«The Diaries of Samuel Mickle, Woodbury, Gloucester Co., NJ 1792-1829, 2 volume set

The Diaries of Samuel Mickle, Woodbury, Gloucester Co., NJ 1792-1829, 2 volume set transcribed and indexed by Ruthe Baker.  For thirty-seven years, this Quaker surveyor-farmer-merchant kept daily records of local, state and national happenings.  He recorded Governors' visits as well as hangings; the War of 1812 and recollections of the Revolution; cholera, typhus and yellow fever epidemics; marriages and deaths, over 5,000 names; weather, court cases, agriculture, medicine, religion, etc.  Here is an unparalleled record of life in New Jersey for almost four decades.  A treasure for historians and genealogists alike, as well as a "must" for every library.  Soft cover; 834 pp.; index; 1991;