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The Newark Experience: Political Life: Early History

Political Life: Early History

Six Towns: Continuity and Change in Revolutionary New Jersey, 1770-1792.
Dennis Patrick Ryan. Thesis (Ph.D), New York University, 1974.
Study of six East Jersey towns, Newark, Morristown, Woodbridge, Piscataway, Middletown, and Shrewsbury, during the Revolutionary period.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK F138 .R92 1974a Available?
Address, to the Young Men of the County of Essex
Newark, December 20, 1827.
Broadside urging the reelection of John Quincy Adams. "In behalf of the Young Men of the township of Newark, favourable to the present Administration."
National Republicans of Essex County!...The great contest is at hand!
Newark Sentinel November 6, 1832
Advertisement urging the election of Henry Clay in the presidential election. Reprinted in facsimile in the Jersey City Observer January 9, 1936.
Newark, New Jersey, During the American Civil War: A Study in Loyalty and Disloyalty.
Edward G. Sponzilli. Thesis (B.A.), Rutgers University, 1971.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLNJ F144 .N6876 Available?
"Re-electing Lincoln: The Struggle in Newark,"
Daniel W. Crofts. Civil War History 30(1), 1984, 54-79.
Republican Party preparations in Newark for the 1864 election.
Dana Library Call Number: Periodical, Shelved by Title.