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A Glorious Day at Morven
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DARM
Director Karl J. Niederer (center) introduces Assistant Secretary
of State Kathleen Kisko to keynote speaker, Prof. Richard P. McCormick.
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Star-Ledger
reporter Thomas Hester interviews Professor McCormick on the porch
at Morven.
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| Cameramen
from New Jersey Network and WZBN set up their equipment. |
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The
crowd gathers on the lawn in front of Morven. |
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Remarks to the Crowd
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Acting
Governor Richard J. Codey opens with a public welcome and notes the
historical importance of the State’s new acquisition.
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Lawrence
Intermediate School students will be the first to view the documents
on public display. |
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Emcee
DARM Director Karl J. Niederer acknowledges the historical community,
Office of the Governor, and Legislature for their support of the acquisition.
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Among
the honored guests are officers of the former East Jersey Board of
Proprietors, and the West Jersey Council of Proprietors. |
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Secretary
of State Regena L. Thomas addresses the group.
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Prof.
Richard P. McCormick celebrates the acquisition, praising the historical
community and the State Archives for their decisive action. |
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Proprietors and Adventurers Opens to the Public
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DARM
Director Karl J. Niederer addresses the crowd before the ribbon-cutting.
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School
children patiently await the unveiling of Proprietors & Adventurers:
A Rediscovery of Colonial New Jersey.
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Chief
of Archives Joseph R. Klett tells the story of how the acquisition
and exhibition were made possible, acknowledging fellow New Jersey
archivists, curators and historians.
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David
Cowell, President of the Advocates for New Jersey History, speaks
about the colony’s early diversity and great promise as revealed
by the newly discovered manuscripts.
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Governor Codey cuts the ribbon. |
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Acting
Governor Codey offers “high fives” as the kids enter the
exhibition, the first to view the documents.
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Colonial Treasures Unveiled
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the ribbon is cut. |
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East
Jersey Governor Robert Barclay’s record book, 1682-1688, containing
hitherto unknown colonial manuscripts.
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Five
seventeenth-century maps were reunited with the record book thanks
to the State’s success at Christie’s.
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The
Barclay record book contains minutes of the Lords Proprietors of East
New Jersey that pre-date the first American minutes by two years. |
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Morden’s
A Map of ye English Empire, ca. 1684-5 (left) and the royal
patent for New Jersey, 1664 (right).
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The
Navesink case (left) and John Reid’s manuscript map of “East
Jarsey,” 1686 (right). |
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John
Seller’s A Mapp of New Jersey in America, 1677 (left)
and an account of East Jersey’s settled towns, circa 1684 (right).
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Wells’
map of New York Harbor, ca. 1683 (left) and East Jersey's claim to
Staten Island (right). |
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Manuscript
plan entitled “A Description of Amboy Point,” 1684.
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List
of adventurers in the Society of Merchants of London, investors in
West Jersey, 1697. |
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The
Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey,
published by William and Andrew Bradford, 1732.
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James
Alexander's personal copy of A Bill in the Chancery of New Jersey,
published by James Parker and Benjamin Franklin, 1747. |
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| Samuel
Smith’s History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria, or New Jersey,
1765. |
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The
Grants, Concessions & Original Constitutions of the Province,
published by Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer, 1758.
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Leaming
& Spicer’s 1758 compilation on display in the foyer of Morven.
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Visitors and Press view the Exhibition
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| (left
to right) DARM Director Karl J. Niederer, Joseph J. Felcone of Princeton,
and Chief of Archives Joseph R. Klett. |
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(left
to right) Karl Niederer, State Senator Leonard Lance, and State Museum
Exhibits Curator Elizabeth Beitel and Museum Director Helen Shannon.
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(left
to right) State Archives Collection Manager Ellen R. Callahan, Trentonian
reporter Charles Webster and Joseph Felcone.
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Joseph
Seliga, longtime friend of the State Archives, viewing Wells’
hand-drawn map of New York Harbor. |
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(left
to right) Deputy Attorneys General William Andersen and Thomas Hunt,
and David Pasicznyk of the New Jersey Geological Survey, examine the
New York Harbor map.
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Historians
and school kids flood the room for a glimpse of the documents. |
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Joseph
Klett interviewed by New Jersey Network.
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Karl
Niederer with Ann Gossen, curator of Morven Museum and Gardens. |
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| Princeton
University Archivist Daniel Linke (left) and Deputy Attorney General
John Turi (right) view the Barclay record book. |
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