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HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 PREPARED B) 
 
 EDMUND D. HALSE 
 
 SECRETARY, 
 
 UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 
 
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 MORRISTOWN. N.J. 
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 Copyrighted, 1891, 
 By Edmund D. Halsey 
 
 the Devinne press. 
 
TRUSTEES. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 189I. 
 
 George A. Halsey, James F. Randolph, 
 
 Edwin A. Stevens. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1892. 
 
 William V. V. Lidgerwood, Hampton O. Marsh, 
 Jonathan W. Roberts. 
 
 TERM EXPIRES 1893. 
 
 William L. King, William Walter Phelps, 
 
 Thomas C. Bushnell. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. 
 
 President. 
 Jonathan W. Roberts. 
 
 Vice- Presidents. 
 William V. V. Lidgerwood, William L. King. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 Hampton O. Marsh. 
 
 Secretary. 
 Edmund D. Halsey. 
 
 Executive Committee. 
 Hampton O. Marsh, Henry W. Miller, 
 
 George G. Kip, Robert J. Turnbull, 
 
 Wynant Vanderpool, Albert H. Vernam, 
 
 Edmund D. Halsey. 
 
HISTORY OF 
 
 THE WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION 
 
 OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 THE Washington Association had its origin in the 
 thought of a few public-spirited and patriotic indi- 
 viduals to whom it occurred that a house which had been 
 the Headquarters of Washington during one of the most 
 trying periods of the Revolutionary War, and around 
 which all the historic associations of three years' encamp- 
 ment of the patriotic army had gathered, should be pre- 
 served in its integrity and be maintained through future 
 generations as a memorial of the Father of his Country, 
 and of the heroism and fortitude of the officers and enlisted 
 men who here, in Morristown, withstood the severe hard- 
 ships and sufferings of the winters of 1777, 1779-80, and 
 1780-81. 
 
 After the death of the Hon. Henry A. Ford in 1872, 
 his heirs at law, for the purpose of settling or partitioning 
 his estate, caused this, his homestead, and the adjoining 
 lands, to be surveyed and divided into plots, and adver- 
 tised the whole for sale at public vendue, on the 25th day 
 
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 of June, 1873. The sale attracted the attention of 
 Governor Theodore F. Randolph, Hon. George A. Halsey, 
 General N. N. Halsted, and William V. V. Lidgerwood, 
 Esq. Without preconcert these gentlemen attended the 
 sale, but before the property was offered, the three first 
 named had agreed to purchase the Headquarters and 
 the plot on which it stood, and offer it to the State to be 
 preserved as "a historic place." In the bidding, Mr. 
 Lidgerwood alone competed with them, and had bid it 
 up to $24,100, when Governor Randolph made public 
 announcement of the intention of himself and his friends, 
 and their willingness to give $25,000 for the property, 
 and offer it to the State at cost, or make such other dis- 
 position of it as would effect their purpose. Mr. Lidger- 
 wood stated that his object in bidding was precisely similar 
 to that of the others, and expressed his willingness to be 
 a fourth to carry out the Governor's plan. The property 
 was at once struck off to the four gentlemen, who paid 
 then, or soon after, thirty per cent, of the purchase-money, 
 and deeds were executed to them dated July 31, 1873, 
 for the house and lot on which it stood, being about 
 253 feet front, and about 545 feet deep, and containing 
 a little over three acres. The deeds were at first held 
 not to convey a complete title, and afterward, doubts hav- 
 ing arisen as to the constitutionality of that part of the 
 charter granting State aid, as is hereafter stated, their 
 delivery was further delayed so that, though possession 
 was taken at once, the deeds were not recorded until 
 July 3, 1877, when a deed from the four original grantees 
 to the Association, dated May 1, 1877, was also executed 
 and recorded. They may be found in Book S, 9, of deeds 
 for Morris County, pages 566 to 574. A confirmatory 
 deed signed by all the heirs of Henry A. Ford to the 
 Association dated, June 29, 1877, was recorded July 23, 
 1877, in Book X, 10, of deeds, pages 401 etc. With 
 the real estate was transferred the furniture of Washing- 
 
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 ton's room, which had been carefully preserved since its 
 occupancy by him by the Ford family. 
 
 Having secured the property, the next step was to 
 form an organization to carry out the design of the pur- 
 chasers. At the next meeting of the Legislature a charter 
 was applied for and obtained, which gave the Association 
 perpetuity and secured it State aid for its proper main- 
 tenance and support. 
 
 In accordance with the fifth section of this act of 
 incorporation a meeting of the incorporators was held at 
 the Headquarters May 5, 1874, when the following persons 
 were elected as the first Board of Trustees : 
 
 Theodore F. Randolph .... Morristown. 
 
 George A. Halsey Newark. 
 
 N. NORRIS Halsted Newark. 
 
 Wm. Van Vleck LiDGERWOOD . Morristown. 
 
 CORTLANDT Parker Newark. 
 
 George H. Danforth Madison. 
 
 Francis S. Lathrop Madison. 
 
 Wm. L. King Morristown. 
 
 Charles S. Olden Princeton. 
 
 The Trustees so elected at once met and organized by 
 the election of the following officers : 
 
 Theodore F. Randolph President. 
 
 N. NORRIS Halsted . . 1st Vice-President. 
 , George A. Halsey . . 2d Vice-President. 
 
 George H. Danforth Secretary. 
 
 Wm. Van Vleck Lidgerwood . . Treasurer. 
 
 The Trustees adopted for the government of the Asso- 
 ciation on the fifth day of July, 1875, the by-laws still in 
 force. 
 
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 The following gentlemen were appointed members of 
 the Executive Committee provided for in the by-laws: 
 
 Wm. Van Vleck Lidgerwood, Henry W. Miller, 
 Gen. Fitz John Porter, Aug. W. Cutler, 
 
 William L. King, William J. Sewell, 
 
 Hampton O. Marsh. 
 
 The Association was now fairly launched, and soon about 
 seventy members were enrolled, whose subscriptions and 
 donations were, however, taken up in meeting the pay- 
 ments on the property and in placing the building in 
 proper repair and the grounds in order. Cannon were 
 loaned by the State to ornament the grounds ; relics of the 
 Revolutionary period were solicited and bestowed, and 
 flags purchased, that the national colors might be dis- 
 played from sunrise to sunset each day. 
 
 On Monday, the fifth day of July, 1875, a large public 
 meeting in honor of the Anniversary of American Inde- 
 pendence was held at the Headquarters, at which Presi- 
 dent Randolph made an eloquent address, from which 
 we quote, as finely descriptive of the house and its 
 surroundings, the following passages: 
 
 All that is classically beautiful in nature lies around us, beneath us, 
 beyond us. From the crest of neighboring hills we may look away 
 to where the half-frozen troops of trie decimated Army of the Revo- 
 lution turned the fast-setting tide of defeat to insured success on the 
 fields of Trenton and of Princeton, to where the sultry summer sun 
 worked more defeat on Monmouth's field than British guns could do. 
 And almost at our feet, as we glance down the slope of Long Hill, 
 near by, we have old Springfield — the battle of all others north Jer- 
 seymen fought and won on their own hook. 
 
