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Identifier: MC 715

Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers

Dates

  • 1695-1958, bulk 1745-1907

Abstract

Papers of several ancestral families of Mary Holmes [Rue] Wygant, including financial and legal papers (especially receipts, deeds and estate documents), correspondence, genealogical notes and compilations and other papers of the Holmes, Lawrence, Meirs and Rue families. Among the correspondents are Thomas Newbold, William A. Newell, Charles S. Olden and Joel Parker. Holmes family members represented include Joseph (d. 1777), his sons Joseph (1736-1809), Jonathan (1738-1777) and John (1744-1783), Jonathan's son Joseph (1772-1815), his son Joseph (1810-1897) and the latter's daughter, Mary (1844-1923), wife of James L. Rue. Included among this family's papers are several documents, 1776-1779, relating to the American Revolution in New Jersey and a diary, June 12, 1876-September 3, 1879, of Mary [Holmes] Rue. Lawrence family members represented include Robert (1692-1764), James (d. 1730) and the latter's son James (1718-1789). Included among this family's papers are several memoranda, 1759 and undated, of lawyer Robert Lawrence which pertain to cases before the New Jersey Supreme Court. Meirs family members represented include Apollo (1765-1855) and several of his descendents, among whom were William H. (b. 1858) and William's first cousin, once-removed, Martha Anne (1824-1920) wife of Joseph Holmes (1810-1897). Rue family members represented include David M., his brother Nathaniel S. (1812-1902), Nathaniel's son James L. (1841-1887), a New Jersey Assemblyman, and the latter's daughter Ann H. (b. 1869), wife of William H. Meirs and mother of Mary H. [Meirs] Wygant. Included among this family's papers are accounts, correspondence and other papers, 1862-1866, documenting David M. Rue's service as a deputy U.S. Internal Revenue Collector for Monmouth County, records, 1856-1866, of N.S. Rue & Co. (a mercantile business at Freehold, Monmouth County), records, 1863-1873 and 1887, of the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad Company, as kept by its secretary (former New Jersey Governor George F. Fort) and president (Nathaniel S. Rue) and accounts, 1876-1896, of James L. Rue (and later William H. Davis) as treasurer of the Cream Ridge Presbyterian Church. Genealogical notes and compilations present in the collection pertain chiefly to the Bruere, Burtis, Cox, Doremus, Horsfull, Lawrence, Meirs, Middleton, Rogers, Rue, Satterthwait, Steward, Stout and Toan families.

Extent

2 Cubic Feet (5 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Printed Matter

Books and Pamphlets

  1. Baker, Alfred B., Joseph Holmes Bruere: A Memorial Sermon Preached in Trinity Church Princeton, July 19th, 1908. 16 p. (in gray wrappers
  2. The Descent of Anne Maulevere (Abbott) and Rebecca Humphrey (Owen) from the Sureties for the Observance of the Magna Carta--1215 A.D. [Philadelphia, ca. 1904?] 23 p-.-(in gray wrappers)
  3. Freehold Institute (N.J.), Catalogue... for the year ending April, 1856. New York, 1856. 30 p. (no wrappers present)
  4. Freehold Institute (N.J.), Catalogue... for the year ending June 29th, 1869. Freehold, 1869. 28 p. (in green wrappers)
  5. Nathanial Scudder Rue. [Biographical sketch]. [1893]. 4 p. (in gray wrappers)
  6. Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad Company (N.J.), Agreement between the Joint Companies and the Pemberton and Hightstown Rail Road Company, and the law ratifying the same. With list of subscribers up to February 10, 1866. Trenton, 1866. 16 pp. (in tan wrappers)
  7. Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad Company (N.J.), Charter of the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad Co. Also, the agreement between said company and the Joint Companies; Also, the act of ratification of said agreement; and a copy of the mortgage executed to secure the bonds of the said Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad Company. Trenton, 1867. 30 p. (in brownish-pink wrappers)
  8. Perkins, Henry, Sketch of the History of the Presbyterian Church of Allentown, N.J., from 1739 to 1864. Trenton, 1867. 28 p. (in green wrappers)
  9. Stewart, E.S., The Steward Family of New Jersey. [Philadelphia], 1907. 61, [l] p. (with gray wrappers and end sheets)
  10. Young Ladies Seminary (Freehold, N.J.), [Informational pamphlet for 1894/95]. 24 p. (in green wrappers)

