first edition Hardcover
1896 · (Morristown, New Jersey / Amenia, New York / Paterson, New Jersey / New London, Connecticut)
by WHEELER, William Ogden, Edmund Drake Halsey, Frederick Lockwood Pierson, Col. Aaron Ogden, and Rev. N.H. Burnham
(Morristown, New Jersey / Amenia, New York / Paterson, New Jersey / New London, Connecticut): (Walsh & Griffin, Printers / The Press Printing and Publishing Co. / E.E. Darrow, Printer and Book Binder / Charles Walsh Steam Printer), 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First editions. Octavo. Ten pamphlets with original front wrappers bound into a single volume. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, and from photographs in three of the ten volumes. Three quarter leather with pebbled cloth boards, gilt ruling, handwritten spine label (looks contemporary). Modest stains on page edges, front board detached and present, rear joint cracked, two one-inch gauges in leather on front board, extremities worn, still a very good copy. Extremely Scarce.
The ten pamphlets contained in this volume are: *The Ogdens of South Jersey. The Descendants of John Ogden of Fairfield, Conn., and New Fairfield, N.J., Born 1673, Died 1745* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, 35pp. *Inscriptions on the Tomb Stones and Monuments in the Grave Yards at Whippany and Hanover, Morris County, N.J. 1894* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, 93pp. *Church Members, Marriages & Baptisms, at Hanover, Morris Co., N.J. During the Pastorate of Rev. Jacob Green, and to the Settlement of Rev. Aaron Condit., 1746-1796* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, [illustrated], 32pp. *Descendants of Rebecca Ogden, 1729-1806, and Caleb Halsted, 1721-1784* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, 34pp. *Descendants of Robert Ogden, 2d, 1716-1787* by Edmund Drake Halsey, 82pp. *The Descendants of Stephen Pierson of Suffolk County, England, and New Haven and Derby, Conn., 1645-1739* by Frederick Lockwood Pierson, [illustrated], 33pp. *The Descendants of James Skiff of London, England, and Sandwich, Mass., Who Died After 1688* by Frederick Lockwood Pierson, 24pp. *Autobiography of Col. Aaron Ogden, of Elizabethtown* by Aaron Ogden, 33pp. *The Battle of Groton Heights: A Story of the Storming of Fort Griswold, and the Burning of New London, on the Sixth of September, 1781 Containing Also the Narrative of Rufus Avery, From the Original Manuscript* by Rev. N.H. Burnham, [illustrated], 23pp. *History and Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn., Dedicated August 6th, 1885*, 28pp. (Inventory #: 432319)
The ten pamphlets contained in this volume are: *The Ogdens of South Jersey. The Descendants of John Ogden of Fairfield, Conn., and New Fairfield, N.J., Born 1673, Died 1745* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, 35pp. *Inscriptions on the Tomb Stones and Monuments in the Grave Yards at Whippany and Hanover, Morris County, N.J. 1894* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, 93pp. *Church Members, Marriages & Baptisms, at Hanover, Morris Co., N.J. During the Pastorate of Rev. Jacob Green, and to the Settlement of Rev. Aaron Condit., 1746-1796* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, [illustrated], 32pp. *Descendants of Rebecca Ogden, 1729-1806, and Caleb Halsted, 1721-1784* by Wm. Ogden Wheeler and Edmund D. Halsey, 34pp. *Descendants of Robert Ogden, 2d, 1716-1787* by Edmund Drake Halsey, 82pp. *The Descendants of Stephen Pierson of Suffolk County, England, and New Haven and Derby, Conn., 1645-1739* by Frederick Lockwood Pierson, [illustrated], 33pp. *The Descendants of James Skiff of London, England, and Sandwich, Mass., Who Died After 1688* by Frederick Lockwood Pierson, 24pp. *Autobiography of Col. Aaron Ogden, of Elizabethtown* by Aaron Ogden, 33pp. *The Battle of Groton Heights: A Story of the Storming of Fort Griswold, and the Burning of New London, on the Sixth of September, 1781 Containing Also the Narrative of Rufus Avery, From the Original Manuscript* by Rev. N.H. Burnham, [illustrated], 23pp. *History and Dedication of the Soldiers' Monument, Sharon, Litchfield Co., Conn., Dedicated August 6th, 1885*, 28pp. (Inventory #: 432319)