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Title: Tomlinson Family Papers
Dates (inclusive): 1683-1899
Collection Number: mssHM 79020-79043
Creator:
Tomlinson family.
Extent: 54 items; 1 box.
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2129
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: This collection contains 54 items of the Tomlinson family of New Jersey, chiefly consisting of
land-related items such as indentures, survey documents, and maps all relating to property within the state of New Jersey.
Language: English.
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[Identification of item]. Tomlinson Family Papers, The Huntington Library, San
Marino, California.
Gift of M. A. Bonnefoy from the estate of Helen S. Laird, July 29, 1986.
Joseph Tomlinson immigrated to New Jersey from London in the 17th century. A member
of the Friends community, he studied law, was appointed sheriff, and eventually
became the King's attorney in 1696. Settled in Gloucester Township in the province
of New Jersey, Joseph Tomlinson and his wife Elizabeth had at least ten children.
His son William Tomlinson married Rebecca Wills in 1731; Rebecca's brother, Daniel
Wills, married Elizabeth Woolston, and their children were Mary Wills Busby, Hope
Wills Lippincott, Moses Wills, and Aaron Wills. Joseph Tomlinson's son John married
Mary Fairlamb of Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1736. John and Mary had, among
other children, a daughter called Anne Tomlinson, who married Jeremiah Haines; their
children included Keziah Tomlinson Haines, Aaron Haines, and Amos Haines. John
Tomlinson and Mary Fairlamb's eldest son, Isaac Tomlinson, later married Elizabeth
Shever in 1766. Isaac and Elizabeth had a son whom they named John, and John married
Elizabeth Hilyard, daughter of John Hillier and Frances Haines. Isaac Tomlinson and
Elizabeth Hilyard Tomlinson's eldest son Isaac married Rachel Lippincott; they had a
son called Samuel L. Tomlinson. John and Elizabeth Tomlinson's third son, Joshua
Tomlinson, married a woman called Sarah, and Joshua and Sarah were the parents of
Evans H. Tomlinson, as well as the infant whose obituary is included in the papers.
John and Elizabeth's youngest son, Evans R. Tomlinson, had a son called Evans J.
Tomlinson. While numerous children have been left out of this description, those
included should help make sense of the various names and surnames within the
collection. The Tomlinson family maintained a consistent presence in western New
Jersey into the 20th century.
Bibliography
Honeyman, A. Van Doren.
Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. New Jersey: New Jersey Historical Society, 1918.
Lee, Francis Bazley, ed.
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ... (1910). New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1910.
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.
Documents arranged genre and then chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Tomlinson
family.
Wills, Moses,
1792-1873.
Land tenure -- New Jersey -- History --
17th century -- Sources.
Land tenure -- New Jersey -- History --
18th century -- Sources.
Land tenure -- New Jersey -- History --
19th century -- Sources.
New Jersey -- History -- 17th century --
Sources.
New Jersey -- History
-- 18th century -- Sources.
New Jersey -- History
-- 19th century -- Sources.
Indentures -- New Jersey.
Land surveys -- New Jersey.
Newspapers -- New Jersey.
Devonish, Bernard.
Hilliard, Frances.
Hilliard, Samuel.
Hilyard, Elizabeth.
Morgan, John C. (John Coleman),
1831-1899.
Ogden, Clk C.
Ridgway, William, 1755-1833.
Tomlinson, Evans R.
Tomlinson, Isaac, 1737-1817.
Tomlinson, Isaac, 1812-1849.
Tomlinson, John, 1699-1755.
Tomlinson, John, 1781-1857.
Tomlinson, Joseph.
Wills, Aaron.
Wills, Rebecca.
Woodman, William.