas Rudyard (1701), and Joseph Vanmater (1788 and 1790); and indentures of
Samuel Wardell, Jr., William Little, William Parker, John Willett, James Morris,
and William Gardon Forman.  Of particular note are five slave bills of sale
(1755-1810) and the apprentice indenture of thirteen-year-old Margaret Robert
(1808).

Series VII. Revolutionary War Documents,
1776-1780

This series contains military documents
from the Revolutionary War period of 1776-1780. The items include muster rolls
and enlistment documents; lists of delinquent warrants; court martials; and a
list of provisions received by Colonel Isaac Smith’s battalion of foot,
Hunterdon County Militia.

Series VIII. Monmouth County Documents,
1725-1827

This series contains government and court
documents from Monmouth County dating from 1725-1827, including election results
from the years 1800 and 1802, a Middletown Town Committee report, a declaration
from the deputies of Shrewsbury, and land surveys.

Related
Collections:

Manuscript Group 948, Monmouth
County Justice of the Peace Docket

Manuscript Group 1123, Monmouth County
Freeholders List (photocopy)


Box/Folder
List:

Box
Folder
Title
Dates

Series I. Captain John Holmes
(1730-1804)
1 1 Correspondence received 1773-1780
1 2 Estate papers 1804-1816, n.d.
1 3 Bonds and articles of agreement 1770-1789
1 4 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1750-1765
1 5 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1766-1771
1 6 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1772-1785
1 7 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1789-May 1798
1 8 Receipts, accounts, and bills June 1798-1801
1 9 Receipts, accounts, and bills (includes estate financial documents) 1802-1821, n.d.
1 10 Map of the meadow belonging to John Holmes and John Schank 1762

Series II. John S. Holmes
(1762-1821)
1 11 Correspondence from A-C 1794-1804
1 12 Correspondence from D-F 1796-1804
1 13 Correspondence from H 1797-1807
1 14 Correspondence from O-R 1798-1804, 1813
1 15 Correspondence from S-W and unsigned 1797-1806, 1821
1 16 Correspondence written 1795-1798
2 1 Personal court documents 1795-1822
2 2 Indentures and articles of agreement 1790-May 1806
2 3 Indentures and articles of agreement June 1806-1821, n.d.
2 4 Slave bill of sale: Jacob Lawrence sold “a certain Negro man named Abraham” to John S. Holmes 1806
2 5 Vendue list 1818
2 6 Bonds and promissory notes 1789-1820
2 7 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1787-1796
2 8 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1797
2 9 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1798
2 10 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1799
2 11 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1800-1802
2 12 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1803-1805
2 13 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1806-1817
3 1 Receipts, accounts, and bills (includes estate financial documents) 1818-1838
3 2 Receipts, accounts, and bills n.d.
3 3 Holmes & Schenck – Receipts, bonds, and promissory notes 1791-1796
3 4 Middletown Academy – Receipts and agreements 1793-1808, n.d.

Series III. Daniel Holmes
(1792-1851)
3 5 Correspondence 1825-1851
3 6 Personal court documents 1847, n.d.
3 7 Common pleas docket 1823-1824, 1828
3 8 Sheriff’s docket (loose items in next folder) 1828-1831
3 9 Loose items from sheriff’s docket 1830-1845
3 10 Sheriff’s docket 1828-1831
4 1 Sheriff’s inventories and orders 1828-1843
4 2 Indentures and bonds 1823-1843
4 2 Map of a lot of land purchased by Daniel Holmes November 5, 1848
4 3 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1818-1841
4 4 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1842-1850, n.d.
4 5 Van Mater & Holmes – Receipts 1818-1826, 1843
4 6 Horse racing – Deed of sale and receipt 1846, n.d.

