- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Johnson, Thomas Potts, fl. 1761-1838
- Collector:
- Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
- Title:
- Thomas Potts Johnson Collection
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hx11xf306
- Dates:
- 1769-1846
- Size:
- 8 boxes and 3.2 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-8
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of miscellaneous papers relating to Thomas Potts Johnson's legal practice covering the New Jersey counties of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, and Essex; papers pertaining to his position as New Jersey attorney general; and two family photograph albums.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of documents and miscellaneous financial papers relating to Johnson's legal practice covering the New Jersey counties of Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, and Essex; papers pertaining to his position as New Jersey attorney general; and two family photograph albums. The collection contains petitions, deeds, mortgages, estate surveys, articles of agreement, results of sheriffs' sales, indentures, wills, promissory notes, bills, and receipts. In addition, there is miscellaneous material on the Stockton family of Princeton.
- Arrangement
Arranged chronologically.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Johnson, Thomas Potts, fl. 1761-1838
Thomas Potts Johnson practiced law in Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, and Essex counties of New Jersey and served as New Jersey attorney general.
Collection History
- Processing Information
Folder inventory prepared by Gregory Kohles '2013 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:
Thomas Potts Johnson Collection; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hx11xf306
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1-8
Find More
- Other Finding Aids
Files of the Works Progress Administration at Mudd Library include an index to the Johnson collection compiled by the Federal Writer's Project around 1940.
- Genre Terms:
- Attorneys general -- New Jersey.
Deeds.
Lawyers -- New Jersey.
Legal documents.
Photographs.
Wills. - Names:
- Stockton family
Johnson family - Places:
- Essex County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Hunterdon County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Middlesex County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Monmouth County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Somerset County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Union County (N.J.) -- History -- Sources.