 Beautiful as is all the land that lies along and amid the lovely moun- 
 tain range, beginning with New York's Adirondack hills, and sinking 
 away on the plains of Georgia, baring its eastern slopes to the fresh 
 rays of each morning sun, and catching on countless peaks the lin- 
 gering light of passing days, — beautiful as this lovely stretch of Ameri- 
 
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 can scenery is, no part of it all rivals in restful peacefulncss and beauty 
 these old hills of Morris —now ours to possess, once contended for by 
 a struggling nation's force. 
 
 Morris County is peculiarly rich in Revolutionary reminiscences. 
 During two winters, Washington established his headquarters at this 
 town. The place where the younger Ford built the powder-mill, the 
 site of the old magazine, the Arnold Tavern, the Knox Headquar- 
 ters, the camps on the Wicke farm, the Lowantica hospitals, and the 
 sacred little "God's Acre," are all here about us. But peerless among 
 them all stands these old Headquarters within which lived the great 
 commander. 
 
 The disasters of 1776 terminated in the retreat of Washington be- 
 yond the Delaware. To the old soldier, this march, through half- 
 frozen mud, so terrible to endure, was known as the "Mud Rounds." 
 Only about 4000 men followed Washington at this period. Deep 
 gloom had fallen upon the country, but joy sprung to every patriot 
 heart as the brilliant victories of Trenton and of Princeton closed the 
 year of 1776 and opened that of 1777. In January, 1777, soon after the 
 victories at Trenton and at Princeton, Washington established his head- 
 quarters at Morristown — at the Arnold Tavern. During this winter 
 he made the acquaintance of the family of Col. Jacob Ford, Jr., the 
 builder and owner of this house, since made famous by its illustrious 
 occupancy. 
 
 The powder-mill, which Col. Ford built at his own cost, not only 
 furnished good powder and in needful quantities, but became the fre- 
 quent object of the enemy's plans to attack and destroy. In this they 
 never succeeded. The powder-mill stood on yonder Whippany River, 
 and not far below where we stand. 
 
 This house had its foundations laid in 1772, and was ready for occu- 
 pancy and was occupied by Col. Ford's family in 1774. Theybuilded 
 well. Sledge, and hammer, and trowel shaped and placed these 
 broad foundations before England's king had ceased to rule the land. 
 Ax and adze hewed out girder and beam from massive oak that to- 
 day defies the full century gone past. 
 
 The oaken planks that make these outer walls, calked like the 
 frame of a great frigate, are as sound to-day as when they sheltered 
 Washington from the storms of the terrible winter of 1779-80. The 
 carved work about these doors and on these beautiful cornices are 
 rare specimens of elegance in wood-work. It would be difficult to 
 excel their chaste design to-day. 
 
 Those who builded have gone. Not one of all that busy throng 
 that laid the base-stone or capped the roof-girder are in life to-day. 
 But they builded well. 
 
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 The same oaken doors open to you as they did to Washington ; 
 the massive knocker his hand was wont to touch yet waits obedient 
 to your wish. The floors he trod in anxious thought and with wearied 
 brain, you may tread. The century has wrought no change in raf- 
 ter or beam, or floor, or sheltering oak. Is there no significance in 
 the remarkable preservation of this house ? 
 
 This dwelling was for many months the home of Martha, the wife 
 of George Washington. Within these rooms, with quiet dignity and 
 grace, she received her husband's guests. Never idle, she set a 
 constant example of thrift and industry. 
 
 Under this roof have been gathered more characters known to the 
 military history of our Revolution than under any other roof in 
 America. This fact is not generally known to our own people, and 
 consequently the rich historic value of our old Headquarters has never 
 been properly appreciated. 
 
 Here the elegant and brilliant Alexander Hamilton lived during 
 the long winter of 1779, and here he met and courted the lady he 
 afterwards married — the daughter of General Schuyler. Here, too, 
 was Greene — splendid fighting Quaker as he was — and the great 
 artillery officer, Knox, the stern Steuben, the polished Kosciusko, 
 the brave Schuyler, gallant Light-horse Harry Lee, old Israel 
 Putnam, " Mad Anthony " Wayne, and, last to be named of all, that 
 brave soidier, but rank traitor — Benedict Arnold. 
 
 Here, too, from time to time, gathered prominent members of the 
 Continental Congress. 
 
 The furniture used by these soldiers and statesmen is here in part 
 to-day. The dressing bureau, chairs, tables, and stands have been 
 preserved through all these years and kept within these walls. The 
 small stand or table upon which Washington wrote his despatches, 
 and upon which the ink-stains he made still remain, is ours to-day. 
 The curious old secretary he used, with its hidden drawers and quaint 
 workmanship, stands here now as it did then. The mirrors used by 
 General and Lady Washington you may see your faces reflected in. 
 The old camp chest, heavy and solid, is yet good for a long 
 campaign. 
 
 In front of this house, in yonder meadow, somewhat protected 
 from the rigor of the northern winds, lay encamped Washington's 
 body-guard — originally a selected troop of about one hundred 
 Virginians — afterward increased somewhat in number. Day and 
 night they kept watch and guard over these Headquarters, and the 
 precious lives they guarded rested secure under their unceasing 
 vigilance. 
 
 I should not close without expressing the obligation of the Associa- 
 
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 tion to the ladies of the county for the recent helpful entertainment 
 given by them at these Headquarters. 
 
 A more interesting collection of Revolutionary and ante-Revolu- 
 tionary relics has not been had in this State for scores of years — if 
 ever. The Association is also under obligation to many citizens of our 
 State, and especially to those of this county, for valuable contributions 
 of articles of interest to the Society and to the public. We hope, in 
 time, to gather within these appropriate walls so large and interesting 
 a museum of articles connected with the early Revolutionary and 
 other history of the colonies of " East and West Jersey," and of the 
 State, that this old mansion will become a "Mecca," toward which 
 all patriotic Jerseymen will from time to time turn their steps, find- 
 ing in time of peace a grateful repose from life's turmoil, and in 
 times of danger to the country's peace or welfare obtain, as from a 
 pure fountain, inspiration to patriotic purpose. I feel sure that every 
 purpose born of Revolutionary association will have the tempered 
 zeal which ever characterized the acts of the great Patriot whose name 
 has rendered this house immortal. 
 
