Essays on Sussex County and New Jersey Postal History

Len Peck ~ SUSSEX COURT HOUSE ~ First Sussex County P.O.General Post Office Oct. 16, 1792Sebastian BaumanSir;I have lately created another post office in New Jersey. It is at Booneton.From Morristown the post proceeds to Booneton, Rockaway and Sussex Court House. AsaChadwick is the Contractor and Post-rider. Persons in business on the route, especially inBooneton intend he shall proceed to New York and deliver his mail to you to be opened andrated; amount of the postage (at least of the letters of his subscribers) to be paid you by him; inorder that he may then receive the letters and deliver them to whom they are addressed. Theiranswers with such other letters as shall be lodged in your office, to be made up into propermails and delivered to Mr. Chadwick as any other post rider. But his subscribers expect thatMr. Chadwick himself will collect the answers of their correspondents and hand them to you tobe put into the mailTo this plan I have consented; as without it the post rider would ratherincommode than accommodate the people in business on the road to Sussex.I am etc. T.P.General Post Office Jan'y 10, 1793Mr. Asa Chadwick, Post RiderSir;I received your letter of Dec. 30 th —or rather a letter in your name—desiring your lastquarter’s salary may be paid to Lewis Woodruff—My assistant will give an order on Col.Bauman in New York for the amount to be paid you there, as he has public money on hand.Call on him for it—In time to come you are not to expect any payments on letters of draught inyour name, unless you sign your name to them with your own hand. The contrary practice isdangerous, both to you & the public, for a rouge [sic: rogue] may use your name as well as anhonest man.Sebastian Bauman, Esq'rYour friendT.P.General Post Office Jan'y 10, 1793Sir;I herewith inclose an order on yourself, in favour of Mr. Asa Chadwick for Forty-ninedollars & 72 Cents which is in full of his pay to the 10 of January 1793.—Mr. Chadwick hasbeen directed to apply to you for his pay.—When he calls please to take his receipt on the backof the order and return it to this office.I am Sir yours etcC.B. [Caleb Burrell – Asst P.M. General] 9 18Vol. 35/No. 4207NJPHWhole No. 168 November 2007