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Box 4

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Contains 17 Results:

File — Box: 4, Folder: 33

Estate documents: vendue list [of Benjamin Y. Cox?], undated; inventory, 1812, of "household goods" [of Joseph Holmes, d. 1815?]; consent order, 1753?, resulting from N.J. Supreme Court case of Joseph Holmes, administrator of Elizabeth Holmes v. the executors of Richard Stevens; appraisal(?), undated [likely 18th Century; for a Holmes estate?]

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

File — Box: 4, Folder: 34

Fragments of miscellaneous documents [most unidentified]: 1/4 (or less) of a letter written by Lt. W.F. Potter while serving with the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry (attached to the Army of the Potomac) during the Civil War; small piece of an early deed involving Richard James; etc.

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

File — Box: 4, Folder: 35

Miscellaneous: poetry; etc.

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

File — Box: 4, Folder: 36

Newspaper clippings: news items pertaining to members of the Rue and Cox families

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

File — Box: 4, Folder: 37

Out-of-state documents: purposely unsigned letter, probably late 1775, sent (from Philadelphia) by a minister of the Church of England with Loyalist sentiments to someone who had gone (or returned?) to Great Britain--it is docketed "A coppy of Mr. P Dells letter to the Clergy in England;" document with text as follows: "June--1799. Mr. Mayo proposes as an evidence of the high respect entertain'd by the Executive of Virginia for the virtues, talents, and patriotism of the late Patrick Henry Esquire, deceas'd, that they wear a black crape round the hat and arm for one month--J.M. For the consideration of the board--John Mayo;" deed, 1822, relating to the sale of a piece of property by the town of Wiscasset

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

File — Box: 4, Folder: 38

Photographs: stereograph view, ca. 1880, published by the New Jersey Stereoscopic View Co. ("Manufactory and Office, Red Bank, N.J.") depicting a mare and nursing colt(?); mounted albumin print depicting two seated couples with tennis rackets and balls in front of a (tennis) net; small snapshot, ca. 1915-1920, depicting a man standing near an automobile (which is not entirely in view)

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

File — Box: 4, Folder: 39-40

Unsorted: endorsement (only) for a warrant or survey returned to John Ashton; invitation, undated, to a spelling bee; later copy of "Map of the New Road from William Thomson(?) to Emleystwon February 17th 1819;" decree, ca. 1849, re. Mary Olden estate; personal bond, 1858; insurance policy, 1859; engraved invitation, undated, to commencement exercises at the Young Ladies Seminary, Freehold; application, undated, of Mary / [Meirs] Wygant to join the DAR, with related genealogy; miscellaneous memoranda; etc

Repository: New Brunswick Special Collections / Rue-Holmes-Meirs Family Papers / RUE-HOLMES-MEIRS FAMILY PAPERS

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