James Parker Jr.

Biography

James Parker, Jr. (1776-1868) graduated from Columbia College in 1793. He entered a counting house and worked there until his father's death in 1797. He then returned to his family's New Jersey estate and began a mercantile career, and was a representative in the New Jersey legislature. Parker was also involved with surveying the land for Queen's College, later Rutgers University, and with the 1833 boundary dispute between New York and New Jersey. While in the state legislature in 1819, he helped to enact the passage of laws prohibiting local slavery.

Mentioned

Keep, Austin Baxter. History of the New York Society Library, pp. 72-76, 101, 102, 155
King, Marion. Books and People: Five Decades of New York's Oldest Library, pp. 291, 304, 315
Monaghan, Frank. This was New York, the Nation's Capital in 1789, pp.

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11/21/1790	Rollin An hist	1		12/10/1790		309
12/10/1790	"	2		01/06/1791		309
01/06/1791	"	3		01/26/1791		309
01/26/1791	"	4		02/14/1791		309
02/14/1791	"	5		02/25/1791		309
02/25/1791	"	6		03/04/1791		309
03/04/1791	"	7		03/11/1791		309
03/11/1791	Goldsmiths eng	1		03/21/1791		309
03/21/1791	"	2		03/29/1791		309
03/30/1791	"	3		04/07/1791		309
04/07/1791	"	4		04/12/1791		309
04/12/1791	Hist " Continued			04/13/1791		309
04/13/1791	N York Mag	1		04/26/1791		309
04/26/1791	Cooks life			05/02/1791		309
06/17/1791	New Bath Guide			06/27/1791		309
06/28/1791	Col. Mag	1		07/05/1791		309
07/05/1791	"	3		07/08/1791		309
07/08/1791	"	2		07/09/1791		309
07/09/1791	Emmeline	1		07/11/1791		309
07/14/1791	"	2		08/02/1791		309
08/02/1791	Spectator	1		08/03/1791		309
08/05/1791	Cottons Works			08/12/1791		309
08/12/1791	68		8vo.	08/16/1791		309
08/16/1791	Forrest Voyage	1		08/20/1791		309
08/20/1791	Spectator	1		08/23/1791		309
08/23/1791	"	2		08/26/1791		309
08/26/1791	Ramsay	2		09/06/1791		309
09/06/1791	Spectator	3		09/14/1791		309
09/14/1791	Knox Essays	1		09/15/1791		309
09/15/1791	Cumberland			09/17/1791		309
09/17/1791	Casket	1		09/20/1791		309
09/20/1791	Diversity of fortune			09/29/1791		309
09/29/1791	"	2		10/08/1791		309
10/08/1791	Connoisseur	2		10/22/1791		309
10/22/1791	Humes Essays	2		10/29/1791		309
11/25/1791	Ferguson R Republic	1		11/29/1791		309
11/29/1791	Cooks Voyage	1		12/02/1791		309
12/02/1791	"	2		12/07/1791		309
12/07/1791	"	3		12/13/1791		309
12/13/1791	Am. Museum	4		12/16/1791		309
12/16/1791	Cooks Voyage	4		12/19/1791		309
12/19/1791	Bougainville			12/21/1791		309
12/21/1791	Hooles ariosto	4		01/10/1792		309
01/10/1792	Beauties Mag	1		01/21/1792		309
01/21/1792	Platonic Guardian			02/18/1792	1s/3p	309
02/18/1792	Beauties Mag	2		02/21/1792		309
02/21/1792	American Museum	5		02/22/1792		309
02/22/1792	Peter Cruel	1		02/25/1792		309
02/27/1792	"	2		02/28/1792		309
02/28/1792	DeCrantz Greenland	1		03/03/1792		309
03/03/1792	Classics	5		03/12/1792		309
03/12/1792	History France	1		03/17/1792		309
03/17/1792	"	2		03/24/1792		309
03/24/1792	"	3		03/29/1792		309
03/29/1792	Lit Mag	3		03/30/1792		309
03/30/1792	Fielding	2		03/31/1792		309
03/31/1792	Ottoman Empire			04/07/1792		309
04/07/1792	Bells Travels	1		04/10/1792		309
04/10/1792	Chatteleux	1		04/12/1792		309
04/12/1792	Lit Mag	5		04/16/1792		309
04/14/1792	Chatteleux	2		04/17/1792		309
04/17/1792	DeNon			04/19/1792		309
04/19/1792	Life Putnam			04/20/1792		309
04/20/1792	Vision Columbus			04/22/1792		309
04/23/1792	Emp. Morocco			04/26/1792		309
04/26/1792	Bruce Memoirs			04/28/1792		309
04/28/1792	Poet Mag	2				309

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