Elmer Tindal Hutchinson Papers

Abstracts, notes and correspondence pertaining to various aspects of New Jersey history. The collection includes an imprint bibliography, notes and correspondence pertaining to Shepard Kollock (2 boxes); biographical and bibliographical notes on New Jersey printers and publishers active before 1851, with selected additions by George C. Rockefeller (12 boxes); abstracts of marriage and death notices, 1792-1865, from newspapers published at New Brunswick (4 folders and 4 drawers of cards); and notes on the history of Elizabeth (especially taverns) and other topics (3 boxes). Other historical topics represented, to a lesser extent, include Mormans in New Jersey, the history of the New Jersey Historical Society and New Jersey potters and pottery. Also present are transcripts of the following: tax assessor's records, 1833 and 1839, for Union Township, Essex (now Union) County; a "List of deaths and interments in Union, N.J." for 1812-1855 as recorded by Nancy (Day?) Bonnel; and marriage records, 1837-1854, kept by the Rev. Searing Stites while pastor in Mercer County at Hamilton Square Baptist Church (1837-1852) and at West Windsor Baptist Church (1853-1854). Among the miscellaneous items present are letters signed by three New Jersey governors: Harold G. Hoffman, A. Harry Moore and Charles Edison. New Brunswick newspapers abstracted: Guardian or New Brunswick Advertiser, 1792-1807 and 1810-1813; Fredonian (later New-Brunswick Fedonian), 1811-1827, 1838-1844, 1847-1851 and 1861-1865; Times and New Brunswick General Advertiser (and its successors), 1815-1823 and 1858-1862; and New Brunswick Daily News, 1855-1858.