 The Constitutional Amendments (Section 20, Article 1) 
 approved by the people of New Jersey in 1875 caused 
 doubts to arise in the minds of some of the State officers 
 whether the State Treasurer could lawfully continue the 
 payment of the State's semi-annual subscription to the 
 Association as directed by the act of incorporation. The 
 payments were stopped, and for nearly two years the 
 Headquarters was cared for by the subscriptions of the 
 stockholders. An application was made to the courts, and 
 after long continued litigation the appropriation was 
 declared by the Supreme Court clearly within the Consti- 
 tution, and the Association received the money which had 
 been so long withheld, and has continued to receive the 
 semi-annual State appropriation ever since. This litiga- 
 tion had stood in the way not only of increased member- 
 ship, but of the transfer of the title of the property to the 
 Association. The doubt as to the validity of the charter 
 being removed, the deeds to the original purchasers were 
 at once put on record, and conveyance made to the Asso- 
 ciation as stated above. At this time there had been 
 
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 $15,000 paid on the purchase-money, and a mortgage of 
 $10,000 was assumed by the Association. 
 
 At a trustee meeting held April 12, 1877, the selection 
 of a proper seal was left to the Executive Committee. 
 They discovered in the possession of an engraver in 
 Newark a medal, the origin of which was unknown, 
 which had upon it a likeness of Washington of the proper 
 size, and which bears a strong resemblance to the Houdon 
 statue. The committee, using this as a central figure, 
 devised and recommended the seal which was adopted 
 by the trustees, and is the one impressed on the certifi- 
 cate of membership. 
 
 In 1882 it was found desirable to buy additional land, 
 to prevent the possible erection of nuisances too near the 
 main building, and give room for necessary outbuildings, 
 and a lot 80 feet front, and running back 275 feet, was 
 purchased at a cost of $3200. The deed for this lot is 
 dated October 28, 1882, and recorded December 9, 1882, 
 in Book X, 10, of deeds for Morris County, pages 401, etc. 
 
 On the 7th day of November, 1883, tne sudden death 
 of President Randolph startled the community, and took 
 from the Association its most zealous, liberal, and able 
 head. The Association united with other public bodies 
 of which the deceased was a member, in the passage of 
 appropriate resolutions, and in attending his obsequies. 
 Hon. George A. Halsey was chosen at the next meeting 
 to fill the position of President, and he continued to act 
 until June 29, 1887, when he withdrew, and Jonathan W. 
 Roberts was elected, who has filled that office since. 
 
 In December, 1883, it was found that there had been 
 eighty-nine persons enrolled as members of the Associa- 
 tion, and the capital stock contributed by them aggregated 
 $16,700. In the two years from June, 1884, to June, 
 1886, invitations were extended to gentlemen throughout 
 the State to join the Association, and the membership 
 was more than doubled. The debt had been reduced 
 
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 from $15,000 to $3000. It was entirely paid the next 
 year. A janitor's cottage had been built so that the whole 
 of the main building could be used for the exhibits and the 
 general purposes of the Association. The old kitchen had 
 been restored, and above it a hall had been fitted up for 
 the meetings of the members. The grounds had been 
 wholly rearranged and regraded. In the rear of the 
 building a level grass-plot had been formed whereon to 
 pitch the fifty-foot square tent, purchased for use at the 
 annual meetings, and adjoining that, a flower-garden had 
 been made and stocked with plants of the olden time. 
 The mansion had been carefully gone over and put in 
 complete repair. All the outside and most of the inside 
 had been repainted. The upper hall had been changed 
 to an armory, and large additions made to the collection 
 of arms, historical documents^ and other valuable relics. 
 
 This growth in membership, in value of its property, 
 and in the interest of the public has continued since that 
 time. The original membership roll now numbers 281, 
 and the capital stock actually issued amounts to $36,500. 
 Of these twenty-three shares have escheated to the State, 
 and forty-nine shares have passed by succession to the 
 descendants of the original subscribers. 
 
 The balance sheet of the Treasurer on the 30th day of 
 December, 1890, was as follows: 
 
 Credits. 
 
 Real Estate. $28,200.00 
 
 Repairs and Expenses . . . .37>°57-°3 
 
 Interest Account 8,598.68 
 
 Expenditures for Capital .. . 1,059.82 
 Cash on Hand 4.729.53 
 
 $79,645 06 
 
 Liabilities. 
 
 Capital Account $36,500.00 
 
 Rec'dfrom State Treasurer 42,500.00 
 
 Rec'd Shingle Goods 525.06 
 
 Donation 120.00 
 
 $79,645.06 
 
 Over eighty per cent, of the increased membership sub- 
 sequent to 1884, together with the removal of the debt, 
 
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 and the restoration and improvement of the property, is 
 due to the personal efforts of Jonathan W. Roberts, who 
 since the time of his first connection with the Association 
 in 1884 has given it his constant and unwearied atten- 
 tion. The increase and formation of the various collec- 
 tions of relics, together with the arrangement of the exhib- 
 its in the house, have all been done under his personal 
 superintendence, and in many cases by his own hands. 
 
 In May, 1884, occurred the death of General N. N. 
 Halsted, one of the four originators of the organization. 
 His death was felt to be a great loss to the society. His 
 generosity, genial temperament, and good judgment made 
 him a valuable and popular officer. A special meeting of 
 the trustees was held May 10, 1884, at which suitable 
 resolutions were adopted, and it was resolved to attend 
 his funeral services in a body. 
 
 The marking of the site of Fort Nonsense, on the hill 
 overlooking Morristown from the west, was accomplished 
 in a most satisfactory and agreeable manner on April 
 27, 1888. The stone, which marks the site, is a rough- 
 hewn block of Waterloo granite, bearing the inscription : 
 "This stone marks the site of Fort Nonsense, an earth- 
 work built by the Continental Army, in the winter of 
 1779-80. Erected by the Washington Association of New 
 Jersey, 1888." It was unveiled with appropriate ceremo- 
 nies, including an oration by Rev. J. M. Buckley, D. D., 
 and it is a very interesting proof of the patriotic senti- 
 ment of our American people, to be able to state that, 
 from the firm who quarried the stone, to the men who 
 inscribed it, and hauled it, and set in position, each and 
 every man who had anything to do with the completion 
 of the stone declined to receive any compensation for the 
 services rendered. And it was not the Association alone 
 who on the day of the unveiling endeavored to do honor 
 to the deeds of the soldiers of the Revolution. A parade, 
 consisting of all the uniformed organizations of the city 
 
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 ,f Morristown, with the children of the public schools, 
 accompanied by bands and martial music, escorted the 
 Association and the orator to the site of the old fort, past 
 houses and business buildings, lavishly but appropriately 
 decorated with bunting, flags, and mottoes. Throughout 
 the entire city a half-holiday was by unanimous consent 
 strictly observed. 
 
