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Bassett Family Papers

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.009
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Bassett Family Papers, RG5/009, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1676-1846 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bassett family
Abstract:
This collection contains deeds, will, land and other property documents of the Bassett, Wright, and other families of Salem County, NJ, many of whom were Quakers.

This collection contains deeds, will, land and other property documents of the Bassett, Wright, and other families of Salem County, NJ, many of whom were Quakers.

The collection is divided into four series:

  1. Deeds, wills concerning Salem County, 1676-1846
  2. Maps, etc., concerning properties along Salem Creek, 1824-184
  3. Stock certificates from Salem Canal company
  4. Miscellaneous correspondence

Donor: Unknown, Prior to 1956

Gift to Friends Historical Library before 1956

In the summer of 1956, this bundle of papers was sorted and placed in Record Group 5.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1956
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Friends Historical Library believes all of the items in this collection to be in the Public Domain in the United States, and is not aware of any restrictions on their use. However, the user is responsible for making a final determination of copyright status before reproducing. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/.

Collection Inventory

Scope and Contents

Arranged chronologically.

Chain of title to 400 acres of land along Mannington Creek in Salem County, N.J., going back to 1676 and extending to the time of purchase by J. Sterling, ca. 1791.
Box 1
Indenture of Feb. 11, 1782, between James Mason Woodnutt of Manneton (so spelled) in Salem County and Hannah Hubert of Mannerton (so spelled).
Box 1
Award from Joseph and David Bassett to Eve Woodruff, heir of Henry Woodruff, Oct. 13, 1787.
Box 1
Deed of conveyance between Francis Hover and Adam Cook, Sr., in Mannington Township, Salem County, Oct. 26, 1792.
Box 1
Indenture between Samuel Bassett and his wife Elizabeth, and Abraham Sharp concerning land in Salem County, June 9, 1794.
Box 1
Will of David Allen, father-in-law of Joseph Bassett who is executor, June 15, 1795.
Box 1
Two documents setting forth the agreements made between John Bellers, dec'd, and his heirs and a list of subscribers who have occupied his lands in Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, N.J.,, dated Feb. 13, 1806.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

See 1812 deed listed at the end of series 1.

Agreement on a land line in the township of Pilesgrove, Salem Co., N.J., between David Smith and Reuben Woolman, May 30, 1818.
Box 1
Agreement on a land line in Mannington Township between Thomas Thompson and Thomas Pedrick and Peter Wright, Oct. 2, 1820.
Box 1
Agreement on a land line between David Smith and Joseph Reeves, Aug. 9, 1823.
Box 1
Deed from Joseph Davis and William B. Smith to William J. Shinn, in Salem Co, Sept. 22, 1830.
Box 1
Discharge from David A. Thompson to Joseph Bassett and Samuel Allen, trustees in the settlement of the will of Rebecca Allen, Aug. 21, 1839.
Box 1
Deed between William I. Shinn and Elias Matson, both parties of Salem County, Oct. 21, 1836.
Box 1
Deed, Joseph to Elisha Bassett for two tracts of land in Mannington Township, Salem County., Jan. 5, 1843.
Box 1
Indenture between Benjamin Baker of Pilesgrove and Joseph Bassett of Mannington Township, Salem County, Jan. 10, 1846.
Box 1
Release from Samuel C. Allen, guardian for Amanda Bassett, minor, to the executors of the estate of Joseph Bassett, deceased, June 1, 1848.
Box 1
Deed, Henry Iler and his wife Margaret to Nathaniel Robbins, both parties of Pilesgrove Township, Salem County, Feb. 7, 1812.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

Maps and charts of properties and houses along Salem Creek and Mannington Creek, in Salem County, N.J., made between 1824 and 1844.

Barely identified tract showing adjoining properties of Jacob E. Davis and Richard Kirby.
Box 1
Map of Marsh along Salem Creek, late Peter Wright's, surveyed by John N. Cooper, Dec. 28, 1844.
Box 1
Draft of Haines' Neck Marsh.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Shows canals and thoroughfares connecting sections of Mannington Creek and indicates many parcels of land owned by the Bassetts.

Map of the property of the late Peter Wright along the road from Sharptown to Salem, surveyed by John Cooper, Dec. 2, 1844.
Box 1
A draft, showing houses, of public roads in Haines' Neck in Mannington Township, survey made Oct. 20, 1824.
Box 1
Ser. 3. Stock certificates in the Salem Canal Company, 1813.
Box 1

Deposition, March 6, 1822.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Desposition in which Nancy Padgett states when Ann Lawrence was 21 years old.

Letter and an attached list of household and farm properties., Feb. 7, 1820.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

The letter is a copy of one sent by Nancy Stockes to her family, 2/7/1820.

Deed between Samuel Sharp and Reuben Matlack, Chester Township in Burlington Co., N.J., in which the will of Isaac Sharp is quoted., Nov. 20, 1796.
Box 1

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