Agreement For The Sale Of A New Jersey Regional Newspaper, Dated 1875

DS. 4pgs. 7 ½” x 12”. December 1875. Somerset County, New Jersey. A contract for the sale of a Somerset County, New Jersey newspaper, signed “C J Wilson”, “D. W. Wilson” and “V.D. Honeyman”. The contract sates, in part: “In consideration of one dollar to us in hand paid, and for the further consideration to be made as hereafter specified, we, Charles J .Wilson, editor and publisher of the ‘Somerset Gazette’, a newspaper printed and published in Somerville, Somerset County, New Jersey, and David W. Wilson, who has an interest therein, do agree to sell and convey and do hereby sell, convey, transfer and assign unto a van Daren Honeyman, of the same place, all our right, title, interest, ownership and possession of in and to said newspaper, and its appurtenances, with all its appliances, machinery, tools, and materials, presses, type cases, forms, stencils, frames, inks and stock of paper on hand, being everything whatsoever which is now in the office occupied by said ‘Somerset Gazette’…”. The selling price was $3,250.00, which was to be paid in three installments over a period of ten months. All three men signed the bottom of the document. It is in very good condition with several fold lines.