 The register for the year ending June 21, 1890, 
 shows that over nine thousand visitors had been at the 
 Headquarters during the preceding twelve months. 
 
 It is impossible to mention here any considerable por- 
 tion of the valuable relics which have become the property 
 of the Association. The following are some of the prin- 
 cipal ones : Besides the articles of furniture used by 
 Washington, and which were obtained with the house, 
 there is, first of all, the original commission of Washington 
 as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental forces, the gift 
 of Ferdinand J. Dreer, Esq., of Philadelphia, who also 
 presented two order books : one of Captain Nathaniel 
 Webb, of the Connecticut Division, extending from 
 September 23, 1778, to January 23, 1780, containing 
 General Steuben's " Instructions for Maneuvering the 
 Troops " ; the other of an officer of the Pennsylvania Line, 
 extending from February 10, 1780, to April 29, 1780; 
 the suit of clothes owned by Washington and worn by 
 him on the day of his first inauguration as President of 
 the United States, with a silver-hilted dress sword and 
 buckles worn with it ; a large punch bowl, presented by 
 General Washington to an ancestor of Colonel Cadwalader 
 J. Pride, and a pair of vases presented to the same 
 person by General Lafayette ; a handsome portrait of 
 Alexander Hamilton ; a unique marble bust of Wash- 
 ington, by Houdon ; full-sized copies in oil of Woolaston's 
 Martha Dandridge and C. W. Peak's Washington; a 
 chair from the library at Mount Vernon ; a gun made in 
 Queen Anne's time and captured with a British vessel by 
 
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 a party of Jerseymen at Perth Amboy; "Old Nat," A 
 gun presented to Captain Nathaniel Camp by GeneralV 
 Washington for the defense of Newark; "The Crown \ 
 Prince," a gun captured from the British at Springfield, 
 and afterward used as a signal gun ; two of the brass can- 
 non surrendered by Burgoyne ; a number of British 
 muskets captured in the battle of Trenton, together with 
 muskets, swords, and uniforms of both Continental and 
 Hessian troops ; the silk Masonic sash orbaldrick worn by 
 Washington and presented by him to Judge Gunning 
 Bedford, of Delaware ; a number of articles of china and 
 glassware, formerly part of the table furniture of Wash- 
 ington, and bought at the recent sale in Philadelphia, 
 made by the administrators of Mrs. Lorenzo Lewis ; the 
 plan and papers relating to the proposed capture of Prince 
 William, with the journal of General Matthias Ogden in 
 the expedition against Quebec ; the original letter-book 
 kept by the agents of Lord Stirling at his furnace at 
 Hibernia during the war ; antique furniture, sideboard, 
 knife boxes, tables and chairs, of the Revolutionary period. 
 
 There are many autograph letters of Washington and 
 his contemporaries, among which is one of the few auto- 
 graph letters of Martha Washington, and a large collec- 
 tion of letters, documents, and engraved portraits of 
 Revolutionary heroes in separate cases, and designated as 
 "The Roberts Collection," presented by Mrs. Jonathan 
 W. Roberts. In the kitchen is a large number of old- 
 time utensils, and in the hall adjoining cases, filled with 
 rare old china. 
 
 A brief history of the title of the property owned by 
 the Association is not out of place. Colonel Jacob Ford, 
 senior — prominent as a merchant, iron manufacturer, and 
 land-owner, who was president judge of the County Court 
 from the formation of the county in 1740 until his death 
 in 1777, and who presided over the meeting June 27, 
 1774, which appointed the first " Committee of Corre- 
 
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 spondence" — conveyed the tract of 200 acres surrounding 
 the house to his son, Jacob Ford, junior, March 24, 1762. 
 In 1768 he conveyed to him the Mount Hope mines and 
 meadows where the son built the stone mansion still 
 standing. In 1773 Jacob Ford, junior, rented this Mount 
 Hope property for fifty years to John Jacob Faesch and 
 David Wrisberg, and these men proceeded to build the 
 furnace afterward useful to the patriot army in supply- 
 ing it with cannon and cannon-balls. Colonel Jacob 
 Ford, junior, after making this lease returned to Morris- 
 town, and, probably with his father's aid, began at once 
 the erection of these Headquarters, and had just com- 
 pleted the building when the war broke out. He was 
 made Colonel of the Eastern Battalion of the Morris 
 County Militia, and was detailed to cover Washington's 
 retreat across New Jersey in the "mud rounds" of 1776 
 — a service accomplished with honor and success. In 
 this or in similar service, Colonel Ford contracted pneu- 
 monia, of which he died January 10, 1777, and was buried 
 with military honors by order of Washington. He left a 
 widow, Theodosia Ford, and five young children. She 
 was the daughter of Rev. Timothy Johnes, whose pastor- 
 ate of the First Church extended from 1742 to 1794, and 
 who is said to have administered the communion to 
 Washington. This lady in 1779-80 offered to Washing- 
 ton the hospitality of her house, and here was his Head- 
 quarters from about December 1, 1779, to June, 1780. In 
 1805 Judge Gabriel H. Ford, one of the sons of Colonel 
 Jacob, purchased his brothers' and sister's interest in the 
 property, and made it his home until his death in 1849. 
 By his will dated January 27, 1848, Gabriel H. Ford de- 
 vised this his homestead to his son, Henry A. Ford, 
 who continued to occupy it until his death, which occurred 
 April 22, 1872. From the heirs of Henry A. Ford title 
 was derived to the four gentlemen who organized the 
 Association, as has been stated. 
 
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 In 1889, the Executive Committee were requested to 
 devise a suitable badge for the Association, and adopted 
 one which met with universal approval. The pin has in 
 the center the crest of the State of New Jersey, with the 
 initial letters of the Association on either side. The rib- 
 bon is the "Jersey blue," which was derived from the uni- 
 form of a body of Jersey troops during the Revolution — 
 a blue coat with buckskin breeches — and both colors are 
 embodied in the ribbon ; the center being the blue, and 
 
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 the borders Continental buff or buckskin. The medal is 
 an ellipse, resting on an irregular square ; on the obverse, 
 the ellipse has a profile bust of Washington (after Hou- 
 don), surrounded by the title of the Association ; on the 
 square and partially covered by the ellipse is a laurel 
 branch. On the reverse the ellipse bears an impression 
 of the Headquarters, the trees being denuded of leaves ; 
 in the upper part of the square is the word "Morristown," 
 and in the lower corners the dates " 1779" and "1780." 
 
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 It can be read "The Morristown Headquarters in the 
 winter of 1779 and 1780." The design was the work of 
 Mr. J. H. Whitehouse, the celebrated designer for Tiffany 
 & Co., and the dies were cut by that firm under his 
 personal supervision. 
 
