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Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society
Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society Author:New Jersey Historical Society Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PROCEEDINGS OF THE iScu IJeKctt H)t star teal Vol. XII. — Second Series. 1893 Vol. XXII.— Whole Series. No. 4 EXTRACTS FROM THE MINUTES. Newark... more », N. J., May 18, 1893. The Society met in St. John's Lodge rooms, at 11.50 A. M., Dr. S. H. Pennington, presiding, in the absence of the President. The minutes of the meeting held at Trenton, lanuary 24, 1893, were read and approved. The Corresponding Secretary reported orally the correspondence since the last meeting. He stated that the manuscript of the Rev. Garret C. Schenck relating to the early settlers of Pompton, N. J., had been returned to the Society, the number of subscriptions not having been sufficient to insure its publication. The Treasurer reported a balance on hand of $513.92. The Librarian read a list of donors of books andpamphlets. He reported the addition to the library of 77 bound volumes and 248 pamphlets, making- a total of 14,567 books upon the shelves. He mentioned the donation by Miss Helen Nichols, of Newark, of nine photographs made by her, exhibiting 124 of the tombstones that formerly marked the graves of early settlers of Newark. These tombstones were removed in 1889 from the "Old Burying Ground," to Fairmount Cemetery, and there placed in a crypt easily accessible to visitors. The Executivk Committee reported that "the work of the Society had proceeded upon the lines followed during the last forty-eight years of its existence ; the congested condition of its rooms showed that its accumulations of books, pictures, relics and other historical material are constantly on the increase ; its publications were more widely sought after than ever; its correspondence spreads over both hemispheres." In view of the approaching expiration of the term for which the Society was incorp...« less