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Gawine Drummond Document Collection

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Drummond

Gawine Drummond was a county clerk for Monmouth County Court House in the state of New Jersey.

The collection consists of miscellaneous legal documents of Gawine (also spelled Gavin, Gawen, and Gavine) Drummond, county clerk for Monmouth County Court House in the state of New Jersey, and several members of his family. The documents include agreements, arbitration bonds, indentures, land grants, and surveys in either Shrewsbury in Monmouth County or in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County. The earlier ones date from the Colonial era in Eastern New Jersey and concern British officials or well-known British loyalists. Some names on the documents are those of the Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey. The earliest document is a grant of three hundred acres of land in Monmouth County to Drummond by the "Proprietors of Eastern New Jersey" (or, the representatives of the British Crown), dated November 25, 1701. The grant stipulates that Drummond has to pay "Quit-rent," the land tax imposed by the colonial British government. Included is a hand-illustrated survey for a tract of land of Drummond, dated 1727, and a fragment of a survey signed by John Smyth, dated April 24, 1760. Other documents include a warrant for the arrest of John Johnson and George Wilcox, dated 1708 and signed by Lord Cornbury, governor of New Jersey from 1703 to 1708; an extract from the last will and testament of Gawine Drummond for members of his family, dated 1760; and another document of Drummond's heirs contesting the same will. There is a document of the Continental Congress, on vellum, appointing Edward Dunscomb as Captain in the U.S. Continental Army. It is signed by Samuel Huntington (signer of the Declaration of Independence) and dated February 24, 1781.

The collection was a gift of Nathan Southwick Schroeder, Princeton Class of 1898, on November 7, 1958 (AM16656).

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Folder Inventory added by Hilde Creager (2015) in 2012.

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Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2009
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Warrant to Heirs of the Gawin Drummond signed by John Smyth, 1759. 1 folder.
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Warrant to Heirs of the Gawin Drummond signed by John Smyth, 1759-1763. 1 folder.
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Document regarding Gawine Drummond signed by John Smyth, 1704. 1 folder.
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Contract signed by Samuel, Phillip, and Jacob Dennis, and John, Thomas, and William Wooley, 1715. 1 folder.
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Document obliging Abijah Smith and Joseph Kannan to defend Robert Drummond and his heirs, 1755. 1 folder.
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Document obliging Richard Mitchell to Gawin Drummond, 1740. 1 folder.
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Map and note describing land of Gavin Drummond, Thomas, William, and John Wooley, undated. 1 folder.
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Indenture document signed by Thomas Bills, George Allin Smith, Samuel [Lommy], Gawin Drummond, 1687. 1 folder.
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Indenture document of Andrew Bell to Gawin Drummond, 1792. 1 folder.
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Survey document for land of Gawin Drummond, 1714. 1 folder.
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Land document signed by Edward Taylor, Robert Drummond, Colin Lloyd, 1817. 1 folder.
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Survey document signed by John Rutherford, James Carneu D Surgent, 1792. 1 folder.
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Unsigned Document relating to Gavine Drummond, 1701. 1 folder.
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Extract from Will of Gavin Drummond, undated. 1 folder.
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Deed from Andrew Bill for Gavin Drummond, 1792. 1 folder.
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Agreement between Robert Drummon and John Drummond, 1817. 1 folder.
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Indenture document between Nicholas Brown, Mary Brown, Richard Chambers, 1713. 1 folder.
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Indenture document signed by William Skinner, John Smyth, Lawrence Smyth,, 1752. 1 folder.
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Part of Document relating to tract of land by John Smith, 1760. 1 folder.
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Indenture document from Richard Lawrence, Eli[ku] Williams, and David Knott, 1773. 1 folder.
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Several documents, 1714. 1 folder.
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Document of United States Congress appointing Edward Dunscomb as a Captain, 1790. 1 folder.
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Debt document of Robert Drummond and John Drummond, 1819. 1 folder.
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Document of Edward Viscount Cornbury, 1708. 1 folder.
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Indenture document of Thomas Little, 1809. 1 folder.
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