 On February 22, 1888, an informal meeting of the 
 members of the Association was held at Headquarters, at 
 which a paper upon Washington was read by Mr. J. C. 
 Pumpelly, and one upon the life of General Doughty was 
 read by Mr. Thomas VV. Ogden. These papers were pub- 
 lished by the Association with a facsimile of the Washing- 
 ton Commission. It was resolved to continue these meet- 
 ings, and on each succeeding Washington's Birthday the 
 members have met and listened to papers, which have 
 been published by the Association. 
 
 The order for the succession of the stock of deceased 
 members, as permitted by the charter, was after careful 
 consideration, at a meeting of the trustees, held Nov. 5, 
 1889, determined to be as follows: 
 
 First. — That when a shareholder shall assign his certifi- 
 cate of stock to his male descendant, and shall file that 
 assignment with the Treasurer, then a record shall be made 
 of the transfer, and the said descendant shall be deemed 
 the successor of the former shareholder. 
 
 Second. — That when the executors or administrators of 
 a deceased shareholder's estate shall assign the certifi- 
 cate of stock standing in the name of the deceased share- 
 holder to that deceased shareholder's male descendant, 
 and shall file that assignment with the Treasurer, and 
 the said descendant having satisfied the Treasurer of 
 his rightful claim within the required five years, then 
 record shall be made of the transfer, and the said 
 descendant will be deemed the successor of the late 
 shareholder. 
 
20 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 Third. — That in other cases than those above specified, 
 record of assignment or transfer of certificates must be 
 declined, and no exchange of certificates or division of 
 shares can be made, provision for either not having been 
 made by the constitution. 
 
 Fourth. — That these rules be in force until a court hav- 
 ing jurisdiction shall otherwise direct. 
 

CHARTER. 
 
 An ACT to incorporate the Washington Association of 
 New Jersey. Approved March 20, 1874. 
 
 Whereas, certain citizens of this State have purchased the 
 property occupied by General George Washington dur- 
 ing a portion of the Revolutionary War, located at Mor- 
 ristown, in this State, and known as the Washington 
 Headquarters ; and whereas it is the desire and purpose 
 of said purchasers to place the property within the pos- 
 session of an Association, whose purpose and duty will 
 be to maintain it through future generations,- sacred 
 with its peculiar historic associations ; 
 
 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey, That Theodore F. Randolph, 
 George A. Halsey, N. Norris Halsted, William Van 
 Vleck Lidgervvood, Francis S. Lathrop, Amos Clark, Jr., 
 George M. Robeson, Augustus W. Cutler, Jacob Vanatta, 
 William Walter Phelps, George Danforth, Benjamin G. 
 Clarke, George Richards, William L. King, Orestes Cleve- 
 land, Matthew Armstrong, Edward Bettle, J. Condit 
 Smith, John H. Lidgerwood, Cortlandt Parker, and 
 Charles S. Olden, together with such other persons as 
 may hereafter be associated with them, be and are hereby 
 created a body politic and corporate in fact and in law, 
 
22 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 by and under the name of the " Washington Association 
 of New Jersey." 
 
 2. And be it enacted, That the capital stock of said 
 Association shall be fifty thousand dollars, divided into 
 shares of one hundred dollars each, and the persons 
 named in the first section of this act are authorized to pur- 
 chase, hold and convey real estate, and to open books of 
 subscription and take and receive subscriptions to such 
 capital stock, at such time or times, and in such manner 
 as they shall deem proper, issuing to such subscribers cer- 
 tificates of the Association, which certificates shall state 
 the number of shares subscribed and paid for by the holder 
 of it, and shall bear the signatures of the president and 
 treasurer of the Association, and the impress of a suitable 
 seal, which the Association is hereby authorized to obtain 
 and use. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 
 Secretary of State of this State to place upon or attach to 
 each certificate of the Washington Association the impress 
 of the great seal of the State of New Jersey. 
 
 4. And be it enacted, That no certificate of stock issued 
 by the Washington Association shall be assignable or 
 transferable to any other person or persons than to a male 
 descendant of a subscriber to the stock of this Association, 
 and when no such descendant shall appear to make good 
 his claim within five years after the death of a stockholder 
 from whom he would have inherited, then the share or 
 shares of stock thus unclaimed shall be deemed forfeited 
 to the State and become its property. 
 
 5. And be it enacted, That upon due notice being given 
 by a majority of incorporators of this Association, the 
 stockholders shall meet at the Washington Headquarters 
 
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 23 
 
 at Morristown, and thereupon elect a Board of Trustees of 
 not less than six nor more than nine members, whose term 
 of office shall be three years, but of the first board so 
 elected one-third of their number shall have their term of 
 office expire at the end of one year, and one-third shall 
 have their term of office expire at the end of two years, 
 and the remaining third at the end of three years, and 
 the trustees shall hold their offices until their successors 
 are elected, and said board shall in turn elect from their 
 number a president and treasurer, whose duties, together 
 with those of such other officers as the Board of Trustees 
 may deem proper to appoint, shall be stated in the by- 
 laws of the Association, which by-laws are hereby author- 
 ized to be fully made by the trustees of the Association. 
 
 6. And be it enacted, That the Board of Trustees may 
 appoint persons with police powers to be exercised within 
 the limits of the property of the Association ; they may 
 prevent the erection of any nuisance adjoining their prop- 
 erty ; they may receive donations of land, money, books, 
 relics, and other articles of value or of interest, and exe- 
 cute receipts or other proper vouchers therefor ; they may 
 set aside for the use of the Historical Society of the State 
 such portions of the building as may be necessary for 
 their convenience at any time, and the property of the 
 Association represented by the Board of Trustees shall at 
 all times during the continuance of this Association be 
 exempt from all taxes and assessments whatever. 
 
 7. And be it enacted, That so long as the building 
 known as the Washington Headquarters shall be open to 
 the public free of charge, at all proper times, and so long 
 as it shall be held as an historical building, within which 
 all the people of New Jersey may deposit articles of inter- 
 est connected with the men and events of our Revolution- 
 ary struggle, the Treasurer of this State shall pay to the 
 
24 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 president or treasurer of the Washington Association, on 
 the first days of April and of November of each and every 
 year, the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars, to 
 be used by the trustees for the care, maintenance and 
 perpetuation of the Headquarters, and the trustees shall 
 render to the Governor of this State, on the first day of 
 December, each year, an account of their expenditures 
 made from the funds thus appropriated. 
 
 8. And be it enacted, That this act shall be deemed a 
 public act, and shall take effect immediately. 
 
BY-LAWS 
 
 I. NAME. 
 
 This organization shall be entitled " The Washington 
 Association of New Jersey." 
 
