PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. VOL. IX. 1860----1864. 15 NEWARK, N. J. PRINTED AT THE DAILY ADVERTISER OFFICE, 1864. CONTENTS. PROCEEDINGS at Trenton, January 19th, 1860, Extract from the MSS. of Samuel Smith, PROCEEDINGS at Trenton, January 17, 1861, Extracts from the Minutes of New Jersey Supreme Court, 1765, PROCEEDINGS at Trenton, January 16th, 1862, Announcement of Deaths of Rev. Dr. Murray and John P. Jackson, Esq., Memoranda relating to Dr. Franklin's Administration of the Colonial Memoir of Mrs. Abigail Stafford and her times, Proprietors' Order respecting "Perth Towne," 1683, Affairs of New York and New Jersey under the Joint Governors, by Page 90, 11th Line from bottom, for "1783," read 1683. 156, 22d Line from top, for “Joel Munson,” read Joel Munsell. TRENTON, January 19th, 1860. The Chair was after the reading THE SOCIETY met in the City Hall at 12 o'clock, M. taken by Hon. JAMES PARKER, first Vice President, and of the minutes of the last meeting, the Corresponding Secretary, Mr. WHITEHEAD, Submitted the correspondence since then. Among others read, or alluded to, were letters from Rev. Wm. C. Doane, in reference to the action of the Society on the death of Bishop Doane; from Mrs. James Lawrence, expressing her gratification at the manner in which her husband's coat and chapeau had been received by the Society; from the Hon. J. G. Palfrey, of Boston; Samuel F. Haven, Esq., of Worcester, and others, acknowledging their election as resident or honorary members; from the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, inviting the members to the late commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the capture of Quebec; from the American Antiquarian Society, Connecticut Historical Society, Smithsonian Institution, and Mr. John Rodgers, acknowledging the receipt of the Society's publications, or transmitting donations for the Library; from John S. Seaton, of Canton, Ohio, making inquiries relative to John Drake, of New Jersey, who was an officer in the French War; from Mr. Matthew S. Henry, of Philadelphia, in relation to doubts expressed by some members of the Society, at a meeting in 1857, as to the correctness of his opinion that none of our rivers and creeks received their names from the Indians themselves, but subsequently, from Europeans; and from other gentlemen in reference to the Society's business. Mr. WHITEHEAD also stated that the paper which he had read before the Society at the last meeting had led to some private correspondence with gentlemen interested in lands adjoining the Northern Boundary, as to what was the course of the Line as run in 1770; it being a difficult matter, if not impossible, to verify it by the monuments yet existing, as it was thought that many had been removed from their proper position by parties |