(NEW JERSEY) Circular letter petitioning for ferry access to

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(NEW JERSEY.) Circular letter petitioning for ferry access to Manhattan. Letterpress broadside, 13 x 8 inches, completed in manuscript with date and signatures; folds, minor wear. (MRS) Elizabeth, NJ, 31 October 1821

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New York operators had a monopoly on the steamboat ferry service between Manhattan and the New Jersey ports of Elizabeth, Amboy, and New Brunswick, leading to this petition to the New Jersey legislature for increased service: "Your petitioners cannot readily conceive a greater oppression." Not in OCLC or Felcone's New Jersey Broadsides, and possibly unique.