Bibliography
Scholarship about carpentry and joinery in colonial New Jersey intersects with many fields of inquiry and methodological approaches; no one source exists that satisfactorily addresses New Jersey’s diverse early material culture and its place in the Delaware River Valley. The following sources--in addition to those noted in previous sections--are valuable avenues into New Jersey's early culture.
*When available, digital sources are hyperlinked.
*When available, digital sources are hyperlinked.
Archival Sources
Chester County Archives
Hibberd, Joseph. Inventory, 1737. Will #609.
Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of Friends. Account Book, 1701-1708. Call no. RG2 / PH / C47 5.1
Minutes of Burlington Monthly Meeting, microfilm.
Quaker Collection, Haverford College
Matlack, Thomas Chalkley. "‘Friends Meeting localities belonging to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting both in the past and present time’ located in Burlington Quarter.” Manuscript Collection 1106, Box 1, Notebook 20.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Beakes, William. Deed to George Paynter, Philadelphia, May 11, 1713.
Beaks, Edmund. Survey of His Plantation of 300 Acres, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1691.
Births, Marriages, Deaths, Declarations of Intention to Marry, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1685-1730.
Buck, W. J. Records of Burlington and Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1678-1872.
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Births, Marriages, Deaths…1685-1730.
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730.
Mervine, William McKinley. Genealogical Notes.
-------. Lists of Members of Haddonfield, Burlington, and Chesterfield Meetings, 1731-1782. Papers 1092a & 1092b.
-------. Notes of the Folke (Foulke)… Families. Book 30.
Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Minutes, 1641-1876.
Woodbridge Monthly Meeting, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1686-1728.
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Beaks, Stacy. Inventory, 1745/6. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.1.
Bedford, Gunning. Inventory, 1725. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.7.1.
Brading, Nathaniell. Inventory, 1712/13. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.17.2.
Brown, Joseph. Inventory, 1711. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.2.
Coxe, John. Inventory, 1753. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.17.1.
Eratt, Francis. Debts Due, ca. 1725-27. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.7.15.
Forman, Benno M. Papers, 1969-1982. Collection 72.
Godwin, Edward. Inventory, 1728. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.16.6.
Hart, Robert. Inventory, 1745. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.16.7.
Maskell, Thomas. Inventory, 1732. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.7.5.
Miles, Thomas. Inventory, 1743. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.4.
Thompson, John. Inventory, 1715. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.5.
Walmsley, Jonathan. Inventory, 1753. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.7 .
Wyatt, Bartholomew. Inventory, 1726/7. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.16.10.
Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library
Beakes, Stacy. Mathematical exercise book, 1721-22. C0199 (no. 101)
Printed Books
Anderson, Jennifer L. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Beakes, John H. A History of One Branch of the Beakes Family in America, 1682-1996… Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press; Ellicott City, MD, 1997.
Beiler, Rosalind J. Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
Bennet, George Fletcher with Joseph L. Copeland, Early Architecture of Delaware. Wilmington, De. & New York: Historical Press Inc., Carl T. Waugh & Co., 1932.
Berkey, Joan. Early Architecture of Cape May County New Jersey: The Heavy Timber Frame Legacy. Cape May County Courthouse, NJ: Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, 2008.
Bishop, J. Leander. A History of American Manufactures from 1608-1860. Vol. 1. Philadelphia, PA: Edward Young & Co; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1866.
Björkbom, Carl and Dr. Amandus Johnson, ed. New Sweden Historical Exhibit: 1638-1938. Exhibition at the American Swedish Historical Museum, June 1 – July 31, 1938. Philadelphia, PA: American Swedish Historical Museum, 1938.
Blackburn, Roderick H. ed., and Nancy A. Kelley. New World Dutch Studies: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1986.
Bowett, Adam. English Furniture, 1660-1714: from Charles II to Queen Anne. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2002.
--------. Woods in British Furniture-Making, 1400-1900: an Illustrated Historical Dictionary. Wetherby, England: Oblong Creative ; Kew: in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, 2012.
Burr, Horace, trans. The Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes’) Church, 1697-1773. Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1890.
Cawley, James and Margaret. Exploring the Little Rivers of New Jersey. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942.
