- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- McFarlane, Henry, d. 1887
- Title:
- McFarlane Family Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f7623c65x
- Dates:
- 1832-1928
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.4 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of correspondence, deeds, indentures, genealogical notes, and other documents of the McFarlane, Buchanan, and Haslett families who came to Somerset County, New Jersey, from England and Canada in the 19th century.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
Consists of correspondence, deeds, indentures, genealogical notes, and other documents of the McFarlane, Buchanan, and Haslett families who came to Somerset County, New Jersey, from England and Canada in the 19th century. Included are the marriage contracts (1834) of Henry McFarlane with Ann Buchanan; some of their correspondence; manuscripts, correspondence, and documents of their daughter, Kate E. McFarlane; and business papers relating to the flax-cotton industry of England and New Jersey and McFarlane's N.J. Flax Cotton Co.
Collection History
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '14 in 2013.
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:
McFarlane Family Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/f7623c65x
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1
Find More
- Subject Terms:
- Flax industry -- England -- 19th century.
Flax industry -- New Jersey -- 19th century. - Genre Terms:
- Antenuptial contracts -- Canada.
Correspondence.
Deeds -- New Jersey -- Somerset county.
Family papers -- New Jersey -- Somerset County. - Names:
- Buchanan family
Haslett family
McFarland family
McFarlane, Ann Buchanan
McFarlane, Kate E.
