Name/Title
Receipt for the sale of 40 shares of Morris & Essex R.R. stock to Frederick H. Smith by James Vanderpool, Jan. 1, 1841.Entry/Object ID
2012.007.0004Scope and Content
Receipt for the sale of forty shares of Morris & Essex Railroad stock to Frederick H. Smith by James Vanderpool, January 1, 1841.
Printed form with holographic ink entries, 3" x 7" wide; irregularly trimmed edges. Note that serial number of receipt is not present.
Per Taber (Thomas Townsend Taber. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in the Nineteenth Century 1828-1899; 1977) on page 27, this receipt was the customary form of stock for the railroad at that time. Stock certificate.
Place is not stated, but it was probably Newark, see notes. The railroad at that time went to Jersey City, but it would later come to Hoboken.
Printed text:
No.[no number]
For Value Received, I hereby transfer unto Frederick H. Smith all my right, title, and interest in forty Shares in the Capital Stock of the Morris and Essex Railroad Company, upon which has been paid sixty eight dollars on each share.
Dated the first - day of January 1841
Witness, James Vanderpool
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Note the printed year date is 183_ with the 4 in 1841 written over the 3 thus the certificate / form was from the 1830s.Acquisition
Accession
2012.007Source or Donor
Lukacs, ClaireAcquisition Method
GiftCredit Line
Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.Archive Details
Date(s) of Creation
1841 - 1841Archive Notes
Date(s) Created: 1841
Date(s): 1841General Notes
Note
Notes: James Vanderpool (1775-1842), a lawyer, was the first president of the The Mechanics Fire Insurance Company, 1825-1830, which operated in Newark, New Jersey; and served as a Freeholder of Newark among several civic roles.
Status: OK
Status By: dw
Status Date: 2012-02-13