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Family Empire in Jersey Iron by Arthur D Pierce W/ dust jacket SIGNED
Family Empire in Jersey Iron by Arthur D Pierce SIGNED
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket (has plastic covering) Address sticker inside front cover Signed
286 pages
Copyright 1964
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ix
1 The Family Album
William Richards of Batsto 3
Samuel: His Richest Son 27
Rebecca: A Governor's Daughter-in-law 42
Thomas: He Bought Bonaparte's House 48
Jesse: Lord of the Manor 61
William III: An Enigma 70
Benjamin: Mayor of Philadelphia 76
2 Family Enterprises
Weymouth: Iron 87
Weymouth: Paper 115
The Weymouth Diary 125
Jesse's Folly: Washington Furnace 156
Three at Hampton 168
Breakneck Road to Taunton 182
Benjamin Randolph and Speedwell 198
Railroad to Nowhere 225
Appendices
Genealogical Sketch of the Richards Family 243
The Batsto Diary of William Richards 1781-84 257
George Washington's Cypher 265
CHAPTER NOTES 269
BIBLIOGRAPHY 275
INDEX 279
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
In southern New Jersey, between Philadelphia and Atlantic City is the Pine Barrens. This area is abundant in greenery and animal life with rivers and streams coursing through. But today only a few people live there. Once the land flourished with industry. And a family grew and prospered, spreading its influence over the Delaware Valley.
William Richards, his nineteen children, forty grandchildren, and almost countless descendants in subsequent generations, lived and worked in the area. They built ironworks, glassworks, and paper mills. They were influential in the founding of two railroads, and in starting the building of Atlantic City. They were mayors, legislators, lawyers, merchants, inventors, and shipbuilders. And as a family they were for many years among the largest landowners in the eastern United States. At one time, they owned more than a quarter of a million acres.
From diaries, time books, letters, and store books, Arthur D. Pierce has drawn an accurate picture of the life of the Richards family and the times in which they lived. He shows. William Richards learning iron-making when he was fourteen years old. He pictures John Ball, nephew of William, engaged in privateering to thwart the English during the Revolutionary War. He poignantly tells of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia taking the lives of many of William's grandchildren.
Other who appear in the book include Benjamin Randolph, famous cabinet maker and Alexis de Tocqueville who visited Benjamin Richards in 1831.
Deftly handling these different threads, Mr. Pierce has woven a rich tapestry of the life of the Richards family.
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