 II. OBJECT. 
 
 The object of this Association is to carry into effect the 
 aim and intention of the purchasers of the property known 
 as the "Washington Headquarters," as follows : 
 
 1st. To maintain it through future generations as a 
 memorial of George Washington, and also' commem- 
 orative of his associate officers, and the heroism and 
 fortitude of the army with which they (the Continental 
 troops) withstood the severe hardships and suffering of 
 the winters of 1777, 1779-80, 1780-81, while encamped 
 in and about Morristown. 
 
 2d. The collection and preservation of papers, docu- 
 ments, relics, and objects of interest connected with the 
 Revolutionary War. No relic or memento of war other 
 than that of the Revolution shall be placed on the property 
 of the Association. 
 
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26 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 3d. To raise a fund sufficient to carry out the above 
 purposes, by the issue and sale of stock (to the amount of 
 fifty thousand dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars 
 each, which sum shall constitute the capital stock of 
 this Association). 
 
 Donations, bequests, and other contributions of value 
 to the Association shall be acknowledged and given 
 value to in such manner as the trustees may direct, with 
 the assent of two-thirds of the stockholders at the annual 
 meetings of the Society. 
 
 III. STOCK. 
 
 Certificates of stock shall be issued as provided for in 
 the second and third sections of the act of incorporation 
 of this Society, and shall be assignable or transferable in 
 such manner only as is provided for in the fourth section 
 of the act of incorporation. 
 
 IV. MANAGEMENT. 
 
 The officers shall be a president, two vice-presidents, 
 secretary, treasurer, and nine trustees, an executive com- 
 mittee of not more than seven nor less than three 
 members, all of whom shall be shareholders. 
 
 The president and vice-presidents shall be elected by 
 the Board of Trustees from among their number. The 
 president shall preside at the meetings of the Association, 
 and shall have the general care and charge of the interests 
 of the Association, and may convene its stockholders or 
 its committees upon five days' written notice. 
 
 The first vice-president, or, in his absence, the second 
 vice-president, shall discharge the duties of the president 
 in case of his absence, or during a vacancy in his office ; 
 and they shall be elected to office in like manner as the 
 president. 
 
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 27 
 
 The secretary shall be elected by the trustees, and shall 
 keep a record of the proceedings of the meetings, and act 
 as custodian of the constitution and minutes ; and he 
 shall conduct the correspondence. 
 
 The treasurer shall be elected by the Board of Trustees, 
 and shall collect, and, under their direction, shall dis- 
 burse all funds; he shall, on the first days of April and 
 November in each and every year, draw upon the Treas- 
 urer of the State of New Jersey for such sums as have 
 been or may hereafter be appropriated by the State in 
 aid of the Association. He shall deposit all moneys re- 
 ceived by him as treasurer in the name of The Wash- 
 ington Association of New Jersey, in such bank or banks 
 as may be selected by the Board of Trustees. He shall 
 present to the trustees on the third Tuesday of Decem- 
 ber and on the third Tuesday of July, in each year, a 
 statement of all moneys received from the State and 
 from other sources, and the expenditure made of the 
 same, and at the regular annual meeting of the stock- 
 holders an account of all moneys received and disbursed 
 as treasurer. His books and accounts shall be at all 
 times subject to examination by the Board of Trustees or 
 the Executive Committee. 
 
 The Board of Trustees shall consist of nine stock- 
 holders, whose terms of office shall continue three years, 
 three of whom shall be elected at each annual meeting of 
 the stockholders, to take the place of those trustees whose 
 term of office has expired in accordance with Section 5 of 
 act of incorporation. 
 
 The Executive Committee shall be selected by the 
 Board of Trustees. 
 
 This committee shall direct and control the manage- 
 ment and expenses of the Washington Association, audit 
 accounts, engage and dismiss employees, and make an 
 annual report to the Board of Trustees. They shall be 
 charged with the collection of papers, relics, etc., con- 
 
28 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 nected with Revolutionary history, and they shall make 
 expenditure of such funds as the Board of Trustees may 
 from time to time direct. All the powers conferred on 
 the Executive Committee by the Board of Trustees are 
 at all times subject to revision. 
 
 V. MEETINGS. 
 
 There shall be an annual meeting of the stockholders 
 between the 1 5th days of June and July in each and every 
 year, for the purpose of electing three trustees in the 
 place of those whose terms of office expire, or to fill vacan- 
 cies, as set forth in Section 5 of the act of incorporation, 
 and transacting such other business as may come within 
 their province. Extra meetings may be called at the re- 
 quest of holders of half the capital stock. Votes will be 
 taken by the number of shares represented, which shall 
 be in person or by a written proxy presented by a mem- 
 ber of the Association. 
 
 There shall be a meeting of the Board of Trustees im- 
 mediately after the annual meeting of the stockholders, 
 for the purpose of electing from their number officers of 
 the Association for the succeeding year, and they shall 
 also meet on the first Tuesday in November in each year, 
 for the purpose of transacting business. 
 
 Special meetings of the trustees may be called on a 
 week's notice, at the request of three of the members of 
 the Board. 
 
 Five of the trustees shall be sufficient to constitute a 
 quorum at any meeting. 
 
 There shall be a monthly meeting of the Executive 
 Committee on the last Wednesday of each month, for the 
 purpose of transacting the business delegated to it. 
 
 Three members shall constitute a quorum of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee. 
 
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 29 
 
 VI. MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 1st. No person shall become a member of this Associa- 
 tion hereafter unless by the consent of a majority of the 
 Board of Trustees. 
 
 2d. Honorary membership may be conferred on per- 
 sons who have rendered special service to this Association. 
 
 VII. AMENDMENTS. 
 
 No resolution making any disposition, sale, lease, 
 mortgage or gift of all or any of the real estate of this 
 Association, acquired, or that may hereafter be acquired, 
 shall be acted upon unless the same has been approved 
 of by all the members of the Board of Trustees, and also 
 by a majority vote of all the stockholders, which vote 
 must be made by each shareholder in writing, accom- 
 panied by affidavit. 
 
 These by-laws can only be amended by a majority vote 
 of all the shareholders — each share of stock counting one 
 vote — such vote being taken at the next annual meeting 
 of the stockholders after such amendment has been pro- 
 posed, and each stockholder shall have a printed copy of 
 the amendment proposed mailed to him at least six months 
 before a vote by the stockholders can be taken upon the 
 proposed amendment. 
 
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF N. J. 
 
 Jan i, 1 89 1. 
 
 A Complete List of Original Subscribers to the Capital 
 Stock of the Association, their Residence, and the 
 Dates of Decease of Those who have Died. 
 
 * Deceased. f Stock transferred. 
 