Clement, John. Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Gloucester County, West New Jersey. Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877.
Cooper, Wendy A. and Lisa Minardi. Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850. Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2011.
Coad, Oral S. New Jersey in Travelers' Accounts, 1524-1971. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972
Craig, H. Stanley. Salem County Wills, Recorded in the Office of the Surrogate at Salem, New Jersey, 1804-1830, 1831-1860. 2 vols. Merchantville, NJ: H. Stanley Craig in conjunction with the Gloucester County Historical Society, 1981.
Craig, Peter Stebbins, ed. Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches of Pennsylvania. Vol. 1 The Log Churches at Tinicum Island and Wicaco, 1646-1696. Philadelphia, PA: Swedish Colonial Society, 2006.
Craig, Peter Stebbins. 1671 Census of the Delaware. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Monograph Series no. 4. Philadelphia, PA: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999.
---------. The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey & Cecil County, Md., 1638-1693. Studies in American Swedish Genealogy, 3. Winter Park, FL: SAG Publications, 1993.
Craven, Wesley Frank. New Jersey and the English Colonization of North America. The New Jersey Historical Series, Vol. 3. Princeton, NJ: The D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964.
Danckaerts, Jasper, with B. James Bartlet and J. Franklin Jameson, eds. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.
DeCou, George. Burlington, A Provincial Capital. Burlington, NJ, 1945.
Densmore, Christopher and Catherine C. Lavoie with Philadelphia Year Meeting for the Religious Society of Friends. Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 2002.
Dorman, Charles G. Delaware Cabinetmakers and Allied Artisans, 1655-1855. Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1960.
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. Reprint. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 2007 (first published 2006).
Ellis, Franklin. The History of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Philadelphia, PA: R. T. Peck, 1885.
Federal Writers’ Project, The Records of the Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penn’s Neck, 1713-1786. Elizabeth, NJ: Colby and McGowan, Inc., 1938.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Fiske, John. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America. 2 vols. Boston, MA & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, The Riverside Press, 1900.
From Lenape Territory to Royal Province: New Jersey, 1600-1750. Exhibition at NJ State Museum, April 30-Sept. 12, 1971. Newark, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1971.
Griscom, Lloyd E. The Historic County of Burlington. Mount Holly, NJ: The Burlington County Cultural and Heritage Commission, 1973.
Herman, Bernard L. The Stolen House. Charlottesville, VA & London: University of Virginia Press, 1992.
Hershey, Constance and Gail Caskey Winkler. The William Trent House, Trenton, New Jersey: Furnishing Plan: Phase II & Item Inventory. 2 vols. Pennsylvania: Hershey Consultants and LCA Associates, 2002.
Hinshaw, William Wade and Thomas Worth Marshall. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. 2. Reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1991 (first published 1936).
Honeyman, A. Van Doren. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Vol. 30. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. II: 1730-1750. Somerville, NJ: The Unionist-Gazette Publishers, 1918.
---------. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Vol. 33. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. III: 1761-1770. Somerville, NJ: The Unionist-Gazette Publishers, 1925.
Hopkins, Thomas Smith and Walter Scott Cox. Colonial Furniture of West New Jersey. Haddonfield, NJ: The Historical Society of Haddonfield, 1936.
Hull, William Isaac. William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania. CITY?: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970.
Kalm, Peter. The America of 1750: Peter Kalm’s Travels in North America. The English version of 1770. Revised from the original Swedish. Revised and edited by Adolph B. Benson. 2 vols. New York: Wilson-Erickson Inc., 1937.
Lanier, Gabrielle M. “Mapping the Ancestral Landscape.” Chap. 4 in The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape and Regional Identity. Baltimore, MD & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Lapsansky, Emma Jones and Anne A. Verplanck, eds. Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Leibundguth, Arthur W. The Furniture-Making Crafts in Philadelphia, c. 1730-c. 1760. MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1964.
Lindsey, Jack L. Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
McCormick, Richard P. New Jersey: From Colony to State, 1609-1789. The New Jersey Historical Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1964.
McElroy, Cathryn J. Furniture of the Philadelphia Area: Forms & Craftsmen Before 1730. MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1970.
