Community Corner
SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY RETURNS "LOST" 1789 DOCUMENT
A longtime item on the "missing" list of the New Jersey State Archive has recently been returned to its rightful home in the state capital.
The document dated 7 November, 1789, is titled “An Act for the further Relief of Samuel Dowdney“ and was signed by the New Jersey’s first governor, William Livingston. It was uncovered by the museum specialists hired by Springfield Public Library to access and catalog the collection of the library’s Donald B. Palmer museum.
Although, Samuel Downey had no direct connection to Springfield, he was a veteran of the of the American War for Independence, having served as a private in the Captain Mott’