Series IV. Colonel Daniel
Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797)
4 7 Correspondence from A-D 1789-1796
4 8 Correspondence from E-P 1777-1796
4 9 Correspondence from Q-R 1771-1792, n.d.
4 10 Correspondence from S 1787-1795
4 11 Correspondence from T 1788-1799
4 12 Correspondence from V-W 1773-1796
4 13 Correspondence written 1775, 1787
4 14 True copy of General William Livingston’s orders on August 13, 1776 concerning Colonel Taylor,
Brearley, and Hendrickson of the Monmouth County Militia
n.d.
4 15 Indentures (includes bill of sale for a race horse, 3/20/1790) 1753-1791
4 16 Indentures (includes contracts with John S. Holmes) 1792-1798
4 17 Bonds 1765-1791
4 18 Personal court documents 1789-1809
5 1 Sheriff’s orders, bills, and notices – Monmouth County Court of Common Pleas 1786-1789
5 2 Sheriff’s orders, bills, and notices – Monmouth County Court of Common Pleas January-April 1790
5 3 Sheriff’s orders, bills, and notices – Monmouth County Court of Common Pleas May 1790-1797, n.d.
5 4 Sheriff’s orders, bills, and notices – New Jersey Supreme Court 1787-1792
5 5 Sheriff”s orders, bills, and notices – New Jersey Supreme Court,                                                                signed by Joseph Bloomfield, Attorney General 1788-1790
5 6 Sheriff’s inventories and vendue papers: A-B 1788-1794
5 7 Sheriff’s inventories and vendue papers: C-D 1788-1793, 1798
5 8 Sheriff’s inventories and vendue papers: E-H 1767, 1783-1799
5 9 Sheriff’s inventories and vendue papers: J-P 1787-1792
5 10 Sheriff’s inventories and vendue papers: R-T 1788-1796
5 11 Sheriff’s inventories and vendue papers: V-W 1784-1792
5 12 Personal court/legal documents 1787-1799
5 13 Promissory notes 1770-1797
5 14 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1771-1789
5 15 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1790-1795
5 16 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1796-1863, n.d.
5 17 Hendrick Hendrickson. Indenture and promissory note 797, 1822

Series V. Other Holmes Family
Members
 

Asher and Sarah Holmes

6 1 Indenture August 27, 1799
 

John H. Holmes (fl. 1845-1854)

6 1 Indentures (3) 1845, 1850, 1854
6 1 Receipts 1827-1836
 

John S. Holmes (b. 1851)

6 1 Letter from Mary Holmes Rue February 21, 1899
6 1 Letter from Lydia H. Schenck-Conover January 21, 1899
6 1 Agreement with Joseph H. Holmes (d. 1892) March 12, 1887
 

John W. Holmes

6 1 Sheriff’s deed February 1, 1827
 

Jonathan Holmes (1682-1766)

6 2 Land surveys (copies of 1750 surveys) and court decision on division of land n.d., 1781
6 3 Indenture 1738
6 4 Receipts, accounts, and bills 1745/6-1776
 

Jonathan Holmes (d. 1738)

6 5 Diary 1736/37-1738
 

Jonathan Holmes (d. 1814)

6 6 Statement concerning inventory of property January 10, 1816
6 6 Summons to executors April 1821
 

Joseph Holmes (fl. 1772-1790)

6 6 Contract, witness August 15, 1772
6 6 Indenture January 1, 1790
 

Joseph H. Holmes (d. 1892)

6 6 Letter from Frederick Miller April 27, 1863
6 6 Letter from Al Shemo July 1865
6 6 Letter from D. (Ellis?) January 26, 1854
6 6 Conditions of real estate sale January 21, 1852
6 6 Indenture March 4, 1852
6 6 Receipts 1843-1879, n.d,
 

Mary Holmes

6 6 Release of dower March 7, 1789
 

Obadiah Holmes

6 6 Summons by executors October 21, 1797
 

Samuel Holmes (1726-1769)

6 7 Indentures and articles of agreement 1756-1769
6 8 Bonds and promissory notes 1753-1769
6 9 Receipts and accounts 1754-1770, n.d.
 

Samuel Holmes (fl. 1770-1803)

6 10 Receipts and promissory notes 1770-1803, n.d.

Series VI. Allied Families and Other
Individuals
 

John Bowne (1700-1774)

6 11 Letter from Jno. Lawrence 1756
6 11 Court summons 1747
6 11 Petition with Garret Schenck (1671-1745) to Governor William Burnet (1687-1729) 1727/28
6 11 Indenture with John Stout, 1689 (true copy) n.d.
6 11 Indenture with Joshua Gifford, 1767 (true copy) n.d.
6 11 Bonded to Benjamin Borden 1712
 

Bowne Family

6 12 Captain Andrew Bowne (1638-ca.1708). Letter with sailing instructions April 9, 1680
6 12 Obadiah Bowne (1666-1726). Letter from John Saltar April 25, 1716
6 12 O & A Bowne. Receipts 1798-1799
 