McKinstry, E. Richard. Guide to the Winterthur Library: The Joseph Downs Collection and the Winterthur Archives. Winterthur, DE: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, 2003.
Moraley, William. The Infortunate: the Voyage and Adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant. Edited with introduction and notes by Susan E. Klepp & Billy G. Smith. Originally published: Newcastle, 1743. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992.
Morgan, Philip D., ed. Diversity and Unity in Early North America. New York & London: Routledge, 1993.
Muntz, Alfred Philip. The Changing Geography of the New Jersey Woodlands. PhD dissertation. University of Wisconsin- Madison, 1959.
Myers, Albert Cook. Quaker Arrivals at Philadelphia, 1682-1750. 2nd ed. Baltimore, MD: Southern Book Company, 1957.
-----, ed. Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West New Jersey and Delaware, 1630-1707. Original Narratives of Early American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1912.
Nash, Gary B. Quakers and Politics: Pennsylvania, 1681-1726. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968.
Nelson, William, ed. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Vol. 23. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. I. 1670-1730. Paterson, N.J.: The Pruss Printing and Publishing Co., 1901.
New Jersey State Museum. From Lenape Territory to Royal Province, New Jersey: 1600-1750. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1971.
Pancoast, Bennett S. The Pancoast Family in America. Woodbury, NJ: The Gloucester County Historical Society, 1981.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Three Centuries of Art. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976.
Pomfret, John E. The Province of West New Jersey, 1609-1702: A History of the Origins of an American Colony. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1956.
Pomfret, John E. The New Jersey Proprietors and Their Lands, 1664-1776. The New Jersey Historical Series, vol. 9. Princeton, NJ: The D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964.
Reed, H. Clay and George J. Miller. The Burlington Court Book: A Record of Quaker Jurisprudence in West New Jersey, 1680-1709. American Legal Records, Vol. 5. Washington, DC: The American Historical Association, 1944.
Riesenweber, Julie. Order in Domestic Space: House Plans and Room Use in the Vernacular Dwellings of Salem County, New Jersey, 1700-1774. MA thesis. University of Delaware, 1984.
Riley, Karen F. Whispers in the Pines: The Secrets of Colliers Mills. Cassville, NJ: Cloonfad Press, 2005.
Salem County Historical Society. “Colonial Roof Trees” and “Candle Ends”. Salem, NJ: Salem County Historical Society, 1934.
Sebold, Kimberly R. and Sara Amy Leach. Historic Themes and Resources within the New Jersey Coastal Heritage Trail: Southern New Jersey and the Delaware Bay: Cape May, Cumberland, and Salem Counties. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1991.
Sheridan, Janet L. “Their Houses Are Some Built of Timber”: The Colonial Timber Frame Houses of Fenwick’s Colony, New Jersey.” MA thesis. University of Delaware, 2007.
Sickler, Joseph S. The Old Houses of Salem County. 2nd ed. Salem, NJ: Sunbeam Publishing Company, 1949.
Sickler, Joseph S. The History of Salem County, New Jersey. Salem, NJ: Sunbeam Publishing Company, 1937.
Smith, John and Albert Cook Myers, ed. Hannah Logan’s Courtship, a True Narrative. Philadelphia, PA: Ferris & Leach Publishers, 1904.
Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey. Historic Roadsides in New Jersey. Philadelphia, PA: Innes & Sons, 1928.
Sosin, J. M. English America and the Revolution of 1688: Royal Administration and the Structure of Provincial Government. Lincoln, NE and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1982.
Stiefel, Jay Robert. The Cabinetmaker's Account: John Head's Record of Craft and Commerce in Colonial Philadelphia, 1718-1753. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Press, 2019.
Stevens, John R. Dutch Vernacular Architecture in North America, 1640-1830. West Hurley, N.Y.: Society for the Preservation of Hudson Valley Vernacular Architecture, 2005.
Swan, Norma Lippincott, ed. The Ellis Index to the History of Monmouth County. Shrewsbury, NJ: Jerseyana Club, 1973. E-book.
Tolles, Frederick B. Quakers and the Atlantic Culture. New York: Macmillan, 1960.