 1874— 1883 
 
 * Theodore F. Randolph . . . Morris Co., N. J. 1883 
 Wm. Van Vleck Lidgerwood 
 
 * N. Norris Halsted Essex Co., " 1884 
 
 George A. Halsey " 
 
 Thos. F. Randolph Morris Co,, 
 
 Carman F. Randolph ... 
 George O. Vanderbilt . 
 Mrs. Fanny F. Randolph . 
 John H. Lidgerwood 
 William V. Lidgerwood , 
 John Lidgerwood .... 
 
 * Henry C. Milford Rio de Janeiro 1882 
 
 James F. Randolph . . . . Morris Co., N. J. 
 Fitz John Porter " " 
 
 * Matthew Armstrong . . . New York, 1887 
 Abram S. Hewitt 
 
 * John Condit Smith .... Morris Co., N. J. 1883 
 
 30 
 
 Mercer Co., 
 Morris Co., 
 

WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 3 I 
 
 Mary L. Smith Morris Co., N. J. 
 
 Richard Smith " 
 
 * Wm. H. H. Smith 
 
 THOMAS McKeAN Camden Co., 
 
 Augustus D. Shepard . . . Union Co., 
 
 Edward C. Lord Morris Co., 
 
 Daniel D. Craig Somerset Co.; 
 
 * Albert T. Albro 
 
 James S. Coleman Morris Co., 
 
 William J. Sewell Camden Co., 
 
 * Charles H. Dalrymple . . Morris Co., 
 *John G. Stevens Mercer Co., 
 
 * Charles S. Olden " 
 
 * Charles E. Elmer . . . Cumberland Co., 
 
 * Theodore R. Varick . . . . Hudson Co., 
 Hugh A. Toler Essex Co., 
 
 * Francis S. Lathrop . . . . Morris Co., 
 Bennet Van Syckle .... Mercer Co., 
 Wm. Walter Phelps .... Bergen Co., 
 
 Joseph W. Plume Essex Co., 
 
 John E. Taylor Morris Co., 
 
 * George H. Danforth ... 
 George H. Danforth, Jr. . 
 Mrs. George H. Danforth . 
 
 * Mrs. Emeline Jenkins ... 
 
 * Edgar F. Randolph .... 
 Wm. L. King 
 
 * Jacob Vanatta 
 
 * James Gopsill Hudson Co., 
 
 Jacob W. Miller Morris Co., 
 
 Vincent B. King " 
 
 George P. King Boston, Mass. 
 
 Samuel K. W'ilson .... Mercer Co., N. J. 
 George Macculloch Miller New York City. 
 
 Henry W. Miller Morris Co., N. J. 
 
 Hampton O. Marsh .... 
 
 1883 
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 1889 
 
 1882 
 1886 
 1876 
 1888 
 1887 
 
 1882 
 
 1886 
 
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 1878 
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32 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 Thomas B. Flagler 
 Stephen H. Little 
 
 * Henry Taylor . . 
 Horace W. Fuller 
 John R. Runyon . . 
 
 * John S. Harberger 
 Theodore Little . 
 Henry C. Pitney 
 
 * Stephen S. Whitney 
 
 * William B. Guild . 
 Henry C. Kelsey . 
 Mrs. Henry C. Kelsey 
 Joseph W. Ballantine 
 Alfred Mills . . . 
 Henry W. Ford . 
 Millen Ford . . . 
 J. Lovell Canfield 
 Henry J. Yates . . 
 Samuel S. Sargeant 
 Benjamin G. Clark 
 Frank Thompson . 
 
 * Phineas Jones . . 
 William A. Halsey 
 George E. Halsey 
 Silas C. Halsey 
 
 * Sanford B. Hunt . 
 
 * Thomas B. Peddie 
 John D. Peddie . . 
 John D. Harrison 
 William Ward . . 
 George B. Halsted 
 
 * Stewart C. Marsh 
 Charles S. Stockton 
 Martin B. Monroe 
 Bernard J. Ford . 
 
 * Isaac W. Scudder 
 
 . Morris Co., N.J. 
 
 New York City. 
 Morris Co., N. J. 
 Union Co., " 
 Morris Co., " 
 
 Essex Co., 
 Mercer Co., " 
 
 Somerset Co.,'' 
 Morris Co., " 
 
 
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 New York City. 
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 1876 
 
 1880 
 
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 1884 
 
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WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 33 
 
 1884 
 
 Jonathan W. Roberts . . Morris Co., N. J. 
 Edmund D. Halsey .... " 
 
 George G. Kip 
 
 Robert F. Ballantine . . Essex Co., 
 •Joseph R. McAlpin . . . . Morris Co., " 1888 
 Richard A. McCurdy ... 
 Julius Catlin, J r " " 
 
 * James T. Swift " " 1890 
 
 James W. Miller Essex Co., 
 
 George E. Dodge Morris Co., " 
 
 Hamilton Wallis Hudson Co., " 
 
 Nathaniel Niles Morris Co., " 
 
 Thomas C. Bushnell ... 
 
 Luther Kountze 
 
 Edwin W. Coggeshall . . " " 
 
 Parker P. Clark 
 
 George F. Stone 
 
 Levi C. Lathrop " 
 
 George H. Kennedy ... 
 
 James N. Arbuckle .... Essex Co., 
 
 * Alfred L. Dennis .... " " 1890 
 Joseph B. Dickson .... Morris Co., " 
 
 * William T. Egbert . ... " " 1886 
 Robert J. Turnbull ... 
 
 Hiram H. Tichenor .... Essex Co., 
 •Andrew J. Smith Morris Co., " 1889 
 
 1885 
 
 Henry C. Pitney, Jr. . . . Morris Co., N. J. 
 Mahlon Pitney . . 
 John O. H. Pitney . . 
 Frederick V. Pitney 
 
 JOSIAH C. PUMPELLY . 
 
 Thomas G. Brown .... Essex Co., 
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34 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 John R. Ford . . . 
 William B. Skidmore 
 George W. Colles . 
 Wynant Vanderpool 
 J. Frank Lindsley . 
 Henry S. Van Buren 
 Reginald Fry . . . 
 Albert Tilt .... 
 Edward T. Bell . . 
 Augustus W. Cutler 
 Willis K. Howell . 
 L. Spencer Goble . . 
 Frederick Frelinghuysen 
 George E. Voorhees . 
 Garret A. Hobart . . 
 t John T. Foote .... 
 Albert H. Vernam . . 
 
 * William R. Thurston, J 
 William Clark .... 
 Albert O. Headley 
 James R. Voorhees . . 
 Nicholas L. Roosevelt 
 
 * E. Augustus Graves . 
 John Thatcher . . . 
 Franklin Murphy . . 
 Christopher Roberts 
 John H. Ballantine . 
 Oscar B. Mockridge . 
 Amos Clark . . . 
 Patrick Farrelly 
 Henry A. Page . . 
 John L. Blake . . 
 