Crawford Family

6 13 Indenture: Thomas Willett and John Willett to William Crawford July 15, 1771
6 13 Indenture: William Crawford (torn) May 1, 1772
6 13 Indenture: John and Elisabeth Morris to William Crawford May 27, 1789
6 13 Indenture: William and Rebecca Crawford and Robert and Esther White to John Crawford March 24, 1795
6 13 Indenture: Garat Morford to John Crawford April 25, 1803
6 13 Indenture: Samuel Stevenson to John B. Crawford March 26, 1808
6 13 Indenture: Samuel Smith to John Crawford December 25, 1815
6 13 Indenture: Samuel and Rachel Burt to John Crawford January 15, 1818
6 13 Indenture: William I. Crawford to Samuel Smith September 23, 1827
6 13 Indenture: Jonathan Smith to William I. Crawford November 1, 1830
6 13 Indenture: Holmes Conover to Reeliff Crawford March 7, 1853
6 14 Bond: William Crawford bound to Ann Waddell July 14, 1766
6 14 Bond: William Morris bound to William Crawford February 12, 1787
6 14 Bond: Robert Hervey bound to John Crawford October 15, 1794
6 14 Bond: Samuel Stevenson bound to John B. Crawford March 26, 1808
6 14 Account: Elizabeth Crawford n.d.
6 14 Order: John Crawford August 15, 1798
 

Schenck Family and Schenk & Co.

6 15 Receipts 1797-1823, n.d.
 

Hendrick H. Smock (d. 1841)

6 16 Receipts 1839-1847
 

Stillwell Family

6 17 Letter to Jestes (sic) Stilwell, Cornell Henderson, and Mr. Nolt (?) from James Mount n.d.
6 17 Letter regarding the illegal sale of liquor, signed by R. Schenck, Jos. Stillwell, and Daniel Ketchum April 21, 1796
6 18 Court statements: William Taylor and John Longstreet, witnessed by Jos. Stillwell June 12, 1787
6 18 Indenture: Caleb and Nelly Stilwell to Garret Stilwell May 6, 1801
6 18 Indenture: Obediah Stillwell to Jeams (sic) G. Crawford April 1821
6 19 Receipts 1803-1806, n.d.
 

Miscellaneous people

6 20 Letters: to Catherine Beers from James Lake 1847-1850
6 21 Letter: to Mess. Blackwell & McFarlan from Josiah Hornblower (1729-1809) March 30, 1805
6 21 Letter: to Daniel Ellis from Roland Gelston February 28, 1843
6 21 Letter: to William H. Martin, Director of the Trenton, Lakewood, and Atlantic Railway, from Hermann
Romünder (contains only a printed advertisement for a convertible cable car)
ca. 1905
6 21 Letter: to N.S. Rue from P.I. (?) Phillips February 13, 1850
6 21 Letter: to Jacob Tice from ( ) ca. 1795
6 21 Letter to: Joseph (Venk?) from Sarah Bostwick December 29, 1806
6 21 Letters (3): to “Uncle” from M. Van Brunt 1850-1851, n.d.
6 21 Letter: to ( ) from Aaron T. Whitney November 25, 1824
6 21 Letter: to ( ) from ( ) n.d.
6 22 Poetry n.d.
6 23 Will: James Paul of Middletown October 10, 1730
6 23 Will: Thomas Rudyard, copy of Dec. 7, 1685 will 1701
6 23 Will: Joseph Vanmater (1710-1792) October 1788
6 23 Will: Joseph Vanmater (1710-1792) August 28, 1790
6 24 Power of Attorney: John Estall to Nicholas Winnant October 6, 1785
6 24 Slave deeds of sale 1755-1810
– Peter Winne sells “a Negro man named Harry to Jonathan Sergeant 1755
– Jedidiah Freeman and Abijah Harrison sell “a certain Negro man named Harry” to Caleb Wheeler 1785
– Daniel Smith sells “a certain Negro boy named Jacob” to William Egbert 1803
– Marsalas Van Guisen sell a “black man called Joe” to Benjamin Coe (receipt for $280) 1810
6 24 Apprentice indenture of Margaret Robert September 25, 1808
6 25 Indenture: William Coxe, Richard Saltar, and Robert Lettice Hopper to John Cornell August 14, 1756
6 25 Indenture: Joseph Fleaman to David Knott August 19, 1771
6 25 Indenture: Samuel Wardell, Jr. to William Tapscott, Jr. July 7, 1780
6 25 Indenture: Elizabeth and Joseph West, Jr. to William Little April 14, 1783
6 25 Indenture: William Parker to John Brinley, Jr. June 15, 1795
6 25 Indenture: John Willett to James Morris April 17, 1798
6 25 Indenture: William Gardon Forman, Esq. to William Rossell, Esq., Thomas Newbold, and Michael Taylor July 15, 1801
6 25 Indenture: Derick and Alche Sutphen and John and Mary Wickoff to Hendrick Longstreet April 15, 1805
6 25 Indenture: John Nowlen, executor of William Bonnet to William Lloyd June 19, 1816
6 25 Indenture: Peter Smock to George Smock, Jr. April 6, 1824
6 25 Indenture: Theodore F. Talbot to Charles N. Bancker (?) April 8, 1825
6 25 Indenture: Torn n.d.
6 26 Receipts, bills, and accounts 1754-1795
7 1 Receipts, bills, and accounts 1796-1818
7 2 Receipts, bills, and accounts 1819-1864
7 3 Receipts, bills, and accounts n.d.
7 4 Receipts, bills, and accounts n.d.

