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TitleCosts and facilities provided Puerto Rican farm workers in New Jersey (A.E. 233)

AuthorAines, Ronald O.

Date Created1959

Description'During the late summer and fall of 1958, a research study of the total cost of Puerto Rican farm workers to New Jersey farmers was carried out by the Department of Agricultural Economics. A large...

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TitleAccount of Estate Administrator of Aaron Tuers, 1836

Date Created1836

DescriptionAccount prepared by "administrator pendente lite" - while the settlement was pending - of the dispositon of the estate of Aaron Tuers, listing amounts paid for items sold after initial inventory of...

Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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TitleThe Rural Experience of Jews in Farmingdale, New Jersey

AuthorDubrovsky, Gertrude W.

Date Created1976

DescriptionThis paper by Gertrude W. Dubrovsky, a Research Associate at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History...

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Title"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.

AuthorCarey, M.

Date Created1827

Description"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states. By M. Carey,...

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TitleLetter of concern from Boris Drasin, President of the Jersey Homesteads Industrial Cooperative Association

AuthorDrasin, Boris

Date Created1939

DescriptionJersey Homesteads (later renamed the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers,...

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TitleA True and Perfect Inventory of the Goods and Chattles Rights and Credits of Jacob Everson Late of the Township of Bergen Deceased

Date Created1832

DescriptionInventory of small farm, holding only one ox and one cow. Lists contents of household, livestock and grains, with monetary values. Also notes one bond as credit. Taken November 8, 1832.

Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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TitleWill of Marytie Garrabrance, 1793

Date Created1793

DescriptionCopy of will of in which a widow "being much weak and sickly in body but yet of a sound mind and understanding" bequeaths her estate to her sister, nieces and friends, listing items to be given to...

Time PeriodRevolution and the New Nation (1754-1820)

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TitleTavern rates

Date Created1864

DescriptionThe Inferior Court of Common Pleas at Freehold was directed every spring session to set the price rates for liquors, food, lodging, provender, and stabling or pasturing of horses for every licensed...

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TitleDeed for Lot from Estate of Englebert Steenhuijs, 1688: Deed in Colonial Dutch from 1688

Date Created1688

DescriptionDeed for a part of the land of the late Englebert Steehuijs, first schoolteacher in New Jersey, sold by executors to Gerritt Gerrittsen. Handwritten original in Dutch, with typed transcription and...

Time PeriodColonization and Settlement (1585-1763)

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TitleThe Evolution of the Modern Urban Core: The Implications of Newark's Late Nineteenth-Century Housing and Population Patterns

AuthorForresta, Ronald A.

Date Created1976

DescriptionThis paper by Ronald A. Foresta, a geography Ph.D. candidate from Rutgers University, is from 'New Jersey's Ethnic Heritage: Papers Presented at the Eighth Annual New Jersey History Symposium,...