1757, New Jersey, Quaker Thomas Reynolds, signed land transfer, slaughter house

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1757, New Jersey, Quaker Thomas Reynolds, signed land transfer, slaughter house:
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This item is a wonderful, original document dated 1757, Mount Holly, New Jersey, where Thomas Reynolds and John Bispham, have sold to John Woolman of Mount Holly, New Jersey a storehouse and slaughter house near the Great Bridge, called Shinn\'s Bridge....signed at bottom by Thomas Reynolds, John Bispham, Richard Perry, Joseph Butterworth and Henry Paxson.Signed on back by Joseph Reed as master in chancery. Document is 15 x 22 , with folds, minor paper loss along folds, splits, archival acid free repairs along some folds, else in overall good condition.

Colonel Thomas A. Reynolds was born in 1729/30, and died on January 7, 1803. He is buried near the chapel in St. Andrews Cemetery, Mt. Holly, New Jersey — Sec. 49 NW, Grave 10. Thomas Reynolds was the son of Irish immigrant Patrick Reynolds, who built Pemberton Mills, then called “New Mills,” in 1752. Thomas’ grandfather was the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a wealthy Irish linen manufacturer.Thomas Reynolds was one of the incorporators of the Bridgetown Library (now Mount Holly Library) and was on the vestry of St. Andrews Church when each received its charter from King George III in 1765. He was a member of the Provincial Congress of Burlington and, in 1776, was given a commission in the Second Battalion of Burlington County Militia. He was captured by the British and taken to New York to be exchanged for a British officer. Colonel Thomas Reynolds served again with the Revolutionary forces until 1782..

Joseph Reade graduated from Kings College in 1758. He was a lawyer by profession and resided in New Jersey, where he became a master in chancery.

John Bispham, son of Benjamin and Sarah, was born in Lancashire, England the 31st of March 1734, and was but two months old when brought to this country by his parents. It was customary in those days for men to marry at a very early age, and he was married in 1755, when just twenty-one years old.

Like his father Benjamin, he had a passion for land, and added largely to the family possessions of real estate. He cultivated his farms very highly and among other of his mercantile operations dealt largely in the lumber cut from his property, and in the leather tanned on the estate. During the latter years of his life (he died at the age of 57) he lived in the house originally occupied by his father-in-law Mr. Reynolds in Mount Holly. This house and the grounds attached to it were purchased by \" Patrick Reynolds, Esq. on the 23d of February 1736, from Thomas Shinn, Esq. High Sheriff of the County of Burlington.

John Bispham was a member of the Society of Friends, as was his father before him, and died on the 4th of August 1791 in their faith. He was probably buried in the Friends\' burying-ground in Mount Holly, but there is nothing to mark the exact place.

John Woolman (October 19, 1720 – October 7, 1772) was a North American merchant, tailor, journalist, and itinerant Quaker preacher, and an early abolitionist in the colonial era. Based in Mount Holly, New Jersey, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he traveled through frontier areas of British North America to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against slavery and the slave trade, cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, and conscription; from 1755 during the French and Indian War, he urged tax resistance to deny support to the military. In 1772, Woolman traveled to England, where he urged Quakers to support abolition of slavery.

Woolman\'s final journey was to England in 1772. During the voyage he stayed in steerage and spent time with the crew, rather than in the better accommodations enjoyed by some passengers. He attended the British London Yearly Meeting. The Friends resolved to include an anti-slavery statement in their Epistle (a type of letter sent to Quakers in other places). Woolman traveled to York, but he had contracted smallpox and died there. He was buried in York on October 9, 1772.