Series VII. Revolutionary War
Documents
7 5 Muster rolls and enlistment documents 1778-1780, n.d.
7 6 Lists of delinquent warrants 1778-1780, n.d.
7 7 Court martials 1780
7 8 Provisions received by Col. Isaac Smith’s battalion of foot, Hunterdon County Militia September-October 1776

 


Series VIII. Monmouth County
Documents
7 9 Election results ca. 1800, 1802
7 10 Middletown Town Committee report December 28, 1822
7 10 Deputies of Shrewsbury declaration to the Monmouth County Committee May 15, 1775
7 11 Land surveys 1725, 1827, n.d.
7 12 Miscellaneous Monmouth County Court documents 1773-1830, n.d.
7 13 Blank legal forms n.d.

 

Holmes Family Tree:

Rev. Obadiah Holmes (ca. 1606-1682) = Katherine Hyde

(10 children)

Lydia Holmes = Capt. John Bowne (ca. 1630-1684)

Obadiah Holmes (b. 1644)

Jonathan Holmes (1633-1713) = Sarah Borden (b. 1644)

(9 children)

Obadiah Holmes (1666/67-1745) = Alice Ashton (1671-1716)

Jonathan Holmes (1682-1766) = Deliverance Ashton, Rebecca Throckmorton (d. 1761)

Jonathan Holmes (d. 1738)

Deliverance Holmes = Peter Bowne

Sarah Holmes = John Throckmorton

Joseph Holmes (1722-1738)

Captain John Holmes (1730-1804), unmarried

Rebeckah Holmes (1734-1757) = Gilbert Tice

Samuel Holmes (1726-1769) = Mary Stout

Jonathan Holmes (d. 1814) = Anna Schenck, no children

Lydia Holmes = Garret Stillwell

Parmelia Holmes = John Stillwell

Stout Holmes = Elizabeth Pintard, 2) Mary (Osborne) Bray

Catharine Holmes = Nathan Stout

Samuel Holmes

Joseph Holmes = Nellie Schenck

Elisha Holmes

John S. Holmes (1762-1821) = Sarah Hendrickson (1767-1824)

Mary Holmes = Albert Van Brunt

Catharine Holmes = Daniel H. Ellis

Emma Holmes = George Taylor

Eleanor Holmes = Charles Hasbrouck

Daniel Holmes (1792-1851) = Rhoda Van Mater

Huldah Holmes (b. 1815) = Joseph Holmes Longstreet

Catharine Holmes (b. 1817) = John W. Ely

John S. Holmes (1819-1820)

Sarah Holmes (1821-1822)

Maria Louisa Holmes (b. 1826) = Ely Conover

Sarah Holmes (b. 1829) = Ruloff P. Smock

Joseph H. Holmes (d. 1892) = Ann Crawford (d. 1894)

Carrie C. Holmes

John S. Holmes (b. 1851)

Daniel Holmes

Lizzie Holmes

Hendrickson Family Tree:

Hendrick Hendrickson = Gisseltie Albertse Bradt Van Echelen

Daniel Hendrickson (1673-1728) = Catharine Van Dyke

(11 children)

Teuntje (Catharine) Hendrickson = Jonathan Holmes

William Hendrickson (1709-1783) = Mary Longstreet (b. 1702)

Col. Daniel Hendrickson (1736-ca. 1797) = Catharine Van Brunt

William Hendrickson

Elizabeth Hendrickson

William Hendrickson

Daniel D. Hendrickson (b. 1786)

Mary Hendrickson

Sarah Hendrickson (1767-1824) = John S. Holmes (1762-1821)

Processed by Kim Charlton, November 2000 as part of the “Farm to
City” project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications
and Records Commission.

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