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Stevens Family Papers, 1663-1959

July 23, 2014
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Inventor Name

Stevens, John

Repository

New Jersey Historical Society
52 Park Place
Newark, NJ 07102
973-596-8500 ext 248
https://jerseyhistory.org/library-archives/

Physical Description

60 ft.

Summary

Family of John Stevens (ca. 1682-1737), early resident of New Jersey. Correspondence, estate papers, genealogy, photos, and other papers. Persons represented include Stevens's son, Hon. John Stevens (1715-1792), sea captain and merchant, and member of New Jersey Assembly, Continental Congress, and Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey (president 1783), whose papers relate to land speculation, Elizabethtown bill in chancery, and East-West Jersey and New York-New Jersey boundary disputes; Hon. John's brothers, Campbell Stevens (1714-1770), commander at Louisburg in the French and Indian War and Richard Stevens (1723-1802), of Perth Amboy, N.J., and Philadelphia, Pa., sea captain and merchant engaged in West Indian trade; Col. John Stevens (1749-1838), lawyer, inventor, and founder of Hoboken, N.J., who built the first ocean-going steamship, the Phoenix, and the first American-made steam locomotive; his sons, Robert and Edwin A. Stevens, founders of Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Company; and John Cox Stevens, horse breeder and yachtsman. Includes records of East Jersey and West Jersey Proprietors, Rocky Hill and Pluckemin mines (both in Somerset County), Hoboken Ferry Company, and Hoboken Land and Improvement Company; estate papers of James and Mary Alexander, Fenwick Lyell, Robert Hunter Morris, and various Stevens family members; and material on Revolution, Fulton-Stevens ferry controversy, public transportation, and technology.

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