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TitleSubscription of Freeholders, Report of Expenses, and Apportionment of Costs for Political Work in Trenton

Date Created1812

DescriptionAgreement of Freeholders of Township of Bergen to send John Van Horne and Peter Sip to Trenton for unspecified legal work, with signatures with subscribed amounts donated. Report on the actual...

Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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TitleCharter to the Town and Freeholders of Bergen, 1668: Regranting of Dutch township under new English colonial governors, copy made 1805

Date Created1805

DescriptionCopy of original English charter, made at the time of the incorporation of the Associates of the Jersey Company - the body which would found Jersey City. In the 1688 Charter, the new English Governor...

Time PeriodExpansion and Reform (1801-1861), Colonization and Settlement (1585-1763)

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TitlePaul LaTorraca's application for a certificate of arrival and preliminary form for petition for naturalization

Date Created1944

DescriptionPaul (Paolo) LaTorraca emigrated from Naples, Italy, on the Calabria vessel, and arrived at Brooklyn's Pier 29 in New York City, on May 15, 1908. He settled in Newark, New Jersey, where his...

Time PeriodThe Great Depression and World War II (1929-1945)

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TitleJersey Homesteads press release - March 10, 1935

Date Created1935

DescriptionThe press release announces the approval of "the budget and progress schedule for Jersey Homesteads" by Secretary of the Interior Ickes. Jersey Homesteads (later Roosevelt) was established in the...

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TitleNegro housing in Trenton

Date Created1953

DescriptionThis is a report on a self-survey of the Housing Committee in the early 1950s. This report demonstrates the problems within the African American community in Trenton, New Jersey, including real...

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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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TitleNaturalization Records of Petitioner Joseph Obert

Date Created1862

DescriptionNaturalization records to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Joseph Obert Country of origin: Germany Age of petitioner: Unknown Occupation: Unknown ...

Target AudienceLibrarians and curators

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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TitleNaturalization Records of Petitioner Ernst Bernhart

Date Created1860

DescriptionNaturalization records to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Ernst Bernhart Country of origin: Germany (Prussia) Age of petitioner: Unknown Occupation:...

Target AudienceLibrarians and curators

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

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TitleDeclaration of Intention of Fredrick Theodore Richard Bergner

Date Created1865

DescriptionDeclaration of Intention to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Fredrick Theodore Richard Bergner Country of Origin: Germany Applicant age: 31 Occupation: ...

Target AudienceLibrarians and curators

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)

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TitleNaturalization Records of Petitioner Heinrich Orphall

Date Created1860

DescriptionNaturalization records to become a citizen of the United States, as filled out and signed by: Heinrich Orphall Country of origin: Germany Age of petitioner: Unknown Occupation: ...

Target AudienceLibrarians and curators

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)