- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Clawson, Isaiah Dunn, 1822-1879
- Title:
- Clawson Family Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ms35t866v
- Dates:
- 1800-1886
- Size:
- 3 boxes and 1.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-3
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, documents, and printed matter of the Clawson family of Salem County, N.J.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and printed matter of the Clawson family of Salem County, N.J. Represented in the collection are Isaiah Dunn Clawson (Princeton Class of 1840) and his wife, Martha, his father, William, Israel R. Clawson, Margaretta Clawson Shinn and her husband, William J. Shinn, and Samuel S. Shinn. Included is an essay, "The Stability of our Government," by Isaiah Dunn Clawson, as well as printed matter relating to his terms in the New Jersey Assembly (1854-1855) and Congress (1855-1859). The bulk of the correspondence is comprised of letters to family members about legal, business, social, political, and temperance matters. The collection includes documents such as judgment bonds and warrants, bills, promissory notes, receipts, claims, indentures, wills, mortgages, and bank account forms.
- Arrangement
Unprocessed.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Clawson, Isaiah Dunn, 1822-1879
The Clawson family was a prominent family in Salem County, N.J. Isaiah Dunn Clawson (Princeton Class of 1840) was a representative in the New Jersey Assembly (1854-1855) and Congress (1855-1859).
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Purchased from Eldridge Pendelton in 1978.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Allyse Terrell '2014 in 2011.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Clawson Family Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/ms35t866v
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-3
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Temperance -- New Jersey -- 19th century.
- Genre Terms:
- Documents -- 19th century.
Family papers -- 19th century. - Names:
- Clawson, Israel R.
- Places:
- New Jersey -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865.
Salem county (N.J.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
Salem County (N.J.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1853-1857.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861.
