Board of Trustees Documents

These records of Lamington Presbyterian Church in Lamington, NJ. are those of the congregation and the Board of Trustees, which is one group of the larger collection maintained by Special Collections and University Archives. All of the documents are predominantly financially related. These cover 1790 to 1887 including Receipts, Correspondence, and Donation records. The time period is well covered with only occasional gaps with series.

The financial documents are the majority of the records. Within the financial documents are Receipts, Building Construction, Statement of Settlements, Property Deeds, and Treasurer's Books. The Seating Documents (1814- 1826 and 1830) and the Salary Lists (1808-1884) give a unique description of the congregation. The seating documents indicate what members maintained pew space and later when and how they disposed of the pew space. The Salary Lists are records of the pew space payments and donation of the members of the congregation. These and the other financial documents are almost two-thirds of the collection. Within them the entire time period is well documented.

The Board of Trustees Documents, 1794-1886, are those with direct relation to the Board. The documents include the Elections, Depositions, Reports of Meetings and Correspondence. In other information the Board of Trustees is reported to have incorporated itself as the Trustees of the Congregation of Bedminster in the Counties of Somerset and Hunterdon, though there is no explanation for this title (Historical Records Survey, 1940). These documents also cover the time period of the collection well.

Unlike any of the other documents of the collection are the Portraits. Included in the collection are three paper based portraits of Henry N. Pohlman and William Craig. Their inclusion in the collection is because the men were members of the congregation but these are undated.