Magazines

  1. Stewart Clan Magazine. [Issues for January 1936 and November 1942]

Newspapers

  1. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Gazette, [1753, after March]. 4 p. [stained; ca, 1 inch loss across much of top]
  2. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Gazette, June 30, 1757. 4 p. [minor holes; laminated]
  3. New Brunswick [Canada?]: New Brunswick Gazette and General Advertiser, June 25, 1785. 4 p. [laminated; significant loss at top and side]
  4. Trenton: New Jersey State Gazette, June 5, 1830. 4 p. [laminated]
  5. Washington, D.C.: Weekly Union, July 10, 1856. 4 p.
  6. Philadelphia: Press, June 12, 1861. 2 p. [laminated; lacks a second leaf?]
  7. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Inquirer, December 6, 1867. Sp. [unopened on single sheet; bears annotation that the paper is brought in daily on the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad]
  8. Trenton: Daily State Gazette, April 22, 1876. 4 p. [minor tears at folds]
  9. Prattsburgh: Prattsburg News, July 6, 1876. 4 p.
  10. Freehold: Monmouth Inquirer, August 1, 1878. 4 p. [poor condition]
  11. France: Stars and Stripes, November 22, 1918. 8 p.
  12. [unidentified fragments of several additional newspaper issues)

Posters

  1. If you tell where he's going... He may never get there! [color lithograph featuring sailor, with head turned and duffel over his shoulder, walking away from viewer] GPO, 1943. Artist[?]: John Falter. (20 x 14 inches)
  2. Be a Cadet Nurse: the girl with a future... [color lithograph featuring two Cadet Nurses] GPO, 1944. Artist[?]: J. Whitcomb. (28 x 20 inches)

Broadsides and Broadsheets

  1. Joint Resolution, No.--. state of New Jersey. By Mr. Egan. [Draft? resolution to "re-affirm the .doctrine of a total separation of church and state" in New Jersey]. [1870s?]
  2. Joint Resolution, No. 1. state of New Jersey. By Mr. Halsey. Joint Resolution in relation to the state Library.... [ 1876 J
  3. Lawrenceville Female Seminary. Exercises of the Graduating Class. Wednesday, September 26, 1860, 7 p.m. (folded once)
  4. [Classical and Commercial High School. Lawrenceville, N.J.] Calliopean Society. Eighth Anniversary. [1860] (folded once)
  5. Semi-Centennial of the Classical and Commercial High School, Lawrenceville, N.J. Commencement Excercises, Thursday, September 27th, 1860 ... (25 x 20 cm)
  6. Cream Ridge Marl Company's Price List For Marl delivered on the C. & A.R.R. and Connections, in quantities of 4 Tons (80 bu.) and upward ... Wm. Quicksill, General Agent, Hornerstown, N.J. (18.5 x 12 inches)
  7. List of the Officers and Members of the one Hundredth Senate of New Jersey. 1876. (16 x 10 inches) [incorporates diagram of Senate chamber]
  8. List of Officers and Members of the One Hundred and First Legislature of the State of New Jersey, with their residences in Trenton, post office addresses, and the joint and standing committees of the Senate and General Assembly. Convened at Trenton, January 9th, 1877. (23 x 18 inches) [three copies]
  9. State of New Jersey. Assembly--No. 54. An act to ratify an agreement made between the Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies ... and the Commissioners of the Pemberton and Hightstown Railroad Company... [1866] [2 copies]

Paper Money and Bonds

  1. U.S. fractional currency. [ca. 1863]. Three examples in differing denominations: five, ten and twenty-five cents.
  2. Confederate bond. 1863. One blank and unused bearer bond in the amount of one hundred dollars. [marginal tear at right edge; symetrical tears of 2 1/2" extend in beyond the top and bottom margins]

Maps

  1. Map of Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N.J. January 1918 (16 x 22.5 cm)
  2. Zoning Map of Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Jan. 1969 [as reproduced in the Freehold Transcript] (21 x 16 inches)
  3. The Province of New Jersey Divided into East and West. commonly called The Jerseys. [Edition of 1877 issued by the Geological Survey of New Jersey.] (poor condition: separated at folds; torn; repaired with pressure-sensitive tape)
  4. Orbis Terrae Compendiosa Descriptio Ex petritissimorum totius orbis Gaeographorum peribus dsumta. [Antverpie] (modern color reproduction; several marginal tears, one extending ca. 2.5 inches into map)

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Inventory to the Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers MC 715
Status
Edited Full Draft
Author
Special Collections and University Archives
Date
March 2021
Language of description note
Finding aid is written in English.
Sponsor
Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University received an operating support grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission, a division of the Department of State.

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