Tolles, Frederick B. Meeting House and Counting House: The Quaker Merchants of Colonial Philadelphia, 1682-1763. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Virginia, 1948.
Tvaryanas, Damon. The New Jersey Quaker Meeting House. M.A. thesis. University of Pennsylvania, 1993.
Upper Penns Neck Township: 250 Years (1721-1971). Upper Penns Neck Twp., NJ: The Township, 1971.
Wacker, Peter O. “New Jersey’s Cultural Landscape Before 1800,” Proceedings of the Second Annual Symposium of the New Jersey Historical Commission. Newark, NJ: New Jersey Historical Society, 1971.
Wacker, Peter O. Land and People: A Cultural Geography of Preindustrial New Jersey: Origins and Settlement Patterns. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1975.
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Weiss, Harry B. The Early Sawmills of New Jersey. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1968.
-----. The Personal Estates of Early Farmers and Tradesmen of Colonial New Jersey, 1670-1750. Trenton, NJ: New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1971.
White, Margaret E. Early Furniture Made in New Jersey, 1690-1870. Newark, NJ: The Newark Museum Association, 1958. Published in conjunction with the exhibition “Early Furniture Made in New Jersey, 1690-1870” shown at The Newark Museum October 10, 1958-January 11, 1959.
Yogg, Michael R. “The Best Place for Health and Wealth”: A Demographic and Economic Analysis of the Quakers of Pre-Industrial Bucks County, Pennsylvania. New York & London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988.
Periodicals
Bartram, John and Winifred Notman Price, ed., “John Bartram in the Cedar Swamps,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 81: 1 (1957): 87-88.
Bowett, Adam “A New Chronology for English Walnut Veneered Furniture, 1670-1740,” Magazine Antiques 161 (June 2002): 108-15.
Chiarappa, Michael J. “The Social Context of Eighteenth-Century West Jersey Brick Artisanry,” Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture 4 (1991): 31-43.
Forman, Benno M. “The Chest of Drawers in America, 1635-1730: The Origins of the Joined Chest of Drawers,”
Winterthur Portfolio 20, 1 (Spring, 1985): 1-30.
Johnson, Bolling Arthur, et al., “In the Realm of the Lumber Manufacturer,” Lumber World Review 31 (January 10, 1920): 27-30.
Lyle, Charles T. and Philip D. Zimmerman, "Furniture of the Monmouth County Historical Association," The Magazine Antiques 117 no. 1 (January 1980): ??
Middleton, Joseph S. “Friends and Their Meeting-Houses at Crosswicks, New Jersey.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 27: 3 (1903): 340-45.
Pomfret, John. “The Proprietors of the Province of West New Jersey, 1674-1702,” PMHB 75: 2 (Jan. 1951): 117-146.
Van Ravenswaay, Charles. “A Historical Checklist of the Pines of Eastern North America,” Winterthur Portfolio 7 (1972): 175-215.
Zea, Philip. “Diversity and Regionalism in Rural New England Furniture, American Furniture. Milwaukee, WI: Chipstone Foundation, 1995.
Zimmerman, Philip. “Eighteenth-century Philadelphia Case Furniture at Stenton” Winterthur Portfolio 161 (May 2002): 94-101.
--------. “Delaware River Valley Chests of Drawers” The Magazine Antiques 159, no. 5 (May 2001): pp. ???
Zink, Clifford W. “Dutch Framed Houses in New York and New Jersey” Winterthur Portfolio 22:4, 1985: 265-94.
Wacker, Peter O. & Roger T. Trindell. “The Log House in New Jersey: Its Origins and Diffusions,” Keystone Folklore Quarterly 13: 4 (Winter, 1969): 248-268.
Chester County Archives
Hibberd, Joseph. Inventory, 1737. Will #609.
Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of Friends. Account Book, 1701-1708. Call no. RG2 / PH / C47 5.1
Minutes of Burlington Monthly Meeting, microfilm.
Quaker Collection, Haverford College
Matlack, Thomas Chalkley. "‘Friends Meeting localities belonging to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting both in the past and present time’ located in Burlington Quarter.” Manuscript Collection 1106, Box 1, Notebook 20.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Beakes, William. Deed to George Paynter, Philadelphia, May 11, 1713.
