Tomlinson Family Papers

The collection contains 54 items of the Tomlinson family of New Jersey. The majority of the collection consists of land-related items such as indentures (10), survey documents (5), and maps (3) all relating to property within the state of New Jersey. Other items include a document entitled "Articles of Agreement" (1791) regarding the distribution of John Hilliard's estate between his second wife, Frances Hilliard, and her step-son, Jonathan Hilliard, a "Bond and Warrant" from Evans R. Tomlinson, John Tomlinson's "Last Will and Testament," a marriage document pertaining to the marriage between John Tomlinson and Mary Fairlamb, fragments from possible correspondence, and an incomplete tax document from 1869.

Ephemera begins at folder 25 and includes: an estate sale advertisement poster referencing John Tomlinson, three notices from the Brigade Board of Burlington for Evans R. William McHenry, and Thomas McHenry, 15 indentured bills of varying currency from c.1759 - 1777, five funeral announcements addressed to either John or Evans Tomlinson between 1848 - 1860, and portions from three separate newspapers: Gloucester Farm, between 1808-1819); New Jersey Mirror and Burlington County Advertiser, 1836 (with an obituary for infant Tomlinson); and the Morning Courier and New York Inquirer, 1875.