 * Gardner R. Colby 
 Albert W. Green 
 Thomas B. Pierson 
 Frederick Nishwitz 
 
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WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 35 
 
 William Strange 
 Theron Butterworth 
 Stephen H. Plum . . 
 Donald McKay . . 
 David B. Ivison . . . 
 Elbert A. Brinckerhoff 
 
 * Frederic A. Potts . 
 Henry W. Banks . . 
 John Hull Browning 
 John A. Chambers . 
 David H. McAlpin . 
 William P. Ellery 
 George Brown . . . 
 William A. Righter 
 Samuel Colgate . . 
 Henry Hayes . . . 
 Charles Siedler . . 
 Francis Jenkins . . 
 Thomas J. Pope . . . 
 
 * John W. Davis . . . 
 William T. Evans . 
 John Stevens . . . 
 Edward F. C. Young 
 Samuel R. Syms . . 
 Jerome D. Gillette 
 
 * Garret E. Winants . 
 Wm. H. Deforest . . 
 James R. Pitcher . . 
 
 Hunterdon Co., " 
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 George B. Jenkinson 
 David W. Oliver . . 
 Aurelius B. Hull 
 William S. Stryker 
 George W. Stickle . 
 
 Essex Co., N. J. 
 Hudson Co., " 
 Morris Co., " 
 Mercer Co., " 
 Morris Co., " 
 
36 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 John W. Jackson Morris Co., N J. 
 
 * Franklin H. Tinker . . . Essex Co., 
 
 Stephen Pierson Morris Co., 
 
 George Richards .... 
 
 Benjamin F. Romaine . . Monmouth Co., 
 
 Jacob A. Geissenhainer . " 
 
 Wilson G. Hunt New York City. 
 
 Lewis B. Brown .... Monmouth Co., N. J. 
 
 Joseph M. Flynn Morris Co., 
 
 Ashbel Green Bergen Co., 
 
 Henry L. Pierson, Jr. . . . Union Co., 
 
 John I. Blair Warren Co., 
 
 Stephen J. Meeker .... Essex Co., 
 
 Henry N. Dodge Morris Co., 
 
 Charles A. Kip 
 
 William G. Fenner .... Passaic Co., 
 
 John J. Brown " 
 
 John Watts Kearny . . . Essex Co., 
 Cornelius Vanderbilt . . New York City. 
 
 Joseph Bushnell Morris Co., N J. 
 
 John S. Schultze Ocean Co., 
 
 Wm. Roscoe Lyon .... Morris Co., 
 
 Daniel B. Hatch 
 
 John H. Bonn Hudson Co., 
 
 Henry Day Morris Co., 
 
 Edwin A. Stevens .... Hudson Co., 
 
 1890 
 
 1887 
 
 * Samuel C. Burdick . . 
 
 . . Essex Co., N. J. 
 
 1888 
 
 William T. Ryle . . . 
 
 . . Passaic Co., " 
 
 
 * Thomas Porter . . . 
 
 . . Essex Co., 
 
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 William D. Baldwin . 
 
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WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 37 
 
 William H. Gillen . 
 Gilbert Collins . . 
 Stephen W. Carey . 
 Thomas N. McCarter 
 Thomas Russell . . 
 Amzi Dodd .... 
 Gideon Lee Stout . 
 Augustus S. Van Wickle 
 George B. Post . . . 
 Andrew Reasoner . 
 William H. Seward 
 Melvin S. Condit . . 
 Albridge C. Smith . 
 Thomas Oakes . . . 
 J. Coleman Drayton 
 Charles M. Marsh . 
 Robert A. Grannis . 
 Henry E. Fanshawe 
 David R. Frazer . . 
 Leslie D. Ward . . 
 Edward Kanouse 
 Theodore N. Vail . 
 Byron Sherman . . 
 John T. Dryden . . 
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 Edwin J. Ross . . . 
 
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 Frederick S. Fish . 
 George B. Raymond 
 Paul Tuckerman . 
 
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38 WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 
 
 * BYRAM C. Guerin . . 
 Charles F. Cutler . 
 Edward J. Hall, Jr. 
 Robert G. Bushnell 
 John Bushnell . . . 
 
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 Union Co., 
 
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 James D. Orton Essex Co., N. J. 
 
 Frederick M. Shepard . . 
 
 George S. Wylie Morris Co., " 
 
 Joseph D. Bedle Hudson Co., " 
 
 Henry White Morris Co., " 
 
 Hugh W. Adams Union Co., 
 
 Thomas H. Robinson . . . Morris Co., 
 George S. Hastings .... 
 
 1890 
 
 Douglass S. Bushnell . . Morris Co., N. J. 
 Archibald H. Welsh ... 
 Henry M. Dalrymple ... 
 
 John J. Young Essex Co., 
 
 Anthony Q. Keasbey ... 
 J. Newton Van Ness ... " " 
 
 * Robert M. Dalrymple . . Morris Co., " . 1890 
 Edward C. Drake .... Essex Co., 
 Charles Elmer Bushnell Phila., Pa. 
 
 Enos Wilder Morris Co., N. J. 
 
 William Ogden Wheeler . Sharon, Conn. 
 Francis S. Hoyt Morris Co., N. J. 
 
 Honorary Members. 
 
 Ferdinand J. Dreer . . . Philadelphia, Pa. 
 Mrs. Mary King Roberts . Morris Co., N. J. 
 
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY. 39 
 
 Successors to Deceased Shareholders. 
 
 Edgar F. Randolph, 2d 
 Charles H. Dalrymple 
 William G. Lathrop . 
 George Condit Smith 
 Frank Danforth . . . 
 Nicholas Danforth . 
 Charles C. Egbert . . 
 Henry P. Jones .... 
 William B. Guild . . . 
 Henry S. F. Davis 
 William M. Varick . . 
 Henry R. Barry . . . 
 H. Livingston Burdick 
 Daniel Elmer . . . 
 Frederic A. Potts . . 
 George B. Smith . . . 
 Gardner Colby .... 
 John Allen Taylor 
 Stephen Whitney . . . 
 Aug. Graves Ely . . . 
 Jas. M. Winants . . . 
 Edgar F. Randolph 
 Theodore F. Randolph 
 
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 Morris Co., N. J. 
 
 Essex Co., 
 
 Morris Co., 
 
 Hudson Co., 
 
 Passaic Co., 
 
 Essex Co., 
 mberland Co., 
 Hunterdon Co., 
 . Morris Co., 
 . Essex Co., 
 . Boston, Mass. 
 . Morris Co., N. J. 
 . Union Co., " 
 . Hudson Co., " 
 . Morris Co., " 
 
 Successor by Transfer. 
 
 Robert D. Foote 
 
 Morris Co., N. J. 
 
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