Beaks, Edmund. Survey of His Plantation of 300 Acres, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1691.
Births, Marriages, Deaths, Declarations of Intention to Marry, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1685-1730.
Buck, W. J. Records of Burlington and Mt. Holly Monthly Meeting, 1678-1872.
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Births, Marriages, Deaths…1685-1730.
Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. Marriage Intentions, 1685-1730.
Mervine, William McKinley. Genealogical Notes.
-------. Lists of Members of Haddonfield, Burlington, and Chesterfield Meetings, 1731-1782. Papers 1092a & 1092b.
-------. Notes of the Folke (Foulke)… Families. Book 30.
Shrewsbury Monthly Meeting, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Minutes, 1641-1876.
Woodbridge Monthly Meeting, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1686-1728.
The Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Beaks, Stacy. Inventory, 1745/6. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.1.
Bedford, Gunning. Inventory, 1725. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.7.1.
Brading, Nathaniell. Inventory, 1712/13. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.17.2.
Brown, Joseph. Inventory, 1711. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.2.
Coxe, John. Inventory, 1753. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.17.1.
Eratt, Francis. Debts Due, ca. 1725-27. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.7.15.
Forman, Benno M. Papers, 1969-1982. Collection 72.
Godwin, Edward. Inventory, 1728. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.16.6.
Hart, Robert. Inventory, 1745. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.16.7.
Maskell, Thomas. Inventory, 1732. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.7.5.
Miles, Thomas. Inventory, 1743. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.4.
Thompson, John. Inventory, 1715. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.5.
Walmsley, Jonathan. Inventory, 1753. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.21.7 .
Wyatt, Bartholomew. Inventory, 1726/7. Collection 61, Box 10, 55.16.10.
Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library
Beakes, Stacy. Mathematical exercise book, 1721-22. C0199 (no. 101)
Printed Books
Anderson, Jennifer L. Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.
Beakes, John H. A History of One Branch of the Beakes Family in America, 1682-1996… Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press; Ellicott City, MD, 1997.
Beiler, Rosalind J. Immigrant and Entrepreneur: The Atlantic World of Caspar Wistar, 1650-1750. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.
Bennet, George Fletcher with Joseph L. Copeland, Early Architecture of Delaware. Wilmington, De. & New York: Historical Press Inc., Carl T. Waugh & Co., 1932.
Berkey, Joan. Early Architecture of Cape May County New Jersey: The Heavy Timber Frame Legacy. Cape May County Courthouse, NJ: Cape May County Historical and Genealogical Society, 2008.
Bishop, J. Leander. A History of American Manufactures from 1608-1860. Vol. 1. Philadelphia, PA: Edward Young & Co; London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1866.
Björkbom, Carl and Dr. Amandus Johnson, ed. New Sweden Historical Exhibit: 1638-1938. Exhibition at the American Swedish Historical Museum, June 1 – July 31, 1938. Philadelphia, PA: American Swedish Historical Museum, 1938.
Blackburn, Roderick H. ed., and Nancy A. Kelley. New World Dutch Studies: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776. Albany, NY: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1986.
Bowett, Adam. English Furniture, 1660-1714: from Charles II to Queen Anne. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2002.
--------. Woods in British Furniture-Making, 1400-1900: an Illustrated Historical Dictionary. Wetherby, England: Oblong Creative ; Kew: in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, 2012.
Burr, Horace, trans. The Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes’) Church, 1697-1773. Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1890.
Cawley, James and Margaret. Exploring the Little Rivers of New Jersey. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1942.
Clement, John. Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, Gloucester County, West New Jersey. Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877.
Cooper, Wendy A. and Lisa Minardi. Paint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1725-1850. Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2011.
Coad, Oral S. New Jersey in Travelers' Accounts, 1524-1971. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1972
Craig, H. Stanley. Salem County Wills, Recorded in the Office of the Surrogate at Salem, New Jersey, 1804-1830, 1831-1860. 2 vols. Merchantville, NJ: H. Stanley Craig in conjunction with the Gloucester County Historical Society, 1981.
