Pat- please forward this to the following: [email protected], [email protected] In a message dated 4/28/04 5:02:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Pat Mount <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <BCB440DB.FA66%[email protected]> Subject: FW: {not a subscriber} 1793 Tax Duplicate provenance Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit ------ Forwarded Message From: Cheryl Stoeber-Goff <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:45:04 -0600 To: [email protected] Subject: {not a subscriber} 1793 Tax Duplicate provenance Dear NJMONMOU list members Judi Watson informed me of some questions after her recent post concerning the 1793 Middletown Tax Duplicate. The inquiry went thus: <I'm confused with militia lists of 1793,and tax lists of 1793,and public information surely in the state archives belonging to the more recent Park System.> For clarification I would like to offer provenance information. In 1962 the Monmouth County Park System acquired land from the last remaining Longstreet descendent (Mary Duncan) living on the Holmdel farmstead within that township. She and her husband (d. 1973) had life rights to the farmhouse and barnyard as Holmdel Park was established. In 1977, Mary Duncan died. The house was turned over to the Park System and contents auctioned by the family. The Park System acquired as many of the primary documents within the farmhouse as they could and also some few family pieces. Hence, the 1793 Middletown Tax duplicate was in private hands until it came into the possession of the Parks. Since we had no archive at the time, the Monmouth County Historical Assoc. was kind enough to house it with some other documents. The Historic Services Archive of the Monmouth County Park System was established in 1986, however, the documents were not returned to our archive until December 2003 after I straightened out some confusion concerning our having an archive to store them. So if you know a state or local park & recreation department with an historic site, look a little closer as they may have some materials not readily available. FYI.. Our archive is open to researchers BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.. The Historic Services Archive of the Monmouth County Park System consists of approximately 50 linear feet of material related to our two historic sites, those parks which were former estates, and general materials such as Trenton newspapers. the Historic Services office is located on Longbridge Road off of Route 520 in Holmdel, NJ. Please email or call and I will be pleased to assist you. Below is a sampling of our holdings. Cheryl Stoeber-Goff, Curator (SEE BELOW FOR CONTACT INFO) 19th and 20th century primary documents; correspondence, photographs, bibles from the Longstreet Farm site pertaining to Longstreet, Holmes, Taylor and Duncan families, land and relations. 18th, 19th, 20th century primary documents; correspondence, account books, photographs from the Walnford Gristmill site pertaining to the Waln and Meirs family, land and relations. Some secondary material related to this subject. Newspapers/Periodicals General - 19th century primary documents; ladies magazines, agricultural magazines, farm machinery manuals and new jersey newspapers i.e. the 'Trenton Emporium. Assorted popular sheet music from 1898 - 19teens 20th century primary documents; photographs from Parks within the system. i.e. The Huber Family & property (J.M.Huber Corp.) and the Tatum property (Whitall Tatum Glass Co.) Along with assorted 19th century primary records pertaining to Monmouth County History; 1793 Middletown Tax Duplicate, family bibles. thank you for letting me post Cheryl Stoeber-Goff Curator, Historic Services Monmouth County Park System 805 Newman springs Road Lincroft, NJ 07738-1695 732-975-9747 Fax 732-975-9748