New Jersey 1802 Coroner, Hunterdon County

Office:
Coroner (County)
Title:
Coroner
Jurisdiction:
County
Label:
New Jersey 1802 Coroner, Hunterdon County
Date:
1802
State:
New Jersey
Type:
General
Iteration:
First Ballot
Office/Role:
Coroner/Coroner
Candidates:
Nathan Price, Ellitt Tucker, Samuel Arnidine, Edmund Roberts, Jonathan Higgins, Clement Bonnell
Candidates: Nathan Price[1]Ellitt Tucker[2]Samuel Arnidine[3]Edmund RobertsJonathan HigginsClement Bonnell
Affiliation:RepublicanRepublicanRepublican
Final Result: [4][5][6][7]168415981548114610641005
Hunterdon County168415981548114610641005
Alexandria745610114517
Amwell657622605113198115
Bethlehem1059075293377
Hopewell1901911832364541
Kingwood182156150284129
Lebanon888254108105139
Maidenhead485047157135137
Readington1031001011541
Tewksbury11912111911-
Trenton[8]118130113459447449

Notes:

[1]Elected.
[2]Elected.
[3]Elected.
[4]The True American (Trenton, NJ) uses the spelling Ellett for Ellitt Tucker. In Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Volume XII, 1810-1813, there is mention of an Elliott Tucker.
[5]The True American (Trenton, NJ) reports 1146 votes for Edmund Roberts in Hunterdon County; however, the sum of votes per township is 1136.
[6]The True American (Trenton, NJ) reports 1065 votes for Jonathan Higgins Hunterdon County; however, the sum of votes per township is 1064.
[7]"In this County, contrary alike to our expectations and wishes, the Federalists have in part succeeded. The Republicans carried their Council, on Assemblyman, and Coroners : the Federalists three Assemblymen. This partial defeat of Republicanism is not, as some might suppose, owing to its decline. Every Republican Candidate has a larger number of votes this year than he had last. Our defeat is atributable principally to three causes :--to a too great certainty of success on the part of the Republicans, and a consequent relaxation of their exertions--to the extraordinary efforts of the Federalists, by secret Committees, Circular Letters, and otherwise--and to the number of illegal votes taken in by the Federalists, which in this township alone are supposed to amount to near an hundred and fifty ; while in Amwell and other Republican townships, no votes were knowingly admitted which were not legal. Had the Republicans made as great exertions--used similar means--and admitted such voters as the Federalists did, they would have entirely succeeded by large majorities. If they are partially defeated by the unjust and unlawful conduct of their adversaries, they are not disgraced by any improper measures of their own." The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 18, 1802.
[8]The True American (Trenton, NJ) reports 449 votes for Edmund Roberts in Trenton.

References:

Original Election Returns. New Jersey State Library, Trenton.
The True American (Trenton, NJ). October 18, 1802.
Hutchinson, Elmer T. Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, Calendar of New Jersey Wills. Vol. XII: 1810-1813. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2009. 384.

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