Craig, Peter Stebbins, ed. Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches of Pennsylvania. Vol. 1 The Log Churches at Tinicum Island and Wicaco, 1646-1696. Philadelphia, PA: Swedish Colonial Society, 2006.
Craig, Peter Stebbins. 1671 Census of the Delaware. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Monograph Series no. 4. Philadelphia, PA: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999.
---------. The 1693 Census of the Swedes on the Delaware: Family Histories of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey & Cecil County, Md., 1638-1693. Studies in American Swedish Genealogy, 3. Winter Park, FL: SAG Publications, 1993.
Craven, Wesley Frank. New Jersey and the English Colonization of North America. The New Jersey Historical Series, Vol. 3. Princeton, NJ: The D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1964.
Danckaerts, Jasper, with B. James Bartlet and J. Franklin Jameson, eds. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913.
DeCou, George. Burlington, A Provincial Capital. Burlington, NJ, 1945.
Densmore, Christopher and Catherine C. Lavoie with Philadelphia Year Meeting for the Religious Society of Friends. Silent Witness: Quaker Meetinghouses in the Delaware Valley, 1695 to the Present. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 2002.
Dorman, Charles G. Delaware Cabinetmakers and Allied Artisans, 1655-1855. Wilmington, DE: Historical Society of Delaware, 1960.
Elliott, J. H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. Reprint. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 2007 (first published 2006).
Ellis, Franklin. The History of Monmouth County, New Jersey. Philadelphia, PA: R. T. Peck, 1885.
Federal Writers’ Project, The Records of the Swedish Lutheran Churches at Raccoon and Penn’s Neck, 1713-1786. Elizabeth, NJ: Colby and McGowan, Inc., 1938.
Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Fiske, John. The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America. 2 vols. Boston, MA & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, The Riverside Press, 1900.
From Lenape Territory to Royal Province: New Jersey, 1600-1750. Exhibition at NJ State Museum, April 30-Sept. 12, 1971. Newark, NJ: New Jersey State Museum, 1971.
Griscom, Lloyd E. The Historic County of Burlington. Mount Holly, NJ: The Burlington County Cultural and Heritage Commission, 1973.
Herman, Bernard L. The Stolen House. Charlottesville, VA & London: University of Virginia Press, 1992.
Hershey, Constance and Gail Caskey Winkler. The William Trent House, Trenton, New Jersey: Furnishing Plan: Phase II & Item Inventory. 2 vols. Pennsylvania: Hershey Consultants and LCA Associates, 2002.
Hinshaw, William Wade and Thomas Worth Marshall. Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy. Vol. 2. Reprint. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1991 (first published 1936).
Honeyman, A. Van Doren. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Vol. 30. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. II: 1730-1750. Somerville, NJ: The Unionist-Gazette Publishers, 1918.
---------. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey Vol. 33. Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Administrations, etc. III: 1761-1770. Somerville, NJ: The Unionist-Gazette Publishers, 1925.
Hopkins, Thomas Smith and Walter Scott Cox. Colonial Furniture of West New Jersey. Haddonfield, NJ: The Historical Society of Haddonfield, 1936.
Hull, William Isaac. William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania. CITY?: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970.
Kalm, Peter. The America of 1750: Peter Kalm’s Travels in North America. The English version of 1770. Revised from the original Swedish. Revised and edited by Adolph B. Benson. 2 vols. New York: Wilson-Erickson Inc., 1937.
Lanier, Gabrielle M. “Mapping the Ancestral Landscape.” Chap. 4 in The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic: Architecture, Landscape and Regional Identity. Baltimore, MD & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Lapsansky, Emma Jones and Anne A. Verplanck, eds. Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.
Leibundguth, Arthur W. The Furniture-Making Crafts in Philadelphia, c. 1730-c. 1760. MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1964.
Lindsey, Jack L. Worldly Goods: The Arts of Early Pennsylvania, 1680-1758. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art.
McCormick, Richard P. New Jersey: From Colony to State, 1609-1789. The New Jersey Historical Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1964.
McElroy, Cathryn J. Furniture of the Philadelphia Area: Forms & Craftsmen Before 1730. MA thesis, University of Delaware, 1970.
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